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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Franklin
County,
Ohio
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W. L. DICK, M.D.
Dr. W. L. Dick is well known as a
medical educator, while in general
practice he has given proof of his
ability in the able manner with
which he has met. and solved
difficult professional problem,. He
belongs to that class of men whom
the world knows as self-made because
their advancement is attributable to
their own efforts when fate and
circumstances gave then) no
advantage at the outset of their
careers. Dr. Dick was born in
Pickaway county. Ohio, March 27,
1860. His father, Johnson Dick, was
a native of the .same county and
died in the year 1874. The mother.
who bore the maiden name of Susan R.
Green. was a native of Virginia and
died in 1889.
Dr. Dick is indebted to the public school system of his
county for the early educational
privileges he enjoyed. He determined
to enter one of the "learned
professions" and studied alone for
two years in the meantime acquiring
through his own efforts the sum
necessary to meet his tuition and
other expenses of a college course.
He then entered Starling Medical
College and was graduated with the
class of 1888. For more than twenty
years thereafter he has followed his
profession, opening an office in
Columbus in the year of his
graduation. He did not consider lei;
studies finished, however, but has
always remained a faithful and
earnest student, knowing that the
researchers of science are
continually bringing to light
valuable aids to medical and
surgical practice. He has kept in
touch with the best medical
literature and has also further
continued his study in the post
graduate medical college. Becoming
connected with the Ohio Medical
University he conducted the first
recitation in anatomy in that
institution and for twelve years he
taught anatomy and orthopedic
surgery in the Ohio Medical
University but resigned his position
and went to Oregon, thinking to
continue his professional career on
the Pacific coast. Ill health,
however, caused his return and be
has since engaged in general
practice in Columbus. He was
formerly surgeon for the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company but resigned
his position on going west; however.
on his return he was reappointed and
continues in that professional
connection to the present time.
In 1894 Dr. Dick was married to Miss Bertha Grierson; a
native of Wheeling. West Virginia..
He belongs to Humboldt lodge, A. F.
& A. M., the Knights of Pythias
fraternity and the Woodmen of the
World, while in more strictly
professional relations he is
connected with the Columbus Academy
of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical
Society and the American Medical
Association. Early in life he
displayed the elemental strength of
his career. Reared on a farm to the
age. of twenty-two years he worked
hard by day and studied by night
that he might enter a. field of
labor giving him broader
opportunities than the work of the
farm. That he made wise choice of a
profession is indicated by the
success that has attended his
efforts since he became connected
with the medical fraternity. |
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