Nicholas Senn. 

 1844-1908. 



NICHOLAS SENN was born in Buchs, Canton of St. Gall, 

 Switzerland, October 31, 1844, and died, at his home in 

 Chicago, January 2, 1908. 



He came to this country with his parents in 1852 and settled 

 at Ashford, Wis. He was graduated from the Fond du Lac 

 high school in 1864, after which he taught school himself and 

 began the study of medicine with Dr. E. Munk, of Fond du Lac. 

 He entered the Chicago Medical College in 1865 and graduated 

 in 1868. In 1869 he married Miss Aurelia S. Muehlhauser, of 

 La Crosse, and began the practice of medicine in Ashford. In 

 1874 he moved to Milwaukee and became an attending physi- 

 cian of the Milwaukee hospital. Returning to Europe in 1877, 

 he studied at the University of Munich and received the medical 

 degree in 1878. He then resumed practice in Milwaukee until 

 1893, when he moved to Chicago where he remained until his 

 death. 



During the comparatively brief period of thirty years the 

 period of his active professional life, from the time of his 

 graduation in Munich until the date of his decease in 1908 

 few men in any profession have performed more productive and 

 excellent work, and certainly but few, if any, have received 

 more honors in recognition of their distinguished service to 

 humanity in the domain of medical science and practical sur- 

 gery, than Dr. Senn. 



In every sphere of professional activity, alike in his chosen 

 field of operative surgery, as in the role of teacher and author ; 

 in his patriotic duties as a military surgeon ; and in works of 

 charity and benevolence, Dr. Senn " acted well his part." 



His hospital work began as interne in the Cook County Hos- 

 pital of Chicago. Then he became a member of the staff of 

 the Milwaukee Hospital ; and later Surgeon-in-Chief to the St. 



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