Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Take, John F. 1864 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

JOHN F. TAKE, M. D.

    In professional circles Dr. John F. Take has won a position of prominence
that is an indication of his skill, close application, determined purpose and
laudable ambition. He is largely a self-educated as well as a self-made man, and
he has exerted his efforts in a calling where advancement depends entirely upon
individual merit. Not by gift, by purchase or by influence can it be secured. A
physician's labors must stand the test of practical work, and favorable public
opinion is won only as he demonstrates his power to successfully cope with the
intricate problems continually presented by disease. That Dr. Take is now
enjoying a large practice is indicative of his thorough understanding of the
principles of the science of medicine and his correctness of their application
to the needs of suffering humanity.

    Numbered among the native sons of Illinois, Dr. Take was born in Fountain
Green, Hancock county, on the 6th of April, 1864. His father, Charles Take, was
a native of Germany and came to America when twenty-one years of age, hoping
that he might have better business opportunities in the new world than were
afforded him in his native country. A farmer by occupation, he devoted his
entire life to that calling in order to provide for his family, but he died at a
comparatively early age. His wife bore the maiden name of Mary Church and was a
native of Indiana. They were the parents of three children, two sons and a
daughter, but the latter died in infancy and the brother of Dr. Take is known as
Robert Hetrick, having been adopted by the Hetrick family of Laharpe, Illinois,
when but three years of age, his father having died. He is now a merchant of
Denver, Colorado, and is a journalist by profession.

    Dr. Take, the eldest of the three children, was only six years of age at the
time of his father's death. He afterward lived with a family by the name of
Hopper until eleven years of age, and during that time was a resident of Hancock
county, Illinois. His mother then removed to Rockford, Michigan, and Dr. Take
resided with her there until eighteen years of age, during which time he
attended the common schools and also assisted in the work of the home farm.
Later he went to North Dakota, where he spent one year, and subsequently removed
to Lamars, Iowa, where he attended high school for two years. By earnest labor
he gained the money necessary to defray his college expenses. Desirous of
becoming a member of the medical fraternity he pursued a course in reading under
Dr. Prosser, of Lamars, Iowa, for a year, and next went to Chicago in the fall
of 1887. There he entered the Bennett Medical College and was graduated from
that institution with the class of 1889. In the fall of the same year he
matriculated in the Chicago Homeopathic College and was graduated in the spring
of 1890. On the 15th of April, of the same year, Dr. Take located for practice
in Whiting, opening an office on Front street. He was the first physician to
locate here and he has been in constant practice in the town since that time,
building up an extensive practice which has constantly grown in volume and
importance. He has made a specialty of the diseases of children and is
particularly proficient along that line. Dr. Take is a member of the Eclectic
Medical and Surgical Society of Chicago, and he is a student who is constantly
promoting his efficiency through reading and investigation. He discharges the
duties of his profession with a sense of conscientious obligation, and his
ability has long been proved by the excellent results which attend his efforts.

    In November, 1887, Dr. Take was united in marriage to Miss Mary Isabel
Haines, of Rockford, Michigan, who was born in that city and is a daughter of
Moses Dayton Haines, whose birth occurred in Dutchess county, New York. Her
mother bore the maiden name of Jane Wilkinson, and was also a native of Dutchess
county. In their family were eight children, three sons and five daughters, of
whom Mrs. Take is the sixth child and fifth daughter. Her birth occurred July 8,
1866, and she was reared in Rockford, Michigan, attending the public schools
there and afterward becoming a student in St. Mary's Academy. To the Doctor and
his wife have been born two children: Lena Frances, who was born June 15, 1889,
at 3636 Fifth avenue, in Chicago; and Milton Jay, at 304 One Hundred and
Nineteenth street in Whiting, Indiana, on the 10th of May, 1892.

    Dr. Take has been a life-long Republican and has served Whiting as a member
of the town board of health, but aside from this has had no political
aspirations. He is a self-educated as well as self-made man, having earned the
money which enabled him to pursue his college course. The history of mankind is
replete with illustrations of the fact that it is only under the pressure of
adversity and the stimulus of opposition that the best and strongest in man are
brought out and developed, and the life record of Dr. Take is another proof of
this statement. In private life he has gained that warm personal regard which
arises from true nobility of character, deference for the opinions of others,
kindness and geniality.


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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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