BYWATER, WILLIAM LECLAIRE – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

YWATER, WILLIAM LECLAIRE, Iowa City, Iowa, was born in Tama county, Iowa, March 18, 1867, son of
Napoleon and. Sarah Fitzgerald (Wilson) Bywater. Following his graduation from the High School at Gladbrook, Iowa, in 1885, he attended the State Normal
School at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and the Western College at Toledo, Iowa. His medical preceptor was Dr. C. M. Morford, of Toledo, Iowa, and in 1894 he
matriculated in the College of Homœopathic Medicine, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, from which he graduated M. D. in 1897. He practiced in Lake
City, Iowa, 1897-99, and since 1900, in Iowa City, his practice being limited to ophthalmology, otology and laryngology. He did post-graduate work in
the Chicago Homœopathic Medical College in 1899, and pursued a post-graduate course in the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, 1899-1900, graduating
therefrom with the degree of O. et A. Chir. He has been oculist ; aurist and director of the Homœopathic Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, since 1903 ;
was lecturer on diseases of women, 1900-1903, and since 1903 professor of ophthalmology, otology and laryngology in the College of Homœopathic
Medicine, State University of Iowa, and also secretary of the faculty since 1902. Dr. Bywater was, 1890-94, superintendent of public schools of Tama
county, Iowa ; is medical examiner of Company I, 54th regiment, Iowa National Guard, and president, 1903-4, of the Central Iowa Homœopathic
Medical Society. He is a member of American Institute of Homœopathy, the American Homœopathic Ophthamological, Otological and Laryngological Society,
the Hahnemann Medical Association of Iowa, the Central Iowa and Johnson County Homœopathic Medical societies, the Masonic lodge and chapter, and
Knights of Pythias. He married, December 30, 1897, Jessie M. Cannon.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King