URAN, Joseph, Dr. 1877-1958
URAN, TROUP, MORGAN
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 6/1/2009 at 20:45:36
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Dr. Uran
Victim of
LeukemiaRICEV1LLE, IOWA - Dr. Joseph A. Uran, 81, died Tuesday at the University Hospitals, Iowa City.
He had practiced here from 1925 until the time of his hospitalization for leukemia, Oct. 30.
Born Oct. 2, 1877, in Kankakee, Illinois, he was the son of Dr. Benjamin and Susan Troup Uran. He was married to Miss Vivan Imogene Morgan on April 26, 1910.
He practiced in Grundy County before coming to Riceville.
Survivors are his wife, two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Loannecker, San Francisco; Mrs. B. J. (Ellen Vivian) Wilson, Decatur, Illinois; two sons, Marshall, San Francisco, and Donald, Seattle, Washington; two brothers, Benjamin, Mattoon, Illinois, Howard, New Orleans, LA, and 10 grandchildren.
The body will lie in state at the Champion Funeral Home until time for the funeral at the First Congregational Church, Riceville, Friday at 2:00 P.M. The Rev Jonas Priestley, pastor emeritus of the church, will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery.
[Mason City Globe - November 12, 1958]
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JOSEPH ALFRED URAN
Joseph Alfred Uran was born in Kankakee, Illinois, October 2, 1877 to Dr. Benjamin Franklin and Susan Troup Uran. He left high school in his senior year to attend a Kankakee business college from which he graduated. At 19 he was an assistant pathologist for three years at the Kamkakee County Insane Asylum. At. 22 he entered Physician and Surgeons Medical School, Chicago, Illinois for four years. He graduated in 1903. It was the practice of the day to send young medical students to Europe for postgraduate study but he was persuaded to become a pathologist for two years at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois.
On July 29, 1905 he purchased a country practice in Holland, Iowa where he practiced for six years. He met his future wife there while she was teaching school.
On April 26, 1910 he married Vivian Imogene Morgan. They moved to Wellsburg, Iowa where he continued his practice at Holland, Iowa as well as in Wellsburg. All five Uran children were born in Wellsburg. They were: Marshall Milton, Stanley M. who died in 1913 ten days after birth, Ellen Vivian, Margaret, and Donald Maxwell.
During World War I he volunteered for active service but was asked to remain in private practice because of the influenza epidemic.
In 1924 he was invited to practice with another doctor in Waterloo, Iowa. After nine months he broke his shoulder so in August, 1925 he moved his family to Riceville, Iowa to go back into country practice.
During World War II he taught a first aid class for the Red Cross. He helped his wife send the many boxes that the women of the Riceville Medical and Surgical Relief Committee had shipped overseas through the New York office.
Dr. Uran was a member of the Congregational Church. He was a Mason in Grundy County, a Modern Woodman, member of Lions Club and Commercial Club and charter member of the Riceville Golf club.
He was an ardent gardener who kept his friends and neighbors supplied with fruits and vegetables from his huge garden.
He passed away November 11, 1958 at the age of 81 from aplastic anemia. His services were held in the Riceville Congregational Church with burial in the Riverside Cemetery in Riceville, Iowa
By Ellen V. Wilson
["Mitchell County History", 1989 -- pg. 71]
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