- NATHAN ALLEN LOOFBOUROW, M.D., a prominent physician and
surgeon at Monroe,
- Green county, was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, Oct.
9, 1849, and is a son of Dr. John and Rebecca (LAMB) LOOFBOUROW,
natives of Virginia and Indiana, respectively. They were the
parents of six sons and four daughters, and eight of their children
are now living. Sarah is the widow of George PROCTOR, of Jamestown,
N. Dak.; William, at Monroe; Wade H., at Osceola, Wis.; Harriet,
the wife of J. A. BUSS, of Platteville, Wis.; Dr. N. A. of Monroe;
Mary, the wife of Henry HINNERS, of Platteville, Wis.; Thomas
of California; and John, of Cincinnati. The father was a physician,
and practiced for a time in Ohio, in 1828 coming to Wisconsin,
where he located in Mineral Point, practicing there until his
death, in 1859, when he was seventy-six years of age. He opened
a farm in the wilderness, and became the owner of five hundred
acres. He was active in the development of the new country, and
served in the Black Hawk war. His widow long survived him, and
died in 1892 at the age of seventy-six. Both were members of
the Christian Church. Dr. John LOOFBOUROW had been twice married
before; he had one child by his first wife, who is now dead.
His second wife was the widow of Dr. MONROE, and was the mother
of Dr. William MONROE, of Monroe, Wisconsin.
- The paternal grandfather of Dr. N. A. LOOFBOUROW died in
the East, and his history is lost.
- His maternal grandfather, LAMB, is supposed to have been
a native of Indiana. He came to Wisconsin in 1828, and opened
a farm in Lafayette county, near the village of Wiota, where
he died about 1863, when upwards of seventy years of age, leaving
five children who lived to maturity. He was a soldier in the
Black Hawk war.
- Dr. Nathan A. LOOFBOUROW made his home in Iowa county until
he was sixteen, and then
- moved into Fayette, in Lafayette county, where he lived until
1870, attending the local schools, and also a select school in
Fayette. For some two or three years he was a teacher in the
public schools of Wisconsin, in the meantime studying medicine
under the direction of Dr. William MONROE. He was a student in
Rush Medical College, Chicago, and was graduated in February,
1873. He also attended the famous Bellevue Hospital Medical College,
at New York, took post-graduate lectures in Rush, and in 1887-88
spent the greater part of a year in the celebrated medical hospitals
and schools at Paris, Vienna, Edinburgh, and London. The Doctor
established himself in Monroe in 1873, and has been continuously
in practice in this city since that time, with the exception
of the intervals of study abroad.
- Dr. LOOFBOUROW and Miss Alice BANTA, the daughter of Jeremiah
and Caroline (BRIDGE)
- BANTA, were married Nov. 12, 1874. The Doctor and his wife
are the parents of one child, Lelia, who is now living with her
father at his home on Washington street in Monroe. He belongs
to the I.O.O.F., and also to Ivanhoe Lodge, Knights of Pythias.
He is a Republican, and has always taken a deep interest in public
questions.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 358.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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