HASTINGS, Thomas Robert
Commemorative and Biographical Record of Columbia, Sauk and Adams Counties, 
WI. Chicago: Ogle, 1901, p 426-427

The medical fraternity has few men among its younger members who have 
attained the degree of success possessed by Thomas Robert HASTINGS, M. D., 
Oph. D. He is perfecting himself in all of the better methods known to the 
profession, and the people in the vicinity of Lime Ridge, Sauk County, know 
him as a faithful physician who stands at the head of his profession. Our 
subject was born in New Jerusalem, New Brunswick, 17 Feb 1859, and was the 
son of Thomas and Emily (LOURIE) HASTINGS, who are now residents of MA. His 
paternal grandparents, Thomas and Elizabeth (GILANDERS) HASTINGS, were [p 
427] natives of Birmingham, England, and the grandfather was a music teacher 
and tailor. He emigrated to a farm in New Brunswick about 1825, where the 
father of our subject also engaged in farming. Emily HASTINGS, the mother of 
our subject, was born in New Brunswick, and was a daughter of Robert and Mary 
Ann (RENNICK) LOURIE. Her father was a Scotchman, who went from Argyle to 
Armagh, Ireland, where he married and soon after removed to New Brunswick, in 
1825.

Thomas Robert HASTINGS as a youth had independent ideas, and although his 
parents intended to fit him for commercial life, he decided to follow a 
professional career. After attaining his majority he went to Boston, and the 
following year to Ridgeway [Ridgway in Elk County?], PA, where he spent four 
years in the study of medicine, and a part of the time he spent in studying 
with his brother, Dr. J. W. HASTINGS, of New Georgetown, OH. Returning to 
Boston he studied architecture at Wells Memorial Institute, and was awarded 
some high commendations for excellent work in that line, but the medical 
profession was his aim, and he accordingly went to Chicago and entered the 
Physio-Medical College, graduating with the class of 1897. In April of that 
year he located at Lime Ridge, where he has continued to practice with ever 
increasing patronage. He has taken a course at the McCormick Optical 
College, of Chicago, and gives special attention to treatment of the eye. He 
carries his own dispensary, and his residence and office erected in 1899 is 
one of the finest buildings in the village of Lime Ridge.

Our subject was married 16 Jul 1890, to Christina DOUGLAS, daughter of Robert 
and Charlotte DOUGLAS, at Cambridge, MA. Mrs. HASTINGS was born in New 
Jerusalem, New Brunswick, where her parents still reside. Three children 
have been born to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. HASTINGS: Ima Columbia, 
Della Josephine and Charlotte Emily. Mr. HASTINGS is a member of the Forest 
Lodge, No. 106, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Lime Ridge, and also the 
Modern Woodmen of America. He is well known as a physician, and holds 
membership in the Illinois Physio-Medical Society. He is independent in his 
political views.
Contributed by Cathy Kubly