Delaware County, Ohio - Chapter 15: The Medical Profession, 1908 (part 2 of 2)

Dr. R. C. Alexander bought out Dr. Keifer, and remained in Lewis Centre for two years, when he removed to Catawba. Ohio. He is a graduate of Starling Medical College.

Dr. Alexander Hendrixson was a strong competitor of Dr. Mercer in Lewis Centre, during the seventies. He later removed to Columbus, where he died in 1895. He was a graduate of the "O. W. U." of Delaware. He married Miss Waldron, of

Dr. M. M. Cochran was located in Lewis Centre from 1889 to 1892. He read medicine with Dr. J. W. Russel, of Ait. Vernon, Ohio, and graduated from the Starling Medical College. He died at Independence, Ohio, a fewyears ago from diphtheria.

Dr. W. M. T. Simms bought out Dr. Cochran, of Lewis Centre, in 1902. In 1900 he removed to Columbus, Ohio, and from there t<> Groveport, Ohio, where he is now practicing. He is a graduate of the Columbus Medical College.

He is a son of John and Kasson Willey, a highly influential family of Delaware County. After finishing a course in the common schools, he completed his education with the class of 1904 in the Delaware High School. He at once entered the office of Dr. S. W. Fowler, and began the study of medicine. He graduated with honors from the Starling Medical College, in Columbus, Ohio, in 1897. He located at once in Lewis Centre, Ohio, and entered into competition with his competitors. He soon had the entire field to himself. During the last ten years he has won and held the confidence of the entire community. He is a member of the County an 1 State Medical Societies. He is now the coroner of Delaware County.

Dr. Frank A. Stickney was born in LJnion County, Ohio, in 1852. He graduated from the academy in Henry County, Illinois, in 1872, and completed the business course in Sharp's Business College at Delaware in 1874. He read medicine in the office of Dr. E. H. Hyatt, and graduated from the Columbus Medical College in 1880. He began the practice in Delaware. He married Miss Mary Campbell in 1881. In 1882 he located in old Eden, or Kilbourne, Ohio, where he has been the leading and highly respected physician and most successful doctor ever in that locality. After the death of his wife, he married Miss Porter, a daughter of one of the most influential families of the Presbyterian Church, and citizens of Brown Township. He is a member of the State and County Medical Societies.

There have been many changes in the profession in Eden, or Kilbourne. during the past forty years or more, of which we have been unable to gain much information.

fraternity of the county. He was an active member in his day of the State and Count v Medical Societies. At the advanced age of seventy years, he studied and learned shorthand, and became very proficient at it. He was able to take down a discussion and lecture with great accuracy. He lived on his farm and had a limited but successful practice. His strong Christian character gave him the confidence of the entire community. He died at the advanced age of nearly ninety years.

Dr. D. R. Ross was born in Saratoga County, New York, in 1842. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1867, and located in Kilbourne the same year. He married a daughter of John Mathews in 1868. In 1872 he moved to Martinsburg, Virginia. He is the chief surgeon of the B. & O. R. R. for that division. He served during the war in Company D, One Hundred and Twentyfifth Regiment. During the war he was a prisoner in Andersonville Prison for over ten months.

Dr. A. M. Crane was raised in Porter Township. After reading medicine he located in Kilbourne, Ohio, for a short time, when he moved to Waldo, and then to Marion, Ohio. His brother, Adelbert Crane, who married Miss Ross, of Delaware, a daughter of an old soldier, took his place in Kilbourne.

Dr.. Lewis Barnes came to Delaware about 1856, having traded his practice in Columbus with Dr. D. M. Kensell, of Delaware. Dr. Barnes belonged to the Homeopathic School. He was here in Delaware for many years. He died at an advanced age at his son's in Norwalk, Ohio.

Dr. J. M. Snodgrass came to Delaware from Union County, Ohio, in about 1874. He and his sons bought the Lybrand Drug Store. After a short time they sold it, and he en-

Dr. James Morgan Cherry was born in 182 1 in Oswego. New York, and in 1838 came with his father's family to Marysville, Ohio. A few years later he studied medicine with Dr. Ross, graduating from Starling Medical College of Columbus. Soon after he commenced the practice of medicine at I'n >spect, Ohio. In 1846 he married Miss Susannah Gooding, of Delaware County. Ohio. He moved to Delaware in 1850. where he lived for nearly half a century. He early united with the Presbyterian Church of which he was a most devoted member. He died in 1898.

Dr. Robert C. Wintermute was born at Norton, Ohio, in 1861. He read medicine with Dr. Robertson, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1880. He located in Delaware the same year. In 1890 he removed to Cincinnati to fill the Chair of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, at his Alma Mater, as well as to engage in general practice. He died in 1906. He published a book on Diseases of Women, which is used as a text book at the Eclectic College. He married Miss Belle Cherry, daughter of Dr. J. M.

Dr. N. S. Sampsell came to Delaware in the sixties. He was a root and herb doctor. His office and home was where the Carnegie Library now stands. He had a large practice throughout the county for many years. He died in Delaware several years ago.

Dr. Francis Marion Murray was born in Bluffton, Allen County. Ohio, in 1855. He entered the local drug store as an apprentice. He continued his attendance in the public schools during the winter terms. He remained in the store for four years. In the autumn of 1872 he went to Key West. Florida, to become apothecary to the United States Marine Hospital under his brother. Surgeon Robert D. Murray. He spent the major part of four years here. The last three winters of these were spent in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, prosecuting pharmaceutical ami medical studies. He would return to his duties in the south each spring. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in [876, receiving the degree of Ph. G. In 1877 he received the degree of M. D. from the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. He then took a supplementary course in scientific subjects at the University of Pennsylvania, for which he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1878. He was acting librarian to the College of Physicians during the summer. The following winter he was assistant to the professor of Materia Medica at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. In 1879 he located in Lenni, Delaware County. Pennsylvania, eighteen miles from Philadelphia.

In 1880 he was married to Amanda M. Kirby. After remaining five years in this location, the Doctor removed to the northern section of the city of Philadelphia. From there he removed to Delaware. Ohio, in 1892. and continued in the general practice of medicine. In 1900 he formed a co-partnership with Mr. J. D. Knowles. and established a third daily and weekly newspaper, the Delaware Journal. The following year they acquired the long established Democratic Herald, and united them under the name of the Journal-Herald. Notwithstanding his newspaper interests the Doctor has continued in the active work of his profession, and enjoys good practice. He is a member of Hiram Lodge. No. 18, F. & A. M.. of the Delaware County, Ohio State and American Medical Societies. Dr. Robert D. Murray was a recognized expert in yellow fever for the Government Marine and Public Health Service. Robert D. was killed by accident at Laredo, Texas, in 1904. thus depriving the Government of one of its greatest experts. Dr. F. M. Murray was born a Campbellite. raised a Methodist, and now belongs to the Presbyterian Church.

had such an extensive practice in Delaware County as Dr. Abraham Blymer. He was so long in the county that his name became a In lusehold word, and few knew when he settled in Delaware. He became the standard of perfection for the true physician in the minds of the many students who went out of his office, some to fill high positions in the profession in many parts of the country. For fifty years he went in and out before the people, visiting hundreds of homes throughout the county in the early days of mud and forest roads, and these marked by emblazing the trees; and no bridges to cross the swollen streams, be went to administer to the afflicted. Through the midnight darkness with bis oldtime lantern and saddlebags, through the storms of winter and shades of the forest in summer, he went on his mission of mercy to the well-to-do, and to the poor and the needy. The long years of faithful labor and broken rest made little impression upon his wonderful German constitution. Up to the very hour of his final visit, he rivaled in activity many of his younger brethren, who numbered but months, while he counted years of faithful labor.

Dr. Blymer was born in Shippinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1804. His father was a man of education and followed school teaching. Under the instructions of this talented man, the son received his education. In 1824 be began the study of medicine. In 1826. through his wife, he inherited a large amount of money. Anxious to increase his fortune, he entered into the mercantile business, which prospered and promised him great riches. Alter a few years he ventured again into the iron industry, which held out flattering promises. This new venture swept away all of his money and his bright hopes. Seventeen thousand dollars went to pay debts. He fell back upon his profession, and after two years he took a course of lectures in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. He then attended the Barten Medical Institute in Philadelphia and received his diploma. Somewhat broken in spirit he moved to the then western country, locating at Mansfield,

Ohio, where he opened an office and began the practice of his profession. The ten years of professional life at Mansfield, gave him great prestige. About this time the old Willoughby .Medical College near Cleveland, Ohio, now tlie Starling College, conferred upon him the M. D. degree as a token of merit. In 1840 he was induced by friends to move to Gabon. Ohio, but soon discovered that this was a mistake, and after one year he located at Delaware, one of the thriving towns in Ohio. In Delaware, his great energy and acumen soon pushed him to the front place in professional work, and made him one of the first citizens of the place. Always gentle, kind and considerate, his advancement went on uninterruptedly. He held peculiar views regarding the treatment of the great scourge called milk sickness, that prevailed in early times. The patients were taken with vomiting and extreme nausea. They became prostrated and weak, unable to take or retain any food. They became reduced day after day, until they died in great mental anguish, but little real pain. The Doctor began the use of calomel or the mercurial treatment. This gave relief and saved the lives of many valuable citizens. His name was soon carried from neighborhood to neighborhood, until his fame became so great that he was called for far and near to consult with his professional brothers. He read, at one time, a highly instructive paper on Milk Sickness before the County and State Medical Societies. The discovery of the tyroccine by Vaughn, demonstrated the correct principles underlying the treatment by this able practitioner, as the antiseptic influence or mercury killed the exciting cause of this form of sickness. Dr. Blymer took an active interest in young men; and during his life educated and started over forty students in the medical profession, after furnishing them with money and equipments to begin their work. He was a leader in organizing a county medical society and, notwithstanding his busy life, found time to attend the State and County Societies, of which be was an honored member. He was thrice elected vice-president of the State Society; and several times president and vice-

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Dr. Henry Besse was born in Licking County, Ohio, in 1823. He, in those early days, read medicine one year, took one term of lectures, and began practicing. He located at East Liberty, in the eastern part of the county in 1847. I'1 1854 he graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio. After he had been in East Liberty two years, he married a daughter of Elder John Vansickle, one of the wealthy men of Kingston Township. In 1863 he moved to Delaware, Ohio. The same year he enlisted in the Forty-fifth Regiment, O. V. I., as surgeon; but from ill health was obliged to resign in six months. In 1864 he again enlisted as assistant surgeon in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment, O. V. I. After the close of the war he continued practicing. He retired a year or two before his death in 1901. He was a quiet, unassuming man, a true Christian, and a member of the Presbyterian Church. He left a daughter, Mrs. Crum, hying near Delaware. His aged wife is still hying on West Winter Street.

Dr. F. W. Morrison came from Richland County. After graduating from the "O. W. I".." he read medicine with Dr. A. Blymer. He was a poor boy. but worked and earned money to carry him through college. He graduated in medicine, and then located in Richland County, where he practiced several years. He entered the service of his country, and served as a surgeon faithfully and well. He came to Delaware about 1870. He accummulated a comfortable fortune before his death. He died from the effects of a disease o infracted in the sendee.

Dr. Frank E. Eckelbery was born on Alum Creek, six males east of Delaware. \ iter graduating in medicine, he located at Bellepoint, Ohio, in 1877, tne haven for the beginner. He soon entered upon a large practice. Broken in health, after a few years of hard work, he died from a complication of

Dr. J. Edwards is of Welsh parentage. He took adwantage of every opportunity, and graduated from the Starling Medical College, yery young. He began the practice at his old home, Delhi, or Radnor, and is now attending to the afflicted.

Dr. L. B. Simpson graduated from the Ohio Medical University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1890. He began practicing in Richland County, and after a short time moved to Marion, then to Radnor. Ohio.

Dr. H. M. Day graduated from the Cleveland Medical College in 1881. He is a son of the late Dr. Day, of Pandora, Ohio. The son began the practice in his home town, and

Dr. Leucius Bumstead, osteopathic, graduated at the American School of Osteopathy. Kirksville, Missouri. June 14, 1906, and he came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1906.

Dr. Robert Blee Smith graduated from the Hight School. Delaware. He graduated from Starling College, 1901. After registering, he moved to Columbus, where he is now

Dr. John Bingham Hunt was born in McConnellsville, Ohio, in 1829. His education was received there and in Athens County, in the country schools. He married Angel me Patterson in Delaware County, Ohio, in [852. In 1862 he graduated in medicine in the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College, and began the practice of his profession in Wellington. Ohio, Newark, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Indiana. He moved to Delaware. Ohio, in [881, where he remained until 1887. From there he went to Worthington, Ohio, where he successfully conducted a sanatorium. He later moved to Westerville, Ohio, where his wife died in 1895. Dr. Hunt died in 1906, at the age of severity-six years.

Dr. Maurice P. Hunt, Columbus, Ohio, was born in Delaware County. Ohio, in 1853. His father. Dr. J. B. Hunt, was directly descended, in the maternal line, from Miles Standish. Dr. Hunt attended private and public schools, and acquired his professional education in the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, graduating with the class of 1879. He parcticed in Selma, Ohio, 1879-83; Delaware, Ohio, 1883-93; Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1893-95; anc' m Columbus since 1895, where he is now engaged in a large practice. He pursued a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic in 1885. He had charge of the Good Samaritan Dispensary, Cleveland, Ohio, 1878-79; Huron Street Hospital, Cleveland, 1878-79; was professor of Gynecology in Cleveland Medical College, 1892-93; professor of obstetrics and diseases of women in the University of Michigan, 1893-95, and has been surgeon to the Sixth Avenue Private Hospital, Columbus, since 1896. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy; the Ohio State, (persident in 1897). the Miami Valley, and the Northwestern Ohio Homeopathic Medical Societies; the Round Table, and Magnolia Lodge. A. F. and A. M.. of Columbus. While practicing in Delaware he was a member of the City Council from 1888 to 1892. Dr. Hunt married Miss Luella Kitchen, of Selma. Ohio, in [881.

Dr. Calvin Welch was a man of strong physique, and large stature, being over six feet tall. He had strong likes and dislikes. In early life he lacked the opportunities for an education ; yet he had great natural mental fore. He was born and raised in Delaware. He studies medicine under Dr. Abram Blymer. and after graduating in the fifties, he became a partner of his preceptor. He possessed peculiar, natural surgical qualifications. He was often called in consultation to different parts of the county in various cases. He accumulated a comfortable competency, and retired from the practice, living in town in his commodious home. He attended to his farm outside of the city up to the time of his death in 1 901. He was an active member of the State and County Medical Societies.

Dr. William McIntvre was born in 1824 in Bedford County. Pennsylvania. He was one of nineteen children, and was of Scotch descent. His father came to America before the Revolution. His uncle was a soldier in the Revolution and was killed at the battle of Brandywine. The subject of this sketch worked at the saddlery and harness business with his father. He attended school at Bell vi lie when chance afforded the opportunity. From early life his great desire was to become a doctor. At the age of sixteen, he began reading medicine with the old family physician, Dr. Deming, in McConnellsville, Pennsylvania. In 1842 he came to Columbus, Ohio, and was with Dr. Howe for several years. In 1848-49 he attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. He remained one year with his preceptor in Franklin County, coming to Millville, now Warrensburg, Ohio, in 1850. He was married to Eliza Perry the same year. His wife died in 1903. The doctor died in Warrensburg in 1906, at the age of eighty-two. He had six children, twenty-four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. This early pioneer traveled the lonely forests, visiting the sick and the afflicted, crossing streams without bridges, and riding horse-back over the muddy roads, often with nothing but the blazed trees to guide him, woods to the right of him, woods to the left of him, woods all about him, braving dangers seen arid unseen, enduring hardships unknown to the professii hi today, often taking for his fee a pig or a calf or a chicken, or other farm commodities. Dr. Mclntyre's name was a household word throughout a greater portion of the county. He was for many years an ardent Democrat; but became a staunch Prohibitionist, and remained an advocate of temperance until the time of his death. His brusque and outspoken condemnation of this evil lost him a few friends: yet all gave him credit for his honesty of purpose. He loved his home, and his life was devoted to his Christian wife. 1 lis small, but well-selected library, received the attention of his spare moments. He was a faithful member and attendant of the State and County Medical Societies. Many remember him by his quaint sayings, and particularly the following: "Doubtful things are very uncertain." "There is just as much difference in people as there is in anybody." Dr. Mclntyre owned about half of Warrensburg. the town he lived in.

Dr. J. H. Miller came to Delaware in 1903 from a town in western Pennsylvania. He graduated in medicine from the Western Pennsylvania College in 1887. He is a member of the State and County .Medical Societies.

Dr. Wilber X. Leonard was born in Brown Township, Delaware County, Ohio, in i860. After finishing his education in the common schools and attending for a time the "O. W. U.," he entered the office of Dr. John O. McDowell, and afterward graduated from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1884. Soon after his graduation he settled in Delaware, where he practiced until his death in 1896. He first married Miss Clara Wolrley, who died soon after the marriage. He was married to Miss Grace Howard in 1892. At his death at the age of thirtysix, Delaware lost an active and bright physician in earlv life.

Dr. Walter M. Haggett was born at Sidney, Ohio, in 1858. He graduated from the High School, and graduated in medicine at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1887. He first located al Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1887. After nineteen years of labor in this town, he came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1907. He bought out Dr. John B. W lworth, who left for Texas.

Dr. E. Luellen was born in Meigs County, Ohio, in 1824. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. Ohio, about 1863. He read medicine with Dr. Granger at Westfield, Ohio. He married Miss Nancy Trindele. in 1853, in Westfield. Ohio, where he began the practice of medicine in 1852. He came to Delaware in 1873, and returned to Westfield in 1877, where he is now in the practice at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He always had the confidence of the people for his true Christian life.

Dr. J. C. Campbell is a successful practitioner at Powell. Delaware County, Ohio. He was born in Elwin County, in the Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada. He was educated in the public schools in his native county. He studied medicine with Dr. J. M. Penwarden in St. Thomas, Province of Ontario, and graduated at the University of Michigan in the year 1879. He practiced medicine in the State of Michigan for two years. He then took a post-graduate course at Rush Medical College, Chicago. Illinois, from which he received a diploma in the year 1882. He then located at Powell, Delaware County, Ohio, where he has enjoyed a lucrative practice ever since.

Dr. J. W. Avery was born in Delaware. Ohio, in 1859. He is a grandson of the late Judge Avery, one of the early pioneers of the ci unty. His mother was a daughter of Dr. James Hill, the sketch of whose life is in this article. It will be seen that he descended from two of the oldest and most prominent families of the county. After passing through the city schools, he entered the office of Dr. W. T. Constant, and took his M. D. degree in 1884, from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati.

Ohio. The same year lie began practice in his native town. The next year, 1885, he was tendered, and accepted the assistant physician's position at the Dayton Hospital for the Insane, where he remained until 1888. He then left for western Pennsylvania to enter the general practice of medicine. A few years ago his health caused him to withdraw for a time from practice. He is now in Delaware, waiting until he is restored in health that he may again resume his professional work.

Dr. Austin D. Mann was born in New Jersey in 1825. He graduated 111 medicine at Starling Medical College in 1845. He located in Centre Village the same year, where he remained for forty-five years. In 1890 he moved to Sunbury, where he practiced thirteen years. After fifty-eight years of practice in Delaware County he gave up the practice and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he is now living with his grandson. He married Miss Mary Gorsuch and is the father of two girls and ten boys.

Dr. Charles Francis Talley graduated at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 5th day of March, 18S6. He located at Hyattsville, Delaware County, Ohio, but soon removed to Powell, Delaware County, Ohio, where he is now located and is engaged in a successful practice.

Dr. A. E. Main graduated at the Columbus Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, February 27, 1879. He located in Delaware, Ohio, and was elected coroner of Delaware County, but soon removed to the west, where he is still practicing his profession.

Dr. Arthur J. Willey was born in Delaware County and is the son oi Samuel and Ellen E. Willey. He was educated in the public schools and at the Ohio Wesleyan Iniversity. He read medicine with Dr. Clovis M. Taylor, of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated from the Ohio Medical University at Columbus, Ohio, in April, 1898. He was assistant to Dr. Clovis M. Taylor as surgeon to the Protestant Hospital in Columbus for about six months, and located in Delaware, Ohio, in December, 1898, where he has been in the practice ever since. He was instrumental in the founding of the Jane M. Case Hospital, of which Delaware people are so justly proud.

George W. Morehouse, M. D., was born in Kankakee, Illinois, September 16, 1858. The family moved to Marengo, Morrow County. Ohio, in 1864. In the common schools and under the old school masters, he was given the foundamental foundation of his education. He, at an early age, began teaching in the common schools, and for ten years he was sought as a teacher in Knox, Morrow and I (elaware Counties.

While teaching, he began his studies in medicine; and in 1886 graduated from the Columbus Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. He first located in Marengo, Morrow County. In the same year he married Miss Luella C. Harrison, a daughter of one of the first families in Morrow County. Soon after the marriage, he moved to Sparta, and entered upon an extensive practice, which he held until September, 1907. when he located in Delaware, Ohio, wishing to there give bis children the advantages of a higher education. Always affable, genial and well qualified in his profession, he at once enters upon a promising career. He is, and has always been, a prominent Methodist.

Drs. C. Churchill Croy and Alice B. Croy. The last addition to the profession in 1907 were Dr. C. Churchill Croy, and his wife. Dr. Alice Butler Croy. Dr. C. C. Croy was born in 1870, and reared at New Dover, Union County. Ohio. He was educated in the common schools, and began the study of medicine in 1893. graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1 81 )8. He was elected superintendent of Mercy Hospital 1897-1898. In 1898' he located at Bonaparte. Iowa, for a short time, and came to Delaware, Ohio, in 1907.

Dr. Alice Butler Croy was born in Page County. Iowa. She attended the common schools, and graduated from Harper College at Harper, Kansas, in 1890; and graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, in 1898. She was elected matron of Mercy Hospital in 1898 for two years. With her husband they had full charge of the hospital until they located at Bonaparte, Iowa. She. with her husband, came to Delaware. Ohio, in 1907, where they are engaged in a general practice.

Dr. Hexry Furniss was born in 1854, and reared in Berlin Township. He received his education in the common and select schools, and in 1S76 was graduated in medicine from the Columbus Medical College. He read medicine with Dr. Andrews, of Constantia, Delaware County, Ohio. He has been in the practice at Galena most of the time since 1 871 i.

Dr. F. R. Whitacre was born in Wellston, Ohio, in 1870. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati. Ohio, in 1900. and in the same year came to Galena. He belongs to the M. E. Church. He removed to Prairie Depot, Wood County. Ohio.

Dr. V. H. Gorselexe located in Radnor in 1876. After remaining there for a fewyears he moved to Columbus. Ohio, to accept the position of physician to the penitentiary. He graduated at the Columbus Medical

Dr. Titus K. Jones. In 1853, in Troy Township, near Delaware, the subject of this sketch was born. His father and mother were two of the early settlers in this Welch settlement. The common schools and rural life prepared him early in life for teaching, which he followed until he took a normal course at the Ohio Business College in Delaware ; and a course at Ogden Normal School at Worthington, Ohio. In the winter of 1878 he commenced reading medicine in the office of Dr. S. W. Fowler, at Delaware. Ohio, and graduated at the Columbus Medical College in 1883. He at once, at the earnest solicitation of his Welsh friends and others, located in Delhi, now Radnor, Ohio, where he has been the leading physician and the most prominent doc - tor ever in Radnor or that part of the country. In 1890 he married Miss Harsh, of Radnor, the daughter of the late Caleb Harsh, one of the most wealthy men of the county. The honesty and high moral principles of Dr. Jones have given him the entire confidence of all the people be comes in contact with. He is a member of the church, a Mason, and an Odd Fellow. He has a good wife and four children of whom he is justly proud.

Dr. A. Shuey is a graduate of the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio. He came to Radnor in 1890. After a short time he moved to Prospect, Ohio, where he is nowpracticing.

Dr. T. A. Owens, of Pomeroy. Ohio, came to Radnor in [892. After a short time he moved to Elwood, Indiana. He is a graduate of the Columbus Medical College.

Dr. D. C. Fay is and has been the leading physician of Ostrander since he located there. He was born in Union County. Ohio, in 1843. He attended the High School and the Academy at Marysville. Ohio. After finishing his studies he read medicine with Dr. J. M. Southard, one of the leading practitioners in that county. In 1S64 he attended the Starling Medical College, and in 1867 graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. Ohio. He returned home and located at Ostrander. Ohio, the same year. He married in 1 87 1 Miss Marv A. Liggett. He belongs to the I. O. O. F.', the I'. & A. M. and K. P. The forty years of professional labors in this community have made him one of the landmarks ; for he is known and appreciated by all. He has witnessed many changes in the profession, not only in his vicinity, but in the county as well.

Dr. Erastus Field. The old and much respected Dr. Erastus Field began his work in Bellpoint, and after eight years moved to Ostrander, where he labored until about 1876, when, with his sou, Dr. J. H. Field, who graduated from the Cincinnati College of .Medicine in 1870, and who was associated with his father, moved to Knoxville, Tennessee. The old doctor was brought back to his old home for burial several years ago. His son is

Dr. G. E. Cowels was born in Bellpoint in 1862. He attended Columbus Medical College, and located for practice in Ostrander in 1889. He married Miss Johnston in 1894. He is a member of the State and County Medical Societies.

Dr. G. B. Weller was born in Unit m County, Ohio, in J 877. He attended Antioch College. He graduated from the Starling Medical College in 1901, and located in North Lewisburg in the same year. He located in Ostrander in 1904. He married Miss Lydia Loveless. He is a member of the State and County Societies.

Dr. Lewis Hamilton located in Ostrander after graduating from the Columbus Medical College. After five years he moved to Marion, Ohio, where he is engaged in a large

Dr. Silas Williard Fowler is a son of Charles M. and Catherine Ann Fowler, who came to Delaware County. Ohio, in 1847. The father was an oilcloth manufacturer in New York. The doctor was the fourth child, and was born in Green County, New York, and when one year old came with his parents to Porter Township in the eastern part of the countv. He, like many others, was educated at first in the common schools. At an early age he was sent to Central College in Franklin County, Ohio. After two years in the College he began teaching. By the consent of his father, in 1864 he enlisted in the army in the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Regiment, O. V. I. After being mustered out of the service, he entered Oberlin College, where he remained until the fall of 1868, when he entered the office of that celebrated surgeon, Dr. J. W. Russell, at Mt. Vernon, Ohio. He was one year at -Ann Arbor, Michigan, to attend the University. In 1871 he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While at Jefferson College he had the advantages of the lectures of the great authors. Gross, Dickson, Wallace, Rand, Keen ami Pancoast. After his graduation he returned to Delaware and opened an office, his father and fanlily having preceded him to Delaware in 1869. For thirty-six years he has been on the main street, and is one of the six business men remaining, who were on the street at that time. During all this time he has been in the forefront of the practice of his profession. He has been a frequent contributor to medical journals, and newspapers, and for many years was the local correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. He has always maintained high professional standing.

The Doctor has been an extensive traveler. He has visited all parts of the United States, Mexico, Cuba, the Azores, Africa, Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Asia Minor, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, France and England.

He was raised a Presbyterian, but now belongs to the Methodist Church. He is a member of Hiram Lodge. F. and A. M.. No. 18; Delaware Council. No. 84, R. and S. M.; Delaware Chapter, R. and A. M.. and Marion Commandery, K. T., No. 36. He is a member of the Delaware County, the Ohio State, and the .American and the Tenth District Medical .Associations. Pie was twice made delegate to the International Medical Congress. He prepared the history of the medical profession for the old county history from 1806 down to the present, 1907. Thus

Dr. Fowler has always stood for a high standard of medical education and professional ethics, always gave his services freely to the worthy poor, and has done more literary work than most memhers of the profession in the county. The Doctor*s natural bent towards literature, and his long familiarity with newspaper work, has made him one of the most interesting and profficient writers the county has ever produced, and it is to he hoped that he will yet put many of his interesting articles into the form of a book, so that the public may have the benefit of his experience as a traveler. The I )< ctor's extended acquaintance throughout this county, his lohg profi sional career, and his close and intimate association with the older members of the profession who have passed to their reward, have enabled him to prepare this chapter on the medical profession with much more accuracy and proficiency than it could have been written by the author of this history, who has prepared this sketch of Dr. Fowler's life: and the writer hereby wishes to acknowledge his gratefulness to him for this full and complete chapter on the medical profession.