- CHARLES M. SMITH, JR., M.D., of Evansville, Rock County.
The country physician with a
- large practice and an extended "ride" has selected
a most laborious vocation, and subjects himself to a constant
strain. His patients are remote, and much depends on the fidelity
and good sense of those attending them. He is far more helpless
than his city congener. But the profession in the country has
its vast advantages, and the young man is wise who prefers the
peace and quiet of the country, with its simpler diseases and
more certain and rapid recovery, to the glare and excitement
of the city. Such a man is the physician whose name introduces
this article. He wants to be close to his community, wants to
know the people as only a country doctor can know his patients.
He is beginning well, and a bright future is augured for him
by his friends.
- Dr. SMITH was born in Evansville, Rock Co., Wis., March 23,
1866, son of Dr. Charles M. and
- Julia (SAWIN) SMITH, a family history of whom appears elsewhere.
The young man had his education well advanced while at home
under the parental care, attending the local school and academy.
He obtained his medical education at Rush Medical College, Chicago,
from which institution he was gradated in 1890. He had an office
at Milton Junction for a year following, and then returned to
Evansville, where he has been engaged in a general medical practice
to the present time. He has won many friends, and has a large
and growing patronage. On June 30, 1895, Dr. SMITH married Miss
Ida MONSHAN, daughter of Henry and Mary MONSHAN. They have one
son, Dudley W. E. Mrs. SMITH is a member of the Episcopal Church,
and the Doctor is a member of several fraternal orders, holding
membership in Union Lodge, No. 32. A.F. & A.M.; Evansville
Chapter, No. 35, R.A.M., of which he has been high priest three
years; Janesville Commandery, No. 2, K.T.; and the Knights of
Pythias, of which he has been chancellor commander three years;
he is highly prized in these various associations. Professionally
he belongs to the Wisconsin State Medical Society, is examiner
for the New York Life, Connecticut Mutual and Pennsylvania Mutual
Insurance Cos., and the Knights of the Maccabees. He has a handsome
home at the corner of Madison and Church streets. Dr. SMITH
has practically spent his entire life in Evansville, and is a
most popular young man in that thriving city. He is a Republican
politically.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 29.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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