Grundy-Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Ridgway, Dr. Emanuel  October 22, 1831 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

Dr. Emanuel RIDGWAY, physician and druggist, Morris, is a native of Ohio, born 
October 22, 1831; son of Joshua RIDGWAY, also of Ohio, where he was occupied 
in farming until he came to Illinois in 1834, and settled in Grundy County, 
about six miles northeast of Morris; he died in Channahon, Will County, in 
1839. His wife, Sarah (CRYDER) RIDGWAY, was born in Ohio about 1811, and died 
in this county in 1835. They raised two children, both sons, of whom subject 
is the youngest. He attended the common schools in Grundy County, from 1835 to 
1839, but after the death of his father, in 1839, he was taken back to Ohio in 
1840, by his mother's people, and finished his education at South Salem 
Academy. He began reading medicine with Dr. WILLS, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and 
attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, from which institution he 
graduated in the class of 1855. In 1878, he received an honorary degree of the 
Chicago Medical College. In April, 1855, he began the practice of his 
profession at Morris, where he has continued ever since. There he engaged in 
the drug business in September, 1880; this he still follows, in connection 
with his practice; he carries a good stock and has a fine trade. He has been 
Coroner of Grundy County the past sixteen years, Chief Engineer of the Fire 
Department six years, and has been a member of the Board of Education for the 
past four years. He enlisted in the Federal army, Seventy-sixth Illinois 
Regiment, as Assistant Surgeon, in August, 1862, and returned home in August, 
1865. Dr. RIDGWAY was married in this county, in 1869, to Alcinda B. HOGE, 
born in 1842, daughter of William HOGE, one of the oldest settlers in this 
county, born July 5, 1801, in Virginia, and is still living at his old 
homestead in this county. His wife, Rachel (BOWLES) HOGE, was born in Virginia 
in 1807, and died in this county in 1843. Subject has six children, four sons -
 Frederick William, Henry A., George M. and Franklin S., and two daughters - 
Mary H. and an infant. Subject is a Presbyterian and a Republican.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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