W. L. DICK, M.D.     Dr. W. L. Dick is well known as a medical educator, while in general practice he has given proof of his ability in the able manner with which he has met, and solved difficult professional problem.  He belongs to that class of men whom the world knows as self-made because their advancement is attributable to their own efforts when fate and circumstances gave then) no advantage at the outset of their careers.  Dr. Dick was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, March 27, 1860.  His father, Johnson Dick, was a native of the same county and died in the year 1874.  The mother. who bore the maiden name of Susan R. Green, was a native of Virginia and died in 1889.
     Dr. Dick is indebted to the public school system of his county for the early educational privileges he enjoyed.  He determined to enter one of the "learned professions" and studied alone for two years in the meantime acquiring through his own efforts the sum necessary to meet his tuition and other expenses of a college course.  He then entered Starling Medical College and was graduated with the class of 1888.  For more than twenty years thereafter he has followed his profession, opening an office in Columbus in the year of his graduation.  He did not consider lei; studies finished, however, but has always remained a faithful and earnest student, knowing that the researchers of science are continually bringing to light valuable aids to medical and surgical practice.  He has kept in touch with the best medical literature and has also further continued his study in the post graduate medical college.  Becoming connected with the Ohio Medical University he conducted the first recitation in anatomy in that institution and for twelve years he taught anatomy and orthopedic surgery in the Ohio Medical University but resigned his position and went to Oregon, thinking to continue his professional career on the Pacific coast.  Ill health, however, caused his return and be has since engaged in general practice in Columbus. He was formerly surgeon for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company but resigned his position on going west; however, on his return he was reappointed and continues in that professional connection to the present time.
     In 1894 Dr. Dick was married to Miss Bertha Grierson; a native of Wheeling. West Virginia.. He belongs to Humboldt lodge, A. F. & A. M., the Knights of Pythias fraternity and the Woodmen of the World, while in more strictly professional relations he is connected with the Columbus Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.  Early in life he displayed the elemental strength of his career.  Reared on a farm to the age. of twenty-two years he worked hard by day and studied by night that he might enter a. field of labor giving him broader opportunities than the work of the farm.  That he made wise choice of a profession is indicated by the success that has attended his efforts since he became connected with the medical fraternity.
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WILLIAM DOHERTY was born in Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 30, 1790, from whence he came, during the war of 1812, to Franklinton, and took up his residence in Columbus in 1820.  He married, on July 10, 1821, Eliza, a daughter of General Jeremiah McLene, and made Columbus his residence the balance of his life, and practiced law.  He studied law in Columbus, and also previously, and, possessing a turn of mind for public business, and being a man of fine address, he became very popular.  For seven years in succession he was clerk of the house of representatives in the Office Legislature - one session in Chillicothe and six in Columbus.  He was, for a number of years adjutant-general of Ohio, and United States marshal for the distinct of Ohio for four years.  In 1831 he was elected senator from the district of Franklin and Pickaway, and chosen president of that body at his first session - a compliment rarely bestowed on a new member.  He died on Feb. 29, 1840, in the fiftieth year of his age.
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