Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-04-14
DEATH OF DR.. D. LACOUNT.
Passed Away at His Home in Wau-
sau on Sunday Morning.


At 9:15 o'clock Sunday morning,
April 18th, 1903, DIR. David LaCount,
one OF our oldest and most reversd
| citizens, died at his home in this city,
6l2 Grant street, of carcinoma of the
bowels after a gradual failure of health
OF two years. During his declining
health the doctor was able TO be about
and to enjoy exchanging visits with his
friends, and withal, cheerful and un
complaining to the very end. There
was change for the worse several
weeks ago and since, some of the time
he was confined to his bed. Saturday
night he was taken very much worse
aid 1t was apparent that the hour of
dissolution was approaching and in the
presence of his near relatives he passed
away.
The sad news of the doctors death,
as it was circulated throughout the city,
caused great sorrow among our people,
generally, for deceased was widely
known here, having been active, and
possessing a jovial, kindly disposition,
made friends of all with whom ne came
in contact. Dr. LaCount while much of
his life had been SPENT ia and about Cal
umet county, was in Wausau when it
was lumber camp. He was distinctly
one Of the pioneers of Wisconsin, hav-
ing resided within its limits for over 20
years, and for ten years before Wscon-
sin became a state He was a most
worthy man; the personification of all
that was good and noble; very charit-
able and never losing an opportunity to
help and cheer those whom lie found in
distress, and these principles he carried
out to the end of his life, notWithstand
ing his advanced age.
The following account of DR.. La
Count is taken from an autobiography,
written some time before his recent i'll
ness
DIR. David La Count was born two
miles below the village of Washington
down the st. Lawrence river in the
county of St. Lawrence, New York |
state, May Is, 1928. The family re-
manned at that place until Sept. 10, 1887,
at which time they came west and
landed at Manitowoc on or about Oct
TO- The family settled about 10 miles
up the Manitowoc river where saw
mill was being erected They remained
there during the winter of 1875, and in
the spring moved down the river to the
village Of Manitowoc Rapids.
Concerning his early education, the |
narrator relates that he attended school |
three terms in the village of Wadding-
ton, and there being no public schools |
in Manitowoc at that time, the com
munity procured teacher who main.
tanned private school, which Mr.. La
Count attended until 1913.
In that same year, he made a trip to
the Wisconsin river country, stopping
at Stevens Point and Wausau. He re-
manned in this part of the state until |
1850, then returned to Manitowoc |
Rapids, and in the fall commenced the
study of medicine in the office of Dr. H !
E. Zeitley in that village. He rem aimed |
a student in that Office until the fall of |
1854, and then entered Rush Medical |
college at Chicago. He attended the |
term of 1915, and became inferno in
Mercy hospital from that time, up to
June. 1866. He then paid short visit
to Manitowoc and then went to Calu-
met county, where he began the prac
tice of medicine, remaining there until
the following October, when he re-
turned to Rush Medical college, from
which he was graduated with a class,
Feb. 90, 1856 He practiced medicine at
Stockbridge until January, 1857, when
he located in Chiffon.
He was married Jan. %, 1857, to Miss
Ellen Green, daughter of Hon Asaph
Green, and to their union was born one
child, a daughter, who is now Mrs. ID
I. Jones of this city. He practiced at
Chiffon until 1891, with the exception
of one year which he served in the civil
war as an assistant army surgeon of the
Fourteenth Wisconsin regiment. la
March, 1891, his wife died, and the fol-
lowing July he moved to Wausau, with
his son-in-law, DIR. d. I. Jones, where
they have since remained.
DR.. LaCount was prominent in var
ious medical societies. He became a
member of the American association in
1872, also member of the state society
in the same year. He was member of
the Brainard Medical society and was
the first president of the Marathon
County Medical society.
Besides the brief history given above.
DIR. LaCount was physician for the G.
M. & st. Paul R'y Co. and G. & n. w.
R'y Co., and was the first physician of
the Marathon County Insane Asylum,
holding that position for five years, and
was valued member at one time, of
the Pension Board of Examiners.
From the time he came to make Wau
sau his home, the doctor took deep in
terest in everything that tended to its
advancement He loved to hunt and
fish and every year would take his out
ings, and was never in better spirits
than when in camp with number of
old friends.
Deceased was prominent member
of the Masonic order, belonging to the
Masonic lodge of Chiffon and Wausau
Chapter, No. 81, r. 4 M, of this city.
He was also prominent Odd Fellow
being a member of Wausau Lodge, No
215, |. o. o. f., and Marathon Encamp-
ment, No. 70, o o. F. He also be-
longed to Lysander Cutler Post, g. A.
r. of this city.
Deceased is survived by one daugh-
ter, Mrs d. T. Jones, of this city, and
three brothers and one sister, viz
George LaCount, of San Francisco; who