Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Castle, Fred 1840 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

FRED CASTLE, M. D.

    Dr. Fred Castle, who was formerly engaged in the practice of medicine,
enjoying a large and lucrative practice and rendering valuable assistance to his
fellow-men, is now living retired in Lowell. He is a native of Franklin,
Franklin county, Vermont, his natal day being August 9, 1840. His father,
Stanley Castle, was also born there and was a farmer by occupation. He left New
England, however, in 1847, and made his way westward to Lake county, Indiana,
locating in Cedar Creek township, where he secured a tract of land, which he
developed into a rich and productive farm. Prospering in his undertakings, he
added to his possessions from time to time until his realty holdings aggregated
about seven hundred acres.

    Dr. Castle is the elder of two children, and was a lad of seven summers when
brought by his parents to Lake county. His early education was acquired in an
old log schoolhouse, such as was common in pioneer days of this portion of the
state. He afterward attended Valparaiso College, and, while there pursuing his
study, enlisted in response to the country's call, becoming a member of Company
G, Twelfth Indiana Cavalry, in 1863. He joined the army as a private, but was
made orderly sergeant and did active service until the close of the war, when he
received an honorable discharge from the hospital in which he had been for six
months on account of rheumatism.

    When the country no longer needed his services Dr. Castle returned to
Lowell, where he remained for a year and a half, ere he had sufficiently
recovered his health to engage in active business. At the end of that time he
began teaching in the public schools and also taught vocal and instrumental
music. Later he retired from the field of public-school education in order to
devote more time and attention to music. He also took up the study of medicine,
and after pursuing his reading for five years he was graduated from the medical
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with the class of 1869. He
practiced medicine for ten years in Minnesota, being located at Caledonia,
Houston county. He was forced to abandon the practice, however, on account of
rheumatism, and then returned to Indiana, after which he devoted his time to
farming for a number of years. At length he divided his land among his children,
but still continues the supervision of the property. Dr. Castle owned at one
time about three hundred and fifty acres, and he still has control of two
hundred and fifty acres.

    He was married to his present wife in 1878. She bore the maiden name of
Rachel Ellingsen, and to them have been born three children: Carrie M., who is
now the wife of Cecil M. Johnson, who resides upon one of her father's farms;
John; and Nellie M.

    Prior to the Civil war Dr. Castle was a Democrat, but at that time he joined
the Republican party and has since been unfaltering in support of the party and
its platform. He is a member of Burnham Post, G. A. R., and is a Royal Arch
Mason. Coming to Lake county in early boyhood days, he has witnesed [sic] the
greater part of its growth and improvement as it has emerged from pioneer
conditions to take its place among the leading counties of this great
commonwealth. Whatever has been accomplished here in the way of progress and
improvement has been to him a matter of deep interest, and inasfar as possible
he has co-operated in the work for the general good.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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