J. Cecil Bickley

As printed in 1915

J. CECIL BICKLEY, M. D.

Dr. J. Cecil Bickley is engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Waterloo, in which city his birth occurred in 1883, he being a son of the veteran physician, John G. Bickley. Spending his youthful days under the parental roof, he began his education at the usual age in the public schools and passed through consecutive grades, advancing year by year until graduated from the East Waterloo high school with the class of 1903. Whether inherited tendency, natural predilection or environment had most to do with shaping his choice of a career, it is impossible to determine, yet when we regard his success it seems evident that nature intended him for the calling to which he is now devoting his life.

Dr. Bickley's early professional training was received in Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, in which he was a student for two years and later he entered the New York University Medical School, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1907. He spent a year and a half in the New York Surgical Institute, thus gaining broad knowledge, and, splendidly equipped for his profession, he returned to Waterloo and became associated in practice with his father and brother. From the beginning his advancement in his professional career has been substantial and rapid. He went abroad and attended various European clinics, thus having opportunity to observe the advanced methods of some of the most eminent physicians and surgeons of the old world. On returning he resumed practice in W'waterloo and he is now attending physician to both of the hospitals of this city, having considerable hospital work in addition to his general practice. He is identified wath various medical organizations including the Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Austin Flint, Cedar Walley and Iowa State Medical Societies.

In June, 1908, Dr. Bickley was united in marriage to Miss OHie French, of Waterloo, and they have two children, John Wallace and Kathryne Evelyn. Dr. Bickley is a member of the Christadelphian church of Waterloo. He is indeed a well known citizen here, having spent his entire life in Black Hawk county save for periods of study in the east and in Europe. There were qualities which he displayed in boyhood which even then won him the friendship of the old as well as the young, and throughout his entire life these qualities have dominated his career, making him popular with his fellow townsmen, while his professional success has come to him as the just reward of ability and merit.

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.