Bio of WILCOX, Dr. Archa Edward (b.1875), 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

Vol II, pg 113-114
ARCHA EDWARD WILCOX, M. D.
Dr. Archa Edward Wilcox, who since 1902 has successfully engaged in the practice
of medicine and surgery in Minneapolis, has also been actively identified with
hospital management and control in this city, his hospital practice being of a
most important character. Dr. Wilcox is a native son of Minneapolis, his birth
having occurred November 10, 1875, his parents being John Finley and Emma E.
(Clement) Wilcox, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere.
The public school training of Archa Edward Wilcox was supplemented by a six
years' course in the University of Pennsylvania and there he was graduated in
medicine with the class of 1899. His early professional experience came to him
through an interneship in the German Hospital at Philadelphia and for three
years he was assistant to Dr. John B. Deaver. He afterward pursued postgraduate
work in Berlin, in Heidelberg, in London and in Paris and at the close of this
period of study abroad he returned to Minneapolis, where he opened an office and
entered upon active practice in the fall of 1902. Soon afterward he became a
member of the staff of the Minneapolis City Hospital and was also made quiz
master in anatomy and surgery in the Hamline University Medical School.
Subsequently he was quiz master and instructor in surgery at the medical school
of the University of Minnesota. Through appointment of Hon. James C. Haynes,
then mayor of the city, he served on the board of charities and corrections and
in 1907, in association with Dr. J. W. Little, C. G. Weston and Frank C. Todd he
organized and built the Hillcrest Surgical Hospital, with which he remained in
active association until 1916, when he sold his interest. Dr. Wilcox then became
surgeon to Asbury Hospital and continued his labors uninterruptedly there until
the hospital was taken over by the government in 1920. About that time he became
assistant surgeon at the University Medical School of the University of
Minnesota and orthopedic surgeon to the Abbott Hospital. He also does a large
amount of surgical work in St. Mary's Hospital. After fourteen years of surgical
service at the City Hospital he became consulting surgeon, following his
resignation as chief surgeon in 1918. In July. 1921, he was appointed a member
of the welfare board by the Hon. George E. Leach. Throughout the years of his
active practice he has always specialized in surgery and his skill and
efficiency in this field have been developed to a point of eminent ability. He
belongs to the Minnesota State Medical Society and also to the American Medical
Association, the Academy of Medicine, the Southern Minnesota Med-ical Society,
the Western Surgical Society, and is a fellow of the American College of
Surgeons. In 1922 he was again appointed chief of surgical staff of the
university division of the Minneapolis General Hospital.
On the 4th of June, 1903, Dr. Wilcox was married to Miss Mary Hays Hunter of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and they have two children: Mary Hunter and Archa
Edward. Jr. Dr. Wilcox is very fond of outdoor life, which he enjoys in the
companionship of his children. During his student days in Philadelphia he took
an active interest in dramatic productions, playing the leading parts in a
number of such. He has also labored earnestly in political circles and upon his
return to Minneapolis became one of the members of the Roosevelt Republican
Club. He belongs to the Pennsylvania chapter of the Psi Epsilon fraternity and
he has membership in the Minneapolis Club, the Minikahda Club, the University
Club of St. Paul and the Mask and Wig Club of Philadelphia, being accounted a
valued addition to their membership. The major part of his time and attention,
however, throughout his life has been given to his professional interests and
duties. As a surgeon he has reached an eminent position, specializing largely in
diseases of the bones. In his early manhood, while abroad, he had unusual
opportunity, through his association with Dr. John B. Deaver of Philadelphia, to
meet many celebrated surgeons, thus gaining valuable knowledge through the
opportunity to investigate their methods and to discuss with them points of
vital professional interest. His name is widely known throughout the country as
a contributor to the leading medical journals and his opinions have largely
become accepted as authority on many points which he discusses.