Progressive Men of Iowa
1899

WILL, Frederick J., of Eagle Grove, Iowa, is a true representative of the active and progressive medical profession of the state. He is not only a well-known and successful physician and surgeon, but well known throughout the political circles of the state, having always been an active worker in the ranks of the republican party.

He is an Iowa man, having been born in Story county, Iowa, June 11, 1859. His father, James S. Will, is a native of Newmarket, Va. The doctor's mother was Miss Kate Berlin, also of Virginia. Her brother, George W. Berlin, was one of the original signers of the articles of secession of Virginia.

In 1873 Dr. Will entered the Agricultural college at Ames, Iowa, where he was a student until 1876, when he was appointed a cadet midshipman in the United States navy. He spent three years in the Naval academy at Annapolis, Md. Resigning his position at the end of the three years, he returned to Iowa and began the study of medicine, graduating from the medical department of the Iowa State university in 1883, when he began the practice of medicine at Jewell Junction. He afterwards located in Eagle Grove in 1885, where he has been ever since.

The doctor is a self-educated man. He was a successful teacher and thus acquired the means to complete his education. He is prominent in several of the fraternal orders, being a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Modern Woodmen. In June, 1897, Dr. Will was elected head physician of the Modern Woodmen at the state camp held in Dubuque. The competition was strong, but the doctor had the most friends. He is the district surgeon of the Chicago & Northwestern railway; is a member of the American Medical association, National Association of Railway Surgeons, Iowa State Association of Railway Surgeons, and of the Iowa State Medical association.  He was an alternate delegate from the Third district to the republican national convention at St. Louis in 1896, and was an earnest supporter of William B. Allison for president.

Dr. Will has two brothers, Arthur Lee Will, a successful businessman located at Salina, Kan., and Harry Clayton Will, a graduate of the Chicago Medical college, and now practicing in Chicago.  Dr. Will is a man who holds the high esteem of all who know him, and is one of the most influential men of his town and county.

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