Jacob A. Wagner (1853 - 1899)

Born 20 Oct 1853 in Adams County, Illinois

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Biography

J. A. WAGNER M.D., is a physician of ability anıt high standing in Adams County and makes a specialty of diseases of the nose throat and lungs along which lines he is considered one of the ablest physicians in his section of the country. While enjoying a lucrative practice he is known as a careful and conscientious practitioner who is more devoted to medicine for the sake of science than for purely personal reasons. He was born in the county in which he now resides October 20, 1853, to Jacob and Mary A. (Brown) Wagner, the former of whom was a millwright in early life but finally turned his attention to farming and stock raising in the pursuit of which occupations he met with well deserved success. The paternal grandfather Henry Wagner was a Pennsylvanian by birth and a German by descent in the Commonwealth founded by the great lawgiver William Penn, Jacob Wagner was born reared. He became a resident of Melrose Adams County, Ill., in 1839 and here well known as an honorable upright man and useful and progressive citizen.

Up to the age of nineteen years J.A. resided on the home farm his summers being to tilling the soil and his winters to the district school near his rural home. In fall of 1872 he found himself fitted both intellectually and financially to enter college and for one year thereafter he pursued his studies in Chaddock College. During this time his generous nature turned instinctively to the broad field of human suffering for his life work and in 1875 we find him in the Medical Department of Jefferson College of Philadelphia, Pa from which he graduated as an M.D. March 10, 1877. Immediately after he returned to Quincy and up to the spring of 1884 was engaged in general practice then became a specialist and has been very successful in his treatment of diseases of the throat nose and lungs. He is at present conducting almost exclusively an office practice which is large and lucrative. He believes in a progressive system of medicine and notes with eager interest every progressive step taken by his profession especially in his specialties.

Dr. Wagner is the inventor of several instruments peculiarly adapted to his line of work and since he entered upon his life work has been a benefactor to mankind. He has always acted with the Republican party. Temperate in all things himself he can not be otherwise than an advocate of temperance in others and strives by every means in his power to promote temperance and sobriety. He is strongly in favor of Prohibition. He is Medical Examiner of Peerless Lodge No. 11 of the Mutual Aid Society of Quincy is interested in many movements tending to the public welfare and as a man his character is unassailable. In the year 1880 he was married to Miss Mary F. Reeder daughter of William Reeder, of Melrose Township, Adams County, but in 1881 he was called upon to mourn her death, she leaving him with one child to care for:

• William W.

His second and present union took place in October, 1886 Miss Mary E. Taylor a daughter of Samuel Taylor of Rockport Pike County, Ill., becoming his wife and eventually the mother of his three children:

• Lila Belle
• Lillian Mae
• Jacob Samuel

Mrs. Wagner is a devout member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is a lady of much intelligence and force of character. This household is an ideal one and she presides over it with a grace and dignity that stamp her as a model lady.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Portrait and biographical record of Adams County, Illinois, 1892

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