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Directory of Clayton county
Dentists

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1925 Clayton co. Dentist Directory

~Polk's Dental Register and Directory of the United States and Canada; 13th Edition; R.L. Polk & Co.; 1925
~Clayton co. names extracted by S. Ferrall, May 2023

Name Postoffice & population
of the place
School & date diploma conferred Comments
Newman, Dwight W. Edgewood; pop. 617 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1916 Member American Dental Assn.
Donlon, Joseph P. Elkader; pop. 1223 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1897  
Jeffers, W.J. Elkader; pop. 1223 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1902  
Morse, Robert Lester Elkader; pop. 1223 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1914 Member American Dental Assn.
Duffin, H. LeRoy Garnavillo; pop. 314 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1912  
Stiehl, Wm. John Garnavillo; pop. 314 Northwestern Univ. Dental School, Chicago, 1909 Member American Dental Assn.
Miller, Grover C. Guttenberg; pop. 1666 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1908 Member American Dental Assn.
Pohle, Edward J. Guttenberg; pop. 1666 Dental Dept., Marion-Sims College of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 1900  
Todd, Willard F. McGregor; pop. 1289 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1919 Member American Dental Assn.
Walter, John A. McGregor; pop. 1289 Registered Member American Dental Assn.
Walter, J. Frederick McGregor; pop. 1289 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1918 Member American Dental Assn.
Webb, John E. McGregor; pop. 1289 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1898  
Wheat, Roy Herman Marquette; pop. 923 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1924  
Currie, Albert L. Monona; 1049 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1891 Member American Dental Assn.
Humphrey, Leonard W. Monona; 1049 College of Dental Surgery, Des Moines. 1901  
Humphrey, William Francis Monona; 1049 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1904 Member American Dental Assn.
Dorman, Charles W. Jr. Strawberry Point; pop 1101 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1896  
Eaton, Hal M. Strawberry Point; pop. 1101 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1895  
Scott, Wm. L. Volga; pop. 415 College of Dentistry, State Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, 1921  

 

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Miscellaneous Clayton co. Dentists


C.W. Dorman, DDS

Dr. C.W. Dorman DDS
Dr. C.W. Dorman


Born 1865 and died in December 1938, Dr. Charles W. Dorman is buried in the Strawberry Point cemetery. He graduated from the College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa, and was the nephew of Dr. J.M. Dorman, a pioneer dentist from Fayette, Fayette co. Iowa. He married Anna Fowells in 1902 and they had one daughter, Doris.

Obituary

~photo is from the Strawberry Point Mail-Press, November 26, 1903

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Hal M. Eaton, DDS

Hal M. Eaton, DDS
H.M. Eaton D.D.S.


Dr. H. M. Eaton, D.D.S., has been practicing in Strawberry Point since he graduated from the College of Dentistry at the University of Iowa in 1895. He started his practice in the building now occupied by Dr. C. W. Dorman. Dr. Eaton married Miss Grace Davis.

Dr. Eaton has served as Mayor of Strawberry Point, also as director of the school board. He was the first president of the Lion's club organized in 1931.

Dr. Eaton was married to Miss Myrtle Gilchrist in 1899. Myrwyn, their only son, is an instructor at Harvard University. Mrs. Eaton died in 1921, and ten years later...(The article inexplicitly ended here.)

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1910 Federal Census, Cass Twp., Clayton Co., Iowa:
Hal M. Eaton, head, 37
Myrtle Eaton, wife, 33
Myrwyn Eaton, son, 5

~contributed by Reid R. Johnson

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Max William Lyon, DDS

Dr. Max Lyon, DDS
Max Lyon D.D.S.


Dr. Max Lyon, graduate of the state university of Iowa dental college, will open his dental office in McGregor Saturday of this week. He has been in McGregor for several weeks making preparations to take over the practice of the late Dr. W.F. Todd. [see Dr. Todd's entry in 1925 table above]

The new office will be located over the Mallard restaurant and the past two weeks it has been redecorated for Dr. Lyon. Considerable new dental equipment is being installed this week and Dr. Lyon expects to have his shingle out by Saturday.

He is a graduate of Fayette, Iowa, high school, and has since lived in West Union, having just graduated from the state university dental college, after taking two years of pre-dental work at Iowa Wesleyan college at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
~North Iowa Times, Thursday, July 21, 1938 (article & photo)

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Additional:
1940 Federal census,
M.W. Lyon, age 27, Dentist, working on own account, inferred residence in 1935 was West Union, Iowa

Louise Lyon, age 24, wife
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U.S. Army, WWII from 5/15/1941-1/10/1946 (ancestry.com database)
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Removed to Clinton, IA about 1950. Died 9/26/1979, buried Clinton Lawn cemetery, Clinton, IA

~contributed by S. Ferrall

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