Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Hoskins, George H. 1861 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

GEORGE H. HOSKINS, M. D.

    Dr. George H. Hoskins, who has attained prominence as a representative of
the medical fraternity and is now serving as coroner of Lake county, making his
home in Whiting, is a native of New York, his birth having occurred in Essex,
Essex county, on the 18th of October, 1872. His father was Henry E. Hoskins, a
native of Montreal, Canada. In early life, however, he was taken to New York,
was reared in the Empire state and there spent his remaining days, but died on
the eve of his departure for the west in the year 1875. His widow then came with
her two children, a son and daughter, to the Mississippi valley, locating at
Grant Park, Illinois. She had previously learned the milliner's trade, and for
about fifteen years was engaged in that business at Grant Park, Illinois, thus
providing for her children. She was quite successful in the conduct of her
business enterprise and secured a liberal patronage.

    Dr. Hoskins was but four years of age when he arrived in Grant Park, and
there he acquired his early education which was supplemented by one year of
study at Valparaiso, Indiana. In 1894 he took up the study of medicine in
Northwestern University at Chicago, Illinois, and was there graduated in June,
1898. In July of the same year he located at Whiting, where he has since been in
constant practice. He was the first health officer here, and in 1902 he was
elected county coroner, entering upon the duties of the office in January, 1903.
He has secured a large private practice which is indicative of the confidence
and trust reposed in him by the public. He is a thorough and discriminating
student, constantly broadening his knowledge and promoting his efficiency by
investigation and research. He is thoroughly in touch with modern ideas
concerning medical science and practice, and his professional duties make heavy
demands upon his time and energies.

    On the 24th of October, 1900, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. George H.
Hoskins and Miss Bertha E. Dewey, a daughter of George H. and Celesta L. Dewey.
They now have two interesting little sons, George H. and Harley D. Socially Dr.
Hoskins is connected with the Masonic fraternity at Whiting, and he was a member
of the Baptist church at Grant Park. He belongs to the Lake County Medical
Society, and his attention is chiefly devoted to his profession, wherein he has
won a creditable name. He closely follows the ethics of the medical fraternity
and enjoys the entire confidence and esteem of his professional brethren as well
as of the general public. As a citizen, too, he is progressive and has been a
co-operant factor in many movements for the general good. In politics he is a
Republican, and in March, 1904, he was nominated by that party for his second
term as coroner of Lake county. He completed his new residence on Sheridan
avenue, near One Hundred and Nineteenth street, in the fall of 1903. For 1903
Dr. Hoskins was worshipful master of Whiting Lodge No. 613, F. & A. M. He is
also a member of the Owls Club.


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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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