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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
FRANK O. KERSHNER, M. D., came to Clinton immediately after completing his
medical college course and training as an interne in Chicago, and in twenty-odd
years his name has become increasingly associated with the highest standards
and skill represented in general surgery.
Doctor Kershner was born at Paola, Kansas, May 28, 1879, son of John and
Hanna Jane (Gibson) Kershner, both now deceased. His father was born in
Illinois and his mother in Kansas. Doctor Kershner has one sister, Mrs. Ida
Hickman. of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Doctor Kershner grew up on a Kansas farm, attended school at Paola, and
graduated A. B. from the University of Kansas in 1902. He then entered
Northwestern University School of Medicine at Chicago, where he took his M. D. degree
in 1905. During 1906-07 he was an interne in the Wesley Hospital of that
city, and later spent portions of the years 1910-11 in postgraduate study and
research at Vienna, Austria. Doctor Kershner became a resident of Clinton on
October 7, 1907. For the first ten years he looked after the routine of a
general practitioner, but since 1917 his entire time and abilities have been
restricted to the field of general surgery. He has a large private practice,
and is one of the men who do a large share of surgical work in local hospitals.
he is a member and former president of the staff of the Jane Lamb Memorial
Hospital and is attending surgeon at the Mercy Hospital of Clinton. he is a
member of the Clinton, Iowa State and American Medical Associations.
Doctor Kershner is a popular citizen of Clinton and has substantial business
connections there, being president of the Mac X Feed Milling Company, is a
director of the Clinton National Bank and Clinton Savings Bank, director of
the Lyons & Fulton Bridge Company. He is a member of the Clinton Country Club,
the Wapsipinicon Country Club, Morrison Country Club, Rotary Club, is a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner and a member of the
Presbyterian Church.
He married, February 19, 1912, Miss Helena Moeszinger, daughter of Louis C.
and Emily (Sheppard) Moeszinger. Her father is one of Clinton's outstanding
business men, being president of the Lyons & Fulton Bridge Company, and vice
president of the Iowa State Bank. Doctor and Mrs. Kershner have two
daughters, Elizabeth Jane and Frances Helena.
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