DR. A. P. MACOMBER
Dr. A. P. Macomber, homeopathist, is a native of Massachusetts, born in May, 1831, and is a son of Ebenezer Macomber, of Franklin county, Massachusetts, who was of Scotch extraction and. died at Northampton. His mother was Sarah Ann Jewel, of Woodstock, Connecticut, a regular descendant of the old Jewel family. She died in 1874, aged eighty-six years. The subject of this sketch was liberally educated at Uxbridge, Massachusetts, where for a number of years he pursued his studies, meanwhile teaching school a part of the time. At the age of nineteen years he went to Woodstock, Vermont, and commenced the study of medicine, attending a course of instruction, also reading under Joseph M. Bates, of Barry, Massachusetts, now of Worcester. He then attended a second course of lectures at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and afterward a third course at New York University Medical College, graduating therefrom in the class of 1853. Directly afterward he commenced the practice of his chosen profession in Winchester, New Hampshire, where he remained eight years, then removed to Maliden, Massachusetts, remaining five years, thence to Hackensack, New Jersey, where he practiced eleven years, then came to Atlantic, in July, 1878. His wife, to whom he was married in 1872, was Mrs. Fuller, formerly Miss Gray, born in Aurora, Portage county, Ohio, in 1839. She was married to her former husband in 1859, and lived in Connecticut eight years. She was a pupil of James A. Garfield while he was a teacher at Hiram College. Mr. Fuller died in March, 1867. In 1870 she attended a course of lectures at the Woman's Medical College, in Philadelphia. She attended a second course at Cleveland, Ohio, in a homeopathic medical school. She subsequently attended lectures in New York, and graduated in 1879 from the Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago. Since that time she has been in practice with her husband, making a specialty of the diseases of women and children. Their office is over Smith and Bonesteel's drug store.
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. 402.
