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BENJAMIN J. DAY, M. D., is of English descent and was born in Calvert county, Md., June 28, 1822. His father, Robert J. Day, was a planter, who died in 1830. His mother, Mary Day, died when he was an in- fant. Left an orphan at the age of eight he was soon taught to rely upon his own re- sources. His early training was received in the inferior schools of that time. Ile ob- tained, however, the rudiments of an English education. In 1839 he obtained a position as clerk in a store at Prince Frederick, Md., where he remained a year, at the end of this time giving up his position to begin the study of medicine. In the spring of 1840, he entered the office of Dr. William H. McDaniel, but soon after received an invi- tation from an elder brother-a practicing physician at Mount Carmel, Ill., to come to him, which he did in July of the same year. For two years he applied himself very earn-
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estly to his medical studies, and at the end of that time began the practice under ad- verse circumstances in Gibson county, Ind. Success however, attended his efforts. In the autumn of IS47, he entered the Univer- sity of Maryland at Baltimore, but did not complete his studies there. He graduated in 1856, from the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia. Becoming tired of country practice he removed to Baton Rouge, La., where he remained until IS60, when he returned on private business. The war breaking out, he decided to locate in Evansville, which he didin 1862. He was ap- pointed acting assistant surgeon of hospital No. 3, and soon after received a commission as pension surgeon. On the reorganization of the Evansville Medical College he was appointed to the chair of Surgical Pathol- ogy, which he filled acceptably for several years. He has been a contributor to several medical journals and is a member of the State and Vanderburgh County Medical Societies. With the exception of Dr. Bray, he is perhaps the oldest resident physician in the city. He is now retired from active practice.
WILLIAM H. MAGHEE, M. D., a prominent young physician and surgeon of this city, is a native of Evansville, born June 22, 1856. His father, Joseph B. Maghee, is a native of Pennsylvania, and was born in Holmes- burg, April 9, 1814. He came to Evans- ville in 1836. He was for a number of years engaged in the dry goods business in the city, and then purchasing a farm re- moved there and remained for a number of years. He then returned to this city, where he now resides, living in retirement. The mother of Dr. Maghee is Mary Jacobs, who was born in Evansville, September 13, 18I9, and is now the oldest living native- born inhabitant of the city. Her father was Gen. J. H. Jacobs, who was a native of Penn-
sylvania, and was one of the pioneers of Vanderburg county, there being only a few houses in Evansville when he arrived. He had the first glass window in Evansville, in his house, and killed the last bear ever seen in this section of the county. He was an officer in the war between the United States and Mexico, going from Vanderburgh county, and during the war was wounded in the knee, from the effects of which his death occurred. To Joseph and Mary Maghee eight children were born, six of whom sur- vive, three sons and three daughters. Dr. Maghee was reared in Evansville and at- tended the public schools, graduating from the private academy of Misses Hooker and Hough. He began reading medicine in 1876, with Dr. Joseph W. Irwin, one of the leading physicians of Evansville at that time and now a prominent practitioner of Louis- ville, Ky. In 1879 he entered Jeffer- son Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he graduated in ISSI. He next lo- cated in Princeton, practicing his profession there until August, ISS4, and then located in Evansville, where he has since practiced with success. He is a member of the Gib- son county Medical Society and of the State Medical Society, also of the Mississippi Val- ley Tri-State Medical Society. He is also a member of the Masonic fraternity, being made a Mason in ISS5, Chapter Mason in ISS7, and Knight Templar in ISSS. He was married June 15, ISSI, to Ella C. Kimball, of Princetown, Ind., who was the daughter of J. C. and Amanda Kimball, and was born December 10, IS58. She died October 14, ISS4. One child was born to this union, on May 22, 1882, and died May 19, ISS3.
JOHN E. OWEN, M. D., began the practice of his profession in Evansville in ISSo. IIe was born in Madisonville, Ky., October I, 1854, and when twenty-one years of age
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became a student of medicine in the office of his brother Dr. A. M. Owen. He gradu- ated from the Evansville Medical College in 1879. The following year he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York city, and graduated from that institu- tion in ISSo. He was a member of the faculty of the Evansville Medical College, occupying the position of demonstrator of * anatomy, which position he resigned to enter the Hospital Medical College of Evans- ville, where, until the close of that institu- tion, he filled the chair of professor of anat- omy. He has been county physician, and is a member of several important medical associations.
P. Y. McCoy, M. D., of Evansville, was born in Golconda, Ill., June 29, 1841. His paternal grandfather, John McCoy, was a native of Kentucky, who early emigrated to Indiana territory, settling within the present limits of Clarke county. There, in 1817, his father, Dr. George R. McCoy, was born. Dr. George McCoy possessed a sturdy character, a strong intellect and a good edu- cation, which he obtained by dint of untiring effort. He was a graduate of the old Transylvania Medical College at Louisville, Ky., completing his studies there about 1835 or 1836. Emigrating to Golconda, Ill., he practiced his profession in that town and vicinity until his death in 1848. During his day he was the leading physician of the county and was well and favorably known. Upon the removal of the Cherokee, Choctaw and other Indian tribes from northern Ala- bama and Mississippi to the Indian territory, he was selected by the U. S. government to attend to their wants while en-route. His wife, the mother of Dr. P. Y. McCoy, was Mary Fields, who was born at Golconda in 1818, and is now a resident of that place. Her father, Daniel Fields, was a native of Ken- tucky, who emigrated to Illinois at an early | the fall of 1873 he came to Evansville and
date and settled in what is now Pope county. At one time he was a large land owner in the county, and laid out and founded the town of Golconda. The descendants of the pioneer Daniel Fields were always eminently respectable. Dr. P. Y., McCoy was reared in Golconda and his early mental training was obtained in the public schools of that place. Later he pursued his studies at Franklin College, Franklin, Ind. At the age of eighteen years he began the study of medicine at Golconda under the directions of Count Albert De Leczynski, a Polish exile, who was banished from his native country on account of his political opinions. He was a graduate of the University at Vienna, a man of varied attainments, and one of the most skilled physicians and surgeons of the country. Dr. McCoy attended his first course of lectures in 1860-61 at Rush Medi- cal College, Chicago, Ill., and graduated from that institution in 1863. In the same year he began the practice of his profession in Golconda, his native town, but soon there- after removed to Columbus, Ky., where he remained about ten years. While living in Kentucky he was a member of the Kentucky State Medical Society, and was its delegate in 1873 to the meeting of the American Medical Association at St. Louis, Mo. In 1873, fitted by the experience of ten years' practice to comprehend the most difficult subjects presented in medical instruction, he spent several months in New York city pur- suing his studies and attending the hospitals. In addition to the valuable instruction re- ceived in the university and hospitals he pur- sued a special course of study under the tutelage of Dr. Marion Sims, devoting par- ticular attention to the diseases of women. He also gave much time to surgery and is now regarded as being among the more prominent surgeons of southern Indiana. In
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resumed the duties of his profession. His popularity and practice gradually extended themselves and he was soon recognized as one of the leading physicians of Evansville. In 1884 he again visited New York City and there took two courses of lectures at the Polyclinic College. During its existence he occupied the chair of surgery in the Evansville Medical College. He is now a member of the Vanderburgh County Medi- cal Society, surgeon of the L. & N. R. R. at this point, one of the best of physicians, respected on every hand, and enjoys a high professional and social standing While not a specialist and although engaged in the general practice, he gives especial attention to surgery and the diseases of women, and in these two departments of the practice he has been particularly successful. In Masonry he has attained the degrees of Templarism, and he is a prominent member of the K. of P. Dr. McCoy was married in 1865 to Miss Nellie Woods, who was born in Livingston county, Ky., in 1845. She died in 1871, leaving a son and daughter, the latter sur- viving. In 1876 the doctor married Effie Carr, who was born in Kentucky in IS56, and is the daughter of N. F. Carr, of this city.
and subsequently took up the study of med- icine. In 1874 he visited Germany and pursued a course of study at Heidelberg, having previously attended Bellevue Hospital college at New York. Returning to Boon- ville from Europe he engaged in the prac- tice of medicine, and bid fair to make a suc- cessful and popular physician, but his career was cut short by death in 1875. Catharine (Tuerkis) Knapp died in 1856. To these parents four children were born, two of whom, Drs. Charles and Emil Knapp, of this city, survive. The father was married a second time, to Augusta C. Ross, and to that union four children were born, three of whom survive. His second wife dying, he was married a third time, to Mrs. Louisa C. Radmann, who survives him, and is a resi- dent of Boonville, Ind. Dr. Charles Knapp came with his parents to America in IS51. He was reared principally in New Albany, Ind., where he attended the public schools. He began the study of medicine in Boon- ville, Ind., in 1865, and in 1865-6 attended Rush Medical College at Chicago. During 1866-7 he attended Bellevue Hospital Col- lege at New York, and for two years next thereafter, practiced at Huntingburgh, Ind. In 1869-70 he again attended Bellevue col- lege, and on March 1, 1870, graduated from the institution. He returned to Boonville, but soon removed to Ferdinand, Ind., where he practiced until his removal to Evansville, in ISSI, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. He was united in marriage at Huntingburgh, Ind., in 1868, to Emma Pickhardt, who was born in Evans- ville, in 1851, and is the daughter of William Pickhardt. To this union five children have been born, four of whom survive. In 1882 Dr. Knapp was selected to fill the chair of pathology and practice of medicine, and lec- turer on the eye and ear at the Hospital
CHARLES KNAPP, M. D., physician and surgeon, and a leading citizen of Evansville, is a native of Germany. He was born at Birkenfeld, near the Rhine, December 21, 1845, the son of Dr. Charles J., and Cather- ine (Tuerkis) Knapp. Dr. Charles J. Knapp was born in 1823, and was educated in the schools of his native land. He came to America in 1851, landing at New Orleans. He remained there a short time and then went to New Albany, were he resided until about 1856, and then removed to Rockport, Ind. He next went to Boonville, Ind., about 1860, and engaged in merchandising. Later he was employed in the drug business, | Medical College of Evansville, which he
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occupied until the suspension of the college in 1886. He was also chosen secretary of the college in 1883, and served until the suspen- sion. He was a charter member of the Dubois County Medical Society, organized in 1874, and has been since 1884 a member of the Vanderburgh Medical Society. He is also a member of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society and the American Medical Associa- tion.
COLUMBUS V. WEDDING, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Ohio county, Ky., December 2, 1852, and is the son of Mark and Nancy J. (Hale) Wedding. He re- ceived a liberal education, and at the age of sixteen years began the study of medicine with Dr. Josiah Hale, of Owensboro, Ky., as his preceptor. He remained with Dr. Hale four years, and in the winter of 1872-3 attended a course of medical lectures at the University of Louisville, Ky. Immediately thereafter he began the practice of medicine at Stephensport, in Breckenridge county, Ky., and succeeded in building up a good business. In 1878, he returned to the uni- versity at Louisville and graduated in Feb- ruary of the following year. He returned to his practice, but desiring to increase his knowledge, visited New York and Phila- delphia, in ISSo, and in the hospitals of those cities obtained much valuable experience and information. Returning to Breckenridge county, after an absence of six months, he resumed his professional duties, and con- tinued actively engaged for three years. At the end of this time he visited the hospitals of London, where his observations added materially to his education. Thereafter, un- til 1886, he remained at his old home, prac- ticing and meeting with much success. June I, 1886, he came to Evansville, and has since resided in this city. His success has been remarkably gratifying. He possesses a large practice, and is considered a skillful
physician and surgeon. Dr. Wedding was married, June 8, 1870, to Laura E. Pate, a native of Kentucky, born December 27, 1852, and daughter of John A., and Matilda (Morton) Pate. To this union one son, Estell V., has been born. Mrs. Wedding is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. The doctor is a member of Cres- cent Lodge No. 122, I. O. O. F., and of Excelsior Lodge, No. 38, A. O. U. W. In politics he is a republican.
LOUIS D. BROSE, M. D., is of German descent, and was born in the city of Evans- ville, April 20, 1859. He was educated in the public schools of the city, and began the study of medicine in the drug store of Dr. John Laval in 1877. His medical pre- ceptors were Drs. Bray and Wheeler and Dr. H. W. Austin, then surgeon of the Marine Hospital. His preparatory course was a very thorough one. In 1877-8 he attended the Evansville Medical College, and in the autumn of 1879 entered the Medical University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, where he graduated in ISSI. His thesis was entitled, " An Experimental Contribution to our Knowledge of Bright's Disease," and set forth the results of exper- iments which had been made on domestic animals, his object being to trace the prog- ress of the disease from its inception to its more advanced stages. This article attracted the attention of physicians and was published in many of the leading medical journals. After graduating in medicine he entered the philosophical department of the same institution and received the degree of Ph. D. and a gold medal for general profi- ciency in the hygienic department. In 1882 he became the resident surgeon and physi- cian of the German Hospital, of Philadel- phia. In this hospital he had much valu- able experience, and when leaving the institution he had so far advanced in the pro-
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fession that upon his return to Evansville he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Evansville Medical College. The next year he became professor of anatomy and retained this position until the college was closed. He then gave his attention to the practice of medicine and surgery, in which he is now engaged. He was physician and obstetrician to the Evansville Home of the Friendless in 1883 and 1884, and for two years was physician to the Evansville Orphan Asylum. In IS86 he was ap- pointed surgeon of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railroad at this place. His con- tributions to medical literature have been numerous. His first article appeared in the Philadelphia Medical News in 1882, was ably written, and attracted much favorable notice. Many other articles on subjects re- lating to the medical science have appeared from time to time in the daily press and the medical journals of the country, all of which have elicited the favorable comments of able physicians. His especial proficiency as a microscopist is worthy of note. Numer- ous instances are on record where he has removed small portions of tumors from pa- tients, and after microscopical examination has made an accurate diagnosis afterward of great value in operations undertaken for the patient's benefit.
CHARLES PARK BACON, M. D., was born in Christian county, Ky., September 6, 1836, and is the son of Charles A. and Susan (Rowlett) Bacon, both natives of Virginia. His father was a man of sterling integrity, with great natural endowments, both men- tal and physical. Educated in the common schools and academies of Kentucky, he be- gan the study of medicine, at the age of twenty-one, in the office of his brother, Dr. Thomas L. Bacon, of Henderson county, Ky. In the winter of 1859-60 he entered the University of Pennsylvania, and gradu-
ated therefrom in the spring of 1861. Im- mediately thereafter he began the practice of his, profession at Cadiz, Trigg county, Ky., where he remained until 1873, in which year he came to Evansville, where he has since resided. Dr. Bacon's abilities secured him a lucrative business at Cadiz, but desir- ing a larger field, he came to this city, where he has been equally successful. He is a member of the Vanderburgh County Medi- cal Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Associa- tion. With others he was instrumental in establishing the city hospital. He filled ac- ceptably the chairs of anatomy, surgery and diseases of women, in the Hospital Medical College of Evansville. ITis thorough famil- iarity with the varied branches of the medi- cal science, and the successes achieved in his practice, have gained for him a high rank among the physicians of the city. Jan- uary 23d, 1866, at Cadiz, Ky., he was mar- ried to Miss Emma C. Mayes, daughter of Judge Matthew Mayes, one of the foremost lawyers of Kentucky. Of this union one child has been born, Miss Mayes. Dr. Bacon is a member of the Methodist church, and Mrs. Bacon of the Christian church.
EDWARD LINTHICUM, M. D., one of the leading physicians of Evansville, was born at Rumsey, Ky., May 3d, 1846, the son of Rufus and Sarah (Hicks) Linthi- cum. The father was a physician of repute, and had been a student under that eminent practitioner, Dr. Dudley, of Lexington, Ky., but he died in 1863, Edward's mother having passed away two years previous. The home of the family at the time of the death of the parents was in Henderson county, Ky., and at Henderson, the education of the son Edward was obtained. The lat- ter began the study of medicine during the ife of his father, in the office, and afterward, in 1865, he entered the Ohio Medical Col-
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lege. In the winter of 1866-7, he matricu- ated at the Long Island College Hospital, and graduated from that institution. His beginnings in the practice of his profession were in Kentucky, where he remained three years, and then practiced one year at Rose- ville, Ark., after which he came to Evansville, in 1873. Here he has ever since remained, achieving signal success in the work of his profession, and winning a place in the front rank of the medical men of this region. Dr. Linthicum is a member of the American Medical Association, the Tri-state Medical Association, the Indiana State Medi- cal Association, and the societies of Vander- burgh county and the Mississippi valley. In 1875 he occupied the position of demonstra- tor of anatomy in the Evansville Medical College, and in 1876, was professor of urin- ary diseases and clinical surgery. The es- tablishment of the city hospital is in part due to the efforts of Dr. Linthicum who heartily joined in the movement. The doctor's fra- ternal connections are with Rainbow lodge, No. 67, I. O. O. F., of Kentucky, and St. George lodge, K. of P., Evansville. In 1885 Dr. Linthicum visited Europe, spending his time mainly at London, Vienna and Berlin. While in - Berlin war was de- clared between Servia and Bulgaria, and he offered his services as a surgeon to the Ser- vian army, and served in that capacity dur- ing the war.
JOHN T. BINKLEY, M. D., a prominent physician and surgeon, and member of the United States board of pension examiners was born in Davidson county, Tenn., on Stone river, near the city of Nashville, June 15, 1829. He is the son of H. J. and N. M. (Gleaves) Binkley, natives of Tennessee, the father born in 1806 and the mother in ISI2. The death of his mother occurred in 1844, that of his father in 1887. Dr. Bink- ley was educated in the public schools of his
native state and at Tracy College, and be- gan the study of medicine when twenty-two years of age. In 1852-3 he attended the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadel- phia, graduating therefrom and then spend- ing a year in the hospitals of that city. He commenced the practice of his profession in Stewart county, Tenn., in 1854, and in the following year removed to Trenton, in the western part of the same state. Here he remained but a short time, moving thence to the city of Nashville, where he remained until 1858. In that year he located in Shawneetown, Ill., and for some time was one of the most successful practitioners in that place. He came to Evansville in 1884, and has since continuously practiced his pro- fession in this city, attaining a high standing among physicians and enjoying an extensive practice. In Tennessee, while at Nashville, Dr. Binkley was a member of the Davidson County Medical association, and, upon his removal to Shawneetown, became identified with the Medical Association of Southern Illinois. Here his prominence in the profes- sion was recognized by an appointment as examining surgeon for the United States pension office for Gallatin county. His con- tributions to medical literature have been considerable. A paper on "Gun-shot wounds of the brain," read to the Medical Associa- tion of Southern Illinois, was commented on favorably by eminent physicians, and was noticed by two European journals. Some other papers which attracted especial atten- tion were those on " Diseases of the sacro- iliac synchondrosis," " American hellebore (veratrum viride )," and " Medical electric- ity." In June, 1885, he was made a member of the board of examining surgeons for the United States pension office at this place, and is now secretary of the board. Dr. Binkley has been married three times. His first wife, to whom he was married in April,
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1854, was Miss Eliza Ryan, a native of Robinson county, Tenn., born July 22, 1837, and daughter of Dr. T. J. Ryan, of Spring- field, Tenn. She died March 22, 1870, leaving four children. His second marriage occurred November 8, 1870, by which Miss Susan H. Rackerby, a native of Princeton, Ky., born September 17, 1837, became his wife. Her death occurred July 14, 1878. The doctor's present wife, to whom he was mar- ried November 12, 1878, was Miss Calantha Stubblefield, and was born at Sharpsburg, Md., June 12, 1836.
T. E. POWELL, M. D., is a native of Union county, Ky., where he was born March I, 1848, the son of James and Jane ( Leach) Powell. James Powell was a native of North Carolina, born about 1809, and died in 1877. His wife, Jane Leach, was born in Tennessee, in 1813, and is now a resi- dent of Uniontown, Ky. To these parents nine children were born, Dr. Powell being the eighth, and of these five are now living. Dr. Powell was reared on the farm in Union county, attended the public schools of the neighborhood, and finished his literary edu- cation at Princeton College, Ky. Ile began the study of medicine in 1872, at Union- town, Ky., and attended his first course of lectures in 1872-3, at the University of Louisville, where he graduated in 1874. IIe then began practicing at Corydon, Hender- son county, Ky., where he remained until 1876, when he located at Uniontown. There he practiced until 1884. Going to New York he pursued a post-graduate course of study in the medical college of that city, and obtained his degree in 1885. He next lo- cated in Evansville, where he has continued in the practice of his profession ever since, meeting with success. Dr. Powell is a mem- ber of the Vanderburgh County Medical Society, Indiana State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. He | Montgomery county, Tenn., August 27,
is also a member of the K. and L. of HI. and K. of P. fraternities. He was married in October, 1875, to Miss Mollie E. Dorsey, a native of Princeton, Ind., daughter of Wm. L. Dorsey, cashier of the People's National Bank of Princeton. Mrs. Powell died April 6, 1885.
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