Who's Who in

Henry County, 1940

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1940 Who's Who
STERNBERG, WALTER ALBERT:
Physician & Surgeon; b Mitchellville, Iowa Dec 27, 1874; s of Lambert Sternberg-Rosina Fabin; ed Mitchellville HS 1892; Drake U, 1896; U of Ill, PhG, MD 1901; grad work med schs, Cook Co Hosp, Chicago; Mayo Clinic Rochester Minn; New York Polyclinic; Phi Rho Sigma; m Elizabeth Mary Hunter July 16, 1902 Detroit Mich; s Walter Lambert, Thomas Hunter; d Glenn Hunter (Mrs E H Ellis); 1901-02 interne St Mary’s Hosp; surg & gen prac, Mount Pleasant; surg for CB&Q Rwy Co; mbr Iowa St Bd of Health; during World War mbr exemption bd, chmn food administration & defense coun; Henry Co Med Soc; Iowa St Med Soc, mbr house of del, chmn surgical section 1936; FACS; AMA, alternate del; Amer Assn for Rwy Surgs; trustee Mississippi Valley Med Soc; Rotary, past pres; C of C; AF&AM 8; RAM 8; Kaaba Shrine; Scot Rite 32 degree; KCCH; Episc Ch; Dem, del to Dem natl conv, 1932 & 1940; hobbies: football, baseball, flying, fishing, hunting, Canadian hunting & fishing lodge, Sioux Lookout, Canada; grandfather Lambert Sternberg Sr & grandmother Janett Vrooman of Ritchfield N Y came to Iowa & located in Mitchellville 1846; off 135 W Monroe; res 600 E Monroe, Mount Pleasant.
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From Who's Who in Iowa, by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines: Iowa Press Association, 1940.

Transcribed by Alayna Vantiger, March 2021.

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