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Born 1873, Allen County
From History of Allen County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1906)
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Thomas R. Thomas is one of a family of iji J
4i8 five children. After finishing the public school course, he entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1899. From there he went to Stillwater, Minnesota, where he became a member of the hospital staff, and during the year spent there, under the best physicians of the State, gained a practical knowledge of medicine and surgery that would have required years of ordinary practice to acquire. Thus equipped with all the latest practical and theoretical methods for the practice of medicine, he came to Lima in 1900 and has been remarkably successful in building up a large and constantly growing practice. He is frequently called in by other physicians to assist in difficult cases. It is confidently predicted that he will soon stand at the head of his profession in the county.:
Dr. Thomas was married to Minnie Watkins, daughter of Thomas' Watkins, and one child, Lester C., has been born to them. They are earnest workers in the Presbyterian Church, of which they are members and are prominent in the social life of the city. The Doctor is a member of the State and county medical societies and is a Modern Woodman of the World. He is supreme medical examiner for the Colonial Insurance Union of the United States. He is a Republican in politics.
As printed in History of Allen County, Ohio, and representative citizens (1906). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Joshua B. Coon (b. 1842)
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