Knox, Indiana

John T. Charles; is a native of Wayne County, Ind., born Feb. 9, 1832,^ a son of Samuel and Eunice S. Charles, natives of North Carolina. His paternal grandparents came to Indiana in 1809, and his maternal grandparents in 1816, and located in Wayne County. In 1834 the family moved to Knightstown, where, for mamy years Samuel Charles engaged in the manufacture of chairs and worked at the painter's trade. He died in 1848, leaving a widow and three children - Oliver, Minnie and John T. The mother is still living, and is in the seventy-sixth year of her age. She has nobly performed her part in the rearing and caring for her children. John T. Charles has lived in Knightstown since two years of age, and was educated in the city schools. He began his mercantile career as clerk in the store of A. B. Fithian, remaining with him two years. He then, in 1859, engaged in business for himself, and has, by diligence and honest integrity, become well established, having a good trade and the confidence of his customers. Mr. Charles was married in 1869 to Mary, daughter of Joh"S\ H^_Baigs, a lady of culture, and a leading spirit in many humanitarian movements, and a member of one of the most influential J familie8_pf__the_county. They have one daughter - Cora. Mr Charles is a member of Lodge No. 99, I. O. O. F. He has served as a member of the Citj Board.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884.

Surgeon of the Eighty-fiftb Indiana Infantry, organized at Terre Haute, and went immediately to the defense of Cincinnati against Kirby Smith. All his military service was at the front, the most of the time detached as brigade, division or corps Surgeon. He was in- the Army of the Cumberland till the capture of Atlanta, and then went with Sherman to the sea, and through the campaign of the Carolinas. He was mustered out in June, 1865, and in July located and resumed his profession at Carthage, Ind., remaining there till his removal to Knightstown, June, 1873. Dr. Hobbs is a member of the Henry County, Union District, Indiana State, and American medical societies. He was president of the State Association in 1874, and a delegate to the International Medical Congress at Philadelphia in 1876. He was for many years a member of the Board of Trustees of the Medical College of Indiana, and is now a member of the examining board of Fort Wayne Medical College. Many of his papers can be found among the published transactions of the Indiana State Association, as well as in many of the leading medical journals of the country. Of late he has devoted his time largely to the matter of legal medicine and expert testimony, and to that his pen has been chiefly directed. Before the war he was School Examiner of Parke County, Ind., several years, and for the past four years he has been President of the School Board of Knightstown. Dr. Hobbs was married Oct. 12, 1846, to ZalindaL. Williams, a daughter of Achrlles Williaips, at^dia^time Treasurer of Wayne County, Ind. They have had a family of five sons and two daughters, all living save one son, Robert W., who died at Canon City, Col., in 1879, aged twentytwo years.

Passage source: History of Henry County, Indiana : Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages, and Towns ... Also a Condensed History of Indiana, Embracing Accounts of Pre-historic Races, Aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, and a Brief Review of Its Civil and Political History., published 1884.

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