Emonds, William G.

EMONDS

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 12/16/2008 at 14:17:12

William G. Emonds

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.21, Council Blufs)
William G. Emonds, physician, Council Bluffs, was born in Cologne, Westphalia, Germany, and remained there until seven years of age; then came to this country with his sister, and located in Iowa City. He has remained there all the time since, with the exception of what time he spent in going to school and traveling abroad. He attended Salesianum College, Milwaukee, Wis., one year, in 1867, after which, on account of ill health, he went to Cape Girardeau, Mo., and remained there one year. He then went to Fond du Lac, Wis.; attended college there some time, after whcih he went to Notre Dame University, near South Bend, Ind.; remained there one year, and then returned to Iowa City, and attended the Iowa State University there two years. He then went again to Notre Dame, Ind.; remained there eight months, when sickness brought him back to Iowa City again. During his convalescence in Iowa, he attended St. Joseph Institute at Iowa City remaining there two years; after that he went into the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad office, as telegraph operator and assistant United States Express agent one year. He then took the office at Mitchellville, Iowa, and remained there seven months, after which he was promoted to clerkship in W. H. Quick's Superintendent's office, Des Moines; remained there more than one year, then returned to Iowa City again, and took up the higher branches at St. Joseph's Institute, and prepared himself fo the Homoeopathic Department of the Medical Department of Iowa State University, Prof. Cowperthwaite being his preceptor; he remained in this office as clinical clerk for three years, graduating at the end of that time. He commenced practicing at Bellevue, Iowa, and Dubuque, and remained there two years, after which he went direct to the place of his birth, and from there to Vienna, Austria, attending and practicing in the General World's Hospital, or Alleg. Krankenhaus, where he remained with the king of all surgeons, Prof. Billroth assisting him in the hospital one and a half eyars. He then went to Prague, Bohemia, and assited in the obstetrical ward of Prof. Brisky, after which he went to Berlin, attending the Prof. Laugendeck Hospital on eyear, after which he went to Paris, where he remained a shrot time, visiting different hospitals; thence he went to London, England, practicing at Guy's street, Bartholomew's and St. Thomas' one year. Leaving London, he traveled through England and Scotland; remained at Edinburgh a short time, thence went to Ireland, and from there to America, on June 27, 1882. He is now permanently located in Council Bluffs, with the intention of going to Omaha in course of one year to make that his headquarters.