Book 2, Chapter 4: Long Circuits and Short

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌⁠James Randolph was a native Chicagoan, but his father, an intelligent and prosperous physician, with a general practise in one of the northern suburbs, afterward annexed to the city, did not belong to the old before-the-fire aristocracy that Rodney and Frederica, and Martin Whitney, the Crawfords and Violet Williamson were born into. The medical tradition carried itself along to the third generati