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SHAWGO, J. B., Physician and Surgeon, office and residence 121 South 4th street; born in Muskegon county, Mich., 1842; moved to Fulton county, Ill., 1855, and to Hudson county, 1857. He studied in New York and Chicago; graduated at Bennett Medical College, 1877. He enlisted and was appointed scout, at the breaking out of the war, and did good service for the government in that capacity, in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina; was mustered out at close of the war, after many hair breadth escapes. He taught school twelve years, in different grades; was Professor of mathematics in Bonaparte College, Iowa,1870 and 1871; was Superintendent of schools at Camp Point, one year, and filled similar positions in Bushnell, three years. He holds a diploma from Abingdon College. He married Miss Ada Kirkpatrick, at La Harpe, Ill., in 1875. She was born in Kentucky, in 1845. They have two children: Kirk and Ethel. He is a Democrat and a member of the I. O. M. A. and A. O. U. W.; also a Mason; commenced study of medicine in 1871.