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Dr Charles Lucius Van Doren

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Dr Charles Lucius Van Doren

Birth
Farmington, Fulton County, Illinois, USA
Death
27 Oct 1933 (aged 76)
Urbana Township, Champaign County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Urbana, Champaign County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Father of 5 Sons, Carl, Mark, Guy, Paul and Frank
Married 7 May 1883 in Vermilion Co, IL.
Physician; educated at Bennet's Medical College, Chicago; Graduated from medical school in 1881, taking the 1st prize in Practical Chemistry; settled in Hope, Illinois; in addition to practicing medicine there, he farmed for 10 years and served on the local school board; removed to Urbana in 1900 for his children to attend the University of Illinois, living until he died on Oregon Street, the house having burned down after Eudora died; there is a shrine of sorts to Charles and his family in the Hope, Illinois church.
Father of Pulitzer Prize winners Carl Clinton Van Doren (1938) and Mark Albert Van Doren (1940).
Father of 5 Sons, Carl, Mark, Guy, Paul and Frank
Married 7 May 1883 in Vermilion Co, IL.
Physician; educated at Bennet's Medical College, Chicago; Graduated from medical school in 1881, taking the 1st prize in Practical Chemistry; settled in Hope, Illinois; in addition to practicing medicine there, he farmed for 10 years and served on the local school board; removed to Urbana in 1900 for his children to attend the University of Illinois, living until he died on Oregon Street, the house having burned down after Eudora died; there is a shrine of sorts to Charles and his family in the Hope, Illinois church.
Father of Pulitzer Prize winners Carl Clinton Van Doren (1938) and Mark Albert Van Doren (1940).


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