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John Alexander McKlveen

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John McKlveen was a medical doctor, and served one term as senator from Iowa. He moved to Chariton, Iowa, and operated a lumber yard and was a coal dealer along with his brothers, Samuel and Jacob.

John prescribed a dose of chloroform for his son, Henry, to reduce the pain Henry from experiencing from an inner ear inflamation. The dose was too strong, and Henry died. John never recovered from his prescribing too large a dose for his son.

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Marriage1899Mary Genevieve Milthorpe
Birth, Westmoreland, PA

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