Montrose County CO Archives Biographies.....Meredith, Harold H. September 11, 1878 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Dr. Harold H. Meredith, one of the bright and promising young physicians

and surgeons of Montrose, may almost be said to be a product of that city, as he

has lived there from the time when he was six years old, having come to this

state and that town in 1884, from his native city of Bavaria, New York, where he

was born on September 11, 1878.  He was educated in the public schools of

Montrose, being graduated from its high school in 1894.  He then began the study

of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Johnson, of Montrose and in 1895

entered the State University, intending to pursue the course in the medical

department.  But owing to changes in the course and a consequent delay in

completing it, he left that institution and attended the Gross Medical College

in Denver, where he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1898.

 By competitive examination he secured the position of resident physician at the

Arapahoe County Hospital, where he passed a year and a half in study and

clinical work.  He then returned to Montrose and began an active general

practice which he has been continuously engaged in ever since.  He has exhibited

care and skill in his professional work, and a conscientious devotion to the

highest interests of the science of which he is a practitioner, being a diligent

student and close observer, with excellent judgment in applying practically the

results of his study and observation.  He is also a gentleman of high character

and pleasing manners, and has won in a marked degree the confidence and regard

of the people among whom he moves.  With youth, health and a proper ambition on

his side, and with devotion to lofty ideals in his line of usefulness, his

success is assured and already begun.  He has built up a representative practice

of good proportions which is steadily increasing in magnitude and importance,

and he is rapidly rising to a front rank in professional circles, such as he

already occupies in social life and general citizenship.  He is a member of the

International Society of Railway Surgeons and secretary of the local pension

board.  Fraternally he belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and politically he is

a steadfast Republican.  On April 25, 1900, he was married to Miss Florence

McCartney, who died in September, 1902, leaving one daughter, Florence Louise. 

On June 3, 1903, the Doctor married a second wife, Miss Harriet Ellingwood, an

accomplished and popular lady.  Dr. Meredith’s parents are H.A. and Mary L.

(Gregory) Meredith, pioneers of Montrose, having located at that town in 1884. 

They have been active and serviceable in promoting the growth and progress of

the town and county, and are held in high esteem by all classes of the people

among whom they live.  A sketch of them will be found on another page of this

work.  

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

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