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He was in the Union army four years, being a member of the Sixty-ninth Ohio, Company E.
He was brought up on his father's farm; became a teacher; studied medicine with his brother, John T. Chenoweth, then of Williamsburg, but now of Winchester; graduated from Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati in 1867.
He formed a partnership with Dr. Botkin, at Unionsport, Ind., which lasted one year; married his wife there-Laura E. Haines, daughter of Stephen Haines; came to Windsor in 1868, and resides there still.
He is a thorough Republican, a wide-awake and enterprising citizen, and an intelligent and faithful physician, commanding an extensive and successful practice.
They have three children.
JOEL N. CONVERSE, UNION CITY, IND.
Joel N. Converse was born December 13, 1820, in Madison County, Ohio; married Ann Eliza Phillips November 5, 1840; has two children-Laura A., wife of D. H. Reeder, miller, Union City, Ind .; Lois R., wife of Dr. Flowers, Columbus, Ohio.
He read medicine, and practiced from 1841 to 1852, graduat- ing. in 1846, from Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. He settled at Union City, Ind., in 1852, at the commenement of the town, and has resided there ever since.
Since 1852, he has been engaged mostly in railroad construc- tion and management. He was Director, Vice President and
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Superintendent of the Union & Logansport, and is still Director in the C., C. & I. C. R. R., into which the U. & L. R. R. was merged.
In the West, he was Vice President and Superintendent of the Nebraska Railroad for ten years.
For years he was School Trustee of Union City, Ind.
In business, he is a man of great activity, energy and enthu- siasm: in social life, a warm-hearted, genial companion and friend: in politics, a stalwart Republican; in religion, he con- siders himself largely liberal; in family life, he is greatly de- voted to the comfort and pleasure of those dependent on him.
He is a strong friend of general and compulsory education, and an enthusiastic worker in the temperance ranks, and, in gen- eral, a sincere and active co-worker in whatever seems to him to be adapted to build up society and increase the well-being of the human race.
Mr. Converse has been largely favored and blessed with success in his efforts to gain property, and is understood to pos- sess a comfortable fortune.
For twenty-five years. much of his time has been spent away from home, yet his home feelings and sympathies return all the more active for the deprivation he has been subjected to in this respect; and he looks forward to the time when the relaxation of business activity shall enable him more thoroughly to enjoy the pleasures of an intelligent, cultivated home.
In the fall of 1880, Dr. Converse sold his residence in Union City-one of the most tasteful and elegant mansions in that place-and removed to Chicago. It was purchased by William Harris, of the firm of Turpen & Harris, grocers. for $10,000.
JOHN HEINER, ARBA.
John Heiner was born in 1827, in Maryland; studied med- icine in the University of Maryland, Baltimore, graduating in 1846, practicing in Carroll County, Md., from 1846 to 1864; married Matilda Jane Kelly in 1850; has had five children, all living. two married-one son a physician.
He has resided at Arba, Ind., from 1864 to the present time. . Dr. Heiner is an intelligent and reliable physician, and has an extensive practice.
He belongs to the German Reformed Church, and in politics is a Democrat.
C. 8. EVANS, UNION CITY.
C. S. Evans was born in Chester County, Penn., in 1832; came to Richmond, Ind., in 1837, and to Spartansburg, Ind., in 1852; to Hollandsburg, Ohio, in 1857; and to Union City in 1868.
He married Almira Boyd in 1859, and Hannah M. Robertson in 1867. They have had two children.
He read medicino with Dr. Lawrence, at Spartansburg, in 1852-55; practiced at Hollandsburg, Ohio, in 1857-68, grad- uating from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1863.
He joined the One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Ohio as Assist- ant Surgeon in the summer of .1863; had charge of the Cincin- nati Barracks, and then of a post hospital at Paris, Ky .; rejoined the regiment in Maryland, and left the service, his time having expired and something over. His chief business has been prac- ticing medicine, though at times selling goods, etc.
Dr. Evans has a high reputation as a practitioner, as a gentle- man and a citizen, and is reckoned to be an ornament to his pro- fession and an honor to the community of which he is a member.
DAVID FERGUSON, UNION CITY.
David Ferguson was born in Philadelphia. Penn., in 1813, of Scotch parents; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Phil- adelphia, in 1837; came to Butler County, Ohio, in the same year, and to Clark County, Ohio, in 1838.
He removed to Winchester, Ind., in 1849, and settled in Union City in 1865.
His wife was Jane Van Sickel, and they were married in 1849. They have had three children. Two are living, and both at home with their parents, and both daughters, one unmarried the the other a widow.
Dr. Ferguson joined the United Presbyterian Church in 1829, and the Presbyterian Church in 1838. He was Deacon for twelve or fourteen years, and has been Ruling Elder fourteen years.
He has been President and Treasurer of Randolph Mutual Association at various times; joined the I. O O. F. in 1842; Grand Lodge of Indiana in 1856; Grand Encampment of In- diana in 1857; Grand Lodge of the World in 1879.
J'hus it will be seen that he has grown gray in the service of his fellow-men, having been an active practitioner of medicine for forty-four years.
He is still hale and active, and seems to bid fair for years of activity and usefulness.
JEHU HIATT, WINCHESTER.
Jehu Hiatt was born in Grayson County, Va., near the Good- spur Crossing of Blue Ridge on the New River, one of the sources of the Kanawha, in 1802.
His father died when Jehu was about three months old.
He was brought to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1814, and to where Richmond uow stands in 1815, before Richmond was laid out. That was done in 1816, and he attended the first sale of Jots there. Richmond in 1815 was a corn-field, and Robert Morrison had a little store in the neighborhood.
He went to Knightetown in 1830, and moved to Winchester in 1833 or 1834, and his residence has been chiefly in the vicin- ity of that place ever since.
He bought forty acres east of Winchester, occupying it as his home for many years. Having sold it, he removed his residence to Winchester, where it still remains.
He married Sarah A. Thomas in 1828. They had no chil- dren, and his wife died in Wayne County in 1865, and was bur- ied at Goshen Meeting-House, near Middleboro.
He was raised on a farm; worked at tanning and at shoemak- ing. and finally read medicine with his brother-in-law, John Thomas, near Middleboro, Wayne Co., Ind.
He practiced first at Knightstown, and then at Winchester, but retired from the profession twenty years ago.
He was raised a Friend, became a Hicksite, and now consid- ers himself a " seeker after truth."
He was one of the early Abolitionists when that " hated sect" was " everywhere spoken against," and when conrage was re- quired to face the storm of obloquy and of persecution and of addled eggs and of brickbats, coupled, moreover, with the dan- ger, and the fact of fines inflicted and penalties enforced against the "accursed few" who had the audacity to hold to the faith and to practice the belief that " all men are created equal," and that liberty, except for crime, is the inalienable birthright of all men.
Dr. Hiatt, though for many years a widower, seems cheerful and contented. and appears to enjoy the time of old age that has slowly but surely crept upon him. His health is good, and he is vigorous and sprightly, though almost eighty years old, and it would be no wonder if he were to be spared to behold fourscore years and ten; and yet he may be called suddenly away from the scene of his earthly cares to try what may be in store for earth- born spirits in the unseen future.
ROBERT H. MORGAN, SPARTANSBURG.
Robert H. Morgan is the son of Micajah Morgan, a pioneer settler of Wayne County, Ind.
He was born in Wayne County in 1827; attended school at the Union Literary Institute. and at Friends' Boarding School, and at Farmers' Academy, College Hill, Ohio, and at Witten- burg College, Springfield, Ohio. Studied medicine at Marion, with Dr. Lomax, 1850-51.
He married Mrs. Rebecca (Small) Davis, daughter of Joshua Small, in 1853. She was born in 1829, on the Silas Horn place, northeast of Arba, Ind., and died at Spartansburg in 1879.
Mrs. Morgan had three children by her first marriage, and eight by her second.
R. H. Morgan lived one year at Marion, eight years at Nora, Ill .. and at Spartansburg since 1859.
He volunteered, April 17, 1861, in Eighth Indiana (three
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months), Company D, Capt. Silas Colgrove, Col. Benton. (Lin- coln's proclamation was April 16.)
The regiment went to Indianapolis, then to West Virginia. It was in the battle at Rich Mountain. July 1861, etc.
When their time was ont, he volunteered in the Fifty-seventh Indiana; was commissioned as First Lientenant of Company D.
(For account of regimert, see elsewhere. )
R. H. Morgan was discharged for disability in May, 1864.
Dr. Morgan has been a practicing phyician for about thirty years, and has had a good reputation as a practitioner.
His wife died in the fall of 1879, after a very lingering afflic- tive illness with the dropsy. She was an excellent Christian wife and mother, bore her painful sickness with exemplary pa- tience, and passed to her heavenly rest leaving a fragrant mem- ory to her family and surviving friends.
His aged mother, a widow for many years, and now more than eighty years of age, has resided with her son Robert for several years.
ROBERT J. PARSONS, UNION CITY.
Robert J. Parsons, only surviving son of Robert Parsons, for- merly of Deerfield, Randolph County, was born in Wayne County, Ind., in 1820.
He came with his father to Deerfield in 1828 or 1829, and resided there till he became of age. Hethen left home and went to near Dayton, Ohio, studying medicine while there.
In 1850, he located as a physician at Union, Montgomery Co., Ohio; removed to Milton, Miami County, in 1853, remaiu- ing there till 1881. In the latter year, he returned to Randolph County and established a drug store at Union City, continuing also his practice.
He belongs to the eclectic school.
He has been an active practitioner for nearly forty years.
In 1875, he was elected Professor of Obstetrics in the Eclec. tic Medical College of Philadelphia, which, however, he was obliged to decline on account of the health of his family. The college, however, continued his connection therewith as Emeritus Professor in the institution, which position he now holds.
He has been three times married -Asenath Thomas, in 1846; Susan Dalton, in 1854; and Rhoda Jones, in 1880. He has had six children, only two of whom are living.
Although by early training a Democrat, he has been a Re- publican, and is so still.
JOHN L. REEVES, UNION CITY.
John L. Reeves is the son of James and Rachel Reeves, hav- ing been born in Darke County, Ohio, in 1827. He came with his parents, in 1832, into the woods of Randolph, settling in Jackson Township, near what came afterward to be New Lisbon.
His father built a cabin, not at first entering land. In two years or so, he entered land, moved to it, "built a camp," and became an independent land-owner, lord of the manor and mas- ter of his own castle.
John went to school three months when a lad, and his second term of three months was spent with his grandfather. in Dela- ware County, young John walking through the woods, in his thirteenth year, to reach the desired spot, and returning in like manner to his home and to the farm work in the spring.
He stayed with his father till he was of age. However, he began to read medicine before that important event, lying in the hay mow for the purpose when his mates were at their sports, and obtaining books from New York, under the advice of Drs. Downing and Miller.
In the fall of 1851, he began work at plastering, and followed it three years with all his might, reading medicine at night.
He farmed for awhile, but bled at the lungs, and gave it up. He began practice in 1854, at Pittsburg, Randolph County.
He had been married, in 1849. to Angeline Milligan, who died in 1854. He had sold out and was all ready for moving to Iowa when his wife was stricken down, and was soon laid in the cold and silent tomb, and his plans of life were frustrated.
However, he continued his practice, and, in 1856, located at Lancaster, Jay Co., Ind., building up there a fine business. .
Ia 1861, he enlist d in the army, joining the Fortieth Ohio
ax Lieutenant of Company F. He was promoted to Captain and still again to Major. His time of service was three years and four months.
At Chickamauga, he was wounded in the left ankle, which is still lame at times. He was also stunned by a shell, and supposed by his comrades to be dead. But, recovering from the shock. he was nevertheless disabled for three months. He came near be. ing captured the same day; but was spared the horrors of Ander- sonville, and the perils, and perhaps the fact, of an awful death in that fearful prison pen.
He attended the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati in 1866, and resumed the profession, locating at Union City, Ind.
His practice has been continued till the present time, except for about a year past, on account of severe sickness. from which he has not yet fully recovered.
He is at present engaged as Vice President and Medical Di- rector of the Pioneer Mutual Life Insurance Association of Union City, Ind.
Dr. Reeves married his first wife in 1849. She died in 1854. and he married again. His second wife was Esther McFarland, who is still living. He has had six children, four of whom now survive. Two of them were by his first wife, an I four by his second.
Dr. Reeves, in his youth and early manhood, possessed a re- markable amount of energy, and he has preserved hie habits of activity to the present time, gaining for himself, unaided and alone. an honorable and useful position among his fellow-men.
JAMES RUBY, DECEASED.
James Ruby was born in 1807, in Kentucky; came to Wayne County, Ind., when a small boy.
He married Martha Myers, and afterward Hannah J. Hamil- ton -- the latter in 1847.
He studied medicine with his brother-in-law. and began prac- tice at twenty; removed to Hollandsburg, Ohio, in 1850, and to Union City, Ind., in 1867.
He died in 1876, at the age of sixty-nine years.
He had eleven children-eight living, three married.
Children-James Finley, 1850. married, Commercial Bank, Council. [See biography ].
Martha, 1852, unmarried, at home.
Samuel B., 1855, married, physician. Union City.
Mary Lewella, 1857, unmarried, at home.
Joseph B., 1859, married. Louisville, Ky., railroad mail serv- ice.
Jessie F., 1861, unmarried, post office clerk, Union City.
Ambrose B., 1864, book-keeper, Bowers Bros.
Lizzie B., 1866, girl, at home.
Dr Ruby was an Episcopal Methodist, a Republican, an ex- cellent physician and a worthy man.
His son Samuel is following the footsteps of his honored fa- ther. and, by industry, intelligence and integrity, he is rising to a high standing in his profession.
WILLIAM J. SHOEMAKER, RIDGEVILLE.
William J. Shoemaker was born at Richmond, Va .. Novem- ber 18, 1820. His grandfather, Jeremiah Shoemaker, sold a large estate in Hanover County, Va., taking his pay in Conti- nental money. It proved a total loss, and he afterward made cigar-lighters of the bills.
His father served in the war of 1812, at Camp Holly, on the James River, below Richmond, marrying in 1815, and moving, in 1824 to Columbiana County, Ohio, and, in 1837, to Randolph County, Ind., not far from Ridgeville.
He had eight children, all grown, seven married and four now living. He moved to Kansas in 1858, and was killed by a runaway team a few days after his arrival in that region.
W. J. Shoemaker worked for his father in the woods till twenty-two years of age, attending school in private houses and in " greased-paper-window cabins."
In 1841, he entered Winchester Seminary, under Prof. Farris. He sold a little black colt to James Butterworth, which paid for board and tuition four months.
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The summer of 1842, he cleared six acres for his father, took a colt for his pay, traded the colt for a yoke of cattle, taught school at Fuirview at $1.50 per day, sold his oxen, and, with his money, paid his way a year at Winchester, breaking down his health by excessive study, and teaching-school near Huntsville eight months to "recruit on."
Prof. Ferris, needing an assistant, he employed Mr. Shoe- maker, dividing the school and giving him half the work and half the pay during five months.
His next step was to Bloomington, attending the State Uni- versity for eighteen months. He reached the Junior class, but quit for lack of means. Leaving the university without a cent, and walking thirty miles, he stopped and earned money enough to pay for a deck passage to Wellsville, on the Ohio River, walk- ing thence to Hanover, Columbiana Co., Ohio.
Here he boarded with his brother and set in to study medi- cine with Messrs. Robinson & Coons.
Finishing his course and practicing several years in North- eastern Ohio, he came back to Ridgeville in 1853, $1,000 in debt.
Here he practiced his profession, erecting, meanwhile, the third house in Ridgeville (with Robert Starbuck), on credit.
He battled with life for four years, and, in 1858, " put out" for Kansas, having been married in Northeastern Ohio in 1851. In thst far-off land, he buried, during the first eight months, a father and a sister.
He undertook farming, and had fine prospects till the drought ruined hiscrops. The middle of July showed a beautiful growth of corn; the month of August, nothing.
During the winter of 1859-60, he was a Clerk in the Legis- lature that framed the free constitution for Kansas, and voted itself down to Lawrence.
In 1860, Mr. Shoemaker returned once more to Ridgeville, which he has never left since that time.
In 1865, he was reckoned to command at least the second best practice in Randolph County.
His wife is still living, fresh and sprightly, though the mother of eleven children, five of whom are living, and only one is married.
One of his sons was sick and helpless for many months, re- quiring ceaseless care and aid day and night. Mr. Shoemaker attended upon his son through all that wearisome time, taking, on an average, for sixty days and nights, only three hours' sleep in the twenty-four.
Their care was repaid by the recovery of that afflicted and suffering son. He now is connected with his father in business.
His life has been full of adventure and suffering, but hope and courage have never failed him, and his motto is still, as ever, "Never give up; it is wiser and better always to hope than once to despair."
He has been a life-long Republican, and, in former years, was connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church.
H. H. YERGIN, UNION CITY, IND.
H. H. Yergin was born in Wayne County, Ohio, in 1839, and came to Union City, Ind., in 1867.
He married Elizabeth Crawford, daughter of Col. Crawford, and they have one child. In youth, he was clerk in a drug store.
He graduated in the scientific course at Delaware College, Ohio, and at the Cleveland Medical College, Ohio, in 1864, pur- suing the post-graduating course in the same school in 1866.
He is a member of the Medical Society of Wayne County, Ohio; of the Ohio and the Indiana Medical Societies; of the Randolph County Medical Society, etc.
He is employed by the Bee Line and the Pan Handle Rail- roads as surgeon for accidents among their employes.
Dr. Yergin is a physician of high standing in the profession, and commands an extensive practice.
In political faith, he is a Democrat.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
The Delaware District Medical Society (including Randolph County) was organized at Muncie, Ind., Tuesday, June 19, 1877, as the result of consultation upon the subject.
There was a fair representation of the various county socie- ties, and by 12 o'clock thirty-eight physicians and three medical students were present.
The meeting was held in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
An organization was completed by 2 P. M., and dinner was had at the Kirby House. Several toasts were offered, among them the following:
1. Medical Diplomas. Response by Dr. William Lomax.
2. Medical Education and Medical Colleges. Response by Dr. Parvin, of Indianapolis.
3. The Preacher and the Doctor. Response by Rev. Whit- mer.
The committees were as follows:
1. On Organization-John E. Markle, J. J. Ransom, S. F. Brunt, H. D. Reasoner, R. P. Davis, G. D. Leech.
2. On Officers (one from each county)-Randolph County, W. G. Smith; Jay County, R. P. Davis; Blackford County, William Ransom ; Madison County, Dr Young; Delaware County, W. J. Boyden; Grant County, none present.
Permanent officers President, John Horne; Vice President, J. E. Markle; Treasurer, G. W. H. Kemper; Secretary, G. D. Leech; Censors, William C Ransom, Henry C. Winans, H. D. Reasoner.
The second meeting was held at Winchester, Randolph County, December 18, 1877.
Members received-Peter Drayer, N T. Chenoweth, G. W. Sheperd, D. Ferguson, William Commons, A. H. Farquhar, L N. Davis, A. H. Good.
Honorary members-Drs. Hibbard, MeIntyre and Weist, of Richmond, Ind.
The third session took place at Hartford City, Blackford County, June 17, 1878.
Officers chosen: President, J. E. Markle, Randolph County; Vice President, W. C. Ransom, Blackford County; Secretary, G. D. Leech, Delaware County; Treasurer, G. W. H. Kemper, Del- aware County; Censors, R. P. Davis, Jay County; T. J. Bowles, Delaware County; H. D. Reasoner. Graut County.
The fourth session convened at Marion, Grant County, De- cember.17, 1878.
The fifth meeting occurred at Anderson, June 24, 1879, at the Presbyterian Church.
Officers elected: President, W. A. Hunt, Madison County; Vice President, J. S. Shively, Grant County; Secretary, G. D. Leech, Delaware County; Treasurer, G. W. H. Kemper, Dela- ware County; Censors, Peter Drayer, Blackford County; Will- iam Commons, Randolph County; R. P. Davis, Jay County.
Resolution adopted in favor of a State Board of Health, and of local boards in the several townships.
The sixth session was held in Muncie, Ind., at the Mayor's office, December 23, 1879.
Members-O. F. Anderson, Wheeling; D. R. Armitage, Mun- cie; S. F. Brunt, Summitville; T. J. Bowles, Muncie; Oliver Broadbent, Anderson; A. B. Bradbury, Muncie; J. T. Cheno- weth, Winchester; N. T. Chenoweth, Windsor; William Com- mons, Union City; George F. Chittenden, Anderson; F. M. Davis, Wheeling; H. C. Davisson, Hartford City; R. P. Davis, Red Key; J. Dillon, Daleville; Peter Drayer, Hartford; L. N. Davis, Farmland; G. W. Daniels, Sweetzer; J. J. Evans, Win- chester; George Egbert, Sweetzer; S. W. Edwins, Frankton; D. Ferguson, Union City; A. H. Farquhar, Ridgeville; William Flynn, Marion; C. Free, Funk's P. O .; A. H. Good, Selma; F. N. Harrison, Winchester; John Horne, Yorktown; W. N. Horne, Yorktown; L. P. Hess, Marion; John W. Hall, Sweetzer; Samuel S. Horne, Jonesboro; J. W. Hunt, Alex- andria; H .. E. Jones, Anderson; G. W. H. Kemper, Muncie; J. M. Littler, Albany; G. D. Leech, Muncie; William Lomax, Marion; C. Lomax, Marion; Walter H. Lewis, Pendle- ton; John E. Markle, Winchester; C. R. Mason, Hartford City; William J. Morgan, Perdieu; John F. Mckinstry, Jonesboro; Johu A. Meek, Jonesboro; N. H. Manering, Rigdon; W. V. Mc- Mahon, Ovid; S. W. Mckinney, Jonesboro; A. L. Murray, Gran- ville; W. C. Ransom, Hartford City; H. D. Reasoner, New Cumberland; J. A. Ransom, Montpelier; O. J. Reasoner, Shid-
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eler; G. W. Smith, Winchester; J. K. Shideler, Royerton; J. B. Summers, Muncie; G. W. Sheperd, Red Key: C. Q. Shull. Montpelier; D. T. Showalter, Montpelier: James S. Shively, Marion; Isaac N. Seal. Hackleman; M. T. Shively, Marion: J. Stewart, Anderson; F. B. Spann, Anderson; D. L. Trowbridge, McCowan; Robert Winton, Muncie; H. C. Winans, Muncie; S. C. Weddington, Jonesboro; Lewis Williams, Marion.
Randolph County Medical Society was formed at Winchester January 12, 1876, and it holds meetings quarterly, the officers elected annually.
First members -- J. C. Beverly, Winchester; J. E. Markle, Winchester; David Ferguson, Union City; J. Heiner, Arba; J. T. Chenoweth, Winchester: L. N. Davis. Farmland; W. G. Smith, Winchester; J. J. Evans, Winchester; A. H. Good, Win- chester; L. M. Jones, Winchester; A. H. Farquhar, Ridgeville.
Officers first year-J. C. Beverly, President; J. Heiner, Vice President; L. M. Jones, Secretary; David Ferguson, Treasurer. Officers, 1877 -- Markle, Commons, Evans, Ferguson,
Officers, 1878-Ferguson, Davis, Chenoweth, Evans.
Officers, 1879 -- Commons, Good, Evans, Chenoweth.
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