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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 190-192


DAVID A. STRICKLER, M. D.

	With the broad foundation of medical science for general 
practice, Dr. David A. Strickler in recent years has specialized as an 
oculist and aurist and has attained an eminent position in that branch 
of the profession. Ever holding to the highest standards, he has 
continually broadened his knowledge through study and experience and 
has at all times kept in touch with the latest scientific researches, 
investigations and discoveries.

	A native of Pennsylvania, he was born at Chambersburg, Franklin 
county, on the 26th of March, 1859, a son of Jacob Strickler, a native 
of Pennsylvania, who spent his entire life to the age of eighty years 
in Franklin county. He belonged to one of the old families of the 
state, of Swiss descent. It was founded in York county, Pennsylvania, 
about 1729. There the family were well known as leading members of the 
Mennonite church. They were a family of agriculturists and Jacob 
Strickler also carried on the work of the farm for many years but in 
later life became connected with industrial lines and held an interest 
in woolen mills and paper mills. For a time he was also superintendent 
of a turnpike company and through the conduct of his business won a 
very substantial measure of success as the years passed. He became one 
of the prominent and leading residents of his section of the state and 
that he was a man of excellent business ability and of marked personal 
worth is indicated in the fact that he was often called upon to act as 
trustee of estates. He held to the religious faith of his fathers, 
being an earnest member of the Mennonite church and a devout Christian. 
Politically he was a republican, but the honors and emoluments of 
office had no attraction for him. He married Anna Stouffer, a native of 
Franklin county and a representative of one of the old families of 
Pennsylvania, of Swiss ancestry, founded in America about the same time 
as the Strickler family. They, too, were Mennonites and in that faith 
Mrs. Strickler was reared and lived. She died in 1881 at the age of 
sixty five years, her birth having occurred in 1816, while Mr. 
Strickler, who was born in 1815, had reached the age of eighty years 
ere death called him in 1895. Their family numbered ten children, seven 
sons and three daughters, but only three of the number are now living: 
Jacob and Amos, who are still residents of Pennsylvania; and David A., 
who was the youngest of the family.

	To the age of eighteen years Dr. Strickler of this review spent 
his youth upon the home farm and began his education in the district 
schools, while later he pursued a literary course in the Chambersburg 
Academy. At length he determined upon the practice of medicine as a 
life work and with that end in view became a student in the Hahnemann 
Medical College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from which he was 
graduated with the M. D. degree as a member of the class of 1881. 
Following his graduation he became resident physician in the Hahnemann 
Hospital, in which he remained for a year. He then sought a field of 
labor in the middle west and opened an office in Sterling, Illinois, 
where he continued for a year. During the succeeding two years he was 
at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in general practice, 
and he also resided for four years in Duluth, Minnesota, where he 
devoted his attention to general practice for a time, but afterward 
concentrated his efforts and attention upon diseases of the eye, ear, 
nose and throat. During the following six years he was at St. Paul, 
Minnesota, and from that city removed to Denver, where he arrived in 
the fall of 1895. In the intervening period, covering twenty three 
years, he has been in active and continuous practice and now occupies a 
very prominent and commanding position in his profession. He pursued 
post graduate work in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, covering 
various lines of professional activity. He held the chair of 
ophthalmology, oto-laryngology and rhinology in the medical department 
of the University of Minnesota from the time the department was created 
until he left that state, covering a period of seven years. Later he 
was registrar and dean, respectively, of the Denver Homeopathic College 
and its successor the Denver College of Physicians and Surgeons until, 
owing to efforts of the medical profession to diminish the number of 
colleges, it closed its doors in 1909. He is a man of pronounced 
professional ability, as is attested by the leading physicians of the 
state and by those elsewhere who know aught of his career. He is a 
fellow of the American College of Surgeons; a fellow of the American 
Medical Association, and belongs to the Colorado State Medical Society 
and to the medical associations of the city and county of Denver; of 
the Colorado Ophthalmological Society; the American Institute of 
Homeopathy; the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, 
is president of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United 
States, and has been a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners 
of Colorado for the past sixteen years and its executive officer for 
the past seven years. He was president of the Colorado Homeopathic 
Society in 1902 and 1903, belongs to the American Homeopathic 
Ophthalmological & Oto-Laryngological Society, is president of the Park 
Avenue Hospital Association of Denver and is a member of the staff of 
the City & County Hospital of Denver. He is a member of Advisory Board 
No. 3 (Medical for Colorado); the State Committee on National Defense 
(medical); and of the board of examiners for aviation service. He is 
chairman of the committee on public policy of the Colorado Medical 
Society and also the committee on public policy and legislation of the 
Medical Society of the City and County of Denver. These various 
membership connections and activities along the line of his profession 
estabMsh his prominent position among the eminent practitioners of the 
west.

	In Duluth, Minnesota, in 1887, Dr. Strickler was united in 
marriage to Miss Gertrude Olmsted, a daughter of Captain Allen Olmsted, 
who was a Civil war veteran, a member of one of the old families and a 
pioneer settler of Duluth, removing to that state from Iowa. He married 
Louise Lawyer and has now passed away. The death of Mrs. Strickler 
occurred in Denver in 1896, when she was thirty-five years of age. In 
their family were two children: Lynda Louise, who is a teacher in the 
high school of Denver; and Gertrude Aline. Both daughters are highly 
educated in the languages and in the arts. On the 1st of December, 
1906, in Denver, Dr. Strickler was again married, his second union 
being with Mrs. Mary (Riggs) Bradner, a native of Canton, Michigan, and 
a daughter of Alfred Riggs. Mrs. Strickler's mother is still living, 
but her father has passed away. Prior to her marriage to Dr. Strickler 
she was the wife of Dr. William Bradner, a prominent physician of 
Denver, who died in 1895. Mrs. Strickler is a graduate of the dental 
department of the University of Denver, which conferred upon her the 
degree of D. D. S. in 1898. She still practices to some extent among 
her old patients. She is a woman of exceptional ability and 
qualifications, of liberal education and of noble character.

	Dr. Strickler is a member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken 
the initial degrees in the order in St. Paul. Minnesota, in 1895. He 
also belongs to the Elks lodge of Denver and to the Lakewood Country 
Club. He is likewise a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is 
interested in all that has to do with the welfare and progress of his 
adopted city, but his time and attention are chiefly concentrated upon 
his profession, which is continually making heavier and heavier demands 
upon his energies. His practice throughout the entire period of his 
residence in Denver has been large and important. He is today a man of 
national reputation in his profession and he was chosen as one of the 
speakers at the annual congress held for the Cooperation for the 
Prevention of Medical Frauds, which was held at the Congress Hotel in 
Chicago on the 4th and 5th of February, 1918, his subjects being 
medical education and licensure. This was the eleventh annual congress 
held. In preceding years he also took an active part in the 
proceedings. He is ever regarded as a most valued addition to any of 
the conventions of the profession and is a speaker of wide reputation 
who is always listened to with interest and attention, for he has 
carried his investigations far and wide, bringing to light many of 
nature's secrets and gaining especial prominence in the field to which 
he has now for many years devoted his attention. He is one of the 
eminent oculists and aurists of the west whose practice is largely the 
expression of the last word in scientific investigation.