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CHAPTER XII.
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.*
THE first physician who located and began practice within the limits of Clinton County was Dr. Loammi Rigdon, a native of the State of Pennsylvania, where his elementary and medical education had been received. He located in the village of Wilmington in the fall of 1812, and boarded at the hotel of Warren Sabin. During the ensuing summer, he was united in marriage with Miss Dunley, of Lebanon, and erected his log cabin on South street near the present residence of David Rudduck. For years, he was engaged in most laborious practice in the new county of Clinton, and received a very poor compensation for the services rendered. In the. science of medicine and art of surgery, Dr. Rigdon equaled if not surpassed any of that profession who have since heen local practitioners of the county. He was a noble specimen of man, being moral, upright, industrious and courteous to all. He was a worthy and earnest member of the Baptist Church, and possessed the good will and friend. ship of all who knew him. After following his profession in Wilmington and vicinity for thirteen years, without realizing a fair consideration for his labor; Mr. Rigdon removed from the county and located in the town of Hamilton, where from a large and voluntary patronage he amassed quite a fortune. In that locality he spent many years in the onerous duties of his profession, and died full of years and full of works.
Dr. James McGee located in Wilmington in 1814. On his arrival in the village, he made his home and had his office in Satin's Hotel. In the year 1815, he was married to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Judge George McManis, Sr. He built his cabin on South street adjoining the residence of Dr. Rigdon. Mr. McGee, though a well-educated physician, had no love nor admiration for his profession, and did not engage in general practice. Not long after his marriage he was appointed Postmaster of the village, and also to fill the office of County Recorder. He performed the duties of these offices for a short time only, not having been permitted to remain long in office. In a few years after his marriage, the Doctor, while yet in early manhood, was called to final rest, leaving an only child He was a modest and unassuming man, had no enemies, and lived in peace with his neighbors.
Dr. Uriah Farquhar, son of Benjamin Farquhar, who was one of the earliest settlers on Todd's Fork, then in Warren County, was educated for the medical profession and placed in the office of Dr. La Throp, of Waynesville, with whom he remained until the close of the war of 1812-15, when he had completed his studies. Soon thereafter he located in Wilmington and occupied as a residence and office the house now owned by Clum Marble. He was possessed of a strong nervous and sanguine temperament, was very credulous and easily imposed upon. In improving the rich and fertile soil of Clinton County, the atmosphere was filled with malarial poison, and diseases in this locality were very common in the summer and fall seasons, and the physi cians had much to do. The Doctor devoted himself with unabated energy to relieving the people from their malarial complaints, and, after laboring for twenty yeas or more in Clinton County, he removed to Logansport, Ind., where
* The material contained in this chapter has bean furnished entirely by Dr. A. Jones, of Wilmington, who deserves much credit fur the work, which, it may be imagined, was laborious to a great degree.
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he remained in the pursuit of his profession until he had completed his four score years. The fullness of time had then arrived when he had to part with his much-beloved work, and his many friends and admirers. He was for many years a member of the Christian Church. He was ever ready to give attention to all who needed his services. With a kind heart and generous nature it was hard to amass wealth, and equally to retain it; hence, when he left Wilmington, he was not overburdened with currency or property.
Dr. Grier settled in Wilmington in 1817, opened an office, and began the practice of medicine. It was thought that he possessed too great a love for stimulants, which caused much opposition, resulting in charges being brought against him, which he could not successfully resist; and, therefore, after struggling for two or three years against the tide, he left for a locality of more hopeful prospects.
Dr. Turner Welch, a native of the State of North Carolina, came to Ohio and commenced the practice of medicine in Wilmington in 1818. He occupied as an office a room in a building that stood on the northeast corner of Main and Mulberry streets, on the lot now occupied by George Brindle. Soon after his removal to this locality, he was united in marriage with Hester, daughter of John Fallis. Dr. Welch was. then induced by his father and father-in-law to remove from Wilmington to a farm near Oakland, now the Dr. Hormell residence. In 1825, Dr. Rigden moved to Hamilton, and Dr. Welch at once occupied the opening caused by the removal. Here he eon tinned to practice until 1836, when he moved to the Wea Plains, Ind. After remaining several years he became dissatisfied in that State, and again came to Ohio; but, not being contented, returned to Indiana. During his residence in Wilmington in 1826-27, he attended lectures in the Medical College of Ohio, and graduated in medicine and surgery. In the war with England, Dr. Welch served as Assistant Surgeon. After the close of the war in 1815, he returned to his home in North Carolina, and remained with his preceptor until the time when be emigrated to Ohio. Toward the close of his life, the Doctor drew a pension from the Government for services rendered, which acknowledgment gave him more pleasure than all the money and property he possessed. At the advanced age of eighty-four years, more than sixty of which had been occupied in active practice, he laid down his scalpel and medicine case to join many of his long-absent friends. In the profession he sustained a good reputation and toward his competitors was courteous and kind With this sketch of Dr. Welch ends the physicians who settled in Wilmington from the year 1810 to 1820.
Dr. S. Judkins, in 1825, located in Wilmington, and, for several years, was engaged in professional duties in and about the village; but, not meeting with the success he anticipated, he removed to Highland County, settling in Leesburg, where he had formerly practiced. Here he regained former patronage, and met with good success.
Dr. Amos Tiffin Davis began the practice of medicine in Clarksville, this county, in the year 1829, and, with the exception of eight or ten years of practice in Cincinnati, and at other points, has since been a resident of Clinton County, and continues in active practice, and to-day, though in his eightieth year, he is still administering to the wants of ailing and suffering humanity. Dr. Davis was born of parents Isaac and Mary (Tiffin) Davis, the latter being a sister of Edward Tiffin, the first Governor of Ohio. The father was a native of Pennsylvania, and the mother of Ireland. The former settled in Ross County, in this State, in the year 1800, and was a farmer by occupation. Our subject was here born January 9, 1803, and reared amid agricultural pursuits, assisting his father on the farm until twenty years of age, when he went to
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Chillicothe and placed himself under the tuition of Dr. Pinkerton, with whom he remained two years. He then entered the Medical Department of the Transylvania University, at Lexington, Ky., remaining several months; then entered upon the practice of his profession, as above stated. April 20, 1826, he was united in marriage with Priscilla, daughter of James Birdsall, an early pioneer of Clinton County, where the daughter was born. To this union one child was born, Mary D., the widow of Rev. G. R. McMillan. In early life, Dr. Davis united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he has been an earnest and faithful member for sixty years, and since his removal to Wilmington, soon after his location at Clarksville, in 1829, has been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church in that village. He has twice served the people of the county in the General Assembly, to which he was elected in 1830 and 18:39. In politics, he has been identified with the Republican party since its organization, having been formerly an "Old-Line Whig."
Dr. Aquila Jones, now engaged in the active practice of medicine in Wilmington, and one of the pioneer physicians of this locality, was born at Bean Station, Granger Co., East Tenn., ApriL 10, 1807. His parents were William and Deborah (McVeigh) Jones, who settled in what is now Union Township, Clinton County, in the spring of 1810. In 1823, our subject entered the office of Dr. Loammi Rigdon, and with him commenced the study of medicine. On the removal of Dr. Rigdon from Wilmington in 1825, Dr. Jones further prosecuted his studies under the instruction of Dr. Turner Welch, whom he assisted in practice in 1827, 1828 and 1829. Permit us, in this connection, to state that during the year 1829, the malarial or typhoid fever prevailed in the county as an epidemic, and for a portion of the year Dr. Jones was actively engaged in the duties of his profession in the eastern part of the county, where for a time he opened an office at Parris' Hotel, from which point he made his way over logs and through the mud and mire to the log cabins where many of the pioneers were prostrated with this fever. We will warrant that there was then no poetic fervor or amusement in the daily pursuit of such a profession. How arduous were the duties of the physicians of that day! They were few in number, and all located at the county seat. Patients were in all parts of the county, and the only mode of reaching them was by horseback, requiring journeys of from ten to fifteen miles, and in the sickly seasons of the year, their daily rides were often from forty to fifty miles; but, endowed with stout hearts and hardy constitutions, they adapted themselves to the times and surrounding circumstances, and overcame the difficulties, however great. At intervals in 1829-30, Dr. Jones attended lectures in the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, graduating in the early spring of the last-mentioned year. He then located at Washington Court House (now Fayette County), and remained one year. The following year he removed to Bainbridge, Ross Co., Ohio, and was there engaged in the pursuit of his profession until the winter of 1834-35,. when he permanently located at Wilmington, where he has since been in daily practice. While at Washington Court House, the Doctor was united in marriage, on the 2d of November, to Caroline A. Dawson, a native of Virginia. In 1822, he was the assistant of a Mr. Treusdell, who was Principal of the schools of Wilmington, and three years later became by appointment the Auditor of the county, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McManis. In 1839, +n connection with R. R. Lindsey, his brother-in-law, he published the Clinton County Republican. The Doctor, in 1836, commenced keeping a meteorological journal in which a daily account of the weather has been recorded up to the present date. A full sketch of Dr. Jones will be found elsewhere in this work.
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which stood on the north side of Main street, near south, where now stands the store of L. D. Saver, read medicine in 1827-28 in the office of Drs. Welch and Jones, and, Saver, finishing the prescribed course of reading, commenced practicing in the same village, in which he continued until 1834, when, in the midst of prosperity, with every evidence of success in his chosen profession, be fell a victim to that fatal disease, consumption. Dr. Woodruff was a native of Warren County.
Dr. Joseph K Sparks, a native of South Carolina, and a graduate of the Transylvania University, of Lexington, Ky., settled in Wilmington as a practitioner in the winter of 1830-31, he having come to this point from Cincinnati, where, for some years, he had been engaged in active practice. He finally left Wilmington and removed to a farm in that vicinity where he died from old age and dropsy of the chest. He was a sincere and devoted Christian, and a member of the Baptist Church.
Dr. Rockefeller Dakin, a native of the county, and a graduate of the Transylvania University, commenced the practice of medicine in Wilmington about the year 1835, and engaged in the culture of the silk worm. In 1839, Dr, Dakin made a tour through Texas and the Southern States, and there contracted malarial fever, of which he died while en route for home. After the Doctor had graduated, he located in the State of New Jersey, from which State he returned to his native county.
Dr. William Fielding moved to Clinton County in the year 1836. He located in the village of Wilmington, but, after a residence of three years, seemed displeased with the locality as a point for practice, and returned to his former home in Shelby County, and was soon thereafter elected to the State Legislature from that county. In after years he did not give much attention to his profession, but was actively engaged in the political field.
Dr. Hugh White Baugh, of Clarksville, is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, of the class of 1842, having formerly read medicine with Dr. W. Baugh, of New Market, and Dr. C. C. Samms, of Hillsboro. He located in the town of New Burlington soon after graduating, where he practiced for awhile, then removed to Hartford City, Ind., but returned to Clinton County settling in Clarksville in 1850, since which time he has there been established. His parents were George and Nancy (White) Baugh, natives the former of South Carolina and the latter of Virginia.
Dr. Henry Smith, of Blanchester, has been a practicing physician of the county since 1845. He is a native of this State, born January 9, 1829, of parents Joseph and Hannah (Hair) Smith. He read medicine at Perrintown, in Clermont County, with Dr. Columbus Spence, beginning in 1841. Three years later, he attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and, in 1845, located at Cuba, in this county, and there remained until 1856, when he settled in Blanchester.
Dr. Thomas McArthur, a native of Fayette County, located in Wilmington about the year 1845, and continued in active practice at that point until about the year 1862, when he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of one of the Ohio regiments, and served until the close of the war.
About the same year (1845), Dr. A. Brooke located at Oakland, and remained a practitioner of the county probably ten years. He was born in this State, attended lectures, and graduated in the Medical College at Baltimore.
Dr. J. M. Rannells, of Wilmington, was born near Uniontown, Fayette Co., Penn, January 12, 1820, and eight years later came to Clinton County with his parents, Harvey and Elizabeth (Fleaming) Rannells, the former a native of Virginia, and the latter of Pennsylvania. He was reared on a farm near New Antioch, and read medicine with Dr. Jonah Vandervort, of that vil-
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lage. In 1846, he graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, and at once commenced the practice of medicine in the village of New Antioch, where he remained nearly a third of a century. He was out of the county probably four years, two of which were spent in Illinois, and two in the city of Dayton. He located in Wilmington in 1881. In 1865, Dr. Rannells adopted homoeopathy.
Dr. I. C. Williams located at Bloomington not far from the year 1846, and continued in practice in the county some twenty years, and removed to the State of Illinois, where he died. He was a native of Virginia, though reared in this county, and read medicine with Dr. Jones; subsequently attended lectures and graduated at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati.
Dr. W. W. Sheppard, a native of the county, was born in Wilmington March 30, 18'31. His parents were Levi and Sarah Sheppard, by birth Virginians. Dr. Sheppard read medicine with Dr. Jones, beginning in 1845; attended lectures at the Ohio :Medical College in 1846-47, and received from the Censors of that College a certificate in the fall of 1847. The following year he located at Sligo, where he has since practiced with the exception of eighteen months passed in Mercer County, Ill.
Dr. Daniel B. Mory, of Wilmington, located in Centerville, this county, in the spring of 1847, and there began the practice of medicine. In August, 1878, having ministered to the sick of that locality for thirty-one years, he removed to Wilmington. He is the son of George W. Mory, a farmer of Schenectady County, N. Y., where the Doctor was born September 9, 18i2. At the age of seventeen years, he came to Wilmington, and, through his own efforts, furthered his own education. He read medicine in the office of Dr. Davis, and in the fall of 1845, entered the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, and subsequently graduated at that institution.
Dr. Thomas S. Garland, of Clarksville, read medicine with Dr. Davis in the village of Wilmington, and attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, from which institution he received a diploma, and about 1842 hung out his shingle " in Clarksville, where he remained for a time, then settled in Wilmington, but again returned to Clarksville in 1848, and has since practiced at that place.
Dr. William G. Owens was a native of the State of Virginia. His parents were Tolivar and Priscilla Owen, likewise Virginians by birth. The Doctor located in Wilmington in 1848. On the 22d of June, 1852, while in attendance upon some of his patients who were prostrated with the cholera, he was taken with that disease and fell a victim to it the following day.
Dr. G. F. Birdsall commenced the practice of medicine in Clinton County about the year 1847 or 1848. He was a student of Drs. Watkins, of Greene County, and Brooke, of this county, and a graduate of one of the Medical Colleges of Cincinnati. He died some years ago at the village of Oakland.
Dr. S. S. Boyd, of Wilmington, settled in the practice of his profession in the county of Clinton in the year 1852, locating at Wilmington, where he has since been engaged in active practice. The Doctor belongs to the Eclectic school. He read medicine with Dr. B. Nubble, of Amelia, Clermont County, and there practiced before coming to Clinton County.
Dr. Marion Wilkerson, a resident of Bloomington, and for a number of years a physician of the county, is a native of the adjoining county of Warren. His parents were John and Elizabeth Wilkerson, natives of Kentucky, and at an early period emigrated to Warren County. Our subject read medicine in Lebanon with Drs. J. & E. Stevens and D. S. Dakin. He attended lectures in 1852-53, and graduated at the Ohio Medical College. In the late war, he
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served as Assistant Surgeon of the Eighty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry.
Dr. R..T. Trimble, of New Vienna, is a native of Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio, where his early education was received in the public schools. He also read medicine in that village with Dr. W. W. Sheppard, and then attended a course of lectures in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and one at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated at an early age, and practiced one year with his preceptor in Hillsboro, Ohio, when he removed to New Vienna, and has ever since been there engaged in active practice.
Dr. M. J. Hormell, of Oakland, is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, which institution he left in the year 1854. For several years, he practiced in Harveysburg, then removed to Oakland, and has since continued in his professional duties in that place. He is a native of Warren County, and read medicine in the office of Dr. A. T. Corlis, at Lebanon.
Dr Andrew Robb, who for the past twenty-three years has been an active practitioner of Clinton County, and located at Blanchester, was born in Clermont County, Ohio, of German and Scotch-Irish ancestry. His early life was passed on a farm with his father. He received the usual training in the common branches of that period, and at the age of sixteen, entered the academy at New Richmond, and two years later commenced reading medicine with Dr. Alfred B. Noble, at Goshen. In 1837, he began practicing with his preceptor, and continued until the fall of 1840; then attended lectures at the Ohio Med ical College, and graduated with the class of 1841. Dr. Robb has since this time been engaged in active practice.
Dr. S. B Moon, born at Martinsville, this county, May 11, 1835, is a son of Henry and Mary (Paxton) Moon. He read medicine with Dr. Davis, of Greenfield, Highland Co., Ohio, and attended lectures at Starling Medical College, and also at Miami Medical College of Cincinnati. He then returned to his native village, where he practiced two years, and removed to Cuba and remained six years. In 1879, Dr. Moon located in Wilmington, and has since been numbered with the physicians of the village.
Dr. J. W. Bennett, a practicing physician of Cuba, located there in 1858, and remained until 1870. This year he removed to Cherry Grove, Hamilton County, and there practiced medicine for five years, and returned to Cuba, of which place he has since been a resident. Dr. Bennett was born in Clermont County, Ohio, in the year 1833, read medicine with Dr. Bennett, attended lectures at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, and there graduated, and, in 1857, commenced practicing at Woodville, in his native county.
Dr. Andrew F. Deniston located. at Westboro February 1, 1858, and has since been a practitioner in that vicinity, with the exception of the time he was in the service of his country during the war of the rebellion, He read medicine in Lynchburg, Highland Co., Ohio, with Dr. Spees during the years 1855, 1856 and 1857. His parents were James R. and Elizabeth R. Deniston.
Dr. A. T. Johnson, of New Vienna, is a native of Leesburg, Highland Co., Ohio, born June 1, 1829. His parents, Joseph W. and Rachel (Terrell) Johnson, were natives of Campbell County, Va. In 1859, Dr. Johnson graduated at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, and, in 1868, at the University of Pennsylvania. He began practicing in New Vienna in the spring of 1859. In the fall of 1861, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon of the Forty-Eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He remained in this position until the summer of 1863, when, on account of disease, he was compelled to leave field duty and served in various hospitals until 1864, when he resumed practice in New Vienna, and continued in the active practice of medicine until
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1875, when failing health necessitated his retiring in a great measure from active professional life.
Dr. George M. Telfair located as a physician in the village of Bloomington in the year 1862. He is the son of Dr. Isaac and Nancy A. (Boggs,) Telfair, natives of the State of Virginia. He read medicine in the village where he is now engaged in practice in the office of Dr. Williams; attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, graduating in 18611. Before locating in Bloomington, Dr. Telfair practiced two years with Dr. M. Lemon at Midway, Madison Co., Ohio.
Dr. A. T. Quinn. now practicing medicine in Wilmington, where. he located in 1864, is a native of Highland County, Ohio, born December 16, 1837, to parents Rev. Isaac Quinn, M. D., and Cynthia (Witten) Quinn, natives of Virginia. Our subject is a classical scholar, having graduated at the University at Athens, Ohio, in 1859. He then studied medicine and graduated in the Ohio Medical College in 1862, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, where he served until 1864. Dr. W. S. Farabee, of New Antioch, located in that place in 1866. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1838, and when nine years old came to Ohio. He attended lectures at the Cincinnati School of Medicine and Surgery in 1865-66, and entered upon the practice of that science in Ross County, of this State, with a brother.
Dr. G. T. Ewbanks commenced the practice of medicine in the county at Port William in 1868. He is a graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of the city of Cincinnati, and has since practiced that system. At the breaking out of the war, Dr. Ewbanks was a citizen of the State of Indiana, and from that State volunteered in the defense of the Union.
Dr. A. J. Gaskins, of Sabina, located in the village in the year 1868. He is the son of Dr. John Gaskins, who is now practicing in Clermont County, whither he emigrated at an early day.. Our subject read medicine with his father, and attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, graduating in 1869, one year after locating in Clinton County.
Dr. B. Farquhar, of New Burlington, is the son of Jonah and Elizabeth Farquhar, natives of Maryland, from whence they emigrated in 1814. Our subject's preparation for the medical profession extended over a period embracing the years 18116. 1867 and 1868. His preceptor was Dr. Loar, of this county, from whose office he entered the P. M. Institute of Cincinnati, and there graduated.
Dr. J. McKecknie, a native of Maine, settled in Ohio with his father in 1847, removing to Monroe, Butler County. The Doctor is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, having completed his course of lectures there in 1861. Eight years afterward, he located in this county, and began the practice of medicine at Wilmington, where he has since been engaged in the same profession. His grandfather was an Englishman, and by profession a surveyor. He emigrated to America and settled in Maine, and there became an extensive land-owner. Our subject married Julia Hadley, of Clinton County.
Dr. W. R. Morton, of Reesville, located as a practitioner of medicine in Centerville in the spring of 1870. He remained in that place until the fall of 1874, and removed to Reesville, where he has since been engaged in practice. He is a native of the county, read medicine at Centerville with Dr. D. B. Mory, and-attended lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College.
Dr. Z. Garland, son of T. S. Garland, M. D., whose sketch is given in connection with this chapter, was born in the county, read medicine with his father, and attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, since which he has been engaged in active practice at Clarksville.
Dr. S. B. Lightner located at Sabina in 1871, and has since been a phy-
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sician of the place. He is a native of Greene County, Penn., born May 4, 1830, of parents George and Mary (Woods) Lightner, the former a native of Maryland, and the latter of Pennsylvania. He read medicine with Dr. E. H. Cary, of Nineveh, Penn., and graduated at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in March, 1863. From February, 1864. until August, 1865, he served as Surgeon of the Eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Cavalry. Before locating at Sabina, Dr. Lightner practiced one year at New Vienna, and three years in the city of Cincinnati.
Dr. R. Lytle, of Sabina, located at that point in December, 1871, and has since practiced medicine there. His father was Dr. James Lytle, a native of Pennsylvania, with whom the son read medicine. He then attended lectures, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and settled in Fayette County, this State, and was for three years attendant upon the inmates of the County Infirmary.
Dr. Nathan N. Sidwell, who located as a physician and surgeon in Wilmington in 1872, is a native of Georgetown, Brown Co., Ohio, where he was born October 18, 1840. His father was Dr. James Sidwell, a Kentuckian, and his mother was Lucinda (Newkirk) Sidwell, a native of Ohio. Our sub. ject read medicine in his native village, and subsequently graduated at both the Eclectic Medical College and Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, at the former in the winter of 18611-61, and at the latter in the spring of 1871. In April, 1861, Dr. Sidwell enlisted in Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in January, 1863, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon, in which capacity he served until the summer of 1864. Before locating in this county, Dr. Sidwell practiced in Warren, Hamilton and other counties. Dr. George M. Ireland, of Wilmington, located at that point and began the practice of medicine in 1876. He was born in Knox County, Ohio, March 1, 1850. His parents were David and Susan (Hoke) Ireland, natives of Pennsylvania. Dr. Ireland read medicine with Dr. E. M. Hall, of Frederickstown, and graduated in the school of Homoeopathy at Cleveland, in the class of 1876.
Dr. G. W. Wire, since 1876 a practicing physician of Wilmington, was born in the State of Indiana, and educated at Asbury University, read medicine with Dr. S. E. Munford, of Princeton, Ind., and attended lectures at Miami Medical College, graduating in 1876, at the age of twenty-four years.
Dr. J. F. Bowers, a native of this county, was born in the village of New Vienna in the year 1842, where Squire C. C. Bowers, his father, settled about the year 1840, coming from New Jersey. The son read medicine with Dr. Johnson, of New Vienna, and completed his medical education at Miami Medical College, Ohio, graduating in 1867. From this period until 1876, Dr. Bowers was engaged in practice in various points in different States, when, during the last-named year, he located at Port William, where he has since remained He served his country in its late trial.
Dr. John H. Stephens, of Centerville, located there in 1876.. He is the son of Peter J. and Charlotte Stephens, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of North Carolina. He read medicine in Port William with Dr. Ewbanks, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical School of Cincinnati in 1876, and first located at Buena Vista, in Fayette County, Ohio.
Dr. T. J. Savage located at Centerville in 1879. His parents were James and Francis Savage, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. He read medicine with Dr. E. Judkins, of New Lexington, Highland Co., Ohio, attended lectures, and graduated at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1879.
Dr. E. W. Brown located in the practice of medicine in the village of
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New Vienna in June, 1879. He was born at Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio, October 21, 1856, of parents S. R. and Sarah (Duvall) Brown, natives of Ireland. He read medicine under the instruction of 1)r. S. S. Salisbury, of Washington Court House, and subsequently graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia.
Dr. D. M. Barrere, of New Antioch, is a native of Highland County, Ohio; was a medical student of Dr. H. Whistler, and attended Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, and there graduated in the spring of 1878. His first practice was at Sardinia, Brown Co., Ohio, from which place he came to Clinton County.
Dr. George B. Crawford, a physician and surgeon of Lumberton, settled in that village and began practicing his profession in 1880. He read medicine with Dr. Mitchel, and subsequently graduated in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. He practiced some time at Alpha, in Greene County, before settling in Clinton County.
Dr. C. Briggs located at Cuba in 1881. He read medicine in this county, and graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1881.
Dr. Nelson B Vanwinkle located at Westboro in April, 1878. He read medicine in the office of Dr. H. Whistler, of New Market; then attended two fall courses of lectures at Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, where, in the spring of 1878, he graduated.
Dr. Edward Stevens, of Clarksville, is the son of Dr. E. B. Stevens, of Lebanon, and the grandson of the late Dr. Joshua Stevens, of the same village. He was born in the city of Cincinnati; read medicine with his father, and subsequently attended lectures at the college of medicine, Syracuse University; also at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, graduating at the latter in March, 1881, and locating in the above-named village in April of that year.
Dr. Daniel B. Mory, Jr., of Wilmington, a partner of Dr. Daniel B. Mory, Sr., is a native of the county; read medicine with his father, whose sketch is given in this chapter, and graduated at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in March, 1882.
Drs. Herron and C. Cole, of Martinsville, have been engaged in practice in that locality for several years past; also are now practicing in Clinton County.
Dr. Creighton, of New Burlington, has been a practitioner for several years. Drs. Simeon, and C. Watkins & Son, of Blanchester, are of the eclectic system. Dr. G. R. Conard, of New Vienna, a native of Indiana, who in that State was for several years engaged in active practice, and Dr. Thomas Quinn, now a physician of New Vienna, a graduate of Miami College, Cincinnati.
The following-named physicians have, at some period in the history of the county, practiced medicine here: John Quinn; J. C. Walker, a native of the county and a medical student of Dr. Jones, now engaged in practice in In dianapolis; R. T. Short; S. S. Bentley; H. B. Stevens, son of the late Dr. Joshua Stevens, of Lebanon; A. J. Martin, D. C. Harrison, A. L. Dryden, W. W. Canny, D. Gould.
CLINTON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
In the early days of the medical profession in this locality, the physicians of the Fourth Congressional District formed themselves into a society and met for the discussion of medical and surgical questions, and to consider matters that would tend to elevate the profession, broaden and develop their capacities and make them the better qualified for usefulness in that field. In the absence of any records of this society, we are able to state that it existed only. From the Wilmington Argus of December, 1824, it appears that among
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prominent members at that time were Drs. Loammi Rigdon, Isaac Telfair, Samuel Price and Jacob Kirby.
The medical society (proper) of the county was not organized until the fall of 1851. At a meeting of physicians held November 1, 1851, A. T. Davis was appointed President pro tom., and G. W. Owens, Secretary. Drs. A. Brooke, I. C. Williams, T. W. McArthur and A. Jones were appointed a committee to draft a constitution, which was presented, adopted and signed by the following-named persons:
A. Jones, A. Brooke, I. C. Williams, William G. Owens, A. T. Davis, T. W. McArthur, R. T. Short, G. F. Birdsall, I. C. Walker, W. W. Sheppard, L. A. Fairchild, J. K. Sparks, L. B. Welch (dentist), D..B. Mory, S. S. Bentley, H. B. Stevens and A. J. Martin. Officers as follows were then elected for the ensuing year: President, Aquila Jones; Vice President, A. Brooke; Secretary, I. C. Williams; Treasurer, L. W. McArthur. At this point we are compelled to plead our inability to furnish the officers of the society from 1851 to 1873, and from the latter period to 1877, owing to the non-existence of the records:
Officers for 1873: President, A. T. Davis; Vice President, D. B. Mory; Secretary, A. T. Johnson; Treasurer, S. B. Lightner.
Officers from 1877 to 1882 inclusive: 1877-President, A. T. Davis; Vice President, Aquila Jones; Secretary, S. B. Lightner; Treasurer, M. J. Hormell.
1878-President, W. W. Sheppard; Vice President, J. B. McKeeknie; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, M. J. Hormell.
1879-President, W. W. Sheppard; Vice President, D. Gould; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, R. T. Trimble.
1880-President, Aquila Jones; Vice President, R. T. Trimble; Secretary, N. H, Sidwell; Treasurer, G. W. Wire. Board of Censors, A. T. Davis, G. R. Conard, D. M. Barrere.
1881-President, Aquila Jones; Vice President, R. T. Trimble; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell: Treasurer, G. W. Wire. Board of Censors, A. T. Davis, G. R. Conard, D. M. Barrere.
1882-President, R. T. Trimble; Vice President, E. S. Stevens; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, G. W. Wire. Board of Censors, A. T. Davis, G. R. Conard, D. M. Barrere.