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The next to settle in Wilmington and take up the practice of medicine was Doctor Grier, who came to this county in 1817. Although Doctor Grier may have been a man of great ability, yet his chief friend and companion was Jobn Barleycorn and his love for stimulants proved his downfall in this county. After struggling for two or three years against the tide of opposition, he left for another locality.
Dr. Turner Welch, a native of the state of North C'arolina, came to Wilmington and commenced the practice of medicine in Wilmington in 1818. He occupied as an office a room in a building that stood on the northeast corner of Main and Mulberry streets. Following the example of three of his predecessors, he was united in marriage soon after his removal to this locality, Hester, the daughter of John Fallis, becoming his wife. He was induced by his father and father-in-law to remove from Wilmington to a farm near Oakland. In 1525, Doctor Rigdon moved to Hamilton, and Doctor Welch at once occu- pied the opening enused by the removal. Here he continued to practice until 1836. when he removed to Wea Plains. Indiana. After remaining in Indiana for several years, he became dissatisfied and returned to Ohio: but, still discontented, he removed again to the Hoosier state. During his residence in Wilmington, in 1828-27, he attended lectures in the Medical College of Ohio, from which he graduated in medicine and surgery. In the war with England. 1812-15, Doctor Welch served as assistant surgeon, and here he received most of his training. After the close of the war he returned to North Carolina and remained with his preceptor until the time when he emigrated to Oblo. Toward the close of his life he drew a pension from the government for services rendered, which acknowledgment gave him more pleasure than all the money and property he possessed. After attaining the advanced age of eighty-four years. more than sixty of which had been spent in active practice, he laid down his scalpel and medicine case and joined his friends who had previously crossed the great divide. In his profession he sustained n good reputation and was courteous and kind to his fellow practitioners. This closes the list of physicians who settled in this county from 1810-20.
In 1825, Dr. S. Judkins located In Wilmington and engaged in the professional duties In this county: but, not meeting with the greatest success, he removed to Highland county. He settled in Leesburg, from which town he had emigrated to Wilmington. Here he regained his former patronage and met with great success.
Dr. Amos Tiffin Davis came to this county in the year 1829 and began the practice of medicine in Clarksville. With the exception of eight or ten years, when he practiced in Cincinnati and other points, be spent his entire medical career in this county. Doctor
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Davis was the son of Isaac and Mary (Tiffin) Davis, his mother being a sister of Edward Tiffin, the first governor of Ohlo. The father was a native of Pennsylvania and the mother of Ireland. His father settled in Ross county, Ohio, in the year 1800, following the farming profession. Doctor Davis was born, January 9, 1803, and reared amid agricultural pursuits. He assisted bis father on the farm until attaining the age of twenty-one years, when he went to Chillicothe and placed himself under the tuition of Doctor Pinkerton, with whom he remained two years. He then entered the medical department of the Transylvania University, at Lexington, Kentucky. He remained there several months and then entered upon the practice of his profession. April 20, 1826, he was united in marriage with Priscilla, the daughter of James Birdsall, an early pioneer of Clinton county, where the daughter was born. To this union one child was born, Mary D., the wife of Rev. G. R. McMillan. In early life, Doctor Davis united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he was an earnest and faithful member until his death, and after removing to Wilmington, in 1829, soon after his location in Clarksville, he connected himself with that congregation here. He twice served the people of the county in the General Assembly, to which he was elected in 1836 and 1839. In politics he was identified with the Republican party after its organization, having been formerly an old-line Whig.
Dr. Aquila Jones, one of the pioneer physicians of this county, was born at Bean Station. Granger county, eastern Tennessee. April 10, 1807. His parents were William and Deborah (Mcveigh) Jones, who settled in what is now Union township, Clinton county, In the spring of 1810. In 1823 Doctor Jones entered the office of Dr. Loammi Rigdon and commenced the study of medicine. On the removal of Doctor Rigdon, two years later. from Wilmington, Doctor Jones further prosecuted his studies under the instruction of Dr. Turner Welch, whom he assisted in practice in 1827. 1828, 1829. During the year 1829 this county was visited with an epidemic of malaria or typhoid fever, which prevailed all over this section of the country. Doctor Jones was actively engaged in the duties of bis profession in the enstern part of the county, where, for a time. he opened an office at Parris's hotel, from which point he made his way over logs and through mud and mire to the log cabins where many of the pioneers were prostrate with fever.
There was then no poetic fervor or amusement in the daily pursuit of such a profession, and we might question whether some of our modern physicians would enter Into this task with much zeal. How arduous were the duties of the physicians of that day. They were few in number, and all located at the county seat. Patients were In all parts of the county and the only means of reaching them was on horseback, requiring journeys of from ten to fifteen miles, and in the sickly season of the year their daily rides were often from forty to fifty miles; but, endowed with stout hearts and strong, hardy constitutions, they adapted themselves to the times and surrounding circumstances, and overcame the difficulties, however great. At intervals in 1829-30, Doctor Jones attended lectures In the Oblo Medical College, at Cincinnati, graduating in the early spring of the last mentioned yenr. He then located at Washington Court House, Fayette county, and remained one year. The following year he removed to Bainbridge. Ross county. Ohio, and was there engaged in the pursuit of his profession until the winter of 1834-35. where he permanently located at Wilmington. While practicing at Washington Court House. Doctor Jones was united in marriage to Carolina A. Dawson, a native of Virginia. In 1822 he was the assistant of a Mr. Treusdall, who was the principal of the schools at Wilmington, and three years later became, by appointment, the auditor of the county. filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of John McManis In 1839. In con- nection with R. R. Lindsay, his brother-in-law, he published the Clinton County Republi- ran. In 1836. Doctor Jones commenced keeping a meteorological journal, In which a daily account of the weather was recorded.
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Dr. William W. Woodruff, a native of Warren county and a son of Israel Wood- ruff, who kept a tavern which stood on the north side of Main street, near South street, read medicine In 1827-28 in the ottice of Doctors Welch and Jones. On finishing the prescribed course of reading, he commenced practicing in Wilmington, in which he con- tinued until 1834. While yet in the zenith of his prosperity and usefulness, with every evidence of success in his chosen profession, he fell a victim to consumption.
Dr. Joseph K. Sparks, a native of South Carolina, settled in Wilmington in the winter of 1830-31 as a practitioner. He was a graduate of Transylvania University, of Lexington, Kentucky, and came to this county from Cincinnati, where he had been actively engaged in the practice of medicine. He later left Wilmington and moved onto a farm in the vicinity, where he died from old age and dropsy. He was a member of the Baptist church and a devout Christian, sincere in his work and honest with his fellow- men.
Dr. Rockefeller Dakin, a native of this county, was a graduate of Transylvania University. After Dakin had graduated, he located in the state of New Jersey, but Jater returned to his native county and commenced the practice of medicine in Wil- mington in 1835. Doctor Dakin also became interested in the culture of the silk worm. In 1539, he made a tour through Texas and the Southern states and there contracted malaria fever, of which he died while en route home.
Dr. William Fielding moved to Clinton county in the year 1530. He located in the village of Wilmington and began the practice of medicine. He resided here three years, when, apparently becoming displeased with the locality as a point for practice, be returned to his former home in Shelby county. He was later elected to the state Legislature from that county. In after years he did not give much attention to his profession, but was actively engaged in the political field.
Dr. Hugh White Baugh was the son of George and Nancy ( White) Baugh. His father was a native of South Carolina and his mother was a Virginlan. He read medi- cine with Dr. W. Baugh, of New Market, and Dr. C. C. Samms, of Hillsboro. Later he graduated from the Ohio Medical College, of Cincinnati, in the class of 1842. He first located in the town of New Burlington after receiving his degree, but later removed to Hartford City, Indiana. He returned to Clinton county and settled at Clarksville in 1850.
Dr. Henry Smith, a native of the state of Ohio, was born January 9, 1829. He was the son of Joseph and Hannab ( Hair) Smith. He began reading medicine in 1841 at Perrintown, Clermont county, with Dr. Columbus Spence. Three years later he attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, and, in 1845, located at Cuba, where he remained until 1856. In that year he removed to Blanchester and engaged In his choven profession. He served the people of that section until his death.
Dr. Thomas McArthur, a native of Fayette county, located in Wilmington about the year 1845. He continued in active practice at this point until 1562, when he was appointed assistant surgeon of one of the Ohio regiments, and served until the close of the war.
Dr. A. Brooke was born In Ohlo, attended lectures and graduated from the Medical College at Baltimore. He settled at Oakland in 1845 and remained a practitioner for about ten years.
Dr. J. M. Rannells was born near Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, January 12. 1820. In 1828 he came to Clinton county with his parents, Harvey and Elizabeth (Fleaming) Rannells, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Pennsylvania. He was reared on a farm near New Antioch, and read medicine with Dr. Jobu Vander- vort, of that village. In 1846 he graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincin- nati. He came at once to the village of New Antioch and remained nearly a third of a century. He was out of the county probably four years, two of which were spent in
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Illinois and two In the city of Dayton. In 1865, Doctor Rannells adopted homeopathy. He located In Wilmington in 1881.
Dr. I. C. Williams, although a native of Virginia, was reared in this county. He read medicine with Doctor Jones, subsequently attending lectures and graduating at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati. He located in Bloomington about the year 1846 and continued in practice in the county for some twenty years. He then removed to the state of Illinois, where he died.
Dr. W. W. Sheppard was born in Wilmington on March 20, 1821. His parents were Levi and Sarah Sheppard, by birth Virginians. Doctor Sheppard read medicine with Doctor Jones, beginning in 1845. He attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College in 1846-47, and received from the censors of that college a certificate in the fall of 1847. The following year be located at Sligo, where he afterward practiced, with the exception of eighteen months passed In Mercer county, Illinois.
Dr. Daniel B. Mory, the son of George W. Mory, a farmer of Schenectady county, New York, was born September 9, 1822. At the age of seventeen be came to Wilmington, and, through his own efforts, furthered his own education. He read medicine in the office of Doctor Davis and, in the fall of 1845, entered the Ohio Medical College, Cin- cinnati, from which institution he graduated. He located in Centerville in the spring of 1847 and there first began the practice of medicine. In August, 1878, having ministered to the sick of that locality for thirty-one years, he removed to Wilmington, where he lived until his death.
Dr. Thomas S. Garland, of Clarksville, rend medicine with Doctor Davis in the village of Wilmington. He later attended lectures at the Oblo Medical College, Cincin- nati, from which institution he received a diploma. About 1842 he "hung out bis shingle" In Clarksville, where he remained for a short time. He then moved to Wilmington, but returned to Clarksville in 1848 and practiced in that place until his death.
Dr. William G. Owens was a native of the state of Virginia. His parents were Tollvar and Priscilla Owens, likewise Virginians by birth. Doctor Owens located. in Wilmington in 1848. On June 22, 1852, while in attendance upon some of his patients who were prostrated with the cholera, he was taken with disease and fell a victim the following day.
Dr. G. F. Birdsall was a student of Doctors Watkins, of Greene county, and Brooke, of Clinton county, and also a graduate of one of the medical colleges of Cincinnati. He commenced the practice of medicine in Clinton county in the year 1847 or 1848. He died In the village of Oakland some thirty years ago.
Dr. S. 8. Boyd read medicine with Dr. B. Nubble, of Amella, Clermont county, and there practiced before coming to Clinton county. He settled in the practice of his pro- fession in the county of Clinton in the year 1852, locating at Wilmington, where he was actively engaged in the practice until his death. He belonged to the school of eclectics.
Dr. Marion Wilkerson was born in Warren county. His parents were John and Elizabeth Wilkerson, natives of Kentucky, who, at an early period, emigrated to this state. Doctor Wilkerson read medicine in Lebanon with Dra. J. and E. Stevens and D. S. Dakin. He attended lectures and in 1852-53 graduated at the Oblo Medical College. In the War of the Rebellion he served as assistant surgeon of the Eighty-third Regiment, Oblo Volunteer Infantry.
Dr. R. T. Trimble was born In Hillsboro, Highland county, Ohlo, where he received his early education in the common schools. He also read medicine in that village with Dr. W. W. Sheppard. He then attended a course of lectures in the Ohlo Medical College, at Cincinnati, and later took another course at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated at an early age. He practiced one year with his preceptor in Hillsboro, Ohio, when he removed to New Vienna, and was engaged in that place until his death.
Dr. M. J. Hormell was a native of Warren county, Ohio, and read medicine in the
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office of Dr. A. T. Corlis, at Lebanon. . He graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1845, and practiced In Harveysburg for several years, then removed to Oakland.
Dr. Andrew Robb was born in Clermont county, Ohio, of German and Scotch-Irish ancestry. His early life was passed on a farm with his father. He received the usual training in the common branches of that period and, at the age of sixteen, entered the academy at New Richmond. At the age of eighteen he began the study of medicine with Dr. Alfred B. Noble, at Goshen. In 1837 he began practicing with his preceptor, and continued until the fall of 1840. He then attended lectures at the Oblo Medical College, and graduated with the class of 1841. Doctor Robb then practiced medicine at Blanches- ter for many years.
Dr. S. B. Moon, horn at Martinsville, this county, May 11, 1835, Was a son of Henry and Mary (Paxton) Moon. He read medicine with Doctor Davis, of Greenfield. Highland county, Ohio, and attended lectures at Starling Medical College and also at Miami Medical College of Cincinnati. He then returned to his native village of Martinsville, where he practiced two years, and removed to Cuba. where he remained for six years. In 1879, Doctor Moon located at Wilmington and was numbered with the physicians of that village for several years.
Dr. J. W. Bennett was born in Clermont county, Oblo, in the year 1833. He read medicine with Doctor Bennett and Inter attended lectures at Miami Medical College. Cincinnati, from which school he graduated. In 1857 he commenced practicing at Woodville, in his native county, where he remained for one year. He then located in Cuba. in 1858, and remained there until 1870. That year he removed to Cherry Grove, Hamilton county, Oblo, and there practiced for five years. In 1875 he returned to and became actively engaged in his profession.
Dr. Andrew F. Deniston was the son of James R. and Elizabeth R. Deniston. He read medicine in Lynchburg. Highland county, Ohio, with Doctor Spees during the years 1855. '56 and '57. Doctor Deniston located at Westboro, February 1, 1858, and prac- ticed continuously in that vicinity with the exception of the time he was in the service of bia country in the War of the Rebellion.
Dr. A. T. Johnson was born on June 1, 1829, at Leesburg, Highland county. Ohio. llis parents. Joseph W. and Rachel (Terrell) Johnson, were natives of Campbell county. Virginia. In 1859 Doctor Johnson graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cin- cinnati, and. in 1868, at the University of Pennsylvania. He began practicing in New Vienna in the spring of 1859. In the fall of 1861. he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Forty-eighth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He remained In this position until the summer of 1863, when. on account of disense. he was compelled to leave feld duty and served in various hospitals until 1864. when he resumed practice in New Vienna, and continued in the active practice of medicine until 1875, when failing health necessitated his retiring in a great measure from active professional life.
Dr. George M. Telfair was the son of Dr. Isaac and Nancy A. (Boggs) Telfair. natives of the state of Virginia. He read medicine in the village of Bloomington in the office of Doctor Williams; later attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, where he graduated In 1880. Before locating in Bloomington he practiced two years with Dr. M. Lemon at Midway, Madison county, Ohio. Doctor Telfair located in Bloomington in 1862 and actively engaged in the medical profession.
Dr. A. T. Quinn, who was an active physician in Wilmington for a number of years, was a native of Highland county. Ohlo, born December 16. 1837. His parents were Rev. Isaac Quinn, M. N .. and Cynthia ( Witten) Quinn, natives of Virginia. Doctor Quinn was a classical scholar. having graduated at the University of Athens, Ohio, in 1859. He then studied medicine and gradnated in the Ohio Medical College in 1882, and was
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appointed assistant surgeon in the I'nited States army, where he served until 1864. In that year he located in Wilmington, where he engaged in his profession.
Dr. W. S. Farabee was born in Pennsylvania In 1833, and when nine years old came to Ohio. He attended lectures at the Cincinnati School of Medicine and Surgery in 1855-56, and entered upon the practice of that science in Ross county, Ohio, with a brother. He located in New Antioch in 1866.
Dr. G. T. Ewbanks was a graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and continued to practice that system. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Doctor Ewbanks was a citizen of the state of Indiana, and from that state volunteered in the defense of the Union. Doctor Ewbanks commenced the practice of medicine in this county at Port William in 1868.
Dr. A. J. Gaskins was the son of Dr. John Gaskins, who was a practicing physician in Clermont county, Ohio, whither he emigrated at an early date. The son read medicine with his father, and attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, graduating in 1869. Doctor Gaskins located in Sabina in 1868, one year before receiving his degree from the medical institute. He was actively engaged in this county until his death.
Dr. B. Farquhar was the son of Jonah and Elizabeth Farquhar, natives of Mary- land, from whence they emigrated in 1814. Doctor Farquhar's preparation extended over a period. embracing the years 1866. 1867 and 1868. His preceptor was Doctor Loar, of Clinton county, from whose office he entered a medical institute at Cincinnati, and from which institute he later graduated. After receiving his degree, he located in New Burlington and was engaged in the profession.
Dr. J. Mckenzie, a native of Maine, settled in Ohio with his father in 1847, removing to Monroe, Butler county. He was a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, having completed his course of lectures there In 1861. Eight years afterward (1869) he located in this county, and began the practice of medicine at Wilmington. Doctor Mckenzie married Julia Hadley, of Clinton county.
Dr. W. R. Morton, a native of this county, read medicine at Centerville with Dr. D. B. Mory, and later attended lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College. He located as a practitioner of medicine in Centerville in the spring of 1870. He remained in that place until the fall of 1874, and removed to Reesville, where he was in active practice.
Dr. Z. Garland, son of T. S. Garland, was born in this county, read medicine with his father, and attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, after which he engaged in the active practice In Clarksville.
Dr. 8. B. Lightner was a native of Greene county, Pennsylvania, born on May 4, 1839. His parents were George and Mary ( Woods) Lightner. the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Pennsylvania. He read medicine with Dr. E. H. Cary, of Nineveh, Pennsylvania. and graduated at Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in March, 1863. From February, 1864. until August, 1865. he served as surgeon of the Eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry. He located at Sabina in 1871, but before locat- ing at that place he practiced one year at New Vienna and three years in the city of Cincinnati.
Dr. R. Lytle was the son of Dr. James Lytle, a native of Pennsylvania, with whom the son rend medicine. He then attended lectures, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati. He settled in Fayette county and was for three years attendant upon the inmates of the county Infirmary. He located in Sabina in December. 1871.
Dr. Nathan N. Sidwell was a native of Georgetown, Brown county, Oblo, where he was born on October 18. 1840. His father was James Sidwell, a Kentucklan, and his mother was Lucinda (Newkirk) Sidwell, a native of this state. He rend medicine in his native town, and subsequently graduated at both the Eclectic Medical College and Miami Medical College at Cincinnati. He graduated from the former in the winter of
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1860-61, and at the latter in the spring of 1871. In April, 1861, Doctor Sidwell enlisted In Company B, Twelfth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in January, 1863, he was appointed assistant surgeon, in which capacity he served until the summer of 1864. Doctor Sidwell located as a physician and surgeon in Wilmington in 1872, but before locating in Wilmington he had practiced in Warren, Hamilton and other counties of Ohio. He later retired from practice.
Dr. George M. Ireland was born in Knox county, Ohlo, March 1, 1850. His parents were Davis and Susan ( Hoke) Ireland, natives of Pennsylvania. Doctor Ireland read medicine with Dr. E. M. Hall, of Frederickstown, and graduated in the school of bomeo- pathy at Cleveland, in the class of 1876. Soon after his graduation be located at Wilmington.
Dr. G. W. Wire was born in the state of Indiana in 1852 and educated at Asbury L'niversity (now DePauw University), read medicine with Dr. S. E. Munford, of Princeton, Indiana, and attended lectures at Miami Medical College, graduating in '1870. at the age of twenty-four years. . He settled in . Wihnington in the same year.
. Dr. J. F. Bowers, a native of this county, was born in the village of New Vienna, In the year 1842. His father, C. C. Bowers, settled In this county in 1840, coming from New Jersey. The son read medicine with Doctor Johnson, of New Vienna, and com- pleted his medical education at Miami Medical College, Ohio, graduating in 1967. From that time until 1876 Doctor Bowers was engaged in practice in various points in different states. In 1876 he located at Port William, where he remained until his death.
Dr. John H. Stephens was the son of Peter J. and Charlotte Stephens, the former n native of Virginia and the latter of North Carolina. He rend medicine in Port William with Doctor Ewbanks, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati in 1876. He first located at Buena Vista, in Fayette county, Ohio, but a short time after- wards he settled In Centerville.
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