For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 344
THOMAS FRANKLIN BEVERIDGE, M. D., Dr. Thomas Franklin Beveridge, physician and surgeon of Muscatine, with offices in the German-American Bank building, is a representative of that progressive element of the profession which is constantly seeking out new and improved methods to alleviate suffering and restore health. Moreover, his judgement is seldom, if ever, at fault in recognizing the value of an idea or procedure in practice and his labors have therefore been attended with excellent results.Ohio numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Highland county, December 7, 1866. He is one of the nine children who were born unto Samuel and Christina (Kinzer) Beveridge. He represents one of the old families of Ohio, his great-grandparents having been residents of that state. It was there that Thomas Henry Beveridge, the grandfather, was born and lived until after his marriage, when he removed to Sullivan, Illinois. He made farming his life work and died at the advanced age of seventy-seven years, having long survived his wife, who passed away when about forty-four years of age. Their children were: Jacob, Samuel, LeRoy, John, Columbia, Elizabeth, America and Albert J., United States senator from Indiana.
Samuel Beveridge, the father of Dr. Beveridge, was born in Ohio, was reared to the occupation of farming and for many years engaged in the tilling of the soil. In 1881 he became a resident of Iowa, settling at Villisca, where he still resides. Some years ago he retired from farming, and is engaged in business as a dealer in poultry, butter and eggs. He wedded Christina Kinzer, who was born in Virginia, as were her parents. Her father died in early life and her mother lived to the age of sixty-eight years. They had six children, including Christina, who became the wife of Samuel Beveridge and passed away in 1886 at the age of forty-two years. She was a faithful member of the Christian church, to which Mr. Beveridge also belongs. He proved his loyalty to his country at the time of the Civil war, enlisting as a private of the Eighty-first Ohio Heavy Artillery, with which he served for two and a half years. His family included three sons and six daughters, namely: Dr. Thomas F., of this review; Elizabeth, the deceased wife of Thomas J. Moffitt; Effie, the wife of Dr. J. H. Wallahan of Corning, Iowa; Cora, who married W. C. Burge of Villisca, Iowa; John, of Spokane, Washington; Henry, of Hebron, Iowa; Sarah, the wife of Carl Stanley, of Corning, Iowa; Minnie, who wedded F. A. Swan of Vancouver, Washington; and Anna, the wife of Edward E. Phillips of Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
Dr. Beveridge was reared in Highland county, Ohio, to the age of fifteen years and began his education in the public schools there. He then accompanied his parents to Iowa and spent the remainder of his minority in Villisca, supplementing his early educational training by a two years' course in the Iowa State University, while later he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville and there prepared for a professional career. Following his graduation, he located for practice in Bridgewater, South Dakota, and in 1901 came to Muscatine, where he has since lived. His professional work has been entirely satisfactory to the public, for it is known that he is most careful in the diagnosis of a case and extremely conscientious in the discharge of his professional duties. Moreover, his wide reading has kept him in touch with the work of the leading members of the profession, and he readily adopts the improved methods which his judgement indicates as of value.
On the 13th of May, 1896, Dr. Beveridge was married to Miss Clara Overman, who was born near Atalissa, Muscatine county, a daughter of Cyrus and Elizabeth (Barkalow) Overman, who are residents of Muscatine. Her father was a son of Enoch Overman, a native of Ohio, who became a merchant. He married Miss Sarah Baldwin and they removed westward, becoming pioneer settlers of Muscatine county, where the grandfather operated the old Overman ferry. Both he and his wife died when well advanced in years. They reared a family of eight children: Sophia, Hannah, Mary, Ann, Caroline, Cyrus, Jesse and Levi. The maternal grandfather of Mrs. Beveridge was Derrick G. Barkalow, a native of Ohio, who made farming his life work. He wedded Maria Beech, who died in the Buckeye state, and subsequently he removed to Iowa, when this was still a frontier region. The family of Derrick and Maria Barkalow numbered twelve children: Lewis, Munson, Benjamin, William, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, and five who died in infancy. Following the death of his first wife, Derrick Barkalow wedded Mrs. Susan Jackson and they had two children, Derrick and Nina. The parents of Mrs. Beveridge had a family of three daughters and two sons: Mrs. Maidie Nachbaur; Mrs. Harriet Moore; Mrs. Clara O. Beveridge; and Junius and Clyde, both deceased.
Dr. Beveridge belongs to Iowa Lodge, No. 2, A. F. & A. M., and has also taken the degrees of the Royal Arch chapter. In strictly professional lines he is connected with the Muscatine County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medicine Society and the National Medical Association. He spent the summer of 1894 at Vienna, Austria, in research and post-graduate work, and is now president of the board of trustees of the Benjamin Hershey Memorial Hospital. His political allegiance is unfalteringly given to the republican party and he is never remiss in the duties of citizenship, yet has never sought nor desired office as a reward for party fealty. He and his wife are members of the First Baptist church of Muscatine and reside at No. 1505 Mulberry avenue in a pleasant home, which is noted for its warm-hearted and genuine hospitality.
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