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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 Cali- fornia ). 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
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Wilbur. Cutts and Pulaski, and others. Of those named Drs. Torry and McClure were here previous to 1847, and 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 1836 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 working his way through college located, about 1817, 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. DeWolf'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 county, 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.
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Dr. John Thomas, who located subsequent to 1840 at St. Charles, took to journalism and in February, 1842. began the publication 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 West, 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 con- cluded 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. When 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 insti- tution, but the fire destroyed his office and his valuable library, and he relocated at St. Charles.
Dr. William R. Miller, 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. French practiced a few years in St. Charles and died there.
Dr. M. Daniel Coe. a homeopathist, settled in St. Charles about 1850 and became a popular and well-known citizen. He was also a faithful watch- man beside the sick during the cholera epidemic. He removed soon 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 the place about 1854-55. 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 engaged in practice several years before the
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war. In 1861 he 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. B. F. Bussey practiced several years in St. Charles subsequent to the war.
Dr. George W. Rumsey, homœopathist, 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, homeopathist, located at St. Charles about 1878. He was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic College April 4. 1875. In 1883 he removed to Dundee and was succeeded by Dr. L. B. Lane, a grad- uate 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.
O. A. Goodhue, homœopathist, and a native of New Hampshire. also practiced a few years at St. Charles.
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 the 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 Col- lege at Castleton, Vermont, November 29. 1849, was 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, set- tled 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 prominent 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.
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1843, in the organization of a medical school in St. Charles, which was regu- larly 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, Jolin Thomas and Edward Meade. 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. 1. Thomas, another of Dr. Richards' sons-in-law; Jerome F. Weeks, Dr. Bunker, who died a few years since in Oregon, Illinois ; Torrey; King; Harvey; 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, the 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, 1853, 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.
Of the students and physicians connected with the Richards school, Dr. O. Everts and Dr. R. I. Thomas both removed to La Porte, Indiana.
Dr. Jerome F. Weeks, 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. Ile practiced thirteen years at Peru, Illinois ; was surgeon
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of the Fifty-first Illinois Infantry during the war, besides filling other impor- tant 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 practice at St. Charles for a few years subsequently, finally removing to McHenry county.
H. Y. Longacre, who was graduated from the University of Michigan, March 29, 1876, located at St. Charles about 1885.
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.
Among the physicians who have been and are now in practice at Elgin, who have not already been mentioned, are the following :
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 assist- ant surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois Infantry during the war. He has been professor of obstetrics and diseases of women in Ben- nett Medical College, Chicago, since 1869, and was president of that institu- tion. He is the author of a standard work on "Diseases of Women and Chil- dren;" 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. N. A. Weld was a graduate from Bennett Medical College, Chicago, 1870.
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
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Michigan, March 27, 1872, and from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, March 1. 1874. He is one of the leading surgeons of northern Illinois.
Dr. N. P. Collins, of South Elgin, was a graduate from the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, February II. 1868.
Dr. Dwight E. Burlingame, a graduate from Chicago Medical College. March 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. Win- chester, 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 Phy- sicians and Surgeons, New York City, in the spring of 1868. He retired from the insane hospital in the '90s.
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. Richard S. Dewey, of Elgin, was a graduate from the medical depart- ment of the University of Michigan, March 28, 1869.
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 1860. 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. Orson B. Adams, who for many years practiced at Elgin. received his diploma from Rush Medical College February 15. 1860.
Amelia A. Platt, of Elgin, is a graduate of the Woman's Hospital Medical College, Chicago, receiving her degrees March 2. 1880.
Dr. William G. Stone, who practiced at the same place, was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. New York City, March 1, 1878.
Dr. H. K. Whitford, a prominent Elgin physician, was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1860, having read medicine and practiced extensively in early years, coming to Elgin in 1856. He occu- pies the chair of professor of principles and practice of medicine and pathology and clinic medicine in Bennett Medical College, Chicago, a position he has filled since 1868.
Dr. Susan K. Whitford. 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 27.
RUINS OF DU BOIS OPERA HOUSE. ELGIN, BURNED SEP- TEMBER, 1886.
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1883. . . . Dr. P. M. Whitten entered practice a number of years previously, having been graduated November 22, 1864, from Berkshire 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 Homoeopathic Medi- cal College of Michigan .... Dr. Leslie Eugene Tefft, son of Dr. Joseplı Tefft, follows in the footsteps of his parent by choosing the same profession. He was graduated from Rush Medical College, February 15, 1887 .... Dr. Archi- bald 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. Wil- liam 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 promi- nence. 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 Chi- cago. 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 entomolo- gist by Governor Palmer in 1870, holding the position four years.
Dr. Francis H. Blackman, an able and well-known physician, was grad- uated from Chicago Medical College in 1870 and won a well-earned reputation for skill in his profession.
Mrs. Julia A. Cole Blackman became a graduate from the Woman's Hospital Medical College, Chicago, February 23, 1871.
Dr. N. P. Eddy, a graduate from Geneva Medical College, January 25, 1840, came to Illinois about 1857 and located at Geneva.
Dr. John B. Gully, of Geneva, is a native of England and studied medi- cine 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 homeopathy. He matriculated at Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago; became a member of the Illinois State Homoeopathic Medical Asso- ciation about 1866-67, and held office therein.
Dr. N. J. Lund, Geneva, a native of Denmark, was graduated from the American University of Philadelphia, January 1, 1872. He came to Illinois in 1867.
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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 Hudson, 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 enterprises which promised to be of benefit to the place and was one of the founders of the Batavia Institute.
Dr. F. K. Phillips was a resident of Batavia in and previous to 1848.
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 Chi- cago Medical College. March 18. 1869. He practiced at Keosanqua, 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 1. 1877 .... Dr. John C. Patterson was similarly honored by the Chi- cago Medical College, March 12. 1872. ... Dr. Lyman E. Currier. homcopa- thist. was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic 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. M. Burroughs began practice in 1848 .... Dr. C. Alex. Garnsey, homœopathist. 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 1846. .. . Dr. II. W. Williams, formerly coroner of Kane county, practiced medicine in Illinois as early as 1848.
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