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Author: Cyrus C. Carpenter (1896)

DR. ADDISON PARKER MACOMBER is a prominent homeopathic physician, residing in
Atlantic, Iowa. He is a native of Franklin county, Massachusetts, born May 19,
1831. His grandfather, George Macomber, was a native of Massachusetts, of Scotch
descent. Ebenezer Macomber, the son of George Macomber, was also a native of
Massachusetts and by occupation was a farmer, which calling he followed during
his entire life. In the war of 1812, he served his country faithfully and well,
and at the close of the service was honorably discharged, returned to his home
and again took up the life of a farmer. He married Sarah A. Jewell, a native of
Connecticut and of English descent. She was a relative of the family of that
name well known in the history of Hartford.

   The subject of this sketch was the youngest in a family of seven sons and one
daughter born to Ebenezer and Sarah (Jewell) Macomber, only two of whom are now
living,-the Hon. K. W. and our subject. Four of the sons became physicians. The
subject of this sketch was reared on the old homestead in Massachusetts, and
until sixteen years of age attended the district schools and assisted in the
cultivation of the farm. At the age of fifteen years he taught his first term of
school. He subsequently attended the New Salem Academy, and later was a student
of the Uxbridge Academy, of which his brother, a graduate of the old Brown
University was principal for twenty years. At the age of eighteen years he
commenced the study of medicine, with Dr. Joseph N. Bates, of Worcester,
Massachusetts, remaining with him three years, and in the meantime attending
lectures at Woodstock, Vermont, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Not feeling
satisfied with the knowledge gained, he entered the medical department of the
old University of New York, at which he was graduated in the class of 1853. The
celebrated Dr. Valentine Mott was at that time the surgical professor.

   On receiving his degree, Dr. Macomber located at Winchester, New Hampshire,
where for eight years he was engaged in the practice of his profession with good
success. He then went to Maiden, then a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, where
he remained four years, after which he went to Hackensack, New Jersey, where he
continued eleven years. From that place he came to Atlantic, Iowa, in 1878, and
has since been in constant practice here, meeting the success which he deserves
as a physician.

   Dr. Macomber was first married in 1853, when he wedded Miss Martha Williams,
of Massachusetts, by whom he had one son. His second marriage was to Mrs. Fida
G. Fuller, who was a practicing physician. She was accidentally killed in a
runaway by being thrown from her buggy. She was a graduate of the Hahnemann
Medical College, Chicago, one of the best medical colleges in the United States.
In 1888 at Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Macomber wedded Mrs. Corda J. Barnesa, of
Hampton, Virginia, who was reared near Cleveland, Ohio.

   Religiously Dr. Macomber is a Presbyterian and is an Elder in the
Presbyterian Church at Atlantic, Iowa. A physician of forty-two years' practice,
he is not content with knowledge long since acquired but is a careful student at
the present time, and ever ready after careful investigation to adopt any new
methods that in his judgment will be beneficial to the afflicted. While residing
in New Jersey he was for a time president of the New Jersey Homeopathic Medical
Society, and while residing in Boston was a member of the Massachusetts Medical
Society. In 1892 he served as president of the Hahnemann Association of Iowa.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

ILLUSTRATED

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."'—MACAULAY.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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