Senator Hiram Thomas Cleaver View All Years
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Hiram Thomas Cleaver
Louisa County
Born February 17th, 1822, at Centerville, Washington County, Pa. He was of Quaker parentage. He was educated at the Friends’ seminary, New Lisbon, Ohio, and studied medicine at the Keokuk College of physicians and surgeons, and the Chicago Medical College graduating from the former in 1862, and from the latter in 1872. He settled at Unity, Columbiana County, Ohio, in January, 1844. Then removed to New Lisbon, in the same county, the following April, and Wapello and Louisa counties in Iowa, in 1843, then Keokuk in July, 1862. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Iowa State Medical Society, Keokuk City Medical Society, and the Louisa County Medical Society. He represented the counties of Louisa and Washington, in the Iowa State Senate, from 1854 to 1858. In the Civil War he served as acting assistant surgeon of the U. S. Army, having charge of the Fifth street U. S. general hospital in Keokuk, from 1862 to 1865. Since 1862 he was been professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women, in the college of physicians and surgeons at Keokuk. He married Anna Hanna March 27, 1845.
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