William C. Caulton Biography, Tuscola County, Michigan

This Biography extracted from “Portrait and Biographical Record of 
Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties, Michigan…”, published be Chapman 
Bros., Chicago (1892), p. 1051-1052

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WILLIAM C. CAULTON, M. D., was born in County of Sahara, England, in 
1823. He is a son of William and Sarah Caulton, the former of whom was 
born in Lincolnshire, England. The father was reared to farm pursuits 
and at the age of sixteen years emigrated to America in company with 
his parents. His father, grandfather of our subject, was a miller by 
trade, and a landowner.

   After remaining in the United States a short time our subject's 
father returned to England with his family and engaged in the 
mercantile business in London and afterward in Hampshire. At the latter 
place he had met and married our subject's mother, Miss Sarah, daughter 
of Thomas and Jemima Calton, and later located at Egham where many 
years before the Magna Charta had been signed. He continued in business 
at that place until 1830 when two years later he decided to again come 
to America, and located at Guelph, Wellington County, Canada. He 
engaged in farming pursuits on coming to the New World, and died in 
Canada in 1842.

   Our subject was the second in order of birth of the six children 
born to his parents, and with his brother Frederick G., who is a 
physician in Canada, is the only one living. Our subject started out to 
do for himself at the age of twenty-one years, but for several years 
previous to that time he and his older brother had had the care of the 
family and their invalid father. When leaving home our subject engaged 
in teaching school, at the same time improving a small farm. He 
followed the combined occupations of pedagogue and farmer for ten 
years, and in 1856 began the study of medicine, still being engaged in 
teaching, until 1861, when he was graduated from the New York 
Homoepathic Medical College.

   After receiving his degree of Doctor of Medicine our subject began 
the practice of medicine at St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada, where he 
remained for three years when he removed to Guelph and in 1866 gave up 
his practice to take the position of Principal of the Woodstock School 
of Canada. He did not again resume his practice until his removal to 
Michigan, in 1872, and since that time has resided in Fremont Township, 
Tuscola County, the same spot on which he first made his home. He was a 
successful practitioner for ten years in Michigan, but is now living a 
retired life, enjoying the rest which he has so well earned.

   Dr. Caulton was married in 1845, to Mary Schermerhorn, and to them 
have been born three daughters-Ann who is the wife of the Hon. E. G. 
Fox; Mary A., wife of A. H. Badwell of Canada and Emma who died when 
twenty-two months old. Dr. Caulton is well known throughout Tuscola 
County and is highly esteemed by all who come in contact with him as 
being a thorough and cultured gentleman.



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