The history of Madison County, Ohio, Part 46

Author: Brown, Robert C; W.H. Beers & Co., pub
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W.H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1180

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Dr. F. M. Mattoon was born June 21, 1842, in Genoa, Delaware Co., Ohio; educated at Central College, Ohio. Commenced the study of medi- cine in July, 1869, under Dr. Andrus, of Westerville, Ohio, and attended a course of lectures at Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1870, but remained a pupil under Dr. Andrus until the spring of 1872, when he entered the office of Dr. Davis W. Halderman, Columbus, Ohio, where he remained until graduated M. D., at Starling Medical College, February 23, 1873. He located in Belle Center, Logan Co., Ohio, in April, 1873. Re- mained three years, and removed to Piqua, Ohio, and in 1877 came to the Darby Plains, stopping at Unionville Center for three years, and, in April. 1880, came to Plain City. He married, July 29, 1875, Miss Miriam R. Lecky. of Millersburg, Ohio, a graduate in the class of 1867 of the Ohio Wesleyan Female College, Delaware, Ohio.

JEFFERSON.

Dr. David Wilson was born in Washington County, Penn., April 20, 1789. He did not study medicine until past middle life. Was a pupil of Dr. Robert Houston. of South Charleston, Ohio. Commenced practice at West Jefferson, Ohio, December 1, 1831, and continued in active practice about twenty-five years. He died of apoplexy, at his home in Jefferson, July 15, 1877, in the eighty-eighth year of his age.

Dr. Jennet Stutson was born in Scituate, Mass., 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, Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and came directly to Jefferson from the college, where he resided until his death, September 23, 1861, aged fifty-eight years.

Dr. Ezra Bliss had practiced in Vershire, Vt., for several years. Was twice married, having twelve children by his first wife, and four by his sec- ond, of whom Webb Bliss was the youngest. He came to Jefferson in about 1846, and died there in about 1852.

Dr. John McCullough was born Jannary 10, 1805, in Washington County, Penn .; studied medicine in Eastern Ohio, and afterward practiced medicine for several years in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. Moved to Jeffer- son, Ohio, in 1848, where he continued to practice until about 1872, when age and failing health compelled him to desist. He was married in 1827 to Miss Abba Brower and died December 26, 1880, in Springfield, Ohio.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin Crabb, son of Rey. Henderson and Jemima (Downing) Crabb. was born in Amity, Madison Co., Ohio; studied with Dr. Jennet Stutson, of Jefferson, Ohio; graduated at Starling Medical College, and practiced a few years after 1850 in this place, and removed to South Charleston, Ohio, and afterward to Washington, Iowa. He was a Colonel in the Union army, and was taken prisoner in his first battle- that of Belmont. Mo. Resides in Lincoln, Neb.

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Dr. -- Johnson, from about 1851 to 1854, was a popular physician, and died in Jefferson about 1854.

Dr. D. W. Seal, Dr. Archer and Dr. Davis, all eclectics, practiced there for a short time from about 1852. I remember Dr. Seal personally. I called at his house in about November, 1855 or 1856. He impressed me as a man of ability and general intelligence. He was probably about thirty years of age. He was tall, with an intellectual countenance, high forehead, and evidently a cultured gentleman. He had a wife and some small chil- dren, but he died not long after my visit, of consumption.

Dr. Thomas W. Forshee practiced there 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. He is living in Illinois.

Dr. John Colliver was born in Kentucky December 6, 1811; 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 fag- gots burning brightly enough to see to read. He subsequently 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 in about 1852, and wast here in 1856, when the small-pox got hold of his family. One daughter died, and the entire family became victims to the disease. In 1857, he moved to La Fayette, this county, and in 1858 to Jefferson, Ohio. Whilst he was in La Fayette, I met him almost daily, and remember him as a genial old gentleman, and honorable as a colleague in the profession. He became the most eminent eclectic physician who has ever resided in the county. He died of pneumonia, at . his home in Jefferson, Ohio, June 10, 1865. He married, February 5, 1832. in Kentucky, Miss Matilda Robinson.

Dr. John Noble Beach was born at Amity, Madison Co., Ohio, January 29, 1829. Was the pupil of Dr. Charles McCloud, and graduated at Star- ling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, February 25, 1850. After a few years of practice at Unionville Center and Plain City, Ohio, he removed to Jefferson, Ohio, August 8, 1858, where he has since resided continu- ously, with the exception of the three years spent in the army. He married, June 1, 1858, Eliza J. Snyder, of Champaign County, Ohio.

Dr. Homer Summerfield Quinn, son of Rev. Isaac and Cynthia (Wit- ten) Quinn, was born February 28, 1849. He was a pupil of Dr. John H. Quinn, of Clinton County, Ohio. Graduated at Medical College of Ohio, in the class of 1862, and located at Jefferson in the same year. He was elected by the Democratic party to the State Legislature in the fall of 1877. He married Miss Bettie Putnam, of Jefferson, Ohio, in 1870, and has continued in successful practice since locating at this point.

Dr. Jefferson T. Colliver was born in Kentucky January 19, 1841. He is a son of the late Dr. John and Matilda (Robinson) Colliver. He grad- uated at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 1, 1864. He located in Jefferson, and, after the death of his father, in the year following, succeeded to his large and lucrative practice, and still resides there. He married, in November, 1869, Miss Frances Adams, of Clinton, Ill.

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Dr. Charles Snyder was born in Champaign County, Ohio, March 12, 1844S. Was a pupil of Dr. J. N. Beach, and received the degree of M. D. from the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, March 4, 1870. He was ap- pointed Resident Physician to the Ohio Penitentiary after his graduation, which position he resigned, and located in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1872, where he yet resides. Dr. Horatio Seymour Downs was born in Urbana, Ohio, November 6. 1854: is a grandson of the late Dr. John Colliver. He graduated M. D. at the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 3, 1879, and commenced practice in Jefferson, Ohio, in June, 1880. He married, May 4, 1880, Miss Lizzie Bowen,

MT. STERLING.

Dr. Jehiel Gregory, vide Midway.

Dr. -- Seeds, the second. if not the first, physician at Mt. Sterling, was an Englishman. He claimed to have been a graduate of Oxford, En- gland. He was at least a scholarly man. David Haskell thinks he was there as early as 1833. He married, while there, a daughter of Robert Abernathy, of Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio. He moved to Wooster, Wayne Co., Ohio, and shortly afterward left that city.

Dr. William McClintick located in Mt. Sterling in 1840, vide Danville. Dr. Samuel McClintick was born February 1, 1821, in Pickaway Coun- ty, Ohio. He is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth McClintick. His father was a native of Ireland, and his mother of Pennsylvania. He commenced the study of medicine in 1841. under his brother, William, and J. F. Wil- son, of New Holland, Pickaway Co., Ohio. He attended a course of lect- ures at Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, during the session of 1844-45. and located in Mt. Sterling in April, 1845, where he still resides. He mar- ried. May 20, 1846, Miss Louisa C. Kauffelt.

Dr. Elam Bodman was in Mt. Sterling for several years, and was one of the leading physicians. In about 1850, he bought a farm up in the Rea settlement, and probably retired from the profession.

Dr. David E. McMillen located at Midway in 1847. He is a physician of an extensive acquaintance. and long identified with the interests of the county, but I was unable to obtain a personal sketch of his life.

Dr. John H. Holton was an educated physician and a good practition- er. His wife's maiden name was Stimmel. He located at Mt. Sterling in about 1860, and moved to London, Ohio, in about 1865, where he died of pneumonia.

Dr. E. B. Pratt has been in Mt. Sterling several years. He is a mem- ber of the Madison County Medical Association. and has been its President. He is also a member of the Ohio State Medical Society.

Dr. W. H. Emory is also a member of the Madison County Medical Association, as well as that of the State Medical Society.

AMITY.

Dr. Lorenzo Beach, son of Abel and Elizabeth (Kilbourne) Beach, was born at New Haven, Vt., November 7, 1798. He came to Ohio in the fall of 1813, and joined his brother Uri, who had preceded him one year, at Worthington, Ohio. He availed himself of such opportunities as Worth - ington afforded for improving his education, and in about 1816 or 1817 he commenced the study of medicine at Worthington, Ohio, and afterward went to Urbana. Ohio, and took a course of instruction from Dr. Carter, of that place. He was one of a class of ten students under Carter, and, npon the

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completion of the course, he gave them a "certificate" of the fact. My recollection of the matter, as I have heard it in boyhood, was that James Comstock, who was afterward his colleague or partner in business, and also Dr. Mosgrove, of Urbana, were of this "class." He located where Amity now stands, and where Uri, my father, had preceded him. in about 1820, when in his twenty-second year. The amount of professional business transacted in those days, when physicians were scarce, was only limited by their capacity to labor; and they traveled over, on horseback, a territory extending often to fifteen and twenty miles in all directions.

For some years after about 1833, Dr. Beach was the leading merchant in the north part of the county, and subsequently began to place his capital in real estate. For several years he was the largest landholder and the heaviest trader in live stock, and the heaviest capitalist that Darby Town- ship had ever had. In 1853, when lands in the north part of the county were worth from $30 to $40 per acre, he began to sell out, and, going to Illinois, he invested his money in land warrants that were then abundant in the market, at 80 cents an acre, and located several thousand acres of land in McLean, Ford. Kankakee and Livingston Counties.

He married Miss Edith Bull, of Franklin County, Ohio, near Worthing- ton, about the time he commenced the practice of medicine. He was married again, after the death of his first wife, to a widow woman, in Fairbury, Ill., who is still living there. He died at his home, in Fairbury, Ill., in August, 1878, aged eighty.

Dr. James Comstock located at Amity about the same time that Dr. Lo- renzo Beach did. I have always heard him well spoken of. He was a brother, I think, to Buckley Comstock, who for many years was a leading business man of Columbus, Ohio, and an uncle to the present Comstock, who is the proprietor of Comstock's Opera House. He was a resident of Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio, in 1853, and I had correspondence with him at that date, respecting his opinion of the cause of the excessive malarial troubles during the years 1822-23-24. I think he died at Jamestown within the last ten years.

Dr. Charles McCloud was probably about the third physician at Amity. He was born in Vermont February 2, 1808, and moved with his father in his youth to Delaware County, Ohio. He studied medicine with Dr. Alpheus Bigelow, of Galena, Delaware Co., Ohio. He settled in Amity about 1833, when Amity was about three years old. For a few years, he taught winter schools, also in Amity. But as soon as the people began to understand him, his practice began to increase, and for several years he was a very hard-working man in his profession. He was our family physician for more than twenty years, and he had the most implicit trust and faith and respect of the entire family. In 1850, he was the Whig member from Mad- ison County in the Ohio Legislature, and was elected a member of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1850. During the first year of my student life (1851), I was with him almost daily, discussing matters relating to iny studies; but when I came to matriculate, I gave the name of James F. Boal as my preceptor, when in point of fact I was more in- debted for instruction to Dr. Charles McCloud. He married Miss Jane Carpenter, and died at Plain City, Ohio, of obstruction of the bowels, April 1, 1861, aged fifty-three.

Dr. James Sidney Skinner was an Eastern man, probably from the State of New York. He settled in Amity in about 1340. He was a dap- per, dilettante sort of a man. Whilst a student at Buffalo. N. Y .. he so

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fascinated a daughter of ono Judge Clarke that an elopement and a clandes - tine marriage was the result. Amity, I think, was his first location. His wife was a very accomplished lady. Their history was known at Amity, and , it was thought she began to regret the folly of her conduct. She was much admired by all classes of people there, and her influence had much to do in refining the society by which she was surrounded. It was a hard struggle with her husband to make a respectable living. He did not succeed in be- coming a popular practitioner. She sickened and died, and her body was started for Buffalo, by the way of Cleveland, in a two-horse wagon. Two days after it had left, her father, Judge Clarke, came to Amity to see her, having been notified of her illness, having passed the body of his unfortu- nate child on the road. The Doctor afterward practiced at Plain City, Ohio, Columbus, Cincinnati, and then went to California. They had one child -Clarke Skinner.

Dr. Ashbaw, a bright little man from over about Dublin, I think, was the next. He was badly marked with small-pox. He did not remain long.

Dr. Davis was probably the next. He came from over about Dublin, I think. He stayed only a short time. The last I knew of him I stayed overnight at his house, at Cheney's Grove, McLean Co., Ill. He was improving a farm and practicing medicine also.

Dr. Abel W. Field, a New York State man, came to Madison County in about 1835, and settled over on the Darby Plains. He was a physician, and lived for several years two miles south of the late William D. Wilson's. He moved to Amity in about 1842, probably as early or earlier than the time of either Ashbaw or Davis. He generally had a fair practice. and was very popular in his manners. He was killed while returning from a pro- fessional call by being thrown from his sulky, on the 9th day of August, 1851. He was the father of Dr. Archellaus Field, now a wealthy and prominent physician of Fort Des Moines, Iowa; of Dr. Orestes G. Field, of South Solon, this county, and of Capt. James Field, of Marysville, Ohio.

Dr. James F. Boal was born and raised up on Big Darby, in the Mitch- ell settlement, near Milford, I think. He was a graduate of Starling Medical College, and had practiced at Canal Winchester, Ohio, before com- ing to Amity. He located there in about 1848. He was a creditable prac- titioner, and active in business. In about 1853, he bought up a drove of horses and moved to Illinois. He was a married man.

Dr. Lucius Burr Carpenter, a native of Delaware County, Ohio, from about Galena, was a nephew of Mrs. Dr. Charles McCloud. Lived at Amity 'several years as a clerk in McCloud's store and as a general student. He taught school and studied medicine with his uncle, and had fairly entered upon a promising future when he fell a victim to Asiatic cholera during the epidemic of that year, 1850. He was attending the Stanton family over in the Plains, who had cholera, and, returning late, went to bed not very well, grew worse, and died before morning. He married Hester Mann, and left one child-Medora.

Dr. Isaac Newton Hamilton, raised at Richwood, Union Co., Ohio, brother to ex-Congressman Cornelius Hamilton and Prof. John W. Hamilton, of Columbus, Ohio, remained from about 1852 to 1855, when he moved to Unionville Center, Union Co., Ohio, afterward to Milford Center, and then to Marysville, where he now resides.

Dr. Jolin Colliver, notice in Jefferson.

Dr. Thomas W. Forshee, vide Jefferson.

Dr. William H. Jewett, the present practicing physician at Amity, has M

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been there for about ten years. He is a good physician and an exemplary gentleman, and I regret that I cannot give a more particular personal sketch, from lack of information.

MIDWAY.

Dr. Jehial Gregory was probably the first resident physician of Mid- way. He located there in about 1833. He married Susan Hazle, of Lon- don, Ohio. Prior to marriage, he boarded at the hotel then kept by John M. Blue, father-in-law of John Dungan, of London, Ohio. He moved from Midway to Mt. Sterling, Ohio, in about 1835. and became the first resident physician there. He studied for the profession with Dr. Martin, of Bloom- ingburg, Fayette Co., Ohio.

Dr. Clarke was the second physician at Midway, locating there in about 1835, where he remained about two years, when he went to London, the county seat, and boarded with Col. Lewis and practiced there for a short time, then moved to Michigan.

Dr. Milton Lemen was probably the third resident physician. He was born March 1, 1819, in Range Township, Clark County, Ohio. He was a son of Judge John and Rebecca (Donelson) Lemen. Judge Lemen's wife is said to have been an aunt to Gen. Andrew Jackson's wife. The Lemens were natives of Virginia and emigrated from Tennessee to Ohio. He stud- ied medicine with Dr Robert Houston, of South Charleston, Ohio, and lo- cated at Midway in 1843. He had an immense practice at Midway. He was a man of great energy, tall, wiry, restive, impetuous-a kind of steam- engine man. He was a good-an extra physician. In the fall of 1860, he was elected to the Ohio Legislature as an Independent Republican. He removed to London in 1862, and, in 1863, was appointed by President Lin- coln an Examining Surgeon for the counties of Madison, Clark, Greene and Franklin. He was attacked with paralysis in 1865, before his discharge from the service, and died at his home, in London, Ohio, April 24, 1879. He had led a very inactive life for the fourteen years preceding his death, owing to his paralytic condition.

Dr. John W. Greene was at Midway in about 1844. He moved from there to Fairfield, Greene Co .. Obio. He married Miss Winans, of James- town. Greene Co., Ohio, sister to Judge James Winans.

Dr. Nelson Strong Darling, a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Starling Medical College, in February, 1853, located there in the same year. He subsequently married a daughter of Dr. Wetmore, of Worthing- ton, Ohio. and located for a few years at London, when he moved to Indi- ana. He was a bright, energetic little man, and successful in business. He was a brother of Mrs. R. L. Howards, whose husband was for many years the distinguished professor of surgery in Starling Medical College.

Dr. Garrard was also a practitioner and druggist there for several years.

Dr. Washington Atkinson was probably the next practitioner.

Dr. Orestes G. Field was born in Canaan Township. Madison County, Ohio, son of Dr. Abel W. Field, for a number of years a practitioner at Amity, was a practitioner at Midway for several years, having located there after the war. He was a graduate of Starling Medical College in about 1858. At present. in South Solon, this county.

Dr. D. A. Morse, now Superintendent of the Private Lunatic Asylum at Oxford, Ohio, was also a practitioner there, vide London.

Dr. Seaton. also, but I can obtain no history of him.

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Dr. A. Ogan, born August 4, 1841, in Greene County, Ohio, educated at the public schools, read medicine with Dr. C. II. Sparrh, of Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio, graduated at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in 1873, and located the same year in Midway. Was married, in Octo- ber, 1861, to Miss Z. B. Owens, at Port William, Clinton Co., Ohio, daughter of Dr. William Owens, of Wilmington, Clinton Co., Ohio.

Dr. J. Finley Kirkpatrick, son of James S. and Sarah A. Kirkpatrick, was born in Kosciusko County, Ind., July 17, 1847; moved with his parents when young to Bloomington, Ill., and there received a liberal education. Read medicine in 1872-73, with Drs. Finley & McClelland, and attended lectures in 1874-75-76 in Keokuk. Iowa, graduating in the latter year. Practiced medicine in Paintersville and Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio, and located in Midway October 13, 1877. He was married, in Mt. Sterling, Ohio, September 26, 1878, to Miss Kate Bonham, daughter of William J. and Letitia J. Bonham, of Midway, Madison Co., Ohio.

LA FAYETTE.

The first settled physician at La Fayette was Dr. Christian Anklin. He was a German and an educated gentleman, whose wife, Martha, an English woman, was a sister to the late Richard Cowling, of London, Ohio. He came on from the East-probably from Philadelphia, where he had married his wife only a few months before. He bought a lot at the first sale of town lots by auction, adjoining the present residence of Mrs. Ann M. Rod- gers, on the west side. He had a fine professional standing, and enjoyed, to a large extent, the confidence of the better class of people. After a few years spent in La Fayette, he moved to Springfield, Ohio, where he shortly after died.

Dr. Hornbeck probably succeeded him. He married a daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Simpson, of La Fayette.

Dr. M. Valentine, a native of Ohio, came to La Fayette in about 1847, and stayed two years. He was a graduate of Starling Medical College. Leaving La Fayette, he moved to Royalton, Fairfield Co., Ohio, and subse- quently to Pulaski. Licking Co., Ohio, where he yet remains. One of his sons also graduated at Starling Medical College in about 1872. Valentine was unmarried when at La Fayette.

Dr. Ransford Rodgers, a native of Vermont, sold his location at Royal- ton, Ohio. to Dr. Valentine, and was his successor at practice in La Fayette, where he located in 1849. He was a graduate in medicine, and had a good practice, but remained only a few years.

Dr. Cheney was probably the next, and he must have located there as early as 1849. He was an eclectic. He had an extensive practice, but he moved to Iowa in 1855.

Dr. William Morrow Beach, a native of Madison County, located there in September, 1855. He had practiced two years previously at Unionville Center, Union Co., Ohio. He graduated at Starling Medical College, Co- lumbus, Ohio, in 1853. He remained at La Fayette, marrying there on the 12th of June, 1860, until April. 1862, when he went into the army as a Surgeon. Returning in July, 1865, immediately after his muster-out of the service, he located on a farm two miles west of La Fayette, on the London road, where he now lives, practicing his profession.

Dr. John Colliver, vide Jefferson.

Dr. Nathaniel J. Sawyer. youngest son of Nathaniel Sawyer, an early land speculator in Madison County, was born in Kentucky. He graduated

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at a Cincinnati medical college, and was one year thereafter an interne at one of the city hospitals. He subsequently went as physician on board an ocean vessel bound for Valparaiso, South America. Arriving in Valparaiso, he remained there engaged in his profession for two or three years. Upon his return to the United States, he improved his farmhouse on the National road, two miles east of La Fayette, brought a young bride from Kentucky there, built a nice office and commenced practice in about 1861. Shortly thereafter, he sold his farm to John Snyder, and moved to another one of his farms up in the Dunn settlement. He sold out and moved, in about 1870, to Kentucky, where he now lives.

Dr. Edward Granville Forshee, born in Clark County, Ohio, studied with Dr. W. M. Beach, of La Fayette, Ohio, and, with his brother, Thomas W. Forshee, at Amity, this county. Graduated in Cincinnati, Ohio, and located in Hilliards, Franklin Co., Ohio, for about three years, where he married; located in La Fayette about 1863, and, in about 1867, moved to Il- linois, where he is now living.

Benjamin F. Bierbaugh, youngest son of Christopher Bierbaugh, born in La Fayette, Ohio, studied medicine with Dr. A. H. Underwood, of London, Ohio; was at La Fayette during the two last years of his student life; attend- ed one course of lectures at Starling Medical College, but died of pulmonary hemorrhage just before he was to have entered upon his last course of lect- ures previous to his gradnation as M. D. He was a highly respected young man, and died universally lamented.

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The history of Madison County, Ohio, Part 46

Author: Brown, Robert C; W.H. Beers & Co., pub Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Chicago, W.H. Beers & co. Number of Pages: 1180

Author: Brown, Robert C; W.H. Beers & Co., pub
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Chicago, W.H. Beers & co.
Number of Pages: 1180