Thos. Franklin Beveridge bio - Muscatine Co., IA
Thanks to Dave Dunston
Muscatine County IAGenWeb Coordinator
for the following bio from the "History of Muscatine Co., IOWA" - 1911.
Thos. Franklin Beveridge is the son of Samuel Beveridge(d. 16 Mar 1931 near Villisca, Montgomery Co., IA) and Christianna Kinzer.
Thos. Franklin Beveridge is the grandson of Thomas Henry Beveridge (d. 20 Oct 1895 Sullivan, Moultrie Co., IL) and Elizabeth Lamb (d. bef 1861 Sugar Tree Ridge, Highland Co., OH) and John & Lucinda Kinzer.
Thos. Franklin Beveridge is the great grandson of Thomas Beveridge (d. 4 Feb 1827 Loudoun Co., VA) and Tacy Roberts (d. 5 Nov 1831 Perry Co., OH)
Thos. Franklin Beveridge is also the half nephew of Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (R-Indiana) who was associated with President Teddy Roosevelt and the "Bull Moose" political party.
the bio for THOMAS FRANKLIN BEVERIDGE, M. D.
page 344from the History of Muscatine County1911
THOMAS FRANKLIN BEVERIDGE, M. D.,Dr. Thomas Franklin Beveridge, physician
and surgeon of Muscatine, with offices in the German-American Bank
building, is a representative of that progressive element of the profession
which is constantly seeking out new and improved methods to alleviate
suffering and restore health.Moreover, his judgement is seldom, if ever,
at fault in recognizing the value of an idea or procedure in practice and
his labors have therefore been attended with excellent results.
Ohio numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in
Highland county, December 7, 1866.He is one of the nine children who were
born unto Samuel and Christina (Kinzer) Beveridge.He represents one of
the old families of Ohio, his great-grandparents having been residents of
that state.It was there that Thomas Henry Beveridge, the grandfather, was
born and lived until after his marriage, when he removed to Sullivan,
Illinois.He made farming his life work and died at the advanced age of
seventy-seven years, having long survived his wife, who passed away when
about forty-four years of age.Their children were: Jacob, Samuel, LeRoy,
John, Columbia, Elizabeth, America and Albert J., United States senator
from Indiana.
Samuel Beveridge, the father of Dr. Beveridge, was born in Ohio, was reared
to the occupation of farming and for many years engaged in the tilling of
the soil.In 1881 he became a resident of Iowa, settling at Villisca,
where he still resides.Some years ago he retired from farming, and is
engaged in business as a dealer in poultry, butter and eggs.He wedded
Christina Kinzer, who was born in Virginia, as were her parents.Her
father died in early life and her mother lived to the age of sixty-eight
years.They had six children, including Christina, who became the wife of
Samuel Beveridge and passed away in 1886 at the age of forty-two years.
She was a faithful member of the Christian church, to which Mr. Beveridge
also belongs.He proved his loyalty to his country at the time of the
Civil war, enlisting as a private of the Eighty-first Ohio Heavy Artillery,
with which he served for two and a half years.His family included three
sons and six daughters, namely: Dr. Thomas F., of this review; Elizabeth,
the deceased wife of Thomas J. Moffitt; Effie, the wife of Dr. J. H.
Wallahan of Corning, Iowa; Cora, who married W. C. Burge of Villisca, Iowa;
John, of Spokane, Washington; Henry, of Hebron, Iowa; Sarah, the wife of
Carl Stanley, of Corning, Iowa; Minnie, who wedded F. A. Swan of Vancouver,
Washington; and Anna, the wife of Edward E. Phillips of Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
Dr. Beveridge was reared in Highland county, Ohio, to the age of fifteen
years and began his education in the public schools there.He then
accompanied his parents to Iowa and spent the remainder of his minority in
Villisca, supplementing his early educational training by a two years'
course in the Iowa State University, while later he entered the Kentucky
School of Medicine at Louisville and there prepared for a professional
career.Following his graduation, he located for practice in Bridgewater,
South Dakota, and in 1901 came to Muscatine, where he has since lived.His
professional work has been entirely satisfactory to the public, for it is
known that he is most careful in the diagnosis of a case and extremely
conscientious in the discharge of his professional duties.Moreover, his
wide reading has kept him in touch with the work of the leading members of
the profession, and he readily adopts the improved methods which his
judgement indicates as of value.
On the 13th of May, 1896, Dr. Beveridge was married to Miss Clara Overman,
who was born near Atalissa, Muscatine county, a daughter of Cyrus and
Elizabeth (Barkalow) Overman, who are residents of Muscatine.Her father
was a son of Enoch Overman, a native of Ohio, who became a merchant.He
married Miss Sarah Baldwin and they removed westward, becoming pioneer
settlers of Muscatine county, where the grandfather operated the old
Overman ferry.Both he and his wife died when well advanced in years.
They reared a family of eight children: Sophia, Hannah, Mary, Ann,
Caroline, Cyrus, Jesse and Levi.The maternal grandfather of Mrs.
Beveridge was Derrick G. Barkalow, a native of Ohio, who made farming his
life work.He wedded Maria Beech, who died in the Buckeye state, and
subsequently he removed to Iowa, when this was still a frontier region.
The family of Derrick and Maria Barkalow numbered twelve children: Lewis,
Munson, Benjamin, William, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mary, and five who died in
infancy.Following the death of his first wife, Derrick Barkalow wedded
Mrs. Susan Jackson and they had two children, Derrick and Nina.The
parents of Mrs. Beveridge had a family of three daughters and two sons:
Mrs. Maidie Nachbaur; Mrs. Harriet Moore; Mrs. Clara O. Beveridge; and
Junius and Clyde, both deceased.
Dr. Beveridge belongs to Iowa Lodge, No. 2, A. F. &A. M., and has also
taken the degrees of the Royal Arch chapter.In strictly professional
lines he is connected with the Muscatine County Medical Society, the Iowa
State Medicine Society and the National Medical Association.He spent the
summer of 1894 at Vienna, Austria, in research and post-graduate work, and
is now president of the board of trustees of the Benjamin Hershey Memorial
Hospital.His political allegiance is unfalteringly given to the
republican party and he is never remiss in the duties of citizenship, yet
has never sought nor desired office as a reward for party fealty.He and
his wife are members of the First Baptist church of Muscatine and reside at
No. 1505 Mulberry avenue in a pleasant home, which is noted for its
warm-hearted and genuine hospitality.
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