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Living in McHenry County, IL in 1877
RINGLAND, W. D., Editor and Publisher
Woodstock New Era; Woodstock; born in
Amherst, Loraine Co., Ohio, June 19, 1839;
came to McHenry Co. 1865; value of
property $5,000 ; was a merchant at
Algonquin seven years. Married Amanda
Matthews, of Geauga Co., Ohio, in October,
1866 ; has four children.
Source: "Directory of McHenry
County", 1877
Submitted by Kim Torp
WRIGHT, BURTON, Farmer and Stock Dealer,
n. w. Sec. 34; Woodstock P. O.; born in
Munson, Geauga Co., Ohio. March 15,
1829; came to McHenry Co. May 10, 1869;
owns 433 acres of land; valuation of
property, $19,500 ; has been Assessor
two years. Married Sophia Byrum, March
23,1849, of Geauga Co., Ohio, who died
February 19, 1861; had three children.
Married Hulda Coon, of Rush, Jo Daviess
Co., Ill., March 8, 1863, who was born
in Crawford Co., Ohio, September 24,1837
; had two children.
[Source: 1877 McHenry County, IL
Directory]
Submitted by Kim Torp
[Source: 1877 McHenry County, IL
Directory - transcribed by K. Torp]
CANFIELD, Mrs. Corresta T.,
physician, born in Chardon, Ohio, 6th
March, 1833. The Canfields, for
meritorious service, received from the
king of England, in 1350, a grant of
land on the river Cam, in Yorkshire, and
settled thereon. After occupying that
grant for three-hundred years, they came
to America, shortly after the arrival of
the Plymouth Pilgrims, and were among
the first settlers of New Haven, Conn.
Dr. Canfield is descended from French
Huguenots and New England Presbyterians.
Her mother, reared at a time when it was
thought a sin for a man to kiss his wife
or babe on Sunday, did not neglect the
moral training of her children.
Intellectual, well-read, in advance of
her time, the daughter has inherited
energy, will power and executive
ability. Corresta entered the seminary
of Chardon at an early age, but she was
soon married. Though a wife and mother,
reading and study were kept up. From her
childhood she was ambitious to be a
physician. Left alone without resources,
at the close of the Civil War, the
ambitions of early youth revived. In
1869 she entered the Woman's Homeopathic
College of Cleveland, Ohio. With the
help of a half-year's scholarship Mrs.
Canfield finished the first college
year. In the second year she became an
assistant of the president, Dr. Myra K.
Merrick, and gained means to continue in
college. She was graduated with first
honors in 1871, having served for some
time as demonstrator of anatomy. During
the following summer she practiced in
Fort Wayne, Ind., earning enough to
enable her to enter the Men's
Homeopathic College of Cleveland. While
there, she was demonstrator of anatomy
in the woman's department, and practiced
enough, visiting patients mornings and
evenings, to defray expenses. She
attended all the lectures, passed
through the whole curriculum and was
graduated third in the men's course, the
faculty acknowledging that she was
entitled to a prize, but would not
establish a precedent by awarding it to
a practicing physician. A full-fledged
M. D., she settled in Titusville, Pa.
Having but fifteen dollars capital, she
borrowed enough to buy out a resident
physician, and under great opposition so
won public patronage as to pay all her
debts the first year. There she remained
nearly ten years and amassed a snug sum.
She next spent a year in traveling. In
1882 she settled in Chicago, where she
has built up a large practice and served
in many public offices. She is at
present a member of the board of censors
of the American Institute of Homeopathy,
having been elected for the second time.
She was the first woman who served in
that capacity. One was elected the
previous year but was not allowed to
serve on the board of censors. Three
years before her admission women were
not permitted to join that society, and
much opprobrium was still attached to
those "hybrids" who did. Even
women shared in that feeling. After a
time, seeing none of her sex actively
represented in the society, she felt
that, to enjoy its privileges, one
should assume its duties. She therefore
prepared a paper and read it before the
institute. She has served as president,
vice-president and secretary of the
Woman's Medical Association of Chicago,
vice-president of the Hahnemann Clinical
for two years, and has been appointed on
the woman's committee for a homeopathic
congress to be held during the World's
Columbian Exposition in 1893.
DUNHAM, Mrs. Marlon Howard,
born in Geauga county, Ohio, 6th December,
1842, passed the first part of her life
upon a farm. She early decided to be a
teacher, beginning her first district
school at the age of fifteen, and taught
in the public schools of Chicago, Ill.,
from 1866 to 1873. In July, 1873, she
became the wife of C. A. Dunham,
an architect, of Burlington, Iowa, where
they now live. In 1877 she entered upon
temperance work with the inauguration of
the red-ribbon movement, but, believing in
more permanent methods, she was the prime
mover in the organization of the local
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and
has ever since been an active worker in
that society. In 1883 she was elected
State superintendent of the department of
scientific temperance, and held the office
four years, lecturing to institutes and
general audiences on that subject much of
the time. She procured the Iowa State law
on that subject in February, 1886. When
the Iowa State Temperance Union began to
display its opposition to the National
Union, she was rather slow to declare her
position, which was always fully with the
National, but she was soon forced to
declare herself, and came to be considered
rather a leader on the side of the
minority. When the majority in the State
Union seceded from the National Union,
16th October, 1890, she was elected
president of those who remained auxiliary
to that body. At the State convention in
1891 she was re-elected. She has spent a
large part of her time in the field. She
has always been a radical equal
suffragist, and has spoken and written
much on that subject. She is a Christian
socialist, deeply interested in all
reforms that promise to better the social
system and the conditions of life for the
multitudes.
(American Women, Frances Elizabeth
Willard, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore,
Volume 1 Copyright 1897. Transcribed
by Marla Snow.)
HAYES,
C.M., photographer;
born Chardon. O.,
(Geauga
Co)
Mar. 31, 1863; son of Enos and
Emeline M (Griffith) Hayes; educated in
public and high schools of Ohio; came to
Detroit, 1885; married at Gainesville, O.,
1884, Emma L.
Tibbals. Began in photography, 1882, and has
ever since continued in the business; has
been senior member C. M. Hayes & Co.
since 1891. Member Detroit Board of
Commerce. President National Association of
Photographers, 1901; member Detroit
Archaeological Society. Universalist. Mason
(32*), Knight Templar, Shriner. Club:
Detroit Boat, Detroit Golf, Detroit
Automobile, Fellowcraft. Recreations:
Outdoor sports. Office: fine Arts Bldg.
Residence: 1900 Woodward Av.
The
Book of Detroiters. Edited by Albert Nelson
Marquis Copyright, 1908 - transcribed
by Christine Walters
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