From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 541-542
 
PHILIP S. MAXWELL was born at Guilford, Vermont, April 1, 1799; was educated at 
the Cherry Valley Academy; studied medicine and was graduated from the Medical 
College of New York; opened an office at Sacketts Harbor in 1832; about that 
time married Jerusha, daughter of Jabish and Eunice MOORE, and was commissioned 
assistant-surgeon, United States Army; ordered in 1833 to Fort Dearborn; served 
also at Green Bay; in 1836, being again at Chicago, he, with his half-brother, 
Col. James MAXWELL, invested in the conflicting claims at Lake Geneva and in 
other land; was ordered to Florida in 1838, and later to Fort Smith; resigned 
in 1842 and began successful practice at Chicago.  In 1853 he became state 
treasurer of Illinois; but having built and occupied a summer home overlooking 
Geneva Lake in 1856, his office at Springfield was declared vacant by reason of 
his non-residence in the state.  He renounced Illinois citizenship and 
Democracy, and made his home at Lake Geneva and his political bed with the 
Republican party; though it pleased him not to hear his old-line Whig 
associates rail at General Jackson, as they were rather wont to do.  He died 
November, 1859.  His wife was born December 28, 1804; died at Lake Geneva, 
March 27, 1875.  Dr. MAXWELL's family may be regarded as pioneers of the now 
numerous lakeside dwelling Chicagoans.

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