Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....McMann, William M 1838 - 
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Author: Bio/Gen Rec LaSalle/Grundy Counties 1900

WILLIAM W. M'MANN
Probably the oldest physician in point of years of practice in Grundy county 
is Dr. William W. McMann, of Gardner. He settled in the town in 1864 and 
engaged in the practice of his profession, in which he has continued to the 
present time, during a period of thirty-six years.

He was born in what is now the state of West Virginia, in 1838.  His father, 
James McMann, was a native of the same state; and his mother, whose maiden 
name was Mary Lee, was descended from one branch of the family of that name 
that produced the famous General Robert E. Lee, of the southern Confederacy, 
and the Lees of Revolutionary fame. Our subject was a boy when brought to Ohio 
by his parents, who later removed to Noble county, Indiana, where they passed 
the remainder of their lives.  He received a common-school education and began 
the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. George W. Carr, of Noble 
county, Indiana, who was for some time his preceptor.  At the time of the 
breaking out of the war of the rebellion he was a student in the medical 
department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia.

His college course was interrupted by his determination to enter the army, and 
on President Lincoln's call for seventy-five thousand volunteers, in 1861, 
like many another patriotic young man, he threw aside his books to enter the 
service of his country. The first call for troops having been for a period of 
three months, he enlisted for that time in Company A, McClellan's Dragoons, 
under Captain Barker, of Chicago; August 1, of that year, he re-enlisted in 
the same command, with which he served until the spring of 1862, when he was 
detailed to the medical department for hospital service at General Stoneman's 
headquarters, as acting assistant surgeon under Dr. McMullen.  He rejoined his 
regiment just before the severe battle at Williamsburg, Virginia, in which he 
was wounded, being shot in the left hand and wrist.  The duties upon which he 
entered after his recovery in the medical and surgical department of the 
service were of greater value to him than would have been several courses of 
lectures in a medical college, and the value of the practical knowledge he 
there obtained has been illustrated in a most successful professional career.  
The Doctor was sent to the hospital at Broad and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, and after the recovery from his wound he acted as assistant 
surgeon for several months, and acted in same capacity in the convalescent 
camp, Alexandria, Virginia, several months.

In 1864 the Doctor left the service of the United States and soon afterward 
located at Gardner, Grundy county, Illinois, where he immediately entered upon 
a most successful practice, and he has long occupied a high place in the 
medical profession of this part of Illinois. An ideal family physician, he has 
the confidence of the public in a remarkable degree.  Besides being so 
successful in his medical and surgical practice, Dr. McMann is a good business 
man and has accumulated a competency.  In politics he is a Republican.  He is 
a Royal Arch Mason and a Knight of Pythias.

Dr. McMann has been twice married.  For his first wife he chose Eliza Jane 
Atkinson.  His present wife, whom he married October 11, 1888, was Libbie 
Jones, a native of Ohio. By his first marriage he has a daughter, named Maud 
Magnolia, who is now the wife of Edwin Wymer, M. D., of Chicago, Illinois.  
The Doctor is a lover of home and home interests, and everything that pertains 
to the development and prosperity of the community-in which he lives has his 
generous and substantial support.  He is no less public-spirited than 
patriotic, and his friendly sympathies have endeared him to all with whom he 
has come in intimate contact; and those who know him best like him best, for 
they know him as a friend.

Source:  Biographical and Genealogical Record of La Salle and Grundy County, 
Illinois, Volume 11, Chicago, 1900, p598-599

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