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Hudson Burr was here after 1854; served as adjutant of 94th Illinois in Civil War. Died in 1891.
John E. Pollock was admitted to the bar in Ohio and Virginia, and came to this county in 1866. Served as master in chancery and also was on the state board for management of penitentiaries.
Two lawyers who practiced outside the county seat and yet who made their mark in their profession during their lives were Wesley M. and Les- lie J. Owen, both of Leroy. They were native sons of McLean County, being born at Covell, their parents being Martin J. and Sarah Hopkins Owen. Leslie taught school when a young man, worked as railway mail clerk, and then graduated at Wesleyan Law School. Mr. Owen practiced very successfully in partnership with his twin brother, Wesley, for many years at Leroy, and after the latter's death Leslie continued until his own tragic death. He was killed by being hit by an automobile near the Big Four station in Bloomington on the morning of Nov. 12, 1922. Wesley
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M. Owen also taught school when a young man, and then attended Wes- leyan Law School, graduating in 1894. Establishing in practice at Leroy with his brother, he took part in politics and in 1900 was elected to the Legislature. He served with distinction. In 1910 he was appointed by President Roosevelt as judge of the Panama Canal zone, which office he filled with great ability for several years. On retirement he resumed, practice until his death on Oct. 16, 1917.
Erskine M. Hamilton was admitted to practice in McLean County in 1871; had served in 84th Ohio in Civil War, and afterward was city attor- ney of Steubenville, Ohio; acted as pension atorney in Bloomington for many years. Died about ten years ago.
Darius H. Pingrey began service here in 1877; taught in Wesleyan Law School; was author of several legal text-books, including one on international law.
Sain Welty, after graduating from Yale Law School at the head of his class in 1883, came to Bloomington and formed a partnership with John A. Sterling in 1884. He served as city attorney and as master in chancery. In 1915 he was elected circuit judge and filled the position with distinction until his death in April, 1920.
Judge Edward Barry, the sitting jurist of this judicial district, was admitted to the bar in 1887, and for years practiced in partnership with Joseph F. Fifer and later with John J. Morrissey. He was elected judge without opposition at a special election after the death of Judge Welty in 1920, and in June, 1921, was elected for a full term.
Robert E. Williams was one of the eminent members of the bar in the earlier days. Born in Pennsylvania, he lived in Texas for some years after being admitted to the bar. He came to McLean County in 1856 and remained here until his death in 1899. He attained more than ordinary local prominence as a lawyer. In 1868 he was nominated by the Demo- cratic party as candidate for attorney-general of Illinois, but he with his party met defeat, after an able campaign.
It is impossible to give sketches of all the lawyers of other years who practiced with ability and success in McLean County, and who adorned the bar by their lives. A mere list of some of their names will bring to mind of the older citizens, men who served their day and generation well. Following is a fairly complete list of the names:
Franklin Brattan, William H. Hanna, Major W. Packard, Amzi Mc-
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Williams, Levi Hite, William H. Holmes, Henry L. Haskell, Washington Wright, Jesse Birch, Andrew W. Rodgers, L. L. Strain, Almon B. Ives, James C. Walker, George O. Robinson, James E. Flagg, David Brier, Thomas H. Sparrow, Samuel H. Dent, Robert E. Woodson, William H. Cord, Jeremiah Leaming, John M. Stillwell, William P. Boyd, Walter M. Hatch, John B. Cohrs, Thomas C. Peek, Simeon P. Ives, Richard Williams, Jesse Bishop, John B. Perry, David Quigg, Augustus C. Reed, Benjamin F. Betzer, Oliver C. Sabin, Thomas Slade, John A. Spence, Chas. R. Dichin- son, Isaac S. Mahan, Henry A. Ewing, J. W. Straight, James Wells, Rob -. McCart, Wm. E. Hughes, Zachariah Lawrence, Joseph Pancake, Henry G. Reeves, Hezekiah Benson, Thomas A. Underhill, Winfield S. Coy, Aaron G. Karr, Louis H. Karr, John F. Winter, William Van Voris, William E. Gapin, Thomas McNulta, Isaac W. Stroud, Orlando Aldrich, Charles Shack- elford, Cornelius G. Bradshaw, James D. Spencer, James R. Brooks, Parke E. Temple, John C. Scovel, Joseph M. Weakley, W. C. P. Remine, Nathan F. Pusey, Robert B. Porter, Miletus S. McGrew, William H. Whitehead, Benjamin D. Lucas, Albert Bushnell, John G. Tipton, A. B. Campbell, Ran- dolph Pike, Asahel Dickinson, Richard Osborn, Marshall Williams, Will- iam Duff Haynie, James Gordon Forbes, Jesse Lynch, Henry D. Spencer, Alfred Davidson, Frank Jackson, Samuel P. Robinson, Robert W. Sabin, Hiram Hadley, John Stapleton, Hamer H. Green, Edwin H. Miner, Ivory H. Pike, George A. Hill, Franklin Blades, Frank B. Henderson, William H. Beaver, Frank Y. Hamilton, Jacob P. Lindley, David C. Ross, Edgar Holly, Andrew J. Barr, Robert L. Fleming, Henry Dooley, Otto Lowen- traut, Robert P. McNulta, David P. McDonald, Frank B. McKennan, Dwight E. Will, Roland A. Russell, Joseph J. Thompson, Harvey Hart, George F. Jordan, Miss Effie Henderson, James G. Condon, Ralph F. Potter, Jesse R. Long, John Mayne Pollock, R. D. Calkins, Arthur M. Conard, Edward Peirce, Thomas L. Pollock, Oliver R. Trowbridge, Walker McLean, Earl D. Riddle, James P. Grove, Thomas W. Tipton, James M. Reeves, Daniel H. Bane, Wave Miller, Samuel H. Dooley, John G. Boeker, Egbert B. Hawk, Herman Fifer, Charles F. Agle, Benjamin L. Goodheart, Albert F. Monroe, Edward M. Hoblit, Edgar Milton Heafer, James J. Love, Verne J. Swartz, Thomas V. O'Donnell, Walter C. Muxfeld.
Following are the present (1923) members of the McLean County bar, who are in active practice, together with the year in which each be- gan his practice: John Alexander, 1902; William R. Bach, 1894; William
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F. Costigan, 1911; Fred W. Wollrab, 1915; L. Earl Bach, 1921; Dwight E. Beal, 1912; William K. Bracken, 1892; Miles K. Young, 1890; Nicholas W. Brandicon, 1878 ; Martin A. Brennan, 1903; Enoch Brock, 1886; Charles M. Buck, 1902; Charles L. Capen, 1868; W. B. Carlock, 1870; A. E. De- Mange, 1877; Ralph C. DeMange, 1907; Earl R. Depew, 1915; D. D. Donahue, 1899; E. E. Donnelly, 1885; E. A. Donnelly, 1916; Richard F. Dunn, 1915; Delmer Dunn, 1919; Joseph W. Fifer, 1869; Jacob A. Bohrer, 1896; John A. Fulwiler, 1868; Frank Gillespie, 1890; Homer W. Hall, 1892; Lester H. Martin, 1903; Oscar G. Hoose, 1914; Frank O. Hanson, 1903; Louis C. Hay, 1887; C. B. Hughes, 1900; H. A. Iungerich, 1910; Charles P. Kane, 1914; Thomas Kennedy, 1886; Kaywin Kennedy, 1920; W. H. Kerrick, 1892; Sylvan L. Kupfer, 1915; W. Blake Leach, 1902; Huber Light, 1902; James A. Light, 1908; John T. Lillard, 1874; Robert E. Williams, 1886; Sigmund Livingston, 1894; W. W. Whitmore, 1894; Mrs. Stella Whitmore, 1918; James L. Loar, 1888; Aurelius M. Miller, 1903; John J. Morrissey, 1880; John M. Sullivan, 1906; Adlai H. Rust, 1914; J. B. Murphy, 1920; H. M. Murray, 1890; M. M. Morrissey, 1905; Edmund O'Connell, 1876; R. M. O'Connell, 1910; E. W. Oglevee, 1900; B. A. Franklin, 1902; A. W. Peasley, 1888; Charles M. Peirce, 1889; H. I. Pratt, 1912; R. J. Heffernan, 1913; Roy Ramseyer, 1918; W. C. Radliff, 1914; Calvin Rayburn, 1879; Harry E. Riddle, 1915; James C. Riley, 1899; H. A. Rodee, 1912; D. J. Sammon, 1895; Hal M. Stone, 1900; George F. Dick, 1909; Edward W. Sutherland, 1898; Wayne C. Townley, 1920; Thomas S. Weldon, 1909; John F. Wight, 1885; Charles I. Will, 1892; Charles A. Zweng, 1912; Loren Lewis, 1918; Harold M. Hulse, 1920; Claude Kitchell, 1921; Chalmer C. Taylor, 1920; Maurice Stern, 1921; Herbert M. Livingston, 1921; Horatio G. Bent; Horatio C. Bent; Spencer Ewing; Birney F. Fleming; George K. Foster; Howard Rhen, Hubert J. Thompson.
CHAPTER XXI.
MEDICAL PROFESSION.
TREATMENT OF PIONEER SICK-FIRST DOCTORS-MEDICAL SOCIETY ORGANIZED -EARLY MEMBERS-PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF FORMER YEARS- PRESENT MEMBERS OF COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY-PHYSICIANS IN WORLD WAR.
In the very early times of the county, the settlers had to do without the services of a professional physican, and some of the settlers them- selves, especially the women, developed considerable skill and perhaps some science in the matter of treating the common ailments to which the flesh is heir. Aunt Jane Hendrix and Aunt Ann Dawson were women of this kind. Mrs. Gardner Randolph was another. Their materia medica was of simple proportions ; sweating and the use of native herbs were their main reliance.
The first doctor known to have visited the county was Dr. Herring- ton of Springfield, who was called to Blooming Grove in 1825 to attend a sick man at the home of John Wells Dawson, he being a U. S. surveyor. Dr. John Anderson settled here in 1833, Dr. Thomas H. Haines soon after- ward, Dr. John F. Henry in 1835, Dr. David Wheeler in 1836. According to some authorities among the early settlers, Dr. Wheeler came even before Dr. Anderson; at least he was among the very first physicians who located in the settlement. Dr. Haines died in 1838 and Dr. Anderson in 1842, both believed to have succumbed to overwork in the hard condi- tions and much sickness of the time. Dr. Wheeler lived to the age of 89 and died at Waynesville. Dr. Henry removed to Burlington, Iowa. Dr. Jarvis Gaylord and Dr. E. M. Colburn were other early physicians who
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remained in McLean County only a few years. Dr. Garrett Elkin lived here from 1845 to 1853.
The McLean County Medical Society was organized in 1854, with the following as its first officers: President, Dr. A. H. Luce; vice-presi- dent, Dr. H. Noble; corresponding secretary, Dr. E. R. Roe; recording secretary, Dr. W. A. Elder; treasurer, Dr. T. P. Rogers. The society con- tinued from that time until the present, and has never neglected to hold occasional meetings and keep up its organization.
The pioneer physician was a man of strong type, mentally and physi- cally, for he could not have practiced his profession under the trying conditions of that time unless he had been strong. The last survivor of the charter members of the medical society was Dr. Charles R. Parke, who wrote a history of the society which was published in 1905. Dr. Parke graduated from the medical department of the University of Penn- sylvania in 1848, the same year went overland to California, came to Bloomington in 1852, was surgeon in the Russian army 1855-56, returned to Bloomington in 1857 and remained here until 1902, when he retired and removed to Louisville, where he died. He was surgeon-in-chief of St. Joseph's Hospital for twenty years.
The McLean County Medical Society celebrated its golden or fiftieth anniversary with a banquet at the Illinois Hotel in Bloomington on April 7, 1904, at which there were present about 50 members and former mem- bers and their families. Among the guests of honor was Dr. Charles R. Parke, one of the charter members and the eighth president, who came from his retirement in Louisville to be present on this occasion. There were visitors from many cities. Some brief statement of facts about the more prominent members of the society during its long years of history, most of whom have passed on or have retired, may be made at follows:
Dr. S. T. Anderson, graduate of Rush, located here in 1881 and was a prominent practitioner until his death several years ago.
Dr. T. W. Bath, born in Wales, located first in Normal and then went to the Philippine Islands as an army surgeon. After again locating here he practiced several years, then departed for the far west.
Dr. A. T. Barnes was a superintendent of the Illinois Hospital for In- sane at Anna before coming to McLean County; he was president of the County Medical Society, and prominent Republican politician in addition
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to be a doctor; he was appointed postmaster of Bloomington and served as such until shortly before his death.
Dr. H. F. Ballard, graduate of Rush, practiced in Chenoa and Cooksville.
Dr. N. B. Cole located in Bloomington in 1865, was physician at the Soldiers Orphans' Home until shortly before his removal in 1896 to Phoe- nix, Ariz., where he died several years later.
Dr. E. K. Crothers located in Bloomington in 1850 and was a leading physician until his death in 1893. He was the father of Rachel Crothers, the famous playwright.
Dr. C. J. Corley, graduate of Rush Medical College, located here in 1884 and practiced with success until his death in 1898.
Dr. William Cromwell, graduate of University of Maryland, located here in 1858, was appointed postmaster of Bloomington in 1867 and served four years. Died in 1874.
Dr. Henry Conklin was a physician in this county between 1864 and 1888, practicing in both Bloomington and Hudson.
Dr. Samuel L. Chapin, native of DeWitt County, graduate of Jeffer- son Medical College, practiced in Holder and Saybrook between 1875 and 1904. On Aug. 18 of the latter year he was murdered by an insane man as he was returning to his office.
Dr. J. E. Covey, born near Leroy, graduated from Rush, spent five months in Germany, and practiced in Bloomington from 1904 to 1907, when he died.
Dr. A. T. Darrah, native of Ohio, graduated from Rush in 1865, and was located in Bloomington from 1883 until his death in 1889. He was prominent in Masonry, and the father of Delmar D. Darrah, afterward Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Illinois.
Dr. W. A. Elder, prominent practitioner in Bloomington from 1851 until his death in 1895.
Dr. F. H. Godfrey. graduate of Miami Medical College, practiced in Bellflower, and in 1890 came to Bloomington, where he practiced until his death. Served many years on the city board of health.
Dr. William E. Guthrie, one of the eminent surgeons of his time, served as chief surgeon for Lake Erie and the Chicago & Alton Railroads; was on staffs of St. Joseph's and Brokaw Hospitals and devoted himself exclusively to surgery from 1900 to the time of his death.
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Dr. John Haig, graduate of Miami Medical College, lived and prac- ticed at Leroy for many years and served as postmaster for several years.
Dr. William Hill, native of Ohio, surgeon 48th Illinois Regiment in Civil War; located in Bloomington at close of war and practiced here until time of his death.
Dr. Silas Hubbard, native of New York, graduate of Castleton Medi- cal College, Vermont; practiced at Hudson from 1858 to 1900, when he removed to East Aurora, N. Y., to be with his son, Elbert Hubbard, the famous writer. Dr. Hubbard and his son are both deceased.
Dr. M. D. Hull, graduate of Louisville Medical College, practiced at Arrowsmith for many years, and after 1894 in Bloomington, until his death.
Dr. F. O. Jackman, graduate of Northwestern University Medical Col- lege, served on staffs of insane hospitals at Topeka, Jacksonville, and Mt. Pleasant, Iowa ; now retired, living in Bloomington.
Dr. Jehu Little, native of Indiana; graduate of Belleville Medical Col- lege; served as surgeon in Civil War; was prisoner in Libby Prison ; prac- ticed in Leroy and Bloomington from 1866 to death ; served as president, secretary and treasurer of McLean County Medical Society.
Dr. A. H. Luce located in Bloomington 1842 and practiced until his death in 1893. Was charter member and first president of County Medi- cal Society.
Dr. Ernest Mammen, graduate of Rush, studied in Europe on several occasions ; served as county physician; practiced surgery many years in Bloomington; now in China delivering lectures at medical colleges.
Dr. D. O. Moore, native of Ohio, practiced in Bloomington from 1863 until his death in 1901.
Dr. Nelson K. McCormick, graduate of Chicago Medical; located in Normal in 1889; served as physician at Soldiers Orphans' home; was chief of staff and one of the main promoters of Brokaw Hospital; now deceased.
Dr. Harrison Noble, graduate of Ohio Medical and Rush, located in McLean County in 1832; was member of Legislature in 1864-65; died in 1870.
Dr. C. T. Orner, located in Saybrook in 1871; Bloomington in 1884, until his death; was on staff St. Joseph's Hospital.
Dr. F. J. Parkhurst, graduate of Chicago Medical; located in Danvers ; conducted Willow Bark Institute until his death in 1902.
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Dr. Thomas P. Rogers came from Philadelphia, located in Woodford County, then in Bloomington; elected to Legislature 1872-80; is now deceased.
Dr. E. R. Roe, located in Bloomington before Civil War; served as lieutenant-colonel in Civil War; later was U. S. marshal in southern Illi- nois; died 1893.
Dr. R. W. Shinn, graduate of Rush, practiced many years in Chenoa.
Dr. T. E. Stahl, practiced in Bloomington and Mackinaw, 1874-87, and died in Mackinaw in 1887.
Dr. L. H. Skaggs, located in Ellsworth in 1872; served as assistant surgeon of 94th Illinois in Civil War.
Dr. George R. Smith, graduate of Chicago Medical; began practice in Bloomington 1887 and continued to his death.
Dr. G. M. Smith, graduate of Cleveland Medical, came to Blooming- ton in 1883; elected mayor 1894; died in November, 1897.
Dr. Lee Smith, graduate of Rush Medical; served as surgeon in charge of army hospital in Washington, 1862-63; practiced in Bloomington after- ward until his death.
Dr. A. E. Stewart, native of McLean County; graduate of Jefferson Medical; was assistant surgeon 94th Illinois; elected to Legislature 1872- 76; died 1899.
Dr. R. Wunderlich, graduate of Tubingen College, Germany; prac- ticed in Germany and Chili; came to Bloomington 1868; died in February, 1893.
Dr. Thomas F. Worrell, graduated from Louisville Medical, located in Bloomington in 1850; died in September, 1887.
Dr. J. M. Waters, graduate of Jefferson; practised in Normal and later in Gibson City, 1868-79.
Dr. J. L. White, graduate of Harvard Medical College, located in Jerseyville and later in Memphis; came to Bloomington in 1870; served as member of Legislature 1894-96; died in 1902. Was head of staff of St. Joseph's Hospital for many years.
A list of many of the other prominent physicians and surgeons of McLean County of former years who have either died or removed to dis- tant places would include the following :
Dr. Charles Ayling, Dr. Paul Allyn, Dr. A. A. Absher, Dr. Edwin M. Adams, Dr. J. C. Adams, Dr. W. J. Ballard, Dr. L. A. Burr, Dr. W. A.
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Balcke, Dr. C. O. Burke, Dr. R. R. Burns, Dr. G. W. Bartin, Dr. Samuel Bane, Dr. John Y. Bonnett, Dr. Robert D. Bradley, Dr. C. R. Carr, Dr. Charles Carle, Dr. Howard C. Crist, Dr. D. O. Crist, Dr. H. S. Chapin, Dr. W. R. Chew, Dr. David L. Crist, Dr. H. M. Dally, Dr. D. T. Douglas, Dr. R. W. Dunlap, Dr. G. D. Elder, Dr. George W. Elder, Dr. Charles S. Elder, Dr. J. R. Freese, Dr. D. M. Foster, Dr. T. D. Fisher, Dr. Elias Grey, Dr. C. Judson Gill, Dr. Daniel O. Golding, Dr. R. Earl Gordon, Dr. D. O. D. Haer- ing, Dr. T. T. Haering, Dr. J. W. Hall, Dr. C. E. Hayward, Dr. Z. L. Hoover, Dr. Edward P. G. Holderness, Dr. Lewis J. Hammers, Dr. William Hal- lam, Dr. N. F. Jordan, Dr. E. B. Johnson, Dr. Albert G. Jones, Dr. M. S. Kopf, Dr. S. L. Kerr, Dr. J. E. Kunkler, Dr. William J. Kirk, Dr. L. S. Keith, Dr. O. A. Kell, Dr. A. F. Kaeser, Dr. T. W. Keys, Dr. James S. Lackey, Dr. Hiram C. Luce, Dr. Julius Lehman, Dr. R. G. Laughlin, Dr. Thomas R. Mullen, Dr. James Montgomery, Dr. John P. Moore, Dr. George W. Mason, Dr. J. M. Miller, Dr. D. H. McFarland, Dr. William McIntosh, Dr. John F. Mckenzie, Dr. D. H. Nusbaum, Dr. Stephen W. Noble, Dr. Harvey Parkhurst, Dr. J. R. Peirce, Dr. A. R. Penniman, Dr. W. L. Pol- lock, Dr. William Patch, Dr. Ernest S. Reedy, Dr. W. H. Reedy, Dr. J. W. Read, Dr. S. L. Stevens, Dr. Charles C. Sater, Dr. J. M. Suggett, Dr. J. H. Stein, Dr. E. M. Stretch, Dr. E. E. Sargent, Dr. L. E. Spear, Dr. John Sweeney, Dr. George W. Stipp, Dr. Frank A. Stubblefield, Dr. John A. Tut- hill, Dr. E. M. K. Taylor, Dr. A. P. Tenney, Dr. Thomas M. Taylor, Dr. Nathaniel P. Ward, Dr. H. A. Winter, Dr. M. C. Wilson, Dr. S. B. Wright, Dr. J. W. Waters.
Dr. W. H. Gardner, one of the younger physicians of the city, carried on his practice for several years in connection with the Kelso Sanitarium, and then went into military service in the World War. He made a fine record, taking part in the operations of the Argonne. After the war he gave up practice and engaged in business with his father and brothers.
The names of the physicians and surgeons who are members of the McLean County Medical Society the present year (1923) are as follows:
Bloomington-Drs. F. W. Brian, E. L. Brown, C. E. Chapin, Bernice Curry, E. G. Covington, T. D. Cantrell, L. B. Cavins, A. J. Casner, J. J. ' Condon, G. M. Cline, Frank Deneen, H. W. Elder, J. Norman Elliott, J. H. Fenelon, Ralph A. Fox, A. R. Freeman, J. W. Fulwiler, A. L. Fox, F. C. Fisher, H. W. Grote, W. W. Gailey, Paul E. Greenleaf, M. V. Gunn, F. H. Henderson, E. B. Hart, J. K. P. Hawks, H. L. Howell, L. L. Erwin, George
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B. Kelso, Alvin Keller, Ralph R. Loar, A. W. Meyer, J. C. McNutt, R. N. Noble, W. E. Neiberger, Ralph P. Peairs, D. D. Raber, O. M. Rhodes, A. E. Rogers, G. A. Sloan, E. P. Sloan, O. J. Sloan, J. Whitefield Smith, A. C. Schoch, F. C. Vandervort, F. J. Welch, H. W. Wellmerling, Harold R. Wat- kins, J. L. Yolton, Rhoda G. Yolton, W. M. Young, E. G. Weiland, J. P. Noble, C. M. Noble, Eliza Hyndman, A. L. Fox, Harlan H. Hart, A. L. Chapman.
Normal-Drs. Florence Ames, Ferd C. McCormick, W. L. Penniman.
Lexington-Drs. Martha Bull, L. J. Hammers.
Bellflower-Dr. J. H. Copenhaver.
Danvers-Drs. W. A. Coss, E. M. Minnick, B. O. Swinehart.
Colfax-Drs. H. W. Langstaff, H. E. Pinkerton.
Heyworth-Drs. Frank Turner, F. L. Wakefield.
Cropsey-Dr. H. C. Cantle.
Stanford-Dr. S. T. Cavins.
Chenoa-Dr. C. R. Kerr.
Saybrook-Dr. James Jensen.
Towanda-Dr. P. A. Humphries.
Gridley-Drs. Thomas Moate, E. M. Adams.
Leroy-E. R. May, E. E. Sargent.
Downs-Dr. E. C. Williams.
McLean-Dr. C. W. Ritter.
Elsewhere-Dr. E. S. Horine, Maywood, Ill .; O. F. May, Fort Bayard, N. Mex .; V. D. Thomas, Greystone Park, N. J .; John Zeigler, Farmer City.
The list of McLean County physicians who saw active service in the army or navy during the World War was as follows: Dr. Harry Howell, Dr. R. A. Noble, Dr. Wilfred Gardner, Dr. A. E. Rogers, Dr. J. W. Wallis, Dr. T. D. Cantrell, Dr. J. K. P. Hawks, Dr. L. B. Cavins, Dr. Frank Sayers, Dr. Fred Brian, Dr. F. C. Vandervort, Dr. G. H. Galford, Dr. W. W. Gailey, Dr. L. L. Irwin, Dr. A. E. Behrendt, Dr. A. J. Casner, Dr. J. L. Yolton, Dr. H. A. Elder, Dr. W. L. Penniman, Dr. D. D. Raber, Dr. E. R. Hermann (Stanford), Dr. A. R. Freeman, Dr. Paul Greenleaf, Dr. C. E. Schultz, Dr. Frank Deneen, Dr. L. O. Thompson (LeRoy), Dr. O. A. Coss, Arrow- smith.
The Board of Examiners in McLean County were as follows:
Drs. F. C. Vandervort, E. Mammen, J. L. Yolton, F. H. Godfrey, J. H. Fenelon, Frank F. Fisher, William Young, Harry L. Howell, Charles E. Chapin.
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The Exemption Board Examiners:
Drs. N. E. Nieberger, E. P. Sloan, E. B. Hart, W. E. Gutherie, R. D. Fox, G. B. Kelso and J. Whitefield Smith.
In the last 15 years, Bloomington has become the location of several physicians of the newer schools of practice. There are now eight dif- ferent practitioners of the osteopathic method, and they have become recognized among the substantial professional class of the city. The names of the osteopaths listed in the 1923 directory were Warren E. Atkins, Mrs. Annie B. Bunn, Ethel L. Burner, John D. Cunningham, Daugherty & Mantle, Charles P. Hanson and Eugene Pitts.
Chiropractors are another class of practitioners who have become established in the county seat, there being listed in 1923 the following: Frank J. Esper, V. Emil Lambeau, E. Russell Scott, Alfred T. Spath.
CHAPTER XXII.
COUNTY DENTAL SOCIETY.
ORGANIZED IN 1902 FIRST MEETINGS - FIRST OFFICERS - CONSTITUTION ADOPTED-LIST OF OFFICERS-DEATHS-TWO STATE CONVENTIONS HELD HERE.
The organization of dentists of McLean County is of comparatively recent date. It was on Oct. 10, 1902, that a meeting of dentists was called at the rooms of the Business Men's Association, with the following pres- ent: F. H. McIntosh, J. M. Crigler, J. S. Reece, J. H. Campbell, W. H. Land, G. D. Sitherwood, O. J. Jarrett, M. D. Young, E. B. Coen, J. G. Besley, J. W. Kasbeer, B. M. VanDervoort, C. P. Holland and A. J. Elmer. Dr. F. H. McIntosh was chosen as temporary chairman and B. M. Van- Dervoort as temporary secretary. It was voted to form the McLean County Dental Society, and the following committee was appointed to draw up constitution and by-laws: A. J. Elmer, G. D. Sitherwood and J. H. Campbell. Every practicing dentist in McLean County was to be invited to join the new society.
At the second meeting, held one week later, the following dentists in addition to those present at the first meeting, expressed in person or by letter their willingness to join the society: Harry Stevenson, H. C. Rodenhauser, J. B. Brown, B. Henline, P. H. Geiger, C. D. Eaton, O. R. Griffith, J. M. Gallahugh of Chenoa, D. M. Field of Danvers, J. T. Scott, of Saybrook, A. T. Hanson of Lexington, B. L. Stevens of Lexington, D. M. Field of Danvers, A. M. Wilkes of Leroy.
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