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Horton, Jackson David

physician, was born Sept. 23, 1860, in Nashua, Iowa. After attending the Nashua high school he entered the Upper Iowa university in 1878, and remained there for two years. He then went to the state university of Wisconsin for two years; in 1884 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago; subsequently taking a post-graduate course at the Chicago Polyclinic. Since 1884 he has been in active general practice of medicine in his native city, where he has been coroner and has filled various other positions of public trust. Dr. Horton is a prominent member of the leading medical bodies of the United States.

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