Manor Family Photos c. 1920 Texas. (original) (raw)

This is [Doctor Stroburg's Obit] from the Texas State Journal of Medicine, dated February, 1927:

"Doctor John A. Stroburg died at his home in Austin, Texas on October 22, 1926 after a brief illness. He was born in Lannaskede Province, Sweden December 3, 1858. In 1858 his parents immigrated to Moline Illinois where he received his academic education. He took a business course at Davenport, Iowa and later in Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. For a time, he taught shorthand,, bookeeeping, pennmanship and telegraphy in a business college in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

He took a job with the St. Paul and Milwaulee Railroad as a bookeeper and it was employed by the railroad that he was induced to take up the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1893. Immediately after graduation he wed Miss Sophie A. Walter and set up a practice in Cadillac, Michigan.

After a few years, he returned to Chicago as house physician at Augustana Hospital - where he also served as assistant to Dr. A. J. Oschner.

He later practiced at St. Francis and Mercy Hospital at Burlington, Iowa for four years before moving to Texas for his health. He made his home in Manor, Texas where his health was restored. He left Manor for two years to attend a post-graduate course in Chicago and then went to Berlin, Germany where he studied under some of the great masters of medicine. From Berlin he went to Hamburg for a course of several months, returning to Manor where he opened a small general hospital.-

In 1911 he removed to Austin where he entered the General Practice of Medicine. His change of residence and field of endeavor was incident to a physical depletion which followed a severe case of pneumonia, which rendered him physically incapable of holding up his country practice. He restricted his practice to a few friends, in the meantime traveling extensively in the effort to improve his health. He was operated on at the Mayo Clinic in August of 1926.

He is survived by his widow, an adopted daughter, a son, and a grandson."