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         DR. MATHEW H. SUMMERS, a prominent physician residing in Columbus Junction, Iowa, was born in Boston, Mass., June 10, 1849, and is a son of John and Mary (Smith) Summers. His parents were also natives of that city, and were of Irish descent. Our subject received his education in the High Schools of Boston, and also the Episcopal Academy of Hopkinton, N. H. He was graduated in the spring of 1870 from the Hahnneman College, a homeopathic medical institute of Boston, and began the practice of his chosen profession at Chattanooga, Tenn., during the following August. He remained in that city but a few months, after which he practiced in Savannah, Ga., for a year, then subsequently went to Mobile, Ala., later to Memphis, Tenn., and visited all the principal battle-fields of the South. From Memphis, Tenn., Dr. Summers went to Kansas City, Mo., in 1874, remaining there for a year, and then became a resident of Falls City, Richardson Co., Neb., from which city he came to Columbus Junction, Iowa, in 1877, and has practiced his profession in Louisa County continuously since. He is well posted in his profession, and has an extensive practice.

Politically, Dr. Summers is a Democrat, and domestically, a bachelor. He is a man of broad and liberal views, and broad and liberal physical proportions. To his patients his very presence is invigorating, through the influence of a splendid physique and cheerful genial manner.