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Dr. Henry E. Cushing was born in Ashburnham, Mass., Nov. 30, 1854, and received his preliminary
DR. HENRY E. CUSHING, 1854-1907.
education in the public schools and Westfield High School. He graduated from Dartmouth Col- lege in 1882 and the same year en- tered the Chicago Medical Col- lege, now the Medical Depart- ment of Northwestern University, from which he received the de- gree of M. D. in 1884. . The same year he located for the practice of his profession at Champaign, Ill., where he soon built up a large professional business which he re- tained till the date of his death, August II, 1907.
Dr. Cushing was at all times en- terprising and energetic and by his own efforts defrayed the great-
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er part of the expense of his edu- cation. As a practitioner of med- icine he was noted for his enter-
prise, aggressiveness and readiness to maintain a high standard of pro- fessional ethics.
DR. ALEXANDER T. DARRAH, 1836-1889.
Dr. Alexander T. Darrah was born at Delaware, Ohio, March 17, 1836. Two years later he re- moved with his parents to Pike County, where he grew to man- hood. He obtained his education
in the common schools and when a young man taught. Later he began the study of medicine and in 1865 graduated from Rush Medi- cal College, Chicago. The same year that he graduated he located
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at Tolono and practiced his pro- fession there continuously till 1883, when he removed to Bloon- ington, Ill. In his new location he was actively engaged in prac- tice till his death that occurred in September, 1889.
Dr. Darrah was a man of strik- ing personal appearance ; was large, well-proportioned and was always well dressed. He stood very high in Masonic circles, was a good extemporaneous speaker and in his day was perhaps one of the best presiding officers in the state. In 1882, when resid- ing at Tolono, he was elected president of the Illinois State Med- ical Society, an honor that thus far no other member of the Cham paign County Medical Society has received.
Dr. Amos Dillon was born near Ridge Farm, Vermilion Co., Ill., Feb. 26, 1840. Here he grew to young manhood and during his boyhood days his time was divided between farm work and attendance upon the neighborhood schools. Later he attended Onarga Acad- emy at Onarga, Ill., and finally be- came a student of medicine. He graduated from Indiana Medical College in 1878 and soon after lo- cated for the practice of his pro- fession in Staunton Township, Champaign County, Ill. Unfortu- nately when he had given but five years to professional work his use-
fulness was ended by death which occurred April 3. 1883.
DR. WILLIAM DILLON.
Dr. William Dillon was born near Ridge Farm, Vermilion Co., Ill., March 27, 1849, and while yet a small boy removed with his par- ents to Iroquois County. His early years were spent in farm work and attendance upon the country schools. After reaching young manhood he devoted some time to teaching school. Later he decided to study medicine and was part of the time in the office with his brother, Dr. Amos Dillon of Champaign County, and part of his student days he spent with Dr. Gaston of Ash Grove, Iro-
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quois County. He finally gradu- ated in medicine from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1882. The same year he located for the practice of his profession at Thomasboro, Champaign Coun- ty, where he remained in active professional work till 1900 when he took a post graduate course in Chicago. He then removed to Urbana, where he has even since been engaged in practice.
Dr. Franklin at the breaking out of the Civil war left his prac- tice in Champaign Co. and joined an Ohio Regiment as surgeon. His subsequent history is un- known.
Dr. Ezra H. Ferris was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 18, 1821. In young manhood he studied medicine and in 1846 graduated from the Medical College of Ohio. He practiced medicine in Cincin- nati for a considerable period and during this time was four years a member of the City Board of Health. In 1864 Dr. Ferris aban- doned the practice of medicine and removed to Illinois and for a num- ber of years lived on a farm in Champaign County. In 1887 he removed to Champaign City, where he continued to reside till his death, April 10, 1904.
Dr. John T. Fugate was born June 15, 1830 at Wytheville, Wythe Co., Virginia. While very
DR. JOHN T. FUGATE.
young removed with parents first to Missouri and later to Illinois. Was raised on a farm near Quincy, Illinois, where his time was alter- nated between farm work and at- tendance at the neighborhood schools and higher educational in- stitutions at Barry and Quincy, Ill. In early manhood entered up- on the study of medicine and ob- tained his M. D. degree from Mis- souri Medical College in 1857. Practiced medicine in St. Louis, Mo., till the outbreak of the Civil War, then for varying periods was located at the following towns in Illinois, viz., Pleasant Hill, Rockport, Summer Hill and El-
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Dora. In 1867 he came to Ur- bana, Ill., where he has since been engaged in practice.
Dr. Fulkerson, first physician to locate in Champaign County. See pioneer doctors in County.
Dr. M. Garst was born in Vir- ginia Jan. 17, 1815, began the study of medicine when very young and at the age of 22 grad- uated from Jefferson Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia. He located at Dayton, Ohio, and for many years practiced medicine in that city. Just before the breaking out of the civil war he removed to Illinois and had his home in Champaign City. Upon the organization of the 7Ist Illinois Infantry he en- tered that organization as surgeon with the rank of Major and served till the time of the regiment ex- pired. At the termination of the war in 1865 he removed from Champaign and his death occurred at Coon Rapids, Iowa, Oct. 5, I90I.
Dr. J. H. Gardiner was born Feb. 17, 1848, died Aug. 22, 1902, at Mahomet. He was a na- tive of New Jersey and when a mere lad removed to Illinois with his parents. In 1865, when but fifteen years of age, he enlisted in the 154th Illinois Infantry and served till the war of the rebellion ended. In 1872 Dr. Gardiner graduated from Rush Medical College and at once located at Ma-
DR. JOHN H. GARDINER, 1848-1902.
homet for the purpose of practic- ing his profession, and soon built up a good business. Dr. John H. Gardiner was a son of Dr. John D. Gardiner, late an octogenarian of Farmer City, but many years ago a Mahomet physician.
Dr. A. D. Gillum was born in Adams County, Illinois, August 29, 1846. He was educated in the common schools, and when a young man taught school. Stud- ied medicine and later graduated from a Medical College at Keo- kuk, Iowa. Located at Sadorus in 1877 and practiced there till a few
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weeks before his death that oc- curred June 25, 1890.
Dr. William Miles Goodwin was born in Ohio about 1825. At- tended medical lectures at the Medical College of Ohio: came to Illinois and located first at St. Joseph, practiced there for a year when he changed his location to Urbana. At the latter place he formed a partnership with Dr. C. A. Thompson, which lasted till the latter entered the army in 1861. Dr. Goodwin had a large practice in Urbana during the sixties. He remained there in practice till about 1876 or 1877. when he re- moved to Kansas, where he died about 1898. Dr. Goodwin was a well posted man and a good prac- titioner of medicine.
Dr. John M. Hadden was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1842. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted in the 67th Pennsylvania and served till the war ended four years later. At the battle of Winchester he was captured and for two months was confined in Libby Prfson and Belle Isle. After the close of the war young Hadden entered upon the study of medicine and con- cluding that the west was a tempt- ing field came to Illinois and in 1872 located at Seymour, where he soon built up a good practice that he yet attends to industrious- ly.
DR. JOHN M. HADDEN, 1812-1892.
Dr. Lyman Hall was born at Hancock, Massachusetts, Febru- ary 12, 1818. Came west in carly life and studied medicine in young manhood. He lived at La Salle for a long period and was mayor of that city for two years. During the civil war he for a time served as Assistant Surgeon of the 63rd Illinois Infantry. Meeting with some unexpected business losses not long after the war, Dr. Hall concluded to come to Champaign County. This he did in 1867, lo- cating near Savoy. Here he car- ried on farming and practiced med- icine for twenty years till 1887, when he removed to Champaign City, where he died February II,
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DR. LYMAN HALL, 1818-1892.
1892, lacking but one day of rounding out seventy-four years.
Dr. Abbie G. Hall was born in Felicity, Clairmont County, Ohio, and while yet a child removed to Champaign County in 1860. She acquired a good education in the public schools and for many years devoted her time to teaching. While serving in this capacity she was the author of two or three ele- mentary school books. Late in the eighties she began the study of medicine and in 1890 graduated from Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. Immediately after grad- uation she located in Champaign City, where she practiced medi-
cine till her death in September, 1898. At the time of her decease Dr. Hall was a member of the Medical Staff of the Julia F. Burnham Hospital.
DR. J. J. HANMORE.
Dr. J. J. Hanmore was born March 20, 1854, at Cambridge, Ind., and when a young child re- moved with his parents to a farm where his earlier days were spent doing farm work and attending the neighborhood schools.
Upon reaching young manhood he began the study of medicine, and entered the Kentucky School of Medicine from which he grad- uated in 1884. His first location was Landessville, Ind., where he
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remained for a number of years. For a short period he also prac- ticed at Marion, Ind. In 1898 he removed to Malden, Ill., where he was engaged in professional work till 1905, when he came to Urbana and has since been occu- pied in active practice.
DR. JAMES C. HARMON, 1840-1906.
Dr. James C. Harmon was born January 19, 1840, at Milton, Ver- mont. He grew up on a farm and got his education in the public schools. In 1862 he enlisted in the 13th Vermont, a regiment that was afterwards a part of General Stannard's celebrated brigade. This brigade had not a little to do in saving the day for the Union
Army in the third day's fight at Gettysburg, when Pickett's divis- ion made its terrible charge in a desperate effort at breaking the Union center. Dr. Harmon was at Gettysburg and saw much hard service during his three years in the Army of the Potomac.
Before enlisting Dr. Harmon had studied medicine for about a year. After leaving the army he resumed his studies and gradu- ated from the Medical Department of the University of Vermont in 1866.
Next year he entered upon the practice of medicine and in 1874 removed to Rantoul, where he practiced till his death, Aug. I. 1906. Dr. Harmon at the time of his decease, was a member of the Board of United States Surgeons of Champaign County for the Ex- amination of Pensioners.
Recently a medical friend of Dr. Harmon said of him that "he had done more for humanity and less for himself than any one else he ever knew."
Dr. J. F. Harris was born March 31, 1852 in Spencer Co., Ind., where he grew up on a farm and obtained his preliminary edu- cation in the public schools. Up- on reaching young manhood he entered upon the study of medi- cine and graduated from the Ken- tucky Medical College in 1877. He located for the practice of his profession at St. Anthony, Ind.,
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DR. J. F. HARRIS.
where he remained till 1883, when he removed to Ogden, Ill., where he has ever since been busy an- swering professional calls.
Dr. George W. Hartman was born in Davidson County, North Carolina, April 16, 1827. When but a child of four years George W. removed with his parents to Indiana and when but a mere boy he began the study of medicine and when twenty-one years of age entered upon its practice in Foun- tain County, Indiana. In 1853 he removed to Sidney, Ill., and for a period of about twenty-eight years thereafter he was kept busy with his large professional business.
Early in 1881 Dr. Hartman's
DR. GEORGE W. HARTMAN, 1827-1881.
health began to fail and October 12 of that year he died. He was a genial, popular man and his death was greatly deplored by a large circle of friends and patrons.
Dr. C. C. Hawes. See Pioneer Doctors, Champaign Co.
Dr. Apollis R. Hess was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, February 15, 1840. He removed to Illinois when quite young withi his parents and received his educa- tion in the common schools. He enlisted in the 7Ist Illinois Infan- try and served till his time ex- pired, and later joined the 137th Illinois Infantry and served his
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DR. HARTWELL C. HOWARD,
time out in that organization. Af- ter the war ended he turned his attention to the study of medicine and later graduated from the Med- ical College of Ohio, Cincinnati. About 1875 he located at Sidney and continued in practice there till a while before his death that occurred May 6, 1897.
Dr. Thomas M. Hess was born at New Albany, Indiana, Septent- ber 22, 1819. Dr. Hess acquired his preliminary education in the common subscription schools of his boyhood days, but later had the advantages of a short course at a Seminary located at Charles- ton, Ind. For a time after reach- ing his majority he engaged in mercantile and other business pur- suits, meanwhile, in the year 1840, he had removed to Westfield, Clark County, Illinois. Some years later he became interested in medicine and began its study. He took his first course of lectures at Starling Medical College, Co- lumbus, Ohio, and in later years graduated at Rush Medical Col- lege, Chicago. In the spring of 1863 Dr. Hess located at Homer and for more than a quarter of a century thereafter was busy at- tending to the wants of the sick. Early in the eighties lie removed to Berwick, Warren County, Illi- nois and practiced medicine there till his death a few years since.
Dr. Hess was a man of dignified bearing and for many years was a preacher of the Christian, or Campbellite, denomination. He had three sons who were physi- cians, Apollis, who practiced in Sidney, and Wm. H., who later located in Chicago, both of whom are dead, and Smith Hess, who is located in the west.
Dr. H. C. Howard was born at Gates (now within the city limits of Rochester), New York, July 12, 1829. When Dr. Howard was a lad of fourteen he removed with his father to Columbus, O., where he lived till young manhood, when he came to Leroy, McLean Coun- ty, Illinois. He received his gen- eral education in the public schools of New York and Ohio. and his medical education at Star- ling Medical College, Columbus, from which he graduated in 1850. Dr. Howard began the practice of medicine in Champaign in 1855. fifty-four years ago. He is en- titled to the honor of being one of the oldest men in Champaign county in the active practice of his profession, though Dr. S. S. Salis- bury of Tolono, is his close sec- ond, as he is but ten days young- er than Dr. Howard. Dr. Howard is local surgeon for the Wabash railroad and ex-president of the Staff of the Julia F. Burnham hos- pital.
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DR. CHARLES A. HUNT, 1819-1863.
Dr. Charles A. Hunt was born at Trenton, New Jersey, April 15. 1819. His father died when Charles A. was but thirteen years of age and joining some friends the lad emigrated to Ohio, and ever after made his own way in the world. Nothwithstanding his being thus thrown upon his own resources he succeeded in early acquiring a good English and classical education. He also stud- ied medicine and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1845. He came to Urbana in 1855 and for a time engaged in the drug business.
Upon the breaking out of the civil war in 1861 Dr. Hunt was commissioned Surgeon of the 126th Illinois Infantry.
His regiment participated in the memorable siege of Vicksburg, during which Dr. Hunt's duties in caring for the sick were most arduous and his location being at Haines' Bluff on the Yazoo in- volved especial exposure to ma- laria. The result was he fell seri- ously sick and died at his post of duty August 2, 1863, twenty-nine days after Vicksburg fell.
By those who knew him Dr. Hunt is spoken of in the highest terms. He is said to have been thoughtful, studious and a writer of no mean ability.
Dr. David Jennings was born in the state of Pennsylvania May 10, 1836, and removed to Ohio when sixteen years of age. He received his education in the common schools of Pennsylvania and Ohio, afterwards taught school, and meanwhile began the study of medicine. Early in the sixties he removed to Illinois and became a resident of Champaign County, from where he enlisted in the 2nd Illinois Cavalry and at the end of the war resumed his studies. Later he graduated from the St. Louis Medical College, St. Louis, Mo. In 1866 Dr. Jennings locat- ed at Old St. Joseph, but upon the building of what is now the Big Four railway, removed to New St. Joseph early in 1870, where he continued in practice till 1879. when he changed his loca- tion to Tolono. Two years later
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he removed to Sidney. Mean- while his health had been failing and in July, 1881, he died at Sid- ney. His remains were taken to the cemetery at Old St. Joseph for interment and there he lies buried in the midst of a farming community in which he had long practiced.
DR. CHARLES B. JOHNSON.
Dr. Charles B. Johnson was born on a farm near Pocahontas, Bond Co., Ill., Oct. 8, 1843. His boyhood days were divided be- tween work on the farm in sum- mer and attendance upon the pub- lic schools in winter. In 1862 he enlisted in the 130th Ill. Infantry and served till the close of the Civil War, three years later. About half his time he was a private sol-
dier and the remainder Hospital Steward of the regiment where his medical studies began. He is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, and his first location was at Chatham, Sanga- mon Co., Ill. He has practiced his profession in Champaign County since 1871 and in Cham- paign City since 1879. He was a member of the Illinois State Board of Health for eight years and from 1899 to 1902 served as its presi- dent.
Dr. Samuel W. Kincaid was born July 15, 1823, and graduated in medicine from the Medical Col- lege of Ohio in 1853. He prac- ticed medicine at Tolono for a time and in 1855 located at Cham- paign (then West Urbana) for the practice of his profession. Later he removed from Champaign, re- tired front active practice and died May 1. 1887. One of Dr. Kin- caid's professional cards was shown the writer that was printed in 1855. Following is a copy.
S. W. KINCAID, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon, West Urbana.
Office one door west of the Doane house.
Dr. Edwin A. Kratz was born in Plumsteadville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, July 12, 1844. He received his education in the pub-
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DR. EDWIN A. KRATZ.
lic schools. He enlisted in the 198th Pennsylvania Infantry and saw much exceptionally hard ser- vice in Grant's closing campaign against Lee that brought the end of the war. Near Dinwiddie Court House Dr. Kratz was most seriously wounded by a musket ball that he received in his lungs and that passed through both arms. Not long after the war he took up the study of medicine and in 1869 graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. Immedi- ately after graduation he took up the practice of his profession at
Champaign. For many years Dr. Kratz has been United States Surgeon for Pensions and for a long period was Secretary of the Pension Board and in this ca- pacity did most efficient service.
Dr. Kratz has held a number of important offices. For several terms he has represented his town- ship on the Board of Supervisors and from 1894 to 1898 was Coun- ty Treasurer. He is moreover prominent in Masonic circles.
DR. JOSEPH M. LAWSON.
Dr. Joseph M. Lawson was born in Armstrong Co., Penn., Apr. 1, 1858. He grew up on a farm and as leisure afforded attended the country schools, and
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later Dayton Union College. Up- on reaching young manhood he entered the office of his uncle Dr. Wesley Lawson at Homer, Ill., and began the study of medicine. He graduated in medicine at the University of Michigan in 1885 and the same year located at Sid- ney, Ill., where he has ever since been actively engaged in practice.
DR. A. M. LINDLEY.
Dr. A. M. Lindley was born in Tuscarawas Co. Ohio, Sept. 10, 1856 and while yet an infant re- moved with his parents to Urbana, Ill., where he received his prelim- inary education in the public schools. Subsequently he at- tended the University of Illinois and later entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery
from which he graduated in 1880. He at once became associated with his father in the practice of medicine at Urbana and has ever since been actively engaged in professional work.
DR. MAHLON LINDLEY.
Dr. Mahlon Lindley was born July 22, 1833, at Fredericktown, Ohio. In the spring of 1857 he located in Urbana and now, al- though entering on his fifty-sec- ond year of practice in Champaign County, is nearly as active as when he was forty years of age. Dr. Lindley is local surgeon for the Big Four railway, a position he has held since the building of that road forty years ago.
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Dr. James H. Lyon. See Pion- cer Doctors Champaign County.
quently graduated at Rush Medi- cal College, Chicago.
In March, 1868, he located at Philo and did a good business till he removed to Champaign in 1900, lacking but one year of rounding out a third of a century where he first began to respond to sick calls. Dr. Mandeville is now a resident of Champaign and is actively en- gaged in the practice of his pro- fession. For some time he has affiliated with the Prohibition party and in 1898 was that party's candidate for state senator.
DR. J. D. MANDEVILLE.
Dr. John D. Mandeville was born December 18, 1844, near the village of Ovid. Seneca County, New York. When fourteen years of age he removed with his par- ents to Champaign County, Illi- nois, where he has since resided. He attended the public schools and when older taught school. Upon the breaking out of the civil war he served for a time in the DR. JOHN MARTEN. 67th Illinois Infantry; also was a Dr. John Marten was born at Carbondale, Ill., April 3, 1857. try. Received his preliminary educa- tion in the public schools and at soldier in the 133rd Illinois Infan- After returning from the army Dr. Mandeville began the study of medicine and subse- the Southern State Normal Uni-
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versity, Carbondale, from which he graduated in 1883. For a con- siderable period he devoted him- self to teaching and during this time filled a number of important and responsible educational posi- tions. Meanwhile he became an earnest student of entomology and for a number of years was assist- ant in this Department to Prof. S. A. Forbes at the University of Il- linois. Later he entered upon the study of medicine and graduated from Rush Medical College, Chi- cago, 1897. The same year he lo- cated at Tolono, Ill., where he has ever since been actively engaged professionally.
DR. CHARLES W. MARTINIE.
Dr. Charles W., Martinie was born Nov. 7, 1847 in Henry Coun- ty, Kentucky. He passed his early boyhood days working on his father's farm and attending the neighborhood schools. He began the study of medicine with his un- cle, Dr. C. E. Triplitte of Morocco, Ind., and during the winter of 1869-70 attended his first course of lectures at Rush Medical Col- lege, Chicago. In 1870 he located at Palermo, Ill., and practiced his profession there till the fall of 1873, when he went to Cincinnati and matriculated at Miami College from which he graduated in the spring of 1874. He returned to Palermo and continued busy in professional work in that locality till 1892 when he removed to Lin- coln, Ill., where he engaged in practice till 1896 when he changed his location to Urbana, Ill., where he now resides and practices his profession when it suits his con- venience. Dr. Martinie owns a large body of land in the heart of the Illinois corn belt.
Dr. Clarence B. McClelland was born in Decatur March 24, 1862, where he received his pre- liminary education and grew to manhood. He studied medicine and graduated from Rush Medical College in 1887. He was in gen- eral practice for a time, after which he took special courses in Chicago and New York. In 1896 he located in Champaign and
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made a specialty of diseases of the a Champaign County boy, who is eye, ear, nose and throat.
He at once entered upon an ex- cellent business, which continued till his health failed. In the latter part of 1808 his condition became serious and in March, 1899, he died, regretted by all who knew him.
Dr. Daniel P. McClure was born in Washington County, Pennsyl- vania, August 28, 1837. He came of Scotch. ancestry and got his preliminary education in the common schools and at Hayes- ville Academy. He began the study of medicine in 1859 and in 1861 entered the army as Assist- ant Surgeon of the 64th Ohio In- fantry. His regiment was at Shi- loh, Stone River, Mission Ridge, Chickamauga, Chattanooga and many other engagements.
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