Robert Alfred Windett, M.D.
ELIZA AUSTIN
ELECTA FORD, ELECTA A. FORD
LYMAN FORD
CORA A. HESTER
GEORGE HESTER.
Miss EVELYN S. WEST
ELIJAH WEST
ALFRED and ELECTA (FORD) WINDETT
JOHN F.WINDETT
JOHN and ELIZA (AUSTIN) WINDETT
JAMES F.WINDETT
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Aurora with its pulsing industrial and commercial interests is continually drawing to her men who are capable and successful in the professions. This number includes Dr. ROBERT ALFRED WINDETT, now a well known physician and surgeon. He was born in Bristol, Illinois October 5, 1860, his parents being ALFRED and ELECTA (FORD) WINDETT, the former a native of England, and the latter of Fort Miller, New York. The paternal grandparents were JOHN and ELIZA (AUSTIN) WINDETT, natives of England. They came to America in 1836, and the same year settled in Kendall county, Illinois, where John WINDETT continued to make his home until called to his final rest at an advanced age. His wife reached the very venerable age of eighty-four years, and her death was then occasioned by a broken hip. Previous to that accident she would walk three of four miles on visits to her children.
This number included ALFRED WINDETT, who throughout his entire life followed the occupation of farming. he came to Illinois when a young man in 1836 with his parents, and the family home was established on Rob Roy creek in Kendall county. There the grandfather took up government land and owned a considerable tract, which he improved and developed. His son, ALFRED grew to manhood on that farm and later bought land of his own, having two hundred and fifty acres, which he cultivated throughout this remaining days. He wedded Miss ELECTA A. FORD, a daughter of LYMAN FORD, who was a native of New York and was of Holland Dutch descent. He became and for a time lived in Kendall county. Later he took up his abode in Missouri and eventually went to Omaha, where he died at an advanced age. In the west he followed farming. His wife also reached an old age, They reared a large family, including Mrs. ALFRED WINDETT who surviving her husband, died in 1904, at the age of sixty-three years. Both were Methodists in religious faith. Their family numbered three children ROBERT ALFRED; JOHN F. of Bristol; and JAMES F. of Montgomery, Illinois.
Dr. WINDETT was reared in Kendall county on his father's farm, and after attending the district school continued his education in the Sugar Grove Normal and in Jennings Seminary at Aurora. When he had decided upon the practice of medicine as a life work he entered Rush Medical College of Chicago and was graduated in 1887, after which he located for practice in Aurora, where he has remained continuously since, or for a period of twenty-one years. The public have learned to know and recognize him as one of the capable representatives of the medical fraternity here. His ability has been such as to enable him to cope with many intricate problems that have been presented in various phases of diseases and he is always careful in the diagnosis of a case, while his judgment is rarely if ever at fault in foreseeing the outcome of disease.
In 1886 Dr. WINDETT was married to Miss EVELYN S. WEST, a daughter of ELIJAH WEST. They traveled life's journey together for about nineteen years and were then separated by the death of Mrs. WINDETT in 1905, when she was forty-five years of age. On the 29th of June, 1907, Dr. WINDETT wedded Miss CORA A. HESTER, daughter of GEORGE HESTER.
They are both consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal church and Dr. WINDETT is a prominent Mason, belonging to Aurora Ledge, No. 254, A.F. & A.M.; Aurora Chapter, No. 22, R.A.M.; Aurora Commandery No. 22, K.T.; and the Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Chicago. He is likewise connected with the Oriental Consistory of Chicago, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and he belongs likewise to Waubonsie Lodge, I.O.O.F.; to the Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. Politically he is a republican.
His residence is at No. 111 View Street, where he owns a good home, and he also has several city lots in Aurora, and one hundred and sixty acres of land in Alberta county, Canada. He has thus made investments of his income which has been derived from a good practice, and which has constantly grown as the years have passed by and he has demonstrated his power to check the ravages of disease and promote the restoration of health. He belongs to the Fox River Valley Medical Association, to the Illinois State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and thus keeps in touch with the advanced thought of the profession in its continuous onward march toward that perfection which is the goal of all conscientious physicians. he is a man of strong individuality and keen discernment, bringing these forces to bear in the discharge of his professional duties, while those who know him socially find him in genial gentleman, always courteous and manifesting that deference for opinions of others which ever wins good will and regard in any land or clime.
History of Kane County, Illinois by Joslyn & Joslyn, 1908
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