Edward M. Bench, physician and surgeon, Galena, Ill., was born in the city where he now resides, May 18, 1872, and graduated from the Northwestern University (Department of Medicine), Chicago, in 1898. serving as an intern in the Cook County Hospital for the following two years. He began the practice of his profession Feb. 1, 1900. Source History of Jo Daviess County -- 1904 BIRKBECK, THOMAS T. , farmer and mine operator, Council Hill Township, Jo Daviess County, was born in Millbrig, Jo Daviess County, Ill., in 1837. His father, Samuel Birkbeck, who was a native of England, after coming to the United States spent some time in Pennsylvania, and located at Millbrig, Vinegar Hill Township, in 1837. The following year he removed to the farm adjoining where Thomas T. Birkbeck now lives, and there died in 1881. Mr. Birkbeck, the subject of this sketch, was elected Supervisor in 1903, and has been Commissioner of Highways for five years. For a number of years he has served on the School Board. His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Benjamin Lethleam, of Council Hill. To them have been born six children: Samuel, who is a physician at Gratiot, Wis.; Camilla, the wife of Thomas Graham, of Vinegar Hill; Sarah, who is living at the paternal home; Benjamin, Principal of the high school at Ladysmith, Wis.; Thomas A., living at home, and Ella, the wife of George Graham, of Vinegar Hill.

History of Jo Davies 1904 - Contributed by Christine Walters