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Beaver Falls Physicians
The History of Renville County, Volume 2
Compiled by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge
Chapter XXX
p. 730

T. H. Sherwin was the first physician of Beaver Falls village and probably the first village physician in the county.

George W. Nichols graduated from the Vermont Academy of Medicine, Vermont, in 1861, received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board, Dec. 31, 1883, and presented his certificate for record April 14, 1890. He remained in Beaver Falls for about three years.

Jennie M. Miller (Mrs. S. R.) received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board Nov. 28, 1883, and offered it for record Dec. 21, 1883. Previous to this she had been practicing as an obstetrician and when the law was passed requiring an examination of physicians she secured a license under the exemption clause of the law. She remained in Beaver Falls for a few years, and then went to Washington, D. C., where she became a worker in one of the government departments.

Albert G. Stoddard graduated from the Rush Medical College, Illinois, in 1882, received a certificate from the Medical Examining Board Nov. 14, 1883, and presented his certificate for record Dec. 15, 1883. In 1892 he moved to Franklin, next going to Fairfax and then removed to Idaho, where he is still practicing.

J. W. Barnard conducted a drug store in Beaver Falls prior to 1877. He and his wife, Jennie S. Bernard graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan, in 1878, and that fall took up the practice of medicine in Beaver Falls. In 1880 they located in Bird Island. Two years later they moved to Motley, Minn. After three or four years there they moved to Oregon where they still reside.


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