Duff, William D.

DUFF, CARTWRIGHT, KING

Posted By: Mary H. Cochrane, Volunteer
Date: 6/29/2019 at 14:19:16

Biographical and Historical Record of Ringgold and Decatur Counties, Iowa, (Lewis Publishing Company (1887)), pp. 480-81:

"WILLIAM D. DUFF, physician and surgeon, at Garden Grove, was born in Hancock County, Illinois, June 19, 1848, a son of Joshua G. Duff and Marth (sic) L. Duff, the father a native of South Carolina and of Scotch origin, the mother born in New York and of English descent; the father still living, the mother is dead. She was a niece of the celebrated Peter Cartwright. Dr. Duff was reared on a farm in his native county and remained there until nineteen years of age, after which he attended a medical college at St. Louis, and graduated at the Missouri Medical College in 1875, and commenced the practice of his profession in Henderson County, Illinois, in 1875, and remained there five years, then removed to Wever, Lee County, Iowa, and practiced his profession for seven years, and then removed to Garden Grove, Iowa, to continue the practice. Dr. Duff was married in Kansas, October 21, 1880, to Miss Allicia M. King, and they have one child -- Charles M. The doctor owns a house and two lots in Garden Grove and 200 acres of land in Kansas. He belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Some three years ago while treating a case of cancer the doctor discovered a remedy to which the case readily yielded, and has used the remedy several times since with good results. He now treats and permanently cures cancers, tumors, ulcers, scrofula and skin diseases, by his new and improved method, without the use of a knife or loss of blood, and but little pain."

(Submitted to the Decatur County GenWeb site by Christy Jay, email: Jaygenie@aol.com)