Biographical Sketch of Dr. George K. Donnelly, 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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Dr. George K. Donnelly was born March 31, 1821, in the city of New
York.  His primary education was received in New York City, Canajo-
harie, Montgomery County, New York, and Detroit, Michigan; and his
medical education he obtained at Toluca, Mexico and Chicago, Illinois.
On account of ill health he was sent to Toluca, Mexico in 1841, to be
treated and to pursue the study of medicine.  He was cured of his 
catarrh in less than two years and continued his studies until the
end of four years, and graduated, receiving the diploma of the 
"Colegio de Medicos y Cirujanos de Toluca, Mexico", (College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Toluca, Mexico) on February 20, 1845. 
He commenced the practice of medicine, as an allopathist, on May
1, 1845, in the City of Mexico, and continued there until war was
declared by the United States against Mexico, in 1846, when he made
his way to the Texan frontier and joined the American United States
Army, as a private, at Fort Defiance, afterwards known as Fort Brown.
After the close of the Mexican War, he returned to the United States.
In 1852, he met a friend who had graduated in the allopathic school,
but had become a homoeopathist.  Through his influence he was led to
investigate its merits, and was so well satisfied with the results 
of the system that he decided to adopt it, and he has since been a 
disciple of Hahnemann.  Sometime after this he went to California
and remained there four years, and then returned to Detroit, Michigan.
In 1860, he went to Kidder, Caldwell County, Missouri, at the solic-
itatiion of the late George S. Harris, to be physician for the great
New England Colony to be established there.  The spring of 1861,
found the people around Kidder taking sides for and against the 
government of the Union.  As his heart beat for his own country
entire, and as he had received a number of leaden receipts for the
dear old stars and stripes in Mexico, he could not see it trailed
in the dust without striking one blow to redeem it from the dis-
honor intended to be heaped upon it by its enemies.  He raised a 
company of Union men in Daviess County, Missouri and joined Colonel
Everett Peabody's regiment at St. Joseph, Missouri, in July, 1861.
He was in the Platte River disaster on September 3, 1861, where he 
was so badly mangled that he was taken to St. Joseph for dead and
laid out in the old depot.  He was reported killed by the disaster
to his regiment, and was buried by proxy, with military honors at
Lexington, Missouri, just before the battle at that place, September
20, 1861.  He was in the battle of Shiloh, near Pittsburg Landing,
Tennessee; was Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the First Brigade
of General Prentiss' Division of the Army of the Tennessee.  He re-
signed July 2, 1862, at Corinth, Mississippi, on account of reopen-
ing of wounds received in the Mexican War, and returned to Kidder,
Missouri, where he remained until 1874.  He then went to Chicago,
Illinois, and attended the winter course of lectures at the Hahnemann
Medical College, and graduated in the spring of 1875.  He then located
at Quincy, Illinois, and remained there until the fall of 1879.  He
then came to St. Joseph, Missouri.  He is a member of the I.O.O.F. and
M. E. Church North.

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