E. Leroy Turner

TURNER, BOYS, MCCORMACK, STRICKLAND

Posted By: Diane Wilson (email)
Date: 5/26/2004 at 14:04:51

E. Leroy Turner, M. D., has been in practice at Bristow since July, 1874. Dr. Turner was born in Illinois in 1874. He removed to Butler county, with his father, in 1856. The latter settled in Shell Rock township, being one of its early settlers. He continued to reside there until November, 1881, when he left for Clear Lake, Iowa. Dr. Turner began the study of medicine in 1868, with Dr. Boys, of Waverly, and graduated at Rush Medical College in 1871. He practiced a short time at Shell Rock and then located at Tripoli, Bremer county, where he practiced two years, then locating here, as above stated, succeeding Dr. Charles McCormack. Dr. H. S. Strickland, another Bristow physician, located here after Dr. Turner came and practices about two years. Dr. Turner is having an extensive practice.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 351