Catherine (Healey) Miller (1840)

Born 24 Jun 1840 in County Donegal, Ireland

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Biography

MRS C. C. MILLER M.D. The field of science is ably represented by the lady whose name heads this sketch for in the discharge of her professional duties, she has shown herself to be thoroughly versed in medical lore and that she possesses a natural aptitude for the calling can no longer be doubted when one has once employed her services. She possesses that sympathetic and soothing manner that is so essential in a sick room has the faculty of gaining the confidence of her patients and never fails to correctly diagnose a case.

Dr. Miller was born in Ireland, her natal county being Donegal, where she first saw the light of day June 24, 1840. She was the only daughter in a family of five children born to James H. and Susan McCloskey Healey, who in 1840, sought a home for themselves on a foreign shore and in a strange land. They landed at New York City where they remained a short time then the father, who was a practicing physician, sought a new field in Chicago where he was in the active practice of his profession for eight years. From that city they removed to Peoria, Ill and placed their daughter in a select school of that place which she attended with profit up to the age of fourteen years. She was very ambitious to obtain a fine education and to this end, she in 1858 sailed for England and entered Gregory College London, where she pursued her studies with the best results for six years, graduating in 1864. She then returned to the home of her adoption and at once entered upon the practice of medicine in Peoria, Ill, and so successful has she been as a disciple of the healing art that her name has become a familiar household word wherever she has opened an office.

During a residence in Quincy for many years, Dr. Miller has built up a reputation that is an honor to her determination and push as well as to her sex. She has ably demonstrated the fact that women can reap rich rewards in whatever field of labor they may choose to enter and her example is worthy of emulation by many young women who are eking out a scanty existence in the large cities of the United States. September 13, 1866 she was married to Lawrence Lockrag, and by him became the mother of three children. She was left a widow in 1877 and on the 18th of May, 1885 was united in marriage with Richard Miller. The Doctor is still conducting a general practice which amply occupies her time. She and her husband have a very cozy and comfortable home at No 217 Vermont Street where numerous personal as well as professional friends are warmly welcomed. ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Portrait and Biographical Record of Adams County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, 1892, page 310