Joseph H. SAMS, M.D.

SAMS, HENRY, ATKINSON

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Date: 4/18/2015 at 16:28:53

August 5, 1866 --- January 1, 1958

JOSEPH H. SAMS, physician and surgeon, died at Clarion, Iowa, January 1, 1958, at 91 years after a brief illness; born in Yadkin county. North Carolina, August 5, 1866; son of G. I. and Emily Sams, and when six months old moved with the
family to Jackson county, Ohio, where his father engaged in coal mining and farming, and when about 13 years old moved with his parents to a farm near Zenorsville, then a coal mining village near Ames; came near losing his life at a cave-in, the accident resulting in a deformity from a permanent leg injury; realizing he must choose a life occupation not requiring much walking, and in the meantime moving to a farm purchased southwest of Clarion, Iowa, employment was secured in the office of Dr. G. A. Marietta, and subsequently decision was made to become a doctor; was graduated from the University of Iowa college of Medicine in 1892; did postgraduate work there, at Cincinnati, Ohio, and also at Rochester, Minn.; practiced medicine briefly at Kensett, Iowa, but returned to Clarion; married Sadie Henry May 23, 1894; a member of the Congregational church 48 years, had received his 50-year certificate of membership in the local Masonic lodge, a member of the Royal Arch at Eagle Grove and also a member of the chapter and commandry. Shrine, Odd Fellows, Eastern Star and Rotary club; a life member of the surgeon's club at Rochester, Minn., since 1915, a member of the Wright county Medical society, the Iowa State Medical society and the American Medical Association; served on the local Board of Health, the State Board of Health, the State Board of Medical Examiners, the Clarion school board, as coroner of Wright county and medical examiner for the Wright county draft board; survived by his widow, three sons and one daughter, also by one sister, Mrs. Mary Atkinson, Hastings, Minn.

The Annals of Iowa 34 (1958), 316-317.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol34/iss4/7