Biographical Sketches
J. H. MOONEY, A. M., M. D.
Of Kansas City, was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, August 9, 1851, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Farnsworth) Mooney, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of New York. The father was a millwright by trade and carried on that business in the Old Dominion until 1854, when he came to Clay county, Missouri, locating at Liberty, where he engaged in the milling business until 1868. He afterward turned his attention to farming, and in 1885, he came to Kansas City, where he lived retired until his death, which occurred in January, 1893. His widow still survives him.
The Doctor is the eldest in a family of 8 children, 5 of whom are yet living. He was only 3 years old when the family came to this state and was educated in Liberty, Missouri, and in the college at Plattsburg, Clinton county, being graduated at that institution with the class of 1871, receiving the degree of A. M. He then turned his attention to school-teaching, which he followed for 10 years when he took up the study of medicine, pursuing his researches in the Kansas City University Medical College, where he was graduated in 1888. While a student he conducted a grocery and drug store at Harlem, Missouri.
Immediately after his graduation Dr. Mooney began the practice of medicine in Kansas City, and has attained considerable prominence and secured a good business. He makes a specialty of the diseases of women, and is professor of clinical and operative gynecology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Kansas City, Kansas. He was also one of the organizers and charter members of this school, and a trustee and stockholder. The Doctor is a member of the University Alumni Association, the Kansas City Medical and Surgical Association, and the Jackson County Medical Society. One of the respresentative men of his calling in the city, he is exceedingly well read in his profession, and in all his operations he has never lost but one patient, and that operation was performed under protest.
On the 24th of January, 1876, the Doctor married Miss Amy U. Humphrey, a native of Springfield, Illinois. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and are most highly esteemed people.
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