Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
UTLER,
WILLIAM STEPHEN, M. D., of Whitley’s Point, Moultrie county, Ills.,
was born October 10th, 1813, near Akron, Summit county, O. His father,
Stephen Willis Butler, served during the war of 1812, in the Ohio
volunteers, and his grandfather, Stephen Butler, in the revolutionary
army, witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. At twenty-one
years of ago he commenced carriage building, and drove that business
several years. In 1844, he began the study of medicine under the
direction of D. Shepherd, M. D., of the allopathic school. After
finishing a course of study with Dr. David Shepherd, he devoted a year
to the study of homœopathy, and then commenced practice, in which he
was very successful and very popular among his patients, and in which he
continued for ten years. In 1859, he entered the Western Homœopathic
College, at Cleveland, O., and graduated February 28th, 1861.In 1836, he, married
Miss Wallace. Soon after he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
which he still continues. He is a member of the Ohio State Homœopathic
Society, and belonged to the Western Homœopathic Society until it
merged in the American. Since leaving Ohio he has paid no further
attention there. He is the only homœopathic physician in Moultrie
county. The homœopathic practice there is so new that, excepting one in
Mattoon, six miles from his residence, there is not a homœopathic
physician within a circle of twenty or thirty miles. He has quite a good
practice, and intends and hopes to increase it, if strict attention to
business, and faithful attendance upon, and kindness to, the afflicted
will produce that increase.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave