D. T. NICOLL, M. D.

D. T. NICOLL, M. D. Dr. D. T. Nicoll is one of the prominent and well known members of the medical profession of Cedar county. He has engaged in the practice of his profession in Iowa since 1898, at which time he located in Clinton county. He is now well established in business in Clarence and has a wide acquaintance in this—his native—county for he was born in Cedar county on the 1st of December, 1866. His father, Andrew Nicoll, was a native of Scotland was brought to the new world when a lad of seven years by his father, Andrew Nicoll, Sr., who first settled in Delaware county, New York. Andrew Nicoll, Jr., was reared in the Empire state and was there married to Isabella McGregor, who was born and reared in that county. For some years after his marriage Mr. Nicoll carried on farming in the Empire state and then came west to Illinois, where he spent one season. About 1858 he came to Iowa, establishing his home in Cedar county, with the development and improvement of three hundred and twenty acres. Andrew Nicoll, Jr., lost his first wife, her death occurring in 1868 in Delaware county, New York, whither she had returned on a visit. Becoming ill, she there passed away and her remains were laid to rest in her native county. Mr. Nicoll afterward married again. He was a well known farmer of Cedar county and here reared his family but subsequently removed to Tarkio, Missouri, where he is now living practically retired.

Upon the home farm near Clarence Dr. Nicoll spent his youthful days and his literary education was completed by study in the Clarence high school. Resolving to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began reading in the office and under the direction of Dr. Anderson, a well known physician of Clarence, and subsequently pursued a full course in the Northwestern University at Chicago, taking his first course of lectures in the fall of 1888. In due time he completed his studies there and was graduated with the class of 1891. He then located at Kingston, Wisconsin, where he began practicing but afterward removed to Kilbourn, where he resided for five years.

Dr. Nicoll was married at Kingston on the 10th of February, 1892, to Miss Jessie M. Hewett, a native of Wisconsin, who spent her girlhood and acquired her education in Kingston, her native city. Her parents, C. P. and Sarah Hewett, were both natives of Ohio and became early settlers of the Badger state. Dr. and Mrs. Nicoll now have one son, Charles A.

In 1898 Dr. Nicoll removed to Clinton, Iowa, where he continued in practice for three years and in 1901 came to Clarence, since which time he has followed his profession in this city. He has built up a fine practice and is recognized as one of the leading members of the profession in Cedar county, possessing a comprehensive knowledge of the principles of medicine, while his keen and discriminating judgment is manifest in his correct application of scientific principles to the needs of suffering humanity. He also has charge of and manages his father’s old farm of three hundred and twenty acres, on which he has a tenant and other help. He, however, personally supervises the work of the farm, which is devoted to general agricultural purposes and to the raising and feeding of stock for the market. He is an excellent business man of keen discrimination and sagacity and in addition to his other interests he owns the business block in Clarence in which his office is located. He likewise has a good residence in town and is now most comfortably situated financially.

Dr. Nicoll and wife, moreover, occupy an enviable position in social circles and their home is the abode of generous and warm-hearted hospitality. They are members of the Clarence Presbyterian church, in the work of which they take an active and helpful part, Dr. Nicoll now serving as one of the elders. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to the blue lodge at Clarence and to the consistory at Clinton. He likewise holds membership with the Modern Woodmen and the Yeomen and is examining physician for these lodges. His political endorsement is given to the republican party and his fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, have frequently called him to public office. He has served in the town council and as a member of the school board for a number of years and has also been health officer of Clarence. No trust reposed in him whether of a public or private nature is betrayed in the slightest degree. He performs every duty with a sense of conscientious obligation and his honor in both public and private life is alike unsullied. He works toward high standards in his professional service, manifests the utmost reliability in all business transactions and in all the relations of his daily life shows that he believes in the truth of the universal brotherhood of mankind.