Bio: Selden, Dr. William Bryant (History - 1850)

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Surnames: SELDEN BRYANT

----1891 Biographical History of Clark Jackson Counties WI

Dr. William Bryant Selden (1850)
 

Dr. William Bryant Selden, a physician and surgeon of Thorp, Wisconsin, was born February 15, 1850, in Sussex, England, and is a great-grandson of Sir William Bryant of the above place, for whom he is named. He came with his parents to the United States when four years of age, settling in New York three years later he moved to Wisconsin and settled on a farm, where he lived until fifteen years of age, when he began the study of medicine with Drs. Teegarden Rickard, of LaPorte, Indiana, with whom he continued three years, attending the old Meeker College the three following years. After the expiration of the college term he came to Wisconsin and practiced medicine with the firm of Drs. Sippie Hoover for two years, at which time the firm was broken by the death of Dr. Sippie. He then took up the study of homoepathy with Dr. William Hounaer for two years then attended lectures at Des Moines, Iowa, Homoepathic College, and next went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended lectures and the clinic for one year. Returning to Winona County, Minnesota, he practiced medicine there six years. In 1881 he moved with his family to Thorp, Wisconsin, where he has since made his home, suffering all the hardships of a new country, which are many. In 1886, returning to Cincinnati, he attended lectures and the clinique of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and he came again to Thorp and resumed his old practice, which is quite extensive. The Doctor is well versed in medicine, and in manner is very quiet and retiring. Politically he is a Republican.

SELDEN BRYANT