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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 419-420]

   EDWARD HORNIBROOK, M.D., is one of the popular and successful
   physicians and surgeons of Cherokee.  In a publication of this
   character where various classes of representative men are given
   a place for personal mention, it is truly befitting that one
   representing the medical fraternity should appear.  While the
   banker is given as representing one class, the merchant one, and
   the agriculturist another, he who looks after the health of the
   community must not be forgotten.  As well as Dr. HORNIBROOK may
   be known in Cherokee County and Northwestern Iowa, there are many
   incidents connected with his career away from this vicinity which
   have place in this notice, and which will be read with much inte-
   rest.  EDWARD HORNIBROOK was born in Grenville County, Canada,
   October 29,1 838.  He is of Irish descent, his parents having
   removed from Ireland to Canada, settling in the town of Wolford,
   Grenville County, in 1826.  His father, EDWARD HORNIBROOK, was a
   farmer, which occupation he followed through life. His mother was
   FANNY BURCHILL, a daughter of SAMUEL BURCHILL, Esq., a native of
   Ireland.  The Doctor is the fifth son of a family of twelve chil-
   dren; he received a good common and high school education, and
   also received instruction from private tutors.  Early in life he
   was thrown upon his own resources, and at the very early age of
   fourteen years he began teaching school, which profession he fol-
   lowed for three years.  At the end of that time he martriculated
   in the arts department of the University of Toronto, taking first-
   class honors in the natural science branches, and entered the medi-
   cal department of Victoria College, then located at Toronto, Canada.
   He was graduated from that institution with honors in 1861. During
   that year he settled in Mitchell, Canada, where his fine professional
   abilities won for him a practice seldom equaled by one of his years
   and experience. He contested South Perth in the conservative inter-
   ests, and it is worthy of note that in that constituency, which
   naturally gave a reform majority of several hundred, he only ran
   seventy-seven votes short of his opponent, JAMES TROW.  In 1879 Dr.
   HORNIBROOK removed to Cherokee, where he engaged in the practice of
   his chosen profession.  Though repeatedly urged to fill offices of
   public trust and honor, he has declined; but he has always taken a
   lively interest in the public schools, and served as a member of
   the School Board of Mitchell for fourteen years. In 1863 Edward
   HORNIBROOK, M.D., was united in marriage to ROSINA STEPHENS, a
   native of England.  This union has been blessed with six children:
   FANNY, ROSE, MARY, EDWARD J., FREEMAN H. and WILLIAM H.  The Doc-
   tor has been an able contributor to various medical journals for
   the past quarter of a century, and has been a member of important
   committees in medical associations; at the present time he is chair-
   man of the Committee on Publication of the Iowa State Medical
   Association.  In 1877 he represented the Dominion of Canada in the
   American Medical Association, of which he is still a member. He
   belongs to the Masonic fraternity, having attained the degree of
   Knight Templar, and is now a member of Crusade Commandery, No. 39.
   Dr. HORNIBROOK has had long years of actual experience in his
   profession, and being a constant reader of the latest medical
   works, he stands high in his profession, and from a business and
   social point of view he is one of the most popular men in his county.

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