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DR. D. C. GIDEON, physician and editor, Danvers; was born Nov. 27, 1848, on Wolf Creek, Sangamon Co., Ill., the first and only child of his parents, Alfred L. and Elizabeth Gideon; in March, 1851, his parents moved to Mount Pulaski. Ill., which town was then the county seat of Logan Co.; here he grew up to manhood, attending school; he was 18 years old when he began the study of medicine, under the tutelage of his uncle, Dr. John Clark. The 1st day of August, 1867, in company with Daniel Morgan, he started on horseback for the West; the fall was spent in traveling over Missouri and along the Kansas border; returning home early in the winter, he continued his medical studies until the following spring, when, on the 1st of May, he again started for the West, driving a herd of cattle and mules for Milton Patterson, who had sold his farm to Jacob Row, who afterward became the father-in-law of Dr. Gideon; arriving in Jasper Co., Mo., about the 1st of June, he concluded to again look over the State of Missouri; the summer was spent in travel, and, in September, he returned to Mount Pulaski, and, on the 27th of that month, 1868, was married to Miss Sarah Row, youngest daughter of Jacob and Sarah Row, Dr. John Clark officiating; their first child, Alfred, was born June 4, 1869; during the summer of 1870, he engaged in farming his land, one mile northeast of Mount Pulaski; this not proving of sufficient interest to him, he again rented his farm the next spring and commenced the practice of medicine; Feb. 4, 1878, he graduated with honor at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio; their second son, Clark, was born April 6, 1873; after his return home, he formed a partnership with his former preceptor, and continued his practice until November, 1873, when he again formed a partnership with Dr. W. H. Davis, of Springfield, where he removed, and, until the 1st of May, 1874, did a good business; the continued illness of his mother kept him by her side until her death, in August, at which time he came back to Mount Pulaski and settled up his business, when, selling his farm to his father, he removed to Watseka, Iroquois Co., Ill.; here he lived for two years, but, not liking the swamps and sand ridges of Iroquois Co., he removed to Danvers, McLean Co., Ill., March 14, 1877, where he purchased a comfortable residence, and has since that time had a very good practice. March 29, he, together with George Bunn, started a weekly paper, known as the Danvers Independent; soon afterward, Mr. Bunn withdrew, leaving Dr. Gideon editor and proprietor; the paper promises to become one of the permanent things of Danvers. Dr. Gideon enjoys an extensive acquaintance with the professional men of Illinois, and, being yet a young man, has a good chance for promotion in his profession.