Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Searles, Frank W, M D 
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FRANK W. SEARLES, M. D., a successful practicing physician and surgeon of New 
Lenox, was born in Homer Township, this county, March 14, 1852. His father, 
Franklin Searles, was born in New York, of German descent, went from the east 
to California at the time of the gold excitement in 1849, and for one and one-
half years he remained on the Pacific coast successfully engaged in mining. On 
his return east in 1851 he invested the money he had made by mining in the 
purchase of a farm in New Lenox Township, Will County, Ill., where he devoted 
himself to farm pursuits and the management of an apiary. He was a practical 
man in the raising and breeding of bees, and was so successful that often he 
shipped as much as one ton of honey in a single shipment. His death occurred 
on his homestead May 12, 1887, when he was fifty-nine years of age. Two 
children, our subject and Agnes, deceased, were born of his marriage to Emily 
White, of Ohio, who is still living and makes her home with her son. The 
history of her family is traced back to Peregrine White, the first white child 
born in Massachusetts, and a member of good old Puritan stock. In the 
possession of the family is a handloom that was brought over in 
the "Mayflower." During the war of 1812, when Indians were dangerous and 
imperiled the lives of the white settlers, her grandmother was hidden for 
safety in a hollow tree, which was so large that she had her spinning wheel 
put in it and spun yarn while hiding.

The education of Dr. Searles was obtained in the Englewood high school, 
Illinois State University and the Chicago Medical College (now the 
Northwestern University Medical School). In 1877 he graduated with the degree 
of M. D. Returning to his native county, he opened an office in New Lenox, 
where he has since engaged in practice, with the exception of one year in 
Wisconsin. In his profession he has been quite successful, and is recognized 
as a skillful physician, who is accurate in the diagnosis of disease and 
successful in its treatment. Politically he is a believer in Republican 
principles. In 1878 he was elected county coroner, and he has also served as a 
member of the school board for several years. While he is interested in local 
political matters, he does not desire office, preferring to give his attention 
exclusively to professional duties. He is a member of the Will County Medical 
Association. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America 
and Lockport Lodge No. 534, A. F. & A. M., in which he is past master. By his 
marriage in 1878, to Etta Morse, he has two children now living, Ella A. and 
Howard W., and has lost two sons, William Lloyd, who died at the age of nine 
years, and Frank, who died at six months.

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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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