Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 606
D. L. LIVERMORE, M.D.

D. L. LIVERMORE, M. D., has been one of the medical fraternity of Harrison County since June, 1879. He came from Onawa, Iowa, where he had practiced his profession up to within a year of the time he came to Dunlap, during which period he was unable to practice, on account of sickness in his own family.

His ancestors were English people, and his forefathers on both sides were among the oldest families of the East. He was born in New York City, September 15, 1840, the son of Lorenzo and Susan (HATFIELD) LIVERMORE, natives of Massachusetts and New Jersey respectively. He was reared and educated in New York State and Massachusetts. He attended the public schools and read medicine under a tutor, and graduated in Buffalo, in 1867, locating in Kansas City, where he remained until the latter part of 1868, and then removed to Richmond, Mo., but later removed to Kansas, just in time to enjoy the benefits of the drought and grasshopper years, which plague years caused him to remove to Council Bluffs. It was at this time that he concluded to leave the Allopathic school and take up that of Homeopathy, from which school he graduated in Chicago in 1879, having attended the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago, from which school he went to Onawa, Ia.

Politically, our subject affiliates with the Republican party, and he is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and also of the Knights of Pythias.

He was united in marriage January 31, 1870, to Fannie ESTES, a native of Kentucky, born near Lexington, July 4th, 1847. The Doctor and his good wife are members of the Congregational Church at Dunlap. He has been Health Officer of that place for several years. He is a man affable and courteous in his manners, a hard student, and successful practitioner. Having had the experience of two schools of medicine, with a large amount of experience, he is well qualified to cope with the diseases prevalent in his time.

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