Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Henry W. ABRAHAM, M.D. of Appleton 1866-

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SUBJECT: Biography of Henry W. ABRAHAM, M.D. of Appleton 1866-
SUBMITTER: W. David Samuelsen
EMAIL: dsam@wasatch.com
DATE SUBMITTED: Apr 15, 1999
SURNAMES: ABRAHAM, BASSETT
SOURCE: History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin, page 614, 1911


BIOGRAPHY:
ABRAHAM, Henry W., M.D.

president of the Fox River Valley Medical Society, and one of the leading members of the Outagamie county medical
profession, is engaged in a general practice in Appleton with office at No. 572 Oneida street.
Dr. Abraham is a native of Germany, born August 1, 1866, a son of William and Hannah Abraham, who came from
the Fatherland in 1870 and settled in Wausau, Wisconsin. William Abraham, who has been a soldier in the Germany
army, was a brickmaker by trade and had a plant in Wausau, where he died in 1891, his widow surviving until 1898.
They had a family of six daughters and three sons, of whom one is deceased. Henry W. Abraham attended the public
schools of Wausau, and in 1891 graduated from Lawrence College. After one year spent in Vienna he began to read
medicine and then entered Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1898. He immediately came to
Appleton, where he engaged in a general practice, and here he has continued to the present time. He is a member of
the Wisconsin State Board of Medical Examiners and holds membership in the County,
State and National medical organizations, is president of the Fox River Valley Medical Society, is connected with the
Theta Phi college fraternity, and is also a member of the Masons. Dr. Abraham is possessed of a kind, sympathetic
nature, and the natural taste for the various branches of the medical profession that makes the ideal
physician. He has built up a large and lucrative practice among the leading residents of Appleton, and has a host of
friends both in and out of his profession. Dr. Abraham in politics is an independent voter, recognizing no party lines.
He and Mrs. Abraham are members of the Congregational Church.

In 1899 Dr. Abraham was united in marriage with Nellie Bassett, of Berlin, Wisconsin, a graduate of Lawrence
College, and to this union there has been born one daughter, Margaret, aged eight years.