Weller van Hook - Revision history

Wjhonson at 04:53, 20 November 2010

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Wjhonson at 00:00, 2 June 2007

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->==Acknowledgements==
+==Acknowledgements==
 A sizable contribution to the present biography is made by the online manuscript of a biography on him by Chauncey Maher (see Primary sources below), to which I've added details as they are known from other sources and clarified a few unclear sections.
 ==Biography==

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-==Acknowledgements==
+>==Acknowledgements==
 A sizable contribution to the present biography is made by the online manuscript of a biography on him by Chauncey Maher (see Primary sources below), to which I've added details as they are known from other sources and clarified a few unclear sections.
 ==Biography==

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 He carried on a rather limited surgical practice at the South Shore Hospital until at least 1925.  He still maintained his faith and interest in the Theosophical Society. "He felt that he had the occult power of being able to communicate with other adept leaders of the faith, and told me he conversed frequently with Annie Besant, then in India."[http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Maher%20C%20--%20A%20Man%20of%20Good%20Will.pdf]
-At the end, he was estranged from his family.  His wife was still in England, and his son had renounced Theosophy many years before. [http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Maher%20C%20--%20A%20Man%20of%20Good%20Will.pdf (see page 23)] About 1931, he left Chicago and went to a farm near Coopersville, Illinois, where he spent the remaining two years of his life.  Weller van Hook died June 30, 1933 of a stroke, in or near Chicago, Illinois where a brief death notice appeared in the ''Chicago Tribune'' (Jul 2, and Jul 5).  His body was cremated, and his funeral supervised by the Masonic Lodge.
+At the end, he was estranged from his family.  His wife was still in England, and his son had renounced Theosophy many years before. [http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Maher%20C%20--%20A%20Man%20of%20Good%20Will.pdf (see image 25 which is page 23)] About 1931, he left Chicago and went to a farm near Coopersville, Illinois, where he spent the remaining two years of his life.  Weller van Hook died June 30, 1933 of a stroke, in or near Chicago, Illinois where a brief death notice appeared in the ''Chicago Tribune'' (Jul 2, and Jul 5).  His body was cremated, and his funeral supervised by the Masonic Lodge.
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 Weller van Hook was born 14 May 1862 in Greenville, Indiana, son of William Russell van Hook (b 1837) and Phebe Matilda "Tillie" Weller (1839-1889).
-He attended the University of Michigan, receiving his B.A. in 1884.  He then went to Chicago, where he attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons (later re-named the Division of Medicine at the University of Illinois) and graduated in 1885.  He interned at the Cook County Hospital from July 1885 to Jan 1887.  He began practice in 1887.  He married Anna C Whaley of Saint Louis, Missouri, also a physician, on Jun 16, 1892.[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vanhook99&id=I03933][http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Maher%20C%20--%20A%20Man%20of%20Good%20Will.pdf]
+He attended the University of Michigan, receiving his B.A. in 1884.  He then went to Chicago, where he attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons (later re-named the Division of Medicine at the University of Illinois) and graduated in 1885.  He interned at the Cook County Hospital from July 1885 to Jan 1887.  He began practice in 1887.  He married Anna Charles Whaley of Saint Louis, Missouri, also a physician, on 16 Jun 1892.[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vanhook99&id=I03933][http://www.chilit.org/Papers%20by%20author/Maher%20C%20--%20A%20Man%20of%20Good%20Will.pdf]
 He was in 1897 appointed the third Chairman in Surgery at Northwestern Medical School.[http://www.medschool.northwestern.edu/depts/urology/history.html]  He became a very well-known surgeon and is called "one of the three top surgeons of this era".

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 ==Secondary sources==
 *[http://content.ancestry.com/browse/bookview.aspx?dbid=24640&iid=dvm_LocHist009768-00190-0&desc=Weller+Van+Hook&rc= His picture] with some biographical details
 *[http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=vanhook99&id=I03916 An Ancestry World Tree Project entry] citing 'The Van Hooks and Allied Families'', Bernice Keister

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 *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6742&iid=ILT9_249-0070&fn=Weller&ln=Van+Hook&st=r&ssrc=&pid=30730974 1880 Census of Illiopolis, Sangamon County, Illinois] showing "William Van Hook, age 42, Physician, born Indiana (parents Kentucky/Virginia); P M, age 39, wife, born Kentucky [and several children including] Weller, age 18, son, born Indiana, At School"
 *[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1920usfedcen%2c&rank=0&gsfn=Weller&gsln=vanHook&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&ufr=0&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&o_it=21416&fh=0&recid=16210572&recoff=1+2 1920 Census of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois] showing "Weller Vanhook, age 57, born Indiana, Medical Physician; wife Anna 53"
 *[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6224&iid=ILT626_425-0137&fn=Weller&ln=Van+Hook&st=r&ssrc=&pid=85534146 1930 Census of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois] showing "Weller Van Hook, age 68, born Indiana, Independent Surgeon; Anna W wife, age 66, born Missouri"