Dr. Henry E. Day ~ born Somerset, England
A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIALTREATMENT 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 ofIowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and NewYork
1931
HENRY E. DAY, of Dumont, Butler County, has since his graduation from Iowa
College of Medicine, in 1897, given a third of a century to the demands and
duties of his calling.He has had a large practice, and in recent yearshas
largely confined his work to the special field of consultation in chronic
diseases.
Doctor Day was born at Somerset, England, July 21, 1868, son of Johnand
Sylvia (Day) Fay.His father was an English farmer and died in the oldcountry.
Henry E. Day received his early schooladvantages in his nativecountry.
He was seventeen years of age when he came to America, andsubsequently his
mother and other members of the family followed him and settledat Auburn, New
York.Doctor Day has two brothers who are living in ButlerCounty, Iowa.
One is Dr. W. E. Day, a well known physician at Clarksville.The other is Fred
E. a poultry dealer at Dumont.
Henry E. Day after coming to America first located in Franklin County,Iowa.
He was not possessed of any capital, had no special experience, andhe
accepted the only line of work which he had learned as a boy, farming.He was a
farm hand during the summer months, and during the wintersupplemented his
educational advantages by attending district schools.From Franklin County he
went to the Bristow community of Butler County,where he continued his
employment as a farm hand and went on through the highergrades of school. This phase of his educational preparation was supplemented by two years in the Western College at Toledo, Iowa. In the meantime he had qualified himself for
teaching and he taught in rural districtssouth of Dumont for three years, keeping up his farm work in the summer seasons. Through all of these various efforts to support himself and get an education ran the thread of a definite
purpose, long formulated and cherished, of becoming a doctor. He began his medical readings in the office ofDoctor Hobson, and was associated with that physician, before and after graduating, for ten years, both at Bristow and Hampton. Doctor Day was graduated from the Iowa College of Medicine in 1897. While an interne in the Iowa City Hospital he specialized in obstetrics. His private practice has always made heavy demands upon his time and energies, but has not prevented him from continuing his studies and keeping in touch with the advancing progress of his profession. He has taken courses in electro therapy in Chicago, under Doctor Eberhart and Doctor Charles Ireland, special work in proctology in the same city, under Dr. C. V. Ireland, and has brought to his profession a great deal of the new knowledge acquired by scientific and laboratory research in the virtues of light and other physical agencies. He has been a student of Spectro Chrome Therapy.He has also attended numerous clinics, and his own experience as a practicing physician has been set down in a
number of papers he has read before medical associations and for publican in journals of hisprofession.Along with his general practice he performed the duties of local surgeon for the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, but since
1917 has largely limited his work to office practice and as a consulting physician.He maintains a well equipped clinic and his work is known from coast to coast.He is a member of the Butler County, Iowa State, Austin Flint-Cedar
Valley Medical Associations and Medical Physical Research Association of America.
Doctor Day married, December 29, 1898, Miss Fannie Coryell, daughter ofC.
H. Coryell, who was an early settler at Hampton, Iowa.They have three
children, Mina E.m Donovan H. and Clifford C.Donovan H. attended the Wentworth Military Academy at Lexington, Missouri, and both sons enrolled in 1929, in the
University of Iowa, for pre-medical work.Doctor Day is amember of the Masonic fraternity and his family are Episcopalians.
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