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Biography of Dr James CORE, Champaign County, Illinois

From:  "History of Champaign County, Illinois with Illustrations," 1878

DR. JAMES CORE

Dr. CORE, an old physician of Homer, was born in Ross county, Ohio,
December 19th, 1822. Both his father and grandfather were born in Maryland,
and emigrating to Ohio in the year l797, settled at Chillicothe, the first
capital of the State. They were among the pioneer settlers of the State.
Dr. James Core, the subject of this sketch, was born at the old town of
Chillicothe. When he was eight or ten years of age his father removed to
Fayette county where he grew up to manhood and obtained a good English
education.

He began the study of medicine in the year 1843, when twenty years of age.
He taught school, and by that means obtained sufficient money to enable him
to attend the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, where he was a student
during the winter of 1845--'6. In the year 1846 he began practice for
himself in Union county, Ohio, where he resided till 1853, the date of his
coming to Illinois. He settled at the town of Homer, in Champaign county,
then a village of two or three hundred inhabitants on the Salt Fork, a mile
north of the location of the present town. He thought at first of only
making a temporary stay, but finally decided to make the town his permanent
home. On the 31st of October, 1854, he was married to Isabelle GOSLEE, of
Madison county, Ohio.

When Dr. Core began the practice of medicine at the old town of Homer there
were no physicians in the east nearer than Danville, nor to the west nearer
than Urbana, while to the north and south his practice extended over a wide
scope of country, making the life of a physician by no means an easy one.
On the building of the railroad the location of the town was changed to a
point north on the immediate line of the road. He has had a large medical
practice, and is the owner of three hundred and seventy acres of land part
of which lies in Vermillion county. The death of his first wife took place
on the 19th of December, 1863. His present wife was formerly Matilda RILEY,
who was born and raised in Connecticut, but was living near Homer at the
time of the marriage, which occurred on the 14th of April, 1868.

As was the case with many prominent members of the Republican party of the
present day, Dr. Core was formerly an old Line Whig, as was his father
before him. The first vote which he ever cast for president was given to
Henry Clay, the idol of the old Whig party. He was an early member of the
Republican party, and he has since been an earnest supporter of its
principles. In 1864 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention
at Baltimore, which made the second nomination of Abraham Lincoln for the
presidency. He is the present Republican candidate for representative in
the legislature for the thirtieth district embracing Champaign and Piatt
counties. He has been an able and popular physician. He is a graduate of
the Ohio medical college attending a supplementary course of lectures in
that institution in 1864. He has been an active member of the Methodist
Church, and is a local preacher of that denomination. His sympathies have
been warmly enlisted in every movement having for its object moral reform
and the good of the community. He has been especially an active and
aggressive temperance worker, and is known far and wide as an able speaker
on moral, religious and political topics. His active practice of medicine
at Homer for more than a quarter of a century has made him well known
throughout the county.


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