Warren N Morford

History of Medicine in Lucas County Iowa: Dr. Tom Morford Throckmorton

Any attempt to write a biographic sketch of one so dear to the author as his father, is, to say the least, fraught with great difficulty and considerable misgiving.  The close personal contact I had with my father from early childhood days through mature years, affords me an insight into his family life and professional career that is not offered to every son engaged in the practice of medicine.  It makes the written word in the drawing of the pen pictured, somewhat difficult in regard to proper proportion and perspective.  To have been raised in the home of a country doctor has been the lot of many men.  Some of them followed in the footsteps of their progenitor.  Such persons need no introduction to the value of such an environment and its influence in shaping their careers.  I have always considered it one of life's greatest assets o have been reared among such surroundings; and it is with peculiar filial affection that I pen these lines about one who has always been my ideal of the now almost extinct country practitioner and family doctor. Throckmorton was the son of John and Nancy (Lazear) Throckmorton.  He was born in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1852.  His father came to Lucas County in the autumn of 1854, and entered several hundred acres of land in Warren and Unioin townships.  This land he purchased from the government for one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre.  The following year he again returned and, during his stay, he built a log cabin and put in a crop of sod corn.  In the spring of 1856 the entire family emigrated to its new home in the west.  The trip was made by boat from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Keokuk, Iowa; thence by stage coach to Chariton, where the newcomers arrived April 16. There were no schools in the rural community.  Young Throckmorton was obliged, therefore, to begin his schooling in a "subscription school", which was opened in a log house.  Later he attended the public schools in Chariton, when the family made that town its residence for a short time.  In 1867, he enrolled as a student in the Garden Grove Seminary in Decatur County.  With this smattering of preliminary education he turned his footsteps eastward to his native state and, in 1872, entered Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.  From this institution he afterwards received his Master of Arts degree.

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