Will County IL Archives Biographies.....McBride, Dr William Otis 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Dr. William Otis McBride, oculist and aurist, engaged in active practice in 
Joliet, his native city, in connection with Dr. H. W. Woodruff, was born 
December 24, 1877. His father, Dr. Thomas H. McBride, also a native of 
Illinois, was born upon a farm near Belleville in 1847 and removing to Joliet 
in 1874, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery for seven years, or 
until his death, which occurred December 19, 1881. His wife, Mrs. Mary E. 
McBride, is a native of this city, born in 1852, and a daughter of Otis Hardy, 
one of Will county's early settlers, who died November 7, 1889, at the age of 
seventy-nine years. Dr. McBride was educated in the Joliet public schools and 
was graduated from the Joliet high school in the class of 1898. He afterward 
spent one year as a medical student in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 
and three years in Northwestern University at Chicago, from which he was 
graduated in the class of 1903. Subsequently he served for two years as house 
physician in St. Joseph's hospital in Joliet and one year as house physician 
in the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary in Chicago, where he 
continued until the 1st of June, 1906, when he returned to Joliet and entered 
into partnership relations with Dr. H. W. Woodruff. While well informed 
concerning the science of medicine and surgery in its various branches, they 
are making a specialty in their practice of diseases of the eye and ear. On 
the 20th of June, 1906, in Lima, Ohio, Dr. McBride was married to Miss Nannie 
Francis, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Francis, of that place. Her father is 
president of the Lima Loan & Homestead Association and one of the oldest 
settlers and best known citizens of that section of Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. McBride 
have gained many friends during the period of their residence in Joliet. He is 
a member of the Will County Medical Society, the Illinois State Medical 
Society and the American Medical Association, and with broad and thorough 
training and laudable ambition he is destined to win prominence and success in 
the profession which he has chosen as a life work. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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