Illinois:  History of Cass County, Illinois, ed. William 
Henry Perrin. O. L. Baskin & Co. Historical Publishers, 
Chicago, 1882.  Cass County.

C.E. PARKER, Physician, Beardstown; was born in Amherst, 
Hillsboro Co., N.H., Oct. 4, 1813. He entered Dartmouth 
College in 1830, and graduated in 1834. He then entered 
upon a course of medical study: first in Dartmouth, then 
Harvard, and graduated from Yale Medical Department in 
1837. He located at the Insane Asylum, at Pepperell, Mass., 
where he remained until 1855, himself and uncle being 
proprietors of the establishment; also engaged in general 
practice. In 1855, he came to Beardstown, and with the 
exception of six or seven years in the drug business in 
Springfield, has practiced in Beardstown. The Doctor is a 
member of the Illinois Medical Society, and is known and 
recognized as one of the oldest practitioners of his 
profession in the State.

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