Biographical Sketch of J.M.D. France, 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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J. M. D. France, M.D., was born in the District of Columbia, in
1841, and there received his literary as well as professional
education, and was graduated at the Georgetown Medical University.
In 1873, he moved westward, and settled in the practice of medicine
and surgery in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he soon achieved a rep-
utation which ranked him with the first men of the profession in
that city.  He has held at different periods, the positions of 
City and County Physician.  The latter office he has held uninter-
upted since 1877.  He is a member of the State Medical Society, and
of the District Medical Society, of Northwest Missouri.  He also is
a member of the faculty of St. Joseph Hospital Medical College,
filling the chair of materia medica, therapeutics, and medical and
surgical clinics in that institution.  He is also secretary of the
faculty of the college.  Dr. France was married to Miss Lida Sheed,
a native of New York.  She died in 1873, leaving one child, a son,
Duncan Eugene.

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