"David W. Fithian, D.D.S., who is engaged in the practice of dentistry in Rossville, where he is also filling the position of village clerk, was born December n, 1874, in this county. A son of E. C. B. and Anna (Hayes) Fithian. His father was a son of Dr. Williams Fithian, one of the first settlers in the county, and from that time to the present representatives of the name have taken an active and helpful part in carrying forward the work of progress and promoting the welfare and upbuilding of this section of the state. E. C. B. Fithian was born in the city of Danville and later removed to Fithian. He made farming his life work and upon that pursuit depended for a source of livelihood. He died about two years ago and his remains were interred in the Steams cemetery near Fithian.
At the usual age Dr. Fithian of this review entered the district schools and after mastering the branches of learning therein taught became a pupil in the Danville high school. He then engaged in teaching for a year but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor, for at the end of that time he took up the study of dentistry, which he pursued in the office of a well known dentist of Springfield, Illinois. Later he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in April, 1899. In the following month he came to Rossville, where he opened an office and has since remained in practice, covering a period of eleven years, during which he has made steady progress. His work in this connection is of excellent character. He keeps in touch with the advanced and improved methods of the profession, his office is equipped with the latest mechanical devises which are elements in operative dentistry and his knowledge of the science is manifest in the excellent work that he does. Aside from this he is one of the landowners of the community, having a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, situated two and a half miles south of Fithian, which town was named in honor of the members of his family of an earlier generation.
On the 5th of July, 1899, Dr. Fithian was united in marriage to Miss Jessie R. Fellows, a daughter of Edwin and Mary (Berkley) Fellows, of Vermilion county. Dr. Fithian belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp and to the Methodist Episcopal church. Along more strictly professional lines he is connected with the County Dental Society and with the Illinois State Dental Society. His political support is given to the republican party and he is now serving as village clerk, which position he has filled for eight years. His life has been actuated by a public-spirited devotion to the general good and his efforts have been effective and far-reaching forces in the upbuilding and progress of the community. He has made a creditable record as a citizen, as practitioner and in the social relations of life and few men are more popular or more widely known in his portion of the county than Dr. Fithian." (History of Vermilion County, Illinois, Volume II, by Lottie E. Jones, 1911)
At the usual age Dr. Fithian of this review entered the district schools and after mastering the branches of learning therein taught became a pupil in the Danville high school. He then engaged in teaching for a year but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor, for at the end of that time he took up the study of dentistry, which he pursued in the office of a well known dentist of Springfield, Illinois. Later he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in April, 1899. In the following month he came to Rossville, where he opened an office and has since remained in practice, covering a period of eleven years, during which he has made steady progress. His work in this connection is of excellent character. He keeps in touch with the advanced and improved methods of the profession, his office is equipped with the latest mechanical devises which are elements in operative dentistry and his knowledge of the science is manifest in the excellent work that he does. Aside from this he is one of the landowners of the community, having a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, situated two and a half miles south of Fithian, which town was named in honor of the members of his family of an earlier generation.
On the 5th of July, 1899, Dr. Fithian was united in marriage to Miss Jessie R. Fellows, a daughter of Edwin and Mary (Berkley) Fellows, of Vermilion county. Dr. Fithian belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp and to the Methodist Episcopal church. Along more strictly professional lines he is connected with the County Dental Society and with the Illinois State Dental Society. His political support is given to the republican party and he is now serving as village clerk, which position he has filled for eight years. His life has been actuated by a public-spirited devotion to the general good and his efforts have been effective and far-reaching forces in the upbuilding and progress of the community. He has made a creditable record as a citizen, as practitioner and in the social relations of life and few men are more popular or more widely known in his portion of the county than Dr. Fithian." (History of Vermilion County, Illinois, Volume II, by Lottie E. Jones, 1911)
"David W. Fithian, D.D.S., who is engaged in the practice of dentistry in Rossville, where he is also filling the position of village clerk, was born December n, 1874, in this county. A son of E. C. B. and Anna (Hayes) Fithian. His father was a son of Dr. Williams Fithian, one of the first settlers in the county, and from that time to the present representatives of the name have taken an active and helpful part in carrying forward the work of progress and promoting the welfare and upbuilding of this section of the state. E. C. B. Fithian was born in the city of Danville and later removed to Fithian. He made farming his life work and upon that pursuit depended for a source of livelihood. He died about two years ago and his remains were interred in the Steams cemetery near Fithian.
At the usual age Dr. Fithian of this review entered the district schools and after mastering the branches of learning therein taught became a pupil in the Danville high school. He then engaged in teaching for a year but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor, for at the end of that time he took up the study of dentistry, which he pursued in the office of a well known dentist of Springfield, Illinois. Later he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in April, 1899. In the following month he came to Rossville, where he opened an office and has since remained in practice, covering a period of eleven years, during which he has made steady progress. His work in this connection is of excellent character. He keeps in touch with the advanced and improved methods of the profession, his office is equipped with the latest mechanical devises which are elements in operative dentistry and his knowledge of the science is manifest in the excellent work that he does. Aside from this he is one of the landowners of the community, having a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, situated two and a half miles south of Fithian, which town was named in honor of the members of his family of an earlier generation.
On the 5th of July, 1899, Dr. Fithian was united in marriage to Miss Jessie R. Fellows, a daughter of Edwin and Mary (Berkley) Fellows, of Vermilion county. Dr. Fithian belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp and to the Methodist Episcopal church. Along more strictly professional lines he is connected with the County Dental Society and with the Illinois State Dental Society. His political support is given to the republican party and he is now serving as village clerk, which position he has filled for eight years. His life has been actuated by a public-spirited devotion to the general good and his efforts have been effective and far-reaching forces in the upbuilding and progress of the community. He has made a creditable record as a citizen, as practitioner and in the social relations of life and few men are more popular or more widely known in his portion of the county than Dr. Fithian." (History of Vermilion County, Illinois, Volume II, by Lottie E. Jones, 1911)
At the usual age Dr. Fithian of this review entered the district schools and after mastering the branches of learning therein taught became a pupil in the Danville high school. He then engaged in teaching for a year but regarded this merely as an initial step to other professional labor, for at the end of that time he took up the study of dentistry, which he pursued in the office of a well known dentist of Springfield, Illinois. Later he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in April, 1899. In the following month he came to Rossville, where he opened an office and has since remained in practice, covering a period of eleven years, during which he has made steady progress. His work in this connection is of excellent character. He keeps in touch with the advanced and improved methods of the profession, his office is equipped with the latest mechanical devises which are elements in operative dentistry and his knowledge of the science is manifest in the excellent work that he does. Aside from this he is one of the landowners of the community, having a farm of two hundred and twenty acres, situated two and a half miles south of Fithian, which town was named in honor of the members of his family of an earlier generation.
On the 5th of July, 1899, Dr. Fithian was united in marriage to Miss Jessie R. Fellows, a daughter of Edwin and Mary (Berkley) Fellows, of Vermilion county. Dr. Fithian belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp and to the Methodist Episcopal church. Along more strictly professional lines he is connected with the County Dental Society and with the Illinois State Dental Society. His political support is given to the republican party and he is now serving as village clerk, which position he has filled for eight years. His life has been actuated by a public-spirited devotion to the general good and his efforts have been effective and far-reaching forces in the upbuilding and progress of the community. He has made a creditable record as a citizen, as practitioner and in the social relations of life and few men are more popular or more widely known in his portion of the county than Dr. Fithian." (History of Vermilion County, Illinois, Volume II, by Lottie E. Jones, 1911)
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