Paddock, Solomon A.

Born: 1823-09-23 Hudson, New York

Died: 1862-02-18 Bloomington, Illinois

Flourished: 1846 to 1862 Princeton, Illinois

Solomon A. Paddock, physician, graduated from the medical college of New York University in 1844 and served as a resident surgeon at the New York Hospital the following year. Several members of Paddock’s family moved to Princeton, Illinois, and he settled there as well around 1846 and established a medical practice. From December 1856 through May of the following year, Paddock was a proprietor of the Rock Island Advertiser. On the outbreak of the Civil War Paddock organized Company K of the Ninth Illinois Cavalry, and after mustering in at Springfield in October 1861, he was stationed at Chicago where he was elected lieutenant colonel. His regiment was in the process of travelling to Missouri when Paddock died unexpectedly en route. He married Angelica Hamilton Boyd in 1849 and the pair had three children who lived to adulthood. In politics Paddock was first a Whig and later a Republican, and he represented Bureau County at the 1858 Illinois Republican Convention.

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