Biography - WILLIAM A. WISEMAN
William A. Wiseman, a well known physician of Camargo, where he has been
in successful practice for several years, was born at Waterloo, Lawrence
county, Ohio, January 1, 1853, and is a son of Abner and Martha J. (Irwin)
Wiseman. His father was a native of Virginia and his mother of Ohio. Isaac
Wiseman's grandfather was also born in Virginia and his maternal
grandfather, George Irwin, was born in Virginia.
Dr. Wiseman was reared in his native county, where he attended the public
schools and subsequently, in 1878, became a student at DePauw University,
where he pursued a regular college course for three years and a half, in
1882 he commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. C. Patterson
and in 1883 went to Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and was
graduated therefrom in the class of 1886. While at Philadelphia he took
special courses in skin diseases and also in gynecology and gained practical
experience at the Philadelphia Lyingin Hospital. In the spring of 1886 he
located at Camargo in the practice of his profession and here he has built
up a successful practice.
In political opinion the Doctor is a consistent Prohibitionist, and is also
a member of the Modern Woodmen and Court of Honor. In 1875 he was married to
Miss Emma C. Carrel, of Dennison, Ohio. They have three children: Eva C.,
Omer D. and Meda A.
Extracted 11 Sep 2019 by Norma Hass from the Historical and Biographical Record of Douglas County, Illinois, published in 1900, page 253.
