Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Brannon, Dr Lordus 
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Author: Past and Present of Will County, IL; 1907

Dr. Lordus Brannon, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Joliet, 
and one of the organization of the Silver Cross hospital, in which he for a 
time served as surgeon-in-chief of the staff of regulars, was born in Decatur 
county, Indiana, November 25, 1857. His father, John Brannon, was a farmer by 
occupation and was born in New Jersey in 1817. When six years of age he was 
brought to the middle west by his parents, who settled first near Oxford, 
Ohio. In that locality he was married to Miss Sarah Marker and subsequently 
removed to Decatur county, Indiana, where he spent his subsequent years upon a 
farm near Forest Hill. He died May 1, 1893, and is still survived by his 
widow, who yet lives upon the old homestead in Decatur county. Dr. Brannon of 
this review acquired his preliminary education in the public schools of his 
native county and afterward spent a portion of a year as a student in 
Valparaiso and one year in the university at Hartsville, Indiana. He began 
teaching in Decatur county in 1875 and his connection with that profession 
brought him the funds with which to pay the expenses of a college course in 
preparation for his chosen profession. Entering the Medical College of Ohio at 
Cincinnati, now affiliated with the University of Cincinnati, he was graduated 
therefrom in March, 1882, and in February, 1883, he entered upon the active 
work of the profession, locating in Manhattan, Will county. There he remained 
until the spring of 1894, when he went to Chicago for the purpose of obtaining 
a thorough clinical training, which is of incalculable benefit to the 
physician and surgeon in the practice of his profession. From May, 1894, until 
November, 1895, therefore, the Doctor was attending clinics in the Chicago 
hospitals and during the last twelve months of that period held the position 
of house physician and surgeon in the post-graduate hospital. Thus well 
equipped professionally, Dr. Brannon sought a broader field of labor and in 
December, 1895, removed to Joliet, where he has since successfully engaged in 
practice, having a liberal patronage, which is indicative of the confidence 
and trust reposed in him by the general public. He was also one of the 
organizers of the Silver Cross hospital, placing the institution on an aseptic 
and antiseptic basis, and holding the position of surgeon-in-chief of the 
staff of regulars. He has been a lecturer on the subject of surgery before the 
training school for nurses of both Silver Cross and St. Joseph's hospitals of 
Joliet, and both as an educator and operator has earned a high reputation. He 
is a member of the Will County, the Chicago Medical and the State Medical 
Societies, as well as of the American Medical Association, and thus keeps in 
touch with the advanced thought of the profession. Mrs. Brannon, who is a 
helpmate to her husband in every sense of the term, was in her maidenhood Miss 
Elizabeth Jones, and their marriage was celebrated in 1888. She is a daughter 
of the late Robert Jones, of Wilton Center, Will county, who was a well known 
farmer, having come to this county at an early day, after which he was 
continuously connected with agricultural interests until 1886, when he retired 
from business life and removed to Peotone, where he passed away August 15, 
1901. Edna Brannon, a niece of Mrs. Brannon, has lived with the Doctor and his 
wife from her infancy and is now a young lady of nineteen years. She was 
graduated from the Joliet high school in 1905 and is now pursuing post-
graduate work in the high school. It is not only the men who become masters of 
finance or are leaders in mercantile and industrial circles who are often self-
made men, for in professional ranks there is also found a large proportion of 
those who have worked their way upward by their own efforts, depending upon 
their labors and resources for the funds necessary for the acquirement of an 
education. To this class belongs Dr. Brannon, who thus in early life displayed 
the elemental strength of his character. In his professional career he has 
manifested a sense of conscientious obligation in the discharge of the duties 
that have daily devolved upon him, together with a deep interest in scientific 
investigation along lines of medical and surgical practice. He is recognized 
as a physician of broad and accurate knowledge and during his residence in 
Joliet has been accorded a liberal and gratifying patronage. 

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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