Davis L. Spaulding, M. D., an eminent physician and
surgeon of Macoupin County, Illinois, and a leading practitioner of Virden,
is also a most highly valued citizen. He was born in Vermont, November 14,
1834, and is one of a family of three children born to his parents, Hiram
and Elizabeth (Hawkins) Spaulding, farming people in Vermont.
Dr.
Spaulding attended the local schools and Fort Edward University (New York)
and entered upon the study of medicine in early manhood, completing his
medical course at the University of Nashville, Tennessee, where he received
his degree in 1864. In 1856 he became a resident of Virden. At the outbreak
of the Civil War, he enlisted for service, entering the 19th Regiment,
Illinois Vol. Inf., as a private. Soon after he was appointed surgeon and
was with the 4th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Cav., about nine months, when he was
assigned to hospital work, in which he served about two years. He helped to
organize the first military hospital at Camp Yates, Springfield, and served
there during the three month service.
After the close of the war,
Dr. Spaulding returned to Virden and has made this pleasant little city his
home ever since. He commands a large practice and has built up a most
gratifying practice that extends over the county, having devoted many years
of his life to the earnest practice of his profession.
Dr. Spaulding
married Louisa Freeman, who is a daughter of a substantial farmer of North
Otter township, Macoupin County, and the three children born to them are:
Lauretta E., who is the wife of J. Hall, a merchant of Kansas; Charles H.;
and Clarence Edgar, who is an employee of Marshall Field & Company, Chicago.
Charles H. Spaulding is also a prominent member, of the medical fraternity,
a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago, and is now chief physician at
Johannesburg, South Africa, for a large gold mining company.
In
politics Dr. Spaulding is a Republican but is not enough of a politician to
consent to accept political preferment. He belongs to the various medical
associations and is held in the highest regard by the public and by his
brother practitioners. Dr. and Mrs. Spaulding have a pleasant home in Virden
and enjoy social life. They are valued members of the Christian Church.
Extracted 2018 May 08 by Norma Hass from Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Macoupin County, Illinois, published in 1904, pages 483-484.
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