Howard Lake City

Howard Lake City

Albert G. Moffatt, M. D., a skilled and scholarly physician and surgeon of Howard Lake, was born in the Province of Ontario, Canada, September 5, 1865, son of James and Caroline (Pratt) Moffatt, who brought their family from Canada and settled in Pembina county, North Dakota, in 1883. Albert G. Moffatt received his preliminary education in the common schools, and in 1892 entered the medical department of the University of Minnesota. He graduated with the class of 1895, and at once opened an office in Howard Lake. In 1907 he took a post graduate course in the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Ill. Dr, Mof. fatt's practice has been successful from the start. With technical mastery he combines a wide sympathy and understanding, and his name is held in the highest regard and affection in the hundreds of homes where he has ministered. His reputation, however, has not been confined to Howard Lake and vicinity. For several years he has sat as one of the Homeopathic members of the State Board of Medical Examiners, In the Minnesota State Homeopathic Society he has been vice president, director, and chairman of several important bureaus. Locally he has been president of the village council, influential member of the school heard, and president of the Howard Lake Commercial Club. For a number of years has done good service as coroner of Wright county, a position he still retains. A recent publication has said:

'"One of the ablest representatives of the medical fraternity of Wright county is Dr. A. G. Moffatt. A markedly successful physician of progressive ideas, and one well informed on the latest discoveries known to medical science, he has made a elose study of the theories of the most advanced thinkers along material and psychological lines. Pleasant and genial in manner he makes many friends, and is popular both in social and professional circles.''

Dr. Moffatt married Alice Hoffman, of Canada, the daughter of John and Jeanette (Frazier) Hoffman, of Irish-German blood. Mrs. Alice (Hoffman) Moffatt died in 1889 at the age of twentyfour, leaving two children, Eva Thankful, wife of W. T. Campbell, of Golden Valley, N. D., and Janie Alberta, a graduate nurse, now living in Napa, Calif. Later, Dr. Moffatt married Alice J. Dillon, born in the province of Ontario, daughter of Robert and Alice (Hutchinson) Dillon, who spent the span of their years in Canada. Dr. Moffatt, by this marriage, has two children, Albert G., Jr, and Ralph. Albert G., Jr, is a graduate of the Howard Lake High school. Mrs. Moffatt is a member of the Library Club.

The family history of the Moffatts is most interesting. James Moffatt was the son of Robert and Margaret (Graham) Moffatt, who were married in Ireland, and came to Canada. Here were born their five children, James, William, Thomas, Robert and Hugh. The wife of James Moffatt was Caroline Pratt, daughter of Robert and Margaret (Scott) Pratt, the former a native of northern Ireland and the latter of Scotland. The Pratts came to Canada and here were born their children, Mary Ann, Jane, Malissa, Emmaline and Caroline (twins), Sarah Ann, Jane, Margaret, Matilda, Henry, Abraham, Robert and Isaac, James Moffatt became town assessor of North Gooer township, County Carleton, Province of Ontario, In 1883 he brought his family to Pembina county, North Dakota. In business he was a machine and implement dealer. He died in February, 1893, at the age of fifty-four. His wife died in May, 1893, at the age of fifty-two. The family faith was that of the Methodist church. There were nine children, Albert G., Robert, William James, Isaac E., Sam F., Thomas E., Hugh A., Margaret Jane, and Susan Martha.

Edwin Young Chilton, M. D., now deceased, was for many years Howard Lake's beloved physician. For over three decades he labored throughout the countryside, bringing healing and sympathy and brightness to hundreds of families, and sanctifying his memory to thousands of patients. He was born, August 25, 1849, in Cumberland county, Kentucky. He received an Academy education, and began as a boy to read medicine with a prominent physician of his native county. Later he took a collegiate course in medicine and surgery in the Miami College, at

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Cincinnati, O. His first office was at Albany, Ky. But he desired to seek his fortunes in a newer community, so about 1880 he came to Wright county and located in Howard Lake. His success was assured from the start and he soon became one of the leading physicians of the county. He kept well abreast of all the latest discoveries in the realms of medicine, philosophy and science, and in 1895, in order to further perfect himself, he took a post graduate course in the School of Surgery, in New York City. His thirty-four years in this village were ones of great usefulness. During thirty years of that time he was a leading member of the school board. In 1898 he was elected to the upper house of the Minnesota legislature, and did most efficient work as chairman of the committee on the State Hospital for the Insane. Possessed of a fraternal spirit, he was a popular member of the Masons, the Modern Woodmen, the Knights of Pythias and the United Workmen. He was likewise prominent in local affairs, and served on numerous committees and delegations.

Dr. Chilton died May 25, 1914, and his death was sincerely mourned. He was married to Laura J. Huttleston, a native of Kentucky, who died, leaving four children, Leo, Jessie, Alice, and Freeman. Later he married Grace Hayes Tromly, a native of Mt. Vernon, Jefferson county, Ill. Dr. and Mrs. Chilton had two children, Walter Hayes and Madge Elizabeth.

F, M. Ball was born in Pickaway, O., May 27, 1839, and studied medicine at New Albany, Ind., and at Marion County Medical School, Kentucky. He served in the army in 1861-64, and came to Minnesota and engaged in the practice of medicine at Jordan and Cokato. In 1880 he moved to Howard Lake.