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 DR. JOSEPH T. MILLER DR. HARTWELL C. HOWARD 
 
 Located in Urbana in 1853 Located in Champaign in 1855 
 
 Dr. Miller and Dr. Howard are the only living representatives of the 
 medical men who fifty years ago (March 4, 1859) organized the Cham- 
 paign County Medical Society. Dr. Miller, by reason of being in contin- 
 uous practice longer than any of his competitors is entitled to the honor 
 of being called Our Medical Nestor. However, Dr. Howard's time of 
 continuous practice in Champaign County is only exceeded by that of 
 Dr. Miller,
 
 MEDICINE 
 
 IN 
 
 CHAMPAIGN COUNTY 
 
 A HISTORICAL SKETCH 
 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES B. JOHNSON, M.D. 
 
 "BACK ON THE PAST HE TURNS HIS EYE' 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY SOUYENIR EDITION 
 
 CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS 
 1909 
 
 GAZETTE PRESS OHMffiHD CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 Frontispiece 
 
 Biographical Sketches 9 
 
 Champaign County Medical Society - 53 
 
 Conclusion 81 
 
 Deceased Physicians 59 
 
 Fifty Years in Practice - - 58 
 
 Interesting Facts - - 76 
 
 Introductory 5 
 
 Intermediate Era - -77 
 
 Index 82 
 
 Hospital, Julia F. Burnham - - 60 
 
 Location of Doctors - - 63 
 
 Medical Practice Act 62 
 
 Members, List of 1860 - 53 
 
 Members, List of 18'.)9 56 
 Members, List of 1909 - , - - 56 
 
 Modern Era - 80 
 
 Patriotism, Champaign County Doctors - - 75 
 
 ^Prefatory - 4 
 
 <"Pioneer Doctors - - 6 
 
 ^Pioneer Era 78 
 
 Pioneer Doctors - 6 
 
 ..Politics, Champaign County Doctors in - 61 
 
 -Progress in Medicine - - 77 
 V Violent Deaths and Accidents ..... 76 
 
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 PREFATORY. 
 
 In the dim waste lands of the Orient stands 
 
 The wreck of a race so old and vast, 
 That the grayest legend can not lay hands 
 
 On a single fact of its tongueless past; ' 
 Not even the red gold crown of a king, 
 
 Nor a warrior's shield, nor aught beside, 
 Can history out of the ruins wring, 
 
 They had no poet and so they died. 
 
 The same old tale! and so it will be, 
 
 As long as the heavens feed the stars, 
 As long as the tribes of men shall see 
 
 A lesser glory in arts than wars; 
 And 'so let us live, and labor, and pray, 
 
 As down we glide with the darkling tide, 
 That never a singer of us may say, 
 
 They had no poet and so they died. 
 
 James Newton Matthew.?, M. D.
 
 MEDICINE IN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY 
 
 INTRODUCTORY. area? Could he make passable 
 
 Before speaking of medicine in roads through its deep, black, tar- 
 Champaign county a few words ry soil? Could he get the mastery 
 relative to the county itself may__of the luxuriant and seemingly in- 
 not be out of place. Feb. 20, 1833, destructible blue stem that ap- 
 
 Governor John Reynolds signed 
 the act creating the present terri- 
 torial limits of Champaign county 
 and setting it off from Vermilion 
 county, of which it had hitherto 
 formed a part. Champaign coun- 
 ty is 36 miles long, 28 wide, con- 
 tains i, 008 square miles, has a 
 population of upwards of fifty 
 thousand inhabitants and all now 
 realize that the earth affords no 
 better country than that embraced 
 within its limits. 
 
 But at the date of the county's 
 organization, its population, and 
 its future as a desirable dwelling 
 place was uncertain to the last de- 
 gree. For it was then a new coun- 
 try as wild and as nearly overrun 
 by rank vegetation as the warm 
 sunshine, the quickening rainfall 
 and a responsive soil could make 
 it: A new country indeed in which 
 for untold ages unbridled nature 
 had run riot. Could man con- 
 quer this country? Could he sub- 
 due this wilderness? Could he 
 turn to profitable use the immense 
 stretches of prairie that constitut- 
 ed nine-tenths of the countv's 
 
 peared to be in absolute and eter- 
 nal possession of the prairie? 
 Could he drain the sloughs and 
 ponds that seared and marred the 
 otherwise beautiful face of this 
 country? Could he bridge the 
 streams with their treacherous 
 beds and banks of quicksand? 
 These were but a few of the prob- 
 lems that presented themselves to 
 the pioneer and the perils he en- 
 countered and the hardships he 
 endured are all but impossible for 
 those of us to realize who live in a 
 more favored era. 
 
 The points of early settlement in 
 what afterwards became Cham- 
 paign County were Big Grove, the 
 pioneer's name for the timber 
 north of Urbana, and within the 
 southern limits of which that city 
 is located; Salt Fork, in and about 
 St Joseph; Sangamon settlement, 
 in and about Mahomet; and Sa- 
 dorus Grove, in and about the vil- 
 lage of Sadorus. 
 
 At the time of the organization 
 of Champaign County in 1833 Ur- 
 bana was designated as the Coun- 
 ty Seat and then and there en-
 
 tered upon its career of promise 
 and prosperity. But of its Twin 
 Sister, the City of Champaign, 
 there was at this time not the 
 faintest hint or sign. Indeed its 
 destiny was so securely hidden in 
 the mists of the future that for the 
 mere heralding of its advent twen- 
 ty years must needs unfold their 
 weary length. Of the coming city 
 the most visionary did not so 
 much as dream. And little won- 
 der, for the very heart of the fu- 
 ture city's business center was one 
 vast pond, in whose shallows cat- 
 tails and slough grass luxuriated; 
 in whose oozy depths mud turtles 
 and other amphibians found a cool 
 retreat from the scorching rays of 
 the summer's sun; and whose 
 green, scum-coated surface was 
 crossed and cris-crossed by the 
 trail of the water-moccasin. 
 While all about the atmosphere 
 seemed loaded with poisonous ex- 
 halations that foreboded the stalk- 
 ing abroad of deadly disease and 
 noisome pestilence. 
 
 PIONEER DOCTORS IN THE 
 COUNTY. 
 
 The names of physicians en- 
 titled to come under this head are 
 few, as only those who came to the 
 County in the first ten years of 
 its history can be included. The 
 writer has succeeded in collecting 
 the names of Drs. Fulkerson, 
 James H. Lyon, N. H. Adams, 
 Harmon Stevens, John S. Saddler, 
 
 Winston Somers, W. A. Conkey 
 and C. C. Hawes. There are 
 doubtless others, that should go in 
 this list, but if so their names are 
 not available. 
 
 Dr. Fulkerson was the first phy- 
 sician to locate within the limits 
 of what is now Champaign Coun- 
 ty. But of him little is known, 
 not even his Christian name. It is 
 known, however, that he was a 
 young unmarried man who came 
 in 1830 and remained but one 
 year. He had his office and resi- 
 dence at the home of Mrs. Sarah 
 Coe, who lived near the north end 
 of the Big Grove. Upon leaving 
 Big Grove he went west, but of 
 his subsequent history nothing is 
 known. 
 
 Dr. N. H. Adams, Mahomet's 
 first physician, located in that vil- 
 lage in the thirties, but just what 
 year is not known. He practiced 
 a good many years at Mahomet 
 and finally died there, but the date 
 of his death can not be given; 
 neither can much of his history. 
 
 Dr. C. C. Hawes located in Ma- 
 homet in 1843 an d practiced medi- 
 cine in and about the village near- 
 ly thirty years. It is regretted 
 that little or nothing of his history 
 is available for this record. Old 
 citizens who knew him, however, 
 speak of him as a competent phy- 
 sician and a good citizen. He 
 died at Mahomet in 1872, aged 
 about 62 years. 
 
 In 1832 Dr. James H. Lyon lo-
 
 cated at the home of Mijamin By- 
 ers, two miles east of Urbana, and 
 for a time practiced medicine 
 there. He removed to where the 
 village of Sidney now is and in 
 1837 became one of its founders. 
 
 The date and place of Dr. 
 James H .Lyon's birth cannot be 
 given, although he is said to have 
 been a native of Kentucky. He 
 was a lover of fine stock and 
 owned considerable land in the 
 county. He was one of the first, 
 if not the first, person to bring 
 finely bred animals in Champaign 
 County. By those who knew him 
 he is spoken of as a large, fine- 
 looking man. In 1836 he was 
 elected a member of the lower 
 house of the Tenth General As- 
 sembly which John Moses in his 
 recent history of Illinois says was 
 "one of the most remarkable bod- 
 ies of law-makers that ever as- 
 sembled in the legislative halls of 
 Illinois or any other state." 
 
 Among its members were in- 
 cluded a future president of the 
 United States, a defeated candi- 
 date for the same high office, six 
 future United States senators, 
 eight members of the National 
 .House of Representatives, a secre- 
 tary of the interior, three judges 
 of the Supreme Court, and seven 
 state officers. Here sat side by 
 side Abraham Lincoln and Steph- 
 en A. Douglas; the gallant E. D. 
 Baker, John Logan, father of Gen- 
 eral John A. Logan, Richard M 
 
 Cullom, Father of Senator Ctil 
 lorn, General John A. Mc- 
 Clernnand, "Uncle" Jesse Dubois 
 and a host of other notables in- 
 cluding such names as Gen. James 
 Shields, Col. John Hardin, U. F. 
 Linder, Ninian W. Edwards, etc. 
 
 Dr. Lyons was the first physi- 
 cian to locate in Sidney, but he 
 seems to have removed from the 
 County some time in the early for- 
 ties. He died at Preston, Texas, 
 about 1888. 
 
 Dr. Harmon Stevens was the 
 first doctor to locate in Old 
 Homer, but the exact date of his 
 so doing is not known. It is, how- 
 ever, thought to have been some 
 time in the thirties. Dr. Stevens 
 had a very large practice and is 
 well remembered by some of the 
 older inhabitants of Homer. He 
 was one of the old-time doctors, 
 who believed in and gave heroic 
 doses. He practiced medicine at 
 Homer a great many years and 
 then removed to Newton, 111., 
 where he died July 7, 1882. He 
 was a native of Canada, and the 
 date of his birth was May 25, 1810. 
 
 Dr. John S. Saddler was the first 
 physician to locate in Urbana and 
 came there in 1839. But how long 
 he remained or where he went it 
 is not now possible to ascertain. 
 
 Dr. Winston Somers came to 
 Urbana in 1840 and remained in 
 practice there till his death in 
 1871. He was born in Surrey 
 County, North Carolina, in 1800,
 
 obtaining his education in the com- 
 mon schools of his native state. 
 Like so many medical men Dr. 
 Somers taught school for a time 
 as a sort of stepping-stone to 
 something more permanent. One 
 of his pupils was Miss Mary G. 
 Haynes, whom he afterward mar- 
 ried. He began the study of med- 
 icine and after qualifying himself 
 as well as he could, considering 
 the existing opportunities, prac 
 ticed medicine in his native state 
 for a number of years and in 1840 
 removed to Illinois. He rode all 
 the way from North Carolina on 
 horseback. On his way he 
 stopped at a house in the moun- 
 tains to remain over night. His 
 entertainers lived in a primitive 
 log cabin and in the night Dr. 
 Somers heard certain noises that 
 he did not like. These made him 
 suspicious and getting up, he sad- 
 dled his horse and rode away. 
 Next day he stopped at a town 
 and remained while a gunsmith 
 made for him a brace of pistole 
 and armed with these he continued 
 his way and arrived at his destina- 
 tion in safety. The pistols were 
 long in the Somers family as cur- 
 iosities. A little later he re- 
 turned to North Carolina and re- 
 
 moved permanently to Illinois, 
 bringing his family and belong- 
 ings in wagons. 
 
 Dr. Somers was a strong char- 
 acter and had in his make-up 
 much of the strong, hardy, fibre 
 iof the pioneer. He was more- 
 lover thoughtful and studious, and 
 not satisfied with his education, 
 Jie applied himself anew and in 
 1^853 graduated from Rush Medi- 
 ral College, Chicago. Later he 
 jfook up the study of Greek and 
 Hebrew and in these languages 
 f.cquired enough proficiency to 
 tread the Bible in the original text. 
 iVs said elsewhere, Dr. Somers 
 (lied at his home in Urbana in 
 (1871. 
 
 Dr. W. A. Conkey located in 
 Homer in 1843 an d continued in 
 practice there till 1850, when he 
 exchanged it for the much easier 
 and more lucrative business of 
 farming. When he commenced 
 practice in Homer the territory in- 
 cluded within the present limits of 
 Homer Township contained but 
 nineteen families. Some years 
 since Dr. Conkey removed to the 
 village o<f Homer, where he lived 
 till his death, which occurred Dec. 
 
 2, 1937-
 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 Below will be found brief 
 sketches of deceased members and 
 those living who have passed or 
 are near their fiftieth mile posts. 
 
 Adams, Dr. N. H. See Pio- 
 neer Doctors of Champaign Co. 
 
 DR. JOHN H. ALPERS. 
 
 John H. Alpers was born in 
 Hanover, Germany, June 10, 
 1836. He received his preliminary 
 education in the public schools 
 and in the Gymnasium of Han- 
 over. Subsequently he took a 
 three years course in medicine at 
 
 the medical College of Annalt, 
 Gothen, a small German province. 
 After graduating in medicine he 
 emigrated to the United States 
 in 1860 and located for the prac- 
 tice of his profession in Wyandot 
 County, Ohio, where he re- 
 maired till 1865. Next lie located 
 in Danville, 111., and was there ac- 
 tively engaged in practice till 
 about 1870 when lie purchased a 
 farm in East Bend Township, 
 Champaign County, to which he 
 removed and soon after became 
 actively engaged in country prac- 
 tice among his neighbor farmers. 
 
 Tn 1874 he removed to the vil- 
 lage of Rantoul where he has ever 
 pince been actively occupied with 
 professional work. 
 
 Dr. Emery C. Bartholow was 
 born in Ohio, December 31, 1844. 
 He came with his father, the Rev- 
 erend Benjamin Bartholow, to 
 Bloomington when a small fooy. 
 He attended the public schools 
 and subsequently Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity. In 1862 he enlisted in the 
 94th Illinois Infantry, served one 
 year and a half in this organiza- 
 tion when he was transferred to 
 the 37th Illinois Infantry, in which 
 he served one year. 
 
 Upon leaving the army young 
 Bartholow turned his attention to 
 
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 medicine and later graduated at 
 Rush Medical College, Chicago. 
 In 1867 he located at Mahomet 
 for the practice of -medicine and in 
 this he was engaged till his health 
 gave way. In 1876 Dr. E, C. 
 Bartholow was one of the repre- 
 sentatives from Champaign Coun- 
 ty in the legislature, when he had 
 opportunity to assist in securing 
 the passage of the first Medical 
 Practice Act for Illinois Dr. 
 Bartholow's health continued to 
 fail and in the early nineties he 
 died. 
 
 Dr. Bartholow was a thoughtful 
 studious man of fine personal ap- 
 pearance and a ready off-hand talk- 
 er. He was a brother of Dr. 
 James M. Bartholow of Urbana. 
 
 Dr. James M. Bartholow was 
 born in Urichville, Ohio, Febru- 
 ary 1 8, 1847, and in childhood re- 
 moved with his father, the Rever- 
 end Benjamin Bartholow, a well- 
 known Methodist preacher, to 
 Bloomington, 111. At the early 
 age of fifteen years he enlisted in 
 the 94th Illinois Infantry. Dr. 
 Bartholow received his education 
 in the common schools, and also 
 for a time attended Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity. When yet a young man 
 he took up the study of medicine 
 and later graduated at Rush Med- 
 ical College, Chicago. In 1869 
 he came to Philo and soon built 
 up a good practice there. In 1895 
 he removed to Urbana and is now 
 a practitioner of that city. He is 
 
 Dr. JAMES M. BARTHOLOW. 
 
 one of the Board of United States 
 Surgeons of Champaign County 
 for Pension Examinations. 
 
 Dr. E. I. Birdsell was born in 
 Birmingham, New York, Jan. 12, 
 1844. In boyhood much of his 
 time was put in as a canal boy. He 
 obtained his education in the com- 
 mon schools and later studied 
 medicine. He located in Pesotum 
 in 1869 and continued in practice 
 there till 1891, when he removed 
 to Chicago, where he died on his 
 birthday, Jan. 12, 1893, having 
 rounded out precisely forty-nine 
 years of life. 
 
 Dr. Samuel H. Birney was born 
 in Cadiz, Ohio, Nov. 2, 1834. He 
 graduated in medicine from Rush 
 Medical. College, Chicago, located
 
 in Urbana in 1861, and served as 
 surgeon of the I35th Illinois In- 
 fantry. He was an active man in 
 medical societies and was a mem- 
 ber of the committee appointed 
 from the Illinois State Medical So- 
 ciety in 1876 to memorialize the 
 legislature to secure the enactment 
 of a law regulating the practice of 
 medicine and creating a State 
 Board of Health in Illinois. For 
 a number of years Dr. Birney was 
 a member of the Champaign Coun- 
 ty Board of United States Sur- 
 geons for Pension Examinations. 
 In 1888 he removed to Denver 
 Colo., where he lived till 1898, 
 when he returned to Urbana. 
 Meantime his health failed and 
 July i, 1900, he died. 
 
 R. H. Brown was located at Ma- 
 homet, Champaign Co., at the 
 breaking out of the civil war and 
 in 1861 became Assistant Surgeon 
 of the 25th 111. Infantry and served 
 in the field two years. Some time 
 after he removed West and is now 
 living in old age at Wichita, Kan. 
 He is the author of an interesting- 
 book, the title of which is, 
 "Abraham Lincoln and the Men 
 of his Time." 
 
 Dr. Myron S. Brown was born 
 at Colton, New r York, June 30, 
 1832. Shortly after his birth his 
 parents removed to Ohio, where 
 young Brown grew up. He ob- 
 tained his preliminary education in 
 
 DR. MYRON S. BROWN, 1832-1901. 
 
 the common schools and soon af- 
 ter reaching the years of young 
 manhood began the study of med- 
 icine. 
 
 But in this study he was greatly 
 hampered by circumstances over 
 which he had no control; the re- 
 sult was a number of years went 
 by before he was able to complete 
 his medical education. Meanwhile 
 he removed to Urbana, 111., where 
 he engaged in various pursuits, 
 such a bookkeeper, clerk, and the 
 mercantile business. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the 
 war Dr. Brown in 1861 entered 
 the service as Assistant Surgeon 
 of the 25th Illinois Infantry. Here 
 
 H
 
 DR. W. F. BURRES.
 
 he found good opportunities for 
 improving his professional knowl- 
 edge and made the most of them. 
 
 At the expiration of his military 
 service Dr. Brown returned to Ur- 
 bana and practiced medicine there 
 till May 1884, when he removed to 
 Danville, 111., where he engaged in 
 practice till his death June 28, 
 1901. 
 
 Dr. William F. Burres was 
 born June 29, i857,in Coles Coun- 
 ty, Illinois. His early days were 
 passed on a farm and as oppor- 
 tunity offered he attended the pub- 
 lic schools. Later he for a time 
 was a student at Asbury Univer- 
 sity, Greencastle, Ind., and like- 
 wise at Wesleyan University, 
 Bloomington, 111. Finally he be- 
 gan the study of medicine under 
 Dr. Wagner of Newman, 111., lat- 
 er matriculated at Rush Medical 
 College from which he graduated 
 in 1882. He chose Sidney, 111., 
 for his first location and remained 
 there till 1900 when, after an ex- 
 tended trip abroad, he removed to 
 Urbana, 111., where he has since 
 been actively engaged profession- 
 ally. 
 
 Dr. Herman Chaffee was born 
 in Rutland County, Vermont, 
 June 18, 1816. He decided to en- 
 ter the medical profession and lat- 
 er graduated from Albany Medical 
 College, New York. After gradu- 
 ating he spent a short period in 
 
 DR. HERMAN CHAFFEE, 1816-1900. 
 
 practice and then went to Paris, 
 France, where he remained fif- 
 teen months, perfecting his medi- 
 cal education. 
 
 In 1857 Dr. Chaffee came to To- 
 lono and located there permantly. 
 He built the fourth frame house 
 in that place and laid the first side- 
 walk. He was also the first post- 
 master of the village; his house at 
 first and later his office served 
 their places in turn as the village 
 postoffice. In 1900 Dr. Chaffee 
 died at his home in Tolono at the 
 advanced age of 84 years, making 
 him at the time of his decease the 
 oldest physician in Champaign 
 County. 
 
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 Dr. A. Catron was born in Clark 
 County, Illinois, October 19, 1826, 
 studied medicine and attended 
 lectures at Louisville, Ky. In 
 1856, when thirty years of age, he 
 located at Sadorus, where he has 
 since lived. In 1896, forty years 
 after arriving in Sadorus, he re- 
 tired from practice. Dr. Catron 
 was the first physician to locate in 
 Sadorus. 
 
 DR. JACOB D. CHAMBERS. 
 
 Dr. Jacob G. Chambers was 
 born in Tompkins County, New 
 York, in 1842. He obtained his 
 English education in the public 
 schools and this was supplemented 
 by a two years' course in Hobert 
 College. In 1864 he graduated 
 
 from Geneva Medical College, 
 New York. Immediately after 
 graduation he entered the service 
 as Surgeon of the looth Pennsyl- 
 vania Infantry, in which he served 
 till the war of the Rebellion ended. 
 In 1869 he located at Sadorus for 
 the practice of medicine. But in 
 a few years he practically aban- 
 doned this for the much more re- 
 munerative business of farming 
 and stock raising that for many 
 years he has followed most suc- 
 cessfully. Dr. Chambers has rep- 
 resented his Township on the 
 Board of Supervisors most accept- 
 ably to all. 
 
 Dr. Daniel A. Cheever was born 
 in Providence, R. I., July 26, 1827; 
 studied medicine and graduated 
 from New York Homeopathic 
 Medical College in 1865. He lo- 
 cated in Champaign City in 1870 
 where he practiced till 1877, when 
 he removed to Peoria. At the last 
 named location he practiced his 
 profession till failing health com- 
 pelled him to retire. Dr. Cheever 
 died in Champaign, 111., Septem- 
 ber i, 1890. 
 
 Dr. Job S. Coggeshall was 
 born in Wayne County, Indiana, 
 in 1839, studied medicine and dur- 
 ing the civil war served as Hos- 
 pital Steward and Assistant Sur- 
 geon in the 2nd Indiana Cavalry. 
 In 1871 he located at Ogden and 
 practiced there a few years, when 
 he removed to Indiana and prac- 
 ticed medicine in that state for a 
 
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 time, but, liking Illinois better, 
 he in 1884 returned to Ogden, 
 where he practiced till his death, 
 September 14, 1902. 
 
 DR. W. A. CONKEY, 1820-1907. 
 
 Dr. William A. Conkey was 
 born December 6, 1820, at Charle- 
 mont, Massachusetts, in the Berk- 
 shire hills region. At the age of 
 ten years he removed with his par- 
 ents to the then far West and fin- 
 ally settled in Champaign County. 
 As a boy Dr. Conkey went 
 through all the privations and 
 hard experiences of the pioneers 
 in the first half of the nineteenth 
 century. He spent most of his 
 time working on the farm and dur- 
 ing winter months attended the 
 nearest log school house, but by 
 
 making the best use of his oppor- 
 tunities managed to acquire a fair 
 education. He began the study of 
 medicine at an early age and at- 
 tended lectures at Louisville, Ky. 
 He located in old Homer in 1843 
 and continued the practice of his 
 profession till 1850, when he ex- 
 changed it for the more lucrative 
 business of .farming and stock 
 raising. Some years since lie re- 
 tired to the village of Homer 
 where his death occurred, Decem- 
 ber 2, 1907. See also pioneer doc- 
 tors. 
 
 Dr. G. E. Cogswell was born 
 January 6, 1849, at Towanda, Pa., 
 and while in infancy removed with 
 his parents to Carroll Co., 111. 
 He spent his boyhood days work- 
 ing on the farm and attended the 
 neighboring schools. Subse- 
 quently he attended Mount Car- 
 roll Seminary and Painsville 
 (Ohio) Academy. Deciding to 
 study medicine he matriculated at 
 Hahnemann College, Chicago, 
 from which he graduated in 1873. 
 He first located at Cedar Rapids, 
 Iowa, next changed his residence 
 to Waukegan, 111., where he en- 
 gaged in practice till 1902, when 
 he removed to Champaign City 
 and has since been actively occu- 
 pied in professional business. 
 
 Dr. Chas. J. Cooper graduated 
 from Cincinnati Eclectic Medical 
 Institute, 1902, and located at 
 
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 Penfield, 111., same year. Died 
 from blood poisoning May 22, 
 1904. 
 
 DR. JAMES CORE, 1822-1888. 
 
 Dr. James Core was born in 
 Ross County, Ohio, December 19, 
 1822. He got his education in 
 the common schools and at an 
 early age began teaching and in 
 this way earned enough money to 
 attend lectures at the Medical Col- 
 lege of Ohio during the winter of 
 1845-6. At a later date he grad- 
 uated from this school. He prac- 
 ticed his profession for a time in 
 Ohio, but in 1853 removed to Illi- 
 nois and located near Homer, 
 where he soon built up a large 
 practice. At this time there was 
 no doctor to the east nearer than 
 
 Danville; to the west none nearer 
 than Urbana, while to the south 
 and north the field was practically 
 unlimited. Consequently his rides 
 were very long and the labor in- 
 cident to attending to his profes- 
 sional duties arduous in the ex- 
 treme. Dr. Core was a local Meth- 
 odist preacher, an earnest temper- 
 ance advocate, a life-long Repub- 
 lican and withal a good extempo- 
 raneous speaker; the result was 
 that he could preach a sermon, de- 
 liver a temperance address or 
 ringing political speech with 
 equal facility. In 1878 Dr. Core 
 was elected one of the Legislators 
 from this County. A few years 
 later his health began to fail and 
 April 29, 1888, he died at his home 
 in Homer. 
 
 Dr. C. L. Crane located in Ma- 
 homet some years prior to the 
 civil war. Died in 1856 from ac- 
 cidental blood poisoning. See 
 violent deaths and accidents. 
 
 Dr. Jacob Culver was born in 
 the year 1835 in Butler County, 
 Ohio. When but three years of 
 age he removed with his parents 
 to Indiana, wher.e he grew to man- 
 hood, meanwhile receiving his ed- 
 ucation in the common schools. 
 When a very young man he began 
 the study of medicine and later 
 graduated from Rush Medical 
 College, Chicago. Dr. Culver's 
 first location was Clarksville, Ind., 
 but after a time he removed to Il- 
 linois and in 1858 located at Ma- 
 
 16
 
 DR. JACOB CULVER, 1835-1880. DR. HENRY E. GUSHING, 1854-1907. 
 
 hornet where he soon built up a 
 good practice. During the civil 
 war Dr. Culver enlisted in the 7ist 
 Illinois Infantry as Hospital stew- 
 ard, and owing to the indisposition 
 of the chief surgeon of the regi- 
 ment, attended to most of the 
 medical wants of the regiment. 
 Dr. Culver, at the expiration of his 
 term of service, returned to Ma- 
 homet and resumed his practice 
 and continued in active work till 
 towards the end of the eighties, 
 when his health began to give way, 
 and finally in 1890 he died. 
 
 Dr. Henry E. dishing was born 
 in Ashburnham, Mass., Nov. 30, 
 1854, and received his preliminary 
 
 education in the public schools 
 and Westfield High School. He 
 graduated from Dartmouth Col- 
 lege in 1882 and the same year en- 
 tered the Chicago Medical Col- 
 lege, now the Medical Depart- 
 ment of Northwestern University, 
 from which he received the de- 
 gree of M. D. in 1884. The same 
 year he located for the practice of 
 his profession at Champaign, 111., 
 where he soon built up a .large 
 professional business which he re- 
 tained till the date of his death, 
 August n, 1907. 
 
 Dr. Gushing was at all times en- 
 terprising and energetic and by 
 his own efforts defrayed the great- 
 
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 er part of the expense of his edu- 
 cation. As a practitioner of med- 
 icine he was noted for his enter- 
 
 prise, aggressiveness and readiness 
 to maintain a high standard of pro- 
 fessional ethics. 
 
 DR. ALEXANDER T. DARRAH, 1836-1889. 
 
 Dr. Alexander T. Darrah was 
 born at Delaware, Ohio, March 
 17, 1836. Two years later he re- 
 moved with his parents to Pike 
 County, where he grew to man- 
 hood. He obtained his education 
 
 in the common schools and when 
 a young man taught. Later he 
 began the study of medicine and in 
 1865 graduated from Rush Medi- 
 cal College, Chicago. The same 
 year that he graduated he located 
 
 18
 
 at Tolono and practiced his pro- 
 fession there continuously till 
 1883, when he removed to Bloom - 
 ington, 111. In his new location 
 he was actively engaged in prac- 
 tice till his death that occurred in 
 September, 1889. 
 
 Dr. Darrah was a man of strik- 
 ing personal appearance; was 
 large, well-proportioned and was 
 always well dressed. He stood 
 very high in Masonic circles, was 
 a good extemporaneous speaker 
 and in his day was perhaps 
 one of the best presiding officers 
 in the state. In 1882, when resid- 
 ing at Tolono, he was elected 
 president of the Illinois State Med- 
 ical Society, an honor that thus 
 far no other member of the Cham 
 paign County Medical Society has 
 received. 
 
 Dr. Amos Dillon was born 
 near Ridge Farm, Vermilion Co., 
 111., Feb. 26, 1840. Here he grew 
 to young manhood and during his 
 boyhood days his time was divided 
 between farm work and attendance 
 upon the neighborhood schools. 
 Later he attended Onarga Acad- 
 emy at Onarga, 111., and finally be- 
 came a student of medicine. He 
 graduated from Indiana Medical 
 College in 1878 and soon after lo- 
 cated for the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Staunton Township, 
 Champaign County, 111. Unfortu- 
 nately when he had given but five 
 years to professional work his use- 
 
 fulness was ended by death which 
 occurred April 3, 1883. 
 
 DR. WILLIAM DILLON. 
 
 Dr. William Dillon was born 
 near Ridge Farm, Vermilion Co., 
 111., March 27, 1849, anc ^ while yet 
 a small boy removed with his par- 
 ents to Iroquois County. His 
 early years were spent in farm 
 work and attendance upon the 
 country schools. After reaching 
 young manhood he devoted some 
 time to teaching school. Later 
 he decided to study medicine and 
 was part of the time in the office 
 with his brother. Dr. Amos Dillon 
 of Champaign County, and part of 
 his student days he spent with 
 Dr. Gaston of Ash Grove, Iro- 
 
 19
 
 quois County. He finally gradu- 
 ated in medicine from the Ohio 
 Medical College, Cincinnati, in 
 1882. The same year he located 
 for the practice of his profession 
 at Thomasboro, Champaign Coun- 
 ty, where he remained in active 
 professional work till 1900 when 
 he took a post graduate course in 
 Chicago. He then removed to 
 Urbana, where he has even since 
 been engaged in practice. 
 
 Dr. Franklin at the breaking 
 out of the Civil war left his prac- 
 tice in Champaign Co. and joined 
 an Ohio Regiment as surgeon. 
 His subsequent history is un- 
 known. 
 
 Dr. Ezra H. Ferris was born in 
 Cincinnati, Ohio, April 18, 1821. 
 In young manhood he studied 
 medicine and in 1846 graduated 
 from the Medical College of Ohio. 
 He practiced medicine in Cincin- 
 nati for a considerable period and 
 during this time was four years a 
 member of the City Board of 
 Health. In 1864 Dr. Ferris aban- 
 doned the practice of medicine and 
 removed to Illinois and for a num- 
 ber of years lived on a farm in 
 Champaign County. In 1887 he 
 removed to Champaign City, 
 where he continued to reside till 
 his death, April 10, 1904. 
 
 Dr. John T. Fugate was born 
 June 15, 1830 at Wytheville, 
 Wythe Co., Virginia. While very 
 
 DR. JOHN T. FUGATB. 
 
 young removed with parents first 
 to Missouri and later to Illinois. 
 Was raised on a farm near Quincy, 
 Illinois, where his time was alter- 
 nated between farm work and at- 
 tendance at the neighborhood 
 schools and higher educational in- 
 stitutions at Barry and Quincy, 
 111. In early manhood entered up- 
 on the study of medicine and ob- 
 tained his M. D. degree from Mis- 
 souri Medical College in 1857. 
 Practiced medicine in St. Louis, 
 Mo., till the outbreak of the Civil 
 War, then for varying periods 
 was located at the following towns 
 in Illinois, viz., Pleasant Hill, 
 Rockport, Summer Hill and El-
 
 Dora. In 1867 he came to Ur- 
 bana, 111., where he has since been 
 engaged in practice. 
 
 Dr. Fulkerson, first physician to 
 locate in Champaign County. See 
 pioneer doctors in County. 
 
 Dr. M. Garst was born in Vir- 
 ginia Jan. 17, 1815, began the 
 study of medicine when very 
 young and at the age of 22 grad- 
 uated from Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia. He located at 
 Dayton, Ohio, and for many years 
 practiced medicine in that city. 
 Just before the breaking out of the 
 civil war he removed to Illinois 
 and had his home in Champaign 
 City. Upon the organization of 
 ^e 71 st Illinois Infantry he en- 
 tered that organization as surgeon 
 with the rank of Major and served 
 till the time of the regiment ex- 
 pired. At the termination of the 
 war in 1865 he removed from 
 Champaign and his death occurred 
 at Coon Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 5, 
 1901. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Gardiner was born 
 Feb. 17, 1848, died Aug. 22, 1902, 
 at Mahomet. He was a na- 
 tive of New Jersey and when a 
 mere lad removed to Illinois with 
 his parents. In 1865, when but 
 fifteen years of age, he enlisted in 
 the 1 54th Illinois Infantry and 
 served till the war of the rebellion 
 ended. In 1872 Dr. Gardiner 
 graduated from Rush Medical 
 College and at once located at Ma- 
 
 DR. JOHN H. GARDINER, 1848-1902. 
 
 hornet for the purpose of practic- 
 ing his profession, and soon built 
 up a good business. Dr. John 
 H. Gardiner was a son of 
 Dr. John D. Gardiner, late 
 an octogenarian of Farmer City, 
 but many years ago a Mahomet 
 physician. 
 
 Dr. A. D. Gillum was born in 
 Adams County, Illinois, August 
 29, 1846. He was educated in the 
 common schools, and when a 
 young man taught school. Stud- 
 ied medicine and later graduated 
 from a Medical College at Keo- 
 kuk, Iowa. Located at Sadorus in 
 1877 and practiced there till a few 
 
 21
 
 weeks before his death that oc- 
 curred June 25, 1890. 
 
 Dr. William Miles Goodwin 
 was born in Ohio about 1825. At- 
 tended medical lectures at the 
 Medical College of Ohio; came to 
 Illinois and located first at St. 
 Joseph, practiced there for a year 
 when he changed his location to 
 Urbana. At the latter place he 
 formed a partnership with Dr. C. 
 A. Thompson, which lasted till the 
 latter entered the army in 1861. 
 Dr. Goodwin had a large practice 
 in Urbana during the sixties. !!, 
 remained there in practice till 
 about 1876 or 1877. when he re- 
 moved to Kansas, where he died 
 about 1898. Dr. Goodwin was a 
 well posted man and a good prac- 
 titioner of medicine. 
 
 Dr. John M. Hadden was born 
 in Pennsylvania in the year 1842. 
 In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in 
 the 67th Pennsylvania and served 
 till the war ended four years later. 
 At the battle of Winchester he was 
 captured and for two months was 
 confined in Libby Pft^on and 
 Belle Isle. After the close of the 
 war young Hadden entered upon 
 the study of medicine and con- 
 cluding that the west was a tempt- 
 ing field came to Illinois and in 
 1872 located at Seymour, where 
 he soon built up a good practice 
 that he yet attends to industrious- 
 ly. 
 
 DR. JOHN M. HADDEX, 1812-1892. 
 
 Dr. Lyman Ilall was born at 
 Hancock, Massachusetts, Febru- 
 ary 12, 1818. Came west in early 
 life and studied medicine in young 
 manhood. He lived at La Salle 
 for a long period and was mayor 
 of that city for two years. During 
 the civil war he for a time served 
 as Assistant Surgeon of the 63rd 
 Illinois Infantry. Meeting with 
 some unexpected business losses 
 not long after the war. Dr. Hall 
 concluded to come to Champaign 
 County. This he did in 1867, lo- 
 cating near Savoy. Here he car- 
 ried on farming and practiced med- 
 icine for twenty years till 1887, 
 when he removed to Champaign 
 City, where he died February u, 
 
 22
 
 DR. LYMAN HALL, 1818-1892. 
 
 1892, lacking hut one day of 
 rounding out seventy-four years. 
 
 Dr. Abbie G. Hall was born in 
 Felicity, Clairmont County, Ohio, 
 and while yet a child removed to 
 Champaign County in 1860. She 
 acquired a good education in the 
 public schools and for many years 
 devoted her time to teaching. 
 While serving in this capacity she 
 was the author of two or three ele- 
 mentary school books. Late in the 
 eighties she began the study of 
 medicine and in 1890 graduated 
 from Hahnemann Medical College, 
 Chicago. Immediately after grad- 
 uation she located in Champaign 
 City, where she practiced medi- 
 
 cine till her death' in September, 
 1898. At the time of her decease 
 Dr. Hall was a member of the 
 Medical Staff of the Julia F. 
 Burnham Hospital. 
 
 DR. J. J. HANMORE. 
 
 Dr. J. J. Hanmore was born 
 March 20, 1854, at Cambridge, 
 Ind., and when a young child re- 
 moved with his parents to a farm 
 where his earlier days were spent 
 doing farm work and attending 
 the neighborhood schools. 
 
 Upon reaching young manhood 
 he began the study of medicine, 
 and entered the Kentucky School 
 of Medicine from which he grad- 
 uated in 1884. His first location 
 was Landessville, Ind., where he 
 
 23
 
 remained for a number of years. 
 For a short period he also prac- 
 ticed at Marion, Ind. In 1898 he 
 removed to Maiden, 111., where 
 he was engaged in professional 
 work till 1905, when he came to 
 Urbana and has since been occu- 
 pied in active practice. 
 
 DR. JAMES C. HARMON.. 1840-1905. 
 
 Dr. James C. Harmon \vas born 
 January 19, 1840, at Milton, Ver- 
 mont. He^grew up on a farm and 
 got his education in the public 
 schools. In 1862 he enlisted in the 
 1 3th Vermont, a regiment that 
 was afterwards a part of General 
 Stannard's celebrated brigade. 
 This brigade had not a little to do 
 in saving the clay for the Union 
 
 Army in the third day's fight at 
 Gettysburg, when Pickett's divis- 
 ion made its terrible charge in a 
 desperate effort at breaking the 
 Union center. Dr. Harmon was 
 at Gettysburg and saw much hard 
 service during his three years 
 in the Army of the Potomac. 
 
 Before enlisting Dr. Harmon 
 had studied medicine for about a 
 year. After leaving the army he 
 resumed his studies and gradu- 
 ated from the Medical Department 
 of the University of Vermont in 
 1866. 
 
 N.ext year he entered upon the 
 practice of medicine and in 1874 
 removed to Rantoul, where he 
 practiced till his death, Aug. i, 
 1906. Dr. Harmon at the time of 
 his decease, was a member of the 
 Board of United States Surgeons 
 of Champaign County for the Ex- 
 amination of Pensioners. 
 
 Recently a medical friend of Dr. 
 Harmon said of him that "he had 
 done more for humanity and less 
 for himself than any one else he 
 ever knew." 
 
 Dr. J. F. Harris was born 
 March 31, 1852 in Spencer Co., 
 Ind., where he grew up on a farm 
 and obtained his preliminary edu- 
 cation in the public schools. Up- 
 on reaching young manhood he 
 entered upon the study of medi- 
 cine and graduated from the Ken- 
 tucky Medical College in 1877. 
 He located for the practice of his 
 profession at St. Anthony, Ind., 
 
 24
 
 DR. J. F. HARRIS. 
 
 where he remained till 1883, when 
 he removed to Ogden, 111., where 
 he has ever since been busy an- 
 swering professional calls. 
 
 Dr. George W. Hartman was 
 born in Davidson County, North 
 Carolina, April 16, 1827. When 
 but a child of four years George 
 W. removed with his parents to 
 Indiana and when but a mere boy 
 he began the study of medicine 
 and when twenty-one years of age 
 entered upon its practice in Foun- 
 tain County, Indiana. In 1853 he 
 removed to Sidney, 111., and for a 
 period of about twenty-eight years 
 thereafter he was kept busy with 
 his large professional business. 
 
 Early in 1881 Dr. Hartman's 
 
 DR. GEORGE W. HARTMAN, 
 1827-1881. 
 
 health began to fail and October 
 12 of that year he died. He was a 
 genial, popular man and his death 
 was greatly deplored by a large 
 circle of friends and patrons. 
 
 Dr. C. C. Hawes. See Pioneer 
 Doctors, Champaign Co. 
 
 Dr. Apollis R. Hess was born 
 in Hendricks County, Indiana. 
 February 15, 1840. He removed 
 to Illinois when quite young with 
 his parents and received his educa- 
 tion in the common schools. He 
 enlisted in the /ist Illinois Infan- 
 try and served till his time ex- 
 pired, and later joined the i37th 
 Illinois Infantry and served his
 
 DR. HARTWELL C. HOWARD,
 
 time out in that organization. Af- 
 ter the war ended he turned his 
 attention to the study of medicine 
 and later graduated from the Med- 
 ical College of Ohio, Cincinnati. 
 About 1875 he located at Sidney 
 and continued in practice there 
 till a while before his death that 
 occurred May 6, 1897. 
 
 Dr. Thomas M. Hess was born 
 at New Albany, Indiana, Septem- 
 ber 22, 1819. Dr. Hess acquired 
 his preliminary education in the 
 common subscription schools of 
 his boyhood days, but later had 
 the advantages of a short course 
 at a Seminary located at Charles- 
 ton, Ind. For a time after reach- 
 ing his majority he engaged in 
 mercantile and other business pur- 
 suits, meanwhile, in the year 1840, 
 he had removed to Westfield, 
 Clark County, Illinois. Some 
 years later he became interested 
 in medicine and began its study. 
 He took his first course of lectures 
 at Starling Medical College, Co- 
 lumbus, Ohio, and in later years 
 graduated at Rush Medical Col- 
 lege, Chicago. In the spring of 
 1863 Dr. Hess located at Homer 
 and for more than a quarter of a 
 century thereafter was busy at- 
 tending to the wants of the sick. 
 Early in the eighties he removed 
 to Berwick, Warren County, Illi- 
 nois and practiced medicine there 
 till his death a few vears since. 
 
 Dr. Hess was a man of dignified 
 bearing and for many years was a 
 preacher of the Christian, or 
 Campbellite, denomination. He 
 had three sons who were physi- 
 cians, Apollis, who practiced in 
 Sidney, and Wm. H., who later 
 located in Chicago, both of whom 
 are dead, and Smith Hess, who is 
 located in the west. 
 
 Dr. H. C. Howard was born at 
 Gates (now within the city limits 
 of Rochester), Xew York, July 12, 
 1829. When Dr. Howard was a 
 lad of fourteen he removed with 
 his father to Columbus, O., where 
 he lived till young manhood, when 
 he came to Leroy, McLean Coun- 
 ty, Illinois. He received his gen- 
 eral education in the public 
 schools of Xew York and Ohio, 
 and his medical education at Star- 
 ling Medical College, Columbus, 
 from which he graduated in 1850. 
 Dr. Howard began the practice of 
 medicine in Champaign in 1855, 
 fifty-four years ago. He is en- 
 titled to the honor of being one of 
 the oldest men in Champaign 
 county in the active practice of his 
 profession, though Dr. S. S. Salis- 
 bury of Tolono, is his close sec- 
 ond, as he is but ten days young- 
 er than Dr. Howard. Dr. Howard 
 is local surgeon for the Wabash 
 railroad and ex-president of the 
 Staff of the Julia F. Burnham hos- 
 pital. 
 
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 DR. CHARLES A. V HUNT, 1819-1863. 
 
 Dr. Charles A. Hunt was born 
 at Trenton, Xe\v Jersey, April 15, 
 1819. His father died when 
 Charles A. was but thirteen years 
 of age and joining some friends 
 the lad emigrated to ( )hio, and 
 ever after made his own way in 
 the world. Notwithstanding his 
 being thus thrown upon his own 
 resources he succeeded in early 
 acquiring a good English and 
 classical education. He also stud- 
 ied medicine and graduated from 
 the Medical College of ( )hio in 
 1845. He came to Urbana in 1855 
 and for a time engaged in the drug 
 business. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the 
 civil war in 1861 Dr. Hunt was 
 commissioned Surgeon of the 
 1 26th Illinois Infantry. 
 
 His regiment participated in the 
 memorable siege of Vicksburg, 
 during which Dr. Hunt's duties 
 in caring for the sick were most 
 arduous and his location being at 
 Haines' Bluff on the Yazoo in- 
 volved especial exposure to ma- 
 laria. The result was he fell seri- 
 ously sick and died at his post of 
 duty August 2, 1863, twenty-nine 
 clays after Vicksburg fell. 
 
 By those who knew him Dr. 
 Hunt is spoken of in the highest 
 terms. He is said to have been 
 thoughtful, studious and a writer 
 of no mean ability. 
 
 Dr. David Jennings was born in 
 the state of Pennsylvania May 10, 
 1836, and removed to Ohio when 
 sixteen years of age. He received 
 his education in the common 
 schools of Pennsylvania and Ohio, 
 afterwards taught school, and 
 meanwhile began the study of 
 medicine. Early in the sixties he 
 removed to Illinois and became a 
 resident of Champaign County, 
 from where he enlisted in the 2nd 
 Illinois Cavalry and at the end of 
 the war resumed his studies. 
 Later he graduated from the St. 
 Louis Medical College, St. Louis, 
 Mo. In 1866 Dr. Jennings locat- 
 ed at Old St. Joseph, but upon the 
 building of what is now the Big 
 Four railway, removed to New 
 St. Joseph early in 1870, where he 
 continued in practice till 1879, 
 when he changed his loca- 
 tion to Tolono. Two years later 
 
 28
 
 he removed to Sidney. Mean- 
 while his health had been failing 
 and in July, 1881, he died at Sid- 
 ney. His remains were taken to 
 the cemetery at Old St. Joseph 
 for interment and there he lies 
 buried in the midst of a farming 
 community in which he had long- 
 practiced. 
 
 DR. CHARLES B. JOHNSON. 
 
 Dr. Charles B. Johnson was 
 born on a farm near Pocahontas, 
 Bond Co., 111., Oct. 8, 1843. His 
 boyhood days were divided be- 
 tween work on the farm in sum- 
 mer and attendance upon the pub- 
 lic schools in winter. In 1862 he 
 enlisted in the i^oth 111. Infantry 
 and served till the close of the 
 Civil War, three years later. About 
 half his time he was a private sol- 
 
 dier and the remainder Hospital 
 Steward of the regiment where his 
 medical studies began. He is a 
 graduate of the Medical College 
 of Ohio, Cincinnati, and his first 
 location was at Chatham, Sanga- 
 mon Co., 111. He has practiced 
 his profession in Champaign 
 County since 1871 and in Cham- 
 paign City since 1879. He was a 
 member of the Illinois State Board 
 of Health for eight years and from 
 1899 to 1902 served as its presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Dr. Samuel W. Kincaid was 
 born July 15, 1823, and graduated 
 in medicine from the Medical Col- 
 lege of Ohio in 1853. He prac- 
 ticed medicine at Tolono for a 
 time and in 1855 located at Cham- 
 paign (then West Urbana) for the 
 practice of his profession. Later 
 he removed from Champaign, re- 
 tired from active practice and died 
 May i, 1887. One of Dr. Kin- 
 caid's professional cards was 
 shown the writer that was printed 
 in 1855. Following is a copy. 
 
 S. W. KINCAID, M. D. 
 
 Physician and Surgeon, 
 
 West Urbana. 
 
 Office one door west 
 of the Doane house. 
 
 Dr. Edwin A. Kratz was born in 
 Plumsteadville, Bucks County, 
 Pennsylvania, July 12, 1844. He 
 received his education in the pub- 
 
 29
 
 DR. EDWIN A. KRATZ. 
 
 lie schools. He enlisted in the 
 198th Pennsylvania Infantry and 
 saw much exceptionally hard ser- 
 vice in Grant's closing campaign 
 against Lee that brought the end 
 of the war. Near Dinwiddie 
 Court House Dr. Kratz was most 
 seriously wounded by a musket 
 ball that he received in his lungs 
 and that passed through both 
 arms. Not long after the war he 
 took up the study of medicine 
 and in 1869 graduated from the 
 Medical Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Pennsylvania. Immedi- 
 ately after graduation he took up 
 the practice of his profession at 
 
 Champaign. For many years 
 Dr. Kratz has been United 
 States Surgeon for Pensions and 
 for a long period was Secretary of 
 the Pension Board and in this ca- 
 pacity did most efficient service. 
 
 Dr. Kratz has held a number of 
 important offices. For several 
 terms he has represented his town- 
 ship on the Board of Supervisors 
 and from 1894 to 1898 was Coun- 
 ty Treasurer. He is moreover 
 prominent in Masonic circles. 
 
 DR. JOSEPH M. LAWSON. 
 
 Dr. Joseph M. Lawson was 
 born in Armstrong Co., Penn., 
 Apr. i, 1858. He grew up on 
 a farm and as leisure afforded 
 attended the country schools, and
 
 later Dayton Union College. Up- 
 on reaching young manhood he 
 entered the office of his uncle Dr. 
 Wesley Lawson at Homer, 111., 
 and began the study of medicine. 
 He graduated in medicine at the 
 University of Michigan in 1885 
 and the same year located at Sid- 
 ney, 111., where he has ever since 
 been actively engaged in practice. 
 
 DR. A. M. LINDLEY. 
 
 Dr. A. M. Lindley was born in 
 Tuscarawas Co. Ohio, Sept. 10, 
 1856 and while yet an infant re- 
 moved with his parents to Urbana, 
 111., where he received his prelim- 
 inary education in the public 
 schools. Subsequently he at- 
 tended the University of Illinois 
 and later entered the Cincinnati 
 College of Medicine and Surgery 
 
 from which he graduated in 1880. 
 He at once became associated 
 with his father in the practice of 
 medicine at Urbana and has ever 
 since been actively engaged in 
 professional work. 
 
 DR. MAHLON LINDLEY. 
 
 Dr. Mahlon Lindley was born 
 July 22, 1833, at Fredericktown, 
 Ohio. In the spring of 1857 ne 
 located in Urbana and now, al- 
 though entering on his fifty-sec- 
 ond year of practice in Champaign 
 County, is nearly as active as 
 when he was forty years of age. 
 Dr. Lindley is local surgeon for 
 the Big Four railway, a position 
 he has held since the building of 
 that road forty years ago. 
 
 31
 
 Dr. James H. Lyon. See Pion- 
 eer Doctors Champaign County. 
 
 DR. J. D. MAXDEVILLE. 
 
 Dr. John D. Mandeville was 
 1)orn December 18, 1844, near the 
 village of Ovid, Seneca County, 
 New York. When fourteen years 
 of age he removed with his par- 
 ents to Champaign County, Illi- 
 nois, where he has since resided. 
 He attended the public schools 
 and when older taught school. 
 Upon the breaking out of the civil 
 war he served for a time in the 
 67th Illinois Infantry; also was a 
 soldier in the I33rd Illinois Infan- 
 try. After returning from the 
 army Dr. Mandeville began the 
 studv of medicine and subse- 
 
 quently graduated at Rush Medi- 
 cal College, Chicago. 
 
 In March, 1868, he located at 
 Philo and did a good business till 
 he removed to Champaign in 1900, 
 lacking but one year of rounding 
 out a third of a century where he 
 first began to respond to sick calls. 
 Dr. Mandeville is now a resident 
 of Champaign and is actively en- 
 gaged in the practice of his pro- 
 fession. For some time he has 
 affiliated with the Prohibition 
 party and in 1898 was that party's 
 candidate for state senator. 
 
 DR. JOHN MARTEN. 
 
 Dr. John Marten was born at 
 Carbondale, 111., April 3, 1857. 
 Received his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the public schools and at 
 the Southern State Normal Uni- 
 
 32
 
 versity, Carbondale, from which 
 he graduated in 1883. For a con- 
 siderable period he devoted him- 
 self to teaching and during this 
 time filled a number of important 
 and responsible educational posi- 
 tions. Meanwhile he became an 
 earnest student of entomology and 
 for a number of years was assist- 
 ant in this Department to Prof. S. 
 A. Forbes at the University of Il- 
 linois. Later he entered upon the 
 study of medicine and graduated 
 from Rush Medical College, Chi- 
 cago, 1897. The same year he lo- 
 cated at Tolono, 111., where he has 
 ever since been actively engaged 
 professionally. 
 
 DR. CHARLES W. MARTINIE. 
 
 Dr. Charles W... Martinie was 
 born Nov. 7, 1847 m Henry Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky. He passed his 
 early boyhood days working on 
 his father's farm and attending the 
 neighborhood schools. He began 
 the study of medicine with his un- 
 cle, Dr. C. E. Triplitte of Morocco, 
 Ind., and during the winter of 
 1869-70 attended his first course 
 of lectures at Rush Medical Col- 
 lege, Chicago. In 1870 he located 
 at Palermo, 111., and practiced his 
 profession there till the fall of 
 1873, when he went to Cincinnati 
 and matriculated at Miami College 
 from which he graduated in 
 the spring of 1874. He returned 
 to Palermo and continued busy in 
 professional work in that locality 
 till 1892 when he removed to Lin- 
 coln, 111., where he engaged in 
 practice till 1896 when he changed 
 his location to Urbana, 111., where 
 he now resides and practices his 
 profession when it suits his con- 
 venience. Dr. Martinie owns a 
 large body of land in the heart of 
 the Illinois corn belt. 
 
 Dr. Clarence B. McClelland 
 was born in Decatur March 24, 
 1862, where he received his pre- 
 liminary education and grew to 
 manhood. He studied medicine 
 and graduated from Rush Medical 
 College in 1887. He was in gen- 
 eral practice for a time, after 
 which he took special courses 
 in Chicago and New York. In 
 1896 he located in Champaign and 
 
 33
 
 made a specialty of diseases of the a Champaign County boy, who is 
 eye, ear, nose and throat. Professor of Surgery in the Medi- 
 
 He at once entered upon an ex- cal Apartment of the University 
 cellent business, which continued 
 till his health failed. In the latter 
 part of 1898 his condition became 
 serious and in March, 1899, he 
 died, regretted by all who knew 
 him. 
 
 Dr. Daniel P. McClurc was born 
 in Washington County, Pennsyl- 
 vania, August 28, 1837. Ik- 
 came of Scotch, ancestry and got 
 his preliminary education in the 
 common schools and at Hayes- 
 ville Academy. He began tin- 
 study of medicine in 1859 and in 
 1861 entered the army as Assist- 
 ant Surgeon of the 64th Ohio In- 
 fantry. His regiment was at Shi- 
 loh. Stone River. Mission Ridge. 
 Chickamauga, Chattanooga and 
 many other engagements. 
 
 Dr. McClure graduated from 
 the Charity Hospital Medical Col- 
 lege, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1867. 
 The same ye*ir he came to Illinois, 
 located in Champaign City for t;vo 
 years and thon removed to Ran- 
 toul in 1869, where he practiced 
 for about eighteen years, when his 
 health gave way and he was 
 obliged to try a change of climate. 
 He went to West Point, Miss., 
 and remained there four or five 
 years and finally died in the early 
 nineties. Dr. McClure was the 
 preceptor of Dr. D. A. K. Steele, a 
 well known Chicago Surgeon and 
 
 34 
 
 DR. D. R. McKINNEY, 1837-1903. 
 
 Dr. D. R. McKinney was born 
 at Piqua ,Ohio, April 15, 1837, 
 and obtained his education in the 
 common schools; in September, 
 1863, he enlisted in the 9th Indi- 
 ana Cavalry and served till the end 
 of the war. Upon leaving the 
 army he turned his attention to 
 medicine and attended lectures at 
 Miami Medical College, Cincin- 
 nati. Later he graduated from In- 
 diana Medical College, Indianap- 
 olis. 
 
 In 1868 he located in the north
 
 eastern part of Champaign Coun- 
 ty, at Burr Oak Grove, and here 
 continued in practice till 1877, 
 when he removed his office to Gif- 
 ford, then a newly located railway 
 station. Dr. McKinney remained 
 in active practice at Gifford for 
 about twenty years, when failing 
 health induced him to remove to 
 Indiana, where later he was hon- 
 ored with the Presidency of the 
 Delaware County Medical Society; 
 and also was a member of the 
 Muncie, Indiana Board of United 
 States Surgeons for Pension Ex- 
 aminations. His death occurred 
 Sept. 28, 1903, Champaign. 
 
 Indiana, and removed with his 
 parents to Champaign Co. 111., in 
 1868. He received his education 
 in the common schools, the Ur- 
 bana High School and 111. State 
 Normal School. For a time he 
 taught school and later began the 
 study of medicine in the office of 
 his father, Dr. D. R. McKinney. 
 In 1883 he graduated from Indi- 
 ana Medical College and some 
 years later took a post-graduate 
 course in the medical department 
 of the Northwestern University. 
 In 1883 he located at Gifford, 111., 
 and has ever since been in active 
 practice at that place. 
 
 DR. THOMAS J. McKINNEY. DR JOSE p H T . MILLER. 
 
 Dr. T. J. McKinney was born Negtor Qf the Medical Profession in 
 'Nov. 29, 1859, in Delaware, Co., Champaign County. 
 
 35
 
 Dr. Joseph T. Miller was born 
 in Butler County, Ohio, February 
 5, 1830. While Dr. Miller 
 was a child his father 
 removed to Indiana and fol- 
 lowed the life of a farmer. Young 
 Miller worked on the farm and at- 
 tended the country schools till he 
 was eighteen years of age, when 
 for a time he attended Wabash 
 College. Afterward he taught 
 school and meantime began the 
 study of medicine. Later he grad- 
 uated from Rush Medical College, 
 Chicago. Dr. Miller located in 
 Urbana in 1853 and has been in 
 continuous practice in Champaign 
 County longer than any other 
 physician and is consequently our 
 Medical Xestor. He was at one 
 time mayor of Urbana. During 
 the civil war he was surgeon of 
 the 6oth 111. Infantry with the rank 
 of major. 
 
 Dr. Charles H. Mills was born 
 at Dumberton, New Hampshire, 
 August 12, 1824. When fourteen 
 years of age he removed with his 
 parents to Michigan, where till he- 
 was twenty-one years of age his 
 time was divided between working 
 on the farm and attending school. 
 He afterwards attended the Uni- 
 versity of Michigan for a time and 
 in 1851 graduated from Cleve- 
 land Medical College. He came 
 to Illinois in 1854 and located in 
 Urbana, where he practiced medi- 
 cine till the autumn of 1856, when 
 he removed to Champaign, then 
 
 DR. CHARLES M. MILLS, 1823-1897. 
 
 West Urbana, opened an office 
 and began answering calls. 
 
 In September, 1862, he joined 
 the army as Assistant Surgeon of 
 the 1 25th Illinois Infantry. In a 
 little time he was promoted to Sur- 
 geon's place in the regiment with 
 the rank of Major. He served 
 till the end of the war in 1865. In 
 the winter of 1864 he received a 
 medical degree from the Univer- 
 sity of Xashville. 
 
 Dr. Mills died of angina pectoris 
 July 6, 1907. 
 
 Dr. Ellen Miner was born on a 
 farm in Hensley Township, Cham- 
 paign County, Illinois, where she 
 
 36
 
 DR. ELLEN MINER. 
 
 grew to young womanhood and 
 meanwhile acquired her prelimi- 
 nary education in the public 
 schools. In 1893 sne graduated 
 from the Medical Department of 
 Drake University, Des Moines, 
 Iowa, and for a number of years 
 has been actively engaged profes- 
 sionally at her home in Champaign 
 City. 
 
 Dr. John M. Minturn was born 
 in Kentucky in 1849 an< ^ graduat- 
 ed from the College of Medicine 
 and Surgery, Cincinnati, in 1884. 
 He located in Rantoul in 1884 and 
 practiced medicine there till his 
 health gave way in 1890. In 1893 
 he died at the home of his child- 
 
 hood in Kentucky. Dr. Minturn 
 was a member of the Champaign 
 County Board of United States 
 Surgeons for Pensions Examina- 
 tion from 1885 till 1889. 
 
 Dr. Benjamin G. Morris located 
 at L T rbana in an early day, later re- 
 moved to Philo, and was the first 
 doctor in that place. He, however, 
 did not remain in active practice 
 long. His death occurred at Philo 
 in September, 1879. The place 
 and date of his birth can not be 
 given. He is said to have been a 
 graduate of the University of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 Dr. James E. Morrison was born 
 in Buffalo, New York, July 4, 
 1834, and when a small boy re- 
 moved with his parents to north- 
 ern Illinois where he grew to man- 
 hood. He got his preliminary ed- 
 ucation in the common schools 
 and at Knox College. When a 
 young man he began the study of 
 medicine and later graduated from 
 Hahnemann Medical College, Chi- 
 cago. Dr. Morrison practiced at 
 Paxton, 111., a number of years and 
 in 1880 removed to Urbana, where 
 he is yet in practice. 
 
 Dr. Philip C. Mosier was born 
 December 31, 1827, in Harrison 
 County, Indiana. In his boyhood 
 he worked on the farm and attend- 
 ed the primary subscription 
 schools that were taught in the log 
 cabins that served in that day as 
 school houses. 
 
 37
 
 DR. PHILLIP C. MOSIER, 1827-1900. 
 
 When eighteen years of age he 
 taught school and a little later be- 
 gan the study of medicine. After 
 studying for a due period he began 
 the practice of medicine in Milford, 
 Indiana, but at the expiration of 
 two years removed to Illinois. He 
 
 arrived at Homer, Champaign 
 County, April 15, 1851, and at 
 once entered upon the practice of 
 his profession. 
 
 Dr. Hosier obtained his money 
 for equipping himself to begin the 
 practice by teaching school. In 
 
 38
 
 the middle of the Nineteenth Cen- 
 tury teachers were poorly paid 
 and drugs and instruments were 
 high. Quinine was five dollars per 
 ounce and opium eight dollars a 
 pound. Dr. Mosier's work was 
 laborious in the extreme. Long 
 rides, unbridged streams, hard- 
 ships of every kind and little ready 
 money among his patrons. But 
 Dr. Hosier was hardheaded 
 enough to see that the black, rich 
 loam of Champaign County was in 
 reality a mine of wealth and by 
 some means managed to get hold 
 of four hundred acres in Homer 
 Township. Upon this he planted 
 orchards and made other needed 
 improvements. 
 
 This farm and other business 
 matters began to need so much of 
 his attention that in 1859 he re- 
 tired from practice. His business 
 venture prospered and in 1900 Dr. 
 Mosier died a wealthy man. 
 
 Dr. W. K. Newcomb was born 
 in Lyons, Iowa, April 6, 1857, and 
 obtained his preliminary education 
 in the Public Schools and at Gem 
 City College, Quincy, Illinois. Af- 
 ter teaching for a time he entered 
 the office of Dr. W. G. Cochrane, 
 Farmer City, 111., and began the 
 study of medicine. Later he ma- 
 triculated at Rush Medical Col- 
 lege, Chicago, from which he re- 
 ceived the degree of M. D. in 1882. 
 Soon after he located at Fisher, 
 111., where he did a laborious coun- 
 try practice till 1896, when he 
 
 DR. W. K. NEWCOMB. 
 
 went abroad for a season and re- 
 turning home removed to Cham- 
 paign City, opened an office and 
 soon became actively engaged in 
 professional work and is so occu- 
 pied today. For a number of years 
 Dr. Xewcomb has faithfully repre- 
 sented the profession in his vicin- 
 ity by serving as councilor of the 
 8th District of the Illinois State 
 Medical Society. 
 
 Dr. John North was born in the 
 year 1841 in Coshocton County, 
 Ohio. He was a well educated 
 man and a graduate in medicine, 
 but from what college cannot now 
 be learned. 
 
 Upon the breaking out of the 
 
 39
 
 civil war he enlisted as a private, 
 but in what regiment is not known. 
 Later he was promoted to a Lieu- 
 tenant. 
 
 Towards the close of his army 
 service he acted as Hospital In- 
 spector, and Captain. 
 
 This service was the real begin- 
 ning of his professional career. He 
 located in Rantoul in 1865 and 
 practiced there till 1873, when he 
 removed west . In 18(^3 he re- 
 turned to Rantoul and soon after 
 died in that village. 
 
 DR. SAMUEL K. PAGE, 1810-1893 
 
 Dr. Samuel K. Page was born 
 in New Hampshire in 1810, was a 
 student of Dr. Reuben D. Mussey, 
 the noted surgeon. Dr. Page 
 
 came to Champaign in 1857 and 
 very soon after entered upon a 
 laborious practice. Some twenty- 
 five years lairer he retired from ac- 
 tive practice and in 1893 died in 
 Champaign at the advanced age of 
 83 yeais. Dr. Page was a genial, 
 pleasant man and a good prac- 
 tical physician, whose kind words 
 and good deeds are cherished 
 remembrances of his old patrons. 
 
 DR. JOHN T. PEARMAN, 1829-1896. 
 
 Dr. John T. Pearman was born 
 October 26, 1829, in Hardin 
 County, Kentucky. He grew to 
 manhood on the farm and obtained 
 his education attending the winter 
 schools. Upon reaching young 
 manhood he came to Illinois and 
 
 4Q
 
 for a time taught school. Later 
 he began the study of medicine 
 and in 1858 graduated from Rush 
 Medical College. His first loca- 
 tion for practice was in Edgar 
 County, Illinois, but in 1864 he re- 
 moved to Champaign City, where 
 he was in active practice till his 
 health failed in the latter part of 
 the year 1895. May 26, 1896, Dr. 
 Pearman died, regretted by a large 
 circle of admiring friends and ap- 
 preciative patrons. 
 
 Dr. Pearman was a man of ex- 
 ceptionally fine social qna1iti?s 
 and filled several important posi- 
 tions. I <"or many years he was tin- 
 Champaign Division Surgeon for 
 the Illinois Central railway: for a 
 time was a member of the Cham- 
 paign County Board of United 
 States Surgeons for Pension Ex- 
 aminations; was for six years a 
 member of the Board of Trustees 
 of the University of Illinois, and 
 also was for a very long period a 
 member of the Champaign Board 
 of Education. 
 
 Dr. J. L. Polk was born at 
 Bridgeville, Del., Nov. 23, 1841. 
 Obtained his preliminary educa- 
 tion in the common schools and at 
 Milton Academy. Upon reaching 
 manhood began the study of med- 
 icine and graduated from Jeffer- 
 son Medical College in 1868 and 
 for a time was interne in Blocklev 
 Hospital. He began the practice 
 of medicine at Arcola, 111., in 1868, 
 where for manv vears he continued 
 
 DR. JOHN L. POLK. 
 
 to be actively engaged profession- 
 ally. He is now a resident of 
 Champaign City. 
 
 Dr. J. T. Purcell was born in 
 Sardinia, ( )hio, September 22, 
 1844, and received his education 
 in the common schools of his na- 
 tive state. October 15, 1861, he 
 enlisted in the nth Ohio Cavalry, 
 in which organization he served 
 till discharged, July 14, 1866, five 
 years and nine months later, com- 
 pleting, it is believed, the longest 
 volunteer service of any present 
 resident of Champaign County 
 who gave his services througn the 
 civil war. Began the study of 
 medicine by attendance upon lec-
 
 DR. J. T. PURCELL. 
 
 tures at Ohio Medical College, 
 Cincinnati, and later graduated 
 from Indiana Medical College, In- 
 dianapolis. In 1869 began prac- 
 tice in Indiana, and in March, 
 1877, came to Illinois and located 
 at St. Joseph, where he has since 
 been doing a large, laborious prac- 
 tice. 
 
 Dr. George T. Rowland was 
 born Dec. 31, 1852, in the City of 
 Louisville, Ky., and received his 
 education in the public schools and 
 at the Xaverian Brothers School, 
 Louisville. Upon reaching young 
 manhood he began the study of 
 medicine and graduated from the 
 Louisville Medical College in 
 
 1876. First practiced his profes- 
 sion in Missouri. In 1881 re- 
 moved to Homer, Champaign 
 County, where he was busy pro- 
 fessionally till 1898, when he 
 changed his location to Martins- 
 ville, 111., where he is now in prac- 
 tice. 
 
 Dr. John S. Saddler. See Pion- 
 eer Doctors, Champaign Co. 
 
 DR. SAMUEL SCOTT SALISBURY. 
 
 Dr. S. S. Salisbury of Tolono 
 was born near Georgetown, Brown 
 County, Ohio, July 22, 1829. Af- 
 ter graduating in medicine from 
 Cleveland Medical College he 
 practiced medicine a few years in 
 his own state. But, thinking the 
 West might afford better oppor- 
 tunities for a young man, he, in 
 
 42
 
 1861, came to Champaign County 
 and located in Tolono, where he is 
 yet doing an active, laborious 
 practice. As said elsewhere he is 
 but ten days younger than Dr. 
 Howard and like the latter is one 
 of. the oldest physicians in the 
 county that assiduously attends to 
 the details of practice. 
 
 DR. HOMER A. SHAW. 
 
 Dr. Homer A. Shaw was born 
 in Lancaster, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1827. 
 Was educated in the common 
 schools and academy. He studied 
 Latin, German and other higher 
 branches of learning. Upon reach- 
 ing young manhood began the 
 study of medicine and received the 
 degree of M. D. from Starling 
 Medcial College, Columbus, Ohio, 
 
 in 1852 and located at Lancaster, 
 Ohio. Upon the breaking out of 
 the civil war became assistant sur- 
 geon of the loth Ohio Infantry, 
 wherein he served till 1864 when 
 he was made acting staff surgeon, 
 U. S. A., and had charge of a field 
 hospital. In 1866 he located at 
 Homer, 111., for the practice of his 
 profession and has been so en- 
 gaged ever since. 
 
 Dr. R. W. Shumaker was born 
 in Kanawha County, West Vir- 
 ginia, May 22, 1825. Studied 
 medicine and graduated from 
 Cleveland Medical College. Was 
 the first physician to come to 
 Champaign City and located there 
 in the fall of 1854. Remained 
 there in practice till the fall of 
 1857, when he moved away. Dur- 
 ing the civil war he was connected 
 with a hospital in Louisville, Ken- 
 tucky, but whether in the capacity 
 of a civil or military surgeon is 
 not known. Dr. Shumaker died at 
 Louisville in 1864. 
 
 Dr. William B. Sims was born in 
 Blount County, Tennessee, April 
 14, 1836. When but four years of 
 age his parents removed to Ed- 
 gar County, Illinois. Young Sims 
 worked on the farm and attended 
 the common school till he was 
 thirteen years of age when he 
 learned the shoemaker's trade, 
 which he followed industriously 
 for fifteen years. Upon the break- 
 ing out of the war he left the 
 
 43
 
 shoemaker's bench and enlisted in 
 the 4th Illinois Cavalry. He be- 
 gan the study of medicine in 1866 
 and subsequently graduated at 
 Louisville Medical College. He 
 located at St. Joseph in the spring 
 of 1870 and was engaged in prac- 
 tice there till 1883, when he re- 
 moved to Urbana, where he yet 
 lives. 
 
 Dr John W. Scroggs was 
 born March 12, 1817 in Harrison 
 County, Ohio. When but ten 
 years of age his mother died aiul 
 in consequence the family was 
 scattered and young Scroggs was 
 thrown on his own resources when 
 very young. He divided his time 
 between work on the farm and at- 
 tendance upon the subscription 
 schools of the neriod. He be- 
 came interested in medicine, stud- 
 ied that science and finally gradu- 
 ated in medicine at Cincinnati 
 about 1840 and in the same year 
 began practice at Wilmington, 
 Ohio. In 1857 he located at 
 Champaign, where for a time In- 
 engaged in practice, but later quit 
 it for other pursuits. He was at one 
 time proprietor of the Central Il- 
 linois Gazette, predecessor of The 
 Champaign Gazette. In 1868 Dr. 
 Scroggs was elected to the Illi- 
 nois Legislature and served one 
 term. He did his part in getting 
 the University of Illinois located 
 in Champaign County and by Gov- 
 ernor Oglesby was appointed one 
 of its trustees. In 1871 Dr. 
 
 Scroggs began to suffer with symp- 
 toms of paralysis and two years 
 later December 25, 1873, na d an 
 apoplectic stroke from which he 
 died January 3, 1874. 
 
 DR. ELIJAH S. SMITH. 
 
 Elijah S. Smith was born near 
 Bloomington, Ind., March 18, 
 1856, and while in his early teens 
 removed with his parents to a 
 farm near Charleston, 111. His 
 early years were divided between 
 farm work and attendance at the 
 nearby country school. Later he 
 attended Lee's Academy at Loxa, 
 111., and finally became a student 
 at the University of Illinois. For 
 seventeen years of his life he 
 taught school, and during this 
 
 44
 
 period became the recipient of a 
 life-certificate from the Illinois 
 State Educational Authorities, and 
 moreover filled a number of impor- 
 tant and responsible positions in 
 his chosen profession. But notwith- 
 standing his success in teaching he 
 finally turned to medicine and in 
 1893 entered the Chicago Homeo- 
 pathic College, from which he 
 graduated in 1896. Soon af- 
 ter graduation he located for the 
 practice of his profession in Ur- 
 bana and has ever since been ac- 
 tivelv engaged in professional 
 work in that citv. 
 
 DR. WINSTON SOMERS, 1800-1871. 
 
 Dr. Winston Somers. See Pion- 
 eer Doctors Champaign Co. 
 
 W. H. Stevens. See Pioneer 
 Doctors Champaign Co. 
 
 Dr. Charles A. Thompson was 
 born March 27, 1824, at Sandus- 
 ky, Ohio. When very young he 
 removed with his parents to Mich- 
 igan where he grew up on a farm. 
 At the age of 21 he began the 
 study of medicine and in 1849 
 graduated from a Medical College 
 at La Porte, Ind. After practicing 
 a few years elsewhere he located 
 at Urbana in 1856 and was there 
 busy in practice when the civil 
 war broke out in April 1861. He 
 at once entered the service as As- 
 sistant Surgeon of the 25th Illi- 
 nois Infantry. In November he 
 was transferred to the I3th Illinois 
 Infantry, in which organization 
 he served as Assistant Surgeon till 
 its term of service expired, when 
 Dr. Thompson was given the Sur- 
 geon's place in the cjoth Illinois 
 Infantry. He served during the 
 whole period of the war. 
 
 After the war Dr. Thompson lo- 
 cated in Jefferson City, Mo., where 
 he for many years had a large 
 practice. For perhaps a quarter 
 of a century Dr. Thompson was a 
 zealous member of the Missouri 
 State Medical Association and for 
 the period of sixteen years was its 
 Treasurer For many years he 
 was the local Surgeon of the Mis- 
 souri Pacific, and also for a time 
 was a member of the local Board 
 of United States Surgeons for 
 
 45
 
 Pension Examinations. Dr. came actively engaged in profes- 
 Thompson died at his home in sional duties. In 1900 he removed 
 Jefferson City, Mo., December 15, to Urbana and opened an office 
 1897, in his seventy-fourth year. there and has since been busy in 
 
 practice. 
 
 DR. C. L. VAXDOREX. 
 
 Dr. C. L. VanDoren was born 
 at Farmington, 111., May 21, 1857. 
 
 His boyhood days were divided 
 between farm work and attendance 
 at the neighborhood schools. Up- 
 on reaching manhood he deter- 
 mined to make medicine his life 
 vocation and with this end in view 
 entered Bennett Medical College, 
 Chicago, from which he graduated 
 in 1 88 1. Immediately upon com- 
 pleting his medical education Dr. 
 Van Doren located at Hope, Ver- 
 milion Co., 111., where he soon be- 
 
 DR. T. E. WALKER. 
 
 Dr.T.E. Walker was born Aug- 
 ust i, 1845, m Boone Co., Ind. His 
 early days were divided between 
 farm work and attendance upon 
 the neighborhood schools. Later 
 he went to Butler University, In- 
 dianapolis and finally decided to 
 make medicine his life business. 
 He graduated from Indiana Medi- 
 cal School in 1880 and for two 
 years practiced medicine in his na- 
 tive State. In 1880 he located at 
 Penfieldjlll., where he remained in 
 
 46
 
 practice two years, when he re- 
 moved to Gifford, 111., where he 
 has ever since been actively en- 
 gaged in professional work. 
 
 Springfield, 111., and -is now follow- 
 ing professional work there. 
 
 DR. CARRIE N. WHITE. 
 
 Dr. Carrie N. White was born 
 at New Albany, Indiana, and ob- 
 tained her preliminary education 
 in the public schools and at Jack- 
 sonville College, Jacksonville, 111. 
 Upon arriving at the age of young 
 womanhood she entered upon the 
 study of medicine and graduated 
 from the Woman's Medical Col- 
 lege, Chicago, in 1883. With her 
 husband, Dr. J. E. White, she lo- 
 cated in Urbana in 1888, where 
 she remained in practice till 1900 
 when she removed with him to 
 
 DR. J. E. WHITE. 
 
 Dr. J. E. White was born at Lo- 
 gan, Ohio, in 1854 and obtained 
 his preliminary education in the 
 public schools. After attaining 
 manhood he entered upon the 
 study of medicine and graduated 
 from Rush Medical College, Chi- 
 cago, in 1883. 
 
 Early in his professional career 
 Dr. White located in Urbana, 111., 
 where he continued in practice till 
 1906 when he removed to Spring- 
 field, 111., where he has since been 
 in practice. He now holds the po- 
 sition of Supreme Medical Direct- 
 or of the Court of Honor. 
 
 47
 
 DR. Z. T. WHITMIRE, 1868-1900. 
 
 Dr. Z. T. Whitmire was born in 
 Metamora, 111., about 1866, and 
 obtained his education in the com- 
 mon schools and University of Il- 
 linois, from which he graduated in 
 due time. 
 
 He entered upon the study of 
 medicine soon after completing 
 his preliminary education and 
 received his M. D. degree from 
 Rush Medical College, Chicago, 
 in 1890. The same year he 
 located for the practice of 
 his profession at Tolono, 111., re- 
 mained there two years and then 
 removed to Urbana, where he re- 
 
 mained till his death which oc- 
 curred in December, 1899. 
 
 Dr. L. S. Wilcox was born in 
 Lacon, Illinois, in the year 1847. 
 In boyhood he worked on a farm 
 and attended the common schools 
 and later graduated from the 
 Northwestern University. H* 
 took up the study of medicine and 
 in 1873 graduated from Long Is- 
 land Medical College, Brooklyn. 
 He located in Champaign in 1875 
 and very soon had a good practice, 
 which he kept for about fifteen 
 years, when President Harrison 
 appointed him Revenue Collector 
 for the Springfield District, a posi- 
 tion he held for four years. In 
 1897 he was appointed Consul at 
 Hankow, China, by President Mc- 
 Kinley. While a resident of 
 Champaign Dr. Wilcox was sev- 
 eral times Supervisor of the Town- 
 ship and served as Mayor of 
 Champaign City two or three 
 terms. 
 
 Dr. Wilcox is now living in re- 
 tirement at Los Angeles, Cali- 
 fornia. 
 
 While none of the following are 
 physicians, they have all to a 
 greater or less extent been asso- 
 ciated with medical work in Cham- 
 paign County. 
 
 Thomas J. Burrill, LL. D., Ph. 
 D., was born April 25, 1839, at
 
 DR. LEVI S. WiLCOX.
 
 JONATHAN T. BURRILL, 
 Ph. D.. LL. D. 
 
 Pittsfield, Mass. Received his 
 preliminary education at the Illi- 
 nois Normal School from which he 
 graduated in 1865. He has been 
 connected with the University of 
 Illinois since its organization, is 
 now its Vice President and served 
 as acting President from 1901 and 
 1904 and fills the chair of Botany 
 and Horticulture. Has made a 
 special study of diseases of plants 
 and as a Scientist has an inter-na- 
 tional reputation. Is a member of 
 several scientific societies in Amer- 
 ica and Europe. Dr. Burrill is an 
 honorary member of the Cham- 
 paign County Medical Society and 
 has done not a little in sanitation. 
 
 John Milton Gregory, Ph. D., 
 LL. D., was born at Sand Lake, 
 Rensselaer Co., N. Y., July 6, 
 1822. Graduated from Union Col- 
 lege in 1846. After two years' study 
 of law, studied theology and for a 
 number of years was pastor of a 
 Baptist church. In 1858 was 
 elected State Superintendent of 
 Instruction of Michigan, and in 
 1863 became President of Kala- 
 mazoo, College, Michigan. In 1867 
 was elected Regent of Illinois In- 
 dustrial University (later Univer- 
 sity of Illinois.) He served as this 
 Institution's Regent (President) 
 till 1880 and more than all others 
 shaped and moulded the school 
 that it might grow into its present 
 proud position. In 1877 Governor 
 Cullom appointed Dr. Gregory a 
 member of the Illinois State Board 
 of Health at the date of its organ- 
 ization. During his mem- 
 bership he was elected Presi- 
 dent of the Board and by his ready 
 pen and forceful speech did 
 much to start the Board of Health 
 along right lines. From 1882 to 
 1885 he was a member of the Civil 
 Service Commission under Presi- 
 dent Arthur. 
 
 Dr. Gregory died October 20, 
 1898, and by his request was bur- 
 ied on the campus of the Univer- 
 sity of Illinois. 
 
 Stephen A. Forbes, LL. D., Ph. 
 D., was born May 29, 1844, at 
 Silver Creek, 111. Obtained his 
 
 50
 
 JOHN MILTON GREGORY. Ph. D., LL. D.
 
 STEPHEN A. FORBES. Ph. D., LL. D 
 
 preliminary education in the pub- 
 lic schools, 1'eloit College and 
 Rush Medical College. Dr. 
 Forbes is a Scientist of interna- 
 tional reputation and is a member 
 of a number of Scientific Societies 
 both at home and abroad. For 
 many years he has been Illinois 
 State Entomologist and is now Di- 
 rector of the State Laboratory of 
 Natural History. For a number 
 of years he served as Dean of the 
 College of Science, University of 
 Illinois, and in this institution 
 fills the chair of Zoology and En- 
 tomology. He is an honorary 
 member of the Champaign County 
 Medical Society. 
 
 .MISS FRANCES NORTH. 
 
 Superintendent Julia F. Burnham 
 Hospital. 
 
 Miss Frances Xorth was born 
 at Edgewood, Efifingham County, 
 Illinois, and when eleven years of 
 age removed with her parents to 
 Sparta. Michigan, where she grew 
 to young womanhood, meanwhile 
 obtaining her education in the 
 common schools. In 1891 she en- 
 tered the Training School for 
 Nurses at Grace Hospital, Detroit, 
 Mich. , from which she graduated 
 in 1893. After following her pro- 
 fession for a time in Michigan, 
 she came to Champaign, 111., 
 where in 1896 she entered the 
 Julia F. Burnham Hospital, in 
 which for many years she has ren- 
 dered most efficient service as Su- 
 perintendent. 
 
 52
 
 THE CHAMPAIGN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY 
 
 With the coming of the Illinois 
 Central and Wabash Railways in 
 the early fifties, the population of 
 Champaign County increased rap- 
 idly. And with the increase of 
 population came more doctors, 
 enough in fact, to a little later jus- 
 tify the formation of a Medical 
 Society. 
 
 At this late day it is not possi- 
 ble to give the names of all the 
 doctors in attendance upon its 
 first meeting. But among those 
 present were Drs. H. C. Howard 
 and C. H. Mills of Champaign and 
 Dr. J. T. Miller of Urbana. It is 
 a matter for congratulation that 
 two of these men are yet with us. 
 and well preserved in hearty old 
 age. 
 
 In 1860, the year following its 
 organization, the Society pub 
 lished in pamphlet form its con- 
 stitution, together with the Code 
 of Ethics of the American Medi- 
 cal Association. A copy of this 
 publication, the property of Dr. E. 
 A. Kratz, dim, faded and yellow 
 with age, is before the writer of 
 these pages. 
 
 Quoting from this old pamph- 
 let we find that Article II of the 
 Constitution declares: "The ob- 
 jects contemplated by this Associ- 
 ation are: i, The establishment 
 and maintenance of union, har- 
 mony and good government 
 
 among its members, thereby pro- 
 moting the character, interest, 
 honor and usefulness of the pro- 
 fession. II. The cultivation and 
 advancement of medical science 
 and literature by the collection, 
 diffusion, interchange, preserva- 
 tion and general circulation of 
 medical knowledge among its 
 members." 
 
 Article VI, Section I, of the 
 constitution declares that, "Any 
 member who shall be guilty of 
 gross misconduct, either as a mem- 
 ber of this association or citizen 
 of the community, and shall be 
 palpably derelict in duty, either as 
 a member or officer shall be liable 
 to expulsion, or such other cen- 
 sure as the society may direct." 
 
 Following is the published list 
 of members in 1860: 
 S. L. Bearse. 
 Robert H. Brown. 
 A. Jackson Crane. 
 Wm. M. Goodwin. 
 H. C. Howard. 
 John F. Isom. 
 S. W. Kincaid. 
 J. T. Miller. 
 C. H. Mills. 
 Samuel K. Page. 
 Winston Somers. 
 John Swain. 
 M. B. Thompson. 
 C. A. Thompson. 
 
 53
 
 Thus the Champaign County 
 Medical Society entered on its ca- 
 reer of usefulness fifty years 
 ago; and earnestly sought to bring 
 about "The establishment of un- 
 ion, harmony and good govern- 
 ment among its members," and 
 "the cultivation and advancement 
 of medical science and literature 
 by the collection, diffusion, inter- 
 change, preservation and general 
 circulation of medical knowledge 
 among its members." 
 
 That these most desirable ob- 
 jects have, at least to a degree, 
 been attained, no one familiar with 
 the workings of this society will 
 question. 
 
 With the history of the Cham- 
 paign County Medical Society 
 during the first fifteen years of its 
 existence, the writer knows noth- 
 ing only what he has gleaned from 
 its records and conversation with 
 the pioneer members. But of its 
 work since, he can speak with 
 some authority; for more than a 
 third of a century he has had the 
 privilege of being one of its mem- 
 bers, and for about ten years 
 served as its secretary. Some one 
 has said that the secretary of a 
 medical society is the society. 
 This is strong language, neverthe- 
 less a secretary has very much to 
 do in making a medical society a 
 success, or the reverse. 
 
 In 1874, Dr. M. S. Brown was 
 secretary of the society and did 
 his work especially well. In a 
 
 year or two he was succeeded by 
 Dr. L. S. Wilcox, who filled the 
 place acceptably for several years. 
 The last half of the seventies was 
 a most prosperous period for the 
 society and the men who at that 
 time might be referred to as its 
 pillars were Drs. Wm. M. Good- 
 win, M. S. Brown and S. H. Bir- 
 ney of Urbana; Drs. H. C. How- 
 ard and J. T. Pearman of Cham- 
 paign; Dr. A. T. Darrah of Tolo- 
 no: Drs. Jas. Core and T. M. Hess 
 of Homer: Dr. (i. W. Hartman of 
 Sidney and Dr. David Jennings of 
 St. Joseph. The meetings oc- 
 curred monthly and the society 
 was "on wheels," as one of the 
 members expressed it: That is, 
 meetings were held at various 
 towns in the County. Besides 
 Champaign and Urbana it met in 
 Tolono, Pliilo, Sidney, Homer, 
 Rantoul, etc. At most of these 
 meetings some hospitable member 
 threw open his doors, especiallv 
 the one that led to the dining 
 room, where would be found a 
 table literally groaning under its 
 weight of good things from which 
 every doctor was expected to feast 
 heartily. The social features of 
 these meetings added not a little 
 to the attendance and interest. 
 Frequently three sessions were 
 held, namely, a forenoon, an af- 
 ternoon and an evening session. 
 The papers read were carefully 
 prepared and never failed to call 
 out full and animated discussions. 
 
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 Almost to a man the older mem- 
 bers of the society were at this 
 time good off hand talkers and 
 what the younger members may 
 have lacked in this direction they 
 sought to, in a measure, make up 
 by preparing carefully written pa- 
 pers. 
 
 An edition of the constitution 
 and by-laws published at this per- 
 iod shows a list of twenty-three 
 members. And as an illustration 
 of the mutations of time it is in- 
 teresting to note that of these 
 twenty-three doctors thirteen are 
 dead, three have moved out of the 
 County, and one, strange to say, 
 has grown rich, but not in the 
 practice of medicine, as many 
 years ago he changed his calling 
 He is to-day a farmer and stock 
 raiser on an extensive scale and 
 can count his cattle on a thousand 
 hills corn hills. And only six of 
 the above named twenty-three 
 members are left in Champaign 
 County to practice medicine. 
 
 With the advent of the eighties 
 the society passed into a period 
 when not much interest was taken 
 in its meetings. Several causes 
 conduced to this state of relative 
 apathy. One was the fact that 
 several of the old "wheel horses" 
 so to speak, were lost to the soci- 
 ety by death or removal from the 
 county. But the organization was 
 faithfully kept up and not long af- 
 ter the advent of the nineties the 
 society received a new impetus 
 
 and entered upon the highly pros- 
 perous career that for about twen- 
 ty years past it has been enjoying. 
 One reason for this renewed life is 
 the fact that a great many bright, 
 active, new men have come into 
 the County. The meetings of the 
 Champaign County Medical Soci- 
 ety occur near the middle of each 
 month, are well attended and 
 much interest is manifested in 
 them by those in attendance. Two 
 or three papers are presented at 
 each session and these unfailing- 
 ly draw out free discussions. 
 
 FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY. 
 In May, 1899, the Champaign 
 County Medical Society celebrat- 
 ed its fortieth Anniversary by a 
 Banquet at the Beardsley in 
 Champaign. Drs. C. H. Mills and 
 H. C. Howard (Dr. J. T. Miller 
 unable to attend,) representatives 
 of the founders of the society, 
 were the guests of honor. Thirty- 
 six sat down to the table. 
 
 Following is a copy of the 
 toasts on this occasion: 
 Our Society: Its Home and Its 
 Founders. 
 
 Dr. Chas. B. Johnson. 
 "They builded better than they 
 
 knew." 
 
 Our Society: Its Beginning. 
 
 Dr. C. H. Mills. (One of the 
 founders.) 
 "There were giants in those days.' 
 
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 Our Society: Its Beginning and 
 the Pioneer. 
 
 tv. 
 
 Physicians of Champaign Coun- 
 Dr. H. C. Howard. 
 
 "In ancient days they used to 
 praise, 
 
 The God-like art of healing 
 An art that then engaged all men 
 
 Possessed of sense and feeling." 
 
 Our Society: In Days Gone By. 
 Dr. M. S. Brown. 
 
 "There are no days like the good 
 
 old days 
 
 The days when we were youth- 
 ful; 
 When human-kind were pure 
 
 mind, 
 
 And speech and deeds were 
 truthful." 
 
 Our Dead. 
 
 Dr. J. D. Mandeville. 
 
 "Out yonder in the moonlight, 
 wherein God's acre lies, 
 
 Go Angels walking to and fro, 
 singing their lullabies. 
 
 Sleep, oh sleep! 
 
 The shepherd guardeth his 
 
 sheep: 
 
 Fast speedeth the night away, 
 Soon cometh the glorious day: 
 Sleep, weary ones, while ye 
 
 may 
 
 Sleep, oh sleep." 
 
 The Country Doctor. 
 
 Dr. D. R. Brower. 
 
 "But though he sees death and 
 
 disease 
 
 Run riot all around him, 
 Patient and true and valorous too, 
 
 Such have I always found him/' 
 
 The City Doctor. 
 
 Dr. W. H. Graham. 
 
 How blest is he who knows no 
 
 cleaner strife 
 Than art's long battle with the 
 
 foes of life! 
 No doubt assails him, doing still 
 
 his best 
 
 And trusting kindly nature for 
 the rest. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
 
 The Doctor in Literature. 
 Dr. O. B. Will. 
 
 "A heap, indeed of what we read 
 By doctors is provided 
 
 For to those groves Apollo loves 
 His learning is decided." 
 The Medical Man as Seen 
 
 Through the Eyes of a Lawyer. 
 Col. J. S. Wolfe. 
 
 "Upon an average twice a week, 
 When anguish clouds my brow, 
 
 My good physician friend I seek 
 To know what ails me now." 
 
 When the toasts had all been 
 given, certificates of life member- 
 ship were conferred upon the fol-
 
 lowing gentlemen, who had be- 
 longed to the Champaign County 
 Medical Society twenty-five years 
 or more: 
 
 Dr. M. S. Brown, 
 Dr. H. C. Howard, 
 Dr. C. B. Johnson, 
 Dr. E. A. Kratz, 
 Dr. J. D. Mandeville, 
 Dr. D. R. McKinney, 
 Dr. C. H. Mills, 
 Dr. J. T. Miller. 
 
 "So we dream and dream of the 
 
 good old times, 
 And our hearts grow tenderer, 
 
 fonder, 
 As those dear old dreams bring 
 
 soothing gleams 
 Of Heaven away off yonder." 
 
 Following is a list of members 
 in 1899: James M. Bartholow, 
 W. F. Bures, T. |. Burrill (hono- 
 rary), W. B. Dillon, J. T. Miller, 
 H. W. Miller, C. N. White, and J. 
 E. White, Urbana; C. M. Craig, 
 H. E. Gushing, J. C. Dodds, J. H. 
 Finch, T. A. Fujlenwider, W. L. 
 Gray, H. C. Howard, C. B. John- 
 son, E. A. Kratz, J. D. Mande- 
 ville, C. H. Mills, Ellen Miner, W. 
 K. Newcomb, J. O. Pearman, F. 
 H. Powers, Charles Spears, R. D. 
 Shurtz, S. W. Shurtz, W. L. 
 Schowengerdt and A. S. Wall. 
 Champaign; J. C. Harmon, John 
 Laughlin and J. S. Mason, Ran- 
 toul; H. E. Dunlap, John Marten, 
 and S. S. Salisbury, Tolono: J. M. 
 
 Hadden, Seymour; J. A. Hoffman 
 and Z. E. Matheny, Pesotum; T. 
 E. Walker and T. J. McKinney, 
 Gifford; J. T. Purcell, St. Joseph; 
 John H. Gardiner, Mahomet; J. 
 W. Turner and G. L. Williamson, 
 Homer; S. J. Hicks, Ivesdale; L. 
 O. Sale and R. P. Dowd, Fisher; 
 E. H. Kinchelow, Sidney; J. V. 
 Champion, Mansfield; W. F. Mat- 
 son, Monticello; D. R. McKinney, 
 Oaksville, Ind.; M. S. Brown. 
 Danville; L. S. Wilcox, Hankow. 
 China. 
 
 Of the above. Dr. T. J. Burrill is 
 an honorary member. And Drs. 
 Brown, Howard, Johnson, Kratz. 
 Mandeville, D. R. McKinney. 
 Mills and J. T. Miller are life mem- 
 bers in consequence of twenty-fivp 
 years or longer membership in the 
 societv. 
 
 LIST OF MEMBERS IN 1909 
 
 Alpers, J. H., Ranloul 
 Baker, H. W. 
 Baker, Nellie M., Urbana 
 Burres, W. F., Urbana 
 Bartholow, J. M., Urbana 
 Brayshaw, Jos., Homer 
 Brewer, E. M., Rantoul 
 Bundy, H. W., Pesotum 
 Craig, C. M., Champaign 
 Davis, C. S., Champaign 
 Diller, F. S., Rantoul 
 Dicks, T. A., Broadland 
 D'llon, Wm., Urbana 
 Dodds, J. C., Champaign 
 Dowd, R. P., Fisher 
 Exton, Lucy A., Thomasboro 
 Exton, T. J., Thomasboro 
 
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 Finch, J. H., Champaign 
 
 Gray, W. L. Champaign 
 
 Gulick, C. D., Urbana 
 
 Hadden, J. M., Seymour 
 
 Hanmore, J. J., Urbana 
 
 Hoffman, J. A., Pesotum 
 
 Howard, H. C., Champaign 
 
 Hough, C. F., Champaign 
 
 Hicks, S. J., Ivesdale 
 
 Honn, W. M., Champaign 
 
 Hilgenberg, J. F., Pesotum 
 
 Johnson, C. B., Champaign 
 
 Jesse, R. L., Philo 
 
 Kariher, H. C., Champaign 
 
 Kratz, E. A., Champaign 
 
 Kinchloe, E. W., Glenn Ferry Idaho 
 
 Kelso, C. E., Champaign 
 
 Lyons, Jennie, Champaign 
 
 Lowery, J. E., Homer 
 
 Lamb, J. G., Fisher 
 
 Lindley, A. M., Urbana 
 
 Lawson, J. M., Sidney 
 
 Mandeville, J. D., Champaign 
 
 Marten, John, Tolono 
 
 McKinney, T. J., Gifford 
 
 Mason, J. S., Urbana 
 
 Miner, Ellen, Champaign 
 
 Munsell, W. W., Urbana 
 
 Morlan, H. J., Ludlow 
 
 Matheny, Z. E. Des Moines, Iowa 
 
 Miller, L. C., Rantoul 
 
 Morland, W. J., Penfield 
 
 Newcomb, W. K., Champaign 
 
 Newcomb, C. F., Champaign 
 
 Osborne, J. W., Champaign 
 
 Pearman, J. O., Mahomet 
 
 Powers, F. H., Champaign 
 
 Potter, G. A., Royal 
 
 Polk, J. L., Champaign 
 
 Rees, Win., St. Joseph 
 
 Purcell, J. T., St. Joseph 
 
 Rees, Omar H., Ogden 
 
 Renfrew, F. C., Sadorus 
 
 Rudy, F. T., Champaign 
 
 Rice, G. W., Champaign 
 
 Ranes, J. L. Sidney 
 
 Salisbury, S. S., Tolono 
 
 Sale, L. O., Fisher 
 
 Shurtz, R. E., Champaign 
 
 Shurtz, S. W., Champaign 
 
 Schowengerdt, W. E., Champaign 
 
 Spears, C. H., Champaign 
 
 Scheurich, Jos., Philo 
 
 Smith, E. S., Urbana 
 
 Stanley, O. O., Urbana 
 
 Smith, H. L., Ivesdale 
 
 Van Doren, C. L., Urbana 
 
 Vollborn, C. L., Homer 
 
 Walker, T. E., Gifford 
 
 Wall, A. S., Champaign 
 
 Wilson, H. V., Champaign 
 
 Yantis, D. E., Urbana 
 
 Zorger, A. L., Champaign 
 
 Zorger, W. H., Champaign 
 
 Zorger, C. H., Rantoul 
 
 Following are honorary members: 
 
 C. F. Brisco, M. D., Urbana 
 
 J. T. Burrill, Ph. D., LL. D., Urbana 
 
 S. A. Forbes, Ph. D., LL. D., Urbana 
 
 George T. Kemp, Ph. D., M. D., Cham- 
 paign 
 
 FIFTY YEARS IN PRACTICE 
 
 February 27, 1900 the citizens the Champaign County Medical 
 
 and physicians of Champaign gav^ Society gave a banquet at the 
 
 Dr. H. C. Howard a banquet in Beardsley when Drs. C. H. Mills 
 
 commemoration of his having been and S. S. Sallisbury were the 
 
 engaged in the practice of medi- guests of honor in consequence 
 
 cine fifty years. April n, IQOI, of each of them having practiced 
 
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 medicine fifty years. Upon this 
 occasion Drs. Bartholow, Harmon, 
 Salisbury and Wilcox were made 
 life members. 
 
 The Champaign County Medical 
 Society is one of the best medical 
 organizations of its kind in the 
 state. There are many County 
 Medical societies in Illinois, but 
 only two societies of these have a 
 larger membership than has the 
 Champaign County, and none are 
 more instrumental for good. 
 
 JOINED THE SILENT MA- 
 JORITY. 
 
 Many Champaign County doc- 
 tors have crossed to the other 
 shore, and the following though 
 not an absolutely complete list of 
 our deceased brothers, is neverthe- 
 less measurably so. 
 
 N. H. Adams, E. C. Bartholow, 
 
 E. I. Birdsell, S. H. Birney, M. 
 S. Brown, Herman Chaffee, Job S. 
 Coggeshall, Naomi Collins, Chas. 
 P. Cooper, W. A. Conkey, James 
 Core, C. G. Crane, Jacob Culver, 
 H. E. Cushing, A. T. Darrah, R. 
 C. Fullenweider, John H. Gardin- 
 er, M. Garst A. D. Gillum, - 
 Goodman, William Goodwin, Ab- 
 bie G. Hall, Lyman Hall, - 
 Harmon, J. E. Harmon, G. W. 
 Hartman, C. C. Hawes, T. M. 
 Hess, William H. Hess, David 
 Jennings, S. D. Jerauld, B. D. 
 Keator, James H. Lyons, D. R. 
 McKinney, C. B. McClelland, J. 
 M. McClure, C. H. Mills, J. M. 
 Minturn, Benjamin C. Morris, P. 
 C. Mosier, John North. S. K. 
 Page, J. T. Pearman, Winston 
 Somers, S .W. Shumaker. Harman 
 Stevens, - Smith, C. A. 
 
 Thompson, Z. T. Whitmire. 
 
 FIFTIETH ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE CHAMPAIGN 
 COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY 
 
 1859" 
 
 Dr. J. T. Purcell, Toastmaster. 
 
 Our Society and Its Earliest 
 Morning. 
 Dr. Charles B. Johnson. 
 
 "The voices of morning how sweet 
 
 is their trill 
 When the shadows have turned 
 
 and the evening is still. 
 
 Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
 
 19O9 
 
 Our Society and Some of its Yes- 
 terdays. 
 
 Dr. Jacob G. Chambers, 
 Dr. William Dillon, 
 Dr. Hartwell C. Howard, 
 Dr. Joseph T. Miller, 
 Dr. John D. Mandeville, 
 Dr. Samuel Scott Salisbury. 
 
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 "And ye the honor'd sires to whom 
 we owe 
 
 The better share of all the best we 
 know, 
 
 Speak from the past, and say what 
 prize was sent 
 
 To crown the toiling years so free- 
 ly spent." Holmes. 
 
 Our Society Today 
 
 Dr. William K. Newcomb 
 
 "Yes, sharp the trials, stern the 
 
 daily tasks 
 That suffering Nature from her 
 
 servant asks." 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 Our Society Tomorrow 
 
 \ Dr. John Marten. 
 
 | Dr. William F. Burres. 
 
 "Our tardy art shall wear an an- 
 gel's wings 
 
 And life shall lengthen with the joy 
 it brings." Holmes. 
 
 Our Society and 
 Gone Before. 
 
 Our Brothers 
 
 Dr. James M. Bartholow 
 
 "Nay! count not our numbers 
 some hundreds we know 
 
 But these are above and those un- 
 . der the snow 
 
 And thoughts are still mingled 
 wherever we meet 
 
 For those we remember and these 
 that we greet." Holmes. 
 
 Our Society as Seen by Other 
 Eyes. 
 
 Hon. W. B. McKinley. 
 Hon. Oliver B. Dobbins. 
 
 "Sweet is the scene where genial 
 friendship plays 
 
 The pleasant game of interchang- 
 ing praise." Holmes. 
 
 Our Society and its Nearest 
 Neighbor The University of 
 Illinois. 
 
 DR. JONATHAN T. BURRELL | You'dknmo he's 
 DK. STEPHEN A. FORBES f X *''* 
 
 "The True Knight of Learning! 
 the world holds him dear, 
 
 Lord bless him, Joy crown him, 
 God speed his career!" 
 
 Holmes. 
 
 THE JULIA F. BURNHAM 
 
 HOSPITAL. 
 
 "The idea of the establishment 
 of a general hospital in Champaign 
 had its origin in the Social Science 
 Club of that city about the time of 
 the World's Fair in 1893. A. C. 
 Burnham, whose wife was a promi- 
 nent member of the club, gave at 
 
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 first $10,000 for a building, which 
 sum he afterwards increased to 
 $19,000. J. C. Kirkpatrick of- 
 fered a site on easy terms amount- 
 ing to a gift of $1,000, and Mr. 
 Burnham applied $1,500 of his gift 
 to secure the site. The Hospital 
 Board of Directors was chosen 
 from the Club, and in due time 
 secured a charter from the state, 
 and made Mrs. Burnham its 
 first president. It was the wish of 
 her husband, the principal benefac- 
 tor of the hospital, that it should 
 become a memorial to Mrs. Burn- 
 ham, established during her life- 
 time. 
 
 Later an auxiliary organization 
 was formed, called the Hospital 
 association, with power to elect 
 members yearly to fill vacancies on 
 the Board, and with this Associa- 
 tion rests the final responsibility of 
 the maintenance of the Hos- 
 pital. Mrs. Burnham died before 
 the building was completed, but it 
 was opened March 5, 1895, and 
 has been constantly occupied 
 since that time." 
 
 Board of Directors. 
 
 Mrs. E. S. Clark, 
 
 Mrs. J. J. Dallenbach, 
 
 Mrs. S. A. Forbes, 
 
 Mrs. Isaac Fielding, 
 
 Mrs. N. M. Harris, 
 
 Mrs. B. McCormick, 
 
 Mrs. J. L. Polk, 
 
 Mrs. F. D. Rugg, 
 
 Mrs. A. W. Spalding. 
 Officers. 
 
 Mrs. J. L. Polk, President. 
 
 Mrs. N. M. Harris and Mrs. F. 
 D. Rugg, Vice-Presidents. 
 
 Mrs. B. McCormick, Secretary. 
 
 Mrs. A. W. Spalding, Treasurer. 
 Medical Staff. 
 
 Dr. W. F. Burres, 
 
 Dr. C. M. Craig, 
 
 Dr. W. L. Gray, 
 
 Dr. C. D. Gulick, 
 
 Dr. W. M. Honn, 
 
 Dr. J. S. Mason, 
 
 Dr. W. K. Newcomb, 
 
 Dr. F. H. Powers, 
 
 Dr. W. E. Schowengerdt, 
 
 Dr. C. H. Spears, 
 
 Dr. A. S. WaH. 
 
 Miss Frances North, Superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 Miss Mary Uglow, Superintend- 
 ent of Nurses. 
 
 For the Julia F. Burnham Hos- 
 pital no words of commendation 
 are necessary. Since its establish- 
 ment it is the wonder of all who 
 give the matter consideration, how 
 the people of this locality managed 
 to get along all these years with- 
 out a first-class hospital. 
 
 CHAMPAIGN COUNTY DOC- 
 TORS IN POLITICS. 
 
 Under this heading may be in- 
 cluded the names of Drs. E. C. 
 Bartholow, James Core, James H. 
 Lyons, J. W. Scroggs and L. S. 
 Wilcox. 
 
 Dr. Bartholow was elected to 
 the Illinois Legislature in 1876 
 
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 and had the honor of assisting in 
 placing on the Statute books the 
 first Illinois Medical Practice Act 
 which went into effect in 1877. 
 He was a resident and practitionei 
 of medicine at Mahomet where his 
 death occurred in the last decade 
 of the Nineteenth Century. See 
 biographical sketches. 
 
 Dr. James Core of Homer, Illi- 
 nois, was elected to the Illinois 
 Legislature in 1878 and during his 
 term rendered faithful and efficient 
 service. His death occurred in 
 1888. See biographical sketches. 
 
 Dr. James H. Lyons, one of the 
 first physicians in Champaign 
 County and the first to locate at 
 Sidney, was elected to the Illinois 
 Legislature in 1836 and had the 
 honor of serving with Abraham 
 Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, E. 
 D. Baker, General Shields, Col. 
 
 John Hardin, U. F. Linder and 
 other men of marked ability. See 
 Pioneer doctors in Champaign 
 County. 
 
 Dr. J. W. Scroggs was elected to 
 the Illinois Legislature in 1868. 
 He did his part in securing the lo- 
 cation of the University of Illinois 
 in Champaign County. Governor 
 Oglesby appointed him one of its 
 first trustees. He died in 1874. 
 See biographical sketches. 
 
 Dr. L. S. Wilcox in addition to 
 holding a number of local offices, 
 was appointed Revenue Collector 
 of the Springfield District by Pres- 
 ident Harrison in 1889 and served 
 four years. In 1897 President Mc- 
 Kinley appointed him Consul at 
 Hankow, China, a position he 
 filled acceptably for a number of 
 years. He is now living in retire- 
 ment at Los Angeles, California. 
 See biographical sketches. 
 
 ILLINOIS MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT 
 
 Had its inception in Champaign 
 County in 1786, centennial year, 
 the Illinois State Medical Socie- 
 ty met in the Twin Cities May 16, 
 17 and 18. The sessions of the So- 
 ciety were held in the Chapel of 
 the Main University Building. 
 
 The propriety of a medical prac- 
 tice act regulating the practice of 
 medicine and the organization of a 
 State Board of Health came up for 
 consideration the last day of the 
 meeting. And after being fully 
 
 discussed, Dr. S. H. Birney of Ur- 
 bana, moved that a committee 
 consisting of a medical man from 
 each congressional district be ap- 
 pointed to memorialize the Illinois 
 Legislature upon the urgent need 
 of the proposed medical legislation. 
 
 Dr. William M. Chambers of 
 Charleston, offered a substitute 
 that after receiving some modifi- 
 cations read as follows: 
 
 "Resolved, That a committee be 
 appointed to memorialize the next 
 
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 legislature on the subject of the 
 appointment of a State Board of 
 Health; and that with proper 
 modifications the act by which the 
 Board of Health of Massachusetts 
 was inaugurated be submitted to 
 the same as a basis for the Illinois 
 State Board. 
 
 "Resolved, That as members o* 
 the State Medical Society, each 
 one shall consider himself bound 
 to urge the propriety of a State 
 Board of Health upon the repre- 
 sentatives from his district." 
 
 The Memorializing Committee 
 was appointed and consisted of the 
 following physicians: E. W. Gray 
 of Bloomington; Wm. M. Cham- 
 bers of Charleston; S.. H. Birney 
 of Urbana; Wm. Massey of Paris; 
 F. B. Haller of Vandalia. 
 
 The committee did its work well 
 and it the session of the legislature 
 of 1876-7 the original Illinois Medi- 
 cal Practice Act passed both hous- 
 
 es, was signed by Governor Cullom 
 and speedily became the law of 
 the commonwealth. 
 
 Champaign County was fortun- 
 ate in having in the legislature at 
 that time Dr. E. C. Bartholow of 
 Mahomet and the Hon. R. A. 
 Bower of Tolono, both of whom 
 worked assiduously for the bill. In 
 due time Governor Cullom ap- 
 pointed the members of the first 
 Board of Health and upon this 
 Champaign County was represent- 
 ed by J. M. Gregory, LL. D.* 
 regent of the university, and one of 
 the recognized leading educators 
 of the west. Dr. Gregory did 
 most excellent work in organizing 
 and putting the new Board on its 
 feet, so to speak. With his well 
 known versatility, he prepared 
 several excellent papers on medi- 
 cal education and sanitation. Dur- 
 ing his term of service he was hon- 
 ored with the presidency of the 
 board for two years. 
 
 CHAMPAIGN COUNTY DOCTORS AND THEIR 
 SEVERAL LOCATIONS 
 
 Bondville This village had its 
 origin about 1870 and was named 
 in honor of L. J. Bond of Monti- 
 cello, an officer in the early history 
 of the railway that goes through 
 the town. The first physician to 
 locate in Bondville was Dr. O. B. 
 Simmons, who came there in the 
 seventies and remained till 1896, 
 
 when he was soon after succeeded 
 by Dr. Homer A. Seymour, who 
 remained till about 1902, when he 
 was followed by Dr. A. J. Foelsch 
 who practiced there till 1908, when 
 he removed to Chicago. Dr. R. P. 
 Donovan is the present Bondville 
 physician. 
 
 Broadlands This village was 
 
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 laid out in 1883, but in 1881 Dr. 
 W. F. Burres practiced medicine 
 in that locality and had his office 
 at the Old Head Quarters House. 
 Dr. Burres removed to Sidney in 
 1882 and was succeeded at his 
 first location by Dr. George T. 
 Rowland, who was there during 
 1882-3. Dr. Lon Roberts located 
 at Broadlands in 1883, but did not 
 remain long. In 1883 Dr. C. A. 
 Coffman ca^ne and practiced for 
 about three years when he re- 
 moved elsewhere. Dr. T. E. 
 Walker was at Broadlands late in 
 the nineties for a short time only. 
 Dr. T .A. Dicks came in 1892 and 
 at this writing is the only physician 
 there. 
 
 Champaign The original part 
 of what is now Champaign City, 
 was platted in 1853, but the plat 
 was not recorded until 1855. 
 There seems to have been much 
 discussion over the choice of 
 a name for the proposed 
 town. Clarksfield, Rantoul and 
 Urbana City were in turn con- 
 sidered. The first was abandoned, 
 Rantoul was given to the now well- 
 known village fourteen miles north 
 and the new town was finally in- 
 corporated as West Urbana, but 
 the plats were recorded as addi- 
 tions to Urbana. The station for 
 a time was called Urbana and the 
 residents of Urbana proper for n 
 number of years referred to the 
 place as "the Depot." West Ur- 
 bana continued to be the name 
 
 till 1860, when by act of legislature 
 it was changed to Champaign, at 
 which time it may be said the new 
 city entered on its career prope~. 
 The first physician to locate in 
 Champaign was Dr. R. W. Shu- 
 maker, brother-in-law to Judge 
 Calvin C. Staley. November 9, 
 1854, Dr. Schumacher published 
 a card in the Urbana Union an- 
 nouncing his new location. Dr. 
 H. C. Howard came in 1855; also 
 Dr. S. W. Kincaid, who remained 
 but a few years. A little later 
 came Drs. J. Hollister, S. K. 
 Page, Joseph Hagar, C. L. Swain 
 and A. J. Crane. Dr. Page con- 
 tinued in practice till advancing 
 years compelled his retirement late 
 in the seventies. Dr. C. H. Mills 
 came in 1856 and remained till his 
 death in 1907. Dr. J. T. Pearman 
 located in Champaign in 1864 and 
 remained in active practice ti 1 ! 
 about a year and a half before his 
 death in May, 1896. 
 
 Dr. R. H. Huddlestone located 
 in Champaign in the early seven- 
 ties and remained in active prac- 
 tice till about 1878, when he r* 1 - 
 moved to Florida. Dr. L. S. Wil- 
 cox came in 1875 and was in active 
 professional work till 1889, when 
 he became the district revenue col- 
 lector. Dr. Lyman Hall removed 
 from Savoy to Champaign in 1887 
 where he continued to reside till 
 bis death in 1892. Dr. D. A. 
 Cheev.er located in Champaign in 
 1870, continued in active practice 
 
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 till 1877, when he was succeeded 
 by Dr. T. J. Merryman, who re- 
 mained till 1885. Dr. C. D. Ttif- 
 ford came in 1879 and continued 
 in practice about six years 
 when he was followed by Dr. P. 
 S. Replogle. In 1890 Dr. Abbie G. 
 Hall located in Champaign and 
 practiced till her death in 1898. 
 Dr. H. E. Gushing came in 1884 
 and practiced till his death in 1906. 
 
 Following is a list of physicians 
 now in Champaign with dates of 
 their arrival: Craig, C. M., 1899: 
 Cogswell, G. E., 1902; Dodds, J 
 C., 1900; Davis, C. S., 1902; 
 Finch, J. K.. 1895; Gray, W. L., 
 1891; Haley, H. A., 1882! Howard, 
 H. C., 1855; Hough, C. F., 1894: 
 Honn, W. M., 1900; Johnson, 
 Charles B., 1879; Kratz. E A., 
 1869.; Lyons, Jennie, 1903: Mande- 
 ville, J. D.. 1900; Miner, Ellen, 
 1896; Mills, C. H., 1857: New- 
 corhb, C. F.. 1904; Newcomb. W. 
 K., 1896: Osbofne, J. W., 1906, 
 Powers. F. H., 1900, Rice, Gordan 
 W. 1907; Schowengerdt, W. E.. 
 1897: Spears, Charles H., 1890; 
 Shurtz, R. E., 1898; Shurtz, S. W., 
 1899; Rudy. E. G., 1904: Wall, A. 
 S.; 1896; Wilson, H. Y.,i9o6; Kar- 
 ih-er, H. C., 1908; Kirby, Darwin 
 1909; Zorger, Annie L., 1895: Zor- 
 ger, W. H., 1895. 
 
 Dewey This is one of the new- 
 est villages of the county. Dr 
 Beard was its first physician and 
 located there about 1888, but did 
 
 not remain long and after him 
 came in succession Drs. Bailey, 
 Templeton, R. P. Dowd, "A. Chen- 
 oweth and one Dr. Heath, who 
 did not long remain. Dr. Samuel 
 Donovan is the present Dewey 
 representative of the profession. 
 
 Fisher Dr. James G. Elder was 
 the first physician in this place. He 
 yet resides there, but is now out 
 of practice. Dr. Joseph Carr was 
 the next, but did not remain long. 
 About 1880 Dr. A. L. Elder prac- 
 ticed there for a time, when he 
 removed to Nebraska. Dr. W. K. 
 Newcomb located in Fisher and 
 continued in active practice there 
 till 1896, when he removed to 
 Champaign. Dr. S. W. Shurtz be- 
 gan the practice of medicine there 
 in 1893 and continued till 1899, 
 when he changed his location to 
 Champaign. Thtr present physi- 
 cians of Fisher are Dr. R. P. Dowd 
 who came in 1896, Dr. L. O. Sale 
 in 1898 and Dr. J. G. Lamb, a re- 
 cent arrival. 
 
 Foosland The first physician in 
 this village was one Dr. Stephens, 
 who about 1870, was succeeded by 
 Dr. H. L. Harris, who practiced 
 there for a number of years, when 
 he in turn was followed by Dr. 
 A. C. Albright. In 1892 Dr. J. E. 
 Lowry, who is yet at Foosland, 
 became the successor of Dr. Al- 
 bright, but later removed to Ho- 
 mer. Dr. Frederick H. York and 
 
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 W. P. Scott are Foosland's present 
 physicians. 
 
 Gifford This village was laid 
 out in 1876 and was named in hon- 
 or of Benjamin Gifford. The first} 
 doctor in the place was Dr. Sal- 
 mons^ who remained but a short 
 time. He was followed by Dr. T. 
 J. Berry. Later came Dr. W. Van 
 Camp and in 1877 Dr. D. R. Mc-j 
 Kinney, who practiced medicine^ 
 there for about twenty years and 
 then went to Indiana. In 
 1883 Dr. T. J. McKinney, son 
 of Dr. D. R. McKinney, located, 
 at Gifford and is now actively iiu 
 practice there. So likewise is Dr.^ 
 T. E. Walker who, save for a brief 
 interval, has been a resident of the /. 
 village a number of years. In 
 1894 came Dr. R. E. Shurtz, who 
 remained two years and then re- 
 moved to Champaign. 
 
 Homer Old Homer situated 
 on the creek about a mile north of 
 the Homer of today, was first set- 
 tled in 1835. Dr. Harmon Stevens 
 was one of the earliest physicians 
 to locate in Champaign county. 
 When the Wabash railway was 
 built through the southern part of 
 Champaign county in 1857 New 
 Homer came into existence at the 
 Railway Station, a mile south of 
 Old Homer, and the last named 
 village soon passed oiiT of exist- 
 ence. Dr. Stevens at once remov- 
 ed to the new village and prac- 
 
 ticed medicine there a good many 
 years till his removal to Newton, 
 111. In 1840 Dr. W. A. Conkey lo- 
 cated in Old Homer and continued 
 in practice there till 1850, when he 
 retired permanently. In 1851 Dr. 
 C. P. Mosier came to Homer and 
 five years later removed to the new 
 town site, but all the while he con- 
 tinued in active practice till his 
 retirement in 1859 to engage in 
 farming and other pursuits. In 
 1853 Dr. James Core arrived in 
 Old Homer and engaged in prac- 
 tice and removed to the new vil- 
 lage at its beginning and contin- 
 ued the practice till his death in 
 1888. In 1853 came Dr. T. M. 
 Jiess also, who engaged in the 
 practice of his profession in the 
 old town till the new one was 
 started, when he removed thi.ther 
 and continued to answer calls till 
 his removal to Warren County 
 early in the eighties. George T. 
 Rowland succeeded Dr. Core and 
 continued in practice till late in 
 the nineties when he removed -to 
 Clark County, where he is yet 
 practicing. Dr. H. N. Baker came 
 in 1906 and remained till 1909 
 when he removed to Danville, I1J. 
 Following is a list of physicians 
 in Homer with dates of their loca- 
 tion as near as can be ascertained: 
 Dr. Joseph Brayshaw, 1902; Dr. J. 
 E. Lowery, Dr. H. A. Shaw, 1866; 
 Dr. A. L. Volborn. 
 
 Ivesdale This village, just with- 
 
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 in the borders of Champaign Coun- 
 ty, dates its origin from about 
 1864, and is named for a Mr. Ives, 
 who owned a tract of land in its 
 vicinity. The writer has not been 
 able to ascertain much of its early 
 medical history, but among tha 
 physicians who have practiced 
 there may be named Drs. W. F. 
 Benefield, C. M. Craig, M. A. 
 Morgan, C. M. Bailey and H. P. 
 Mack and L. H. Smith. 
 
 Dr. Samuel J. Hicks is Ives- 
 dale's physician at the present 
 time. 
 
 Longview This village was laid 
 out in 1883 and the first physician 
 to locate there was Dr. R. P. Ratts. 
 Dr. A. J Garrison located there 
 for a time, but recently removed 
 elsewhere. Dr. Ratts is yet in ac- 
 tive practice at Longview. 
 
 Ludlow This village, at first 
 called Pera, had its origin in the 
 fifties. The first physician to lo- 
 cate there was one Dr. Emmons. 
 His immediate successors are not 
 known to the writer, indeed, it has 
 not been possible to gather much 
 of the medical history of this vil- 
 lage. Dr. M. A. Glennan prac- 
 ticed in Ludlow for a number of 
 years prior to his death in 1902. 
 Dr. H. J. Moreland came to the 
 village in 1906 and has since been 
 actively engaged in practice. 
 
 Mahomet The first physician 
 to locate in Mahomet was Dr. N. 
 H. Adams, who opened an office 
 
 there in 1843. He remained there 
 twelve or fifteen years, when he 
 died. About 1846 Dr. C. C. Hawes 
 came to Mahomet and continued 
 practice there till his death in 1872. 
 Early in the fifties, Dr. C. L. Crane 
 located in Mahomet, where he re- 
 mained till his death in 1856, the 
 result of injuries received by the 
 bursting of an anvil that was fired 
 on the Fourth of July. Dr. A. J. 
 Crane, a brother of the foregoing, 
 also practiced medicine there in 
 the fifties. 
 
 Dr. W. W. Walters located in 
 Mahomet in 1855 and remained 
 five years. Dr J. D. Culver came 
 to this village about 1857 and re- 
 mained in practice there till his 
 death in 1890. One Dr. Clark 
 practiced medicine in Mahomet a 
 few years following 1871, when he 
 removed to Mansfield. 
 
 Dr.John D. Gardiner locat- 
 ed and practiced medicine there 
 during the latter part of the fifties 
 and the early .sixties. His son, Dr. 
 John H. Gardiner came to Ma- 
 homet in the early seventies and 
 practiced till his death, Aug. 22, 
 1902. Dr. A. S. Wall located in 
 Mahomet in 1890 and practiced 
 till 1896, when he removed to 
 Champaign. Dr. C. T. Wilson be- 
 gan practice in 1890 and still 
 shares the business with his com- 
 petitor, Dr. J. O. Pearman, who 
 succeeded Dr. Gardiner in 1902. 
 
 Ogden This village was laid 
 out in 1870 and took its name from 
 
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 a family in the neighborhood. The 
 first physician to locate there was 
 Dr. Edward Tourtellette. who 
 came in 1870. but a year later he 
 died. In 1871 Dr. Job S. Cogge- 
 shall located there and engaged in 
 practice till his death. Sept. id.. 
 1902. Dr. Freeman P. French lo- 
 cated at Ogden in the seventies, 
 and remained a number of years. 
 Dr. James F. Harris came in 1883 
 and is yet there in active practice. 
 Dr. Omar H. Rees came in 1901 
 and has since been in active work. 
 
 Pesotum Dr. E. I. Birdsell was 
 the first physician to locate in this 
 village, arriving there late in 1869. 
 A little later one Dr. Xichols prac- 
 ticed medicine there for a time,- as 
 did also one Dr. Oatlev. 
 
 Dr. John A. Hoffman came to 
 Pesotum a good many vears ago 
 and has always been very busv 
 Dr. Z. E. Mathenv came a number 
 of years later and after some prac- 
 tice went elsewhere. Dr. Hilgen- 
 berg is now an active practitioner 
 of the village. 
 
 Penfield Penfield was laid out 
 in 1876 and takes its name from 
 John Penfield of Rantonl. 111. The 
 first doctor to locate in the village 
 was Dr. M. M. Hazel: the next Dr. 
 W. S. Higgins and Dr. \V. Van- 
 Camp: also Dr. P. E. Cole. Of 
 these Dr. Higgins is dead, and Dr. 
 Cole is in LeMars. Iowa. In 1894 
 came Dr. J. S. Mason, who re- 
 mained till 1809. when he was suc- 
 
 ceeded by Dr. C. H. Zorger, who 
 removed to Rantoul. Dr. J. W- 
 Moreland came m 1906 and is yet 
 there. 
 
 Philo The village of Philo was 
 laid out in 1864 by E. B. Hall, son 
 of Philo Hall.from whose Christian 
 name both the village and town- 
 ship are named. The first phvsi- 
 cian to locate in Philo was Dr. B. 
 
 C. Morris: the next one was Dr. 
 Hall, whom Dr. James M. Bartho- 
 low succeeded in 1869. Dr. Barth- 
 olow remained in Philo till 1895, 
 when he sold out to Dr. Robert F 
 L.Jessee.who is now in active prac- 
 tice in that place. In March. 1868 
 Dr. John D. Mandeville located in 
 Philo and continued in active prac- 
 tice here till 1900. when he was 
 succeeded by Dr. James M. Tins- 
 ley, who recently removed to Ran- 
 toul. In 1808 Dr. Joseph Schue- 
 hich began the practice of medi- 
 cine in Philo and is yet there. 
 
 Rantoul The village of Rantoul 
 as well as the township in which it 
 is located, takes its name from 
 Robert Rantoul. one of the origin- 
 al stockholders and charter mem- 
 bers of the Illinois Central rail- 
 road corporation. Rantoul was 
 first settled in 1855-6. The first 
 physician to locate there was Dr. 
 
 D. M. Marshall who came in 1856 
 and remained till 1860, Dr. T. 
 Sweat located in Rantoul in 1857 
 and continued in practice there till 
 his death ten vears later. 
 
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 About 1860 came from Indiana, 
 one Dr. New, who remained only 
 one year. About this time and 
 later came Drs. D. B. George, 
 Hazel, Clark, Hobart, Garrison, 
 Boise and Ferris. Dr. John North 
 located in Rantoul in 1865 and Dr. 
 D. P. McClure in 1870. Dr. North 
 practiced medicine there till about 
 1878 and then went west. Dr. Mc- 
 Clure did a good business till 1887, 
 when his health gave way. Dr. 
 Charles E. Triplet was in Rantoul 
 for several years following the 
 early seventies; Dr. Roy Taylor 
 for two or three years, when he 
 removed. Dr. J. E. Harman 
 came in 1874 and remained till his 
 death in 1906. 
 
 Dr. J. M. Minturn practiced in 
 Rantoul from about 1884 till 1890, 
 when failing health compelled his 
 retirement. Dr. W. J. Fernauld 
 located in Rantoul in 1890 and re- 
 mained till about 1900, when he re- 
 moved to Frankfort, Ind. Dr 
 John Laughlin came in 1890 and 
 remained till 1900 when he re- 
 tired and made his home in In- 
 diana. Dr. J. S. Mason carnc in 
 18149 and was in practice till 191.16, 
 <vhen he changed his location to 
 Urbana 
 
 Following is the present rO'l of 
 Rantoul physicians: Brewer, E. 
 M., 1900; Diller, F. S., 1906; Tins- 
 ley. J. M., 1908: Zorger, Charles 
 H.. 1906. 
 
 Sadorus This village was laid 
 
 off about 1856 and in that year 
 came its first physician Dr. A. Ca- 
 tron. who yet lives there in oKi xgc, 
 li.it retired from active practice. In 
 1869 Dr. J. G. Chambers located 
 there and practiced a number of 
 years, when he removed to his 
 farm in Sadorus township, where 
 he yet lives. Early in the seventies 
 Dr. A. D. Gillum located in Sado- 
 rus and remained there till his 
 death some years ago. A contem- 
 porary of Dr. Gillum was Dr. L. 
 M. Lee, who practiced in Sadorus 
 a few years, but removed to anoth- 
 er location about 1877. 
 
 Dr. Frank L. Birney, son of Dr. 
 S. H. Birney located in Sadorus 
 and remained two years in the 
 eighties and went from there to 
 Denver in 1888. He was succeeded 
 by Dr. W. H. Zorger, who re- 
 mained till 1894. Dr. C. P. Hoff- 
 man came to Sadorus several years 
 ago. but later removed to Dan- 
 ville. 111., as an eye and ear spe- 
 cialist. Dr. Arthur G. Lewis has 
 been in practice many years in Sa- 
 dorus and Dr. F. C. Renfrew since 
 1903. 
 
 Seymour dates its beginning 
 from about 1870. The first doctors 
 to locate there were Dr. J. M. 
 Hadden and one Dr. Clark. Dr. 
 Clark did not continue the practice 
 long and has since died. He has 
 been succeeded by a number 
 of men, but none remained long. 
 Dr. Hadden is yet in active prac- 
 
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 tice. Dr. H. C. Kariher came in 
 1903 and remained till 1908 when 
 he moved to Champaign. Recent- 
 ly came Dr. W. P. Donovan. 
 
 Sidney was the site of an old In 
 dian trail and, located on a moder- 
 ately high and well-drained bluff 
 on the south bank of the Salt Fork', 
 is a rather old and interesting land- 
 mark. A company or more of sol- 
 diers had been encamped on the 
 hill in the east side of the pres- 
 ent village, some time before the 
 earliest settlement as attested by 
 the certain remains of an old camp 
 described by the oldest settlers of 
 this locality. 
 
 Excluding the "medicine men" 
 of the Indian tribes, who were no 
 doubt frequent visitors to this 
 spot and possibly a doctor in the 
 employ of the Government, the 
 first doctor to practice his profes- 
 sion in the eastern part of Cham- 
 paign county was Dr. Lyons, who 
 was an eastern gentleman of some 
 ability and refined tastes. He evi- 
 dently had great hopes for the fu- 
 ture of his location, for it was he in 
 connection with a Mr. Davis, who 
 laid off the original village of Sid- 
 ney, the name being given in hon- 
 or of Miss Sidney Davis, the eldest 
 daughter of one of the founders of 
 the village. He also designed a 
 very large park, a part of which is 
 now the public school grounds, 
 the remainder long ago having 
 Leen sold in town lots. He de- 
 voted some time at least to train 
 
 ing horses, as he had built for his 
 use a training track and barn. The 
 old track was southeast of Sidney 
 one-half mile. The doctor sold all 
 his interests later to J. R. C. Jones 
 and then moved to Texas, where 
 he was visited by friends 'n 1865, 
 who found that he had been elect- 
 ed ;- the legislature in that slato. 
 
 For some years after the depart- 
 ure of Dr. Lyons the practice ; n 
 :he locality was done by Dr^. Con- 
 key and Mosier of Old Homer. In 
 the early 5o's Dr. Hartman and 
 Dr. Joseph Goodman came to try, 
 their fortunes with the new town. 
 Dr. Goodman was there when the 
 Township was organized in 1860, 
 and was the first Supervisor of 
 Sidney Township. The old records 
 of the office would indicate that 
 he was a man of fair ability. 
 About this time Dr. Ashby came 
 to the town and was connected 
 with Dr. Goodman in practice. He 
 did not remain very long and for 
 some reason not recorded he left 
 rather suddenly, and was succeed- 
 ed by a young man, Dr. F. A. 
 White, who practiced medicine 
 there in 1857-8. He was a brother 
 of Attorney S. F. White of Ur- 
 bana. The young doctor was a 
 strong and noisy Abolitionist and 
 also a convert to the Mormon 
 church. He was not pleased with 
 the surroundings at Sidney and in 
 spite of the solicitations of friends 
 he closed his office and left the vil- 
 lage. Twenty-five years after that 
 
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 his friends were notified of his 
 death in Salt Lake City. Dr. Good- 
 man enlisted in the Army: return- 
 ing at the close of the war he 
 moved to Coles, where he re- 
 mained only a short time, going 
 from there to Iowa, where he died 
 about 1877 or 1878. 
 
 Dr. H. S. Hickman came to Sid- 
 ney about 1859 an d practiced with 
 Dr. Hartman. In the beginning of 
 the war of the Rebellion he was 
 among the first to enlist, being a 
 private in Co. I, 2nd Illinois Cav- 
 alry. He served to the close oij 
 the war, and, on his return, finding 
 the field of medicine well filled at 
 the place, went to Newman, 111., 
 where he practiced for twenty 
 years then moving to the new town 
 of Longview, remained but a short 
 time, when he moved to Wichita," 
 Kan. 
 
 Dr. Wesley Lawson came just 
 after the war and began his ca- 
 reer as a medical man in the quiet 
 village of Sidney. He came from 
 Pennsylvania, having served in the 
 Union army as a member of a com- 
 pany doing duty in the signal ser- 
 vice. The doctor did not remain 
 very long, however, going from 
 here to Homer, where he has lived 
 ever since. 
 
 Dr. W. S. Duncan was practic- 
 ing medicine at the beginning of 
 the war and entered the loth Illi- 
 nois cavalry as an assistant sur- 
 
 geon. He served to the close of 
 the war and like many others 
 came home to find the conditions 
 changed, and he soon decided to 
 change his location. He moved to 
 Vigo County, Indiana, where he 
 remained for several years; then he 
 went to southern Illinois, practic- 
 ing with varying success, until 
 1889 he again decided to locate in 
 the town of his first love, and 
 moved back to Sidney. He re- 
 mained two years and then went 
 to Hutton, Coles county, and later 
 to Casey, 111. He recently retired 
 from practice at the age of 84 
 years. The doctor was a faithful 
 member of the Masonic and Odd 
 [Fellows lodges and of the Grand 
 JA.rmy of the Republic. In relig- 
 ous views he was a Seven Day Ad- 
 Ventist. 
 
 Dr. Harmon located in Sidney 
 in 1866 or 1868 and remained for 
 five or six years. He owned a drug 
 store and later an interest in a 
 good farm, two miles southeast of 
 Sidney. On deciding to leave the 
 locality he disposed of his farm in 
 a novel way by issuing lottery 
 tickets with one chance for the 
 farm. He had no trouble to dis- 
 pose of them at good figures. He 
 moved west in 1873 or 1874. Dr. 
 Smith located here not long after 
 the war and practiced actively tin 
 til his death in 1877. The doctor 
 was a graduate of the Cincinnati 
 Electic Medical College: He 
 
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 was quite well liked, was very suc- 
 cessful as a physician and a finan- 
 cier. 
 
 Dr. S. D. Jerauld came to Sicl- 
 ned in the spring- of 1858, having 
 a good practice when the war 
 broke out. Three sons enlisted, 
 William, Walter Hall and T. D. 
 Jerauld. William was killed at 
 Vicksburg, Walter Hall was a 
 prisoner at Andersonville, Ga,, and 
 died while a prisoner. T. D. Jer- 
 auld, the youngest, returned after 
 the close of the war and was dis- 
 charged January 6, 1866. Dr. S. 
 L. Jerauld contracted quick con- 
 sumption going south after his 
 son, William, who was killed. Died 
 April 5, 1865. 
 
 The above historical details of 
 medicine in Sidney are from th<* 
 pen of Dr. W. F. Burres. who for 
 many years practiced there before 
 moving to Urbana. Dr. J. M. Law- 
 son came in 1885 an d is yet busy 
 in practice. Dr. E. W. Kinchelor 
 came in 1899, practiced a number 
 of years, and emigrated to Okla- 
 homa. 
 
 St. Joseph St. Joseph had its 
 beginning about 1870, that is, the 
 present or New St. Joseph had. 
 But its predecessor, Old St. Jo- 
 seph, had its beginning about 1856 
 and was located a mile south of 
 the present St. Joseph and when 
 the latter came into existence there 
 was no longer need for the old vil- 
 
 lage. St. Joseph derives its name 
 from the first town of that name 
 and the latter was named in hon- 
 or of Joseph Kelly, who for many 
 years kept an old-time country 
 tavern at what became the site of 
 Old St. Joseph. It is related that 
 a guest of Landlord Kelly was so 
 well treated by the latter in an 
 early day that his heart was filled 
 with gratitude and he was deter- 
 mined to bestow some especial fa- 
 vor upon his benefactor and being 
 a man of some political influence, 
 induced the authorities at Wash- 
 ington to establish a postoffice at 
 the tavern of Joseph Kelly and that 
 in honor of the latter it was hence- 
 forth known as St. Joseph. Pos- 
 sibly Landlord Kelly came to the 
 conclusion that "he had entertain- 
 ed an angel unawares." 
 
 The first physician to locate at 
 Old St. Joseph was Dr. James 
 Gillespie and the next Dr. An- 
 thony Doyle and a little later Dr. 
 George Doyle. Dr. William Good 
 win was also there for a time. 
 Later came Dr. David Jennings. 
 
 As before intimated it was abont 
 1870 that old things in tlrs region 
 passed away and new things came 
 abont when Old St. Joseph gave 
 away to New St. Joseph. In the 
 latter village Dr. David Jennings 
 was the first physician to locate 
 and Dr. W. B. Sims the next, both 
 of whom came about 1870. Later 
 came one Dr. Marion who did not
 
 remain many years. In 1877 Dr. 
 N. B. Sims, son of Dr. W. B. Sims, 
 joined his father in practice in St. 
 Joseph and continued there for a 
 period of about twenty years, when 
 he removed to Danville. Early in 
 1877 Dr. J. T. Purcell located in 
 the village and has since beeu 
 there. About 1897 Dr J. N. Rees 
 came to St. Joseph, and Dr. A. J. 
 Dalton more recently. 
 
 Tolono This vjllage dates its 
 origin from about 1856. The first 
 physician to locate there was Dr. 
 Herman Chaffee, who built the 
 fourth frame house erected in the 
 place. Dr. Chaffee remained 
 there till his death in 1900. About 
 1857 Dr. B. D. Keator came to 
 Tolono and continued in active 
 practice till 1878, when he re- 
 moved to Missouri. About 1872 
 or 1873 Dr. James T. Logan.an ec- 
 centric character, located in To- 
 lono and for seven or eight years 
 did quite a practice. In 1861 Dr. 
 S. S. Salisbury arrived in Tolono 
 and at the age of eighty year? 
 is yet in active practice in that vil- 
 lage. In 1865 Dr. A. T. Darrah 
 came to Tolono and began the 
 practice of medicine and continued 
 it till his removal to Bloomington 
 in 1883. In 1874 Dr. C. B. John- 
 son removed to Tolono from Crit- 
 tenden Township, where he had 
 practiced three years, and answer- 
 ed professional calls till his remov- 
 al to Champaign in April, 1879. In 
 1879 Dr.L.K.Lamb came to Tolo- 
 no and practiced till 1892, when he 
 
 was succeeded by Dr. J. C. Doods, 
 who practiced there till 1901, when 
 he removed to Champaign. In 
 1886 Dr. C. M. Craig located in 
 Tolono and continued in general 
 practice till 1899, when he removed 
 to Champaign. Dr. H. E. Dunlop 
 came in 1900 and remained onK 
 about one year. Dr. S. A. Crab- 
 tree came in 1901, practiced a num- 
 ber of years and removed else- 
 where. Following is the list of To- 
 lono physicians at this writing: 
 Dr. S. S. Salisbury, 1861 ; Dr. John 
 Marten, 1897; Dr. W. P. Tinsley, 
 1907. 
 
 Urbana As noted elsewhere Ur- 
 bana was designated as the County 
 Seat of Champaign County early in 
 1833, but prior to this date had 
 been a village of only a few hous- 
 es. Dr. John S. Saddler located 
 in Urbana in 1839 and was the 
 first doctor to make his home 
 there, but he remained only a few 
 years. Dr. Winston Somers came 
 in 1840 and continued to practice 
 medicine till his death in 1871. Dr. 
 William D. Somers, brother of Dr. 
 Winston Somers. located in Ur- 
 bana about the same time and the 
 brothers were partners till Dr. W. 
 D. in 1847, abandoned medicine 
 for the law. In the fifties came 
 Drs. T. F. Snyder, J. T. Miller, 
 James Hollister, C. H. Mills, C. 
 A. Thompson, M. B. Thompson, 
 Joseph Hager, M. Lindley, and 
 W.M. Goodwin. Drs. Hollister and 
 Mills removed to Champaign in 
 
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 1856. Dr. C. A. Thompson re- 
 moved to Jefferson City, Mo., at 
 the end of the civil war. Dr. M. 
 B. Thompson abandoned medicine 
 for the law very early in the six- 
 ties. Dr. Hager did not remain 
 long. Dr. W. M. Goodwin con- 
 tinued in practice till about 1878, 
 when he went west. Late in the 
 fifties Dr. M. S. Brown located 
 and began the practice of medicine 
 in Urbana and continued till his 
 removal to Danville in 1884, where 
 he died later. Dr. S. H. Birney 
 came to Urbana during the civil 
 war and practiced there till about 
 1887, when he removed to Den- 
 ver, where he remained till 1899, 
 when he returned to Urbana in 
 broken health and died in that city 
 July i, 1900. For a few years in the 
 eighties Dr. F. D. Prentice prac- 
 ticed medicine in Urbana. He 5s 
 now in the west. Drs. C. N. and 
 J. E. White came to Urbana and 
 after practicing about twenty years : 
 removed to Springfield. Dr. John 
 W. Fuqua came in 1895, practiced 
 about ten years and then went else- 
 where. 
 
 Following is a list of physicians 
 now in Urbana, with dates of lo- 
 cation: 
 
 Allen, J. R., 1908; Baker, Nellie 
 M., 1906; Bartholow, J. M., 1895; 
 Burres, W. F., 1900; Dillon, Wm., 
 1900; Gulick, C. D., 1902; Han- 
 more, J. J., 1906; Hughes, Jennie, 
 1899; Lindley, A. M., 1880; Lind- 
 
 ley, Mahlon, 1857; Martinie, Chas. 
 W., 1898; Miller, H. W., 1889; 
 Miller, J. T., 1853; Morrison, Jas. 
 E., 1880; Munsell, W. W., 1901; 
 Nichols, Chas A., 1896; Sims, W. 
 B., 1883; Smith, E. S., 1896; 
 Stanley O. O., 1908; Van Doren, 
 C. L., 1900; Yantis, D. E., 1906. 
 
 The following country locations 
 were occupied by doctors at the 
 dates designated: 
 
 Big Grove, Dr. Fulkerson,i83O. 
 
 Farmhouse of Mijamin Byers, 
 two miles east of Urbana, Dr. 
 James H. Lyon, 1832. 
 
 Farm house, Hensley Township, 
 one mile west of Five Points on 
 the Bloomington road. Dr. Scott 
 in the early sixties. 
 
 Farm-house of David Jessee, 
 Crittenden Township, Dr. Charles 
 B. Johnson, 1871-4. 
 
 Orizaba, one mile north of Long 
 View, Dr. R. P. Ratts about 1870. 
 
 Old Head Quarters, south of 
 Homer, Dr. W. F. Burres, 1881, 
 and Dr. George T. Rowland, 
 1882-3. 
 
 Burr Oak Grove, northeast part 
 of County, Dr. D. R. McKinney, 
 1867-1878. 
 
 Sugar Grove (now Kerr Town- 
 ship). Dr. Isaac Hobart, 1850 to 
 about 1862. 
 
 Farm house of William Peabody
 
 a mile north of the present vil- Houstonville, a country postof- 
 
 lage of Fisher, Dr. S. H. Birney, fice, (now no longer in existence) 
 
 about 1859. in East Bend Township. Dr. 
 
 Farm house of John Pusey, Con- Wantling, from about 1868 to 
 dit Township, one Dr. McFee in 
 the early sixties. 
 
 PATRIOTISM OF CHAMPAIGN COUNTY DOCTORS 
 
 The roll of Champaign County Infantry; Dr. D. P. McClure, 64th 
 physicians who offered their ser- Ohio Infantry; Dr. J. T. Miller, 
 vices to the country in its days of* '6oth Illinois Infantry; Dr. 
 peril is a long one; much longer C. H. Mills, i25th Illinois Infan- 
 the writer has reason to think, try; Dr. C. A. Thompson, i25th II- 
 than can be put on record in these linois Infantry, I3th Illinois In- 
 pages, as it is believed the names' fantry and ox>th Illinois Infantry, 
 of a number who served in the In addition to the above list of 
 civil war cannot now be secured. medical men who gave their pro- 
 fessional service and one of them 
 
 Among those who served as his life to the country there is a 
 
 surgeons may be mentioned the goodly number of doctors in 
 
 names of Dr. S. H. Birney, I35th Champaign County who served in 
 
 Illinois Infantry; Dr. R. H. Brown, the ranks when mere boys. 
 25th Illinois Infantry; Dr. J. G. 
 
 Chambers, icpth Pennsylvania Among these may be named, 
 infantry; J. S. Coggeshall, 2nd Dr. E. C. Bartholow, Dr. J. M. 
 Indiana Cavalry; A. Jackson Craiu Bartholow, Dr. John M. Gardiner, 
 2nd Illinois Cavalry; Jacob Cul- Dr. Goodman, Dr. J. M. Hadden, 
 ver, 71 st Illinois Infantry: W. S. Dr. Apollis Hess, Dr. J. C. Har- 
 Franklin (went from Champaign mon, Dr. H. S. Hickman, Dr. R. 
 County as surgeon in an Ohio H. Huddleston, Dr. David Jen- 
 regiment, but what regiment is nings, Dr. Charles B. Johnson, Dr. 
 riot known); Dr. M. Garst, 7ist E.A.Kratz,Dr. Wesley Lawson,Dr. 
 Illinois Infantry; Dr. Lyman J. D. Mandeville, Dr. D. R. Mc- 
 Hall, 63rd Illinois Infantry; Dr., Kinney, Dr. John North, Dr. J. T. 
 William H. Hess, I45th Illinois Purcell and Dr. W. B. Simms. 
 
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 INTERESTING FACTS IN THE HISTORIES OF 
 
 CERTAIN DOCTORS 
 
 Dr. J. T. Miller of Urbana is the 
 Nestor of Champaign County 
 medicine as he has been 
 in continuous practice longer 
 than any one else. Dr. Miller 
 located in Urbana, April 29, 
 1853. After Dr. Miller, Dr. 
 Howard is the oldest physician 
 in the County who is yet in active 
 practice, though Dr. S. S. Salis- 
 bury of Tolono, also in active\ 
 practice, is Dr. Howard's junior 
 by only ten days. 
 
 Dr. J. T. Purcell of St. Joseph, 
 
 a veteran of the civil war, served 
 five years and nine months, be- 
 lieved to be the longest term of 
 military service rendered by any 
 volunteer soldier in the County. 
 
 Dr. J. M. Bartholow of Urbana 
 enlisted when only fifteen years of 
 age and served two and one-half 
 years. 
 
 Dr. John H. Gardiner of Ma- 
 homet enlisted in the last year 
 of the war when but fifteen years 
 of age and served his full time. 
 
 ACCIDENTS AND VIOLENT DEATHS IN THE 
 PROFESSION 
 
 Late in the sixties Dr. D. P. Mc- 
 Clure in visiting a patient near 
 Thomasboro attempted to cross a 
 slough in a time of high water that 
 was followed by a severe cold snap. 
 In consequence there was consid- 
 erable ice and in crossing the 
 horse floundered, got under the 
 ice and was drowned while the 
 doctor had a very narrow escape 
 with his own life. 
 
 July 4, 1855, some of the citizens 
 of Mahomet were celebrating the 
 day by firing an anvil when this 
 burst and a large fragment struck 
 one of the bystanders, Dr. C. L. 
 Crane, and mangled one of his legs 
 so severely that amputation was 
 
 necessary. Later blood poisoning 
 took place and the patient died 
 about a month after the accident. 
 
 About 1870 Dr. Edward Tour- 
 lette located at Ogden and in 
 connection with his practice ran a 
 drug store. A year later his wife 
 died from an overdose of chloro- 
 form administered by herself, but 
 whether the fatal consequences 
 were the result of accident or in- 
 tentional was never known. 
 
 However, the result so preyed 
 upon the mind of Dr. Tourlette, 
 that precisely four weeks after his 
 wife's death he died from a large 1 
 dose of laudanum, taken with sui- 
 cidal intent. 
 
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 PROGRESS IN MEDICINE 
 DURING THE PIONEER, INTERMEDIATE AND MODERN ERAS 
 
 The history of medicine in 
 Champaign County had i f s begin- 
 ning near the end of the first third 
 of the Nineteenth Century. For 
 convenience of study this history 
 may be divided into three periods. 
 The first period, the Pioneer Era, 
 ended in 1850; the second, the In- 
 termediate Period, in 1877; and the 
 third for want of a better name 
 may be called the Modern Era, 
 which embraces our day. 
 
 THE PIONEER ERA 
 
 During the Pioneer Era a va- 
 riety of causes conspired to espe- 
 cially handicap the practitioner of 
 medicine on the frontier. To be- 
 gin with, by reason of circum- 
 stances over which he had little or 
 no control, he often began his pro- 
 fessional duties with inadequate 
 preparation. Seventy odd years 
 ago Medical Colleges were few in 
 number and for the most part 
 poorly equipped. Then with the 
 poor and slow means of locomo- 
 tion that characterized the period, 
 these Colleges were little short of 
 inaccessible to the majority of the 
 medical students. Moreover, med- 
 ical books were not plenty as in 
 our time, and those that could be 
 had were relatively high priced. 
 Medical periodicals were few, and 
 upon these the postage was so 
 high as to, in effect, be almost pro- 
 
 hibitive in many instances. Rare 
 was it that the Pioneer doctor had 
 taken the required two courses of 
 lecture., necessary for graduation; 
 indeed, he was fortunate if cir- 
 cumstances had permitted him to 
 take one course, and not unfre- 
 quently his sole qualification for 
 the important business of caring 
 for the life and health of the fron- 
 tiersman was a period of office tui- 
 tion, taken in an older state with 
 some doctor of local reputation. 
 Then after beginning practice he 
 was embarrassed by the great diffi- 
 culty of obtaining needed supplies 
 in the way of medicines and in- 
 struments. The great city was 
 many miles away and the 
 means of reaching it slow, tedious 
 and uncertain. Thus limited in 
 education, limited in opportunities 
 for self-improvement, limited in 
 means for treating disease, the 
 practitioner of the frontier was 
 compelled to fall back upon him- 
 self and depend upon resources 
 near at hand. 
 
 Consequently if books and per- 
 iodicals were scarce, those on hand 
 were read with care; and thest 
 well-scanned, the great book of 
 nature was turned to and from its 
 open pages no end of practical 
 knowledge was obtained. The re- 
 sult was, that while the Pioneer 
 doctor was in no sense a learned 
 
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 man, he in time became a ready, 
 observing and resourceful man. 
 And if in some emergency an in- 
 strument was needed he could im- 
 provise it; if a particular drug was 
 indicated, its substitute was gath- 
 ered from the fields or may be ob- 
 tained from some crude mineral. 
 
 But while self reliance and re- 
 sourcefulness were his noble vir- 
 tues, the Pioneer doctor was not 
 without his faults faults, let it 
 be said in extenuation, almost 
 wholly due to his environment, 
 but faults nevertheless. Lack of 
 familiarity with medical literature 
 and of opportunity to ex- 
 change views with his fellow prac- 
 titioner in medical societies aiu, 
 kindred meetings had a tendency 
 to make him narrow, opinionated 
 and over-confident. The result 
 was, if he was fortunate enough to 
 escape the fate of sinking hopeless- 
 ly in the mire of prejudice, he was 
 almost sure to settle deeper and 
 deeper in the rut of routine. Hence 
 his long use and persistent abuse 
 of that old therapeutic tripod, 
 bleeding, blistering and heroic 
 doses of calomel. 
 
 THE INTERMEDIATE ERA 
 
 The period between 1850 and 
 1877 was a great improvement on 
 the Pioneer Era that had preceded 
 it. Medical Colleges had increased 
 in number and had improved in 
 equipment. Moreover not a few 
 were nearer at hand. Cincinnati, 
 
 Louisville and Chicago all had one 
 or more medical schools. Then, 
 too, railways had come in general 
 use and afforded ready means of 
 travel. Medical books were more 
 plentiful and more easily obtained, 
 and there had been a marked in- 
 crease in medical literature and 
 this, with the coming of cheap pos- 
 tage, was much more widely dis- 
 seminated. The marked improve- 
 ment in the means of locomotion 
 that railways brought about was 
 followed by a great influx of pop- 
 lation and with the latter came 
 more doctors. And with an in- 
 crease in the number of doctors, 
 Medical Societies were organized 
 and these brought an exchange of 
 views and experiences between 
 practitioners and stimulated the 
 latter to more extended reading 
 and wider culture. One result of 
 this better education, more read- 
 ing and exchange of ideas among 
 the doctors of this period, was to 
 call in question the utility of the 
 heroic measures of their predeces- 
 sors. It must be said, too, that the 
 ignorant botanic and that medical 
 monomaniac of the first half of the 
 nineteenth century, the steam doc- 
 tor, had no little share in demon- 
 strating the folly of an indiscrim- 
 inate resort to bleeding, the rou- 
 tine use of blisters and setons, and 
 the giving of mercury with the 
 avowed purpose of inducing sali- 
 vation in so many instances. As a 
 result of these combined influ- 
 
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 ences, not long after the begin- 
 ning of the second half of the 
 nineteenth century, powerful 
 drugs and heroic measures came 
 to be used less and less in the 
 treatment of disease. While na- 
 ture's simples, such as fresh air, 
 sunlight and cold water came to 
 be recognized as potent therapeu- 
 tic agents that no progressive phy- 
 sician could afford to ignore. 
 
 Early in 1861 came the great 
 civil war that for four long years 
 dragged out its weary length. But 
 with all its attendant evils and 
 hardships this contest was not 
 wholly without its compensation. 
 One of these was the affording of 
 unequalled opportunities to the 
 medical profession for the study of 
 certain classes of disease and 
 injuries. The prolonged duration 
 and great magnitude of the war 
 created so great a demand for sur- 
 geons that every doctor in the 
 country who had the requisite 
 qualifications, had opportunity to 
 enter the medical department of 
 the army if he so desired. What 
 we today call asepsis, or absolute 
 surgical cleanliness, was not un- 
 derstood in the civil war period. 
 Nevertheless the treatment of gun- 
 shot wounds in this time had in 
 its favor not a little to commend. 
 One of its good features was sim- 
 plicity. In the first stages gunshot 
 wounds were treated with cold 
 water dressings. Later when sup- 
 puration began, applications of a 
 
 sort of soothing salve known as 
 simple cerate, was made use of 
 with most excellent results. 
 
 In the medical department ol 
 the army during the War of the 
 Rebellion Champaign County was 
 well and ably represented. Details 
 of the representation will be found 
 elsewhere. 
 
 In this Intermediate Period the 
 average education of the medical 
 practitioner was much higher than 
 it had been in the Pioneer Era, but 
 there was yet room for greater 
 improvement. The profession of 
 medicine was open to all, and who- 
 soever desired could enter upon 
 its responsible duties; there were 
 absolutely no restrictions outside 
 of popular c 'nion, and often- 
 times the standards of the people 
 were hopelessly low. At this time, 
 as there has always been, there 
 were a great many well qualified 
 and not a few high educated men 
 in the profession. But on the 
 other hand there were some en- 
 gaged in practice who were igno- 
 rant and thick-headed to an ap- 
 palling degree. Strange as it may 
 now seem to many there 
 were at this time in enlightened 
 Champaign County, a number of 
 reputable practitioners who had 
 never seen the inside walls of a 
 Medical College. There were 
 still a larger number who had at- 
 tended lectures, but who had nev- 
 er graduated in medicin, while 
 
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 among those who were graduates 
 were men whose preliminary edu- 
 cation had been so limited as to 
 leave them little better than illit- 
 erates. 
 
 This brings us to the consid- 
 eration of the 
 
 THE MODERN ERA 
 
 That began a little after the 
 Centennial year, 1876, and that 
 reaches to our day. As elsewhere 
 detailed, at a meeting of the Illi- 
 nois State Medical Society held in 
 the Twin Cities in May, 1876, 
 steps were taken to secure the en- 
 actment of laws that would aid in 
 the establishment of a high stand- 
 ard of medical education, a better 
 observance of the principles of 
 sanitation and a curtailment of the 
 spread of contagion. This is no 
 place for details, hence, let it suf- 
 fice to say that in 1877 the much 
 desired legislation was secured and 
 went into effect. And while in 
 practice these laws have by no 
 means proved ideal, yet under 
 their influence progress has been 
 so great and so encouraging that 
 he who would return to the old 
 go-as-you-please methods must be 
 blind indeed. While the writer 
 has no disposition to dwell unduly 
 on the "then-and-now" phase of 
 this question, yet a few facts in the 
 way of contrast may not be unin- 
 structive. 
 
 A third of a century ago any- 
 
 body could practice medicine in 
 Illinois and no one could interfere; 
 health officers and health boards 
 could be found only in the larger 
 cities; and outside these large cit- 
 ies no means worthy the name 
 could be put in force to prevent 
 the spread of contagion; indeed, 
 comparatively few physicians had 
 a proper appreciation of the in- 
 fectious character of many mala- 
 dies that are now classed as pre- 
 ventable diseases. 
 
 In our state today no one can 
 begin the practice of medicine 
 without passing the examination 
 of the Illinois State Medical Ex- 
 amining Board; no one can take 
 this medical examination of the 
 State Board of Medical Examiners 
 who is not a graduate of a repu- 
 table medical school; no one can 
 enter this reputable medical school 
 who has not, at least, the equiva- 
 lent of a high school education, 
 and finally, no one can graduate 
 from this reputable medical col- 
 lege who has not devoted four 
 years to attending its graded 
 courses of instruction. 
 
 In the way of disease-preven- 
 tion the contrast with thirty odd 
 years ago is striking. Every 
 township and every village may 
 now have, and indeed nearly all do 
 have, local Boards of Health to 
 look after the health interests of 
 the community. Doctors and peo- 
 ple alike have come to realize the 
 
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 truth of the old adage, "An ounce 
 of prevention is worth a pound of 
 cure." There is hardly a com- 
 munity in Illinois where the gen- 
 eral health has not been greatly 
 improved and the death rate very 
 much reduced by this work in the 
 direction of disease prevention. 
 Statistics and figures could be 
 piled up to prove these state- 
 ments, but this would be tedious 
 to the reader. In a conversation 
 not long since between the writer 
 and an undertaker, who for many 
 years has followed his business in 
 central Illinois, the fact was 
 brought out that where forty to 
 fifty years ago children furnished 
 a considerable part of the under- 
 taker's business in recent years the 
 burial of a child had become so 
 rare as almost to excite surprise. 
 
 CONCLUSION 
 
 The medical history of Cham- 
 
 paign County had its beginning 
 more than two generations in the 
 *^st, when a solitary physician, 
 Dr. Fulkerson, located at the head 
 of the Big Grove settlement, five 
 miles north of Urbana. Since that 
 time full eighty years have run 
 their course and today, at the be- 
 ginning of the Twentieth Century, 
 no less than one hundred doctors 
 attended to their professional du- 
 ties within the limits of Champaign 
 County. And while it may be 
 questionable taste for an individ- 
 ual member of this hundred to 
 speak of the whole in complimen- 
 tary terms, nevertheless, the writer 
 will speak his mind and say: 
 There are few localities of like ex- 
 tent that have better, all-around 
 physicians than Champaign Coun- 
 ty. And taken as a whole their 
 average attainments, in character, 
 in morals, in citizenship, is com- 
 raendably high. 
 
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 INDEX 
 
 Adams, N. H 9 
 
 Alpers, J. H 9 
 
 Bartholow, E. C 9 
 
 Bartholow, J. M 10 
 
 Banquet, Fortieth Annual 55 
 
 Banquet, Fiftieth Annual 59 
 
 Birdsell, E. 1 10 
 
 Biographical Sketches 8 
 
 Birney, S. H . . . . 
 
 Board, Hospital 
 
 Bondville 
 
 Broad lands.... 
 
 Brown, R. H 
 
 Brown, M. 8 
 
 Burres, W. F 
 
 Burrill, T. J . 
 
 Burr Oak Grove 
 
 Catron A 
 
 Chaffee, Herman 
 
 Chambers, Jacob G H 
 
 Champaign City 
 
 (also see Introduction) 
 Champaign County, see introduction . . 5 
 Champaign County Medical Society. . .53 
 
 Cheever, Daniel 
 
 Coggeshall, Job S 
 
 Cogswell, G. E 
 
 Conkey, W. A 8 , 15 
 
 Core, James 16 
 
 Cooper, Chas J 15 
 
 Conclusion 81 
 
 Country Locations 63 
 
 Crane, C. D 16 
 
 Culver, Jacob 16 
 
 Cushing, Henry E . . . 17 
 
 Darrah, Alexander T 18 
 
 Dewey 65 
 
 Dillon, William 19 
 
 Dillon, Amos 19 
 
 Directors, Hospital, Board of 61 
 
 Doctors, Pioneer 6 
 
 Doctors, Interesting Facts Pertaining to 75 
 
 Fisher 65 
 
 Farm House, Crittenden Township 74 
 
 Furm House, Hensley Township 74 
 
 Farm House, Mijamin Byers 74 
 
 Farm House, Wm. Peabody 74 
 
 Fiftieth Annual Banquet 54 
 
 Fifty Years in Practice 58 
 
 Fortieth Annual Banquet 55 
 
 Forbes, Stephen A 50 
 
 Foosland 65 
 
 Franklin, Dr . .20 
 
 Frontispiece 1 
 
 Fugate, John T 20 
 
 Fulkerson, Champaign County's First 
 
 Doctor 6 
 
 Garst, VI 21 
 
 Gardiner, John H 21 
 
 Gardiner, J. D 21 
 
 Gifford 66 
 
 Gillum, A. D 21 
 
 Goodwin, A. D 21 
 
 Gregory, John M 50 
 
 Hall, Abbie G 24 
 
 Hall, Lyman 22 
 
 Hidden, J. M 22 
 
 Hanmore. J . J 23 
 
 Harris, J. F 24 
 
 Harmon, J. C 24 
 
 Hartinan, G. W 25 
 
 Hawes, C. C 6 
 
 Hess, A R 26 
 
 Hess, T. M 27 
 
 Hospital, Julia F. Burnham 60 
 
 Howard, Hartwell C .26 
 
 Hospital Staff 61 
 
 Hunt, C. A ; 28 
 
 Incidents 76 
 
 Ivesdale 66 
 
 Investing Facis, etc 76 
 
 Intermediate Era 77 
 
 Jennings, David 28 
 
 Johnson, Charles B 29 
 
 Joined the Silent Majority . . .59 
 
 Kemp, George T 57 
 
 Kincaid, S. W 20 
 
 King, D. A. K 34
 
 Kratz, E. A 30 
 
 Lawson, J. M 80 
 
 Lindley, A. M 31 
 
 Lindley, Mahlon 31 
 
 Locations of Physicians 63 
 
 Longview 67 
 
 Ludlow 67 
 
 Lyons, James H 7 
 
 Mahomet 67 
 
 Mamteville, John D 32 
 
 Marten, John 32 
 
 Martinie, C. W 33 
 
 Medical Practice Act 62 
 
 Medicine, Progress in 77 
 
 Members, Lfst of in 1860 53 
 
 Members, List of in 1899 56 
 
 Members, List of in 1909 57 
 
 Members Deceased (see Silent Majority )59 
 
 Modern Era 80 
 
 McClelland, C. B 33 
 
 McKinney, David R 34 
 
 McKinney, Thomas J 35 
 
 McClure, D. P 34 
 
 Miller, Joseph T 35 
 
 Mills, Charles H 36 
 
 Miner, Ellen 36 
 
 M.nturn, J. M 37 
 
 Morris, B. C 37 
 
 Morrison, James E 37 
 
 M osier, Philip C 37 
 
 Newcomb, W. K 39 
 
 North, John 39 
 
 North, Miss Francess 52 
 
 Ogden 67 
 
 Old Headquarters 74 
 
 Orizaba 74 
 
 Page, Samuel K 40 
 
 Patriotism of Champaign Co. Doctors. .75 
 
 Pearman, John T 49 
 
 Penfield 68 
 
 Pesotum 68 
 
 Philo 68 
 
 Pioneer Doctors 6 
 
 Pioneer Era 78 
 
 Politics, Champaign Co Doctors in 61 
 
 Polk, John L 41 
 
 Progress in Medicine 77 
 
 Prefatory 4 
 
 Purcell, J. T 42 
 
 Rantoul 62 
 
 Rowland, G. T... 42 
 
 Saddler, John S 42 
 
 Salisbury Samuel Scott 42 
 
 Sadorus 69 
 
 Seymour ... 69 
 
 Shaw, Homer A 43 
 
 Shumaker, R, W 43 
 
 Sims, W. B 43 
 
 Scroggs, J. W 44 
 
 Smith, E. S 44 
 
 Somers, Winston 7 
 
 Stevens, Harmon 7 
 
 Sidney 70 
 
 St. Joseph 72 
 
 Sugar Grove 74 
 
 Thompson, A. T 45 
 
 Tolono 73 
 
 Urbana 73 
 
 VanDoren, C. L 46 
 
 Violent Deaths and Accidents 76 
 
 Walker, T. E 46 
 
 White, C. N 47 
 
 White, J. E 47 
 
 Whitmire, Z. T 48 
 
 Wilcox, L. S 48 
 
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