BIOGRAPHIES:  Donovan A. O'BRIEN, Turtle Lake, Barron Co., WI

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Submitted by:  Vic Gulickson <vic@indy.net>  24 February 2004
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Donovan A. O'Brien, D. D. S., a skilled dental practitioner, located at
Turtle Lake, is widely known in this part of the county. He has pleasant,
well equipped offices, he keeps well abreast of the times by wide reading,
and his ability and personality have built up a good clientele in village
and country. He was born at Augusta, Wis., Jan. 20, 1894, son of Charles M.
and Anna E. (Rouse) O'Brien, he a native of that village, and she a native
of Minnesota. For over a quarter of a century the father was engaged in the
creamery business at Augusta. In 1917 he retired and moved to Turtle Lake,
where he and his wife now reside. The subject of this sketch was the only
child. He was reared in Augusta, received his preliminary education in the
graded schools there, and was graduated from the High school in 1913. Then
he took up the study of dental surgery and oral hygiene at the University
of Iowa, and graduated in 1916, with the degree of D. D. S. That fall he
opened his office at Turtle Lake, and his success was apparent from the
start. At the entry of the United States into the World War, he offered his
service to his government, served five and one-half months at Camp Grant,
and on Jan. 28, 1918, was ordered to the Kelley Field, where he was
commissioned a lieutenant in the Dental Reserve Corps. He was discharged
Dec. 24, 1918, and at once resumed his private practice. Fraternally, Dr.
O'Brien is a Blue Lodge Mason. He was married at Augusta, Oct. 25, 1919, to
Wilmah Cox, of Augusta.

--Transcribed from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper,
Jr., & Co., 1922, pp. 171-172.


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