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Born 1875
From Story of Lee County, Iowa; (1914)
JOHN R. WALKER, M. D.
Dr. John R. Walker, engaged in the general practice of medicine at Fort Madison, is a native son of Iowa, his birth having occurred in Wayne county, April 8, 1875. His parents were James W. and America (Niday) Walker, the former a member of the bar. The father was also born in Wayne county and is a son of Saunders Walker, one of the pioneers of that section of the state, so that the family has been represented in Iowa through three generations.
Dr. John R. Walker acquired a public-school education and afterward had the benefit of further instruction in the Lfniversity of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, where he completed his course in 1904, and since that time he has practiced continuously in Fort Madison. It was not long before he had demonstrated his ability to cope with the intricate and complex problems that continually confront the physician. He has ever been careful in the diagnosis of his cases and is seldom if ever at fault in foretelling the outcome of disease. He belongs to the city, county and state medical societies, and is now president of the Lee County Medical Society and of the Fort Madison Clinical Society. Broad reading keeps him in touch with the advanced thought of the profession and he readily adopts new methods of practice, yet is never over-hasty in discarding the old-time and tried methods, the value of which has been proven.
In 1900 Dr. Walker was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Hutchinson, a resident of Humeston, Iowa, and they have become parents of two children, Robert and John. Ir. Walker belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and his religious faith is that of the Christian church. He is now serving as president of the church board. Politically he is a republican and, while he has never held political office, he has served the public as a member of the school board for six years, his term having but recently expired.
As printed in Story of Lee County, Iowa; (1914). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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