Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer
June 16, 1867-Dec. 30, 1926
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, January 2, 1926, page 1, col. 4-5, cont. page 2, col. 4, microfilm Niles District Library
MANY CHICAGO PHYSICIANS ATTEND FUNERAL SERVICES HERE FOR DR. EYCLESHYMER
Nine physicians and representatives from the University of Illinois, college of medicine, the widow and three children, Albert Davis, Lois Katherine and Mrs. Edward Kemler, and Mrs. Eycleshymer's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Girth, of Chicago, comprised the party which came to Niles Friday morning with the body of Dr. Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, dean of the college of medicine for seven years, and who was killed on Wednesday by the accidental discharge of his own gun.
The body was taken to the home of Fred B. Eycleshymer at Cedar and Tenth streets, where Rev. O.R. Gratton, pastor of the Methodist church, conducted the funeral services at 2:30 o'clock. Miss Phena Baker sang. The body was laid to rest in Silver Brook cemetery in accordance with the expressed with of Dr. Eycleshymer, and where the bodies of his parents are buried.
Mrs. K.D. Davis, a sister of the deceased, her son, Ward, and the latter's wife, of Albion, met the funeral party here. The doctors who came to Niles with the body, who served as pallbearers had all been associates and friends for many years of Dr. Eycleshymer at the university.
The representatives of the university who came to Niles, and who served as active and honorary pallbearers were all friends of Dr. Eycleshymer through years of association at the university. They were Dr. D.G. Davis, Dr. V.E. Emmel, Dr. William Welker, Dr. Hugh McGingan, Dr. O.E. Nadeau, Dr. William Petersen, Dr. C.S. Bacon, T. Jones, an artist of the college, and W.J. Brown, secretary of the school of medicine.
Albert Chauncey Eycleshymer, anatomist, was born in Cambridge, N.Y., June 16, 1867, a son of David C. and Annie Terry Eycleshymer. B.S. Universty of Michigan, 1891; fellow, Princeton, 1891; Clark University, 1892; University of Chicago, 1893, Ph.D., latter 1895; student University of Cambridge, England, 1895-06; Austin fellow, Harvard university, 1901; M.D., St. Louis university, 1901; married Mary Elizabeth Donovan, Chicago, September 23, 1895. Assistant professor human embryology, Rush Medical college, Chicago, 1897-09 assistant professor human anatomy, University of Chicago, 1893; director of anatomy department, 1903-13, acting dean College of Medicine, 1913, St. Louis university professor and head of department of anatomy since 1913 and dean of faculty since 1917, College Medicine, University Illinois, Chicago. Member National board of medical examiners. Receied[sic] grand prize for embryol work from Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. Fellow A.A.A.S.; member American Society Naturalists, American Society Zoologists, American Academic Medicine.
Author: A Cross Section Anatomy; Anatomical Names; Manual of Surgical Anatomy for United States Army and Navy, 1919. Home, 201 S. Ridgeland Ave., Oak Park.