DR. W. J. WILLIM
Doctor W. J. Willim is a native of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, born March 23, 1851, but early in life removed to Mercer county, in the same State. He attended the high school at Franklin, graduating therefrom in 1871. In the fall of that year, he came to Iowa, locating in Marshall county, where he studied medicine with Dr. Waters, of Marshalltown, and was his partner for a couple of years. He finished his studies while with him, and in 1883 came to Atlantic. He was united in marriage, in Marshalltown, June 7, 1877, to Miss Lottie Codure, by whom he has three children. The Doctor gives his attention to ear and eye diseases, and ailments of the skin, and is the proprietor of the Atlantic eye and ear infirmary, which he established in 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, pp. 403.
