Biographical Sketch of Dr. Edmund A. Donelan, 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. Edmund A. Donelan, was born in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County,
New York, April 5, 1824, and is of Irish parentage.  He obtained a
common school education, and in 1839, removed to Wayne County, Ind.
For two years he was a student in the Beach Grove Academy, and then
taught school for two terms.  In 1844, he commenced the study of 
medicine at Liberty, Union County, and subsequently attended a course
of lectures at the Ohio Medical College in 1847 and in 1848.  Dr.
Donelan first began practicing at Abington, but after six months he
removed to Missouri, locating at Amazonia, and removed to Savannah
in 1850.  Returning to college in 1851, he graduated in the winter
of 1852.  In the fall of 1852, he was first elected to represent his
county in the State Legislature, and was re-elected in 1854, and 
served two full terms.  In 1857, he removed from Andrew County, and 
located in Plattsmouth, Cass County, Nebraska.  In 1858, he was
elected a member of the Nebraska Legislature, and the succeeding 
year was elected to the Territorial Council, a body corresponding to 
the present State Senate.  During the session of 1859 and 1860 he
served as presiding officer.  In the spring of 1860, Dr. Donelan 
removed to St. Joseph, Missouri, and at once entered on a successful
practice of his profession.  During the winter of 1870-71, he visited
New York, and attended Bellevue Medical College and the various hos-
pitals of New York City.  He has filled several public positions,
among them those of county physician of Buchanan County and city phy-
sician of St. Joseph.  He was elected Treasurer of the Missouri State
Medical Association in 1873, and served as President of the St. Joseph
Medical Society.  In November, 1876, he was chosen Representative in
the Twenty-ninth General Assembly, and was re-elected to the Thirty-
first General Assembly from St. Joseph.  He was one of the founders
of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of this city, and was one
of its lecturers.  He has filled the chair of Materia Medica and
Therapeutics for two years.  In 1881, he was elected Professor of
Diseases of Women and Children.  Dr. Donelan is now devoting his time
wholly to his profession.

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