Bio: Roy, M. D. Emile (1862 - 19??)

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Surnames: Roy, Ross, Guimont, Dion, Blumhart, Henrotin, Pronovost,

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

Roy, M. D. Emile (14 November 1862 - 19??)

EMILE ROY, M. D., who has been engaged in the active practice of his profession at Wausau since 1907, is numbered with the eminent medical men of this city and has enjoyed wider opportunities for scientific training than have many of his professional co-laborers. He was born November 14, 1862 at Quebec, Canada, and is a son of Regis and Sophia (Ross) Roy.  

The parents of Dr. Roy are both deceased. For more than forty years the father was a member of the Quebec bar and was known all over the province. He died in 1888 at the age of seventy-six years. He married Sophia Ross, who was born in Scotland, a daughter of Alexander Ross. Her death occurred in 1880, at the age of sixty years. Nine sons and four daughters were born to them and of the thirteen children Emile was the youngest born. Two sons and one daughter died in infancy. Regis, the eldest, who died at the age of thirty-three years, was a wholesale salesman for European and Canadian merchants. Alexander is an attorney in practice in the city of New York. Elzear, now retired, for thirty years was master of languages for transportation companies. John B. is in the jewelry business at Montreal. Felix is engaged in business enterprises in the northern part of Quebec. Phileas is professor of harmony in the New York Conservatory of Music. The three surviving daughters are all married, Hermine being Mrs. C. Guimont, of Montreal; Sophia being Mrs. George Dion of Quebec: and Elzire being Mrs. Eugene Blumhart, of Montreal.

Dr. Roy was graduated in Arts from Louis le Grand, Paris, and received his degree in philosophy at the Sorbonne, France, in 1886; was graduated in 1890 from the University of Paris, in medicine, and received his degree in surgery from Queens University. He began to practice in 1890 but for full two years following did work in surgery at Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. In 1901 Dr. Roy was associated with the late Dr. Fernand Henrotin, in Chicago, as his assistant: leaving Dr. Henrotin, he went to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, where he practiced until he came to Wausau, in 1907. Dr. Roy is a member of the Marathon County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State and the American Medical Association, belonging also to the Association of American Surgeons and the district society, and is president of the Wausau General Hospital.  

In 1888, Dr. Roy was married to Miss Josephine Pronovost, a daughter of Hubert Pronovost, of Two Harbors, Minn., and they have one daughter and three sons: Jeanne, Ross, Herald and Hubert. Dr. Roy is identified with the Masons, the Odd Fellows, and the Modern Woodmen of America and belongs to the E. F. U.