Fame growing in our own backyard
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Southeast Missouri is defined by its special people and special places. Many people know David Niswonger is a special person. He is recognized in the medical field as one of Missouri's first public health sanitarians and for his success as the administrator of Southeast Missouri Hospital. Others know him as a superb genealogist, "the historian" of the Niswonger family that moved from North Carolina to Missouri in 1799-1800. His dedication to the preservation of his family's history contributed significantly to the publication of a 970-page history of the Niswongers.
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