Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Rulien, Peter G, M D 
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Author: Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County

PETER G. RULIEN, M. D., who has been engaged in practice in Joliet since 1890, 
was born in Vermland, Sweden, November 4, 1860, a son of P. M. and Stina 
(Damelson) Rulien, natives of the same place. His father, who was the son of a 
Swedish soldier, was reared upon a farm and followed that occupation in his 
native land for some years. In 1868 he brought his family to America and 
settled near New Richmond, St. Croix County, Wis., where he has since engaged 
in farming. Of his eight children all but one are living, the doctor being 
third in order of birth; one of the sons, Frank, is a physician at Winthrop, 
Minn.

At the time the family settled in Wisconsin the subject of this sketch was a 
boy of eight years. His primary education was obtained in district schools. 
Later he took a special course of three years in the Northern Indiana Normal 
School, where he studied English and classics. Having selected medicine for 
his life occupation, he entered the Chicago Medical College, which was the 
medical department of the Northwestern University, and from this institution 
he graduated in the spring of 1890, with the degree of M. D. Coming at once to 
Joliet, he has since engaged in the practice of his profession. He has his 
office at No. 1014 Cass street. Under Mayor E. C. Akins he received the 
appointment of health commissioner, which he also held under Mayor Lagger, but 
resigned in 1897. For four years he was physician for the town of Joliet, but 
resigned upon being made health commissioner. He is connected with the 
American Medical Association and the Will County Medical Society, and has 
served the latter as president, a responsible office that he filled with 
ability. He is connected with Matteson Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and also with the 
Union Club. In religion he is of the Lutheran faith, while his wife is an 
Episcopalian.

In Chicago Dr. Rulien married Miss May B. Stevens, by whom he has four 
children living, Minerva, Jessie, Elmer and Norman. The second son, Gordon, 
died in Joliet at the age of one year. Mrs. Rulien was born in Topeka, Kans., 
the only child of E. B. and H. V. (Norton) Stevens, natives respectively of 
Lake County, Ill., and New York City. He father, who was a soldier in an 
Illinois regiment during the Civil war, spent some years in Topeka, Kans., 
where he engaged in the real-estate business and also served as a deputy 
county official. In 1872 he returned to Chicago, where he died. His wife, who 
was a daughter of Richard Norton, of New York, died in Joliet.

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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