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In the Winter of 1863, he attended one course of lectures at the Jefferson
Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in the Winter of 1864, he entered the
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, where he remained until he graduated
in 1866.
Immediately after receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine, he went to
Hannibal, Missouri, where he has devoted himself entirely to the practice of his
profession up to the present time. He has succeeded in taking a leading position. He was
elected and served as City Physician for five different terms. In 1874 he was appointed
United States Pension Examiner for the Hannibal District. He is a member of the
Missouri State Medical Society, and has served on different committees in that body. He
has been the President of the Hannibal Medical Society since January 1, 1881.
His religious preferences are Presbyterian. In politics, he expresses himself as a
Stalwart Republican.
He was married January 4, 1870, to Miss Lois A. Cobb, daughter of Judge Royal
P. Cobb, of Hannibal, Missouri. They have had four children: John Cloys, born August
10, 1871; Amy Eliza, born November 30, 1872; Annie Margaret, born May 26, 1876, and
Carrie, born March 11, 1881.
John Cloys died September 25, 1875, of diphtheria; Carrie died April 23, 1883, of
scarlet fever.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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