It is seldom that a young physician entering upon the practice of his
profession achieves instantaneous and striking success. The path that leads
to a large and lucrative practice is in nearly every case a weary and
tortuous one, but to all rules there are exceptions. The physician whose
life is discussed in this sketch, Dr. Carl D. Sanders, although one of the
younger of Union county's medical men, has, nevertheless, in the few brief
years that he has followed his calling attained an eminence that places him
well in the van as a prominent and successful physician and surgeon. He was
born in Jonesboro, Illinois, his present field of practice, in 1880, and is
a son of Dr. David R. and Lydia (Rauch) Sanders, and a grandson of Abraham
and Mary Sanders, farming people of Tennessee.
Dr. David R. Sanders was born in Tennessee, in 1845, and came to Williamson
county, Illinois, when a lad of eight years. He resided on his father's farm
there until 1863, in which year he enlisted in Company E, Eighty-first
Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close
of the Civil war. For some years he was a school teacher in Williamson
county, was ordained a minister of the Missionary Baptist church, and for
thirty-five years was engaged in the practice of medicine, the last six
years of his life being spent as assistant surgeon at the Southern Illinois
Hospital for the Insane. His death occurred in 1907, while he was
discharging the duties of that office. Dr. Sanders was much interested in
political matters and one of the leaders of the Republican party in his
section. His widow, who survives him, makes her home at Jonesboro with her
son.
Dr. Carl D. Sanders attended the public schools of Jonesboro, after which he
took a literary course in the Union Academy, Anna, and graduated therefrom
in 1899. For some time he was engaged in hospital work, which experience was
a most valuable one, enabling the young physician to observe various medical
and surgical cases, as well as to come in contact with some of the most
skilled and prominent physicians and surgeons of the state, and to note
their methods of diagnosis and treatment of difficult and baffling cases. In
1904 he entered the Ensworth Medical College, at St. Joseph, Missouri, from
which he was graduated in 1908, at which time he entered the medical field
at Jonesboro. As has been said, his success here was instantaneous and
complete. Being naturally endowed with a genial nature and agreeable
manners, he made hosts of friends and the extent of his practice rapidly
increased.
In 1908 Dr. Sanders was united in marriage with Miss Ella Jane Pickles, who
was born in Johnson county, Illinois, in 1883. They have had no children.
Dr. Sanders belongs to the Masonic Blue Lodge, No. Ill, and the Odd Fellows,
both of Jonesboro, and his profession connects him with the Union County and
Illinois State Medical Associations and the American Medical Association. He
is a learned and skilled physician, and a young man in every way entitled to
the admiration and respect of all who are acquainted with him.
Extracted 13 Nov 2018 by Norma Hass from 1912 A History of Southern Illinois, volume 3, pages 1348-1349.
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