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DR. FRANK A. STICKNEY was born in Union County, Ohio, in 1852. He graduated from the academy in Henry County, Illinois, in 1872, and completed the business course in Sharp's Business College at Delaware in 1874. He read medicine in the office of Dr. E. H. Hyatt, and graduated from the Co- lumbus Medical College in 1880. He began the practice in Delaware. He married Miss Mary Campbell in 1881. In 1882 he located in old Eden, or Kilbourne, Ohio, where he has been the leading and highly respected physi- cian and most successful doctor ever in that locality. After the death of his wife, he mar- ried Miss Porter, a daughter of one of the most influential families of the Presbyterian Church, and citizens of Brown Township. He is a member of the State and County Medical Societies.
There have been many changes in the profession in Eden, or Kilbourne, during the past forty years or more, of which we have been unable to gain much information.
DR. MILLS was there from 1865 to 1869. He is now at Rich Hill, Knox County, Ohio, in the practice.
DR. LYMAN POTTER, of Kilbourne and Leonardsburg, was one of the oldest and most learned and talented members of the medical
fraternity of the county. He was an active member in his day of the State and County Medical Societies. At the advanced age of seventy years, he studied and learned short- hand, and became very proficient at it. He was able to take down a discussion and lecture with great accuracy. He lived on his farmi and had a limited but successful practice. His strong Christian character gave him the confi- dence of the entire community. He died at the advanced age of nearly ninety years. *
DR. D. R. Ross was born in Saratoga County, New York, in 1842. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867. and located in Kilbourne the same year. He married a daughter of John Mathews in 1868. In 1872 he moved to Martinsburg, Virginia. He is the chief surgeon of the B. & O. R. R. for that division. He served during the war in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty- fifth Regiment. During the war he was d prisoner in Andersonville Prison for over ten months.
DR. A. M. CRANE was raised in Porter Township. After reading medicine he located in Kilbourne, Ohio, for a short time, when he moved to Waldo, and then to Marion, Ohio. His brother, Adelbert Crane, who mar- ried Miss Ross, of Delaware, a daughter of an old soldier, took his place in Kilbourne. *
DR. LEWIS BARNES came to Delaware about 1856, having traded his practice in Co- lumbus with Dr. D. M. Kensell, of Delaware. Dr. Barnes belonged to the Homeopathic School. He was here in Delaware for many years. He died at an advanced age at his son's in Norwalk, Ohio.
DR. S. P. CUMMINS came to Delaware in about 1870, from Beaver, Pennsylvania. He had a limited practice, and died about 1882. *
DR. J. M. SNODGRASS came to Delaware from Union County. Ohio, in about 1874. He and his sons bought the Lybrand Drug Store. After a short time they sold it, and he en-
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gaged in the practice for a few years. He died in about 1886. * *
DR. JAMES MORGAN CHERRY was born in 1821 in Oswego, New York, and in 1838 came with his father's family to Marysville, Ohio. A few years later he studied medicine with Dr. Ross, graduating from Starling Medical College of Columbus. Soon after he com- menced the practice of medicine at Prospect, Ohio. In 1846 he married Miss Susannah Gooding, of Delaware County, Ohio. He moved to Delaware in 1850, where he lived for nearly half a century. He early united with the Presbyterian Church of which he was a most devoted member. He died in 1898.
DR. ROBERT C. WINTERMUTE was born at Norton, Ohio, in 1861. He read medicine with Dr. Robertson, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical Insti- tute in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880. He lo- cated in Delaware the same year. In 1890 he removed to Cincinnati to fill the Chair of Ob- stetrics and Diseases of Women, at his Alma Mater, as well as to engage in general prac- tice. He died in 1906. He published a book on Diseases of Women, which is used as a text book at the Eclectic College. He mar- ried Miss Belle Cherry, daughter of Dr. J. M. Cherry.
DR. N. S. SAMPSELL came to Delaware in the sixties. He was a root and herb doctor. His office and home was where the Carnegie Library now stands. He had a large practice throughout the county for many years. He died in Delaware several years ago. *
DR. FRANCIS MARION MURRAY was born in Bluffton, Allen County, Ohio, in 1855. He entered the local drug store as an apprentice. He continued his attendance in the public schools during the winter terms. He re- mained in the store for four years. In the autumn of 1872 he went to Key West, Florida, to become apothecary to the United States Marine Hospital under his brother, Surgeon Robert D. Murray. He spent the major part
of four years here. The last three winters of these were spent in Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, prosecuting pharmaceutical and medi- cal studies. He would return to his duties in the south each spring. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1876, receiving the degree of Ph. G. In 1877 he re- ceived the degree of M. D. from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He then took a supplementary course in scientific subjects at the University of Pennsylvania, for which he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1878. He was acting librarian to the College of Physi- cians during the summer. The following winter he was assistant to the professor of Materia Medica at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In 1879 he located in Lenni, Dela- ware County, Pennsylvania, eighteen miles from Philadelphia.
In 1880 he was married to Amanda M. Kirby. After remaining five years in this lo- cation, the Doctor removed to the northern section of the city of Philadelphia. From there he removed to Delaware, Ohio, in 1892, and continued in the general practice of medi- cine. In 1900 he formed a co-partnership with Mr. J. D. Knowles, and established d third daily and weekly newspaper, the Dela- warc Journal. The following year they ac- quired the long established Democratic Herald, and united then under the name of the Journal-Herald. Notwithstanding his news- paper interests the Doctor has continued in the active work of his profession, and enjoys good practice. He is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 18, F. & A. M., of the Delaware County, Ohio State and American Medical So- cieties. Dr. Robert D. Murray was a recog- nized expert in yellow fever for the Govern- ment Marine and Public Health Service. Robert D. was killed by accident at Laredo, Texas, in 1904, thus depriving the Govern- ment of one of its greatest experts. Dr. F. M. Murray was born a Campbellite, raised a Methodist, and now belongs to the Presby- terian Church.
DR. A. BLYMER. There never was a practitioner of medicine so widely known, or
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had such an extensive practice in Delaware County as Dr. Abraham Blymer. He was so long in the county that his name became a household word, and few knew when he set- tled in Delaware. He became the standard of perfection for the true physician in the minds of the many students who went out of his office, some to fill high positions in the pro- fession in many parts of the country. For fifty years he went in and out before the peo- ple, visiting hundreds of homes throughout the county in the early days of mud and forest roads, and these marked by emblazing the trees : and no bridges to cross the swollen streams, he went to administer to the afflicted. Through the midnight darkness with his old - time lantern and saddlebags, through the storms of winter and shades of the forest in summer, he went on his mission of mercy to the well-to-do, and to the poor and the needy. The long years of faithful labor and broken rest made little impression upon his wonder- ful German constitution. Up to the very hour of his final visit, he rivaled in activity many of his younger brethren, who numbered but months, while he counted years of faithful labor.
Dr. Blymer was born in Shippinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1804. His father was a man of education and followed school teaching. Under the instructions of this talented man, the son received his education. In 1824 he began the study of medicine. In 1826, through his wife, he inherited a large amount of money. Anxious to increase his fortune. he entered into the mercantile business, which prospered and promised him great riches. After a few years he ventured again into the iron industry, which held out flattering promises. This new venture swept away all of his money and his bright hopes. Seventeen thousand dollars went to pay debts. He fell back upon his profession, and after two years he took a course of lectures in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then attended the Barten Medical Institute in Philadelphia and received his diploma. Somewhat broken in spirit he moved to the then western country, locating at Mansfield.
Ohio, where he opened an office and began the practice of his profession. The ten years of professional life at Mansfield, gave him great prestige. About this time the old Willoughby Medical College near Cleveland, Ohio, now the Starling College, conferred upon him the M. D. degree as a token of merit. In 1840 he was induced by friends to move to Galion, Ohio, but soon discovered that this was a minis- take, and after one year he located at Dela- ware, one of the thriving towns in Ohio. In Delaware, his great energy and acumen soon pushed him to the front place in professional work, and made him one of the first citizens of the place. Always gentle, kind and con- siderate, his advancement went on uninter- ruptedly. He held peculiar views regarding the treatment of the great scourge called milk sickness, that prevailed in early times. The patients were taken with vomiting and ex- treme nausea. They became prostrated and weak, unable to take or retain any food. They became reduced day after day, until they died in great mental anguish, but little real pain. The Doctor began the use of calomel or the mercurial treatment. This gave relief and saved the lives of many valuable citizens. His name was soon carried from neighborhood to neighborhood, until his fame became so great that he was called for far and near to consult with his professional brothers. He read, at one time, a highly instructive paper on Milk Sickness before the County and State Medical Societies. The discovery of the tyroccine by Vaughn, demonstrated the correct principles underlying the treatment by this able practiti- oner, as the antiseptic influence or mercury killed the exciting cause of this form of sick- ness. Dr. Blymer took an active interest in young men ; and during his life educated and started over forty students in the medical profession, after furnishing them with money and equipments to begin their work. He was a leader in organizing a county medical society and, notwithstanding his busy life, found time to attend the State and County Societies, of which he was an honored member. He was thrice elected vice-president of the State So- ciety; and several times president and vice-
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president of the County Society. He died in 1882.
DR. HENRY BESSE was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1823. He, in those early days, read medicine one year, took one terin of lectures, and began practicing. He located at East Liberty, in the eastern part of the county in 1847. In 1854 he graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College. Cleveland, Ohio. After he had been in East Liberty two years, he married a daughter of Elder John Vansickle, one of the wealthy men of Kingston Township. In 1863 he moved to Delaware. Ohio. The same year he enlisted in the Forty-fifth Regiment. O. V. I., as sur- geon : but from ill health was obliged to resign in six months. In 1864 he again enlisted as assistant surgeon in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment. O. V. I. After the close of the war he continued practicing. He retired a year or two before his death in 1901. He was a quiet, unassuming man, a true Christian, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He left a daughter, Mrs. Crum. lis- ing near Delaware. His aged wife is still liv- ing on West Winter Street.
DR. F. W. MORRISON came from Richland County. After graduating from the "O. W. U.," he read medicine with Dr. A. Blymer He was a poor boy, but worked and earned money to carry him through college. He graduated in medicine, and then located in Richland County, where he practiced several years. He entered the service of his country. and served as a surgeon faithfully and well. He came to Delaware about 1870. Ile accum- mnulated a comfortable fortune before his death. He died from the effects of a disease contracted in the service.
DR. FRANK E. ECKELBERY was born on Alum Creek, six miles east of Delaware. After graduating in medicine, he located at Bellepoint, Ohio, in 1877. the haven for the beginner. He soon entered upon a large prac- tice. Broken in health, after a few years of hard work, he died from a complication of
diseases, and was buried near his old home. *
DR. J. EDWARDS is of Welsh parentage. He took advantage of every opportunity, and graduated from the Starling Medical College. very young. He began the practice at his old home. Delhi. or Radnor, and is now attending to the afflicted.
DR. L. B. SIMPSON graduated from the Ohio Medical University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1890. He began practicing in Richland County, and after a short time moved to Marion, then to Radnor, Ohio. *
DR. H. M. DAY graduated from the Cleve- land Medical College in 1881. He is a son of the late Dr. Day, of Pandora. Ohio. The son began the practice in his home town, and came to Delaware in 1903. * *
DR. LEUCIUS BUMSTEAD, osteopathic. graduated at the American School of Osteo- pathy, Kirksville, Missouri. June 14, 1906. and he came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1906.
DR. L. S. LUPTON. Dr. Seigle Lupton was a graduate of the Columbus Medical Col- lege, 1887. He attended the "O. W. U." for a time. He died in 1896. *
DR. ROBERT BLEE SMITH graduated from the Hight School, Delaware. He graduated from Starling College, 1901. After register- ing, he moved to Columbus, where he is now making the treatment of the eye a specialty.
DR. GEORGE F. FOSTER, of Olive Green. bought out Dr. E. B. Mosher about 1874. He is a graduate of the Starling Medical Col- lege.
DR. CHARLES E. KINNEY graduated from Michigan University at Ann Arbor Michi- gan.
DR. CHARLES H. SPENCER graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic Medical Col- lege in 1898.
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DR. JOHN BINGHAM IIUNT was born in McConnellsville, Ohio, in 1829. His educa- tion was received there and in Athens County, in the country schools. He married Angeline Patterson in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1852. In 1862 he graduated in medicine in the Cleve- land Homeopathic Medical College, and be- gan the practice of his profession in Welling- ton, Ohio, Newark, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana. He moved to Delaware, Ohio, in 1881, where he remained until 1887. From there he went to Worthington, Ohio, where he successfully conducted a sanatorium. He later moved to Westerville, Ohio, where his wife died in 1895. Dr. Hunt died in 1906, at the age of seventy-six years.
DR. MAURICE P. HUNT, Columbus, Ohio, was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1853. His father, Dr. J. B. Hunt, was directly de- scended, in the maternal line, from Miles Stan- dish. Dr. Hunt attended private and public schools, and acquired his professional educa- tion in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, graduating with the class of 1879. He parcticed in Selma, Ohio, 1879-83: Dela- ware, Ohio, 1883-93: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1893-95: and in Columbus since 1895, where he is now engaged in a large practice. He pursued a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic in 1885. He had charge of the Good Samaritan Dispensary, Cleveland, Ohio, 1878-79: Huron Street Hospital, Cleveland, 1878-79: was professor of Gyne- cology in Cleveland Medical College, 1892-93 : professor of obstetrics and diseases of women in the University of Michigan, 1893-95, and has been surgeon to the Sixth Avenue Private Hospital, Columbus, since 1896. He is a mem- ber of the American Institute of Homeopathy ; the Ohio State, ( persident in 1897), the Mi- ami Valley, and the Northwestern Ohio Homeopathic Medical Societies; the Round Table, and Magnolia Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of Columbus. While practicing in Delaware he was a member of the City Council from 1888 to 1892. Dr. Hunt married Miss Luella Kitchen, of Selma, Ohio, in 1881.
DR. CALVIN WELCH was a man of strong physique, and large stature, being over six feet tall. He had strong likes and dislikes. In early life he lacked the opportunities for an education ; yet he had great natural mental fore. He was born and raised in Delaware. He studies medicine under Dr. Abram Blymer, and after graduating in the fifties, he became a partner of his preceptor. He possessed pe- culiar, natural surgical qualifications. He was often called in consultation to different parts of the county in various cases. He accumu- lated a comfortable competency, and retired from the practice, living in town in his com- modious home. He attended to his farm out- side of the city up to the time of his death in 1901. He was an active member of the State and County Medical Societies.
DR. WILLIAM MCINTYRE was born in 1824 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He was one of nineteen children, and was of Scotch descent. His father came to Americi before the Revolution. His uncle was a sol- dier in the Revolution and was killed at the battle of Brandywine. The subject of this sketch worked at the saddlery and harness business with his father. He attended school at Bellville when chance afforded the oppor- tunity. From early life his great desire was to become a doctor. At the age of sixteen, he began reading medicine with the old family physician, Dr. Deming, in McConnellsville, Pennsylvania. In 1842 he came to Columbus, Ohic, and was with Dr. Howe for several years. In 1848-49 he attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. He remained one year with his preceptor in Franklin County, coming to Millville, now Warrensburg, Ohio. in 1850. He was mar- ried to Eliza Perry the same year. His wife died in 1903. The doctor died in Warrens- burg in 1906, at the age of eighty-two. He had six children, twenty-four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. This early pio- neer traveled the lonely forests, visiting the sick and the afflicted, crossing streams with- out bridges, and riding horse-back over the
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muddy roads, often with nothing but the blazed trees to guide him, woods to the right of him, woods to the left of him, woods all about him, braving dangers seen and unseen, enduring hardships unknown to the profes- sion today, often taking for his fee a pig or a calf or a chicken, or other farm commodities. Dr. McIntyre's name was a household word throughout a greater portion of the county. He was for many years an ardent Democrat : but became a staunch Prohibitionist, and re- mained an advocate of temperance until the time of his death. His brusque and out- spoken condemnation of this evil lost him a few friends: yet all gave him credit for his honesty of purpose. He loved his home, and his life was devoted to his Christian wife. His small, but well-selected library, received the at- tention of his spare moments. He was a faith- ful member and attendant of the State and County Medical Societies. Many remember him by his quaint sayings, and particularly the following : "Doubtful things are very un- certain," "There is just as much difference in people as there is in anybody." Dr. Mclntyre owned about half of Warrensburg, the town he lived in.
DR. J. H. MILLER came to Delaware in 1903 from a town in western Pennsylvania. He graduated in medicine from the Western Pennsylvania College in 1887. He is a mem- ber of the State and County Medical So- cieties.
DR. WILBER N. LEONARD was born in Brown Township, Delaware County, Ohio, in 1860. After finishing his education in the common schools and attending for a time the "O. W. U.," he entered the office of Dr. John O. McDowell, and afterward graduated from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1884. Soon after his graduation he settled in Delaware, where he practiced until his death in 1896. He first married Miss Clara Wolfley, who died soon after the mar- riage. He was married to Miss Grace How- ard in 1892. At his death at the age of thirty- six. Delaware lost an active and bright physi- cian in early life.
DR. WALTER M. HAGGETT was born at Sidney, Ohio, in 1858. He graduated from the High School, and graduated in medicine at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1887. He first located at Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1887. After nineteen years of labor in this town, he came to Dela- ware. Ohio, in 1907. He bought out Dr. John B. Woodworth, who left for Texas.
DR. E. LUELLEN was born in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1824. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. Ohio, about 1863. He read medicine with Dr. Granger at Westfield, Ohio. He married Miss Nancy Trindele, in 1853. in Westfield. Ohio. where he began the practice of medicine in 1852. He came to Delaware in 1873, and returned to Westfield in 1877. where he is now in the practice at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He always had the confi- dence of the people for his true Christian life.
DR. J. C. CAMPBELL is a successful prac- titioner at Powell, Delaware County, Ohio. He was born in Elwin County, in the Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. He was educated in the public schools in his native county. He studied medicine with Dr. J. M. Penwarden in St. Thomas, Province of On- tario, and graduated at the University of Michi- gan in the year 1879. He practiced medicine in the State of Michigan for two years. He then took a post-graduate course at Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, from which he received a diploma in the year 1882. He then located at Powell, Delaware County, Ohio, where he has enjoyed a lucrative prac- tice ever since.
DR. J. W. AVERY was born in Delaware. Ohio, in 1859. He is a grandson of the late Judge Avery, one of the early pioneers of the county. His mother was a daughter of Dr. James Hill, the sketch of whose life is in this article. It will be seen that he descended from two of the oldest and most prominent fami- lies of the county. After passing through the city schools, he entered the office of Dr. W. T. Constant, and took his M. D. degree in 1884. from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati,
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Ohio. The same year he began practice in his native town. The next year. 1885. he was tendered, and accepted the assistant physician's position at the Dayton Hospital for the In- sane, where he remained until 1888. He then left for western Pennsylvania to enter the general practice of medicine. A few years ago his health caused him to withdraw for a time from practice. He is now in Delaware, wait- ing until he is restored in health that he may again resume his professional work. * *
DR. AUSTIN D. MANN was born in New Jersey in 1825. He graduated in medicine at Starling Medical College in 1845. He lo- cated in Centre Village the same year, where he remained for forty-five years. In 1890 he moved to Sunbury, where he practiced thir- teen years. After fifty-eight years of prac- tice in Delaware County he gave up the prac- tice and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he is now living with his grandson. He married Miss Mary Gorsuch and is the father of two girls and ten boys.
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DR. CHARLES FRANCIS TALLEY graduated at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 5th day of March, 1886. He lo- cated at Hyattsville. Delaware County, Ohio, but soon removed to Powell, Delaware County. Ohio, where he is now located and is engaged in a successful practice. * -X-
DR. A. E. MAIN graduated at the Colum- bus Medical College. Columbus, Ohio, Febru- ary 27, 1879. He located in Delaware, Ohio. and was elected coroner of Delaware County. but soon removed to the west, where he is still practicing his profession. * *
DR. ARTHUR J. WILLEY was born in Dela- ware County and is the son of Samuel and Ellen E. Willey. He was educated in the public schools and at the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity. He read medicine with Dr. Clovis M. Taylor, of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from the Ohio Medical University at Colum- bus, Ohio, in April. 1898. He was assistant to Dr. Clovis M. Taylor as surgeon to the Protestant Hospital in Columbus for about six
months, and located in Delaware, Ohio, in December, 1898, where he has been in the practice ever since. He was instrumental in the founding of the Jane M. Case Hospital, of which Delaware people are so justly proud.
GEORGE W. MOREHOUSE, M. D., was born in Kankakee. Illinois, September 16, 1858. The family moved to Marengo, Morrow County, Ohio, in 1864. In the common schools and under the old school masters. he was given the foundamental foundation of his edu- cation. He, at an early age, began teaching in the common schools. and for ten years he was sought as a teacher in Knox, Morrow and Delaware Counties.
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