From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - Page 955-956
 
DR. M. V. DEWIRE.  The medical profession in southern Wisconsin has an able 
exponent in the person of Dr. M. V. DEWIRE of Sharon, Walworth county, whose 
reputation has far transcended the boundary of the locality of which this 
history treats, and no work of the nature of the one at hand would be complete 
without a resume of his career.  In every relation of life he has proved 
signally true to every trust.  He possesses a sociable nature and by his 
genial and kindly attitude to those about him, has won the undivided 
confidence and esteem of all classes.  He hails from the Sunflower state, 
where his earlier years were spent, his birth having occurred in Elsmore, 
Allen county, Kansas, on February 23, 1868.  He is the son of M. D. and 
Rebecca E. (HARRIS) DEWIRE, both natives of the state of Pennsylvania, having 
spent their childhood in Washington county and received there educational 
training in their common schools of their home community, and there they were 
married.  They came west in 1866, locating in Kansas, obtaining a large tract 
of land from a stock drover who had received it from the government, and here 
he established a good home and engaged successfully as a general farmer and 
stock raiser until 1887, when he returned East, bringing his family to Ohio, 
and purchased a farm where he has since resided, being now advanced in years.  
The father of the subject was a soldier in the Civil war, spending four years 
in the One Hundredth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, Ninth Army Corps, in 
which he served very gallantly, taking part in some of the most important 
campaigns and great battles of that greatest civil strife of history. 
 
Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. M. D. DEWIRE, named as follows: 
Willard C., who lives in Ohio. Elgy E. lives in Elden, Ohio; Mrs. Lulu 
OLMSTEAD and Mrs. Lelia MORLEY, also live in Ohio; and M. V., the subject of 
this sketch.
 
Dr. M. V. DEWIRE received his education at Hillsdale, Michigan, and deciding 
on the medical profession as his vocation early in life, he entered Rush 
Medical College in Chicago, where he made an excellent record and from which 
he was graduated.  Soon afterwards, in 1894, he came to Sharon, Walworth 
county, Wisconsin, where he began practicing and here he has since remained, 
having enjoyed a wide patronage and taking a high position among his 
professional brethren in this section of the state.  He has been very 
successful as a general practitioner.  He has kept fully abreast of the times 
in all that pertains to his profession, being a close student and a keen 
observer, and he possesses those natural qualities that are necessary to the 
successful man of medicine.  He has been secretary of the County Medical 
Society for the past ten years, the duties of which he has discharged in an 
able manner, satisfactory to all concerned.  He is also vice-president of the 
State Medical Association.  In his fraternal relations he belongs to the 
Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias.  He is a councilman in the town of 
Sharon.
 
Doctor DEWIRE was married in September, 1897, to Carrie B. STEVENS, a native 
of Sharon, this county, where she grew to womanhood and received her 
education.  She is the daughter of Wheeler H. STEVENS,  a well known citizen 
of this part of the county.  To the Doctor and wife one child was born, Donald.
 
Submitted by Carol