DR. FRANCIS A. BRYANT
Francis A. Bryant, M. D., came to Griswold in the spring of 1881, and began the practice of medicine. He is a young man of ability, and is meeting with good success as a practitioner. In 1873 he attended in the medical department of the Keokuk college, graduating in the spring of 1876, with honors. He soon afterward went to Rush county, Kansas, and began the practice of his profession, where he remained until he came to Griswold. Dr. Bryant was born m Wapello county, Iowa, February 8, 1851. He was educated in the common schools, and at Troy academy. In the spring of 1873 he commenced reading, under the direction of Dr. P. M. Billey. He was married in Davis county, Iowa, in the fall of 1877, to Sarah A. Rooker, a daughter of J. B. and Mary P. Rooker. There is one child by this union living--Lowell C, born June 25, 1879. His wife died in Davis county, July 12, 1881. She was a consistent and sincere Christian, having united with the Methodist Episcopal Church in early life, and was highly respected by all who formed her acquaintance. The doctor is a master Mason in the Cass Lodge No. 412 of this place.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 405.
