Biography of
I. L. Garrison, M. D.
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I. L. GARRISON, M. D., is an
example of the type of man who is not afraid to launch out into a new field of
labor after having given a matter of twenty years service in another line of
work, and in his case what might be regarded by many as something of an
experiment is proving to be a decided success. Giving up his work as an
educator, in which he had already found distinctive success, Dr.
Garrison turned his attention to the study of medicine, which had long
held manifold attractions for him, and in 1910 he entered upon the active
practice of his profession in Wayne City, where he is making rapid progress in
his bid for recognition among the people of his community. A native of Wayne
county and favorably known in this city all his life, his future is an assured
one, and will be in every way worthy of one of his character and high standing.
He has ever been a man of importance in Wayne county, in a political and social
way, and as an educator of no small ability it has been given to him to do much
for the advancement of the county in an educational way.
The scion of an old and honored
family, I. L. Garrison was born January 31, 1868, in Wayne county on a farm near Keenville. He is the son of
George and Sarah (Wells) Garrison, natives of Wayne
county. George Garrison was born in 1839, and was the son of
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Garrison, born in 1788, a native of North Carolina
and a pioneer settler of Wayne county, coming here in the ‘twenties from
Kentucky. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and served in
Captain Doherty’s company in the Seventh North Carolina Regiment. He was discharged from the
service October 13, 1814. He was the son of
James Garrison, born in 1747, and a
soldier in the Continental army during the war of the Revolution. He served in a
North Carolina Regiment under
Captain Alexander Gordon, with
Colonel Joseph
McDowell in charge.
His enlistment took place at Wilkes county, North
Carolina, and he was afterwards a pioneer settler in Greene county, Illinois.
George Garrison, the
father of
Dr. Garrison
of this review, was a sergeant in Company K, Forty-ninth
Illinois Volunteer Infantry of the Union army during the Civil war. He served
three years and three months and was honorably discharged at the close of
hostilities. He was one of the eight children of his parents,
Samuel and
Martha
Garrison, and their names were
Isaac, Samuel, William, Preston, Gregg,
George, Elizabeth and
Mary Eliza. Of that number two sons,
Samuel and
George, are yet
living.
George Garrison settled down in Wayne county to the quiet life of a
farmer, and reared ten children. They were named
Martha,
who is now deceased;
Dr. Barney E., a resident of Wayne City;
Mrs. Melissa Morrison, of Jefferson
county;
Charles,
deceased;
Leota, married to
William Tyler and lives in
Saskatchewan, Canada; Lillie Powers,
who lives in Albion, Illinois;
Mrs.
Minnie Talbot,
of Jefferson county;
Dr. I. L., of Wayne City;
Gregg, in Wayne
county; and
George Everett,
The wife and mother,
Sarah (Wells) Garrison, was
born in 1837. She was the daughter of
Barney E. Wells,
a native of
Jefferson
county, and
Elizabeth Alvis, born in Virginia, The
Wells
family were at one time
large slave holders in the Virginias, and were the proprietors of extensive
plantations. They settled in Southern Illinois in the ‘twenties, and there
Barney and
Elizabeth Wells
reared a family of fourteen children. They were:
Edmund, Leffington, John, Matthew, James H., Mary, Martha, Elizabeth,
Sarah, Melissa, Virginia, Carolina and
Hulda.
One son,
James H.,
still lives and is a resident of Jefferson county, at the age of
sixty-five years. Three daughters
of the seven yet survive,—Sarah Garrison, Carolina Bradford
and Melissa Byers.
I. L. Garrison received his
elementary schooling in the common schools of his district, and was later an
attendant at Old Hayward College at Fairfield, graduating from that institution
in 1899 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He began teaching soon
thereafter and continued in that wholly commendatory line of work for sixteen
years. During the summer vacations he taught at Hayward Normal. For three years
he was principal of Fairfield high school and from 1903 to 1906 he was
superintendent of the Fredonia (Kas.) city schools, instructing in the branches
of science, Latin and French. In the fall of 1906 he entered the medical
department of Washington University at St. Louis, and in June, 1910, was
graduated from that worthy institution with the degree of M.D. He has since
been engaged in active practice in Wayne City, and has already established a
valuable practice in this city. He is a member of the Wayne County Medical
Association. He is a Republican in his political convictions and has taken an
active part in affairs of a political nature in his city and county. Fraternally Dr. Garrison is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Masons. He is a member
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
In 1889 Dr. Garrison was married
to Miss Charity Ardilla Feather of Wayne City, a daughter of
Richard and Anna (Williams) Feather. Dr. and Mrs. Garrison have three children: The eldest,
Lena
Novella,
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is married to Byron J. Bixley, of
Bridgeport, Illinois, and Marie is a student in the Bridgeport high school.
Berlin Clyde is in the common schools of Wayne City.
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