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"Charles C. Devereaux"

CHARLES C. DEVEREAUX is a fine example of the younger generation of Wisconsin's native
sons. He is a skilled dentist of Janesville, Rock County, and has come to the practice of his profession trained in the best schools of the country, representing the ripest scientific culture of the times.
Dr. DEVEREAUX was born in Evansville, Wis., Feb. 26, 1868, son of Edward and Eva
(WHALEY) DEVEREAUX, natives of New York and Ohio, respectively. They were the parents of four sons and four daughters, and six of their children are now living: Theodore E., of Fort Dodge, Iowa; Harry C., of Algona, Iowa; Charles C.; Claude H., of Humboldt, Iowa; Lula B., wife of Albert DIXON, of Evansville, Wis.; and Kittie D., wife of Arthur SNASHALL, of the same place. The sons are all dentists of high professional character and unusual ability. Edward DEVEREAUX was a cheese and butter maker for many years, and was an early settler in Rock County. The first few years of his residence in Wisconsin were passed in Milwaukee. He moved to Evansville, which city is still his home; his wife died there Dec. 16, 1899. He is a member of the Baptist Church, as was also Mrs. DEVEREAUX. His father, Theodore DEVEREAUX, spent his early life in the State of New York, and died in Iowa, well advanced in years. The DEVEREAUX family were originally French, but has lived many generations in this country, and ranks among the oldest and proudest in New England and New York. The maternal grandfather of the subject of this writing died when a young man.
Charles C. DEVEREAUX was reared on the farm near Evansville, attended the public schools,
and lived on the farm until he was twenty years old. He selected dentistry as his life work, and went into the office of Dr. Theodore DEVEREAUX where he studied until 1891. That fall he entered the Haskell Post Graduate Dental College, and completed the course there. He continued with his brother until 1893, in which year he entered the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, and was graduated with honor in the spring of 1896. He resumed practice with his brother at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and remained with him until January, 1898, when he came to Janesville and opened an office, and at once commanded a flattering clientage from among the best people of the city.
Dr. DEVEREAUX is popular in fraternal circles, and is a member of Union Lodge, No. 32, A.F.
& A.M.; Evansville Chapter, No. 5, R.A.M.; the A.O.U.W.; the Royal Arcanum; and the Royal League; when at college he joined the Delta Sigma, and retains an active interest in that fraternity, holding his membership in Beta Chapter, and also in the Supreme Chapter. In these various associations his manly and genial character has never failed to command respect and win him warm personal friends. He is an active worker in the Southern Wisconsin Dental Association, where his learning and skill are recognized. In politics he is a Republican.
 
Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin" (c) 1901, p. 127.
 
Courtesy of Carol

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