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- History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin (1911) page 6
Abraham, Henry W., M.D. 1866 -
Abraham, Henry W., M.D., president of the Fox River Valley Medical
Society, and one of the leading members of the Outagamie county medical
profession, is engaged in a general practice in Appleton with office at No.
572 Oneida street. Dr. Abraham is a native of Germany, born August 1, 1866, a
son of William and Hannah Abraham, who came from the Fatherland in 1870 and
settled in Wausau, Wisconsin. William Abraham, who has been a soldier in the
German army, was a brickmaker by trade and had a plant in Wausau, where he
died in 1891, his widow surviving until 1898. They had a family of six
daughters and three sons, of whom one is deceased. Henry W. Abraham attended
the public schools of Wausau, and in 1891 graduated from Lawrence College.
After one year spent in Vienna he began to read medicine and then entered Rush
Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1898. He immediately came to
Appleton, where he engaged in a general practice, and here he has continued to
the present time. He is a member of the Wisconsin State Board of Medical
Examiners and holds membership in the County, State and National medical
organizations, is president of the Fox River Valley Medical Society, is
connected with the Theta Phi college fraternity, and is also a member of the
Masons. Dr. Abraham is possessed of a kind, sympathetic nature, and the
natural taste for the various branches of the medical profession that makes
the ideal physician. He has built up a large and lucrative practice among the
leading residents of Appleton, and has a host of friends both in and out of
his profession. Dr. Abraham in politics is an independent voter, recognizing
no party lines. He and Mrs. Abraham are members of the Congregational Church.
In 1899 Dr. Abraham was united in marriage with Nellie Bassett, of Berlin,
Wisconsin, a graduate of Lawrence College, and to this union there has been
born one daughter, Margaret, aged eight years.
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