DR. Z. T. MAGILL
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Born February 2, 1849, in Mason county, Illinois. The first years of his life being spent on a farm with his parents, William E. and Laura Magill, prominent residents, near Topeka. He attended the district school winters, assisting his father on the farm in the summers, until the age of about twenty years. Having a desire to see the western country, he went to Canton, Missouri, where he attended the Christian University. In 1870 he returned and engaged in teaching, and afterwards attended college at Eureka, Woodford county, Illinois. Returning again to Mason county, he engaged in the study of medicine in Havana, and teaching school in the winter. He then made a trip to Jewell City, Kansas, and afterwards engaged in teaching at Mt. Pleasant in that State. He again pursued his studies and attended lectures at Keokuk, Iowa, in the fall and winter of 1873-'74. He returned to Illinois and located at Easton, in Mason county, where he now resides. In 1876 he again attended lectures, and graduated, and resumed his practice in partnership with Dr. Houghton of that place. Dr. Magill is a young man of good abilities, devoted to his profession, studious, and bids fair to rise in future experience.

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