Carl C. Bickley

As printed in 1915

CARL C. BICKLEY. M. D.

Dr. Carl C. Bickley is one of the younger representatives of the medical profession in Waterloo, but in practice proves himself the peer of many a man of older years and has gained considerable prominence as an obstetrician. He was born in 1882 in the city where he still resides and after completing the work of the grades continued his education in the Waterloo high school until graduated with the class of 1900, when eighteen years of age. The succeeding two years were spent as a student in the Iowa State Teachers' College at Cedar Falls and for four years he attended Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated with the class of 1906, having completed the regular course and thereby becoming well qualified for the practice of medicine. Still he was not satisfied and for nine months was a student in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and for some months attended clinics in Vienna, Austria, where he did post-graduate work.

Thus having improved every possible opportunity to increase his knowledge and promote his efficiency, Dr. Bickley returned to his native country and in 1907 opened an office in Waterloo, where he has since engaged in active practice. He is conducting a general practice, but makes a specialty of obstetrics and is well versed in that branch of the profession, reading broadly and thinking deeply along those lines, and at all times keeping in touch with the advanced work of the medical fraternity. He is attending physician and surgeon to the Presbyterian and the St. Francis hospitals of Waterloo and he is a member of the Waterloo Medical Society, the Black Hawk County Medical Society and the Iowa State Medical Society.

In 1906, Dr. Bickley was united in marriage to Miss Daisy Franklin, a native of Elgin, Illinois, and they have become the parents of two children, Donald and Iktty. The parents are well known in Waterloo and the record of Dr. Bickley stands in contradistinction to the old adage that a prophet is never without honor save in his own country and among his own kin, for in the city where practically his entire life has been passed the Doctor has worked his way steadily upward and has attained a position of distinction, having passed beyond the ranks of the many until he now stands among the successful few.

As printed in History of Black Hawk County, Iowa, and its people (1915). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.