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The First Physician
The first physician to locate in Byron was Dr. Abner
Sears in 1838 but he soon
died and was followed by Dr. Henry Rowland in 1841. Doctor’s Guthrie,
Sleeth, Austin, Webster, Fox Caldwell, Stevens, Knapp, Seymour, Murphy,
Howard, Brannock, Harper, Ruggles, Orr, Robert Fox and Hambly have been
practicing physicians in the village since that time. With the passing
of Dr. Fox the community was left without a medical doctor and the
larger part of his practice went to Dr. Covert of Gaines. Around 1937-38
an Osteopath, Dr. Gilroy located on the second floor of the old Fritz
Building (just south of the present bank). He was followed by Dr.
Holloway who located first in the old Benton Building then moved to the
first floor of the Fritz Building at that time owned by George Eddy.
About two years later he purchased the large home of Herman Meier and
made it into a hospital known as the Lawrence Hospital which he operated
for a few years, then sold out and moved away.
Dr.
Dr. Robert Fox
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