Alfred P. Hanchett, M. D., homeopathic physician and surgeon of Council Bluffs, established himself in practice in this city in January, 1881. He was born at Aurora, Illinois, June 16, 1852. His father, David Hanchett, was a pioneer of Kane County, Illinois, where he settled in 1844. The Doctor is one of five brothers, all but one of whom are physicians in active practice.

The Doctor was reared on a farm, and graduated at the High School at Aurora, in 1873; took a scientific and literary course at Wheaton College, and began the study of medicine at Wheaton, with Professor E. H. Pratt, while a student at college. He graduated at the Homeopathic Medical College in Chicago, in 1878, and located first at Marengo, Illinois, where he practiced three years, when he removed to Council Bluffs.

The Doctor was married to Miss Grace McMicken, a native of Aurora, Illinois, and they have two children.

Dr. Hanchett has a large and increasing practice. His professional duties demanding an assistant, he associated with him in that capacity, in 1887, Dr. Sarah Smith, formerly his student, and a graduate of Hahnemann College, Chicago, in the class of 1887. He is a member of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Homeopathic Medical Association of Iowa; member of the Examining Board of the Homeopathic Department of the Iowa State University; Physician and Surgeon to the Iowa State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and member of the American Institute of Homeopathy.