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GEORGE INGLIS, M. D., physician and surgeon, of Wilcox, Kearney county, is a native of that historic isle which has furnished to the world some of its most learned historians, profoundest philosophers, most charming novelists and sweetest poets, not to mention other sons, distinguished for valor in war, statesmanship in peace and for genius in both — Scotland, the cementing member of that invincible and inimitable triangular territorial coalition, the British Kingdom. He comes of Scotch stock from time immemorial. His father, Robert Inglis, was born in Scotland in 1825, and at the age of twenty-five married a neighbor girl, Jane Porter, and nine years after immigrated to America and settled in Jones county, Iowa, where he still resides. He and his excellent wife have been life-long members of the Presbyterian church, having led quiet, industrious, useful lives and reared to maturity a number of children, most of whom are now married and are themselves heads of families. They have been the parents of ten children, as follows — John, George, James, Daniel, William, Robert, Alexander, Margeret, Jennett and David.

The second of these and the subject of this sketch, George Inglis, was born in 1856. He was only three years old when his parents immigrated to America. He was therefore mainly reared in Jones county, Iowa, being brought up on the farm. He received a good common and high school education and began teaching at the age of twenty-one, having determined to perfect himself in the books and adopt one of the liberal professions. By energetic application and hard school-room work he was enabled in a year or two to enter the Eastern Iowa Normal School at Grand View, Iowa, from which he graduated in 1881. He had already begun to read medicine, and in the fall of 1882 he entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, Ill., from which he graduated two years later. He came at once to Nebraska and located for the practice of his profession at Walker’s Ranch, in Kearney county, from which he moved after the expiration of two years to Wilcox, in Kearney county, where he has since resided. In 1887 Dr. Inglis married Miss Minnie Light, then of Franklin county, Nebr., Mrs. Inglis being a native of Michigan, born in 1869 and reaied mainly in Nebraska, having come to Franklin county with her parents in 1875.

Dr. Inglis is devoted exclusively to the practice of medicine, having set out on his professional career with the determination of making of himself a physician worthy of the name. He is a hard student, a painstaking investigator and a close observer. He is strictly attentive to the needs of his patients and he studies their cases with that thoughtful solicitude becoming the responsibility of his position. He is a clever, genial gentleman, and a welcome guest in the sick-room, prescribing liberally of the “physic of mirth” along with the countless remedies of materia medica. He is actively identified with the best interests of his community, material, social and religious, he and his excellent wife both being members of the Congregational church and active workers in all church matters as well as liberal contributors to all charitable purposes.