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Dr. A. T. Quinn, now practicing medicine in Wilmington, where he lo- cated in 1864, is a native of Highland County, Ohio, born December 16, 1837, to parents Rev. Isaac Quinn, M. D., and Cynthia (Witten) Quinn, natives of Virginia. Our subject is a classical scholar, having graduated at the Univer- sity at Athens, Ohio, in 1859. He then studied medicine and graduated in the Ohio Medical College in 1862, and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army, where he served until 1864. Dr. W. S. Farabee, of New Antioch, located in that place in 1866. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1833, and when nino years old came to Ohio. He attended Jectures at the Cincin- nati School of Medicine and Surgery in 1865-66, and entered upon the prac- tice of that science in Ross County, of this State, with a brother.
Dr. G. T. Ewbanks commenced the practice of medicine in the county at Port William in 1868. He is a graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of the city of Cincinnati, and has since practiced that system. At the breaking- out of the war, Dr. Ewbanks was a citizen of the State of Indiana, and from that State volunteered in the defense of the Union.
Dr. A. J. Gaskins, of Sabina, located in the village in the year 1868. He is the son of Dr. John Gaskins, who is now practicing in Clermont County, whither he emigrated at an early day. Our subject read medicine with his father, and attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, graduating in 1869, one year after locating in Clinton County.
Dr. B. Farquhar, of New Burlington, is the son of Jonah and Elizabeth Farquhar, natives of Maryland, from whence they emigrated in 1814. Our subject's preparation for the medical profession extended over a period embrac- ing the years 1866. 1867 and 1868. His preceptor was Dr. Loar, of this county, from whose office he entered the P. M. Institute of Cincinnati, and there graduated.
Dr. J. McKecknie, a native of Maine, settled in Ohio with his father in 1847, removing to Monroe, Butler County. The Doctor is a graduate of the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, having completed his course of lectures there in 1861. Eight years afterward, he located in this county, and began the practice of medicine at Wilmington, where he has since been engaged in the same profession. His grandfather was an Englishman, and by profession a surveyor. He emigrated to America and settled in Maine, and there became an extensive land-ownor. Our subject married Julia Hadley, of Clinton County.
Dr. W. R. Morton, of Reesville, located as a practitioner of medicine in Centerville in the spring of 1870. He remained in that place until the fall of 1874, and romoved to Reesville, where he has since been engaged in practice. He is a native of the county, read medicine at Centerville with Dr. D. B. Mory, and attended lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College.
Dr. Z. Garland, son of T. S. Garland, M. D., whose sketch is given in connection with this chapter, was born in the county, read medicine with his father, and attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, since which he has been engaged in active practice at Clarksville. -
Dr. S. B. Lightner located at Sabina in 1871, and has since been a phy-
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sician of the place. Heis a native of Greene County, Penn., born May 4, 1839, of parents George and Mary (Woods) Lightner, the former a native of Mary- land, and the latter of Pennsylvania. He read medicine with Dr. E. H. Cary, of Nineveh, Penn., 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. Before locating at Sabina, Dr. Lightner practiced one year at New Vienna, and three years in the city of Cincinnati.
Dr. R. Lytle, of Sabina, located at that point in December, 1871, and has since practiced medicine there. His father was Dr. James Lytle, a native of Pennsylvania, with whom the son read medicine. He then attended lectures, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and settled in Fayotto County, this State, and was for three years attendant upon the inmates of the County Infirmary.
Dr. Nathan N. Sidwell, who located as a physician and surgeon in Wil- mington in 1872, is a native of Georgetown, Brown Co., Ohio, where he was born October 18, 1840. His father was Dr. James Sidwell, a Kentuckian, and his mother was Lucinda (Newkirk) Sidwell, a native of Ohio. Our sub- ject read medicine in his native village, and subsequently graduated at both the Eclectic Medical College and Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, at the former in the winter of 1860-61, and at the latter in the spring of 1871. In April, 1861, Dr. Sidwell enlisted in Company B, Twelfth Regiment Ohio Vol- unteer Infantry, and in January, 1863, he was appointed Assistant Surgeon, in which capacity he served until the summer of 1864. Before locating in this county, Dr. Sidwell practiced in Warren, Hamilton and other counties.
Dr. George M. Ireland, of Wilmington, located at that point and began the practice of medicine in 1876. He was born in Knox County, Ohio, March 1, 1850. His parents were David and Susan (Hoke) Ireland, natives of Penn- sylvania. Dr. Ireland read medicine with Dr. E. M. Hall, of Frederickstown, and graduated in the school of Homoeopathy at Cleveland, in the class of 1876.
Dr. G. W. Wiro, since 1876 a practicing physician of Wilmington, was . born in the State of Indiana, and educated at Asbury University, read medi- cine with Dr. S. E. Munford, of Princeton, Ind., and attended lectures at Miami Medical College, graduating in 1876, at the age of twenty-four years.
Dr. J. F. Bowers, a native of this county, was born in the village of New Vienna in the year 1842, where Squire C. C. Bowers, his father, settled about the year 1840, coming from New Jersey. The son read medicine with Dr. Johnson, of New Vienna, and completed his medical education at Miami Medical College, Ohio, graduating in 1867. From this period until 1876. Dr. Bowers was engaged in practice in various points in different States, when, during the last-named year, he located at Port William, where he has since re- mained. He served his country in its late trial.
Dr. John H. Stephens, of Centerville, located there in 1876. He is the son of Peter J. and Charlotte Stephens, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of North Carolina. He read medicine in Port William with Dr. Ewbanks, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical School of Cincinnati in 1876, and first located at Buena Vista, in Fayotte County, Ohio.
Dr. T. J. Savage located at Centerville in 1879. His parents were James and Francis Savage, natives of Virginia and Kentucky, respectively. He read medicine with Dr. E. Judkins, of New Lexington, Highland Co., Ohio, at- tended lectures, and graduated at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Sur- gery in 1879.
Dr. E. W. Brown located in the practice of medicine in the village of
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New Vienna in June, 1879. He was born at Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio, Octo- ber 21, 1856, of parents S. R. and Sarah (Duvall) Brown, natives of Ireland. Ho read medicine under the instruction of Dr. S. S. Salisbury, of Washington Court House, and subsequently graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia.
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Dr. D. M. Barrere, of New Antioch, is a native of Highland County, Ohio; was a medical student of Dr. H. Whistler, and attended Miami Medical Col - loge, Cincinnati, and there graduated in the spring of 1878. His first practice was at Sardinia, Brown Co., Ohio, from which place he came to Clinton County.
Dr. George B. Crawford, a physician and surgeon of Lumberton, settled in that village and began practicing his profession in 1880. He read medicine with Dr. Mitchel, and subsequently graduated in the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati. He practiced some time at Alpha, in Greene County, before set- tling in Clinton County.
Dr. C. Briggs located at Cuba in 1881. He read medicine in this county, and graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1881.
Dr. Nelson B. Vanwinkle located at Westboro in April, 1878. He read madicine in the office of Dr. H. Whistler, of New Market; then attended two fall courses of lectures at Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, where, in the spring of 1878, he graduated.
Dr. Edward Stevens, of Clarksville, is the son of Dr. E. B. Stevens, of Lebanon, and the grandson of the late Dr. Joshua Stevens, of the same village. He was born in the city of Cincinnati; read medicine with his father, and subsequently attended lectures at the college of medicine, Syracuse University; also at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, graduating at the latter in March, 1881, and locating in the above-named village in April of that year.
Dr. Daniel .B. Mory, Jr., of Wilmington, a partner of Dr. Daniel B. Mory, Sr., is a native of the county; read medicine with his father, whose sketch is given in this chapter, and graduated at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, in March, 1882.
Drs. Herron and C. Cole, of Martinsville, have been engaged in practice in that locality for several years past; also are now practicing in Clinton County.
Dr. Creighton, of New Burlington, has been a practitioner for several years.
Drs. Simeon, and C. Watkins & Son, of Blanchester, are of the eclectic system. Dr. G. R. Conard, of New Vienna, a native of Indiana, who in that State was for several years engaged in active practice, and Dr. Thomas Quinn, now a physician of New Vienna, a graduate of Miami College, Cincinnati.
The following-named physicians have, at some period in the history of the county, practiced medicine here: John Quinn; J. C. Walker, a native of the county and a medical student of Dr. Jones, now engaged in practice in In- dianapolis; R. T. Short; S. S. Bentley; H. B. Stevens, son of the lato Dr. Joshua Stevens, of Lebanon; A. J. Martin, D. C. Harrison, A. L. Dryden, W. W. Canny, D. Gould.
CLINTON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
In the early days of the medical profession in this locality, the physicians of the Fourth Congressional District formed themselves into a society and met for the discussion of medical and surgical questions, and to consider matters that would tend to elevate the profession, broaden and develop their capacities and make them the better qualified for usefulness in that field. In the absence of any records of this society, we are able to state that it existed only. From the Wilmington Argus of December, 1824, it appears that among
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prominent members at that time' were Drs. Loammi Rigdon, Isaac Telfair, Samuel Price and Jacob Kirby.
The medical society (proper) of the county was not organized until the fall of 1851. At a meeting of physicians held November 1, 1851, A. T. Davis was appointed President pro tem., and G. W. Owens, Secretary. Drs. A. Brooke, I. C. Williams, T. W. McArthur and A. Jones were appointed a com- mittece to draft a constitution, which was presented, adopted and signed by the following-named persons:
A. Jones, A. Brooke, I. C. Williams, William G. Owens, A. T. Davis, T. W. McArthur, R. T. Short, G. F. Birdsall, I. C. Walker, W. W. Sheppard, L. A. Fairchild, J. K. Sparks, L. B. Welch (dontist), D. B. Mory, S. S. Bent- ley, H. B. Stevens and A. J. Martin. Officers as follows were then elected for the ensuing year: President, Aquila Jones; Vice President, A. Brooke; Sec- rotary, I. C. Williams; Treasurer, L. W. McArthur. At this point we are compelled to plead our inability to furnish the officers of the society from 1851 to 1873, and from the latter period to 1877, owing to the non-existence of the records:
Officers for 1873: President, A. T. Davis; Vice President, D. B. Mory; Secretary, A. T. Johnson; Treasurer, S. B. Lightner.
Officers from 1877 to 1882 inclusive:
1877-President, A. T. Davis; Vice President, Aquila Jones; Secretary, S. B. Lightner; Treasurer, M. J. Hormell.
1878-President, W. W. Sheppard; Vice President, J. B. McKecknie; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, M. J. Hormell.
1879-President, W. W. Sheppard; Vice President, D. Gould; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, R. T. Trimble.
1880-President, Aquila Jones; Vice President, R. T. Trimble; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, G. W. Wiro. Board of Censors, A. T. Davis, G. R. Conard, D. M. Barrere.
1881-President, Aquila Jones; Vice President, R. T. Trimble; Secretary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, G. W. Wire. Board of Censors, A. T. Davis, G. R. Conard, D. M. Barrere.
1882-President, R. T. Trimble; Vice President, E. S. Stevens; Secre- tary, N. H. Sidwell; Treasurer, G. W. Wire. Board of Censors, A. T. Davis, G. R. Conard, D. M. Barrere. K
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CHAPTER XIII.
THE PRESS OF CLINTON COUNTY.
TN Clinton County lives a man who has for a number of years taken great pains to gather into his possession copies of old newspapers and various other articles, and we believe he succeeded in mustering at least one number of every paper ever published in Wilmington, which has been the birthplace and the burial-place of many an aspiring sheet. This gentleman is Samuel Walk- er, who resides in the township of Union; and to him we are indebted for a nearly complete list of the papers of Wilmington, with the names of their publishers, taken from the papers themselves and given in the order in which their existence dawned on a waiting world. The items which appear under them have, with some exceptions, been taken by the writer from the numbers placed at his disposal by Mr. Walker.
The first paper established in the county was started at Wilmington, pos- sibly in the winter of 1814-15, by Gaddis & Abrams, and was known as the True American. Mr. Gaddis is said by some to have removed to Wilmington in the spring* of 1814, and his press was shipped by way of the Ohio River, being a long time in reaching its destination. William Halo, who was keep- ing store for his brother Samuel, judged from recollection that the paper was started in the winter, and, as Mr. Walker found remnants of this paper bear- ing date of 1815, it is quite conclusive that if it began in the winter, it must have been established at the date first given. In one piece unearthed by Mr. Walker was found news from France to June 4, 1815, which stated that Bona- parte was still at Paris, and active hostilities were daily expected. This was · a few days before the memorable battle of Waterloo. Another number con- tained news of the arrival of Bonaparte at St. Helena. Just how long this paper was published is not known.t
* Other authority places the date of the arrival of the family of Col. Thomas Gaddis, of which Rice Gaddis was A member, in September, 1814. They came down the Ohio in boats, the latter having his press and types alone, and those materials were ieft at Manchester until the family had become located in a house belonging to llenry Babb, at Wlimington, when Col. Gaddis took his team and brought them to the latter piace. There is an opinion existing that the True American was not established before March, 1815, and possibly iater. The proceedings of the County Com- missioners show that very soon subsequent to the first of June, 1815, the receipts and expenditures of the county were Inserted in his paper and continued three weeks, and allowance No. 941 for $8 at the October term, 1815, was in pay- ment for the use of said paper for the publication thereof. Mirs. Lottie Seaman related, some years since, that her husband, Ebenezer Senman, a printer by trade, assisted in getting out the first number of the paper, which she thought must have been Issued in March, 1815, fixing the date from the birth of her son, which occurred in that month. The Commissioners, on the 3d of May, 1817, rented of Henry Babb, for an office, at $2.50 per month, the frame house on Main street, "formerly occupied by Rice Gaddis, as a printing office." Mr. G. was born August 28, 1789, and died February 11, 1853. His partner, Israel Abrams, it is said, married a daughter of William Biggs, an early tavern- keeper and Justice. Abrams was connected with the paper until some time in 1816.
Since the above, with the accompanying note, was written, we have seen a perfect copy of the True American, bearing date August 15, 1816, and being the sixty-sixth issue of said publication. Figuring backward from this date . would fix the time of the first issue at about the 20th of May, 1815, providing a paper was published each week. This is the best evidence now obtainable regarding the time at which this paper was established. At the date of said paper, Rice Gaddis was editing and publishing it alone. From this number we gather the following items: Michael Toderow, living on Cowan's Creek, offered a lot of property at auction ; Gideon Edwards, of Union Township, had taken up a strawberry roan horse ; John I'nthank offered lots for sie In the village of West Liberty, which he had lald out on Anderson's Fork, "thirteen miles from Xenia, and eight from Wilmington, in Clinton County, on the road leading from Wilmington to Urbana, and on the road from Waynesville to Chillicothe. There is a good grist and saw mitte tjoining the town, stone and timber in abundance, a high and healthy situation, a rich and flourishing set- tlement around it." Andrew Christy published a notice as administrator of the estate of Peter Peyton (colored), dc- ceased. Peter Burr, Clerk of the Court of Common Pieas, had died August 8, 1816, aged forty-nine years. Thomas McCoy, living near Wilmington, wanted to purchase a good milch cow. Ferguson & Morris advertised "new goods just re- ceived " at th Ir store in Wilmington. Eil Gaskill, J. P., on the 15th of August, 1816, had married Samuel Spray and Elizabeth Haworth, daughter of Absalom Haworth. The motto of the paper, which was issued every Thursday, at $2 a year in advance, was : " Where Liberty dwells, there is my country .- Franklin."
t It Is said that after this paper was discontinued, Mr. Gaddis removed the press to his home on Todd's Fork, where he did job work, and published a few original essays. - In one scrap in Mr. Walker's possession, issued probably in December, 1815, is a part of a notice, as follows: "Taken up by Christopher Hiatt, a resident of Clinton County, Vernon Township, a sorrel horse -
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The Galaxy* was the second paper to make its appearance, the first num- ber being issued October 29, 1821, by George Denny (father of W. H. P. Den- ny, who was afterward a publisher in Wilmington). The paper was issued weekly, at the rate of $2 per annum, and its publication was continued until some time in 1823. The first number contains information respecting the young Bonaparte, giving a description of his equipage. In the twelfth num- ber, of date January 14, 1822, a notice is given of a meeting at the "school- house of Mr. Arnold Treusdell," for the purpose of taking steps to build a per- manent schoolhouse on the Lancasterian plan. Eli Gaskill was chosen Presi- dent of the meeting, and S. H. Hale, Secretary, and Messrs. Hibben, Morris and Rigdon were appointed a Committee to estimate on size and expense of such a building. In the same paper was a notice of the dissolution of the firm of Gaskill & Smart, and the marriage of John Perkins and Julia Ann Eachus, at Center Meeting-House. Pork was then selling at Cincinnati at $1.75 to $2, and was expected to rise. In one number which we examined, was an adver- tisement dated "Clinton County, Chester Township, September 25, 1821," stating that James Brown had commenced the business of "fulling and dying" at his mill on a branch of Cæsar's Creek, where he was prepared to do work with neatness and dispatch. He said, also, that his mill was so fixed that he had at any time water enough, even in the driest seasons or in hard freezes, closing thus: "Cloth will be received by David Smart or James Fife, in Wil- mington, and returned to the place it was received at, when dressed." The proprietor offered to take pay either in cash or in wheat, tallow, beeswax, sugar, feathers, flax, or tow linens, which articles appear to have been legal tender at that time for all debts. James W. Magee was then Postmaster at Wilmington, and had a long list of unclaimed letters advertised January 1,, 1822. In the same number of the paper (January 14, 1822), David H. Bird- sall offered to accept "good merchantable pork" in settlement of accounts with himself. William Munjar advertised that he had opened a shoe-shop. in the house of Mr. Seaman, and Dr. Loammi Rigdon was seeking earnestly for money on account of services he had performed for suffering humanity. In the issue of this paper for June 24, 1822, appears the following:
ONE CENT REWARD .- Ran away from the subscriber on the 11th inst., an indented girl named Matilda Hindman, about fourteen years of age, small of her age, hair and com- plexion light. Had on when she went away a striped linen dress, and had several other articles of clothing with her. All persons are cautioned against trusting or harboring her on my account, as I will pay no debts of her contracting. Whosoever will return said girl shall bave the above reward, but no charges. LOAMMI RIGDON.
WILMINGTON, June 17, 1822.
In October, 1822, it was advertised in the Galaxy that " Anna Anderson, late from Cincinnati," had opened the milliner's business in the front part of Mr. Thomas Hibben's house, while John Casada invited the attention of the public to his new grocery in the town of Wilmington, next door to the store of Samuel H. Hale. He promised to keep an orderly house and sell his goods cheap, and didn't want any disorderly persons around his establishment. Samuel H. Hale wanted 2,000 head of fat hogs, and 500 bushels of wheat. promising to pay the highest market price for pork, and 30 cents a bushel for wheat, if delivered at John Hadley's mill.
The Wilmington Spectator was the third paper in the village, commenced in December, 1823, by Jeremiah N. Reynolds, and conducted by him about eleven months, when its publication was suspended. Although not saying so directly, it is believed from the tone of Mr. Reynolds' paper that he was in favor of Henry Clay for President in 1824: Number 18, Volume I, of the Spectator, dated April 29, 1824, contains a notice that P. P. Price, a clock and
* This was an Anti-slavery paper, judging from the contents of a part of the first issue.
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watch-maker, late from Cincinnati, had commenced business in Wilmington. George Bruce was then Postmaster.
The Western Argus .- The first number of this paper was issued November 11, 1824, by B. Hinkson and J. McManis, who continued to publish it until November 17, 1825, when they sold the press to John B. Seamans. That gen- tleman continued the paper uninterruptedly under the original title until some time in 1828, when he changed the name to the Wilmington Argus. Cir- cumstances at length became so weighty that, after a hard struggle for exis- tence, the Argus peacefully closed its eyes and gave up the ghost on the 26th of June, 1829.
From the files of this paper, we have made the following notes concerning Wilmington: The Fourth District Medical Society met in Wilmington on Tues- day, November 30, 1824, and Dr. Isaac Telfair was admitted to membership. Samuel Price, L. Rigdon and - ---- Telfair were appointed a committee to rovise the by-laws, and Jacob Kirby, M. D., was appointed to "read to the So- ciety at its noxt meeting a desertation on some medical subject." That word probably domoralized the poor doctor, for we find nothing further about the article. Under date of December 16, 1824, the Wilmington Thespian Society advertised to give, on the 21st of that month, "the much-admired comedy, She Stoops to Conquer; or, the Mistakes of a Night." Admission, 12} cents; children half price. December 23, 1824, Jones & Dinsmore announced that they had commenced the chair and wheel business in the shop formerly occu- pied by G. B. Moore, on South street. April 14, 1825, the account of the death of a child of James Reeves, of this county, was given. It occurred April 3, 1825, the little one, only two or three years old, being " killed by the fall of a gum full of ashes which had been placed upon a rail a short distance above ground, in Mr. Reeves' yard." In the same paper notice was given of the death of Hon. Return J. Meigs, late United States Postmaster General, and former Governor of Ohio. In the issue of May 26, 1825, over the signature "S.," was an article on card-playing, in which the writer asserted that several young gentlemen in Wilmington had become so infatuated with gambling that · they were in the habit of resorting to the woods near by every Sunday for the purpose of indulging in their favorite pastime.
June 30, 1825, Andrew Welch announced that he had opened a tailor shop in the house opposite the court house, where William Millikan, Esq., had his office. The issue of July 14, 1825, contained an account of the Fourth of July celebration on the premises of Abraham How, in Richland Township. A con- siderable company was present, a bountiful dinner was partaken of, and numer- ous toasts were drank. October 13, 1825, Abel Martin, Captain of the "Wil- mington Guards," ordered the company to parade at Wilmington on "Satur- day, the 22d inst., to perform military duty according to law." A meeting was held December 29, 1825, to consider the project of building a steam grist- mill in Wilmington, such an institution being considered necessary. Novem- ber 25, 1826, Charles Russell advertised a new machine for shelling corn, to be seen at his fulling-mill in Wilmington. This was undoubtedly a great novelty. It would, he said. shell a barrel of corn in four or five minutes, and a person could see at first sight that there was " no deception belonging to it." In the paper of the same date is this item: "An apple was lately picked from the orchard of Nathan Linton, of this vicinity, weighing twenty-nine ounces, and a pear weighing twenty-six ounces. A turnip was recently taken from the patch of Moses Hoskin, of this county, which weighed twelve pounds."
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