The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-08-22
DR.. DAVID McwiLLlAMs DEAD.
Passes Away Surrounded by His Loving
: Family.-Useful Life Ended-Funeral
Services Tomorrow.

AI0l1y.-O00Iu kIuu0 G0U6U-C un0E6l
Services Tomorrow.
DR.. David McWilliams, the pioneer
physician of Crawford county, the life
long friend of many Of our people and
the father OF a numerous family of re-
spected citizens, passed away on yester-
day afternoon.
DR.. David McWilliams was born in
county Down, near Belfast, Ireland,
seventy. eight years ago. He was of
Scotch-Irish parentage and vas one of
a family of eight. Two brothers, Hugh
McWilliams ST., of Denison, and James
McWilliams, of Onawa, and one sister.
Mrs. Miller, Of Chicago, survive him.
DIR. McWilliams studied medicine in
Belfast, Ireland, and afterwards spent
q year practicing in the Liverpool hos
pital. He came to this country in 1851
and settled in st. Charles, Kane county,
Illinois. He was married to Miss Eliza
Crawford and two children, Hugh Nc
Williams jr., of Uenison. and David
Henry McWilliams, of Charter Oak,
were the result of their union. His
first wife died after but a few years of
married life and DIR. McWilliams came
tc Iowa at first settling nea his bro
ther James in Monona county. 1t was
here that he was married in 1856 to
Miss Mary Cleghorn. who survives
him and who has been a loving help
mate to him for nearly a half century.
1t 1858 he settled in Denison, at first
locating on the present college site and
garnering his first crops from the hill
OF which it now stands.
Speaking of his life as a physician
Mr.. j. Fred Meyers writing of him
nearly fourteen years ago, said:
For fifteen years until DR.. .Iseminger
located in Denison, DIR. McWilliam as
the only physician, wa untiring i'll his
Notwithstanding by day and night,
through storms and darkness, crossing
unbridged creeks at the peril of his
life-to administer medical aids. Nor
did it make any difference whether the
patient IA able to pay-and few of the
early pioneers were-Dr. David Nc
Williams never tlinched from duty.
Few men in Crawford county have en-
dured more hardships or had more mar
row escapes from death on the blizz ard
blown and trackless prairies.n
In his old age he has lived at the
homestead four miles east of Denison
surrounded by all the love and tender
ness that a devoted wife and affection
ate children could give. His name was
honored and loved by every old settler
in the county. He was at the bedside
in the hour of pain and sorrow not n
ly as a skilled physician but as a trust
ed and sympathetic friend. Many are
the stalwart men and women of today
whom he ushered into the world and
many are they who can remember the
tenderness with which he assuaged the
sufferings of the last hours of father
or mother or sister or brother. 1t was
a kindness of Providence that permit
ted him to have all his loved ones with
him when he died. For two weeks it
has been feared that the end was near
and his children came home to comfort
his last hours. He was a grand man
rugged, true and faithful. Ian Mac
Laren in his wonderful portrayal of
DR.. Mcclure must have had some such
a man in mind. His children, besides
Hugh Jr., and David Henry, are DR..
James j., of Charter Oak, Mrs. Lizzie
Nesbit Of Waterloo, Nebraska, Martha,
Emma and Charles all of Denison and
Mrs. Lillian McEwen of Charter Oak.
The funeral services will take place
at the home at one O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon and at the Presbyterian
church, of which he was a life long
mseber, at 2 o'clock, Rev. Martyr Off
ciatlrg.
News from county exchanges on page
six.