{"id":52,"date":"2009-09-21T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T03:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2021-12-03T11:20:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:20:24","slug":"1870-census-showing-peter-reel-living-with-dr-stills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"1870 Census showing Peter Reel living with Dr. Stills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After his father died, young Peter Reel found it difficult to live with his step-mother. He was adopted by Dr. James M. Stills, the brother of the founder of osteopathic medicine in the United States. On the 1870 census, Peter is listed as a farmer living with Dr. Stills. He told his family about making house calls with the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the image of the census:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53\" title=\"1865CensusPeterDrStills\" src=\"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1865CensusPeterDrStills-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"1870 Census showing Peter Reel living with Dr. James M. Stills\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1865CensusPeterDrStills-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/1865CensusPeterDrStills-1024x772.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1870 Census showing Peter Reel living with Dr. James M. Stills<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, Peter&#8217;s sister also left home, working as a housekeeper for a local farmer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54\" title=\"maryJaneReel1870census\" src=\"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/maryJaneReel1870census3-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"1870 Census showing Mary Jane Reel working as housekeeper\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/maryJaneReel1870census3-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/maryJaneReel1870census3-729x1024.jpg 729w, http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/maryJaneReel1870census3.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1870 Census showing Mary Jane Reel working as housekeeper<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After his father died, young Peter Reel found it difficult to live with his step-mother. He was adopted by Dr. James M. Stills, the brother of the founder of osteopathic medicine in the United States. On the 1870 census, Peter is listed as a farmer living with Dr. Stills. He told his family about making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morris-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morris.pulskamp.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}