Dr. John Conroy has received news from Ravenswood, Ill., stating that his brother, Dr. Frank Conroy, was asphyxiated While attending a patient, and came near dying. A Ravenswood family was overcome by gas, which was entirely odorless, and Dr. Conroy and two other physicians were: hastily summoned. Dr. Conroy arrived first and not detecting the presence of gas, started the work of resuscitation, not knowing the cause of the victim's condition. While engaged in the work, he too was overcome. The other two physicians were overcome, but serious results were averted by the arrival of help from the neighbors--Neillsville Times (Jan. 31, 1907)

Dr. T. F. (Thomas Frank) Conroy was in the city over Sunday, coming in on the Central train Saturday evening.  Greenwood Gleaner, 7 Mar 1902.

Thomas Francis Conroy, White American Male
Birth: 24 Feb 1865, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States
Father: James Conroy
Mother: Margaret Mockler
Thomas Francis Conroy's Parents and Siblings

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Bio: Conroy, Frank (9 May 1935)

Contact: Crystal Wendt
Email: crystal@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Conroy

----Sources: Neillsville Press (Neillsville, Clark County, Wis.) 9 May 1935

Doctor Frank Conroy appointed to High Post

A letter received recently from an old-time resident of Neillsville, Dr. Frank Conroy, brings some interesting items to his many friends.

Dr. Conroy was appointed chief surgeon on Jan. 1, of this year on one of the fine liners running out of San Francisco. This valued appointment is a fitting reward for a long record of fine achievements as a practitioner and as scientific research expert. The older Neillsville residents will remember the numerous highly skilled operations that were performed here by Dr. Frank Conroy, ably assisted by his talented brother, the late Dr. John Conroy. The departure from Neillsville of these unusual brothers must always be considered an irreparable loss for this community - such types honor the towns they lived in.

Residents of their day no doubt remember the little Conroy child who was born in Neillsville, named after his father. This oldest son is now on the staff of the Emergency hospital in San Francisco, after five years in the County Hospital service, now in charge of all the emergency work, a brilliant career before him.

Dr. Conroy celebrated his 70th birthday on Feb. 24, on the high sea far down in the tropical latitudes off South America. To the numerous good wishes and congratulations of his Pacific Coast friends we add those of his many friends and admirers from Clark County.

Voyage taken on the Ship "St Louis" [Record] Sailing from Southhampton, San Francisco, CA to New York Port arriving June 17, 1929. while Dr. Thomas Frank Conroy was living at 2704 Union Ave.,

Name Thomas F Conroy, Age 64 (1865), Birthplace Chicago IL, Male
Immigration Date & Place 1929, New York, New York, United States

Family Trip departing CA 20 Jun 1932 and arriving NY 4 Jul 1932. [Record]
T Francis Conroy Male 67 1932 New York, New York, United States 1865 Chicago Ill California
Katherine Conroy Female 50 1932 New York, New York, United States 1882 Chicago Ill California
Mary Conroy Female 25 1932 New York, New York, United States 1907 Chicago Ill California
John Conroy Male 21 1932 New York, New York, United States 1911 Chicago Ill California
Betty Conroy Female 17 1932 New York, New York, United States 1915 Chicago Ill California

His listing at Rush College states that he already had an "A.M" (a Master of Arts, or M.A.). His home state was Wisconsin. And he did not have a specific individual listed as his preceptor. Under preceptor, "faculty" is noted. This means the faculty of the school approved his admission. The Annual Announcement provides information on admission, course, and graduation requirements, which will give you an idea of what his medical school experience would have been like at the time.

When he was in attendance, Rush Medical College had a regular student newsletter. He was the class poet. Here is an example of one of his poems, to the class of 1896:  M. Nathalie Wheaton, MSLS, Archivist, Rush University Medical Center Archives

1900 Federal Census, Wisconsin Clark ED 28 Neillsville city Ward 1-3, A 10, Enumerator: Lotta I. Stockwell recorded 7 Jun 1900

T F Conroy, AM, MD; Male 35 Single White Head born Feb 1865 in Illinois, Parents born in Ireland

Physician Residing in Ward 2 at 185 4th St., Neillsville, WI.

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Obit: Conroy, Thomas Frank (1865 - 6 July 1941)

Thomas Francis Conroy, White American Male

Birth: 24 Feb 1865, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Death: 6 July 1941 in Palo Alto, Santa Clara, California, United States
Burial: Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California, United States of America
Father: James Conroy; Mother: Margaret Mockler
Thomas Francis Conroy's Parents and Siblings

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Thomas Frank Conroy Graduated from Rush Medical College-2, Chicago, class of 1896

                                           Dr. Thomas Frank Conroy, 1896

A Poem written by Dr. Conroy to his classmates at graduation.

TO THE CLASS OF '96. By T. Francis Conroy, A M., M. D., Chicago.

Weaving at their fateful looms,
O'er the regions of the dead,

Mingling shimmering lights and glooms,
Sang the sisters dread —

Sang the fatal sisters three

Crooning in strange harmony,
As their shuttles sped:

'Weave we in both good and ill!

Life and Death must struggle still,
Day must darkness follow!

He whose life thread now we wind

Shall our destined knots unbind —
All our art is hollow!

Lo! the Fates no more are blind

As the threads of life are twined
For Asclepios, son of Apollo!'

So sang the Fates in that half-twilight time

That clothes with glamour Greece's golden prime,

When the dim prescience of the strange career

Of the world's first physician — from the drear

And hopeless mists of destined changeless ill

Grew to a vision, where the iron will

Of one strong mortal fought with lowering Doom

And snatched a victim from the open tomb.

By no blind fates our threads of life are woven
Nor is Art powerless Disease to stay

And often hath the dart of Death been cloven
On the physician's shield before the prey.

For Life and Death are complex in their notion

As two correlatives that point a phrase,
Not sundered by a world-dividing ocean

But as two combatants that stand agaze.

Who is the hero, deft as lion-hearted,

To aid Life in his struggle with the' foe?
This the physician's task! No lance is darted

But warrior like he wards the lethal blow.
 

Hark, the rhythm wonderful
As they spin the carded wool:
'All our art is hollow!

Lo! the Fates no more are blind

As the threads of Life are twined,
For Asclepios, son of Apollo!'

Well do these words the noble Art portray
That smooths the brambles from Life's thorny way,
That cheers the sufferer on his couch of pain
That gives sweet lustre to the eyes again,
Brings back the roses to the pallid cheek,
And vigor to the frame all bent and weak.
Not the Physician's lot 'mid shady groves
To list the cooing of the mating doves,
To lie on the lush grasses by the stream,
Wrapt in the meshes of a roseate dream! —
No! where the cry of human pain ascends,
Where fell Disease on Poverty attends,
Where the fierce conflict between Death and Life
In varied forms of agony is rife —
There the Physician's place! Like red -cross knight
He rushes in the thickest of the fight,
Fearing nor wounds nor death — can be but aid
Astricken mortal with his trenchant blade.
humani nil alienum! is his cry —
Men are my brothers--none shall helpless die!

And you my classmates! whom a high desire,

Caught from the altar's sacrificial fire,

Hath thus impelled to don with doughty heart

The armor of the Aesculapian art,

Behold your mission! Be your battle cheer

humani nil alienum! Void of fear

Pursue the noble way your duties trace,

As benefactors of the human race.

Be champions, consecrated to the strife

That ever wages betwixt Death and Life: —

Life with its teeming cells of myriad form,

Crowned in the man, yet sacred in the worm,

Descending still as relevelations ope

New realms beneath the keen eyed microscope,

Into new worlds of sight — abysmal space

Still waiting a Columbus of our race.

Happy the mortal who, with star-like mind,

Shall cast the light of genius on the blind

And groping problems of this mystic frame

Where Life and Death in gladiatorial game,

Strive for the mastery! Your armor don

My classmates! Lo, your battle is begun.
Be it of us by Death's remorseless tongue
As by the Sisters Three in mystic meaning sung:

'He whose life thread now we wind

Shall our destined knots unbind,
Day will darkness follow!

Lo! the Fates no more are blind

As the threads of life are twined
For Asclepios, son of Apollo.'

Asclepius:(/æsˈkliːpiəs/; Greek: Ἀσκληπιός, Asklēpiós [asklɛːpiós]; Latin: Aesculapius) was a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters are Hygieia (“Hygiene”, the goddess/personification of health, cleanliness, and sanitation), Iaso (the goddess of recuperation from illness), Aceso (the goddess of the healing process), Aglæa/Ægle (the goddess of beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, and adornment), and Panacea (the goddess of universal remedy). He was associated with the Roman/Etruscan god Vediovis and the Egyptian Imhotep. He was one of Apollo‘s sons, sharing with Apollo the epithet Paean (“the Healer”).  The rod of Asclepius, a snake-entwined staff, remains a symbol of medicine today. Those physicians and attendants who served this god were known as the Therapeutae of Asclepius.

THE BANQUET. The Joint Banquet of the Faculty and Alumni of Rush was held at the Auditorium Hotel, May 27th, 1896. There were in the neighborhood of five hundred present and the whole affair was arranged with most excellent taste. This Annual Banquet has come to be one of the most interesting events of commencement week; it is a feast for both mind and body. From the happy remarks of President Gudden's introductory address to the inspiring "Alma Mater," the program was one of continuous interest. The music by Rush's students of the quartette and the mandolin club was an entertaining feature of the evening. We give below the menu and the program. The addresses of President Harper of the Chicago-University and Profs. Hamilton and Cotton May be found elsewhere.

Auditorium Hotel
	Inside, a palatial lobby opens to the auditorium, where an ornate three-story domed ceiling soars overhead. The walls are decorated with ornamental plaster work, including gold laurels, and a stained-glass window in a Renaissance style glitters behind the stage. A row of carved high-back wooden chairs line the rear wall. Jason Marck/WBEZ

 

 

Rush Medical College-2 Class Composites, Class of 1896A

Creator: Jarmuth
1 photograph : b&w ; 56 x 46 cm.
Student Row 1 (left to right): R. C. Fullenweider, F. A. Grawn, D. A. Angus, L. J. Weir.
Student Row 2: C. H. Kemp, C. L. Hobbs, M. R. Meili, I. W. Blake, J. Weir, W. L.
Palmer, J. W. Fulwiler, W. B. Coe, J. J. Bourn, E. A. Lyons, W. F. Frost, B. F. Strong, E.
S. Wood.
Student Row 3: T. A. Killion, J. H. Roth, J. L. Jacque, A. Kerr, J. W. Ballance, F. B.
Harmison, W. F. C. Heise, C. E. Sceleth, H. G. Schmidt, H. A. Berry, J. H. Rhodens , W.
G. Law, H. M. Stowe, G. A. Bading.
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Student Row 4: W. L. Thompson, A. L. Miller, L. A. Bassett, A. S. Kenaga, L. R.
Barstowe, G. A. McDowell, H. A. Stalker, E. L. Kenyon, J. T. Corr, M. O. King, M. D.
Bird, P. O. Convery, W. A. Pike, O. S. Hutchins.
Student Row 5: I. H. Dunaway, A. J. Oliver, J. L. Denaut, G. Wallace Nott, E. E.
Henderson, Thomas Frank Conroy, M. T. Brewer, J. E. Skinner, W. D. Brode, [?], L. E. Beaghler,
J. H. Gregory, A. L. Smith, M. L. Bridge.
Student Row 6: H. A. Brennecke, G. S. Gould, B. R. Goold, H. B. Hogeboom, F. R.
Warren, C. F. Harrison, M. C. Keith, G. H. Hansen, J. W. Dolman, F. E. Wallace, [?], P.
H. Brown, J. R. Caldwell, W. L. Brown.
Student Row 7: W. M. Dyas, A. Grassau, H. W. Saeger, C. E. Hemingway, W. A.
Metzger, J. C. Hubenthal, R. J. Jicinsky, H. F. Melerian, W. A. Lomas, A. J. Dooley, W.
C. Snodgrass, B. L. Eiker, M. A. Cunningham, L. D. Rogers.
Student Row 8: S. A. Edmands, M. Strand, N. R. Engles, A. A. Whamond, M. A.
Weisskopf, A. F. Huxhold, F. C. Honnold, A. W. Montgomery, H. O. B. Young, J. M.
Scott, H. R. Sugg, J. A. Harvey, D. W. Relihan, D. A. Orth.
Student Row 9: H. Lubbinga, M. Da Costa Bates, A. H. McLeish, H. P. Dredge, H. Rees,
[?], W. D. McNary, V. C. Lunn, M. C. Johnston, Ira Leckrone, A. Hamilton, J. R. Bryant,
A. W. O'Harro, H. O. Newton.
Student Row 10: A. L. Robinson, W. E. Richardson, C. R. Spicer, J. E. Cox, H. C.
Henderson, A. M. Dwight, F. W. Lambden, L. A. Larson, G. R. Proctor, C. C. Rogers, U.
S. Lewis, G. J. Schottler, J. H. Winterbotham, H. S. Smith.
Student Row 11: T. F. Hill, H. Raasoch, R. E. Davies, D. D. Hogan, G. H. Vanpell, E. A.
Hawley, L. J. Daniels, J. H. Nichols, A. W. Schram, L. J. Townsend, F. N. Brett, F. W.
Bullen, W. H. McLean, J. Inglis.
Student Row 12: S. H. Rabuck, W. A. Crowley, C. P. Geudtner, E. M. Eckard, O. C.
Willhite, J. F. Eddelman, D. L. Humfreville, S. D. Beebe, C. R. Bechmann, W. H.
Hunter, G. E. Fosberg, E. C. Walsh, M. L. Kors, F. G. Connell.
Student Row 13: J. H. Dudley, R. G. Knapp, W. F. Hiller, H. C. Gemmill, N. W.
Culbertson, O. H. Arndt, G. H. Cowles, W. C. F. Witte, R. J. Burns, J. R. Marshall, A. S.
Wilson, M. Lyon, C. E. Kreml, A. H. Eddy.
Student Row 14: E. J. Witt, T. W. Gillespie, C. F. Osgood, W. J. Dvorak, E. P. Leresche,
E. B. McDowell, R. E. Gray, E. A. Miller, M. J. Friedel, F. A. Guthrie, [?], L. G.
Rouleau, M. A. Griffin, E. S. Bell.
Student Row 15: E. E. Ochsner, E. C. Pegram, D. J. Lynch, H. P. Fitzpatrick, H. B.
Beegle, S.L. Anderson, H. H. Williams, A. J. Kreitzer, E. V. Kleinkonstrom.
Unidentified Graduating Students: Carson, George Thomas; Curtis, Wesley Lyman;
Duncan, Samuel Omar; Eckhardt, Peter; Engels, Ernest Charles; Greer, John; Griffith,
John Charles; Higgins, John Ignatius; Hissom, Samuel Keigley; McConnell, James
Edward; Mershimer, William Clayton; O'Connor, Thomas Griffin; Regent, Michael;
Rossiter, Frederick Magee; Rustad, Edward L.; Schreiter, Joseph Benjamin; Stanard, Ora
B.; Tope, George Bower; Townsend, Adalbert; Waters, William Thompson.
Faculty Row 1: Frank Gould, [?], Prof. Sanger Brown, Prof. N. Bridge, Prof. T. W.
Brophy, Prof. D. W. Graham, Prof. J. N. Hyde, [?], Prof. J. A. Robison, J. B. Herrick, [?],
J. H. Salsibury, Prof. L. Hektoen.
Faculty Row 2: Prof. A. D. Bevan, Prof. J. B. Hamilton, Prof. H. B. Favill, Prof. H. N.
Moyer, Prof. N. Senn, Prof. D. Brower, Prof. J. Etheridge, Prof. E. B. Hutchinson, Prof.
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E. F. Ingals (misspelled as "Inglas"), Prof. W. S. Haines, Prof. John M. Dodson, Prof. W.
T. Belfield.
Faculty Row 3: Prof. A. C. Cotton, Prof. E. Ingals (misspelled "Inglas"), Prof. E. L.
Holmes, Prof. H. M. Lyman.
Photograph contains class motto "Humani Nihil Alienum."