Kane County, Illinois - Chapter 21: Medical Profession, 1908

Chapter 21: Medical Profession

Pioneer physicians of Kane county were men of ability and determination, both necessary qualifications in a region whose diseases were peculiar to it and whose inhabitants were widely scattered and far from medical men or establishments where medicines could be procured. The doctor who rode - or as often walked - over the broad prairies and forded the streams in the early days, did not write a prescription which could in a few minutes or even hours be filled at a neighboring druggist's but, by force of necessity, carried a supply of medicines suited to the wants of the people in their saddle-bags. He was in truth a benefactor, and like the people whom he served he must share the hardships and struggles of life in a new country, away from conveniences of all kinds, where his lonely rides often carried him for many miles without seeing a solitary habitation of a fellow man. The medicines which he carried were very often exceedingly costly, yet they were dealt out without stint whenever his professional services were in demand. His fees were small and, as money was an article not possessed in abundance by many of the settlers, he was obliged to take his pay in such products as the afflicted person could provide. Often, indeed, the doctor's ministrations were then, as they are now, a labor of charity, for his fees were not always forthcoming. Yet he lived and toiled on in his work of relieving the sick and distressed and shared with the people their prosperity and adversity.

It is not quite easy to determine who was the first physician to locate within the present boundaries of the county of Kane, but from the information at hand the honor appears to belong to Dr. N. H. Palmer, who located in Sugar Grove township at a very early day. Settlers who came to that township in the spring of 1836 found that he had come some time before them, and Dr. Eastman, who located at Aurora in the early summer of 1835, stated some years later, at a pioneer meeting, that he did not come as early as Dr. Palmer. The latter, after the death of his wife, which occurred April 8, 1848. removed to Winnebago county.

Dr. Daniel Eastman, the first physician to settle at Aurora, took up his residence at that place in June, 1835, and for years was a skillful and successful physician and surgeon, always maintaining a high standing in his profession. He at length relinquished the practice of medicine and took up that of the law, in which he also won distinction. He was one of the early probate judges of Kane county. In the summer of 1862, after the expiration of his judicial term, he resumed the practice of medicine at Aurora. Dr. Eastman had been at one time a Universalist clergyman. He died at Aurora, February -33, 1863.

"Without doubt the next physicians to seek a home in this countv were Drs. Josepli Tefft and Nathan ColHns, who came together in a wagon from Medina county. New York, reaching wdiat is now Elgin township on the 7th or 8th of November, 1835. Dr. Tefft stopped first for a few days at the 'Yankee Settlement,' near Des Plaines river. He took up a claim on the east side of Fox river, at South Elgin, while Dr. Collins took another on the west side. Dr. Tefft made the first professional call, the patient being a young lady, who afterward became Mrs. Ladd, and lived with her husband several miles west of Elgin, where both died. From this circumstance Dr. Tefft was led to believe that be was the first physician in Kane county to deal out medicine, but unless there is some mistake in dates Drs. Palmer and Eastman, before mentioned, must have been in the county before him. The young lady mentioned was at the time of her illness residing with the family of Mr. Abbott, near South Elgin.

Dr. Tefft was one of the oldest practitioners in the state of Illinois, having been more than fifty years in the profession, although for some years before his death in 1888 practiced v6ry little, except as a consulting physician. He was graduated at Woodstock, Vermont, from the College of Medicine, June 5, 1833, and practiced a short time in the East before coming to Illinois. He moved to what is now the city of Elgin in 1838. When Dr. Tefft was preparing to remove from South Elgin to Elgin he sold all his property at the former place and rented a small log house which stood where the Lord homestead now stands, on the southeast corner of \^illa court and Chicago street. Before he could occupy it, howcA-er, it was purchased by Dr. Elmore, who moved in, and thus became the first physician to locate at Elgin proper. Dr. Tefft, nothing daunted, went to his farm a mile east of Elgin, procured the necessary material, and built and occupied the first frame dwelling in the place on the land now occupied by the city hall. He was living in it within a few days from the time it was commenced. The building was, as may be imagined, not very large. The city afterward purchased the lot. Drs. Tefft and Elmore had plenty of business during the year 1838. In 1839 Dr. Elmore relinquished practice and entered the hotel business, keeping public house in a log and frame structure on the corner of Chicago and Villa streets. He did not long remain in the town.

The practice of Dr. Tefft extended from the south line of the township northward for a distance of twenty miles or more, and a similar distance east and west. His journeys were made upon an old gray horse, which was well known to the early settlers of the region. After Dr. Elmore came, and all subsequent to 1839, the physicians to locate in Elgin included Drs. Treat, Fairie (or Frary), R. S. Brown, Erastus Tefft, C. Torry (who had been a student of Dr. Richards at St. Charles, and who subsequently died in California), J. Daggett, E. Sanford, V. C. McClure, O. Harvey, T. Kerr, Paoli, E. Winchester, Peebles, P. B. Hubbard, E. A. Merrifield, B. E. Dodson, Wetherel, Dr. O. B. Adams, N. F. Burdick, Fred Bartels, Berkhauser, George

Wilbur. Cutts and Pulaski, and others. Of those named Drs. Torry and McClure were here pre\-ious to 1847, '^"d Dr. Sanford probably about the same time.

Dr. Nathan Collins, who was a brother-in-law of Dr. Tefft, and came with him as stated from the East, removed to St. Charles in (836 and was the first physician to locate in that town. He built the house afterward occupied by T. E. Ryan, on West Second street, a block south of Main, and had his office in the small brick building which at one time formed part of Mr. Ryan's stable. He died in St. Charles about September 20, 1841.

Dr. Thomas P. Whipple purchased a claim in the northeast part of St. Charles township, also in 1836, and in 1840 built the first brick house in the then village^now city - of St. Charles. He was a member of the old school of medicine and noted for his practice of what medical men term "heroic treatment." He died about 1842, or possibly a little later.

Dr. Abel Millington, a native of Vermont, located, with his father's family, in an early day at Watertown, New York. He studied for the medical profession and after w'orking his way through college located, about 181 7, at Ypsilanti. Michigan, where he married, raised a family, and became wealthy. In 1837 he came west on a prospecting tour in search of a good location for his son Darwin. The west side water power at St. Charles suited him and he purchased it. He commenced the erection of a flouring mill in the spring of 1838, but died in November of the same year, before his improvements were completed. It is not stated that Dr. Millington practiced his profession during the short duration of his residence in St. Charles.

Dr. A. B. DeWolf, a native of Trumbull county, Ohio, studied medicine with Dr. H. D. La Cossit at Greenville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania, and in 1837-39 attended Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which institution he was graduated. He practiced medicine for two or three years at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and in the fall of 1841 settled at St. Charles, Illinois, arriving about September 22, or the day on which Dr. Collins (before mentioned) was buried. About 1843 he was in partnership a short time with Dr. Whipple and purchased the latter's brick residence, in which he resided for many years. For forty years he had an extensive practice in Kane and DuPage counties, making his journeys on horseback during the first ten years. He had his hands full during the prevalence of the cholera in 1854. three members of his wife's family dying. Among the various students whom the doctor had at various times in his office were John Rood, a young man who died in consequence of a wound received in the Richards riot of 1849, which is elsewhere mentioned; Drs. Burritt, Youngs and Nash. T. Herbert Whipple also read medicine for a short time in Dr. De Wolf's office; and several others of note.

Dr. Waldo arrived in St. Charles shortly after Dr. DeWolf came. He is now deceased, his remains having rested for many years in the old cemetery in East St. Charles.

Dr. Daniel D. Waite. from Tompkins C( unity. New York, settled in West St. Charles in 1842, and although he never practiced his profession there to a great extent, he was for many years a prominent and respected citizen. The doctor died in Chicago after the war of the Rebellion.

Dr. John Thomas, who located suljsequent to 1840 at St. Charles, took to journalism and in Fehruary. 1842. liegan the pubhcation of a newspaper at that point.

Dr. Nicholas Hard became a resident of St. Charles in or previous to 1844, in which year his brother, Chester Hard, began the study of medicine in his office. The two removed to Aurora in 1845.

One of the best educated and most widely known physicians in the entire Northwest was Dr. Henry M. Crawford, of St. Charles. He was born in Belfast, Ireland, and was graduated from the Royal Belfast College, an affiliated college of the London University, in 1848. He held a surgeon's diploma of prior date and prosecuted his studies at other places, notably Dublin and Edinburgh. He came to America as surgeon on an emigrant ship in the spring of 1848. Being strongly urged to visit the A\'est, he did so, and arrived at St. Charles in September, 1848. He pushed farther west, but on account of the early setting in of winter he returned late in October, by way of St. Charles, where he became snowbound, and where he finally concluded to remain. During the terrible visitations by the Asiatic cholera, from 1849 to 1854, Dr. Crawford took a most conspicuous part in ministering to the afflicted. In 1854 he was commissioned surgeon of the St. Charles Grenadier Guards, a local military company. A\'hen the great war of the Rebellion came he accepted the surgeoncy of the Fifty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry and served with unswerving fidelity to the Union and his duty, to the end of the conquest, as regimental, brigade, division and army corps surgeon, chief of hospitals, etc. At the end of the war he returned to his home and resumed practice. Previous to the great Chicago fire of 1871 he opened an office in that city and was a prominent lecturer in a well-known medical institution, but the fire destroyed his office and his valuable library, and he relocated at St. Charles.

Dr. \\'illiam R. ^liller. a somewhat eccentric and peculiar man. was a resident of St. Charles for a number of years previous to 1855 and removed to some point in Wisconsin.

Dr. M. Daniel Coe. a liomceopathist, settled in St. Charles about 1850 and became a popular and well-known citizen. He was also a faithful watchman beside the sick during the cholera epidemic. He removed six)n after the war ; now deceased.

Dr. James K. Lewis, of St. Charles, began practice in Illinois in 1853. He was the first mayor of St. Charles upon its incorporation as a city in 1874.

Dr. B. F. Dodson was located at St. Charles for a short time during the war and acted as examining surgeon for volunteers. He was a regularly educated and very competent physician and surgeon and subsequently had charge of a hospital for colored troops at Memphis, Tennessee.

Dr. Norton was a promising young physician, who practiced in tlie place about 1S54-35. He died before he had time to develop his capabilities.

Dr. Samuel K. Crawford, a native of Ireland, and nephew of Dr. H. M. Crawford, came to St. Charles about 1850, studied medicine with his uncle at Ann Arbor. Michigan, and engageil in practice several years before the war. In 1861 lie entered the United States service as assistant surgeon of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, and was subsequently surgeon of the Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry. At the close of the war he settled in Warsaw, Missouri.

Dr. George W. Rumsey, homoeopathist, succeeded Dr. Coe at St. Charles after the war and engaged in successful practice for several years. He removed West about 1877 and soon after died.

Dr. Charles E. Hogeboom, whose ancestors were from Holland, located at St. Charles in 1872, being first introduced to the people by Dr. Crawford. He was a thorough student and a successful physician. After some years he removed to Wisconsin.

Dr. A. W. Hinman, homoeopathist, located at St. Charles about 1878. He was graduated from the Chicago Homceopathic College April 4, 1875. In 1883 he removed to Dundee and was succeeded by Dr. L. B. Lane, a graduate from the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in 1877. Dr. Lane was for several years physician to the missionaries at Bangkok, Siam, and previous to locating at St. Charles had been for some time a resident of Geneva.

James Sprague Wilkin, a graduate of the University of Buffalo, New York, February 22, 1862, became a resident of St. Charles about 1877-78, but after a short time removed to Chicago.

Dr. William H. Bishop was graduated from the Bennett Eclectic Medical College, Chicago, June 20, 1877. He formerly resided in the township of Elgin.

Dr. Salem E. Weld, who during tlie war was hospital steward of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry, and afterward commander of the division hospital (Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps), is a native of Elgin. He finished his medical course at the Eclectic [Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1866. After practicing six months at Elgin he opened an office at St. Charles, where he remained until December 15, 1868, and acquired prominence for his skill both as a physician and surgeon. At the latter date he entered the drug business at Elgin with his cousin, Russell Weld, now deceased.

Dr. David P. Kayner, who was a graduate from Castleton Medical College at Castleton. Vermont, November 29, 1849, ^^^s subsequently engaged in a fine practice in Ohio, northern Indiana and southern Michigan. He came to St. Charles some time after the close of the war.

Dr. G. W. Richards, from Manlius. Onondaga county. New York, settled at St. Charles about 1842. He is described as a "man of fine physique, well educated and possessed of undoubted ability, but perhaps inclined to be a little too independent and haughty toward people generally. He had a large practice and was the most proininent physician in this region." It is said that in 1846 he had the names of three- fourths of the people of St. Charles on his books, treating them for chills and fever. He was the leader, in February,

1843. in the organization of a medical school in St. Charles, which was regularly chartered and known as Franklin Medical College. The trustees for St. Charles were Horace Bancroft, William Rounseville, Lucius Foote, J. S. Christian, Alexander H. Baird, Leonard Howard and Stevens S. Jones. The chairs of the various professorships were filled by Drs. G. W. Richards, Nicholas Hard, John Thomas and Edward INIeade. This faculty gave a single course of lectures to a class of fifteen or twenty students in 1843-44. Among the students were Orpheus Everts, who married a daughter of Dr. Richards; Addison Danforth; R. L Thomas, another of Dr. Richards' sons-in-law; Jerome F. Weeks, Dr. Bunker, who died a few years since in Oregon, Illinois; Torrey ; King ; Har\ey ; two Hopkins brothers, who settled at DeKalb and Oswego, Illinois, and John Rood. It is thought Dr. Daniel D. Waite may have been also connected with the school.

In April, 1849, t^^^ remains of Mrs. George M. Kenyon, daughter of David Churchill, of Sycamore, who had died a short time after her marriage, were disinterred by John Rood, then studying medicine with Dr. DeWolf at St. Charles and another young man generally supposed to have been George W. Richards, a son of the doctor. The body was brought to St. Charles and placed in Dr. Richards' stone barn. It is also supposed a relative of Rood's had a hand in the affair. The alarm spread among the friends of the deceased lady and intense excitement prevailed when it became known that her remains had been disturbed. As there was a strong prejudice against Dr. Richards among the St. Charles people, probably most of them were in sympathy with the Sycamore people. The doctor's friends very prudently remained quiet. Failing in all attempts to arrange the matter peaceably, the crowd finally resolved to force its way into the doctor's house and make a thorough search of the premises. Then followed the sally upon the house, an exchange of shots, the mortal wounding of Rood, who died a few weeks later, and the infliction of a sever wound upon Dr. Richards, from the supposed effects of which he died at Dubuque, Iowa, April 22, 1833, almost exactly four years from the day he was injured. Dr. O. Everts states, however, that his death occurred from inflammation of the lungs and that while his wound may have predisposed him to the disease it was not the cause of his death. Had Dr. Richards' students possessed equal courage with himself the memorable riot would have been far more bloody than it was. The dwelling then occupied by him is still standing and was for several years occupied by Professor D. B. Hazen, afterward of Batavia, while principal of the East St. Charles High School. The remains of the woman were afterward disinterred and delivered to relatives at Sycamore.

Dr. Jerome F. W^eeks, who was a native of Cattaraugus county, New York, came to Illinois in 1836. He attended lectures at Franklin Medical College, St. Charles, in 1846, also attended the Indiana University, and was graduated from Rush Medical College. Chicago, February 22, 1849. He soon after located at Marseilles, Illinois, and was not in St. Charles at the time of the Richards riot. He practiced thirteen vears at Peru. Illinois: was surgeon of the Fifty-first Illinois Infantry during the war, besides filling other important positions. After the war he opened an office in Chicago, but returned to St. Charles in 1882, still continuing his practice at Chicago, however. He died very suddenly November 12, 1886, aged sixty-six years.

George King Tillotson, a graduate from Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 15, 1876, was located in ijractice at St. Charles for a few years subsequently, finally removing to McHenry county.

Dr. Louis Van Patten, of St. Charles, was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, in 1884, and for about two years was located at Elburn. He had formerly been engaged in the drug business with his father at St. Charles and in the practice of dental surgery at that place and Elgin.

Elgin Physicians And Surgeons

Dr. Anson Root came from Genesee county, New York, to Illinois in 1838, and after a stay of a year or so at Batavia became a resident of Elgin. He had practiced medicine many years in New York and continued to some extent after coming to Illinois. He died at Elgin in 1866, aged eighty years. His son, Anson Root, still resides at Elgin, over eighty years of age.

Dr. Anson L. Clark was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861, and began practice at Elgin in 1862. He was assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry during the war. He has been professor of obstetrics and diseases of women in Bennett Medical College, Chicago, since 1869, and was president of that institution. He is the author of a standard work on "Diseases of Women and Children ;'' was elected a member of the State Board of Health in 1877, also a member of the State and National Eclectic Medical Associations, and of the National Public Health Association. He has been dean of the faculty in Bennett Medical College and gynecologist in Bennett Medical Hospital. He still resides at Elgin.

Dr. Simon P. Brown stepped forth a full-fledged physician from Rush Medical College in 1869, and after practicing some years at Palatine, Cook county, removed to Elgin. His specialty was gynecology. He was for years one of the leading men of the profession.

Dr. Robert F. Bennett, who was graduated from Rush Medical College in 1853, was for five years attending physician at Mercy Hospital, Chicago, and practiced a number of years at Richmond, Illinois. He located at Elgin in 1870, where he practiced successfully until his death. The doctor had an honorable war record.

Dr. Ora Levant Pelton, now of Elgin, but formerly of Elburn, where he was for several years in practice, was graduated from the University of

Michigan, March 27. 1872. and from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, March i, 1874. He is one of the leading surgeons of northern Illinois.

Dr. Dwight E. Burlingame, a graduate from Chicago Medical College. IMarch 23. 1869, had entered that institution in the fall of 1866. He had located at Elgin in 1864 and in 1870 he entered practice with Dr. E. Winchester, to whose practice he succeeded upon the latter's removal to California in 1872. Dr. Burlingame is still a resident of Elgin and until disabled by a recent paralytic stroke, enjoyed a large practice.

Dr. E. A. Kilbourne. for many years superintendent of the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane, was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. New York City, in the spring of 1868. He retired from the insane hospital in the "gos.

Dr. Charles A. Stone, who was graduated from Chicago Homoeopathic Medical College in 1877. located at once in Elgin, where he engaged in the drug business for many years, subsequently removing to Belvidere.

Dr. Pierce Tyrrell, considered one of the ablest microscopical examiners in Kane county, was graduated in 1866 from the Eclectic Medical Institute. Cincinnati. Ohio. His home is at Elgin.

Dr. John Zahn is a native of Prussia and came to America in i860. He was graduated from Rush Medical College. Chicago, January 21. 1863. and afterward spent a year and a half at Vienna, pursuing his studies. He was back and forth between the United States and Prussia until 1878, when he located at Elgin.

Dr. \\'illiam G. Stone, who practiced at the same place, was graduated from Bellevue Hospital IMedical College, New York City, March i. 1878.

Dr. H. K. Whitford. a prominent Elgin physician, was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in i860, having read medicine and practiced extensively in early years, coming to Elgin in 1856. He occupies the chair of professor of principles and practice of medicine and pathology and clinic medicine in Bennett Aledical College. Chicago, a position he has filled since 1868.

Dr. Susan K. \\'hitford. of Elgin ; attended Bennett Eclectic College, Chicago, from which she received her diploma as physician and surgeon.

Dr. John Lee Mills, of Elgin, was licensed to practice by the Illinois State Board September 14. 1880.. ..Dr. E. B. Plumb was graduated from the Chicago Medical College, March 28, 1882.... Dr. Aban L. Mann was graduated from Bennett Medical College. Chicago. March 22, 1883.... Dr. James Mills was equally honored by the Chicago Medical College. March 2~,

1883. . . .Dr. P. M. W'hitten entered practice a number of years previously, having been graduated Ntnember 22, 1864, from Berksliire Medical College, Massachusetts. . . .Dr. William C. Reeves is a later arrival in the field, having been graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 17, 1885. . . . Carrie W. Lovell was graduated June 28, 1883, from the Homceopathic Medical College of Michigan. . . .Dr. Leslie Eugene Tefft, son of Dr. Joseph Tefft, follows in the footsteps of his parent by choosing the same profession. He was graduated from Rush Medical College, February 15, 1887. . . .Dr. Archibald Church was a graduate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, February 11, 1884.... Mrs. Annie W. Martin was graduated from the Hygeio-Therapeutic College, New York, in May, 1867. . . .Dr. William Winchester began practice in 1859 and became a leading physician.

Geneva Physicians And Surgeons

At Geneva there have been numerous physicians of more or less prominence. In fact, the place is said to owe its name to one Dr. Dyer, who was formerly from Geneva, New York. He afterward became a resident of Chicago. The first resident physician in the village was Dr. Henry A. Miller, a brother-in-law of Judge Isaac G. Wilson, who enjoyed a wide practice in the county. Dr. Henry Madden was also an early arrival, and became well known in the county and state.

Dr. William Le Baron, a native of North Andover, Massachusetts, was graduated from Harvard Medical College in 1839, and settled at Geneva in October, 1844. There he practiced medicine most of the time until 1876, in October of which year his death occurred. He was appointed state entomologist by Governor Palmer in 1870, holding the position four years.

Dr. Francis H. Blackman, an able and well-known physician, was graduated from Chicago Medical College in 1870 and won a well-earned reputation for skill in his profession.

Dr. John B. Gully, of Geneva, is a native of England and studied medicine in Bristol, London and other cities. Coming to America in 1847, he placed himself under the instruction of Dr. Nichols and in 1850 was graduated from the American Hydropathic Institute at New York. In 1865 he was also graduated from the Hygeio-Therapeutic Medical College, New York. He came to Illinois about 1856. He at various times conducted successfully water-cures in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, but finally changed his practice to homccopathy. He matriculated at Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago; became a member of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Association about 1866-67, and held office tlierein.

Dr. N. J. Lund, Geneva, a native of Denmark, was graduated from the American University of Philadelphia, January i, 1872. He came to Illinois in 1867.

Batavia Physicians And Surgeons

In Batavia the first resident physician was Dr. D. K. Town, a native of Granville, New York, who settled in the place in 1839 and engaged in practice until about 1862, when he retired and entered the real estate business. He attended medical lectures at New Haven, Connecticut, and began practice at Pludson, Ohio, remaining there a few years before coming to Batavia. From the time of his locating in the latter place he was always interested in all public enterjirises which promised to be of benefit to the place and was one of the founders of the Batavia Institute.

Dr. Charles A. Bucher, a native of Steuben county. New York, came to Aurora, Illinois, in 1850, and in 1855 located at Batavia and subsequently studied medicine under Drs. Thompson and Mead. He was graduated from Rush Medical College. Chicago, made an honorable record in the army as acting assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth and first assistant surgeon of the Seventy-second Infantry, and relocated at Batavia in 1865. He was elected coroner of Kane county in 1868.

Dr. Charles N. Cooper, of Batavia, is a native of Ohio. In 1867 he was graduated from the Iowa College and took his degree in medicine at the Chicago Medical College. March 18, 1869. He practiced at Keosauqua, Iowa, until 1875. when he came to Batavia. where he enjoyed a fine practice.

Dr. R. J. Patterson, physician in charge of the private asylum for the insane at Batavia, known as Bellevue Place, was graduated from Berkshire Medical College in 1842. He was formerly medical superintendent of the Indiana State Hospital for the Insane and later of the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane, and was once professor of medical jurisprudence in Chicago Medical College.

Dr. J. C. Augustine, of Batavia, a popular member of the profession, was graduated from the Bennett Eclectic Medical College, Chicago. March 2, 1876. and practiced both at Blackberry and Batavia .... Dr. Samuel C. Buchan became a graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, March i, 1877. . . .Dr. John C. Patterson was similarly honored by the Chicago Medical College. IMarch 12, 1872. . . .Dr. Lyman E. Currier, homoeopathist, was graduated from the Chicago Homoeopathic College. March 5, 1877.... Dr. Albert A. Fitts graduated from the medical department of Howard University. Washington. D. C. in 1878. . . .Dr. Sina Johnson, a lady who had practiced medicine since 1864, was licensed to continue by the Illinois State Board, April 22. 1879. . . .Dr. Elmore S. Pettyjohn became a graduate from Rush Medical College, Chicago. February 21. 1882.. ..Dr. Edward E. Whitehorne graduated from Albany Medical College. New York. February 3, 1878.... Dr. L. ]\I. Burroughs began practice in 1848.... Dr. C. Alex. Garnsey. homoeopathist, studied with a private practitioner and commenced practice in 1854.... Dr. John F. Lockwood. one of Batavia's popular and successful physicians, has been in practice since 1881 . . . .Dr. George Messner began practice in Illinois in 184^1. . . .Dr. H. \Y Williams, formerly coroner of Kane countv, practiced medicine in Illinois as early as 1848.

Aurora Physicians And Surgeons

The first physician at Aurora has been mentioned on a preceding page. Many others have hung out their shingles and engaged in practice at the place since and most of them will be found included in the following list :

Dr. W. E. Cole was an early comer to the place, locating in 1848 in the office previously occupied by Dr. Hubbard. He use'l the water-cure treatment in chronic diseases.

Dr. S. Mclntyre, German botanic physician and surgeon, had an office and botanic store in March, 1848, on Main street, east side, "one door east of Nathan Williams' grocery."

Dr. Silas Long announced April 12, 1848, through the columns of the Beacon, that he had removed from Jefferson ( Big Rockj to Aurora, and had his residence and office the first door north of the old postoffice. He had practiced eight years in Jefferson and \icinity before coming to Aurora, and his son, Dr. S. O. Long, was for many years a ijrominent physician of Rig Rock.

Dr. S. G. Hubbard, who was in practice in Aurora in April. 1848, had then been for some time located in the place .... Dr. P. D. H. Goff was a resident July I, 1848, and possibly before, as he had been here then long enough to have bills to present before the board of county commissioners .... Dr. Huntoon and Dr. A. R. Gilman were represented in a similar manner in 1849.

Dr. Nicholas Hard, who settled at St. Charles in or previous to 1884, and afterward filled a professorship in Franklin Medical College at that place, removed to Aurora in 1845. ^^^ ^^'S'' ^'^'J ^ professor in the Medical School at La Porte. Indiana, and earned popularity as a lecturer on anatomy in Aurora and elsewhere. He was a fine and well educated physician and an excellent surgeon. One of his successful operations in Aurora was that of tracheotomy (cutting an opening in the windpipe) in the case of a child of Marcus Lathrop, which had been nearly drowned in a cistern and was attacked in consequence by acute inflammation of the larynx, threatening death. The child was at once relieved after the operation and eventually recovered.

Dr. Chester Hard located at St. Charles in 1844 and studied medicine with his brother. Dr. Nicholas Hard, removing with the latter to Aurora in 1845. In 1848 he was graduated from the Indiana Medical College with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Entering at once into practice with his brother, he so continued until April 12, 1850. when the firm was dissolved and Chester removed to Ottawa, Illinois, where he continued in practice and won a fine reputation. While in Aurora he resided on the east side, next north of the home of Samuel McCarty. He was a native of Livingston county, New York.

Dr. Abner Hard, a native of Geneva, New York, removed to Liv^ingston county, Michigan, when thirteen years old - about 1833. He took up the study of medicine and spent some of his winters teaching school near Detroit. In 1 85 1 he came to Aurora, where he continued to stud}' with his brother. Dr. Nicholas Hard. In 1852 he went to Keokuk. Iowa, and was graduated from the medical department of the Iowa State University. February 9. 1854. He practiced a couple of years at Ottawa, then returning to Aurora. During the war of the Rebellion he was surgeon of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry and was brevetted lieutenant colonel for meritorious services. After the war he wrote a full and very interesting history of the regiment. February 5, 1868, he was graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago. He served in the Aurora City Council, was postmaster from 1869 to 1873, and a prominent member of the Fox River valley, the State and the American Medical Associations. His death occurred from pneumonia at Aurora, March 21. 1885.

Dr. O. D. Howell, who was a native of Tompkins county. New York, was a graduate from the Albany Medical College, New York, in 1840, and in his earlier years was a successful teacher. He came to Aurora in 1855 and entered upon the practice of his profession, in which he became a leader. Among the public positions which he held were those of surgeon of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company and United States examining surgeon for pensions. He was also one of the founders of the Aurora National Bank and served as its president and one of its directors until his death. It is also related that he delivered the first temperance lecture in Aurora. He served in the army as surgeon during the Rebellion. Dr. Howell died at Aurora, April 20, 1887, in the seventieth year of his age.

Dr. Edwin B. Howell, son of the above, was graduated from the Chicago Medical College June 30, 1874; was one of the best educated physicians who ever resided in Aurora, having studied extensively in the best schools of Europe. Finally, breaking down in health, he went to California, in the hope of building up his shattered constitution. The trip proved unavailing and he died in the Golden state in the early part of 1887, the remains being brought to Aurora for interment.

Dr. Ira A. \V. Buck, a graduate of the Physio-Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, located in practice at Aurora early in April, 1850, and resided on the east side of Fox river. In July of the same year Dr. H. Johnson, Jr., homceopathist, physician and surgeon, became a resident of the place.

Dr. L. H. Angell, who was located in practice at Aurora in the beginning of 1855. and had probably been some time in the place, entered the United States service in 1861 as surgeon of the Fifty-second Illinois Infantry, and died at Camp Chase, Ohio, March 28, 1865.

the same time Dr. Alfred L. Steen, "late from Massachusetts," was practicing in Aurora in 1858, as were also Drs. G. Higgins and S. F. Hance. from Buflfalo, New York. Dr. George Higgins came to Aurora with his parents in 1835 when a young lad; he was a graduate of Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1850, and commenced practice immediately. F. H. \^an Liew was for many years a successful and highly respected homoeopathic physician. Dr. \'an Liew, who was a native of New York, settled in Aurora in 1852 and for two years taught in the public schools. He then studied medicine and was graduated from the \\'estern Homeopathic College, Cleveland, Ohio, and commenced practice at Aurora in 1858. He Ijecame very prominent in his profession and taught a large number of voung men in the study of medicine.

Dr. L. A. Winslow was in practice in Aurora at the same time, having been graduated February 26, 1857, from the Keokuk Medical College, Keokuk. Iowa. He enjoyed an extensive practice.

Dr. Pierre A. Allaire, who was born in New York City, November 24, 1815, commenced the study of medicine at the age of seventeen years with Dr. Stephen C. Roe, of Bellevue Hospital, and during the six months he was with him supported himself on sixpence a day. He engaged in the drug business and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in March, 1837. For a time he was assistant surgeon at Bellevue Hospital, but coming west in 1838 or 1839, located at Bristol, Kendall county. He was there engaged in practice with Dr. Wheeler until 1841, when he removed to Aurora, and had his office and residence on the west side of River street, between Downer place and Galena street. His fame as physician and surgeon became widespread, extending throughout the entire northern portion of the state. He was active in promoting school affairs and was several times city physician of Aurora. As a surgeon he was especially noted. Dr. Allaire died from an attack of apoplexy at Aurora, June 17, 1885, aged nearly seventy years. He was said at the time to be the oldest practicing physician in the Fox River valley.

Dr. Delos W. Young, a native of Montgomery county. New York, removed with his parents to Kendall county, Illinois, in June, 1841, and in 1847, when eighteen years old, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Nicholas Hard at Aurora. He received his medical diploma from the medical department of the Iowa University at Keokuk in 185 1 and entered upon the practice of his profession. He won a splendid reputation as a physician and surgeon, few in the state surpassing him. He located in Aurora previous to 1855 and was in partnership with Dr. Abner Hard. He was surgeon of the Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry during the war of the Rebellion, resigning in 1864. He was several times elected to the Aurora city council, was mayor from 1864 to 1866, served on the board of supervisors three years, etc. He was identified with all movements looking to the advancement of the city's interests and was particularly interested in school matters. The "Young School" building was named in his honor. The struggles of his earlier years were- rewarded by the success of his after life, and when he died, September 8, 1874, his death was sincerely mourned.

Dr. Mason M. Miles, now of Aurora, was graduated from the Reformed Medical College. New York. June 25. 1846, and came to Aurora about 1854. In 1886 he formed a partnership with Dr. George E. Bass, a native of Vermont, and a graduate of the University of \^ermont. The latter had practiced at Lowell, Massacliusetts, and at South Chicago. He returned to Chicago in 1887.

Drs. D. Hurlbut and P. S. Blackman settled in Aurora in the fall of 1858, for a stay of several months. . . .Dr. W. Krymer appeared as a practitioner in 1859; also J. L. Prieto, a graduate of the University of Havana, Cuba. . . .Dr. H. Knapp was a monthly visitor. . . .Dr. I. S. P. Lord, homeopathic physician, was practicing in the county before 1848, and continued manv vears.

S28 Kane County History

Dr. Leonard R. Brigham, of Aurora, began the study of medicine in 1839, and was graduated from the Eclectic 3iledical College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He came to Aurora in i860.

Dr. Abner R. Bartlett, homeopathist, a native of Whitestown, New York, became a Universalist minister in 1839. He came to Aurora in 1847 to preach as a supply. In 1848 he entered upon the study of medicine, and was graduated from the Homeopathic Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio. He practiced his profession at Aurora from that time to within a few months of his death, which occurred December 26, 1880. He was a very successful physician, and held the chairs of physiology and general pathology in the college of which he was a graduate and the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, at St. Louis.

Dr. F. L. Bartlett, son of the above, came to Aurora in 1852. He received a thorough education, both in law and medicine, being a graduate from the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1866. and from the Homeopathic Medical College, at St. Louis, in 1868.

Dr. M. A. Cushing. formerly of Aurora, first came to the place in 1837. Three years later he commenced the study of medicine, and was graduated from Castleton Medical College, Vermont, in 1847. After practicing twenty years in the East, he returned to Kane county in 1867.

Dr. Francis M. Elliott, a native of Kane county, studied medicine with Dr. S. F. Hance, entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1866, and was graduated from that institution February 3, 1869. He practiced three years at Blairstown. Iowa. and. returning to Aurora in 1872, succeeded to the practice of Dr. Hance.

Dr. F. L. Pond, proprietor of the Aurora Cancer Hospital, is a native of Vermont, and attended medical lectures at Dartmouth College. In 1869 he removed to Chicago, and finally, in 1872, located at Aurora, and established the hospital which became so famous. Dr. Pond was also graduated in 1872 from the United States Medical College, New York.

Dr. Abiram Spaulding, a native of Washington county, New York, attended medical lectures at Brooklyn. New York, and began practice at Jersey City in 1845. In 1847 he came west and located at Aurora, engaging in the jeweln,- business, but subsequently retired from this and resumed practice as an electropathic physician, in which he continued many years.

Dr. John A. Cook studied medicine at Yorkville; was graduated from Rush IMedical College in 1859. and commenced practice in Kendall county. He removed to Aurora in 1868.

Dr. O. T. Palmer, homeopathist, was for a number of years in practice at Aurora. In 1864 he removed to Iowa, and died at Oskaloosa, in that state, June 6, 1874.

Dr. Theodore Canisius resided for a number of 3'ears in Aurora. About 1868, after a trip to the old country, he originated a scheme to establish a beet-sugar factory at Aurora, but his hopes were never realized. The fine farm he purchased for the cultivation of the sugar-beet, he sold in 1874. and in the fall of that vear removed to Chicasro.

Dr. Henry G. Gabel, who studied with Dr. L. R. Brigham at Aurora, was graduated from the Eclectic jMedical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 28.

gradauted at La Porte, Indiana, in about 1848. He began practice at Shabbona, DeKalb county, Illinois, but about 1851 removed to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he practiced until his death, in January, 1876. He was never a resident practitioner of Kane county.

Dr. John Jassoy was a graduate of an institution at Berne, Switzerland, in 1846, and for a time surgeon in the Austrian army. In 1850 he located at Xaperville, Illinois, removing to Aurora in 1861. He was for two years surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Illinois Infantry during the war of the Rebellion, and died at Aurora, November 21, 1876.

Dr. S. B. Hawley studied medicine with his brother at Fairfax, Vermont, and previous to the war practiced several years in Georgia and Alabama. He settled at Aurora in 1861. He served in the army one year as assistant surgeon of the Thirty-sixth Illinois Infantry, then as surgeon of the Thirty-fifth, and was subsequently made a division surgeon in the Army of the Cumberland. He was a prisoner for several months in Libby. Richmond, Virginia. Returning to Aurora after the war, he resumed practice, an died there November 26. 1877, aged forty-six years.

Mrs. Charlotte F. Stringer, M. D., uf Aurora, studied two years in New York city as early as 1839-40, and about 1848-49 located in Aurora. February 24, 1874, she was graduated from the Woman's Hospital Medical College, Chicago, after a three years' course.

Mrs. Lida E. Green. M. D.. after the death of her husband. Dr. John Green, in Kendall county, in accordance with his desire, studied medicine, and February 28, 1878, was graduated from the \\'oman's Hospital Medical College, Chicago. She located at Aurora the same year, but removed to near Mitchell, Dakota, in 1882.

Mrs. Catherine B. Slater. M. D., was for three years a successful teacher in the West Aurora High School, and during the time studied medicine with Mrs. Dr. Brown. She was graduated from the Woman's College and Hospital, Chicago, in 1879.

Dr. Mary C. Knight, who was graduated from the Woman's Hospital Medical College, Chicago, February 28, 1882, located in Aurora in the fall of the same year, succeeding to the practice of Dr. Lida E. Green, removed to Dakota. She had much experience in the Chicago hospitals.

Dr. J. W. Groat came to Aurora from Fremont, Ohio, in 1876 or 1877, upon the death of his sister, Mrs. Dr. Brown, and practiced there about six years. He died suddenly in Chicago, January 12, 1883, aged fifty years. He was a graduate from the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio, February 24, 1863.

Dr. Bernard Tribelhorn. a native of Switzerland, and a graduate of the Universit}' of Berne, October i, 1869, came to Aurora from Mendota, in 1877, and enjoyed a good practice. He died July 6. 1879.

Dr. Isaac M. ^'orhees was graduated from W'ooster Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, February 28, 1877. He practiced at Detroit, ^Michigan, until December, 1879, when he came to Aurora.

Dr. H. Milbacher was graduated from the University of Munich, Bavaria, August 2, 1 88 1, and in February. 1883. arrived at Aurora, where he has built up an excellent practice.

Dr. T. M. Triplett. specialist in treating diseases of the throat and chest, also scrofulous difficulties, located in Aurora in March, 1884. He was graduated from the Homeopathic College of ]\Iissouri, February 28. 1878, and had been in practice for years before coming to Aurora.

Dr. Penn W . Ransom, who was graduated from the Chicago Medical College. March 4. 1879. practiced in Aurora until April, 1887, when he and other physicians opened a fine sanitarium at Rockford for the board and treatment of patients. Dr. Ransom was especially skilled in surgery, and was the first to introduce in Aurora, the antiseptic treatment of wounds, which proved very successful.

One Dr. Palmer, who was located on the west side of the river very early, is said to have come in 1836. and to have been the second physician in the place.

Other Aurora physicians have been and are the following : Dr. Almon K. Ives, graduate of the St. Louis Medical College, March 15. 1872. . . .Monroe M. Robbins, graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, March i, 1865, and a well-known practitioner. . . .5. C. Gillett. graduate of Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1853, and for many years a successful' member of the profession, still continuing in practice.. . .Sumner J. Ricker, homeopathist, graduate of Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, February 22, 1871 ... .Lemuel McAlpine, graduate of Yale Medical College, New Haven. Connecticut, March 4. 1830. . . . \\'illiam T. Murphy, graduate of Rush Medical College, Chicago. February 26, 1878. . . .Mary A. Morris, practiced midwifery from 1838, and was licensed to continue same by Illinois state board, March 29, 1878. . . .Mar\-in S. Rice, homeopathist, graduate of Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. February 10, 1876. . . .George D. Woods, in practice, 1856, and licensed to continue by the Illinois state board. August 19, 1878. . . .Richard R. Hall, graduate of Eclectic Medical Institute. Cincinnati, Ohio, February 12, 1848; formerly resided in Jersey county, Illinois, and for several years in Aurora: removed to Wichita. Kansas, in 1886.... I. VVatson Prichard. graduate of the University of ilichigan. ^larch 25,1868. . . . Henrv Reder. graduate of the medical department of the University of New York. Februar)- 17, 1880. . . .Lewis C. Rice, graduate of Philadelphia Medical College. February 28, 1856. . . .John E. Hurlbut. graduate of Wooster University. Cleveland, Ohio, in 1861 A. \\'. Avery, graduate of Long Island

College Hospital. Xew York, June 15. 1882. . . .Christopher D. Mowry, graduate of Rush Medical College, Chicago. February 15, 1876. .. .Charles E. Winslow. admitted to practice upon a thorough examination by the Illinois state board. April 13, 1880. . . .Harvey S. Seymour, graduate Chicago Homeo- pathic Medical College, March i, 1883. . . .Simeon P. Ives, graduate St. Louis Medical College, March 3, 1866. .. .George L. Perry, graduate Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 29, 1878. .. .Courtney Smith, graduate Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 25, 1879.... E. Karoly, licensed by state board, October 13, 1883 ... .George Frank Allen, graduate Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 24, 1880. . . .James Selkirk, graduate Albany Medical College, New York, March 5, 1884. . . .Thomas A. Elder, graduate Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 5, 1868.... George H. Carr, homeopathist, graduate Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, February 28, 1870. . . .Priscilla G. Myers, same institution, February 26, 1885. . . .James M. Postle, medical department University of Michigan, June 25, 1885. - -Charles E. Cohvell, homeopathist, graduate Flahnemann Medical College, Chicago, February 26, 1885. . . .Lydia Flowed La Baume, graduate Woman's Hospital Medical College, Chicago, April 21, 1885 .... Frank Herbert Jenks, graduate Chicago Medical College, March 23, 1886. . . .Amelia Nielson, from Copenhagen, Denmark, licensed by state board, June 14, 1886, to practice midwifery .... W. F. Bundy, graduate Bennett Medical College, Chicago, March 28, 1881 . . . .J. N. Morse, homeopathist, graduate Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, February 26, 1886. . . .Charles Woodward, graduate Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 3, 1879. . . .E. H. LeDuc, graduate Chicago Medical College, in March, 1863, and for a number of years in practice in DuPage county before locating in Aurora .... Robert A. Windett, graduate Rush Medical College, February 15, 1887. . . .James Franklin Ford, graduate at same time with Dr. Windett, removed to Wisconsin in 1887. . . . Aaron J. Redding, graduate Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 23, 1871 . . . .Morgan A. Bently, certificate of examination January 15, 1878. . . . .Mark A. Gushing, began practice about 1847. ^nd came to Aurora about 1867. . . .E. H. Gale came from Vermont to Illinois about 1866. . . .William E. Jurden, in practice in 1877.... S. Karoly, Hungarian physician, graduate Medical Institute, Zilah, November 6, 1883. . . .J. H. Owen, in practice since 1857, came to Aurora about 1865. . . .Angeline Swift, Eclectic, began practice in 1855. . . .Clinton G. Cool^, graduate Albany Medical College, New York, March 5, 1884.

Dundee Physici.Vns And Surgeons

At Dundee the first resident physician was Dr. John R. Goodnow, from New Hampshire, who purchased a claim of about eight hundred acres from Thomas Deweese, in 1837. A Mr. Burbank. who came with him, afterward became a physician and located in Chicago. Dr. Goodnow became one of the early justices of the peace, and was long well known in the northern part of the county.

Dr. E. F. Cleveland, for many years a respected citizen of Dundee, and a very able physician, is a native of Northern New York, and was educated at St. Mary's High School, Canada. During the war of the Rebellion he made a fine record in the army, and in 1865 commenced the study of medicine in Canada. He attended lectures at McGill College, Montreal, and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Michigan, in 1868, when he settled at Dundee, and entered upon the practice of his profession.

Dr. Levi A. Crabtree, a native of New York state, located at Dundee in 1856-57, having practiced medicine a number of years previously, in California and elsewhere. He was graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1849.

Dr. \V. A. Shepard. homeopathist. Dundee, was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, March 15, 1887.... Dr. Frank M. Brown became a graduate of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, in 1883. . . .Harry W. Merrill, a graduate of Rush Medical College. February 20, 1883.

Blackberry Physicians And Surgeons

In Blackberry, the first settled physician is said to have been Dr. Smith, who came in 1856. Dr. Samuel IMcNair following in i860, having been graduated from Rush Medical College, Cliicago. in 1859. His native state was Pennsylvania, and he came to Kane county in 1844. He studied medicine at Aurora, Cincinnati and Chicago, and to him was granted the first certificate awarded by the Illinois State Board of Health.

Dr. O. L. Pelton, a \ery successful young physician, practiced at Elburn for several years. remo\-ing to Elgin in 1882. . . .Dr. J. S. Watson, who was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1881, succeeded Dr. Pelton in 1882, and has built up a fine practice. He was associated for two years with Dr. Louis Van Patten, who removed to St. Charles in 1886. . . .Dr. Paschal P. Gray, homeopathist, w'as graduated from Hahnemann IMedical College, Chicago, February 27, 1880, and Dr. Horace P. Holmes, from the same institution, February 24, 1881.

Hampshire Phy'Sicians And Surgeons

The first representative of the medical profession in Hampshire was Dr. Thomas E. Fowler, who came to the township from Ohio in 1850. After practicing in the community about twenty years he removed to Iowa, where he subsequently died. Later physicians in the township have been the following: Charles P. Reid. graduate of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, May 20, 1872. .. .Ralph R. DeWitt, graduate of Rush IMedical College. Chicago, February i, 1871 . . . .Andrew J. Willing, graduate of same institution, February, 1866, was located for a time at Burlington before coming to Hampshire, and had a fine practice in the vicinity ; is now residing at Wheeler, Indiana .... Charles B. Reed, of Holstein, graduate of Rush IMedical College, Chicago. February, 1865. .. .William E. Treadwell matriculated at Bennett Medical College, Chicago.

Kaneville Physicians And Surgeons

In Kaneville we find that Dr. Stephen R. Hyslop was practicing as early as 1848. for on the loth o^ October, in that year, he was married to Miss

Almira Burt, a Kane county lady. . . .Dr. Merritt F. Potter, a graduate of Harvard Medical College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 12, 1846, was practicing at Kaneville in and probably previous to 1854, and afterward located at Hinckley, DeKalb county. .. .Dr. Hiram T. Hardy was graduated from Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, N. H., October 31, 1866, having begun the study of medicine at Thetford. Vermont. He served in the cavalry and artillery arms of the service during the war of the Rebellion, located at Elgin, Illinois, in 1872, and in 1873 removed to Kaneville.

Virgil Physicians And Surgeons

In the township of Virgil, Dr. Strong, who came in 1856, is said to have been the first resident physician. . . .Dr. William Kennedy, who came in 1857, was a finely educated practitioner, and continued in practice until the fall of 1862, when he died.... Dr. Robert McNair, who came to Kane county in 1837, from Pennsylvania, returned to that state ten years later, studied medicine and practiced seven years, removing thence to Wisconsin. In 1862 he returned to Kane county, and settled in practice at Lodi (now Maple Park) also in the village in 1875. He had come with his parents from Ireland to DeKalb county in 1856, and was graduated from the institution named, March 16, 1875. . . .br. David L. Kenyon, of the same place, was graduated from the same college March 5, 1878. . . .Dr. George Steurnagel became a graduate of Michigan College of Medicine March 5, 1883.

Big Rock Physicians And Surgeons

Dr. J. T. H. Brady was the first doctor to locate in the township of Big Rock, coming in tiie spring of 1838, although he did not commence regular practice until eight years later. He soon afterward removed to Little Rock .... Dr. S. O. Long, from Massachusetts, lived and practiced thirty years in the township, and was universally respected. He died of consumption July 3, 1874, aged sixty years. . . .Dr. B. Harris was graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 16, 1859. . . .Dr. Henry C. Sedgwick, from Bennett Eclectic Medical College, Chicago, March 27. 1869. . . .Dr. L. J. Lamson commenced practice about 1861-62.

Sugar Grove

The first physician in Sugar Grove has already been mentioned. Dr. Nelson H. Norris, a very successful practitioner, was graduated from Dartmouth Medical College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in October, 1867.

Dr. Daniel Pingree came to Kane county, from New Hampshire, in 1838, and purchased a large claim in Plato township. He studied medicine and w-as graduated March 22, 1849, fi"om the Indiana Medical College at La Porte. Indiana. He practiced a number of years in California, but returned to Kane county in i860, and had an extended ride in the region around his home, for many years .... Dr. L. S. Tyler was, however, the first regular physician in Plato, having come to Udina early in 1836, from \"ermont. He came here because of finding no opening at Chicago, and was engaged in practice at Udina for eight years.

Campton township's first representative of the medical profession was Dr. John King, who came very early, and was a prominent citizen. He was also a preacher, and built a sawmill, which was never used much, owing to insufficiencv of power. The locality in which he lived was until recent years known as ''King's Mill."

Burlington

In Burlington township. Dr. I. W. Garvin was the first doctor to locate. After practicing a number of years he went to California in 1849. ^"^ some time later returned to Illinois and settled at Sycamore. . . .Dr. A. J. Willing practiced a few years in Burlington village, but removed to Hampshire about

1875. and later to Wheeler, Indiana. Dr. Carl E. J. Christiansen, a native of Germany, and an assistant surgeon in the Ninth Artillery during the Franco- Prussian war, was graduated from the University of Giesses February 13. 1872. He came to the United States in 1873, upon the steamer "Atlantic," and was one of the survivors of the wreck of that ill-fated vessel. He came to Burlington township in August, 1877. . . .Dr. Carl M. Maxfield was graduated from the Eclectic ^Medical Institution, Cincinnati, Ohio. February 8. 1870.

Dr. J. W. Stone, formerly from Michigan, was located in Burlington for a short time, beginning about 1880. He finall)^ removed from the township.

Other physicians who have at various times practiced in the county, Avhere some of them are still located, are included in the following list, w'hich names also the schools from \\hich they were graduated, in most instances :

Dr. E. A\\ Nash was in the county in and previous to 1847. '^s was also Dr. A. Gardner - the latter at Blackberry .... Dr. C. A. Jaeger. Elgin, graduate of Cleveland Homeopathic jNIedical College, March i. 1854. . . .Dr. John Joseph Crane. College Physicians and Surgeons, New York city. March i.

1876. . . .Finla McClure. Geneva, Rush Aledical College. Chicago. February 15. 1876.... Emma F. Wells, medical department University of Michigan. June 26. 1879. . . .James E. Bumstead. graduate of Chicago Medical College, in 1880. . . .\\'illiam T. Putt (Oswego) Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati. Ohio. May 12. 1874. . . .John S. Nitterauer (Sycamore), Hahnemann Medical College. Chicago. February 26, 1880. . . .Alfred Schmidt. University of Tubingen, Germany. November 8, i860. . . .Lorin A. Kelly. Bennett College of

Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, March 15. 1869. . . .L. G. Hemenway, same institution. February 21, 1877. . . .Samuel R. JMiliard, graduate of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery ... .James Bradley, Chicago Medical College. March 4, 1868. . . .Hiram Hopkins, Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 17, 1885. . . . Margarite Weber, Medical College of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, August 2. 1881 . . . . Alvin Piatt Dewey, Rush Medical College, Chicago, February 19. 1884. . . .Royal McTaggart, Syracuse Medical College, New York, February 22, 1855. . ..Charles W. Ray, Bennett Eclectic Medical College, Chicago, ^ilarch 31, 1885. . . .Augustus James Thibodo, University of Trinity College. Toronto. Ontario, April 6. 1854. . . .Carleton E. Starrett, Bennett Medical College, Chicago, in 1884. Died at Elgin in 1907. . . . .C. H. Waldschmidt, Rush Medical College. Chicago, March 20, 1877. . . . Fred A. Larkin. Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, March 23. 1886. ... Marian Elizabeth Strain, department of medicine and surgery of University of Michigan, July i. 1886. . . .Charles V. Jenkins, University of Buffalo, New York, in i860. . . .Howard L. Pratt, Rush Medical College. Chicago. February 26, 1878. ... David Charles Thomas Watkins, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1887.... Theodore D. \\'illiams. Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, 1871 .... George Green (Bristol Station). Rush Medical College, Chicago. March 2, 1870. . . .Josephine Dickes, midwifery, Le Conseil de Gouvermente du Grand Duche de Luxembourg, January 6, 1846.

At Aurora - P. A. Allaire. F. H. Van Liew, A. R. Bartlett, Stephen Bateman, George Higgins, O. D. Howell, Wesley Krymer. Mason M. Miles, Charles Naeher, Salisbury & Humphrey, L. A. Winslow and D. W. Young. J. A. Hatch. Jerome Van Allen, Otis \\'inslow, W. C. Winslow and Martin Woodruff were medical students.

Dentistry has made great strides the past twenty years, the American dentist being recognized the world over as the leader in this branch of medicine. Nearly every hamlet in the county supports a dentist, while Aurora and Elgin maintain about twenty of this profession. Osteopathy has become a regular practice, there being many osteopaths practicing in Aurora and Elgin.