Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Slaught, A W,  M D 1855 - 
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Author: Portrait & Bio Album, 1890

A. W. SLAUGHT, M. D. During the comparatively brief time in which Dr. Slaught 
has been located in Joliet, having settled here in September, 1888, he has 
built up a fine practice, and is rapidly acquiring an enviable reputation as a 
physician and surgeon. He is comparatively a young man, having been born July 
6, 1855, and his native place is in the vicinity of Watkin's Glen, N. Y. His 
father, Abram Slaught, was also a native of the Empire State, where he was 
reared to manhood and married to Miss Helen Hanley, of Schuyler County. The 
mother of our subject was born and reared near the childhood home of her 
husband. The father is a farmer by occupation and was also the proprietor of a 
foundry and machine shop at Watkin's Glen. A. W., our subject, sojourned there 
with his parents until a youth of sixteen years, attending the public schools. 
He then entered Colgate Academy and later was a student of Madison University, 
from which he was duly graduated. For two years afterward he was employed in 
the Hamilton post-office, but in the meantime he utilized his leisure hours in 
the study of medicine. Later he emigrated to Marquette, Mich., where he 
engaged in teaching and in other occupations, but all this time he had in view 
the medical profession and for this he labored. In due time young Slaught, to 
his great satisfaction, entered the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, 
becoming a member of the class of '83, and while pursuing his studies also 
engaged in practice and as a nurse, finally filling the position of 
professional nurse for some time in Chicago. He was graduated from the above-
named institution in February, 1887, and for a time thereafter attended to the 
business of one of the old physicians who was away on his vacation. 
Subsequently he repeated the same at Braidwood, this county, and in the 
meantime he visited his mother in Florida, where her death took place in 
April, 1889; she was then seventy-one years old. Upon coming to Joliet Dr. 
Slaught engaged in practice with Dr. Campbell, one of its oldest and most 
prominent physicians and they made a specialty of the diseases of women, doing 
at the same time a large amount of surgical work. This partnership still 
continues, although Dr. Campbell is at present (1890) in California. Dr. 
Slaught, socially, belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Joliet, 
and it is predicted that not only as a physician and surgeon, but as a member 
of the community, he is destined in the near future to make his mark.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Will County, Illinois, Containing Full Page 
Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens 
of the County; Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1890

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