The Earle family : Ralph Earle and his descendants

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mended for bravery in the report of that battle. Commanded Company
D for two months in the advance on Atlanta, and at the close
of the campaign was given special mention for personal bravery by
the commander of the regiment, and chosen as aide and inspector on
the staff of the brigade commander, which jjosition he held until the
close of the war. Was brevetted captain of the United States Volun-
teers for gallantry and meritorious services in the battles of Chickamauga,
Resaca, and Atlanta, Ga., Nashville and Franklin, Tenn.,
and mustered out with his regiment in 1S65."
After the war he attended Beloit College three years, entered the
Chicago Medical College in 1868, and took his degree of M.D. in
1870. He is a member of the local, State and national medical
societies. In 1886 he was a delegate to the British Medical Associa-
tion, and at that time became a member of it. He is now President of
the Chicago Gynecological Society, and Vice-President of the Illinois
State Medical Society. He became a member of the faculty of the
Woman's Medical College, Chicago, at its organization in 1870, and
now holds the position of professor of diseases of children and clinical
medicine in that institution. He was one of the founders of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons at Chicago, and occupies the
chair of Obstetrics in it. Since 1871 he has been Physician to the
Washingtonian Home of Chicago. Among his contributions to
medical literature are "Electricity in Post-partum Hemorrhage";
"Scarlatina in Chicago"; "Inebriety as a Vice " ; various papers
on alcoholism and the opium habit; " Cephalaematoma of the Newborn
" ; " Roechlu (or German measles) in Chicago"; "Summer
diseases of children" ; "Cirrhosis of the Pancreas"; and others of
minor importance. At this time (1887) he is engaged in a series of
articles, the results of his observation in foreign hospitals, and is
particularly interested in promulgating the present theories on anti-
septic obstetrics.
The children of Charles W. and Fanny L. (Bundy) Earle
were
3801-1. Caroline Earle, b. Nov. 11, 1873.
3802-2. William B. Earle, b. June 27, 1878.
[2863-2]. Jane9 E. Earle (Moses 8 L., Calving Thaddeusf
Davids William,* Ralphs William? Ralph 1
), dau. of
Moses L. and Nancy (Hull) Earle, b. Oct. 29, 1847, in
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