Macomber, Ernest P.

MACOMBER

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Date: 9/4/2008 at 13:49:20

Ernest P. Macomber

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.137, Knox Twp.)
Ernest P. Macomber, M. D. physician and surgeon, Avoca, born in Massachusetts in 1854, son of Dr. A. P. Macomber, a physician of Atlantic, this State, who was his son's preceptor through his medical course at college. Dr. A. P. Macomber is a graduate of New York University, and practiced the old-school system for fifteen years, but now and for twelve years he has practiced the new (homeopathic). Subject has been in Avoca one year, succeeding Dr. F. K. Dabury, who was in practice here for four years, and came from the vicinity of Long Branch, N. J., where he had been living for four years. He is a graduate of the New York Homeopathic College; also attended a course in the Medical Department in Columbia, N. Y., and a session of lectures in the Long Island Hospital. He received his early education at Williston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass., and Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt. He is a member of the New Jersey and Iowa State Homeopathic Societies, adn has been quite successful in his practice here, which is quite extended, taking in Oakland, Carson, Hancock and Shelby. Dr. Macomber and Dr. Knowles are the only homeopathic physicians in Avoca.