Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Anthony, Walter E. 1889 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 July 9, 2013, 5:05 pm Source: See Below Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher WALTER E. ANTHONY, M. D. Among the younger representatives of the medical profession now successfully engaged in practice in Ottumwa is Dr. Walter E. Anthony, who was born January 13, 1889, in Santa Ana, California. His father, Enoch Anthony, is a medical practitioner in Wapello county, where he has continuously practiced for nineteen years. He is a native of Athens, Missouri, as was his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Nelson. The paternal grandparents were born on old homesteads near Athens, Missouri, in a district which was then but sparsely settled and where the Indians were numerous. William Clark, the great-grandfather of Dr. Anthony, settled in what is now Clark county, Missouri, in the early part of the nineteenth century. The grandfather Anthony was a Union soldier throughout the Civil war. The Nelson family came from Maine and was established in Missouri in pioneer times. The great-grandfather in that line carried the mail on horseback from Keokuk to Keosauqua before the old Rock Island road was built, and thus it is that Dr. Anthony is descended from ancestors closely associated with the development of the region west of the Mississippi. In the pursuit of his education he completed a high school course at Ottumwa in 1908 and for professional training attended Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he won his M. D. degree on the 3d of June, 1912. He has since engaged continuously in the practice of medicine, returning to Ottumwa for practice and here remaining to the present time, his success increasing with the passing years. He is a member of the Wapello County Medical Society, the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was examining physician for the Woodmen of the World and for the Homesteaders in 1913, and for the Knights of Maccabees in 1914. Of those organizations he is a member and also of the Loyal Order of Moose. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, but he is not a politician in the sense of office seeking. On the 10th of October, 1912, Dr. Anthony was married at the home of T. T. Funk, ten miles north of Ottumwa, to the daughter of the household, Miss Mary Moss Funk. Her parents have spent their entire lives in Wapello county, where Mr. Funk still follows the occupation of farming. He has often been officially associated with school and. township affairs. To Dr. and Mrs. Anthony has been born a daughter, Velma Rose. The parents are members of the First Methodist church and in Ottumwa, where they have practically spent their entire lives, they are widely and favorably known, while the professional ability of Dr. Anthony places him in a creditable position as a representative of the medical fraternity. Additional Comments: Extracted from: HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb