Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Whitman, Roscoe, M D 
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Author: History of Grundy County, 1914

Whitman, Roscoe, M.D. – The modern physician gains experience, as well as 
training, before beginning a practice which places in his hands the lives of 
his patients. Formerly this valuable knowledge had to be acquired after the 
doctor had left behind him his college days; now his hospital training is a 
part of his course. For this reason, the physician of today, no matter how 
short a period he may have been in practice, is better fitted in every way to 
render efficient service, than his predecessor was after years of experience. 
One of the highly trained and capable physicians of Morris, who has proven his 
real worth and the value of his skill is Dr. Roscoe Whitman. He was born at 
Dodgeville, Wis., June 5, 1881, son of Joel and Anna Belle (McClure) Whitman, 
the former born in Hamilton County, N. Y., and the latter, in Prince Edward 
Island, Canada. Her parents went to Blue Mounds, Wis., when she was a child, 
and in 1855, Joel Whitman also located there, and the two met and married. He 
was a man of prominence, serving in the State Assembly two terms, as well as 
held the offices of postmaster, clerk of the Circuit Court, and county clerk, 
dying in 1906, aged eighty-three years.  His widow survives, making her home 
at Dodgeville. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Whitman had the following family: George R., 
who died at the age of thirty-one years; Platt, of Highland, Wis.; and Roscoe, 
who was the youngest.

When he was nineteen years old, Roscoe Whitman entered the general science 
department of the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 
1904, securing his degree of A. B. He then entered Rush Medical College of 
Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1907, with the degree of M. D. 
Following this he was interne at the Cook County institutions for three 
months, and for sixteen months following this, he was interne at the 
Presbyterian Hospital of Chicago. Then feeling well equipped for his great 
work, he located at Morris, in January, 1909, since which time he has built up 
a large and lucrative practice. In political faith, he is independent. 
Fraternally, Dr. Whitman is a Mason. A scholarly man he keeps abreast of the 
progress in his profession, and ranks high among the medical men of Grundy 
County. He was married December 14, 1912, to Jessie E. Collins, daughter of 
Joshua and Emma (Cryder) Collins, natives of Grundy County.

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Source:  History of Grundy County, Illinois, Chicago: Munsell Publishing Co. 
Publishers; 1914

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