B. G. Neal, M.D. 1828-1898

NEAL, TODD, GRIFFITH

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 4/11/2024 at 07:29:45

The Wapello Republic, Wapello, Iowa
Thursday, December 29, 1898
Page 1

Columbus Junction, Iowa, Dec. 26 - B. G. Neal, M. D., a pioneer physician and surgeon, who has been confined to the house for several years and much of the time to his bed, died at 1 p. m. Monday at the home of O. S. Todd with whom he lived. Dr. Neal was born in Howard county, Mo. Jan., 8th, 1828, and was the son of Daniel and Margaret (Griffith) Neal. His parents were born and reared and married in Virginia and in 1830 they moved to Texas, then a Mexican state. The family resided in Van Zant, where the father died. In 1833 our subject, with his mother and family, moved to Vicksburg, Miss., where his mother died the same year.

When quite a young man he learned the printer's trade and followed this business many years working in Cincinnati and various stated in the eastern state, alternating work at the trade and the study of medicine, and in September, 1849, came to Columbus City, where he began the practice of medicine. In 1851 he returned to Ohio and spent three years in practice near Ironton, after which he took regular course of lectures at the Rush Medical college, Chicago, being graduated in the class of '55-56. In 1857 he moved to the historic city of Burris, on the Mississippi, which is now extinct. One year there satisfied him and he returned to Columbus City, where he built up a large practice and continued to reside until 1869 when he move to Columbus Junction in 1870 making it his principal headquarters.