Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

John R. CASEY, M. D., physician and surgeon, Joliet; has been a resident and a practicing 
physician of Joliet, since 1858; he is a native of Illinois, and was born in Jefferson Co. 
Jan. 28,1835; at 16 years of age, he entered McKendree College, Lebanon, IL, where he 
remained three years; leaving College, he entered upon the study of medicine under the 
instruction of Dr. Charles A. POPE, at that time one of the most prominent surgeons in the 
West. He attended medical lectures in the St. Louis Medical College where he graduated and 
received his degree in 1857. After practicing medicine one year in Olney, Richland Co., IL, 
he located in Joliet, as above stated. In May of the same year, (1858), he was appointed 
physician in charge of the State Penitentiary Hospital in this city, occupying that position 
ten years. He is at present President of the Will County Medical Society, and also holds 
the office of City and County Physician, to which he was elected several years ago; he has 
also served one year on the Board of Aldermen. He was married in June 1863, to Miss Ada 
VANDERPOOL, of Joliet; a native of New York City, and has four children - Florida, WilIis W., 
Dwight and Laura.


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HISTORY OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.