HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
roe, where she lived at the time; the ceremony 
was performed at the residence of Dr. Monroe. 
His children were-Clara E.) Minnie G., Metta 
J., and May. He was buried by the Masonic 
order. 
Samuel Blumer 
was the first resident physician in New Glarus. 
He came from Switzerland and located there in 
1848. He practiced there until 1852, when he 
went to California, returning to New Glarus in 
in 1855. He continued there until 1868, having 
an extensive practice. He then moved to Mon- 
roe, where he remained a few months, going 
thence to Galena, and from that place to Sioux 
City, where he died in 1871, 
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF TO-DAY. 
The physicians now engaged in the practice 
of medicine and surgery in Green county, are 
as follows.: 
Monroe-William Monroe, N. A. Loofbou- 
row, John C. Hall, H. D. Fuller, F. W. Confer, 
F. W. Byers, H. E. Boarcdman, Mrs. Hannah C. 
Bennett, Mrs. Norman Churchill, E. Bindsched- 
ler, L. B. Johnson and J. D. Soseman. 
Juda-J. N. Clemmer and E. S. Fessenden. 
New Glarus-John J. Blumer. 
Jordan-Christian Tochtermann. 
Exeter-W. C. Roberts and Mr. Ormsby. 
Albany-G. W. Roberts and N. Ziegenfuss. 
Brodhead-L. E. Towne, R. Broughton, E. G. 
Bennett, A. E. Bulson,.E. Miller, Robert Willis 
and Frank R. Derrick. 
Brooklyn-W. F. Howe. 
Browntown-J. H. Stealy. 
York-A. L. Day. 
Mount Pleasant-Dwight Flower. 
William ioroe, X..D., 
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 30, 1818. His 
father, William Monroe, was a graduate in medi- 
cine, and his mother, a daughter of Daniel 
Thurston, was Harriet (Thurston)   Monroe, 
who settled in Ohio about 1814, then a 
wild and   unsettled  territory, where  Wil- 
liam  Monroe, Sr., practiced his profession 
until he died Oct. 10, 1818. Soon after the 
death of her husband, Mrs. Monroe, mother of 
 
the subject of this sketch, went to Delaware 
county, where she remained for twelve years. 
In 1831 she was married to Dr. John Loofbou- 
row, and removed to Iowa Co., Wis., there 
being but twenty-four log huts in Minerl Point 
at that time. She died in April, 1835. The 
doctor went with his mother to Mineral Point, 
where lie was engaged in the mines. When 
twenty-one years old he commenced to read 
medicine in the office of Dr. 0. E. Strong, re- 
maining with him eighteen months, after read- 
ing in the office of Dr. Loofbourow. In 1840 
he commenced to     practice medicine under 
a license  granted by the   county  medical 
society.  In the winter of   1868-9  he at 
tended lectures at Rush   Medical College, 
where he graduated in 1869. The doctor is a 
member of the Southern Wisconsin Medical 
Society, and of the State Association ; also, of 
the Green County Medical Society. In 1868 the 
doctor came to Monroe. In 1841 ie was mar- 
ried to Mary J. Beebe, by whom there were ten 
children, of whom two-sons and two daughters 
are now living. In 1867 he represented his dis- 
trict.in the legislature. He was appointed ex- 
amining surgeon for Lafayette county prepara- 
tory to the draft in 1862. In 1870 he was ap- 
pointed examining surgeon for pensioners. He 
is a Sir Knight, and a member of the K. of P.; 
also, of the I. 0. 0.F. He was formerly a 
whig, but now supports the republican ticket. 
N. A. Loojbouw-ow, X. -D., 
is a native of Iowa Co., Wis., born Oct. 9, 1849. 
His parents, John and Rebecca (Lamb)Loofbou- 
row, emigrated to Wisconsin and settled at 
Mineral Point. Here the subject of this sketch 
grew to manhood, receiving his early education 
in a log cabin-built by his father. He after- 
wards attended school at Fayette, Lafayette 
county, and at Platteville, Grant county. When 
twenty-one years old, he commenced reading 
medicine in the office of Dr. Monroe, of Mon- 
roe, and afterwards attended lectures at Rush 
Medical College, at Chicago, where he graduated, 
Feb. 19, l873. In 1876 and 1877 he attended a 
 
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