Dr. Benjamin Franklin Winsett (1861-1928)

WINSETT

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 3/22/2022 at 19:53:43

From Nevada Evening Journal August 15, 1928 (page 1)

DR. WINSETT DIED IN CALIFORNIA

LONGTIME NEVADA PHYSICIAN CALLED BY DEATH AT HOLLYWOOD

Dr. B. F. Winsett, 65, for over twenty years a practicing physician and surgeon in Nevada, died Wednesday at his home in Hollywood, California, according to word reaching Nevada. Funeral and interment will be at Hollywood, where Dr. and Mrs. Winsett had lived since 1917. During the nearly a quarter of a century that he practiced in Nevada, Dr. Winsett was considered one of the leading physicians in Story county and enjoyed a wide practice.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin Winsett, a native of southern Iowa, was a graduate of the Chicago Homeopathic Medical college of Chicago. He was admitted to practice in Iowa, December 30, 1891, practiced for a few years in Des Moines, and for a few years in Des Moines, and was registered for practice in Story county, February 14, 1895. He came to Nevada and entered into practice with his brother Jay J. Winsett, who had been here a few years and who died within a few years after the arrival of B. F. Winsett.

He continued in practice in Nevada until November 1917, when he left for the Pacific coast and it was at Hollywood that he and Mrs. Winsett finally established their home and where he prospered in practice until his health broke down and he was compelled to retire.

Probably no other man ever left the community with more friends. Nor was more beloved by those with whom he had come in such close contact, during the hours of illness and pain and even the sad hours of death, than had this longtime medical practitioner.

Among the children, for whom he had a true passion, he was a great favorite and he was also beloved among the older people of the community in whom he took a great interest.

Upon a visit here a few years ago his greatest pleasure was in entering the homes where he had visited the family as a physician for years, assisted in bringing children into the world and administered during illness--and there visit with the members of the family, who were as near to him as he was to them.

In the passing of Dr. Winsett, one of the oldtime physicians whose long association with the family so closely endeared himself to them, goes on, but he will long be remembered in the community in which he so long had a prominent place.

For what man in a town becomes a more intimate part of the community than the family physician who has given of his own life for the people who entrust their very lives in his keeping.