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Edward A. Shafer, M. D .. is a native of Germany, born September 28, 1840, to Charles T. and Philipina (Koehler) Shafer. He came to America with the late Henry G. Wagner, when a lad of thirteen years, and reached Fort Wayne on his fourteenth birthday. He attended school and clerked four years, and then went to Cincinnati, where he was variously employed for three years until the outbreak of the rebel- lion. In 1861 he enlisted in Company A, Fifth Kentucky regiment, and served six months, then returning to Fort Wayne, where he clerked for two years in the drug store of Henry G. Wagner. In 1864 he and his
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brother, Reinhard, engaged in the drug business at Huntington, Ind., and after the dissolution of the partnership in 1867, Dr. Shafer became the partner of S. M. Blount at the same place. In 1870 he entered the medical department of the Northwestern university, and graduated in 1872, beginning then the practice of medicine at Huntington, giving that his entire attention until 1883. He then came to Fort Wayne, where he has since been engaged in the practice and as a druggist. November 10, 1874, he was married to Louise Voght, and they have three children: Anna L., Harry V., and Laura B. Dr. Shafer is a Royal Arch Mason.
Emett Lucine Siver, M. D., prominent among the young physicians of Fort Wayne, was born in New York, June 17, 1858. His parents, Harvey and Elizabeth (Keith) Siver, were born in that state also. The father served three years in the war of the rebellion, enlisting in Com- pany D, One hundred and Forty-ninth New York, and was mustered out as second lieutenant. He died in his native state at the age of thirty-one years, but his widow, who was born in 1839, survives him, and lives in New York. Their only child, Dr. Siver, was educated at Phoenix academy, N. Y., and began the study of medicine at Big Rap- ids, Mich., in 1878, in the office of Dr. W. A. Hendryx. In the fall of 1880 he entered Michigan university and studied in the medical depart- ment one term, and in 1882 studied in the college of physicians and surgeons at Baltimore. He graduated from the Fort Wayne medical college in 1884, and took a post graduate course at Bellevue college, N. Y., in 1886, thoroughly equipping himself for the practice of medi- cine, which he began at Fort Wayne in 1884, and which he has since successfully prosecuted, confining his attention to the diseases of the nose and throat. He is a member of the Allen county medical society, the State medical society, and the American rhinological association; also major and surgeon of the Second regiment Indiana legion. He is a member of the Masonic order, Wayne lodge, No. 25, and of Loyal lodge, Knights of Pythias, he is a leading member, having been the first chancellor commander of the latter, and is now deputy grand chancellor for the third district, and captain of Summit City division No. 12, uni- form rank, K. of P. Dr. Siver was married April 27, 1887, to Adelle McClellan, born at Waterloo in 1864, daughter of Judge C. A. O. Mc- Clellan, congressman from this district. Mrs. Siver studied four years at Michigan university. They have one child, Charles McC. L.
Henry W. Niswonger, M. D., passed his early life in Stark county, Ohio, where he was born October 27, 1849, to Abraham and Rachel (Sechrist) Niswonger. He attended school at Marlboro, and clerked in a store, and at the age of fourteen joined the Union army as a bug- ler. Four months later he enlisted as a private in Company E, Sixth Ohio cavalry. He was in the battles of the Wilderness, Chancellors- ville, Gettysburg and many other engagements. In the Wilderness he was wounded, and captured, but after a short experience at Libby prison was exchanged. He was discharged at Washington, February
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17, 1865, but was for more than two years thereafter unable to do work. Part of the years 1867 and IS68 he spent in Montana and other portions of the west, and in the fall of the latter year he entered the Physio- medical college at Cincinnati, and took one full course. Then for two years, at Marlboro in his native county, he studied and practiced medi- cine with Dr. C. C. Lewis. He afterward resided at Rochester, Ind., Piqua, Ohio, Millville and Jonesburg, Mo., returning finally to Marlboro: In 1879 he engaged in business at Rochester, and was afterward for two years a dealer in boots and shoes at that place and the same period at Macy, Ind. He re-entered the practice of medicine at Argos, and in September, 1884, came to Fort Wayne, practicing here ever since, and receiving from Fort Wayne college of medicine in March, 1889, the de- gree of M. D. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, to which Mrs. Niswonger also belongs, and is a Mason and comrade of the G. A. R. He was married February 12, 1871, to Maria D., daughter of Henry and Mary (Quigg) Barcus, born at Plymouth, Ind., August 5, 1851. They have two children, Emma B. and Roland C.
Samuel J. Derbyshire was born in Putnam county, Ohio, September 28, 1860, son of Jesse C. and Lydia ( Pierce) Derbyshire, the former a native of Fayette county, Penn., and the latter of Champaign county, Ohio. He was reared in a farm home, and at the age of twenty began teaching, being a teacher in all, during nine terms. In 1885-6 he was principal of the high school at Warren, Ind. He attended the national normal, at Lebanon, Ohio, three terms, and graduated from the North- western Ohio university, at Ada, in 1884, with the degree of B. S., recieving afterward the degree of M. S. In 1885, he came to Fort Wayne and began the study of medicine, mostly with Dr. K. K. Whee- lock. He took a course of lectures in the Fort Wayne medical college, and during the following winter ( 1887-8), attended the medical college of Ohio, graduating March 7, 1888, immediately thereafter beginning his practice in this city. He is a member of the Fort Wayne academy, and the Allen county and Indiana medical societies. He was married July 21, 1885, to Luella M. Mckinley, born in Allen county, May 25, 1864, daughter of Perry and Sarah A. McKinley, natives of this county. She is a graduate of the Fort Wayne medical college, class of 1888, and both she and her husband have a good practice.
Andrew J. Boswell, M. D., a prominent young physician, was born in Grant county, Ind., January 3, 1855. His parents are natives of Champaign county, Ohio, where his father was born December 28, 1820, and his mother, whose maiden name was Mary Smith, December 20, IS20. They have resided in Grant county for the past forty-five years. Andrew was the sixth of a family of eleven children. After attending the Marion high school, he began teaching school at the age of eighteen and taught for three years. Afterward he began the study of medicine with Drs. Smith & Blount, at Wabash, and completed his studies at the medical college of Ohio. He has practiced his profession for ten years, first in Huntington county, and since 1886 at this city. He is a member
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of the I. O. O. F. Dr. Boswell was married October 20, 1885, to Miss Ella Peterson, daughter of Matthias Peterson, late of Lafayette. The latter was one of the pioneers of Lafayette, coming there in 1828, from Knoxville, Tenn., where he was born in 1803. He superintended the construction of the Wabash & Erie canal from Lafayette to Attica. Subsequently, he was editor of the Advertiser, which afterward became the Lafayette Courier. He sold the paper to the late W. S. Lingle in 1841. He early in life freed eight slaves which were bequeathed to him, and during his life was a member of the republican party. Among the policies which he earnestly advocated in early life, which are now essen- tial parts of state policy, was the system of general taxation for the support of schools. Mr. Peterson's profession was the law, but this he was forced to abandon on account of failure of sight. He was married in 1848 to Susan Rebecca Stoops, of southern Indiana, who was born in 1827, and died in March, 1879, and was followed on May 6, next, by her husband.
Dr. Asa C. Boswell was born February 2, 1861, and spent his boy- hood on the farm with his parents, attending the common schools. He entered the normal college at Marion, Ind., preparatory to the profession of teaching, which he entered in the fall of 1879, in Huntington county. After teaching one year, he attended college at Terre Haute, Ind., and at the completion of the course at the state normal, continued teaching until 1885. He then commenced the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. A. J. Boswell. In the year 1886, he entered the medical college of Ohio, at Cincinnati. During his attendance he completed the special courses in histology, pathology and bacteriology, and received personal instruction in causes, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of nose, throat and chest. He graduated from the medical college of Ohio, March 7, 1889, and then entered a partnership with his brother in medicine and surgery.
John A. Stutz, M. D., a prominent young physician, was born in Washington City, October 31, 1860, son of George Frederic and Cath- erine (Knorr) Stutz, both of whom were born near Stuttgart, Germany. He attended at childhood a parochial school at Washington, and when thirteen years old came to Fort Wayne, and for three years was a student in Concordia college. He completed at Washington the studies of the high school, and in ISSo entered the Capital university of Colum- bus, and graduated in 1882. Returning to Washington he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. T. S. Verdi, and in 1883 attended the medical pepartment of the university of Georgetown during one course. In 1884 he entered the New York homeopathic medical college, and graduated in 1886. In June of the same year he came to Fort Wayne, and has since established a lucrative practice. He is now physician to the reform orphan's home, and to Concordia college. He was married September 15, 1887, to Emma K. Deitz, of Washington City, who was born October 18, 1863, and they have one child, Jerome
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H. He and wife are members of the English Lutheran church, and both occupy a high rank socially.
Charles E. Stultz, M. D., was born in Whitley county, Ind., April 19, 1862, son of Joseph and Harriet Stultz. When he was a small child his parents removed to Huntington county, where his early life was spent. At seventeen years of age he entered the Central normal school at Dan- ville, Ind., and there completed a commercial course. In the spring of 1884 he began the study of medicine, and in the following fall entered the Fort Wayne college of medicine, whence he graduated in ISS6. He at once began practice in the city, and has since enjoyed a lucrative patronage. He is a member of the Allen county medical society, stands well in his profession and is highly esteemed.
Creed T. Banks, who was a successful practitioneer of medicine for twenty years, came to Darke county, Ohio, when ten years old, from Virginia, where he was born October 13, 1820. His parents, James and Lydia C. Banks, were natives of that state. When Dr. Banks was twenty-two he began teaching and followed that a short time, teaching one of the terms in this county. In 1845 he took up the study of medi- cine, and graduated from the Starling medical college, of Columbus, Ohio, in 1849. In June, of that year, he began practice at Lynn, Ran- dolph county, Ind., and was the second settler in that town. In 1855 he removed to Deerfield, and in 1859 to Wayne township, this county. Subsequent locations were at South Whitley in 1860, in Forest, Whitley county, in 1865. He continued in the practice until the fall of 1869, when he removed to Liberty Mills, Wabash county, and was engaged until 1886 in milling, merchandise and sale of live stock. Since March, 1886, he has been conducting his farm one mile southwest of Fort Wayne, and residing at his pleasant home at 219 West Washington street. Dr. Banks is a member of the Masonic order, and is a republi-
can. He was married in Darke county, August 23, 1846, to Eliza- beth A., daughter of John and Barbara (Kaufman) Coombs, born in Perry county, Ohio, August 26, 1823. Dr. Banks and wife have had the following children: an infant daughter, died unnamed; William T., Reuben F., Eugene T., Samuel C., Charles R., Virginia V. J. and Elmer E., of whom Samuel and Reuben are deceased.
Thomas H. McCormick, M. D., was born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, May 16, 1840. His parents, Henry and Mary (Armstrong) McCormick, were natives of Pennsylvania, and died in Ohio, whither they emigrated. Three of their children are living, Dr. McCormick being the only son. He was raised on the farm, attending the public schools of his native county, and at the eighteen of age years began the study of medicine. He began the practice at Liberty Center, Ohio, and remained there until 1867, when he removed to Indiana, and estab- lished himself at New Haven, Allen county. In ISSI he graduated from the Fort Wayne medical college, and in 1888 came to the city, and is now engaged in active practice, with substantial success. In 1862, he enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Ohio regi-
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ment, and served some time, until discharged on account of physical disability. He is a republican in politics; a Mason; comrade of the G. A. R .; member of Allen county and Indiana medical associations and the American medical association. He was married in 1861, to Rosina Yagerlehner, and they have these children: Minnie M., Della C., Pearl R., Firman C., Thomas H., jr., Ada M. and Harry B. He and wife are members of the Christian church.
Dr. John L. Kryder, the leading physician of Cedarville, is a native of Stark county, Ohio, born December 22, 1833. His father, John Kryder, a native of Pennsylvania, emigrated to Ohio while a youth with his parents, and afterward taught in the country schools. He was engaged in merchandise in Stark county, Ohio, and subsequently at different places until nearly 1840, when he sold out his business and embarked in the hotel business at New Berlin, Ohio. In 1843 he removed to Indiana and settled in Fort Wayne, where he remained about two months, then settling on Cedar Creek, where he purchased eighty acres of land. In 1863 he sold this land and removed to Cedarville and purchased 140 acres in the forks of the St. Joseph and Cedar Creek, and built his dwelling in Cedarville, where he has since lived. He served many years as one of the board of trustees in an early day, as assessor several terms and as justice of the peace about twenty-five years. His last election was at the age of seventy, and he served out that term and would not receive any other. He was called on by the people to serve in some township office as long as he would accept. In this politics had no part, as he is a republican and the township democratic. Though born October II, 1800, he enjoys remarkably good health. His wife was Eliza Pepple, a native of Maryland, born October 21, 1805, who died August, 1879. She was a member of the Lutheran church, of which Mr. Kryder is a member. Their son, John L., came with his parents to Indiana when about nine years of age, and received the edu- cation that the country schools then afforded. At the age of nineteen he began teaching in the country schools, receiving for his labor $10 per month and boarding himself. He taught about four winter terms, and studied medicine in the summer. He began the practice of his profession in 1858, and continued until 1873, when he attended lectures at Keokuk, Iowa and graduated in 1876. In 1861 he was married to Martha J. Earl, born June 1, 1840, daughter of Avery F. and Carlista (Greene) Earl, who emigrated from New York state and settled in Noble county in 1847. This union was blessed with three children: Clarence M., John E. and Harry P. In 1858, the doctor removed to DeKalb county and practiced there about eleven years. While there he was elected trustee of Richland township and served two years. In 1869 he removed to Clinton county, Mo., and after practicing six years, returned to Cedarville, where he has since remained. A brother, Alonzo T. Kryder, was also one of the early practitioners of Allen county. In 1852 he began practice at Leo, where he remained two years, and removed to DeKalb county, and located at Fairfield Center,
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but the country being so sickly, he soon fell a victim to the typhoid fever. In 1867, Dr. J. L. Kryder, then living in DeKalb county, became a candidate for clerk of the circuit court on the republican ticket, and although he had an up-hill race from the start, succeeded in reducing the adverse majority. The doctor has a talent for poetry, and among his best productions are "Now and Then," "Retrospection," "A Sun- set Scene," "Sometimes Somewhere," "Going Away," "Indian Sum- mer," "Fate," "By-past Times," " A June Day Dream," " The Exile's Lament " and "Memorial Day."
Franklin K. Cosgrove, M. D., one of the leading physicians of the northeastern part of Allen county, was born at New Carlisle, Clark county, Ohio, March 18, 1827. When quite young his parents moved to Cincinnati, where his father died. He was then taken to Essex county, N. J., and cared for by relatives. Attending school here until 1842, he returned to the west to visit relatives at Warsaw, Ind., and and on his route he tarried in Fort Wayne a few days, at the tavern then kept by John Lillie. At the breaking out of the Mexican war, Dr. Cosgrove enlisted in Company I, Fourth regiment Ohio volunteer in- fantry. He served as one of the color guards of his regiment during his entire period of enlistment and never missed a day's duty. After the close of that war, he read medicine in the office of John Tutman, M. D., of DeKalb county. He graduated at the Ohio medical college and commenced the practice of his profession in Antioch, Ohio, in 1850; soon after removing to Maysville, where he has since resided. In 1850 he was united in marriage with Melinda Phelps, a step-sister of Mrs. Laura Suttonfield, Mrs. Eliza Hanna, Mrs. Elvira Dubois and E. P., L. M. and Horace Taylor, and their union was blessed with seven children. At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion, the doctor devoted his entire time and a large amount of money to raising troops, enlisting men particularly for the Thirtieth and Forty-fourth regiments, as well as for a number of other regiments and batteries, for which he never received any remuneration. When the Forty-fourth regiment was or- ganized, he was mustered with it as captain of Company D, and he went with it to the front. The regiment distinguished itself at Shiloh, and on the second day of that battle Captain Cosgrove received a severe wound in the left arm from a minie-ball, but he refused to leave the field until the battle was over. His wound was not dressed until the last shot was fired and the victory won. His wound proved so severe that he was detailed for duty at Camp Chase, Ohio, where he remained until September 3, 1862, then receiving an honorable discharge. Later he traveled through the territories and the Pacific slope and Central America, after which he returned to his old home and resumed the practice of his profession.
Dr. George Murphy, the leading physician of Leo, was born in Ohio, June 24, 1838. In his fourth year he lost his father, and was taken by his mother to New Hampshire two years later. They lived there three years and then came to Indiana, and settled at Huntertown, where the
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mother died, leaving Mr. Murphy an orphan at the age of ten. During the next four years he was cared for by relatives in Michigan. At six- teen years of age he entered the office of Dr. E. G. Wheelock, and began the study of medicine, at the same time studying in the high school and graduating in the commercial college at Fort Wayne. Hav- ing no resources but his own efforts, he was also compelled to teach school seven terms while studying. In 1866 he entered the Charitable hospital medical college of Cleveland, and took one course of lectures, then practiced until 1870, when he graduated. In 1872 he took another course of lectures in Cleveland, and in 1874-5, attended Jefferson medi- cal college at Philadelphia, and took a course of surgery at the school of anatomy in the same city. He practiced first at Leo, in 1860, and in 1861 enlisted as a private in Company E, Thirtieth Indiana infantry, under Capt. J. M. Silvers. He served three years and was wounded, first at Murfreesboro, then at Chickamauga, and a third time at Dallas, Ga. He was mustered out as first lieutenant, and was commissioned captain, but his wounds prevented acceptance of the latter. Returning home he practiced his profession at Leo until 1869, and then removed . to Spencerville, DeKalb county, remaining there until 1880, and after- ward one year in Waterloo. Since then he has been a resident of Leo, and now enjoys a large and lucrative practice. During two sessions of of the Fort Wayne medical college he lectured on chemistry and toxicol- ogy. His career is a very creditable one, particularly in view of its un- auspicious beginning, and it has won for him the esteem of all. He was married in 1866 to Nancy L. Dever, by whom he had these children, all of whom are living, Mary J., Rosamond and George. In 1882 he was married to Florence Knight, who gave to him three children, Mary E., Irma, and John R. Mrs. Murphy is a member of the Methodist Episco- pal church, and the Doctor is a member of the Masonic order, and of the G. A. R.
Joseph D. Morgan, M. D., was born in Cummingsville, VanBuren county, Tenn, October 21, 1857, son of Dr. Isaac Clinton and Lou Emma (Cummings) Morgan. The father was born in Georgia of Welsh lineage, and located early in VanBuren county, subsequently becoming a physician of more than ordinary fame. The mother was born in VanBuren county, Tenn., of a prominent family, of Irish de- scent, the father being an early settler, in honor of whom Cummingsville was named. Dr. Morgan received his education in the Burritt college of VanBuren county, and subsequently entered the Eclectic medical col- lege of Atlanta, Ga., by which he was graduated in 1881. In 1882 he located at Dixon, Ohio, where he now resides, and has a large and lu- crative practice. He is of more than ordinary ability as a physician; is a self-made and energetic man with a bright future before him. March I, 1885, he was united in marriage with Ella Bowers, daughter of Jacob Bowers, an early settler of Allen county, Ind. The Doctor is a Master Mason of the Van Wert lodge, Ohio. In politics he is a democrat, and as a citizen he is enterprising and universally respected.
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William A. Connolly, M. D., a physician of Monroeville, Ind., was born in Newark, N. J., November 25, 1847, one of nine children of William and Margaret (McGuire) Connolly. The parents were born in Ireland, but their marriage occurred in New Jersey. About 1850 the parents removed from New Jersey and settled at Johnsville, Morrow county, Ohio. Here the father followed his trade of tanner, and though poor, gave his children the advantage of attending the public schools. Of their nine children, six became teachers, and with teaching as a step- ping stone they educated themselves in the main. Three of the sons, James, John and Frank, became lawyers. Ella is deceased, Maggie, a literary graduate of Erie, Penn., has her home with the doctor, with whom the mother also lives. The father died at Monroeville in 1884. William was but a child at the outbreak of the civil war, but in 1863 he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-fifth Ohio veteran volunteer infantry as a private; he was discharged in 1865 by reason of the close of war. He returned to his parental home in Ohio, and subsequently began the study of medicine. In the fall of 1867 he entered the medical department of Michigan university. After remaining here for six months he located at Denmark, Ohio, and began practice. November 19, 1868, he located at Monroeville, where he has since established a large and lucrative prac- tice. On coming here he formed a partnership with Dr. D. W. Cham- per, but for several years he has been alone in the practice. In 1876 he wedded Miss Nancy Graham, who died in the following year. The Doctor is recognized as able and skillful in his profession. For over twenty years he has been in active practice. He is a member of the Roman Catholic church.
J. L. Smith, M. D., engaged in the practice of medicine at Hoag- land, Allen county, was born in Dayton, Ohio, February 7, 1852. His father, Joseph H., was born in Trenton, N. J., November 26, ISog, son of Cideon Smith, who was born in New Jersey, and was a carpenter by trade. The latter's father was foreign-born, and emigrated to New Jersey. He was a soldier in the war of the revolution, and was at the battle of Trenton, The gun he used in that struggle is in the posses- sion of a descendant. The father of Dr. Smith was a shoemaker and farmer, and emigrated when a young man to Green county, Ohio, where he was married to Caroline Frick, who was born at Lancaster, Penn., in April, 1827, daughter of Jacob Frick, a native of Pennsylvania, of Ger- man lineage. To them were born one son, J. L., and four daughters. The parents are now residents of Cold Water, Ohio. The father, prior to his marriage with Caroline Frick, had been united in marriage with Lavina Kirkwood, who lived to become the mother of three sons and two daughters. J. L. Smith received his education in the schools of Mercer county, Ohio, and in March, 1872, took up the study of medicine under Dr. A. M. Kyser, of Cold Water, Ohio, and in the winter of 1874 and 1875, entered the Eclectic medical col- lege of Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1878. In the mean- time he practiced at Hoagland, where he first located in 1875,
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