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Dr. J. F. Leslie was born at McLeansboro, Ill., in 1879. His father, James F. Leslie, is at this time adjusting attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. His mother, Miss Lora Casey, belonged to a distinguished Irish family. Her father, widely known throughout Southern Illinois, as "Buck" Casey, was a mail contractor, providing stages for a large number of stage routes before there were any rail- roads in Southern Illinois. The doctor's maternal uncle, Sam Casey, was circuit judge of the Mt. Vernon (Ill.) circuit for twelve years. The sub- ject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of McLeansboro, and in the Evansville High School. He is a graduate of the Northwest- ern University Medical College, Chicago, and held an interneship in the Post-graduate Hospital of Chicago for one year, and took a post-graduate course in the same school in 1909, and again in 1911. He began prac- tice in Jonesboro, Ark., afterward practiced in Maunie, Ill., until No- vember, 1912, when he removed to Mt. Vernon, where he now resides. He was married to Miss Stella Weber of Salem, Ill., in January, 1909.
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The doctor is now surgeon for the Chicago, Evansville & Louisville rail- road.
Dr. James Edward Gudgel, a prominent physician and surgeon of Cyn- thiana, was born in Gibson county, on the farm of his parents, March 10, 1858. His paternal ancestry were of German origin, while his mother was of Scotch-Irish extraction. His parents, grandparents and great- grandparents were prominent among the early pioneers who carved a nation out of a wilderness. Dr. Gudgel is the next oldest practitioner in the county now actively engaged in the profession. He attended the common schools in the county where his parents resided until he was fifteen years of age, when he entered the high school of Oakland City, where he graduated in the class of 1879, and then entered the normal school at that place, making in all about nine years attendance in school there. He afterwards taught school four years in the county, and one year in the grammar grade at Booneville, Ind. He graduated at the Evansville Medical College in 1883. In 1883 he located in Cynthiana, where he practiced five years and then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, Mo., graduating in 1888, and resumed his work in Cynthiana, where he still resides. He is a member of the Posey County Medical Society, of which he served one year as president, and is also a member of the State and American Medical associations. He was married in 1886 to Lizzie T. Smith, of Posey county. They are the parents of four children. The doctor is a Republican in politics, and the family are members of the Presbyterian church.
Dr. C. H. Fullinwider was born near Alton, Ind., in 1854. He is of German lineage, but his ancestry had been for several generations in this country. Dr. Fullinwider received his literary education partly in the public schools of the neighborhood and partly from private tutors. He was reared on the farm. He finished his education at what was then known as Hartsville (Ind.) University, later entering the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, at that time the best medical college west of the Alleghanies. He graduated with the class of 1883, and began the prac- tice of medicine at Petersburg, Pike county, Indiana, where he was as- sociated for eight years with Dr. J. R. Adams, one of the oldest and best physicians in the county. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1872, where he has since resided. Before coming to Mt. Vernon he did post-graduate work in Philadelphia, Pa., under Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Joseph Price, then. went to New York and took a full course in the New York Polyclinic. He was married to Miss Cornelia Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Thomas, of this city, in 1897. Two daughters have been born to them, Anne V. and Emma B. The doctor is one of the leading physicians of the county. He is careful, conscientious and painstaking, being especially skillful in diagnosis. He does a large consultation practice.
Ira L. Turman, M. D., a physician and surgeon of Cynthiana, Ind.,
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was born at Grayville, Ill., February 15, 1877, and was raised on a farm, attending the common schools of his neighborhood and finished his liter- ary education at Union Christian College at Merom, Ind. Afterwards he taught school one year and then began the study of medicine under Dr. J. M. Durham, of Grayville, Ill. He graduated from the University of Louisville, Ky., in 1894. In May of that year he located at Cynthiana, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. His ancestry, of English origin, were pioneer settlers of Indiana, coming from Bedford county, Virginia, in 1810. Dr. Turman belongs to the County, State and American Medical associations. He was president one year and secre- tary two years of the county society. He was married in August, 1895, to Miss Agnes Bixler, of Vanderberg county, Indiana. They had one child, Claude Kenneth, now a graduate of the Cynthiana High School. Mrs. Turman died in October, 1904. In March, 1906, Dr. Turman married Grace Bixler (nee Emmerson), of Gibson county. Dr. and Mrs. Turman have two children, Robert E. and Agnes Lucile. The Turman family are members of the Christian church, and Dr. Turman is a deacon in his church and director of the choir.
Dr. David Walter Welch was born near Galatia, Ill., in 1848. He is the son of E. G. Welch and Nancy (Upchurch) Welch. The father was of an old Virginia family, but was raised at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and moved to Southern Illinois when quite a young man. Dr. Welch's mother was born at Galatia, which was founded by her father, David Upchurch, lived there all her life and died in the same village at the age of eighty. The father died at the ripe age of eighty-eight in the same village. Dr. Welch, the oldest of twelve children, was reared on the farm near Galatia, attended the village schools in winter and later the Illinois State Normal at Normal. He taught school for fifteen years, three years in Shawneetown, Ill .; two as assistant superintendent of Evansville, Ind., schools ; two as superintendent of Rockport schools, which he re-organ- ized and graded, and two as superintendent of schools in Boonville, Ind. He read medicine at home of evenings and afterwards in the office and under the tuition of Dr. George B. Walker, dean of the faculty at Evans- ville, Ind. He graduated from the Evansville Medical College in 1886, having previously lived in the country northeast of Mt. Vernon, Ind., for four years. He located in Mt. Vernon in 1888, where he has since resided. Some years ago he took a post-graduate course in the Chicago Clinical College, and served four years on the board of pension examiners during the Harrison administration, being associated with the late Drs. Smith and Holton. He was married in 1868 to Miss Jennie R. Wright, of Cloverport, Ky. They have five sons and two daughters, all grown and married. He is in politics a Prohibitonist. There are just two planks in his political platform. He hates whisky and mud. He is the originator of the movement which resulted in building more than 200 miles of rock
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and gravel roads in Posey county. He met fierce opposition and defied it. Before that the county had not a foot of decent road. They have at this time more than 200 miles and are still building.
Dr. John W. Powell, late of Mt. Vernon, Ind., now a resident of Ev- ansville, Ind., was born in Henderson, county, Kentucky. June 16, 1844, and is the only son of eleven children born to James M. and Matilda (Greene) Powell, who were born, the former in Kentucky, the latter in Virginia. The father was a farmer and resided in the county of his nativity all his life excepting two years spent in Indiana. John W. ob- tained his literary education in the Asbury Universtiy, Greencastle, Ind., and later at Washington College, Lexington, Va. He received his med- ical education in the University of Louisville, Ky. He began the prac- tice of his profession in his native county, remaining there until 1880. In December of that year he came to Mt. Vernon, Ind., and spent several years in that place and its vicinity. A few years ago he discontinued the practice of medicine and moved to Evansville, where he now resides. In 1870 he was married to Miss Belle Dorsey. To this union six chil- dren were born, three of whom are now living.
Dr. Daniel Neal, one of the oldest physicians of Posey county and for many years a resident of New Harmony, is a son of Max and Anna (Williams) Neal, who were of Irish lineage. They were natives of South Carolina, and when Indiana was yet a Territory, removed thither and set- tled in Posey county, where Dr. Neal was born January 21, 1828. His early life was passed on the farm and then he spent three years in the Mt. Vernon public schools. He worked in a dry goods store one year and then crossed the plains to California, where he remained until 1852, when he returned to his native county. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Mott, of New Harmony, in 1853, and in 1854 he attended the Transylvania Medical College at Lexington, Ky., and two years later began the practice of medicine in New Harmony. In 1857 he moved to Jackson, Ill., but in 1866 returned to New Harmony and resumed the practice there. He married Martha Bennett in May, 1857. Four chil- dren have been born to them-Nellie, Mollie, Benjamin and August. About eight years ago he removed to California, where he has since re- sided.
Dr. Samuel O. Rawlings, one of the oldest physicians in Posey county, was born in Olney, Ill., September 10, 1845. His father, Lloyd Rawlings, was born in Ohio and moved to Illinois at an early day. He was one of the "forty-niners," and while in the gold fields of California had an encounter with a grizzly bear and came off second best, being disabled and disfigured for life. He died in 1885. Dr. Rawlings began the study of medicine in his native county under the tutorship of Dr. M. Van- couglan, and entered the Cincinnati College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1869, graduating therefrom in 1873. He located in New Harmony in
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1871, where he has resided and practiced his profession ever since. He was married to Miss Alice Youngblood, of Poseyville, Ind., in May, 1877. Seven children have blessed this union, four of whom survive. Elbert, one of the sons, is a druggist in Washington State; another, Claude, is a physician, a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this vol- ume. The doctor still does some practice for his old customers. The first wife died in 1909. He was married in 1912 to Miss Mary Givens. Politically he is a Democrat.
Dr. John W. Ranes was born in White county, Illinois, in 1881, reared in Gibson county, near Owensville, Ind., to which place the family re- moved when the subject of our sketch was two years old. He attended Owensville and Princeton high schools three years and attended Oakland City College three years. He graduated from the Indiana School of Medicine in 1908. He practiced medicine in Union, Pike county, Indiana, removed to Mt. Vernon in 19II, where he still resides and practices his profession. He was married in 1904 to Miss Sadie Arnold, of Warrick county, Indiana. Two children have blessed this union. Husband and wife are both members and active workers in the General Baptist church. Being young, well educated and of exemplary habits, a long career of usefulness awaits him.
Dr. Oscar T. Schultz, deceased, during his lifetime a prominent phy- sician of Posey county, Indiana, was born near Breslau, Germany, in 1848, and was the oldest son of Theodore and Henrietta (Weber) Schultz. The father came with his family to the United States in 1853 and located first in New York City, but after two years' residence there moved to Evansville, Ind., where he engaged in the practice of medicine. Oscar T. received his education in the public schools of Evansville, graduating from the high school in 1856. In the fall of that year he moved to Owens- boro, Ky., and taught in a private school. From 1868 to 1874 he was · superintendent of German in the public schools of Owensboro and Evans- ville. February 26, 1875, he graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville, Ky., at the head of his class. In April, 1875, he located in Mt. Vernon, where he resided and practiced his profession till the time of his death, which occurred late in the year of 1891. May 9, 1876, he married Louisa, daughter of John Pfeffer, of Mt. Vernon. To this union were born six children, four of whom are living. He and his family were prominent members of the German Evangelical Trinity church. Mrs. Schultz departed this life March 6, 1903. Dr. Schultz was one of a long line of physicians, there having been one at least in nearly every generation for three centuries, and his oldest son, Oscar Schultz, M. D., of Omaha, Neb., is not the least distinguished among the number.
Dr. Charles Arburn, of Wadesville, Ind., was born on a farm in Gib- son county, Indiana, October 13, 1858. He was a son of John and Ange- line (Henson) Arburn. The father was from England, the mother
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from Pennsylvania. Dr. Arburn attended the public schools of his na- tive county and began teaching at the age of twenty-one. Four years later he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, grad- uating therefrom with the class of 1889. He located at Carmi, Ill., re- maining two years, and then removed to East Lynn, Ill. After practic- ing four years there he came to Wadesville, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. He is a Democrat in politics and a Primi- tive Baptist in religion. Dr. Arburn was married in 1884 to Miss Martha Florence Smith, daughter of John W. and Mary Jane (Calvert) Smith, of Smith township, Posey county, Indiana, after whom Smith township was named. Dr. and Mrs. Arburn have two sons and two daughters.
Dr. Samuel G. Henderson, who has spent his entire professional life in St. Phillips, Posey county, Indiana, was born at Surgeonville, Hawkins county, Tennessee, in 1848, the son of S. L. and Annie (Williams) Hen- derson. The doctor's grandfather was killed and robbed by the Indians near Chattanooga, Tenn. Dr. . Henderson was reared on a farm in his native county, attending the common schools of his neighborhood. At the age of fifteen he enlisted in Company E, First Tennessee Federal cavalry, but on account of his youth was not permitted to serve. Two of his brothers were in the Federal and one in the Confederate army. After his discharge he again attended school. In March, 1866, he came to Indiana, locating first at Francisco, Gibson county. He attended school for a short time at Poseyville, Ind., and subsequently taught school in Posey county. He graduated in 1876 from the Cincinnati Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons. He began practicing his profession in St. Phillips, Posey county, where he has since resided. He has retired from active practice, but still does some office work. He has accumu- lated a competence, owns several farms and is a raiser of cattle and hogs. In politics he is a Democrat. He belongs to no church, but is a Meth- odist in belief. In 1873 Dr. Henderson married Barbara Pelt, daughter of James and Nancy Pelt. Dr. and Mrs. Henderson are the parents of eight children.
Dr. Arno Klein was born in Mt. Vernon, Ind., in 1886, of German par- entage, his father, Charles P. Klein, having been born in Rhine-Essen, Germany. His mother, formerly Miss Katherine M. Schwerdt, was born in Evansville, Ind., and is also of German descent. The parents came to Mt. Vernon thirty-three years ago, where the father has been and is still engaged in the grocery business on a large scale ; Arno graduated in the Mt. Vernon High School, attended Culver (Ind.) Military Academy three years, and then spent eight and one-half months traveling in Ger- many and Switzerland. Upon his return from Europe he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, remaining till he graduated, and then served four years as interne in the hospital connected with the school. Not getting just what he wanted there he went to Williams-
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port, Pa., and served one year as interne in the hospital at that place. He began the practice of his profession in Mt. Vernon in 1912. He was married in February, 1913, to Miss Emily V. Brower, of Williamsport, Pa., so he certainly spent his year in Williamsport hospital to some pur- pose. He has recently been appointed surgeon in the Indiana National Guard and attached to the First regiment. He is bright, energetic, speaks English and German, and certainly has a bright future before him.
Dr. Ulysses G. Whiting was born September 24, 1869, in Evansville, Ind. He was the son of John and Sarah O. Whiting. He received his literary education in the common schools of Cynthiana, Ind., and the Northern Indiana Normal University at Valparaiso, Ind. At the age of nineteen he engaged in the drug business at Cynthiana and followed this avocation until the fall of 1894, when he entered the medical de- partment of the University of Louisville, where he graduated in 1897. He located at Wadesville, Ind., for the practice of medicine and re- mained there until 1905, when he moved to New Harmony, forming a partnership with Dr. J. M. Glaze. He was, in 1904, elected grand medical examiner of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for the State, filling said office until 1906. He quit New Harmony in 1908 to take clinical courses in Chicago, New York and Vienna, Austria. Returning to America he again resumed the practice in Mt. Vernon. Dr. Whiting was married to Miss Lula Wasson, of Gibson county, in 1893 They have two children, Miss Fay, a teacher in the city schools, and Van, who is in the senor class of the Mt. Vernon High School.
Dr. Edwin Rinear was born in Liberty Center, Wells county, In- diana, in 1866, son of Elias M. and Mary Jane (Hupp) Rinear. His great- grandfather was a Frenchman, who came to this country with Lafayette and served in the American Revolution. His grandfather, Charles Ri- near, son of the Frenchman, was born in New Jersey, and his son, father of Dr. Edwin, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. His mother was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Elias M. Rinear, the doctor's father, was a druggist in Liberty Center, and other towns in Indiana and low lives in Bluffton. He was a soldier in the One Hundred and First Indiana infantry and for three years was "fife major." Edwin Rinear attended the public schools of his neighborhood and later completed the teacher's course in Holbrook Normal at Lebanon, Ohio, after which he taught for six years in the Wells county public schools. He graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1890. He practiced at Liberty center ten years, at Warren, Ind., three or four years, at Bluffton for a time, and located at Mt. Vernon in 1911. He is a member of the Mt. Vernon So- ciety, which owes its existence to him; is secretary of the County Medi- cal Association and is a member of the State Association. He was mar- ried in 1891 to Queen Mabel Webb, of Warren, Ind. They have no chil- dren. In politics he is a Democrat. The doctor is a musician of more than ordinary skill and an artist of no mean ability.
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Dr. Henry H. Sugg was born on a farm near Fayetteville, Tenn., in 1866. His father was Henry H. Sugg; his mother was Sally E. Yowell, a great-granddaughter of the celebrated John Sevier, pioneer Indian fighter and first governor of Tennessee. Dr. Sugg attended the common schools of his native county as a boy and when a young man attended the medical department of the Vanderbilt University and of the Ten- nessee Medical College, graduating later in the American Medical Col- lege at St. Louis. He began the practice of medicine at Trenton, Tenn., where he remained one year ; then he removed to Greenville, Tex., where he practiced three years ; returning to his old home he practiced two years near Fayetteville. In the year 1892 he moved to Mt. Vernon, where he has resided and practiced his profession ever since. The best thing he ever did was to marry, in 1891, Miss Lula McGowan, of good Presby- terian stock. To this union have been born five children, two boys and three girls. The doctor has been quite successful in business and now owns 400 acres of land in Posey county. He practices medicine accord- ing to the theories of the Eclectics. Dr. Sugg affiliates with the Chris- tian church. His wife, true to the Scotch traditions, is an old-school Presbyterian and both are highly respected citizens in the town in which they reside.
Dr. William Mason Holton was born in Westminster, Vt., July 16, 1827. He was a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, class of 1852. After his graduation he practiced one year in New York City; from 1853 to 1860 at Plymouth, Ill .; then till 1863 he practiced his profession at Stewartsville, Ind., and from 1862 till the time of his death, which occurred December 13, 1910, at New Harmony, Ind. He was a member of the Posey County, State and American Med- ical societies. During the Civil war he served as first lieutenant in the Sixtieth Indiana regiment and afterward as surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Indiana. He was on the board of pension examiners at Mt. Vernon four years during the Harrison administration. He practiced his profession continuously, except the time he was in the army, for fifty-eight and one- half years. Few men in America ever practiced longer.
Dr. Robert Lee Hardwick was born February 16, 1863, near Dawson Springs, Hopkins county, Kentucky. His father, Christopher C., was a dry goods merchant. His mother's maiden name was Adeline Henson. He was educated in the public schools of his neighborhood, is a graduate of the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, finishing the course in 1886. He first practiced his profession in Clay, Ky., and later at Dixon, Ky .; moved to Mt. Vernon in 1897, where he has since resided. He was mar- ried to Miss Lura F. Watson in 1891. To this union two daughters have been born-Lucile and Adelaide. He is in religious belief a Mis- sionary Baptist, though not connected with any church here. In poli- tics he has always been a Democrat. He is secretary of the board of
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health in Posey county. The doctor has been quite successful in business and owns 384 acres of land in Posey county.
Douglas X. Ramsey, one of the oldest physicians in point of contin- uous service in Mt. Vernon, Ind., was born in Xenia, Ill., son of George D. and Mary A. (Price) Ramsey. His father was a practicing physi- cian of Xenia, Ill., where he died at the age of seventy-seven. The mother died in Mt. Vernon, aged eighty-two. Dr. Ramsey attended the public schools of his native village and for two or three years had a private tutor. He took his medical degree at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1880, and shortly afterward located in Mt. Vernon, where he has since resided. He took post-graduate courses in St. Louis University in 1873 and in the Chicago Polyclinic in 1875. He was appointed a member of the State Board of Health by Governor Matthews and served from 1895 to 1897. He has been twice president of the Posey County Medical Society, and for four years he was medical examiner for the Ancient Order of United Workmen. · Governor Durbin appointed Dr. Ramsey delegate to the National Tuberculosis Congress, held in New York in 1907. He served two terms on the board of pension examiners under Cleveland's administrations. He was married, in December, 1909, to Miss Rosa Scheller, who was born in Interlachen, Switzerland, but spent most of her life prior to her marriage in Evansville, Ind. In politics Dr. Ramsey is a Democrat ; fraternally a Master Mason.
Dr. William Edward Hasting, until recently a prominent physician and surgeon of Mt. Vernon, Ind., was born in Point township, Posey county, Indiana, in August 1867. He was a son of William Thomas and Jane (Booth) Hasting, the former born in Delaware, the latter in Posey county. Dr. Hasting's father was of English descent and a pio- neer settler of Posey county. He died at his farm in Point township at the age of fifty-five. Dr. Hasting was reared on the Point township farm, receiving his early education in the county schools. Later he was a student at De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind. He entered the medical department of the Washington University at St. Louis in 1893, graduating in 1897. He spent three years as interne or superin- tendent of a hospital there and in East St. Louis. He removed thence to Mt Vernon, Ind., where he built up a large practice, owning a farm of 1,000 acres of land in Point township, which demanded his atten- tion. He has recently quit the practice of his profession and is giving his attention to stock breeding and buying and selling mules. He was married to Miss Anna Bell, a native of Ireland, in 1895. She died No- vember 6, 1910, leaving two children, David and Anna.
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