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H. L. ISHERWOOD, M. D., physician and surgeon. Avilla, was born in Mt. Vernon, Linn county, Iowa, Aug. 1, 1850. His father, T. G. Isherwood, was a native of Pennsylvania, and a minister of the gospel, and preached for many years in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Ohio. Our subject spent his youth in acquiring an education; entered the Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, in 1870; graduated from that institution and received his degree of B. S. in 1876. Being determined to adopt the medical profession, he entered the Rush Medical College at Chicago, Ill., and received his diploma from the school of regular practice, in the class of 1878. He commenced practice at Clarksville, Iowa, where he remained until 1880, when he became a resident of Jasper county, Mo., where he previously held a real estate interest. He has not given his entire attention to his profession until the present year. Is now permanently located at Avilla, where he enjoys a good and increasing practice. Though a man of very thorough education, scientific and medical, is remarkably modest and unassuming in manners and deportment. He is well skilled in medicine and surgery, having the advantages of experience in the latter branch, as surgeon for the B., C. R, & N. R. R., during his stay in the Hawkeye State. He owns 160 acres of improved land joining the town of Avilla.