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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Charles A. MATEER, M.D. 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Joan Achille and Alice Stipak. 

[Surnames: GLENDENING, JACOBUS, MATEER] 

[Page 974] 

    
MATEER, Charles A., M. D.--In adding the name of Charles A. Mateer to its citizenship in 1897, London Mills was to profit by the services of a man who possessed both the ambition and ability to make himself a factor of large professional usefulness. Dr. Mateer is of Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish ancestry, and in the Quaker State were born his parents, James and Esther A. (Glendening) Mateer, the former April 3, 1829, and the latter September 5, 1836. The family for generations had been farmers, and James Mateer came to Fulton County in 1865, a few years later settling on the farm in Young Hickory Township, where his son, Charles A., was born September 5, 1867. With the exception of the period between 1851 and 1853 spent in California the elder Mateer conducted general farming and stock-raising in Young Hickory Township from the time of his arrival until his death, November 27, 1905. 
    
Charles A. Mateer received his education in the common schools of Northern Illinois, the Normal School at Dixon and the Kentucky State University at Lexington, Ky. Professionally he was equipped at the Hahnemann Medical College in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1896, and later practiced medicine and surgery in Hammond and Burnettsville, Ind., coming from the latter place to London Mills in 1897. In the meantime a gratifying patronage has grown up around him, and a large following has responded to his practical demonstrations of skill and resource. A rare quality among professional men, he has also shrewd financial sagacity, and is one of the promoters and a stockholder in the local Telephone Company. Dr. Mateer is a member of various medical societies, and fraternally is connected with the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Masons. At Farmington, Ill., April 2, 1890, he was united in marriage to Eliza Jacobus, a native of that place, born February 10, 1869, and to them have been born three children: James E., Mary E. and Charles H. Dr. Mateer has a tactful and sympathetic manner, and a personality which inspires confidence in his good will and ability.