[or-roots] Dr. Charles Drury to Oregon in 1852

[Jim Cook]

Thanks Bill,

I am familiar with these sites.  They mention many of the families I am
trying to trace.  I now have a list of about a dozen families that left this
four county area, Muscatine and Louisa counties, Iowa, and Rock Island and
Mercer counties, Illinois, in 1852 and went to Oregon and California.  Most
of them had connections in Indiana before they came to Iowa, and some as far
back as Rev War times in Virginia and North Carolina.  There also seems to
be a strong Mormon connection to many of the families.

I have been able to locate most of the families in Oregon.  I have not been
able to find any records of Dr. Charles Drury however, until he ended up
back in Iowa/Illinois.

Jim


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill & Chris Strickland <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Dr. Charles Drury to Oregon in 1852


> fwiw,
>
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamuscat/biographies1911/moscowtwp.htm
>
> History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume I, 1911, pages 215-221
>
> MOSCOW.
>
> "Henry Webster and Dr. Charles Drury were the first settlers and they
> laid out the town in the fall of 1836, being the east portion of that
> now known as Bigalow Addition. ..."
>
> EARLY DOCTORS.
>
> "I have fogotten the name of the first doctor who located at Moscow, but
> recall some of the stories told of him by some of the young fellows with
> whom I associated. In the '40s and early '50s, when the country was
> settling up, there was a great deal of sickness, mostly fever and ague,
> and the doctors used a great deal of calomel and quinine. One day when
> returning from a visit the Doctor saw that the horse he was riding was
> sick and that he shook like a person with the ague. The Doctor gave him
> a dose of calomel, then turned him out to graze. In a few days the horse
> lost every hair that was on his body and ran on the prairie north of
> town until another coat of hair grew. I do not know how long the Doctor
> remained at Moscow, but the town was without a doctor for some years
> previous to 1850. In the spring of that year a young doctor by the name
> of Baxter located here and remained until the spring of 1852, when he
> went to Oregon and during the summer of 1852 Dr. W. H. Baxter located
> here and remained until 1866, when he went to Wilton."
>
> I notice that this is all part of a lengthy quote from somewhere and I
> do not see any attribution, but I didn't look too hard ...
>
> ---------------
>
> http://www.geocities.com/arizona1900/Reynolds.html
>
> The History of Mercer County 1882 mentions that "... Charles Drury,
> returning in the fall of 1835, was married to Miss Nancy Prentice, who
> died eleven months after.  He then moved to Rock Island county and
> studied medicine with Dr. Reynolds, after which he married Mrs. Eliza
> McGreer, moved back and practiced medicine throughout the township,
> living upon what is known as the E. W. Mardock farm [NE Sec 3T15NR5W-
> see Eliza plat map].  He quit the practice of medicine in 1851 and moved
> to Oregon."  This statement bears examination, as Eli Reynolds seems to
> have been in Iowa at that time.  The History of Rock Island County
> mentions only James, William, and Drury Reynolds as arriving shortly
> after 1837.  Without a date, it mentions, "The first physician in the
> county was kind Doctor Reynolds, whose generous sympathy and hearty good
> will are remembered by the older generation.  His well-known figure was
> a welcome presence in many a sick chamber, and he never hesitated to
> journey forth in rain or snow, day or night, over the then almost
> impassable roads to succor those who were in need of his ministrations.
> His type of physician is gone.  Perhaps the modern physician is a great
> improvement upon the old kind, but there are many who reposed a trust in
> the country doctor no twentieth century practitioner can command, for
> his word was absolute law, and in his hands reposed literally the keys
> to life or death."   Charles and Eliza Brandenberg McGreer Drury are in
> Eliza Township in Mercer County in the 1850 census, indicating Charles
> studied in Rock Island County with Eli Reynolds before that date.
>
> Perhaps one of the Drury links on this site might also be of interest.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving!
>
> Godspeed!
>
> Bill Strickland
> Oregon City, OR
> _______________________________________________
> or-roots mailing list
> or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us
> http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots