BIOGRAPHIES:  John H. WALLIS, M.D., Rice Lake , Barron County, WI

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Joseph H. Wallis, M. D., physician and surgeon of Rice Lake, and a member of
the surgical staff of St. Joseph's Hospital, in that city, was born in Neosho,
Dodge County, Wis., this state, the son of Charles W. and Sarah (Ramsay)
Wallis. The father was born in England, and the mother in New York State, in
which state they were married. They came west in 1840, located near Neosho,
and there farmed successfully until 1890, when they retired and moved to the
city of Hartford, Wis., where the father died in October, 1912, and where the
mother still lives. Joseph H. Wallis received his preliminary education in the
public schools of his native county and then studied under private tutors in
Milwaukee. With this preparation he entered the Milwaukee Medical College, and
graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1898. He took a further
course of one year at the West Side Post-Graduate School, Chicago, and then
entered Trinity Hospital at Milwaukee, for one year as an interne.
Subsequently, he was connected with the same hospital for eight more years as
a surgical assistant, and was the founder and for some time director of the
X-Ray laboratory connected with that institution, having charge of the
delicate and exacting task of installing all the extensive apparatus. For five
years he was directing clinician and lecturer on the principles of surgery at
the Milwaukee Medical College, and for a considerable period lectured on the
surgical diseases of the mouth, at the Milwaukee Dental College. He also
served as health commissioner of Wauwatosa for three years. Dr. Wallis came to
Barron County in 1918, and for about two years was associated with Dr. Harry
M. Coleman and Dr. C. C. Post, at Barron. June 1, 1920, he came to Rice Lake
and established his present office. He has built up a constantly increasing
practice, and the standing he has attained in his short residence here is
shown by the fact that he has already served the county a term as coroner and
has entered upon his second term. He is president of the Barron County Medical
Society and member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical
Association. In the county and state organization he has been very active, and
in the latter organization is a member of the House of Delegates. Fraternally,
he belongs to Barron Lodge, No. 226, A. F. and A. M.; Wisconsin Lodge, No. 1,
Knights of Pythias, of which he is Past Chancellor; and to Wakodis Temple, No.
165, Knights of Khorassan, being C. C. of Rice Lake Lodge, No. 60. He is also
a member of the Commercial Club of Rice Lake and the Business Men's Club of
Barron. His favorite recreation is out-of-door life; he delights in wandering
into the open in pursuit of out-of-door sports when tired with the grind of
daily duties. In the business world he holds stock in the Twentieth Century
Silo Co., in which he owns the manufacturing rights for the state of
Wisconsin. Politically, he adheres to the beliefs of the Republican Party. Dr.
Wallis was married Oct. 9, 1919, to Jane Reed, of Montello, this state. They
attend the Episcopal Church.

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., &
Co., 1922, pg. 191.