Alonzo H. Lathrop, M. D.

From "Lexington" by Mary Wilson and Sharon Y. Asher, published sometime after 1975.

ALONZO H. LATHROP, M..D.

Alonzo H. Lathrop was born in Jamestown, Wisconsin on December 19, 1841, and he attended the township schools, entering high school in the Fail of 1860.

In August of 1862 he entered the U. S. military service of Wisconsin Infantry Voluntary. He served during the Civil War and was mustered out at Washington, D.C. on June 7, 1865.

In the Fall of 1865 he entered the Lennox Collegiate Institute in Hopkington, Iowa, where he studied and taught until the Spring of 1859 when he entered the office of Dr. French at Davenport, Iowa, to study medicine for nine months.

He returned to work during the farming season and taught school during the winter until he had earned sufficient means to enter the Louisville Medical College at Louisville, Kentucky, in the Fall of 1875. In the Spring of 1875 he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine, finishing in June of that year.

Dr. A. H. Lathrop moved to the town of Lexington in July of 1876 where he practiced medicine until his death on November 21, 1919.

He had married Emma Montgomery and they had one daughter Ella who later married Charles Hardy of Lexington.

Ella and Charles Hardy had two sons--Maurice and Lester. Lester chose the vocation of his Grandfather and became a pediatrician, now residing in Arcadia, California. Lester married Louise Reid and they have two sons and one daughter. One of these sons -- Pat -- is following in his father's and great grandfather' s professions and is preparing for a career in medicine.

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