Lacrosse-Milwaukee-Waukesha County WI Archives Biographies.....Thrall, C. B. 1836 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Roxanne Munns rmunns@uwalumni.com May 6, 2007, 4:00 pm Author: Unknown C. B. THRALL, M. D., West Salem; born in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1836; he came to Milwaukee in 1853, where he remained till the breaking-out of the war. He enlisted May, 1861, in 2d W. V. I.; was engaged with his regiment in the battle of Bull Run. Soon after this event, Company K, of which he was a member, was converted into a company of heavy artillery, and placed in Fort Corcoran. He was discharged by reason of disabillity, in 1863. Recovering his health, he re-enlisted, in the fall of that year, in the 4th W. V. I., and went to Baton Rouge, where he was engaged as Ward Master-in-Chief in charge of the hospital till the close of the war, when he returned to Wisconsin and engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. Moses Barrett, of Waukesha; graduated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1868; located in Leon Valley, Monroe Co. In April, 1874, he went to Leroy, Minn.; came to West Salem in February, 1877. He makes a specialty of the elctro-vapor bath treatment. His first wife was Mary T. Carlton, of Waukesha; present wife was Miss E. M. Birdsall; has two children by present wife - Vena Dell and Grace E. Additional Comments: From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 828. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/lacrosse/bios/thrall564gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wifiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb