Posey County, Indiana - Chapter 10: The Medical Profession, 1913

Dr. David Krausgill was born in Harrison county, Kentuckj', in 1848, son of Philip and Mary (Keller) Krausgill. He grew to manhood in his native county and when sixteen years old enlisted in the Thirteenth Indiana cavalry, serving from March 14, 1864, to December 4, 1865. After the war he attended school at Orleans, Ind., for three years, and taught school for four subsequent years. He then commenced the study of medicine and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1879. He began the practice of medicine in Francisco, Gibson county, Indiana, and after two years removed to \\'adesville, Ind. He remained in Wadesville several years, attaining a large practice, then went to Terre Haute for a while, thence to the northern part of the State. The writer has been unable to secure further details. He can only add that from personal knowledge the doctor was a skilled physician and an estimable gentleman. He died a few years ago.

Dr. T. J. Hall, of Caborn, Ind., was born March 15, 1862, in Harrison county, Kentucky. He was a son of Volney and Nancy (Oder) Hall. His early life was spent on the farm, attending the district schools at intervals. Later he attended school at Lebanon, Ohio, after which he taught in the public schools for a few years. He took his medical degree at the Cincinnati School of Medicine and Surgery, graduating March 22, 1892. at the age of thirty years. He began the practice of medicine at Springfield, Ind. ; afterwards spent some time at Grafton, and practiced awhile at Mt. Vernon. In the summer of 1889 he took a special course in the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in New York City. He located in Caborn, Posey county, in 1897, and has resided there ever since. He was married to Miss Lena Kuhn, of Farmersville, Ind., in 1896. One son, Morris, has blessed this union.

Dr. George C. Smith was born January 15, 1864, on the old homestead two miles east of Poseyville, Ind. He is the fourth of a family of eight children, born to John C. and Lavina (Robb) Smith. Dr. Smith received his literary education in the Posey county common schools, at the Northern Indiana Normal School, at Valparaiso, and at Indiana

University at Bloomington. After three years spent in teaching at Poseyville and Stewartsville, Ind., he began the study of medicine. His professional education was received at Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, where he graduated in 1891. He was married Ajyril 29, 1891, to Miss Etta McReynolds, youngest daughter of Samuel M. and Elizabeth (Young) McReynolds. One son, Bertram C, was born to them November 3, 1893. He began the practice of medicine at Cynthiana, Ind., in August, 1891, and on July 13, 1893, he removed to Poseyville, Ind., where he has since resided with the exception of a residence of fifteen months in Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1901 and 1902. Dr. Smith is actively engaged in the general practice of medicine. In addition, he is actively interested in agriculture, as the owner and manager of farm lands.

Dr. Richard Smyth was born in Ireland, April 28, 1830, and he had an Irishman's wit and grit. He was one of fourteen children born to Thomas and Susan (Dudgem) Smyth, who came from the Emerald Isle in 1839. They located on a farm in Gibson county, where the father died a few years later. Dr. Smyth grew up on the home farm and secured a good education in the Princeton schools. When sixteen years old he went to Evansville and worked in a drug store for several years. He attended the Evansville Medical College and graduated in 1852. He located in Wadesville, Ind., and practiced his art until 1864, then removed to Princeton, Ind., and practiced his profession there till 1878, when, on account of failing health, he moved to Kansas. In 1881 he returned to Posey county and located in Mt. Vernon and practiced with marked success. He was married twice, first to Jane Hunter, in 1853, who died a year later; in 1854 he was married to Maria Pitts, who is still living. Having secured a competence and his health failing, he removed to Princeton, Ind., in 1898, where he lived in retirement until his death, which occurred in the year 1904. He was a member of the pension examining board, which met in his office at Mt. Vernon, Ind., during Harrison's administration. "After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."

Dr. Claude L. Rawlings was born in New Harmony, Ind., April 11, 1880. He is the son of Dr. Sam Rawlings, one of the old physicians of New Harmony, consequently Dr. Claude has breathed a medical atmosphere from childhood. He graduated from the Mt. Vernon High School in 1898, and was a student of DePauw University one year. He graduated in the medical department of Washington University in St. Louis in 1903. Afterwards he was interne in the St. Louis Female and City hospitals, then returned to his native town, the modern "Athens on the Wabash," and began the practice of his profession in 1904; and has resided there ever since. He was married to Miss Catherine Barnes, of St. Louis, in 1905. To this union have been added three children, two boys and one girl. Since the doctor is young, industrious, intelligent and adl62 HISTORY OF POSEY COUNTY mirably equipped by education, training and association for his calling, his friends - and they are numerous - may well predict for him a large measure of success.

Dr. John B. Weever, who, while he lived in Posey county, was the most popular physician therein, was "to the manner born," his father being a physician of note. He was born in Hallowell, Me., September 25, 1836, one of seven children born to Dr. Charles S. and Mary (Trafton) Weever, natives both of Maine. Dr. Charles Weever, the father of John B., came to Indiana in 1837 and located at Evansville, Ind., where he practiced his profession and held the chair of Professor of Anatomy in the Evansville (Ind.) Medical College for one year, and then came to Mt. Vernon, where he died April 21, 1862. Dr. John secured such education as could be had in the common scliools of the city where he resided. At the age of Tourteen he attended a full course of lectures in Evansville, Ind. He continued his studies,until he was nineteen, when he entered the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, graduating in 1858. He was for awhile in the office of old Sam Gross, the "Father of American Surgery." After receiving his degree he came to Mt. Vernon and practiced with his father until the death of the latter in 1861. In December, 1862, he married Miss Emma Slocum, an accomplished young lady of Carmi, 111. They became the parents of seven children, three of whom are now living. In the year 1886 he removed to Evansville, Ind.. where he still lives, and though he is seventy-seven years of age, still practices his profession. He is a member of the County, State and America Medical associations. The doctor is tall, straight, broad-shouldered, apt at repartee and noted for the ease, grace and graciousness of his manners and his courtesy to the younger members of the profession. May he long continue to live and practice the profession of which he is an ornament.

Dr. J. F. Leslie was born at McLeansboro, 111., in 1879. His father, James F. Leslie, is at this time adjusting attorney for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company. His mother. Miss Lora Casey, belonged to a distinguislied Irish family. Her father, widely known throughout Southern Illinois, as "Buck" Casey, was a mail contractor, providing stages for a large number of stage routes before there were any railroads in Southern Illinois. The doctor's maternal uncle, Sam Casey, was circuit judge of the Mt. Vernon (111.) circuit for twelve years. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of McLeansboro, and in the Evansville High School. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Medical College, Chicago, and held an interneship in the Post-graduate Hospital of Chicago for one year, and took a post-graduate course in the same school in 1909. and again in 191 1. He began practice in Jonesboro, Ark., afterward practiced in Maunie, 111., until November, 1912, when he removed to Mt. Vernon, where he now resides. He was married to Miss Stella Weber of Salem. 111., in January, 1909.

Dr. James Edward Cudgel, a prominent physician and surgeon of Cynthiana, was born in Cibson county, on the farm of his parents, March lo, 1858. His paternal ancestry were of German origin, while his mother was of Scotch-Irish extraction. His parents, grandparents and greatgrandparents were prominent among the early pioneers who carved a nation out of a wilderness. Dr. Cudgel is the next oldest practitioner in the county now actively engaged in the profession. He attended the common schools in the county where his parents resided until he was fifteen years of age, when he entered the high school of Oakland City, where he graduated in the class of 1879, and then entered the normal school at that place, making in all about nine years attendance in school there. He afterwards taught school four years in the county, and one year in the grammar grade at Booneville, Ind. He graduated at the Evansville Medical College in 1883. In 1883 he located in Cynthiana, where he practiced five years and then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, Mo., graduating in 1888, and resumed his work in Cynthiana, where he still resides. He is a member of the Posey County Medical Society, of which he served one year as president, and is also a member of the State and American Medical associations. He was married in 1886 to Lizzie T. Smith, of Posey county. They are the parents of four children. The doctor is a Republican in politics, and the family are members of the Presbyterian church.

Dr. C. H. Fullinwider was born near Alton, Ind., in 1854. He is of German lineage, but his ancestry had been for several generations in this country. Dr. Fullinwider received his literary education partly in the public schools of the neighborhood and partly from private tutors. He was reared on the farm. He finished his education at what was then known as Hartsville (Ind.) University, later entering the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, at that time the best medical college west of the Alleghanies. He graduated with the class of 1883, and began the practice of medicine at Petersburg, Pike county, Indiana, where he was associated for eight years with Dr. J. R. Adams, one of the oldest and best physicians in the county. He came to Mt. Vernon in 1872, where he has since resided. Before coming to Mt. Vernon he did post-graduate work in Philadelphia, Pa., under Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Joseph Price, then went to New York and took a full course in the New York Polyclinic. He was married to Miss Cornelia Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Thomas, of this city, in 1897. Two daughters have been born to them, Anne V. and Emma B. The doctor is one of the leading physicians of the county. He is careful, conscientious and painstaking, being especially skillful in diagnosis. He does a large consultation practice.

was born at Grayville, 111., February 15, 1877, and was raised on a farm, attending the common schools of his neighborhood and finished his literary education at Union Christian College at Merom, Ind. Afterwards he taught school one year and then began the study of medicine under Dr. J. M. Durham, of Grayville, 111. He graduated from the University of Louisville, Ky., in 1894. In May of that year he located at Cynthiana, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. His ancestry, of English origin, were pioneer settlers of Indiana, coming from Bedford county, Virginia, in 1810. Dr. Turman belongs to the County, State and American Medical associations. He was president one year and secretary two years of the county society. He was married in August. 1895, to Miss Agnes Bixler, of Vanderberg county, Indiana. They had one child, Claude Kenneth, now a graduate of the Cynthiana High School. Mrs. Turman died in October, 1904. In March, 1906, Dr. Turman married Grace Bixler (nee Emmerson), of Gibson county. Dr. and Mrs. Turman have two children, Robert E. and Agnes Lucile. The Turman family are members of the Christian church, and Dr. Turman is a deacon in his church and director of the choir.

Dr. David Walter Welch was born near Galatia, 111., in 1848. He is the son of E. G. Welch and Xancy (Upchurch) Welch. The father was of an old \'irginia family, but was raised at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and moved to Southern Illinois when quite a young man. Dr. Welch's mother was born at Galatia, which was founded by her father, David' Upchurch. lived there all her life and died in the same village at the age of eighty. The father died at the ripe age of eighty-eight in the same village. Dr. Welch, the oldest of twelve children, was reared on the farm near Galatia, attended the village schools in winter and later the Illinois State Normal at Normal. He taught school for fifteen years, three years in Shawneetown. 111.; two as assistant superintendent of Evansville, Ind., schools ; two as superintendent of Rockport schools, which he re-organized and graded, and two as superintendent of schools in Boonville, Ind. He read medicine at home of evenings and afterwards in the office and' under the tuition of Dr. George B. Walker, dean of the faculty at Evansville, Ind. He graduated from the Evansville Medical College in 1886, having previously lived in the country northeast of Mt. Vernon, Ind., for four years. He located in Mt. Vernon in 1888, where he has since resided. Some years ago he took a post-graduate course in the Chicago Clinical College, and served four years on the board of pension examiners during the Harrison administration, being associated with the late Drs. Smith and Holton. He was married in 1868 to Miss Jennie R. Wright, of Cloverport, Ky. They have five sons and two daughters, all grown and married. He is in politics a Prohibitonist. There are just two planks in his political platform. He hates whisky and mud. He is the originator of the movement which resulted in building more than 200 miles of rock and gravel roads in Posey county. He met fierce opposition and defied it. Before that the county had not a foot of decent road. They have at this time more than 200 miles and are still building.

Dr. John W. Powell, late of Mt. Vernon, Ind., now a re-^ident of Evansville, Ind., was born in Henderson, county, Kentucky. June 16. 1844, and is the only son of eleven children born to James M. and Matilda (Greene) Powell, who were born, the former in Kentucky, the latter in Virginia. The father was a farmer and resided in the county of his nativity all his life excepting two years spent in Indiana. John W. obtained his literary education in the Asbury Universtiy, Greencastle, Ind., and later at Washington College, Lexington, Va. He received his medical education in the University of Louisville, Ky. He began the practice of his profession in his native county, remaining there until 1880. In December of that year he came to Mt. Vernon, Ind., and spent several years in that place and its vicinity. A few years ago he discontinued the practice of medicine and moved to Evansville, where he now resides. In 1870 he was married to Miss Belle Dorsey. To this union six children were born, three of whom are now living.

Dr. Daniel Neal, one of the oldest physicians of Posey county and for many years a resident of New Harmony, is a son of Max and Anna (Williams) Neal, who were of Irish lineage. They were natives of South Carolina, and when Indiana was yet a Territory, removed thither and settled in Posey county, where Dr. Neal was born January 21, 1828. His early life was passed on the farm and then he spent three years in the Mt. Vernon public schools. He worked in a dry goods store one year and then crossed the plains to California, where he remained until 1852, when he returned to his native county. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Mott, of New Harmony, in 1853, and in 1854 he attended the Transylvania Medical College at Lexington, Ky., and two years later began the practice of medicine in New Harmony. In 1857 he moved to Jackson, 111., but in 1866 returned to New Harmony and resumed the practice there. He married Martha Bennett in May, 185". Four children have been born to them - Nellie, Mollie, Benjamin and August. About eight years ago he removed to California, where he has since resided.

Dr. Samuel O. Rawlings, one of the oldest physicians in Posey county, was born in Oliiey, 111., September 10, 1845. His father, Lloyd Rawlings, was born in Ohio and moved to Illinois at an early day. He was one of the "forty-niners," and while in the gold fields of California had an encounter with a grizzly bear and came off second best, being disabled and disfigured for life. He died in 1885. Dr. Rawlings began the study of medicine in his native county under the tutorship of Dr. M. Vancouglan, and entered the Cincinnati College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1869, graduating therefrom in 1873. ^^ located in New Harmony in

1871, where he has resided and practiced his profession ever since. He was married to Miss Alice Youngblood, of Posej'ville, Ind., in May, 1877. Seven children have blessed this union, four of whom survive. Elbert, one of the sons, is a druggist in W'ashington State ; another, Claude, is a physician, a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this volume. The doctor still does some practice for his old customers. The first wife died in 1909. He was married in 1912 to Miss Mary Givens. Politically he is a Democrat.

Dr. John ^\^ Ranes was born in ^\'hite county, Illinois, in 1881, reared in Gibson county, near Owensville, Ind., to which place the family removed when the subject of our sketch was two years old. He attended Owensville and Princeton high schools three years and attended Oakland City College three years. He graduated from the Indiana School of Medicine in 1908. He practiced medicine in Union, Pike county, Indiana, removed to Mt. \'ernon in 191 1, where he still resides and practices his profession. He was married in 1904 to Miss Sadie Arnold, of Warrick county, Indiana. Two children have blessed this union. Husband and wife are both members and active workers in the General Baptist church. Being young, well educated and of exemplary habits, a long career of usefulness awaits him.

Dr. Oscar T. Schultz, deceased, during his lifetime a prominent physician of Posey county, Indiana, was born near Breslau, Germany, in 1848, and was the oldest son of Theodore and Henrietta (Weber) Schultz. The father came with his family to the United States in 1853 and located first in New York City, but after two years' residence there moved to Evansville, Ind., where he engaged in the practice of medicine. Oscar T. received his education in the public schools of Evansville, graduating from the high school in 1856. Irt the fall of that year he moved to Owensboro, Ky., and taught in a private school. From 1868 to 1874 he was superintendent of German in the public schools of Owensboro and Evansville. February 26, 1875, he graduated from the Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville, Ky., at the head of his class. In April, 1875, he located in IVIt. Vernon, where he resided and practiced his profession till the time of his death, which occurred late in the year of 1891. May 9, 1876, he married Louisa, daughter of John Pfeffer, of Mt. Vernon. To this union were born six children, four of whom are living. He and his family were prominent members of the German Evangelical Trinity church. Mrs. Schultz departed this life March 6, 1903. Dr. Schultz was one of a long line of physicians, there having been one at least in nearly every generation for three centuries, and his oldest son, Oscar Schultz, M. D., of Omaha, Xeb., is not the least distinguished among the number.

Dr. Charles Arburn, of Wadesville, Ind., was born on a farm in Gibson county, Indiana, October 13. 1858. He was a son of John and Angeline (Henson) Arburn. The father was from England, the mother from Pennsylvania. Dr. Arbiirn attended the public schools of his native county and began teaching at the age of twenty-one. Four years later he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, graduating therefrom with the class of 1889. He located at Carmi, 111., remaining two years, and then removed to East Lynn, 111. After practicing four years there he came to Wadesville, where he has since resided and practiced his profession. He is a Democrat in politics and a Primitive Baptist in religion. Dr. Arburn was married in 1884 to Miss Martha Florence Smith, daughter of John W. and Mary Jane (Calvert) Smith, of Smith township, Posey county, Indiana, after whom Smith township was named. Dr. and Mrs. Arburn have two sons and two daughters.

Dr. Samuel G. Henderson, who has spent his entire professional life in St. Phillips, Posey county, Indiana, was born at Surgeonville, Hawkins county, Tennessee, in 1848, the son of S. L. and i\nnie (Williams) Henderson. The doctor's grandfather was killed and robbed by the Indians near Chattanooga, Tenn. Dr. Henderson was reared on a farm in his native county, attending the common schools of his neighborhood. At the age of fifteen he enlisted in Company E, First Tennessee Federal cavalry, but on account of his youth was not permitted to serve. Two of his brothers were in the Federal and one in the Confederate army. After his discharge he again attended school. In March, 1866, he came to Indiana, locating first at Francisco, Gibson county. He attended school for a short time at Poseyville, Ind., and subsequently taught school in Posey county. He graduated in 1876 from the Cincinnati College of Physicians and Surgeons. He began practicing his profession in St. Phillips, Posey county, where he has since resided. He has retired from active practice, but still does some office work. He has accumulated a competence, owns several farms and is a raiser of cattle and hogs. In politics he is a Democrat. He belongs to no church, but is a Methodist in belief. In 1873 Dr. Henderson married Barbara Pelt, daughter of James and Nancy Pelt. Dr. and Mrs. Henderson are the parents of eight children.

Dr. Arno Klein was born in Mt. Vernon, Ind., in 1886, of German parentage, his father, Charles P. Klein, having been born in Rhine-Essen, Germany. His mother, formerly Miss Katherine M. Schwerdt, was born in Evansville, Ind., and is also of German descent. The parents came to Mt. Vernon thirty-three years ago, where the father has been and is still engaged in the grocery business on a large scale ; Arno graduated in the Mt. Vernon High School, attended Culver (Ind.) Military Academy three years, and then spent eight and one-half months traveling in Germany and Switzerland. L^pon his return from Europe he entered the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, remaining till he graduated, and then served four years as interne in the hospital connected with the school. Not getting just what he wanted there he went to Williamsl68 HISTORY OF POSEY COUNTY port, Pa., and served one year as interne in the hospital at that place. He began the practice of his profession in Mt. Vernon in 1912. He was married in February, 1913, to Miss Emily V. Brower, of Williamsport, Pa., so he certainly spent his year in Williamsport hospital to some purpose. He has recently been appointed surgeon in the Indiana National Guard and attached to the First regiment. He is bright, energetic, speaks English and German, and certainly has a bright future before him.

Dr. Ulysses G. Whiting was born September 24, 1869, in Evansville, Ind. He was the son of John and Sarah O. Whiting. He received his literary education in the common schools of Cynthiana, Ind., and the Northern Indiana Normal University at Valparaiso, Ind. At the age of nineteen he engaged in the drug business at Cynthiana and followed this avocation until the fall of 1894, when he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, where he graduated in 1897. He located at Wadesville, Ind., for the practice of medicine and remained there until 1905. when he moved to New Harmony, forming a partnership with Dr. J. M. Glaze. He was, in 1904, elected grand medical examiner of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for the State, filling said office until 1906. He quit New Harmony in 1908 to take clinical courses in Chicago, New York and Vienna, Austria. Returning to America he again resumed the practice in Mt. Vernon. Dr. Whiting was married to Miss Lula Wasson, of Gibson county, in 1893 They have two children. Miss Fay, a teacher in the city schools, and Van, who is in the senor class of the Mt. Vernon High School.

Dr. Edwin Rinear was born in Liberty Center, Wells county, Indiana, in 1866, son of Elias M. and Mary Jane (Hupp) Rinear. His greatgrandfather was a Frenchman, who came to this country with Lafayette and served in the American Revolution. His grandfather, Charles Rinear, son of the Frenchman, was born in New Jersey, and his son, father of Dr. Edwin, was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. His mother was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. Elias M. Rinear, the doctor's father, was a druggist in Liberty Center, and other towns in Indiana and low lives in Bluffton. He was a soldier in the One Hundred and First Indiana infantry and for three years was "fife major." Edwin Rinear attended the public schools of his neighborhood and later completed the teacher's course in Holbrook Normal at Lebanon, Ohio, after which he taught for six years in the Wells county public schools. He graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1890. He practiced at Liberty center ten years, at Warren, Ind., three or four years, at Bluffton for a time, and located at Mt. Vernon in 191 1. He is a member of the Mt. Vernon Society, which owes its existence to him ; is secretary of the County Medical Association and is a member of the State Association. He was married in 1891 to Queen Mabel Webb, of Warren, Ind. They have no children. In politics he is a Democrat. The doctor is a musician of more than ordinary skill and an artist of no mean ability.

Dr. Henry H. Sugg was born on a farm near Fayetteville, Tenn., in 1866. His father was Henry H. Sugg; his mother was Sally E. Yowell, a great-granddaughter of the celebrated John Sevier, pioneer Indian fighter and first governor of Tennessee. Dr. Sugg attended the common schools of his native county as a boy and when a young man attended the medical department of the Vanderbilt University and of the Tennessee Medical College, graduating later in the American Medical College at St. Louis. He began the practice of medicine at Trenton. Tenn., where he remained one year; then he removed to Greenville, Tex., where he practiced three years ; returning to his old home he practiced two years near Fayetteville. In the year 1892 he moved to Mt. Vernon, where he has resided and practiced his profession ever since. The best thing he ever did was to marry, in 1891, Miss Lula McGowan, of good Presbyterian stock. To this union have been born five children, two boys and three girls. The doctor has been quite successful in business and now owns 400 acres of land in Posey county. He practices medicine according to the theories of the Eclectics. Dr. Sugg affiliates with the Christian church. His wife, true to the Scotch traditions, is an old-school Presbyterian and both are highly respected citizens in the town in which they reside.

Dr. William Mason Holton was born in Westminster, Vt., July 16, 1827. He was a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, class of 1852. After his graduation he practiced one year m New York City; from 1853 to i860 at Plymouth, 111.; then till 1863 he practiced his profession at Stewartsville, Ind., and from 1862 till the time of his death, which occurred December 13, 1910, at New Harmony, Ind. He was a member of the Posey County, State and American Medical societies. During the Civil war he served as first lieutenant in the Sixtieth Indiana regiment and afterward as surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Indiana. He was on the board of pension examiners at Mt. Vernon four years during the Harrison administration. He practiced his profession continuously, except the time he was in the army, for fifty-eight and onehalf years. Few men in America ever practiced longer.

Dr. Robert Lee Hardwick was born February 16, 1863, near Dawson Springs, Hopkins county, Kentucky. His father, Christopher C, was a dry goods merchant. His mother's maiden name was Adeline Henson. He was educated in the public schools of his neighborhood, is a graduate of the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, finishing the course in 1886. He first practiced his profession in Clay, Ky., and later at Dixon, Ky. ; moved to Mt. Vernon in 1897, where he lias since resided. He was married to Miss Lura F. Watson in 1891. To this union two daughters have been born - Lucile and Adelaide. He is in religious belief a Missionary Baptist, though not connected with any church here. In politics he has always been a Democrat. He is secretary of the board of

Douglas X. Ramsey, one of the oldest physicians in point of continuous service in Mt. Vernon, Ind., was born in Xenia, III., son of George D. and Mary A. (Price) Ramsey. His father was a practicing physician of Xenia, 111., where he died at the age of seventy-seven. The mother died in Alt. Vernon, aged eighty-two. Dr. Ramsey attended the public schools of his native village and for two or three years had a private tutor. He took his medical degree at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1880, and shortly afterward located in Mt. Vernon, where he has since resided. He took post-graduate courses in St. Louis L'niversity in 1873 and in the Chicago Pol3'clinic in 1875. He was appointed a member of the State Board of Health by Governor Matthews and served from 1895 to 1897. tis has been twice president of the Posey County Medical Society, and for four years he was medical examiner for the Ancient Order of Cnited Workmen. Governor Durbin appointed Dr. Ramsey delegate to the National Tuberculosis Congress, held in New York in 1907. He served two terms on the board of pension examiners under Cleveland's administrations. He was married, in December, 1909, to Miss Rosa Scheller, who was born in Interlachen, Switzerland, hut spent most of her life prior to her marriage in Evansville, Ind. In politics Dr. Ramse}' is a Democrat ; fraternally a Master Mason.

Dr. William Edward Hasting, until recently a prominent physician and surgeon of Mt. Vernon, Ind., was born in Point township. Posey county, Indiana, in August 1867. He was a son of William Thomas and Jane (Booth) Hasting, the former born in Delaware, the latter in Posey county. Dr. Hasting's father was of English descent and a pioneer settler of Posey county. He died at his farm in Point township at the age of fifty-five. Dr. Hasting was reared on the Point township farm, receiving his early education in the county schools. Later he was a student at De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind. He entered the medical department of the Washington University at St. Louis in 1893, graduating in 1897. He spent three years as interne or superintendent of a hospital there and in East St. Louis. He removed thence to Mt Vernon, Ind., where he built up a large practice, owning a farm of 1,000 acres of land in Point township, which demanded his attention. He has recently quit the practice of his profession and is giving his attention to stock breeding and buying and selling mules. He was married to Miss Anna Bell, a native of Ireland, in 1895. She died November 6, 1910, leaving two children, David and Anna.

Dr. Samuel Benson Montgomery, a prominent physician and surgeon of Cynthiana, was born in Gibson county, Indiana, July 6, 1874. He was the youngest child of Jesse M. and Lemira ( Benson) Montgomery. He was raised on a farm, completed the common school course and graduated from the Owensville High School in 1892. He attended Wabash College one year and then entered the University Medical College at Louisville, graduating in 1898. He practiced one year at Poseyville, three years at St. Wendel, and then located in 1902 at Cynthiana, where he still resides and enjoys a lucrative practice. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical Associations. He belongs to the Christian church. Dr. Montgomery is of French extraction, tracing his ancestry back to the Tenth century, to the Count of Alencon in Normany, descendants of whom are found in England, Scotland, Holland and America. It is from those that settled in Scotland and Ireland that we have the American line and the antecedents of our subject. In September, 1898, Dr. Montgomery was married to Miss Eva L. Boyle, daughter of Henry and Tilda (McReynolds) Boyle, both native Hoosiers, the father of Vanderburg county and the mother of Posey. They have two children, Mary Lena and Dorothy Mae.

Dr. David B. Montgomery was born March 26, 1834, on a farm in Gibson county, Indiana. His early life on the farm consisted of the usual tasks incident to farm life, with a few months' attendance of the district schools in winter. When nearing manhood he attended an academy in Newburg, Ind., for two years. Upon attaining his majority he read medicine with Dr. John Runcie, of Cynthiana, Ind. He graduated from the Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1858. Upon receiving his diploma he located at Cynthiana, where he built a large and lucrative practice. Beginning the practice he was compelled to buy a home and outfit on credit, but at his death he left an estate valued at many thousands of dollars. The doctor was a man of fine personal appearance, neat in his dress and courteous in manners. He was "liberal" in his religious views. He thought, spoke and acted in accordance with his own view of right and propriety, letting consequences take care of themselves. Out of his own ample means he erected in 1875 a neat brick edifice, which he called Byron Hall, to be used by the young people for their social gatherings and by any religious sect or political party. He was twice married. The first wife was Miss Margaret Whiting, whom he married in i860. The union proving unhappy, it was dissolved by the court in 1883 after long and bitter litigation. In the same year he was married to Miss Mary Downs, who survived him. The doctor "fell asleep" on September i, 1885.

Dr. Thomas W. Wilson was born in Lynn township October 18, i860. He worked on the farm and attended the district schools until he was nineteen years of age, when he entered the Indiana University at Bloomington, graduating therefrom in 1884. He received his medical degree from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati in 1887. Shortly after his graduation he formed a partnership with Dr. William Holton at New Harmony and they practiced together for eight years. Since then he has practiced alone in New Harmony, where he continues to reside. For ten years lie was health officer of the county and has also filled the positions of president and secretary of the County Medical Society. Dr. Wilson is the son of John Wilson and Mrs. Amanda (Grad) ^^'ilson, both of Lynn township. Dr. Wilson was married to Miss Annie B. Miller, of New Harmony, in 1893. They have one son, Gordon M. Wilson. Dr. Wilson is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen and the tribe of Ben Hur.

Dr. George R. Pcckinpaugh was born in Crawford county, Indiana, June 5, 1854, being the next youngest of twelve children born to Nicholas and Eleanor (Scheckell) Peckinpaugh. The parents were from Hardin count)', Kentucky, but emigrated to Crawford county, Indiana, in 1818. Here he was raised, married and reared a large family. Dr. George R. remained on the farm till he was seventeen years old, when he entered the Hartsville, Ind., University and later the University at Bloomington, Ind., completing there his sophomore year. He then took a two-years course in chemistry and other branches pertaining to the medical profession. In the fall of 1878 he matriculated at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, graduating in 1881. He located in Mt. Vernon in September of that year and began the practice of his profession. He soon became one of the most popular physicians and surgeons of Posey county. From then until 1907, with the exception of a short time spent in Chicago, he practiced in this city and vicinity. In that year he removed to Evansville, Ind., where he has since devoted his entire time to pulmonary diseases, in the treatment of which he has been very successful. The doctor is affable, courteous and unassuming in manner and simple in his dress. Though some of his theories as to the causes and treatment of pulmonary diseases are original, the doctor is honest, terribly in earnest, and able to give a reason for the faith that is in him. He was married to Miss Rose Alexander, an accomplished young lady of this city.

Dr. J. M. Glaze was born at Joneshart, in Upper East Tennessee. At thirteen years of age he was sent to Greenville, Tenn., where he remained two years. He is a graduate of the Universitj' of Nashville and \'anderbuilt University at Nashville, Tenn. He began the practice of medicine at nineteen years of age, located at Gainesville, Ky., where he practiced six 3'ears. Later he moved to New Harmony. He is the son of William B. Glaze and Elizabeth (Clark) Glaze, both natives of Tennessee. Dr. Glaze was married September 6, 1894, to Miss Mary R. Cooper, daughter of John Cooper, a prominent citizen of Posey county during his life time. The doctor married some money and made more, and had accumulated considerable property when he left New Harmony about five years ago for California, where he now resides. He has one child, Anna Reed Glaze. Dr. Glaze was a member of the Posey

County Medical Society, and was for a while surgeon for the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville Railroad Company at New Harmony. He is a Democrat in politics. Besides his practice he has large farming interests.

Dr. T. C. Emmick was born near Grandview, Ind., on Corn Island, the name given a mound built by the mound builders, August 9, 1872. His parents were John W. Emmick and Rebecca (Peckinpaugh) Emmick. Thomas, the subject of this sketch, left the island or mound farm, orf which he was born, and where he passed his early childhood, and went with his father, who was a steamboatman, to Yazoo City, Miss., and later to Alton, Ind. His literary education was received in the public schools of Alton. When a young man he clerked for three years in the Fogas drug store in Mt. Vernon, then read medicine about one year in the office of his uncle, Dr. George R. Peckinpaugh, at that time one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Posey county. He then entered the Louisville Medical College, where he remained two years, graduating at the Ohio Medical College in the class of 1897. After obtaining his degree he located in Mt. Vernon, where he still resides and practices his profession. Dr. Emmick was married in 1906 to Miss Betty Dunn, of Alton, Ind.

Dr. Edwin V. Spencer, who at the time of his death was >ine of the oldest and most successful physicians of Posey countj-, was born in Warren county, Penn,sylvania, and was one of a family of nine children born to Mathias and Harriet (Smith) Spencer, natives respectively of Connecticut and Vermont. He grew to manhood in his native county, where he secured a common school education and later attended an academy at Sherburne, N. Y. He began the study of medicine when nineteen years of age, and was graduated from the Cleveland (Ohio) Medical College in 185 1. He came to Posey county in the spring of 1852 and located in Mt. Vernon. He was one of the oldest physicians and surgeons in the county in his day. Making money in the practice and investing it in real estate, which afterwards increased greatly in value, he became quite wealthy, and at his death left a large landed estate. In February, 1852, he married Sarah J. Baxter, of Erie county, Pennsylvania. They became the parents of eight children, four of whom are now living. One of them, George W., is a distinguished physician and surgeon of Philadelphia. The doctor was a Democrat in politics, and in his later years a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a member of the Indiana Medical Society. On March 28, 1902, he joined the "Silent Majority," "And there shall be no night (riding) there."

Dr. Marcus Sherburne Blunt was born in Narridgewock, Me., in 1826. He was fortunate in his birthplace, as at that time New England was a center of culture and refinement, of courage and energy. Dr. William Trafton, Dr. Charles Weever and others who adorned the medical profes- sion in that early day, were also natives of New England, and brought to the western wilds something of the culture of the East. "There were giants in those days" and giants were needed to help subdue the wilderness, to contend with Indians and wickedness, to struggle through mud and swim swollen, unbridgcd streams, to carry the light of hope and health to the sick, to smooth the pillow of the dying. "The paths of pain were theirs" and they were trodden by weary, but unfaltering feet, not the least among these pioneer physicians being the subject of our sketch. Dr. Blunt graduated from Bowdoin College in 185 1 and came west, locating at Mt. Vernon, then a mere village, in 1852, where he resided and practiced his profession till his death, twenty-nine years later. Those were strenuous years, filled with high purpose and hard work. Those of us "upon the ends of the world are come," who practice medicine in automobiles, over rock roads, can little appreciate the hardships which these older physicians had to undergo. After two years the doctor realized it was "not good for man to be alone," especially in the western wilds, and he married Miss Caroline B. Abbott, of Farmington, Me., who was not merely a helpmate for him, but an addition to the society of the village. The writer was proud to number her among his friends not manj- years after her husband's death. Dr. Blunt was "gathered to his fathers" after a long and painful illness, October 2, 1881, and his devoted wife joined him in the "land of shadows" in 1904. Six children were born to this union, five of whom are yet living. Said one of his contemporaries: "He had the courage of his convictions honestly, faithfully in his sphere of action, did he fulfill his destiny. Upright and honest in all his business relations he stood without reproach." Though he did not accept the dogmas of revealed religion, "His convictions, as to the future were sincere and pronounced. Above all creeds or books he looked and believed that any power which could mysteriously call him into existence was sufficient to care for him in the great Beyond." "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" If he had the faults and foibles of humanity, he was also the possessor of its grandest attributes. His humanity was extended as the human family, his benevolence only circumscribed by his power to do good. Said another, "The sacrifices he made during the cholera epidemic in Mt. Vernon will never be known and never forgotten, in that memorable conflict with pole horse and his rider how unflinchingly he stood by the post of his duty. All mercenary motives were lost sight of, the poorest had his professional counsel and assistance as readily as those from whom he might expect remuneration and more, they had access to his purse as long as he could keep it supplied and the overflowing sympathy of his warm heart in their affliction." He was not orthodox but he entered into the spirit of him who said. "I will have mercy and not sacrifice."

ville, Ind., was born December 6, 1839, Bavaria, Germany. He is the third of a family of four children born to Simon and Catherine (Schaffener) Bitz. They came to the United States in 1847, locating in Warrick county, Indiana, where they lived until the father's death in 1875, and the mother died there in 1881. Dr. Bitz was raised on a farm and served one year during the Civil war in Company G, Forty-fourth Indiana volunteers. Returning from the war he farmed until 1867 and then entered Miami Medical College, graduating two years later. He then located in Blairsville, Ind., where he built a large and lucrative practice. He married Mary Marvick in 1871. He and his family are members of the Catholic church. Fifteen or twenty years ago he removed to Evansville, Ind., where he still lives and practices medicine in partnership with his son.

Dr. William Louis Miller, practicing physician, was born in Cincinnati, October 24, 1873. He is the son of Rev. Louis and Elizabeth (Doerr) Miller. His father is a native of Germany, born eighty-four years ago and is now living. He has been a Methodist minister for over fifty-three years. His mother died a few years ago. Our subject, Dr. William Louis Miller, graduated from the Boonville High School at the age of seventeen. After teaching school for several years he attended De Pauw University and later studied medicine at Louisville Medical College. In April, 1901, he graduated from the University of Indianapolis, after which he practiced medicine in West Franklin for about one year. In 1902 he was married to Miss Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Weilbrenner, of Mt. Vernon, Ind., and located near St. Phillips, in Robinson township, where he has continued his practice for eleven years. Dr. Miller and wife are the parents of two children, Harold L. and Raymond A., and are members of the German Methodist church.

Dr. George W. Welborn, formerly a practicing physician of Stewartsville, Ind.. was born March 17, 1844, in Evansville, Ind., where he grew to manhood and received his early education. In 1859 he entered the Asbury University, now De Pauw University, where he remained until the beginning of the Civil war. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Sixtieth Indiana infantry, and served three years, receiving his discharge June 30, 1865. For a short time after the war he clerked in a drug store in Evansville, but at the end of six months entered into partnership in the boot and shoe business. Two years later he sold out and came to Stewartsville and engaged in farming. October 27, 1867, he married Martha Stinnett, who was born in 1845 "i Kentucky. They had four children, all of whom survived him. The doctor began his medical studies while in the army and, in 1875, quit farming, took a two years' course in the Evansville Medical College, graduating in 1877. The parents of the doctor were William W. and Hannah (Walker)

Welborn. The fatlier was a physician, who received his medical education in Evansville and died in that city in 1871. The subject of our sketch took a post-graduate course in Philadelphia in 1894. He located in Stewartsville and practiced there till failing health compelled him to seek relief in a hospital in St. Louis. He died in that city as the result of a prostatectomy in 1895.

Dr. Francis H. Kelley was born October i, 1835, in Kentucky. His parents were Robert and Charlotte (Walton) Kelley. The father, who was a farmer, was born in Virginia in 1797. He died in Missouri, where he then resided, in 1864. The mother was born in 1805, and died in Missouri in 1877. He received his literary education in the district schools, from his mother, and from a high school, which he attended two years, and from the Georgetown (Ky.) College, where he attended two years. In 1859 he entered the University of Charlottesville, Va. When the Civil war began he was a student in a medical college at Nashville, Tenn. He joined the Confederate army, was commissioned captain, and later was promoted to the rank of major.

He fought at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, Corinth, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. In the skirmish at Danville, Ala., he was taken prisoner and sent to Indianapolis, where he was released in 1865. Being without money or friends in that locality he went to Orange county, Indiana, and worked for a time in a saw mill. In a short time, learning that he pos.sessed some knowledge of medicine, he was called to see a sick man, and treated him successfully. In 1867 he married Rhoda E. Stone, who bore him one child, Albert Lee. He died in June, 1870, and in March of the same year he graduated from the Louisville Medical College. He then located in Stewartsville, Ind., where he remained till 1885. He then left Posey county and settled on a farm in Saline county, where he lived fourteen years. Left there in 1901 and spent about one year in Texas. He located in New Harmony in 1902, where he now lives in retirement. Has not been in active practice since leaving Stewartsville. His wife, who is still living, was Miss Mary Alice Robb. They have three children.

Dr. Simeon H. Pearse was born in Allegany county. New York, in 1830, being the oldest of a family of three sons and three daughters, born to Benjamin H. and Mary (Heath) Pearse, natives respectively of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Dr. Pearse was raised in the county of his nativity and secured a fair education, completing his academic course and securing a State teachers' license at the age of twenty-one. He obtained the means to enable him to pursue the study of medicine by teaching. He graduated in 1854 from the Castleton (Vt.) Medical College. He practiced his profession in Onondaga and Allegany counties for four years, and spent one winter in Bellevue Hospital, New York. He then came to Mt. Vernon, where he remained till the year 1896, when he returned to New York. In 1855 he was married to Lucy A. Abbott, in his native county. They had two children, Eliza M. and Warren M. The doctor in politics was a Democrat and fraternally a Mason. He and his wife were members of the Presbyterian church. He was a member of the Mt. Vernon public school board from 1868 to 1878, with the exception of two years. He died in 1896, shortly after his return to his old home in New York.

Dr. Carl Plucks, of St. Wendel, Ind., was born in Germany, December II, 1837. He is a son of Carl and Anna Plucks, who were native Germans, and lived and died in the land of their birth. The doctor received an exceptionally fine education in the German language and literature, and also in theology. He entered the German army at nineteen, and was in the sanitary service for about seven years. He came to the United States in 1872, located in Terre Haute, and practiced medicine for about nine months, when he removed to St. Wendel, where he has since resided. He was married to Mary McHenry in 1873. They had six children, three of whom were living in 1885. Dr. Plucks and family are members of the Catholic church, and politically he is a Democrat. The doctor is quite a fine musician, having attended some of the best musical schools of Europe.

The doctor left St. Wendel and moved to Arkansas for a while, where he was elected to the legislature. After a few years he removed back to St. Wendel. Who wouldn't, after having been elected to the Arkansas legislature? The old doctor is living in retirement at St. Wendel.

Dr. John W. Rutter was born in Posey county, Indiana, near Cynthiana in 1857. He was a son of John Rutter and Jane (Carter) Rutter and was raised in the same neighborhood where his parents were. He was educated in the Cynthiana public schools. He graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1881. He practiced medicine in Cynthiana twenty-eight years and came to Poseyville in 1909, where he still resides. He has been married twice - first to Prances Sketler, who died in 1906, leaving two children ; then to Mrs. Belle W. White, of Eldorado county, Illinois, in 1908. Praternally he is a Mason. He belongs to the Posey County Medical Society.

Dr. K. C. Pitzgerald was born in Philipstown, 111., in 1884. He is the son of Charles and Isabel Pitzgerald. The doctor was educated in the public schools of his native village and at the Kentucky Universtity, Lexington, Ky. He received his medical degree at the Kentucky School of Medicine, graduating in 1906. He served two years as interne in the City Hospital and in St. Anthony's Hospital, Louisville. He was a student of Dr. William Wathen, of Louisville, in his day one of the greatest gynecologists in the West. He located in New Har- mony, Ind., in 1908, where he still resides and practices his profession. He is a member of the city council. He was married in 1909 to Miss Nelgine Schnee. One child has been born to them, in 1912, named Elizabeth. He was in college a Greek letter man, a Phi Chi. In politics he is a Democrat. He belongs to the Woodmen, Odd Fellows and Masons. He is a member of the County, State and American Medical associations.

Dr. J. P. Gibson, of Stewartsville. was born at Barboursville, Knox county, Kentucky, in 1877. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the Union. College, Barboursville, Ky.. in 1896. He attended the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating therefrom .Vjjril II, 1900. He served as contract surgeon for the North Jellico Coal Company at Milton, Ky.. 1901-1902. He then located at Corbin, Ky., 1903, where he owned a drug store and practiced medicine till 1908. He then removed to Stewartsville, Ind., where he has since resided. He was married to Miss Mamie Spahr, of Cincinnati, Ohio, in July, 1900. They have four children - one boy and three girls. The doctor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is Republican in politics.

Dr. Ernest Wilson, "Doc Ernie," as he is familiarly called by his friends, was born in Lynn township, Posey county, in 1867. He was the son of Alex. Wilson and Margaret (Stallings) Wilson, both of Lynn township, Posey count}', Indiana. The doctor was raised on the Lynn township farm, attended the district schools, and finished his literary education at the State University at Bloomington. He obtained his medical degree at Miami University, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1896. He had prior to this taken a course in pharmacy, graduating at the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy. He served as interne at St. Mary's Hospital, Evansville, Ind., in 1896 and 1897. He then practiced his profession in New Harmony, Ind., about one year. He then located near Solitude. Posey county. Indiana, within a mile or two of his boyhood home, where he has resided ever since. He was married to Miss Elsie Neusom, of New Harmony, in 1897. They have had two children; one, a little girl, is living. Dr. Wilson is a stockholder and director in the People's Bank at Mt. Vernon and owns considerable land - two or more farms - in Lynn township. He is a Democrat in politics.

Dr. Commodore P. Barrett, the third child in a family of twelve children, and the son of Isaac and Louisa Bafrett, was born in Pike county, Indiana, November 26. 1869. He was raised on a farrh and attended the district schools during the winter. Began teaching school in 1889 and continued several years in the country and village schools. Graduated from the State I. N. School at Princeton. Ind., in 1891. and from the Hospital College of Indiana at Louisville, Ky., in 1898. Since his graduation he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in

Pike and in Posey counties. He was located for a time at Grafton and more recently at Oliver Station, in Posey county. At present he is located at Mt. Vernon, Ind. Dr. Barrett was married in 1898 to Miss Jada M. Glasson, of Warrick county, Indiana. This union has been blessed with three children, two boys and a girl.

Orba Leonard Woods, M. D., was born September 27, 1883. He is the son of Albert Franklin and Mary E. Woods. Attended the Princeton public schools and graduated from the high school in 1903. Worked for the United States Express Company in St. Louis about one year. Entered Indiana Medical College in 1905. This school became affiliated with the Indiana University and was known as the Indiana School of Medicine. Dr. Woods graduated therefrom in 1909. He then served as interne at St. Anthony's Hospital, Terre Haute. In the fall of 1910 he located at Poseyville, Ind., in the office of Dr. Runcie, deceased, where he still resides and practices his profession. December 14, 1910, Dr. Woods was married to Miss Margaret Deutsch, of Houston, Tex., formerly of Terre Haute, Ind. Two children have been born to them - Elsie Frances and Loren Paul. Since the doctor is young and well equipped for his calling, a large field of usefulness is open to him.

Dr. George U. Runcie was born August 14, 1858. at C3'nthiana, Ind. He is one of a family of seven sons and five daughters born to Dr. John W. and Mary N. (Whiting) Runcie, who have resided at Fort Branch, Ind., since i860. Dr. Runcie received his preliminary education in the high school at Fort Branch and began the study of medicine in 1877. In September of the same year he entered the Chicago Medical College, where he attended the three-year graded course, graduating March 30, 1880. He practiced his profession at Fort Branch, Ind., until July, 1889, with the exception of eighteen months spent at Inglefield, Vanderburg county. In July, 1889, he became the physician and surgeon in charge of the Indiana State Prison South, at Jeffersonville. During the winters of 1889 and 1890 he attended the lectures and clinics at the University of Louisville, graduating therefrom February 28, 1890. He remained in charge of the medical department of the prison until July I, 1895. Resigning his position at the prison he bought out Dr. A. L. Glase at Poseyville, Ind., where he resided and practiced his profession till his death, which occurred in 1910. The doctor was married to Nattie B. Schutz at Madison, Ind., April 8, 1890, Mrs. Runcie. being a daughter of Jonathan and Jennie (King) Schutz. There were born to this union two sons, who, with their mother, survive him.-

Dr. Edward Murphy was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, in the year 1813. He came to America with his uncle, Dennis Murphy, when the former was not quite seven years old. They landed at Baltimore, where they remained but a short time, and then went to Wheeling, Va. Thence they removed to Louisville, Ky., in 1821. Here Edward made his home with his uncles who were engaged in mercantile business. After a brief residence in Washington the brothers returned to Ireland. Young Edward lived for a while in Washington with relatives till he was nearly thirteen years of age, then ran away and came to New Harmony, where he spent all of his subsequent life, except seven years in Evansville. He followed various callings to make a living, being printer, tailor, merchant and laborer. In 1845 he commenced the study of medicine and later graduated from the University of Louisville and located in New Harmony, where he acquired both fame and fortune. He was married in 1832 to Miss Sophia Johnston, of Vincennes. They had six children, all of whom died young. Mrs. Murphy was a daughter of Gen. M. Johnston, who was a member of the Territorial legislature. Dr. Murphy was for a time connected with the Evansville Medical College, where he held the chair of chemistry. He was an enthusiastic and able teacher. All his life he was a hard student, like Paul he never "counted himself to have attained." He never professed any religious faith, but worshiped God by serving man. His long life was crowded with usefulness and he crowned it at his death by his beneficence. "He being dead, yet speaketh." He built a library building for the city where he spent seventy-three years of useful living, lined its shelves with books, covered its walls with pictures and curios, gave it a park enclosed by an iron fence on a stone base, and endowed a lecture course in which the ablest lecturers on the platform may be heard every winter for a nominal price. Elsewhere in this volume is told the details of his beneficence. He died December 3, 1910, and his wife followed him a few days later.

Dr. George W. Welborn, formerly a practicing physician of Stewartsville, Ind., was born March 17, 1844, in Evansville, Ind., where he grew to manhood and received his early education. In 1859 he entered the Asbury University, now De Pauw College, where he remained till the beginning of the Civil war. In August, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Sixtieth Indiana infantr}'. and served three years, receiving his discharge June 30, 1865. For a short time after the war he clerked in a drug store in Evansville, but at the end of six months entered into partnership in Evansville in the boot and shoe business. Two years later he sold out and came to Stewartsville and engaged in farming. October 27, 1867, he married Martha Stinnett, who was born in 1845 '" Kentucky. They had four children, all of whom survive him. The doctor began his medical studies while in the army and in 1875 quit farming, took a two years' course in the Evansville Medical College, graduating in 1877. The parents of the doctor were \\'illiani W. and Hannah (Walker) Welborn. The father was a physician, who received his medical education in Evansville and died in that city in 1871. The subject of our sketch took a post-graduate course in Philadelphia in 1894. He located in Stewartsville shortly after graduation and practiced there until failing health

Dr. John E. Doerr. one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Mt. Vernon, was born at Santa Claus, Ind., November 4, 1865. His father, Philip Doerr, a German Methodist minister, and his mother, Margaret (Von Austermueller) Doerr, were both born in Germany. The doctor attended the public schools of Evansville, taught three years in the common schools of Posey county, and then spent three years at De Pauw College, Greencastle. Obtained his medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the class of 1891. Located in Mt. Vernon in the year 1896 and has resided there ever since, and built up a large practice. He is a member of the City, County and American Medical associations, and the Clinical Congress of Surgeons of North America. While he does a large general practice he pays especial attention to surgery. He was married in 1898 to Miss Anna M. Cole, of Pottsville, Pa. Mrs. Doerr was born in Minnesota, but losing her mother when she was but a child, she was reared in Pennsylvania. They have three children - two girls and a boy.

Dr. S. W. Boren was born April 6, 1867, ^t Cynthiana, Ind., and attended the public schools of that place. Taught school for two years, then attended school at Lebanon, Ohio, graduating in the scientific course thereof in 1891 ; taught school two years more, and then entered Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., from which he graduated in 1897. In 1896 he married Miss Gertrude Lockund, of Fort Branch, who died in 1899. Began practice of medicine at Stewartsville, Ind., in 1897. Three years later he accepted a position as assistant superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane at Evansville, remaining six months. He then began the practice of medicine in Cynthiana, Ind., remaining one year, when he removed to Poseyville, in 1902, where he still lives. Dr. Boren was married again in January, 1903, to Rosalie Kight. To this union have been born two sons, Paul and Charles. The doctor is a member of the Royal Arch Masons and of the Knights of Pythias.