Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Parker, Thadd September 28, 1868 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     In 1901 Dr. Parker came to reside and practice at Grand Junction, bringing

to his professional duties here a wealth of capacity and learning acquired in

years of study and practical experience in several of the best schools and

hospitals in various parts of this country and others, in which his natural

adaptability in the profession had the most careful and comprehensive training.

 His success in this field of professional labor has fully justified the hopes

raised by his previous preparation and provided a cumulative reward for his

study and practical efforts to master his line of work.  He was born at

Petersburg, Michigan, on September 28, 1868, and is the second of the three

sons, all physicians, of his parents, Burton and Fannie E. (Raymond) Parker,

also natives of Michigan.  The father is an attorney and at present one of the

supervising agents of the United States treasury department at Washington.  Dr.

Parker was educated at the public schools of his native town, being graduated at

the high school there in 1887.  He began the study of medicine under the

instruction of Doctors H.C. Wyman and Dayton Parker, of Detroit, and in 1888

entered the Michigan College of Medicine and Surgery in that city, from which he

was graduated in 1891 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.  He then went to

Europe and took a three-months course in the hospitals of Edinburgh, and on his

return pursued special courses at the Post-Graduate School in New York and the

Harvard Clinic in Boston, serving also four years as house surgeon at the

Emergency Hospital in Detroit.  In 1901 he came to Colorado and located at Grand

Junction, where he has ever since been actively engaged in a general practice of

medicine and surgery, in which he has been very successful, rising to a high

rank in the profession and winning a large, lucrative and representative

business.  He belongs to the county and state medical societies and the American

Medical Association, in the proceedings of all of which he takes an active and

interested part.  On January 21, 1900, he was united in marriage with Miss

Nellie R. Smith, a native of Gunnison, this state, and daughter of Burrell and

Amelia Smith.  Her father is now deceased.  He was formerly a wealthy mining

man.  Her mother is living at Greeley, Colorado.  In politics the Doctor is a

Republican.  He was recently appointed to the position of county physician of

Mesa county.

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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