- HENRY B. GIFFORD, M.D., occupies an honorable place among
the medical practitioners of
- Green county. At his home in Juda he is known as a man of
exhaustive information, large medical experience, and high character.
- Dr. GIFFORD is a son of Rev. J. S. and Julia (BALIS) GIFFORD.
The father was born in
- Cayuga county, N.Y., Dec. 8, 1826, and has been a clergyman
of the Free-Will Baptist Church for fifty years; the mother was
a daughter of Abitha and Maria (CLOUGHS) BALIS, both of New York.
To their union were born four children: Nellie M., the eldest,
is the widow of Oliver C. DUNWELL, of Rock county, Wis. Josephine
died in childhood. Henry B. is our subject. Joseph B., who
was born April 1, 1870, resides at Brodhead, Wis. Alden GIFFORD,
the grandfather of Dr. Henry B., was born in Massachusetts, and
moved to New York, where he reared a family of thirteen children.
He as a Presbyterian in religion, an upright man, and a most
successful farmer.
- Henry B. GIFFORD was born on a farm at Orfordville, Wis.
April 12, 1859, and obtained his
- general education in the public schools. At the age of nineteen
he took up the study of medicine, and gradated from Rush Medical
College, Chicago, Feb. 20, 1883. The first location he made
for the practice of his profession was at Cherry Valley, Ill.,
where he resided for three years having an extensive patronage
throughout the adjoining country. He then practiced in Orfordville
for ten years. In 1895 the Doctor moved to Juda, Green county,
where he has established himself as a thoroughly competent and
successful physician.
- Dr. GIFFORD and Miss Lydia A. CRAMER were married Feb. 20,
1884. Mrs. GIFFORD is
- the daughter of Brook and Catherine (LOVETTE) CRAMER, of
Cherry Valley, Ill., honorable and upright people, of German
ancestry. To this union have been born one son and one daughter,
V.M., July 12, 1886, and Harry G., March 30, 1892. Dr. GIFFORD
is a stanch Republican. He is a Royal Arch Mason in good standing,
a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Woodmen,
and the Home Forum, and, as might be expected, belongs to the
Central Wisconsin Medical Association and the Wisconsin State
Medical Association. He is local medical examiner for all the
leading life insurance companies. The Doctor has made his own
way in the world, and has met with marked success. He came to
Juda without the assurance of the least patronage, and, by his
courteous manners, manifest devotion to his profession, and the
mastery of its details, has won for himself a very large practice.
He is a good citizen, and attentive and kind to all, and seems
to present in his own personality, in a striking degree, the
qualities that make for success in his profession.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c)1901; pp. 955-956.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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