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Author: History of Will County IL, 1878

Stinson E. TROTT (TROTT & STINSON) homeopathic physician, Wilmington; born in Whitefield, 
Lincoln Co., Me., Oct. 26, 1842; he received his early education at the Maine Wesleyan 
Seminary, located at Readfield, Me.; in the winter of 1864 and 1865, he attended lectures 
at the Commercial Hospital and Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating 
at the Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago in 1867; he commenced the practice of medicine 
in Iroquois Co., this State, in 1866, and two years later removed to Wilmington, his 
present home, where be has been in the constant practice of his profession since, having 
also taken an active part in the business interests of the city, especially in connection 
with the water-power, being instrument in securing the location of the paper-mill and the 
adoption by the City Council of the Holly system for protecting the city from fire; 
elected Mayor of the city of Wilmington in March, 1877, and is the present incumbent. 
Married in 1873 to Miss Augusta J. SWARTHOUT, who was born in Romulus, Seneca Co., N. Y.; 
one child by this union - Josephine.


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