History of Lee County, Illinois - Bushnell Historical Society

HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 373
mick Medical College of Chicago, from which he was graduated as
a doctor of neurology in 1907. He did some optical work before
graduation and since completing his course at McCormick he has
taken post-graduate work, for it is his desire to attain the highest
degree of efficiency possible. In 1907 he opened an office in Dixon,
where he has since engaged in practice, confining his attention
strictly to neurology. This is an age of specialization and the
practitioner who attains the highest measure of success is he who
concentrates his efforts along certain lines. Recognizing this fact
Dr. Aydelotte chose neurology as a school of healing which he
believed would prove interesting to him and one in which he hoped
to prove especially helpful to his fellowmen. He was duly licensed
by the state board of health upon examination January 15, 1907,
and he is now giving his life largely to original research into
great forces and piinciples that make for human health and happi-
ness. His broad study, his j^ractice and his research are develop-"
ing a line of thought and teaching that have already proved of
great benefit to mankind and will ])e of still further service as
the years go by.
While the commercial features of his work are not neglected,
he is primarily a delver after truth, seeking to find the solution
for tlie mysteries of nature, that the work of man shall be more in
accord with nature's great laws. He is, in other words, a student
philosopher and in endeavoring to heal earthly ills, also makes attempt
to put his patients in tune with the great forces of life which
control as well the spiritual nature.
Dr. Aydelotte was married October 31, 1905 to Nannie Bertha
Byrd, a daughter of Jacob and Katherine Byrd, prominent pioneer
settlers of Willow Creek township. Both Dr. Aydelotte and his
wife are highly esteemed in the city and have many warm friends.
THOMAS E. HILLESON.
Thomas E. Hilleson, renting two hundred and forty acres of
the H. A. Hilleson estate, which comprises five hundred and sixty
acres located on section 10. Willow Creek township, is a native of
Lee eonnty, born on the old Hilleson farm. His parents were H. A.
and Anna (Nelson) Hilleson. the former a representative of a
well known pioneer family of Lee county and a native of this
locality. The grandfather settled here in 1835 and accumulated
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