A brief history of Peoria - University Library

«6...PE0RIA
TWENTIETH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
No. 2:!.
Walter Watson, M. D., of Jacksonville, was born May 14. 1851,
at Mt. Vernon, 111. Graduated at McKecdree Colleg-e, Lebanon. 111.,
1872. Received degree of M. D., from Medical College of Ohio. 1872.
Was successful in competitive examination for position as interne
in Good Samaritan Hospital, and served one year. Before the year
had expired was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy, in Medical
College of Ohio, where he had graduated. This latter position he
resigned for family reasons and returned to Mt. Vernon, 111., where
he has practised medicine and surgery successfulU' ever since until
selected as Superintenden': of the Illinois Central Hospital for Insane
at Jacksonville, 111., by the present state administration, which
position he now holds.
COMMITTEEM AN-AT-LARGL
No. 24.
Thomas Gahan, 4914 Michigan avenue, Chicago, member of the
State at-Large on the State Central Committee, was born in Chi:ago
in 1849, and ^'as there educated. From early you'.h Mr. Gahan his
been engaged in business and always been most successful. He was
for 3'ears a member of the Chicago City Council, and in 1893 was
Chairman of the World's Fair Committee. He is now a member of the
Railroad and Warehouse Board of the Slate, and is also Chairman
of the Cook Count)' Democratic Central Committee. Mr. Gahan.
and Mr. Byrne, his partner under the firm name of Gahan & Bj^rne,
are the largest contractors in the State, and are now at work constructiag
sections G and H of the drainage canal. As a Democratic
leader Mr. Gahan has no superiors— his advice is always respected
in Democratic meetings.
FOURTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
No. er..
Frank J. Ouinn, of Peoria, attornej", present assistant states
attorney of Peoria County.
TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
No. 20.
Reed Green, of Cairo, lawyer, born in Mt. Vernon, 111., Sep. 22,
1865, educated in Southern Illinois Normal L'niversity. Graduated
Wesleyan Law School, Bloomington, 1884. Is at present a member
of the firm of Green & Gilbert, of Cairo. Was a member of the
House of Representatives in 1888-1892, and at present represents
his district in the Senate.
HON. DAVID GORE, STATE AUDITOR
No. 27.
Born in Trigg County, Kentucky-, April 5, 1827; emigrated to
Illinois in 1835; enlisted in a Kentucky regiment and served through
Ihe Mexican war; returned to Illinois at the close of the Mexican
-war and became a farmer; held a number of small offices, including