. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. tislavery campaign in Great Britain, came to this couutnand settled at Albion, Ilhnois. He brought over a large colon]of Englishmen, all stanch antislavery men, and settled them iiEdwards County, Illinois, and it was that colony and its descendants that chiefly restrained southern Ilhnois from joining tbisecession movement in 1861. One of the sons of the pioneeiFlower remained at Albion, and was the father of a family o:distinction. One of his children was the Rev. George E. Flowera leading minister of the Church of the Disciples; another, B.
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. tislavery campaign in Great Britain, came to this couutnand settled at Albion, Ilhnois. He brought over a large colon]of Englishmen, all stanch antislavery men, and settled them iiEdwards County, Illinois, and it was that colony and its descendants that chiefly restrained southern Ilhnois from joining tbisecession movement in 1861. One of the sons of the pioneeiFlower remained at Albion, and was the father of a family o:distinction. One of his children was the Rev. George E. Flowera leading minister of the Church of the Disciples; another, B. 0Flower, was editor of the Arena Magazine, and is now editoiof the New Time; another, Mrs. Elizabeth Flower Willis, haifor years been a prominent elocutionist; and yet another is th(subject of this sketch. R. C. Flower was born at Albion, Illinois, on December 161849. For five years he was instructed by a private tutor, an(then went to the Northwest University, at Indianapolis, Indianawhere he pursued coiu-ses and took degrees in both law an( 128. E. C. FLOWEB 129 edicine. He began the practice of the law, but was compelled> quit it because of the failure of his voice. Thereupon heirned his attention to medicine, and through advertising and)rrespondence secured a numerous patronage in all parts of the)untry. For more than sixteen years he had an average ofventeen thousand patients, including one thousand in themote State of Texas. Through this practice and the sale of•oprietary medicines ho amassed more than one handsome for-me. He lost large sums of money, however, partly throughjcoming security for others, and partly through investments tohich he was not able to pay personal attention. All enterprises which he did give personal attention resulted engaged in medical practice he became more and moreterested in other business. He became an investor in Westernal estate and in iron-mines and smelting-works. He also he-me interested in finance, and ultimat
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