- Dr. C. C. CARLTON, Hygienic Institute, West Bridge street;
was born in Frankfort, Waldo
- Co., Maine, July 22, 1840; came to Wisconsin the fall of
1847, locating at Sheboygan Falls, at which place he was teacher
of the High School; from Sheboygan he removed to Cape Girardeau,
still teaching school, thence to Washington, D.C., where he was
engaged as short-hand reporter at the Smithsonian Institution;
Dr. CARLETON enlisted, May 9, 1861, in the Pennsylvania Reserves,
Co. I, Capt. Holmes, and was detached from the regiment for secret
service or scouting; at the close of the war, held a clerkship
in the Inspector's Department, in Washington; he was in Andersonville
Prison for eight and a half months, which greatly impaired his
general health; from Washington removed to Boston, where for
eleven years he engaged in public lecturing on Physiology, Mental
science and Temperance; from Boston he came to Wisconsin, where
for two and a half years, he engaged in lecturing and also established
a hygienic institution at Darien, Wis.; was burnt out at that
place in the spring of 1877, and then located at Beloit and established
a hygienic institution and water-cure for the curing of chronic
diseases; the Doctor is meeting with good success and his business
is constantly increasing.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 738.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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