Burroughs, Amelia

BURROUGHS

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Date: 10/10/2006 at 14:03:04

Amelia Burrough

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.9, Council Bluffs)
Amelia Burroughs, physician, Council Bluffs, was born in Wellington, Ohio, a few miles from Cleveland. From early childhood, she manifested a passion for the study of medicine and surgery. She was educated in Cleveland and graduated at the Homeopathic Hospital College in March, 1881. She was Dispensary Physician at the Woman's Dispensary connected with the college. she has a large and steadily-increasing practice in Council Bluffs. She was married, in 1873, at Cleveland, Ohio, and has one child - Willie.