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Born 1865, Champaign County
From The daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. : from the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898 : preceded by a short history of Missouri : supplemented by biographic (1898)
CHARLES G. GEIGER was born in Champaign County, Illinois in 1865; he went to Kansas in 1869, where he grew up on a farm and attended the common schools. In 1886 he came to St. Joseph and graduated from the St. Joseph Medical College, took an honorary degree at the Ensworth, then graduated with high honors from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and subsequently attended lectures in Vienna. Dr. Geiger has held
As printed in The daily news' history of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Mo. : from the time of the Platte purchase to the end of the year 1898 : preceded by a short history of Missouri : supplemented by biographic (1898). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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