The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-03-07
Well Known Chicago Physician Dies
at the Home of His Mother in
This City Saturday Evening.
HIS LONG CAREER AS A DOCTOR
Had Been President of Chicago National
Medical College and Was an Instructor
at the Time of His Death.

DR.. William M. w. Dawson, well |
known practicing physician in Chi
cago, and formerly President of the
National Medical College in Chicago, |
died at the home of his mother, Mrs. |
Andrew Dawson, in this city, late
Saturday evening. Death resulted
from blood poison and exposure. DR..
Dawson had been in Kenosha for the
last three weeks.
The death of DR.. Dawson removes a
we'll known man from the list of ply
sicians in Chicago. He had taken a
great interest in the work of the pro-
fession in Chicago and was proni-
nently connected with many of the
medical societies in that city.
William Miller Wagner Dawson was
born in Kenosha on August %, 184o.
His early boyhood days were spent on
the farm, and when he was 20 years of
age he removed to Kenosha and for
several years was engaged in bust
ness. He tried several lines of bust
ness, but he had yearning for the
career of a physician, and when he was
Is years of age he went to work IN the
factories of the city and gave his
spare time to the study of medicine
with N. A. Pennoyer, proprietor of the
Pennoyer Sanitarium company in this
city. A few years later he went to
Chicago and entered the Hahnenann
Medical college, from which he gradu-
ated with high honors with the class of
1873. After his graduation from the
medical college he remained at Hahn
emann for short time as an instruc-
tor in physiology.
A short time later he went to Texar-
kama, Ark, where he began the prac-
tice of medicine and made a great sue
cess. During his residence in Tex
arkana he was married to Mrs. Hattie
Brown, woman of great culture and
refinement, but Mrs. Dawson died
within a year, and after travelling
through the west DR.. Dawson returned
to Chicago and opened an office on
Washington Boulevard. He soon
worked up lucrative practice on the
west side and he was especially well
known among the poor residing IN
| that part of the city. For many years,
while he remained on Washington
Boulevard, his was we'll known face
among the poor on the west side. He
was constantly among them and al
ways insisted in giving his services
free of charge.
The arduous work Of his practice
soon caused his health to fall and he
was forced to leave Chicago and seek
mi1der climate. He left Chicago and
went to Parsons, Kansas, where he
was engaged in practice for two years.
During his stay in Parsons he was
called upon to remove bullet from
the arm of an Indian who was in
jured in race war, and from this oper-
alton he contracted blood poisoning,
with which he was afflicted until the
time of his death, and which is stated
as one of the causes of his death. He
returned to Chicago in 1885 and at
once began the practice of medicine at
No. 1883 West Lake street, where he
has since held his Office.
Shortly after his return from Kan
sas he started movement among the
Homeopathic Of Chicago for the estab-
1ishment of college peculiar to that
school, and after a long series of de-
bates the National School of Medicine
was esta b1ished, and DR.. Dawson was
one of the men connected with the
faculty. A short time later he was
elected as President of the College,
but he resigned this position on ac-
count Of the fact that he desired to en-
gage in active practice.
From that time to the time of his
death he has held the position of lee
turer of physiology in the college.
| After he returned to Chicago DIR.
sDavison was again married, but the
second marriage proved an unhappy
| one and family difficulties forced him
to come to the home of his mother,
where his death occurred on Saturday.
The funeral will be he1d from the
Unitarian church in this city on Tues
day afternoon. DR.. H. w. Thomas, of
Chicago, will conduct the ceremonies.
The remains will be inferred in the
! Dawson family plat in the city Gene
terry.
Among the survivors Ct DR.. Dawson
are. his mother, Mrs. Caroline Dawson,
his sisters, Miss Ida c. Dawson, and
I Mrs. Hannah Dawson, of this city,
| and Mrs. M. D. Bradford, of Stevens
Point, who is one of the leading edu-
4 Gators of Wisconsin.
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