Dr. Elmer Hinman Dwelle

Dr. Elmer H. Dwelle

Dr. Elmer Hinman Dwelle, enjoying an extensive practice as a most capable and successful physician and surgeon at Northwood, where he is also well known as the vice president of the Worth County State Bank, was born September 17, 1874, in the city where he still resides, his parents being. Horace V. and Helen E. (Hinman) Dwelle. He acquired a public school education, supplemented by study in the Cedar Valley Seminary at Osage, while for a year he was a student in the Iowa State College. He then took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in Northwood township and also in the city of Lake Mills but did not desire to devote his entire life to the work of the schoolroom and, in fact, used it only as an expedient to increase his funds that he might pursue a college course which would qualify him for the practice of medicine and surgery. He entered the medical department of the Iowa State University, where he studied for two years, and later he spent a similar period in the Northwestern University Medical School. He was there graduated in 1899 and he put his theoretical knowledge to the practical test by serving for a year and a half as interne in Mercy Hospital of Chicago, thus gaining broad and valuable experience along professional lines, coming under the instruction and acting as assistant to some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of that city, In December, 1900, he returned to Northwood, where he opened an office and has since engaged in practice. Through more than seventeen years he has followed his profession in Iowa and his record stands in contradistinction to the old adage that a prophet is never without honor save in his own country, for in the city of his nativity Dr. Dwelle has made for himself a most creditable position in professional circles and is accorded a very large and gratifying practice.

In 1911 Dr. Dwelle was united in marriage to Miss Lila Emery, a daughter of G. M. and Nettie (Orahood) Emery. Mrs. Dwelle was born in Northwood but her father was a native of Wisconsin and her mother of Ohio. To this marriage have been born two children, Marion and George R.

In his fraternal connections Dr. Dwelle is a Mason and exemplifies in his life the beneficent spirit of the craft, Politically he is a republican and keeps well informed on all the vital questions and issues of the day but does not seek nor desire office, preferring to concentrate his efforts and attention upon his professional activities, which are now of a most important character.

SOURCE: HISTORY OF MITCHELL AND WORTH COUNTIES, IOWA, 1918, VOL. II; Pages 240-243

Transcribed by Gordon Felland, October 5, 2006