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Dr. J.C. Cowper
[Souvenir of the Town of Welland, issued August 22, 1902 by the Welland Telegraph, Sears & Sawle, Publishers]
Dr. J.C. Cowper, whose office and handsome residence is on the corner of Muir and Young Streets, is a native of Owen Sound. He obtained an elementary education in the public school of that place, and took an advanced course in the Welland High School, to which town he had then removed. Upon leaving school in 1883, Dr. Cowper studied the drug business in connection with Mr J.H. Burgar and subsequently graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy. Later he attended Toronto University and graduated therefrom in 1892 and from Victoria College the same year. Here then entered practice in Birmingham, Ala., and was appointed resident physician of the Charity Hospital of that place. Returning to Welland in 1894, he again assumed practice and has continued therein since, and is considered one of Welland’s most popular and enterprising citizens.
Dr Cowper came out of retirement to deliver me in 1954. I was 3 lbs 3 oz at birth. His hearing was so bad that when my mother came to the hospital 2 months early to deliver me he told her there was no heart beat that the baby was dead. A young nurse listened and found a heart beat. I was born a few hours later. He was a well respected doctor in town and well loved.
What a great memory. Thank you Sharon for sharing.
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