Bio of LAWRENCE, Dr. William D. (b.1852), 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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Vol III, pg 230-233
W. D. LAWRENCE, M. D. (William D. Lawrence)
One of the representative members of the medical profession in Minneapolis is
Dr. W. D. Lawrence, proprietor of the Lawrence Sanatorium. He was born in
Lawrenceville, Province of Quebec, Canada, on the 16th of May, 1852. Dr.
Lawrence is a direct descendant of Sir Robert Lawrence of Ashton Hall, England.
Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts belonged to this same branch of the family.
In the acquirement of his education Dr. Lawrence attended the public schools of
his home town and for some time was a student at the Granby and Waterloo
academies. During the Fenian raid into Canada shortly after the Civil war, he
served as captain of the Seventy-ninth Highlanders. In 1872 he moved to Chicago
and in 1876 enrolled in the Chicago Medical College but graduated from the
Chicago Homeopathic Medical College in 1879. He attended clinics in London and
Vienna and located in Minneapolis in 1879.
In 1894 Dr. Lawrence organized the Minneapolis Medical and Surgical Institute,
and in 1900 he established the Lawrence Sanatorium on First avenue, South. In
1906 he purchased his present property, on East Seventeenth street, extending
from Chicago avenue to Elliot avenue. There Dr. Lawrence has a representative
ethical institution. He was one of the first medical men in the Northwest to see
the value to be derived from close cooperation on the part of the profession and
a central clinic. He imme­diately set about to put his idea into concrete form.
Dr. Lawrence specializes in chronic nervous diseases and addictions. Hundreds of
country physicians have been his associates in this work and consequently his
patients are largely from the outside.
In addition to being a medical man of the highest degree Dr. Lawrence is a
busi­ness man and executive of ability. He is a deep student and has made wide
study of the humanities and psychology of healing. He has traveled extensively
in Europe, visiting London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, etc., and there has studied
sociological con­ditions. In 1908 he was a delegate from the diocese of
Minnesota to the Pan-Anglican Congress in London, England, and at that time
studied the problems of moral, as well as physical, healing in European cities.
Special favors from eminent men in official position opened doors for
observation and study, which he prized very highly.
In 1878 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Lawrence and Mrs. Lucy Mayo Beach of
Lafayette, Indiana, a cousin of Admiral Mayo. Mrs. Lawrence passed to her rest
in December, 1921. For over forty years the doctor has been a very active member
of the Gethsemane Episcopal church and has been a delegate to many of the church
con­ventions.
Dr. Lawrence is president of the International Uplift Society, vice president of
the National Christian League, member of the executive committee of the World's
Purity Federation and expresident of the St. Paul and Minneapolis Academy of
Medicine. He is a member of the Minneapolis Athletic Club and the Automobile
Club.
Dr. Lawrence has gained recognition as one of the able and successful physicians
and surgeons of the state and by his labors, his high professional attainments
and his sterling characteristics has justified the respect and confidence in
which he is held by the medical fraternity and the local public.