Dr. J. H. McNeil (-1936)

MCNEIL

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 7/24/2010 at 13:44:17

Ames Daily Tribune and Times, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, September 19, 1936.

Former Dean Of Veterinary Division Dies

Dr. J. H. McNeil, dean of the veterinary medicine division of Iowa State college from 1900 to 1908, died of a heart attack Friday at Trenton, N. J., it was learned Saturday by Dr. Charles Murray, acting dean of the division.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m., in Keokuk, Ia., where a brother of Dr. McNeil now lives.

Dr. McNeil, who is survived by his wife, at the time of his death had been New Jersey state veterinarian for 12 years. For five years after leaving Iowa State he was professor of veterinary surgery at Ohio State university. The next five years he spent in South America in a position with the Brazil Land and Cattle company. He was an 1899 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

"Dr. McNeil," said the late Dean C. H. Stange his immediate successor, in a history of the veterinary division, "was one of the main factors in putting new life and energy into the division after its reorganization... He was very active in attempting to help the breeder to better methods of livestock production... He was one of the first to urge systematic control of tuberculosis among livestock."

Dr. McNeil was a speaker at the observance of the semi-centennial of the division here in 1925.