Louis B. Carson, M. D.

CARSON

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Date: 12/27/2009 at 21:18:09

J. W. Ellis, History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910

LOUIS B. CARSON, M. D.

The medical profession of Maquoketa finds a worthy representative in Dr. Louis B. Carson, a most capable and successful practitioner to whose efforts the establishment of the Iowa Sanitorium in this city is largely due. He was born in Waterloo, Iowa, February 11, 1873, and is a son of Dr. J. A. Carson, an extended mention of whom appears elsewhere in this volume. His course in the Maquoketa high school was supplemented by study in the State University of Iowa, at Iowa City. He pursued a collegiate course there, covering two years, and in the summer of 1888 began reading medicine under the preceptorship of his father. In the fall of 1889 he entered Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago and was graduated therefrom with the class of 1892. The same spring he began practice at Iron Hills, Iowa, whence he came to Maquoketa. Two years later he went to New York city and pursued a postgraduate course in the Bellevue Hospital, also taking up a special course in surgical intern work. Returning to Maquoketa in the spring of 1896 he was for three years, when he sold out and joined the railway mail service, conducted under the firm name of L. B. Carson & Company. At the same time he continued in the practice of medicine and after three years disposed of his drug store and located in his present office, where he has now remained for ten years. During this decade he has become one of the best known and most successful surgeons of eastern Iowa. To his aggressiveness and initiative spirit is due much of the credit for securing the present fine hospital of Maquoketa, known as the Iowa Sanitorium, which is second to few, if any, in appointment in any city of its size in the state. It was also through his instrumentality that there has been established a school for nurses in connection with the hospital, Dr. Carson being a member of the faculty and lecturer on anesthetics and surgical nursing. He belongs to the Jackson County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society, the Eastern Iowa Surgeons' Association and the American Medical Association. He is likewise a member of Helion Lodge, No. 36, A. F. & A. M., and he belongs to Bath Kol Chapter, No. 94, R. A. M.; Jackson Lodge, No. 33, I. O. O. F.; and Peerless Lodge, No. 60, K. P.
In 1895 Dr. Carson was married to Miss Gertrude Nickerson, a daughter of Truman K. Nickerson, one of the well known early citizens of Maquoketa, now deceased. Dr. and Mrs. Carson have one child, Roy G. Such in brief is the life history of one who has made for himself a creditable name in Jackson county. From the start he has been highly successful, impressing all with whom he comes in contact with his trustworthy character, zeal and scrupulous regard for the ethics of his profession. He has proven himself skillful in diagnosis, sure in prescription, thoughtful and tactful in attendance, prompt and efficacious in emergency, and he enjoys to the fullest extent not only the regard of the general public but also of his professional brethren as well.