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).
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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