Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1891 — A Royal Physician from Ohio. [ARTICLE]

A Royal Physician from Ohio.

Dr. Will R. Lee of Springfield, 0., who has begn appointed royal physi-, etfcn to the king of Siam, is only 23 Vaars of age. Only four years ago lie was driving an express wagon and delivering express packages in Springfield. He was youthful, of handsome appearance, of fine physique, rare intelligence, and was al I ways active in church work. His friends raised a fund of over $1,01)0 to assist Mr. Lee in taking a coarse at the University of New York to lit himself for a medical missionary. He was graduated with high honors in the class of 1890. and after life marriage with a young Canadian lady, who had also studied to become a medical missionary, he was assigned by the Presbyterian board o! foreign missions, to a station a 1 Pet chaburee, Siam. He entered into the work with a will, and the stories of the astounding euvgs of the young Yankee physician soon filed the sleepy Oriental land with wonder. What it took the. native physicians five weeks to cure with tin r paean tomfoolery young Lee would cure in five days. He had only worked, six months at Petebahuree when the fame of his wonderful cures spread Ifo Bankok and reached the ears o: the Siamese government.