The Green County Historical Museum has a display shown here of late Dr. Lewis Moore's (1875-1965) first examining chair and other medical instruments from his office in Monroe.
The chair, made by the W.D. Allison Company of Indianapolis, Ind., had the combined advantages of containing instrument cabinets on both sides and it could be configured into table while occupying no more floor space than a normal chair.
Originally from Illinois, Dr. Moore obtained his medical degree from Rush Medical School in Chicago. He interned in Minnesota and for a time served as a doctor in a Minnesota lumber camp before moving to Monroe in 1907.
During WW I he was a major in the U.S. Army's Third Wisconsin Infantry as a surgeon in the medical corps, from 1917 until the end of the war. He earned the French Croix de Guerre citation and Purple Heart. After the war, he was the city's health officer for many years and his medical office was located in the White building on the southwest corner of 16th Avenue and 11th Street.
- Submitted by John Glynn of the Green County Historical Society
The chair, made by the W.D. Allison Company of Indianapolis, Ind., had the combined advantages of containing instrument cabinets on both sides and it could be configured into table while occupying no more floor space than a normal chair.
Originally from Illinois, Dr. Moore obtained his medical degree from Rush Medical School in Chicago. He interned in Minnesota and for a time served as a doctor in a Minnesota lumber camp before moving to Monroe in 1907.
During WW I he was a major in the U.S. Army's Third Wisconsin Infantry as a surgeon in the medical corps, from 1917 until the end of the war. He earned the French Croix de Guerre citation and Purple Heart. After the war, he was the city's health officer for many years and his medical office was located in the White building on the southwest corner of 16th Avenue and 11th Street.
- Submitted by John Glynn of the Green County Historical Society