Medical and Dental History

By N.J. Jardine, D.D.S.

 

            Very little is known of the early doctors and dentists in the Waupaca area as there is almost no mention of them in the early histories.

            However, the first doctor to practice medicine in Waupaca was the Rev. and Dr. Cutting Marsh.  He was also one of the great Protestant missionaries of the Northwest.  He was born in Vermont in 1880 [has to be a miss-type] and graduated from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1827.  He helped to establish Presbyterian churches in Neenah, Appleton, Fond du Lac and Beaver Dam.

            He moved to Waupaca from Green Bay in 1852 where he purchased a tract of land to make a home for his family.  He organized a church at Waupaca and Pine River.

            He prepared himself as a physician with medical studies while in college.  After he discontinued preaching he resumed the practice of medicine in the surrounding country and was widely known as Dr. Marsh.  He passed away on the morning of July 4^th, 1872.

            Some of the other doctors of Waupaca’s past whose names were found in old newspaper files are:  Dr. Brainard, Dr. T.W. Morse, Dr. G.H. Calkins, Dr. D.M. Brown, Dr. E.S. Donaldson, Dr. T.H. Woodward, Dr. Carl Sanders and Dr. D.R. Manchester.

            Dr. J. McNaughton, Dr. H.M. Nonham, Dr. Brophy, Dr. Trimble, Dr. Pelton, Dr. E.M. McIntosh, Dr. Olga Beaver, Dr. Chandler, Dr. P.J. Christofferson, Dr. McLaughlin, Dr. Wood, Dr. LG. Patterson, Dr. Bellrue, Dr. Elliot, Dr. C.M. Andrews and Dr. A.M. Christofferson.

            Present doctors in Waupaca are Dr. Sam Salan, Dr. Marshall Boudry, Dr. John Steiner, Dr. Kenneth Haman, Dr. Else Knudson and Dr. Blaine Claypool.

            Dr. J.O. Scott was the first dentist to practice in Waupaca, coming here from New York state in 1866.  He was born in Clinton, New York on April 24, 1835.  He was a veteran of the Civil War and was wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia.  Dr. Scott held the office of mayor of Waupaca for two terms, was commander of Garfield Post No. 21, and also president of the Waupaca Businessmen’s Association.

            Other dentists associated with Waupaca history are:  Dr. C.K. Raber, Dr. G.W. Raber, Dr. A. McArthur, Dr. C.M. Olson, Dr. H.L. Cormican, Dr. J.T. Bristow, Dr. Atkinson, Dr. Arthur Knight, Dr. P.C. Ware, Dr. W.G. Rudersdorf, Dr. Halbert Lewis, Dr. A.C. Barry, Dr. Charles Nelson, Dr. Albert Ohlmacher, and Dr. James Hutchinson.

            Present Waupaca dentists are:  Dr. A.C. Chandler, Dr. W.H. Remmel, Dr. G.E. Wickman, Dr. N.J. Jardine, and Dr. T.J. Romeis.