Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Clevenger, Shobal Vail 1843 - 
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

CLEVENGER, Shobal Vail, physician, was born in Florence, Italy March 24, 1843; 
son of Shobal Vail and Elizabeth (Wright) Clevenger. His early education was 
acquired at New Orleans and he was graduated from the Chicago medical college. 
In 1861 he enlisted in the engineer corps of the U.S. army and at the close of 
the war had reached the rank of first lieutenant. He was U.S. deputy surveyor 
in Montana and Dakota, built the first telegraph line in Dakota and was chief 
engineer of the Dakota southern railroad. He was meteorologist of the U.S. 
signal service, and settled in Chicago in 1879 as a specialist in nervous and 
mental disorders. He was physician to several hospitals and asylums, medical 
director of the Illinois state insane asylum and professor of anatomy in the 
Chicago art institute. His published works include, besides numerous 
contributions to scientific and medical publications: Treatise on Government 
Surveying (1874); Comparative Physiology and Psychology (1885); Lectures on 
Artistic Anatomy and the Sciences Useful to the Artist (1887); Spinal 
Concussion (1889); Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity (1898).

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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