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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 used 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 Rock ) to Aurora, and had his residence and office the first door north of the old postoffice. He had practiced eight years in Jefferson and vicinity before coming to Aurora, and his son, Dr. S. O. Long, was for many years a prominent physician of Big 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 resi- dent July 1, 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. He was also a 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 Livingston 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 1851 he came to Aurora, where he continued to study 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
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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 Chi- cago, 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. W. Buck, a graduate of the Physio-Medical College, Cincin- nati. 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., homœopathist, 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.
Dr. Bateman, eclectic physician and oculist, was practicing in West Aurora as early as April, 1855 . . .. Dr. O. A. Lovejoy also located there about the same time ... . Dr. Alfred L. Steen, "late from Massachusetts," was prac- ticing in Aurora in 1858, as were also Drs. G. Higgins and S. F. Hance. from Buffalo, New York. Dr. George Higgins came to Aurora with his parents in 1835 when a young lad; he was a graduate of Rush Medical Col- lege, Chicago, in 1850, and commenced practice immediately. F. H. Van Liew was for many years a successful and highly respected homeopathic physician. Dr. Van 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 Western Homeopathic College, Cleve- land. Ohio, and commenced practice at Aurora in 1858. He became very prominent in his profession and taught a large number of young men in the study of medicine.
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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 Hos- pital, 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 1851 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 Ver- mont, and a graduate of the University of Vermont. The latter had practiced at Lowell, Massachusetts, 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 prac- titioner 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, homeo- pathic physician, was practicing in the county before 1848. and continued many years.
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Dr. Leonard R. Brigham, of Aurora, began the study of medicine in 1839, and was graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He came to Aurora in 1860.
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 gradu- ated 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 jewelry 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 Medical 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 years 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 year removed to Chicago.
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Dr. Henry G. Gabel, who studied with Dr. L. R. Brigham at Aurora, was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, January 28. 1875-
Dr. Z. T. Slater studied medicine with Dr. N. Hard, at Aurora, and was gradauted at La Porte, Indiana, in about 1848. He began practice at Shab- bona, DeKalb county, Illinois, but about 1851 removed to Battle Creek, Michi- gan, 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 Naperville, 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. Return- ing to Aurora after the war, he resumed practice, an died there November 26. 1877, aged forty-six years.
Mrs. Charlotte F. Stringer, M. D., of 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 Woman's Hospital Medical Col- lege. 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 Hos- pital. 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 University of Berne, October 1, 1869. came to Aurora from Mendota, in 1877, and enjoyed a good practice. He died July 6, 1879.
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Dr. Isaac MI. Vorhees was graduated from Wooster 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, 1881. and in February. 1883. arrived at Aurora, where he has built up an excellent practice.
Dr. W. T. Patterson, who read medicine with Dr. Prichard, at Aurora, was graduated from Rush Medical College. Chicago, February 19. 1884.
Dr. T. M. Triplett, specialist in treating diseases of the throat and chest. also scrofulous difficulties, located in Aurora in March, 1884. He was gradu- ated from the Homeopathic College of Missouri, 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 treat- ment 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 1. 1865, and a well-known practitioner .... S. 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. . . . William 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. .. . Marvin S. Rice, homeopathist. graduate of Hahne- mann 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. Cincin- nati, Ohio, February 12. 1848; formerly resided in Jersey county. Illinois, and for several years in Aurora: removed to Wichita. Kansas, in 1886. ... I. Watson Prichard. graduate of the University of Michigan. March 25.1868 . . . . Henry Reder, graduate of the medical department of the University of New York. February 17, 1880. ... Lewis C. Rice, graduate of Philadelphia Medical College. February 28, 1856. ... John E. Hurlbut, graduate of Wooster Uni- versity. Cleveland, Ohio. in 1861 .... A. W. Avery, graduate of Long Island College Hospital. New York, June 15. 1882. .. . Christopher D. Mowry, gradu- ate 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-
OLD C. B. & Q. R. R. BRIDGE, AURORA.
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pathic Medical College, March 1, 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 Sel- kirk, 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, Chi- cago, February 28, 1870. ... Priscilla G. Myers, same institution, February 26, 1885. .. . James M. Postle, medical department University of Michigan, June 25, 1885. . . . Charles E. Colwell, homeopathist, graduate Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, February 26, 1885 .... Lydia Howell 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. Cushing, began practice about 1847, and 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. Cooley, graduate Albany Medical College, New York, March 5, 1884.
DUNDEE PHYSICIANS 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 Can- ada. He attended lectures at McGill College, Montreal, and was graduated
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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 Cali- fornia and elsewhere. He was graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1849.
Dr. Russell T. Goodwin was graduated at Castleton Medical College, Vermont, June 6, 1842, and came to Illinois previous to 1848.
Dr. W. A. Shepard, homeopathist, Dundee, was graduated from Hahne- mann Medical College, Chicago, March 15. 1887 .... Dr. Frank M. Brown became a graduate of Bennett Medical College, Chicago, in 1883. ... Harry WV. 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 McNair following in 1860, having been graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, 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 very successful young physician, practiced at Elburn for several years, removing 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, was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chi- cago, February 27. 1880, and Dr. Horace P. Holmes, from the same institution. February 24, 1881.
HAMPSHIRE PHYSICIANS 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 follow- ing : Charles P. Reid. graduate of Bennett Medical College. Chicago, May 20, 1872. ... Ralph R. DeWitt, graduate of Rush Medical College. Chicago, February 1, 1871 .... Andrew J. Willing, graduate of same institution. Febru- ary, 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 Medical College. Chicago. Feb- ruary. 1865. ... William E. Treadwell matriculated at Bennett Medical Col- lege. Chicago.
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