An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., 
The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 431

	FREDERICK A. CHURCHILL, M.D., representative among the medical practitioners
of Seattle, Washington, was born in Hillsdale, Michigan, June 25, 1856. His
parents, Professor C. H. and Mary (Turner) Churchill, are natives of New
Hampshire, their ancestors being among the pioneer settlers of that State.
Professor Churchill is a graduate of Dartmouth College. After his marriage, he
moved to Hillsdale, Michigan, where he was a professor in the Hillsdale College
until 1859, since which time he has been professor of astronomy in the Oberlin
College, Oberlin, Ohio.
	The subject of our sketch was educated at Oberlin, where he received the
degree of A.B., and subsequently that of A.M. He then engaged in the study of
medicine and entered the Homeopathic Medical College at Chicago, where he
graduated in 1882, with honorable mention, his average being 1,286 out of a
possible 1,300, at that time the highest average granted by the college. After
his graduation he served one year as house surgeon of the college hospital, and
a second year as lecturer and demonstrator of chemistry at the college, which
position he resigned in 1884 to come to Seattle, deeming this the future city of
the Northwest. Here he immediately engaged in practice, soon became prominent in
his profession, and to-day is ranked among the foremost practitioners of the
city. With the change of city charter in 1890, provisions were made for the
establishment of a Board of Health, and Dr. Churchill was appointed a member of
that Board, time duties of which position he discharged for two years, having
full charge of the sanitary affairs of the city.
	Dr. Churchill is a member of the State Homeopathic Medical Society, and is
president of the King County Homeopathic Medical Society, which he was actively
instrumental in organizing. Socially, he is a member of the F. & A.M. Being a
great student and devoted to his profession, he has neither time nor inclination
to engage in outside interests.
	He was married in Chicago, in 1883, to Miss Martha Blanke, a native of
Hamburg, Germany, a lady of refinement and culture, and a graduate of the
musical conservatories of Leipsic and Weimar. They have two children, Elsa and
Frederick A., Jr. The Doctor and his family reside on Olympic avenue, in Queen
Ann Town, where he has recently completed a beautiful home, with a commanding
view of city, Sound and mountain scenery.

Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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