Scott County IA Archives Biographies.....Thistle, James August 4, 1805 - 1863
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Debbie Clough G-erischer Bare67deb@aol.com and Mari Modlin ddmmjm@netins.net July 27, 2005, 2:56 am

Author: Harry E. Downer

The following was taken from "History of Davenport and Scott County, Iowa" by 
Harry E. Downer - Volume 1 - Chicago - The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - 
1910
Chapter 17 page, 507.

Chapter 17 The Medical Profession - Section, Early Members
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1.  "Dr. James Thistle was born an even century ago (August 4, 1805) at 
Cumberland, Maryland, to which place his father, when a lad, had been brought 
by the doctor's grandfather from Ireland.  James graduated from the 
University of Maryland, in 1829, and practiced briefly in his native state, 
at Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and at Vincennes, Indiana (where he 
married); then settled at Natchez, Mississippi, where, officing with his 
distinguished brother-in-law, Dr. Samuel A. Carwright, he acquired a 
competency.  Having invested somewhat unfortunately in a cotton plantation, 
and wishing to find a more healthful sociality for his family, he came north 
and to Davenport in 1850.  Dr. Tomson, the writer of the memoir from which 
these notes are chiefly taken, found him here in 1856, enjoying perhaps the 
largest practice of any physician in the city.  Erect and pleasing in figure, 
courteous, modest and unassuming, he was universally loved and respected. 
 "To him, more than to any other man,' says Dr. Tomson, 'are we indebted for 
our organization.  It was through him that the first step was taken.  He 
called the first meeting and acted as the first president of our organization 
as a medical society.'  Dr. Thistle, while chairman of the preliminary 
meeting, and elected president later, was not, however, the first elected 
president of the society, that honor having fallen to Dr. E. S. Barrows.  Dr. 
Thistle died of pneumonia in 1863; his grave in Oakdale in near that of Dr. 
Fountain.
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Please note: I am not related.

Debbie Clough G-erischer


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