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have been born of this union. Dr. three years. Ile came from Wash- Way is a member of the Grand Army . ington, Guernsey County. Dr. Ram- of the Republic and of the Noble sey, a competent and scholarly phy. sician practiced in this place about eight years and was highly esteemed. County . Medical Society. He was one of the original members of the latter in 1869 and has served contin- uously as its secretary ever since.
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DR. W. S. BEBOUT, a prominent young physician, is a native of Athens County, born in 1852. He was edu- cated at Beverly College, Washing- ton County ; studied medicine under Dr. P. II. Kelly of Waterford; at- tended the Columbus Medical College and graduated with the class of 1880. Ile began his professional career in Caldwell where he has a large prac- tice. Dr. Bebout is a Republican and has served one term as coroner of the county. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married in 1878 to Miss M. A Keever of Washington County and they have three children.
Corwin E. Bugher, M. D., was born in Blue Bells, Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1860. Ile received a collegi- ate education and studied medicine under the tutelage of Joseph Run- soheff, M. D., F. R. C. S., who occu- pies the chair of descriptive anatomy and clinical surgery in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. He took one course at the Michigan Medical College at Ann Arbor, thence to the Ohio Medical College where he graduated in the class of 1887. In April of the same year he established himself in the practice of his profession at Caldwell.
The first physician at Hiramsburgh was Dr. George who located there prior to 1836 and remained two or
DR. NATHAN P. COPE was for sev- eral years engaged in medical prac- tice at Iliramsburgh. He was born in Harrison County, July 15, 1815, and was a member of the Society of Friends. In 1841 he married Jane Black. who is still living, near Iliramsburgh. They reared a family of eight children. Dr. Cope settled at Iliramsburgh in 1847 and remained until his death, in March, 1868.
A number of young physicians have been brief residents of Ilirams- burgh.
DR. JOHN FINLEY, of Hiramsburgh. is a native of this county, where his parents were early settlers. lle was born in 1845, and received his med- ical education at Baltimore and Cin- cinnati, where he graduated with the degree of M. D. IIe has been en- gaged in the practice of medicine at Hiramsburgh since 1877, and has been very successful. He has been twice married and has one child. Dr. Finley is a Democrat, a member of i the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Masonic order.
The first physician to locate in Mount Ephraim, was Dr. Edmund Mechem from Belmont County, who settled about 1842, and remained a few years. About a year after he came he was joined by his brother, Dr. Jesse E. Mechem, who remained about ten years. Dr. Edmund Me- chem went West ; his brother fol- lowed him in 1853, and is now living
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in Kansas. They were both well-read physicians. Dr. Jesse had a large practice and was very successful.
DR. JOHN KELLER, of Mount Eph- raim, was born in what is now Cen- ter Township, Noble County, Decem- ber 26, 1822, and is a son of Levi Keller, an early settler of the county. After receiving a common school ed- ucation he studied medicine under Dr. Jesse E. Mechem, whom he suc- ceeded in practice in 1853. He was the contemporary of Drs. David and Samuel McGarry, James F. Capell and other physicians of the county. He is probably the oldest physi- cian now in the county. His prac- tice was large for many years. Of late he has partially retired from practice. Dr. Keller is a pronounced temperance man and bears an unsul- lied reputation. He was married in
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ing and selling live stock. In 1838 he married Miss Harriet Black. Their children are Mary C. (Morris), Kansas; Malvina J., deceased; and Mary E. (Uhlrich). He read medi- cine under Dr. William II. Dew, of Randolph County, Va., and began its practice in 1845. In 1855 he came to Ohio, locating near Sarahs- ville, whence he removed to Mount Ephraim, his present home, in 1862. He has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. Ile has served as coroner and justice of the peace.
The first settled physician in IIar- riettsville was Dr. Baldridge, who came prior to 1849 and was only a brief resident.
time. Returning to Noble County he was elected sheriff, removed to Sarahsville, and held that office until 1855. He sold out to Dr. Wilson. In 1857-8 he again practiced in Har- riettsville, as a partner of Dr. Martin, to whom he sold out in 1858. Dr. Mason then went west and is now in Oregon. Ile was accounted a good physician.
Dr. Wilson, who succeeded to Dr.
. sheriff, was of the eclectic school.
DR. MICHAEL H. NEVILLE, one of , Ile returned to his former home in the old medical practitioners of No- ble County. is a native of Virginia. ! Born in that State in 1812, at the age 1 of nineteen he began his business
1 Belmont County after a few years. Dr. Patterson was here a short time, among the early physicians. Dr. Curtis was here for a brief time, life as a clerk in a store. After | later. Dr. Nelson Walters came to about three years he engaged in buy- | Harriettsville prior to 1857 and re-
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DR. FRANK M. MASON came to Harriettsville soon after Dr. Bald- ridge. He went to California in 1851 to Sarah Ann. daughter of 1849 and remained there a short John Miley, an early settler of the county, and is the father of Elizabeth J. (deceased), Margaret E., Franklin V., Jefferson J., Arithela. B., John W., Hester A. and Mary D. Dr. Keller has served in all the town- ship offices, including that of justice of the peace. He is a Democrat and has been a candidate for the offices of county auditor and representative to the legislature, but was defeated, his : in the county.
party being as usual in the minority , Mason's practice while the latter was
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mained several years. He was reared in Sharon Township and studied medicine under Dr. John McGarry. Hle now lives on a farm near Elba.
DR WILLIAM G. MARTIN practiced in Harriettsville from 1860 until his death, April 8, 1882. Ile was born in Monroe County, February 23, 1838. He passed his boyhood on a farm, receiving a common-school education. He studied medicine under Dr. George Mason of Stafford, and began its practice in Harrietts- ville. He was kind, charitable and much esteemed both professionally and socially. Ile was married in 1861 to Margaret Pryor, of Elk Township, who bore him two sons. Dr. Martin was a prominent Odd Fellow and served as district deputy grand marshal. Dr. J. W. Brock succeeded him in practice and is still in Harriettsville.
DR. ATKINSON MARTIN was born in Monroe County in 1832; brought up on a farm; attended the common schools and Woodsfield academy ; read medicine under Dr. W. T. Sin- clair, of Woodsfield; went to Kan- sas in 1855 and began practice there. In 1856-7 he attended the Cleveland, Ohio, medical college, and in 1857 settled at Ilarriettsville, where he remained three years. He then went to Caldwell, where he served as deputy auditor under George Bell, and at the same time practiced med- icine. He was also in the mercan- tile business in Caldwell for two years. In 1866 he went to Omaha, returning to Caldwell in 1870 and remaining until 1878. Ile after- wards resided in Sharon and Dexter,
and in 1882 returned to Harrietts- ville, his present residence. In 1861 he married Martha Dudley, of Olive Township. Two of his children are living - Erwin J. and Elizabeth.
DR. J. W. BROCK has resided and practiced in Harriettsville since March, 1882. He was born at An- tioch, Monroe County, in 1850; edu- cated in the common schools and at the National Normal School, Leba- non, Ohio; studied medicine under Dr. G. W. Mason, of Stafford, Ohio. He attended medical lectures at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati ; began practice at Calais, Monroe County, in 1877; moved thence to Elba, Washington County, and from Elba to Harriettsville. Dr. Brock was married in 1881 to Minnie Seidler, of Elba, Washington County. He is a member of the Odd Fellows' Lodge and of the Noble County Medical Society.
DR. J. II. WILLIAMS has practiced medicine in Harriettsville since June, 1885. Ilis boyhood was spent chiefly on a farm. Ile was educated at Summerfield and studied medicine under his father, Dr. J. B. Williams, of Monroe County. He graduated from the Columbus Medical College in the spring of 1883, and entered upon active practice in 1885. He is the partner of Dr. J. W. Brock.
The first physician in Carlisle was Dr. L. S. Cummins, who came in 1839 and remained until 1850, when he removed to California. He was a competent physician and had a large practice. Dr. McPherson, from Guernsey County, followed Dr. Cum- mins and remained six or seven years.
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Dr. John McGarry, son of Dr. David McGarry, one of the pioneer physi- cians of the county, next practiced here. Dr. Richard H. Kean, from Monroe County, resided in Carlisle a number of years. He was a success- ful doctor. Several other physicians Dr. A. L. Dorr is the present resident physician.
have been brief residents of the place. ' other physician. Ile came from
The early medical practice of the southeastern part of the county was largely attended to by Dr. Brown, of Macksburgh. and Doctors McKee and McGarry, of Olive. Dr. Miles Ogle, who now resides near Dudley, was the first settled physician of Middle- burg, where he had a good practice. He remained about fifteen years. IIe was reared in the county. Dr. J. II. Tilton was in Middleburg a number of years. He came from Belmont County. After leaving Middleburg he practiced in Sharon, Caldwell and Batesville, finally moving to Illinois. Dr. Felix O. Neptune, now of Sharon, practiced in Middleburg several years and was successful. Several physi- cians have practiced here at different dates, each remaining but a short time. Dr. A. Andrus, of Columbus, Ohio, is a young graduate who set- tled in Middleburg in 1886, is the present resident physician.
DR. MILES OGLE, who now lives on a farm near Dudley, practiced medi- cine for some years in Middleburg. Ile was succeeded in 1867 by Dr. James T. Brown, who remained four years.
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At East Union Dr. Samuel McGar ry was the first practicing physician. Next came Dr. J. II. Hilton. Each
of these remained but a short time. Dr. Daugherty practiced several years with good success. Dr. D. II. Taylor, a competent physician, prac- ticed two years, then removed to Wheeling, his present location. Dr. Amos Day was here longer than any Watertown, Washington County. He went to Senecaville and thence to Olive, where he died. Other doc- tors have practiced here for brief per- iods. Dr. G. T. Tingle is the pres- ent physician.
The medical men of Sharon, Olive, Beverly and Macksburgh attended to the wants of Jackson Township in early years. Dr. Bowen of Water- ford, Dr. McGarry of Olive, and Dr. Brown of Macksburgh, each had con- siderable practice in this Township. About 1850 Dr. Jacob Shaub located at Jacksonville (Crooked Tree), but he was only a brief resident. Then came William Boyd, who was a good physician and had a large practice. Ile also carried on the mercantile business for several years. Dr. Boyd , died in the West. Dr. Black came later and was the last settled physi- cian at Crooked Tree.
JOHN W. KRAPS, M. D., is among the oldest physicians of Noble Coun- ty, and occupies a foremost position among the leading practitioners in this section of the State. His family are of German extraction.
John Kraps, the progenitor of the family in this country, and the pater- grand father of the doctor, was a soldier of the Revolution and at the close of that great struggle settled in Maryland, where he married and
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where Jacob Kraps, the father of John W., was born. From Maryland the practice until 1863, when he entered family removed to Ohio, taking their residence in Jefferson County, where John W. was born in 1826. Ilis father was an itinerant Methodist minister and unable to give to his
Dale, Ohio, where he was in active
the service as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the rank of major. With this organization he remained about four months, when he was assigned to the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The doctor soon
son the educational advantages he so much desired, but by precept and ex- ample he instilled in his mind those , attained an enviable reputation as principles which have since been the a surgeon, and was detailed for the more intricate and difficult branches of the science. He was at 1 the battles of Monocacy, Monticello, Red Mountain, Columbia, Selma, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., and Colum- bus, Ga. After the close of the war controlling factors in his career. ! IIis mother nee Elizabeth Beal, an es- timable lady, was of German parent- age but born in Maryland, her grand- father, Alexander Clancy, was a revo. lutionary soldier. But little is known of his history further than that he ; he located in Caldwell, where for was an early settler of Ohio, where twelve years he had a large and lucra- tive practice. In 1878 he removed he died at an advanced age. The early life of Doctor Kraps was not to Dexter City where he now is unlike that of most boys of that day. engaged. Ile is an acknowledged IIe acquired largely through his own | authority on everything pertaining efforts a good English education, and to surgical science especially surgi- was extremely anxious to enter the ' cal gynecology, while in the gen- Military Academy at West Point, ; eral practice none have attained thinking a military life would be con- a greater degree of success, and genial to his tastes, but in deference : in all matters involving a thorough to the wishes of his father he aban- knowledge of medical science he is doned his project and chose the prac- ; considered an oracle. Dr. Kraps tice of medicine as his life's vocation. I is a gentleman to whom the Latin In 1849 he became the student of an phrase " Faber suæe fortuna" is eminent physician of Zanesville, , eminently applicable. In early life Ohio, completing his preparatory he was dependent upon his own re- sources, and through his own efforts he has won success in all departments of life. In 1848, he was married to course he entered the Cincinnati Col- | lege of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he graduated with honor in the spring of 1853, and soon after | Miss Martha E. McNabb of Zanes- established himself in the practice of ville. By this union, there were five his profession at Gaysport, Ohio, | children, Jacob, Francis, Charles W. where in a short time he found him | Sarah E., John HI. and Lois P .; the self in the possession of a large prac-' three last are deceased. In 1870, tice. Thence he removed to Rural | Mrs. Kraps died, and in 1873 the doc-
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tor was again married to Miss Susan ! Ohio, in 1842. At the age of thirteen L., daughter of Doctor Erwin N. Gibbs, an eminent physician of Cald- well, Ohio. The doctor is a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic.
SAMUEL G. WISHARD, M. D., is the son of John R. and Eliza J. (Adair) Wishard, and was born in Winches- ter, Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1843. In early life he followed teaching. He entered the army in June, 1861. in Company F, Twenty sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mus- tered out as first sergeant in De- cember, 1865. Ile was in the battles at Pittsburgh Landing, Perryville, Laverne, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Re- saca, Adairsville, New Hope Church, Burnt Hickory, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy, Colum- bia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nash- ville. After the close of the war his regiment was sent to Texas in the Fourth Army Corps. In 1865 he mar- ried Miss Susie Gray, of Washington County. Two children, Proctor and Nellie, were born of this union ; the latter died in 1884 at the age of ten months. Mrs. Wishard is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Wishard graduated at the old Cleveland Medical College in 1874. He is a member of the Noble County Medical Society; is located at Dexter City where he has a large practice. Ile is a member of the order of Odd Fellows, and holds the office of sur- , house in the village. During the geon in the Grand Army of the Re- public post at Dexter City.
his mother ched, and from that time he was dependent upon his own re- sources ; he acquired a good common- school education, taught school, and i at the age of twenty began the study of medicine in the office of W. G. Martin, of Harriettsville. IIe passed a creditable examination before the censors of Monroe County, and in 1865 established himself in the prac- tice of his profession in Dexter City where he remained until 1879 at which time he was elected to the of- fice of county treasurer, which posi- tion he filled creditably for two terms. In the autumn of 1885 he formed a co-partnership with W. H. Bush, and the firm established the Caldwell woolen mills. In 1864 the doctor was married to M ss Lovina Pryor; they have five children living.
DR. G. T. TINGLE was born in Cam- bridge, Ohio, in 1842. Ilis father, Dr. J. P. Tingle, is one of the oldest practitioners of Guernsey County, having been in continuous practice since 1838. Both father and son were born in the same house and in the same room. This house has quite a remarkable history. During the War of 1812 it was a recruiting office, and the first court held in Guernsey County was held in it. The Tingle family were originally from Virginia. George R. Tingle, the progenitor of the family in the State, onme to Cam- bridge in 1806 and built the third War of 1812 he held a captain's com- mission. The doctor studied medi- cine with his father, and attended -
DR. P. M. McVAY was born in Franklin Township, Monroe County, Starling Medical College, Columbus,
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Ohio. In spring of 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-second Regiment, Ohio Infantry. Company A, of which his father was acting sur- geon. In October of 1864 he was discharged in order to enter the hos- pital department. Ile began prac- tice in 1866 at Otsego. Muskingum
DR. W. R. BoaGs, of Keiths, is a native of Noble County, where his parents reared a family of eight chil- County, Ohio, and in 1881 came to ' dren. He was born at Sharon, East Union, Noble County, Ohio. In 1867 the doctor was married to Miss Amanda Shrigley, of Adamsville, Muskingum County, Ohio; they have four children, George, Bertie, Walter and Lina. The doctor is a successful practitioner and has a large and luc- rative practice, and is a member of the ; Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Grand Army of the Republic, and a staunch Republican.
DR. JAMES II. ABBOTT began the practice of medicine at Kennonsburgh in 1872, and has since resided there. Hle was born in Beverly, Ohio, in 1844, and in early life taught school and gave instruction in music. He began the study of medicine in 1866, and in 1872 graduated from the Miami
Medical College, Cincinnati. Ile married Lydia A. Law in 1874. and is the father of three children. Dr. Abbott served in the late war from May, 1864, until the close.
March 23, 1854. Ile followed teach- ing, and in 1883 graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. He settled at Keiths, where he is now in successful prac- tice. Dr. Boggs is an Odd Fellow and a Democrat. He was married in 1876 to Sarah A. Barkley, of this county, and they have one child, Ola.
DR. JAMES T. BROWN, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., settled in Fulda in 1874 and was the first physician in the place. He still resides in Fulda, having a good practice. Dr. Brown came to Middleburg, in this county in 1867, and practiced until 1871, when he returned to Pittsburgh and remained three years.
CHAPTER XIV. THE COUNTY PRESS.
GROWTH AND INFLUENCE OF MODERN JOURNALISM - CONTRAST BETWEEN COUNTRY PAPERS OF THE PAST AND OF THE PRESENT - HISTORY OF THE WHIG AND REPUBLICAN PAPERS IN NOBLE COUNTY - "THE INVESTIGATOR" PUBLISHED AT OLIVE IN 1851 - ITS PART IN THE COUNTY SEAT CONTROVERSY - DESCRIPTION OF AN EARLY COPY -- ADVERTISERS AND ITEMS - CHANGES OF OWNERSHIP - "THE NOBLE COUNTY PATRIOT " AT SARAHIS- VILLE - " THE CHRISTIAN HARBINGER "- " THE REPUBLICAN" AND THE "CONSOLI- DATED REPUBLICAN "- "THE NOBLE COUNTY REPUBLICAN" AT CALDWELL- SUCCES- SIVE OWNERS- ITS PRESENT CONDITION - THE " CALDWELL JOURNAL," A NEW RE- PUBLICAN PAPER FOUNDED IN 1883 - DEMOCRATIC PAPERS OF THE COUNTY -THE DEMOCRATIC COURIER AT SARAHSVILLE IN 1851 -CHANGES IN NAME AND OWNERSHIP - REMOVAL TO CALDWELL - SUSPENSION - " THE SPECTATOR"- " THE CITIZENS' PRESS " " THE CALDWELL PRESS" ITS PRESENT MANAGEMENT - " THE NOBLE COUNTY DEMOCRAT" - BRIEF NOTICES OF FORMER EDITORS,
A S an adjunct of modern civiliza- I found its place as the chronicler of tion there is no more potent i local news, the protector and de- fender of home interests ; and recog nizes the fact that its mission and that of the great journals of the day are totally distinct, separated by well-defined lines. This change has caused the country papers to be more liberally patronized, and given them a degree of influence which they never could have attained under the old method.
factor than the newspaper press. In nothing evincing the spirit of progress has there been greater advancement during the last half century than in American journalism. Fifty years ago the country had few newspapers that could be considered paying prop- erty ; the metropolitan journals de- voted about as much space to foreign as to domestic news, while country weeklies seemed -to consider that which happened at home as of no importance whatever, and imitated the larger journals in style and con- tents. The telegraph and railroads, assisted by that enterprising spirit which is inseparably connected with successful journalistic management, have wrought most gratifying re- sults. The weekly newspaper whose support and circulation are confined to a single county no longer ambi- tiously apes the city daily. It has
The first county paper published by Whigs was the Noble County Investigator, begun at Olive in July, 1851, by Oliver P. Wharton and Richard II. Taneyhill. The Investi- gator, though both its proprietors were Whigs, claimed to be inde- pendent in politics, and devoted itself to the all-absorbing question of the removal of the county seat from Sarahsville, strongly antagonizing the Sarahsville interest, and advocating the election of the " people's " county
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ticket, made up from both parties. An early copy of the paper - No. 12 of the first volume-has been examined by the writer, and as a brief summary of its contents may be interesting to modern readers, we present it here.
The Investigator was a well-printed six-column folio, bearing the motto, "Our principles embody the right." The copy to which reference has been made bears the date, "Olive, Ohio, Monday, October 6, 1851." The , $4; mercantile advertisements, not
first column of the first page is headed by a cut of a pair of balances beneath which is the legend, " justice knows not friends." This column contains an editorial on the subject, " Is Noble County entitled to separ- ate representation ?" This question the writer answers affirmatively, then proceeds to demolish the argu- ments of the Ohio Statexman which has expressed a contrary opinion. I The article is a scathing and well- worded argument. The remainder | of the first page (which contains no : advertisements) is made up of mis cellaneous selections, including a " poet's corner." A column and a half of the second page and two col- umns of the last page are occupied by " laws of Ohio," passed at the last session of the general assembly. The second page also contains market reports and an editorial notice, an- nouncing the death of Dr. David Mc- Garry, sen .. who is spoken of in the highest terms. Election day (Octo- ber 14) was then near at hand and local politics were evidently the all- engrossing topic. The Investigator denounces the Democratic Courier
and the Democratic county officers unsparingly in the editorials and communications which fill the re- mainder of the second page and nearly a column of the third. The advertising rates were low and the patronage fair. The terms were $1 per square of fourteen lines or less for three insertions and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion ; a card of four to seven lines, includ- ing a copy of the paper, one year for
exceeding one-fourth of a column, $8 per year. Among the advertise- ments are several notices of sheriff's sales, signed by J. C. Schofield, sheriff ; Henry Wolf, R. McKee and | James McCune, call on the creditors to settle; D. McKee makes a similar request and adds the following quaint rhymes :
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