Bio: Richmond, James, M. D. (b. 1858)

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----Source: From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, Wisconsin (1891-Lewis Publishing Co.) Page 213

Richmond, James, M. D. (15 Jan 1858 - )

 

James Richmond, M.D., has been engaged in the practice of his profession in Black River Falls ever since October, 1887. He was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, January 15, 1858, and is a son of John Richmond, a native of Leeds, England the father emigrated to this country when he was twenty-two years of age, and settled near Canton, New York. There he married Margaret Hoy, a native of Dublin, Ireland he was a farmer by occupation, and continued to live in St. Lawrence County until his death, which occurred in September, 1866 his widow still survives, and resides in Isabella County, Michigan, with her son, Dr. P.E. Richmond.

James is the youngest of eleven children, ten of whom are sons at the age of fifteen years he went West with his brother, Dr. P. E. Richmond, who is a graduate of the McGill Medical College, Montreal he remained with his brother in the State of Michigan until the fall of 1875 he had been attending school, and in the spring of 1875 was engaged in teaching he then went to Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, and entered the high school at Galesville, of which his brother, Stephen Richmond, was then principal he was graduated from this school in 1877, and the following year he took a course of study at the University of Galesville. For several years he was engaged in the profession of teaching, but all this time he was contemplating the study of medicine, and finally abandoned the school room and turned his attention exclusively to the pursuit of this science. In the year 1885 he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago he was graduated from this institution in 1887, and located immediately afterward at Black River Falls, Wisconsin he has always been an industrious student, and although he has been a resident of Black River Falls a comparatively brief period, he has acquired the reputation of a careful and skillful physician.

Dr. Richmond was united in marriage, in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin to Miss Maggie Carpenter, a daughter of Henry Carpenter, an early settler in the town of Preston one child has been born of this union Lorana.