William McDermand VAN VELSOR, MD

VAN VELSOR, STILLWELL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/2/2013 at 16:08:50

April 8, 1840 --- December 24, 1895

Dr. Van Velsor's Death

William McDermand Van Velsor was born near Blenheim in the province of Ontario, on the 8th of April 1840. He was for two years a student in the collegiate department of the State University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, then entered the medical department of that institution from which he graduated in 1861. Soon after graduation he commenced the practice of his profession at Annawan in Henry county Illinois where in 1865, was married to Mary C. Stillwell who survives him. About a year after his marriage he came to Iowa, locating at first, at Luni in Wright county, from which place he moved to Humboldt in 1869. He died near Tracy, Minnesota on board the cars while enroute from Pierre, South Dakota, to Minneapolis, where his family now resides and where his oldest daughter H. J. Cora is a teacher in the city schools and where his youngest daughter, Mary, is taking studies preparatory for teaching. Their first child, a son named Pierce, died of diphtheria in Humboldt when an exceptionally bright and promising boy, 12 years old. The doctor was one of five brothers, all able practitioners in the medical profession, and of the immediate relatives twelve are doctors. His funeral was held from Unity Church on the 26th inst. The services being conducted by Mr. G. S. Garfield an intimate friend of the family. The interment was in Union Cemetery under the auspices of the Bethel Lodge A.O.U.W. of which the deceased was a member.

Renwick Times
January 10, 1896

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DEAD
Dr. W. M. Van Velsor, formerly of this place, died Christmas eve at Tracy, Minn. of heart disease. Obituary next week.

Renwick Times
January 3, 1896