Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... 
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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

Edgar B. SHUMWAY, physician and surgeon, Peotone; born in Windham Co., Vt., June 27, 1851, 
removing with his parents to Londonderry, Vt., when quite young; where he lived until 15 
years of age, when he attended the Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vt., for five years; 
from there to the Chamberlin Institute and Female College, at Randolph, N. Y.; from 
there he came to Will Co., IL, and taught school one term; then going to Chicago, he 
attended at Rush Medical College for three years, when he was interne one year at Cook 
Co. Hospital. He graduated at Rush Medical College in January 1874; soon after he 
located in Peotone, Will Co., following his profession since that date with perfect 
success. He married May 25, 1875, Maggie A. KEARNEY; she was born in Racine, Wis.; 
they are the parents of one child living, viz., Edith May.