Hombach, William P.

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Date: 3/29/2010 at 01:28:07

The state of Iowa with its pulsing activities and rapid development has attracted within its confines men of marked ability and high character in the various professional lines, and in this way progress has been conserved and social stability fostered. He whose name initiates this review has gained recognition as one of the able and successful physicians of the state, and by his labors, his high professional attainments and his sterling chracteristics [characteristics] has justified the respect and confidence in which he is held by the medical fraternity and the local public.

Dr. Hombach is a native of Germany, having been born there on December 24, 1862. At the age of six he came with his parents to America and with them took up his home in Boone county, Iowa, removing eight years later to Carroll county, this state. It was there that he received his primary education, supplementing it later by a course at the University of Illinois. The medical profession had always held great attraction for him and he decided to take up study along that line. Accordingly he entered the College of Physicians & Surgeons in Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1901 and located immediately in Council Bluffs, where he has since built up his large and successful practice. He has not been contented with the information gained alone in his college course but has always kept pace with the times by pursuing post-graduate work at the Illinois School of Therapeutics, at the College of Eye, Ear, Nose & Throat, and by courses in gynecology and abdominal surgery in the same city. The medical practice is not an experiment with him, for he is particularly strong in diagnosing cases-the most difficult and the most necessary work which a physician encounters.

Not only is Dr. Hombach a prominent physician of the city but is well known throughout the state and the Missouri valley. He belongs to the American Medical Association, the Iowa State Medical Society, the Pottawattamie County Medical Society, the Council Bluffs Medical Society, the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley and the Northwestern Medical Society. He is also a member of the medical staff of Mercer Hospital.

Dr. Hombach belongs to the Elks and the Knights of Columbus, and in his religious relations is devoted to the Catholic church, He has always been a stanch and active democrat and was chairman of the Carroll county (Iowa) democratic central committee. He served as auditor of Carroll county for four years, and for four years was a member of the city council in Carroll, as well as being a justice of the peace in that county for ten years. From this it will readily be seen that while the Doctor is devoted to his profession and is an unusually busy man he has had time to do his duty as a citizen. He is a very successful practitioner and is a man of the highest and purest character, an industrious and ambitious student and an able physician, Genial in disposition, unobtrusive and unassuming, he is patient under adverse criticism and in his expressions concerning brother practitioners is friendly and indulgent.