He has ever since been our principal tooth doctor and did all work free for the local boys who needed tooth repairing preparatory to their acceptance as soldiers in the World War.

Dr. Baker came in 1909, opening an office in his residence. His health was poor and he passed away in February, 1914.

At Lewellen, Dr. Gainsforth came, in 1917. Mrs. Gainsforth taught in the public schools there. They soon gave it up and left Lewellen to its fate in 1919. But this last summer, in 1919, Dr. Rice, a young man just graduated from Dental College has opened up an office there.

Throughout the year 1919, Dr. Morris was the only medical practitioner in Oshkosh. Being nearly worn out by the enormous amount of work, he as well as the people in general, gladly welcomed Dr. D. L. Hibberd, who arrived in Oshkosh early in 1920. He had recently returned from France and selected Oshkosh as his permanent location. Both doctors are kept very busy, as they have many patients in the county, their territory extending out a long distance, especially to the northward.

It was also in 1920, that Dr. A. J. Dunlavy, the dentist, located in Oshkosh, and opened his new office on Main street just south of the postoffice. Oshkosh having been without a licensed dentist for several years, Dr. Dunlavy jumped into a big business from the start.

SIOUX COUNTY

DESCRIPTION AND EARLY HISTORY

Sioux county lies in the extreme northwestern corner of the state. It is sixty-nine miles long, with an average width of about thirty miles. There are three correction lines in the county with the net result that the county is thirty-four miles wide at its base and but twenty-eight at its top.