Clarine Birney

BIRNEY, KENSEL, HEMPHILL

Posted By: Chris Tonn (email)
Date: 1/23/2005 at 17:10:41

October 25, 1916, The Iowa Recorder, Greene, IA
Dr. C. C. Birney - Dr. V. C. Birney was called to Mason City Saturday by the death of his brother, Dr. C. C. Birney, who has been failing for a long time. The Mason City paper gives the following account; Dr. C.C. Birney, aged 69 for the past sixteen years a practicing physician and druggist of this city, passed away at his home at 219 North Pennsylvania Avenue Saturday morning, October 21, 1916, at 10 o'clock. Death was due to bright's disease from which he had been suffering for the past two or three years. Dr. Birney was a member of several medical fraternities and societies and was also a member of the Masonic order. C. C. Birney was born in Canada sixty-nine years ago and when a boy moved with his father to Iowa, settling at Floyd, where he lived for some years. After finishing school there he attended Rush Medical institute and following graduation he settled at Nora Springs. He practiced medicine there for several years. Later he moved to Estherville and remained until sixteen years ago when he moved to Mason City. He opened a drug store on Federal Avenue South and practiced medicine in connection with his drug store. Coming from a family of physicians and surgeons Dr. Birney was one of the most prominent physicians of this locality. He is survived by two brothers, Dr. E. E. Birney, of Nora Springs, and Dr. V. C. Birney, of Greene, a son, two daughters, Mrs. W. F. Kensel, of New York and Miss Bessie Birney, a student at Northwestern university. All have been summoned to the city. A large fortune was accumulated by the deceased during his life through real estate operations. He was the owner of many acres of land in the state and owned valuable city property.