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The first physician to locate in Anderson was a Doctor Burt. Little can be learned concerning him, but it is supposed that he was Dr. Dickin- son Burt, who was the first physician in Delaware county, locating there about the time that county was organized. He came to Anderson about 1826 or 1827 and is said to have been also a school teacher.
In 1828 a Doctor Pegg located in Anderson and practiced there for about two years, when he was succeeded by Doctor Ruddell, who remained there for about seven years, when he removed to Marion county. Neither of these physicians have left much of their records in the county, and little is known of them except what is here stated.
Dr. Henry Wyman, a native of New York state, began practice in Anderson in 1831 and soon came to be recognized as a leader in his pro- fession. His practice extended to all parts of the county and even to adjoining counties. In connection with his professional work he was also editor of a local newspaper. In 1864 he removed to Blissfield, Michi- gan, where he died in 1892. In 1837 and 1838 he was elected to the legis- lature from Madison county.
Other early physicians in Anderson were Dr. E. R. Roe, Dr. Andrew Robb and a Dr. Carmean, but little can be learned concerning them or their work.
Dr. Townsend Ryan was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1813. Upon arriving at his majority he went to Hamilton, Ohio, and embarked in mercantile pursuit and was also interested in canal transportation between that city and Cincinnati. The panic of 1837 left him practically stranded. He then entered Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, and upon receiving his degree from that institution he located at Lewis- ville, Henry county, Indiana. In 1842 he came to Anderson, where he continued in practice for a quarter of a century. He represented Madi- son county in the legislature in 1848, was one of the first vice-presidents of the Indiana State Medical Society when it was organized in 1849, and was lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry in the Civil war. After the war he engaged in railroad build-
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ing, in which he lost a second fortune, and then returned to the practice of medicine.
Dr. John Hunt, a native of Wayne county, Indiana, began the prac- tice of medicine in Huntsville in 1839. Some years later he removed to Anderson and still later to a farm in Lafayette township. He had a large practice in each of these localities and became a power in politics. It has been said that he could dictate the nominations made by the Demo= cratic party for all the offices in Madison county. He served as state senator for Madison and Hancock counties in 1851-53 and in 1860 was elected county treasurer. He died at Springdale, Arkansas, July 23, 1895.
His brother, William A. Hunt, was also a physician of prominence in the county in his day. He was a small boy when the family settled at Huntsville. He attended Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, and began practice on a farm about four miles north of Anderson. In 1868 he removed to Anderson, where he first engaged in the drug busi- ness, but soon resumed practice, in which he continued until within a few days of his death. He was president of the old county medical society during the entire period of its existence and was a writer on mis- cellaneous subjects of more than ordinary ability.
Dr. John W. Westerfield was born in Preble county, Ohio, June 1, 1816, and came with his parents to Fayette county, Indiana, in 1828. He studied medicine in Rushville and in 1839 settled in Madison county. He owned the first drug store ever established in Anderson and practiced his profession there for many years. His death occurred on September 29, 1895. In early life he was a Methodist, but later espoused the cause of the Spiritualists, and at the time of his death was president of the state association, a position he had held from the time the association was first organized.
Dr. W. P. Brickley was one of the early physicians of the county. He first settled in Fall Creek township, where he practiced for several years. Then attracted by the inducements offered in the West, he went to Iowa. A few years later he returned to Madison county and opened an office in Anderson, where his son, Eugene T. Brickley, is now engaged in the drug business. Doctor Brickley is remembered by old-timers as a popular and successful physician.
Dr. Thomas N. Jones located in Anderson a few years before the beginning of the Civil war, having previously practiced in Hancock county and at Pendleton. He served as assistant surgeon of the Second Indiana Cavalry and later as surgeon of the One IIundred and Thirtieth Infantry in the Civil war. He was a successful physician, always man- aged to secure the confidence of his patients, and stood high in the esteem of his brother practitioners. He was twice elected to the state legislature-in 1872 and 1874. He died in 1875.
Contemporary with Dr. Jones was Dr. George F. Chittenden, who began practice in Anderson in 1858, as a partner of Dr. John Hunt. In the spring of 1861 he entered the army as assistant surgeon of the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry and upon the reorganization of the regi- ment a year later was made surgeon. Subsequently he served as brigade surgeon, medical director of the Fourth Division, Thirteenth Army
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Corps, and at the siege of Vicksburg was inspector and director of that corps. In 1868 he was elected to the legislature for the district composed of the counties of Madison and Henry, and in 1873 was appointed one of the directors of the Central Insane Asylum, a position he held for eight years.
Other Anderson physicians of prominence in days gone by were Noah L. Wickersham, Benjamin F. Spann, Chauncey S. Burr, D. M. Carter, Oscar Ardery, Zimri Hockett, William J. Fairfield, Jesse P. Crampton, Dewitt Jordan, Luther B. Terrill, E. H. Menefee, L. P. Ballenger, William Suman, Thomas J. McClenahan and Joseph F. Bran- don. The last named practiced for several years at Perkinsville and after removing to Anderson engaged in the drug business. Dr. Wick- ersham practiced for thirty-five years in Anderson and was a poet of considerable ability. Dr. Spann was a native of Jefferson county, Indiana, located at Anderson in the fall of 1860 and continued in prac- tice there for thirty-four years. He was a member of the state, county and American medical associations. Dr. Burr was born in Middletown, Indiana, in 1840, graduated in medicine in 1865 and practiced for fif- teen years in Anderson, ten years in Mitchell, South Dakota, and four- teen years in Chicago, where he died in 1905. Dr. Carter was a mem- ber of the first Madison County Medical Society and was for a time its treasurer. After several years successful practice in Anderson he went to Randolph county and died there. Little is known of Drs. Ardery, Ballenger and Jordan. Dr. Hockett was one of the most emi- nent and successful physicians in the county in his day and enjoyed a large practice. His son is now a practicing physician of Anderson. Dr. McClenahan, a promising young physician, died at an early age, before he had an opportunity to establish his reputation. Dr. Fairfield practiced twenty years in Anderson. He was a finely educated man, a graduate of Bellevue Medical College of New York, and was a "chalk talk" lecturer-a talent he often employed in addressing medical socie- ties. In 1907 he removed to Delta, Colorado. Dr. Crampton was a native of Ohio., He located at Anderson in 1852 and practiced there for fourteen years, being part of the time engaged in the drug business. Dr. Terrill was born in Missouri, graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, practiced for a while in Cincinnati, located in Anderson in 1895 and died in 1910. He was a skilful surgeon and while in Anderson was surgeon for the American Steel and Wire Company. Dr. Menefee came to Anderson about 1860 and was secretary of the old medical society from 1862 to 1867. He was a native of Virginia. Dr. Suman was a native of Madison county and practiced there for thirty-eight years, twenty-two of which he was located in Anderson and the other sixteen in Frankton.
As early as 1828 a Dr. Henry located at Chesterfield and not long after a Dr. Kynett also settled there. Drs. Balingall and Preston, of Middletown, also made visits to the settlers about Chesterfield, though neither of them were ever located in Madison county. Early in the '30s Dr. George W. Godwin began practice at Chesterfield, but a little later removed to Yorktown, Delaware county. Dr. David Dunham settled on a farm a short distance northwest of Chesterfield in 1834 and in 1847
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a Dr. Davis located there. These were the pioneer physicians of Union township.
One of the first physicians in the county was Dr. William Goodell, who located in Jackson township, on the site of the present village of Halford, in 1825. He did not remain long and little is known of his career as a physician. Absalom Paris also practiced in that neighbor- hood at an early date. He died in 1870.
In the old village of Prosperity was Dr. William Paris, who came to Madison county in 1825. He was both physician and preacher. He was succeeded at Prosperity by Dr. Joseph Saunders, who practiced in the county for twenty-five years, and who was the first president of the Madison County Farmers' Insurance Company.
At Huntsville the first physician was a Dr. McCain, who was also a merchant. Following him came Dr. John Hunt, previously mentioned, and Dr. Joseph Weeks, who began his professional career there but later removed to Mechanicsburg, Henry county.
In 1840 a number of physicians came to the county. Dr. John Horn located at New Columbus (Ovid) and was the first physician in that village; two brothers, Drs. James and John Barrett, settled at Fishers- burg; later in the year Dr. William Kynett also located there; Dr. Thomas Douglass located at Perkinsville, and Dr. Robert Douglass where the city of Elwood now stands. About this time a Dr. McNear located at the old village of Moonville, in Richland township. Doctor Horn remained at Ovid but a short time, going to Middletown and later to Yorktown. He was succeeded by Dr. Hildreth in 1842, Dr. W. B. Bair in 1844, and during the next few years Drs. Clark, Smiley and Barry all located there.
Dr. W. F. Spence established himself in practice at Alexandria in 1839-the first physician in that town. In 1842 Dr. John W. Perry came and for a time was in partnership with Dr. Spence. Dr. Spence later removed to Jonesboro, Grant county, where he died. Another early physician in Alexandria was Dr. Cyrus Westerfield and not long after- ward came Dr. David Perry. A few years later Drs. S. B. and Leonard Harriman located in Alexandria. The former afterward removed to Richmond, Indiana, and the later to Sterling, Kansas. Both are now deceased.
Dr. Robert Douglass was the first man to practice medicine in what is now the city of Elwood, having located there twelve years before the town was laid out. Sometime in the '40s Dr. J. M. Dehority located in that vicinity and engaged in the general practice of medicine. He accumulated a fortune and during the last fifteen years of his life was engaged in the banking business. Dr. John Beck and his son Thomas were also practicing physicians of Elwood. Dr. Beniah T. Callaway first began practice in Alexandria in 1849, but a year later removed to Elwood, where he practiced for thirty-nine years. He was also inter- ested in banking operations.
The first physician at Frankton was Dr. John M. Laughlin, who , located there in 1854. He died not long afterward and his widow mar- ried Dr. Philip Patterson. Other early physicians here were Dr. Reuben Harvey, Dr. W. M. Sharp and a Dr. Young. Since their day a number of physicians have practiced in Frankton.
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Dr. Thomas Benton Forkner, son of Micajah and Elizabeth Allen Forkner, was born in Liberty township, Henry county, Indiana, in 1840. He studied medicine with the late Dr. Magann, of Hagerstown, who served as surgeon of an Indiana regiment in the Civil war, and in 1862 graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati. The following spring he began practice at Clark's Station (now Florida), in Madison county, where he continued until 1865, when he removed to Anderson and practiced there until his death, which occurred in October, 1869.
Dr. Cyrus Graul located at Summitville in 1867, about the time the town was laid out, and three years later Dr. C. V. Garrell located there. Other physicians who practiced at Summitville during the latter part of the last century were Samuel Brunt, John Wright, W. V. McMahan, M. L. Cranfill and T. J. Clark. Dr. William J. Morgan practiced at Gilman from 1870 to 1880. He was a charter member of the present Madison County Medical Society. He died on October 13, 1896.
Dr. Stanley W. Edwins, who has practiced his profession at various places in the county, is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was born in 1836, of Huguenot ancestry. After graduating in medicine he practiced in the South until the breaking out of the Civil war, when he came to Indiana and located first in Randolph county. In 1865 he came to Madison county. He was one of the first trustees of Frankton when that town was incorporated, but later removed to Elwood, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. He is a member of the board of United State pension examiners and is one of the best known physicians in the county. In 1878 he was elected to represent Madison county in the legislature.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES
The first medical society in the county had its beginning in a meeting held on November 1, 1862, in Anderson. Physicians present were Town- send Ryan, William A. Hunt, N. L. Wickersham, Henry Wyman, B. F. Spann, William Suman, J. F. Brandon, E. H. Menefee, Philip Patter- son, D. M. Carter and W. B. Bair. Dr. Wyman was elected to preside and Dr. Menefee was chosen secretary. A constitution and by-laws were adopted and the name of Madison County Medical Association was given the new organization. At one time this association numbered twenty- eight members. The last meeting of which there is any record, was held on April 29, 1867. Dr. William A. Hunt served as president and Dr. E. H. Menefee as secretary during the entire history of the association. Dr. W. B. Bair was elected treasurer at the organization meeting, but died six months later and Dr. D. M. Carter was elected to the vacancy.
Harden's History of Madison County mentions a medical society, which was organized at Pendleton in October, 1873. At the first meet- ing Drs. Ward Cook, O. W. Brownback, T. G. Mitchell, J. H. Harter and W. H. Lewis were present. Dr. Cook was chosen temporary president and Dr. Lewis temporary secretary. Invitations were sent to all regular physicians in the county to meet at Pendleton on Thursday, November 13, 1873. At that meeting the society completed its organization with thirteen members, viz .: Drs. Ward Cook, O. W. Brownback, T. G.
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Mitchell and J. H. Harter, Pendleton; B. L. Fussell and W. P. Harter, Markleville; Hiram Duncan, Simeon Yancey, S. A. Troy, J. M. Jones and T. K. Saunders, Fortville; J. M. Fisher, H. G. Fisher and Daniel Cook, Fishersburg; W. H. Lewis, Huntsville; and D. H. Myers, New Columbus. Dr. Hiram Duncan was elected president; W. H. Lewis, secretary ; J. II. Harter, treasurer; Ward Cook, O. W. Brownback and Simeon Yancey, censors. The constitution provided for semi-annual meetings-on the Tuesday after the second Monday in May and Novem- ber. A few members were added at subsequent meetings, but in time the interest waned and the society died of inanition.
On the last day of August, 1875, the following physicians met at the office of Dr. Chauncey S. Burr, in Anderson, and organized the present county medical society : John W. Perry, B. F. Spann, Jonas Stewart, V. V. Adamson, Walter H. Lewis, Oliver Broadhurst, George F. Chit- tenden, N. L. Wickersham, W. V. McMahan, Joseph Saunders, William J. Morgan, James E. Inlow, Daniel W. Cottrell, Cyrenius Free, Chauncey S. Burr, J. T. Sullivan, Jeptha Dillon, William Suman, William A. Hunt, J. M. Littler and H. E. Jones.
These twenty-one doctors constituted the charter membership of the society. A constitution and code of by-laws were adopted and the fol- lowing officers were elected: John W. Perry, president; W. A. Hunt, vice-president ; Jonas Stewart, secretary; C. S. Burr, treasurer; W. H. Lewis, B. F. Spann and John T. Sullivan, censors. Since the organ- ization of the society the membership has been increased until it includes practically all of the physicians of the county who take a proper interest in the uplifting of their profession. Following is a list of the presidents of the society, with the year in which each was elected : John W. Perry, 1875; Ward Cook, 1877; George F. Chittenden, 1878; William A. Hunt, 1879; N. L. Wickersham, 1880; Jonas Stewart, 1881; Samuel F. Brunt, 1882; Horace E. Jones, 1883; B. F. Spann, 1884; William Suman, 1885; John W. Hunt, 1886; I. N. Van Matre, 1887; John W. Cook, 1888; N. L. Wickersham, 1890; W. J. Fairfield, 1891; John B. Fattic, 1892; Benja- min H. Perce, 1893; F. P. Nourse, 1895; John W. Cook, 1896; A. W. Tobias, 1897; W. W. Kneale, 1898; O. W. Brownback, 1899; G. A. Whitledge, 1900; J. W. Covertson, 1901; A. E. Otto, 1902; J. M. Littler, 1903; William M. Garretson, 1904; Etta Charles, 1905; T. O. Armfield, 1906; F. G. Keller, 1907; L. E. Alexander, 1908; L. O. Williams, 1909; W. A. Boyden, 1910; J. E. Hall, 1911; F. F. Mendenhall, 1912; M. A. Austin, 1913.
In many respects the secretary is a more important officer than the president, as upon him devolves the duty of keeping the records and notifying the members of any important measure to come before the society. It is therefore deemed appropriate to include a list of the secre- taries. In this list the names occur in the order in which the secretaries served : E. H. Menefee (secretary of the old society), Jonas Stewart, Horace E. Jones, Charles E. Diven, William M. Garretson, W. N. Horn, William Suman, Fred J. Hodges, John B. Fattic, E. W. Chittenden, W. W. Kneale, G. A. Whitledge, A. W. Collins, O. E. McWilliams, Lee Hunt, M. A. Austin, Thomas M. Jones, B. H. Cook, S. C. Newlin, Etta Charles.
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The officers of the society for the year 1913 were: M. A. Austin, president; S. C. Newlin, vice-president; Etta Charles, secretary and treasurer ; O. W. Brownback, L. F. Schmaus, F. F. Mendenhall, censors.
The following named physicians of Madison county served in the Civil war, 1861-65, though at the time of their service some of them were not residents of the county : George F. Chittenden, surgeon Six- teenth Indiana Infantry and afterward inspector and director of the Thirteenth Army Corps; John C. Cullen, assistant surgeon, Sixteenth Indiana Infantry, promoted to surgeon; Thomas N. Jones, assistant surgeon Second Indiana Cavalry and surgeon One Hundred and Thir- tieth Indiana Infantry; Townsend Ryan, surgeon Fifty-fourth Indiana infantry and colonel of the Thirty-fourth; C. S. Burr, surgeon of a regiment of colored troops; Simeon B. Harriman, assistant surgeon Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry; Tecumseh Kilgore, assistant surgeon Eighty-fourth Indiana Infantry and surgeon Thirteenth Cavalry ; Stan- ley W. Edwins, assistant surgeon One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry ; Benjamin H. Perce, in the ranks and as hospital steward; Horace E. Jones, in the ranks and later a lieutenant in the United States navy ; Jacob H. Harter, in the ranks; Jonas Stewart, in the ranks and as corporal in the Eighth Ohio Cavalry.
At different times the following physicians of the county have been called to serve upon the board of United States examining surgeons for pensions : George F. Chittenden, John C. Cullen, Jonas Stewart, Charles N. Branch, John B. Fattic and Benjamin H. Perce, of Anderson; Stan- ley W. Edwins, of Elwood; and F. G. Keller, of Alexandria. The pro- fession has also been well represented in the matter of holding county offices or serving as members of the state legislature.
REGISTERED PHYSICIANS, 1912
The subjoined list of Madison county physicians is taken from the last report of the Indiana State Board of Medical Registration, for the year ending on September 30, 1912:
Anderson-Charles L. Armington, John C. Armington, Maynard A. Austin, Wilber A. Boyden, E. E. Brock, George F. Chittenden, Edgar W. Chittenden, Albert W. Collins, Ernest M. Conrad, David M. Comer, Benjamin H. Cook, James L. Cummins, Charles E. Diven, John B. Fattic, Henry W. Gante, J. J. Graham, John H. Hammond, George H. Hockett, William N. Horn, Lee F. Hunt, M. V. Hunt, Horace E. Jones, Thomas M. Jones, W. W. Kneale, John H. Lail, James A. Long, Oscar E. Mc- Williams, Doris Meister, Uberto II. Merson, Isaiah Miley, Weir M. Miley, Albert W. Miller, Elizabeth Miller, J. O. Morrison, Stanley C. Newlin, Samuel C. Norris, Thomas J. O'Neill, Benjamin H. Perce, Moses A. Rush, Albert H. Sears, Glen V. Sigler, Nancy E. Snodgrass, Jonas Stewart, James McC. Stoddard, Silas J. Stottlemyer, Julius R. Tracy, Harley E. Ward, G. A. Whitledge, Lucian O. Williams, Samuel C. Wilson, Noah S. Wood.
Elwood-John D. Armfield, Tilman O. Armfield, Julius C. Blume, Carol C. Cotton, Charles G. Dick, George W. Eddingfield, S. W. Edwins, Ester M. Griffin, W. H. Hoppenrath, Nathaniel H. Manring, Franklin
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W. Mendenhall, H. L. Miller, Luther A. Mott, G. V. Newcomer, M. L. Ploughe, Chandler P. Runyan, Daniel Sigler, A. W. Tobias, E. L. Wiggins.
Alexandria-Edmund J. Beardsley, Oliver S. Coffin, John J. Gib- son, Joseph E. Hall, Frank G. Keller, A. B. Mercer, A. E. Otto, Augustus R. Schaefer, Leonard F. Schmauss, C. D. Schurtz.
Pendleton-L. E. Alexander, Orlando W. Brownback, John W. Cook, Horace C. Martindale, William R. Sparks, Frank L. Stone.
Summitville-Winser Austin, Etta Charles, J. D. Garr, Seth H. Irwin, Lewis F. Mobley, F. W. White, John W. White.
Miscellaneous-Paul Armstrong and Amos B. Ballard, Gilman ; Eilan V. Boram, Benjamin L. Petro and Charles M. Smethers, Markleville; Charles E. Conway, William M. Garretson and Virgil G. McDonald, Per- kinsville ; Joel Cook, Orestes; John W. Covertson, W. J. French and J. L. W. Peck, Frankton; John T. Newhouse, Chesterfield; John I. Rinne and Thomas J. Stephenson, Lapel ; William F. Scott, Linwood.
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CHAPTER XIV CHURCH HISTORY
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MORAVIAN MISSIONS-MONUMENT-THE METHODISTS-THE BAPTISTS- FRIENDS OR QUAKERS-UNITED BRETHREN-ROMAN CATHOLICS- CHRISTIANS OR DISCIPLES-NEW LIGHT CHRISTIANS-THE LUTHERANS -THE UNIVERSALISTS-PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH-CHURCH OF GOD-CONGREGATIONALISTS-SPIRITUALISTS-THEIR CAMP GROUNDS AT CHESTERFIELD-LIST OF CHURCHES IN THE CITIES.
No doubt the first religious establishment in what is now Madison county was the old Moravian mission on the White river, a short dis- tance above the city of Anderson. About the close of May, 1801, John P. Kluge and his wife, accompanied by Abraham Luckenbach, a young man of twenty-four years, came from Goshen, Pennsylvania, where they had passed the winter with the missionary Zeisberger, learning the Delaware language, with a view to establishing a mission somewhere in Indiana. With them came two Delaware Indians-Thomas and Joshua-who had been converted to the Christian religion. This little party first stopped at the Indian village on the White river, opposite the present city of Muncie, where it was proposed to establish the mission, but the Indians, although they received the missionaries in a friendly manner, pointed out a place for them to settle, some distance down the river, near the village of Kikthawenund, or Chief Anderson.
The place where this mission was located was called by the Indians Wah-pi-mins-kink, or place of the Chestnut Tree, a large tree of that variety standing near the center of section 17, about two miles east of Anderson. Here the missionaries were welcomed by the Delaware chiefs and, after living in bark huts during the summer, erected a substan- tial log cabin for a permanent residence, into which they moved in November, 1801. They made slow progress in their work of converting the Indians, owing to a general distrust of and opposition to the whites. In March, 1806, Lukenbach and Joshua went to the Indian villages on the Mississinewa in search of a new location and soon after their return to Anderson Joshua was charged with being a witch and was killed by an Indian with a tomahawk.
Joshua was killed on St. Patrick's day-March 17, 1806-and soon after that the missionaries decided to ask the Moravian authorities at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for permission to abandon the mission. A messenger was accordingly sent to Bethlehem and Kluge and his com- panions waited through the summer, annoyed at times by drunken and
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