Shelby County, Indiana - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 8 of those read), 1909 (part 2 of 2)

Robert S. :\IcCray, M. D. Born February 17. 1854, in Hancock county, Indiana. Graduated from the Indiana Medical College in 18S3. Practiced medicine at ^lorristown .since. :\[arried March 24. 1883, to Mi-s Xina Hardy. Thcv have three children.

'Oral Holmes :McDonald. :\I. D. Born January 14. iSSo. in Shelby county, Indiana. Graiiated at Indiana Medical College 1904. Practiced at London, Shclbv countv. since 1904. !vlamed December j30, 1906. to Miss Emma May Hasher. One child.

E. V. Miller, M. D., was born Xovcmbcr 30. 18(15, in Hancnck county. Indiana. He graduated from the Ohio 3,Iedical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1896, and from the :^Iedical College of Indiana in 1897. Has practiced at Fountaintown since 1897. He was married :May 2, 190J, to ^liss Bertha H. Logean. 'i"wo children living and one dead.

^ Harry K. Xave. M. D.' Born Xovember 21. 1S77. in Shelby ounty, Indiana. Graduated at Eclectic }>Iedical College of Indiana. 1905. Practiced at Arlington. Rush county, eighteen months. At Fountaintown, Shelby countv. since 1906. Married September 29, 1906, to Miss Maud Shank. One son.

V. C. I'alten. M. IX Born December 12, 1S70, in Shellw county, Indiana. Graduated from Indiana Medical College 1897. Practiced at ^lorristown since graduatini. Married January 11. 1905, to INIiss Julia A. Gordon. One child.'

David A. Pettigrew, M. D. Born }^Iarch i. 1851. in Decatur county, Indiana. Graduated from Medical College of Indian.a 1881. Practiced at ]-lat Rock. Shelby county, since. Married October 5. 1875. to Miss Tilda Schafer. Thcv have six children.

Charles H. Perry. M. D. Born :\Iarch 10. 1873. at Campbellsville. Kentuckv. Graduated at Hospital College of Medicine at Louisville. Kentucky,

Daniel F. Randnlpli. M. D.. \va^ born March 27. 1854. in Owen county. Indiana. He graduated from the Indiana Medical College in 1888. Practiced at Indianapolis and Xewliern, Indiana, until 1890. Practiced at W'aldron .since 1890. Me wa.s married December 2(\ 1883, w Mi.>;s .Mice ^[. Conover. Qv.e child.

J. H. S. Riley, M. D. Born in Decatur cmiiuy. Indiana, April 11, 1878. Graduated at Medical Colleg'e of Indiana. 1904. Practiced in Decatur county. from 1904 to 1908. Practiced at Bengal. Shelbv county, since 1908.

Thomas R. Rubu,-h. ^1. D. Born Oclcber 2. 1863. at Indianapolis. Indiana, (n-aduatcd at Indiana Medical College ScptcmlxT 29. 1879. Practiced at London. .Shelby county, since 1879. ^Married September 29. 1880. to Miss Emma Ilahn. Eight children, five living.

William Austin Scho,>ley, M. D. Born March 9, 18(35. in Dearborn county, Indiana. Graihiaied fnnn the Ohio Medical College in 1888. Practiced at Sulphur Hill. Shelliy c ainty. Indiana, since. Married June 18, 1890, to jMiss Frances True. Si.x children.

W. T. Shrout. M. D. Born ^tay 15. 1845. 'n Nichok county. Kentucky. He first g-raduateil fp;>m an Eclectic College in Richmond. \'irginia. and in 1894 fri.m the Eclectic College of I'hysicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis. Practiced in Shelby o:ainty since ali-'Ut 1880. Xow at Waldron. Married August J2. 1867. to Miss \'irginia Xeal. The^- ha\ e five children living and two dead. One son a physician.

Jolm W. Snider. :m' D. Born April 26. 1845. in Shelby county, Indiana. Graduated from Ru-h Medical Cillege of Chicagri 1870. Practiced at l-"airland thirty-two years. Married August 24. 1875. to Mi^s Mary Laws. Three children.

Ste])hen Lewis Strickler. M. I). Bom in Shelby county, Ind.iana, .\ugu-t 22. 1853. Attended Eclectic Medical Ir,-;titute. Cincinnati. Ohio. 1878 and 1879. Graduated Bellevue Hospital >k-dical College. New York. 1883. Practiced at Boggstown since 1879.

J. V. Taylor, M. 1)., was born December 8. 1844. in Jeffer-on county. Indiana, (iradmited from Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, 1S78. Married Ajjril 21. 1883. to Mi.-s Hannah \'. Flenry, who died .\pril ]8, 1887.

M. M. \\'ells. M. D. Born in Orange county, Indiana, February 23, 1871. Graduated at Indiana }>Iedical College io-m. Practiced at Fairland since graduruion, excepting eighteen months a> inierne in ho>])iial. Married March 2. 1904. to Zella Gordon. One son. deceased.

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Emil Carl Aurin. M. D.. graduated fr .111 the I',cleclic ^^led.ical Institute of Cincinriati. Ohio, in 1897. lie located at Al.arictta in 1898, ruid remained about one year. He is now practicing in Cedar Rapids. [Michigan.

Dr. Marcellus M. Adams, who was born in 1836, practiced medicine at Freeport for a few vcars along about the sixties. He ni:)w re.-idcs in (ireenfield.

Ella lUackburn. M. D.. was born in Ohio. Graduated from the ^ledical College of Pennsylvania in 189S. Practiced at .Shelbyville from 1900 to 1904. Xow physician in a sanitarium at Palmyra, Wisconsin.

Frank B. Black, M. D., who is a graduate of the Eclectic ^.fedical Institute of Cincinnati. Ohio, of the class of iSS(5, came from the soutiiern part of the State to Bengal, Shelby county, in 18S9. and remained in th: active jiractice there until 1904. He is now located in Ohio.

James A. Comstock. M. D., was born in Hancock county. January 8. 1S44. Graduated from Rush Medical College in 1865. from the Ohio ]\Iedical College in 1867. Practiced at Marietta from 1867 to 1889. [Moved to Greenfield in 18S9. where he now resides. He was married Seiitember 19. 1872. to Miss Mary Anderson, and they have had three children.

Dr. J. W. Clubb practiced medicine at Fairland for se\'eral years previous to 1900. when he removed to Kentucky, where he is now practicing.

John H. Dearman. M. D.. w-as born and raised in the northern part of the county. Fie graduated fr< nn tlie Cincinati College of }\Iedicine about 1887. He then located at Bro ikfield. where he continued in the practice of medicine until about 1900. when he moved to Acton, where he yet resides.

Dr. W". T. Knapp. a gradua.te of a hcimeopathic medical college, practiced medicine in Shclhyville iov a number of years, and left here about 1895. He is now located at \"incenne>, Indiana. He was married to a ]Miss Thralls, of this citv.

Willi'am W". Keeling. M. D,. was b,,rn October 10. 1830, in Shelby county, In.diana. Graduated from the Eclectic ^fedical Institute of Cincinnati. Oliio, in J864. Practiced in Genexa. ShcHi\' cuunty. Indiana, trim 1865 tr) iSqi, an.d at Xcmaha. Xebra.4;a. since 1891. Married twice, second time to Miss Mary R. .Spiers in 1S58. Celebrated golden wedding anniversary at Xema'ia, Nebraska, last year. Five children, all living.

Dr. \\"illiam Loder practice.] medicine at Shelby ville f ir a short time, then at r^Iarietta for a }-ear or twii, and then at Lewis Creek for a time during the nineties.

J. B. Lylle. M. I)., was born May 17. 1835. Attended Starling Medical College of Columbus, Ohi \ Graduated from the Indiana Alcdical College in. 1870. Practiced at I'latrock. Shelby county, Indiana, from 1S65 to 1S70. Then entered drug bu-^ine^s in Shelbyville. Xow living in Slie!byvi!!c. retired.

Dr. Charles M. Muiz. who was a son of the late Jacob Mutz, of Jackson township, practiced medicine at W'aldron f-ir about two years during the eighties. He moved from W'aldron to St. Louis. Missouri, and from there to AX'ichita, Kansas, where he now resides. He was a graduate of a St. Louis college.

Dr. Jijhn V. Maddox liegan the jjractice of medicine at Fenns, Shelb\' county, about 1872, and in a .-hurt time moved to th.e Cave, where he practiced, until about 1878, when he moved to Shellivville. He remained at Shelbvv'lle

Samuel P. McCrea. M. D.. was born February 2. 1845. in Shelby county. Indiana.' Gradtiaied from Rush ?\Iedica! College of Chicagvi in 186S. Was m partnership with Dr. William F. CJrcen in the practice of medicine in Shelbyville during- 1808 and 1869, Went in the drug business in Shelbwilie in 1870. and continued until 1S02. Xow president of Farmers' Xational Baiik. Married Xovember 21. 187S. to ^^liss Phoebe R.djinson. One daughter living and one dead.

Dr. Piatte practiced medicine at ^Marietta about the lime of the war. Then entered the army as second assistan.t surgeon. After the war settled at F'airland and piacticed fi:r several vears. Then went west and is in Kansas.

Dr. Rufus 1\< up practiced medicine near the Cave in .'^helby county, for several years almg alvput 1870. He had three daughters and one sor.. He now resides in Indianapolis.

James W. Slinait. M. D.. attende-l lectures at the Eclectic }^Iedical Institute at Cincinnati, and later graduated from the P.ennett }.Iedical College of Chicago. Fie practiced medicine at Blue Ridge and Prescott for about ten vearfrom about 1895 to 1905. He is now located at Shirley, Indiana.

James F. Scherfee. ^^1. D., located at Fairland in 1S98, and continued in the i)ractice of medicine th.ere for abuut five years. He is now in California.

Dr. James .\. Sims came from the southern part of the state and located at Bengal, where he practiced from 1904 until 1908. Fie is now loeated at Pine \'ina. Fountain county, Indiana.

Irwin W. Treese. M. D.. was horn J:tnnar\ 10, iS^i. in Shelhy countv, Indiana, .\ttended Ohio Medical College in 1873-74. Graduated from Indiana Medical College in 18S0. Located at Smithland in 1874. and cnntinued there until ahnut iS<.)o. Xow resides at IndianaiK.lis. Married Miss 1 ena E. Miller in 1875.

Harry M. Toner. M. D., was h.irn in S'.iclhv countv. Indiana. ?\larcli 4. 1S63. He atieruled the Ilellevue IL.ispital Medical College of Xew Vork, and graduated from a ]\Iedical College in Xashville, Tennessee, in 1894. He then located at Shelbyville, where he practiced for ahout ten vears, when he retired on account of failing health. He is now residing- in Arizona.

Edward V. Wells. M .D., was born May 14. 1S53, in :Miami county. Ohio. Graduated Irmi Cihi. > Medical College in 1873. I'racticed medicine in Slielbvville from 1S86 to 1890. Xow practicing in Chicago, and lectures in Ru.sh Aledical College.

Erank \\dietzel, M. D.. was born and reared in Morristown. He received his education in the public schools of that place, and later graduated from a medical college. He practiced medicine in ^lorristown for several vears, during the latter part of die eighties, and the early part of the nineties, then left Morristown and went to Chicago.

Emma (O.deman) Williams, ^l. D., was lx)rn yiay 23, 1855, in Shelby county, Indiana. Graduated from the Eclectic IMedical Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1884. Practiced in Shelbyville from 1S84 to 1S94. Xow retired and li\-ing at the Cave.

Besides those who have been mentioned elsewhere in this chapter there are seventy-eight physicians \vlic have been licensed to practice medicine in Shelby county since 1885. Some of them reside in adjoining counties, some were traveling ad\-ertising doctors, and nothing can be learned about many of them.

The first medical society in Shelby county of which we have any record. v>-as oi-ganized April 3, 1854. at Morri.^town. Shelby county. Indiana. It was composed of a miniber (jf phy-icians who lived and practiced medicine in the nortliem part of the cntinty.

An old lee bill, a copy of which is yet in the possession of Dr. George \\". Fleming, was printed in the year 1S56, and was evidently published bv this society, as no record of a society in Shelbyville at that time can be found. It is possible, iKnvever, that a medical society may have existed in Shelbyville at that jieriod, and published this fee bill and disbanded sometime prior to 186S, but this is not probable. The fee bill is as follows:

At a meeting of the Medical Society of Shelby County. Indiana, on the 2Sth of June, 1S56, the following Bill of Fees was unaninioush' adopted by said society :

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In all cases of highly contagi lus diseases, such as smallpox, etc., and in cholera, one hundred per cent, shall be added to tlie ordinar\- charges and mileage.

Rcsoliwf, ddiat each niemlxr of tlii- sneiety. hein.L;- the hest jud^e of the a1iility and unwilling-ness of his own customers tn pay. shall keep a list of the names of such in his iiraetiee as are ahle hut refu>e tt.i pay, and exchange the same with liis brother members quarterly.

yv\\\vi/rrc/, That we will in no instance, knowingly render medical aid or supply medicine to any person or to his family, whose name has been placed on such lists, until such ]iersons shall have paid u]) their former bills.

Resolved. That we will place a cojiy of our joint lists in the hands of e\'ery new phwsician who mny locate among us, and who is willing to adopt these resolutions as his rule of action.

Rcsolz'cd. That no man's name shall be entered ''U said lists until after his bill has been presented, nor until a reasonaljle time ha- been gi\en for the payment of the same.

Ri'so!:\'d. That whenever anv' person may remo\-e beyond the bounds of this society, without paying his medical bills, his name shall be put upon the P)lack List, amd forwartled to the physicians of the neighborhood to which he may haxe renio\-ed.

The foregoing resolutions are not to be so construed as to inchulc the truly indigent, who are alwa}"s olijects of charity, and wdio ha\-e equal claims upon the profession with the rest of the community.

The next attempt at (organizing a medical society in Shelby count}' was made in 186S. Dr. S. T. ^IcCrea, who was at that time practicing medicine in Shelbyville, was the first secretary, and yet has in his possession the original constitution and by-laws, also a cc_)p_\- of the minutes of a meeting held in 1869. The Daily Dcmi^crat of July 30, 1S69, has a full report of th.e meetings as follows :

The societv met pursuant to adjournment. I'resent, Drjctors Dav, Green, Collins, E. S. Elder. S. E. Elder. SlOcum. Eyter, McCrea, (dilmore, Robertson, Comstock, (lorden. Perry, Linville and McEadden. Tlic minutes of the previous meeting were read and appro\-ed.

Doctor McCrca rep'ortcd that he h.ad notified twenty-four physicians to he i)resent and participate in the meeting, fifteen of whicli rep(.)rted fav iralile.

The next attempt at organising a medical society in Shelby county resulted in the present organization which meets at Shelbyville, and was organized April II, iSSS. The follovv'ing is a complete record of the minutes of the first meeting:

Pursuant to notices received from Dr. E. S. Elder, secretary of the Indiana State ^ledical Society, the following physicians of Shelby county met at the court house in Shelbvvillc to organize a Countv ^vledical Society:

Dr. E. S. Elder being present to assist in the organization was called upon to state the advantages of a medical society, which he did in a few well chosen remarks.

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Tiie committee on nominations made the following report: For President. Dr. J. G. Wolf; for Vice President, Dr. T. S. Jones; for Secretary, Dr. T. C. Kennedy; for Treasurer. Dr. I. \\'. Inlow. Report adopted.

jNIoved and seconded that the society elect two delegates to the American Medical Association. Carried. Doctors Trees and Kennedy were elected.

^Jo\'ed that it be the duty of the executive committee, to prepare a programme for the next meeting and notify the society of papers to be read or stibjects to be discussed. Carried.

]\Iovcd and seconded that the society elect four delegates to represent this society at the Indiana State r^Iedical Society. Carried. Doctors Jenkins, Jones, Comstock and Leech were elected as such delegates.

[Moved and seconded that a vote of thanks be tendered to Surveyor Finley and Superintendent Clark for the use of their office for this meeting. Carried.

This society has met monthly with more or less regularity since its organization, and now has a membership of about twenty-five physicians of Shelby count}'.