DR. ALBERT C. LANDIS is one of the rising young 
physicians of Hopeville, and bids fair to rank 
with the highest among the medical men of Clarke 
County. Doctor Landis was born in Greencastle, 
Indiana, August 3, 1854, his father, Annanias 
Landis, being a native of Augusta County, 
Virginia. He was reared on a farm, and received 
his elementary education in the common schools 
of his neighborhood, later attending the Troy 
Normal at Troy, Iowa. He came with his parents 
to Iowa in 1860, they locating i Davis County 
in the fall of that year.Our subject, after 
completing his education, followed the teacher's 
profession about ten years, teaching most of the 
time in Iowa. He went to Minnesota in 1877, 
returning to Iowa the following year, when he 
located in Hopeville, and had charge of the 
schools at that place for four terms. He 
graduated from the Iowa College of Physicians 

and Surgeons at Des Moines, March 4, 1884, 
beginning the practice of medicine April 1, of 
the same year, and by his strict attention to 
his duties, he is succeeding well, building up 
a good practice. The doctor was united in 
marriage to Miss Lola G. Burns, March 4, 1886. 


Clarke County Historical and Biographical 
Record by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p.171