Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Howell, Elias Burton 1884 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

ELIAS BURTON HOWELL, M. D.

Dr. Elias Burton Howell is engaged in the general practice of medicine in
Ottumwa, specializing to some extent in surgery. Broad reading and research work
since attending college have continually augmented his skill and ability and
have won him recognition as one of the leading representatives of the profession
in his part of the state. He was born in Johnson county, Iowa, August 2, 1884, a
son of J. M. Howell, also a native of Johnson county where he is still living.
He was born on the 9th of October, 1851, and has made farming his life work. He
married Jennie Buck, who was born in the same county, June 20, 1858, and they
became the parents of two children, the younger being Jesse, now a student in
the State University of Iowa.

Dr. Howell pursued his early education in the common schools of Johnson county
and was graduated from the Iowa City high school with the class of 1902. He
afterward engaged in teaching school for a year and subsequently entered the
State University of Iowa, being graduated from the medical department with the
class of 1907. He then filled the position of assistant instructor in the
department of obstetrics at the State University during the years 1907 and 1908
and was associated with Professor W. R. Whiteis at Iowa City from 1905 until
1909. In the fall of the latter year he came to Ottumwa, where he opened an
office, becoming the successor to Dr. W. A. Trueblood, in the Hofmann building,
but in December, 1911, he removed to his present location in the Court Park
building, where he conducts a general practice, giving special attention,
however, to surgery. He is a member of the Wapello County, the Des Moines
Valley, the Southeastern Iowa and the Iowa State Medical Societies and his
attendance at their meetings has broadened his knowledge and promoted his
efficiency, bringing him in touch with the advanced methods followed by others.

On September 23, 1909, Dr. Howell was united in marriage to Miss Bertha
Hemsworth, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, a daughter of Oscar and Mary (Orr) Hemsworth,
who are residents of Waterloo, Iowa, where the father is engaged in the grocery
business. Mrs. Howell is a lady of superior intelligence, education and culture.
She is a graduate of the Iowa State Teachers' College at Cedar Falls, also a
graduate of the New Haven Normal School of Gymnastics, and was assistant teacher
at the State University of Iowa in 1906 and 1907. Two children have been born of
this marriage, Homer Preston and Helen Louise. The former won first prize at the
Babies' Health Contest in 1912 at the Iowa State Fair and also the first prize
at the Iowa State Fair in 1913, winning the sweepstakes prize in the Babies'
Health Contest. He was also awarded a medal by the Woman's Home Companion.

Dr. and Mrs. Howell are in sympathy with and actively cooperate in all movements
that tend toward progress and improvement along material, educational, social
and moral lines. Dr. Howell gives his political allegiance to the Republican
party. He is a member of the Country Club and belongs also to the Odd Fellows
Society, the Moose, the Elks and the Masonic fraternity. His wife is connected
with the Order of the Eastern Star. They occupy an enviable position in social
circles of Ottumwa, where true worth and intelligence are received as passports
into good society. He is justly accounted one of the progressive young
physicians of Wapello county, his ability being attested by the liberal
patronage accorded him in Ottumwa and the surrounding country.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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