Dr. John Ralph Marquis is engaged in the general practice of medicine at Kemmerer, where he is also conducting a private hospital. He has followed his profession there since 1909, in which year he completed his preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery by graduation from the Nebraska College of Medicine.
    He is numbered among the native sons of Nebraska, his birth having occurred in Stromsburg, Polk county, May 1, 1879, his parents being Joseph and Sarah (Timmons) Marquis, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Ohio. The father came of Scotch-Irish ancestry but the Marquis family was founded in the Keystone state at an early period in its development. He was reared and educated in Pennsylvania and in young manhood removed westward to Iowa, where he was in the railroad service for a time. He afterward took up his abode in Nebraska in the latter '60s and became one of the pioneer settlers of Polk county, where he was engaged in farming and in the live stock business. He followed that pursuit for many years. He was a Civil war veteran, enlisting with an Iowa company at the time of the hostilities between the north and the south, and he participated in Perry's raids in Missouri. He died in Leavenworth, Kansas, at the advanced age of eighty-one years, passing away on the 9th of March, 1916. His wife was also of Scotch-Irish descent. She is still living and now makes her home in Kemmerer at the age of seventy-three years, her birth having occurred in April, 1845. By her marriage she became the mother of six children, of whom John Ralph was the second in order of birth.
    In the country schools of his native county Dr. Marquis began his education and afterward attended the Fremont Normal School at Fremont, Nebraska, from which he was graduated with the Ph. G. and B. S. degrees in 1905. His early life had been spent upon the home farm and he became familiar with all the duties and labors incident to the development of the fields and the care of the crops, for in his boyhood his time was divided between the duties of the schoolroom, the pleasures of the playground and the work of the fields. Before he entered the normal school he took up the profession of teaching in Boyd county and also continued his work as an educator at several other points in Nebraska. After his graduation from the Fremont Normal School he determined upon the practice of medicine as a life work and then entered the Nebraska College of Medicine, from which he was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1909. He completed his course there in May and on the 13^th of June he arrived in Kemmerer. On the 4^th of July he received his state license to practice and has since been engaged in the active work of his profession save during the fall of 1911 and the spring of 1912, which periods he spent at Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, doing post graduate work to further advance his efficiency in his profession. He has continued successfully in the general practice of medicine and surgery and he also conducts a private hospital with accommodations for ten patients. He established the hospital on the 9^th of September, 1917, and it is known as the Marquis Hospital. It is modern in every detail and its equipment is of the most advanced kind, so that patients there receive the utmost care and attention possible, with all facilities to advance speedy recovery and aid nature and science in the effort to restore health.
    Dr. Marquis is a republican in his political views and in 1915 he served as mayor of Kemmerer, giving to the city a business like and progressive administration. He is a young man possessed of those qualities which ensure success and advancement. It was by teaching pharmacy and materia medica that he worked his way through the university. thus displaying the determination that will ever enable him to overcome obstacles and difficulties in his path and carry forward to successful completion what he undertakes. He holds to high professional standards, closely observing the ethics of the medical fraternity and readily adopting the most advanced scientific methods which promise to prove efficient factors in medical and surgical practice.