Ruth Hertlein of Waverly, Iowa
A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931
C. H. GRAENING, M. D., a resident of Waverly, has had a long and honorable
career as a physician, public official and citizen. He has always been deeply
interested in educational matters. He is a member of the board of the Waverly Public Library and has been especially loyal to the Wartburg Normal College of Waverly, which he attended as a student during his youth. He has served as a member of the board of directors of both the Wartburg College at Clinton and the Normal College at Waverly. He acts as medical adviser to the Normal College and also lectures on personal hygiene there. Doctor Graening is a
member of the American Lutheran Church board of education.
Doctor Graening, was born at Marine City, Michigan, in 1871. His father,
Rev. John Graening, was born in Germany, in 1846, was brought to the United
States in 1857, completed his professional education in Saint Sebald, Iowa,
Seminary and for many years was active in the pastoral work of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church. For nineteen years he was pastor at Marine city, Michigan,
nineteen years at Monroe, Iowa, and fifteen years at Maxfield, Iowa. He is now
retired and a resident of Waverly. Rev. John Graening married Elizabeth
Bitter, who was born in Holland. They had three children: Dr. C. H.; Mrs. George Kaiser and Mrs. A. G. Studier, of Waverly.
Dr. C. H. Graening took his M. D. degree at the University of Iowa in 1893,
and after a year of practice at Aspen, Colorado, returned to Waverly, where
he has devoted nearly forty years to a general practice as a physician. He has
been for a long time city health officer of Waverly and is a member of the
Bremer County, Iowa State and American Medical Associations, the Autin Flint
Association, the Interstate Association. He is the medical director of the Lutheran Mutual Aid Society. Doctor Graening has earned a special reputation as a doctor in diseases of children. He is a member of the Community Club of Waverly.
He married, in 1893, Etta Waldschmidt, of Waverly, who died in 1896, leaving
no children. Doctor Graening's second wife and Dr. Adele Kimball, who was a
medical graduate of the University of Iowa and built up a large reputation as a woman physician. She died in 1928. Subsequently Doctor Graening married Ruth Hertlein, of Waverly. His only child, a son of his second marriage, is
Dr. Paulus K. Graening, who was a member of the Students Army Training Corps at the University of Iowa during the World war and is now practicing medicine at Oklahoma City. He married, in 1926, Miss Ruth Smith, daughter of Ed.
Smith, ex-secretary of the State of Iowa, and they have one son, David, born in November, 1928.
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