WILLS, DR. WILLIAM EDWARD
Dr. William Edward Wills is one of the successful representatives of the medical profession in Corpus Christi, where he has gained prestige as one of the younger practitioners. He was born at West, in McLennan County, Texas, June 8, 1873, whither his father had come in 1857 from his native state of Kentucky. The latter, John N. Wills, is a farmer and stock raiser, and during the past ten years he has been one of the commissioners of McLennan County. He married Sarah Rayford, and she is also living.
After a good mental training in the West high school, William E. Wills in 1893 entered upon the study of medicine in the Marion Sims Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri. He also spent the years of 1896-97 in college, and on the 29th of April, 1904, graduated from the Memphis Hospital Medical College. For ten years prior to that time has had practiced medicine on a state certificate in his native city of West, and in 1906 he came from there to Corpus Christi, and has since been one of this city's successful practitioners of medicine and surgery. He is a member of the McLennan County Medical Association, of the Texas State Medical Association and of the American Medical Association, and he is the local surgeon for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad Company.
Dr. Wills married, in 1898, Johnnie Hopson, a daughter of James H. Hopson, of Waco, Texas. He is a member of the West Lodge of Masons and of the Improved Order of Red Men, and his political views are in accord with the principles of the Democratic party.
Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
Dr. William Edward Wills is one of the successful representatives of the medical profession in Corpus Christi, where he has gained prestige as one of the younger practitioners. He was born at West, in McLennan County, Texas, June 8, 1873, whither his father had come in 1857 from his native state of Kentucky. The latter, John N. Wills, is a farmer and stock raiser, and during the past ten years he has been one of the commissioners of McLennan County. He married Sarah Rayford, and she is also living.
After a good mental training in the West high school, William E. Wills in 1893 entered upon the study of medicine in the Marion Sims Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri. He also spent the years of 1896-97 in college, and on the 29th of April, 1904, graduated from the Memphis Hospital Medical College. For ten years prior to that time has had practiced medicine on a state certificate in his native city of West, and in 1906 he came from there to Corpus Christi, and has since been one of this city's successful practitioners of medicine and surgery. He is a member of the McLennan County Medical Association, of the Texas State Medical Association and of the American Medical Association, and he is the local surgeon for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad Company.
Dr. Wills married, in 1898, Johnnie Hopson, a daughter of James H. Hopson, of Waco, Texas. He is a member of the West Lodge of Masons and of the Improved Order of Red Men, and his political views are in accord with the principles of the Democratic party.
Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
WILLS, DR. WILLIAM EDWARD
Dr. William Edward Wills is one of the successful representatives of the medical profession in Corpus Christi, where he has gained prestige as one of the younger practitioners. He was born at West, in McLennan County, Texas, June 8, 1873, whither his father had come in 1857 from his native state of Kentucky. The latter, John N. Wills, is a farmer and stock raiser, and during the past ten years he has been one of the commissioners of McLennan County. He married Sarah Rayford, and she is also living.
After a good mental training in the West high school, William E. Wills in 1893 entered upon the study of medicine in the Marion Sims Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri. He also spent the years of 1896-97 in college, and on the 29th of April, 1904, graduated from the Memphis Hospital Medical College. For ten years prior to that time has had practiced medicine on a state certificate in his native city of West, and in 1906 he came from there to Corpus Christi, and has since been one of this city's successful practitioners of medicine and surgery. He is a member of the McLennan County Medical Association, of the Texas State Medical Association and of the American Medical Association, and he is the local surgeon for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad Company.
Dr. Wills married, in 1898, Johnnie Hopson, a daughter of James H. Hopson, of Waco, Texas. He is a member of the West Lodge of Masons and of the Improved Order of Red Men, and his political views are in accord with the principles of the Democratic party.
Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
Dr. William Edward Wills is one of the successful representatives of the medical profession in Corpus Christi, where he has gained prestige as one of the younger practitioners. He was born at West, in McLennan County, Texas, June 8, 1873, whither his father had come in 1857 from his native state of Kentucky. The latter, John N. Wills, is a farmer and stock raiser, and during the past ten years he has been one of the commissioners of McLennan County. He married Sarah Rayford, and she is also living.
After a good mental training in the West high school, William E. Wills in 1893 entered upon the study of medicine in the Marion Sims Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri. He also spent the years of 1896-97 in college, and on the 29th of April, 1904, graduated from the Memphis Hospital Medical College. For ten years prior to that time has had practiced medicine on a state certificate in his native city of West, and in 1906 he came from there to Corpus Christi, and has since been one of this city's successful practitioners of medicine and surgery. He is a member of the McLennan County Medical Association, of the Texas State Medical Association and of the American Medical Association, and he is the local surgeon for the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad Company.
Dr. Wills married, in 1898, Johnnie Hopson, a daughter of James H. Hopson, of Waco, Texas. He is a member of the West Lodge of Masons and of the Improved Order of Red Men, and his political views are in accord with the principles of the Democratic party.
Historical Review of South-East Texas and the Founders, Leaders and Representative Men, Vol 2, by Dermot Hardy and Maj. Ingham S. Robert, by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1910
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