Joel Rogers Gore is the great-grandson of Pioneer Settler Obadiah Gore, grandson of Capt. Daniel Gore and son of farmer George Gore. He married twice first to Sarah A. Fuller and second to Marie Louise Elmers, and they did not have any children. He was a prominent physician in Chicago, and also serving as the Cook County Physician. During the Civil War he was commissioned as a surgeon of the 127th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and joined General Sherman's command at Vicksburg. In 1863 he was promoted to senior surgeon of the First Brigade, and later he was assigned to the staff of Brigadier General Giles A. Smith. After the War, he returned to Cook county and was once again elected the County Physician. Working before the War and after, he was instrumental in getting the Cook county hospital up and running.
Joel Rogers Gore is the great-grandson of Pioneer Settler Obadiah Gore, grandson of Capt. Daniel Gore and son of farmer George Gore. He married twice first to Sarah A. Fuller and second to Marie Louise Elmers, and they did not have any children. He was a prominent physician in Chicago, and also serving as the Cook County Physician. During the Civil War he was commissioned as a surgeon of the 127th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and joined General Sherman's command at Vicksburg. In 1863 he was promoted to senior surgeon of the First Brigade, and later he was assigned to the staff of Brigadier General Giles A. Smith. After the War, he returned to Cook county and was once again elected the County Physician. Working before the War and after, he was instrumental in getting the Cook county hospital up and running.
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