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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
General History of Macon County, Missouri
- Vols. 1 & 2 -
Publ.
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Company
1910
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DR. JAMES WESLEY ABBOTT.
This esteemed physician and
suregon
surgeon of Goldsberry, in this county, represents at least
the second generation of his family born on the soil of
Missouri and drawing from it stature and strength of body,
material acquisitions in the way of wordly wealth and
opportunity for the exercise of the mental faculties given
by nature and developed and trained in the educational
institutions of the state. He was born in Linn county
on Jan. 4, 1877, and is a son of Joseph K. and
Julia (Nester) Abbott, also Missourians by nativity, the
former born in Randolph county and the latter in Linn
county. They were married in December, 1867, and
passed the remainder of their lives as worthy and prosperous
farmers,, the mother dying in 1887 and the father in 1888.
Of the seven children born of their union, four grew to
maturity and three are now living: George William;
Ellen A., the wife of Hermit H. Clark, of
Wyoming, and Dr. James W., whose life story is
briefly recorded in this sketch.
Dr. Abbott was left an orphan by the death of
his parents when he was less than twelve years of age.
He grew to manhood thereafter without parental assistance or
guidance, and the experience taught him at an early age that
in the battle of life before him, and all too soon upon him,
his main reliance for success must be on his own capacities
and efforts. The lessons of adversity were salutary in
his case. They did not indurate or sour him, but gave
him stimulus to exertion and training in self-reliance.
Fortune favored him in the matter of acquiring a good
education, which he began in the district schools and
completed at excellent high schools in Brookfield and
Chillicothe. His technical professional training was
secured at Barnes' Medical College, in St. Louis, from which
he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1907.
The young Doctor, with the whole wide world before him
and no special claims to attach him to any particular spot,
whose the village of Goldsberry, in this county as the
center of him field of operations and at once located there
and began his professional career. The time he has
passed in it is necessarily short, but it has been
sufficient to demonstrate his worth as a citizen and his
ability as a physician, and the people have accorded him the
high rank in both respects that he has shown he deserves.
His practice has grown rapidly and is now extensive and
exacting. It lays him and his resources under tribute
in all kinds of weather and at all hours of the day and
night. But his profession is the goddess of his
devotions and his worship at her shrine is constant,
sincere, faithful and self-sacrificing. No claim of
personal comfort or enjoyment and no consideration of
personal interest or advantage can swerve him from the path
of duty in this respect, and the people know that when they
require his services they can depend on getting them.
This fidelity to his chosen line of work has given him a
hold on public confidence and esteem which is strengthened
and intensified by the ability with which he meets the
requirements of the most critical cases and the success
which rewards his efforts in caring for them.
He takes an active interest in the public affairs of
the township and does his whole duty toward promoting its
welfare. In political faith and adherence he is a firm
and consistent member of the Democratic party, but never an
active partisan or offensive in his loyalty in either speech
or other party service. His fraternal affiliation is
with the order of Modern Woodmen of America, and he is the
medical examiner for the camp in which he olds his
membership. In his profession he is studious and
attentive to every means available to him for improvement.
His daily practice gives him hints which his reflection
converts into added power, and his reading of the best
medical journals and other literature bearing on his life
work keens him in touch with the progress and enlargement of
the science to which he is devoted. He is gifted with
rare intellectual hospitality which receives as a welcome
guest and entertains as a desired friend every new
suggestion that seems of value until he has proved its worth
or want of it, and so he goes on broadening and deepening
his professional knowledge and practical skill, knowing that
the science of medicine in a very progressive one and allows
no laggards in its courts if success and distinction in the
application of its teachings are the objects sought.
His profession holds before him its golden cup of full
fruition of his hopes, and with commendable zeal he is
moving toward it. All who witness his efforts commend
him, and he is, therefore, held in the highest regard by the
whole population of the township and much of the surrounding
country. In November, 106, he was united in marriage
with Miss Nellie A. Bradley, of Macon county.
Source:
General History of Macon County, Missouri - Vol. II - Publ.
Chicago: Henry Taylor & Company - 1910 - Page 924 |
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