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HARRY E. RANSOM, M. D., has been engaged in the
practice of his profession in Iowa since 1915, save for the
interval of his overseas service in the World war, and he is
now one of the representative physicians and surgeons in the
City of Des Moines, with office headquarters in the Iowa
Building.
Doctor Ransom was born on the parental home farm near Avalon,
Rock County, Wisconsin, October 16, 1884, and is a son of
Ensign H. and Nellie Marie (Verbach) Ransom, who still
maintains their home in the Badger State, where both were born
and reared. Ensign H. Ransom having been born near Avalon,
Rick County, and his wife at Johnstown Center. Hubbell Ransom
and George Verbach, respective paternal and maternal
grandfathers of Doctor Ransom, were numbered among the
sterling pioneer and substantial farmers of Wisconsin. The
active career of Ensign H. Ransom has been one of close and
successful alliance with farm industry in Rock County,
Wisconsin, where he is still the owner of a valuable farm
estate and where he is an influential and progressive citizen
who commands unqualified popular esteem. He is a stalwart in
the local ranks of the Republican party, and in addition to
having served as a member of the Board of Commissioners of his
native county he gave two terms of service as county sheriff.
He is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and both he and his wife are
zealous members of the Congregational Church. Dr. Harry E., of
this review having been the first born of their five children.
After completing his studies in the high school at Clinton
Junction, in his native county, Dr. Harry E. Ransom followed
the dictates of his youthful ambition by entering the medical
department of Marquette University in the City of Milwaukee,
and in this institution he was graduated as a member of the
class of 1914. After receiving his degree of Doctor of
Medicine he further fortified himself in the valuable clinical
experience he gained while serving as interne in the hospital
maintained by the Illinois Steel Company at Gary, Indiana, and
in the Englewood Hospital, Chicago. In November, 1915, he
engaged in the private practice of his profession at Valley
Junction, Polk County, Iowa, where he continued his practice
until the nation became involved in the World war, when he
subordinated all personal interests to the call of patriotism
and enlisted for service in the Medical Corps of the United
States Army. He was thereafter stationed at Camp Grant,
Illinois, and, with the rank of first lieutenant, he
accompanied his unit overseas, where he continued in active
service thirteen months and was advanced to the grade of
captain, which rank he retains as a member of the Reserve
Medical Corps of the United States Army. After the close of
the war and the reception of his honorable discharge Doctor
Ranson returned to Polk County, Iowa, where he has since
continued in active general practice in the City of Des Moines
and where he has made such record of success as to mark him as
one of the representative physicians and surgeons of Iowa's
capital city. In his practice he gives major attention to
internal medicine. The Doctor has membership in the Des Moines
Academy of Medicine and the local Medicine Study Club, of
which latter he was president in 1928. He gave three years of
service as secretary of the Polk County Medical Society, and
in addition to his membership in this organization he is a
member of the Iowa State Medical Society and the American
Medical Association. He has held since 1923 the office of
assistant health commissioner of Des Moines.
Doctor Ransom is found loyally arrayed in the ranks of the
Republican party, and he is affiliated with the Masonic
fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Phi Beta
Pi college fraternity and the American Legion.
In January, 1926, Doctor Ransom was united in marriage with
Miss Gladys Marie McMurray, of Iowa Falls, where her father,
J. H. McMurray, is engaged in the shoe business and where she
was reared and educated. Doctor and Mrs. Ransom have a son,
Ensign, who was born November 20, 1927, and who was named in
honor of his paternal grandfather. Doctor and Mrs. Ransom are
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~ source: A Narrative History of The People
of Iowa, Edgar Rubey
Harlan, LL. B., A. M.,
Chicago and New York, 1931
~ transcribed and contributed by: Debbie Clough
Gerischer, Iowa History
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