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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
JOHN MCDANNELL, M. D., of Nashua, has had a busy and active professional
career of forty years. It has been a career of service, expressing not only the
skill and knowledge borne of his training and experience, but also high
ideals and a conscientious devotion to the work which he chose early in life as
the medium by which he might best make his talents available to the world.
Doctor McDannell, whose home has been at Nashua sine 1908, was born at Rock
Island, Illinois, March 9, 1871, son of Decatur S. and Etola (Hughes)
McDannell. His father was born in Ohio and his mother in Pennsylvania, and they
were married in Ohio. Decatur McDannell was an artist by profession, painted
many notable canvassed, and some of his favorite subjects were scenes in the
Rocky Mountains. However, his great fame and his most notable artistic
achievement was painting that magnificent panorama of the battle of Gettysburg, which
for years was housed as a feature in a building at Chicago and attracted
thousands and hundreds of thousands of visitors. Decatur McDannell died at
Moline, Illinois, in 1890
John McDannell derived from his father a vivid sense of beauty and keen
powers of observation. His early education was in the public schools of
Illinois. Later he studied at the University of Wisconsin, and while in that state
lived with Dr. W. P. Hartford, of Beetown. Doctor Hartford became his
preceptor in medicine, but later, in 1888, he entered the Kentucky School of
Medicine at Louisville, at that time rated as one of the leading schools in the
country. Doctor McDannell distinguished himself by his student record and won
the gold medal for proficiency in anatomy and was appointed demonstrator in
anatomy. He was graduated in 1891 and began his practice at Glen Haven,
Wisconsin. From there he went to Arlington, Iowa, and eight years later in 1908,
located at Nashua. Doctor McDannell took post-graduate work in Chicago in
1907-08, spent six months in the New York Polyclinic and has been a constant
student and has attended many clinics and medical conventions.
He is a member and past president of the Chickasaw County Medical Society
and in 1927 had the honor of being president of the Austin Flint-Cedar Valley
Medical Society. Before that society, in July, 1926, he read a paper entitled
"The General Practitioner's Service to Medicine," which was published in the
journal of the Iowa State Medical Society in 1927. A great deal has been
said and written concerning the general practitioner, but perhaps nothing
better as a concise review of all the essentials of the subject than that
contained in Doctor McDannell's article. He has himself been a general practitioner,
and his friends in the profession say that during his work of forty years he
has realized many of the splendid tributes that have been paid to a family
physician of both the older and modern times. Doctor McDannell is also a
member of the Iowa State and American Medical Associations. He is local surgeon
at Nashua for the Illinois Central Railway.
He married, September 18, 1892, Lottie E. Ishmael, of Cassville, Wisconsin.
They have one daughter, Lucile. Lucile has many of her father's
intellectual characteristics, and all through her school work was distinguished by her
intellectual abilities. She had the highest average grade through four years
in high school among all the high school students of Iowa, and this record
was awarded a four year scholarship at Grinnell College, of which she is an
honor graduate. Her record at Grinnell brought her the award of a year's
scholarship at the University of Lyons, France. She is now an instructor of French
at Northwestern University in Chicago, and is the wife of Z. S. Fink, also a
member of the faculty of Northwestern. Doctor McDannell is a past master
Mason and is affiliated with the Knights Templar Commandery at Charles City and
Elkahir Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Cedar Rapids.
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