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I am providing this genealogical and biographical information with the hopes of aiding someone in their search. I do research for those whose lines come through Stark County IL where I live. Some of this information I provide here has only previously appeared in local records and histories. My website where all information is completely free and accessible is at :
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wyomingillinois/
Alfred Castle M.D. son of Samuel and Phoebe(Parmalee) Castle, was born at Sullivan, Madison county, N.Y. on September 22, 1806. His father was a native of Berkshire county and the cousin of Ethan Allen and a descendant of the Irish family of Castles who settled in Connecticut among its pioneers. His mother was of Belgian lineage. Dr. Castle was a resident graduate of Harvard college and also at Massachusetts hospital Boston. He practiced two years at Brockport before obtaining his degree of M.D. in 1834 at the Berkshire school. During the two suceeding years he practiced in Monroe county. On May 19, 1835 he married Miss Maria P. Dana, the daughter of Col. Daniel Dana of the U.S. Army, who commanded the Vermont volunteers during the war of 1812. In 1836 he set out for Peoria IL on a one-horse buggy, leaving his wife to follow. He resided there five or six years before returning to Vermont only to again move in 1843 to Wyoming IL in Stark County. Dr. and Mrs. Castle were the parents of five children, two of whom died in infancy. He was the active agent in building the B. & R. Railroad of which his son Alfred was President. During his forty years of duty in this country he merited and obtained many tokens of popular esteem.
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