Osteopathy has an able exponent in Springfield and Greene county [Missouri] in the person of Dr. George L. NOLAND, a man who has studied hard and left no stone unturned whereby he might get to the top, of his profession. Thoroughness, promptness and honesty have been watchwords with him and he is in every way deserving of the large success and the popularity which he has attained, for he began at the bottom of the ladder and has mounted its rungs unaided. He seems to have inherited many of the traits that win in life from his sterling ancestors of the old Buckeye state.

Doctor NOLAND was born at Big Plain, near Columbus, Ohio, in 1868. He is a son of Beckworth and Martha (BIGGERT) NOLAND, a highly respected family of that place, the elder NOLAND spending his life on a farm and was one of the enterprising citizens of his community. George L. NOLAND was reared in his native vicinity and when of proper age he assisted his father with the work on the farm during the crop season, and during the winter attended the public schools, later entered the State Normal School at Danville, Indiana, completing the prescribed course there, after which he returned to Ohio, and was married to Lou TWAY, of London, that state, on November 2 1891, and then he engaged in farming for three years on the old home place. He removed from the scenes of his childhood to Mt. Ayr, Iowa, where he engaged successfully in the live stock business until the fall of 1899, when he sold out and moved to Kirksville, Missouri, and there he and his wife entered the American School of Osteopathy, where they both made splendid records, and were graduated in due course of time. Immediately thereafter they came to Springfield, Missouri, and began the practice of osteopathy here in July, 1901, and they have continued the same to the present time with ever-increasing success, and are among the most skillful and best known osteopathic physicians in southern Missouri, and each. of the thirteen years they have been here has found them further advanced and with more patients and with more friends than the preceding.

Mrs. Lou TWAY NOLAND was born on July 16, 1870, in Fayette county, Ohio, and there spent her early girlhood. When twelve years of age she went to London, where she resided until 1895. She was graduated from the high school there in 1888, and, subsequently, took a post-graduate teacher's course in the State Normal at Ada, Ohio, after which she spent several years teaching school in Madison county, that state, and was regarded as one of the leading public school instructors of that county, and it was in London that she and Mr. NOLAND were married. She spent six months studying in Europe, in 1908, and took a course of lectures in osteopathy in University of Vienna, Austria. She is profoundly versed in this science, has met with pronounced success during her professional career and has been of great assistance to her husband. She is a daughter of Perry and Clara (CARTLICH) TWAY, the mother a daughter of Abraham and Lucinda (WILL) CARTLICH. Lucinda WILL was a daughter of George WILL, who was born on May 3, 1749, and he died on October 13, 1828. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving as first lieutenant and adjutant of the Sixth Pennsylvania Regiment. He was commissioned first lieutenant on February 5, 1877, and his name is the last one on a list of officers, dated August 27, 1778. This regiment was in the disaster at Fort Wellington on March 16, 1776.

Mrs. NOLAND has served three years as treasurer of the Missouri Osteopathic Association, which position she still holds. She is also secretary of the Ozark Osteopathic Association. and has discharged her duties in these capacities in a faithful and commendable manner. She is one of the most widely known Osteopaths in the state and is popular in the various associations. Religiously, she belongs to the Grace Methodist Episcopal church. She is an active member of the American Osteopathic Association, belongs to the Royal Neighbors of America, the Sorosia Society, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

To Doctor NOLAND and wife one child was born, Percy Ray NOLAND, whose birth occurred in February, 1895, at Mt. Ayr, Iowa, and died on February 27, 1906, in Springfield, Missouri.

Doctor and Mrs. NOLAND have an up-to-date suite of offices in the Landers building, and they are pleasant people to meet, intelligent, experienced, and courteous to all.

SOURCE: FAIRBANKS, Jonathan, TUCK, Clyde Edwin. Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri Pp. 1450-52. S.J. Clarke Pub. Co. Chicago. 1921.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2010