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DURING THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD.
Dr. Toland Jones, born in Union township, this county, January 10, 1820, son of Thomas Jones, studied medicine with Dr. Aquilla Toland. of London, and after one course of lectures at Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, commenced the practice of medicine in London. The title of doctor of medicine was conferred upon him by the Cleveland Medical College about 1858. He married, March 19, 1846. Frances A. Toland. of London. eldest daughter of Dr. Aquilla and Elizabeth (Lewis) Toland. He was colonel of the One Hundred and Thirteenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, during the war, and practiced in London for years. Dr. A. J. Miles was a practicing physician before entering the war in 1863, as a private in the Fortieth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from Darke county, Ohio; was the hospital steward of the For- tieth Regiment. Ohio Volunteer Infantry: was discharged for disability and came to
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London and commenced practice in 1864; went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he married, and was a college professor for years. Dr. D. W. Williams, born in Granville, Ohio, July 15, 1836, educated at Dennison University, Granville, Ohio, studied medicine with Dr. D. H. Beckwith, Zanesville, Ohio, was graduated from the Cleveland Homeo- pathic College in 1865, and came to London in the spring of that year. He was married to Adelia Chrisman, youngest daughter of Jacob Chrisman, in the fall of 1866. Dr. William Morrow Beach, who lived two miles north of London, moved to the farm in 1865, after the war. Dr. John H. Holton practiced first at Mt. Sterling, this county, and located in London in 1866. He was eminent in the profession. He died of pneumonia about the year 1874, his death having been caused by exposure and overwork. His widow long resided in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. D. B. Wren came from Mechanicsburg in 1864, but did not remain long.
Dr. A. H. Underwood was born on April 21, 1836, in Brimfield, Portage county, Ohio, and commenced the study of medicine with Dr. A. S. Weatherby, of Cardington, Morrow county, Ohio, in 1862, being graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medi- cine and Surgery in 1865. He commenced practice the same spring in South Charles- ton, Clark county, Ohio, and, in February, 1866, came to London, where he was in practice for many years. Dr. C. G. Slagle located in London shortly after the war. While there, he married Emma Sprung, daughter of the longtime and veteran editor of the London Chronicle. He moved to Greenfield, Ohio, about 1868, but later moved to Minnesota, where he was for years an associate editor of the Northwest Medical Journal. Dr. James T. Houston, born in 1816, on a farm four miles east of Spring- field, Ohio, commenced the study of medicine in 1843, with his brother, Dr. Robert Houston, and Doctor Bradberry, of South Charleston, Ohio. At the session of 1837-38 he attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College, known as "Drake's School," the faculty of which consisted of seven professors. Drake, Gross, Parker, Harrison, McDowell, Rievs and Rodgers. Among Doctor Houston's classmates were Carey A. Trimble, John Dawson, Samuel Mitchell Smith, Davis, Kaincaid and Brown. He commenced practice with his brother, Robert Houston, of South Charleston, in 1838 and in 1840 removed to Jeffersonville, Fayette county, this state, where he prac- ticed for fifteen years, and then removed to Jamestown, Greene county, where he prac- ticed fifteen years, making thirty-one years of continuous professional labor, nearly twenty of which was performed riding over mud roads on horseback. He was gradu- ated from Starling Medical College in 1857, and located in London in 1869. In 1838 he was commissioned by Governor Vance, of Ohio, as brigade surgeon of militia of Clark county, Ohio. He was married, in 1844, to a daughter of Capt. William Palmer, of Fayette county, Ohio.
Dr. James B. Sprague was born in Harmony township, Clark county, Ohio, and was educated in part at an academy of which Chandler Robins was superintendent. He was a pupil of Dr. Robert Rogers, of Springfield, Ohio, and was graduated from the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, in March, 1851. He practiced at Vienna Cross- roads and at Springfield, Clark county, Ohio, and located at London, January 9, 1871. He was in the army three years as the assistant surgeon of the Twenty-seventh Regi- ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He was married on November 8, 1843, to Sarah Chamberlain, youngest daughter of Isaac Chamberlain.
Dr. Henry J. Sharp was born on March 2, 1845, in Geallia county, Ohio, and was educated at Ohio Wesleyan University. He later was a pupil of Prof. John W. Han- ilton, of Columbus, Ohio, and was graduated from Starling Medical College, in 1871, locating in London in October of same year. He was married in April, 1872, to Kath- erine E. Dooris, of Zanesville, Ohio. Doctor Rooney was in partnership with Dr. J. B. Sprague in Vienna, and was with him at London also, for about a year, later moving
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to Springfield, Illinois. Dr. D. A. Morse, a one-time London physician, was for years superintendent of the hospital for the insane at Oxford. He also was a professor in dif- ferent medical colleges, his specialty having been nervous diseases, and was author of several works on medicine, some of which were reprinted in Germany.
Dr. A. J. Strain, born in Greenfield, Highland county, Ohio, January 3, 1845, was a pupil of William A. Strain, his uncle, and was graduated from Miami Medical Col- lege at Cincinnati, in March, 1873. He located in London in 1876 and was married on January 7,, 1850, to Mary, daughter of Washington Wilson, of Springfield, Ohio, and is still living. Dr. Clifton S. Morse, son of Nathan and Amelia (Calliver) Morse. born at Amity, this county, on July 28, 1857. was graduated from Starling Medical College in 1879, and located in London the same spring. He married Emma MeDon- ald, daughter of J. B. MeDonald, of Union township, and moved to Creston, Iowa, in 1882. Dr. Addison Platt King, born in Marion county, Ohio, in 1847. was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, in 1878, and was married in July, 1881, to Mary Smith, of Mansfield, Ohio, daughter of E. W. Smith, a clergy- man. Both were drowned by the overturning of a skiff in a storm, on Lake Chautau- qua. New York, the summer following their marriage. The news produced a most profound sensation in London, where the doctor had been residing for about two years. He was not a practitioner, though a member of the Ohio Medical Society, but was a member of the drug firm of Robinson & King.
Dr. Melville M. Moffitt, born in Orville, Wayne county, Ohio. November 15. 1857, was educated at Otterbein University, Westerville. Ohio, and studied medicine with Drs. Rayer & Kirkland, Massillon, Ohio, and afterward with Prof. A. O. Blair, and was graduated from the Homeopathic Hospital College. Cleveland, Ohio. March S, 1882. While in college, he was physician in charge of the newsboys and bootblacks home, and also was an acting assistant physician in the county jail of Cuyahoga county for one year and during his residence in London held the position of surgeon of the Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railroad. He was married on February 17, 1881. to Flora N. Henderson, daughter of H. T. and M. A. Henderson, of Westerville, Ohio. Dr. A. J. Kepler, who was born in Dayton, Ohio, July 22, 1852, read medicine with Dr. G. W. Dickey, of Eaton, Ohio, and was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, on June 6. 1882. Hle practiced with Doctor Dickey, his pre- ceptor, at Eaton, Ohio, until in October, 1882, and then moved to London. He mar- ried, March 3. 1873, Rosannah Dafler, of Dayton, Ohio, and is now living at Wash- ington, D. C.
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PLAIN CITY.
Doctors Hill and Tappan were the first resident physicians of Darby township. They were Eastern men-probably from the state of Vermont, and "the deep dani- nation of their taking-off" was for robbing a grave of the body of a squaw for the purposes of dissection. This excited the resident Indians to a high degree, and, as the act 'also excited the indignation of many of the white citizens, the doctors came to the conclusion that. under the circumstances, "discretion would be the better part of valor," and accordingly their leaving was somewhat precipitate. Their location, while in this county, was probably near where Plain City now is.
Dr. Isaac Bigelow, son of Dr. Israel Bigelow, was born August 25. 1797, near Bal- ston Spa, Saratoga county, New York. At the age of seventeen, in the year 1814. he came on foot from Center county, Pennsylvania, to make a payment for his father on a land purchase from his uncle. Isaac, the land being that where Plain City now stands. Returning to Pennsylvania, he studied medicine with his father. Dr. Israel Bige- low. and in 1817 returned to Ohio and located on Trickle's creek, in Champaign county. He remained there one year, and in 1818 came to Madison county and laid out the
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town of Westminster, in Darby township. This name was afterward changed to that of Pleasant Valley, but in 1872, after Doctor Bigelow's death, the citizens petitioned their representative in the Legislature-William Morrow Beach-for an act to change the name to Plain City, which was done, the reason therefore having been the fact that there were four or five towns in Ohio of the name of Pleasant Valley, and per- ishable merchandise, shipped by railroad, was often sent wrong, thus becoming a loss to the receiver before reaching the proper destination. In about 1828, after his fa- ther had located for practice in this county, Dr. Isaac Bigelow went out of practice and became a general trader, diligent, persevering and active in all his enterprises. He had kept a hotel and store on the southeast corner of Main and Chillicothe streets until after the year 1838, when he sold out to Samuel O. Weatherington. He built a large brick dwelling house on the northwest corner of the same streets, about the year 1842. He was mayor of Pleasant Valley at one time, and was postmaster during Polk's administration. He married, July 17, 1815. Polly Bigelow, daughter of Isaac and Polly Bigelow, who then lived where Plain City now stands. He died in Pleasant Valley, April 10,' 1857. of pneumonia.
Dr. Israel Bigelow, father of the preceding, was born August 21, 1774, in Dum- merston. Windham county, Vermont. His father was Rev. Isaac Bigelow, a Revolu- tionary soldier, and his grandfather was Isaac Bigelow, of the province of Maine. At the age of about eighteen, or in 1792, he became a pupil of Doctor White, of Schenec- tady, state of New York, and practiced at Balston Spa, New York, until 1812, when he moved to Center county, Pennsylvania. In 1823. he moved to New Philadelphia, Ohio, and in 1828 to Pleasant Valley, this county, where he remained the rest of his life. He was very justly eminent in his profession, both as a physician and as a sur- geon. As a surgeon, he was many years in advance of any other surgeon of the county. He operated in this county for vesical calculi by the lateral operation; re- moved the tibia by resection (on Brainard Hager) ; removed the entire breast for cancer (Mrs. Zenas Hutchison, Dublin) ; and performed many other important opera- tions. He married. first, Eunice Kathron, daughter of Daniel Kathron, of Balston Spa, New York, born on August 23, 1774. He married, secondly, Miss Clippiner; and third, Mary Brown, the mother of Diana, Hosea B. and Chamberlain B. Bigelow. He died of vesical calculi, at his home in Pleasant Valley, May 28, 1838, aged sixty-four.
Dr. Daniel K. Bigelow, son of Dr. Israel Bigelow, born in Balston, Spa, New York. March 22, 1801, studied medicine with his father, and commenced practice with his brother. Dr. Lebbens Bigelow, at Morris Crossroads, Fayette county, Pennsylvania. In 1823, he moved to Adamsburg, Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. where he re- mained until 1831, when he came to Ohio and settled on the farm near Pleasant Valley, this county, where he afterward died. He never was idle and though his professional charges were ridiculously low, he accumulated a fair estate, continuing in active prac- tice up to the time of his death. He married, February 7, 1822. Lydia Custer, of Georges township, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, who was born on April 24, 1826. daughter of George and Catherine (Leatherman) Custer, and died at her home, near Pleasant Valley, November 14, 1854, of strangulated hernia. He died at his home, near Pleasant Valley, on the 10th of November, 1850, of diabetes, aged fifty years.
Dr. William F. King, raised out on the Darby plains, a brother of Joseph, Benja- min and Sarah King, studied medicine with Dr. Israel Bigelow, of Pleasant Valley. Tradition preserves a recollection of him as having been a particularly handsome, graceful and courtly gentleman. He practiced in conjunction with Dr. Israel Bigelow. he attending mostly to the visiting of patients, while the old doctor looked after the office business. He married Diana, daughter of Dr. Israel and Polly (Brown) Bige- low, and died not many years afterward, at Pleasant Valley.
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Doetor Fitch, a large, handsome, elegant-looking gentleman, was located at Plain City about 1842. It is possible, however, that he was not as elegant as he appeared. He componnded a nostrum that met with a large and ready sale as an ague specific, that he called "the devil's toenail." Dr. James Sidney Skinner was located at Plain City abont 1842. Dr. Willis Hix Twiford, son of Rev. Clement Twiford, born and raised in Ross county, Ohio, studied with Dr. J. S. Skinner, commenced practice in Pleasant Valley about 1842, and moved to Union City, Indiana, about 1853. He was a surgeon of an Indiana regiment during the war and directly after the war moved to Minnesota. Ile married Nancy Dominy, daughter of Jeremiah Dominy, of Darby township, this county, about the time he entered upon his professional career.
Dr. Jeremiah Converse was born in Darby township, this county, in the year 1822; studied medicine with Dr. Marshall P. Converse and commenced practice at Liverpool in 1846. He was graduated from Starling Medical College in 1848. He located on the old homestead in Darby township, of which he became the owner, three miles from Plain City, in 1847, and married Sarah, daughter of Farmery Hemenway. Dr. James L. MeCampbell, who located in Pleasant Valley about the year 1846, was a brother to Andrew and Samuel McCampbell, well known in their day in and about New California. He was well qualified for the profession and was active and diligent in business. He would have been a tall man, but rickets in his childhood had made him very short in the body. He had an immense practice in 1848 and 1849, and led the profession in the north part of the county. He died of typhoid fever, unmarried. abont 1850.
Dr. Joel N. Converse, son of Lothrop, was born and raised in Darby township. His widowed mother married, secondly, a Mr. Wheeler, who lived and died ou the south end of what long was known as the Solomon Cary farm. He studied medicine for awhile in the East and after his marriage settled at Beachtown, in Union county, this state. About the year 1851 he located at Pleasant Valley and about 1853 moved to Union City, Indiana, where for years he was identified with railroad men and with railroad enterprises but later moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. He married Ann Eliza Phillips, daughter of Seth Phillips, of Darby township, this county.
NATIVE AND TO THE MANNER BORN.
Dr. Jolin E. McCune, "native and to the manner born," was born and raised near the village of Plain City. He left the farm and was for a time clerk for George A. Hill & Company bnt left that calling to commence the study of medicine with Dr. James L. McCampbell. He fitted himself very thoroughly for the profession, and then, like any other sensible young man when entering npon the profession, he married a sensible yonng woman and then put out his sign. His history, as a boy, a clerk, a medical student. practitioner. druggist and citizen, is a part of the history of West- minster, of Pleasant Valley, and of Plain City. Dr. Charles McCloud for a time was located at Pleasant Valley, but his memory as a physician is more definitely associ- ated with the period of his long continued practice at Amity.
Dr. William Inskeep Ballinger, eldest son of Joshna and Delilah (Inskeep) Bal- linger, was born in Logan county, Ohio, October, 1828, and was for three years, from 1848. a student at the old Marysville Academy in Union county, Ohio, under the sul- perintendency of Reverend Sterritt. Rev. Joseph B. Smith and Hon. James W. Robin- son. In September. 1860. he entered the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, for three years, and, in the fall of 1853, entered as a pupil the office of Dr. David W. Henderson, Marysville. Ohio. He took one course of lectures at Starling Medical College, session of 1854-55, and one, session of 1855-56, at Cleveland Medical College. Cleveland. Ohio, where he was gradnated on April 9, 1856. Hle settled in Pleasant
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Valley the same year, and formed a partnership with Dr. John N. Beach, and for years was engaged in his profession. In conjunction with Richard Woodruff he built the flour-mill in 1873. He married, February 18, 1857, Matilda, daughter of John and Eliza (Mark) Taylor, of Darby township. Dr. Thomas Jefferson Haynes, son of J. B. W. Haynes, of Richwood, Union county, Ohio, was a graduate in medicine and practiced for a few years in New California, Union county, this state, near which place he was married to a daughter of Jesse Mitchell. He moved to Pleasant Valley about the year 1860. and was captain of Company G, Seventeenth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, three-months' mien. He died at Pleasant Valley in 1863, of ery- sipelas of the throat. He was regarded as a man of much more than ordinary ability. Dr. Salathiel Ewing. a son of James M. and a grandson of James Ewing, the first white settler of what is now Union county, Ohio, for years was counted among the best practitioners of this county. He and Dr. M. J. Jenkins were the prime movers in the organization of the Madison County Medical Association, of which Doctor Ewing became the first president. He also was a member of the Ohio State Medical Society. Dr. A. Sells, another Pleasant Valley practitioner, was raised near Dublin, in Franklin county. He married Angalia Halin, of Columbus, Ohio, who long survived him. Dr. A. Haner was a practitioner in Plain City for years. He also was an active business man, and stood well in the profession. Dr. A. Carpenter was for a few years located at Amity. He married Lucy Jane, daughter of Asa and Thankful Con- verse.
Dr. M. J. Jenkins, second son of Rev. Thomas and Anne Jenkins, was born in Aleramman, South Wales, November 15, 1853, at which place and neighboring towns the first ten years of his life were spent. In 1864, he came to America with his fa- ther, on temporary business, but his father, becoming infatuated with the country, left his son in charge of friends at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, while he returned to Europe for the balance of his family. Returning to America, his father became the pastor for seven years of the Welsh Congregational church at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, removing thence to Radnor, Delaware county, Ohio, where he became pastor of the church of the same denomination, retaining that connection for ten years, at the end of which time he removed to Sharon. Pennsylvania, and thence, in May, 1881, to Waterville. Oneida county, New York. In 1873 M. J. Jenkins entered Ohio Wesleyan University, where he remained for three years, having previously prepared himself for college in the high schools of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and Radnor, Ohio. He was graduated from Miami Medical College at Cincinnati on March 1, 1878, and located at Plain City on May 1 of the same year. Doctor Jenkins was active in organizing the Madison County Medical Society, and was the first permanent secretary of the same. He was married, December 24, 1879. to May Beem, of Richwood. Ohio, a cultured lady and eldest daughter of Owen and Ellen Beem.
Dr. F. M. Mattoon was born on June 21, 1842. in Genoa, Delaware county. Ohio, and was educated at Central College. He commenced the study of medicine in July, 1869, under Doctor Andrus, of Westerville, Olio, and attended a course of lectures at Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1870, but remained a pupil under Doctor Andrus until the spring of 1872, when he entered the office of Dr. Davis W. Halder- man, Columbus, Ohio, where he remained until he was graduated at Starling Medical College on February 23. 1873. He located in Belle Centre, Logan county, this state, in April, 1873, remaining there three years, at the end of which time he removed to Piqua. Ohio, and thence, in 1877. to the Darby plains, stopping at Unionville Center for three years, at the end of which time, in April. 1880, he located at Plain City. He married, July 29, 1875, Miriam R. Lecky, of Millersburg. Ohio, who was graduated, with the class of 1857. from the Ohio Wesleyan Female College at Delaware, Ohio.
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JEFFERSON.
Dr. David Wilson, who was born in Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1789, did not study medicine until past middle lite, at which period he became a pupil of Dr. Robert Houston. of South Charleston, Ohio. Hle commenced practice at West Jefferson, this county, December 1, 1831, and continued in active practice abont twen- ty-five years. He died of apoplexy at his home in Jefferson, July 15. 1877. in the eighty-eighth year of his age.
Dr. Jennett Sintson, boru in Scituate, Massachusetts, September 7. 1807, was a pupil of Dr. John A. Turner, of Zanesville, Ohio. In the winter of 1836-37. he attended one course of lectures at Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, and came directly from the college to Madison county, locating at Jefferson, where he resided until his death. September 23. 1861, aged fifty-eight years.
Dr. Ezra Bliss had practiced in Vershire. Vermont, for several years before coming to Madison county. Ile was twice married, having had twelve children by his first wife and four by his second. of whom Webb Bliss was the youngest. Doctor Bliss located at Jefferson about 1846 and died there about 1852.
Dr. John Mccullough, who was born on January 10, 1805. in Washington county, Pennsylvania, studied medicine in eastern Ohio, and afterward practiced medicine for several years in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. He moved to Jefferson, this county, in 1848, where he continued to practice until about 1872, when age and failing health com- pelled him to desist. He was married in 1827 to Abba Brower and died on December 26. 1880. in Springfield, Ohio.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Crabb, son of Rev. Henderson and Jemimah (Downing) Crabb, was born in Amity, this county, and studied with Dr. Jennett Stutson of Jeffer- son. He was graduated from Starling Medical College and practiced a few years after 1850 in Jefferson. removing thence to South Charleston, Ohio, and afterward to Wash- ington. Iowa. He was a colonel in the I'nion army, and was taken prisoner in his first battle. that of Bellmont, Missouri. His last days were spent in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Doctor Johnson, from abont 1851 to 1854. was a popular physician. who died in Jefferson in the last named year.
Dr. D. W. Seal, Doctor Archer and Doctor Davis, all eclectics, practiced at Jeffer- son for a short time from about 1852. Doctor Seal created the impression of being a man of ability and general intelligence. Ile was tall, with an intellectual countenance. high forehead, and a cultured gentleman. He had a wife and several children and died abont 1857 of consumption.
Dr. Thomas W. Forshee practiced at Jefferson about 1854 to 1857. He was a graduate in medicine, and moved to Amity. from which place he went into the army as an officer in the Fourth Ohio Cavalry. He resigned during the war and became an assistant surgeon to some regiment, later moving to Illinois.
Dr. John Colliver was born in Kentucky on December 6, 1811, and came to Ohio as early as 1840. In 1842 he lived over in the Darby plains, on one of James Wilson's farms. It is said of him that he neglected to try to save his large crop of hemp that he had sown. but that he would sit down on the hearth in his log cabin, with his back to the jamb, and alternate until the "wee sma' hours" of night between his book and an effort to keep the faggots burning bright enough to see to read. He subse- quently studied medicine with Dr. Daniel Bell, of Somerford township, this county, and located at Mechanicsburg. where he practiced for several years. He moved to Amity about 1852. and was there in 1856. when the smallpox got hold of his family. One daughter died and the entire family became victims to the disease. In 1857 he moved to Lafayette, this county, and in 1858 located at Jefferson. He was long remem- bered as a genial old gentleman, and honorable as a colleague in the profession, being
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