Among the successful physicians and surgeons
of Fayette County is Dr. Thomas Nelson Walsh, of Hawkeye, whose professional
career presents a series of advancements which have gained for him an honorable
reputation in the noble work to which his life is being devoted, and a
confidence on the part of the public which bespeaks for him a still larger field
for the exercise of his talents in years to come. Doctor Walsh is a native of
Montreal, Canada, where he was born on the 6th day of July, 1865, and his early
experience amid the bracing airs and wholesome discipline of rural life was
conducive to well-rounded physical development and the formation of habits which
enabled him while still young to direct his thoughts into proper channels and
make the most of his opportunities. After devoting about the usual time to his
preliminary studies he entered McGill University, from which in due season he
was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and later completed the
medical course in the same institution, receiving his medical degree with the
class of 1892.
With a mind well disciplined by intellectual and
professional training, Doctor Walsh, through the representations of Doctor
Berry, of Clermont, Iowa, was induced to locate at Hawkeye and
it was not long until his abilities were recognized by the people of the town
and adjacent country, as his rapid rise in his chosen calling abundantly
indicates. . . . He has left nothing undone in the way of fitting himself for
efficient service in his work, always keeping abreast of the times and in touch
with the latest improvements and discoveries in medical science and surgery. To
this end he took a post-graduate course a few years ago in the Chicago
Polyclinic, later completed a similar course in New York City and, he attends
every year at Harvard Medical School at Boston. Doctor Walsh is a member of the
Fayette County Medical Society, being at this time president of that body, and
he also belongs to the State National Societies and the Medical Association of
Flint. Every year he spends a month's vacation to keep in touch with the great
medical institutions in New York and other Eastern states, where, under the
personal direction of some of the most distinguished professional men of the
day, he enlarges the area of his knowledge and acquires additional skill as a
surgeon and general practitioner. . . . . . . . . . . .Fraternally, he holds
membership with the Masonic order and Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Doctor
Walsh married, in Hawkeye, Edith HAUTH, who was born in
Michigan, but reared in Madison township, this county, where her father, William
HAUTH, is a larger farmer and stockman. Four children have
been born to this union, viz: Edwin, Eugene, Jeannette and George,
the last named dying when seven years of age."