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Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| History of Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 360-362
MUSCATINE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETIES. The physicians of Muscatine county have organized medical societies at various times, interest in which was maintained for a few years, then waned to that point that a quorum of members became impossible and then meetings finally ceased to be held, thus working a forfeiture of the charter. Thus far the records show that the first medical society in the county was organized in 1869 and reorganized in 1874. Who formed the associations and who were their officers cannot now be determined. How long the last mentioned organization kept alive is also a matter of doubt, so that the writer falls back upon the record, now in the hands of Secretary Horace L. Husted, from which is gathered the data relating to the present society.
Pursuant to a call issued by Dr. E. H. King to the regular practitioners of Muscatine county, on the 1st of May, 1899, they assembled at the Y. M. C. A. parlors on the 11th of May, 1899, and organized the Muscatine County Medical Society, making it auxiliary to the Iowa State Medical Society, the object bemg the promotion of social and professional relations of its members and the cultivation of professional ethics as well as the advancement of original scientific investigation. Dr. E. H. King was made the temporary chairman and Dr. J. L. Klein temporary secretary. A committee, composed of Drs. G. 0. Morgridge, now deceased, C. W. Smith, and H. Johnson Dean, also deceased, was appointed to draw up a constitution. The officers elected were: President, H. M. Dean; vice president, E. H. King; secretary-treasurer, J. L. Klein. The charter members were: E. H. King, J. L. Klein, H. M. Dean, G. A. Heidel, George Lezotte, E. K. Tyler, R. W. Durkee, now retired in Des Moines, F. H. Little, Miss Emma L. Graunwarth, G. 0. Morgridge, deceased, Cal W. Smith, F. E. Schmidt, Miss Sarah Braunwarth, H. Johnson Dean, F. J. Beveridge, A. J. Oliver and A. J. Weaver, Muscatine; A. A. Cooling, E. R. King, William Gilkes, A. R. Leith, W. J. Miller, Will Cooling, H. P. Mason, Wilton Junction; George H. Mott, Mary Lawson Meth, C. B. Kimball, E. Ady, L. F. Woodruff, F. H. Battey, 0. B. Wyant, West Liberty; F. E. Regnier, Atalissa. Later J. H. Close, J. Higley and George W. Deemers, the latter now in Colorado, were elected to membership.
October 8, 1903, the Muscatine Medical Society met at the office of Dr. L. Reppert. The meeting was called to order by President H. M. Dean, for the purpose of reorganization, according to the plans adopted by the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. H. M. Dean was appointed temporary chairman and Dr. T. F. Beveridge, secretary. The secretary then read the following list of applicants for membership in the new organization: Drs. H. M. Dean, F. H. Little, G. 0. Morgridge, deceased, E. H. King, F. L. Appel, A. J. Oliver, Emma L. Braunwarth, H. Johnson Dean, deceased, Ray H. Dean, now of Washington, Iowa; C. W. Smith, J. L. Klein, G. A. Heidel, D. 0. Miller, who has left Muscatine; Lyell Reppert, E. K. Tyler, T. F. Beveridge, F. E. Schmidt, C. B. Kimball, of West Liberty; A. R. Leith, of Wilton; H. P. Mason, of Wilton. The following officers were elected: Dr. H. M. Dean, president; C. W. Smith, vice president; T. F. Beveridge, secretary-treasurer. At this meeting the secretary was instructed to secure as many names of physicians in the county as possible, as charter members, and then to apply to the State Medical Society for a charter at the earliest possible date. Later J. D. Fulliam, F. H. Battey, of West Liberty, S. Chesebro, C. A. Reinemund, B. E. Eversmeyer, H. H. English, of Conesville; R. E. Brisbine, of Atalissa; and S. G. Stein, H. L. Husted, C. A. Reimcke, now of Salem, Washington; also F. R. Halstead, were elected to membership.
The society holds about eight meetings each year, when an interesting program is rendered. At various times physicians of note have visited the society, delivering lectures and holding clinics for the benefit of the members, these including Dr. Walter L. Bierring, professor of pathology and bacteriology in the medical department of the State University of Iowa; Dr. Tarck, of Chicago, and Dr. William Harsha, professor of operative and clinical surgery of the medical department of Illinois University, Chicago.
At the present time (1911) there are twenty-six members, namely: Drs. F. H. Little, H. M. Dean, B. E. Eversmeyer, T. F. Beveridge, Horace L. Husted, F. L. Appel, F. R. Halstead, J. R. Fulliam, W. S. Norton, S. G. Stein, F. E. Schmidt, G. A. Heidel, Emma L. Braunwarth, A. J. Weaver, Lyell Reppert, J. L. Klein, C. W. Smith, E. K. Tyler, E. H. King, A. J. Oliver, all of Muscatine; J. E. Henderson, Sweetland Center; A. R. Leith, Guy Leith, W. A. Cooling, of Wilton Junction; H. H. English, Conesville; R. E. Brisbine, Atalissa. The present officers are: President, E. H. King; first vice president, F. L. Appel; second vice president, A. R. Leith, of Wilton; secretary-treasurer, J. D. Fulliam.
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