Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....McElderry, Donald 1874 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

DONALD McELDERRY.

Donald McElderry has been successfully engaged in the practice of medicine at
Agency since August, 1908, and has won enviable recognition as one of the able
representatives of the medical profession here. His birth occurred in Fairfield,
Jefferson county, Iowa, on the 28th of February, 1874, his parents being John R.
and Isabelle (Frush) McElderry, both of whom are natives of Ohio. They came to
Iowa in 1857 and took up their abode 011 a farm near Fairfield. John R.
McElderry responded to the first call for volunteers at the time of the outbreak
of the Civil war, joining Company E, Second Iowa Infantry, with which command he
participated in most of the important engagements of the conflict. He was
mustered out in 1865 and returned home with a most creditable military record.
Unto him and his wife were born nine children, eight of whom survive.

Donald McElderry supplemented his early education, obtained in the common
schools, by a college course. Subsequently he entered the medical department of
the State University of Iowa, from which institution he was graduated in 1908.
In August of that year he opened an office at Agency, where he has remained to
the present time, having built up an extensive and lucrative practice. He has an
attractive office and also a handsome residence in Agency.

On the 28th of November, 1907, Mr. McElderry was united in marriage to Miss
Sadie McMillin, a native of Wapello county and a daughter of Frank and Deborah
(Hendrickson) McMillin. The father still resides on a farm in this county, but
the mother has passed away. Mrs. McElderry, who was one of a family of four
children, prepared for the calling of a trained nurse in Ottumwa. She has had
two children, namely: Donald, who died in infancy; and Frank R., who was born on
the 8th of November, 1909.

Mr. McElderry is a republican in politics and is identified fraternally with the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, belonging to Lodge No. 4 at Fairfield. He is a
member of the County, State and American Medical Associations, also of the Des
Moines Valley and the Southeastern Iowa Medical Associations. He finds that
membership in these professional societies contributes much to his knowledge of
present tendencies in the science and practice of medicine. Both he and his wife
attend the services of the Methodist Episcopal church. In both professional and
social circles of his community Mr. McElderry is popular, enjoying the esteem
and friendship of all who know him.


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


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