Background
Gamble, William Elliott was born on April 9, 1860 in Palermo, Carroll Company, Ohio, United States. Son of G.W.C. and Margaret (Cotter) Gamble.
Gamble, William Elliott was born on April 9, 1860 in Palermo, Carroll Company, Ohio, United States. Son of G.W.C. and Margaret (Cotter) Gamble.
Educated Hyatt’s Academy, Iowa City, Iowa, 1883. Medical department University of Iowa, 1884. Doctor of Medicine Rush Medical College, 1886.
Bachelor of Science, Iowa State College, 1886.
Practiced at What Cheer, 1887-1892, Chicago, since 1892. Limited practice to diseases of the eye and ear since 1898. Long served as acting head of department of ophthalmology and professor clinical ophthalmology, medical department, University of Illinois, (now emeritus).
Formerly ophthalmic surgeon to Cook Company Hospital, also assistant surgeon Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Oculist and aurist University Hospital. Oculist Saint Anne’s Hospital.
Fellow American College Surgeons, Institute of Medicine, Chicago. Member of the American Medical Association, Chicago Medical Society, Chicago Ophthalmological Society (ex-president), Chicago Alumni Association of Iowa State College (ex-president). Mason.; Club: University.
Married Clara Daisy Bixby, 1889 (died 1930). Married second, Fern-Dell Hunt, 1931. Children: Celia Martin (Mistress Edwin H. House), Raleigh Welch, Richard Cotter, Josephine Margaret (Mistress C.P.L. Nicholls), Elisabeth (Mistress Donald Troller).