DR. E. E. MAJOR
Doctor E. E. Major is a native of Washington county, Vermont, and first saw the light upon the 29th day of May, 1854. He is the son of Samuel and Sarah B. (Russell) Major, both natives of the adjoining State, New Hampshire. In early manhood, the doctor was engaged in the laudable undertaking of teaching school, in Audubon and Cass counties, he having moved to the former county in 1866, with his parents. He taught the first school in the town of Anita, in 1869. When he was about eighteen years of age, he commenced the study of medicine, by himself, afterwards entering the office of Doctor V. D. Rood, with whom he studied two years. In 1876 and 7, he attended courses of lectures at Keokuk, and in 1878, at the Rush Medical college, at Chicago, and graduating from the latter institution. The same year, he returned to Anita, and commenced the practice of the healing art, which he follows to this day. He was united in marriage in August, 1878, to Miss Carrie Griffiths and they have one child--Hattie. The doctor is the proprietor of one of the drug stores of Anita, and has worked up a good trade, and enjoys a fair practice in the town and its environs.
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. 407.
