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- 10c KARL KROGH AMUNDSON, b. February 27, 1890, Cambridge, Wis. (wf) Daisy Sarah Porter, b. June 3, 1891, Cambridge. Married July 28, 1915 at Cambridge. Karl graduated from the Cambridge high school where he was captain of the champion baseball team which defeated Madison, a much stronger team, by a score of 12 to 5. He graduated in medicine from the Medico-Chirurgical College, University of Pennsylvania, in 1913, at the age of twenty-three years. Interned in the Milwaukee Passavant hospital one year, then located in Cambridge upon the advice of his father, Dr. Albert C. Amundson, intending to stay a couple of years, then go back and specialize. In the meantime he married and circumstances led to his permanent residence in Cambridge, where he has practised his profession forty-one years. He says he has visited all forty-eight states of the Union and never found a place he liked as well as Cambridge, nor a doctor he would have traded places with. His activities in the community have been numerous; president of the village of Cambridge one year; served on the Board of Trustees several years; Village Health officer twenty years. He has been a trustee of the Dane County Medical society for a number of years, and vice-president one year. He is a past president of the Lake Ripley Country club, and a trustee for many years. This club is one of the oldest eighteen-hole courses in the state. He is vice president of the Bank of Cambridge. Karl is Past Master of the local Masonic lodge, having held the chair two years, now a trustee. During the 1951 Centennial celebration in Cambridge, he made the presentation speech honoring Dr. Bilstad with a plaque commemorating his service of over fifty years as a physician in the city. In 1954 he spoke at the dedication of a plaque honoring Ole Evinrude, another pioneer of Cambridge, inventor of the Evinrude outboard motor which was initiated on Lake Ripley. Busy as his life has been, he finds relaxation in golfing and photography, his main hobbies. Daisy attended the Milwaukee Normal School and taught in Cambridge before marriage. Karl and Daisy have traveled extensively in the United States and abroad. They are members of the Presbyterian church, where Karl has served as Elder for many years. They have two children,-Eleanor (lOcl) and Albert (10c2. They reside in Cambridge, Wis. [1]
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