- Dr. Robert Byron TREAT. One of the Janesville's early physicians
was Dr. R. B. TREAT, who
- was born in New York state, August, 2, 1824, graduated from
the Eclectic Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1847, and
began practice in Janesville in 1848, driving from La Porte,
Ind., where he was married, through Michigan City, Chicago and
Beloit.
- Dr. TREAT was one of the founders of the Janesville Dailey
and Weekly "Free Press" in 1853,
- and was mayor of the city in 1860, and again in 1863.
- In 1871 Dr. TREAT removed to Chicago, where he was in practice
up to within a year of his
- death, which occurred December 20, 1897. His widow and son
are still residing in Janesville.
-
- Taken from "Rock County, Wisconsin, Vol. I"
by William Fiske Brown, (c)1908, p. 468.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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