LONG, Thomas L. , M. D. - 1914

LONG, RAFTRY, SHEA

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Date: 7/2/2009 at 12:20:22

HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

THOMAS L. LONG, M. D.

Dr. Thomas L. Long, first assistant physician in the State Hospital for the Insane at Cherokee and one of the able representatives of the medical profession in Cherokee county, was born in Sheridan township, this county, a son of Henry and Mary (Raftry) Long, natives of Ireland. The father came to the United States in early life and located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he worked first in a mine and later in a foundry. He journeyed west to Boone .county, Iowa, and there remained until about the year 1869, when he moved to Cherokee county, taking up a homestead claim in Sheridan township. He engaged in stockraising and general farming upon that property for the remainder of his life, dying October 11, 1913. His widow survives him and makes her home in Cherokee. They became the parents of three children: Dr. Thomas L. and Patrick, twins, the latter superintendent of schools at Garden Grove, Iowa; and Margaret, the wife of John Shea, of Pilot township.

Dr. Thomas L. Long acquired his preliminary education in the public schools of Cherokee county and afterward taught for three years. He later entered the State Normal School, where he took a scientific course, receiving the degree of B. Di. Having determined to study medicine, he later became a student in the medical department of the State University, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1905. In the same year he became connected with the State Hospital for the Insane at Cherokee and has risen to be first assistant physician, an office which he has filled with credit and ability for the past three years.

Dr. Long served for six months in the SpanishAmerican war as a private in Company M, Fifty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the American MedicoPsychological Association, the Iowa State Medical Society and the Cherokee County Medical Society. He is widely and favorably known in professional circles, holding the esteem and respect of his associates in the hospital and of his brethren in the medical fraternity throughout the county.