Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hothan, John Charles, D D S 
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Author: Past & Present Will County, 1907

JOHN CHARLES HOTHAN, D. D. S. Dentistry is unique among the professions in 
that it demands three distinct elements for success—a mechanical skill and 
ingenuity, a comprehensive understanding of the principles of the science of 
dentistry and a business capacity equal to the management of the financial 
interests. In all of these qualities Dr. Hothan is well equipped and is now 
enjoying a good practice in Crete. He was born at St. John's, Lake county, 
Indiana, February 22, 1878. His father, William Hothan, is a native of 
Rothenberg, Germany, and is living upon a farm in Indiana at the age of 
seventy-one years. He came to the United States in 1852 and was employed at 
farm labor by the month in the vicinity of Crete until 1858, when he invested 
in land, becoming owner of forty-four acres in Lake county, to which he has 
since added as his financial resources have permitted until his acreage has 
been increased to one hundred and sixty. He is an enterprising agriculturist 
who carefully tills his fields and has brought his place under a high state of 
cultivation. His industry and careful management have also added to his 
prosperity. He belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran church, as does his wife, 
and for twenty years he has been one of the church officers. His public 
service covers four years as a drainage commissioner and his political 
affiliation is with the republican party. He married Wilhelmina Schultz, who 
was born in Frantzburg, Germany, and died in 1899, at the age of fifty-nine 
years. The year 1865 witnessed her arrival in the United States, at which time 
she located in Crete, and in September, 1866, she gave her hand in marriage to 
Mr. Hothan. They became parents of six children: Fred and William, both 
deceased; Henry, who is living on the home farm; Theodore, a carpenter of 
Crete; John C., of this review; and August, at home. No event of special 
importance occurred to vary the routine of farm life for Dr. Hothan in his 
boyhood and youth. He attended the district schools and also the high school 
at Crown Point, Indiana, and to prepare for his chosen profession he entered 
the Chicago College of Dental Surgery in 1896, pursuing the regular three 
years' course, after which he was graduated in the class of 1899. He then 
began the practice of his profession at Crete and has been eminently 
successful in his chosen vocation. He also took a special course in clinical 
and didactic work and he is a member of the Illinois State Dental Association, 
the Northern Illinois Dental Society, the Chicago Odontography Society and the 
alumni association of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. In 1904 Dr. 
Hothan was married to Miss Anna Brackman, who was born in Chicago and died in 
1905, at the early age of twenty-six years. The Doctor votes with the 
republican party, but has had no time nor inclination for public office, for 
his attention is fully occupied with his professional duties. He is well 
equipped for his chosen work and his knowledge is broad and accurate, while 
his skill in the work of the laboratory and of the operating room is indicated 
by the liberal patronage now accorded him.

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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