WI BIO - Price Co - WYATT, J. D.

History of Northern Wisconsin. Chicago: Western Historical, 1881, vol II, p 
767

J. D. WYATT, physician and surgeon, Phillips [formerly in Chippewa County, 
but now in Price County, Wisconsin; Price created from parts of Chippewa and 
Lincoln Counties on 20 March 1879], was born 29 July 1845 in Moira, Franklin 
County, New York. Until 1853 he remained there, going from thence to 
Stockholm, St. Lawrence County [New York]; thence to Plainfield [Will 
County], Illinois. While here [in Illinois] he took classical course in 
Northwestern College [in Evanston, Cook County]. In 1869 he became local 
editor of the Aurora "Herald" in Kane County [Illinois]; at the same time, 
was special for the old Chicago "Republican."

In 1871 he [J. D. WYATT] came to Fond du Lac [Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin], 
where the firm of Wyatt Brothers, insurance agents, was organized. Here he 
began reading medicine with a brother who was a physician, and in 1874 he 
went to the Keokuk College [the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa], graduating in 1876. He located at Stevens Point, 
where he was railroad physician. In 1877 he came to Phillips. He is company 
physician and has been Superintendent of Schools [1880, 1882].

[Census records were not checked by submitter for names of the brothers 
mentioned. The author does not state for which company Dr. J. D. WYATT was 
the company physician, but it was likely the Wisconsin Central Railway 
Company at Phillips. Created in February 1871, the Wisconsin Central Railway 
Company (formerly the Portage, Winnebago & Superior) was headquartered at 
Stephens Point, where the text states Dr. WYATT had been railroad physician. 
The Wisconsin Central Railroad line ran through Phillips.]

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