McDowell, J. W.

MCDOWELL, JUDD

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 2/19/2013 at 07:12:26

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

McDOWELL, J.W.—Malcom Twp—pg 867. Physician, Malcom. Was born in Miffin county, Pennsylvania, July 9, 1839, and there raised until 1854, when he moved to Wayne county, Ohio, where he lived until 1859, when he moved to Princeton, Illinois. He resided there until 1867, when he came to Poweshiek county. He entered the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1863, and graduated in Philadelphia, in Jefferson Medical College, in 1866. He is now a prominent member of the Iowa State Medical Society. He has also taken a course of medical lectures, in New York State during the winter of 1874 and 1875. He was married, April 18, 1867, to Miss Caroline Judd, of Princeton, Illinois, a lady of refined taste. Mr. and Mrs. McDowell are closely associated with the Presbyterian Church; he is an elder in the same. Mr. McDowell has held the office of city councilman, and is closely identified with the growth and prosperity of the town in which he resides.