Outagamie County, WI - Biography of WILLIAM COMERFORD, M. D. of Appleton

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SUBJECT: Biography of WILLIAM COMERFORD, M. D. of Appleton
SUBMITTER: Janice Marasch     
EMAIL: jmmarasch@aol.com
DATE SUBMITTED: 04 Apr 2000
SURNAMES: DEMPSEY
SOURCE: Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties of Brown,
Outagamie and Winnebago, J.H. Beers & Co, p. 884, 1895


WILLIAM COMERFORD, M. D.

Among the native-born physicians of northern Wisconsin stands prominent this gentleman, who
though yet in the ranks of the younger members of the profession has already placed himself
well in the van.

The Doctor was born in Appleton, Outagamie Co., Wis., April 2, 1869, a son of William H.
Comerford, a native of Ireland, whence, in 1850, he emigrated to this country, settling on a farm
in or near the city of Milwaukee, Wis., where he remained some fifteen years, when he moved to
Appleton, Outagamie county, his present place of residence.

The subject of this sketch received his primary education at the schools of Appleton, graduating
at the Ryan High School in 1885.  He then commenced a course of study in medicine under the
preceptorship of Dr. A. H. Levings, Appleton, now president of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Milwaukee, and at the end of two years entered Rush Medical College, Chicago,
graduating therefrom March 25, 1890, with high honors.  Having now completed his course in
medicine, Dr. Comerford opened his first office in Rice Lake, Barron Co., Wis., but at the end of
about eighteen months, desiring a wider field, he in September, 1891, returned to Appleton,
where he has since continued in the successful practice of medicine.  Politically the Doctor is a
Democrat, but takes no active part in the affairs of his party, his entire time being devoted to his
profession, in which he is more interested.  Socially he is a member of the Modern Woodmen; in
religious faith he is a Catholic.