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BELGIANS IN AMERICA:    Biographies of Belgian settlers  

George N. HIDERSHIDE, physician and surgeon at Arcadia, was born in Brussels, Belgium, June 13, 1849. Left there in 1857 with his parents and came to America, where he located with them on a farm in Winona Co., Minn. ; he then went to live with an English family to learn the English language, and, after being with them thirteen months, he returned home and went to the District school until 1866, he then attended the Winona Normal School for three years, and was a graduate of the class of 1869 ; he then began reading medicine under Dr. G. F. Whitherell. of Lyons, Iowa. After two years' study, his health failed and he returned home and engaged in the farm machinery business for one year, he then attended the Louisville Medical College and graduated there in 1875, and, in the same year, came to Trempealeau County, where he entered into partnership with Dr. F. L. Lewis. After practicing with him for one year; they dissolved partnership, and Dr. Hidershide has since practiced alone in the town of Arcadia. He is a member of the North. western Medical Society, and also of the American Medical Society.

Source : History of northern Wisconsin : containing an account of its settlement, growth, development, and resources, an extensive sketch of its counties, cities, towns and villages, their improvements, industries, manufactories, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers, views of county seats, etc. ; Chicago: Western Historical Co., 1881, 1205  pgs.