Dr. Cleora Elizabeth Prosser
- Born: 23 Jan 1861, Keosauqua, Iowa
- Married: 1896, Wheaton, DuPage County, Illinois
- Died: 1946, Winfield, DuPage County, Illinois
General Notes:
Dr. Cleora Elizabeth Prosser Gilbert was educated at the Penn. State School for Soldiers & Orphans, & later at Mansfield, Tioga Co., Pa., Teachers College, she returned to teach public schools for 10 years during the Bradford Oil Discovery. In 1893 she came with her mother to Chicago, to study medicine. While at Hanamann Medical College she met Wm. S. Gilbert, a classmate from Jamestown, N.Y. In 1896 Cleora & Dr. Wm. S. Gilbert were married & started housekeeping at the southeast corner of Memorial Park, in Wheaton, Ill. Upon graduation the two young doctors opened an office & practiced medicine in a house where now stands Wheaton Memorial Roll of Honor. "She was a very smart Dr." said the late Dr. Chas. Mayo, of Rochester, Minn.
Cleora married Dr. William S. Gilbert, son of Lester bertram Gilbert and Unknown, in 1896 in Wheaton, DuPage County, Illinois. (Dr. William S. Gilbert died in 1932.)
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