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Author: R. M. Stevenson (1881)

ISAAC T. COATES, M. D.

    Dr. Coates is a prominent physician of Pueblo. He was born and reared in
Coatesville, Penn. He studied medicine, and graduated at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1859; he then went abroad and spent some time in visiting the
hospitals of Europe. Upon returning to America, he went to Louisiana; there he
remained until the spring of 1861, when he made a second voyage to Europe. After
spending a few months in Europe, he again returned to America and entered the
United States Navy as a Surgeon. During the late war, he acted as Surgeon upon
various naval vessels. After the war closed, he returned to Pennsylvania and
practiced medicine there until 1867. When, during that year, the Indian war
broke out, Dr. Coates was appointed Surgeon of the Seventh United States
Cavalry, Custer's great regiment. He was with the troops in the West about a
year, being also, for a time, Surgeon of the Tenth Infantry. In the latter part
of 1868, he made his way through Arizona to California, and returned East by
steamer via Panama. He practiced his profession in Chester, Penn., until 1872.
In that year he took a steamer for South America, going to Peru, where he became
the Medical Director of the Chimbote & Huaraz Railroad. The Doctor relates many
interesting incidents of his life and travels of four years in South America. He
traveled through the various countries and crossed the Andes as many as ten
times. He returned to the United States in 1876. In 1878, he made a second
voyage to South America, going then to Brazil, where he was expected to act as
Chief Surgeon for the company building the Madura & Mamore Railroad. But the
project for building that road failed after a short time, and Dr. Coates again
returned to the United States. In the spring of 1869, he came West to Colorado
and located at Pueblo, at which he has since resided, in the practice of his
profession. The Doctor has an enviable reputation as a physician, and now
commands all the practice he desires to attend to. The varied experience of Dr.
Coates and his inexhaustible fund of knowledge, taken with his affable manners,
render him not only a very entertaining gentleman, but a most useful member of
the society in which he lives.


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Extracted from:

History of the  Arkansas Valley, Colorado
By J. Harrison Mills

O. L. Baskin & Co.
Chicago
1881


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