W. M. Loop, M.D., was born at Ithaca, Darke County, Ohio, September 4, 1848. The following spring, his father Dr. J. C. Loop, removed his family from Ohio to Deer Creek, Ind., and in 1863 to Galveston, Cass County. In the common schools, then of Indiana, our subject received his elementary education, subsequently, advancing, by an attendance at the Presbyterian Academy of Logansport.
Retiring from school, he began the study of medicine, in 1865, under the private tuition of his father, in their office at Galveston. But for the purpose of higher attainments, during the winter of 1871-72, he attended a course of lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, and upon completion of this course he immediately located at Deer Creek, Carroll County, the former residence of his father. Here he has since successfully pursued the practice of medicine. During the winters of 1873, ’74, ’75, ’76 and ’77, each, he repeated his attendance at medical colleges – having, at the latter date, graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indiana.
Again, the winter of 1878, he attended Rush Medical College of Chicago. Again, also, in 1879, graduated from the Medical College of Indiana, Department of Butler University, and, finally, in 1880, he attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York.
He was one of the charter members of the Carroll County Medical Society. Is a member of the Logansport Medical and Surgical Association, and also of the Indiana State Medical Society. For the past sixteen years, Dr. Loop has been a close, persistent student in his chosen profession, ever conscientiously and faithfully attending all who commit themselves to his care, thus achieving that rank and success in his profession which can only be acquired by diligent toil and by untiring perseverance.
In religion, he is of the Lutheran faith, having united with that denomination January 1, 1870, he wedded Miss Laura E. Hyman, whose amiable qualities have since so essentially aided to render his home a circle of domestic sunshine.
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