Bio: Wahl, H. S., M. D. (1860 - 19??)

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Surnames: Wahl, Waterman, Roswell, Eirman

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

Wahl, H. S., M. D. (19 August 1860 - 19??)

H. S. Wahl, M. D., physician and surgeon at Stratford, Wis., and a director of the Stratford State Bank, may almost be called a pioneer of this place as he came in 1895, when it was but a hamlet. He was born in Ontario, Canada, August 19, 1860, and is a son of Frederick and Catherine Wahl, old residents of County Perth, Canada.

H. S. Wahl was the first of his parents' four children and attended school in his native place through boyhood and youth. After some preliminary medical reading he entered the medical department of the Northwestern University, at Chicago, Ill., and was graduated in the class of 1884. For two years afterward he engaged in medical practice at Minnesota City, Minn., and then went to Winona, where he continued until 1895, when he came to Stratford. The village proper at that time did not seem a very encouraging field as the total population did not exceed 200 but there was a large adjacent territory, although but sparsely settled. For a number of years Dr. Wahl had a hard practice, covering miles of unbroken prairie day after day in his merciful ministrations to the sick and injured. Although in later years he has somewhat circumscribed the area of his practice, yet the old families ten miles distant north, fifteen east, six south and nine west still make such appealing calls that he retains them on his list of patients that receive personal services. Dr. Wahl is serving as health officer, is examining physician for all the standard insurance companies and is a valued member of the county and state and the American Medical Association. He is a charter member as well as a director of the Stratford State Bank, is interested also in the Albandale State Bank and in the Marathon County and Stratford Telephone Company.

Dr. Wahl was married in Minnesota to Miss Clara Waterman, a very accomplished lady, a teacher in the High School. At death she left one son, Harry Roswell, who is a prominent physician of .Cleveland, O., and is also connected with the research department of the Western Reserve Medical College and assistant professor of pathology. His scientific attainments have secured him several degrees. Dr. Wahl was married (second) to Miss Emma Eirman, of Milwaukee, Wis. He is a Republican in his political views.