Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Raynor, George C, M D 
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GEORGE C. RAYNOR, M. D. With an experience as a physician extending over the 
latter half of the nineteenth century, coupled with a broad study of the 
medical science and remedial agencies, Dr. Raynor readily occupies a position 
among the leading physicians of Joliet, where he has engaged in practice since 
March, 1870.  It has been his privilege to live in the greatest age of 
improvement and progress in the world's history.  He has seen and kept in 
touch with the developments in the various fields of science, and particularly 
those made in his own profession, which has emerged from the realm of 
charlatanism into its present standing as the most humanitarian of all 
occupations.  Interested in every phase of the healing art, he has been a 
thoughtful reader of medical literature and a student of the profession 
through all these years. His standing among the members of the profession here 
was shown by his repeated election as president of the Will County Medical 
Society, which organization has enjoyed the benefit of his co-operation.  In 
addition to his private practice he was for twelve years surgeon to the 
Chicago & Alton Railroad Company in this city.

Dr. Raynor was born in Fairfield, Herkimer County, N. Y., in 1826, a son of 
David and Melinda (Mather) Raynor.  His grandfather, Stephen Raynor, a native 
of Long Island, settled upon a farm in Herkimer County, and upon that 
homestead David Raynor was born and reared. The latter, with the exception of 
the time spent in the war of 1812, devoted his entire active life to farm 
pursuits, remaining in his native county until he died at seventy-two years.  
A man of strict religious life, he was an active worker in the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.  His wife was born near Utica, Oneida County, N. Y., a 
member of an old Connecticut famity that claimed Puritan descent.  Of their 
ten children all but one attained mature years and four are living. The 
doctor, who was fifth in order of birth, was reared on the homestead and 
attended district schools and the Fairfield Academy.  In 1849 he entered the 
University of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1852, with the 
degree of M. D.  Opening an office in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County, N. 
Y., he built up a large practice and remained there until he removed to 
Illinois.  For nine years he served as coroner of Montgomery County, N. Y.

For two years Dr. Raynor was master of Matteson Lodge A. F. & A. M., in 
Joliet.  He is also connected with Joliet Commandery No. 4, K. T.  For many 
years he has been a member of the vestry of Christ Episcopal Church, in which 
he has officiated as treasurer of the board.  He is an Abraham Lincoln 
Republican, but, after having voted with the party for years, when in 1896 a 
gold plank was put in the platform, he felt he could not longer remain with 
it, for his sympathies have been with the free silver movement, and hence he 
supports the men and measures pledged to promote the latter cause.  In 
Massachusetts he married Miss Helen Cole, who was born in Berkshire County, 
that state, and died in Joliet in 1889.  The only child of their union is 
Lansing James Raynor, a business man of Joliet.


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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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