For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 465
WILLIAM A. COOLING, M. D....William A. Cooling, M. D., for ten years past in active practice at Wilton Junction, was born in Warren county, Ohio, June 24, 1872, a son of Albert A. and Kittie ( Foster ) Cooling. The father who was a native of Erie county, New York, removed to Ogle county, Illinois, where he was living in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil war. Responding to the call of President Lincoln, he enlisted inCompany B, Ninety-second Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served at the front for one year, when he was taken ill. After his recovery he was detailed for hospital duty at Nashville, Tennessee, and continued in that capacity until the close of the war. After receiving his honorable discharge he began the study of medicine, and in 1868 was graduated from the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, and entered upon the practice of his profession at Foster, Warren county, Ohio. On August 1, 1872, he located at Wilton Junction, Iowa, where he pursued his profession until his death, which occurred January 9, 1900. He was a man of many fine qualities and as a physician stood among the best in Muscatine county. He was also successful in business, being one of the organizers of the Wilton Savings Bank, of which he acted as president for some time. Politically he was allied with the republican party and fraternally with the Masonic order, being a member of the lodge, chapter, commandery and shrine. The paternal grandfather of our subject was a native of England. The mother was born in Warren county, Ohio, in the same house in which the subject of this sketch first opened his eyes to the light of day. She was married in 1869 and died June 8, 1886. There were four children in the family : William A.; Arthur, a manufacturer of Sterling, Illinois ; Albert, who died in infancy ; and Bertha Louise, who died at the age of four years.William A. Cooling grew up in a happy home and received his preliminary education in the public schools. Having shown a decided inclination for a professional career, he was sent to the Northwestern Academy at Evanston, Illinois, at which he was graduated in 1892, later studying for three years in the Northwestern University. He next matriculated in Rush Medical College, Chicago, and was graduated with the degree of M. D., in 1899. After taking work in the hospital, he came to Wilton Junction and was associated for two months with his father before the death of the latter. Having thoroughly prepared for a profession under some of the greatest practitioners and surgeons of America, Dr. Cooling has met with gratifying success and is recognized as one of the active and thoroughly efficient disciples of the healing art in this region. He keeps fully imformed as to the lastest developements in medicine and surgery and holds membership in the American Medical Association, the Iowa State Medical Society, and the Muscatine County Medical Society.
In 1903 Dr. Cooling was united in marriage to Miss Ione Parker, a native of Texas. One of the great sorrows of his life was the death of his wife, who was summoned to the unseen world in 1908. During his college career Dr. Cooling became a member of the Phi Kappa Sigma, a literary society, and the Phi Rho Sigma, a medical fraternity. He gives his influence to the support of the republican party and fraternally is identified with the lodge of Elks at Muscatine. He now enjoys a large and lucrative practice, and no citizen in Muscatine county more completely possesses the confidence and esteem of the people.
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