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CHAPTER XI.*

MEDICAL PROFESSION OF MADISON COUNTY-PAST AND PRESENT PHYSICIANS
OF LONDON-PLAIN CITY- JEFFERSON-MT. STERLING -AMITY- MIDWAY
LA FAYETTE-SOMERFORD-LIVERPOOL-SOUTH SOLON- CALIFORNIA
-TRADERSVILLE - NEWPORT -DANVILLE- LILLY CHAPEL -
MADISON COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION-ARMY
SURGEONS FROM MADISON COUNTY.

IN the preparation of the following history of the medical profession of Madison County, I have tried to be thorough and impartial. The time given me for its preparation has been limited, and I have found an apathy on the subject that I did not foresee or expect when I gave my consent to attempt the enterprise. In the preparation of it. I have arranged by villages, in as near a chronological order as my information would admit. In the year 1829, there existed in Ohio a law, under which the income of all professional men was taxed. Samuel Kerr was the Prosecuting Attorney of this county. and he was ordered by the court to return for taxation the names of all practicing lawyers and, physicians in the county. His own name was returned as the only practicing lawyer in the county; and Lorenzo Beach, Aquilla Toland, Israel Bigelow and John Warner, as the only physicians in the county. They were each taxed 85 per annum.

In 1847, the income tax was in proportion to the amount of income. and in that year the following physicians were reported. and assessed the amounts opposite, their respective names:

Thomas Adams. $1; Jacob Swank. $1: Milton Lemen. $3: Elam Bodman. $3; Samuel McClintick. $3; William McClintick, $2: D. E. McMillen. $3: Aquilla Toland. $4. William A. Strain, $3: Toland Jones. $1: William F. Cartmell. $1: Dennis Warner, $1; Daniel Wilson, $2. M. Valentine. $1. William Cheney, $1; David Wilson. $3: Jennet Stutson, $1: Ezra Bliss. $2; Charles McCloud. $3; D. W. Seal. $1: A. W. Fields, D. K. Bigelow. $3: J. L. McCampbell. ;$1: Willis H. Twyford, $2: J. H. Taylor. $1: M. P. Converse. $2: William Adams, $1: C. A. Putnam, $1: D. R. Bell. $3: J Simmerman, $1; Dr. Withrow. $1.

It is presumable that the many different isms and systems of practice that have prevailed here have prevailed in common elsewhere throughout the country. but it may not be amiss to mention that. owing to the scarcity of physicians. and the difficulty that the early settlers experienced in obtaining the wherewithal for a quid pro quo when they were obliged to employ them, cheaper systems of practice were introduced by charlatans. One o f these vas the system of " steaming " the patient. The practice was to place the patient in bed, closely covered. Then a large kettle of water was placed over the fire, in the open fire-place, with a close fitting lid, through which a long tin spout was inserted. When the water began to boil. the farther end of the spout was thrust under the bed clothes, and all the generated steam was thus turned on to the patient. A large portion of the families through the country had their steam kettle and tin spout. I remem-

* By William Morrow Beach, M. D.

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ber of an old woman over in the Darby Plains who sent for a "steam doctor" and who was really very sick. She did not live many hours after the " doctor's " arrival, and when they came to " lay her out." they found her parboiled! The skin slipped from her body like the skin from a boiled eel!

Upon the heels of this system came the Thomsonian or botanical system. For this system they sold " family rights." Their different preparations were numbered and labeled. No. 1 was good for one thing, and No. 2 for another thing. Their favorite number was "No. 6." To take a teaspoonful of it one would think they had made a mistake and got No. 60! Capsicum. or Cayenne pepper. was -the chief ingredient. " Dr. Gunn," a work on domestic practice. was placed on the table by the side of the Bible and Fox's Book of Martyrs. But this was a great improvement over the "steam doctors." But No. 6 and lobelia, as universal panaceas and specifics, have had their day. A lobelia doctor was called to see a very nice little woman. a bride of three months, up at Milford. in the palmy days of lobelia and No. 6, who was moderately sick with milk-sickness. He prescribed a lobelia emetic. He told her to stick her finger in her throat to aid the emetic. It is likely it did to some extent, as she died in two minutes, from collapse. But a new light has dawned. More rational systems now prevail, and the main differences now existing exist mostly in the names. Under the laws of Ohio now, all practitioners are required to he graduates of some regularly chartered college, and most of the physicians of Ohio. and all in Madison County. are moderately well qualified for the responsibilities and requirements of the calling.

LONDON.

Dr. Simon Steers was the first resident physician in or near London. He probably came from Jefferson County. Ohio. He lived on the John Thompson land. on the north side of the road, near where the lane comes out from Israel Dalby's house. He was a lame man, and under size. William Wingate, of Union Township. north of London, says that he had 'heard him called "little old Dr. Steers." He came to that farm, west of London. about 1810. and probably died in this county. Dr. Samuel Baldridge was the second physician here. He carne about 1811. He was also a Presbyterian preacher. He is remembered by the old citizens with a moderate degree of respect. When he left London, about 1820, it is thought he went over about Cambridge. Ohio. Dr. Blount located here for a short time in about 1814. He was from Massachusetts, and probably from Boston, He married a Miss Donlin. who lived on the west side of Deer Creek, in Deer Creek Township, on the James Wilson farm, and nearly opposite his residence.

Dr. Aquilla Toland was born September 26, 1793, in Harford County, Md. He was a pupil of Dr. Luckey. of Baltimore, and. after one course of lectures in the University of Maryland. he came West and located for a time at Franklinton near Columbus. and, in 1819, located in London. He graduated at the Cincinnati Medical College in the year 1837, after he had been for eighteen years a practitioner here. In 1843, he was elected by the Whig party to the State Legislature. He was tall. portly, dignified, of a somewhat haughty demeanor, but extremely gracious and courteous. and courtly to his colleagues. he never had occasion for jealousy toward them, for they were compelled to be respectful, and as for practice, he always had more than was desirable. His practice was scarcely confined to the limits of the county. The business about Midway was divided between him and

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Dr. Joshua Martin, of Xenia, and he was the one relied on in great emergencies for twenty miles around in all directions. He always rode on horseback, and he looked like a very Knight Errant, he sat a horse so grace fully. In the summer season he generally returned late at night, when he returned at all, and, in riding through the tall prairie grass and in unbeaten paths, he would usually return wet to the waist by the heavy dews. Dr. Aquilla Toland was the Nestor of the profession at London for forty years, both in medicine and surgery. He died at London, of erysipelas, December 30, 1866, aged seventy-three years, leaving a large estate. He married, April 11, 1822, Miss Elizabeth Lewis, of London, Ohio, who still survives him.

Dr. Scott was at London for several years from about 1820 While here, he married a Mrs. Gregory, from Oldtown, Ohio. Dr. Eastman, Mrs. Aquilla Toland thinks, was here prior to her marriage, and probably as early as 1820. Dr. Seeley Waite located at London as early as 1820. Mrs. Toland and William Warner remember him as an elegant gentleman. He married Miss Clara Phifer, sister of George Phifer. His widow married Lewis Crane, and, after his death, she married William Vance, of Champaign County, Ohio, brother to ex-Gov. Vance, of Ohio. Dr. Waite died in Springfield, Ohio. in about 1822. Dr. -- Gaga came to London in about 1820, but lived only about three years. Dr. Robert Martin, a brother of Dr. Joshua Martin, of Xenia, located here about 1822.

Dr. Raiff. a German, located at London in about 1823. He was an eccentric, fiery, impetuous, but educated physician. Many anecdotes characteristic of the man are still extant. Gabriel Prugh. of Somerford. Ohio. says that he rode like a whirlwind. It is said of him that one Delashmutt, down on the Glade. once sent him a formula after which he wanted him to make him some pills. The Doctor flew into a passion and said: " Cot tam him! Vat's dat? Some bills? He no dink I un'erschtan how to make bills! I makes him bills! I show 'im! " The pills were sent, and Delashmutt lived just two hours. He had carried Schuler McDonald through the milk-sickness. When convalescent, he cautioned him repeatedly about guarding his appetite. He was sent for in great haste, and went and found his patient dead. He ascertained that death had been caused by the immoderate indulgence of the appetite on a plate of bacon and cabbage. He lost his temper again, and, going to the corpse, he caught it by the nose, and, tweaking it violently, he said: " You eat cabbitch, ha! Cot tam you! eat cabbitch again mit bacon, will you, as much as you blease now! " and. mounting his horse, was off like a rocket.

Dr. John Warner, twin brother of William Warner, ex-Sheriff of the county. located here for a time in about 1825. He subsequently went West. and died at Pekin, Ill. Dr. Craig was also here for awhile in about 1825. Dr. Grover was also here about 1825. Dr. Joseph Anthony, brother to old Gen. Charles Anthony. of Springfield, Ohio, came to London in about 1831 or 1832. He was a lame man, but large, portly and prepossessing. He is remembered best. however, by his having a printing press, upon which he printed sacred hymns and such like literature as was in demand. Dr. Herriman came here in about 1834. He married a Miss Mitten, somewhere beyond Jefferson, in the Darby country. Dr. David J. Mauls. by, born in Fredericktown, Md., came in about 1835; practiced here until about 1842 or 1843. and returned to Maryland. He became quite irregular in his habits. but was a good practitioner when not in his cups. Dr. Dennis Warner was a pupil of his for awhile.

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Dr. Dennis Warner, son of William and Susan (Matthews) Warner, born in Union Township, Madison Co., Ohio. May 19, 1818. Commenced the study of medicine in 1838, under Dr. David J. Maulsby, and afterward with Dr. Aquilla Toland. Commenced the practice of medicine, but graduated M. D. at Ohio Medical College. Cincinnati, Ohio. March 2, 1847. He was married, November 10, 1847, to Miss Mary Chenoweth, daughter of John F. and Margaret (Ferguson) Chenoweth. born in Madison County, Ohio, October 10, 1829. Dr. James M. P. Baskerville, of Range Township, studied medicine, but did not practice to any extent. He was scholarly, and devoted to the dead languages and the exact sciences. Read medicine with Dr. A. Toland, of London, Ohio. Dr. Alfred Jones practiced here at one time. Dr. Enoch Thomas. an eclectic. was a man of more than ordinary ability. About 1342, was in Cleveland, Ohio, the last I knew of him. Dr. Lewis was here about 1842. Dr. Jehial Gregory came in about 1840 (vide Midway).

Dr. William A. Strain, son of John C. and Margaret Strain. born in 1813. in Greenfield. Ohio, studied medicine with Dr. McGarry, of Greenfield, Ohio. Located at Mt. Sterling, Madison Co., Ohio, about 1337. Came to London about 1840, where he remained until 1865, when he moved to Greenfield. Highland Co., Ohio. the place of his birth. He graduated at Starling Medical College in the class of 1852. He married, shortly after commencing practice, Miss Mary G. McMillen, daughter of William McMillen, of Greenfield. Ohio. Dr. Thomas was here as a partner of Dr. William A. Strain in about 185:1. He moved to California, this county, in about 1860. and died there in 1861. He was a partner, while there, of Dr. O. G. Field. He married, in about 1800, a daughter of Sylvanus Bates. of this place. Dr. David E. McMillen, vide Mt. Sterling. Dr. James Allen married, first, Betsey Russel; second, Martha Reyburn: was more identified outside of the county. but was a highly respected gentleman and a good physician-much above the average. Read medicine with Dr. A. Toland. Moved to Darbyville, and returned to London in 1859.

Dr. Toland Jones, born in Union Township, this county, January 10, 1820, son of Thomas Jones, studied medicine with Dr. Aquilla Toland, of London. Ohio, and, after one course of lectures at Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, commenced practice of medicine in London. The title of M. D. was conferred upon him by the Cleveland Medical College about 1858. He has been in practice at London for thirty-six years. He married. March 19. 1846, Miss Frances A. Toland, of London. Ohio. oldest daughter of Dr. Aquilla and Elizabeth (Lewis) Toland. He was Colonel of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Ohio Volunteer Regiment during the war. Dr. Nelson Strong Darling, vide Midway. Dr. A. J. Miles was a practicing physician before entering the army in 1862, as a private in the Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry from Darke County. Ohio: was the Hospital Steward of the Fortieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was discharged for disability, and came to London and commenced practice in 1864; went to Cincinnati. Ohio. He married, and has been a college professor there for several years. Dr. D. W. Williams. born in Granville, Ohio. July 15, 1836. educated at Dennison University. Granville. Ohio, studied medicine with Dr. D. H. Beckwith. Zanesville, Ohio. Graduated at Cleveland Homoeopathic College in 1865, and came to London in the spring of that year. He was married to Miss Adelia Chrisman. youngest daughter of Jacob Chrisman, in the fall of 1866. Dr. William Morrow Beach lives two miles north of London: moved to the farm in 1865, after the war, since which

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time London has been his post office. Dr. John H. Holton practiced first at Mt. Sterling, Ohio. Came to London in 1866. He was eminent in the profession. Could not obtain a sketch of his life. He died of pneumonia in about 1874. His death was caused by exposure and overwork. His widow resides in Columbus. Ohio. Dr. D. B. Wren came from Mechanicss burg in 1864; did not remain long.

Dr. A. H. underwood was born April 21, 1836, in Brimfield, Portage Co.. Ohio. Commenced the study of medicine with Dr. A. S. Weatherby, of Cardington, Morrow Co., Ohio, in 1862. Graduated at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1563. Commenced practice the same spring, in South Charleston. Clark Co.. Ohio, and, in February. 1866. came to London, where he still resides. Dr. C. G. Slagle located in London shortly after the war. Whilst here, he married Miss Emma Sprung, daughter of the long-time and veteran editor of the London Chronicle. He moved to Greenfield, Ohio. in about 186. He is now in Minnesota. and is an associate editor of the Northwest Medical Journal. Dr. James T. Houston was born in 1816 on a farm four miles east of Springfield, Ohio. Commenced the study of medicine in 1833. with his brother, Dr. Robert Houston, and Dr. Bradbery, of South Charleston. Ohio. At the session of 1537 -38, attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College, known as " Drake's School." The faculty consisted of seven Professors-Drake, Gross. Parker. Harrison, McDowell, Rievs and Rodgers. Among his classmates were Carey A. Trimble, John Dawson. Samuel Mitchell Smith. Davis. Kincaid, and Brown. He commenced practice with his brother, Robert Houston. of South Charleston, in 1838. In 1840, he removed to Jeffersonville. Fayette Co.. Ohio, where he practiced for fifteen years, and then removed to Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio, where he practiced fifteen years, making thirty-one years of continuous professional labor, nearly twenty of which was over mud roads and on horseback. He graduated at Starling Medical College in 1857, and came to London in 1869. In 1838, he was commissioned by Gov. Vance. of Ohio, as Brigade Surgeon of Militia of Clark County, Ohio. He was married, in 18.14, to a daughter of Capt. William Palmer, of Fayette County, Ohio.

Dr. James B. Sprague was born in Harmony Township, Clark Co., Ohio. He was educated in part at an academy of which Chandler Robins was Superintendent. Was a pupil of Dr. Robert Rogers, of S Springfield, Ohio. Graduated at Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, March, 1851. Has practiced at Vienna Cross-Roads and Springfield, Clark Co., Ohio, and came to London January 9, 1871. He was in the army three years as the Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was married, November 8, 1843, to Miss Sarah Chamberlin youngest daughter of Isaac Chamberlin.

Dr. Henry J. Sharp was born March 2, 1845, in Gallia County, Ohio. Educated at Ohio Wesleyan University. Delaware. Ohio. Was a pupil of Prof. John W. Hamilton, of Columbus. Ohio. Graduated at Starling Medical College. Columbus, Ohio. in 1871. and came to London in October of same year. He was married. April, 1872. to Miss Catherine E. Dooris, of Zanesville. Ohio. Dr.-- Rooney was in partnership with Dr. J. B. Sprague in Vienna. and was with him here, also, for about a year. Was an M. D.. and also an A. M. Was very bright. He is at present in the West. I think at Springfield, Ill. Dr. D. A. Morse, a " vade mecum " in medicine. now at Oxford, Ohio, superintending Lunatic Asylum. Has been a Professor in different medical colleges. His specialty is nervous diseases.

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He is author of several works on medicine, some of which have been reprinted in Germany.

Dr. A. J. Strain was born in Greenfield. Highland Co.. Ohio, January 3. 1845. Was a pupil of William A. Strain. his uncle. Graduated at Miami Medical College. Cincinnati. Ohio, March, 1873. Came to London in 1876. He was married. January 7, 1880, to Mary. daughter of Washington Wilson, Springfield. Ohio. Dr. Clifton S. Morse, son of Nathan and Amelia (Calliver) Morse, was born at Amity. Madison Co., Ohio, July 28, 1857. He graduated at Starling Medical College. Columbus, Ohio, 1879: located in London the same spring, and moved to Creston, Iowa, in 1882 He married Miss Emma McDonald, daughter of J. B. McDonald, of Union Township. Dr. Addison Platt King was born in Marion County, Ohio, in 1847. Graduated at Bellevue Hospital -Medical College, New York City, in 1878. He was married, in July, 1881, to Miss Mary Smith, of Mansfield, Ohio, daughter of E. W. Smith. a clergyman. Both were drowned by the overturning of a skiff in a storm, on Lake Chautauqua. New York, the summer following their marriage. The news produced a most profound sensation in London. where he had been residing for about two years. He was not a practitioner. but was a member of the drug firm of Robinson & King. He joined the Ohio State Medical Society at the session of 1881, in June. at Columbus. Ohio.

Dr. Melville M. Moffitt was born in Orville. Wayne Co., Ohio, November 15. 1857: educated at Otterbein University. Westerville, Ohio; studied medicine with Drs. Rayer & Kirkland, Massillon. Ohio, and afterward with Prof. A. O. Blair. Graduated at Homoeopathic Hospital College, Cleveland. Ohio, March 8. 1882. While in college, was Physician in charge of News-boys' and Boot- blacks' Home, and also an Acting Assistant Physician in the county jail of Cuyahoga County for one year. Holds at present, at this point, the Surgery of the I. B. & W. R. R. He married. February 17, 1881. Miss Flora N. Henderson, daughter of H. T. and M. A. Henderson, of Westerville. Ohio. Dr. A. J. Kepler was born in Dayton, Ohio, July 22, 1852. Read medicine with Dr. G. W. Dickey, of Eaton. Ohio. Graduated at Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 6, 1882. Practiced with Dr. Dickey, his preceptor, at Eaton, Ohio, until in October, 1882, and then moved to London. Ohio. He married, March 3. 1873, Rosannah Dafler, of Dayton. Ohio.

PLAIN CITY.

Drs. Hill and Tappan were the first resident physicians of Darby Township. They were Eastern men-probably from the State of Vermont. But little is known respecting them. " The deep damnation of their taking-off" was for robbing a grave of the body of a squaw for the purpose of dissecting. This excited the resident Indians to a high degree. and, as the act also excited the indignation of many of the white citizens. they came to the conclusion that, under the circumstances, " discretion would be the better part of valor." and accordingly their leaving was somewhat precipitate. Their location was probably near where Plain City now is.

Dr. Isaac Bigelow. son of Dr. Israel Bigelow, was born August 25, 1797. near Balston Spa. Saratoga Co.. N. Y. At the age of seventeen, in the year 1814, he came on foot from Center County. Penn.. to make a payment for his father on a land purchase from his uncle, Isaac, the land being that where Plain City now stands. Returning to Pennsylvania, he studied medicine with his father. Dr. Israel Bigelow, and in 1817 returned

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to Ohio and located on Trickle's Creek, in Champaign County. He remained there one year, and in 1818 came to Darby Township, Madison County, and laid out the town of Westminster. This name was afterward changed to that of Pleasant Valley, but in 1872. after his death, the citizens petitioned their Representative in the Legislature-William Morrow Beach for an act to change the name to Plain City. It was done. The reason therefor was the fact that there were four or five towns in Ohio by the name of Pleasant Valley, and perishable merchandise, shipped by railroad. was often sent wrong, and became a loss to the receiver before reaching its proper destination. In about 1828. after his father came on and located for practice, Dr. Isaac went out of practice and became a general trader. From September 23, 1847, until September 23. 1849, I was an inmate of his household, and, during all that time, I found him diligent, persevering and active in all his enterprises. He had kept a hotel and store on the southeast corner of Main and Chillicothe streets until after the year 1838. when he sold out to Samuel O. Weatherington. He built the large brick dwelling horse on the northwest corner of the same streets, now occupied by Mooney Bros., in about 1842. He was Mayor of Pleasant Valley at one time, and was Postmaster during Polk's administration. He married, July 17, 1815. Miss Polly Bigelow, daughter of Isaac and Polly Bigelow, who then lived where Plain City now stands. He died in Pleasant Valley, Ohio, April 10, 1857, of pneumonia.

Dr. Israel Bigelow, father of the preceding, was born August 21, 1774, in Dummerston, Windham Co., Vt. His father was Rev. Isaac Bigelow, a Revolutionary soldier, and his grandfather was Isaac Bigelow, of the province of Maine. At the age of about eighteen. or in 1792, he became a pupil of Dr. White. of Schenectady. State of New York. He practiced at Balston Spa, N. Y., until 1812, when he moved to Center County. Penn. In 1823, he moved to New Philadelphia, Ohio, and in 1828 to Pleasant Valley, Ohio. where he remained until his death. He was very justly eminent in his profession. both as physician and surgeon. As a surgeon. he was many years in advance of any other surgeon of the county. He operated in this county for vesical calculi by the lateral operation: removed the tibia by resection (on Brainard Hager): removed the entire breast for cancer (Mrs. Zenas Hutchison, Dublin); and performed many other important operations. He married, first, Miss Eunice Kathron, daughter of Daniel Kathron, of Balston Spa, N. Y., born August 23. 1774. early in the year 1794. He married, second. Miss Clippiner; and third, Mary Brown. the mother of Diana. Hosea B. and Chamberlain B. Bigelow. He died of vesical calculi, at his home in Pleasant Valley, Ohio, May 28,1838, aged sixty-four.

Dr. Daniel K. Bigelow, son of Dr. Israel. was born in Balston Spa, N. Y., March 22, 1801. Studied medicine with his father, and commenced practice with his brother. Dr. Lebbens Bigelow. at Morris Cross-Roads. Fayette Co., Penn. In 1823, he moved to Adamsburg, Westmoreland Co.. Penn., where he remained until 1831, when he came to Ohio and settled on the farm near Pleasant Valley where he afterward died. I knew him well during the years of 1847, 1848 and 1849. and I cannot recall the time that I ever saw him idle. His charges were ridiculously low. but he accumulated a fair estate, continuing in active practice up to the time of his death. He married, February 7, 1822, Miss Lydia Custer, of Georges Township, Fayette Co.. Penn. She was the daughter of George and Catherine (Leatherman) Custer, and was born April 24, 1826. and died at her home, near

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Pleasant Valley, Ohio. November 14, 1854, of strangulated hernia He died at his home, near Pleasant Valley, on the 10th day of November. 1850, of diabetes, aged fifty years.

Dr. William F. King was raised out on the Darby Plains. He was a brother of Joseph. Benjamin and Sarah King. He studied medicine with Dr. Israel Bigelow, of Pleasant Valley, Ohio. I remember him and Kilbourne Beach as Marshals of the Day one Fourth of July, and they both impressed me as being particularly handsome, graceful. courtly and distingue. He practiced in conjunction with Dr. Israel Bigelow, he attending mostly to the visiting of patients, and the old Doctor to the office business. He married Miss Diana, daughter of Dr. Israel and Polly (Brown) Bigelow. and died not many years afterward, at Pleasant Valley.

Dr. -- Fitch, a large, handsome, elegant-looking gentleman, was there about 1842. It is possible, however, that he was not as elegant as he appeared. He compounded a nostrum that met with a large and ready sale as an ague specific, that be called "the devil's toe-nail. "

Dr. James Sidney Skinner, about 1842, vide Amity.

Dr. Willis Hix Twiford, son of Rev. Clement Twiford, born and raised in Ross County, Ohio. Studied with Dr. J. S. Skinner. and commenced practice in Pleasant Valley about 1842. Moved to Union City, Ind.. in about 1853. Was a Surgeon of an Indiana regiment during the war. Is now living in Minnesota, where he went directly after the war. Is a member of the American Medical Association. He married Miss Nancy Dominy, daughter of Jeremiah Dominy, of Darby Township, Madison Co., Ohio. about the time he commenced his professional life.

Dr. Jeremiah Converse was born in Darby Township, Madison Co., Ohio, in the year 1822; studied medicine with Dr. Marshall P. Converse, and commenced practice at Liverpool in 1846. Graduated at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in 1848. Located on the old homestead in Darby Township, of which he became the owner, three miles from Plain City, in 1847, where he still remains. He married Miss Sarah Hemenway, daughter of Farmery Hemenway.

Dr. James L. McCampbell located in Pleasant Valley in about 1846. He was a brother to the McCampbells north of town-Andrew, Samuel, and the family in and about New California. He was well qualified for the profession, and was active and diligent in business. He would have been a tall man, but rickets in his childhood had made him very short in the body. He had an immense practice in 1818 and 1349. and led the profession in the north part of the county. He died of typhoid fever, unmarried in about 1850.

Dr. Joel N. Converse, son of Lothrop, was born and raised in Darby Township. His mother married for her second husband Mr. Wheeler, who lived and died on the south end of what is now the Solomon Cary farm. He studied medicine, for awhile at least, at Jefferson, and, marryng, he settled at Beachtown, in Union County, Ohio. In about 1851, he came to Pleasant Valley, and in about 1853 moved to Union City. Ind., after which time until now he has been identified with railroad men, and with railroad enterprises. He resides in Lincoln, Neb. He married Miss Ann Eliza Phillips, daughter of Seth Phillips, of Darby Township.

Dr. John E. McCune is " native and to the manor born." He was born and raised and has always lived near the village. He left the farm and was for a time clerk for George A. Hill & Co., but left that lucrative calling to commence the study of medicine with Dr. James L. McCampbell. He fit-

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ted himself very thoroughly for the profession. and then, like any other sensible young man when entering upon the profession, he married a sensible voting woman, and then put out his sign. Hi., history, as a boy, a clerk. a medical student, practitioner, druggist and citizen, is a part of the history of Westminster. of Pleasant Valley and of Plain City. Dr. Charles McCloud, vide Amity.

Dr. William Inskeep Ballinger, oldest son of Joshua and Delilah (Ins. keep) Ballinger. was born in Logan County. Ohio. October, 1828. and was for three years. from 1848 a student at the old Marysville Academy in Union County. Ohio. under the superintendency of Rev. Sterritt, Rev. Joseph D. Smith and Hon. James W. Robinson. In September. 1860. he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware. Ohio, for three fears, and, in the fall of 1853. entered as a pupil the office of Dr. David W. Henderson. Marysville. Ohio. He took one course of lectures at Starling Medical College, session of 1854-55. and one at Cleveland Medical College, Cleveland. Ohio. at the session of 1855-56, where he was graduated M. D. April 9, 1856. He settled in Pleasant `'alley the same year, and formed a partnership with Dr. John N. Beach. and has been engaged in his profession to some extent since that date. In conjunction with Richard Woodruff, he built the flouring-mill in, 1873. He married, February 18, 1857, Miss Matilda. daughter of John and Eliza (Mark) Taylor. of Darby Township.

Dr. Thomas Jefferson Haynes. son of J. B. W. Haynes, of Richwood. Union Co., Ohio, was a graduate in medicine. Practiced for a few years in New California. Union Co.. Ohio, near which he was married to Miss Mitchell, daughter of Jesse Mitchell. He moved to Pleasant Valley in about 1860, and was Captain of Company G. Seventeenth Regiment. three-months men. He died there in 1863. of erysipelas of the throat. He was well read up in his profession, and was a man of much more than ordinary ability.

Dr. Salathiel Ewing is a son of James M. and a grandson of James Ewing, the first white settler of what is now Union County, Ohio. He has always been counted among our best practitioners. He and Dr. M. J. Jenkins were the prime movers in the organization of our county medical association. of which he became the first President. He is also a member of the State Medical Society.

Dr. A. Sells was raised near Dublin, Ohio. I have no history of him but remember him well. He married Miss Angalia Halm, of Columbus, Ohio. His widow resides in Columbus.

Dr. A. Haner has been a practitioner in Plain City for several years. He is an active business man, and stands well in the profession.

Dr. A. Carpenter was for a few years located at Amity. I regret that he declined a sketch for use in this connection. He married Miss Lucy Jane. daughter of Asa and Thankful Converse.

Dr. M. J. Jenkins. second son of Rev. Thomas and Anne Jenkins, was born in Aleramman, South Wales. November 15. 1853. at which place and neighboring towns the first ten years of his life were spent. In 1864. he came to America with his father, on temporary business, but his father. becoming infatuated with the country, left his son in charge of friends at Johnstown. Penn.. while he returned to Europe for the balance of his family. Returning to America. his father became the pastor for seven years of the Welsh Congregational Church at Johnstown. Penn., when he removed to Radnor. Delaware Co., Ohio, where he became pastor of the same denomination for ten years. after which he removed to Sharon, Penn., and thence, in May. 1881 to Waterville, Oneida Co., N. Y. In 1873. M. M. J.

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Jenkins entered Ohio Wesleyan University. as a pupil. where he remained for three years. having previously prepared himself for college in the high schools of Johnstown, Penn., and Radnor, Ohio. After leaving Delaware, he entered the office of Dr. P. H. Bauer. at Richwood. Ohio. Graduated at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1. 1878. and located at Plain City May 1 of same year. Dr. Jenkins was active in organizing the Madison County Medical Society, and was the first permanent Secretary. He was married, December 24. 1879. to Miss May Beem, of Richwood, Ohio, a cultured lady and oldest daughter of Owen and Ellen Beem.

Dr. F. M. Mattoon was born June 21, 1842, in Genoa, Delaware Co.. Ohio; educated at Central College. Ohio. Commenced the study of medicine in July, 1869. under Dr. Andrus. of Westerville. Ohio, and attended a course of lectures at Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1870. but remained a pupil tinder Dr. Andrus until the spring of 1872, when he entered the office of Dr. Davis W. Halderman. Columbus, Ohio where he remained until graduated M. D., at Starling Medical College, February 23, 1873. He located in Belle Center, Logan Co., Ohio. in April. 1873. Remained three years, and removed to Piqua. Ohio, and in 1877 came to the Darby Plains. stopping at Unionville Center for three years, and, in April, 1880, came to Plain City. He married, July 29, 1875. Miss Miriam R. Lecky, of Millersburg. Ohio. a graduate in the class of 1867 of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College. Delaware. Ohio.

JEFFERSON.

Dr. David Wilson was born in Washington County. Penn., April 20. 1789. He did not study medicine until past middle life. Was a pupil of Dr. Robert Houston. of South Charleston. Ohio. Commenced practice at West Jefferson. Ohio. December 1. 1831. and continued in active practice about twenty-five years. He died of apoplexy at his home in Jefferson. July 15, 1877, in the eighty -eighth year of his age.

Dr. Jennet Stutson was born in Scituate, Mass.. September 7. 1807. Was a pupil of Dr. John A. Turner, of Zanesville. Ohio. In the winter of 1836-37, he attended one course of lectures at Ohio Medical College. Cincinnati, Ohio. and came directly to Jefferson from the college, where he resided until his death, September 23, 1861. aged fifty-eight years.

Dr. Ezra Bliss had practiced in Vershire. Vt., for several years. Was twice married, having twelve children by his first wife and four by his second. of whom Webb Bliss was the youngest. He came to Jefferson in about 1846. and died there in about 1852.

Dr. John McCullough was born January 10, 1805, in Washington County, Penn.; studied medicine in Eastern Ohio. and afterward practiced medicine for several years in Reynoldsburg. Ohio. Moved to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1848, where he continued to practice until about 1872, when age and failing health compelled him to desist. He was married in 1827 to Miss Abba Brower and died December 26, 1880 in Springfield. Ohio.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin Crabb. son of Rev. Henderson and Jemima (Downing) Crabb. was born in Amity, Madison Co., Ohio; studied with Dr. Jennet Stutson. of Jefferson. Ohio: graduated at Starling Medical College. and practiced a few years after 1850 in this place, and removed to South Charleston. Ohio, and afterward to Washington. Iowa. He was a Colonel in the Union army. and was taken prisoner in his first battle that of Belmont, Mo. Resides in Lincoln, Neb.

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Dr. -- Johnson, from about 1851 to 1854. was a popular physician, and died in Jefferson about 1854.

Dr. D. W. Seal, Dr. Archer and Dr. Davis. all eclectics, practiced there for a short time from about 1852. I remember Dr. Seal personally. I called at his horse in about November. 1855 or 1856. He impressed me as a man of ability and general intelligence. He was probably about thirty years of age. He was tall, with an intellectual countenance, high forehead. and evidently a cultured gentleman. He had a wife and some small children. but he died not long after my visit, o: consumption.

Dr. Thomas W. Forshee practiced there about 1854 to 1851. He was a graduate in medicine, and moved to Amity, from which place he went into the army as an officer in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry. He resigned during the war, and became an Assistant Surgeon to some regiment. He is living in Illinois.

Dr. John Colliver was born in Kentucky December 6, 1811; came to Ohio as early as 1840. In 1842. he lived over in the Darby Plains, on one of James Wilson's farms. It is said of him that he neglected to try to save his large crop of hemp that he had sown, but that he would sit down on the hearth in his log cabin, with his back to the jamb. and alternate until the "wee sma' hours" of night between his book and an effort to keep the faggots burning brightly enough to see to read. He subsequently studied medicine with Dr. Daniel Bell. of Somerford Township. this county, and located at Mechanicsburg. where he practiced for several years. He moved to Amity in about 1852. and vast here in 1850, when the small-pox got hold of his family. One daughter died, and the entire family became victims to the disease. In 1857. he moved to La Fayette, this county, and in 1858 to Jefferson. Ohio. Whilst he was in La Fayette, I met him almost daily, and remember him as a venial old gentleman, and honorable as a colleague in the profession. He became the most eminent eclectic physician who has ever resided in the county. He died of pneumonia, at his home in Jefferson. Ohio, June 10, 1805. He married, February 5. 1832. in Kentucky, Miss Matilda Robinson.

Dr. John Noble Beach was born at Amity. Madison Co., Ohio January 29. 1829. Was the pupil of Dr. Charles McCloud, and graduated at Starling Medical College, Columbus. Ohio. February 25, 1850. After a few years of practice at Unionville Center and Plain City. Ohio, he removed to Jefferson, Ohio. August 8. 1858, where he has since resided continuously, with the exception of the three years spent in the army. He married. June 1, 1858, Eliza J. Snyder, of Champaign County, Ohio.

Dr. Homer Summerfield Quinn, son of Rev. Isaac and Cynthia (Witten) Quinn, was born February 28, 1849. He was a pupil of Dr. John H. Quinn. of Clinton County, Ohio. Graduated at Medical College of Ohio, in the class of 1862. and located at Jefferson in the same year. He was elected by the Democratic party to the State Legislature in the fall of 1877. He married Miss Bettie Putnam, of Jefferson, Ohio, in 1870, and has continued in successful practice since locating at this point.

Dr. Jefferson T. Colliver was born in Kentucky January 19, 1841. He is a son of the late Dr. John and Matilda (Robinson) Colliver. He graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati. Ohio, June 1, 1864. He located in Jefferson, and. after the death of his father, in the year following, succeeded to his large and lucrative practice. and still resides there. He married, in November. 1869, Miss Frances Adams. of Clinton. Ill.

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Dr. Charles Snyder was born in Champaign County, Ohio, March 12, 1848. Was a pupil of Dr. J. N. Beach. and received the degree of M. D. from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. March 4, 1870. He was appointed Resident Physician to the Ohio Penitentiary after his graduation, which position he resigned, and located in Jefferson, Ohio. in 1872, where he yet resides. Dr. Horatio Seymour Downs was born in Urbana, Ohio. November 6. 1854; is a grandson of the late Dr. John Colliver. He graduated M. D. at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati. Ohio. June 3. 1879. and commenced practice in Jefferson, Ohio. in June, 1880. He married, May 4, 1880, Miss Lizzie Bowen.

MT. STERLING.

Dr. Jehiel Gregory, vide Midway.

Dr. -- Seeds, the second. if not the first. physician at Mt. Sterling, was an Englishman. He claimed to have been a graduate of Oxford, England. He was at least a scholarly man. David Haskell thinks he was there as early as 1833. He married, while there, a daughter of Robert Abernathy, of Jamestown. Greene Co., Ohio. He moved to Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio. and shortly afterward left that city.

Dr. William McClintick located in Mt. Sterling in 1840. vide Danville.

Dr. Samuel McClintick was born February 1, 1821. in Pickaway County, Ohio. He is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth McClintick. His father was a native of Ireland, and his mother of Pennsylvania. He commenced the study of medicine in 1841. under his brother, William, and J. F. Wilson, of New Holland. Pickaway Co., Ohio. He attended a course of lectures at Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. during the session of 1844-45. and located in Mt. Sterling in April, 1845. where he still resides. He married, May 20, 1846. Miss Louisa C. Kauffelt.

Dr. Elam Bodman was in Mt. Sterling for several years, and was one of the leading physicians. In about 1850. he bought a farm up in the Rea settlement. and probably retired from the profession.

Dr. David E. McMillen located at Midway in 1847. He is a physician of an extensive acquaintance. and long identified with the interests of the county. but I was unable to obtain a personal sketch of his life.

Dr. John H. Holton was an educated physician and a good practitioner. His wife's maiden name was Stimmel. He located at Mt. Sterling in about 1860, and moved to London, Ohio. in about 1865, where he died of pneumonia.

Dr. E. B. Pratt has been in Mt. Sterling several years. He is a member of the Madison County Medical Association. and has been its President. He is also a member of the Ohio State Medical Society.

Dr. W. H. Emory is also a member of the Madison County -Medical Association, as well as that of the State Medical Society.

AMITY.

Dr. Lorenzo Beach. son of Abel and Elizabeth (Kilbourne ) Beach. was born at New Haven. Vt.. November 7, 1708. He came to Ohio in the fall of 1813. and joined his brother Uri. who had preceded him one year, at Worthington. Ohio. He availed himself of such opportunities as Worthington afforded for improving his education, and in about 1816 or 1817 he commenced the study of medicine at Worthington. Ohio, and afterward went to Urbana. Ohio, and took a course of instruction from Dr. Carter, of that place. he was one of a class of ten students under Carter, and. upon the

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completion of the course, he gave them a "certificate" of the fact. My recollection of the matter, as I have heard it in boyhood, was that James Comstock, who was afterward his colleague or partner in business, and also Dr. Mosgrove, of Urbana. were of this "class." He located where Amity now stands, and where Uri, my father, had preceded him, in about 1820, when in his twenty-second year. The amount of professional business transacted in those days, when physicians were scarce, was only limited by their capacity to labor; and they traveled over, on horseback, a territory extending often to fifteen and twenty miles in all directions.

For some years after about 1833. Dr. Beach was the leading merchant in the north part of the county, and subsequently began to place his capital in real estate. For several years he was the largest landholder and the heaviest trader in live stock, and the heaviest capitalist that Darby Township had ever had. In 1853, when lands in the north part of the county were worth from $30 to $40 per acre. he began to sell out, and, going to Illinois. he invested his money in land warrants that were then abundant in the market, at 80 cents an acre. and located several thousand acres of land in McLean. Ford. Kankakee and Livingston Counties.

He married Miss Edith Bull. of Franklin County. Ohio, near Worthington, about the time he commenced the practice of medicine. He was married again. after the death of his first wife, to a widow woman in Fairbury, Ill.. who is still living there. He died at his home. in Fairbury, Ill., in August. 1878, aged eighty.

Dr. James Comstock located at Amity about the same time that Dr. Lorenzo Beach did. I have always heard him well spoken of. He was a brother. I think, to Buckley Comstock, who for many years was a leading business man of Columbus, Ohio. and an uncle to the present Comstock. who is the proprietor of Comstock's Opera House. He was a resident of Jamestown, Greene Co.. Ohio, in 1853, and I had correspondence with him at that date, respecting his opinion of the cause of the excessive malarial troubles during, the years 1822-23-24. I think he died at Jamestown within the last ten years.

Dr. Charles McCloud was probably about the third physician at Amity. He was born in Vermont February 2. 1808, and moved with his father in his youth to Delaware County, Ohio. He studied medicine with Dr. Alpheus Bigelow. of Galena, Delaware Co.. Ohio. He settled in Amity about 1833. when Amity was about three years old. For a few years. he taught winter schools, also in Amity. But as soon as the people began to understand him his practice began to increase, and for several years he was a very hard-working man in his profession. He was our family physician for more than twenty years, and he had the most implicit trust and faith and respect of the entire family. In 1850, he was the Whig member from Madison County in the Ohio Legislature, and was elected a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1S50. During the first year of my student life (1851), I was with him almost daily, discussing matters relating to my studies: but when I came to matriculate. I save the name of James F. Boal as my preceptor. when in point of fact I was more indebted for instruction to Dr. Charles McCloud. He married :Miss Jane Carpenter. and died at Plain City, Ohio, of obstruction of the bowels. April 1, 1861, aged fifty-three.

Dr. James Sidney Skinner was an Eastern man. probably from the State of Tew York. He settled in Amity in about 1840. He was a dapper, dilettante sort of a man. Whilst a student at Buffalo, N. Y.. he so

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fascinated a daughter of one Judge Clarke that an elopement and a clandestine marriage was the result. Amity. I think. was his first location. His wife was a very accomplished lady. Their history was known at Amity, and it was thought she began to regret the folly of her conduct. She was much admired by all classes of people there, and her influence had much to do in refining the society by which she was surrounded. It was a hard struggle with her husband to make a respectable living. He did not succeed in becoming a popular practitioner. She sickened and died, and her body was started for Buffalo, by the way of Cleveland, in a two-horse wagon. Two days after it had left, her father. Judge Clarke, came to Amity to see her, having been notified of her illness, having passed the body of his unfortunate child on the road. The Doctor afterward practiced at Plain City. Ohio, Columbus, Cincinnati. and then went to California. They had one child -Clarke Skinner.

Dr. Ashbaw, a bright little man from over about Dublin, I think, was the next. He was badly marked with small-pox. He did not remain long.

Dr. Davis was probably the next. He came from over about Dublin. I think. He stayed only a short time. The last I knew of him I stayed overnight at his house, at Cheney's Grove, McLean Co., Ill. He was improving a farm and practicing medicine also.

Dr. Abel W. Field. a New York State man, came to Madison County in about 1835, and settled over on the Darby Plains. He was a physician. and lived for several years two miles south of the late William D. Wilson's. He moved to Amity in about 1842. probably as early or earlier than the time of either Ashbaw or Davis. He generally had a fair practice, and was very popular in his manners. He was killed while returning from a professional call by being thrown from his sulky, on the 9th day of August, 1851. He was the father of Dr. Atchellaus Field, now a wealthy and prominent physician of Fort Des Moines. Iowa: of Dr. Orestes G. Field, of South Solon. this county, and of Capt. James Field. of Marysville. Ohio.

Dr. James F. Boal was born and raised up on Big Darby. in the Mitchell settlement. near Milford. I think. He was a graduate of Starling Medical College, and had practiced at Canal Winchester, Ohio, before coming to Amity. He located there in about 1848. He was a creditable practitioner, and active in business. In about 1953, he bought up a drove of horses and moved to Illinois. He was a married man.

Dr. Lucius Burr Carpenter, a native of Delaware County. Ohio, front about Galena, was a nephew of Mrs. Dr. Charles McCloud. Lived at Amity several years as a clerk in McCloud's store and as a general student. He taught school and studied medicine with his uncle, and had fairly entered upon a promising future when he fell a victim to Asiatic cholera during the epidemic of that year. He was attending the Stanton family over in the Plains, who had cholera, and, returning late. went to bed not very well. grew worse. and died before morning. He married Hester Mann. and left one child-Medora.

Dr. Isaac Newton Hamilton. raised at Richwood, Union Co.. Ohio, brother to ex- Congressman Cornelius Hamilton and Prof. John W. Hamilton. of Columbus. Ohio. remained from about 1852 to 1855, when he moved to Unionville Center. Union Co.. Ohio. afterward to Milford Center. and then to Marysville. where he now resides.

Dr. John Colliver. notice in Jefferson.

Dr. Thomas W. Forshee. vide Jefferson.

Dr. William H. Jewett. the present practicing physician at Amity, has

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been there for about ten years. He is a good physician and an exemplary gentleman, and I regret that I cannot give a more particular personal sketch, from lack of information.

MIDWAY.

Dr. Jehial Gregory was probably the first resident physician of Midway. He located there in about 1833. He married Susan Hazle, of London, Ohio. Prior to marriage, he boarded at the hotel then kept by John M. Blue, father-in-law of John Dungan, of London, Ohio. He moved from Midway to Mt. Sterling, Ohio. in about 1835. and became the first resident physician there. He studied for the profession with Dr. Martin, of Bloomingburg, Fayette Co., Ohio.

Dr. Clarke was the second physician at Midway. locating there in about 1835, where he remained about two years, when he went to London, the county seat, and boarded with Col. Lewis and practiced there for a short time, then moved to Michigan.

Dr. Milton Lemen was probably the third resident physician. He was born March 1, 1819, in Range Township. Clark County, Ohio. He was a son of Judge John and Rebecca (Donelson) Lemen. Judge Lemen's wife is said to have been an aunt to Gen. Andrew Jackson's wife. The Lemens were natives of Virginia and emigrated from Tennessee to Ohio. He studied medicine with Dr Robert Houston. of South Charleston, Ohio, and located at Midway in 1843. He had an immense practice at Midway. He was a man of great energy, tall, wiry. restive, impetuous-a kind of steam engine man. He was a good-an extra physician. In the fall of 1860, he was elected to the Ohio Legislature as an Independent Republican. He removed to London in 1862, and, in 1863, was appointed by President Lincoln an Examining Surgeon for the counties of Madison, Clark, Greene and Franklin. He was attacked with paralysis in 1865, before his discharge from the service, and died at his home, in London, Ohio. April 24. 1871). He had led a very inactive life for the fourteen years preceding his death. owing to his paralytic condition.

Dr. John W. Greene was at Midway in about 1844. He moved from there to Fairfield, Greene Co.. Ohio. He married Miss Winans. of Jamestown. Greene Co., Ohio, sister to Judge James Winans.

Dr. Nelson Strong Darling, a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Starling Medical College, in February. 1853, located there in the same year. He subsequently married a daughter of Dr. Wetmore. of Worthington, Ohio. and located for a few years at London, when he moved to Indiana. He was a bright. energetic little man, and successful in business. He was a brother of Mrs. R. L. Howards. whose husband was for many years the distinguished professor of surgery in Starling Medical College.

Dr. Garrard was also a practitioner and druggist there for several years.

Dr. Washington Atkinson was probably the next practitioner.

Dr. Orestes G. Field was born in Canaan Township. Madison County, Ohio. son of Dr. Abel W. Field, for a number of years a practitioner at Amity, was a practitioner at Midway for several years, having located there after the war. He was a graduate of Sterling Medical College in about 1858. At present. in South Solon. this county.

Dr. D. A. Horse. now Superintendent of the Private Lunatic Asylum at Oxford. Ohio, was also a practitioner there. vide London.

Dr. Seaton, also. but I can obtain no history of him.

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Dr. A. Ogan, born August 4, 1841, in Greene County, Ohio, educated at the public schools, read medicine with Dr. C. H. Sparrh, of Jamestown, Greene Co.. Ohio, graduated at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in 1873. and located the same year in Midway. Was married, in October, 1861, to Miss Z. B. Owens, at Port William, Clinton Co., Ohio, daughter of Dr. William Owens, of Wilmington. Clinton Co., Ohio.

Dr. J. Finley Kirkpatrick, son of James S. and Sarah A. Kirkpatrick, was born in Kosciusko County. Ind.. July 17, 1847; moved with his parents when young to Bloomington, Ill., and there received a liberal education. Read medicine in 1872-73. with Drs. Finley & McClelland, and attended lectures in 1874-75-70) in Keokuk, Iowa. graduating in the latter year. Practiced medicine in Paintersville and Jamestown. Greene Co., Ohio, and located in Midway October 13, 1877. He was married, in Mt. Sterling, Ohio. September 26, 1878. to Miss Kate Bonham, daughter of William J. and Letitia J. Bonham, of Midway, Madison Co.. Ohio.

LA FAYETTE.

The first settled physician at La Fayette was Dr. Christian Anklin. He was a German and an educated gentleman, whose wife, Martha, an English woman, was a sister to the late Richard Cowling, of London, Ohio. He came on from the East probably from Philadelphia, where he had married his wife only a few months before. He bought a lot at the first sale of town lots by auction, adjoining the present residence of Mrs. Ann M. Rodgers. on the west side. He had a fine professional standing, and enjoyed, to a large extent, the confidence of the better class of people. After a few years spent in La Fayette, he moved to Springfield, Ohio, where he shortly after died.

Dr. Hornbeck probably succeeded him. He married a daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Simpson, of La Fayette.

Dr. M. Valentine. a native of Ohio, came to La Fayette in about 1847, and staved two years. He was a graduate of Starling Medical College. Leaving La Fayette. he moved to Royalton, Fairfield Co., Ohio, and subsequently to Pulaski. Licking Co., Ohio, where he yet remains. One of his sons also graduated at Starling Medical College in about 1872. Valentine was unmarried when at La Fayette.

Dr. Ransford Rodgers, a native of Vermont. sold his location at Royalton, Ohio. to Dr. Valentine, and was his successor at practice in La Fayette, where he located in 1849. He was a graduate in medicine. and had a good practice, but remained only a few years.

Dr. Cheney was probably the next, and he must have located there as early as 1849. He was an eclectic. He had an extensive practice, but he moved to Iowa in 1855.

Dr. William Morrow Beach, a native of Madison County, located there in September. 1855. He had practiced two years previously at Unionville Center, Union Co.. Ohio. He graduated at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in 1853. He remained at La Fayette, marrying there on the 12th of June. 1860. until April. 1862, when he went into the army as a Surgeon. Returning in July, 1865. immediately after his muster-out of the service, he located on a farm two miles west of LaFayette, on the London road, where he now lives, practicing his profession.

Dr. John Colliver, vide Jefferson.

Dr. Nathaniel J. Sawyer. youngest son of Nathaniel Sawyer. an early land speculator in Madison County. was born in Kentucky. He graduated

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at a Cincinnati medical college, and was one year thereafter an interne at one of the city hospitals. He subsequently went as physician on board an ocean vessel bound for Valparaiso, South America. Arriving in Valparaiso, he remained there engaged in his profession for two or three years. Upon his return to the United States, he improved his farmhouse on the National road, two miles east of La Fayette, brought a young bride from Kentucky there, built a nice office and commenced practice in about 1861. Shortly thereafter, he sold his farm to John Snyder, and moved to another one of his farms up in the Dunn settlement. He sold out and moved, in about 1870, to Kentucky, where he now lives.

Dr. Edward Granville Forshee, born in Clark County, Ohio, studied with Dr. W. M. Beach, of La Fayette, Ohio, and, with his brother, Thomas W. Forshee, at Amity, this county. Graduated in Cincinnati, Ohio, and located in Hilliards, Franklin Co., Ohio, for about three years, where he married; located in La Fayette about 1863 and, in about 1867, moved to Illinois, where he is now living.

Benjamin F. Bierbaugh, youngest son of Christopher Bierbaugh, born in La Fayette, Ohio, studied medicine with Dr. A. H. Underwood, of London. Ohio; was at La Fayette during the two last years of his student life; attended one course of lectures at Starling Medical College, but died of pulmonary hemorrhage just before he was to have entered upon his last course of lectures previous to his graduation as M. D. He was a highly respected young man, and died universally lamented.

Dr. B. F. Adams, from Mechanicsburg, Ohio, was there for a few months in the summer of 1881.

Dr. W. F. Wallace, a native of New Hampshire, and formerly a peripatetic schoolmaster of this county, located there in the spring of 1881, immediately after taking his degree of M. D. at Columbus Medical College. He left for New Hampshire in the fall of the same year.

Dr. Sidney C. Teeters was born in Wayne County, Ohio, raised in Athens County, Ohio; married, first, Miss Margaret Gibson, of Meigs County, Ohio, April 9, 1857, and second, to Miss Esther M. Carpenter, of Meigs County, Ohio, June 2, 1880. He graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873. Practiced in Athens County, Ohio, for about fourteen years; in Vinton County, ten years, and located in La Fayette in the spring of 1882.

SOMERFORD.

Dr. Daniel Wilson settled there in 1837. He was a botanic physician. He was probably the best known physician who has ever practiced there. He was a member of the German Baptist Church (Tunkers) and a Deacon among them. He occasionally preached for them, and conducted the exercises on funeral occasions. He died near there on the 27th of May, 1867. He was born in Kentucky June 5, 1801.

Dr. John Zimmerman, a quadroon Pottawatomie Indian, was the next. He had previously practiced in South Solon, this county. He located in Somerford in about 1848. He was a Christian preacher, and organized the first Christian Church there. He afterward went to Liverpool, where he practiced for awhile, from about 1852. I knew him personally while he was living there. The boys over on the Little Darby called him Dr. " Rutabaga," on account of his being a " herb doctor." He was a good practitioner and an able preacher.

Dr. William Adams read medicine with Dr. Enoch Thomas, of London. Ohio, in about 1844. Practiced in Somerford two or three years, and

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moved to Clinton, Ill. Was a brother of Eli H. Adams, of Somerford Township. Dr. J. T. Colliver, of Jefferson, Ohio, married one of his daughters.

Dr. Andrew Summers located there about 1848, but did not remain long. He moved West.

Dr. Daniel Bell was there also for a time, and also a Dr. Ecord.

Dr. J. H. Grahnn settled there in about 1863. and remained about one year, when he moved to South Charleston, Ohio.

Dr. Edwin Guy Keifer. son of James and Deniza (Reed) Keifer, was born May 21, 1846, in Fairfield Township, Greene County, Ohio. He enlisted, August 15,1862, in Company H. Forty-fourth Regiment Ohio Infantry, and was mustered out at the close of the war. He enjoyed the luxury of "sticking his legs under the mahogony " for one month at Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., Gen. Rasser having surprised the camp at Beverly, Va., by night, taking in nearly the entire command, his regiment having been changed to a cavalry command. He commenced the study of medicine under John W. Greene, of Fairfield, Ohio. and graduated an M. D. at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1871. He located in Somerford in the spring of 1871. where he now lives. He married January 15, 1868, Miss Lou Snediker, of Fairfield, Ohio.

Dr. Milton C. Sprague. son of Dr. James B. Sprague, was born in Harmony Township, Clark County, Ohio. October 23. 1849; graduated at the Cincinnati Medical College. in June, 1874. Practiced with his father in London, Ohio, until January, 1880, when he located at Somerford, Ohio. He married, August 20, 1874, Miss Alice C. Hurd, of Vienna, Clark Co.. Ohio.

LIVERPOOL.

Dr. Jeremiah Curl, son of Thomas Curl, was born near Mechanicsburg, Ohio; studied medicine with Dr. Abner Cheney, of Mechanicsburg, and located in Liverpool about 1840. He afterward moved to Marysville. Ohio, where he became a prominent physician.

Dr. Marshall Perry Converse located in Liverpool in 1846. In 1847. he received into partnership his cousin, Dr. Jeremiah Converse, then direct from his well earned honors as a graduate at Starling Medical College. They were partners for two years. Dr. M. P. Converse moved West and died in Champaign County. Ill., in 1856. He was a brother to Dr. George Converse, of Georgesville, Franklin Co., Ohio, who was the father of George L. Converse, M. C.

Dr. John Zimmerman was there in about 1851. He was probably a son of the Zimmerman noticed in South Solon, and is probably the same man noticed in Danville, California and Somerford.

Dr. Joseph C. Kalb was born and raised on a farm, near Canal Winchester, Ohio; was a pupil under Dr. James F. Boal, of Canal Winchester and Amity, Ohio. Graduated at Starling Medical College in 1854; located at Liverpool the same year, and was Assistant Surgeon in the Fortieth Ohio Regiment.

Dr. Andrew Sabin practiced medicine in Liverpool in about 1857-58; was a distinguished surgeon in the army. but I think was not commissioned from this county. His present residence is Marysville, Ohio.

Dr. F. M. Carter, a native of Virginia, has been in Liverpool since about 1865.

SOUTH SOLON.

Dr. John Zimmerman. said to have been a quadroon Pottawatomie, was

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the first resident physician at Solon. From what I can ascertain, he was the father of another John Zimmerman, who is noticed as having been at Somerford, Liverpool and California. He probably died at Solon.

Dr. Parker was probably the next. He moved to Tipton County, Ind.

Dr. Alfred Jones, from Charleston, was there eight or ten years. He moved to Burlington, Iowa.

Dr. Winans, from Xenia, Ohio, practiced here.

Dr. Thomas Adams was there in 1847, and was followed by Dr. Glass. Dr. Ernest located there in about 1861. Dr. Washington Atkinson located at Solon in about 1866. He studied with Dr. Curtis, of South Charleston. Ohio. He had previously practiced in Midway.

Dr. John S. Smith came from Washington County, Penn.; was a graduate in medicine.

Dr. Thomas Wessinger and Dr. H. H. McClellan practiced at this point.

Dr. O. G. Field, son of Dr. Abel W. Field, was raised in Amity, Madison Co., Ohio; studied medicine in part with his father. Graduated at Starling Medical College. Has practiced at London. California and Mid. way.

Dr. John Sidner graduated at Columbus Medical College in the class of 1882. Located for a short time at Jefferson, and then moved to Solon.

CALIFORNIA.

Dr. Davis was probably the first resident physician of Fairfield Township. He lived about three miles northeast from where the village now stands.

Dr. Holmes built the first house in the village in 1849. He began practicing there the same year, and when a post office was established there he was appointed the first Postmaster.

Dr. McComb. from South Charleston, Ohio, located there in 1851.

Dr. Dennis Warner, in 1853. vide London.

Dr. John Zimmerman and his son-in-law. Dr. Martin, in about 1854.

Dr. B. F. Welch in 1855. He was a pupil of A. H. Baker and also of Jennet Stutson, of Jefferson, Ohio.

Dr. Orestes G. Field located there in about 1858, and had as a partner Dr. Thomas, who had previously been a partner of Dr. Strain's, of London. Dr. O. G. Field was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry, March 19, 1864, and was promoted to Surgeon of the same regiment October 25, 1864. and was mustered out with his regiment.

Dr. Charles W. Higgins, son of Charles Higgins, was born and raised near Alton, Franklin Co., Ohio; was a soldier in the war of the rebellion. Studied medicine with Dr. Richard Woodruff of Alton, Ohio. Graduated at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. Located at California in about 1865. He combined merchandising with his profession, and has been prosperous.

Dr. Smeltzer located there in 1882. He is a graduate of Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio.

TRADERSVILLE.

Dr. Thomas P. Bond was born in Harrison County. W. Va., June 13, 1825. He studied medicine in Whitewater. Wis., and graduated at La Porte, Ind., in 1847. He located at Tradersville about 18.17, and boarded first with Isaac Fox. and afterward with Abram LewIs. He moved to Mechanicsburg about 1850. He was elected Treasurer of Champaign County,

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Ohio, in 1861. and was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Sixty-sixth Regiment Ohio Infantry, but had to resign on account of ill health. Recovering his health after his return home, he was again tempted to accept a commission in the Thirty-second Ohio Infantry, of which, I think, he became the Surgeon. Again breaking down in health, he again had to resign his commission. I knew Dr. Bond before the war, and in the army also. He was a good physician and an educated and accomplished gentleman. When he joined our Ohio Brigade prior to the Vicksburg campaign, I was detailed to a "feather-bed" position at Division Hospital. Bond was a stranger in the brigade, and I was his friend at home before the war. I had a feeling that he was too frail for the hardships of roughing it in the open air, day and night, in sunshine and in storm, through many eventful weeks, without shelter at night, which could only be found at Division headquarters. I went to headquarters unknown to him, and had the de tail changed from myself- to Dr. Bond; but my humanity resulted to my advantage after all, as I was detailed afterward as the Division Hospital Director. He died at his home, in Mechanicsburg, Ohio, of disease contracted in the army, March 28, 1866. He was married, September 9,1851, to Miss Mary J. Blew, who survives him.

NEWPORT.

Dr. Thornburg was the first resident physician there.

Dr. Anderson Neibarger was born in Pleasant Township, Clark County, Ohio, on a farm now owned by David Ward. Studied medicine with Dr. Thornburg, of Newport, Madison Co., Ohio, and practiced first at London, from about 1865, for about one year. and then at Newport far four or five years, and moved to Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio, near which he died about 1875. He married Miss Morse, of near Catawba, Clark Co.. Ohio, sister of Mrs, David Woosley.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin Riggin was born May 1, 1844, in Pickaway County. Ohio, near Mt. Sterling. son of Isaac C. and Lucinda (Baker) Riggin. Was five years at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, from 1857. Left at the end of his Junior year in 1862; became a pupil under Dr. John Holton. of Mt. Sterling, Ohio. Graduated at Starling Medical College in the class of 1865. During 1864,was a partner in practice with Dr. John Holton. at Mt. Sterling, and returned to Mt. Sterling and located in 1865, after graduation, and practiced there until 1875, when he went to Columbus for one year, and then located at Newport, where he remained until September, 1882, when he moved to London, Ohio. He was married, May 17. 1865, to Miss Isabella Leach, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Bostwick) Leach.

DANVILLE.

Dr. William McClintick, a brother to Dr. Samuel McClintick, of Mt. Sterling, Ohio, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, near Zanesville, in 1817. He studied medicine with Dr. James F. Wilson, of New Holland. Ohio, and located in Mt. Sterling, Ohio, in 1840, where he practiced for about twenty years. He graduated at Starling Medical College in 1848. He bought a .arm two miles east of Danville, and moved to it in 1860, where he died November 21, 1871, of cancer. He was a good physician. Danville was a good point and his excessive labor in his profession probably brought an untimely death. In 1842, he married Hannah Reeves, who died in 1845 without issue. In 1847, he married Fannie Reeves, sis

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ter to his first wife, who, with two daughters and one son, still live at the home farm.

Dr. Thomas Reeves McClintick was bort in Mt. Sterling, Madison Co., Ohio, it 1848. read medicine with his father, Dr. William McClintick. and graduated at the Medical College of Ohio. Cincinnati, Ohio. it 1870. He lived on his father's farm until 177, whet he married Sarah Howsman, and then moved into the village of Danville. In 1880, he moved to Kansas City, Mo.. where he has a good practice.

Dr. James Bradley Morgan was born it Ross County, Ohio; read medicine with Dr. William Latta, of Frankfort, Ross Co., Ohio. Graduated at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, it 1869. and located at Danville it the same year; stayed about one year and then moved to Clarksburg, Ross Co., Ohio.

Dr. C. M. Deem is the only physician at Danville at the present writing. He located there on the 11th of August, 1881. He is a genial. pleasant gentleman, and has a good practice. He had practiced at Plain City and at Lilly Chapel, Ohio, before going to Danville.

LILLY CHAPEL.

Dr. L. F. Scofield was born at Hilliards Station, Norwich Township, Franklin County. Ohio, September 12, 1853; studied with Dr J. M. Merryman, of Hilliards. Graduated at Columbus Medical College, Columbus. Ohio, February, 1881, and located at Lilly Chapel the 23d day of March, 1881. being the first physician to locate it the village. He is a member of ?, the Madison County Medical Society, and also of the State Medical Society.

MADISON COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

In September, 1857 or 1858, an attempt was made to organize a County Medical Society. The meeting was called by publication, and a few physicians responded. Nothing further was done that the selection of Dr. William Morrow Beach, as President, and Dr. A. H. Underwood. as Secretary. On motion of Dr. Toland Jones. the appointment of committees was deferred until the next meeting. There was at unusual amount of sickness during the next month, and when the meeting day came around there was tot a quorum for transacting business. and so this, the first attempt to establish a society it the county, became a failure.

On the 31st day of May, 1878, in accordance with a movement inaugurated by the physicians of Plait City, there was a meeting held at Jefferson, Ohio. There were present at this meeting Drs. Salathiel Ewing and M. J. Jenkins, of Plait City; Drs. J. N. Beach,H. S. Quint and Charles Snyder. Jefferson; Dr. J. S. Howland, of New California. Union County; Dr. W. H. Jewett. of Amity; Dr. Richard Woodruff: of Alton, Franklin County; Drs. Toland Jones, H. J. Sharp and James B. Sprague, of London, and Dr. Davis, of Georgesville. Dr. Richard Woodruff of Alton, was chosen Chairman pro tem; Drs. Ewing, Beach and Howland were appointed a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws, which committee reported before the close of the meeting, and their report was adopted. Dr. Salathiel Ewing was chosen President, and Dr. M. J. Jenkins, Secretary. The officers of the association were to be elected twice a year. At the meeting in December, 1878, Dr. J. N. Beach was chosen President. It June, 1879, Dr. Toland Jones, of London; in January, 1880. E. B. Pratt, of Mt. Sterling, and A. J. Strain to succeed 31. J. Jenkins as Secretary. It Jute, 1880, Dr. William Morrow Beach, of London, was

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elected President; in January. 1881, H. J. Sharp, of London, was elected President; in June, 1881, Richard Woodruff, of Alton; in December, 1881. J. P. Kirkpatrick, of Midway. The meetings are usually held at London.

The present membership consists of Drs. Toland Jones, H. J. Sharp, J. B. Sprague, A. J. Strain, William Morrow Beach, J. T. Houston and C. S. Morse, of London; Drs. Salathiel Ewing, M. J. Jenkins, T. ML Mattoon, Jeremiah Converse and William I. Ballinger. Plain City; Drs. E. B. Pratt, W. H. Emery and Samuel McClintick. Mt. Sterling; Drs. John N. Beach, Charles Snyder. Jefferson; Drs. A. Ogan and J. P. Kirkpatrick. Midway; Drs. B. F. Welch and C. W. Higgins, California; Drs. Richard Woodruff and T. B. Norris. Alton: Dr. W. H. Jewett, Amity; Dr. E. G. Keifer. Somerford; Dr. John Sidner. South Solon. Dr. L. F. Scofield, Lilly Chapel; Dr. W. L. Pinkerton, Galloway; Dr. E. H. Smith, Vienna: Dr. G. W. Gardner. Harrisburg; Dr. J. S. Howland. New California. Union County. The association meets on the last Friday in each month, at 10 o'clock A. M.

ARMY SURGEONS FROM MADISON COUNTY.

Dr. Joseph C. Kalb, commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, October 3, 1861. He resigned January 6, 1863; term of service, two years and three months.

Dr. John Noble Beach. commissioned by Gov. David Tod Surgeon in the Fortieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to succeed Surgeon Alexander McBride, April 14, 1862, to rank as such from April 1, 1862. Was mustered out at Nashville. Tenn., with that portion of the regiment that did not re-enlist or veteranize. December. 1864; term of service, two years and nine months.

Dr. William Morrow Beach, commissioned by Gov. David Tod. Assistant Surgeon in the volunteer forces of Ohio in the service of the United States (State Surgeons), April 3, 1862, and was assigned to duty at Shiloh with the Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Was commissioned by Gov. David Tod Assistant Surgeon in the Seventy-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. May 3. 1862. to rank as such from April 20. 1862; re-enlisted or veteranized with the Seventy-eighth Ohio Regiment for the remainder of the war at Vicksburg, Miss., in April, 1864. Was commissioned by Gov. John Brough as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry. May 19.1864. Was mustered out with the regiment, after the close of the war, at Salisbury, N. C.. June, 1865; term of service, three years and three months.

Dr. Orestes G. Field. Commissioned by Gov. John Brough Assistant Surgeon in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry March 19, 1864: promoted to Surgeon. to succeed Surgeon Lucius H. James. resigned, October 25, 1864. Mustered out with regiment: term of service, one year and three months.