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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931
ARAM GARABED HEJINIAN, M. D., F. A. C. S. Intrinsic individual powers and
talents have been worthily and effectively developed in the personality of
Doctor Hejinian and have given him secure place as one of the representative
physicians and surgeons of the Hawkeye State. His high standing in his
profession is attested by the fact that he is a Fellow of the American College of
Surgeons, the most distinguished professional organization in the United States.
Doctor Hejinian has been established in the successful practice of his
profession at Anamosa, judicial center of Jones County, during a period of more
than thirty years, and here he has gained specially high reputation as a
skilled and resourceful surgeon.
Doctor Hejinian was born at Arabkir, in the province of Harpoot, Armenia, on
the 25th of July, 1863, and is a son of Garabed A. and Suromaly Y. Hejinian.
Garabed Jejinian was a representative of one of the old, aristocratic and
influential families of Armenia and his life was one of honor and influential
service. During the period of the Crimean war he was local agent for the
province of Harpoot, under appointment by the English government, and he
retained this important pot until the close of that historic conflict. For several
years he was the civil head of the Protestant community of Harpoot, which
province he represented before the Turkish government. He gave prolonged
service as a member of the municipal council of Arabkir, and held, during a period
of about ten years, membership in the Court of Commerce in Constantinople,
besides which he held for more than seven years the office of judge of the
Court of Commerce at Van, province of Van. He was influential in the Christian
Church in his native land, was prominent also in the advancing of education and
was one of the foremost citizens of his city and province. His death was
the sequel of the severe mental shock he received at the time of the Armenian
massacre of 1895, he having lost the old family home and estate through fire
and pillage at that time, and having met with a supreme loss in the death of
one of his sons in that massacre, this son having been a distinguished lawyer
and linguist and having been recognized as an advocate in various important
courts, including the English courts of Cyprus. The wife of Garabed Hejinian
was a member of the old and influential Yaqubyan family of Arabkir, and
representatives of this family are now bankers in Cairo, Egypt.
The more rudimentary education of Dr. Aram G. Hejinian was acquired in the schools in his native city and in a virtual high school at Harpoot. In 1885 he was graduated in Euphrates College at Harpoot, and prior to his graduation
the president of this college, the late Rev. C. H. Wheeler, D. D., had chosen the future Iowa physician and surgeon to teach higher mathematics at the college, in the absence of the regular incumbent, who returned to the United States for further study. After thus teaching at the college during a period of two years Doctor Hejinian matured and carried into effect his plan to come to the United States. He left Armenia September 17, 1887, passed the winter with a brother and sister in Cairo, Egypt, and May 22, 1888, he arrived in the port of New York City. On the 4th of the following month he arrived in Chicago, and in 1890 he was graduated in the Chicago Theological Seminary. Immediately thereafter he there entered the celebrated Rush Medical College, and he was chaplain of his class at its graduation, in 1893. He served as inspector for the Chicago health department during the World's Columbian Exposition,
after having received his degree of Doctor of Medicine. The summer of 1893 marked the beginning of the atrocious Armenian massacres, and Doctor Hejinian thus found it out of the question to return to his native land, as he had
planned. He accordingly took a post-graduate course in Rush Medical College, in 1893-94, and he then, through the influence of the late Dr. Nicholas Senn, head professor of surgery at the college and long one of the foremost of
American surgeons, gained appointment as resident physician and surgeon in St. Joseph's Hospital, Chicago, where Doctor Senn was in charge of the surgical department. Doctor Hejinian was thus favored in maturing his skill as a surgeon and diagnostician under the virtually personal preceptorship of that eminent surgeon, and after remaining at the hospital about two years Doctor Hejinian, on the 4th of August, 1896, established his residence at Anamosa, Iowa, where he has since continued in the active practice of his profession and also had charge of the local hospital. The Doctor has recognized rank as one of the
most skilled surgeons in the State of Iowa and he has insistently kept in touch with the advances made in medical and surgical science. He did post-graduate work in surgery in London, Berlin and Vienna in 1902-03, while abroad with his wife and daughter, with whom he made an extended European tour at that time, besides going to Alexandria and Cairo, in Egypt. After an absence of nearly nine months the Doctor returned to Anamosa, where he has since continued his earnest and able professional activities, and where he has done many notable operations in both major and minor surgery. In addition to his hospital work and private practice he has been local medical examiner for leading
life-insurance companies and also for the Modern Woodmen of America and the Mystic Workers of the World. The Doctor has entered fully and loyally into the civic life of his home city and is president of the Citizens Savings Bank,
of which he became a stockholder at the time of its organization.
Doctor Hejinian is a staunch supporter of the cause of the Republican party, and is a deacon of the Congregational Church in his home city. He has active membership in the Jones County Medical Society, Iowa State Medical Society and American Medical Association, besides having, as previously noted, the distinction of being a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In the World war period he was a member of the Jones County exemption board and also gave zealous service in the furthering of local patriotic movements. His Masonic affiliations are with Anamosa Lodge No. 42, A. F. and A.M.; Mount Sinai Chapter No. 66, R. A. M.; Olivet Commandery No. 36, Knights Templar; and Moriah Chapter No. 16, Order of the Eastern Star and he is a Rotarian. He maintains affiliation also with Modern Woodmen of America and the Mystic Workers of the World.
On the 14th of September, 1898, was solemnized the marriage of Doctor Hejinian to Miss Bertha S. Stacy, daughter of the late Judge John S. and Charlotte A. K. Stacy, of Anamosa. Judge Stacy was one of the most honored and influential citizens of Anamosa during the course of many years and his wife was a direct descendant of the Colonial Governor Bradford of Massachusetts. Mrs. Hejinian was graduated in the art department of Cornell College and her exceptional talent was further developed through her attending the Chicago Art Institute and the Cowles School of Art in the City of Boston. Prior to her marriage she served several years as head of the art department of Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa. Lucea M., elder of the two children of Doctor and Mrs. Hejinian, was born June 18, 1899, was graduated in Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and later she received from the
University of Chicago the degree of Master of Arts, and from the University of Iowa the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, she being now (1929) assistant professor of nutrition at the latter institution. John S., who was born July 2, 1904, was graduated in historic Yale University and now holds a position with the Chase National Bank of New York City.
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