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FIRST PHYSICIANS
The first practicing physician in Jersey County was Dr. Silas Hamil- ton, who settled in what is now Otterville, in 1830, and practiced his profession there until his death, in November, 1834.
Dr. A. H. Burritt was the first practicing physician at Jerseyville. He came in 1833 before the town was laid out, and when it was first settled. His home and office were in a log cabin at the corner of Ex- change and Pleasant streets. Dr. Burritt died in 1875.
The next physician of the county was Dr. Edward Augustus D'Arcy, who came to Jerseyville in 1833. He was born at Hanover, Morris County, N. J., April 15, 1796, and he died at Jerseyville, April 25, 1863.
Dr. John W. Lott came to Jerseyville in 1834. He practiced there
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only a short time returning then to New Jersey which was his native state.
Dr. James C. Perry, a Scotchman, who had served in the British navy for seven years, came to Otter Creek Township in 1835, to take the practice of Dr. Silas Hamilton, then deceased. He entered the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 14-7-12, and lived and practiced his profession there until 1842. Doctor Perry was the first foreign born man to be naturalized in the courts of Jersey County. He moved to Jerseyville in 1842, remaining there until 1854, when he went on a farm in Fidelity Township, and there he died in May, 1859. Doctor Perry was one of the most skillful physicians who ever practiced in Jersey County.
Dr. Edwin A. Casey came to Jerseyville in 1840. He practiced suc- cessfully until his death, March 22, 1874.
Dr. R. H. Van Dike came to Jerseyville about the same time as Doctor Casey, and practiced there until his death, September 6, 1845.
Dr. Asa Snell came to Jersey County in 1834. He was married to Priscilla Landon, a daughter of Horace Landon, and settled on section 19-8-11, where he made his home until his death.
Dr. Augustus R. Knapp came to Jerseyville in 1844. He had a large and extensive practice, and died at Jerseyville.
Dr. James Bringhurst came to Jerseyville in 1850, entering into practice with Dr. E. A. D'Arcy. In 1861, he enlisted for service during the Civil War, as a surgeon in the Twenty-eighth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was later made a brigade surgeon. He died in Ruyle Township, June 23, 1870.
Dr. R. D. Farley came to Jerseyville about 1840. In 1852, he served as county physician. He was born December 3, 1808, and died at Jer- seyville, September 27, 1884, and he was the first homeopathic physician of Jerseyville.
Dr. William Hutchinson was one of the early physicians, coming here from his native state of Kentucky. He practiced here until his death, January 24, 1864.
OTHER PHYSICIANS OF THE PAST
Dr. John L. White came to Jerseyville in 1853. He was born in Massachusetts in 1832. In 1870, he moved to Bloomington, Ill., where he remained until his death. He was married in 1858, to Miss Hattie Hawley.
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Dr. H. C. Harriman came to Jerseyville in 1854, and practiced here until his death, March 12, 1858.
Dr. Joseph O. Hamilton was born in Monroe, Ill., April 2, 1824, the youngest child of Thomas M. and Apphia Hamilton. During the period between 1843 and 1845, he attended the Ohio University at Athens, Ohio. It was founded by his uncle, Gen. John Brown. In 1846, he came to Jerseyville, and practiced under Dr. J. C. Perry. In 1849, Dr. Hamilton took the lectures at the present university in Mis- souri, and was graduated March 4, 1850. He then commenced prac- ticing medicine at Grafton, in this county. In May, 1851, he was married to Margaret Perry, a daughter of Dr. J. C. Perry of Jerseyville; and in 1852, he formed a partnership with his father-in-law, with whom he continued until January, 1854. Doctor Hamilton was very prominent, serving as president of the Illinois Medical society in 1871; he was a delegate to the American Medical Association held at Cincinnati, Ohio, New Orleans, La., Philadelphia, Pa., and San Francisco, Cal .; in 1868, lie was appointed surgeon for the United States pension office of his district, and acted as examining surgeon. He was also surgeon for six of the most prominent insurance companies in the United States. He died in August, 1883.
Dr. John B. Hamilton, a son of Rev. B. B. and Mary A. Hamilton, studied medicine under his uncle, Dr. J. O. Hamilton, and was grad- uated from Rush Medical College, in February, 1870. He settled in Kane, Greene County, Ill., and was there engaged in practice until 1874, when he was appointed assistant surgeon for the United States army. In the latter part of 1875, he resigned that position and came to Jerseyville, and continued in practice here for some time, when he was appointed surgeon of the marine hospital service, and still later, received the appointment as surgeon general of the marine hospital serv- ice, which position he held for many years, resigning it to accept that of surgeon of the Chicago branch of the marine hospital service, and professor of surgery in Rush Medical College. Governor Tanner ap- pointed him superintendent of the hospital for the insane, which he held until his death in 1897. Doctor Hamilton was born in December, 1847, in Otter Creek Township, this county. In 1871, he was married to Mary L. Frost, a granddaughter of the late Richard I. Lowe of Jersey County.
Dr. W. O. Langdon practiced his profession at Delhi, coming there in 1870, and remaining for about eight years, when he removed from
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Jersey County to Carrollton, Greene County, Ill., and later to Spring- field, Ill.
Dr. Henry Z. Gill came to Jerseyville April 26, 1873, from St. Louis, Mo. He was born in Pennsylvania, October 6, 1831, and was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia in his native state. In August, 1881, he was appointed surgeon of the Southern Illinois penitentiary, which position he resigned in November, 1883.
Dr. Charles A. Knapp, son of Dr. Augustus R. Knapp, studied med- icine under his father, and after being graduated in medicine, practiced his profession at Jerseyville for two or three years, and then went to California, where he subsequently died.
Dr. Augustus K. Van Horne was born in Schoharie County, N. Y., April 2, 1831. In 1833, he was brought by his father, Col. Elijah Van Horne, to Jersey County, and the family settled near Delhi. After attending the schools of this county, Doctor Van Horne took a lecture course in the Missouri Medical College. He then practiced medicine for one year at Bluffdale, Greene County, Ill., when he took a course at Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pa., from which he was graduated, and from then was actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Jerseyville, until his retirement. He is at present over eighty-seven years of age, and is one of the very highly honored and respected citizens of the county, where for so many years he was one of the most successful practicing physicians.
Dr. E. L. H. Barry was born at Cork, Ireland, and attended St. Ste- phens Hospital, a Protestant Episcopal school. He emigrated to the United States, and arrived at New York, in June, 1865. In February, 1860, he was graduated from Rush Medical College at Chicago, after which he settled at Delhi, Ill. During the Civil War, he was ap- pointed assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Thirtieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but after six months he resigned, and in September, 1863, he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the Eightieth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, resigning his commission in 1864, and resumed his practice at Delhi. In 1867 he removed to Jerseyville, where he has since been successfully engaged in an active practice. He was married to Amanda E. Black, a daughter of John R. Black.
PHYSICIANS OF A LATER DATE
Dr. George H. Knapp, a son of Dr. A. R. Knapp and his wife, Catherine E. Knapp, was born April 19, 1840, near Kane, Greene County,
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Ill. He studied medicine under his father, and afterwards with Dr. A. K. Van Horne, and was graduated from the Missouri Medical Col- lege at St. Louis, Mo., in 1861. In the fall of that year he was com- missioned assistant surgeon of the Sixty-first Illinois Volunteer Infan- try, of which Col. J. Frye was the commanding officer. On October 20, 1868, Doctor Knapp was married to Miss Henrietta Veitch of St. Louis, Mo. He returned to Jerseyville, and was engaged in the practice of his profession there until his death, September 20, 1895.
Dr. Albro B. Allen located at Jerseyville in 1875, where he con- tinued in practice until his death, March 25, 1899, when he was fifty- eight years, eleven months and two days old.
Dr. T. A. Kingston was born at St. Louis, Mo., January 22, 1832, and was reared at Collinsville, Ill., where he received his early educa- tional training, and there studied medicine in the office of Doctor Drake. After attending the McDowell Medical College, St. Louis, Mo., he was graduated, and practiced as construction surgeon during the Civil War, under Generals Thomas Vandeveer, Frank P. Blair, and Kirkpat- rick, in the campaigns in Georgia, Tennessee, and North and South Carolina. In 1865, he settled at Fidelity, Ill., where on April 30, 1870, he was married to Miss Kate Frost of that place. Soon after his mar- riage, he moved to Jerseyville, where he died January 8, 1900.
Dr. Charles W. Enos, a son of Dr. C. R. and Eliza Ann (Thorpe) Enos, was born; in Madison County, Ill., December 13, 1849. He located at Jerseyville in January, 1874, following his graduation from the Homeopathic Medical College of St. Louis, Mo. Some years later he went to Denver, Col., where he died recently, having had a very suc- cessful career as a physician and surgeon.
Dr. J. H. Buffington came to Jersey County in 1849, first settling at Grafton, from whence he went to Otterville, teaching school at both places. He then went to Jerseyville, where he engaged in the practice of medicine for several years, and there he died. His son, C. J. Buffing- ton, was born at Jerseyville, May 22, 1858, and was graduated from the Missouri Medical College in 1881, following which he practiced medi- cine for a year at Jerseyville, and later went to Fieldon, and still later to Litchfield, Montgomery County, Ill.
Dr. George Sumrall located at Jerseyville, coming here in 1862, and remained in practice until his death several years later.
Dr. W. W. Estabrook came to Jerseyville from Chicago in 1890. He was of the Homeopathic school. In 1898, he returned to Chicago, where he later died.
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Dr. Jonas L. Ward was one of the older physicians who practiced in the western part of the county in the vicinity of Fieldon. He later moved to Jerseyville, where he continued in practice until his death.
Dr. Allan A. Barnett was born at Louisville, Ky., in 1830. In 1853, he was graduated from the medical department of the University of Louisville, and was then engaged in the practice of his profession at Oxford, Ohio, until 1862, in which year he came to Jerseyville, and remained until his death which occurred a few years ago.
Dr. Caleb DuHadway, a native of Ohio, was graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, in 1859, and was engaged in an active practice at Hamden, Vinton County, Ohio, until 1862, when lie entered the Confederate army as a surgeon of the Ninth Kentucky regiment,' and remained in the service until 1864. In September, 1864, he came to Jerseyville, and continued to practice here from that time until his death.
Dr. Abraham A. Shobe was born in Franklin County, Mo., August 24, 1846. In 1862, he entered the Confederate army, and remained in that service until the close of the Civil War. In 1869, he was gradu- ated from the McDowell Medical College of St. Louis, following which he practiced his profession in Franklin County, Mo., up to 1874, in that year coming to Jerseyville, where he was engaged in an active practice until his death.
Dr. Charles R. Enos was born in Madison County, N. Y., in March, 1815. He was graduated from the Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri, in 1874. In April, 1882, he came to Jerseyville and was asso- ciated with his son, Charles W. Enos, in the practice of his profession. After the removal of the son to Colorado, Dr. Charles R. Enos con- tinued to practice alone until his death.
Dr. John S. Williams was born in Simpson County, Ky., August 27, 1839. When he was fourteen years old, he went to Lincoln County, Mo., later studied medicine and was graduated from the Medical Department of the Iowa State University. In 1865, he came to Jersey County, locat- ing at Otterville, where he practiced his profession until 1891, removing then to Jerseyville, and there, until death claimed him, he continued to practice. Doctor Williams was first married to Miss Millie Close in September, 1867, and she died in February, 1873. In December, 1873, he was married (second) to Miss Maggie Blackstock of Otterville. When Doctor Williams died he was survived by his widow, who is now also deceased, and two sons, John B. and Dalton Hall Williams. Doctor Williams was elected coroner of Jersey County for several terms, and
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was surgeon of the C. P. & St. Louis Railroad, and at the same time carried on a large and lucrative practice.
Dr. Joseph W. Enos was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago in 1881, following which he was engaged in the practice of his profession in various localities, including Jerseyville, where he remained for some years.
Miss S. Cordelia Enos, a daughter of Dr. Charles R. Enos, was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 1891, fol- lowing which she was engaged in practice at the Enos Sanitarium at Alton, Ill., for four years, and then came to Jerseyville. After two years of practice here, she went to Youngstown, Ohio, but returned to Jerseyville in 1897, and remained here until her death, being engaged until then in an active practice.
Dr. Lyman T. Waggoner was born February 22, 1850, in this county. He was graduated from the Indiana Normal School in 1879, and from the Missouri Medical College in 1879, following which he began the practice of medicine at Otterville. In May, 1901, he removed to Jer- seyville, where he continued in practice until 1917, when he went to Wisconsin.
Dr. Henry R. Gledhill was born at Jerseyville, January 15, 1869. In 1887, he was graduated from the Jerseyville High School, and in the fall of that year he entered Harvard University, and after taking the full classical course, was graduated in 1891. In the fall of 1891, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, from which he was graduated in 1894. Coming to Jerseyville, in Oc- tober of that same year, he began the practice of medicine, and has con- tinued it actively ever since.
Albert M. Wiles, D. O., was graduated from the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., June 30, 1900. He then took a course at the State Normal School of Kirksville, Mo., from which he was graduated, following which he located at Jerseyville, and began the practice of his profession. Here he has since remained, and has been quite successful.
Dr. James B. Veitch came to Jersey County in 1838 and settled in Otter Creek Township. He was married to Marilda McDow, a daughter of Thomas McDow, July 3, 1844. Later he moved to Grafton, where he continued his practice until his death.
Dr. James A. Flautt was born in Maryland in 1848. In childhood, he was taken by his parents to Ohio, and to Wisconsin in 1855. He remained in that state until 1870, when he left and came to Jersey-
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ville in 1874. He was graduated from the Iowa Medical College at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1881, after whichi lie located at Otterville, and contin- ued to practice until the time of his death. On September 21, 1872, he was married to Mary A. Deming, a granddaughter of Daniel Hamil- ton, who survives him and continues to reside at Otterville.
Dr. A. D. Erwin was born near Rockbridge, Greene County, Ill., Marclı 21, 1858. He is a son of A. D. Erwin, Sr., and Malinda (Hill) Erwin. In 1864, he removed with his parents to Otterville, where he attended the public schools, and later the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, from which he was graduated in 1882. Following his gradua- tion lie located at Fidelity, and since 1884 has been engaged in an active practice at that place.
Dr. J. Tidball was born in Ohio in 1848, and remained there until 1864, moving in that year to Mercer County, Ill. In 1868 he went to Monmouth, Warren County, Ill., and during 1871 attended college there. In 1874 he was graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and in 1878 went to Grafton, built up a large practice, and remained until 1911, when he moved to San Diego, Cal., and there he died in 1913.
Dr. Wesley Park was born in Lincoln County, Ohio, in November, 1833, but when he was nineteen years old he came to Marshall, Clark County, Ill. After reading medicine under Drs. Spellman and Duncan, in 1861 he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Seventy-ninth Illi- nois Volunteer Infantry, and was later assigned to the hospital at Vicksburg, Miss., having charge of the same for the remainder of his three years service during the Civil War, with the exception of a period when, captured by the enemy, he was in a war prison. On December 31, 1865, he came to Jersey County and practiced medicine until the winter of 1866, when he entered the Chicago Medical College, and was graduated therefrom. Following this, le located at Fieldon. In 1871 he went to Philadelphia, and took a post graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1873, and then re- turned to Fieldon and resumed his practice. In 1888 he went to Graf- ton, and continued in practice until his death. He was very successful in the practice of his chosen calling.
Dr. E. F. Francis was born in Monmouth County, N. Y., June 3, 1845, and when he was eighteen years old he went to Indiana. In 1876 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and later came to Jersey County, where he was engaged in practice for
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some years. He was married to Carrie Jane Chambers, a daughter of Jacob and Margaret Chambers.
Dr. S. M. Watson was born at La Grange, Mo., January 26, 1845. He came to Delhi, Ill., where he was engaged in practice for a number of years. He was married to Emma J. Howell on October 13, 1869.
Dr. James F. Gary was born in Macoupin County, Ill., March 4, 1852. In 1878 he was graduated from the American Medical College of St. Louis, and was engaged in practice at Delhi, where he died. He was married to Mary Ingles, a daughter of Frederick Ingles of Alton, Ill.
Dr. N. T. Winans settled at Fieldon during the fifties, and built up quite an extensive practice. His death occurred at Fieldon.
Dr. Warner located at Grafton in 1908, and has built up a large practice in that city.
Dr. Nicholas F. Bray located at Jerseyville for the practice of his profession, and is very successful. He was elected coroner of the county in 1912.
Dr. Laurens Enos was graduated from a Chicago medical school, and in 1917 he came to Jerseyville to succeed his brother, Joseph W. Enos, in his office and sanitarium at Jerseyville, where he has since remained.
Dr. A. S. Hunt located at Jerseyville in 1900 for the practice of his profession, continuing it until 1917, when he enlisted for service during the World War, and was commissioned as lieutenant in the med- ical department of the National Army. He was married to Miss Tossie Mains, a daughter of Freeman Mains of this county.
Dr. J. L. Threlkeld located at Jerseyville about 1908, and built up a large practice. In 1917 he volunteered as assistant surgeon in the National Army, and is so serving.
Dr. H. R. Bohannon was born in Macoupin County, Ill., September 12, 1876, a grandson of Dr. Asa Snell. In 1904 he was graduated from the Chicago Medical College, and then came to Jerseyville, where he has since been very successfully engaged in practice. In 1917 he was married to Miss Lenz.
Dr. Miles B. Titterington was born in Rock Island County, Ill., July 13, 1870. He attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, Mo., and then in 1874 went to Kansas, and after remaining there for about two years, returned to St. Louis, where he took another course in medicine and surgery. He then settled at Hardin, Calhoun County, Ill., but left it for Jerseyville, October 1, 1898. After practicing for about eighteen months, he and Dr. Joseph W. Enos established the Enos
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& Titterington Sanitarium north of the public square. About four or five years ago he left Jerseyville for St. Louis.
Dr. A. A. McBrien formerly resided at East St. Louis, Ill., but came to Jerseyville about 1914, and has been quite successful in his practice. In 1916 he was elected coroner of Jersey County.
There are quite a number of other physicians and surgeons who practiced their profession here for a few years and then removed to other places. Their names and personal histories have escaped the memory of the writer who is therefore obliged to omit a mention of them, although this is not done with any intention of overlooking or ignoring their claims to notice.
DENTAL SURGEONS
Dr. G. S. Miles, D. D. S., was born in Westminster, Mass., October 13, 1832. He attended the Westminster Academy and the Hopkins Academy at Hadley, Mass., and was graduated in his profession when he was twenty-three years old. After practicing his calling for a time at Salem, Mass., in August, 1855, he came to Jersey County, and settled . at Jerseyville, where he remained until 1888. In that year he moved to Beatrice, Neb., and there died about 1890. He was married on August 2, 1859, to Mattie DeWolf Warren, a daughter of George E. and Harriet Warren. Doctor Miles was president of the State Dental Society during 1874 and 1875. In 1867 the degree of D. D. S. was con- ferred upon him by the Missouri Dental College.
J. T. Hutchinson, D. D. S., located at Jerseyville in 1881, and at once began the practice of dentistry. About 1885 he removed to Denver, Col., where he died. He was married to Miss Mary Etta Davis, a daughter of Abijah Davis.
Edward Flanigan, D. D. S., settled at Jerseyville about 1882, and after practicing here for several years moved to St. Louis, Mo.
William E. Holland, D. D. S., settled at Jerseyville in May, 1887, forming a co-partnership with Dr. G. S. Miles, which was dissolved in November, 1888, Dr. Holland continuing alone since then. His offices are in the Odd Fellows' building in this city.
Henry W. Rich, D. D. S., attended the Chicago College of Dental Surgery from 1894 to 1897, and in August of the latter year opened an office at Jerseyville, where he remained in active practice until 1917, when he volunteered for service in the National Army, and was
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commissioned a lieutenant. He was succeeded by Dr. R. O. Steinman, formerly of Grafton, Ill.
Dr. Gideon M. Dempsey of Grafton was born and reared at Grafton. After being graduated in dental surgery, he embarked in a general practice in his native city, where he has since continued.
H. D. Bull, D. D. S., after being graduated in his profession, settled at Jerseyville in 1882, and has since then been quite successful in his practice and business operations.
J. O. Rice, D. D. S., born in Jersey County, November 21, 1876, was graduated in dental surgery in 1907, and settled at Jerseyville in 1909, where he has since successfully engaged in practice.
Jett A. Sutherland, D. D. S., born in Jerseyville, has been engaged very successfully in his professional work in his native city. He was married to Miss Dorothy Montgomery, a daughter of H. H. and Lula (Ashford) Montgomery.
CHAPTER XXIV
JOURNALISM IN JERSEY COUNTY
FIRST NEWSPAPER-PRAIRIE STATE-DAILY DEMOCRAT-JERSEYVILLE RE- PUBLICAN-JERSEYVILLE INDEPENDENT-JERSEYVILLE EXAMINER-JER- SEYVILLE REGISTER-JERSEYVILLE EVENING NEWS-DAILY AND WEEKLY JOURNAL-REPUBLICAN CALL-WESTERN FARMER-FREE PRESS-POWER OF THE PRESS-JOSEPH W. BECKER-COL. WILLIAM H. EDGAR.
FIRST NEWSPAPER
The Backwoodsman was the first newspaper published in Greene County. It was issued in 1837, by John Russell, editor, a resident of Bluffdale, Greene County. Bluffdale is more than thirty miles from Grafton, where the paper was published. This was a weekly newspaper, and the editor rode from his residence at Bluffdale to Grafton, to edit it, and after setting up most of the paper, mounted his horse, and rode back to Bluffdale where he spent each week end, after he had "put his paper to bed."
John Russell was a man who was well educated, and he was also quite accomplished from a literary standpoint, for he was an author of considerable merit. Particular attention is called to his article, "The Worm of the Still," which was published in McGuffey's Fourth Reader, in use in all of the early schools of Jersey County. The pub- lication of the Backwoodsman was continued for a time after the or- ganization of Jersey County. This paper was sold to a joint stock com- pany in 1840, and its publication was continued at Jerseyville by A. S. Tilden. At a later date Tilden retired, and Fletcher and Parentau were its publishers and editors. The office of this paper was destroyed by fire, and Fletcher went to Carrollton and published the Advocate in 1842.
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