McCORMICK, HENRY

MCCORMICK, WILLIAMS

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 09:05:49

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

HENRY McCORMICK, physician and surgeon, Third street; is a native of Harrisburg, Dauphin Co. Penn., and was born Jan.10, 1827; when 16 years of age, his father removed to Springfield, Ohio; he received his education in Pennsylvania and Ohio; afterward studied medicine and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, in the spring of 1856; he came to Iowa and located here and engaged in the practice of medicine, and has practiced longer than any physician in Clinton. Dr. McCormick was a member of the first School Board in Clinton, but that closed his official life for he afterward refused to serve officially in church, State or society. In 1856, he married Miss Amanda Williams, of Fort Wayne, Ind. They have six children, three sons and three daughters.