Lawrence A. Beers

BEERS, COLEMAN, CLOW, TALMAGE

Posted By: Marthann Kohl-Fuhs (email)
Date: 3/22/2009 at 15:09:21

LAWRENCE A. BEERS, physician and surgeon, Gray, Iowa, is a native of the State of Ohio, born in Fredericktown, Knox County, November 12, 1856. He is a son of Asher and Ella (Coleman) Beers. His grandparents were among the early settlers of Knox County, and often had to resort to the fort for protection. They still reside in Knox County, and have had born to them two children Clio, the wife of Jacob Clow, a resident of Marshall County, Iowa, and Lawrence A. Beers, M. D. Our subject spent his youth in his native county, obtaining his early education in the common school. He took up the study of medicine with Dr. S. B. Potter, of Fredericktown, Ohio; he took a course of lectures at the Columbus Medical College under Professor Hamilton, and later a course in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Beers then came west, and began the practice of his profession in Mitchellville, Iowa, remaining there four years. He was then obliged to abandon his practice for a time on account of failing health. In 1886 he located in Gray, Iowa, and there resumed his practice, in which he has been very successful. Dr. Beers was united in marriage in 1881 to Miss Eva J. Talmage, of Monroe, Jasper County, Iowa; she is the daughter of Jonathan Talmage, Esq. Three children have been born of this union Edna, Charles and Clio. The Doctor is a member of the Knights of Pythias at Manning, Iowa.

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