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MOTHERSHEAD, JOHN L .- Indianapolis (1808- 1854). S. T. 1855, 76. He was a charter member of the state society. He was born at Stamping Ground, Scott county, Ky., Jan. 6, 1808, and came to Indian- apolis in 1830. He was president of the Board of Health, and during the Black Hawk war was assistant surgeon of the Indiana Battalion. He died at Indian- apolis, Nov. 4, 1854 .- J. L. Mothershead, a son.
MULLANE, JOSEPH .- Lyons (1856-1898). S. T. 1899, 394.
MULLEN, ALEXANDER J .- Napoleon (1813-1897). Was born in Ireland in 1813, and when a mere child came to America with his parents and settled in Penn- sylvania. When he was old enough he ran away from home and shipped as a boy in the Merchant Marine service. In the early days Merchant vessels conducted a training school, requiring so many hours a day for study. The Doctor there received his first instruction in medicine, and after nine years of service he for-
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sook the sea and took up the study of medicine at the Louisville Medical College, where he graduated in 1838. He began the practice of medicine at Marion, Indiana, then moved to Napoleon, where he had quite a large class studying under him, among them his brother Bernard F. Mullen, Dr. Glass and J. W. Gordon, who afterwards gave up the study of medicine and became one of the most famous lawyers of the state. From Napoleon he went to Michigan City and was appointed Prison Physician. When the war broke out he moved his family to Madison and joined the 35th Irish Regiment and became surgeon. After spending over thirty years in the Hoosier state he moved his family to St. Louis, Mo., and while not altogether forsaking the practice of medicine, he spent a great deal of his time in traveling through the western part of the country, and in 1887, took an extended European trip visiting hospitals of the old country and performing several successful operations while there. He died at his home in St. Louis, September 25, 1897 .- Miss Cora E. Mullen, Madison, Niece.
Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- vention, June 6, 1849. Three of the Mullen brothers were present at this Convention .- G. W. H. K.
MULLEN, BERNARD F .- Napoleon (1825-1879). Was born at Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and received his early education in the parochial schools. At an early age he went to Napoleon, Indiana, and joined a class of students who were studying medicine under his eldest brother, Dr. Alexander Mullen. His early medical days were passed between Napoleon and Madison, where his brother Dr. John Mullen had located. Dr. Bernard was quite successful in the prac- tice of medicine, making children's diseases a specialty ; and he also gained a reputation in his profession dur- ing the cholera epidemic of 1849. At the call for troops during the Mexican War, J. W. Gordon and Dr. B. F. Mullen raised a company at Napoleon-Gordon being made captain and Mullen, surgeon. He was the youngest surgeon serving in the American army. This company was afterwards attached to the 3rd Ohio.
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During the first of the Rebellion, Dr. Bernard Mullen was located in the timber country between Osgood and Napoleon, and when the call for volunteers was issued was made Colonel of the 35th Regiment Indiana Infan- try. For several years after the war he resided in Madison, but afterwards located in Terre Haute, where he stood high in social and professional life. He was a man of the most varied accomplishments: a soldier, politician, musician, a writer of more than ordinary ability, and an orator of the greatest bril- liancy and power. During the early days of the Know Nothings, Dr. Mullen fought them openly from the speaker's stand. He was one of the Commissioners that located the State Prison at Michigan City, and at the time of his death was a candidate for State Librar- ian. He was taken ill at a hotel at Indianapolis, where he died February 6, 1879. His remains were taken charge of by the G. A. R. and were laid to rest at Terre Haute .- Miss Cora E. Mullen, Napoleon, Niece.
Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- vention, June 6, 1849. G. W. H. K.
MULLEN, JOHN W .- Madison (1821-1887). Was born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, in 1821. When quite a boy, he went to Texas and served as a page under Gen. Sam Houston during the war between the Lone Star State and Mexico. During this campaign he had the misfortune to be taken down with yellow fever and was faithfully nursed by one of the men until he was supposed to have died. Around his belt he had concealed about $1,250 of Texas script. The nurse took $1,000 of this and left a note with the remaining $250 for the person who would bury him. The doctor often told this experience in demonstrat- ing that life was not always extinct when supposed to be. Becoming tired of Texas he returned to Philadel- phia and entered the Pennsylvania University; gradu- ated in medicine with honors, and was elected intern for two years at the Philadelphia City Hospital. Through the importunities of his friends and class- mates he was induced to come to Indiana, and in 1847 located at Madison. Early in the fifties Dr. John
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Mullen, with five other leading physicians of the city, obtained a charter from the State Legislature for a medical school to be known as The Madison Medical Institute, and in a two-story frame building on the corner of East and Third Streets, commenced to give lectures to a class of students in Madison. A brick cottage to the north was used as a dissecting room. The demands of private practice were so great that the doctors found it impossible to keep all their lec- ture engagements, and the students becoming discour- aged concluded to go to the University of Louisville. The school-room was turned into a hospital,-the first one ever established in Madison-and the brick cottage was converted into a pest house. Up to the time of his death, Dr. John Mullen took a lively interest in the advancement of his chosen profession of medicine, and kept himself well read in the science of that profession, often being called into consultation in cases where experience and sound advice were needed. He was regarded as one of the best surgeons of the state, and performed some of the most difficult operations. He died at his home in Madison, May 10, 1887 .- Miss Cora E. Mullen, Madison, Daughter.
Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- vention, June 6, 1849 .- G. W. H. K.
MULLINIX, M. G .- Spencer (1827-1886). S. T. 1887, 193. Was surgeon of the 149th Reg. Ind. Vols.
MUNFORD, SAMUEL E .- Princeton (1837-1893) . S. T. 1894, 219. He enlisted as a private soldier in the Seventeenth Reg. Ind. Vols. early in 1861; was then appointed hospital steward, and served as such until Aug. 13, 1861, when he was appointed assistant sur- geon of the same regiment, and served until Feb. 5, 1862, when he was promoted to surgeon. On the forma- tion of Wilder's Brigade of mounted infantry he was appointed acting brigade surgeon, and served as such until Jan. 12, 1865. He was elected president of the State Medical Society in 1883. To the state society he contributed the following papers: "Case of Hydrocele, with Cartilaginous Thickening of the Tunica Vagi- nalis," Trans. 1872, 7; "Cases of Injury to the Head,
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with Remarks Thereon," Trans. 1883, 110; "Presi- dent's Address-A Question in State Medicine," Trans. 1884, 1; "Repair of Injuries of the Pelvic Floor," Trans. 1892, 131. See Robson, 101, Stone, 348, and I. M. J., Vol. xii, 103. For three years I was associated with Dr. Munford in army life, and I loved him as Jonathan loved David.
MURPHY, PIERSON .- Franklin (1800-1864). Born in Fairfield Co., Ohio, in 1800. Graduate of the Ohio Medical College in 1827, and the same year located at Franklin, which at that date consisted of some half dozen families living in log houses. He was the second physician to locate in Johnson County. He encountered the usual hardships of the early, and the young .physician, of primitive days in Indiana.
In 1828, Dr. Murphy, assisted by Dr. Smith, of Edinburg, performed paracentesis abdominalis by mak- ing an incision into the abdominal cavity with a thumb lancet. Then having removed the bark and pith from a small elder, this crude contrivance was used to draw off the fluid.
Dr. Murphy practiced over a vast extent of terri- tory, and, although his charges were nominal, ac- quired considerable wealth. He died in 1864 .- Abridged from letter from Dr. R. W. Terhune, White- land, Ind.
MURRAY, ALFRED L .- Eaton (1845-1906). S. T. 1907, 479. Was a soldier of the Civil War.
MYERS, WILLIAM H .- Fort Wayne (1826-1907). S. T. 1907, 471. Dr. Myers located in Fort Wayne in 1859, and during all his active professional life was recognized as one of the leading surgeons of northern Indiana. In the spring of 1861 he entered the service as surgeon of the Thirtieth Reg. Ind. Vols. and served as such for a number of months. After leaving the service he resumed practice in Fort Wayne. To the state society he contributed a paper on "Shock," Trans. 1883, 138; also "Ganglions, with Suggestions on Treat- ment," Trans. 1885, 180. Dr. Myers was honored by his professional brethren. I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 332, 449. He performed the first Porro operation in Indiana,
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saving mother and child. Am. Jour. of Obs., Vol. xxvi, p. 933.
NASH, GEORGE W .- Indianapolis (1835-1903). S. T. 1904, 360.
NESBIT, JOSEPH A .- Allisonville (1821-1895). I. M. J., Vol. xiv, 177.
NEW, GEORGE W .- Indianapolis (1819-1891). S. T. 1891, 286. Dr. New graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1840, and immediately located at Greens- burg, where he remained nineteen years, and then re- moved to Indianapolis. He was surgeon of the Seventh Reg. Ind. Vols. from 1861 to 1864. In November, 1864, was sent by Governor Morton to New Orleans as mili- tary agent for Indiana. For two years following the termination of the war he was examiner of drugs in the New Orleans Custom House. Resolutions, I. M. J., Vol. ix, 250.
NEWCOMER, FRISBY S. - Indianapolis (1828- 1889). S. T. 1890, 157. Dr. Newcomer was a native of Hagerstown, Maryland, and a graduate of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. He took up microscopy in mid- dle life, and became an expert in that art. During the Civil War Dr. Newcomer was in the government serv- ice in Indianapolis, and for six years physician to the Deaf and Dumb Institute. At the time of his death was contract surgeon to the U. S. arsenal at Indian- apolis.
NEWLAND, BENJAMIN. - Bedford (1821-1889). S. T. 1889, 216. Dr. Newland was acting president of the State Medical Society in 1879, Dr. Louis Humph- reys having resigned as president, Dr. Newland, vice- president, took his place. At that meeting Dr. New- land delivered an address, "The Relations of Legis- lation to Sanitary Protection," Trans. 1879, 1. He was a surgeon in the Civil War, Twenty-second Reg. Ind. Vols.
NEWLAND, JAMES H .- Valparaiso (1820-1889). S. T. 1890, 152.
NEWTON, WILIAM T .- Indianapolis (1854-1900). S. T. 1901, 495. At the time of his death he was fill-
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ing the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons.
NIERMAN, HERMAN G .- Fort Wayne (1870- 1909). Jour. Ind. State Med. Assoc., Vol. 2, 82.
NIMAN, CHARLES H .- Elkhart (1855-1904). S. T. 1905, 455.
NIMAN, JONAS P .- Lagrange (1828-1888). S. T. 1889, 209.
NOBLE, THOMAS B., SR .- Greenwood ( 1827-1907). I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 410.
NOLAND, STACY T .- Delphi (1845-1887). S. T. 1888, 217.
NORTH, EUGENE B .- Peru (1854-1887). S. T. 1888, 203.
O'FERRALL, ROBERT M .- Lafayette (1826-1896) . S. T. 1897, 351. Dr. O'Ferrall was vice-president of the State Medical Society in 1859. For a few months he was surgeon of the Fortieth Reg. Ind. Vols. He was loved and respected by his fellow-men. I M. J., Vol. xv, 295.
O'REAR, CHARLES D .- Jamestown (1839-1884) . S. T. 1884, 216.
OLIVER, DANDRIDGE H. - Indianapolis . (1826- 1895). S. T. 1895, 410. See sketch, I. M. J., Vol. xiii, 386. Portrait, ib. facing p. 371.
OMO, JOSEPH H .- Harlan (1832-1898). S. T. 1899, 396.
OWEN, ABRAHAM M .- Evansville (1849-1898). S. T. 1899, 392. Dr. Owen was one of the leading sur- geons of Evansville, occupying the chair of surgery dur- ing the existence of the Medical College of Evansville in that institution. See Robson, 533, and Stone, 360.
PABODY, EZRA FITCH .- Vernon (1789-1871). Dr. Pabody was born at New Lebanon, N. Y., June 20, 1789. He was a lineal descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, the story of whose courtship and marriage is immortalized by Longfellow in "The Courtship of Miles Standish." William Pabody, the
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fifth grandfather of Dr. E. F. Pabody, was married to Elizabeth, oldest daughter of John Alden and Pris- cilla Mullins, Dec. 26, 1644.
Dr. Pabody, having completed his medical educa- tion at an early age, served as "Surgeon's Mate" in a regiment stationed at Long Island during the war of 1812. Soon after he formed a partnership with Dr. Doubleday, of Binghampton, N. Y., where he remained until the year 1818, when he removed to Vernon, Jen- nings County, Indiana, and again entered on the prac- tice of medicine. For years he was the only physician in Jennings and some of the adjoining counties. His circuit extended through an unbroken forest over so large a scope of country as to require a tour of sev- eral days in order to visit all his patients.
On Oct. 15, 1820, Dr. Pabody was married to Mabel Butler, oldest daughter of Rev. Chauncey Butler and Demia Butler.
Dr. Pabody organized the first Sunday School and the first Temperance Society in Jennings County and to the day of his death was deeply interested in the cause of religion, education and temperance.
Dr. Pabody served three terms as a member of the Indiana Legislature, and served as Judge of Probate and Common Pleas Courts from 1842 to 1856. He died at his home in Vernon, Feb. 3, 1871, aged 81 years and 8 months .- Dr. W. H. Stemm, North Vernon.
PALMITER, CLEBRON .- Ligonier (1819-1889). S. T. 1890, 151.
PARKER, JOSEPH .- Colfax (1849-1897). S. T. 1897, 364.
PARR, JOHN N .- Jolietville (1837-1909). Dr. Parr was a native of Boone County, in which he spent nearly all of his life.
PARR, THOMAS E .- Jolietville (1871-1900). S. T., 1900, 332.
PARRY, CHARLES .- Indianapolis (1814-1861). S. T. 1862, 49. Dr. Parry was born in Philadelphia, and
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after receiving his medical degree located in Camden, N. J. Upon the advice of his uncle, Hon. O. H. Smith, he came west and located in Connersville, where he remained about two years. Later (1839) he removed to Indianapolis, where he continued to reside until his death. He possessed a high degree of skill as a sur- geon and obstetrician. In the July number, Vol. vi, 28, of the Am. Jour. of the Med. Sciences, is an article from the pen of Dr. Parry entitled "Congestive Fever; Its Character, Symptoms and Treatment, as Met with in Central Indiana." This article was a valuable con- tribution to the subject of malarial disorders, so com- mon in Indiana, and was quoted by Dr. George B. Wood, Vol. i, 306 (1858), in his great work on the practice of medicine.
Dr. P. H. Jameson says: "Dr. Parry, when quite young, performed a bold and successful operation, by which he relieved a victim of bad surgery of a crook in his leg. He exsected a part of the shaft of the bone and brought the limb in line, when the fragments united and the leg was much improved. Professor Mutter, in 1849, referred to this operation as brilliant and successful, but added to the class of Jefferson stu- dents whom he addressed: 'Young gentlemen, I cannot advise you to attempt it, as you might not succeed as well as Dr. Parry.'"
See Trans. Ind. State Med. Society, 1862, 49; also, 1894, 212g, and Stone, p. 373.
PARVIN, THEOPHILUS. - Indianapolis (1829- 1898). Was born January 9, 1829, at Buenos Ayres, South America, where his parents were residing as missionaries, and died in the city of Philadelphia, Jan. 29, 1898. He took academic honors at the University of Indiana, and in 1852 he received his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He located in In- dianapolis as a practitioner of medicine in 1853, and except one year when he resided in Cincinnati, he made Indianapolis his home until the fall of 1883, when he removed to Philadelphia, where he remained until his death.
While a resident of Indianapolis in 1864 he accepted the chair of materia medica in the Medical College of
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Ohio, and filled that position until 1869. He then held consecutive professorships in the University of Louis- ville, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of In- dianapolis, and the Medical College of Indiana until 1882, when he returned to the University of Louisville, where he remained until 1883, when he was elected to and accepted the chair of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, in the Jefferson Medical College, a position he filled until his death.
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Dr. Parvin read eight papers before the Indiana State Medical Society: "Diseases of the Eye and Ear," 1857, 23; "Obituary of Nathan Knepfler," 1859, 56; "President's Address," 1862, 14; "Vaginal Fistules," 1866, 78; "Report on Diseases of Women," 1868, 90; "Placental Extraction and Placental Expression," 1871,
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11; "Fibrous Polypus of the Rectum," 1873, 113; and "Treatment of Placenta Previa," 1876, 34.
To him belongs the honor of being the first physi- cian of Indiana to write a medical text-book, "Science and Art of Obstetrics." It passed through two or more editions. Although the work did not appear until 1886, yet the book was written while Dr. Parvin was a resident of Indianapolis. On the eve of his departure . for Philadelphia he told the author of this paper that he must "dress the work up a little."
He acquired a knowledge of the German language after his fiftieth birthday, and translated into English Winckel's work on "Diseases of Women."
He was honored with the presidency of the Indiana State Medical Society in 1862, and president of the American Medical Association, 1879. Later was presi- dent of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society and the American Academy of Medicine. He received the degree of LL.D. from Hanover College in consideration of his superior professional attainments. He was a personal friend of Sir James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, and Dr. Wilde of Dublin. He met like cordial recognition from medical men in France.
Dr. Parvin excelled as a lecturer and teacher, while he took high rank as a polished writer. As an oper- ator he was surpassed by many.
Dr. W. B. Fletcher said of him, "He was the purest man I ever knew, and apparently wholly without faults or vices." His last public address in Indiana was on the evening of June 16, 1896, at the thirty-ninth (semi- annual) meeting of the Delaware District Medical Society at Dunkirk. His subject was "Sunshine With- in Attracts Sunshine from Without."
Dr. Parvin established the Western Journal of Medi- cine, at Indianapolis, in January, 1866. In 1870 he was associated with Dr. David W. Yandell of Louis- ville in the editorship of the American Practitioner, at the last named city, a position he filled for some years.
After his death his widow presented his library, con- sisting of over 900 volumes, to the medical department of the Indianapolis City Library.
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His remains were brought back to Indianapolis for interment.
Robson, 361; Stone, 375; I. M. J., Vol. ii, 11; xvi, 325, xvii, 143. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, p. 262.
PATTEN, JAMES C .- Francisco (1826-1903). S. T., 1903, 352. In 1864 was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fifty-eighth Reg. Ind. Vols., in which capacity he served until the close of the war.
PAYNTER, CHRISTIAN L .- Salem (1824-1893) . S. T. 1893, 399. Dr. Paynter served with credit as second lieutenant in Company D, Second Reg. Ind. Vols. in the Mexican War. After his return home he pursued the study of medicine and became a successful practitioner.
PEARMAN, FRANCIS M .- Palestine (1836-1897). He was a native of Indiana. Was assistant surgeon of the Thirtieth Reg. Ind. Vols., and in 1865 surgeon of the residuary battalion of same regiment. Was on the board of examining surgeons for pensions.
PEARSON, CHARLES D .- Indianapolis (1820- 1890). S. T. 1890, 165. For seventeen years Dr. Pear- son practiced medicine in Lawrence county, and for twenty-eight years in Indianapolis. During the Civil War he was surgeon of the Forty-ninth and Eighty- second Regts. Ind. Vols. He was one of the organizers of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, and occupied the chair of obstetrics, and subsequently was professor of diseases of the nervous system. He con- tributed an article to the State Society in 1882 on "Puerperal Eclampsia," Trans. 1882, 126. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, p. 165.
PECK, SAMUEL W .- Washington (1817-1895). S. T. 1895, 413.
PENCE, ROLLIN .- Miami county (1813-1899). S. T. 1900, 333.
PENNINGTON, .JOEL .- Milton (1799-1887). S. T. 1887, 199. Dr. Pennington's "President's Address," 1873, was on "Reminiscences of Practice, and Biograph- ical Sketches of Physicians in the Early History of Indiana," Trans. 1873, 9. A portion of this paper has
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already been published. See p. 33. In 1877 he con- tributed an article on "Hereditary Transmission of Disease," Trans. 1877, 113.
PEPPER, WILLIAM J .- Connersville (1830-1892). S. T. 1893, 249.
PETTIJOHN, AMOS .- Arcadia (1815-1886). S. T. 1887, 192.
PHILLIPS, CHARLES W .- Jennings county (1859- 1901). Removed to Colorado in 1898. Died at Rocky Ford, in that state, Sept. 25, 1901.
PHILLIPS, R. N .- Union, Pike county (1822-1885) . S. T. 1886, 198.
PHIPPS, JOHN M .- Bedford (1849-1899). S. T. 1900, 345.
PITZER, ANDREW B .- Tipton (1845-1895). S. T. 1895, 412. Was a member of the 148th Reg. Ind. Vols. Clerk of Tipton county for four years.
PORTER, ALBERT G .- Lebanon (1825-1893). S. T. 1893, 258. He contributed a paper to the State So- ciety on "Nervous or Sick Headache," Trans. 1889, 99.
Dr. Porter was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage while at the bedside of a woman in labor and died a few weeks later. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 344. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 9, p. 36.
PORTER, WILLIAM D .- Higginsville (1826-1890). S. T. 1891, 279.
POSEY, JOHN W .- Petersburg (1801-1884). S. T. 1886, 196.
POUCHER, CHARLES H. C .- Indianapolis (1868- 1901). S. T. 1901, 496.
PRESTON, ALBERT G .- Greencastle (1813-1889) . S. T. 1890, 153. Dr. Preston located in Greencastle in 1844, and remained there until his death. He was sur- geon of the Fifty-fifth Reg. Ind. Vols. He also visited a number of battle-fields at the request of Governor Morton. He was present at the Medical Convention at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849.
Dr. Preston reported an interesting case, "The Re- port of a Case of Complete Transverse Rupture of
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Vagina at Its Juncture with the Uterus, in Which no Hemorrhage Occurred after That Organ Was Expelled from the Body," Trans. 1882, 21. Also "Cases of Arsenical Poisoning," Trans. 1880, 47.
PRESTON, SAMUEL C .- Greencastle (1846-1893). S. T. 1893, 253.
PRIGG, EDWARD C .- Henry county (1826-1908). J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 205.
PROEGLER, CARL .- Ft. Wayne (1837-1907). S. T., 1907, 472. Dr. Proegler received his medical educa- tion in Germany, located in New York in 1860, and at the beginning of the Civil War was made surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Reg. New York Vols. He located in Ft. Wayne in 1874, where he remained until his death.
PUGH, JOHN W .- Upland (1827-1896). S. T. 1897, 347.
PUGH, MAHLON .- Upland (1835-1883). S. T. 1884, 214.
PUGH, WILLIAM A .- Rushville (1829-1893). S. T. 1895, 398. He was a practitioner of forty-two years' experience.
PURVIANCE, SAMUEL W .- Crawfordsville (1823- 1891). S. T. 1892, 283.
RAINEY, HARVEY W .- Indianapolis (1854-1902). S. T. 1903, 353.
RANSBURG, MARTIN V .- Steuben county (1842- 1900). S. T. 1900, 334.
REA, GEORGE N .- New Castle (1852-1885). S. T. 1885, 219.
REA, JOHN .- New Castle (1819-1899). S. T. 1899, 405. Dr. Rea practiced medicine in Henry county half a century, and no citizen of the county was held in higher esteem. In 1860 he made a "Report from the New Castle Medical Society" to the State Society, Trans. 1860, 58.
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