DOOLITTLE, E. W.

DOOLITTLE, WARREN, WILSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/18/2014 at 10:06:01

Biography ~ E. W. Doolittle

"Biographical and Historical Record of
Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa"
(Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), p. 508:

E. W. DOOLITTLE, physician and surgeon at Garden Grove, was born in Elkhart County, Indiana, July 23, 1851, son of URI and FANNIE (WARREN) DOOLITTLE, natives of New York. They removed to Howard County, Iowa, in 1855, were our subject was reared on a farm. He commenced the study of medicine at the age of twenty years, attended the State University of Iowa, graduated in 1875, and commenced the practice of his profession in Mahaska County; from there he went to Van Buren County, thence to Decatur County, settling in Garden Grove, where he commands a lucrative practice. He was married in Van Buren County, in 1875, to FLORA A. WILSON, born in that county, in 1854, daughter of BENJAMIN and ELIZABETH WILSON, natives of Ohio. They have two children – GUY W. and DON H.

Transcribed by Sara LeFleur, Decatur County Historial Society Musuem, January of 2014