Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 769
HUGH TAMISIEA, M.D.

A practicing physician of Missouri Valley, Iowa, since 1902, Dr. Hugh TAMISIEA has taken a prominent part in the professional life of the city. One of the best medical schools in the country is connected with the State University of Iowa and this excellent school has turned out hundreds of physicians who have located in all parts of the state, as well as in many other states. Doctor TAMISIEA is one of this number and the excellent training which he received in his own state school has been such that his practice from the first was very encouraging.

Dr. Hugh TAMISIEA, the son of Xavier and Susanna (GOODMAN) TAMISIEA, was born in Dubuque county, Iowa, February 24, 1870. His father was born in Onondaga county, New York, in 1832, in the old French settlement at that place. His mother was a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

Xavier TAMISIEA was a farmer and cooper and in October, 1854, went west and located in Dubuque, Iowa, where he lived until 1857, and then attracted by the glowing reports coming out of Kansas, he moved to Leavenworth, but only remained there about one year. The country was not all that it has been pictured and Mr. TAMISIEA returned to Iowa and located on Honey Creek in Boomer township, Pottawattamie county, where he lived until 1864, in which year Xavier TAMISIEA moved back to Dubuque for a time, but in May, 1870, located four miles south of Missouri Valley, Harrison county, Iowa, where he lived until 1891, then removed to the city of Missouri Valley, where he spent the rest of his life, his death occurring January 10, 1905. Xavier TAMISIEA and wife were the parents of nine children, Mrs. Mary MURRAY, who died in 1907; Anna, who lives with her mother in Missouri Valley; Frank, an attorney at Missouri Valley; Dr. John L., who is practicing with his brother, Hugh; Xavier, Jr., who died in 1906; Dr. Hugh, of Missouri Valley; Mrs. Susie FAITH, superintendent of the Harrison county schools; Marie, who died in 1898, and Hattie, who is living with her mother and sister in Missouri Valley.

Dr. Hugh TAMISIEA was educated in the public schools of Harrison county, and was graduated from the high school at Missouri Valley, after which he became a student in the normal school at Dixon, Illinois, from which institution he was graduated in 1893. He decided to become a physician, and with this in view entered the Iowa State University, where he was graduated from the medical department in 1902.

Upon completing his medical studies Doctor TAMISIEA returned to Missouri Valley, where he has since been associated with his brother, Dr. John L., in the general practice of medicine. He is a member of various fraternal organizations, and of the Harrison County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Society. He is the city physician and a member of the board of health, as well as president of the board of pension examiners of Harrison county. In politics he gives his hearty support to the Democratic party.

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