Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . cessful business man and public-spiritedcitizen, as well as a worthy representative ofone of the communitys oldest and most respectedfamilies. MORE, James H., M. D.—Most men, when castiiig alx)Ut for a vocation, are satisfied with one],rofp=sion. and in that are not always is not the case, however, with Dr. JamesH. More, now living retired at Polo. 111., who hasdevoted his life to the medical and the ministe-rial callings, has accounted for himself well ineach, and has still found more time to give topublic life . till- duties (if riti
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois . cessful business man and public-spiritedcitizen, as well as a worthy representative ofone of the communitys oldest and most respectedfamilies. MORE, James H., M. D.—Most men, when castiiig alx)Ut for a vocation, are satisfied with one],rofp=sion. and in that are not always is not the case, however, with Dr. JamesH. More, now living retired at Polo. 111., who hasdevoted his life to the medical and the ministe-rial callings, has accounted for himself well ineach, and has still found more time to give topublic life . till- duties (if ritizenship than doesthe avci-:iui> iiMii. IT, .Mori was born at Hal-cottsvillcDchnvaro , N. Y., August , a son of .John B. and Louisa J. (Kelly)More, and his boyhood was spent in State. He prepared for his college course inthe academies at Prattsville and for several terms thereafter taught school inRoxburv and Harperi^field, Delaware County, On April 27, 1853, he was graduated from. CLARENCK WOOD HISTORY OF OGLE COrXTY, the medical department of the University of Buf-falo, and in the following May located at BuffaloGrove (Old Town), where he was in iiartner-ship with Dr. W. W. Burns until 1856. in whichyear he opened n drug and bool^-store at 1S60 he was ordained a minister of the Metho-dist Episcopal Church, at the Rock River Con-ference, and was stationed at Harvard, and laterat Richmond. 111., and it was while at the latterplace that he became Chaplain of the Ninety-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, withwhich he served until the close of the he was stationed at Mt. Morris for twoyears, and at Kankakee for one year, and in 1868became Presiding Elder of the district, inwhich capacity he served four years. He was amember of the General Conference at Brooklyn,N. T., in 1872. For three years he was at Ster-ling, and for two years at Sycamore, then as-suming charge of the Freeport district, of
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