From History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Volume II, Publ. by The Western Historical Company 1881, Page 1023

C. H. ORTON, M.D., No. 127 Clinton Street, in this city, son of Darius ORTON, was born in Erie County, Pa., November 8, 1823, and spent his boyhood with his father, on the farm, where he was born, and attending public schools.  He graduated from the Academy of Waterford, Pa., in 1843, and then entered upon the study of medicine with his uncle, a practicing physician in Toronto, Canada.  Eighteen months later the young man entered Queen's College, the medical school of Toronto, and graduated thence in 1848.  His father having removed to Steuben County, Indiana, the Doctor visited them and settled in medical practice in DeKalb County, Ind., being married there in the following year to Miss Celestia HANES, with whom in 1849, he came to this State and settled in Oak Creek.  After practicing medicine there for little more than a year, the Doctor came to this city, making it his home.  In the year 1852, the Doctor was chosen City and County Physician, and remained in that office by successive elections twelve years.  In 1852 the Doctor was elected to the Common Council from the South Side, and again in 1860, '61 and'63, and was President of the Board, which position he filled for three  years.  During the tenure of President Buchanan, the Doctor was appointed Marine Physician of this port; in 1860 was elected a member of the County Board of Supervisors, and in the following year School Commissioner from his district.  In the year 1866, he was sent to the Wisconsin Assembly as a member from his ward in this city; and during the war he was Medical Examiner for the Navy at this port, having charge also of the Government Pest-house here.  President Johnson appointed him Pension Examiner and he was Health Officer of the city for about seven years, besides being nominated once as mayor of the city.  For one year he was proprietor and published of the Daily News, 1859-60, and was one of the discoverers of that valuable bed of cement, which as the "Milwaukee Cement" is already well and favorably known throughout the Union.

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