1890 Buchanan and Delaware Counties History pgs .475-476

DR. T. G. MATTHEWS, physician and surgeon of Earlville, Delaware county is a native of Boone Co., Ill., and was born March 20, 1859. He is a son of William W. and Sarah J. Matthews, natives of New York.  His parents
came to Delaware county in 1864, where they still reside.

The doctor's boyhood and young were spent in Delaware county.  He grew up on the farm and divided his time between his duties as a farm boy and his attendance at the public schools.  His education was obtained mainly from the graded schools at Earlville and the German-English college at Galena, Ill. After selecting medicine as his profession, he read under a preceptor for a year, when he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College at New York city, from which he graduated in March, 1887. He at once located at Earlville, where he entered upon the practice of his profession and where he has since continued actively and successfully engaged at it.

November 8, 1888, Dr. Matthews married Miss Annie M. Kennedy, a native of Delaware county and a daughter of one of that county's most reputable citizens.

In November, 1887, Dr. Matthews was elected coroner of Delaware county, and has held the office since, having been twice re-elected. In politics the doctor is a republican. He is well read on the current political issues of the day and is a zealous supporter of the doctrines of his party on all national and state questions. The doctor is also a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Knights of Pythias, and stands well with the members of these crafts. As a physician he enjoys a good practice and as a citizen he holds in a high degree the esteem and confidence of his fellow-citizens.

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