Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 760
JOHN L. TAMISIEA, M.D.

For nearly twenty years Dr. John L. TAMISIEA has been practicing medicine in Missouri Valley, Iowa. He taught school for several years and later was graduated from the medical department of Iowa State University, since which time he has been practicing in Missouri Valley. He has been one of the leading practitioners of his city for many years, and that he has more than a local reputation is shown by the fact that he was appointed by Governor Carroll as a member of the state board of health, and was subsequently re-appointed to the same position by the governor. He has taken an active part in the civic life of his city and has served on the city council with credit to himself and satisfaction to his fellow citizens.

Dr. John L. TAMISIEA, the son of Xavier and Susanna (GOODMAN) TAMISIEA, was born in Boomer township, Pottawattamie county, Iowa, April 21, 1866. The first member of the TAMISIEA family to come to America was John TAMISIEA, who was born in De la Creces, France, in 1798, and came to America in 1826. John TAMISIEA located in Dubuque, Iowa, and from there went to Harrison county, where he settled about 1856.

Xavier TAMISIEA was born in New York state in 1832, his birth occurring in Onondaga county, about twenty miles north of Syracuse, in the old French settlement. He was a farmer and cooper by trade and came west about 1854, locating in Dubuque, Iowa, where he lived until 1857, after which he spent one year in Kansas. He then returned to Iowa, settling in Boomer township, Pottawattamie county, where he resided until 1866. He then removed to Dubuque, where he lived until May, 1870, and in that year located four miles south of Missouri Valley, in Harrison county. He lived on a farm until 1891 and then moved to Missouri Valley, where he died January 10, 1905. Nine children were born to Xavier TAMISIEA and wife, Mary, Anna, Frank, John L., Xavier, Jr., Hugh, Susie, Marie and Hattie.

Dr. John L. TAMISIEA was educated in the country schools and later attended the high school in Missouri Valley. He spent three and one-half years in the normal school at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and then engaged in public school work. He taught school in Harrison and Pottawattamie counties for five years and was principal of the Mondamin school for three years. He taught in the Harrison county institute for three summers. In the fall of 1893 he entered Iowa State University and was graduated from the medical department in 1896.

As soon as he was graduated from the university, Doctor TAMISIEA located in Missouri Valley, where he has since made his home. He has built up a large general practice and he and his brother, Dr. Hugh TAMISIEA, are ranked among the ablest physicians of the city. Doctor TAMISIEA was appointed by Governor Carroll as a member of the state board of health in 1912, and when the board was reorganized in 1913, he was reappointed by governor Clark, being the only member of the old board to secure reappointment. The term of his office expires in 1916.

Doctor TAMISIEA was married June 14, 1900, to Rosa MCCLANNAHAN, of Mondamin, Iowa, a daughter of J. L. MCCLANNAHAN, a pioneer settler of that locality. To this union two children have been born, Paul, born 1901, died 1907, and Francis Xavier, born 1907.

Doctor TAMISIEA is a member of the Harrison County Medical Association, the Iowa State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He gives his hearty support to the Democratic party and has always taken an intelligent interest in local political affairs. As a member of the city council of Missouri Valley he favors all measures which he feels will be of general benefit to the city.

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