Vermilion county Illinois, DR. GEORG EDENS ==================================================================== Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives Joy Fisher ==================================================================== p. 236 DR. GEORG EDENS. In the person of this able practitioner the biographer discovers a gentleman in love with his profession—one who adopted, it on account of the keen interest which he has taken in it almost from boyhood, and whose aim has been to excel. He has been located in Danville for the past ten years, and it is not surprising to learn that he has built up a lucrative patronage among its best people. He has been faithful and conscientious in the discharge of his duties, and aimed to gain a full understanding of the disorders which he has been called upon to remedy before making the application of chemicals or drugs. Dr. Edens was born in the Province of Holstein, Germany, June 16, 1851, and remained a resident of his native province until 1867. Then, a youth of sixteen years, he crossed the Atlantic with his parents, they settling on a tract of land in Champaign County, this State. The father prosecuted farming, while the son, who also assisted around the homestead, continued the reading of medicine, which he had begun when a lad of fifteen years. Two years later, in 1868, he began to dispense medicine to his acquaintances, and there followed such excellent results from his prescriptions that before he had realized the fact he had quite a number of regular patrons. In 1876 young Edens repaired to Chicago and entered Hahnemann College, from which he was graduated in 1879, after taking the special courses. On the 17th of March, that year, he came to Danville, and commenced the regular practice of his chosen profession, which he has since followed with really surprising results. He adopts many of the customs common to the Fatherland, where the students of medicine are subjected to the most thorough training, and not allowed to practice until they are masters in their profession. The office of Dr. Edens is situated on North Street, near the Chicago & Eastern Illinois depot where he has around him his books and the various appliances requisite for his extensive business. He not only has a large practice in Danville, but also in the country surrounding it. He repairs to different points at regular intervals, usually once a month. There is every indication that he has before him a most prosperous future, and the prospects of attaining to eminence in his profession. He has naturally been too full of business to give much attention to politics, but has become fully identified and in sympathy with American institutions, and usually votes for the men and not the party. Dr. Edens was married in Danville, March 14. 1885, to Miss Frances Koehler, who was born in Posen, Germany, April 30, 1859. She came to America in 1881, after having acquired a careful education, and thereafter was employed as a private teacher in German and French, and also in the public schools of St. Louis and Chicago. Mrs. Edens likewise possesses considerable musical talent, and is at once recognized as a very accomplished and intelligent lady. They occupy a pleasant and attractive home, and enjoy the friendship of the best citizens of Danville.