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be^DANIEL ME WILLIAMS.A Chicago Physician Who Mas Won Eminence in Surgery.Member of the i Hi no is State Board of Health and appointed on the Staff of the World’s Fair Star.tt-ary Board-An Incentive to Progress.Hi a hop H. M. Tamer complains that lt;lt;souJiio«tsmn in th« young men of te-day. No grenlef onwitke to a breaking away fix»m such tendency cau be supplied our youth ti-an i-j study of the live* of tfhoae who have carved for JheniHolvo© a niche ia the temple of famo. A sketch of IVr. IV H. Williams, oao of the most caiineot surgeons of CHiclgo, affords one of the best illustration* ia tlie country.Daniel Halo Williams was bom in Holliday shurg, Pa., .fan. IS, whore he lived umtril bis twelfth year. His father * health fading, the family went West, to Jansspille, Wisconsin. After a few years hit. mother returned to t’te East, leaving Daniel with the family of Charles H. Anderson, who took iively interest in his welfare and education. They aseited and advised him all. through his acimol life as if he were their own sou.He played in an orchestra at night and attended public school in the day ur.til hie'eighteenth year. During the mmtr months he worked at any-thing w: ich would turn a honest penny. At eoghteen he entered the Janesville Classical Academy and remained till his pmduaiion, when re entered the office of Surgeon-Qt neral Hdary Palmer in 1887 to study m dicine and surgery. Here he closely applied hi on self for two yearn. In 1879 he matriculated at the Chicago Medical College and after four years of exhaustive study, graduated in 1503.Dr. Williams now opened an office at tiie corner of Michigan avenue and Thirty first street, and for ten years has had the same location. Thus is in the wealthiest residence part of the oily and \)r. Williams bus built up a magnificent mixed practice. His pa ients range from the aiislocratie whiic residents of Michigan avenue to the poorest Afro-American. During this time he has seized every i.pport ni'y to perfect himself in the stu fy of his specialty —surgery. In abdominal surgery he is the peer of any suigeon n Chicago, andhasbeen remarkably suoeeeful with his cases.Dr. Williams success in his profession is to be attributed to hard persistent siudy; he shirked no work how* ever leborieus, for a mastery of his profession; he served lung apprenticeship in the dir ecting room and did much unpleasant work connected therewith, before the human body with all its complicated maefinery of bone, blood and muscle become to him an open book. He then became to Demonstrator of Anadomy at ids Alma Mater. Besides his large pract-ice, Dr. Williams is physician to the P oiettant Orphan Asylum; surreoa of the South Side Dispensary; to Pi evident Hospital and is on the staff ef suigeons employed by the Chicago City Railway Conwpa. y. The Provident Hospital is the only Afro Amei iean institu ion among them.and always pra#ti«ftd irHe laid the £©«ni4a*i#B» V -av i?k* vhepennies aaud dblWr* wltev-te #v» tumtywaste. Of it shrewd bu* fey*# i lt;s,f ? hestudied localities, es «*lt;-»» ***31 a- *} in-veMigated cenditre. a wto % y -■ in-creased value t* prept viy- Hr- nutkout the v»iue of everywithin certaRi b«mnd:ntiritvd and bowgfit t W - wvstffgures, and et lt;! ifnmp-«K'-cjilt; v.%revamnion eaek piece »tf ;»sb-per.- t pur—okayed. Re h*o *Ue *#.;* -.*l a’-ways !• maintain u erf Ji#would dear the closestand Ids busiu*9 desdi aw char-aeteiized by honesty atfi -.fti*. Williams- net «»i*y_ fet r hi** aftodcKtty, haiy ver, b-yai to, and actively iv a. ^rymovement far rate be»eH;. far fvom discw’ng lire rcUith.nhipv or practicing exel iMve»Tsn, be aivcr fails to use l»te iaff taeiiec fin- the pro-mutgatioa ®-f thar. wL-icii i- practical and profitable. He took ur'ivt-interest in the Pi\ ia-i Ffo^pitiil f.ont \D be^mwing af-4 *jlt; nt?much Inward nscking s*u cee#, :i# a resnlt of whk h the va .-eon i«*sp* ydk i-iMKita; at which young a# and rinrses can sesnre they are denied elsewh by on means least, D; not only held in high medical profe»oie* v. . lty, but he has the re hvicBcc oi his raee. T oi the raee cverywhe and rccc ive inspi#atioi i did an enamplt of wcr l this sketch is .-riven. Ti ** r the race by tlveir livt of ail hon'or and appre their example ot einulivli Age.v - ■ ivaii it.g ' . Ljv-ty but Wiilbw lt;lt;■ w J j theate * id. i-t am e — the } v ol u may kntw £ii soajpleu7 la.d* oslestjr S3 who bon' arc worthy ailt », and: cu—AT. .MUCH-LOIEB PRELATEThe Busy aw.IhKNtble C;Great work iniidadrlphiitHis Appointment to tho Sen* Clevob.nd Caused lt;t«:ngi©»5 Joy and Sorrow. Tfte rri«rv«j! ofSamual J. Randall-Rt, Rev. Ignatius F. Hv-r.stiiiajK?^ D. D., Bishop of Cleveland, s% Philadelphian by birib and edutt*33Ufln Besides this he enjoys the tkm ot being one of the younges^ as« he is one of the most lea rot d of thft American hitraiechy. He? ihc«a in that part cu!ar distro t of tk Qua! er City known aa Sontiiwivr3tN ©n December 16, 1840. The ftitwne Bishop was a liHie toddler of # years when the Native America® riots disgraced the city of Lis bestir. He showed evidenee of future talent at a very early a^e, and someeara was taken with his educations When about in his 12th year he w4L5^ sentt© the private academy of MatMds -Chairier an l her daughter, Md!e». Clementine, ©n tierman street, W-low Third. After a few year* weE In addition to all this, he has a chiss gvcnt there he was transferred h tltfein aAw r. A ri i iin surgery in the Chieago Medinal Col teg#.The s;abject of this sketeh is also one of the seven memvera ot the Illinois State Board of Health, and Chicago, the largest eity in the State, is his districe. No physician, bow ever eminent, can practic ein Chicago without the e gnature of Dr Williams on his oeriflfioal# ©f license. Several Southern white physic ans have tried in every way to get the permit with oat haring to be examined and passed upon by that ^*niger.,, One absolutely refused to make application when he found there was no other was save trough Dr. Williams. There wai no other waa whi h he could have told Dr. Will ams* Afro-Amer can line**»^ ge, for the doctor is .as white as his objector Farther token of the esteem in whioM Dr. Williams is regarded * in medical circles is that he has recently been appointed on staff of physicians of the World’s Fair Sani t#ry Board.When the doctor b^an his praticeMt, Vernon Grammar Scbool, proving o» e of the most apt pupils, and* being speedily proinot d to the Boy% High School, wh’ch tens been alumni oi so may distil gmished 3*hi adeiphians,Among his classmates there;, mff some that immedi3ely plt; eceded to lowed him, were such me# aslt; Governor P^ttteon; Georgs Hardings the most famous patent lawwr im America; the late JLtwis C. Cssiffjv Att rney General of the State of PenBsylvania, and the greatest #rios» inal lawyer of bis time; the late-William V. McGrath, Stite Treaa-urer of Pt-ni sylva ia; Judges MkL eal Arnold and James T. Mit«bedl^ 8. JBdwiu Mogargee, the talentelt;£ young lawyer; P. F. Rothermal, so» of the distinguished painter of th^ “Baitleof Gettysburg; William M*-Bingerly, t e publisher of the PhR— adlphia Rmord; George H. Boker., the poet; George Alfred Townee*d, tne j urnalist; Ingatius Donnelly, the author of the famous Bacon *h# had not five dollar* in mouey and Thakespeare controversy and a bro1 -- » ^ u“ ther of Miss Eleanor Donnelly, thepoetes*; and Charb s H. Cramp, of* the famoue shipbuilding firm of thal name. f.was entirely without resources. He pays taxes now on eigt.ty tousand dollars worth of Chicago real estate, not the least item of which is the handsome block on Dearbprn street. It is a four story brick pil divided in'o handsome flats, occupied by Afro-Americans. This success is noSENT TO 8TUDT IK BOMB.The subject of this sketch gra uated from the Central High Suho#kmore than is within the reach of IB 157, with au average of every you g man who is ambitious f,‘eQk lo •°Hegenbl«, encrgetie and cconom cal. Dr. Broad and Filbert streets, and #ni ex Williams never wasted either time a deterrmouion to ent#ror money in frivolity or in sooiety, (Continued on 2nd page.)
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