Frank Paul Winkler, M. D.

WINKLER, RUDLOFF, CATOBIUS

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Date: 3/6/2007 at 12:13:47

Biographies from the 1914 "Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties of Iowa"

FRANK PAUL WINKLER, M. D.

Professional success results from merit. Frequently in commercial life one may come into possession of a lucrative business through inheritance or gift, but in what are known as the learned professions advancement is gained only through painstaking and long-continued effort. Prestige in the healing-art is the outcome of strong mentality, close application, thorough mastery of its great underlying principles and the ability to apply theory to practice in the treatment of diseases. Good intellectual training, thorough professional knowledge and the possession and utilization of the qualities and attributes essential to success have made Dr. Frank Paul Winkler eminent in his chosen calling-and he stands today among the scholarly and enterprising physicians in a county noted for the high order of its medical talent.

Dr. Frank P. Winkler, a practicing physician and surgeon of Sibley, Iowa, was born June 24, 1882, at Ida Grove. He is the son of William and Caroline (Rudloff) Winkler, who are natives of Germany and early settlers in Ida County, Iowa. In 1891 William Winkler and family left Ida Grove and settled in Lyon County, where they lived until 1909, then moved to Luverne, Minnesota, where they are now living.

Doctor Winkler was educated in the public schools of Doon, Lyon County, Iowa; attended Charles City College of Charles City, Iowa; State University of South Dakota; University of St. Louis, and finally was granted his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Illinois on June 6, 1906. He has also taken post-graduate work in the University of Illinois since graduating. With this excellent training it can be seen that Doctor Winkler has the practical training which is the first requisite of the successful physician of today. He keeps fairly abreast of the times by keeping in close touch with the latest literature on medical science and also by attending the various medical societies of the country. He is a member of the Osceola County, Iowa State, Sioux Valley and American Medical Associations, and the American Association of Railway Surgeons, and he is attending surgeon of the Samaritan Hospital, at Sibley.

Doctor Winkler began the practice of his profession in Scotland, South Dakota, and remained there three years. He then went to Bryant, South Dakota, where he practiced for the next three years. He came to Sibley, September 1, 1912, succeeding the practice of Dr. Hiram Neill, and has continued to practice here since that time.

Doctor Winkler was married in 1903 to Julia Ella Catobius, of St. Louis, Missouri, who died December 3, 1909, at the age of thirty years. Fraternally, Doctor Winkler is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He is also identified with the Eastern Star and the Daughters of Rebekah. At the present time he is a local surgeon for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, as well as the Chicago, Minnesota & Omaha Railways. Doctor Winkler is still a young man and has a long and brilliant career before him. The success which he has attained since coming to this city indicates that the future holds much in store for him. He is a man of pleasing personality and makes friends easily.

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