Junger, E.C.

JUNGER, SCHINDLER

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Date: 4/14/2005 at 14:26:21

IOWA
ITS HISTORY AND TRADITION
VOLUME III
1804-1926

E. C. JUNGER

One of the leading physicians and surgeons of northwestern Iowa is Dr. Emil
C. Junger, of Soldier, Monona county, where he has been engaged in active and
successful practice of his profession for a quarter of a century. He was
born in Klein Petersdorf, Austria, November 17, 1874, and is the youngest of
the ten children of Anton and Rosina (Schindler) Junger, of whom the former died
in 1887. After the death of her husband, the mother brought her children
to the United States and here spent her remaining years, her death occurring in
1908.

Dr. Junger attended the public schools of Austria and accompanied his mother
to this country in 1887. They settled in Texas, where he remained about
five years, and in 1892 came to Iowa. He graduated from the high school at
Charter Oak in 1898, and then matriculated in the Sioux City Medical College,
where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1902.
Immediately afterwards he came to Soldier and engaged in practice, to which he has
since closely devoted his attention. An accurate diagnostician, familiar with
the medicinal properties of drugs and skilled in the science of surgery, he has
through the years built up a large and remunerative practice and has long
stood in the front rank of the physicians of Monona county.

On December 10, 1903, at Ames, Iowa, Doctor Junger was united in marriage to
Miss Caroline Carr, whose father was a minister and evangelist of the
Christian church and Mrs. Junger has always taken an active part in church work.
To their marriage have been born the following children: Esther Ruth, who is
attending college at Rockford, Illinois; Emil, Jr., who is a student in
Wentworth Military Academy, at Lexington, Missouri; and Rosina Quinton, attending
school in Onawa. Politically, Doctor Junger is a republican and has taken a
commendable interest in local public affairs, serving at this time as health
officer of Soldier. He is president of the Parent-Teachers Association,
which aided materially in the erection of the present school buildings, and is a
member of the local chapter of the American Red Cross. His religious
affiliation is with the Christian church. Fraternally he is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to
the Monona County Medical Society, the Sioux Valley Medical Society, the
Missouri Valey Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. Doctor Junger is a writer of ability, having contributed to
the medical magazines a number of articles on medicine, clinic work and
surgery. During the years of his residence in this locality he has risen in the
confidence and respect of the people and has many warm and loyal friends.