WISHARD, JOHN G.: 1863-1940.
Son of John O. and Mary Fisher Wishard, John G. Wishard was born in Danville, Ind., Sept. 19, 1863. He was graduated from Central Normal (now Canterbury) College in 1885, received his M.D. from the Indiana Medical College in 1888, a second M.D. from the Faculté de Medicine in Constantinople in 1889, and the A.M. degree from Wabash College in 1903.
On Dec. 28, 1893, he married Annabette Bryan, who died in Persia in 1899. He married Harriet J. Wishard on Dec. 23, 1902, and after her death in 1937 he married Blanche Wakefield Pollock on Nov. 26, 1938.
From 1889 to 1909 Dr. Wishard acted as a medical missionary in Persia and, after 1910, as a practicing physician in Wooster, O. He died on July 15, 1940.
Information from Who Was Who in America.
- Twenty Years in Persia. Chicago,
1908,
- Reminiscences of a Doctor. Wooster,
O., 1935.
