Scioto County, Ohio - Chapter 4, 1903 (part 1 of 2)

Early Diseases

"The Practice of Medicine and the Physicians from the First Settlement to 1867" was the title of a lecture by Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead, delivered in the _ First Presbyterian church, Portsmouth, O., August 31, 1876. The lecture was published by the Scioto County Medical Society, and these extracts are from it. Dr. Hempstead was introduced by Dr. A. B. Jones. The diseases of sixty years ago (1816), were almost all of a miasmatic character and were all reached by periodicity. All the forms of intermittent diseases, all the varieties of the Pontine Marshes as defined and laid down by Alibier were prevalent in the first settlement of our town and county. The diseases were principally in the yallevs. On the hills or 'tablelands was typhoid fever, but it was reached hy periodicity. Pneumonia and pleurisy occasionally appeared, and if the depletion were not practised, were manageable and not so fatal, as at this time. Acute rheumatism was common and lasted as long as now. Croup was rare and apt in families where there was a constitutional predisposition. Contagious and infec. tous diseases rarely became epidemic, I think malaria prevented their spread. By contagious diseases I mean smallpox, chickenpox, whooping cough, mumps and searlet fever. The year 1821 was remarkable for the general prevalence of autumnal disease. The form of the disease was remittent, ushered in by a slight chill, at times hardly perceptible, followed by a continuous fever, occurring in paroxysms, exerbating and remitting until it ceased spontaneously, or by medication on the third, fifth, seventh, ninth, or fourteenth days, attended by profuse perspiration at the close of the critical paroxysm. These critical days followed the rules laid down by Hypocrates and Galen except on the eighth, on which day most of-the diseases terminated in health. If they passed this day without a crisis they became alarming and if the patient had sufficient tenacity of life to resist the disease and doctor, he might go into the seventeenth, never longer. They had ague, and fever and ague, with the former they would go about their business, between chills, with the two they were in bed, from 'the first attack to the close. This form of autumnal fever continued till 1858, when I retired from practise, and it is not rare at the present time. In 1821, the disease was in the valley out of the town. There were eight hundred eases inside of twelve weeks. The epidemics of 1822 and 1823 commenced in July and lasted to October, falling upon nearly the whole population outside the town. This was the jubilee time of the lancet and it was used indiscriminately. At that time my view was against blood letting, and it has been confirmed by the subsequent experience of the profession. In 1824, the epidemic began in July and seemed corfined io the town. The town physicians did not have twenty cases of fever outside of the town, during the whole season. Out of the whole population but twelve adults escaped the fever. It affected all ages. In one day J saw fifteer cases of convulsions, caused in children, by this disease. The mortality, however, from 1821 to 1824, was not over 2 per cent. The treatment was to relieve the stomach and bowels of offensive matters, to promote perspiration, and save the strength of the patient as much as possible; to fulfill the first, emetics and mild cathartics were used: and to fulfill the last, tonics. From 1824 to July. 1832, no epidemics occurred. In July, 1832, there were three cases of Asiatic cholera successfully cured. There was another in October also cured. From the thirteenth to the twenty-fifth, there were three cases on boats brought from Cincinnati. There was one case in July, 1833, and in August and September, a number of cases of diarrhoea and dysentery. In May, 1834, there was cholera which continued to July 20, when 'it ceased and the usual fever appeared. There were not over ten cases at one time, but the mortality was greater than ever before or since. There were a few cases of smallpox in 1837. In January, 1843, typhoid pneumonia was prevalent, almost an epidemic, and continued until March. 'It was almost epidemic from January to May, 1845. From May 10 to November, 1845, the usual miasmatic diseases prevailed. In 1846 and 1847, the people were quite healthy, except smallpox. From December, 1847, till in 1848, scarlet fever prevailed. In May, 1849, cholera and cholera morbus appeared. Cholera began May 15, and continued until August 21, and then diminished, and the ordinary fevers prevailed. In June, 1830, cholera and cholera morbus became epidemic, and continued to the last of July. From this time till the spring of 1858, no universal visitation of any disease appeared. I have known epidemics to cease in a day, in an hour, while the poison was in full force and abundant material to work upon, to give place to other diseases and then to return again. Infectious and contagious diseases are less prevalent in malarial districts. The practice of the physicians in the early times was heroic. In 1821 and' 1822, there was a disease called gangrenopis or cancrumous. There was an ulceration and sloughing of the gums and lips. The teeth came out. It resembled mercurial salivation, but was more violent and deep-seated It was attributed to the use of calomel. Many recovered with disfigurements and some died. In the latter class the gangrene extended from the face down into the neck, implicating the large blood vessels. The first symptom was the picking out of a tooth with the fingers. It occurred among children almost exclusively Only one adult. had it. The lancet began to be disused in 1821 and 1822. Jalop was a favorite medicine in the same year. Calomel also began to be disused in this time. In 1811, the legislature passed a law to regulate the practice of Physic and Surgery. Scioto county was in the Fifth district. There were three examiners in each district, whose duty it was to examine all applicants. No physician could practice without a license from the hoard of his district. The penalty for violating was inability to collect his debts. The law was repealed and another enacted. No censors were appointed for Scioto county under either law. In 1877, the law was amended and Pr. Jacob Offnere appointed censor. This was the first appointment made in Scioto county. In 1830, all laws on the subject were repealed. PHYSICIANS.

It is alwavs easv to name the first physician in Portsmouth, Dr. Thomas Waller. He had the field all to himself until 1816, when Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead came.

Dr. Jacob Offnere came in 1805 or 1806, but located and practised at the mouth of the Tittle Scioto. He bought the present Damarin farm of the United States and moved on it. when he gave up the practice of medicine in 1816. He then went into the practice of making money, in which he was very successful.

From 1811 to 1817 Dr. Claudius Dufligne was a resident of Portsmouth and held himself out as a physician. He was very learned, or had the reputation of being so. He had an extensive collection of medical works mostly in the French language. He had more surgical instruments than any doctor in Portsmouth, but whether he had any practice of consequence is not known. The medical fraternity of his time regarded him as a learned physician.

g In 1818 there was a Dr, De St. Leger. He advertised as a French physician, surgeon, midwife and dentist. He was a bird of passage, and did not re main long. Dr. Thomas Hersey was in Portsmouth in 1820, and for some years after. In 1821 a Dr. M. Snow was associated with Dr. Hersey. The latter pulled out in 1822. A

Dr. James B. Prescott was one of the early physicians, a very respectable member of the profession, with standing sufficient to have been a member of the Hempstead Academy in our day. had he lived in it. Dr. Prescott, however, liked hotel keeping better than the practice of medicine.

A Dr. James Ellis came in 1822, but soon flitted away. Dr. Nathaniel Andrews came in 1823, and remained until his death in 1841. He was a good physician and an excellent citizen. He was a devout Methodist, and Dr. Hemp-

Dr. Robert Rogers came in 1832. and was associated with Dr. Hempstead for two years. The two Doctors Pattillo came in 1833. They were from "tide water" Virginia. The older doctor did not practice and the younger one was associated with Dr. Hempstead for one year.

In 1842, Dr. Sonderegger advertised. On February 4th, 1842, Dr. James M. Shackelford came. In the same year Drs. Fattillo and Voglesong were in partnership.

On May 26, 1851, Dr. Hiram G. Jones located in Portsmouth. He conducted a drug store a part of the time. and afterwards went to Evansville, Ind., where he died. On October 17, 1851, Dr. G. St. Clair Hussey located in Portsmouth, the first homeopath.

On January 17, 1858, Dr. Henry Edgar, another homeopathist, located in Portsmouth. In 1853, Dr. Hiram G. and Andrew Barry Jones advertised as physicians.

In 1855, Drs. Corson and Mussey were in Portsmouth. November 14, 1855, Dr. J. A. Wakeman, another homeopathist, located, and on the same day Drs. Z. H. Sanders, Neel and Philo advertised. ;

On April 4. 1860, Dr. George Washington located in Portsmouth. He married a daughter of Captain Samuel J. Huston, and went to Missouri. He was of the Botanic School.

On June 8, 1862, Dr. O. J. Hall came to Portsmouth. He had practised at. Wheelersburg for several years. On August 18, 1860, Dr. George B. Bailey advertised. He came from Aberdeen, O., and gave his life for his country in 1861. On June 28. 1860, Dr. C. C. Brown, another homeopathist, came to town.

On December 5, 1868, Dr. Maurice Kickback came to town. He was a graduate of Berlin University. and was top heavy with learning. January 16, 1864, Dr. D. C. Munn advertised. January 11, 1864, Dr. Lewis Schwab advertised as a physician.

Dr. Benjamin F. Coates located in Portsmouth on July 26, 1865. He had been a successful physician in West Union, O., but only pnactised about one s year in Portsmouth. He hecame Collector of the Internal Revenue and gave up his profession. He preferred the practice of politics, to medicine, and was very successful in the former.

August 4, 1866, Dr. J. J. Wood located in Portsmouth. He was from Iron- "ton, November 24, 1866, Dr. Cyrus M. Finch located in Portsmouth, He had previously practised in Wheelersburg.

On April 23, 1874, Dr. Peter J. Kline, of Ross county, located in Ports mouth. On June 3, 1874 Albert L. Mehaffey a homeopath, located. He re mained but a few months.

H. T. Wilson, M. D., located in 1869... Dr. S. M. Garwood located in 1869, a botanic and eclectic, but death soon took him, November 10, 1870, at the age of thirty-four.

Octoher 3, 1878, Dr. R. M. Gibson advertised as a physician. He died in 1885, at the outset of a promising career. On December 7, 1878, Dr. Andrew B. Richardson located. In 1878 Drs. Richardson and Cotton advertised as partners. In the same year Dr. George W. Weyer took up the practice of medicine, and the firm was Kline & Weyer. On May 29, 1878, Dr, EH. S. Ricketts located in Portsmouth, and afterwards removed to Cincinnati.

On June 4, 1879, "petticoats" first invaded the ranks of the profession in Portsmouth. Miss Clara E. Aldrich, of Boston, Mass., a homeopath, located in Portsmouth. She was highly edcuated in her profession and well received. She took cold from exposure; consumption resulted, and she died at her home in Marlboro, Mass. November 6, 1881, at the age of thirty.

Dr. John N. Crawford graduated in medicine in 1880, and at once located in Portsmouth. He practised there until April 1, 1895, when he left for New York city. He is now residing in the city cf Philadelphia.

October 22. 1881, Dr. George M. Marshall advertised at Sciotoville. He afterwards came to Portsmouth, and went from here to Columbus. At the same oe Dr. Alexander V. Robinson advertised. He afterwards located in Beatrice, Neb.

On May 19, 1881, Dr. Andrew B. Richardson was elected Superintendent of the Athens Asylum. On March 28, 1881, Dr. Sarah Ellis, a homeopath located in Portsmouth. She was an elderly woman (if there are any such), and she did not remain long.

May 24, 1884 Dr. iivanie L. Stillman, who had been practising a short time in Portsmouth, was elected Assistant, Physician at the Insane Asylum at Columbus, and since then he has practised in Columbus.

Dr. Mary H. Cotton, second daughter of Dr. D. B. Cotton, practised in' Portsmouth, O., from April, 1894 to 1899, when she removed to New York city, where she is engaged in practice.

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Sketches Of Physicians

was one of the most prominent citizens of Portsmouth, during the first twenty years after its founding. He was a citizen whom the people delighted to honor, and in whom every one had confidence. He was an old fashioned Virginia gentleman in the strongest sense of the term. He was descended from Edward Waller, the English poet. On his mother's side he was descended from the great English patriot, John Hampden. He was born September 14, 1774, in Stafford County, Virginia. He received his education at William and Mary College and attended .Medical lectures at Philadelphia, at Jefferson Medical College, under the great Dr. Rush. After one course of lectures he went to Bourbon County, Kentucky, as a physician. He was married there, June 14, 1800, to Elizabeth MacFarlane, and he and she took their wedding trip on horse back to Cumberland Coe Pennsylvania, to visit her relatives. While there, Dr. Waller attended another course of lectures at Jefferson Medical College. They remained in the east a year and returned on horse back bringing a baby with them. 'hey reached Alexandria, June 21, 1801, and determined to remain there.

From 1803 to 1809, he was a Justice of the~Peace of Union township, and conducted his court with the highest decorum. His docket is still in existence. On November 21, 1803, he fined John Meirs, a school teacher, $2.00 for using two profane oaths. In 1804, while he was holding court, one William Bennett swore in his presence and was immediately fined fifty cents.

Dr. Waller was first in every thing in Portsmouth and in Scioto County. He was the first physician to locate in the county. He was the first in learning and scholarly attainments until 1816, when Dr. Hempstead came along, then there were two college bred men in the town. He was one of the first councilmen of the town when it was organized March 15, 1815. He was the first president of the town council, and remained such continuously until March 15, 1822, when he declined to_serve any longer. He was undoubtedly the first citizen of the town in the estimation of his fellow citizens. He was the first warden of All Saints.

He was the first town surveyor, chosen, May 1, 1816. On September 3, 1818, the first bank was organized in Portsmouth. He was its president and continued as such until his death. He was the second post master appointed, March 7, 1812, and held the office continuously until his death. He kept the post office, his physician's office and a drug store in his residence cn Front street. He was a member of the Legislature, the first which met after Scioto County was organized. It remained in session from December 3, 1804, to February 22, 1805. Adams and Scioto Counties were in one legislative district, and there were three representatives, Abraham Shepherd, who lived on Eagle Creek, ten miles north of Ripley, in what is now Brown County; Philip Lewis, Jr., who lived in what is now Blue Creek in Adams County, and he was the third. He attended but a single session. Finding that it interfered with his practice as a phy- | sician, he declined further legislative honors. From 1810 to 1813, he was one of the County Commissioners of Scioto County. In 1818, he was a member of the town school board, and while holding all these offices and positions of trust, he practised medicine diligently and found time to raise a large family of sons and daughters; and he raised them well.

On June 5, 1811, he purchased of Henry Massie, 104 acres of land for $1,000. 'The north line was Eighth street, the west, the first alley east of Gay, at Third street, and the east line was Union street. The Peck, Bond and Sinton Addition was laid out on the west side of it; and the east side was partitioned among his heirs after his death. | It was in earlier times known as "Dr. Waller' s farm," and the standing | timber on it as "Waller's woods."

Dr. Waller was undoubtedly the most aaa man in Portsmouth. Aside from his services as a physician, his advice was sought on all sides as a neighbor, friend and good business man. To be the family physician in the early days was a great honor. He not only cured all the family of their physical ills, but was their father confessor, guide, counsellor, and friend. 1822 and 1823 were sickly years in Portsmouth. The doctor did not spare himself in the services of his patients, and when the prevailing disease seized him in June, 1823, he did not have the strength to resist it. He died June 10, 1823, in his 49th year. His death was a shock to the community, from which it recovered only after years. It is said, that at his death he had more friends and fewer enemies than any man in the county. He was always a Whig. He left nine children, William, John, Thomas and George A., sons, and Mrs. Washington Kinney, Hannah, Elizabeth, Mrs. Francis Cleveland and Mrs. Susan Terry, daughters survived him. Claudius Dufligne

_ was supposed to be one of the French emigrants in 1790, but it is altogether uncertain. The first account we have, he was conducting a show in Philadelphia with a great deal of success. While engaged in the occupation he became acquainted with Claudius Berthelot and he went with him to the French colony at Gallipolis in time to be placed on the list for drawing of lots. He drew lot number 28, one of the best, fronting on the river, and he removed his residence from Gallipolis to his lot. He was too lazy to clear his lot to any extent, but cleared it sufficient to raise a garden. He also reared fouls and sold eggs to the boatmen, and raised bees and sold their honey. , The felling of the forest was entirely too much for his energies. He lived alone a great deal of the time in his cabin, and was famous for his miserly conduct. While in that day it was customary to give meals to visitors, he would avoid it whenever he could, and would be guilty of all manner of meanness to get out of doing so. While living in the French Grant he is said to have married a woman by the name of Peggy Stump, but she could not indure his penurious ways and soon left him. He appears to have been highly educated in France. He possessed quite a number of French medical books and others, and spent much time reading. He also had a very respectable outfit of surgical instruments for that time.

On Apirl 25, 1811, he purchased of Henry Massie for $140.00, thirteen acres of land adjoining Portsmouth. The boundaries may be given as follows, which are very nearly correct: On the east, by the premises of Mrs. Julius Esselborn: on the south by Gallia Street; on the west by the alley east of the High School property, and on the north by Seventh Street, but in fact the tract extended the depth of one or two lots north of Seventh Street. The Drew-Selby Company and Excelsior Shoe Factories are about the center of it. The Doctor sold this lot to John Young, March 13, 1812, for $240.00. He sold his French Grant lot on March 11, 1816, to Reuben Lamb, at that time

He died shortly prior to April 21, 1817. Dr. Jacob Offnere, William Swords and John Noel were appraisers of the estate, and the inventory shows that he possessed quite a number of French medical books, surgical instruments and apparel. His whole property was put up at auction.and realized $248.00. Doctors Waller and Hempstead bought the medical books and instruments. It does not appear what disposition was made of his estate, though Keyes says it was escheated to the state for want of heirs. While a resident of Portsmouth, he had a second wife; but she could not endure his style of living and left him. It is tradition that the marriage was irregular, and she could not obtain a part of his estate as widow. While in Portsmouth, he did very little in the way of practicing medicine: but spent the most of his time in reading. He had consumption, and when he became bedfast he was taken to the house of John Brown,

Was the son of Giles and Lucretia Salstonstall Hempstead, born in New London June 8th, 1794. He was the eighth generation direct from Sir Robert Hempstead, one of the first settlers in New London, and who came there with Governor Winthrop. He with two brothers had previously settled at Hempstead Plains, Long Island, New York, in 1630, coming direct from England. 'The brothers returned to England and Sir Robert went to Boston, and afterwards went to New London.

From 1800 to 1802 he attended a school kept by his cousin Joshua Hempstead. In the latter year, his father and Uncle Hallam Hempstead, with their families, commenced the long and tedious journey to Marietta, Ohio, overland. They arrived at Marietta, August 6, 1802, having been on the way sixty-four days. The company consisted of twenty-eight persons. They had twelve horses, four for each wagon, two wagons, two carriages and two saddle horses. The habitations along the way were so scattered they had to camp out twothirds of the time. Dr. Hempstead in speaking of the trip in after years, said he enjoyed it very much. He drove a two wheeled chaise, and had his mother and a sister two years old with him, and he had it overturned eighteen times on the way. In one of-the overturns his sister broke her arm, but his father acted as surgeon and set it at once. i ; On their arrival at Marietta, Giles was placed in the Muskingum Academy and remained there until 1810, when he became a student of law under Governor Return J. Meigs. He studied law one year

Giles S. B. Hempstead, M. D. Ll. D.

In 1811, he entered the Junior class at the Ohio University and graduated in 1813, the first literary graduate north of the Ohio river. He had a fondness for the languages, and studied French, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew, so that he could translate from them with accuracy and freedom.

After his graduation he began the study of medicine at Marietta, with Dr. John B. Reignier, a native of Paris, France, and a distinguished physician.

He remained with Dr. Reignier until 1816 when he went to practice at Waterford, in Washington County, where he attended many patients with the cold plague, or the spotted fever. He remained here three months, lost three patients and cured over one hundred of the epidemic.

In June, 1816, he visited Portsmouth with a view of locating there and found four other physicians were already located. He was informed there was no room for him, so he passed on and visited a number of other places seeking a location. After visiting many towns he returned to Portsmouth, in 1816, and permanently located here.

In 1819, he was a charter member of Aurora Lodge of Freemasons, and in 1829, became a charter member of Mt. Vernon Chapter. Inthe same year he was confirmed in All Saints Church.

In 1821, he graduated from the Ohio Medical "College, Cincinnati, Ohio, and received the degree of M. D. in the second class graduated from that school. The same year he received his degree as Master of Arts from the Ohio University.

From 1821 to 1824, was a sickly season in and about Portsmouth, and he scarcely slept in bed those three years. He often rode fifty miles a day in visiting patients and one day rode seventy-two miles.

In 1826, he, Samuel M. Tracy and John Noel revised the ordinances of the town, and two hundred copies were printed. Not one copy of that! publication is now known to be in existence.

In 1827, he was chairman of the Committee on Streets. In 1827, he was on a committee to repair the public or town well, which was done at an expense of $25.00, of which the county paid $10.00. The same year he was township overseer of the poor.

Dr. Hempstead was a Whig and so was Judge David Mitchell. General William Kendall resigned from the state Senate in June, 1829, and the Doctor thought he had a call to go to the Senate, and so did Judge Mitchell. Each thought the other should decline, and each was too stubborn to retire. The district was composed of Scioto, Lawrence, Pike and Jackson, and was Whig beyond question. When it was apparent that both would stand, Robert Lucas came out as the Democratic candidate, and his party being too shrewd to have another candidate, Lucas was elected. The vote in the district stood, Lucas, 1078; Mitchell, 880; and Hempstead, 441. In Scioto County, the vote was Lucas, 311; Mitchell, 280; Hempstead, 233. In Jackson County where Mitchell was best known, the vote stood, Lucas, 253; Mitchell, 281; Hempstead 36. This campaign cured the Doctor of the fever of political ambition and was an object lesson to the Whigs. This incident caused the beginning of political County Conventions in Scioto County, and thereafter there was no free for all political race. The County Convention or Committee became the arbiter among the candidates and has since remained. 'The same year the Doctor, John Noel and Samuel M. Tracy were a committee to- lay out the new Cemetery, the present Greenlawn. :

In 1830, the law taxing physicians on their supposed income took effect in Scioto County, and Dr. Hempstead was taxed on $600. He and all the other physicians were taxed in the same manner every year until1851, when the law was repealed.

In 1832, he was Supervisor of the East Ward in Portsmouth, an office corresponding to Street Commissioner, and for his service received $4.50 for the entire year.

Dr. Hempstead was not only a scholar, but a student. He was fond of public functions, and delivered a number of public lectures. He took a great interest in public education,

In 1848, he built the R. Bell homestead, and moved there in 1849. He owned twenty-one acres of land there and resided in that house until 1858, when he retired from the practice of medicine in Portsmouth and removed to Hanging Rock until 1865 when he retired for good, and devoted himself to the study of Natural Science.

In 1880, he was made a member of the American Association for the advancement of science at Boston, Mass. He was at one time president of the Ohio Medical Society.

His wife died April 15, 1875; they had two daughters and one son. His daughter, Margaret J. married Benjamin B. Gaylord, and his daughter Harriet married Gaylord B. Norton. His son, Samuel B. Hempstead, was widely known through Southern Ohio, and died in 1873, leaving a large family.

In 1874, when Portsmouth elected a Board of Education by wards, Dr. Hempstead was elected without opposition from the Fifth Ward, and was the first President of the new Board. He resigned in 1875.

After retiring from the practice of medicine he devoted a great portion of his time to the study of archaeology. He explored all the works of the Mound Builders in the vicinity of Portsmouth and made drawings and maps. His writings on this subject and his maps and drawings are preserved in the archives of the public schools, and are invaluable, as the earthworks have been destroyed.

He was perhaps the most learned man in his city; and he was undoubtedly the greatest student, of his own profession, of natural science and archaeology. He had the faculty of imparting know- ledge in the most interesting and entertaining manner: He was eminent in his profession and stood at the head of it, not-only in his own town, but in the state. He was public spirited and benevolent. He favored every enterprise for the good of the community. He was a great worker in whatever interested him, and he never tired.

He presented his medical library to the Scioto County Medical Society, and in his honor, it changed its name to the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine.

When he came to Portsmouth, it was a forest and wilderness. He remembered when the Scioto Bottoms stood in the original timber, and when all back of Third street in Portsmouth was forest, with the low ground grown up with horse weeds.

Dr. Hempstead endured enough hardship and exposure in the practice of medicine to have killed a dozen men, yet he survived, hale and hearty, until 1883, when on July 9, he died of a cancer on his face.

was born January 20th, 1821, at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. He was reared a Quaker. His father was Allen Wright Corson, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Egbert. He was educated at Swarthmore College, and studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He graduated in medicine in 1841. He located at Plymouth Meeting and practiced medicine with his uncle, Dr. Hiram Corson. In 1843, he located in Jasper, Pike County, Ohio, and began the practice of medicine. June 29, 1843, he was married at Jasper, Ohio, to Martha Hyde Cutler, daughtet of Jonathan and Persis Cutler. He removed to Philadelphia in 1845, and returned to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1846, where he formed a partnership with Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead. In 1861, he went to Virginia and attended the wounded of Company "G"', 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Bull Run he was in the Federal hospital, attending the wounded, when the hospital was surrounded by the rebel Black Horse Cavalry. He practiced medicine in Portsmouth, Ohio, until his death, July 7, 1866. He was a Blue Lodge Mason. He was a public spirited, patriotic citizen, always ready to do and suffer for others. He was of a most generous and kindly disposition. He stood high among his professional brethren, and was regarded among the best of his profession.

was born September 14, 1821, in the town of Portsmouth, Ohio, the son of Captain John McDowell and Mary Whiting Jefferson, his wife, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, the third President. His father has a separate sketch herein. He attended the Portsmouth Public Schools and afterwards Augusta College, Augusta, Kentucky. He attended lectures in medicine, first at Louisville, Kentucky, and after- wards at Philadelphia. He began the practice of medicine at Portsmouth, Ohio, in the spring of 1845. He was assessed that year and the following at $200. In 1847, he was assessed at $500, in 1848 and 1849, at $800, and in 1850, at $2,500. In 1846, he was elected a trustee of the public schools. He was appointed Pension Examining Surgeon, January 10, 1863, and was county jail physician in 1865, 1867 and 1869. 'He never sought or held any public offices which would trench in his time as a physician. He was wholly devoted to his profession. He loved it because it gave him an opportunity to minister to his fellow men. He never married, and his profession and his.church were wife and family to him. As a physician, he very quickly rose to the head of his profession and remained there. As a citizen, his character was perfect. All sorts and conditions of the men, women, and children of his acquaintance, admired and loved him. His religion was so deep and earnest that in his visits to the sick and dying, he ministered to their spiritual wants, as well as to their bodily diseases. He recognized the true type of Christianity wherever he met it; and his type of Christianity was known and recognized by all who knew him, saints and sinners alike. He was modest, quiet, and retiring in all his ways, but his true worth was quickly known, wherever he was met. He lived the fifty-seven years of his life in one community, without a single word of slander or calumny ever thought of, or uttered against him. He was an apostle of purity known and read of by all men. When he lay dead in his home, the Roman Catholic Sisters knelt by his open coffin and prayed. On his tombstone are cut the words, "The Beloved Physician', and they express in three words just how he-stood in the community. His life was not long 1n years; but was full of good deeds, and yields a grateful incense to all who remember him. James M. Shackelford died June 20, 1872, at Des Moines, lowa, of brain fever, aged about 65 years. He removed from Kentucky to Portsmouth in the winter of 1841 and 1842. January 21, 1842, is the first mention of him in Portsmouth, in the Portsmouth Tribune of that date. For nearly 30 years he was a leading and popular physician in Portsmouth. During most of the time he was connected with a drug store on Front street. In 1869, he removed to Des Moines, Iowa, where he owned large property. He had visited Portsmouth in 1872, and was in excellent health and spirits. His name and reputation was a household word in Portsmouth. His character and history in Portsmouth is deserving of a much more extended notice than this, but it was impossible to obtain anything from his surviving relatives and hence the paucity of this notice. Dr. Shackleford was an old fashioned Southern gentleman. He built the residence now occupied by Capt. E. B. Moore and it was his family home. He had a custom, a most excellent one, of charging his patients for keeping them well.

Obadiah Jackson Hall was born in Northfield, New Hampshire, August 10, 1826, the youngest child of Obadiah and Hannah (Forrest) Hall. His grandfather, William Forrest, was a Revolutionary soldier, whose services are mentioned in the Pioneer Record of this work. Doctor Hall's boyhood and youth were spent at his birthplace, where he attended the public schools. At the age of seventeen years, he went to Wolfboro, New Hampshire, and studied medicine with his brother, Doctor J. F. Hall. From there he entered Dartmouth College, where he took the course in medicine and graduated in 1850. In 1851, he began the practice of medicine in Lancaster, New Hampshire; but on account of the severity of the climate, he came to Ohio, and for ten years practised at Empire and Junior Furnaces. In 1861, for a period of about go days, he acted as substitute for F. B. Mussey, surgeon in the 33rd O. V. I. He would have accepted military service, but owing to ill health was compelled to forego it. On May 7, 1862, he was married at Portsmouth, Ohio, to Mary Elizabeth Boynton, of Laconia, New Hampshire, and practised medicine a short time thereafter in Portsmouth. He then went to Powellsville and practised there until 1865, when he returned to Portsmouth. In his youth he was a member of the Methodist Church, but after his marriage he and his wife connected with the First Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth. He had three children. The eldest, Bessie M., was educated in the public schools of Portsmouth and taught for eleven years, from 1886 to 1893. From 1893 to 1895 she was in Mt. Hoyloke College preparing for work as a High School teacher. From 1895 to 1898, she taught in the High School of Portsmouth. On June 23, 1898, she was married to Arthur F. Titus of Portsmouth. 'They have two children: Grace Elizabeth and Helen Hall. Doctor O. J. Hall's second daughter, Grace Forrest, was born in Portsmouth and educated in the Portsmouth public schools. For several years, she has made her home in New York City. Doctor Hall died in Portsmouth, Ohio, of pulmonary consumption May 30, 1868. After his death, his widow taught in the public schools and was one of the most efficient teachers Portsmouth ever had. She was a woman of fine intellect, quick perception and sturdy New England worth. Her health failed in 1887 and she returned to New Hampshire, hoping to be benefited thereby, but failed to recuperate and returned to Portsmouth, where she died September I, 1880, at the age of sixty-one. Cyrus Myron Finch was born April 14, 1831, at Dunbar, Pennsylvania, a°son of John Finch, who was a descendant of one of three brothers, who came to America during the reign of Charles II. His mother was Margaret Murphy Finch. He received his literary education at the Mt. Pleasant College, in the medical schools of Ohio, and in Bellevue, New York, and graduated M. D. in 1862.

He was united in marriage with Mary E. Bruner, daughter of S. N. Bruner, Esq., of Wheelersburg, in 1857. He settled first at Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio, and at Portsmouth, at the close of the war, where he practiced for over thirty years. At the outbreak of the Rebellion, he went to Columbus, Ohio, to be examined as a Surgeon and stood the highest in a class of one hundred and forty. He served faithfully and efficiently all through the war, traveling over nearly ail the entire South. Doctor Finch was Surgeon of the gth Ohio Cavalry and also division Surgeon of Kilpatrick's Cavalry. He participated in the Atlantic Campaign, "Sherman's March to the Sea'' and through the Carolinas, and was at the surrender of General Johnston. After the war he identified himself with the great societies which were organized to perpetuate the memory of its heroism and hardships. He was one of the founders of "Bailey Post" and a member of the "Loyal Legion." Doctor Finch served as Trustee of the State Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Columbus for four years during the administration of Governor Charles Foster. In April, 1884, Governor Hoadley appointed him Superintendent of the Columbus Insane Asylum where he served for four years.

As a physician he was known as one of the most advanced men in Southern Ohio, and as a surgeon he had no equal. He was progressive and kept fully abreast of the times. He made a special study of mental and nervous diseases and was widely recognized as an expert in insanity, being frequently summoned long distances to give expert testimony. Doctor Finch's contributions to medical literature consisted in reports of cases made to medical journals and various articles published in pamphlets. He died at his residence in Portsmouth, March 19, 1891. 'The story of his illness is the history of an iron will and constitution battling against the steady encroachment of a fatal malady, from a period that dates back to the war. From the time he left the army, his strength sapped by the fatigues and hardships of that long conflict, existence to him was one battlefield, where the forces of life and death were constantly arrayed in deadly warfare, and where every onslaught left death's ensign planted nearer the mortal battlements. It was a brave struggle made against odds which have appalled weaker natures and death may well plume himself on his victory, for he had unhorsed and laid in the dust a gallant knight. James Phelps Bing was born in Gallia County, Ohio, September 14, 1822. His father, William Bing, was a native of Augusta County, Virginia, and his mother, Nancy (Phelps) Bing came from New Haven Connecticut. The elements of an education received in the little log school house of that day were not satisfying to him, and he went to the Ohio University at Athers, Ohio. After this, he taught school in Ohio, Kentucky and Louisiana. In 1851, he received his degree from Starling Medi- cal College of Columbus, Ohio. The, Doctor practised medicine in Ironton, Ohio, eight years, in Pomeroy, Ohio, ten years, exclusive of the first and last years of the Civil War, and in Portsmouth, Ohio, for thirty-one years. From October 3, 1861, to August 31, 1862, he was Assistant Surgeon of the 53rd O. V. I. During the last year of the war, he was Surgeon in charge of Camp Thomas, near Columbus, Ohio, the station of the 18th, U. S: 1. On December 25, 1867, Doctor Bing located. in Portsmouth and was a prominent figure there until his death. During this period his was an active life. He was one of the earliest of the regularly appointed Insurance Examiners. On April 8, 1874, he was elected President of the Ohio Medical Society. He was jail physician for thirteen years from 1886 to 1899. On the Hospital Board, he served continuously from May, 1888, until his resignation July 8, 1897. He was twice a member of the U. S. Pension Examining Board. While in Meigs County, he was elected Coroner: In his youth, he connected himself with the church and was a consistent member for a long lifetime. At the time of his death, he was the only Elder in active service of the original session of the Second Presbyterian Church, organized in 1875. His practical christianity was manifested in large work among the poor for which a physician could expect no compensation. The Doctor was married on November 5, 1851, in Columbus, Ohio, to Minerva A. Powers, of that city, the Rev. William Preston, Rector of Trinity Church, officiating. His death occurring April 8, 1900, was the peaceful ending of a long and useful life. 'The widow and two children: Augustus O. Bing of Cincinnati and Mrs. A. S. Dutton, of Gallipolis, Ohio, survive him. Henry C. Beard,

Physician and Surgeon, was born December 21, 1839, near Middlebrook, Augusta County, Virginia, the youngest son of William Beard and Jane (Ewing) Beard. He came to Ohio in October, 1859, and located at Jasper in Pike County. He soon after began the study of medicine and took his first course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, session of 1860-61, at Cincinnati, Ohio. On August 11, 1862, at the age of twenty-four, he enlisted in Company C, tst Ohio Volunteer Heavy Artillery, for three years. He was promoted to Hospital Steward January 1, 1863. He was promoted to Assistant Surgeon, January 4, 1865, and was mustered out with the regiment, July 25, 1865, at Knoxville, Tennessee, and located in Lucasville, Ohio. In October, 1865, he located at California, Pike County, Ohio, where he remained for four years. In June, 1869, he graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College of Medicine and Surgery. In 1869, he removed to Portsmouth and engaged in the drug business; but on account of failing health abandoned it and resumed the more active duties of the practice of medicine. He located at Lucasville, May 27, 1879, and was actively engaged in his profession until his.

death. He was married December 25, 1860, to Mary Ellen Noel, daughter of David and Nancy Morgan Noel of near Portsmouth, O. He had three sons:,David Francis, employed with Martindale & Edmunds of Lucasville; Michael Jacob, a physician in Lucasville, lately married to Catharine Wheeler Dever, daughter of Joseph Dever; and Roscoe Eugene, employed as a clerk in a furniture factory at St. Joseph, Michigan. Our subject was elected Vice President of the Scioto County Medical Society in 1878, was one of the Board of Censors of the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine in 1884, and was also President at one time. He was made a Master Mason in Lucasville Lodge F. and A. M. No. 365, June 13, 1895. Although he did not belong to any church, he took great interest in all religious movements. He was a friend to the poor as well as the rich. His motto was, "Do unto others as you wish others to do unto you." He died August 21, 1895.

was born near Harrisonville, Scioto County, Ohio, September 1!, 1852. His father's name was Edward Warren Richardson, and his mother's maiden name was Mary Blair. His father was a farmer, and died May 25, 1864, at the age of forty-four, a member of Company "F," 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He enlisted May 2, 1862, and was appointed a Sergeant of the Company. His widow is now living at the age of eighty-three. Dr. Richardson was born on a farm and educated in the country schools until the age of sixteen, when he began teaching. He taught for two years and entered Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, at the age of eighteen, where he remained two years. He then began the study of medicine in Portsmouth, Ohio, under Dr. David Barnes Cotton. He attended the first course of lectures at Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1874 and 1875, and was graduated in medicine at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City in the spring of 1876. He was appointed Assistant physician at Athens Asylum for Insane immediately on his graduation from Bellevue. He resigned in May of 1878. He was in practice in Portsmouth from that time until 1881. He was a partner with Dr. Cotton in 1878, and was the City Jail physician in 1879. He was appointed Medical Superintendent of Athens Asylum for the Insane in March, 1881, and resigned in May, 1890. He practised medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, until April, 1892, and was then appointed Medical Superintendent of the Columbus Asylum for the Insane. In the spring of the same year he was appointed by Gov. McKinley as member of the Commission to locate a new Asylum for the Insane in the eastern part of the State. In the Spring of 1893 he was appointed a five year member of the Board of Trustees to build the new asylum, which the commission had located at Massillon, Ohio. He continued Superintendent of the Columbus State Hospital (Columbus Asylum for the Insane) until March, 1898. He was~then elected Superintendent of the Massillon State Hospital, and equipped and opened this institution in August, 1898. He resigned the superintendency of the hospital in October, 1899, to accept the superintendency of the Government Hospital for the Insane, Washington, D. C., which position he still holds. In his political views he has always been a Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was married October 26, 1876, to Miss Julia D. Harris, of Athens, Ohio. They have four children, William W., born at Athens, Ohio, in October, 1877, a graduate of the Ohio State University in 1899, graduated from the Medical Department, University of Pennsylvania, in June, 1902; Mary Bertha, born in June, 1879, at Portsmouth, Ohio, married to W. G. Neff, Columbus, Ohio, in June, r901; Edith H., born at Athens, Ohio, in October 1881, now a student at Mt. Holyoke College, Mass., and Helen, born in 1888 at Athens, Ohio.

Dr. Richardson has written numerous articles on subjects related to insanity and mental pathology. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, The American Medical Association, the American Medico-Psychological Association, the New York Medico-Legal Society and the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C. Dr. Richardson stands at the head of his profession as an expert in diseases affecting the mind and in all forms of insanity. He has a life position, - the highest that the government could confer on one of his profession. In his specialty he has a national reputation.

was born May 18, 1863 in Rome, Lawrence County, Ohio. His father was Jerome Robinson Ricketts and his mother, Rachael Mc- Laughlin. 'There were three sons and one daughter in the family. His father was from Front-Royal, Va., and his mother was born in Rome, Lawrerce County, Ohio. Her father, Daniel McLaughlin was Scotch-Irish and came from Vermont in 1818. His father's people were Hugenots originally. They went to Holland to escape the persecutions of the French Catholics and then to the United. States. James McLaughlin of New Hampshire, father of David McLaughlin, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War and at the battle of Bunker Hill. His grand-father, John Ricketts died of cholera in 1833. Our subject attended the public schools of Proctorsville and graduated at Marshall College in West Virginia in 1871. He was a clerk in his father's store from 1871 to 1873 and then began the study of medicine. He attended Miami Medical College and graduated in October, 1877. He located in Portsmouth at once and remained there until September, 1887. He then went to Europe for one year and was a pupil of Dr. Lawson, of Birmingham, England. He studied surgical diseases of women and abdominal surgery. He studied in London, Vienna, Berlin and Paris. He located in Cincinnati and began to- practice in 1888, and has been there ever since. His office is Number 408, Broadway. His specialties are abdominal surgery and operative gynecology. He is a member of the American Medical _Association, of the British Gynecological Society; President of the Ameriean Association of Obstetrics and Gynecologists, 1902; E.x-President of the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society ; member of the Cineinnati Academy of Medicine; of the Ohio State Medical Society; of the Mississippi Valley Medical Society ; of the Tri-State Medical Society. He is an honorary member of the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine and a member of the Miami Valley Medical Association. His residence is at Rose Hill, Avondale. He writes a great deal on medical subjects.

He first married Romaine McCormick, daughter of John R. Me- Cormick, October 31, 1877. 'There was one child, Holliday M. Ricketts, now 16 years of age, a student of Woodward High School, Cincinnati. His, wife died January 17, 1886. He married Miss Anna EF, Pursell, daughter of James Pursell, January 26, 1895.

was born at Sciotoville, Ohio, June 2, 1850. His father was Elias Marshall. His mother was Ann Eliza Beloat, daughter of Walter Beloat. He received a common school education and attended: the Lebanon Normal School in 1872, and the Ohio University, at Athens, Ohio, from 1873 to 1875. He left there at the end of the Junior term and began the study of medicine with Doctors Jones and Kline in Portsmouth, Ohio..-He attended the lectures at the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1876 and 1877. He practised on Duck Run, Scioto County, Ohio, in 1877 and 1878. In 1879 and 1880, he attended Medical College at Columbus, Ohio. In 1880 and 1882, he practised at Sciotoville, Ohio, and from 1882 to 1884, at Tolesboro, Kentucky. In the fall of 1884, he went to Bellevue Hospital Medical ' College and was there one year. He received the ad eundcm. degree there. In the fall of 1885, he went to Stephensport, Kentucky, and remained there until July, 1890. He then accepted the position of House Surgeon of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, New York, and remained there until June, 1892, when his health broke down. In October, 1892, he began practising in Portsmouth, Ohio, as a specialist for the eye, ear, nose and throat, and remained there until June, 1895, when he went to Columbus, Ohio, and was there for five years. In January, 1900, he-went to Ashland, Kentucky, and has been there ever since. He was a specialist until January 1, 1902, when he began general practice. He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine. He was married December 24, 1899, to Miss Adrian Bowers, daughter of C. C. Bowers of Ironton, Ohio. He is a member of the Baptist church and has always been a Republican.

Doctor Marshall has always been an untiriag Student and an in- 5 ie defatigable worker. The word "aan 3s mot to be found im his a, oom. Starting as a boy from a small country town, he overcame . obstacle m his way. some that to a less courageous and hopeful 1 perament would have been well nigh insurmountable By hard sheer merit and dint of constant application, he slowly worked hi up to the position of Hosse Sargcon for the Mashatian Eiys ; Hospital of New York City. While there he made sach men AT cx Join Reces nel Doctor, Welstes toc alan an work in his specialty. the eye. wes always well and thoroughly Manv there are who thank the Doctor for the priceless privilege having their Sight restored, passing from darkness to hght. is always generous to a fault and nothing he has is too good for friends. But at the same time, he resents an injury or a slight and & slow to forget an msalt. His veneration for his parents amounted almost to worship. He is an extensive reader outside of his medical studies and the books that please him most are by the best and deepest oe thinkers. Carlyle being an especial favorite. Po

Arther Tites Ee wes born March 7. 1824 at Harrison Furnace. Scioto County, Ohio. kw His parents were Samuel and Clarisa (Coryell) Titus. He received his education in the country schools and-in the city schools of Portsini

He pursued the study of medicine with Dr. J. B. Ray, Sr. at g Harrisonville, and during the years 1829 and 1850 attended lectures at the Starling Medical College at Colmmbas, Ohno. etal.

Surgery. where he took his degree February 7, 1861- "ae Ona the 11th dy of October. 1849. Dr. Titus was married to - : Harriet S. Chabot. to whom was born two sons: Frock H. Tits ie

Im the sprmg of 1863 Dr. Tites removed to Cheshire, where be enlisted in June of that year in Co. A. 16th Regiment O National Guands. In March, 1864. he was appointed Assistant Sur geon in the First Regiment of West Virginia Cavalry. was hier pro

Returning home at the close of the war, he removed to Wheelersburg, Ohio, where he practiced medicine and surgery until 1872, when he sold his practice to Dr. James L. Taylor and removed to Sturgeon, Mo., where he remained until 1881. While in Missouri he served two years on the U. S. Pension Examining Board. He removed to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1881, where he remained in the active practice of his profession until his death. He served on the U. S. Pension Examining Board for Scioto County from 1885 to 1893. He was surgeon for the C. & O. and B. & O. Railroads, and Physician of the Scioto County Children's Home for many years, and Surgeon for the United Commercial Travelers from its organization to the time of his death.

Dr. Titus united with the Free Will Baptist church in his youth, and remained a member of that church until he came to Portsmouth, where, there being no church of that denomination, he joined the Bigelow M. E. church and was a faithful member until his death.

He-*was a prominent member of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine, a charter member of the Scioto County Medical Society, and a member of the Knights Templar.

The grandfather of the subject of this sketch, Joseph Allard, was born in or near Sheffield, England and was married to Mary Gardner. Their son, Thomas Allard, the father of our subject, was born near Sheffield, January 27. 1829, and was brought to the United States by his parents in 1833. He was married to Harriet A. Brown, daughter of Royal and Rachel (Beauchamp) Brown, January 11, 1852. Royal Brown was a minister in the Methodist Protestant Church of Flat, Ohio, to which place his father, David Brown, had come from New York in 1815. Thomas Brown enlisted in Co. H, 176th O. V. I. September 2, 1864, and was mustered out with the Company, June 14, 1865. Doctor Allard was the second of a family of six children and was born February 19, 1855, near Flat in Pike County, Ohio. He was raised on a farm and attended the country school till he reached the age of 15, when he began to teach, which profession he followed till his twentieth vear. He then entered on the studv of medicine under C. M. Finch, M. D. of Portsmouth, Ohio. He matriculated in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, in 1876, and was graduated March 1, 1870: He located immediately in Flat and continued to practise there until May 13, 1896, when he removed to Portsmouth, where he has practised ever' since. He has a very pleasing and comfortable residence at 716 Gay~street. In 1890, he took a post-graduate course in the New York Polyclinic. He has been a member of the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine, since May, 1894. He was one of the charter members of the Pike County (Ohio) Medical Association. In May, 1894, he became a member of the Ohio State Medical Society and since 1895, he has been.a member of the American Medical Association. He was united in marriage July 20, 1880, with Miranda Buckley, daughter of Isaac and Anna (Reed) Buckley of Jackson, Ohio. Isaac Buckley was a son of William Buckley who came to Jackson County from Maryland and was of English descent. Mrs. Allard's mother was a daughter of James Reed of Oak Hill, Ohio. They have only one child, Leonora, now a school girl in the fifth grade. Doctor Allard has always been a Republican and was formerly a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, but is now a member of the Second Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth.

Both as a professional man and a citizen, the Doctor fills the measure of a true man. His naturally cheery and hopeful disposition carries into the sick room an elixir that cannot be found in drugs. Patient and painstaking he gives to his patients the most careful and skilled attention. Full of faith in his chosen calling, he avails himself of all the aids to advancement in the way of books, journals and all the societies, - local, state and national. "He had a varied and long experience in country practise where he was thrown wholly on his own resources in many difficult cases. This training has well fitted him to meet and cope successfully with the most severe and difficult cases. In the practise of his profession, he is intensely practical, and in his diagnoses, never rests until the cause of the disease is discovered. He is one of the most orderly of men. In the language of a friend of his, and a very close observer, "Dr. Allard is the best organized man I ever saw. His horse and buggy, instruments, all physical appliances, books and papers, are exactly where they should be, ready for instant use."' In his mental characteristics he is the same. - He is an extensive and eareful reader, a close student of the literature of his profession, and such is his system, that information gained is always ready for immediate use, and the greater the emergency, the more available are his resources. 'The Doctor is a most genial and companionable man, one of those sunny, magnetic dispositions whose very presence is better than stimulants.

David Barnes Cotton was born at Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, April 5, 1834. . He was the youngest son of the late Dr. John Cotton, who graduated in the scientific and medical departments of Harvard College in 1814, and in 1815, moved to Marietta, Ohio, where he practiced his profession until his death. He was a lineal descendant of the celebrated

Dr. David Barnes Cotton

Rey. John Cotton, the first minister of Boston, Massachusetts, who came from Boston, England, in 1833. The distinguished Cotton Mather was his grandson. Our subject has two brothers who are physicians, and his two sisters are wives of physicians. He was educated at Marietta College, where he graduated in the Class of 1853. He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1853 to 1856. In May, 1856, he commenced the practice of medicine in Lyons, Clinton County, Iowa, where he remained one year. On May 11, 1857, he settled in Portsmouth, where he has ever since resided. At first he was associated in business with the late Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead. He was one of the society young men of Portsmouth from 1857 to 1861. On November 21, 1861, he married Miss Mary C. Slocomb, of Marietta, Ohio. Soon after his mar- ' riage he removed to the northwest corner of Third and Court streets, where he has resided ever since. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine continuously from that time until the present, and he has been most successful. No one stood higher as a physician than he, and he stood at the head of his profession in Portsmouth, until' sickness compelled his retirement. He has enjoyed much distinction in his profession. He is a member of the American Academy of Medicine, the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine, and is an honorary member of the California State Medical Society. He was a delegate to the American Medical Association which met in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1859, also to the meeting in San Francisco, California. In'all his life Dr. Cotton has lived out the habits and manner of thought of his Puritan ancestors. He is of the highest integrity in business, in his church and-in his profession. Unlike his distinguished father, he never had any taste for politics and kept out of it. He has had six children, one son and five daughters. He lost-his oldest daughter, Nellie, at the age of thirteen months, and his son John, at the age of eighteen months. His surviving children are: Miss Grace Gaylord, Dr. Mary Hannah, of New York; Mrs. Kate Bullard Sparks, wife of Prof. Edwin Sparks, Ph. D., of Chicago; Ethel Hamilton, wife of William H. Schwartz. Dr. Cotton has stood at the head of his profession in Portsmouth for many vears. At all times and in all places he is a gentleman of the most refined manners. If he ever had any fault professionally, it was because he had too much sympathy for his patients. Frank Mott Edwards.

One of the bright young physicians of Portsmouth, was born October 23, 1863, at South Point in Lawrence County, Ohio, the son of Elisha T. Edwards and Mary Hastings, his wife. He has a brother and sister residing in Portsmouth and a brother at Athens, Ohio. His grandfather, Leonard Edwards was a native of North Carolina and emigrated from there to Lawrence County. The fam- ily located in North Carolina from Wales before the Revolution and our subject's great-great-grandfather, William Edwards, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War from Virginia. His father served in the Civil War in the roth Kentucky Infantry and as First Lieutenant, O10. Au S73 ae

Our subject attended the Indiana State Normal School at Valparaiso, Ind. in 1888 and 1889. He took a Commercial and Scientific course there. In 1892 he took up the study of Medicine and took a three years course at Miami Medical College, graduating in 1895. He practiced medicine in Ironton for five months following his graduation. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, in July 18, 1895, and has been in general practice ever since. He was married to Miss Alberta M. Ainsworth of Ironton, Ohio, on June 30, 1897. He was appointed Coroner in 1899, to fill the unexpired term of Dr. Davidson. He was elected to that office in 1900 and is now a candidate for re-election.

was born in Bentonville, in Adams County, Ohio, January 10, 1875. His father was John Ellis, and his mother Keziah Duncan, daughter of Abraham Duncan. Our subject was the oldest of nine children. He Belongs to the well known Ellis family of Adams and Brown Counties. He attended school at Bentonville, and Manchester and West Union till he was twenty years of- age. He began the study of medicine with Dr. O. T. Sproull, of Bentonville, and attended the Medical College of Ohio from 1895 to 1899. He graduated May 2, 1899. He located, at once, at Sardinia in Brown County and while there was the local Surgeon for the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. On July 7, 1902, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, and associated himself in the practice of medicine with Dr. E. M. Foster, at Ninth and Offnere streets. On March 10, 1900, he was married to Bernice Martin, daughter of Edward Martin, of Ripley, Ohio. They have one child, Helen. He is a Democrat in politics, a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and a Modern Woodman.

was born at Ashland, Kentucky, October 12, 1865. His father was George Fitch, a farmer and his mother's maiden name was Mary Martin, a daughter of John Peebles Martin. Young Fitch attended school at Greenup, Kentucky, till he was twenty-two years of age.. He then taught school in Kentucky, for a period of five years and in the meantime studied medicine with Dr. H. H. Warnock, of Greenupsburg. He attended the School of Medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated in 1893. He located at Wurtland, Kentucky, four miles above Greenupsburg. In 1894, he removed to Russell, Kentucky, and remained there until October 3, 1901, when he located at 16 West Ninth street in Portsmouth, Ohio. He was married

October 18, 1893, to Ellen D. McCarty, of Lucasville, Ohio, daughter of Samuel McCarty. He has two children, Clyde Marion and Ruth. He is a member of the Bigelow Methodist Church, a Republican, a Knight of Pythias, and a Knight of the Golden Eagle. He was a member of the Pension Examining Board of Greenup, Kentucky, from 1897 until his location in Portsmouth. He is a member of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine and Examiner of the Mutal Life Insurance Company of New York.

Dr. Fitch is a man of exceptionally good habits and an exemplary. He is at all times careful, accurate and painstaking. in his work. As a member of the Pension Examining Board, his highest aim has been to do justice to the soldier and to the Government. Professionally Dr. Fitch is above reproach.

was born at Manchester, Adams County, Ohio, December 7, 1868, the son of Ezekiel and Martha A. (Copple) Foster. His grandfather, Samuel Foster, was a soldier in the War of 1812, His grandfather, Henry Copple, was a soldier under General Scott, in the Mexican War. His boyhood and youth were spent on a farm in Adams County. He attended the district school and received a common school education. He commenced teaching school in 1886 and continued two years. He attended the North Liberty Normal in the summer of 1886, and the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1887. In 1888, he read medicine with Doctor J. W. Guthrie of Manchester, Ohio. He attended the Kentucky School of Medicine during the summer of 1890, and the Louisville Medical College during the winter, and in the summer of 1891, the Kentucky School of Medicine again, and the Louisville Medical College the next winter. In the Kentucky School of Medicine, he took the regent's medal or second honor for the first year class. The second year in the ,|Kentucky School of Medicine, he took the gold medal for best examination in Anatomy. In the Louisville Medical College, he took special prizes for the best examination in surgery, and graduated March 3, 1892, taking first honors in a class of one hundred. He commenced the practice of medicine in 1892, at Manchester, Ohio. He remained there three years and came to Portsmouth, Ohio, May 28, 1895, and has practised medicine there ever since. He is a Republican and a member of the Sixth Street M. E. Church. He was married to Clara Grimes, daughter of Charles and Mary (Perry) Grimes of Manchester, Ohio, October 4, 1892. His wife is a descendant of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. 'The Perrys were of Irish descent, but came from London to this country and located at Maysville, Kentucky. Our subject has one child, Jennie, age nine. The Doctor is one of the most active and energetic members of his profession. He has high ideas as a physician and a citizen and he lives up to them. In his profession he is a great student and his devotion and application to his chosen werk is remarkable. This has brought him deserved success and obtained for him the confidence of the community.

is one of the practising physicians of Portsmouth of the Regular Schocl. She studied medicine at the Laura Memorial College at Cincinnatai for four years, and graduated in April, 1900. She was a resident physician at the Presbyterian Hospital in Cincinnati for twelve months. After her graduation she located im Portsmouth, in July, 1901, for the practice of medicine, and has her office at the family residence, No. 192, East Second sctreet. Miss Fulton has, in the short period she has practised her profession, shown great proficiency in her work and a natural aptitude for it.

the youngest son of William Hall and Margaret (Kinney) Hall, was born August 23, 1854, at Portsmouth, Ohio. He attended the public schools of Portsmouth till he was fifteen; then his father died and his brother Wyllys became his guardian and they removed to Piqua, Ohio. He attended the public schools there until he was nineteen, and then entered Kenyon College from which he graduated in four years with degree of Bachelor of Arts. . He then attended the Medical School of the University of Michigan for two years. He took his degree of Doctor of Medicine later at Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City, in 1880, being twenty-six years of age. He then spent six months abroad visiting the medical centers in the various cities of the continent. - When he returned, he was appointed Assistant to the Professor of Diseases of Women and Children in the Medical Department of the University of Miehigan. This position he held for three years. He then went to Salt Lake City, Utah, to engage in the practice gf his profession. During the

Mark's Hospital. When the Gentiles got hold of Salt Lake City, he was appointed by the City Council to the Commissionership of the Board of Health, which existed only in name. He wrote an ordinance comprising a working scheme for such a department which was passed by the city, and held this position for three years or until a change of politics in the city's administration. He returned to Portsmouth, in 1896, and has been engaged in the practice of medicine ever since. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian. He has also a degree ad eundem of Master of Arts- from Kenyon College. ©

He was united in marriage to Mary H. Daniels, daughter of Thomas L. Daniels, of Piqua, Ohio, September 21, 1886. They have two children: Margaret Kate, born August 28, 1887; and Thomas L. D. Hall. Both were born at Salt Lake City, Utah. Doctor Hall was born in Ross County, Ohio, on January 31, 1852. His father, Rev. John J. Halderman, was a native of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. His grandfather, Daniel Halderman, was a native of Germany. His mother, Isabelle Kinnison, was a native of Greenbrier County, Va. Her father was an Englishman by birth.

Our subject was educated in the common schools. He began the study of medicine in November, 1872, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, Ohio, March 1, 1875.

He was married to Anna Katherine Gorath, August 26, 1873, and located in Sciotoville, Feburary 18, 1876. He practiced medicine there 14 years. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, on the southeast corner of Ninth and Gay streets on January 1, 1890, and has practiced medicine since that date. He is a member of the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine, The American Medical Association, The Ohio State Medical Society and The National Association of Railway Surgeons. He was appointed a member of the United States Board of Pension Examining Surgeons in July, 1885, and served until July, 1889. He was again appointed on that Board in 1893, and served until 1897. He was surgeon for the Cincinnati, Portsmouth & Virginia Railway Company from 1890 to 1902. He was appointed Surgeon on the Norfolk & Western Railway in April, 1895, which position he now holds. He was one of the charter incorporators of the Central Savings Bank of Portsmouth, Ohio.

In politics, he is a Democrat, but in 1896, he supported the Gold- Democratic ticket, and is a believer in sound money. He is a communicant of All Saints Church and has been a Vestryman for the past ten years. His children are: Ruhama, the wife of Eugene G. Anderson; Henri G., a Doctor of Medicine and a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, in 1901; Laura and Katherine, daughters at home. He is a Knight Templar Mason.

"By dint of hard and honest work, continued an incessant application and the improvement of every and all opportunities, Dr. Halderman has placed himself in the fore front of his calling. He is a hard, earnest worker in his home, state and national Medical Societies. His idea is that what is good for the individual is good for the whole profession, and that one can accomplish more for himself and for the people by working together in harmony with his brothers. While he is in the broadest sense, a general practitioner, he likes best and succeeds well in that part called surgery, for which his tastes, inclinations and mechanical ability fit him.- He is an ardent worker in his church, and aids in every way in his power the advancement and betterment of his city and its people intellectually, physically and morally. In politics, he is active and aggressive. In his stay in Portsmouth, he has taken front rank in his profession, and as a citizen and business man, he is second to none." was born in 1865, at 'Tolesboro, Lewis County, Kentucky. His father was Daniel Hendrickson and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Rummans. She was a descendant of Daniel Boone. His ereat-grandfather, O. K. Hendrickson, was a Hollander and was a First Lieutenant in the Continental Army, Revolutionary war. Daniel Hendrickson, his father, was First Lieutenant in the 45th Kentucky Infantry and was promoted to Captain. He lost his life in the Civil war and is supposed to have been drowned in Red River, Louisiana. Our subject's boyhood and youth were passed at 'Tolesboro, Kentucky. At the age of twelve, he commenced working in a grocery store for F. M. Carr. He studied at home and saved his money. At the age of fourteen, he took a course at Lebanon which prepared him to teach school. He taught in winter and went to school at Lebanon in summer until he graduated in the scientific course. He then commenced studying medicine, under Doctor W. H. Campbell of Vanceburg, Kentucky. He graduated at the Kentucky school of Medicine at Louisville, 1n June, 1894. He was married in Jefferson, Indiana, February 12, 1893, to Mattie Clark Bane. They have three children: Lizzie Leoto, Henry Fulton, and Catherine Gertrude. -He came to Ohio in September, 1895, and commenced practice at Friendship, where he continued until the spring of 1899. He then removed to Portsmouth and practised for two years, in partnership with Doctor 5. B. McKerrihan. He graduated from the Hlinois School of Electro-Therapeutics, August, 1901. He now conducts the Portsmouth Electrical Sanitarium on the corner of Market and Front streets. He has always been a strong Republican; in his religious belief he is a Protestatit. | Doctor Hendrickson is bright, witty and vivacious. He is among the first in his profession, Socially he is a general favorite. He is a genuine "Kentucky gentleman." was born in Ross County, Ohio, July 4, 1840, the son of Colonel Henry L. Kline and his wife, Mary E. McCreary, a granddaughter of General James H. Menary. He attended the district schools of his native home until he was fourteen years of age. He then entered Salem Academy where he pursued his studies until 1862. He enlisted August 7, 1862, in Company I, 81st O. V. i. for three years. - He was made Corporal June 27, 1864, and was appointed Sergeant, November 10, 1864, and mustered out with the company, July 13, 1865. He was in all the battles his regiment was in during the war, and was always ready for rations or duty. He was on the march to the sea and thereafter to Washington. He marched 1,100 miles on foot and never missed a duty. On his return from the army, he took up the study of medicine, under Doctor Samuel C. Hamilton and attended the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, and was graduated March 1, 1871. He then opened an office in South Salem. In 1873 he matriculated in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York, where he graduated in 1874. He located in Portsmouth April 23, 1874. He was Treasurer of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine in 1881, and was its President in 1883. He was Pension Examiner under President Hayes and under President Harrison and was re-appointed under President McKinley in June, 1897, and is still serving in that position. He was a member of the City Board of Education for six years, between 1886 and 1895. On April 19, 1878, he was appointed a member of the Board of Health and served for four years. He is a leading member of Bailey Post, No. 164, G. A. R., of which he has served as Commander. He is also a member of the First Presbyterian Church. March 2, 1871, he was married to Elida E. Pricer, daughter of David H. Pricer and Amanda Wilson Pricer. They have two children: Lena, the wife of Edward S. Reed, a member of the wholesale dry goods firm of Reed, Jordan & Company, of Portsmouth; and Charles Flint, a medical student at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. As a physician, Doctor Kline has the confidence of all his medical brethren and of the public generally. He stands easily at the head of his profession. It would not be too much to say that he is the most popular physician and man in Portsmouth. Everyone likes him. He can always be found at the front in every project for the public good. He possesses a wonderful store of human sympa- - thy, and is constantly expressing it. Make up a full catalogue of all the civic and domestic virtues, and he possesses them all. But Doctor Kline is mortal, like the rest of us. He has some weaknesses and, in justice to our readers, we propose to tell one of them. Doctor Kline can be induced to do almost anything for an old comrade of the Civil War. He has reason to be proud of his own record in that war; but just let an old soldier ask him anything and the Doctor will do it at once. He can be imposed on in this way easier than any other. The Doctor is a pleasant, easy and entertaining public speaker. He is on good terms with his audience at all times, and can al- _ ways touch a popular chord, but on the occasion of Soldiers' Reunions he is unexcelled. He is always-at home at a Soldiers' Reunion. He never misses one in fifty miles of his residence and one is seldom held without his being invited. A camp-fire fires his heart at once, and on these occasions, while he is speaking, he is again the young soldier of 1861 and 1865. He has never forgotten the enthusiasm of his youth, and he can bring some of it back to his old comrades. He has an inexhaustible fund of war reminiscences and is constantly adding to his store. He has forgotten nothing of his army life, and can tell of it so that his hearers feel that they were eye witnesses. There is nothing so interesting as an older person who can recall his youth, in such a way as to make his hearers feel the fire of it. While the Doctor is on the shady side of sixty, when he talks to the soldiers, he forgets the chasm of years between him and his youth, and causes his hearers to forget them too. It is to be hoped that the Doctor will hold the spirit of his youth as long as he lives and as to that, his friends wish he may rival Methuselah.

was born November 2, 1875, in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio. His parents were William R. Micklethwait and Abigail Dever, his wife. He received his early education in the Portsmouth public schools and was graduated from the High School in the class of 1895. He attended the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, for two years and studied pharmacy. He took the medical course and received the degree of M. D. at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. He was House Physician of Ensworth Deaconess Hospital, at St. Joseph, Missouri, from 1900 to 1901. He then went to Atchison, Kansas, and went into general practice and at the same time took charge of the Doctor Allaman Company's private hospital of that city. He was appointed district medical examiner for Court of Honor, Atchison Lodge, No. 786. He remained there until April, 1902, when he returned to Portsmouth and bought property on the southwest corner of Offnere and Eleventh streets where he is located and practises his profession in all its branches. He is a Republican and a member of Sixth Street M. E. church.

Doctor Micklethwait is a young man of learning and ability and much force of character. He inherits the good qualities of both sides of the house. On the maternal side he is the great-grandson of Solomon Dever. His grandfather, William Dever, for whom he is named, has a sketch herein. These two were far above the average in natural ability, both physical and mental. Upon the father's side, his ancestry are of equally rugged stock, his grandfather having immigrated from England in the early part of the last century.

From both parents he has inherited a strong vigorous constitution, a clear head, honesty and uprightness, a strong will and that persistency of purpose and capacity for constant application and work that must inevitably carry him to the upper walks of his profession.

was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 2, 1871. His boyhood was spent at Portsmouth. His parents were Samuel G. and Mary FE. (Bradford) Moore. He attended the public schools of Ports- mouth and graduated from the High School in 1889. He read medicine with Dr. P. J. Kline during vacations. He spent one year at the Miami Medical College and three and one-half years at Bellevue Medical College, New York, graduating in 1892. He practised medicine at Haverhill in this county two years and then went to Europe for further medical study. He spent one and one-half years in the Hospitals of Vienna and Berlin and returned to practice medicine in Portsmouth, where he has been ever since. He is a Republi- . can; a member of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church; a member of Hempstead Academy, and of the Modern Woodmen. He married Miss Gertrude LaCroix, daughter of the late John P. La- Croix, Professor of Languages at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, June 19, 1901. She is a grand-daughter of Andrew LaCroix one of the French emigrants of 1790, to whom was assigned lot 15 in the French Grant.

Dr. Moore is well read in his profession and possesses that highly sympathetic nature so advantageous and so necessary to one of his profession. He is a constant student and is an enthusiast in his devotion to medicine and surgery. He is always ready to adopt new methods and stands for the greatest research and advancement. He has deserved the confidence of the community and has it. He also possesses to the highest degree the confidence of his professional brethren.

Sample Bell McHerrihan was born October 22, 1848, in Green County, Pennsylvania. His father was Joseph McKerrihan a native of Ireland, and his mother's maiden name was Eliza Jane Parker. He spent his boyhood in Washington, Green County, Pennsylvania. He attended school at Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He took the Classical Course for two years and then he pursued a Normal course at Haneytown Normal School for eighteen months. In June, 1869, he began teaching school and taught twenty-two months in Cameron, Marshall County, West Virginia. At that place he began the study of medicine under Dr. S. B. Steiger and studied with him for four years. He attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati from September 1, 1873 until 1877; and graduated from that institution in March, 1877. From 1874 to 1879, he practised his profession at Pleasant Valley, Marshall County, West Virginia. In March, 1879, he removed to Moundville, West Virginia and practised medicine until November, 1883. At that time he took a post graduate course at the Medical College of Ohio, and attended the hospital. He there met Dr. Cyrus M. Finch, as he was going to Columbus to take charge of the Central Insane Asylum. Dr. Mc- Kerrihan came to Portsmouth May 30, 1884, and has been here ever since. He was U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon for the County from July, 1885 to 1889; and again from September, 1893 to July,

1897. He has always been a Democrat. He vas married October 3, 1877, to Florence H. Crow ofMarshali-County, West Virginia, and has five children: Minta, Mabel, Russell, Pearl and Howard.

was born June 2, 1842, near Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio. His father was Seymour Pixley. His mother was Elizabeth, widow of Nathan Orm, whose maiden name was Hayward. He was reared at Wheelersburg and attended school there. In 1859 and 1860, he was in the sophomore class at Ohio Wesleyan University. Doctor Pixley began the study of medicine in the fall of 1861 with' Doctor Joseph Corson, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and attended the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1861 and 1862. He read medicine in the spring and summer of 1862, and up to August 18, 1863, when he entered the gist O. V. L. as Hospital Steward and served till July 24, 1865. On returning from the army, he practised in Rome, Adams County, in the fall of 1865. During the winter of 1865 and 1866 he attended the Miami Medical College and graduated in 1866. He located in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, to practice medicine and remained there one year. In August, 1867, he located in Portsmouth, Ohio, and has been there ever since. He has been City Physician, a member of the Council, and a member of the School Board of Portsmouth. He is a communicant of All Saints Church and has been a Vestryman and a Junior Warden and is such now. He is a member of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine, and was Secretary of the Scioto County Medical Society during its existence. Doctor Pixley was married, June 30, 1875, to Miss R. Alice Gilruth, daughter of William Gilruth of Haverhill, Ohio, and has had five children. Earl Gilruth, the oldest son, born June 29, 1876, was killed November 18, 1901, at Elizabeth, New Jersey in a railroad accident; Charles Austin was born in 1877 and died at the age of four years. His daughters are Bessie and Marie; and he has a son, William, aged thirteen. Doctor Pixley is a Republican and ts conservative in all his views. He was Secretary of the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine in 1886. On February 7, 1877, he located on Ninth street where he has since resided. In 1876, he and John T. Miller secured the passage of a resolution in Council to buy ten pairs of English sparrows at $3.00 per pair. In 1886, the city had sparrows to sell. These birds have become a nuisance. This action of Dr. Pixley as to English Sparrows is the only blemish on his record. It only shows that a good physician should, not go outside of his profession. Joseph Spangler Rardin was born in Bern Township, Athens County, Ohio, 'December 25 1862. His father Levi Rardin owned a large farm adjoining that of William Rardin, grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Wil- liam Rardin was one of the early settlers in that locality in 1822, his __' - earest neighbor being three miles distant. at the present town of "- Bartlett in Washington County. His great-grandfather, Henry a Rardin, came down the Ohio river from Georgetown, Pennsylvania, : _ im 1807. His great-great-grandfather, Dennis Rardin. emigrated to 7 central Pennsylvania about 1750 from Dublin, Ireland, in company , with, at least, one brother. John. They were Protestants and both 5 left large families which drifted throughout the United States. The } records of Westmoreland County show that Dennis Rardin died in 1789, and that his son Henry settled the estate prior to his moving i _ down the Ohio into the then great Northwest Territory. He landa ed at Marietta, Ohio, afterwards. moving into W. ashington County, where he died October 17, 1856, at the age of ninety-nine years. William Rardin, grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, April 29. 1797, and married Elizabeth Andres about 1816. They began | near Bartlett in Bern Township, soon after their mar- * riage, where he died December 11, 1876. Levi Rardin. the father, was born in Bern Township, Athens County, Ohio, January 12, 1823. _ He died on the farm adjoining that of his birth October 4, 1867, - from an attack of acute dysentery. Doctor Rardin's mother was Miss Fanny Lorilla Selby. daughter of Dyar and Tabitha Sdby. She was born near Bartlett, Washington County, Ohio, November g, 1826, and is still living on the old home farm in Bern Township, Athens County, with her son, } Williard: Wer mother's maiden name was Calhoun. Dyar Selby ; and his wife came down the Ohio about 1817. landing at Marietta, # later settling near Bartlett. Ohio. Doctor Rardin has two brothers f living. Jared J. Rardin a sketch of whom is found edsewhere in this book and Williard W. who owns the old homestead in Athens Coun- 4 ty, where he lives with their mother. Two sisters and one brother are dead. Eunice E.. wife of J. M. Graham, died March 5. 1883. at the age of twenty-nine, Elizabeth Emmeline died October 17, 1867, fers ae of ten years, Charles C. died September 16, 1867, at the weed sixteen. ; -, +. Doctor Rardin spent his boyhood until he arrived at the age of - Bes on the farm. and attended the district school in winter. He ay is an apt pupil and began to teach at the age of sixteen. At that _ age, he entered Bartlett Academy which he attended at intervals between teaching and farming until 1882, when he entered the Ohio . iste University at Columbus, Ohio. Here he took a thorough course in the sciences and continued his teaching in the public schools of Franklin and Madison Counties until 1887. when he entered Starheap imag from which he graduated with honors in 1890 s of thirty-seven. He located at once at Portsmouth, Ohio, ep at hig where he has continued to practice and now 1 1895, he spent several months in the Hospitals of New

York City, furthering his professional attainments, being a matriculant of the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital. For some years past in connection with his growing practice, he has done a large amount of surgical work and has achieved some reputation in that line. He is largely interested in a private hospital, fitted after modern ideas, where certain classes of medical and surgical cases can be better treated. He was married January, 1896, to Miss Caroline, Kehoe, daughter of the late Charles T. and Eliza D. Kehoe, well known residents of Portsmouth for many years past. Two children have been born to them, Helen Lansing and Charles Sanford. The latter died April 31, 1902. 'They have a very comfortable home at 108 Gallia avenue, which they enjoy very much, and at which place the Doctor also has his office. Doctor Rardin belongs strictly to the class of self made men. By toiling away patiently without support, except his own efforts, he has reached his present enviable position in his chosen profession. He is a Republican by politics and was brought up in the U. B. Church, but since living in Portsmouth, he has been an active member of Bigelow M. E. Church.

The Doctor's sterling qualities as a student and tireless worker have given him a standing among his colleagues second to none. Having special fondness and fitness for surgery he has availed himself of the training of some of our most noted surgeons in the great medical centers of learning and brings to his patients the advantages of this experience and training. Like all ardent medical students he is a faithful attendant on his local, state and national medical societies, ready to give and receive through papers and discussion that medical discipline that can be obtained in no other way. His quiet and unostentatious but earnest life among his home people has given him a high place in the respect and affection of all who know him, both as a friend and as a doctor.

Abram Goebel Sellards £ was born March 16, 1838, in Greenup County, Kentucky. His father was Andrew J. Sellards and his mother Mary G. Hartley, daughter of John Hartley. His father was a farmer. He had a common school and academical education. He began teaching school at the age of twenty-one and taught for two years. He enlisted in the roth Kentucky Cavalry on September 15, 1862, for one year, and was made a Sergeant. He served out his time and was in two engagements. From 1863 to 1865 he was Deputy Clerk of Greenup County. In 1865, he began the study of medicine with Doctor A.