Sebastian County Biography of Sidney J. Wolfermann, M. D. "Centennial History of Arkansas," 1922 Dr. Sidney J. Wolfermann, a physician and surgeon of Fort Smith, with offices in the First National Bank building, has qualified for his profession by thorough and comprehensive study which has well equipped him for the important and onerous duties that devolve upon him. Moreover, he has held to the highest standards and directed his course according to the most advanced professional ethics, and thus it is that he enjoys in the highest degree the esteem and confidence of his professional brethren. Dr. Wolfermann is a native of Streator, Illinois, his parents being David and Carolyn (Heller) Wolfermann. The father was engaged in the retail clothing business for more than fifty-one years. He was desirous that his son should have excellent educational advantages, and after attending the public schools Sidney J. Wolfermann entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison and there won the Bachelor of Arts degree. Having determined to make the practice of medicine his life work, he next became a student in the medical department of the Northwestern University at Chicago and thus qualified for professional activity. Following America's entrance into the World war Dr. Wolfermann enlisted in the army and was commissioned an officer of the Medical Corps. He was assigned to duty at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, and specialized in facial surgery. He was also for a time at Camp Sevier, Georgia, and at Garden City, Long Island, as well as in the Army Medical School at Washington, D. C. There he studied plastic surgery and while stationed there also took up the study of X-ray work. For a time he was on duty at Camp Grant, where he worked in the field of plastic surgery, which was largely evolved in its more advanced stages during the war period, being used in reconstructing mutilated faces. This called for skill and application of the highest order. During his term of service Dr. Wolfermann made this his specialty and attained a high degree of efficiency in this newly developed science. When the country no longer needed his aid Dr. Wolfermann returned to Fort Smith to resume the private practice of his profession in 1919. Here he joined the Cooper Clinic, with which he has continuously been associated since that time. He is constantly promoting his efficiency and skill through scientific research and investigation and not only has he kept abreast with the times but has become a leader in this field of practice, developing his power to a high point of efficiency. |