Logan County, Illinois - Biographical sketches (2 of 3 so headed), 1886

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who were also natives of Kentucky. The family removed from Kentucky to Indiana, and in 186Y came to Lo^an County, Illinois, settling at Latham. John R. was reared to farming pursuits, .and for many years worked by the month for farmers. He was educated in the common schools, and also Lincoln University. He subsequently taught school four years, and while engaged in teaching at Middletown, commenced reading medicine with Dr. "W". 0. Maull as preceptor. In 1878 he entered Rush Medical College, from which he graduated Feb. 21, 1881, and in June of the same year he located at Hartsburg, succeeding Dr. L. Loda, where he has a large and lucrative practice. The Doctor has been twice married. In 1879 he was married to Mary Reed, daughter of Dr. T. M. Reed, of Middletown. She died three months after her marriage. In January, 1884, our subject married Mary Morris, of Columbus Grove, Ohio. To this union has been born one son - Clarence M. In politics Dr. Sarnett is a staunch Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, at Lincoln, and superintendent of the Sunday-school at Hartsburg. He is a Master Mason and a member of the Odd-Fellow's order, and Ancient Order of United Workmen, having represented the latter order in the grand lodge of the State for four years. He is also a member of the corps of snrgeons of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railroad.

Amos Bartholomew, physician of Atlanta, was born Oct. 12, 1808, in Jefferson County, Ohio. His parents, Moses and Elizabeth Bartholomew, were natives of Maryland and Virginia, respectively, coming to Jefferson County in 1805, where Amos was born and brought up to manhood. He received his primary education in the subscription schools of his native county, and at the age of twenty-two he entered what is now known as Capital University at Columbus, Ohio, from which he graduated after an attendance of three years, in the meantime preparing himself for his ministerial duties. Since that time he has labored zealously for the cause of religion for many years, and at various periods has held important offices in the Presbytery. In the fall of 1868 he resigned his pastorate at Belle Center, Ohio, where he was at that time settled pastor. He then came to Mason City, Illinois, and began the practice of medicine, being the first physician to introduce Homeopathy into Mason County. In 1870 he received a call from the church at Williamsville, Sangamon County, where he remained but a short time, and in 187'J he received a call from the presbytery to the Presbyterian cliarch of Atlanta, where, in connection with his pastoral duties, he began the practice of medicine, which he has followed with success. He was first married in Ohio in April, 1835, to Eliza Ann Landes, by whom he has had seven children; three are still living - William A., Mary L. and Almira L. He was again married in Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1871, to Isabel C. Munce. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and has filled many of the important offices of that society, and was a charter member of Cypress Encampment, No. 10, of Zanesville, Ohio. He has spent a life of usefulness worthy of imitation, and the good he has accomplished will undoubtedly have its influence on future generations.

Dr. John Claek, deceased, was a son of David and Sallie (Winans) Clark, and was born in Miami County, Ohio, November 25, 1810. David Clark, born August 28, 1776, in Essex County, New Jersey, removed to Kentucky in 1798, and in 1800 married Rachel Ratter, who died four years later. In 1805 he removed to what is now Cincinnati, and made the brick for the first brick house erected in the embryo city. The following year he was married in So'.nerset County, New Jersey, to Sallie Winans, born October 25, 1788, and in 1809 settled in Miami County, Ohio, coming thsnce to Sugar Creek, Sangamon County Illinois. Our subject, John Clark, came with them, and, a year later, returned to Miami County, Ohio, where he married in August, 1830, Eliza Tremain, born May 24, 1810, in New York State. For about twelve years they engaged in farming in Sangamon County, then coming to Mount Pulaski, where Dr. Clark began the practice of his profession, he having studied medicine in his native county and graduated from the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1828 and was trustee of the Mount Pulaski Methodist Episcopal Church from its organizition to his death. He was County Commissioner of Logan County for four years aud Justice of the Peace seveuteen years, during which time he married eighty-four couples. He died January 28, 1877, and is buried in Mount Pulaski Cemetery. His widow is stiM living in Mount Pulaski.

George W. Dunn, physician and surgeon of Atlanta, was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, England, June 29, 1841, a son of Richard and Ann Dunn. He received his primary education in the Richmond corporation school, and at the age of thirteen years he was apprenticed as a pupil teacher in the Richmond parish school where he remained live years, and passed every annual Government -examination successfully, receiving his Government certificate in 1860. In 1860 he came to America, and after spending a short time in South Adams, Massachusetts, went to New York where he was employed a few months in the oflSce of the American Temperance Union. He was then appointed to take charge of Millburn station, in the Newark, New Jersey, Methodist Episcopal Conference preaching there till the following September. He was then received into the North Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Cihurch, and was stationed at Republic, Seneca County, Ohio, one year, after which he was stationed at Melmore for the same time. He was then transferred to Avon, Lorain County, and a year later was sent to Port Clinton, remaining there one year. He then became pastor of the church at Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri, where he preached about sixteen months. The two years following he spent on his farm in Lewis County, and in 1869 he was appointed to Lamar circuit for one year after which he was on Medoc circuit. For several years he had devoted his leisure time to the study of medicine, and in 1872 he graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, being the valedictorian of his class. The same year he located at Georgia City, Jasper County, Missouri, where be engaged in the practice of medicine. In 1874 he located near Neosho, Missouri, thence to Lamar, Missouri, removing from the latter place-in 1877 to Forest City, Macon County, Illinois. In 1879 became to Atlanta, Logan County, where he has since followed his profession. He has secured a large practice and is classed among the leading practitioners of Logan County. The Doctor is still actively engaged in advancing the interests of the church, and for two years he served efficiently as president of the Ljgan County Christian Temperance Union. He is now president of the Logan County Sabbath-school Association. September 10, 1863, he was married to Kate Shaffner, of Seneca County, Ohio. This union has been blessed with six children - Harry W., A. Lin- <;oln, Kingsley G., Anna K., Dora D. and Richard M. Richard is deceased. In politics Dr. Dunn votes the Prohibition ticket.

George W. Ebrite, A. M., M. D., was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1840. His father was a teacher, and owned a farm, where George W. spent his early life. At the age of fifteen he entered the Lebanon Academy, and later the Jonestown Collegiate Institute, where he studied two years. He then attended, for one year, the Lebanon Yalley College, afterward entering

Dartmouth College, from which historic institution he received the degree of A. B. in 1866. During 1867 he attended a course of lectures in the Long Island College Hospital, then entering the medical department at Dartmouth, from which he received his diploma in 1869, and the following year the degree of A. M. He practiced at Taylorville, Pennsylvania, for four years; at Gordon, Pennsylvania, eighteen months, eight years at Ashland, Pennsylvania, and in September, 1882, moved to Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.

During the campaign of 1884 he edited the Mt. Pulaski Citizen, in advocacy of the election of President Cleveland. During the civil war. Dr. Ebrite enlisted in the Penn Reserves, and took part in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, Mechanicsville, Gaine's Mill, Savage Station, Frazier's Farm, Malvern Hill, etc. His horse was shot from under him atthebattleof Antietam. He served three years, and was made Sscond Lieutenant in the Signal Corps, where he served for some time. Dr. Ebrite makes a specialty of difficult cases of surgery, which branch of the profession is his pride. He has successfully treated a dozen bad cases of fracture, among which was that of George Hasselman, whose skull was so split, by a runaway accident, as to cause part of the brain to protrude. Another case is that of the young son of George Mier, a lad of ten, whose skull was similarly opened by the kick of a horse. Both entirely recovered after three or four months' treatment. Other cases might be mentioned, but these will suffice. The Doctor is a member of the Brainerd District and Mississippi Valley medical societies. He is a Master Mason. He married Miss Sarah M., daughter of David Hanna, at Penn Hail, Pennsylvania, her birth-place. They have five children. The Doctor is a member of the Lutheran church.

"William Bassett Fish, M. D., medical superintendent ot the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, at Lincoln, Illinois, is a native of Massachusetts, born at Lee, Berkshire County, September 28, 1850, a son of William Tally and Harriet Rebecca (Bassett) Fish, the former a native of Connecticut, of English descent, and his mother of Massachusetts, of Puritan ancestry, tracing her descendants to the Mayflower. He was given a good education in his native town, and when about fifteen years of age went to sea in a whaling vessel, being in that service a year. He then was in the Merchants' service of the United States Navy over two years, when in the latter part of 1869 he returned home, and engaged in the manufacturing business with his father at Lee. In 1871 the business was discontinued, and he was employed as bookkeeper by the HoUey Manufacturing Company at Lakeville, Connecticut, till 1876, when at the solicitation of Dr. Henry M. Knight, Superintendent of the Connecticut Institution for Feeble-Minded Children, went to New York City and began the study of medicine, with the view of fitting himself for the care and treatment of that unfortunate class. He attended lectures at the College of Physicians andSnrgeons,N"ew York City,and the Albany Medical College, graduating from the latter in March, 1879. He then spent a year in practice at Albany, and in 1880 was appointed superintendent of the Pennsylvania Institution for Feeble-Minded, at Elwyn, where he remained till October 4, 1883, when he was appointed by the Board of Trustees, medical superintendent of the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children, at Lincoln. Dr. Fish was married February 14, 1882, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Miss Jessie H. Stewart. They are members of the Episcopal church.

"William B. Gutteet, M. D., Middletown, Illinois, was born in Boone County, Indiana, May 7, 1850, a son of Milliken and Rebecca (Stevenson) Guttery. In 1865 his parents came to Logan County, and settled in East Lincoln Township, where they still live. In 1869 he entered Lincoln University and was a student there about three years. He then began teaching and followed that occupation five years. In the meantime he devoted his leisure time to the study of medicine, reading with Drs. W. "W. House and H. B. Brown. In the fall of 1879 he entered the St. Louis Medical College and graduated in March, 1881. Four days after his graduation he located in Middletown where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Guttery married Mary Jane, daughter of James Johnson, of Sheridan Township. They have two children - Walter Milliken and Sadie E.

Thaddeus F. Hamer, M. D., was born in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, January 27, 1848. He followed the mercantile traide in his native country till December 31, 1870, when he immigrated to America, landing at New York. He came to Illinois and was engaged as bookkeeper for a firm which dealt in hardware and farm implements at Pekin till the fall of 1872. He also clerked for a short time at Emden in the first store at that place. He returned to his native country for the purpose of studying pharmacy, and thus prepared himself for a druggist. He attended the university eighteen months where he also took a scientific course. In July, 1878, he again returned to the United States, and received a diploma in pharmacy in the State of New Jersey. He again came to Illinois and purchased a drug business at Hartsbnra;, to which he added a stock of hardware, und conducted this business till 1881. He then sold out to his brother, Fred Hamer, and again went to Germany where he entered the University at Marburg of Hesse, from which he graduated, receiving the degree of M. D. in 1884. He then spent about three mouths at Berlin, practicing in the hospitals, when he again returned to the United States, and located at Hartsbnrg in May, 1885, where he is building up a good practice. He was reared in the faith of the Cumberland Presbyterians, his father being a minister of that denomination.

De. Geeen Hill, of Middletown, is one of the oldest practicing physicians of Logan County. He was born near Franklin, "Williamson County, Tennessee, July 1,1813, and is descended from old and honorable Southern families, bis ancestors on his father's side coming from North Carolina, and his maternal ancestors from Virginia. The late Honorable Benjamin Hill, of Georgia, belonged to another branch of the Doctor's family. Dr. Hill received an excellent literary and medical education. When he was sixteen years old he entered the Franklin Academy which was at that time presided over by Bishop James H. Otey, who became noted during the late war. After attending the college a year he went to Nashville, and there received his medical education. He began the practice of medicine at his old home when twenty-two years of age, which he has ever followed, his experience covering a period of over fifty years. After remaining near Franklin about two years he went to Columbus, Mississippi, where he practiced his profession, and kept a drug store for about ten years. In March, 1850, he came to Illinois and was temporarily located at Elkhart. In 1852 he came to Middletown where he has since lived, engaged in practicing medicine. The Doctor first came to Logan County in 1836 and entered 720 acres of land in Hurlbut Township, and also purchased twenty acres of timber land. He made a trip to Illinois on horseback in about ten days, bringing the money with which he paid for his land in his saddlebags. The Doctor kept this land till he returned to Illinois in 1850 when he sold it for $7 per acre. When he settled in this vicinity physicians were very few in number, so he had much traveling, sometimes going many miles to visit a patient, and often while crossing the prairie meeting with wolves and other wild animals. Money was scarce with the settlers in those early days, in fact about the only money the Doctor saw during the first year or two of his residence here was what he brought with him from Tennessee, he being generally paid in corn. The Doctor has now a good office practice, and only makes professional visits into the country when he cannot do otherwise. He has maintained through a long professional career an enviable reputation as a skillful and successful physician, and as an intelligent, honorable and upright citizen. He has a pleasant home in Middletown, and a farm of 120 acres in the township. He has been three times married, his first wife being Martha Ann Kirkpatrick, whom he married in 1834. They had two children - Mary and Sarah A. The latter died at the ago of sixteen years ; the former married John Brandon, of Franklin, Tenn. She and her husband are deceased, leaving six children, all of whom survive. His first wife died in Mississippi, and he was afterward married in Mississippi to Sarah Ann Vanmiddlesworth, of Auburn, New York, who died in Logan County in 1858, leaving two daughters - Catherine, who married Lewis Yarney, a lawyer of Saratoga Springs, New York; and Ella M., living near Austin, Texas, the wife of C.C. Baker. The Doctor's present wife is Martha R. Caldwell, of Logan County, and to this union has been born five sons - Green E., Thomas C, John H., Harry C, and Tolbert F. In politics Dr. Hill is a staunch Democrat, and has always advocated the principles of that party. He is a member of the Christian church at Broadwell, and is also a member of the Odd Fellows order.

Geeen B. Hoblit, M. D., deceased, a native of Logan County, born August 10, 1841, was a son of J. E. Hoblit, of Atlanta Township. He was reared in this county and educated in the public schools of Atlanta. He read medicine for three successive years with Dr. Kirk, of Atlanta, and subsequently attended the Chicago Medical (Jollege, from which he graduated with the degree of M. D. in March, 1869. The following June he located at Benton, Franklin County, Illinois, where he was successfully engaged in the practice of his chosen profession till his death, which occurred September 10, 1881. He was married November 10, 1869, to Mary C. Hamilton, daughter of Colonel Lorenzo D. and Martha Hamilton, her father having been prominently identified with Atlanta Township since its organization. To Dr. and Mrs. Hoblit were born seven children, of whom only two are living - Byron H. and Birdie. Dr. Hoblit was a member of the delegation from the nineteenth district of Illinois, taking part in the convention which nominated General Hancock for President. His remains were interred by the Masonic fraternity with appropriate ceremony, he having been a member of that order. His widow resided at Benton till 1883, since which she has been a resident of Atlanta. She is a member of the Christian church.

Silas E. McClelland, physician and surgeon, Beason, was born January 13, 1860, in Decatur, Illinois, his parents, Joseph E. and Margaret McClelland, being natives of Ohio. He was educated in his native town, graduated from the Decatur High School in 1875. He then entered the drug store of J. T. Hubbard, of Decatur, where he remained four years, becoming a skilled pharmacist. He entered Kush Medical College, of Chicago, in September, 1882, from which he graduated in February, 1884. During the summer of 1883 he spent some time in practice with his brother. Dr. W. E. McClelland, of Midland City, Illinois. In 1884 he located at Beason, Logan County, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession, and is meeting with excellent success. He is also the proprietor of a well-patronized drug store at Beason. He was married November 26, 1884, to Sarah Armstrong, daughter of Andrew and Sarah Armstrong of ^tna Township, Logan County. The Doctor is a member of the Masonic fraternity of Lincoln, Illinois.

P. H. Oylee, M. D., is the son of George Oyler, a farmer, residing near Carlysle, Pennsylvania. He was born October 13, 1846, and remained on the farm until fourteen years of age, when he left home to seek a more advanced course of instruction than the public schools of the vicinity then afforded. Subsequently he began the study of medicine under Dr. Keiffer, of Carlysle, Penns3'lvania, but for want of means lie was obliged to abandon his medical studies, temporarily, and resort to manual labor to raise funds to prosecute his studies. In 1864 he was a forage master in General Sheridan's army, in which capacity he continued to serve until in the spring of 1865, when he was discharged. He soon after went to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he learned carriage-making, and attended night. school. He continued working at his trade until 1870, having then accumulated several thousand dollars by industry and economy. The next two years he was a clerk in a drug store at Columbus, Indiana. Later he became the proprietor of a drug store and continued in the business until he entered the Louisville Medical College. In 1878 he graduated from the latter institution and moved to Mt. Pulaski, Illinois, where he has ever since been actively engaged in the practice of medicine. He is a member of the State Medical Society of Illinois and a permanent member of the American Medical Association. He was married at Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1868, to Sarah J. Westover, formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, with whom he has three children, two sons and one daughter. Lewis M. Pbbkt, M. D., a well and favorably known physician of Logan County, was born in Newcastle, Henry County, Kentucky, September 1, lS36, his parents, William A. and Caroline B. Perry, being natives of Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio, respectively. Lewis M. received good educational advantages early in life. October 7, 1861, he enlisted in defense of the Union in Company H, Sixth Kentucky Infantry,' serving nearly four years. Before entering the service he had been Captain of a home guard company; he therefore made himself very useful in drilling new recruits. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of his company, but in consequence of the unfaithfulness of his Colonel, Walter C. Whittaker, was not mustered. He acted in the capacity of Second Lieutenant of his company till after the battle of Shiloh, when Richard T. Whittaker, a brother of the Colonel, appeared from civil life and was mustered in Perry's place, and drew back pay. Whittaker's resignation was finally "accepted for the good of the service." June 7, 1864, Perry was made Adjutant. He was in Hagen's brigade till about the capture of Atlanta, taking part in most of the engagements in which the brigade participated, among which may be mentioned the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Allatoona Mountain, and the battles in front of Atlanta. He received a slight wound at the battle of Chickamauga. He was a gallant soldier, fighting bravely and well in the service of his country. After his return home he commenced his medical studies, under the preceptorship of Dr. L. E. Goslee, of Newcastle, Kentucky, with whom he remained about one year. After studying about a year with Dr. T. B. Perry, in Logan County, he entered the University at Louisville, Kentucky, from which he graduated in the spring of 1868, and was afterward elected by the city council residefnt graduate of the city hospital, where he remained over a year. He has been a resident of Broadwell Village since September 25, 1869, where he is engaged in a lucrative and constantly increasing practice. The Doctor was married May 19, 1874, to Miss Kitty Broadwell, daughter of William B. Broadwell, a pioneer of this township, who moved to Jordan Springs, Reno County, Kansas, in the fall of 1873, and is now living in Hutchinson. Mrs. Perry was born in Broadwell Township, January 1, 1858. Dr. and Mrs. Perry have had seven children - Willie A., died, aged two years and eight months; Lewis H., died at the age of one year; Marion Lee; Enth; Irvin B. ; Thomas M.; Kittie, died in infancy. Dr. Perry was bereaved by the death of his wife December 14, 1883. In early days the Doctor was a Whii^; during the war, a Unionist, and now is in sympathy with the Labor Reform movement, and the Prohibition party. He is a member of Broadwell Lodge, No. 727, L 0. 0. F., of whicli he is deputy grand master.

M. P. PflmNKY, M. D., was born in Worcester County, Massachusetts. July 1, 1838. Sis father, Dr. Marcellus C. Phinney, was born near Bangor, Maine, and was educated there and in Harvard College. Ee practiced his profession for ten years in Massachusetts, six years in Ohio and about the same number in Indiana, coming to Illinois in 1858, where he practiced in Mason County. For two years he resided in Cornland, Logan County, and died in 1883 in Tazewell County. His wife was Elizabeth Perley, and the eldest son, whose name heads this sketch, was named Marcellus Perley Phinney. He was educated in Reedtown, Ohio, and Crown Point, Indiana. He studied medicine with his father and with the Eclectic Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he took his diploma in 1865. He then practiced four years in Mason County, two in McLean, and then settled in Mount Pulaski. He is a member of the State Eclectic Medical Society. He is also a member of Mt. Pulaski Lodge, No. 454, I. O. 0. F., and Sam Walker Post, No. 205, G. A. R., of which he is surgeon and adjutant. He enlisted July, 1861, in the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, participating in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh, the siege of Corinth and capture of Memphis. At the end of his term of service he was discliarged at Trenton, Tennessee, in 1863. March 15, 1860, he married, in Mason City, Illinois, Lucy T. Andrews, born in Ohio. Three children have been born to them - Ora L., Ossa H., and Mazie, the two former born in Mason City, Illinois, and the latter born in Atlantic, Iowa. The Doctor is a genial, well-informed gentleman, who keeps himself enlightened on many subjects outside his profession.

Julian A. SMrrn, M. D., has been a resident of New Holland since 1883. He was bom in Grandview, Edgar County, Illinois, January 7, 1847, a son of Dr. Thomas M. and Amanda E. Smith, his father a native of Kentucky and his mother of Paris, Edgar County, Illinois. His father was a prominent physician of

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Edgar Oonnty, practicing there about thirty-five years. He died at Grandview in 1875. His widow now lives at Paris. Julian A. Smith was given a good education, completing his literary studies at Bloomingdale, Indiana. He commenced the study of medicine under the preceptorship of his father and completed it at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa. He began his practice with his father and remained with him until about the time of his father's death. He then went to Central Illinois, where he has since lived with the exception of a brief space of time spent in the South. Dr. Smith is a stndions member of the profession and tries to keep abreast with the leading column of the medical fraternity. He hopes by courteous bearing and honest dealinars with his fellow men to merit their patronage and esteem. He was married in February, 1870, to Angle Cummins, daughter of John and Nancy Cummins, both natives'of Kentucky, but for fifty years residents of Edgar County, Illinois. The Doctor says: Of all the transactions of his whole life his marriage is the only one in which all his fondest hopes and moat sanguine expectations were fully realized. His wife's mother is deceased. His father-in-law, hale and hearty at the age of eighty years, resides on his farm, near Vermillion, Edgai- County, Illinois. Dr. and Mrs. Smith have two children - Ida Gertrude, born December 20, 1871, and Nellie May, born September 6, 1876. In politics Dr. Smith affiliates with the Democratic party. He is a member of the L O. O. F. order. He and his wife are members of the Christian church.

Robert M. Wilson, M. p., was born in Morgan County, Illinois, April 20, 1847. His childhood and youth were spent in Morgan and Scott counties where he was given the best educational advantages and here he laid the foundation for a more liberal course in the future. At the age of sixteen years, in 1863, he enlisted as ilrummerboy in Company F, Sixty-first Illinois Infantry, and continued in service until the close of the war, being mustered out at Springfield in 1865. After his return from the war, he began the study of medicine at Manchester, Illinois, and in the fall of 1866 entered the State University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, taking a course in medicine and a special course in the literary department. During the winter of 1867-'68, he attended a second course of lectures at the Eush Medical College, Chicago, after which he located and practiced medicine at Palmyra, Macoupin County, Illinois, until 1872. He then went to Nevv York City and spent a year in the different hospitals, at the same time taking a third course of lectures at the Long Island College, graduating from that institution in 1873. Returning to Palmyra he resumed his practice and remained cliere until 1876. On December 26, 1876, the Doctor was united in marriage to Salome F. Solomon, daughter of Hon. D. N. Solomon, of Palmyra. They have one child^ - Robert M. Immediately after his marriage he removed to Lincoln, Illinois, his present location. The Doctor is identified with all the progressive movements in connection with his profession. He is a member of the Society of Macoupin County for Medical Improvement, the Brainard District Medical Society and the Illinois State Medical Society. In July, 1884, he was placed in charge of the medical and surgical wards of St. Clara Hospital, Lincoln, which appointment he still retains. In politics. Republican.