COOK, Achilles W.

COOK, TEBBE

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Date: 1/19/2003 at 20:16:22

ACHILLES W. COOK, M. D. 

For a half century the name of Cook has been associated with the medical practice in Wheatland and Clinton county, and is now worthily borne by Dr. A. W. Cook, a most successful representative of the medical fraternity, He makes his home in Wheatland, where much of his life has been passed. He was born March 7, 1866, in Liberty township, Clinton county, upon the farm of his father, Dr. David S. Cook, long a prominent physician of the locality. Like most of the boys of the period, he began his education in the public schools and there mastered the branches of learning taught in such institutions. He afterward studied medicine under the preceptorship of his father and was also a student in the Keokuk Medical College, from which institution he was graduated on the 10th of March, 1891. He then began practice in Wheatland, where he has remained continuously since, and now has a large and lucrative patronage. He is the local surgeon for the Northwestern Railroad at Wheatland and belongs to the Iowa State Association of Railway Surgeons. The Doctor is a man well read, keeping in touch with the constant advance in the medical field both by extensive home reading and also having taken a post-graduate course at the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical College during the summer of 1901.

The Doctor was married in this city, February 14, 1887, to Miss Annie Tebbe, a daughter of John Tebbe, a retired farmer of Wheatland. She is a native of Clinton county and by her marriage she became the mother of four children, but Walter, Bessie and Leo have all departed this life. Howard, the only surviving child, is now an interesting little lad of seven years. The Doctor possesses the true, enterprising spirit of the west and this is manifest in his professional work. He is a student, his reading and researches continually adding to his knowledge and supplementing his ability to care for the professional duties entrusted to him. Fraternally the Doctor is a member of Zeredatha Lodge, No. 184, A. F. & A. M., also Spring Rock Camp, No. 24, M. W. A.
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.