Bio: Brown, Almon L. M. D. (1865 - 19??)

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Surnames: Brown, Gauker

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Brown, Almon L. M. D. (6 October 1865 - 19??)

Almon L. Brown, M. D. who is a leading exponent of the medical profession at Wausau and a highly esteemed citizen in every circle, was born at Jersey City, N. J., October 6, 1865, and is a son of John M. and Agnes (Gauker) Brown. Both paternal and maternal ancestors of Dr. Brown settled in America during the colonial period and many participated in the Revolutionary War. On the father's side the ancestry is Scotch and on the mother's side, German and English, the family coming to the colonies from England, however, where previous settlement had been made. The parents of Dr. Brown were born in New York. Later they moved to Cincinnati, O., and there he passed through the public schools, graduating from a High School and later entered Purdue University, at Lafayette, Ind., from which he was graduated in Science. Having chosen medicine as his field of effort, he applied every energy to advance himself in that science, later entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, and after graduating in the class of 1894, entered into medical practice in that city. He continued there until 1900 when he came to Wausau, where, as a result of medical skill, he has built up a large and satisfactory practice. He is very thoroughly equipped for the duties of his exacting profession, for, in addition to the training the best American schools could afford him, he has enjoyed several post graduate courses in Europe, twice visiting the great clinics at Vienna and passing under the instruction of the most eminent scientists of the times.

Dr. Brown is an enthusiast in his profession and is widely known throughout Wisconsin. He is a member of the Marathon County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and outside his profession has many fraternal connections, including the Masons, the Mystic Shrine, the Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias and the Elks.