Bio of DOCTOR, Dr. William R. (b.1887), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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W. R. DOCTOR, M. D. (William R. Doctor) - Vol II, pg 617-618
Dr. W. R. Doctor, a well known physician and surgeon, is enjoying an extensive
and representative practice in Minneapolis, where he has resided since
September, 1919. He is a veteran of the World war, having served with the
Thirty-second Division with the rank of captain. Dr. W. R. Doctor was born in
the northwestern part of the state of Iowa on the 4th of February, 1887, a son
of Michael and Harriet (Schrader) Doctor.
In the acquirement of his preliminary education W. R. Doctor attended the public
schools of his native state and subsequently enrolled in Marquette University at
Mil­waukee, taking up the study of medicine. He was graduated from that
institution with the M. D. degree in the class of 1914, and practiced medicine
in Wisconsin until the entrance of the United States into the World war. He was
one of the first to volunteer his services to the government and he enlisted in
the One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Infantry, Thirty-second Division, which
division distinguished itself in the war and participated in more strategic
engagements than any other American division. At the time of his enlistment Dr.
Doctor had a wife and son, but he volun­tarily went to the front for his
country. The Doctor was first sent to Camp Douglas, Wisconsin, and from there to
Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas. He remained at the latter camp for some time and was
then sent to Camp Merritt, New Jersey, and thence overseas. His division landed
at Brest and with his regiment he was ordered to Alsace. There they held
trenches from May until July, 1918, when they went to Chateau Thierry as a part
of the American army. He was active in the battle of Juvigny and from there went
into the Meuse and Argonne offensive, the latter part of September. The
Thirty-second Division suffered terrible losses and immortalized itself and its
heroic dead. The division was on the battle line on the Meuse at the time the
armistice was signed and following the armistice what was left of the division
was sent into Germany with the Army of Occupation. The division held many of the
outposts during its stay in that country and in May, 1919, was finally ordered
home. Dr. Doctor was a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of his regiment
until April, 1919, when he was promoted to the rank of captain, with which rank
he was honorably discharged at Camp Grant, on the 17th of May, 1919. In
September of that year he came to Minne­apolis and established offices at No.
3004 Hennepin avenue for the practice of his chosen profession. Although he has
resided here but a short time he has built up an extensive and important
patronage and is readily conceded a place among the foremost physicians and
surgeons of this city. His success is well merited, for he holds to the highest
ethics in the practice of his profession, to which he has brought thorougn
training and invaluable experience received in the World war.
On the 20th of March, 1913, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was celebrated the marriage
of Dr. Doctor to Miss Esther Schrader, and they have a son, Robert. Mrs. Doctor
was active in Red Cross work during the war and is a woman of much culture and
refinement, being socially prominent.
The political allegiance of Dr. Doctor is given to the republican party and
although he is not active in party affairs he is ever cognizant of the duties
and responsibilities as well as the privileges of citizenship and his aid can
always be counted upon in the furtherance of any movement he deems essential to
the development and improve­ment of his ccmmunity. Along strictly professional
lines he holds membership in the Hennepin County Medical Society and the
American Medical Association. He is an active member of the Lions Club, that
body of representative Minneapolis citizens, and socially he is connected with
the Automobile, Minneapolis Athletic and Minne­tonka Golf clubs.