Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Brankin, Thomas P, M D V 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Dr. Thomas P. Brankin, who for the past fifteen years has made his home in 
Joliet, is proprietor of a veterinary hospital at Nos. 108 and 110 Desplaines 
street, where he has been located for two years. He came to this city to 
reside in 1892 and has practiced his profession for the past six years. He was 
born in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1863 and came to this country alone in 1880 
when a youth of seventeen years, locating first at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 
where he remained for a year. He had only five dollars when he landed at New 
York and he began work for thirteen dollars per month in Pittsburg. A year 
later he made his way westward to Chicago and for several years was employed 
as a salesman in that city. He then turned his attention to contracting, 
sprinkling and teaming and is still interested in the contracting business in 
the metropolis. Preparing for the practice of veterinary surgery, he is a 
graduate of McKillip College of Chicago, one of the leading veterinary 
institutions of the country, and is therefore well qualified for the 
performance of the professional duties that devolve upon him. His excellent 
success in his practice has secured him a liberal patronage and he is 
recognized as one of the foremost veterinarians of Will county. Dr. Brankin 
was married to Miss Alila Currey, a daughter of Colonel John Currey, who 
conducted the first dry-goods store in Joliet. They now have five sons, all at 
home, namely: John, Thomas, James, Francis J. and Edmund B. The first three 
were born in Chicago and the last two in Joliet. The parents are communicants 
of the Catholic church and Dr. Brankin belongs to the Western Catholic Union 
and the Knights of Columbus. Politically he is a democrat, with independent 
tendencies, for he does not consider himself bound by party ties and often 
casts an independent ballot at local elections.

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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