McCord, E. S.

MCCORD, SMITH, DONAHUE, RAY, WHITE, BOWMAN, FUNK, CLOTHIER, DILLION, SIDLE

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Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

E. S. McCORD, M. D.

Dr. E. S. McCord is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Delmar, Iowa, and has that love for and devotion to his profession which has brought to him success and won him a place among the ablest representatives of the medical fraternity in Clinton county. He is a native of this state, born in Story county January 23, 1868, and is a son of C. P. and Sarah (Smith) McCord, natives of Ohio and Illinois, respectively. The mother was born in Illinois, where their marriage was celebrated, and from there they removed to Story county. The father served as the first county auditor there, but refused a second term and retired to his farm, his time and attention being devoted to general farming and stock raising until 1883, when ill health compelled his retirement from active labor. He then removed to Nevada, Iowa, where he made his home until called to his final rest, October 7, 1887, when lacking only two days of being sixty years of age. His remains were interred in Woodland cemetery, at Iowa Center. Politically he was identified with the Republican party, and religiously was a member of the Evangelical church. He was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Grand Army of the Republic. During the Civil war he enlisted in Company K, Twenty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, but after serving six months was seriously wounded in the left knee, which necessitated the amputation of the limb just above the joint. This occurred when he was on the skirmish line at Black River Bridge before the battle of Vicksburg. His widow is still a resident of Nevada.

In their family were five sons and four daughters, namely: J. W., who wedded Martha Donahue and follows farming in Story county; Mary, wife of John Ray, a farmer of the same county; Nancy E., wife of J. W. White, of Collins, Iowa; A. S., who married Elizabeth Bowman and resides on the old homestead farm in Story county; Alice, who resides with her mother in Nevada; Edith, wife of C. A. Funk, of Perry, Iowa; S. G., who married Harriet Clothier and lives on a farm in Story county; E. S., of this review, is next in order of birth; Charles P., who married Viola Dillion and resides in Nevada, Iowa.

Reared in the county of his nativity, Dr. McCord attended its district schools until fifteen years of age, when the family removed to Nevada, the county seat, where he pursued his studies in the high school for five years. In 1889 he entered the Iowa State College, at Ames, where he was graduated with the class of 1892, with high honors, and was next a student at the Iowa College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he was graduated in April 1894, with the degree of M. D. Prior to this time he had spent his vacation in study under Dr. D. S. Fairchild, who is now located in Clinton and is one of the most noted surgeons of Iowa. On the 2d of May, 1894, Dr. McCord came to Delmar, and has since engaged in practice at this place with marked success.

The Doctor was married near Delmar, December 31, 1895, to Miss Jennie M. Sidle, who was born in this county December 24, 1869, and is a daughter of John Sidle, who is represented on another page of this volume. Dr. McCord takes an active interest in civic societies, and is a prominent member of Monitor Lodge, No. 330, F. & A. M., of Delmar, of which he is now master, and belongs to Bath Kol Chapter, R. A. M., and Tancred Commandery, K. T., both of Maquoketa. He is also a member of Delmar Camp, M. W. A., the Mystic Workers of the World, and the Knights of Pythias. Politically he is identified with the Republican party, and has served as city councilman and health officer of Delmar. He is examining physician for several life insurance companies, and is a member of the Clinton County Medical Society and the Iowa State Medical Society. He is a progressive physician, and his skill and ability in his chosen profession are attested by the liberal patronage he enjoys.