Milbourne, Joseph K.

MILBOURNE, KINKEAD, GRUBER, MORLING, LAMB

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Date: 1/28/2003 at 19:11:12

JOSEPH K. MILBOURNE, M. D. 

Although comparatively a recent acquisition to the goodly array of professional men in Clinton, the subject of this review has already gained a foremost place among the successful physicians and surgeons engaged in practice here, his office being at No. 305 Howes Block. He was born near Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio, February 29, 1852, a son of J. A. and Elizabeth (Kinkead) Milbourne, the former a native of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, the latter of Ohio. The Milbourne family originated in Scotland and from there removed to England. Among its most prominent representatives was Viscount Melbourne, who occupied a prominent position in the British government at the coronation of Queen Victoria. The Kinkead family is of Irish descent and very prominent in Belfast, Ireland. On the maternal side the Doctor traces his ancestry back to his great-grandfather. His grandfather, John L. Kinkead, was born in 1785, and served in a regiment in the war of 1812. He lived to the advanced age of ninety-four years. The paternal great-grandfather of our subject fought for the freedom of the colonies as a soldier of the Revolutionary war. The Doctor's grandfather Milbourne was an architect by profession, and was killed by a falling stone while building a court house in Ohio. The father was a cabinetmaker and spent almost his entire life in the Buckeye state. During the Civil war he served as master of transportation at Nashville, Tennessee. In his family were four children, namely: Mary, wife of William Gruber, of Kansas; Sarah, wife of J. P. Morling, of Iowa City, Iowa; John F., a resident of Elwood, Indiana; and J. K., our subject.

Dr. Milbourne was educated at Muskingum College, where he pursued a scientific course and was graduated with the degree of B. S., in 1869, at the age of seventeen years. Subsequently he entered the medical department of the State University at Iowa City, Iowa, and after his graduation in 1881 opened an office in Muscatine county, where he was engaged in practice one year. He then removed to Mechanicsville, Cedar county, where he followed his profession very successfully until coming to Clinton in 1898. He makes a specialty of the diseases of women, and is considered one of the ablest physicians of the city. Dr. Milbourne has frequently done post-graduate work at Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and has especially fitted himself for the surgical work of his specialty and is a successful operator, being frequently called on to perform what is known as the major operation.

In 1881 Dr. Milbourne was united in marriage with Miss Mary Lamb, of Muscatine county, and to them have been born two children, Vera and Genevieve. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and also belongs to the State Medical Society, and the Clinton Medical Society. He is medical examiner for the following life insurance companies: The Phoenix; the Mutual, of New York; the Aetna and Atlantic of Hartford, Connecticut; also for the Modern Woodmen of America, the tribe of Ben Hur and Fraternal Choppers. He was appointed under Benjamin Harrison's administration a special member of the board of pension examiners of Iowa, but resigned when Grover Cleveland was elected president, but was re-appointed under President McKinley, but resigned upon moving to Clinton. He is a man of deep research and careful investigation and has been eminently successful in the prosecution of his chosen profession.
Source: The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.