Dubuque Gravestone Project Index

F. W. Wieland

Biography of F. W. Weiland taken from Portrait and Biographical Record of Dubuque, Jones and Clayton Counties, Iowa. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co. 1894. Pages 122-123.

F. W. WIELAND, M. D.

F. W. Wieland, M. D., who is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, belongs to
a profession which exerts a powerful influence in a community, and is recognized as one 
of the leading members of that profession.  His life has been well and worthily passed, 
and he is well worthy of representation in the history of his adopted county.

The Doctor was born in Switzerland, on the 10th of March, 1856, and is a son of Francis 
and Maria (Truog) Wieland, who were also natives of Switzerland.  The father died in that 
country, but the mother is still living and now makes her home in Wisconsin.  Dr. Wieland
spent the first seven years of his life in the land of his birth, and then came with his 
mother to the New World.  They landed at New York and thence came direct to Dubuque, where
our subject entered the public schools.  In 1866 he removed with his mother to Grant 
County, Wis., where he further pursued his studies.  He also attended the public schools, 
and in order to earn a livelihood worked on a farm.  Saving his earnings, he determined to
use his wages in acquiring a better education, for he had a thirst for knowledge which was 
yet unquenched.  Accordingly, in 1878, he entered the University of Wisconsin, in Madison,
where for three years he pursued the scientific course of study.  He was an apt scholar 
and there gained valuable information.  On leaving the school room he embarked in teaching,
which he successfully followed for three years.

On the expiration of that period Dr. Wieland took up the study of medicine.  He had spent 
much of his vacations and other leisure hours in reading medicine and now began a systematic
course of study in the office of Dr. W. L. Duffin, of Guttenberg, Iowa, under whose direction
he continued his reading until 1885.  In that year he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, 
and after a three years' course was graduated in the Class of '88.  During the following year 
he remained in the dispensary of that college, and in 1889 he went to Fremont, Waupaca County,
Wis., where he opened an office and engaged in general practice for one year.

The year 1891 witnessed the return of Dr. Wieland to Dubuque, where he has since conducted 
a general practice with good success, and from the public has received a large and lucrative
patronage.  The Doctor is a member of the Dubuque Medical Society, and at present holds the 
office of Vice-President.  He is a member of the Iowa Public Health Association, of which he 
is the Second Vice-President, and in 1892 he was elected City Physician for one year; to 
which office he was re-elected in the spring of 1894.  He votes with the Democratic party 
and keeps well informed on the issues of the day, both political and otherwise.  He was 
appointed in February, 1894, a member of the Pension Board of this district.  Socially, he 
is connected with the Masonic fraternity.  Both in professional and social circles he is 
widely and favorably known, and in this community the Doctor has many warm friends.

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