Bio of CHILTON, Edwin Young M.D. (b.1849), Wright Co., MN
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924   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY 

  Edwin Young Chilton, M. D., now deceased, was for many years Howard 
Lake's beloved physician. For over three decades he labored throughout 
the countryside, bringing healing and sympathy and brightness to hundreds 
of families, and sanctifying his memory to thousands of patients. He was 
born, August 25,1849, in Cumberland county, Kentucky. He received an 
Academy education, and began as a boy to read medicine with a prominent 
physician of his native county. Later he took a collegiate course in medicine 
and surgery in the Miami College, at 

925   HISTORY OF WRIGHT COUNTY

Cincinnati, 0. His first office was at Albany, Ky. But he desired to seek 
his fortunes in a newer community, so about 1880 he came to Wright county 
and located in Howard Lake. His success was assured from the start and he 
soon became one of the leading physicians of the county. He kept well 
abreast of all the latest discoveries in the realms of medicine, philosophy 
and science, and in 1895, in order to further perfect himself, he took a 
post graduate course in the School of Surgery, in New York City. His thirty-
four years in this village were ones of great usefulness. During thirty 
years of that time he was a leading member of the school board. In 1898 
he was elected to the upper house of the Minnesota legislature, and did 
most efficient work as chairman of the committee on the State Hospital 
for the Insane. Possessed of a fraternal spirit, he was a popular member 
of the Masons, the Modern Woodmen, the Knights of Pythias and the United 
Workmen. He was likewise prominent in local affairs, and served on numerous 
committees and delegations. Dr. Chilton died May 25, 1914, and his death 
was sincerely mourned. He was married to Laura J. Huttleston, a native of 
Kentucky, who died, leaving four children, Leo, Jessie, Alice, and Freeman. 
Later he married Grace Hayes Tromly, a native of Mt. Vernon, Jefferson 
county, Ill. Dr. and Mrs. Chilton had two children, Walter Hayes and 
Madge Elizabeth.