The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-23

built up and were in operation. So,
the subtitle of the medical department
OF the state university was dropped by
this college. the name, College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk,
having never varied from it's incorpo-
ration originally.
Early in it's history it graduated
two classes each year. But it kept
constantly in the front rank of adj
vancing medical education, lengthen-
ing it's terms and increasing the num-
Der of courses before graduation, as
the times changed, to equal those of
the most advanced schools in the coun-
try. And thus it kept upon it's his
toric way until 1899. just half a cen
tury from it's arrival in Keokuk atser
the journey from Indiana through
Wisconsin and Davenport.
The first building was at Second
and Palean streets, an ideal building
spot on high bluff overlooking three
states and the most powerful portion
OF the Mississippi river. This frame
building afterward burned to the
ground. 1t was used for college pur-
poses from 1S49 to 1859. In the latter
year what is now the Seventh street
building of the college was finished
and used for the first time. 1t is one
OF the most solidly constructed build
ngs in the country, the admiration of
building contractors today. It's arch
Mcclure was model for the building
used by the Jefferson Medical col
lege in Samson street, PHILADELPHIA,
twenty five years ago. It's internal ar
fangement has been changed bv the
present administration, but it remains
one of the best medical college build
ings in the country
On the organization of the Keokuk
Medical College, that corporation
bought the large building on Sixth
street which was remodeled at great
expense to suit the requirements of
modern medical college with its many
laboratories and class rooms. The
Sixth street building was in use to
date, all the buildings of the former
two colleges being utilized under the
larger plan of teaching now in use.
In 1890, the Keokuk Medical College
was organized by men who had been
successfully teaching in the College of
Physicians and Surgeons. Possessed
of abundant capital, experience and
energy they were successful from the
first, the years enrolment being 143
students. Of the incorporators of this
college, Professors jenkins and
Scroggs are still in the faculty. For
a few years there was the most in
tense rivalry and competition between
the two colleges in Keokuk. this COM
petition resulting in the improvement
OF both, as well as in the fight for
supremacy which is now looked upon
as only an interesting "Reminiscences
by those who were its chief factors
and most of them were engaged in
working for the resulting greater col
lege, until it's close at the present
time.
The Keokuk Medical College flour
ished to the great satisfaction of its
faculty, students and alumni, constant
ly enlarging and improving. In 1899,
diplomacy replaced more strenuous
! opposition The College Of Physicians
! and Surgeons was then owned by Mrs
Amanda T. Hughes, the widow of it's
real builder the elder j. C. Hughes,
the daughter of it's first president,
DR.. D. l.. McGugin the mother of it's
later executive, the younger DR.. J. c..
Hughes. A proposition that the Keo-
kuk Medical College buy the College
of Physicians and Surgeons was con
sidered and debated by the two insti-
buttons during the spring of 1899
and finally terms were fixed for the
sale of the older college to the cor
| poration of the Younger and the COM
bination of the two colleges under the
name, The Keokuk Medical College,
College of Physicians and Surgeons.
| 1t had graduates In every state in
the union, and an alumni list of over
three thousand.
So well known had Keokuk become
/ known as medical center that in
! 1897 it was determined to add dental
college to the corporation owning the
medical college. Some of the best
dentists and most practical and scien-
/ tific teachers in the west became the
i first faculty of the Keokuk Dental Col
| lege
/ In 1900, the demand for a college
pharmacy caused the installation of
+! the Keokuk College of Pharmacy. as
another department of the institution.
A school for trained nurses was
j also added.
The college property consists of the
building on the corner of Seventh and
/ Blondeau and the building occupied by
Z The Gate City. These two buildings
/ are retained by the faculty