Biographical Sketch of Daniel Tyrell, MD
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Biographical Sketch of Daniel Tyrell, MD
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[Biographical sketch of Dr. Daniel Tyrell from Leeson’s 1887 “History of Stark County, Illinois,†pages 407-410]
Daniel Tyrell, M. D., son of Captain Elijah and Clarissa (Meeker) Tyrell, was born at Tyrrell’s corners in Fowler township, Trumbull county, O., April 3, 1815. His father was a soldier of the war of 1812 – 1815, and his grandfather, Asahel Tyrell, of Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution, who fell in battle just before the surrender of Burgoyne and his British troops. His grandmother, of Connecticut, was Hannah Hoyt.
The doctor spent his boyhood years in Trumbull county, O., where the Tyrells settled in 1806; there received a good common school education and in later years was a student in the academy at Warren, O. Subsequently he engaged in teaching school, and thus secured means to “push through†a course of medical studies. Again we find him a student at the Meadville academy, Pa., and next completing an eight months’ course at Allegheny college there. Meantime he studied under Dr. Johnson, of Vienna, O., and later engaged in practice with his old preceptor.
Returning to the farm he found himself still practicing medicine, being so often called upon. After a term of three years thus engaged, he purchased a farm, and at once entered upon agriculture, school-teaching and medicine, studying agriculture and horticulture as well as medical journals and books, continuing in this business, and that very actively, for many years.
In 1853 he went to Hancock county, Ill., and was there engaged in practice with his brother for six months, when, being sent for to attend on his wife, he returned to Ohio. After the death of Mrs. Tyrell, née Minerva Alderman, September 27, 1854, from consumption, of which she had twice been relieved years before, he moved to Illinois in 1855, and engaged in practice with his brother, Dr. Abijah Tyrell, then at St. Mary’s. His four sons by this marriage are Edwin H., (born March 18, 1838), of Toulon; Sylvanus M., of Chicago, a machinist and natural mechanic; Gilbert R., of La Porte, Indiana, first president of the N. W. Indiana Bee-keepers’ Association, master mechanic, and Calvin C., born February 24, 1850, a carpenter, painter, and a farmer of Hancock county, Ill.
In December, 1857, the Doctor moved to Claremont, N. H., where he married (Dec. 27, 1857) Miss Frances Augusta Hunt, a graduate of a medical college and a lady of extraordinary good literary and social attainments, who had a large practice among women and children. They practiced medicine there until 1861 when they removed to La Porte, Ind., where in the fall she had an ovarian tumor, weighing over 30 pounds, taken out by Prof. A. Curtis, M. D., of Cincinnati, O., assisted by her husband, Dr. Tyrell. The eighteenth day after the operation she rode out and visited patients. Their only daughter, weighing only three pounds, was born the next May 8, 1862, now Mrs. Hattie H. Berger, of Salinas, Cal.
The doctor’s son, Sylvanus (born Nov. 1, 1843), enlisted in the 5th N. H. Regiment in the summer of 1861, after writing in New Hampshire to La Porte, Ind., for his father’s consent, which was freely given after telling his son of the hardships, exposures, and privations of a soldier, and that he thought there would be more danger in the hospitals than of Rebel bullets. Sylvanus was in every battle and skirmish that his regiment was in for three years, and was hit but twice by Rebel bullets. He was Orderly Sergeant.
Gilbert, born Nov. 1, 1846, in Ohio, enlisted in La Porte, Ind., in the 35th Indiana Regiment, and was wounded in battle near Kennesaw Mountain July 20, 1864, and sent back to Nashville, Tenn. He gets a small pension and lives in a nice large residence, of his own construction, on Indiana avenue, in La Porte, Ind.
The Doctor himself served as surgeon in the army in 1864-5. In the hospitals in Rome, Ga., he was frequently called to visit other surgeons’ patients after it was known that such cases as were dying day and night under “Old School†treatment were getting well under his Botanic treatment. He was with the Fifty-third Illinois Regiment on the march through Georgia, and was surgeon-in-charge of the officers’ hospital and a rebel hospital, in Savannah, Ga., in the winter. In March 1865 he was surgeon-in-charge of the small-pox hospital at Blair’s Landing, in South Carolina; and at other times and places was in other hospitals, fields, and convalescent camps, and was called “The Soldiers’ Friend.â€
He was an officer on the medical staff at Gen. Sherman’s grand review in Washington, D. C., and of a hospital on Washington Heights. Being in Washington frequently, he visited all of the government buildings, inside and out, from the White House and Capitol to the magnificent hospitals. The tents whitened the country as far as he could see from the dome of the Capitol. In July, 1865, he was surgeon of the Pioneer Corps, near Louisville, Ky.
While the Doctor was in the army Mrs. Tyrell went to Emporia, Kansas, to visit her mother and sister, and was soon engaged in a good practice, and they persuaded him to move to Emporia. On the way there he came to Toulon, on account of the “land sharks†taking possession of 160 acres of land near Toulon, after the Doctor had a warranty deed and had paid the taxes eleven years. He has an eighty-acre farm of it yet. On arriving at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., he first heard of his wife’s death, which took place at her mother’s Oct. 12, 1865. The next fall he came to Toulon, just within the old settlers period of this county.
On Nov. 27, 1867 he married Louisa (Stoddard) Goodheart, formerly of New York state, then the mother of five children. His present wife’s children are Calvin C. Goodheart, of Wymore, Neb., Mrs. Allice Rice, of Colville, Washington Territory; and Samuel H. Goodheart, of Toulon township; Mrs. Mary Addis, of West Jersey township, and Joseph O. Goodheart, of Albion, Harper county, Kan. Mrs. Tyrell, with her family, are members of the Christian church, are (the Doctor and wife) the owners of a beautiful home at Toulon, of a rich farm of 160 acres, with large residence, in Hancock, Ill., 160 acres two miles east of Nelson, Neb., and of two lots at Hastings, Neb., besides the eighty acre farm and a few lots and extra houses at Toulon, for rent.
The Doctor has received three medical diplomas. After receiving the second he attended lectures in five other medical colleges, and clinical lectures in the hospital, and engaged in practice with Prof. A. Curtis, in the Infirmary and city of Cincinnati, O., and Covington and Newport, Ky. He has frequent calls yet from different states, from New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana to California, Oregon and Wyoming Territory, for prescriptions and advice. He advocates temperance in all things, and is opposed to all strong drinks and tobacco. Having studied all systems of medicine, he holds fast to the botanic and hygienic (physico-medical), using nature’s remedies.
He had four sisters and three brothers. The first four were born in Fairfield, Conn., the others were born at Tyrell’s corners, Trumbull, O. His father and brothers appeared to be natural mechanics. The oldest brother, when a small boy in his father’s blacksmith ship, made jewsharps, pocket knives, etc., then different kinds of bits, augurs, and all kinds of joiner and carpenter tools; then built barns, houses and sawmills, and, later, steam engines for mills and factories. His brother, Capt. Abijah Tyrell, M. D., was called out, with his company, by the governor, at the time of the Mormon war at Nauvoo, Ill.
Daniel Tyrell, M. D., son of Captain Elijah and Clarissa (Meeker) Tyrell, was born at Tyrrell’s corners in Fowler township, Trumbull county, O., April 3, 1815. His father was a soldier of the war of 1812 – 1815, and his grandfather, Asahel Tyrell, of Connecticut, a soldier of the Revolution, who fell in battle just before the surrender of Burgoyne and his British troops. His grandmother, of Connecticut, was Hannah Hoyt.
The doctor spent his boyhood years in Trumbull county, O., where the Tyrells settled in 1806; there received a good common school education and in later years was a student in the academy at Warren, O. Subsequently he engaged in teaching school, and thus secured means to “push through†a course of medical studies. Again we find him a student at the Meadville academy, Pa., and next completing an eight months’ course at Allegheny college there. Meantime he studied under Dr. Johnson, of Vienna, O., and later engaged in practice with his old preceptor.
Returning to the farm he found himself still practicing medicine, being so often called upon. After a term of three years thus engaged, he purchased a farm, and at once entered upon agriculture, school-teaching and medicine, studying agriculture and horticulture as well as medical journals and books, continuing in this business, and that very actively, for many years.
In 1853 he went to Hancock county, Ill., and was there engaged in practice with his brother for six months, when, being sent for to attend on his wife, he returned to Ohio. After the death of Mrs. Tyrell, née Minerva Alderman, September 27, 1854, from consumption, of which she had twice been relieved years before, he moved to Illinois in 1855, and engaged in practice with his brother, Dr. Abijah Tyrell, then at St. Mary’s. His four sons by this marriage are Edwin H., (born March 18, 1838), of Toulon; Sylvanus M., of Chicago, a machinist and natural mechanic; Gilbert R., of La Porte, Indiana, first president of the N. W. Indiana Bee-keepers’ Association, master mechanic, and Calvin C., born February 24, 1850, a carpenter, painter, and a farmer of Hancock county, Ill.
In December, 1857, the Doctor moved to Claremont, N. H., where he married (Dec. 27, 1857) Miss Frances Augusta Hunt, a graduate of a medical college and a lady of extraordinary good literary and social attainments, who had a large practice among women and children. They practiced medicine there until 1861 when they removed to La Porte, Ind., where in the fall she had an ovarian tumor, weighing over 30 pounds, taken out by Prof. A. Curtis, M. D., of Cincinnati, O., assisted by her husband, Dr. Tyrell. The eighteenth day after the operation she rode out and visited patients. Their only daughter, weighing only three pounds, was born the next May 8, 1862, now Mrs. Hattie H. Berger, of Salinas, Cal.
The doctor’s son, Sylvanus (born Nov. 1, 1843), enlisted in the 5th N. H. Regiment in the summer of 1861, after writing in New Hampshire to La Porte, Ind., for his father’s consent, which was freely given after telling his son of the hardships, exposures, and privations of a soldier, and that he thought there would be more danger in the hospitals than of Rebel bullets. Sylvanus was in every battle and skirmish that his regiment was in for three years, and was hit but twice by Rebel bullets. He was Orderly Sergeant.
Gilbert, born Nov. 1, 1846, in Ohio, enlisted in La Porte, Ind., in the 35th Indiana Regiment, and was wounded in battle near Kennesaw Mountain July 20, 1864, and sent back to Nashville, Tenn. He gets a small pension and lives in a nice large residence, of his own construction, on Indiana avenue, in La Porte, Ind.
The Doctor himself served as surgeon in the army in 1864-5. In the hospitals in Rome, Ga., he was frequently called to visit other surgeons’ patients after it was known that such cases as were dying day and night under “Old School†treatment were getting well under his Botanic treatment. He was with the Fifty-third Illinois Regiment on the march through Georgia, and was surgeon-in-charge of the officers’ hospital and a rebel hospital, in Savannah, Ga., in the winter. In March 1865 he was surgeon-in-charge of the small-pox hospital at Blair’s Landing, in South Carolina; and at other times and places was in other hospitals, fields, and convalescent camps, and was called “The Soldiers’ Friend.â€
He was an officer on the medical staff at Gen. Sherman’s grand review in Washington, D. C., and of a hospital on Washington Heights. Being in Washington frequently, he visited all of the government buildings, inside and out, from the White House and Capitol to the magnificent hospitals. The tents whitened the country as far as he could see from the dome of the Capitol. In July, 1865, he was surgeon of the Pioneer Corps, near Louisville, Ky.
While the Doctor was in the army Mrs. Tyrell went to Emporia, Kansas, to visit her mother and sister, and was soon engaged in a good practice, and they persuaded him to move to Emporia. On the way there he came to Toulon, on account of the “land sharks†taking possession of 160 acres of land near Toulon, after the Doctor had a warranty deed and had paid the taxes eleven years. He has an eighty-acre farm of it yet. On arriving at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., he first heard of his wife’s death, which took place at her mother’s Oct. 12, 1865. The next fall he came to Toulon, just within the old settlers period of this county.
On Nov. 27, 1867 he married Louisa (Stoddard) Goodheart, formerly of New York state, then the mother of five children. His present wife’s children are Calvin C. Goodheart, of Wymore, Neb., Mrs. Allice Rice, of Colville, Washington Territory; and Samuel H. Goodheart, of Toulon township; Mrs. Mary Addis, of West Jersey township, and Joseph O. Goodheart, of Albion, Harper county, Kan. Mrs. Tyrell, with her family, are members of the Christian church, are (the Doctor and wife) the owners of a beautiful home at Toulon, of a rich farm of 160 acres, with large residence, in Hancock, Ill., 160 acres two miles east of Nelson, Neb., and of two lots at Hastings, Neb., besides the eighty acre farm and a few lots and extra houses at Toulon, for rent.
The Doctor has received three medical diplomas. After receiving the second he attended lectures in five other medical colleges, and clinical lectures in the hospital, and engaged in practice with Prof. A. Curtis, in the Infirmary and city of Cincinnati, O., and Covington and Newport, Ky. He has frequent calls yet from different states, from New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana to California, Oregon and Wyoming Territory, for prescriptions and advice. He advocates temperance in all things, and is opposed to all strong drinks and tobacco. Having studied all systems of medicine, he holds fast to the botanic and hygienic (physico-medical), using nature’s remedies.
He had four sisters and three brothers. The first four were born in Fairfield, Conn., the others were born at Tyrell’s corners, Trumbull, O. His father and brothers appeared to be natural mechanics. The oldest brother, when a small boy in his father’s blacksmith ship, made jewsharps, pocket knives, etc., then different kinds of bits, augurs, and all kinds of joiner and carpenter tools; then built barns, houses and sawmills, and, later, steam engines for mills and factories. His brother, Capt. Abijah Tyrell, M. D., was called out, with his company, by the governor, at the time of the Mormon war at Nauvoo, Ill.