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Author: Bowen & Co. (1903)

WILLIAM CHARLES CLARKSON FREEMAN, M. D.

  Prominent among the younger generation of medical men whose endowments and
achievements have added dignity to a profession which all ages have delighted to
honor is Dr. William Charles C. Freeman, who since 1893 has been alleviating the
sufferings of humanity in Rock Springs and the adjacent country. Much depends
upon being born well and in this respect Dr. Freeman was peculiarly fortunate,
as he comes of intelligent, noble-minded parents, whose ancestors for
generations were noted for strong mentality, high intellectual endowments and
sterling moral worth. Dr. William Freeman, the father, was a native of Ontario,
Canada, born in 1830. After receiving a fine literary education he took up the
study of medicine, graduating from the Toronto Medical College and subsequently
prosecuting his researches at Guy's Hospital, London, Eng., and Edinburgh
University, Scotland, and Bellevue Medical College. New York. He began medical
practice at Georgetown, Ontario, in 1857, and until 1889, he did a large and
lucrative professional business in that city, being one of the ablest physicians
and surgeons in the entire province. In 1889, he came to Rock Springs, Wyo., and
was in practice uninterruptedly until 1900 when death put an end to his labors.
He atttnincd much more than a local repute, especially in surgery, where he had
very few equals and never met a superior. His original investigations enabled
him to make a number of new discoveries in medical science and he generously
gave to the profession the benefits of his studies and researches in main- able
and scholarly papers. With all of his intellectual culture and high professional
attainments, he was a quiet man, absolutely free from ostentation and found his
keenest enjoyment in the bosom of his family, where shut from the world, he
pursued unmolested his fascinating scientific studies. He was faithful to his
practice, and had not an excessive modesty prevented, he might have become one
of the most distinguished surgeons of his day and generation. Isaac Freeman,
father of William, was a native of Ontario, as was also his wife, who bore the
maiden name of Hannah Kelley; his father, also Isaac by name, was one of three
brothers who came from England in a very early day and settled in Massachusetts.
Miss Mary Cobban, who became the wife of Dr. William Freeman, was a native of
Ontario and a daughter of Dr. James and Catherine (Jarmy) Cobban, the father
being a prominent physician and surgeon of that province. Her son, William
Charles C. Freeman, was born in Ontario in 1868 and received his literary
educational training in the schools of Georgetown, Ontario, the Guelph
Collegiate Institute, at Guelph. Ontario, the Upper Canada College and the
Toronto University. Having decided to adopt for a calling the profession in
which his father and his maternal grandfather had achieved such signal success,
he began a preliminary course of medical training, subsequently entering Trinity
University Medical College at Toronto, Canada, from which noted institution he
was graduated with an honorable record in 1893. Immediately after obtaining his
degree he began medical practice at Rock Springs, Wyo., and it was not long
until his superior professional abilities brought him prominently to the notice
of the public as a physician and surgeon of exceptional merit, he soon
established himself in the confidence and esteem of the people and gained a
large and lucrative practice which presents a series of successes rarely equaled
in the career of one so young. His ruling ambition has been to excel in his
chosen calling, the best energies of his mind have been lent in that direction,
and in this he has not failed, as is shown in part by the many notable cures he
has effected and by the enthusiasm with which he still keeps up his studies and
researches. The Doctor has performed a number of very difficult surgical
operations in which, the greatest skill was required and is easily the peer of
any of his professional associates as a family physician. Rooks are his loved
companions and his library is replete with the ablest medical works and
authorities, and he is a close and critical reader of the latest standard
literature bearing upon his profession. He has served as city health officer of
Rock Springs and was for some time physician and surgeon to the Sweetwater Coal
Mining Co. He has built well upon the broad foundation of intellectual culture
and moral principles a goodly edifice which will stand the test of time, and
though still a young man he has achieved a reputation such as few men much older
in the medical world attain. He takes an active interest in all matters
pertaining to the good of his city and links his influence to whatever tends to
the intellectual and moral advancement of his fellow men. He belongs to several
benevolent and fraternal organizations, among them the Independent Order of
Redmen, I. O. O. F., Ancient Order of United Workmen, Degree of Honor and the
Eagles. He was married in October, 1896, with Miss Marie R. A. Levesque and is
the father of two children, a son Paul Deschnes Cobban and a daughter Mary
Frances Dorris. Indicative of the inherent energy and progress of the Doctor it
may be stated that he is the only physician in Rock Springs who visits his
patients by means of an automobile.


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A people who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors, will
never achieve anything worthy to he remembered with pride by remote
generations.—.MACAULAY.

CHICAGO, ILL.
A. W. BOWEN & CO.
PUBLISHERS AND ENGRAVERS
1903


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