DAVIS, W. H., DR.

DAVIS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/11/2025 at 09:55:10

BURLINGTON CITY.
(P. O. BURLINGTON)

DAVIS, W. H., DR., born in Livingston Co., N. Y., March 26, 1824; attended Dansville, N. Y., Academy several years, then read medicine for six years with his father and attended to office practice ; after two courses of lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated there in the spring of 1847 ; returning to Dansville, he practiced alternately medicine and dentistry having acquired the latter profession in 1844; leaving York State in 1850, he traveled through various sections of the West, and finally settled in Burlington toward the last of the year 1851 ; since that time, the Doctor has practiced uninterruptedly as an Eclectic.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879