Bio: Smith, Joseph Franklin, M. D. (No dates given)

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Surnames: Smith, Caley, Griffin, Bevan

----Source: History of Marathon County Wisconsin and Representative Citizens, by Louis Marchetti, 1913.

Smith, Joseph Franklin, M. D. (No dates given)

Joseph Franklin Smith, M. D., physician and surgeon, attached to St. Mary's Hospital, Wausau, with private office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building, came to this city in 1908, and is recognized as a very able member of his profession, commanding a fine practice and enjoying a large measure of esteem won by his personality. He was born at Huntington. Ind. and is a son of Aaron and Sarah (Caley) Smith.

Aaron Smith was born in Tuscarawas County, O. but in boyhood was brought to Indiana, for a few years living in Wayne County but mainly in Huntington County, where he has been a general farmer and now lives practically retired. In the latter county he married Sarah Caley, a daughter of Samuel Caley, who was born in Pennsylvania and later moved to Wills County, Ind., and from there to Huntington County, where Mrs. Smith was born in 1845. They became the parents of four sons and three daughters: Joseph E.: Aaron Augustus, who is a farmer m Huntington County; Arthur Delano, who is a teacher in North Dakota; John Samuel, who is a farmer in Huntington County; Edith, who remains with her parents; Effie, who is deceased; and Lola, who is the wife of Roscoe Griffin, of Huntington County, Ind.

Joseph Franklin Smith attended the public schools; the Methodist Episcopal College at Fort Wayne and later the Valparaiso Normal School, in the meanwhile occasionally teaching school and for one year was teacher of physics at the Valparaiso Normal School. He then entered Rush Medical College, where he was graduated in the class of 1900, for two years afterward serving as an interne in the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, and one year as resident surgeon, additionally enjoying the privilege of being an assistant for one and one-half years to Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan, the distinguished professor of surgery of Rush Medical College. In 1906 Dr. Smith spent nine months in the University of Vienna and for two years after his return to America engaged in medical practice in Chicago, in the fall of 1908 coming from there to Wausau, where he devotes himself exclusively to surgery. He is a member of the Marathon County Medical Society, the Wisconsin State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the Chicago Surgical Society and the Western Surgical Association.

In 1903 Dr. Smith was married to Miss Mary E. Smith, daughter of the late Dr. Theophilus and Harriet Smith, of Wausau. Dr. and Mrs. Smith are members of St. John's Episcopal Church. He is a Knight Templar Mason and belongs to the Wausau Club and to the Wausau Country Club.