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WAYNE CO., IL

1884 BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES

FOUR MILE TWP

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Dr. J.C. BRISTOW, physician, Wayne City. Among the experienced and trustworthy physicians of Wayne County is the gentleman whose name heads this sketch. He was born December 22, 1825, in Parks County, IN.

His parents, George and Elizabeth (Collings) Bristow, were natives of Shelby County, KY., and were highly esteemed members of society. George Bristow was a farmer by occupation and also an ordained minister of the old Regular Baptist Church; he died in Shelby County, KY.

His father, Gideon Bristow, was a native of Virginia, but of Welsh descent; he and three of his brothers fought in the Revolutionary war.

Dr. Bristow's mother was a daughter of William Collings.

Our subject was educated in the common schools of Indiana and Kentucky, and received his medical education in the Medical Department of the University of Louisville, KY., where he received his diploma. In 1855, he commenced to practice medicine in Keokuk County, Iowa, and after two years of successful labor went to Kansas Territory, where he practiced one year, and then returned to Illinois, settling in Crawford County, where he followed his profession till June 1879, when he came to Wayne City, where he now resides and where he has succeeded in establishing a fine practice. The Doctor votes the Republican ticket, and is considered one of the best read man in this part of Wayne County.