A physician hung out his shingle (began practice) in Clinton, Wis.

The evidence

• “Y.,and Orion, Mich., reading medicine in the mean time ; in 1852, he entered the office of Drs. Van Epps & Thrawl, Columbus,- Ohio, studying medicine and attending lectures, becoming thoroughly conversant with the systems of homceopathy, allopathy and electropathy ; in close sympathy with the progressive spirit of the age, he felt unwilling toaccept the fetters of a name, of an exclusive system, or of an illiberal code of ethics, and, being fully convinced that the choosing (or eclectic) mode of practice is the common-sense method, and truth and science the only satisfactory guides for the true physician, he betook himself to the institution most in accord wifli his ideas— the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, receiving a diploma from it, a'lso ; a seaison of work, study and practice in Michigan, a year spent in Elgin, 111., and in December, 1856, he hung out his shingle in Clinton, Wis., before the (so-called) Racine & Mississippi and Chicago & St. Paul Railroads, were built to the crossing ;”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/20-bios-clinton.md, PDF p. 774 / book p. 778

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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