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1889/1898–1917
A generation later the professional census has turned over completely — not one name carries over between the two bands — and its senior figure is the one Walkerton physician the biographical record carries whole. Polk's 1916–17 entry (pp. 1073–1074) gives a town of 1,200 with paved streets, electric lights, sewer and water systems, and lists: Physicians — "Denaut M S"; "Miranda W F"; "Neville R"; "Tracy S P." Dentists — "Dowell H S"; "Ross C D." Drugs — "Caulkins A M"; "Spahr G C." Again, no hospital or sanitarium line appears. Of the seven practitioners, only Miranda rises out of the directory's record. Dr. William F. Miranda was born in Clarke County, Ohio, 22 January 1851, the son of Dr. Isaac Miranda, a Jefferson Medical College man; he worked as a pharmacist first, read medicine under his father, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in the class of 1877. His practice ran through New Carlisle, Westville, and Medway, Ohio — eight years at Medway — then Attica, Kansas, 1885–87, then Medway again, and then Walkerton, arriving on 20 April of a year his own sketch prints two ways: Howard gives 1898, against the sketch's own arithmetic of two years from 1887, which gives 1889. The conflict prints whole; the settlers are the Howard page image and the AMA directory. At Walkerton he kept his home and office on Avenue E, sat as a trustee of the Methodist church, presided over the town's board of education, belonged to the American Medical Association and the St. Joseph County Medical Society, and was known as a temperance advocate — the practitioner era's complete civic form, at the moment the gazetteer bands close. For the other six names of 1916–17, and the three of 1884–85, no obituary, directory, or medical-society corroboration was openly reachable; they rest on the gazetteer bands alone, and the gap is named in this section's closing article rather than papered over.
Sources
- R. L. Polk & Co., Indiana Gazetteer & Business Directory, 1916–17, pt. 2, Walkerton entry, pp. 1073–1074, via LDSGenealogy transcription (part 78); transcription caveat as in the 1884–85 article.
- Howard (1907), vol. 2, pp. 976–978 (Miranda sketch), read first-hand.