What was Hemingway's father's profession?

Hemingway’s father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a physician. He practiced medicine in Oak Park, Illinois, where Ernest was born in 1899, and he also played an important role in introducing his son to the outdoor life that later became central to Hemingway’s writing and public image.

Clarence taught Ernest woodcraft during the family’s summers at Windemere on Walloon Lake in Michigan. There, Ernest learned to fish, hunt, camp, and live comfortably in remote natural settings. Those experiences helped shape the wilderness, fishing, and hunting imagery that appears throughout Hemingway’s fiction and nonfiction.

Hemingway’s mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, was a musician, so the family combined medical, artistic, and outdoor influences. Readers sometimes remember Clarence primarily as Hemingway’s outdoorsman father, but his profession was medicine. He was a trained doctor and the son of a physician, making “physician” the precise canonical answer rather than farmer, lawyer, or teacher.