Charles Chester GAFFORD

                   Beatrice, Nebraska Directory, 1893-94
Name:		Charles C Gafford
State:		NE
Occupation:	physician


Ordinance Record	FamilySearch International Genealogical Index v5.0
Charles C. Gafford      Male
		Birth: 	03 APR 1860 	 Des Moines, Iowa
		Death: 	01 FEB 1945
   LDS Ordinances:		Baptism: 	12 MAY 2001 	ARIZO
			Endowment: 	07 JUL 2001 	ARIZO
			Sealing to Parents: 22 AUG 2001 	ARIZO
				Joseph C Gafford / Margaret Dorcas Sherwood

also recorded B. 3 Apr 1860. no children.
raised orphan train girl Grace Devoe who married Dudley Scott, in Beatrice, Neb.
According to Gafford Newsletter, Vol. I, issue l:  Grace had a sister, Edith who died in college and a brother Seymour DeVoe all in Wymore.  Their parents were Hugush (sp?) and Alice DeVoe.  Grace married Dudley Scott then a Furey and had two daughters, both living in Ill.  She was b. 22 June 1900 in NYC and died 6 Nov. 1984. She lived in Chicago as adult. She went to live with Gaffords, 20 Mar 1905.

Western Nebraska History and Biography
Gafford, C.C., Gage county, Session 20


1900 census, Wymore, Gage Co., Nebraska, E.D. 65, sheet 7, image 14
#150, Gafford, Charles C., head, Apr 1861, 39, married 13 years, Iowa, Maryland, Maryland, physician
                      Mary F., wife, July 1859, 40, married 13 years, mother of 0 children, New York, NY, NY

Family Bible Record:  "Charles Chester Gafford was born April the 2 AD 1858"


studied in Hiawatha with Dr. J. Bussing,
grad. Keokuk, Iowa, March 3, 1881
went to Wymore, then N.Y. Polyclinic, 1883, then Wymore State Leg.1886, Rep.
married Mary Fenton from Randolph, NY

1885 Nebraska census:
listed alone:
Name: Dr Gafford Race: W Birth Place: New York ED: 337Loc: City of Wymore,Gage,NebraskaDate: 10 Jun 1885Enumerator: A. G. KeineLocality: Midway BoroughED: 192OSPage Number: 9B

Rootsweb:  Gage County, Nebraska, "Portrait and Biographical Album of..."  1888
R. CHARLES C. GAFFORD is a leading and prominent physician and surgeon in Wymore. His father, Joseph Gafford, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1822. He received a common-school education in the city of his birth, and while still a young man he went to LaFayette, Ind., where he was for many years engaged in the furniture business. In 1873 he removed with his family to White Cloud, Kan., where he continued in the same business until about 1880, when he bought a farm eight miles north of Hiawatha, Kan., on which he still lives. He married Miss Doreas Sherwood, and to them have been born eleven children, ten of whom are still living, viz: William, Delia, Anna, Alvin, Charles C. (our subject), Elizabeth, John, George, James and Daniel. Dr. Gafford was born on the 3d of April, 1860, in Des Moines, Iowa, and when he was a small child his parents moved to Rensselaer, Ind., thence to Burlington, Kan., and again, to White Cloud. In Burlington our subject began the pursuit of his education, supplementing it with a High School course at White Cloud, after which he began the study of medicine in the year 1877 with Dr. J. Bussing, of Hiawatha, Kan. He took a course of lectures in 1879-80, and another course in 1880-81, at Keokuk, Iowa, being graduated on the 3d of March in the class of '81. Immediately after his graduation our subject came to Wymore and began the practice of his profession, where he continued for two years, when he completed his professional knowledge by a course at the New York Polyclinic in the spring of 1883. Then he returned to Wymore, and has continued his practice up to the present time, having become a prominent surgeon in this vicinity, also
being the surgeon for the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, and examiner for all the old-time insurance companies doing business in Wymore. Dr. Gafford was elected to the State Legislature in 1886, on the Republican ticket, serving as Chairman of the Committee on Asylums, also on the Committee of Labor, his term as yet unexpired. He is quite a young man, and has an excellent beginning for a life of prominence and usefulness. Mrs. Gafford was formerly Miss Mary Fenton, of Randolph, N. Y.

Heritage Quest:  Dobbs, Hugh J.
History of Gage County, Nebraska : a narrative of the past, with special emphasis upon the pioneer period of the county's history, its social, commercial, educational, religious, and civic development from the early days to the present time Lincoln, Neb.: Western Pub. and Engraving Co., 1918, 1102 pgs
       Charles C. Gafford, M.D., was the first physician to locate in what is now the city of Wymore, Gage county.  Dr. Gafford was born at Des Moines, Iowa, February 23, 1860, a son of James (sic) and Dorcas (Sherwood) Gafford, natives of Maryland and New York, respectively.  The marriage of the parents was solemnized in Ohio and the father thereafter was engaged in the furniture and undertaking business in Des Moines, Iowa; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Hiawatha, Kansas.  He died in Kansas, at the age of eighty-four years, and his wife was seventy-two years of age when she was called to her final rest.  Dr. Charles C. Gafford was one of a family of eleven children and his boyhood days were spent largely at Hiawatha, Kansas, where he attended the public schools.  He prepared for his profession at the Keokuk medical College, Keokuk, Iowa, in which institution he was graduated in 1881.  In that year he came to Wymore, then a new town, and here he had the distinction of becoming the first physician and surgeon of the vital little village, which has been developed into a fine community.
       Dr. Gafford has taken a keen interest in all civic affairs of the community and has served as mayor of Wymore.  In 1887-1888 he represented Gage County in the lower house of the state legislature, in which he served as chairman of the committee on asylums.  Along strictly professional lines he is a member of the American Medical Assocition, the Gage County Medical Society and the International Association of Railroad Surgeons.  For thirty-six years Dr. Gafford has been division surgeon for the Burlington Railroad, and this is a longer continuous service than that of any other Burlington Surgeon west of the Missouri river.
       Dr. Gafford married Miss Mary Fenton, a native of New York.  They have one child, Miss Grace.


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GAFFORD, CHARLES C: Retired Physician & Surgeon; b Des Moines Ia Apr 23, 1857; s of Joseph Gafford- Dorcas Sherwood; ed Kas; Coll of Phys & Surg, Keokuk, Ia MD 1881; ten grad courses; NY Polyclinic & Chicago post grad sch; m Mary Fenton Oct 18, 1887 Randolph NY (dec Oct 26, 1938); d Grace Mrs Dudley C Scott); came to Wymore June 9, 1881 ent private prac & shortly afterward apptd surg of Wymore div CB&Q RR; surg for CB&Q RR until retirement 1933; dean of Gage Co medical men, has prac for longer period of time than any other phys in Gage Co; Gage Co Med Soc; Neb St & AMA; Amer Assn of Rwy Surgs; AF&AM; hobby, travels extensively; res Wymore.

caption under photo in Welcome to Gage County, Nebraska  http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/gage/books/jubilee/09.htm#65
Dr. C. C. Gafford, who come to Wymore in 1881, was one of eleven children, five of them doctors. Besides serving as physician in the community for many years, he represented Gage County in the Lower House of the State Legislature in 1887-1888. He passed away Feb. 1, 1945 in Wymore and was buried in Glendale, Calif.

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NEBRASKA STATE GAZETTEER
Business Directory for 1890-1891
Wymore Nebraska:
Gafford Charles C, phys.
Dimmitt Harden W, furniture.