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ANGEAR, J. J. M., M. D., physician and surgeon; was born in England Sept. 5, 1829; when 14 years of age, his parents came to America; they located in Racine Co., Wis.; he attended school, then entered Racine College and completed his education, graduating with degree of Bachelor of Science; he was the founder of the Berlin High School in Wisconsin, and was its Principal for four years; he studied medicine and graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in the spring of 1860. During the war, he was commissioned Surgeon by President Lincoln, and served two years. He came to Iowa and located in Fort Madison in 1866; in 1871, he was appointed Professor of Physiology and Pathology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, and still fills that chair; in 1872, he received the degree of A. M. from his Alma Mater; he has been President of the Commission of Insanity of Lee Co. since its organization, in 1870; he is a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, which body he represented in the British Medical Association, which met at Bath, England, in August, 1878; after the meeting, he spent much time in the hospitals of London and Paris; he is author of a number of articles in the medical journals and State reports, and is a popular lecturer; he has one of the best medical libraries in the State; Dr. Angear has given much attention to microscopy, and has one of the finest instruments in the State, or, indeed, the West; he is frequently called upon to testify in courts as a scientific expert. He is a Republican. He married Miss Sophia Smith April 19, 1855; she is a native of Racine Co., Wis., and is a daughter of Benjamin E. Smith, who was one of the earliest settlers of that county, who came there in 1836; Mrs. Angear is one of the first persons born in Racine Co.; Dr. and Mrs. Angear have two sons — William J. S., born March 27, 1863, and Benjamin Horace, born Jan. 29, 1871.