Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Benson, Dr Emanuel O 1871 - 
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Author: Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.)

Dr. Emanuel O. Benson was born March 11, 1871, and is a son of John O. and 
Amelia (Week) Olson, natives of Sweden. They came to the United States and 
Chicago in 1869. The father was a patternmaker by trade and immediately 
entered the employ of the McGinnis Flour Mill company. Later he accepted a 
position with the Crane Elevator company, now the Otis Elevator company, and 
is still in their employ, having been with the company for over thirty years. 
Mr. Olson is a Republican and a useful citizen. To him and wife were born five 
children: Emanuel O., Jennie, Joseph, Aaron and Esther, all of whom reside in 
Chicago.

Dr. Emanuel O. Benson was educated in the public and high schools of Chicago, 
and later graduated from the Augustana college, Rock Island, Ill., in the 
class of '95, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then entered Rush 
Medical college and graduated therefrom with credit in the class of 1900. 
Succeeding his graduation in medicine he was interne in the Augustana hospital 
for one and a half years. Much of 1902 and 1903 he spent abroad in the famous 
medical schools of Vienna. Returning to Chicago in 1903 he began the practice 
of medicine at 5125 North Clark street, and made a specialty of children's 
diseases. He has charge of the children's department at the Augustana 
hospital. He is assistant professor of diseases of children in the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. He is a member of the Chicago Medical society, 
Illinois Medical society, American Medical association, Vikings, Svithiod, 
Edgewater Masons. Modern Woodmen, and in politics is Independent Republican. 
On October 28, 1905, he married Carrie Johnson, of Chicago, and they have one 
daughter, Margaret, aged two years.


Additional Comments:
Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.). (1909). History of Cook County, 
Illinois. Chicago: The Goodspeed Historical Association.

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