Weld County, History of Colorado, BIOS: AVERILL, Henry W. M.D. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II

p. 115-116


HENRY W. AVERILL, M. D.

	Dr. Henry W. Averill, engaged successfully in the practice of 
medicine in Evans, Colorado, was born in Warren, Vermont, April 4, 
1876, a son of Wilson A. and Ida M. (Wiley) Averill, both of whom were 
natives of the Green Mountain state. The father has been a farmer of 
Vermont throughout his entire life and is still cultivating his land 
although he has now reached the age of seventy-four years.

	No event of special importance occurred to vary the routine of 
farm life for Henry W. Averill in his boyhood and youth. He divided his 
time between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the 
playground and the work of the fields. After attending the common 
schools he continued his education in a seminary of Montpelier, 
Vermont, from which he was graduated with the class of 1898. He 
determined upon a professional career and with broad literary learning 
to serve as a foundation upon which to build the superstructure of his 
professional knowledge he entered the University of Vermont at 
Burlington, where he pursued the study of medicine for two years. He 
then came to the west and completed his medical education in Denver, 
being graduated from the Denver Medical College with the class of 1907. 
He afterward practiced in Idaho Springs and at Eagle, Colorado, and 
also was located for a few years in Denver, but eventually sold his 
practice there and entered the State University of Illinois at Chicago, 
where he completed a course in medicine as a graduate of the class of 
1913. He then returned to Colorado, settling at Evans, where he opened 
an office and has since followed his profession. He is thoroughly in 
touch with the latest scientific researches and discoveries that are of 
benefit to the profession and in his chosen calling he is displaying 
marked skill and ability. He is very conscientious in the performance 
of all of his professional duties, is most careful in his analysis and 
diagnosis of a case and his judgment is seldom if ever at fault in 
determining the outcome of disease.

	On the 30th of March. 1918, Dr. Averill was united in marriage to 
Miss Henrietta Alice Reed, a daughter of C. Henry and Artemisia 
(Johnston) Reed. Her father was born in Massachusetts in 1844 and her 
mother is a native of Iowa, now fifty-seven years of age. Mr. Reed was 
a hotel man of Iowa for many years and about 1904 he removed with his 
family to Evans, Colorado, where he conducted mercantile interests 
until his death, becoming one of the enterprising and progressive 
business men of the city. He died October 3, 1911, and is survived by 
his widow, who is now conducting the store with the assistance of her 
daughter, Mrs. Averill, to whom the success and development of the 
business is largely due.

	Dr. Averill is serving as health officer, a position which he has 
occupied for several years, and as county physician for this district. 
He belongs to the Colorado Medical Society and also to the Weld County 
Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The religious 
faith of Dr. and Mrs. Averill is that of the Methodist church and 
fraternally he is connected with the Masons and the Odd Fellows, while 
both he and his wife are identified with the Eastern Star. They are 
most highly esteemed in the community where they reside and the 
hospitality of the best homes is freely accorded them, their many 
sterling traits of character winning for them warm friendship.