Biographical Sketch of William C. Boteler, M.D., St. Joseph,
Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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William C. Boteler, M.D., was born in Middletown, MD., on August 4,
1855.  He received good educational advantages while young, preparing
for a collegiate course, which he took at the Penn College at Gettys-
burg.  He studied medicine with his father, Dr. W. E. Boteler, and
attended the medical department of the University of Maryland, at
Baltimore, receiving the degree of M.D.  Dr. Boteler afterwards be-
came a student at the John Hopkins University, of Baltimore, MD., in
the biological laboratory of Prof. J. Newell Martin, of Cambridge,
England.  Eighteen months afterwards he became a student of Prof.
Mears, at the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, preparatory
to service as surgeon in the United States Indian Department.  In
October, 1879, he passed his examination and was appointed physician
and surgeon, at the agency of Otoe and Missouri Indians in Nebraska.
He remained there seventeen months, then resigned and located in St.
Joseph, Missouri, in February, 1881.  On May 15, 1881, Dr. Boteler 
was elected by the faculty of the Hospital Medical College of St.
Joseph, as professor of chemistry and histology, which chair he at
present fills.

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