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From Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin, publ. 1901- page 736-737
EDWARD E. BERRY, M.D., a prominent and popular physician and surgeon of Platteville, Grant county, was born in Chautauqua county, N.Y., a son of Isaac M. and Hannah E. BERRY, the latter of whom died when the Doctor was a child.
Dr. BERRY was primarily educated in Galena, Ill., acquired his academic education in the same State, and then entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he was gradated with the class of 1858. In 1862 he enlisted, in the 33d Wis. V.I., under Col. J. B. MOORE, was appointed hospital steward, and held the position until the close of the war, in 1865, when he resumed private practice in Lafayette county, Wis. He took a post-graduate course at Rush Medical College, securing a second diploma in 1866.
In July, 1866, the Doctor married Miss Helen M. LEE, a native of New York State, and a daughter of George W. and Cordelia M. (BISHOP) LEE, the former of whom was a grand-nephew of Robert E. LEE, of Virginia. In August 1867, the Doctor brought his wife to Platteville, where he has since been constantly engaged in the active practice of his profession, and has been favored with a large and remunerative patronage. In July 1879, Mrs. Helen M. BERRY passed away, leaving him with three children, viz.: Mary, who was educated in the Platteville high school, is the wife of Charles McATEE, and has two children, Oleta and Lavanca; Cordelia, wife of Benjamin DORSCHER, is the mother of one child; and Ernest E., born in 1876, is now engaged in Wright's drug store in Platteville. In February 1895, Dr. BERRY married, for his second wife, Miss Sarah E. BONDRAUNT, who was born in Lafayette county, Wis., in 1855; she died two years after marriage, without issue.
In politics Dr. BERRY is a Democrat, but has never cherished any desire for public office, his professional engagements demanding all his attention. He is a member of W. T. Sherman Post, No. 66, G.A.R., of Platteville, in which he has held the office of surgeon of post. Dr. BERRY has risen to his present elevated station in life through his individual exertions, having started out a poor young man, and having earned even the means to pay for his education, literary and professional. He is of a kindly disposition, and has never been known to reuse his services to the needy, regardless of compensation, nor to slight a case of this kind any more than he would one for which he was sure of receiving the highest fee. He has deservedly prospered, and he and his family are among the most highly respected residents of Platteville.
This biography generously submitted by Carol Holmbeck