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Dr James Harvey McLain

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Dr James Harvey McLain

Birth
Licking County, Ohio, USA
Death
8 Oct 1923 (aged 58)
Prairie Township, Crawford County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Oblong, Crawford County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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JAMES H. McLAIN, M.D., possessing the typical, progressive spirit of the west, stands to-day a leading representative of the medical fraternity of Bureau county. He is now located in the village of Bureau, and throughout the surrounding country has an extensice practice, which his skill and ability justly merits.
The doctor was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 15, 1864, and is a son of John W. McLain, a native of Pennsylvania who brought his family to Crawford county, Illinois in 1865, locating upon a farm where our subject was reared to manhood. His preliminary education was obtained in the common schools, but this was supplements by a course at the college of Danville, Indiana. In 1888 he graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, and during the following five years was successfully engaged in practice at Yale, Jasper county, Illinois.

Coming to Bureau, Illinois, in January, 1893, Dr. McLain at once entered upon a large and lucrative practice which has steadily increased, and he has met with remarkable success in his chosen profession, being successful in his treatment of several very severe and peculiar cases since locating here. While a resident of Crawford county, he was a member of the medical society there, and now holds membership in the Illinois State Medical association and the Bureau County Medical society. On the 15th of September, 1888, Dr. McLain led to the marriage altar Miss Allie Barlow, a daughter of Thomas Barlow, of Eaton, Crawford county. They have made many warm friends since locating in Bureau, and in social circles hold an enviable position.

The Biographical Record of Bureau, Marshall and Putnam Counties, Illinois
Chicago; The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1896 Page 633
JAMES H. McLAIN, M.D., possessing the typical, progressive spirit of the west, stands to-day a leading representative of the medical fraternity of Bureau county. He is now located in the village of Bureau, and throughout the surrounding country has an extensice practice, which his skill and ability justly merits.
The doctor was born in Licking county, Ohio, September 15, 1864, and is a son of John W. McLain, a native of Pennsylvania who brought his family to Crawford county, Illinois in 1865, locating upon a farm where our subject was reared to manhood. His preliminary education was obtained in the common schools, but this was supplements by a course at the college of Danville, Indiana. In 1888 he graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, and during the following five years was successfully engaged in practice at Yale, Jasper county, Illinois.

Coming to Bureau, Illinois, in January, 1893, Dr. McLain at once entered upon a large and lucrative practice which has steadily increased, and he has met with remarkable success in his chosen profession, being successful in his treatment of several very severe and peculiar cases since locating here. While a resident of Crawford county, he was a member of the medical society there, and now holds membership in the Illinois State Medical association and the Bureau County Medical society. On the 15th of September, 1888, Dr. McLain led to the marriage altar Miss Allie Barlow, a daughter of Thomas Barlow, of Eaton, Crawford county. They have made many warm friends since locating in Bureau, and in social circles hold an enviable position.

The Biographical Record of Bureau, Marshall and Putnam Counties, Illinois
Chicago; The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. 1896 Page 633


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