Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Rafferty, Theodore N. 1846 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  T. N. RAFFERTY, physician, Palestine. The subject of this sketch was born June
12, 1846, in Springville, Lawrence Co., Ind. His father was M. C. Rafferty, born
1816, near Covington, Ky, a merchant in Springville, who was joined in matrimony
to Mary S. Benedict, born 1823, in Nicholasville, Ky. She was the mother of
three children-Theodore N., Mollie E., Malcolm E. Our subject, Theodore N., went
to school in Springville, Ind. In early life, he clerked in his father's store,
and, after attending the State University at Bloomington, he taught school three
years, but during that time he took a commercial course at Indianapolis, where
he graduated. At an early age, he became imbued with a thirst for medical
knowledge, and in the winter of 1867-68 he entered the Medical Department at Ann
Arbor, Mich. He finished his medical studies in the Ohio Medical College at
Cincinnati, where he graduated in the spring of 1869. He went back to his old
home and practiced medicine one year; in the spring of 1870, he came to
Palestine, where he follows his profession. Mr. Rafferty has served his township
in the capacity of Township Supervisor for two years. He also filled school
offices. He was married, at Palestine, October, 1827, to Miss Sadie E. Donnell,
born in Palestine, March 12, 1849. She is the mother of three children,
living-Pearl, born December 8, 1873; Herbert N., born September 22, 1878, and
Glen A. born February 19, 1881. Her father, Dennis Donnell, was one of the
pioneers of this county. The maiden name of her mother is Eliza Netherton. Our
subject is a member of the county Medical Association, a Knight of Honor, a
member the Esculapian Society of the Wabash Valley, and also a member of the
Tri-State Medical Society.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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