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CHARLES BLIM, M. D. It has been said by those who have consulted Dr. Blim, 
professionally, that he has few equals for skill in the diagnosis of disease 
and the application of appropriate remedial agencies. Since he came to Crete 
in 1888 and established his office here, he has built up a practice that is 
not limited to the village, but extends throughout this part of the county. 
The attaining of this result has meant months and years of steady devotion to 
the science of medicine. It his been his aim to keep abreast of all 
discoveries made in the profession, and this very fact has greatly promoted 
his standing as a physician.

Dr. Blim was born near Blue Island, Ill., July 7, 1859. His father, Martin 
Blim, a native of Germany, came to America when less than twenty years of age, 
and for several years he worked by the day or month in Syracuse and Buffalo, 
N. Y. Early in the '40s he bought a farm near Blue Island, Ill., and in the 
midst of the then frontier surroundings he established his home. He lived to 
see the remarkable development of northeastern Illinois. He owned a large 
tract of laud, which, owing to its fertility as well as its proximity to 
Chicago, became very valuable. Politically he was an active Republican, and in 
religion a member of the Lutheran Church. In 1889 he retired from farm work 
and removed to Englewood, where he died June 9, 1890, aged seventy-eight 
years. His wife, Elizabeth (Schatzell) Blim, was born in  Germany and 
accompanied her father, Jacob, to America in childhood, settling near 
Evanston, Ill. She is still living, and is now seventy-one years of age. In 
religion she is connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. In her family 
were eight children, of whom Charles was the fourth. He was given a public 
school education, but, not feeling satisfied with it, determined to earn the 
means for a broader education. With a fixed resolve he worked early and late, 
and carefully hoarded his earnings. In 1879 he graduated from the Normal 
School at Normal Park, after which he taught for five years, meantime being 
for a year principal of the Lemont school. While carrying on his school work 
he devoted every leisure moment to the study of medicine. In the fall of 1885 
he entered Rush Medical College, from which he graduated in 1888, and then 
settled in Crete.

July 24, 1889, Dr. Blim married Miss Franc E. Hewes, of Crete, who died 
September 27, 1897, leaving three sons, Warren C., Charles H. and Spencer P. 
Mrs. Blim was a daughter of Rev. Samuel Hewes, whose sketch appears on another 
page of this work. She was a lady of estimable character and an active worker 
in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

For seven years Dr. Blim has been a member of the village board, and as such 
rendered valuable services to the village. On the same ticket he was chosen to 
serve as a member of the school board, which office he filled for a number of 
years, until the demands of his practice caused him to resign, but after about 
three years he was again elected to that office.

Additional Comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900

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