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DONNELLY, GEORGE K., Physician and Surgeon, 929 Broadway; residence, same; born in New York City, 1821; entered the Mexican Volunteers as a private, and fought through that war. He was located in Tuluca, Mexico, for the treatment of catarrh, where he studied medicine, graduated, and practiced until 1851, when he returned to the United States and settled in Detroit, Mich., then went to Chicago and graduated at the Hahnemann Homeopathic College in 1875. He located in this city in 1876. He married Delia P. Scott in 1848; she was born in Detroit, Mich., in 1832; they have five children: Horace B., William J., Norman S., Nellie M., and Alonzo R. They are members of the M. E. Church. He is a Republican. He organized Co. I. of the 25th Regt. Mo. Inf., and was elected captain. When en route to his regiment, with his family, his train on the Hannibal & St. Joe Railroad was thrown into the Platte River by a bridge being burned by the rebels. He was reported killed and his family all seriously hurt. His regiment gave him a soldier’s funeral at Lexington, Mo., supposing he was killed. He was soon at his post again, but forced to resign from the effect of wounds received in the Mexican War.