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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

ROBERT SPEAR, M. D.

    During the seven years which mark the period of his professional career Dr.
Robert Spear has met with gratifying success. Throughout this time he has made
his home in East Chicago, where he has won the good will and patronage of many
of the best citizens. He is a thorough student and endeavors to keep abreast of
the times in everything relating to the discoveries in medical science.
Progressive in his ideas and favoring modern methods as a whole, he does not
dispense with the time-tried systems whose value has stood the test of years.

    Dr. Spear was born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, January 23, 1868, and is of
Scotch lineage. His paternal grandfather, Thomas Spear, was a native of Scotland
and thence emigrated to Canada, where he followed the carpenter's trade. He was
twice married and by the first union had one son, William, who reached mature
years, while the three other children died in their teens. For his second wife
he chose Miss McComb, and they had one daughter who died in childhood. William
Spear, a native of Ontario, Canada, learned and followed the wagon-builder's
trade in early manhood and afterward turned his attention to farming. He, too,
was twice married, first wedding Miss Sarah Davidson, by whom he had four
children, of whom three are now living, namely: Thomas, of Cobourg, Canada;
William K., also of Cobourg; and David, of Pipestone, Manitoba. Their daughter,
Elizabeth, is deceased. After the death of his first wife William Spear married
Miss Margaret Brown, also a native of Ontario, and they became the parents of
nine children, three sons and six daughters, of whom eight are now living, as
follows: James, of Cobourg; Annie, also of Cobourg; Agnes, of Virden, Manitoba;
Dr. Robert Spear; Andrew, of Cobourg; Margaret, of Rochester, New York;
Christina, of Cobourg; and Isabell, of Wilton, North Dakota. Jennie died at the
age of twenty-one years. The father of this family passed away at Cobourg,
Canada, in 1901, at the age of seventy-five years, and is still survived by his
widow, who is a devoted Christian woman, holding membership in the Presbyterian
church, to which her husband also belonged. She was a daughter of Robert Brown,
a native of Scotland, who crossing the Atlantic took up his abode in Canada,
where he followed the occupation of farming. He married a Miss Miller, and they
reared a large family of nine children. His death occurred when he was about
eighty years of age.

    Dr. Robert Spear spent his boyhood days in the usual manner of farmer lads,
remaining under the parental roof near Cobourg. In the summer months he assisted
in the work of the fields and in the winter seasons attended the district
school. Later he continued his education in the collegiate institute at Cobourg,
and subsequently entered Queen's University at Kingston. In order to prepare for
the practice of medicine he became a student in the Trinity Medical College, of
Toronto, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 1897. He then
began practice in East Chicago, establishing his home in this city on the 1st of
May of that year. Here he has remained continuously since, and his skill and
ability are indicated by the patronage which is accorded him. He has always been
a close and earnest student of his profession and his efforts are beneficially
put forth for the alleviation of human suffering.

    On the 6th of October, 1897, Dr. Spear was united in marriage to Miss Minnie
Cook, a daughter of John and Martha (Sykes) Cook. Two children have been born of
this union, Wilfred Garnet and Helen Gladys. Dr. and Mrs. Spear are
Presbyterians in their religious faith, and in politics he is somewhat
independent. In May, 1904, he was elected to represent the First ward in the
City Council of the city of East Chicago. His professional connection is with
the Lake County Medical Society, the Kankakee Valley Medical Society, the
Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He
resides at No. 4530 Forsyth street, where he erected a good home in 1901.


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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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