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A MEDICAL HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 STATE OF INDIANA 
 
 By G. W. H. KEMPER, M.D. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED 
 
 chicago, ill. 
 
 American Medical Association Press 
 
 1911 
 
Copyright. 1911 
 
 by 
 
 G. W. H. Kemper, M.D. 
 
 Muncie. Indiana 
 
TO THE PHYSICIANS OF IXDIAXA 
 
 WHOM I HAVE KNOWX 
 
 AND 
 
 TO THOSE I KNOW 
 
 THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR 
 
 G. W. H. K. 
 
FOREWOED. 
 
 This volume is a collection of the several 
 articles published in The Journal of the Indiana 
 State Medical Association during the years 1909 
 and 1910 and the earlier months of 1911^ and 
 entitled •'Sketches of the Medical History of 
 Indiana.'" In the present form the articles have 
 been revised, lyistakes corrected and new his- 
 torical matter added, thus bringing the work up 
 to a later date. The encouragement I have 
 received from numerous readers has stimulated 
 me to reproduce the results of my labor in a more 
 permanent form. 
 
 Two years and a half ago, at the solicitation 
 of friends, I began the task of preparing and 
 writing the articles, and I have bestowed time, 
 patience and care upon them. Biographical 
 sketches are confined to deceased physicians; the 
 living are inentioned only in connection with 
 historical matters. 
 
 I became a member of the State Medical 
 Society in 1867, and have been a faithful attend- 
 ant at the sessions of that body ever since. I 
 knew personally many of the founders of the 
 Society. Dr. W. H. Wishard, who is still living 
 and was present at the state medical convention 
 in 1849, has been a personal friend since 1862, 
 wlien I first met him on the battle field of Shiloh. 
 I was associated with Drs. Bobbs, Mears, Parvin, 
 Field, Hibberd and many others who were active 
 members of the profession fifty years ago — men 
 
viii FOREWORD. 
 
 who were instrumental in elevating the standard 
 of medicine in Indiana, as well as lajdng the 
 foundation of our present State Medical Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 These men, all save one, have passed awa_y, and 
 I have lived to make the acquaintance of a new 
 generation of ph3^sicians. My service as chair- 
 man of the Committee on N'ecrology gave me a 
 knowledge of the names of deceased members, 
 and the preparation of an "Index of the Trans- 
 actions of the State Society from 1849 to 1900" 
 gave me an acquaintance with medical men and 
 medical articles in those volumes. 
 
 The time seems opportune for a medical his- 
 tory of Indiana. In 1916 our state will be 100 
 years old, and the century has produced no medi- 
 cal history. Some one ought to produce such a 
 work; it seems fitting that I should undertake 
 the task. 
 
 While the articles were appearing in the Jour- 
 val, a few typographical errors escaped detec- 
 tion; these have generally been corrected. Sev- 
 enty-five or sixty years ago it was quite common 
 to give only the surname, or initial letter of 
 christian name, of individuals when used in 
 print. This was common in the Transactions. 
 After considerable search, I have been able to 
 supjoly nearly all of the deficient names. I wish 
 especially to call attention to the correctness and 
 completeness of names in the index. 
 
 I pride myself on the correctness of dates and 
 references. Eeference to the Transactions, med- 
 ical journals and books have been verified by 
 referrino; to the original articles, and the proofs 
 
FOREMORD. ix 
 
 repeatedly read by copy. This has required time 
 and much care, but I feel a satisfaction in know- 
 ing that my work will be appreciated by the 
 reader seeking information. In spite of all my 
 precaution a few insignificant errors may have 
 escaped detection. If any are found I shall 
 greatly regret it. 
 
 My preference has been to first honor the ear- 
 lier physicians of Indiana, and secure knowledge 
 of them while their relatives and friends are yet 
 living. 
 
 A few pictures of lionored physicians have 
 been inserted. 
 
 I wish here to express my thanks to all who 
 have aided me in my work. I dare not begin to 
 name the individuals. Generally, every request 
 for information has 1)een cheerfully complied 
 with; a few failed to respond. 
 
 I lay no claim to perfection in my work: I 
 wish it was a better book. I have toiled at my 
 task in season and out of season. My professional 
 brethren will know how to sympathize wdth me. 
 And while the world is disposed to be indifferent 
 to others' burdens, it may soften criticism to 
 know — if I may be pardoned for comparing a 
 small affair to a large one — as the great Dr. 
 Johnson said of his dictionary, ''that it was writ- 
 ten, not in the soft obscurities of retirement or 
 under the shelter of academic bowers, but amid 
 inconvenience and distraction." 
 
 G. W. H. Kempee. 
 Muncie. Ind., June 1, 1911. 
 
IXTEODUOTIOX. 
 
 '•He took the suffering human race; 
 
 He read each wound — each weakness clear — 
 And struck his finger on the phice 
 
 And said, 'Thou ailest here — and here.' " 
 
 — Matthew Arnold. 
 
 "Why not idealize the doctor some?" is the 
 key-note of the biography of Indiana physicians 
 presented to his professional confreres by Dr. 
 Kemper in this volume. The writer has a genius 
 for histor}^, and as the first century of our State's 
 existence is drawing to a close, it is eminently 
 proper that Dr. Kemper should now assume the 
 task, and Avrite a medical history of Indiana. Hi? 
 ]ife has happily fallen in the greatest era of devel- 
 opment and progress known to man. Most of 
 this he has seen and part of it he has been. He 
 has brought to his w^ork an infinite faith and a 
 reverent hope, and surely the mind which has 
 I'eceived so much has trusted the Power by which 
 it has worked and lived. His threescore and ten 
 years have seen civilization extend over the great- 
 est and fairest valley of the world. He has seen 
 his country rent Avith strife, and. followins: his 
 
 DR. ALEMBERT WINTHROP 
 BRAYTON, of Indianapolis, so well 
 known to the physicians of this state, 
 is thoroughly conversant with med- 
 ical journalism, is in touch with his- 
 torical matters and comprehends the 
 needs of our profession second to no 
 other person. At my request he con- 
 ti'ibutes an introductory chapter to 
 this volume. — G.W.H.K. 
 
xii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 duty and his will^ he has taken a worthy part in 
 the conflict; both as soldier and as snrgeon, in the 
 faith that the destiny of organized nature and of 
 human institutions is alike amelioration and bet- 
 terment. For the medical jorofession, more than 
 any other, imparts to its votaries a reverence and 
 wisdom born of thought and knowledge, inspiring 
 both cheerfulness and hope. 
 
 The life of any man rightly and courageously 
 conducted is the true romance. To the soldier- 
 surgeons of our great national struggle such a life 
 in its preparation, in its fulfilment and in its 
 aftermath of experiences, memories and reveries, 
 must have yielded the imagination a higher J 03^ 
 than any fiction. But such a life does not con- 
 tent itself with dreams and fancies; it tends to 
 reason and deduction, to the orderly considera- 
 tion of the things done and the personality of the 
 doers, and their relation to the present and the 
 future as well as the past, and so arises the 
 recording of history and biography. Thus, we 
 take it, have naturally developed these "Sketches 
 of the Medical History of Indiana," by Dr. 
 Kemper. 
 
 And to this inherent taste and sense exercised 
 through a half century of writing and note-tak- 
 ing, of wide acquaintance, combined with great 
 geniality of nature and the possession of an un- 
 usual memory for facts and faces, and a wise 
 foresight, is due the collection of the material for 
 the present work. The author has shown in the 
 book throughout, the genius for studious research 
 in the collection and arrangement of details; the 
 patience which goes on like the stars, unhasting 
 and unresting. 
 
INTRODUCTION. xiii 
 
 This work of Dr. Kemper's, therefore, is not a 
 series of camp-fire stories or the exaggerated fan- 
 cies of the old soldier "who shoulders his crutch 
 and shows how fields were won/' It is a serious 
 consideration of the progress of medicine in Indi- 
 ana from the time the Xorthwest Territory was 
 wrested from the British in 1799, to the present. 
 The author has consulted histories of the early 
 days; he has collected and edited the historical 
 papers of Dr. Hubhard M. Smith of Yincennes — 
 the town where the first medical society of the 
 Territories was organized, in 1817. In this hook 
 may be read the medical history of a number of 
 the cities and counties of Indiana, contributed by 
 distinguished deceased and living physicians of 
 the state. 
 
 Dr. Kemper has given us just and true biog- 
 raphies of most of those of our confreres who 
 have gone to their eternal reward. Here a fine 
 discrimination was required and has been exer- 
 cised. The early physicians, those who rendered 
 notable service in medicine and surgery or in 
 education, have received due measure of honor. 
 It may be well doubted if any sister State has 
 had or will have so just and complete a history of 
 its departed physicians as Dr. Kemper has given 
 in his stories of our honored dead. The reports 
 began in 1879 by Drs. J. R. Beck and James F. 
 ITibberd of the Section on IvTecrology, and their 
 continuation in later years by Dr. Kemper in the 
 State Society "Transactions," have made this 
 part of the work more perfect than usual in such 
 lists. The records were usually wTitten by per- 
 sonal friends of the deceased, or the secretary of 
 
xiv nTRODUCTION. 
 
 the County Society, and often threw side-lights 
 on local history and environment. 
 
 With the passing of the old and stately annual 
 volume of the "Transactions," and the substitu- 
 tion therefor of a monthly medical journal, there 
 were losses as well as gains. It is doubtful if a 
 single complete file of The Journal of the Indiana 
 State Medical Association exists in Indianapolis 
 outside those of the City and State Libraries. 
 The writer knows of no others. Therefore, the 
 members have no permanent mailing list or 
 other commensurate means of knowing who are 
 the members of the State Society. There are no 
 longer adequate obituaries; the Society evidently 
 has no time to stop and gather up its dead. The 
 present writer believes that The Journal of the 
 Indiana State Medical Association has better 
 justified its being by the publication of Dr. 
 Kemper's "Sketches of the Medical History of 
 Indiana" than by any other work it has accom- 
 plished. 
 
 Purely medical science will find expression 
 for itself; it cannot be suppressed. The really 
 valuable papers and discussions of any State 
 will continue to appear in the great weekly 
 journals of the country, as they are now doing. 
 But the things of the heart and the life, those 
 which have to do with the social nature of man 
 in his own day and generation — the records of 
 love and service for the living and respect and 
 honor for the dead, are not likely to be sympa- 
 thetically recorded by journals devoted to organi- 
 zation and centralization. 
 
 Dr. Kemper's work appeals to our sense and 
 knowledge of the old love and loyalty which 
 develops in the hearts and homes of those who 
 
INTRODUCTION. xv 
 
 have grown up together; who in medical work 
 have developed their own rules and regulations of 
 social life and government in democratic assem- 
 blies; who elect their own officers and conduct 
 their own business and with whom organization 
 is a means rather than an end. For the greatest 
 enemy of government is government itself , and 
 it becomes dangerous and anarchical to the extent 
 that it is centralized and organized as an object 
 in itself or for those who administer it rather 
 than for those who formed it and for whose peace 
 and happiness it was established. 
 
 'No introduction to Dr. Kemper's book would 
 be complete without some brief notes of his biog- 
 raphy and a just emphasis upon his life-long 
 interest and success in the different fields of 
 obstetrics, medicine and surgery. His medical 
 life has covered a period of fifty years. His 
 opportunity was great, as the sketch of his life 
 here given shows. Born in Eush County, Dec. 
 16, 1839, he was educated in the common schools 
 and for two years in a country printing office. 
 He began the study of medicine with Dr. John 
 W. Moodey of Greensburg in his twenty-first 
 year. He had read but a few weeks when Gov- 
 ernor Morton called for 6,000 troops from Indi- 
 ana to assemble at Indianapolis. Dr. Kemper 
 enlisted and served as a private in the Seventh 
 Eegiment of Indiana Volunteers during the 
 three months' service, and had the distinction 
 of being present at the first battle of the Civil 
 War — Philippi, W. Ya. On Sept. 25, 1861, he 
 reenlisted in the Seventeenth Indiana Volunteers 
 as hospital steward, and was promoted to the 
 rank of assistant surgeon of the same regiment 
 
xvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 — and this prior to his graduation — a position 
 he filled until the expiration of his three years' 
 enlistment. He attended a course of lectures at 
 the University of Michigan during the session of 
 1864-65, and went from that institution to a 
 spring course at the Long Island College Hos- 
 pital of Brooklyn, I^. Y., where he graduated in 
 June, 1865. The same year he located in Mun- 
 cie, his present home, only being absent from 
 general practice when traveling in Europe and 
 Asia. He spent some time in the Mediterranean 
 countries, being especially attracted to Egypt and 
 Palestine. He served five years as coroner of 
 Delaware County, and for over thirty 3^ears as 
 examining surgeon for pensions. He has been 
 treasurer and president of the Indiana State 
 Medical Society, professor of the history of 
 medicine in the Indiana Medical College, and in 
 the Medical School of Indiana University. 
 
 Under all these varying functions he has kept 
 his eye single to the practical applications of his 
 art in the healing and prevention of disease and 
 injury, and incidentally prepared himself to be 
 the historian of the Indiana medical profession. 
 He is the ideal representative of the definition 
 of the physician given by Hippocrates : "The 
 good man skilled in healing." 
 
 At no time in his long career has Dr. Kemper 
 permitted his talent to lie buried, nor his light 
 hidden. He has contributed more than fifty 
 elaborate articles to medical journals and our 
 state medical society, relating to medicine, sur- 
 gery and obstetrics. In the State Transactions 
 for 1901 he furnished a complete index of all 
 
IXTIWDLCTIOX. xvii 
 
 the transactions from 1849 to 1900. In 1897 he 
 published a booklet entitled "Uses of Suffering," 
 and in 1905 another entitled "The World's Anat- 
 omists.'^ 
 
 Dr. Kemper was the first to report a case of 
 mycetoma in the United States; the "madura 
 foot/' or "fungus foot of India," which is caused 
 by a growth allied to the ray fungus of the more 
 common disease, actinomycosis hominis (Ameri- 
 can Practitioner, Vol. xiy, p. 129). This dis- 
 covery was made by Dr. Kemper more than 
 twenty years before the widespread appearance 
 of blastomycosis, spirochotrosis, and actinomy- 
 cosis through the United States was generally 
 recognized, although cases of these diseases are 
 few in number and their occurrence not infre- 
 quently overlooked. Dr. Kemper's case had all 
 the clinical indications of the disease in question, 
 and there is no reasonal)le doubt of its pathology 
 as determined and published in his report. 
 
 He has always taken a great interest in the 
 subject of Cesarean section. His recent paper 
 before the State Medical Association at the Fort 
 Wayne meeting in September. 1910, is probably 
 the only paper extant which gives a concise and 
 yet complete account of every Cesarean operation 
 performed in any single state of the Union. This 
 essay, published in the April, 1911, issue of The 
 Journal of the Indiana State Medical Associa- 
 tion, is entitled "A Plea for the Cesarean Opera- 
 tion, Based on a Eeport of Fifty-Three Cases Per- 
 formed in Indiana." 
 
 If the teachings and experience of Dr. Kemper 
 could have been resorted to in earlier vears, 
 
xviii INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Cesarean section might not have been left for so 
 long a period to outside towns and county-seat 
 surgeons. Commenting on Dr. Kemper's paper, 
 Dr. Walker Schell no donbt expressed the senti- 
 ment of the society when he said in his discus- 
 sion: ^^This society feels very grateful to Dr. 
 Kemper for his able paper, for the interest he has 
 shown in Indiana medicine in preserving this 
 history. Certainly we ought to be proud that a 
 man of his years should grow old so gracefully. 
 May God preserve him long in our midst !" 
 
 In his sympathetic note on Dr. John S. Bobbs, 
 in these sketches, Dr. Kemper states that "the 
 crowning glory of Dr. Bobbs' professional life is 
 his well-earned reputation as the Founder of 
 Cholecy^totomy." 
 
 This operation was performed June 15, 1867, 
 in a rented room over a drug store, now the site 
 of the Indianapolis Commercial Club. A brass 
 tablet, similar in scope to that commemorating 
 Abraham Lincoln in the south wall of the Clay- 
 pool Hotel, should be set in its front by the state 
 society, in commemoration of Dr. Bobbs.* 
 
 An article of some seventeen pages by Dr. 
 Kemper, with the title "Affections of the Gall 
 Bladder Tending to Eesult in Cutaneous Biliary 
 Fistula," was read before the Indiana State Med- 
 ical Society May 20, 1879, and was published 
 in the Transactions for the same year, on page 
 120. This notable paper of some 10,000 words. 
 
 * The patient, Mrs. Z. Burnsworth, is still residing at 
 McCordsville, Ind. On June 12, 1909, she was visited at 
 her home by Sir Alexander E. Simpson, for thirty-five years 
 professor of midwifery and diseases of women in the Uni- 
 versity of Edlnburg, in company with Drs. O. G. Pfaff, A. 
 C. Kimberlin and A. W. Bravton. 
 
IXTRODLCTJOX. xix 
 
 and an extract from a paper by Dr. Martin B. 
 
 Tinker, in the Johns Hopkins Bulletin, August, 
 1901 — the latter republished in the Indiana 
 Medical Journal, October, 1899 — were mainly 
 instrumental in bringing the Bobbs case before 
 the medical world. 
 
 The results of Dr. Kemper's work and ripe 
 scholarship as embodied in these sketches have 
 been to set the history of our profession in Indi- 
 ana forever beyond the reach of moth and rust. 
 Oblivion cannot claim them; they cannot be 
 alienated. But the soldiers and the soldier-sur- 
 geons of the Mexican and Civil "Wars — those 
 who fell in the days of strife, and those who sur- 
 vived for a time, and with whose laurels it is 
 fitting to place not only the wreath but the 
 sword — have been forever commemorated by Dr. 
 Kemper. For to his lot fell the duty and privi- 
 lege of serving our common country over three 
 years in the Civil War, and afterward to have 
 been for over fort3^-five years in peaceful practice. 
 
 The days and years of peace are not ignoble, 
 not without courage and honorable victories. The 
 highest aims of social and political life are to 
 ' secure the brotherhood of man, the unity of 
 nations, and the peace of the world. To these 
 ends our profession has devoted itself in both 
 times of peace and times of war. But more to the 
 soldier-physicians than to the others who have 
 gone beyond the sound of our transient voices, 
 do we feel that it was given to uphold the ideals 
 of liberty as well as of charity and healing, 
 which by their triumphs have united in the bonds 
 of peace, knowledge, good will, common friend- 
 
XX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ship and prosperity all the sections of our coun- 
 try. These he has honored, as is just and fitting, 
 with special mention and remembrance. 
 
 Certainly all Indiana physicians will be inter- 
 ested in the chapter devoted to the formation and 
 growth of the Indiana State Medical Society and 
 Association and the lists of its early members. 
 A chapter on medical legislation in the state, the 
 history of the State Health Board, the record of 
 the half-dozen Indiana ph^^sicians who served in 
 the Mexican War, and the long lists of those who 
 served as soldiers or surgeons in the Civil War, 
 in the Spanish- American War, and in the regular 
 Army and ^avy, are features which will add to 
 the value of Dr. Kemper's work as the years 
 go on. 
 
 Dr. Kemper has silently, persistently and 
 almost unconsciously in these sketches built him- 
 self a monument more durable than tablets of 
 brass or kingly pyramids of stone. We may say 
 in words of the fullest' assurance that his work 
 reflects accurately the whole span of his profes- 
 sion in the best half century of medical prooTess, 
 and that as a simple and truthful tale of his own 
 work and that of his associates, this book will 
 often be referred to in the future. Later histo- 
 rians of our Indiana profession will find in these 
 sketches perennial 3^outh and freshness and a uni- 
 versal appeal. They have local color and are 
 busied with local concerns, but at the same time 
 reflect so many of the great features of medical 
 progress that they will take an honored place 
 with allied books in the history of our profession. 
 Gibbons' "Decline and Fall of the Eoman 
 
INTRODUCTION. xxi 
 
 Emj^ire" was characterized by Carlyle in a chance 
 remark to Emerson as a splendid bridge from the 
 old world to the new. And so these sketches of 
 Dr. Kemper's may be regarded as a section of the 
 great arch which unites the medicine of the early 
 fathers witji that of the present century. 
 
 Alembkrt W. Braytox, M.P. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 Chapter I 
 Introductory to the Medical History of Indiana, p. 1. 
 
 Chapter II 
 Early Medical History of Vincennes, p. 4. 
 
 Chapter III 
 
 Medicine in the Northwestern Territory; A Contribution 
 
 to the Early Medical History of Indiana, p. 18. 
 
 Chapter IV 
 Early Medical History of Allen County, p. 24, 
 
 Chapter V 
 
 Medical Men in the Early Days of Indianapolis, p. 31. 
 Early Medical History of Eastern Indiana, p. 33. 
 
 Chapter VI 
 Medical Reminiscences of Madison, p. 42, Early State 
 Medical Society, p. 42. Early Surgery of Indiana, 
 p, 45, 
 
 Chapter VII 
 
 Early State Medical Society, p, 48. Historical Notes 
 of Indianapolis, p. 50. The Medical College at 
 Laporte, p. 52. 
 
 Chapter VIII 
 
 Early Medical History of Terre Haute, p. 56. Proceed- 
 ings of the First Medical District Society (Vincen- 
 nes), p. 59. Medical Societies: Copy from Original 
 Proceedings of the First Medical District Society, 
 p. 63, False Joint, by D. L. S. Sliuler, p. 66. 
 
 Chapter IX 
 
 The Central Medical College, p. 69. Bobbs Free Dis- 
 pensary, p. 71. Indianapolis City Hospital, p. 71. 
 Medical Societies, p. 73. 
 
 Chapter X 
 Early Medical History of Rush County, p. 75. Dr. 11. 
 G. Sexton, p. 77, Dr, .J, M, Howland, p. 80, Dr, 
 William B. Frame, p, 82, Fifth Medical District 
 Society, p. 84, Dr. W. H. Martin, P. 87. 
 
xxiv CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter XI 
 
 Early Medical History of Delaware County, p. 80. 
 Reminiscences of Hancock County, p. 95. Early 
 Medical History of Noble County, p. 97. 
 
 Chapter XII 
 Pioneer Physicians of Bartholomew County, p, 100. 
 
 Chapter XIII 
 
 Early Medical Men of Fayette County, p. 113. Early 
 Medical History of Grant County, p. 119. Pioneer 
 Physicians of Clay County, p. 124. 
 
 Chapter XIV 
 
 Early Physicians of Franklin County, p. 126. Medical 
 Men of Ripley County, p. 129. Kosciusko County, 
 p. 130. White County Medical Society, p. 131. 
 Older Physicians of Steuben County, p. 132. 
 
 Chapter XV 
 
 Early Medical History of Fountain County, p. 133. 
 Early Physicians of Jackson County, p. 138. 
 
 Chapter XVI 
 
 Formation and Growth of Our Present State Medical 
 Association, p. 142. List of Membership from For- 
 mation to the Year 1860, p. 152. 
 
 Chapter XVII 
 
 Epidemics, p. 161. Legal Enactments, p. 166. Recent 
 Legislation, p. 168. Law of 1897. p. 171. Law of 
 1909, p. 172. The State Board of Health, p. 173. 
 Sessions of the Indiana State Medical Society and 
 Association, p. 174. Changes in the State Society, 
 p. 175. 
 
 Chapter XVIII 
 
 List of Presidents of the Indiana State Medical Society 
 and Association, p. 176. Vice-Presidents of the 
 Indiana State Medical Society and Association, p. 
 178. Corrected List of Physicians Present at the 
 Medical Convention Held at Indianapolis, June 6, 
 1849, p. 181. 
 
CONTENTS. XXV 
 
 Chapter XIX 
 
 War History. Indiana Physicians in the Mexican War, 
 p. 185. Alpliabetica] List of Surgeons and Assis- 
 tant Surgeons Who Served in Indiana Regiments 
 During the Civil War, p. 187. Medical Officers 
 from Indiana Commissioned by the President — Vol- 
 unteers, p. 203. Regular Army. Volunteer Xavy— 
 Acting Assistant Surgeons (Civil War), p. 204. 
 Spanish-American War, p. 204. List of Surgeons 
 Appointed by the President in the Volunteer Army 
 of the United States, p. 204. Hospital Stewards, 
 p. 204. 
 
 Chapter XX 
 
 Medical History of Madison County, p. 207. Some of 
 the Early Practitioners of Gibson County, p. 225. 
 Supplemental to Phvsicians of Jackson County, p. 
 227. 
 
 Chapter XXI 
 
 Alphabetical List of Deceased Physicians, p. 230. 
 
 Chapter XXII 
 
 Historical Notes and References, p. 257. 
 Index, p. 367. 
 
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Bobbs, Johns S 241 
 
 Boor, William F 243 
 
 Boyd, Samuel S 245 
 
 Bray, Madison J facing page 246 
 
 Brayton, Alembert W xi 
 
 Burnsworth, Mrs. Z 365 
 
 Cook, Ward 214. 
 
 Eastman, Joseph 265 
 
 Fletcher, William B facing page 271 
 
 Florer, Thomas W 272 
 
 Gaston, John M 275 
 
 Harvey, Thomas B 280 
 
 Hibberd, James F 285 
 
 Jameson, Patrick H 290 
 
 Kemper, General W. H Frontispiece 
 
 Layman, Daniel W 298 
 
 Lomax, William facing page 300 
 
 Marsee, Joseph W 307 
 
 Mears, George W 309 
 
 Miller, Abram 312 
 
 Moodey, John W facing page 313 
 
 Munford, Samuel E 318 
 
 Myers, William H 320 
 
 Parvin, Theophilus 325 
 
 Read, Ezra 331 
 
 Richmond, John L facing page 334 
 
 Rosenthal, Isaac M 337 
 
 Ryan, Townsend 221 
 
 Sexton, Marshall facing page 340 
 
 Sutton, George 346 
 
 Todd, Robert N 350 
 
 Walker George B facing page 351 
 
 Wishard, William H facing page 184 
 
 Woodworth, Benjamin S 358 
 
 Certificate Issued in 1832 168 
 
 Diploma Granted Dr. John Rea 329 
 
 Wesley Chapel 143 
 
CHAPTER I. 
 
 IntPvOductory to the Medical History of 
 Indian'a. 
 
 It was with some misgiving that I consented 
 to write a series of articles upon the above- 
 named subject. So much time, research and care 
 is required that I hesitated. However, I have 
 made the attempt and will try to produce arti- 
 cles that contain historical facts and reminis- 
 cences of interest, and yet I am conscious that I 
 may make some mistakes and many omissions. I 
 make no claim to perfection. 
 
 I feel justified in reproducing extended ex- 
 tracts from some of the earlier volumes of the 
 Transactions of the Indiana State Medical So- 
 ciety. I think this is advisable, for the reason 
 that the papers were contributed more than one- 
 third of a century ago, few copies of the Trans- 
 actions are extant and these not easy of access, 
 and, further, that the information there im- 
 parted is valuable and should be reproduced for 
 younger medical men of the present day. I 
 have the only file of these papers in Delaware 
 County, and I suspect that a search of the vari- 
 ous counties in the state will show but few 
 copies. This is my apology for reproducing in 
 part these interesting and valuable contributions. 
 
 I shall only mention in detail the work of 
 members of our profession who have passed away. 
 
2 MEDICAL HISTORY OF nWIANA. 
 
 Their work is completed^ and 3^et I must necessa- 
 rily be brief in all that I may say concerning in- 
 dividuals and what they accomplished. 
 
 The profession of this state, and indeed the 
 entire country, owes a vast debt of gratitude to 
 the men who have so efficiently conducted our 
 Indiana medical journals, wherein is recorded so 
 much of our medical history. Dr. Parvin was 
 our pioneer in medical journalism — starting the 
 Western Journal of Medicine in 1866. Four 
 3'ears later this journal was succeeded by the 
 Indiana Journal of Medicine, and in 1882 it was 
 named Indiana Medical Journal. It continued 
 under that name to December, 1908. Dr. A. W. 
 Brayton especially deserves praise for the labor 
 and time he has given to the Indiana Medical. 
 Journal. I have consulted files of this journal 
 from its beginning to the present time and have 
 been impressed with the vast amount of histori- 
 cal matter he has furnished the profession of this 
 state. Dr. Frank C. Ferguson also was an effi- 
 cient editor in the early days of medical journal- 
 ism. Dr. S. E. Earp, in a shorter period of time, 
 has rendered good service in The Monitor. Our 
 venerable friend, W. H. Wishard, with his won- 
 derful memory of nearly three-quarters of a cen- 
 tury, and a pen that records so interestingly, has 
 given us a vast fund of information in journals 
 and State Transactions. Dr. K. French Stone, 
 in his work, "Biography of Eminent American 
 Physicians and Surgeons," has done justice to 
 Indiana physicians. Good work in furnishing 
 facts of medical history has been rendered by 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 3 
 
 numerous other physicians, but I can not men- 
 tion all at this time. 
 
 Much of the very early medical history of 
 Indiana is found in an article by Alfred Patton, 
 M.D. (Transactions of the Indiana State Medi- 
 cal Society, 1874), entitled "The Medical His- 
 tory of Vincennes," which is worthy of reproduc- 
 tion. 
 
 Note. — The first issue of TJie Medical and Surgical 
 Monitor was in June, 1898, with Dr. S. E. Earp, editor. 
 The Central States Medical Magazine, published at 
 Anderson, with Dr. S. C. Xorris, managing editor, 
 merged with The Medical and Surgical Monitor, 
 November, 1905; and the union of the journals took 
 the name of the Central States Medical Monitor, with 
 Dr. S. E. Earp, editor, and Drs. S. C. Norris and S. P. 
 Scherer, associate editors. January, 1909, The Indiana 
 Medical Journal, edited by Dr. A. W. Brayton, merged 
 with The Central States Medical Monitor, and the 
 name was changed to The Indianapolis Medical Jour- 
 nal, with Dr. S. E. Earp, editor-in-chief, Dr. A. W. 
 Brayton, editor, and Drs. S. P. Scherer and S. C. Nor- 
 ris, associate editors. 
 
 On Feb. 15, 1909, the name was changed to Indian- 
 apolis Medical Journal, continuing the order of num- 
 ber— Vol. XII.— G. W. H. K. 
 
CHAPTEE II. 
 
 Early Medical History of Yincei^ees. 
 
 "It is supposed that Vincennes was settled by 
 the French, from Canada, in 1710 or 1711, and 
 that a priest, Father Mermet, was stationed here 
 soon after that time. The place was called ^Au 
 Post du Onabadee,' w^hich has since been cor- 
 rapied into the Old Post. In 1732 Francois 
 Morgan de Yinsenne was made commandant of 
 the post, and the place was then called St. Yin- 
 cennes. I have carefully read everything in his- 
 tory relating to this ancient city, and do not find 
 the name of a single physician referred to, and 
 only twice do I find any mention of diseases. An 
 epidemic prevailed here soon after Father Mer- 
 met came to the place, which took off more than 
 half of the inhabitants. The medicine man of 
 the Indian tribes, in vain, invoked the aid of the 
 great Manitou for the relief of the sick, but, as 
 might have been expected, superstition and ri- 
 diculous incantation failed to arrest the progress 
 of that terrible disease, smallpox. History in- 
 forms us that the same disease prevailed here in 
 1793; about seventy-five deaths then occurred. 
 
 "The first physician who practiced medicine in 
 this place, so far as we are informed, either from 
 records or the old citizens, was Dr. Elijah Tis- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 5 
 
 dale, who located here in the latter part of the 
 year 1792, where he died. He was an assistant 
 surgeon in the United States army. Hon. 
 Charles B. Lnsdle has in his possession the origi- 
 nal commissions, signed hy George Washington, 
 President of the United States, and dated at 
 Philadelphia, March 4, 1791. Mrs. E. H. Domo- 
 non has a copy, which I have seen. By an ex- 
 amination of the Army Register of the Medical 
 Department, I find that he was assigned to duty 
 with the Second Regiment, U. S. Infantry. From 
 old papers and letters which belonged to Dr. 
 Tisdale, some of which were written by him, I 
 learn that he came to this place with the regi- 
 ment in 1792, and resigned his office in 1796. I 
 am unable to procure any information as to his 
 medical education, but from his having received 
 the appointment of army surgeon, and as there 
 was then a board of four examiners, as now, it is 
 to be supposed that he was a well-informed phy- 
 sician. An additional evidence in favor of this 
 supposition is the character of the medical books 
 he relied on. Though I have not been able to 
 find anv of his books, I learn from one of his 
 letters that he owned Cullen's Practice of Medi- 
 cine, Avhich he obtained in 1795, Bell's Surgery, 
 and Hamilton's Obstetrics. These were standard 
 works at that early day ; indeed, but few Ameri- 
 can physicians then owned Cullen's Practice, as 
 it was published in London in 1789, and was not 
 republished in this country until 1806. Then, 
 guided by the books he read, and the manu- 
 scripts he left, to which I have had access, I will 
 
6 MEDICAL HISTORY OF n DIANA. 
 
 be enabled to commence the medical history of 
 Yincennes, with his location here in 1792.* 
 
 "The next physician who made Vincennes his 
 home was Dr. Samuel McKee, Jr., who was also 
 an army surgeon. His commission, the original 
 of which is before me^ is signed by Thomas Jef- 
 ferson, President of the United States, and dated 
 April 27, 1802; but I find from the Medical 
 Eegister that he was assigned to duty here, as 
 garrison assistant surgeon, in March, 1802, and 
 from the same source I ascertain that he died 
 here Nov. 5, 1809. His son, A. B. McKee, who 
 lives on a farm near this city, has kindly fur- 
 nished me with his father's old medical library, 
 which is of great value in writing this history. 
 
 "Dr. McKee was educated at the Trans3dvania 
 University, Lexington, Ky., and was college 
 librarian for a considerable time. It is said of 
 him that he read every book in the library. He 
 v/as a Greek and Latin scholar and well read in 
 his profession. As the books he read were the 
 same as those relied on by others of the early 
 physicians, I will include all together in that 
 branch of m}^ subject. 
 
 "Dr. Jacob Key Kendall came here in 1805 
 from Virginia, and died in 1833, having prac- 
 ticed here twenty-eight years. He was an able 
 and popular physician. I now own his medical 
 library. 
 
 "Dr. Elias Mc^amee came here in 1808 from 
 Pennsylvania and died in 1834. His daughter, 
 
 * According to the "Historical Register and Dictionary 
 of the U. S. Army," by Heitman. Dr. Elijah Tisdale was a 
 native of North Carolina. He entered the service as 
 surgeon's mate, 2nd IT. S. Infantry, March 4, 1791. Ro 
 signed Dec. 31, 1797. — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 7 
 
 Mrs. Woolverton, resides here at present. Her 
 husband was Dr. J. D. Woolverton, who located 
 here in 1818 and died in 1834. 
 
 "Dr. Wm. Carr Lane located here in 1812 ; 
 removed to St. Louis in 1815, where he attained 
 wealth and distinction. I have quite a number 
 of his old books. 
 
 "Dr. Alison came here in 1817 and died in 
 1820. 
 
 "Dr. L. S. Shuler came here in 1818 and died 
 soon after. 
 
 "Dr. E. Skull came here in 1811 and left in 
 1813. He fought a duel with Mr. Eannenis 
 Becker, which resulted in the death of Mr. 
 Becker. Dr. Skull left suddenly. He was an 
 acting surgeon in the army, but his name does 
 not appear in the Register. I, therefore, sup- 
 pose he was not regularly commissioned. 
 
 "Dr. Hiram Decker was born and raised in 
 this county, and began the practice of medicine 
 in this town in 1815; died in 1863, having been 
 actively engaged in the practice forty-eight 
 years. He enjoyed the confidence of a large 
 circle of friends, and was a warm, personal 
 friend of General Harrison, who appointed him 
 land agent for this district when he became 
 President of the United States. I have his en- 
 tire medical library. 
 
 "Dr. Joseph Somes came here in 1828 from 
 England; removed to Leavenworth, Kans., in 
 1872. He practiced here forty-four years; was 
 a well-educated and courteous practitioner. 
 
 "Dr. W. W. Hitt came here from Baltimore 
 in 1829; practiced until 1872, and retired from 
 
8 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 practice the day he reached his fiftieth year 
 in the medical service. From him I have derived 
 much valuable information in regard to the 
 early medical history of Yincennes. For many 
 years of his early practice here he was called on 
 to visit patients fifty and sixty miles distant * 
 was often called to Mt. Carmel, Terre Haute and 
 other distant points. He performed an impor- 
 tant surgical operation, an account of which was 
 given in the Western Journal of Medical and 
 Physical Sciences, in 1832, article 2, page 350, 
 ^History of a Sarcomatous Tumor — Its Extirpa- 
 tion/ published by request of the Medical Bu- 
 reau of the First Medical District of Indiana. 
 By Washington W. Hitt, M.D., of Vincennes, 
 Ind. : ^The tumor measured, in its largest cir- 
 cumference, thirty-two inches, and its base twen- 
 ty-two inches. It involved the left mammary 
 gland. The age of the jDatient was 24 years. 
 She is still living, the tumor never having re- 
 turned.' 
 
 "Dr. Hitt was a member of' the constitutional 
 convention in the winter of 1850 and 1851; was 
 elected on the temperance ticket. He long en- 
 joyed the confidence of the people as a physician 
 and has ever been held in high esteem as a citi- 
 zen. His age is now 73. 
 
 "Dr. Davidson came here in 1830; died in 
 1833. 
 
 "Dr. J. Browne, in 1834, and died in 1836. 
 
 "Dr. John Baty came here from France in 
 1836; left here in 1866; is now living at Terre 
 Haute, and is physician and surgeon to the Sis- 
 ters' Hospital at that city. He attained distinc- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 9 
 
 tion here as a physician, and especially as a sur- 
 geon. He graduated in Paris, France, taking 
 the fourth honor, which entitles him to a posi- 
 tion in the Medical School of Paris, but he pre- 
 fers to practice his profession in free America 
 to enjoying the high honor of a great medical 
 school in the metropolis of France. He spent 
 two or three years in the schools and hospitals of 
 Paris during and since the Franco-Prussian war. 
 On account of his superior attainments in medi- 
 cine and surgery, his learning and high moral 
 qualities, I think he deserves a special notice in 
 this report. 'While here he performed many im- 
 portant surgical operations and enjoyed the full 
 confidence of a large circle of friends and ac- 
 quaintances. His age is 62. 
 
 "Dr. John R. Mantle came here from the 
 State of New York in 1844; is still engaged in 
 the practice of medicine; is doing a remunera- 
 tive practice and stands high professionally and 
 socially. He spent some time in New York 
 City, last year, prosecuting the study of his pro- 
 fession in the hospitals, giving special attention 
 to diseases of women and obstetrics. His age 
 is 84. 
 
 "Dr. H. M. Smith located in this city in 
 1849; is a native of Kentucky; was postmaster 
 in this place eight years; was appointed by 
 President Lincoln; is still engaged in the prac- 
 tice and enjoys the confidence of many of our 
 best citizens. He is 53 years of age. 
 
 "Dr. R. B. Jessup came here from New York 
 State in 1853; is still engaged in the practice; 
 directs special attention to surgery, in which he 
 
10 MEDICAL HISTORY OP INDIANA. 
 
 has attained a well-merited distinction. He was 
 a surgeon in the civil war. 
 
 MEDICAL SOCIETIES OF VINCENNES. 
 
 "The first medical society organized in Vin- 
 cennes was nnder a charter granted by the state 
 legislature in the year 1835. This society had 
 the authority to give diplomas to those who sub- 
 mitted to a satisfactory examination by a board 
 of medical censors, which, in that early day, was 
 regarded with almost as much favor as a diploma 
 from a medical college. The meetings of the 
 society were held quarterly and were attended by 
 physicians from this and adjoining counties. A 
 copy of the constitution and by-laws accompany 
 this report. Sections 19 and 20 are worthy of 
 attention and are herewith transcribed : 
 
 " ^Sec. 19. Physicians should never neglect an 
 opportunity of fortifying and promoting the good 
 resolutions of patients suffering under the bad 
 eifects of intemperance and vicious lives; and, 
 in order that their counsel and remonstrations 
 may have due weight, it will readily be seen that 
 they should have full claim to be blameless in 
 life and high moral character, which we have 
 stated to be a necessary prerequisite to an honor- 
 able stand in the profession.^ 
 
 " ^Sec. 30. Medical men should remember the 
 ^Sabbath day and keep it holy,' and visits should, 
 as far as consistent with professional engage- 
 ments, be made before or after public worship, 
 or during its intervals.' 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 11 
 
 "I am pleased to be able to state that out of 
 the entire number of physicians who have lived 
 in this place, or who are here now, there has 
 not been an inebriate, and nearly all have been 
 moral men, and many of them members of 
 churches. The physicians here at present are all 
 members of some church, with one or two excep- 
 tions, and not one of them that does not dis- 
 courage intemperance both by precept and exam- 
 ple. 
 
 "The next medical society that was organized 
 here dates in December, 1863, with Dr. W. W. 
 Hitt, president, and Dr. A. Patton, secretary. 
 Its meetings were held monthly, and for a year 
 or two they were well attended and the interest 
 fully maintained, but suddenly they were dis- 
 continued and for several years there has been 
 no meeting. 
 
 THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE VINCENNES 
 UNIVERSITY. 
 
 "The legislature of the Territory of Indiana 
 granted a charter for the A'^incennes University 
 in 1807, with the privilege of uniting a medical 
 department with its course of instruction; also 
 law and theological departments. The school of 
 learning is still in existence, having received an 
 endowment from Congress, but the medical de- 
 partment has never been organized. 
 
 FEE BILLS. 
 
 "I have before me one of Dr. Tisdale's bills, 
 which indicates that he charged for a visit in 
 town, medicine and prescription, $2.00; 'bleed- 
 
12 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 mg, 50 cents; 2 closes jalap, 50 cents; 6 pills, 25 
 cents; 4 pectoral powders, $1.00/ I regret that 
 the bill does not include a greater variety of 
 items. 
 
 "Dr. McKee's charges in 1805 were, for a 
 visit in town, $1.50, medicines additional; ex- 
 tracting teeth, 25 cents; for 30 cathartic pills he 
 charged 50 cents; for one dose of calomel, 1 oz. 
 paregoric and vial, 62y2 cents; for 1 dose calo- 
 mel and 1 dose tartar emetic, 50 cents; for 20 
 mercurial pills, $1.50; accouchement cases, nat- 
 ural, $5.00. I derive this information from a 
 bill made out against one of his patients. 
 
 "Doctors Key Kendall and Decker, in 1820, 
 charged one dollar a visit in town, and charged 
 much less for medicines than did Drs. McKee 
 and Tisdale, the price of drugs having greatly 
 decreased. 
 
 "In 1835 I find the following charges as being 
 agreed upon by the physicians, but, as they are 
 the same as those of 1838-48, I Avill not trans- 
 cribe them. I find one difference in 1835, the 
 charge on prescription, with written advice, was 
 from $5 to $15. 
 
 "In 1848 a fee bill was published from which 
 1 extract the following: Visit in town, $1.00; 
 with unusual detention, $2.00; prescriptions, 
 with letters of advice, $5.00 to $10.00; consulta- 
 tions, $3.00 to $5.00; night visits double; vac- 
 cination, 50 cents to $1.00 ; venesection, 50 
 cents; simple medicines, per dose, 25 cents; mix- 
 tures, 25 cents per fluid oz. ; blisters, from 25 to 
 50 cents; accouchement, $5.00 to $10.00. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 13 
 
 EMOLUMENTS. 
 
 *'The physicians who have labored so faith- 
 fully and so long for the people of Yincennes 
 may have gained honors and the grateful re- 
 membrance of friends, but not one has ever ac- 
 cumulated wealth ; none have made more than a 
 living, with the exception of three, and their 
 fortunes, amounting to only a few thousand dol- 
 lars, were the result of careful economizing, for- 
 tunate investments and small families. It seems 
 that medicine, though an honorable profession, 
 is not a lucrative one, especially in small towns 
 or the country." 
 
 PROGRESS IN PRACTICAL MEDICINE. 
 
 "To determine the line of practice pursued by 
 the physicians who lived here at an early period, 
 the only means at my command are the medical 
 books I find in their libraries and the few notes 
 in manuscript which some of them have left be- 
 hind. I can not ascertain that any of these men 
 had a line published indicating their views of 
 the pathology or treatment of disease. But we 
 can always safely judge men by the kind of com- 
 pany they keep, and so we may judge our old 
 physicians by the books they read. If Dr. Tis- 
 dale was guided by Sydenham, as he no doubt 
 was, until 1795, when he came into possession of 
 Cullen's First Series in Medicine, we may well 
 conclude that his remedies were few and simple. 
 That our old physicians employed the same for- 
 mulas that were advised by Sydenham is not 
 claimed, for we know that many of their reme- 
 dies consisted of the plants and roots that were 
 
14 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 indigenous in our forests or were grown in the 
 gardens. Medicines that were manufactured 
 only in England, France or Germany, at that 
 time, were very scarce and expensive, and substi- 
 tutes were employed when possible. As a tonic 
 the Peruvian bark had become popular, much 
 more so than when Sydenhiam expressed his 
 doubts about its safety, and advised that it 
 should never be used until the system was pre- 
 pared to receive it by bleeding, purgatives and 
 emetics. I find, however, that physicians and 
 people relied upon such tonic medicines as they 
 could easily obtain from the forest; one, espe- 
 cially, which was considered a most wonderful 
 remedy in many forms of disease, was Fontany 
 root, which is a species of gentian. It is' still 
 used by a few old French families. 
 
 "Dr. McKee often prescribed the sumach ber- 
 ries, to be infused in water, as a cooling drink in 
 fevers, and as an aperient instead of cream of 
 tartar. 
 
 "The next great work which came into the 
 hands of our early physicians was Dr. Rush's 
 Medical Inquiries and Observations, in which we 
 find the dawnings of that great philosophy in 
 American medicine which we see so strikingly 
 illustrated in the practice of many of our physi- 
 cians of the present day, but which unfortu- 
 nately did not obtain with some of our great wri- 
 ters in the early part of this century. 
 
 "Drs. Tisdale and McKee died in 1807-9, but 
 Drs. Key Kendall and MclSTamee were here then, 
 and in 1811-12 Drs. Skull and Lane came to 
 Vincennes, but neither remained long. They all 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 15 
 
 followed Cullen and Eush, though Dr. Rush's 
 works were not here until 1813. The next au- 
 thor that I find is Dr. Thomas' work on Practi- 
 cal Medicine, published in 1817 in London. He 
 was never a popular author in America; was con- 
 sidered entirely too timid and temporizing in his 
 practice. Up to this time the only treatment 
 employed in pneumonia was bleeding, tartar 
 emetic and calomel, and neither Drs. Tisdale, 
 McKee, McN'amee, Key Kendall, Lane or 
 Decker had ever heard of auscultation as a 
 means of diagnosis in lung and heart diseases. 
 I lind the work of Corvisart on the Heart in this 
 old library, but he never dreamed of the ad- 
 vances that were to be made in our knowledge of 
 cardiac diseases. In pneumonia, however, the 
 old treatment of bleeding, evacuants and such 
 depressing agents as tartar emetic, has given 
 place to one that is more rational and far more 
 successful. There is not a physician in Vin- 
 cennes, so far as I am informed, that pursues 
 the old treatment in pneumonia. 
 
 "In that period, extending from 1815 to 1830, 
 it is evident that our physicians here pursued 
 the line of treatment that then prevailed in 
 Philadelphia, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee 
 and Natchez, Miss. Among the old books are 
 many works, monographs and articles in medical 
 journals on fevers, bowel affections, lung dis- 
 eases and others which were prevalent in this 
 climate, written by such distinguished men as 
 Eberle and Chapman, of Philadelphia; John 
 Esten Cooke, then of Virginia, afterward Louis- 
 
16 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ville, Ky. ; Samuel A. Cartwright^ of Natchez, 
 and others. Dr. Cartwright probably exercised 
 more influence over the physicians here, as he 
 was raised in this state not more than twenty- 
 five miles from Yincennes. He was an able 
 writer and was well calculated to please those 
 who were inclined to adopt a bold and active 
 treatment, as most western and southern physi- 
 cians were at that time. He bled freely, but 
 placed his greatest reliance upon large doses of 
 calomel. From 20 to 100 grains were his favor- 
 ite doses, and he claimed that the medicine was 
 much milder in its action when given in large 
 doses than in small ones. His formula for chol- 
 era was 10 grains each of calomel, capsicum and 
 camphor gum, repeated every half-hour. Dr. 
 Hitt, of this city, informs me that he employed 
 this treatment in the cholera here. His treat- 
 ment of apoplexy was so very singular that I 
 will briefly refer to it. He claimed that the 
 immediate cause of death in apoplexy was the 
 accumulation of phlegm in the air passages, in 
 consequence of the failure of the pneumogastric 
 and phrenic nerves to properly stimulate the 
 respiratory muscles, and, therefore, the patient 
 died, asphyxiated. Bleeding, he contended, only 
 increased the difficulty, and he relied entirely on 
 what he termed apophlegmatics, which consisted 
 of capsicum 10 grains, mustard 10 grains, com- 
 mon salt 10 grains, and calomel 10 grains, to be 
 crammed down the patient^s throat with a cloth 
 wrapped around a stick, to be repeated until 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 17 
 
 there was free vomiting and purging. In old 
 persons I have seen the remedy act exceedingly 
 
 Another article bearing upon the very early 
 medical history of Indiana is that by Hubbard 
 M. Smithy M.D., Vincennes (Transactions of the 
 Indiana State Medical Society, 1906), which is 
 herewith reproduced : 
 
CHAPTEE III. 
 
 Medicine in the Northwestern Territory: 
 
 A Contribution to the Early Medical 
 
 History of Indiana. 
 
 '^At the first annual meeting of tlie Sec- 
 ond District Medical Society of Indiana, it 
 occurred to 'me that it would not be inappro- 
 priate for its members to take a retrospect of 
 the doings of oiir coadjutors, in their lines of 
 action, about a century ago. 
 
 "The first medical society organized in the 
 Northwestern Territory, wrested from the Brit- 
 ish government by Col. George Eogers Clark on 
 Feb. 25, 1779, occurred in Vincennes, Ind. The 
 exact date is not positively known, but I know 
 for a fact that its origin was prior to the year 
 1818. Goodspeed, in a history of Knox County, 
 published twenty years ago, states that, *in 
 1817, the physicians of this place met and 
 formed a medical society.' Presumably, a so- 
 ciety was then, or at an earlier period, formed, 
 for I have evidence, obtained from a newspaper 
 published in this town in 1818, in a call, printed 
 therein, for a meeting of a medical society in 
 that year, and my recollection is that Drs. Din- 
 widdle and Truesdale were members. No known 
 records of this society exist. 
 
 "Another society was organized here in 1827, 
 and, on June 5, elected the following officers, 
 viz.: Drs. E. McNamee, president; J. Kuyken- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 19 
 
 dall, treasurer, and H. Decker, secretary. Pres- 
 ent: Drs. J. D. Wolverton, J. K. O'Haver and 
 Philip Barton. This society bore the title, The 
 Medical Society of the First Medical District of 
 Indiana.' 
 
 "It will thus be seen that the name of this so- 
 ciety was almost identical with our new district 
 organization. The extent of territory the society 
 embraced I know not, but it doubtless was as 
 great as that of this organization. The member- 
 ship embraced the names of the following doc- 
 tors, towit: Philip Barton, G. G. Barton, Joseph 
 Brown, G. G. Barry, B. J. Batty, Hiram Decker, 
 H. Davidson, ^Y. Dinwiddle, John W. Davis, 
 James P. DeBruler, A. Elliott, AYilliam Fair- 
 hurst, W. W. Hitt, Hezekiah Holland, E. B. 
 Jessup, J. Kuykendall, Alexander Leslie, E. Mc- 
 Xamee, Joseph Maddox, F. M. McJenkin, N. 
 Mears, John E. Mantle, Thomas ^^esbit, J. K. 
 O'Haver, T. F. Offutt, Joseph Porter, J. W. 
 Posey, J. W. Pennington, Joseph Somers, Daniel 
 Stahl, J. S. Sawyer, 0. G. Stuart, G. B. Shu- 
 mard, Hubbard Madison Smith, Thomas B. 
 Thompson, J. D. Wolverton, W. C. Warner and 
 Daniel Dinwiddle. 
 
 "By a reference to the records of this society 
 some interesting facts are gleaned, not the least 
 important of which is that of the existence at 
 that time — 1827 — of a state medical organiza- 
 tion. If I mistake not, the state medical society, 
 organized in 1849, is supposed to have been the 
 first state organization, which is an error. To 
 controvert that opinion, I herewith quote from 
 
20 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 the Transactions of the Yincennes Medical Dis- 
 trict Society the following: 
 
 " ^This society proceeded to elect delegates of 
 the State Medical Society, which resulted in the 
 election of Drs. J. D. Wolverton, for three years; 
 Hiram Decker, for two years, and Philip Barton, 
 for one year. 
 
 " 'Resolved^ That this society do allow the sum 
 of ten dollars to the delegate or delegates an- 
 nually to the state medical society/ 
 
 "And, in 1830, a like sum was appropriated 
 for expenses of delegates. These records estab- 
 lish the fact that a state medical society existed 
 as early as June 5, 1827, and perhaps earlier, 
 and the one organized in 1849 was the second 
 state society. 
 
 "Goodspeed's history of this society states that 
 there was no standard pharmacopeia in the 
 United States at that time, and that it sent a 
 memorial to Congress to appoint a committee of 
 competent physicians to compile one. This dis- 
 trict medical society continued to hold meetings 
 that were recorded up to March 23, 1835, and 
 occasionally meetings occurred as late as 1854, 
 of which the writer is cognizant, as he became a 
 member of it in May, 1849, and knows of the 
 admission of Dr. George B. Shumard in June 
 following, and Dr. Eobert B. Jessup in Febru- 
 ary, 1854, as the treasurer's book shows; yet no 
 records are known to exist recording the doings 
 at the meetings subsequent to March, 1835. It 
 is worthy to note in giving the medical history, 
 especially concerning the physicians of this med- 
 ical district and town of Yincennes, that an at- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 21 
 
 tempt was made to establish a medical school 
 here in 1S39. The charter of the Vincennes 
 University, granted b}^ the Territorial Legisla- 
 tive General Assembly, gave it authority to es- 
 tablish branches, besides literature, those of the- 
 ology, law and medicine; and, although I find 
 no record in the transactions of the University 
 Board of Trustees, in a petition recorded there, 
 from the physicians asking for the use of a part 
 of its building, in which to teach medicine and 
 its branches. The right to the ownership of the 
 building being in controversy between the uni- 
 versity and the State of Indiana, the petition 
 was not granted, and the project fell through, 
 and no further record of it exists. 
 
 "In looking over records of this society, I find 
 little in them worthy of note. With the excep- 
 tion of one paper presented by Dr. W. "W. Hitt, 
 which was ordered to be forwarded to the Medi- 
 cal and Physical Journal, edited by Dr. Drake, 
 at Cincinnati, Ohio, and to the Transylvania 
 Medical Journal, Lexington, Ky., for publica- 
 tion, there is little more than routine meetings 
 recorded, embracing the elections of officers, 
 granting diplomas, at $5.00, and a good deal 
 about contributions, by-laws and medical ethics. 
 Why the transactions were not recorded after 
 March, 1835, is a matter of conjecture. As a 
 matter of fact I know personally that members 
 were received into the society as late as February, 
 1854, the members being the writer, in May, 
 1849; Dr. G. B. Shumard, June, 1849, and Dr. 
 llobert B. Jessup, February, 1854. 
 
22 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "This district society having ceased to have a 
 vital existence^ a call was issued for a meeting, 
 at the city hall, of the physicians of Knox Coun- 
 t}^, June 24, 1875, when the 'Knox County Med- 
 ical Society' was organized, the following named 
 physicians being present : F. W. Beard, A. J. 
 Thomas, James F. Origan, Hubbard M. Smith, 
 J. W. Pugh, W. W. Hitt, W. H. Wise, W. B. 
 Sprinkle, O'Connel Fairhurst, J. N. Merritt, A. 
 J. Haughton, Alfred Reel, John C. Beever, John 
 
 E. Mantel, AY. B. Harris, and M. Witherspoon. 
 "This society became affiliated with the state 
 
 medical society, and maintained its organization 
 until it was adopted by the new state organiza- 
 tion. 
 
 "On Oct. 26, 1875, a new medical society was 
 organized in this city, composed of physicians 
 of the States of Hlinois, Kentucky and Indiana, 
 under the title of the Tri-State Medical Society. 
 The organization elected the following officers: 
 Drs. Joseph Thompson, Kentucky, president; W. 
 A. Smith, Illinois, J. K. Letcher, Kentucky, and 
 J. B. Armstrong, Indiana, vice-presidents; Geo. 
 W. Burton, Indiana, corresponding secretary; 
 
 F. W. Beard, Indiana, secretary, and Alfred Pat- 
 ton, Indiana, treasurer. Other attending mem- 
 bers were : Drs. John R. Mantel, Hubbard Mad- 
 ison Smith, Willis W. Hitt, John C. Beever, 
 William H. Beeson, Robert B. Jessup, Yin- 
 cennes; J. S. Dukate, 'Wheatland;.John T. Free- 
 land, Freelandsville, and Martin Witherspoon, 
 Bruceville. These three states comprised origi- 
 nally the scope of the society, but it permitted 
 physicians of other states to join it, and in a few 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 23 
 
 years its numbers had so increased, and become 
 so cosmopolitan in character, that it lost its iden- 
 tity, and assumed that of Mississippi Valley 
 Medical Association. After meeting a few times 
 in the states it originally comprised, it met in St. 
 Louis, and thereafter in many distant states, 
 and the new organization soon rivaled in mem- 
 bership and power, almost, the American Medi- 
 cal Association. 
 
 "About eight years ago another district medi- 
 cal society was organized, which was composed 
 of physicians of the counties of Knox, Daviess, 
 Pike and Gibson, but it has been superseded by 
 this, the Second Congressional District Medical 
 Society. 
 
 "The foregoing may be considered as prosy 
 matter, but, as it embraces concise early infor- 
 mation as to the time of the formation of the 
 first medical society of the northwest, and the 
 names of some of its members, and the medical 
 organization following, to the present time, es- 
 pecially as it relates to societies in county and 
 district; yet I give it as a matter of medical 
 history for the present, as well as for those doc- 
 tors who will take our places in the coming years 
 that it may be a matter of record ere time rele- 
 gates the facts embraced herein to the vale of 
 oblivion." 
 
CHAPTEE lY 
 
 Eaely Medical History of Alle^t County. 
 
 Some of the early medical history of north- 
 eastern Indiana is given in an article by H. P. 
 Ayers, M.D., of Fort Wayne (Transactions of 
 the Indiana State Medical Society, 1874), enti- 
 tled, "The Medical History of Allen County." 
 The article is deemed worthy of reproduction in 
 its entirety: 
 
 ^'The first white doctors who visited the site of 
 Allen County were connected with the soldiers, 
 traders and missionaries in the early part of the 
 last century, but their names have not descended 
 to the present generation. The first whose name 
 is now known, was Dr. Curtis, who visited Fort 
 AYa}Tie in 1810, but was as much an Indian 
 trader as a physician. 
 
 "The same vear Dr. Turner, who was con- 
 nected with the United States Army, visited this 
 place, and remained about one year. 
 
 "Dr. Benezet, who was connected with the 
 army, came in 1811. 
 
 "In 1812 Dr. Crow, with Dr. Yorees, United 
 States Army surgeon, reported for duty at this 
 place. He accompanied a party of twelve men 
 some miles north, where they were attacked by 
 Indians, and all killed but the doctor, who 
 proved too fleet for his red pursuers. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 25 
 
 "In 1815 Dr. Treat, who was also attached to 
 the United States Army, relieved the former 
 surgeon. He was, as I have learned from some 
 of our oldest citizens, a most excellent man and 
 physician, and by his urbanity and kindness en- 
 deared himself to all who knew him. He was 
 ordered to Savannah, where he died, much re- 
 gretted by all. 
 
 "Dr. Smith, a volunteer surgeon, visited Fort 
 Wayne in 1817 with a rifle company. He was 
 from Lancaster, Ohio, and remained till 1818. 
 
 "In 1818 Dr. Uphane, from Canada, located 
 in Fort Wayne, but only lived a short time, and 
 was buried here. 
 
 "In 1818 or 1819 Dr. Benjamin Cushman 
 moved to this place, and commenced the regular 
 practice of medicine, and may properly be con- 
 sidered the first resident physician. Dr. Cush- 
 man has left a good reputation as a practitioner 
 of medicine. He came from Eichmond, Ind., 
 but of his previous history I have not been able 
 to learn anything. He died about 1839. 
 
 "Dr. L. G. Thompson was bom in Mercer 
 County, Kentucky, in 1803, and moved to Fort 
 Wayne in 1825. He graduated in Ohio Medical 
 College in 1837 and died in 1845. Dr. Thomp- 
 son was the second resident pioneer physician in 
 Fort Wayne, and commenced his practice about 
 1821. He proved himself to be an able and skil- 
 ful man, and has many friends yet living who 
 bear the most ample testimony to the assertion. 
 His excellence of character did not consist alone 
 in his medical abilities, but as a friend, a neigh- 
 bor and citizen. He had few superiors. To the 
 
26 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 poor he was always kind. Dr. Thompson may 
 be ranked among the best in his profession and 
 as a valuable citizen in all the departments of 
 society. His name will ever be associated with 
 the early history of our city. 
 
 *^In 1834 Dr. Lewis Beecher, a graduate of 
 Fairfield Medical School, New York, located in 
 Fort Wayne. Dr. Beecher was a man of fine 
 abilities, and soon entered an extensive and valu- 
 able practice in medicine and surgery. He con- 
 tinued in his profession until 1841, when he 
 abandoned it and engaged in the sale of drugs 
 and medicines until his death, which occurred 
 in 1849. 
 
 "Dr. P. G. Jones commenced the practice of 
 medicine in our city in 1834, and died in 1853 
 from dissipation. Dr. Jones was a graduate of 
 Maryland University, in Baltimore, Md. He was 
 a volunteer surgeon during the Mexican war and 
 served faithfully until its close.* He possessed a 
 mind of more than ordinary ability and was a 
 close observer of men and things. He abandoned 
 the practice several years before his death. 
 
 "In 1842 Dr. Bernard Sevenick emigrated 
 from Prussia and made Fort Wayne his home. 
 He had been a surgeon in Bonaparte's army and 
 served during several campaigns under that great 
 commander, and continued, during life, to main- 
 tain a martial bearing in all he did. He was 
 gentlemanly and polite in all his intercourse and 
 took great pleasure in maintaining the dignity 
 of his profession. He died in 1849. 
 
 * Assistant Surgeon, Fifth Indiana Volunteer Regiment. 
 — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 27 
 
 "JDr. B. C. Eowan settled in Fort 'Wayne in 
 1S42. He was born in Westmoreland County, 
 Pennsylvania, 1817, and died in Fort Wayne in 
 1862. Dr. Rowan -graduated at the University 
 of New York in 1847. In 1862 he entered the 
 Army of the Cumberland. During the evacua- 
 tion of Corinth he contracted disease, which 
 caused his death soon after. He was esteemed 
 and respected by all who knew him. Frank, 
 unobtrusive and honorable, he was rapidly gain- 
 ing a high position as a physician and man. He 
 left many who yet regret his death and feel that 
 he was too early cut down. 
 
 "Dr. Banks was bom in Cincinnati Ohio; 
 graduated at Louisville Medical College, Louis- 
 ville, Ivy.; commenced the practice of medicine 
 at Fort Wayne, 1844. He continued here four 
 years, when ill health compelled him to retire 
 from the hard labor of riding. During 1849 and 
 1850 he resided in Cincinnati, where he died. 
 Dr. Banks was an active, energetic man, and his 
 prospects of success were flattering, but disease 
 too soon seized him, and death too soon cut him 
 
 "Dr. J. Dailey graduated at Jefferson College, 
 Philadelphia, and settled in this city in 1846, 
 where he died in 1864. Dr. Dailey had all the 
 mental ability for high attainments, but sacri- 
 ficed all to intemperance. 
 
 "Dr. H. J. Weihmer was born in Hanover, 
 Germany, in 1799 ; graduated in Berlin, Prussia, 
 in 1827 ; emigrated to the United States in 
 1838 ; became a resident of Fort Wayne in 1847, 
 and died in 1859. Dr. Weihmer was gentleman- 
 
28 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ly and affable in all his intercourse with others, 
 and had many warm and admiring friends. He 
 was a successful and careful practitioner of med- 
 icine, and has left a large circle of admirers who 
 yet speak of his worth. 
 
 "This completes the sketch of white physicians 
 so far as we can ascertain, but we think it would 
 be an unfinished task did we omit all reference 
 to Indian doctors. 
 
 "Dr. Buck-on-ga-helas was largely engaged in 
 the practice of medicine in Fort Wayne in 1804. 
 He was physician and surgeon to Little Turtle, 
 the great commander of the Miami tribe of In- 
 dians. He acquired a great reputation in the 
 cure of bites by poisonous snakes, but more par- 
 ticularly from poisoned arrows then used among 
 the Indians. His practice, however, was not 
 confined to the Indians, but was quite extensive 
 among the white inhabitants. 
 
 "In 1807 an Indian named Ma-te-a acquired 
 some celebrity as a doctor, and was employed by 
 many of the French settlers in preference to any 
 other. It may be interesting to many to refer 
 briefly to some of the appliances of the Indian 
 doctor in the treatment of disease. 
 
 "The Indian doctors to whom I have referred 
 were sharp, shrewd Indians and well acquainted 
 with all the resources of the materia medica. 
 Some physicians remember the days of doctors' 
 saddle-bags, and perhaps some are yet compelled 
 to use them. The Indian's medicine bag was 
 made up in the same way ladies now make their 
 needle cases. Several pockets of leather were 
 fastened by thongs to a long strip of buckskin 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 29 
 
 six or eight inches wide and the length accord- 
 ing to the wishes of the doctor; each pocket was 
 closed by strings on the top of the pocket. Each 
 pocket was filled with certain roots, herbs, 
 charms, according to the extent of the doctor's 
 knowledge, and then hung over the right breast; 
 or, when he traveled, it was folded up and car- 
 ried as a large roll. Army surgeons, under civ- 
 ilized regulations, examine the mental and physi- 
 cal fitness for military service, but under Indian 
 regulations the surgeon's duty was to prepare 
 the young warrior for duty by a spiritual prepa- 
 ration and also furnish him with a war medi- 
 cine. The former was accomplished by sweat- 
 ing, bathing and eating bitter herbs and roots; 
 the latter by the physician placing in the young 
 warrior's shot-pouch a Svar physic' or Var medi- 
 cine,' which was to protect him against all the 
 accidents and ills of warfare. The prescription 
 was bones of a snake and wild cat; the modus 
 operandi, or rationale of the charm, I need not 
 give. But to our subject more particularly. In- 
 dian doctors possessed a considerable knowledge 
 of the medicinal virtues of plants and their ap- 
 plicability to the poisons of reptiles, poisonous 
 arrows, and the diseases incidental to savage 
 life. But many of their efforts consisted only 
 in incantations and juggleries. The doctor would 
 usually dress and paint himself in the most 
 grotesque and frightful form, and then with a 
 great variety of contortions of the body approach 
 ills patient. He would breathe on him, blow in 
 his face, squirt medicine in his mouth and nose ; 
 rattle beans or pebbles in a dry gourd over him. 
 
30 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 at the same time keeping up the most horrid 
 gesticulations and noises to frighten away the 
 disease. After thus maldng his professional 
 visits he would retire to await the result of his 
 eif ort. One peculiarity more : The Indian doc- 
 tor would sometimes, after compounding his po- 
 tion, drink it that he might thus cure his patient, 
 a custom which, we think, would be highly re- 
 pugnant to civilized doctors. I can not perhaps 
 close this outline of the medical history of this 
 section of the State of Indiana better than by 
 quoting a few lines from ^Hiawatha' : 
 
 " ^Then the medicine-men ; the Medas, 
 The magicians, the Wabenos, 
 And the Tossakuds, the prophets. 
 Came to visit Hiaw^atha; 
 Built a Sacred Lodge beside him, 
 To appease him, to console him, 
 AYalked in silent, grave procession, 
 Bearing each a pouch of healing, 
 Skin of beaver, lynx, or otter, 
 Filled with magic roots and simples. 
 Filled with very potent medicines — 
 Then a magic drink they gave him.' " 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 Medical Men in the Eaely Days of Indiax- 
 APOLis. — Early Medical History of 
 
 EaSTERX IXDIAXA. 
 
 Dr. AV. H. Wishard read before the Marion 
 County Medical Society, Dec. 6, 1892, a paper 
 on the above subject, published in The Indiana 
 Medical Journal, vol. xi, page 199, from which 
 extracts are made.* His paper comprises the 
 first fifteen years of history, 1821 to 1836. 
 
 ^T)r. Samuel G. Mitchell, a native of Ken- 
 tucky, located in Indianapolis in April, 1821. 
 He was the first physician to locate in our capi- 
 tal city. He was a licensed practitioner and had 
 never attended lectures. 
 
 "Dr. Isaac Coe was the second physician to 
 locate in Indianapolis, in May, 1821. He was a 
 native of New Jersey. Besides being a conscien- 
 tious practitioner and indefatigable in his labors, 
 he helped to organize the first church and first 
 Sunday school in the city. His remains repose 
 in Crown Hill Cemetery by the side of his wife. 
 
 "Dr. Livingston Dunlap came from the State 
 of New York in July, 1821. He and Dr. Mitchell 
 formed a medical partnership, the first medical 
 firm in the city. Dr. Dunlap ranked high as a 
 physician and surgeon. He was in especial de- 
 mand as a consultant. He was councilman from 
 
 * See also State Transactions, 1893. p. 16. 
 
32 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 his ward in 1834. He was physician of the 
 Deaf and Dumb Institution for several years, 
 and was postmaster from 1845 to 1849. He was 
 elected professor of theory and practice in 1849 
 at the organization of the first medical college 
 in Indianapolis. He practiced in the city for 
 41 years, and at the date of his death, in 1862, 
 was the senior physician. He was the first per- 
 manent president of the State Medical Conven- 
 tion, presiding at the session of 1849. 
 
 "Dr. Scudder located in Indianapolis in 1821, 
 and died there in 1829. He was regarded as an 
 excellent physician and a Christian gentleman. 
 
 "Dr. Jonathan Cool, a native of New Jersey, 
 located in Indianapolis in August, 1821. He 
 was a graduate of an eastern medical college. 
 He received an appointment as surgeon in the 
 United States Army, and for some time was sta- 
 tioned at the barracks at Newport, Ky. He be- 
 came so intemperate that few would trust him, 
 and died in 1840. 
 
 "Dr. Charles McDougle, a native of Ohio, 
 came to Indianapolis in 1828. He formed a 
 partnership with his brother-in-law. Dr. Dunlap, 
 who married McDougle's sister. In 1832 he 
 received an appointment of surgeon in the 
 United States Army, in which capacity he won 
 distinction. When Dr. Wishard met him at 
 Pittsburg Landing in 1862, he was medical di- 
 rector of General Grant's army. He died in 
 Virginia about 1884. 
 
 "Dr. John L. Mothershead, a native of Ken- 
 tucky and a graduate of the Transylvania Medi- 
 cal College, located in Indianapolis in 1830 and 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 33 
 
 formed a partnership with Dr. Mitchell. Later 
 he was associated with Dr. Sanders, and still 
 later with Dr. Bullard. He died in November, 
 1854. He was regarded as a successful practi- 
 tioner.* 
 
 _ "Dr. John H. Sanders (1791-1850) was a na- 
 tive of Bourbon County, Kentucky. In the fall 
 of 1819 he rode to Philadelphia on horseback, 
 where he attended his first course in medicine! 
 On his return in 1820, he located in his native 
 county, and soon became the leading surgeon of 
 all that region of the state. In 1823 he gradu- 
 ated at Lexington, Ky. In the winter of 1829- 
 30 he came to Indianapolis, and soon afterward 
 formed a partnership with Dr. Mothershead. In 
 1839 he moved to Missouri, but returned to In- 
 dianapolis in 1841, where he continued to reside 
 until his death, April 4, 1850. His last partner 
 was Dr. P. H. Jameson. He ranked high as a 
 surgeon."f 
 
 Early History of Eastern Indiana 
 In a paper on this subject. Dr. Joel Penning- 
 ton, of Milton (Transactions of the Indiana 
 State Medical Society, 1873) has the following 
 to say: 
 
 "I settled in the village of Milton (my pres- 
 ent place of residence) in October, 1825. The 
 town consisted of seven families. We resided 
 during the winter in 10x12 cabins, with 
 
 * See State Transactions, 1855, p. 76. 
 
 t "His oldest daughter. Zerelda G., married Gov. David 
 Wallace, Dec. 26, 1836, and became the stepmother of Gen. 
 Lew Wallace, and later so well known as Mother Wallace, 
 the apostle of temperance and reform." — Autobiography of 
 Lew Wallace, vol. i, p. 45. — G. W. II. K. 
 
',U MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 puncheon floors, clapboard roofs, stick and clay 
 chimneys and ample fireplaces. We passed the 
 winter very comfortably; had a full supply of 
 all the substantials of life at low figures com- 
 pared with present prices. 
 
 "About New Year I purchased of an old 
 friend (Quaker) a hindquarter of beef, which 
 cost, in the payment of a doctor bill, 2I/2 cents 
 per pound. Pork was worth from $1.25 to $1.50 
 j)er one hundred pounds; corn, 10 cents per 
 bushel; potatoes, 12^/2 cents; turnips, the same; 
 sweet potatoes, 25 cents; wheat, 37% cents, and 
 all other products of the soil in proportional 
 prices. 
 
 "Our first canal packets were run in connec- 
 tion with steamboat travel to Cincinnati, where 
 most of our trading was done. This great 
 change made the mode of traveling to points on 
 the Ohio river so different from our former 
 manner of reaching the cities, through mud and 
 rain, that we certainly had good grounds for ex- 
 ultation. I will state for the information of the 
 3'Oung men in the profession who have never 
 traveled over bad roads that they can not realize 
 the amount of labor and exposure to which we 
 old doctors were subjected in the early practice 
 in Indiana. We had no means of traveling, ex- 
 cept on foot or on horseback. Buggies had not 
 reached so far West, and if they had they would 
 have been useless, on account of the condition 
 of the roads. During twenty-five years or more 
 I practiced on horseback, as also did my com- 
 peers; to that exposure and horseback exercise I 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 35 
 
 am disposed to attribute a large share of the 
 good health I possess at my advanced age. 
 
 "When called during the fever and wild de- 
 lirium^ we seated the patient on the side of the 
 bed and held him there, bv the aid of assistants 
 if necessary, opened a vein in his arm by mak- 
 ing as large an orifice as practicable, and al- 
 lowed the blood to flow until his pulse became 
 soft and less resisting, or until syncope super- 
 vened. We relied more on the effect produced 
 than on the quantity of blood extracted, our 
 object being to produce a decided impression 
 upon the heart's action. Our patient being in a 
 sitting posture and the blood escaping from a 
 free opening, it did not require a great length 
 of time to produce the desired effect. Often 
 within ten to twenty minutes after faintness or 
 sickness occurred the subject of this mode of 
 treatment would become bathed in a copious 
 perspiration, and the violent fever and delirium 
 existing a short time before would have entirely 
 passed away. Now, if the indications seemed to 
 require it, we directed an emetic to be given, 
 usually composed of tartarized antimony and 
 ipecac combined, or wine of antimony. After 
 free emesis and the sickness had subsided, if 
 thought necessary, we gave a brisk cathartic, 
 usually containing more or less calomel. After 
 the primcB vice had been well cleared, it was oui 
 practice to give opium in such doses as the case 
 required, in order to allay all irritability of the 
 stomach and bowels. We directed the usual 
 febrifuges to be given if the fever should return, 
 and these were given in such doses as required 
 
36 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 to arrest or mitigate it. We used no manner of 
 temporizing treatment, but aimed our agents 
 directly at the extermination of diseases. Opium, 
 ij^eeac, tartarized antimony, nitrate of potassa, 
 spirits mindereri and spirits of niter, with other 
 means too tedious to mention, were all fre- 
 quently brought into requisition. 
 
 "Under the above manner of treating a case 
 of remittent fever it was no uncommon thing 
 on our second visit to find our patient sitting up 
 feeling 'pretty well, except a little weak,' and 
 within a few days able to return to his ordinary 
 avocations. When we met with more protracted 
 cases we had recourse to the Peruvian bark, gen- 
 tian, columbo, and most of the ordinary tonics 
 of the present time, excepting quinia, which was 
 not in use. For some time after quinia was 
 introduced the price was such that Hoosiers 
 could not afford to use it. The first I used cost 
 at the rate of $30.00 per ounce. I may state in 
 this connection that tartar emetic was a favorite 
 remedy in all the active or acute forms of dis- 
 ease. 
 
 "We seldom lost patients from acute diseases. 
 It would have detracted from the standing of a 
 medical man should it have been known that he 
 lost a patient from inflammation. He might 
 lose a patient from sheer debility and be ex- 
 cusable, but not from acute disease, provided he 
 saw the case in an early stage of the attack. 
 
 "Among the oldest physicians of our county 
 was Dr. Ithamar Warner, who first resided at 
 Salsbury, our first county seat. After the busi- 
 ness of the county was transferred to Centre- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 37 
 
 ville, the Doctor removed to Eichmond, where 
 he had a large and remunerative practice to the 
 close of his life. He never married; was singu- 
 lar in many respects, and very irritable, so much 
 so that his patients were pretty certain to carry 
 out his directions without equivocation. 
 
 "Dr. J. E. Mendenhal], also of Eichmond, 
 was the first graduate in medicine in the county 
 of whom I have any knowledge. He received the 
 degree at the Lexington school, Kentucky. He 
 was a well-qualified physician and an honorable 
 gentleman. He had a good practice, but re- 
 signed it in a few years and turned his attention 
 to speculation in real estate, which proved to 
 him a more lucrative business. He believed the 
 responsibility attached to the practice largely 
 overbalanced the remuneration it afforded. 
 
 "Dr. Wm. Pugh, at one time a partner in the 
 practice with Dr. Mendenhall, resided in Eich- 
 mond a few years and removed to Centreville, 
 where he died in 1829. I think he also attended 
 a course of lectures in the Lexington school. 
 
 "Following these were Drs. Griffith, Plummer, 
 Vail, and Smith, with quite a number of others, 
 who resided but a short time in the city of 
 Eichmond, whose names I never knew, or can 
 not now recollect. Therefore, I must confine my 
 notice to a few of the more prominent practi- 
 tioners of an early day, previous to the year 
 1835; otherwise I should promote sleep among 
 my hearers from the length of this paper. 
 
 "The first named. Dr. Griffith, came to Indi- 
 ana from the city of Philadelphia; he was a 
 member of the Society of Friends ; soon ingra- 
 
38 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 tiated himself into the confidence of the people, 
 and had a fair practice; was called in consulta- 
 tion by the surrounding physicians and consid- 
 ered an able and scientific physician. 
 
 "Dr. J. T. Plummer was a student of his and 
 married his daughter. He was also a Friend; 
 graduated, I think, at one of the Philadelphia 
 schools; was prominent as a well-educated and 
 scientific physician, and at one time was con- 
 sidered the best practical chemist in the city, 
 for in most cases of suspected poisoning he was 
 called on to analyze the contents of the stomach 
 and determine the result. He died a few years 
 ago from that scourge of mankind, consumption. 
 
 "Dr. J. A^ail years ago had an extensive prac- 
 tice in and about Eichmond; was highly es- 
 teemed as a practitioner; was a member of this 
 society; contracted disease in the army (where 
 he filled the position of regimental surgeon) 
 from which he never fully recovered. 
 
 "Dr. \Ym. B. Smith read medicine with Dr. 
 Plummer, and had a reputable practice for a 
 number of years. He was a genial, social com- 
 panion, but in time became intemperate, so 
 much so that it damaged his practice. Yet he 
 had many warm friends to the time of his death. 
 
 "There are other medical gentlemen of Eich- 
 mond yet living and whose names stand high, 
 and whose biographies must be left for abler 
 pens than mine. The early physicians of Cen- 
 treville were Drs. Sackett, Finch, Pier, Crews, 
 and Dorsey. 
 
 ^'^Dr. Sackett was the oldest practitioner of 
 Centreville. Soon after the county seat was es- 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 39 
 
 tablished there, he was elected recorder of the 
 countjj which office he continued to hold for 
 many years; indeed, until his death. He was 
 another victim of intemperance. 
 
 "Dr. Finch Avas a reputable practitioner and 
 a gentleman. He did not reside long in Centre- 
 ville, and removed to Noblesville, where he died 
 in a short time of phthisis. 
 
 "Drs. Pier and Crews did not remain long in 
 the city. I had but little acquaintance with 
 either of them, but believe that they stood fair 
 as physicians. 
 
 "I must next speak of my friend. Dr. W. W. 
 Bunnel, of Washington, who studied medicine 
 with Dr. Lathrop, of Waynesville, AVarren 
 County, Ohio. Dr. Bunnel was my preceptor 
 during the last six months of school that he ever 
 taught. After qualifying himself for practice, 
 he settled in Washington, where he resided until 
 his death, which occurred in 1852. He died of 
 cholera, being sick but a few hours. He was a 
 cautious, rather timid, and conscientious practi- 
 tioner, a man well read, and one who thought 
 carefully before he acted. In 1826-7-8 he had 
 much to do with that old-fashioned disease 
 known by the name of milk sickness. In order 
 to become acquainted with its symptoms and 
 treatment, I spent some time with the Doctor in 
 visiting his cases, at which time he had as many 
 as five or six in the different stages of the com- 
 plaint, which gave me an opportunity to learn 
 what I could of the disease as it presented itself 
 at that early period. It was truly a formidable 
 disease and attended with great fatality. 
 
40 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "A Dr. Waldo,* of Jacksonburg, seven miles 
 northeast of Milton, had a larger practice in 
 milk sickness than any other physician in the 
 connty, and had greater notoriety for success in 
 its treatment. He was one of the oldest practi- 
 tioners, and was a noble specimen of a man 
 physically, drank more intoxicating liqnors than 
 was profitable, but never to my knowledge got 
 so drunk as to incapacitate him for business. 
 He was immoral in many respects, very pro- 
 fane, yet with all this dark catalogue he had 
 many redeeming traits of character. In an early 
 period of our history he represented Wayne 
 County in the state legislature, when it met at 
 Corydon. He was termed, in common parlance, 
 a bold physician, used the lancet freely, gave 
 from scruple to dram doses of calomel, etc. In 
 fact, he might be called a northern Dr. Cart- 
 wright, as regarded doses of medicine, without 
 disparagement to that gentleman. More than 
 twenty years ago he removed to a farm on White 
 river, north of Muncie, where after a few years 
 he died. 
 
 "Time will not allow me to dwell longer on 
 the physicians of ^lang syne,' yet I can not omit 
 speaking of my friend. Dr. John Pritchett, of 
 Centreville. He and I (if I mistake not) are 
 the oldest practitioners of medicine now living 
 in the county. I have one and a half or two 
 years the precedence in time. The Doctor is an 
 urbane gentleman in every sense of the term; at 
 present confines himself principally to town 
 
 * Dr. Loring A. Waldo. Died in the thirties, and is 
 burled at Windsor, Randolph county. — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 41 
 
 practice. When the gold fever was at its height 
 in California, Dr. Pritchett left home and busi- 
 ness in search of 'filthy lucre/ and in a few 
 years returned, worsted pecuniarily. Early in 
 the late war he was commissioned as regimental 
 surgeon of the Fifty-seventh Eegiment of Indi- 
 ana Volunteers, which position he filled with 
 honor and credit to the close of the war. 
 
 "The early physicians of Connersville, Fay- 
 ette County, to the best of my recollection, were 
 Drs. Moffet, Gale, and Miller; a little later we 
 had Drs. Brown and Mason, who were partners 
 in the practice of medicine for some years." 
 
 Dr. Joel Pennington (1799-1887) was born in Hunting- 
 ton county, Pennsylvania, and, after a medical preparation, 
 located in Milton in 1825. I introduce him as deserving 
 a place in Indiana medical history, if for no other reason 
 than that he was a pioneer physician and contributed the 
 above article. He has told his own story in simple lan- 
 guage. He was president of the State Medical Society in 
 1873. He practiced medicine at Milton for more than half 
 a century, and linally, when accident reduced him to penury, 
 and paralysis rendered him helpless, charitable friends sup- 
 plied his needs and made him comfortable. — G. W. H. K. 
 
CHAPTEE VI. 
 
 Medical Eeminiscences of Madison. 
 
 The late Dr. W. T. S. Cornett, of Madison, 
 narrates some interesting reminiscences in tlie 
 Transactions of the Indiana State Medical So- 
 ciety, 1874, p. 30, from which the following ex- 
 tracts are copied : 
 
 "I came to the State of Indiana in the spring 
 of 1824 for the purpose of practicing medicine 
 and located temporarily in the County of Dear- 
 born. In the spring of 1825 I moved to Ver- 
 sailles, Eipley County, where most of my pro- 
 fessional life has been spent. On coming into 
 the state I was informed that the law required 
 me to be licensed to practice by the society of 
 the district in which I lived; otherwise I would 
 be indicted and fined. 
 
 EAELY STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 "Each judicial constituted a medical district, 
 and there was a state medical society made up 
 of delegates elected annually by the district so- 
 cieties. I called on the censors of the society, 
 satisfied them in regard to my qualifications, 
 and received from them a permit to practice till 
 the next meeting of the society, which was held 
 at Lawrenceburg. At the meeting of the society 
 I was admitted to membership and received a 
 diploma according to law. At that meeting, or 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 43 
 
 the next, I have forgotten which, I was elected a 
 delegate to represent the society at the next 
 meeting of the state society to be held at In- 
 dianapolis. I prepared a professional essay and 
 started for Indianapolis on horseback, and ac- 
 complished the journey (65 miles) in three days 
 of hard travel through deep mud and over bro- 
 ken causeways. The president of the state so- 
 ciety was Dr. Samuel Grant Mitchell, of In- 
 dianapolis, an elderly gentleman, somewhat cor- 
 pulent and short of breath from asthma, per- 
 haps. The society met at Dr. MitchelFs office. 
 There Avere but few in attendance. Their names 
 were as follows: Drs. Mitchell, Dunlap, Coe 
 and Mothershead, of Indianapolis; Dr. Sexton, 
 of Eushville; Dr. Bell, of Shelbyville, and my- 
 self, from Versailles. Dr. Mothershead was then 
 a very young man and a partner to Dr. Mitchell. 
 "The president read an address on the occa- 
 sion, and, on getting about half way through it, 
 found that he had lost a sheet and became much 
 embarrassed. I finally moved that the lost sheet 
 be stricken out, which was carried unanimously, 
 and he proceeded with the remainder of the ad- 
 dress. Finding that no one but myself had pre- 
 pared an essay for the occasion, I proved too 
 diffident to produce it and took it home without 
 reading. Afterward I prepared an abridgement 
 of it, which was published in Dr. Drake's jour- 
 nal at Cincinnati. In the print I found numer- 
 ous typographical errors, which annoyed me not 
 a little. The meeting to which I have referred 
 was the last of the state medical society, as pro- 
 
44 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 vided for by law, the politicians and people hav- 
 ing adopted the idea of free trade in medical 
 matters, which seems likely to continue for all 
 time to come. So be it. If rational medicine 
 can not take care of itself let it perish. I am 
 now, so far as I know, the only surviving mem- 
 ber of the original state medical society. 
 
 "For a number of years I was the only physi- 
 cian in Eipley County; had to travel all over it 
 on horseback by day and by night, without re- 
 gard to weather or remuneration for services. 
 Occasionally I found myself lost in the woods at 
 night, and would have to tie up my horse and 
 make my bed on the ground until morning. The 
 nearest physicians with w^hom I was acquainted 
 were Drs. Perceval and Ferris, of Lawrence- 
 burg; Dr. Torbet, of Wilmington; Drs. Haynes 
 and James, of Eising Sun; Drs. Watts, Howes 
 and Canby, of Madison; Dr. Peabody, of Ver- 
 non; Dr. Hartclay, of Greensburg; Dr. Oliver, 
 of Brookville, and Dr. Gillespie, on his farm 
 twenty miles south of me, all of whom are in 
 their graves save Drs. Watts and James, who 
 have long since retired from business. I can 
 only make honorable mention of these physi- 
 cians, having no data upon which to found bio- 
 graphical sketches of them which would be re- 
 liable. At the period of my advent into pro- 
 fessional life (50 years since) medical books 
 were very scarce, particularly so in the West. 
 The physician who could afford one work on 
 each branch of the profession was considered 
 w^ell off. The book stores in Cincinnati, in 1824, 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 45 
 
 could not furnish a work of each branch of the 
 profession. On going there to purchase my 
 library, I could not find a work on materia 
 medica for sale in the place, and had to appeal 
 to a young physician who had lately arrived 
 from Philadelphia, who was so obliging as to 
 sell me the work of Murray with notes by Chap- 
 man. 
 
 "In the year 1843 my friend, Dr. Charles 
 Parry, late of Indianapolis, read a paper on the 
 treatment of congestive fever with quinin, be- 
 fore the Academy of Medicine at Philadelphia, 
 v^htich attracted much attention, and he was 
 invited to repeat it to a fuller house, which he 
 did. After this, numerous essays soon made 
 their appearance in favor of the treatment of 
 remittent fever with quinin, and the former 
 practice was soon superseded. 
 
 THE EARLY SURGEET OF INDIANA. 
 
 "In surgery, as well as in medicine, there 
 has been an advance within my remembrance. I 
 knew a surgeon half a century ago who made it 
 a rule to trephine in every case of fracture of the 
 skull, whether there was depression of the bone 
 or not. He boasted that he had bone buttons 
 enough, bored from the skulls of his patients, to 
 furnish a full set for a double-breasted coat. 
 Fractured skulls were more common then than 
 now, the temperance reformation not having 
 commenced, or even been seriously thought of, 
 save by one man, and that man was Dr. Benja- 
 
46 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 min Eush (see his great address on the abuse of 
 ardent spirits, Volume I of his work, A. D. 
 1818). In 1829 Dr. Daniel Drake made a most 
 powerful and eloquent appeal to the public on 
 this subject in an address delivered before the 
 Hamilton County Agricultural Society, which 
 did much good in the West in stirring up or- 
 ganized action against this most monstrous of 
 all evils on earth. 
 
 "Half a century ago, surgeons, and the people 
 generally, practiced blood-letting for almost 
 every injury. Sir Charles Bell was among the 
 first to denounce this practice in concussion of 
 the brain. He said, in such a case, the surgeon 
 would say bleed, and the landlady would say 
 give him a glass of brandy, and that he (Sir 
 Charles) would in this case take sides with the 
 landlady. Half a century ago I have seen lint 
 dipped in whisky used with good results as an 
 application to wounds. The lint should never 
 be allowed to get dry. I have used this dressing 
 more or less throughout the whole of my profes- 
 sional life, and have never seen erysipelas occur 
 in a wound where it was used. Its action is 
 threefold, as it stimulates the injured vessels, 
 tends to ease pain, and, lastly, prevents the de- 
 composition of purulent matter, which is poison- 
 ous. 
 
 "The greatest advantage of the metallic su- 
 ture over thread is that thread absorbs pus, 
 which decomposes in it and becomes poisonous, 
 while metal absorbs nothing. The tincture of 
 arnica has acquired a great reputation as an 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 47 
 
 applicant in contusions. It is the whisky, and 
 not the arnica, which is entitled to whatever 
 credit is due in this case. 'Whisky is sometimes 
 good as a medicine if properly used. I have 
 never, and never will, so use it as to turn a sick 
 man into a drunkard." 
 
CHAPTEE VII. 
 
 Early State Medical Society. — Historical 
 
 i^OTES OE Ia^diaxapolis. — The Medical 
 
 College at Laporte. 
 
 In the Transactions of the Indiana 
 State Medical Society for 1874, p. 26, the late 
 Dr. W. B. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, records 
 some interesting history of the "Early State 
 Medical Society,^' from which the following 
 extracts are taken: 
 
 "A judicial was considered a medical district. 
 A district medical society was formed in June^ 
 1817, in Vincennes, and at a meeting of the 
 same in May, 1818, delegates were appointed to 
 meet with similar delegations of other district 
 societies and form a state medical society. F. S. 
 Shald and Phillip Bates were snch delegates. 
 The state society was not formed, however, until 
 1820, when it met in Corydon, then the capital 
 of the state. Afterward, in 1826, it held its 
 meeting in Indianapolis, the seat of government 
 having been removed thither. These facts are 
 obtained from the Western Censor and other pa- 
 pers of the period, extracts from which we give: 
 
 "The Medical Society of the State of Indiana 
 met at Corydon on the 10th. The following gen- 
 tlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year, 
 viz. : 
 
 ^'President — Asahel Clapp, New Albany. Vice- 
 President — S. Everts Union County. Secretary 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 49 
 
 — L. Dunlap, Indianapolis. Treasurer — D. B. 
 Mitchell, Corydon. Censors — David Oliver, 
 Brookville; G. L. Murdoch, Brookville; C. Ful- 
 lerton, Princeton. 
 
 "January 4th, 1823. — At the fourth annual 
 meeting of the Medical Society, which took place 
 at Corydon on the 11th ult., the following gen- 
 tlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year: 
 
 "President — Dr. D. G. Mitchell. Vice-Presi- 
 dent — Dr. S. Everts. Secretary — Dr. J. Fowler, 
 Treasurer — Dr. Snyder. Censors — Drs. J. E. 
 Bush, Snyder, and A. Clapp. 
 
 FIFTH DISTRICT MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 "First Meeting at Indianapolis. — Pursuant to 
 a resolution of the State Medical Society a num- 
 ber of the practicing physicians of the Fifth 
 Judicial District met at Indianapolis on Mon- 
 day, the 1st day of May, 1836, and proceeded to 
 business. Dr. Isaac Coe was chosen chairman, 
 and K. A. Scudder, secretary. The following 
 officers were chosen for the ensuing year: 
 
 "President — Dr. Isaac Coe. Secretary — ^Dr. 
 Livingston Dunlap. Treasurer — Dr. K. A. 
 Scudder. Censors — Drs. Laughlin, Sexton, and 
 Morris. Delegates — Drs. S. G. Mitchell, Isaac 
 Coe, and Sexton. 
 
 "Resolved, That each annual meeting of this 
 society be on the first Monday in May, and the 
 semiannual meeting on the day preceding the 
 meeting of the State Medical Society. 
 
 "The society then adjourned. 
 
 "Isaac Coe, President. 
 
 "K. A. Scudder, Secretary." 
 
50 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 FROM HISTORICAL NOTES ON INDIANA, PUBLISHED 
 
 AND COMMUNICATED TO THE GAZETTE, 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH Q, 1822, BY 
 
 DR. S. G. MITCHELL. 
 
 "March 6, 1832.— The predisposing influ- 
 ences that caused the citizens of Indianapolis to 
 become a prey to intermittent and remittent 
 fevers were numerous: the thickness of the for- 
 est, with an unusual wet or damp season; a 
 numerous concourse of strangers crowded to- 
 gether; great fatigue of moving and anxiety of 
 mind; uncomfortable accommodations; liberal 
 use of fresh meat, more especially fish, which was 
 used in great abundance. The disease may have 
 existed in a certain constitution of the atmos- 
 phere, which caused the marsh miasma or dele- 
 terious effluvia to be worse on the margin of the 
 water-course, which was a fact, and in the east 
 it prevailed more generally than in the west. 
 Those who escaped lived off from the river. Out 
 of 1,000 souls in town on the donation, and the 
 farms surrounding the town, at least 900 sick- 
 ened during the prevailing epidemic. Twenty- 
 five deaths occurred before the last of October. 
 About that period the place was restored to 
 health. Its fatality was principally amongst 
 children, but the town will long lament over the 
 loss of some of its most favorite citizens. The 
 symptoms that marked our epidemic were such 
 as medical writers recognize in the introduction 
 of common violent intermittent and remittent 
 fevers; debility, languor, yawning and stretch- 
 ing, with a listlessness and inaction to motion; 
 coldness then commences in the extremities and 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 51 
 
 soon covers the body with sensations, to the pa- 
 tient, of cold water being poured over them. 
 In some cases the coldness only produced chills; 
 in other cases it produced universal convulsive 
 shaking. It has, then, improperly been called 
 ague. Very few cases occurred that we might 
 call a well-defined case of ague and fever. The 
 symptoms that succeeded the cold stage were a 
 dry, burning, hot skin, with a red, tense and 
 swollen appearance; pains violent and shifting 
 to different parts of the system; the pulse quick, 
 but not universally strong; the bowels consti- 
 pated, and great thirst. After some hours of 
 pain and suffering, a perspiration became uni- 
 versal, the pulse diminished in frequency and 
 became full and free, and all the functions of 
 the system were restored to their natural order. 
 The species of fever differed in different pa- 
 tients, and in the same patient, in different at- 
 tacks, sometimes a quotidian, sometimes a ter- 
 tian, and at other times assumed a quartan type. 
 It was a disease that readily yielded to appro- 
 priate remedies, and as readily again recurred. 
 During the hot stage, the physician's object was 
 to promote perspiration, and to accomplish that 
 object he selected such internal and external 
 remedies as he thought advisable. Afterward 
 the stomach and bowels were well prepared for 
 the reception of Peruvian bark— it was genuine, 
 and given in spirits, in large quantities— a valu- 
 able medicine, and rarely disappointed the phy- 
 sician's expectation. The disposition the fever 
 had to recur again and again, and the universal 
 
52 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 attack of the disease, and the few deaths in pro- 
 portion to the sick, was a remarkable circum- 
 stance/^ 
 
 The Medical College at Laporte. 
 
 Dr. Tompkins Higday, formerly of Laporte, 
 records in the Transactions of 1874, p. 24, some 
 historical facts concerning the Indiana Medical 
 College at Laporte, Ind., from 1842 to 1850, 
 from which the following quotations are made: 
 
 "Daniel Meeker, the originator of the college, 
 was born in Schoharie County, New York, Dec. 
 17, 1806; attended his first course of lectures at 
 Fairfield, IST. Y.; graduated at the close of his 
 second year, at Willoughby, Ohio, and located in 
 Laporte in May, 1835. He first organized a 
 spring course of lectures, which was given dur- 
 ing March and April, 1842. A charter for the 
 Laporte University was then secured, and the 
 first regular course of medical lectures began the 
 following autumn, thus : 
 
 "Spring Course, Eight Weeks. — Daniel 
 Meeker, M.D., anatomy and surgery. Jacob P. 
 Andrew, M.D., obstetrics and diseases of women 
 and children. Mne matriculates. 
 
 "1842-3. The regular courses were sixteen 
 weeks. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy and sur- 
 gery. Franklin Hunt, M.D., materia medica and 
 botany. Jacob P. Andrew, M.D., obstetrics and 
 diseases of women and children. Gustavus A. 
 Eose, M.D., theory and practice. John B. Mies, 
 A.M., chemistry. Thirty matriculates; one grad- 
 uate. 
 
 1843-4. The same, except Jacob P. Andrews, 
 M.D., in place of G. A. Eose, M.D., theory and 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 53 
 
 practice. Forty-three matriculates; four grad- 
 uates. 
 
 "1844-45. Daniel Meeker, M.D., surgery. 
 George W. Eichards, M.D., St. Charles, 111., an- 
 atomy. Moses L. Knapp, M.D., of Chicago, 
 materia medica. Nichols Hard, M.D., of Au- 
 rora, 111., obstetrics and diseases of women and 
 children. Daniel E. Brown, M.D., Schoolcraft, 
 Mich., theory and practice. John B. Xiles, A.M., 
 chemistry. John L. Torrey, M.D., of Elgin, 111., 
 demonstrator. Sixty-three matriculates; ten 
 graduates. 
 
 "1845-6. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy and 
 physiology. Azariah B. Shipman, M.D., of 
 Cortland, N. Y., surgery. Moses L. Knapp, 
 M.D., materia medica. Mcholas Hard, M.D., 
 obstetrics and diseases of women and children. 
 George W. Eichards, M.D., theory and practice. 
 John B. Niles, A.M., chemistry. John L. Tor- 
 rey, M.D., demonstrator. Eighty matriculates; 
 17 graduates. 
 
 "1846-7. The same corps of professors. Ninety 
 matriculates; 20 graduates. 
 
 "1847-8. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy and 
 physiology. A. B. Shipman, M.D., surgery. 
 Elizur Deming, M.D., of Lafayette, Ind., materia 
 medica. (The lectures were given by the fac- 
 ulty.) Theory and Practice. Nicholas Hard, 
 M.D., obstetrics and diseases of women and chil- 
 dren. Tompkins Higday, M.D., adjunct profes- 
 sor of anatomy. John B. Mies, A.M,. chemistry. 
 One hundred and one matriculates; 21 grad- 
 uates. 
 
54 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "1848-9. Daniel Meeker, M.D., anatomy. A. 
 B. Shipman, M.D., surgery. Elizur Deming, 
 M.D., theory and practice. J. Adams Allen, 
 A.M., M.D., Kalamazoo, Mich., materia medica, 
 therapeutics and medical jurisprudence. Nich- 
 olas Hard, M.D., obstetrics and diseases of 
 women and children. T. Higday, M.D., physiol- 
 ogy and general pathology. John B. Niles, A.M., 
 chemistry. George W. Lee, M.D., demonstrator. 
 Ninety-three matriculates; 30 graduates. 
 
 "1849-50. Same corps of professors as former 
 years. George W. Lee, M.D., demonstrator. Six- 
 ty-five matriculates; 24 graduates. 
 
 "Spring Course at Lafayette, Eight Weeks. — 
 Elizur Deming, M.D., theory and practice. T. 
 Higday, M.D., anatomy and physiology. Daniel- 
 Meeker, M.D., surgery. J. Adams Allen, A.M., 
 M.D., materia medica, etc. E. T. Brown, chem- 
 istry. Jos. M. Havens, M.D., demonstrator. Nine 
 matriculates; 4 graduates. 
 
 "Many of the graduates of the school have be- 
 come prominent practitioners, a few of whom are 
 Dr. Evans, Evansville, Wis.; Dr. Lee, Shulls- 
 burg. Wis.; Dr. Brown, Madison, Wis.; Dr. 
 Green, Marengo, HI.; Dr. C. Hard, Aurora, HI.; 
 Dr. Young, Chicago; and in Indiana, Dr. 
 Humphrey, South Bend; Dr. Butterworth, 
 Mishawaka; Dr. Lomax, Marion; Dr. Austin, 
 Hecla; Dr. Pettijohn, Deming; Dr. Baker, 
 Stockwell; Dr. Webb, Franldin; Dr. Wishard, 
 Greenwood; and Dr. Evarts, of the Insane Asy- 
 lum, Indianapolis. Three of the graduates only, 
 so far as I know, have been elected to professor- 
 ships, viz. : Wells E. Marsh, to the chair of 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 55 
 
 chemistry, Keokuk College, Iowa; S. S. Todd, 
 to the chair of theory and practice, Kansas City 
 Medical College, Missouri; and T. Higday, to 
 the chairs of physiology and general patholog}^ 
 and of anatomy, in the Indiana Medical College, 
 LaPorte, Ind. 
 
 "In 1848 the charter was amended, changing 
 the name from "The Medical Department of the 
 Laporte University'' to "The Indiana Medical 
 College." The spring course was given at Laf- 
 ayette, at the instance of Dr. Deming, whose ob- 
 ject was to arouse sufficient interest there to en- 
 able him to erect a suitable building, and then 
 have the college transferred from Laporte to 
 Lafayette. Failing in this, he gave two courses 
 in the Medical College at Indianapolis. At his 
 death, I have been informed, he left a work on 
 theory and practice in an advanced state of prep- 
 aration for publication. 
 
 "Dr. Meeker gave one course on anatomy at 
 Indianapolis and five at Keokuk, Iowa, after the 
 discontinuance of the Laporte school. Dr. 
 Meeker is a thorough anatomist, a bold, success- 
 ful operator in surgery; a man of iron will, 
 great physical endurance, and withal a firm be- 
 liever in the resurrection of the dead; just the 
 man to start successfully a medical college in a 
 small town. 
 
 " 'Old Death,' as the students familiarly called 
 him, never failed to keep the dissecting-room 
 abundantly supplied with fresh subjects." 
 
CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 Early Medical History of Terre Haute. — 
 
 Proceedings oe the First Medical 
 
 District Society (Vincennes). 
 
 The late Dr. Ezra Eead, of Terre Haute, in 
 the Transactions for 1874, p. 45, has given some 
 valuable historical facts of the early history of 
 that city, from which we make the following ex- 
 tracts : 
 
 "I settled in Terre Haute in the year 1843, 
 as a practicing physician and surgeon, having 
 been invited here by Dr. Ebenezer Daniels and 
 tendered an equal partnership in his business. I 
 had, at that time, some professional experience, 
 having graduated at the Cincinnati Medical Col- 
 lege (Drake's College) in 1836 and served four 
 years in the military service of Texas — three 
 years as staff surgeon of Gen. Felix Huston and 
 one year as fleet surgeon upon the ship of war 
 Zavalla. 
 
 "The prominent physicians of Terre Haute, in 
 the year I settled here, 1843, were Drs. Ebenezer 
 Daniels, Septer Patrick, Edward V. Ball and 
 Azel Holmes. 
 
 "Drs. Irish and Brooks were here, young men, 
 and some others not now remembered, but within 
 a few months they sought locations elsewhere. 
 Just prior to that time Dr. John W. Hitchcock 
 had left, having very creditably sustained himself 
 in his profession for several years. He was the 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 57 
 
 pupil of Dr. A^alentine Mott of New York, was 
 a good surgeon, had professional merit and was 
 recommended to this community by his pre- 
 ceptor; was a brother-in-law of Dr. G. W. Mears 
 of Indianapolis. 
 
 "Dr. Daniels was a man of learning; a grad- 
 uate of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 
 phia; ambitious, industrious and jealous of his 
 rights. He had studied the profession with great 
 care; practiced it with care, and brought to his 
 aid judgment, skill and learning. He was a good 
 surgeon and partial to that branch of the profes- 
 sion. I have rarely seen any one who could more 
 readily bring to light latent difficulties at the 
 bedside, or more skillfully suggest proper reme- 
 dies. It is no disparagement to the most learned 
 physicians of Indiana, at that time, to say that 
 Dr. Daniels was in all respects their equal. He 
 died of pneumonia in 1847, aged about 56 years. 
 
 "Dr. Patrick was a kind-hearted, blunt, honest 
 physician, originally from the State of New 
 York; had practiced medicine on the Wabash 
 and in this place until his head was whitened, 
 enjoying the confidence and respect of his med- 
 ical brethren and the entire community; always 
 poor, always industrious and faithful to the sick, 
 and always a good physician. He attended one 
 course of lectures in New York; was a careful 
 observer and, from long practice, was skilled in 
 the diseases of this locality. In the California 
 gold excitement he went there, like many others, 
 only to find the same obstacles he had left be- 
 hind. He died in that state in the year 1858, 
 aojed 78 vears. 
 
58 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "Dr. Ball^ a native of New Jersey, was an ex- 
 cellent and highly esteemed citizen and a very 
 careful and industrious physician, but lacked 
 confidence in his own judgment and in the cer- 
 tainty of medicine, and was consequently vacil- 
 lating in his opinions and practice. He com- 
 manded the confidence of his patients, and for 
 more than forty years enjoyed a very large prac- 
 tice. He died in the year 1873, aged 73 years. 
 
 "Dr. Azel Holmes was born in Herkimer coun- 
 ty, New York, in the year 1804; studied med- 
 icine with the celebrated Dr. Massey, and grad- 
 uated in medicine in one of the New England 
 schools. He enjoyed an extensive practice in this 
 city for several years; had cultivated and care- 
 ful ability; was exact and precise, and a most 
 excellent physician. He went to California in the 
 year 1850 with his brother-in-law, Joseph 0. 
 Jones, Esq., of this city, and died in Sacramento 
 City the same year. 
 
 "The picture will not be very flattering, to 
 those of pecuniary tastes and desires about enter- 
 ing the profession, when told that many years of 
 toil and drudgery had not given to any of these 
 physicians estates exceeding in value $5,000, Dr. 
 Ball excepted. 
 
 "It is due to my dead confreres to say that 
 tliey were temperate, charitable and exemplary, 
 and in all of their professional obligations scru- 
 pulously exact. As physicians and citizens their 
 lives were without blemish and without stain. 
 
 "Dr. Henry D. Lee, a native of Virginia, set- 
 tled, in early times, on a farm ten miles from 
 Terre Haute and near Lockport, this county. 
 
MEDICAL EISTORY OF INDIANA. 50 
 
 He was a good physician, without pretension, 
 and at all times commanded the esteem of med- 
 ical men and the universal respect of his neigh- 
 bors. He was a Christian gentleman, and through 
 life was occasionally in the habit of preaching 
 in his own neighborhood and abroad. He died 
 in 1871, aged 66 years, on his birthday. 
 
 "Dr. Hamilton, of Prairieton, in this county, 
 was a graduate of one of the Philadelphia schools 
 of medicine, and was eminently fitted, by educa- 
 tion and habit, for a professional position, but 
 died young — in the year 1851. 
 
 "I have named all of the prominent medical 
 men in this county thirty years ago, not one of 
 whom now lives. Of all these, I am alone left. 
 
 MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 
 
 "When I came here I found a medical society 
 in existence which, at one time, had created a 
 good deal of professional interest, but was then 
 languishing and not well attended. Subsequently 
 the society was reorganized and called the Vigo 
 County Medical Society. The society has never 
 excited among its members the interest it should, 
 and general^ has been in a sickly condition. 
 
 "In the year 1817, the next year after the set- 
 tlement of Terre Haute and fiye years before that 
 of Indianapolis, a medical society was formed at 
 Vincennes, embracing in territory this and the 
 county of Parke, north of us, or a distance north 
 of Vincennes of ninety miles. Its very first mem- 
 bers were men of distinguished character, and of 
 earnest professional zeal, as may be known from 
 extracts from their original proceedings, the pa- 
 
60 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 pers now on" my table and kindly furnished by 
 Mrs, Shuler^ the widow of one of its most dis- 
 tinguished members. 
 
 "Dr. John W. Davis, of Carlisle, Sullivan 
 county, afterward a member of Congress, speaker 
 of the House of Representatives, minister to 
 China, and governor of Oregon, was one of its 
 early members. But Dr. Lawrence S. Shuler, 
 twice elected president of the society, sent as del- 
 egate to the first state medical society, and a can- 
 didate for Congress when this congressional dis- 
 trict embraced a greater area of territory than 
 one-third of Indiana, deserves more than a pass- 
 ing notice, for his surgical skill has been trans- 
 mitted from sire to son to the present time. He 
 was a native of the State of New York, bom in 
 1790, and was a graduate of the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons, New York. One of his 
 tickets admitting him to lectures is before me, of 
 date 1815; also his diploma, placed at my dis- 
 posal by his excellent wife. The doctor was an 
 earnest, scientific and skillful surgeon. I enclose 
 his own notes of a false joint successfully treated. 
 He operated at one time upon a little girl, aged 
 11 years, for congenital blindness, with perfect 
 success. The child stayed at his house several 
 months, and when vision was restored, Mrs. 
 Shuler states, she was almost bewildered with 
 joy at the wonders before her. Colors were with 
 difficulty learned, and her friends only known, 
 for a long time by the sound of their voices. When 
 her father came for her he was a stranger to her 
 eyes but a father when he spoke. He also re- 
 moved a very large abdominal tumor from a lady 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 01 
 
 in the seventh month of gestation. She recov- 
 ered^ gave birth to a healthy child, and is still 
 living near Vincennes. 
 
 "I have repeatedly heard medical men, con- 
 temporaneous with the doctor, speak of this oper- 
 ation as meritorious and capital, but have not 
 heard its character described, except that it was 
 within the abdominal cavity and was considered 
 hazardous and difficult. For several years he 
 commanded the surgery of a very large scope of 
 the country, and I have no doubt was eminently 
 and justly entitled to it. He was father of the 
 warden of the State Penitentiary at JeSerson- 
 ville, and brother-in-law of our worthy citizen, 
 IST. F. Cunningham, former state treasurer. Dr. 
 Shuler practiced medicine in this city four or 
 five years prior to his death, which took place in 
 Vincennes in 1827 while on a visit there for a 
 change and health, aged 37 years. He contracted 
 a cold from exposure in visiting Indianapolis the 
 previous winter, which settled on his lungs and 
 terminated in consumption. Dr. Shuler trans- 
 ferred the Vincennes First District Society to 
 this place when he came here^ in 1822 or 1823, 
 and kept it in a flourishing condition during his 
 life. 
 
 "Dr. Charles B. Modesett was one of the earli- 
 est, if not the first, physician who settled on 
 Fort Harrison Prairie, the prairie on which 
 Terre Haute is located. At that early day the 
 Indians greatly exceeded the whites in numbers 
 and, for safety, most persons settled at or near 
 Fort Harrison, then a military post, three miles 
 north of Terre Haute, the Indians having re- 
 
62 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 cently been hostile and in the interest or service 
 of the British Government. Dr. Modesett was 
 born in Prince William county, Virginia, in the 
 year 1784, and graduated at Prince William Col- 
 lege in his twenty-fourth year, about the year 
 1808; moved to Ohio, near Cincinnati, in 1814, 
 and to Fort Harrison in 1816. He attended the 
 first sale of lots in Terre Haute in that year, and 
 shortly afterward built one of the first log houses 
 in the new town and commenced the practice of 
 medicine. He died in January, 1848, aged 64 
 years. Dr. Modesett was, in manners, a courtl}^, 
 dignified Virginia gentleman, and in all his 
 intercourse with the pioneer settlers never lost 
 sight of his self-respect and polite manners. He 
 was a diligent and faithful physician, enjoyed an 
 extensive practice, and deservedly ranked with 
 the most eminent of the profession in western 
 Indiana. 
 
 "Dr. William Clark, a military surgeon at Fort 
 Harrison, practiced medicine among the early 
 settlers for a few years, and moved somewhere 
 near Eugene, on the Wabash, about the year 
 1824. 
 
 "Dr. Aspinwall, from the State of Few York, 
 settled here in 1817 and died in 1824. 
 
 "Dr. Hotchkiss, from Connecticut, came here 
 in the j^ear 1822 and died in 1830; and Dr. 
 Turnce, from the same state, came in 1822 and 
 died in 1832. 
 
 "All of these physicians are highly spoken of 
 by the early settlers as skilled in the profession, 
 industrious and of good habits. Most of these 
 young men had been well educated in the eastern 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 03 
 
 states; were enterprising and hopeful, and came 
 to a new country to toil for a few years and die. 
 
 "All of the above-named physicians belonged 
 to the First District Medical Society at Vin- 
 cennes or Terre Haute. 
 
 "I have thus completed, as well as I could with 
 the material at my disposal, this imperfect sketch 
 of the pioneer physicians of this part of the Wa- 
 bash. It is the only attempt known to me of 
 preserving even their names as a class. 
 
 COPY FROM origi:n"al proceedings of the first 
 
 MEDICAL DISTRICT SOCIETY, INDIANA 
 
 "Vincennes, June 2, 1817. — In conformity to 
 an act of the Legislature, passed the 24th day 
 of December, 1816, entitled an "Act to Eegulate 
 the Practice of Physic and Surgery," the follow- 
 ing censors appointed by said act met at the 
 house of Peter Jones, in the town of Vincennes, 
 on the first Monday in June, 1817, viz. : Elias 
 McNamee, Jacob Key Kendall, David M. Hale 
 and Thomas Polke, secretary. Board adjourned 
 until 6 o'clock p. m. the same day. 
 
 "Board met pursuant to adjournment and 
 proceeded to an examination of Wm. C. Whit- 
 tlesey, Philip Barton, William Clark, Lawrence 
 S. Shuler and John L. McCullough for the prac- 
 tice of physic and surgery. Ordered that the 
 same be licensed. Board adjourned until June 
 3, at 3 o'clock p. m., at the house of C. Graeter, 
 Vincennes. 
 
 "At this meeting, June 3, 1817, on motion, it 
 was 
 
64 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ''Resolved, That the medical censors and li- 
 censed physicians of the First Medical District 
 proceed, according to law^, to organize the board 
 for said district. 
 
 "On balloting for officers for the board Elias 
 
 McNamee was duly elected president; L. S. 
 
 Shnler, secretary; David M. Hale, treasurer, and 
 
 , Key Kendall, Shuler, Barton, Polke and McCul- 
 
 lough, censors. 
 
 "At a meeting of this medical organization at 
 Vincennes, May, 1818, on motion, it was 
 
 ''Resolved, That discretionary power be given 
 to the president to appoint three persons on be- 
 half of this board, to meet delegates appointed 
 by the other district societies, at such time and 
 place as shall be agreed npon for the formation 
 of a State Medical Society. 
 
 "This is probably the first organization in the 
 State of Indiana for the purpose of forming a 
 state medical society. At this meeting 'a, letter 
 from Dr. Lyman Spalding, of New York, was 
 read and laid before the board.' At a subse- 
 quent meeting of the society in November, 1818, 
 Dr. Hale presented a letter from Dr. Lyman 
 Spaulding, of New York, together with a circu- 
 lar letter from the corresponding committee, of 
 New York, relative to a National Pharmacopeia, 
 which was, on. motion, approved. 
 
 "To beginnings like these we are indebted for 
 our present U. S. Dispensatory. We can scarcely 
 appreciate our obligations to these noble and 
 thoughtful pioneers of medicine, laboring among 
 poor backwoodsmen in a sparsely settled country 
 on the verge of civilization. 
 
MEDICAL HlHTOItY OF IXDIANA. Co 
 
 "The proceedings of the First District Medical 
 Society show an earnest and honest determina- 
 tion to protect the purity of the profession and 
 the lives of the community by rejecting candi- 
 dates unfitted or unprepared to practice medi- 
 cine, and by pursuing legal means to suppress 
 quackery. At the semi-annual meeting at Vin- 
 cennes. May, 1819, two candidates were presented 
 for examination and membership rejected. At 
 this meeting, on motion, it was 
 
 '"Resolved, That two delegates be chosen to 
 meet in convention with delegates from the other 
 district societies for the purpose of forming a 
 State Medical Society, and to hold such corre- 
 spondence with the members of the district board 
 as^ they may think proper in order to form the 
 said society. On counting the ballots it appeared 
 that L. S. Shuler and Philip Barton were elected 
 delegates. 
 
 "On motion, 
 
 ""Resolved, That Elias Mc^^amee, L. S. Shuler, 
 Hiram Decker, Philip Barton and William Whit- 
 tlesey be a committee to choose a delegate to 
 meet in convention for the purpose of forming 
 a District Pharmacopeia, and for a general cor"^ 
 responding committee. 
 
 "On motion, 
 
 ""Resolved, That the corresponding committee 
 be instructed to accept (if in their opinion it 
 should be expedient) the proposals of Dr. J. 
 Smith, United States agent for vaccination, for 
 establishing a National Vaccine Institution. 
 
 "On motion of Dr. Shuler, it was 
 
 '"Resolved, That the constitution be amended 
 by the addition of the following article, ']^o per- 
 son shall be admitted to an examination before 
 
G6 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 the medical censors without producing satisfac- 
 tory evidence of having studied physic and sur- 
 ger}^ for the full term of three years.' 
 
 '^Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the sec- 
 retary to pursue such measures as may be neces- 
 sary to carry into effect the law regulating the 
 practice of physic and present to the Grand Jury, 
 or to the prosecuting attorney of each county in 
 the district, all unlicensed practitioners of med- 
 icine. 
 
 "But few medical societies anywhere can show 
 a reference to so many important matters as were 
 acted upon at this meeting. This society was the 
 ^Mecca' at whose shrine, in spring-time and in 
 autumn, the professional pioneers of our state 
 came from the hamlet, from the prairie, and 
 from the shadowy and lonely forest, to offer their 
 devotions to medicine and kindred sciences. The 
 paths leading hither were untrodden. They were 
 long and weary, but at the end their noble pur- 
 poses were strengthened and their faith and 
 knoAvledge renewed. I personally knew Dr. Jo- 
 seph Hopkins, of Illinois, long an eminent and 
 useful practitioner of medicine in that state, who 
 was a member of this society and regularly at- 
 tended its meetings, although to do so he had to 
 ride 100 miles on horseback." 
 
 FALSE JOINT — BY DE. L. S. SHULER.* 
 
 "Jonathan Eathbone, aged 28 years, had his 
 humerus fractured, near the middle, in Febru- 
 ary, 1822. Nine months afterward no union had 
 
 * Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Society. 
 1874, p. 57. Besides the historical interest of this case, it 
 possesses a surgical significance of value. Dr. Read has 
 mentioned several other interesting surgical operations per- 
 formed by Dr. Shuler. — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXJJIAXA. 07 
 
 taken place. His surgeon advised sawing off the 
 ends of the fractured portions. I was called upon 
 to perform the operation. The fracture was 
 oblique, a sharp point of the lower portion pro- 
 jecting upward, near the biceps muscle, and ap- 
 parently in contact with the integuments. The 
 space between the broken ends was at least half 
 an inch, filled with a fleshy or elastic substance. 
 No exertions could extricate the oblique point 
 from its position in the muscles or bring the 
 bones in complete apposition. I advised the plan 
 of Dr. Physick, and while passing the seton 
 needle, to practice the suggestions of Charles 
 Bell, to cut and break the callus of the broken 
 bones. A strong needle, nine inches long, its 
 point for three inches shaped like a common lan- 
 cet but not sharp, with an eye sufficiently large 
 to admit a couple of skeins of silk (the space be- 
 tween the flattened part of the needle's eye was 
 round), was used to perform the operation. An 
 incision was made through the integuments with 
 a scalpel immediately over the projecting point 
 of bone; the needle was introduced, and was 
 freely and forcibly pushed in different directions 
 so as to completely disorganize the structure be- 
 tween and on the ends of the bones. The seton 
 shortly produced a very free discharge, but the 
 patient, receiving no benefit, withdrew it at the 
 end of five months. Both the patient and the at- 
 tending surgeon had reluctantly consented to the 
 operation, consequently but little attention was 
 paid to the arm. It had, during the larger part 
 of the time that the seton remained, been suf- 
 eredto swing, not being retained in its place as 
 in case of recent fracture. Two months after 
 removing the seton, the patient observed that the 
 motion at the false joint was not as free and ex- 
 
08 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 tensive as formerly, which induced him to retain 
 the arm in its natural position by splints and 
 bandages, and, in some seven or eight weeks 
 after, a complete union was formed. 
 
 "This case, while it proves the value of the 
 practice, which originated with our celebrated 
 countryman. Dr. Physick, likewise furnishes us 
 with reason to believe that the suggestions of Mr. 
 Bell, to cut and penetrate the ends of the bones, 
 may assist in performing a cure in cases where 
 the seton alone would fail, and that in all cases 
 it would hasten the process. Another fact of no 
 less importance is that the continuance of the 
 seton may succeed at a much greater length of 
 time than has been usually practiced." 
 
CHAPTEPt IX. 
 
 The Central Medical College. — Bobbs Free 
 Dispensary. — Indianapolis City Hos- 
 pital. — Medical Societies. 
 
 Dr. Thad M. Stevens, who was formerly sec- 
 retary of the State Board of Health, has contrib- 
 uted to the Transactions of the State Society, 
 1874, p. 17, historical matter of sufficient interest 
 to be used in this paper. He says : 
 
 "In the fall of 1849 Central Medical College, 
 located at Indianapolis, Ind., held its opening ex- 
 ercises. This school was a branch of the Asbury 
 University, of Greencastle, Ind., the trustees of 
 which acted in the same capacity to the college. 
 The professors who were elected to the various 
 chairs were : John S. Bobbs, Indianapolis, anat- 
 omy; Dr. Baker, Cincinnati, surgery; L. Dun- 
 lap, M.D., Indianapolis, theory and practice; 
 Charles G. Downey, Greencastle, chemistry; 
 James Harrison, Indianapolis, materia medica 
 and therapeutics. 
 
 "In the summer of 1850 the Medical School 
 of Laporte, Ind., having suspended, two who were 
 engaged in teaching there were elected to chairs 
 in the Indiana Central — Dr. Deming to the 
 newly-formed chair of institutes of medicine and 
 general pathology, and Dr. Meeker to fill the 
 chair of anatomy. Professor Baker having re- 
 signed the chair of surgery, and Professor Bobbs 
 having been elected thereto. 
 
70 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "The last sessions of this school were held in 
 1851-3, at which time, in the wisdom of the trus- 
 tees of the parent institution, an attempt was 
 made to reorganize according to some pet scheme, 
 but the school was exploded and went to pieces. 
 From that time until the fall of 1869 a hiatus 
 existed, wherein were no medical schools, or, in- 
 deed, any institutions, even in a remote degree, 
 connected with medicine. 
 
 "In the spring of 1869 the Academy of Med- 
 icine, through the influence and suggestions of 
 a few, took steps to organize an independent 
 medical school. A committee was appointed, who 
 formed chairs and selected members to fill the 
 same. The academy adopted the report of this 
 committee. 
 
 "The following were the gentlemen selected to 
 fill the various chairs : J. S. Bobbs, M.D., prin- 
 ciples of surgery; J. A. Comingor, M.D., ortho- 
 pedic surgery and surgical pathology; E. N". 
 Todd, practice of medicine; T. B. Harvey, M.D., 
 diseases of women and children ; W. B. Fletcher, 
 M.D., physiology; E. T. Brown, chemistry; 
 Dougan Clark, M.D., materia medica; G. W. 
 Mears, M.D., obstetrics; L. D. Waterman, M.D., 
 anatomy. 
 
 "During this term the college met with a great 
 loss in the death of Prof. J. S. Bobbs, M.D., who, 
 without disparagement of any of his associates, 
 it can be said, was the real originator and main- 
 tainer of the institution. 
 
 "The faculty was reorganized during the sum- 
 mer of 1870, J. A. Comingor taking the chair 
 of surger}^^ a consolidation of his former chair 
 
MEDICAL HJHTOliY OF IXDIAXA. 71 
 
 and that left vacant by the death of Dr. Bobbs, 
 while a new chair of medical jurisprudence, tox- 
 icology and analytic chemistry was formed, with 
 Thad. M. Stevens, M.D., as occupant. 
 
 *^In 1871, by mutual agreement, the school be- 
 came a branch of the State University, of Bloom- 
 ington, having, however, the control of its in- 
 ternal affairs vested in its own faculty. 
 
 BOBBS^ FREE DISPENSARY 
 
 "Up to 1870 there was nothing in the shape, 
 or having a purpose similar to, a medical dis- 
 pensary in Indianapolis, with exception of one 
 or two private establishments that took the name 
 for the purpose of deception, and thereby making 
 money, from the circulars of imposters, which 
 were issued lauding their nostrums. A gift to 
 the poor of the city, from Dr. J. S. Bobbs, who 
 died in the spring of 1870, was made the nucleus 
 for the establishment of Bobbs' Free Dispensary, 
 its board of directors to be the faculty of the 
 medical college, having a superintendent, resident 
 physician and druggist. 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS CITY HOSPITAL. 
 
 "As to hospitals, the city for a long time pos- 
 sessed nothing of the kind. Indeed, no attempts 
 were made to establish one until 1858. At this 
 time an attempt, successful in a small degree, 
 was made by the late L. Dunlap, M.D., then a 
 member of the City Council, to have the city 
 build a City Hospital. A beginning was made, 
 a small building finished, and then all dropped, 
 stillborn. The wind soon whistled through the 
 
72 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 broken panes of glass, and the frost and rain in 
 turn covered the floors. 'Ro sick ever knocked at 
 the weather-beaten door for admittance, and, 
 therefore, no provision was made for their recep- 
 tion. This continued until the war commenced. 
 New life surged into the old walks; energy ap- 
 peared where apathy reigned. The building was 
 enclosed, equipped and filled with sick and 
 wounded, and became one of the many hospital 
 centers of the city. After the war had ceased 
 and the military authorities were done with it, 
 decay and silence again claimed it as their own; 
 the roving swine and cattle passed to and fro 
 through is dismantled gates, and it became an 
 eyesore to the city. It was not until the demand 
 of the physicians of the city arose to a clamor 
 that the City Council promised to aid in furnish- 
 ing and equipping it in the interest of the city's 
 poor. This step was finally taken by them in 
 1867, since which time its wards have been filled 
 by those deserving such attention. 
 
 "Bobbs' Medical Library was the result of a 
 gift of $5,000, bequeathed by the late Prof. J. S. 
 Bobbs, M.D., to the Indiana Medical College, 
 whose trustees relinguished their right to the 
 same, and by mutual agreement with Mrs. J. S. 
 Bobbs, the executrix of the doctor's estate, it was 
 given to a board of directors who were to estab- 
 lish a library bearing the above title. Said board 
 was composed as follows: G. W. Mears, M.D., 
 T. B. Harvey, M.D., J. A. Comingor, M.D., 
 Wm. B. Fletcher, M.D., Thad. M. Stevens, M.D., 
 R. N". Todd, M.D., Simon Yandes, Esq. 
 
MEDICAL EIHTORY OF INDIANA. 73 
 
 "This board held its first meeting for the pur- 
 pose of organization March, 1873, when the fol- 
 lowing officers were elected : G. W. Mears, M.D., 
 president; T. B. Harvey, M.D., vice-president; 
 J. A. Comingor, secretary; Thad. M. Stevens, 
 M.D. librarian and treasurer. 
 
 MEDICAL SOCIETIES. 
 
 "In 1845 or 1846 the physicians of Indianap- 
 olis organized what was called the Marion Coun- 
 ty Medical Society, the first local medical or- 
 ganization had in this city. We do not know 
 all the membership. Drs. Sanders, Mears, Bobbs, 
 Jameson, Dunlap, Gall, Bullard, Parry, Gaston 
 and Andrew Hunt were among the first; after- 
 ward Woodbum, Thompson, Funkhouser and 
 others were added. Various physicians through- 
 out the county of Marion also belonged. This 
 society had for its officers Dr. Sanders, presi- 
 dent; Dr. Bobbs and Dr. Hunt, secretary and 
 assistant, Dr. Mears was the second president."* 
 
 * Dr. Stevens commits several errors in the above para- 
 graph. The Society was not organized "in 1845 of 1846," 
 but in 1848. It was not called the "Marion County Medical 
 Society," but was named "The Indianapolis Medical 
 Society." Since the above appeared in the Journal, my 
 friend. Dr. Allen Pierson, of Spencer, has sent me a copy 
 of the By-laws and Constitution of the Society. The title 
 page reads as follows : "Constitution and By-laws of the 
 Indianapolis Medical Society, adopted Feb. 26, 1848." The 
 officers for that year were : President, John H. Sanders ; 
 Vice-Pres., Livingston Dunlap ; Sec'y., John S. Bobbs ; Cor. 
 Sec'y., Talbott Bullard ; Treas., John L. Mothershead ; 
 Censors, George W. Mears. Charles Parry and Livingston 
 Dunlap. Members : David Funkhouser, John Nutt, H. V. V. 
 Johnson, John Pleasants, James S. Harrison, John Evans, 
 A. D. Gall, William R. Smith, R. G. Graydon, John M. 
 Gaston, A. G. Ruddell, Isaac Meranda and William Clinton 
 Thompson. This is the society that issued the call for a 
 State Medical Convention in 1849. — G. W. H. K. 
 
74 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Note. — In the Transactions for 1874, Dr. Alfred Patton. 
 of Vincennes, states that the first medical society organized 
 In Vincennes was under a charter granted by the State 
 Legislature in the year 183.5, page 10. Dr. Ezra Read, of 
 Terre Haute, says this society was organized in 1817, page 
 5fi. Dr. Patton later acknowledged that he was mistaken 
 and admitted that Dr. Read was correct. See Transactions 
 for 1875, page 82.— G. W. IT. K. 
 
CHAPTEPt X. 
 
 Early Medical History of Push County. — 
 
 Dr. H. G. Sextox. — Dr. J. M. Howland. 
 
 Dr. William B. Frame. — Fifth 
 
 Medical District Society. — 
 
 Dr. W. H. Martin. 
 
 In the Transactions for 1874, beginning at 
 page 63, Drs. W. A. Pugh, Marshall Sexton and 
 John Moffett have furnished biographies of sev- 
 eral of the early physicians of Rush County and 
 adjoining localities. They are of sufficient his- 
 torical interest for a reproduction at this place. 
 Dr. Pugh writes : 
 
 "The first pioneer physician in southeastern 
 Indiana of whom we have any direct knowledge 
 is Dr. Wm. B. Laughlin, who was born in Wash- 
 ington County, Pennsylvania. He finished his 
 classical education and graduated at Jefferson 
 College, Canonsburg, Pa., after his third son was 
 large enough to accompany him to the college on 
 horseback. After his collegiate course he en- 
 tered upon the study of medicine, on completion 
 of which he removed to Kentucky and entered 
 the active duties of his profession. In 1815, 
 three years after his location in Kentucky, he 
 again emigrated to the Northwest Territory, 
 settling in Brookville, Franklin County, Indi- 
 ana. During his sojourn at this place, besides 
 attending to the medical wants of the then 
 sparsely settled wilderness, he entered the em- 
 
76 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ploy of the government as s"urve5^or for four or 
 five 3^ears. He assisted in the survey of nine 
 congressional townships around Indianapolis, 
 eight around Noblesville, eight around Muncie, 
 and eight around Anderson. While a citizen of 
 Brookville he was elected circwt judge, and 
 served in that capacity for a number of years. 
 After the formation of Franklin County, he was 
 elected to the state legislature and was on the 
 committee which laid off the counties of the 
 'new purchase,' the body at that time holding 
 its sessions in Cor3^don, Ind. He started the 
 first classical school in eastern Indiana, at Brook- 
 ville, on his own responsibility, and had the 
 honor of turning out of its walls three governors 
 of the state, viz. : Noble, Wallace, and Eay. Many 
 of the prominent lawyers of that day also were 
 his pupils — 0. H. Smith, James Eariden, etc. 
 In the year 1820 he came into Eush County and 
 laid off and located the town of Eushville, nam- 
 ing the county and town after old Dr. Eush, of 
 Philadelphia, with whom he was on intimate 
 terms of friendship. He and Dr. Sexton formed 
 a partnership in medicine about the year 1822 
 for a term of years. I think he was without 
 doubt the first physician worthy of the name 
 who pitched his tent in this part of Indiana. 
 He erected at his own expense a seminary in the 
 young town and taught in it a select school, giv- 
 ing instruction in the ancient languages and 
 higher mathematics. 
 
 "Dr. Laughlin was a man of versatile talent, 
 and was endowed by Nature with indomitable 
 energy and perseverance. He was a man of true 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY Ob' INDIANA. 77 
 
 metal. In addition to his scholastic attainments, 
 lie was faithful to obey the injunction, *Be ye 
 fruitful, multiply and replenish the earth.' He 
 was the honored father of eighteen children by 
 one wife. He was a man of piety, and was one 
 of six to establish the Presbyterian Church at 
 Rushville, Ind., in 1825. It may be said of Dr. 
 Laughlin that it was to his standing and infla- 
 ence that the science of medicine was put upon 
 a broad and a high basis in the new state in 
 which he settled and with whose early history 
 he was so closely identified. Died in 1836, aged 
 66 years." 
 
 H. G. SEXTOX. 
 
 "Prominent among the physicians of that early 
 day was my old friend and preceptor. Dr. H. G. 
 Sexton. He was present at the birth of the wri- 
 ter of these sketches, and through childhood, 
 youth and manhood was his adviser and instruc- 
 tor; for many years a member of his Sunday 
 school class; afterward a correspondent through 
 college life and an instructor in my profession, 
 it was my privilege, as it was my pleasure, to 
 know much of his character. 
 
 "Dr. Sexton was the pupil of the late Dr. 
 Cruikshank, of Harrison, Ohio ; was a New Eng- 
 lander by birth, and came west when he was 
 quite a young man, in the capacity of a teacher, 
 to hew out his own fortunes. About the year 
 1820 he went to the little village of Springboro, 
 in Warren County, Ohio, to commence the prac- 
 tice of medicine, his stock in trade being an old 
 and sparsely filled pair of pill bags, an Indian 
 
78 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 pony, and 50 cents in money. On arriving at 
 the place, he put np at an inn kept by Job Pugh. 
 He honestly told the landlord who he was, what 
 was his business, and the financial situation; he 
 had to eat and he had to sleep, and if he could 
 stay with him on these statements he would like 
 to do so. The old Quaker, with his kindly wife, 
 Sarah, admitted him to their household. That 
 same old Quaker had a comely and benign-look- 
 ing sister, Hannah, and it was not long before 
 she had won the heart and affections of the 
 young doctor, and not many months before they 
 were united in wedlock. This was the most im- 
 portant, as it was the happiest, event in his life, 
 for in her he secured one of the most amiable, 
 even-tempered and lovable women that ever a 
 man led to Hymen's altar, and much of the 
 Doctor's success, in after life, must be attributed 
 to the self-sacrificing, self-denying and patient 
 qualities of his wife. 
 
 "About the year 1822 Dr. Sexton, with two 
 of the brothers Pugh and their families, re- 
 moved to Eushville, Ind. The town was just 
 laid out. The county was one vast slush of 
 mud and swamps. The land was densely covered 
 with heavy timber, with an undergrowth of 
 spice-wood, hickory and hazel bushes. There 
 were no roads but those which had been rudely 
 cut out of the underbrush, and no guide-boards 
 but 1 he blazes upon the trees. Here he pitched 
 his lent, and there he labored and worked until 
 the day of his death, in June, 1865. ¥o man 
 was more devoted to his profession, in all its 
 interests, than Dr. Sexton; to it all other things 
 
MEDICAL HLrWh'Y OF INDIANA. 79 
 
 rnust bend and all other circumstances must 
 yield. He was possessed of a vast fund of ex- 
 perience^ having been in active practice for more 
 than forty years, and it being his delight to talk 
 about his professional experience, made him one 
 of the most companionable of men to his pro- 
 fessional confreres. In the department of ob- 
 stetrics he was particularly rich in experience of 
 facts and practical results. It was his fortune 
 to enjoy a larger experience in this field of his 
 profession than any man of his day in southeast- 
 ern Indiana, and as a consequence he excelled in 
 the midwifiery art. 
 
 "During the early years of his life his prac- 
 tice extended out from his home in a radius of 
 twenty miles, which, of course, made his busi- 
 ness laborious, requiring great industr}-, endur- 
 ance and perseverance to undergo the work. 
 These industrious habits formed in his youth 
 followed him through life. Unlike many pro- 
 fessional men who have gained reputation and 
 wealth, he grew more studious and up to within 
 a few weeks of his death he might have been 
 seen busily employed at his professional duties. 
 His age did not in the least lessen his industry. 
 I have often heard him say, ^I can not live and 
 do nothing.' No man had more professional 
 friends than he, and no man was more jealous 
 of his professional honor. He had no patience 
 with any other than a manly, dignified and 
 straight-forward course in professional life. He 
 was possessed of a vast fund of anecdotes, inci- 
 dents and amusing circumstances, v/hich had 
 transpired all along the pathway of his profes- 
 
80 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 sional career, and upon proper occasions would 
 relate them with much gleesome humor. Seem- 
 ingly cool and free from impulse or sentiment, 
 he was a man of deep feeling and tender affec- 
 tions; benevolent in a quiet way, which was 
 largely expended in his attention upon the poor 
 whom he considered worthy of help. For a 
 period of 45 years he was an integral part of the 
 community in which he lived. As a citizen, he 
 was on the side of progress. All public enter- 
 prises had his sanction, support and influence. 
 He joined the Presbyterian Church at Eushville, 
 Ind., the next day after it was organized, in 
 1825, and was, throughout his life, one of its 
 mainstays and supports; was a devoted and 
 faithful Sunday school teacher, rarely absent 
 from his post during a period of 30 years. In 
 June, 1865, he was gathered home as a shock of 
 corn fully ripe. He left the record of a well- 
 spent life; an example of industry and devotion 
 to the place he chose to fill in his worldly pil- 
 grimage." 
 
 J. M. HOWLAND. 
 
 (By M. Sexton, M.D., Rushville, Ind.) 
 
 "Dr. Howland was a native of Baltimore, Md. 
 Born Dec. 22, 1792, and died in Brookville, 
 Ind., Jan. 11, 1858. He received his degree of 
 Doctor of Medicine from the University of 
 Maryland in 1819, and practiced "his profession 
 for two years in the Shenandoah Valley, Vir- 
 ginia, when ample opportunities were afforded 
 for the study of the various forms of malarial 
 disease. From this time until his removal to 
 Indiana in 1833, he was engaged in the active 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IX DIANA. 81 
 
 pursuit of his profession in the city of Balti- 
 more. During this period the cholera made its 
 first visit to that city. In this epidemic, Dr. 
 Rowland acquired quite a reputation for its suc- 
 cessful treatment in private practice, and also 
 as physician in charge of a cholera hospital im- 
 provised for the occasion. 
 
 "Dr. Howland was a gentleman of culture, 
 and in his native city acquired distinction as a 
 writer as well as physician. He w^as a frequent 
 contributor to the religious publications of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, as well as an able 
 advocate with his tongue and pen of every great 
 moral enterprise. He became somewhat noted 
 for his advocacy, also, of various public im- 
 provements, and after his removal west made a 
 f^trong impression, wherever he was heard, by his 
 accurate knowledge and earnestness on the sub- 
 ject of railroads. During the years 1834 and 
 1835 he sustained himself nobly in favor of rail- 
 roads against canals. 
 
 "Dr. Howland was for many years in the habit 
 of occasional preaching. As a public orator he 
 was remarkable for his logical force, and the S3'-s- 
 tematic presentation of facts, relying but little 
 upon the imagination with which to take the 
 fancy of his hearing ^prisoners.' 
 
 "From the midst of a host of professional 
 friends, and while occupying an enviable posi- 
 tion as a leading physician in a great maritime 
 city, a leader in its polemics and a molder of its 
 morals, he looked eagerly to the west for a field 
 in which to attain greater usefulness and, of 
 course, distinction. 
 
82 MEDICAL HI8T0EY OF lyDIANA. 
 
 "Eemoving west in 1833, he first took ^regular 
 work' as a minister of the gospel. It was in the 
 capacity of a physician that we first knew him. 
 He brought to bear in the practice of medicine 
 the same qualities of mind which distinguished 
 him as a writer and speaker. Quick powers of 
 observation, a thorough analysis of his cases, 
 with a careful interpretation of their symptoms, 
 made him precise and thorough as a diagnosti- 
 cian. He never guessed. He reached conclu- 
 sions in medicine by as thorough a process of 
 reasoning as could be brought to bear in deter- 
 mining a proposition in mathematics; hence he 
 seldom made mistakes. His very precision and 
 studied, careful manner, with the full, dignified 
 bearing, which conscious ability inspires, did 
 not serve to make him popular with the people. 
 He was an earnest advocate of the highest code 
 of medical morals, and scorned to resort to tricks 
 by which less able men attained popularity and 
 wealth. "Wrhile the qualities of his mind and 
 manners, as we have stated, did not make him 
 popular, they were the very qualities which made 
 him 'eminent among his fellowo. His counsel 
 was sought for, and his advice followed by the 
 younger members of his profession, as that of an 
 oracle. He died greatly beloved and respected 
 by those who appreciated him, leaving behind 
 him descendants eminent in the field of letters 
 and law." 
 
 WM. B. FRAME. 
 
 "Among the early medical men of eastern In- 
 diana, Dr. Frame stood deservedly high. En- 
 dowed with great natural ability, he had the ad- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF JXIJ/AXA. H3 
 
 vantage of many of his confreres in a thorough 
 classical education. A native of Xorfolk, Va., 
 he removed in his youth to Lexington, Ky. ; 
 studied his profession with Dr. Toliver, of Paris, 
 Ky., afterward of Cincinnati; attended lectures 
 and took his medical degree at Transylvania 
 University, Lexington^ Ky. Dr. Frame, in 1827, 
 selected Eushville, Ind., as his future home, 
 finding in our large Kentucky population con- 
 genial associations, which lasted through life. 
 He immediately entered upon a lucrative prac- 
 tice. To his native talents and finished educa- 
 tion he also added great energy. With such ele- 
 ments, success was assured from the first. He 
 married in 1832, thus adding another tie to the 
 bonds which held him to the people of the county. 
 Dr. Frame, unfortunately, was not endowed with 
 a physical constitution proportionate to his men- 
 tal ability. The rigors of the climate often over- 
 powered him and he would be prostrated with 
 diseases, the unavoidable result of exposure in 
 his practice. 
 
 "By reason of the early advantages possessed 
 by Dr. Frame, as was stated, his success was as- 
 sured from the beginning, and he at once as- 
 sumed a high position as a medical man, which 
 he maintained until his death, in 1849. As he 
 was Virginian born and Kentucky bred, he had 
 a full share of that pride of character which ac- 
 companies good blood and good breeding. He 
 was, as might be expected, a strict, conscientious 
 man in professional morals, living himself up to 
 the highest letter of the code. He demanded and 
 commanded that respect from others which he 
 
84 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 generously extended to all honorable men in the 
 same profession. Though dead now many years, 
 his name is fresh in the memories of his asso- 
 ciates and a large circle of patrons and friends." 
 
 FIFTH MEDICAL DISTRICT SOCIETY. 
 
 "The first medical society in the eastern part 
 of Indiana was known as the Fifth Medical 
 district Society. This was organized under 
 the law of the state, we believe, which pro- 
 vided for societies throughout the state, in num- 
 bers equal to the congressional districts, perhaps, 
 and with the same territory. To these societies 
 was granted the privileges of issuing licenses, 
 etc., though no law gave their membership any 
 exclusive right to practice medicine. No record 
 of the Fifth Medical District Society is known 
 to be in existence, and but few of the original 
 members survive. In the list of this membership 
 we recollect as familiar names Drs. Moffatt and 
 Brown of Connersville, Dr. Everett of Union 
 County, Dr. Hamon of Burkville, Dr. Helm of 
 Eush County, Drs. William B. Laughlin, H. G. 
 Sexton and Wm. B. Frame of Eushville. These 
 are but a few of the early pioneer physicians. 
 
 "This society lived for several years, holding 
 semi-annual sessions of two days each, exerting 
 a vast deal of good influence in the enlighten- 
 ment of its members, and wielding a great power 
 in the community for the prevention of irregular 
 medicine. We do not hesitate to attribute to the 
 early teaching and example of these pioneer 
 physicians much of the respect and confidence 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 85 
 
 with which the profession in this part of Indiana 
 meets at the present day. Eegular medicine had 
 then to compete with the Thompsonian system, 
 and, under the fostering care of the men named, 
 grew steadily in the esteem of the people, while 
 the high-pressure doctors were compelled to seek 
 unoccupied fields farther west. As might be ex- 
 pected, forty years ago the profession was not 
 tilled with learned men, i. e., men familiar with 
 all the teachings of the schools, but earnest, ob- 
 servant men, fruitful in expedient, and, from 
 necessity in many cases, self-restraint, they 
 founded a corps of practitioners entitled, for their 
 wonderful success under adverse circumstances, 
 to our profound respect. This society grew so 
 strong with the people that a connection with it 
 was necessary to the success of a stranger who 
 came asking support as a physician, and to this 
 day it is expected by this community that their 
 physicians shall be members of a ^healthy medi- 
 cal organization.' As before said, we attribute 
 this healthy public opinion to the impressions 
 made by our pioneer society and pioneer physi- 
 cians of 40 and 50 years ago. We regret that 
 we have no fuller data from which to speak of 
 this association and its membership. It ceased 
 to exist, from causes not now known, about 1838. 
 "The second medical society in which we feel 
 any immediate interest was instituted in Rush- 
 ville, Ind., as a county society in 1847 or '48. 
 It included in its organization Drs. Frame, Mar- 
 tin, H. G. Sexton, M. Sexton, Jeff. Helm, J. M. 
 Ilowland, Wm. Braden, Clifford, E. T. EusselJ, 
 
86 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Tompkins, and others not now remembered. It 
 adopted as its code of medical morals the Code 
 of Ethics just published by the National Medi- 
 cal Association, and elected for its first president 
 Dr. How] and. This society, we regret to say, 
 was short lived. It attempted to do too much. 
 It wished to make (under the advice of some 
 members who had no axes to grind) physicians 
 and members out of all who practiced, or wished 
 to practice, and who could only do so with the 
 endorsement which such a society could give. 
 Under this arrangement, almost every one was 
 admitted to membership, and a kind of license 
 to practice was given to all who asked. Of 
 course, a society thus organized, having within 
 itself the elements of its own destruction, could 
 not live long. Those really interested in the 
 progress of medicine did not feel honored by the 
 indiscriminate manner of admitting members, 
 and when they withheld their support the society 
 died of its own weight. 
 
 "Of our last society — ^Eush Medical Society' 
 — organized June, 1856, and running a success- 
 ful career until 1862, when its records were de- 
 stroyed by fire, and reorganized the same year 
 with a more select membership, it does not be- 
 come us to speak. It is proper to say, however, 
 that it is clean in its membership, scrupulously 
 adherent to the Principles of Ethics, and, in its 
 modest way, doing what it can for the advance- 
 ment of its members in knowledge of practical 
 medicine." 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF JX/JfA.XA. 87 
 
 WM. H. MARTIX. 
 (By John MofPett, M.D., Rushville, Ind.; 
 
 "Dr. Wm. H. Martin was a native of Phila- 
 delphia, Pa. When quite young his father came 
 west and found a resting place in Cincinnati, 
 Ohio, where he pursued his original avocation, 
 that of a wholesale merchant. Therefore, young 
 Martin's first impressions as to business pursuits 
 were those of a mercantile character, furnishing 
 to his cast of mind but little attraction. As if 
 still further to estrange him from the objects of 
 his father's chief delight, at the period when it 
 became necessary for the determination of the 
 choice of an occupation, his father died, leaving 
 the son nothing to rely on but his native powers. 
 After an ineffectual essay in business, he was led 
 to adopt the profession of medicine as the call- 
 ing best suited to his tastes and aptitudes. Hav- 
 ing enjoyed the advantages of a fair literary 
 preparation, he placed himself under the direc- 
 tion of Dr. John L. Vattier, of Cincinnati, as 
 his preceptor. For nearly two years he pursued 
 his studies with a zeal and assiduity equaled only 
 to his pressing necessities. Late in the year 
 1833 he made a visit to Eushville, Ind., where 
 an aunt was residing. He was induced through 
 her encouragement to make an effort to estab- 
 lish himself in the place in the practice of medi- 
 cine. Through, the personal influence of his 
 aunt and her husband. Dr. H. G. Sexton gave 
 him the rare advantage of forming a partner- 
 ship, which soon gave him ample opportunity 
 for a very general acquaintance with the people 
 of the county, besides the ripened experience of 
 
88 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 an association of an extensive practice. In a 
 professional point of view, this proved to be a 
 lifelong advantage. At the close of the second 
 year of this association in business a mutual 
 separation was concluded. Now he opened an 
 office and began the successful prosecution of 
 his profession, which he continued with the usual 
 difficulties, reverses and successes until the year 
 1855, when, in the spring of that year, he re- 
 moved to Jasper County, Indiana, near the 
 county seat. Having located on a farm, enjoy- 
 ing the delights of agriculture and quietude, he 
 spent the remaining number of his days, which 
 were ended June 15, 1871. 
 
 "So ended a life filled with hopes and fears, 
 joys and sorrows, that it might be truthfully 
 said the cup of bitter and sweet equiposed each 
 other. As a man he was eminently social, 
 fluent and entertaining in conversation, truly 
 polite, accommodating and obliging as a neigh- 
 bor and friend, indulgent to his children, ever 
 watching for the welfare of his family. He as- 
 pired to distinction as a citizen, and served in 
 the lower house of the legislature as clerk dur- 
 ing the session of 1838. He held places of honor 
 and responsibility in the Fifth Medical District 
 Society, such as president and censor, and, in 
 brief, maintained a respectable standing in the 
 profession by his attainments and uniform cour- 
 tesy of conduct in his intercourse with his medi- 
 cal brethren." 
 
CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Early Medical History of Delaware 
 
 County. — Reminiscences of Hancock 
 
 County. — Early Medical History 
 
 OF Noble County^. 
 
 (By G. W. H. Kemper, M.D.) 
 
 Dr. Dickinson Burt was the first physician to 
 locate in Delaware County after its organization 
 in 1827.* The exact date of his location in 
 Muncietown is not known — it was prior to 1829, 
 for the official records show that, in addition to 
 his medical duties, he was our second postmaster 
 — his commission bearing date Aug. 29, 1829. 
 The postoffice was at his home on the west side 
 of Mulberry Street, near Gilbert Street. 
 
 The number of physicians multiplied as the 
 population increased, so that the medical and 
 surgical wants of the early pioneers were not 
 neglected. These men were subjected to numer- 
 ous hardships — riding on horseback, over mud 
 roads, or along by-paths long distances by day 
 and by night. These rides were made in all 
 kinds of weather — beneath the piercing rays of 
 a summer sun, in zero weather, or through 
 drenching rains. 
 
 * Four hundred and thirty-six physicians have located 
 in Delaware County during the first eighty years of its 
 existence. 
 
90 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "This undecorated soldier, of a hard, unequal strife. 
 Fought in many stubborn battles with the foes that 
 
 sought his life. 
 In the night-time or the day-time, he would rally brave 
 
 and well. 
 Though the summer lark was fifing, or the frozen 
 
 lances fell; 
 Knowing if he won the battle they would praise their 
 
 Maker's name, 
 Knowing if he lost the battle then the doctor was to 
 
 blame. 
 'Twas the brave old virtuous doctor, 
 'Twas the good old faulty doctor, 
 
 'Twas the faithful country doctor — fighting stoutly all 
 the same." — Carleton. 
 
 The author of this paper located in Muneie 
 Aug. 18, 1865, and I esteem it an honor to have 
 known personally a large number of the physi- 
 cians of this county. The physicians whom I 
 met at the time above indicated were men of 
 good attainments and ripe experience — a major- 
 ity of them were elderly men, not only those lo- 
 cated in Muneie, but those residing at other 
 points in the county. 
 
 All physicians at that time were making coun- 
 try calls on horseback — a few only were using 
 buggies or carts in the summer season while the 
 roads were in better condition. I made my 
 country calls invariably on horseback during the 
 first three years of my practice, and also a part 
 of the time for several years later. As the roads 
 were improved, vehicles became more common, 
 until gradually the doctor with saddle-bags 
 merged into the physician riding in a phaeton, 
 and still later, as at the present day, in an auto- 
 mobile — a veritable evolution as I have witnessed 
 from equestrianism to electricity and gasoline ! 
 
MEDICAL IILSTOJn' OF T\ DIANA. 01 
 
 The physicians who practice in Delaware 
 County to-day and ride along its roads and 
 streets in buggies can little appreciate the hard- 
 ships that these early practitioners endured be- 
 fore our gravel roads were made. Visits made 
 on errands of mercy were often accompanied with 
 peril, as it was no uncommon thing for the horse 
 to mire in creeks and swamps. A thrilling ex- 
 perience in this line lingers in the memory of the 
 writer. The hardships these men endured told 
 upon their physical strength. 
 
 The various preparations of medicines have 
 markedly improved during the past half-century, 
 or even a quarter of a century. Concentrated 
 medicines as fluid extracts, specific tinctures, 
 tablets, etc., enable us to carry a large list of 
 remedies in a small space, which is a great im- 
 provement over the cumbersome saddle-bags re- 
 quired in former days to carry roots and leaves 
 for the preparation of infusions and decoctions. 
 
 Many of our valuable instruments in common 
 use at the present day were but little known or 
 unused fifty years ago. About the 3'ear 1866 1 
 bought a hypodermic syringe, which I believe 
 was the first one to be used in Delaware County. 
 I think Dr. Eobert Winton owned the first fever 
 thermometer in this county. Two were then 
 thought to be necessary — one for the mouth and 
 a curved one for the axilla. JSTeither of these 
 were self-registering, and it was necessary to 
 read them while in situ. These useful but crude 
 instruments soon gave way to the neater ther- 
 mometer, so accurate and essential at the present 
 dav. 
 
92 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 The first practical steps toward organizing a 
 medical society in Delaware County were taken 
 on April 18, 1865, when some of the physicians 
 of the county met in Walling's Hall (west side 
 of public square), in the city of Muncie, to take 
 preliminary steps for the formation of a perma- 
 nent society. At that meeting Dr. S. V. Jump 
 occupied the chair, and Dr. N. W. Black was 
 chosen secretary. A committee was then ap- 
 pointed, composed of Drs. Morgan, Winton and 
 Craig, on permanent organization. The adjourn- 
 ment was until Monday, the first day of May, 
 following, when the meeting convened in Dr. 
 AVinton's office, 112 West Adams Street. The 
 physicians present were Drs. Armitage, Black, 
 Craig, Hoover, Lewellen, Morgan, Skiff, 
 Wheeler, Willard, Winton, W. H. Williams, and 
 J. A. Williams. At this meeting the committee 
 on permanent organization made a report and 
 the plan of organization was read by sections, 
 discussed, and adopted. The committee was con- 
 tinued, and empowered to revise the constitution 
 and by-laws, and have the same published. Un- 
 der this organization the following-named officers 
 Avere chosen: President, Dr. S. V. Jump; vice- 
 president. Dr. W. J. Morgan; secretary. Dr. N. 
 W. Black; treasurer, Dr. William Craig; cen- 
 sors, Drs. Eobert Winton, W. C. Willard and J. 
 H. Powers. 
 
 At a meeting held June 5, 1865, Drs. L. J. 
 Bonnels, J. C. Helm, S. E. Mitchell and H. C. 
 Winans were admitted to membership. At a 
 meeting held July 3, 1865, Dr. Henry Kirby 
 
MEDICAL HIHTOJtY OF IXDIAXA. 'Xi 
 
 was admitted, and at a meeting held in Septem- 
 ber, 1865, Drs. W. J. Andrews and G. W. H. 
 Kemper were admitted to membership. 
 
 The Delaware County Medical Society has 
 be"en reorganized several times since its first or- 
 ganization, in order to conform to the require- 
 ments of the State Medical Association, but the 
 society has never failed to exist, and the present 
 one is virtually a continuation of the original 
 society. So far as the author can ascertain, Dr. 
 W. J. Andrews, of Newark, K. J., and Dr. G. W. 
 H. Kemper, of Muncie, are the only persons liv- 
 ing who became members in I860. 
 
 The record of the physicians of Delaware 
 County has been a creditable one; few moral 
 delinquencies have existed. They have been in- 
 dustrious, as shown by the numerous contribu- 
 tions to medical literature contributed by our 
 citizen physicians. Our death rate has not been 
 excessive; our health officers have been compe- 
 tent, and our surgeons have successfully per- 
 formed, nearly all the operations known to sur- 
 gery. 
 
 Dr. Dickinson Burt (1829) was the first phy- 
 sician to locate in Muncietown or Delaware 
 County. I have no information concerning his 
 individual history or the exact date of location. 
 Dr. Burt was the second postmaster at Muncie- 
 town and filled that office from Aug. 29, 1829, 
 to May 6, 1835. It is supposed that he left soon 
 after the expiration of the term of his office. 
 N'othing further is known of his history. 
 
 Dr. Levi Minshall (1829) was the second phy- 
 sician to locate in Muncietown. He was born in 
 
94 MEDICAL HItiTORY OF IX DIANA. 
 
 Virginia, March 4, 1804. He was licensed to 
 practice at Daj'ton, Ohio, in 1829, and came to 
 Mnncietown in the same j^ear and at once began 
 the practice of medicine. An old citizen who re- 
 members Dr. MinshalPs first appearance in Mun- 
 cietown says that he came here from Dayton, 
 Ohio, riding a very large iron-gray horse, and 
 wore a suit of broadcloth, a circumstance that 
 created almost a sensation among the primitive 
 people living here at that time, as homespun 
 jeans was the regulation apparel and broadcloth 
 was reserved for the rich and nobility. He was 
 a man of scholarly attainments and soon gained 
 a prominent place in the community as a physi- 
 cian .and a citizen. One of the interesting inci- 
 dents of his early practice in the country when 
 visiting the sick was that he would ride up and 
 down T\Tiite Eiver in the water to avoid bears 
 and wolves that roamed about in their native 
 freedom in the woods in the territory which now 
 comprises Delaware County. He died at Mun- 
 cietowTi March 6, 1836, aged 32 years. His re- 
 mains repose in Beech Grove Cemetery. 
 
 If the physicians whom I met in Delaware 
 County forty-two years ago were to rise from the 
 dead and appear in our midst to-day, they would 
 be startled at our speeding automobiles, but no 
 less surprised at our new advances in medicine 
 and surgery, as well as our strange medical 
 terms, for, if they were to hear medical men 
 conversing about antiseptics, Listerism, anti- 
 toxins, serums and germs, they would not com- 
 prehend their meaning. Should they attempt a 
 
MEDICAL HIHTOKY OF IXDIAyA. 95 
 
 surgical operation according to the rules of their 
 da}^, they would be liable to answer to the charge 
 of malpractice. 
 
 Eeminiscences op Western Hancock 
 County. 
 
 Eeminiscences of western Hancock County 
 (Transactions, 1874, p. 74) by Dr. J. W. Her- 
 vey, of Indianapolis, is worth reprinting because 
 of its historical value. 
 
 "In 1846 the congestive fever, as then called, 
 made its appearance. Many died; in fact, all 
 the patients of some physicians. Dr. Moore, of 
 Cumberland, contended that bleeding was the 
 only remedy; after that, calomel to ptyalism. He 
 lost nearly every case. A consultation was called 
 at Cumberland, to which all physicians con- 
 nected with that investigation were invited, and 
 a treatment was agreed upon, embracing the 
 tonic feature, but not sufficiently heroic; but 
 each member grew into the habit of saving his 
 patients by full and frecjuent doses of quinin. 
 The great hindrance to the use of quinin was 
 its cost and the scarcity of money. Quinin cost 
 $6.00 (I think at one time $8.00) an ounce, and 
 scarce at that. Dr. Hervey bought up a number 
 of fat cattle, drove them to Indianapolis, sold 
 them for $7.50 a head, and bought quinin 
 with it. 
 
 "In 1847 a singular epidemic of the smallpox 
 appeared in this locality. Erysipelas had been 
 prevailing, and what was called black tongue. A 
 healthy man by the name of Snyder took the 
 confluent variola. The whole surface swelled en« 
 
1)6 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ormoush^ Dr. William E. Smith had come to 
 Cumberland some time before that, and Dr. 
 Bobbs, who came to the same place about the 
 same time, were called to see him, but failed to 
 diagnose the case. The next day Dr. Hervey 
 was called in consultation and pronounced it 
 smallpox modified by erysipelas. Failing to 
 agree with the other doctors, he left. They bled 
 the man profusely and he died in twenty-four 
 hours after. The people flocked from all about 
 the country to see him. The consequence was 
 the disease spread through the country. Dr. 
 Hervey treated 84 cases, and did not bleed or de- 
 plete one of them, with a mortality of but two 
 children and three grown persons. All who were 
 depleted, without one exception, died. Dr. John 
 S. Bobbs and Dr. Bulkird, of Indianapolis, and 
 Dr. Brown, of Bethel, were called together at 
 Isaac Snj'der's to see a case, and agreed with Dr. 
 Hervey that it Avas smallpox modified by the pre- 
 vailing diatheses of the country. The fact of its 
 making its appearance without any one knowing 
 how, agitated the public mind to the highest 
 pitch, and, as Dr. Hervey had seemed to become 
 prominent in the treatment of the disease, it was 
 finally widespread that he started the disease for 
 the purpose of getting into business. He had 
 seen it in Cincinnati the winter before, and it 
 was claimed that he brought a scab with him, 
 and by that means, or some other way, originated 
 the disease. He had used nitrate of silver and 
 tincture of iodin to prevent pitting. One Miss 
 Burris lost one eye and was otherwise disfigured 
 by scars, she having had a bad case of confluent 
 
MEDICAL HLSTORY OF IXDIANA. 97 
 
 smallpox, some of which formed in the eye. Pop- 
 ular prejudice pointed to this case as one of 
 malpractice, and suited to punish him for hav- 
 ing started the disease. The prejudice and bad 
 feeling against the doctor was so popular that his 
 counsel advised him to take a change of venue 
 to Shelby County. The depositions of Dr. Jack- 
 son of 'New York, Prof. Ptobley Dunglison of 
 Philadelphia, and the evidence of Dr. John S. 
 Bobbs, before the time of trial, caused the case 
 to be withdrawn. The doctor's character was 
 vindicated, and he rose in time above it, but it 
 cost him about three years of his life's best 
 efforts. This case is a valuable one in the his- 
 tory of our profession, and shows how dangerous 
 is the ignorance of the masses \rhen brought to 
 bear upon a member of our profession." 
 
 Early Medical History of N'oble Coun-ty. 
 
 Dr. J. L. Gilbert, of Kendall ville, in the 
 Transactions for 1874, p. 73, gives an interesting 
 account of early medical matters in ISToble 
 County. It is here reproduced. 
 
 "On the 12th of July, 1858, a number of the 
 physicians of the county met at Ligonier and 
 organized a county society, with D. W. C. 
 Denny, M.D., president, and S. H. Estabrook, 
 M.D., secretary. The organization was kept up 
 but a short time. I think there were only two 
 meetings held. There seemed to be much in- 
 difference with reference to medical societies 
 among the physicians of the county, which ac- 
 counts for its short life. This was the first 
 
98 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 effort in JSToble County to organize a medical 
 society. 
 
 "On the 15th of June, 1870, the Northeastern 
 Indiana Medical Society was organized. This 
 society embraces the counties of Noble, Lagrange, 
 Steuben and DeKalb. The movement which cul- 
 minated in this organization originated in Noble 
 County, being first suggested by myself. 
 
 "The following named gentlemen were pres- 
 ent at the first meeting: From Noble County — ■ 
 D. W. C. Denny, C. Palmiter, W. D. EandalCu. 
 J. Ward, T. E. Adair, D. N. Fansler, L. F. 
 Abell, J. L. Gilbert, G. W. Carr, H. Landon, P. 
 W. Crum, W. H. Franks, E. Wright, 0. J. Vin- 
 cent, and S. T. Williams. From Lagrange 
 County — John Dancer and J. N. Denny. From 
 Steuben County — H. D. Wood. 
 
 "DeKalb County was not represented at the 
 first meeting, but was included in the organiza- 
 tion, and S. Stough, from that county, was 
 elected a member on recommendation of H. D. 
 Wood. 
 
 "O. J. Vincent was elected president, and one 
 vice-president from each county, viz. : H. D. 
 Wood, John Dancer, C. Palmiter and S. Stough; 
 secretary, J. L. Gilbert; treasurer, L. F. Abell; 
 board of censors, D. W. C. Denny, S. T. Williams, 
 W. H. Franks, H. Landon and G. W. Oarr. 
 
 "The officers were elected annually. The pres- 
 idents thus far have been 0. J. Vincent, H. D. 
 Wood, J. Dancer and G. W. Carr. The society 
 numbers seventy bona fide members. These are 
 divided among the counties as follows : Noble, 
 31; LaGrange, 13; Steuben, 13; DeKalb, 13. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 99 
 
 "The following named gentlemen are honorary 
 members, most of whom meet with us at least 
 once a year and take an active part in the pro- 
 ceedings : K S. Davis, J. Adams Allen, M. M. 
 Latta, Theophilus Parvin, B. S. Woodworth, T. 
 A. McGraw, Edward Jenks, Leartus Connor', R 
 C. S. Eeed and C. S. Frink. 
 
 "The meetings are held quarterly and are well 
 attended. I do not know of a single successful 
 irregular practitioner within the bounds of the 
 society. Two or three 'eclectics' of some pro- 
 fessional standing in the community have aban- 
 doned the distinctive name and have been ad- 
 mitted to the society and are good members. It 
 has promoted general good feeling among physi- 
 cians, which is always the result of intimate "^ac- 
 quaintance among ethical men. 
 
 "On the 15th of November, 1873, the Xoble 
 County Medical Society was organized under a 
 call made in pursuance to the request of the 
 State Medical Society to organize county socie- 
 ties throughout the state. G. Erickson was made 
 president, and N. Teal secretary. Two meetings 
 have been held. Most of the physicians have 
 joined it, and I doubt not this society will suc- 
 ceed." 
 
CHAPTEE XII. 
 
 Pioneer Physicians oe Bartholomew 
 County. 
 
 by geo. t. mac coy^ m.d.^ columbus,. ini). 
 
 During the session of the Indiana Legislature 
 at Corydon (the then capital of the state), in 
 1819-20, a number of counties were mapped out 
 and a law passed providing for their organiza- 
 tion. Among the number, Bartholomew County 
 was named for Gen. Joseph Bartholomew, a 
 member from Clark County. The name was 
 given at the instance of Gen. John Tipton. At 
 this time the city of Columbus (then called Tip- 
 tonia, for General Tipton) consisted of only five 
 families. The county became a "separate juris- 
 diction'^ on Feb. 12, 1821, with two hundred 
 voters, two of whom were preachers, but none 
 were doctors. 
 
 All traditions concur in giving to Hiram 
 Smith the post of honor of having been the first 
 doctor to locate in Columbus, his arrival occur- 
 ring in April, 1821. At least he was here as 
 early as May 1, 1821, for on the return made by 
 the assessor for that year (May 14, 1821) Dr. 
 Smith is charged with a "poll tax and no other 
 property." Dr. Smith came from Mercer Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky. What his medical education was. 
 
 * I am under obligations to my friend. Dr. George T. 
 MacCoy, for tliis very interesting paper. — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 101 
 
 or where and how it was obtained, I am unable 
 to learn; but this much I have learned by the 
 joerusal of some old records — that he was well 
 read in his profession, better than the average 
 of those times, and that his fine address made 
 him a favorite at once in the primitive settle- 
 ment. That Dr. Smith was a man above the 
 average may be readily believed from the rec- 
 ords of St. John's Lodge, 'No. 20,_ F. & A. M., 
 of Columbus. At a meeting to organize a so- 
 ciety it was found that Dr. Hiram Smith was 
 the unanimous choice for master, and when the 
 Grand Lodge met in session at Corydon, Octo- 
 ber, 1822, ai charter was granted to St. John's 
 Lodge, and Dr. Hiram Smith, although he was 
 not present at the session, was named as the 
 first worshipful master. This office he held for 
 several years. Dr. Smith had the honor to open 
 and change the first mail ever delivered in Co- 
 lumbus, and was probably the first postmaster.* 
 As to Dr. Smith's methods in practice, I can 
 say very little. He was a firm believer in the 
 lancet and heroic doses of calomel and Peruvian 
 bark. Tablespoonful doses of the powdered bark, 
 in molasses, given every two hours during a re- 
 mission or intermission of fever, were one of his 
 stand-bys in the treatment of malarial fevers. 
 Dr. Smith continued in active practice here for 
 many years, until the death of his wife, which 
 occurred during confinement. To suppress a 
 
 * Possibly this is an error. — Mr. C. P. Granfleld, First 
 Assistant Postmaster General, writes me, under date of 
 April 14th, 1909, as follows : "You are advised that ac- 
 cording to the records of this office the first postmaster 
 at Columbus, Ind. was William Duerson, appointed August 
 22, 1821, and the name' of Dr. Smith does not appear as 
 ever having been postmaster at this office." — G. W. H. K. 
 
102 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IW DIANA. 
 
 uterine hemorrhage the Doctor used large quan- 
 tities of cold water. She died. His enemies 
 claimed that the cold water killed her. This so 
 worried and embittered him that he left Colum- 
 bus and located in Mooresville, but shortly after 
 moved to Edinburgh Johnson County, where his 
 death occurred Oct. 1, 1869, from gastric ulcer. 
 The date of his birth can not be determined, 
 but it is known that he was 79 years old when 
 he died. 
 
 The next physician to locate in Columbus was 
 Dr. Joseph L. Washburn, who came here in the 
 autumn of 1821 and began to practice at once. 
 He was born and educated in Vermont. Before 
 studying medicine he was engaged in teaching 
 school at Middleburg, that state. The acciden- 
 tal introduction of smallpox broke up his school, 
 and he was vaccinated, thus protecting himself 
 from the disease. This so pleased him that he 
 vaccinated many others, being so successful that 
 he was dubbed "Kine Pox Doctor." He began 
 the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Tan- 
 sher, of Middleburg, Vt., and finished in the 
 office of Dr. Needham, of Crown Point, N. Y. 
 In March, 1832, he was senior deacon of St. 
 John's Lodge, Columbus, Ind. 
 
 Dr. Washburn had a good English education, 
 and a better medical education than many who 
 have practiced here since his -day; he continued 
 to grow in popularity, not only on account of 
 his professional ability, but his social qualities 
 also endeared him to all. In January, 1828, 
 he was elected county agent, and shortly after- 
 ward he was elected and commissioned magis- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 103 
 
 trate of the county and ex officio member of the 
 "board of control/^ He held this office "with- 
 out fear or reproach" until the day of his death, 
 Oct. 9^ 1828. A contemporary notice appeared 
 in the Indianapolis Journal, written by some 
 one who knew him well, extolling his virtues 
 and commending his useful life, both as a physi- 
 cian and citizen. Dr. Washburn was a success- 
 ful practitioner ; his treatment of dysentery con- 
 sisted in cathartics and opium, a practice not 
 much improved upon at the present day. His 
 honored remains were interred in what is known 
 as "The Thompson Graveyard," one mile south 
 of the city, where I saAV and copied the inscrip- 
 tion on the moldering marble that marks his 
 resting-place. 
 
 Dr. William V. Snyder came here from Vir- 
 ginia in 1822, and practiced in Columbus and 
 the surrounding country for several years. He 
 was very popular with all classes, but became 
 dissatisfied with his location and returned to 
 Virginia, where he died many years ago. 
 
 Dr. Joseph Eose and his junior brother, Dr. 
 E. Eose, located here about 1822. They were 
 both good physicians, but I have been unable to 
 learn where they came from, or where they went, 
 as they remained here only a few years. 
 
 Dr. John Eitchie located in Columbus about 
 1827, and at once secured a fair share of patron- 
 age. He was sociable and affable, a fair public 
 speaker and a safe practitioner of medicine. His 
 wife was an educated woman, and was the first 
 of her sex to teach the higher branches in the 
 public schools of this city. Dr. Eitchie was 
 
104 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, Jan. 5, 
 1782. He had a common school education, 
 which he added to by study after his marriage. 
 He studied medicine with Dr. Warwick, near 
 Brycelands Cross Eoads, twenty miles west of 
 Pittsburg. He practiced a few years in Ohio 
 before coming to Columbus. In 1832 Dr. Eit- 
 chie moved to Franklin, Ind., where he enjoyed 
 a lucrative practice, and was held in high esteem 
 for many years. His death occurred in that 
 city, Oct. 10^ 1857. He was once a candidate 
 for the office of probate judge, but was defeated 
 by only a few votes. 
 
 Dr. James Eitchie, son of the physician named 
 above, was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania, 
 June 6, 1804. He studied medicine with his 
 father, and attended one course of lectures in 
 the Medical College of Ohio in the winter of 
 1828-9. After leaving school he came to Colum- 
 bus and engaged in practice with his father. 
 Afterward he moved to Edinburg, and later to 
 Eensselaer, where he died some years ago. Dr. 
 James Eitchie was a member of the constitu- 
 tional convention of 1850 that gave to Indiana 
 her present constitution. 
 
 Dr. William P. Kiser came to Columbus about 
 1828. He studied medicine in the office of Dr. 
 Cravens, in Shenandoah County, Virginia, hav- 
 ing as fellow office student Dr. Joseph A. Bax- 
 ter, who also located in Columbus in 1829, form- 
 ing a partnership with Dr. Kiser, which lasted 
 several years, terminating in mutual disagree- 
 ment. ' Dr. Kiser was a good dresser and a good 
 talker, but he was a man of quick, irritable tern- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 105 
 
 per, which, interfered greatly with his popular- 
 ity. In his practice he was noted for "snap 
 diagnosis"; he did not study his cases very well. 
 He was elected treasurer of the county, which 
 office he held several years; he also served one 
 term in the legislature as representative from 
 this county. He died many years ago at Eock- 
 port, Ind. 
 
 Dr. Joseph A. Baxter, as stated above, studied 
 medicine in the office of Dr. Cravens in Shenan- 
 doah County, Virginia, and located in Colum- 
 bus a year later than Dr. Kiser, with whom he 
 was associated in practice. Dr. Baxter was a 
 man of talents and a physician in the best sense 
 of the term. As a diagnostician he had few 
 equals. Almost every autopsy held in the county 
 for eight or ten years was conducted by him. 
 Some of these were noted criminal cases. One 
 noted post mortem was made at night, with only 
 the light of one tallow candle, held by the late 
 Judge Tunis Quick. Dr. Baxter established the 
 first drug store operated in Columbus. In relig- 
 ion Dr. Baxter was a strict Presbyterian, and be- 
 came a ruling elder in the church in Columbus. 
 He was one of the leading physicians of the state 
 at the time of his death, which occurred in 1839, 
 before he had reached the meridian of life. His 
 death was universally regretted. 
 
 Dr. Tiffin Davis came to Columbus from Ohio 
 in 1830. He was a classmate of Dr. James 
 Ritchie, mentioned above, having attended lec- 
 tures at the Medical College of Ohio in 1828-29. 
 He was one of the best physicians of his day; in 
 fact. Dr. Joseph A. Baxter and Dr. Tiffin Davis 
 
106 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 stand out as bright lights in the medical pro- 
 fession of this part of Indiana. Dr. Davis was 
 the possessor of a good English education and 
 was intended for the profession of teaching. 
 His mother was an estimable woman, Miss Tif- 
 fin, a sister of Edward Tiffin, the first governor 
 of Ohio. Dr. Davis acquired some fame as a 
 surgeon, being considered the best surgeon in 
 this part of the state. He attended the late Dr. 
 Hiram Smith, mentioned above, in his last ill- 
 ness, and soon followed him to his long home. 
 He died in Edinburg, also, about 1871. 
 
 About the same time that Dr. Tiffin Davis 
 came to Columbus, Dr. Henry B. Eoland came 
 from Virginia, and located in the county be- 
 tween Columbus and Kewbern. Dr. Eoland was 
 always considered one of the best general prac- 
 titioners in the county, and, in fact, he was a 
 good student all the time, reading everything 
 he could get hold of, which, however, was not a 
 great deal. He studied his profession whilst he 
 was paying a debt in the true old Virginia style 
 — in jail. At that time all bankrupts were fur- 
 nished boarding and lodging, and sometimes 
 medical attendance, whilst paying their debts 
 as bankrupts in prison. While he lay in jail, a 
 kind medical friend was good enough to loan 
 him the necessary books and give him instruc- 
 tion in the divine art of healing the sick, and he 
 came out of jail a fair medical practitioner for 
 that date. Dr. Eoland was a man of fine tal- 
 ents, kind and obliging to all, particularly so to 
 young men. In 1840, while practicing medicine 
 in this county, he was made probate judge. 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF IXDIAyA. 107 
 
 which office he filled creditably. The last heard 
 of Dr. Eoland he was practicing medicine in 
 Bloomfield, Iowa, where he located in 1848, and 
 possibly died there years ago. 
 
 Among the physicians who located in this 
 county at later periods, 1839-1850, I may men- 
 tion the following: 
 
 Dr. Samuel M. Linton first located in Azalia, 
 in 1839, coming to Columbus in 1842. He en- 
 joyed a large practice and was an enthusiastic 
 member of the Indiana State Medical Society.* 
 He died in Columbus Dec. 28, 1889; his obitu- 
 ary is found in the Transactions of 1890. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Barbour settled here in 1843, 
 coming from Eush County. After several years' 
 practice in Columbus, he returned to Eushville, 
 and later moved to Indianapolis, where he gave 
 up the practice of medicine and became pro- 
 prietor of the "Palmer House.'^ 
 
 Dr. George C. Comstock, a graduate of the 
 Louisville Medical College, established himself 
 in Columbus in 1841. He was a young man of 
 fine professional promise and an amateur artist 
 of no mean pretensions. Some of his portraits 
 in oil are still preserved. After a few years of 
 very successful practice in Columbus, he moved 
 to Illinois, where he died of apoplexy, Jan. 28, 
 1845. He had begun the practice of medicine 
 when less than 20 years old, and, had he been 
 spared, would have made a name for himself of 
 which his friends might well be proud. 
 
 Dr. Eobert M. McClure came from Madison, 
 Ind., where he was born; he was a graduate of 
 
 * Elected president of the State Society in 1864. 
 
108 • MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 one of tlie medical colleges of Philadelphia. He 
 located in Columbus in 1843^ and enjoyed a fair 
 practice while living in this city. He was a 
 courteous, dignified gentleman, and bore the 
 reputation of a careful and intelligent physician. 
 He returned to Madison about 1853 and Avas 
 highly respected in his new home, where he died 
 several years ago. 
 
 Dr. Isaac Fenley, who removed here from 
 Jackson County about the year 1844, is one of 
 the early physicians whose name is entitled to a 
 place among the heroes in medicine. When the 
 second call for volunteers was made for the Mex- 
 ican War, in 1847, Dr. Fenley assisted in rais- 
 ing a company in the Fourth Indiana Eegiment, 
 and was commissioned lieutenant. Upon arriv- 
 ing in Mexico, he was detached from his com- 
 pany and assigned to duty as regimental sur- 
 geon, in which capacity he served until the close 
 of the war.* Eeturning to Columbus, in 1848, 
 he at once resumed practice. In 1849 the cholera 
 was brought to Columbus by German immigrants 
 from ]^ew Orleans via the Mississippi and Ohio 
 rivers. Many immigrants died and not a few 
 citizens. Dr. Fenley among the list. He found 
 in cholera a greater foe than Mexican bullets, 
 but, like a true soldier, he died fighting — at his 
 post. He was a brave man, honorable and hon- 
 est, a fine surgeon and skilful physician. His 
 loss was felt by the entire community; he is 
 still spoken of with reverence by some of the old- 
 
 * See reference to Dr. Isaac Fenley, in chapter, "Indiana 
 Physicians in the Mexican War," p. 186. — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 109 
 
 est inhabitants. "Peace hath her victories, no 
 less renowned than war.'^ 
 
 Dr. Homer T. Hinman, who first located in 
 Hope, this county, came to this city in 1848. 
 He practiced physic very successfully and satis- 
 factorily for several years. He traveled for one 
 year as grand masonic lecturer, visiting all the 
 lodges in the state, after which he resumed prac- 
 tice until his death in 1859, from "congestion 
 of the stomach." He was an influential citizen, 
 universally respected, and his untimely demise 
 in the full prime of manhood caused general 
 sorrow and regret. 
 
 The gentlemen whose names appear in this 
 list were all members of the "regular" school of 
 medicine. In addition to these, there were other 
 early doctors who located at Columbus and in 
 the different settlements and villages of the 
 county from time to time, but I am not in pos- 
 session of sufficient knowledge concerning these 
 to enable me to give them proper notice. 
 
 It can not be said that our early doctors were 
 all men of eminent scientific skill or training. 
 Few of them held diplomas from medical col- 
 leges, for seventy or eighty years ago medical 
 colleges were not as thick in the land as now. 
 The pioneer doctors learned all they knew by 
 reading, observation and instruction under es- 
 tablished practitioners and by their own after- 
 experience. Men of fair education and good 
 common sense in a few years gained good repu- 
 tations as successful and safe physicians. They 
 learned and were guided by actual practice more 
 than by theory or the formulas laid down in the 
 
110 MEDICAL HISTORY OF I^WIA^A. 
 
 few books tlie}^ were able to procure. Each doc- 
 tor carried his own remedial agents — a small 
 drug store^ — in a pair of saddle-bags of huge 
 dimensions, and dosed out with liberal hand. 
 They rode on horseback to visit their patients, 
 da}^ or night, far or near, through the dense 
 woods and over slashy paths and rough corduroy 
 roads, fording or swimming- streams and endur- 
 ing innumerable hardships, which the physicians 
 of the present day would not dare to encounter. 
 
 During the years of the early settlement of 
 the county, the numerous rivers and creeks were 
 fouled and obstructed by fallen timber, drifts 
 and other accumulations of vegetable debris. 
 The waters from freshets and overflows stood 
 reeking and stagnant on the lowlands and in the 
 sloughs and bayous, and gave out their noxious 
 exhalations for miles and miles around, while 
 thick forests and tangled undergrowth, in rich 
 and rank profusion, almost equalled the famed 
 valley of the Amazon. The atmosphere was 
 laden with pestilential miasma, particularly in 
 the autumnal season, when biliary and malarial 
 diseases were rife. Whole settlements were at 
 times stricken down and rendered almost help- 
 less. It is reliably stated that, in the fall of 
 1821, there was only one well man in the city 
 of Columbus, a stalwart six-footer, who had 
 evidently been brought up in a swamp. He was 
 cook and nurse to the entire community, and 
 his memory deserves to be perpetuated. 
 
 The doctors found the ague, in many in- 
 stances, more than a match for their skill. It 
 was of the real shaking, quaking variety, the 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. Ill 
 
 chill lasting not infrequently three or four hours, 
 to be followed by raging fever and intense insa- 
 tiable thirst. So malignant was this type of 
 fever that as many as three or four deaths of 
 adults have occurred in one family in less than 
 forty-eight hours. Peruvian bark and calomel 
 would temporarily check the fever, but cold 
 weather seemed to be the only thing that would 
 stop this dreadful scourge, and even this failed 
 in some cases, and the poor invalid either wore 
 himself out or else wore out the disease. (The 
 relation of the mosquito to the prevalence of 
 malaria was not then dreamed of.) In the early 
 settlement, the "regulars" in the treatment of 
 fever relied mainly upon one remedy — calomel. 
 It was, indeed, extraordinary upon the part of the 
 physician to treat any form of disease without the 
 generous use of large doses of calomel. Xot to 
 salivate a patient seemed to be regarded as al- 
 most allowing him or her to go to the grave 
 without a saving effort. 
 
 A patient "sick of a fever" must also be freely 
 bled before an internal remedy was administered. 
 The lancet held sway alongside of calomel. If, 
 in raising a log cabin, a man was thrown from 
 his "corner" and badly bruised, the practice was 
 to bleed him copiously on the spot as the first 
 step toward his recovery. 
 
 While we of to-day may see many things to 
 criticise in the methods of these pioneer physi- 
 cians, we must all acknowledge that they stood 
 out as shining lights in their day and genera- 
 tion, the equals, if not the superiors, of their 
 contemporaries in all the other walks of life. 
 
112 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 They did their duty as citizensj and as physi- 
 cians they were always found doing their best 
 "according to their lights." The physicians of 
 Bartholomew County have succeeded to a noble 
 heritage; may they prove worthy of their great 
 responsibility. 
 
 Note. — In the preparation of this article, I have been 
 greatly indebted to the Hon. George Pence, ex-auditor of 
 this county, for valuable information and for the privilege 
 of perusing the notes and manuscripts left by the late 
 Dr. J. C Beck, of Cincinnati, and some early publications 
 by the Hon. W. H. Terrell, of Indianapolis, both natives 
 of this county. — G. T. M. 
 
 Note. — Drs. Isaac Fenley and Homer T. Hinman were 
 present at the formation of the Indiana State Medical 
 Society, June, 1849.— G. W. H. K. 
 
CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 Early Medical Men of Fayette County.— 
 
 Early Medical History of Grant 
 
 County. — Pioneer Physicians 
 
 OF Clay County. 
 
 For the following very interesting report of 
 the physicians of Fayette County I am indebted 
 to Dr. ll. M. Lamberson, of Connersville. 
 
 Among the earliest physicians of whom we 
 have any knowledge who settled within the pres- 
 ent limits of Fayette County were Drs. John 
 Bradburn, James Thomas, Joseph Moffett, Tem- 
 ple E. Gayle and Joseph S. Burr. 
 
 Dr. John Bradburn was a native of Lancaster 
 County, Pa., and as early as 1814 settled here 
 in the vicinity of what is known as Harrisburg, 
 in Fayette County. Hon. Oliver H. Smith, in 
 his "Early Indiana Trials and Sketches," refers 
 to him as an eminent surgeon, a man of great 
 muscular pow-er and of the most indomitable 
 personal courage. The doctor's experience as a 
 practitioner in this county was marred by a fear- 
 ful tragedy, in which he became instrumental in 
 the death of two young men in the spring of 
 1825, he having killed them with a surgeon's 
 knife, as they, with others, were going to carry 
 him to a creek one evening in order to "duck" 
 
114 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDlAlS^A. 
 
 liim.* Shortly after the traged}^ he removed to 
 the southern part of the state, and subsequently 
 to the vicinity of Brcokville, Ind., where he died 
 in 1835. He is said to have been a regular grad- 
 uate and highly respected and possessed of an 
 inflexible will and great executive ability. 
 
 Dr. James Thomas was a native of N'ew York 
 state and was one of a colony of emigrants that 
 settled in the vicinity of Harrisburg in 1819. 
 
 * "About twelve o'clock at night the party silently ap- 
 proached the dwelling of the doctor and tried to open the 
 door, but found it fast. The doctor was in bed in an ad- 
 joining room, wide awake, with his large knife under his 
 pillow, cool and prepared. The outside party placed an 
 iron crow-bar, which they had brought with them, under 
 the door, threw it off its hinges and entered the room, 
 carrying with them the ropes prepared to tie the doctor 
 before they took him from the house. In the meantime the 
 doctor remained silently sitting upon his bed, with his 
 knife in his hands. The room was dark. The party ad- 
 vanced, feeling their way, until the foremost, young Alex- 
 ander, about eighteen years of age, reached the bed, when 
 he received a fatal stab with the knife, turned, rushed to 
 the door, stepped out, and fell dead in the yard. Not a 
 word was spoken. The next, young Caldwell, about twenty 
 years of age, advanced, evidently not knowing the fate of 
 Alexander until he came within the grasp of the doctor, 
 when the fatal knife was thrust through his side, pene- 
 trating his heart. He uttered a loud groan, turned, fled to 
 the door, passed a short distance into the yard, fell and 
 died near the body of Alexander. The groan of Caldwell 
 alarmed the others, who immediately retreated for the door, 
 pursued by the doctor, and one other of the party received 
 a severe but not a mortal wound. Capt. Broaddus told me 
 that at one time the doctor was between him and the donr, 
 and as he passed to go out the doctor struck at him with 
 his knife, and just grazed his side. It was very evident 
 that but for the groan of Caldwell not one of the assail- 
 ants would have left the house alive. Such was the awful 
 tragedy at the house. The young men killed were of the 
 very first families of the county, indeed of the state. The 
 excitement was intense ; the doctor gave himself up and 
 was put into jail. After the trial the jury retired but a 
 few minutes and returned a verdict of not gxiilty, on the 
 ground of self-defense. So ended this Ipng-to-be-remembered 
 case in old Fayette." "Indiana Trials and Sketches," page 
 15.— G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IX DIANA. 115 
 
 He was a regular graduate and for years en- 
 joyed a successful and lucrative practice. 
 
 Dr. Joseph Moffett settled here about 1820. 
 He was a native of New Haven, Conn., and a 
 well-trained student fresh from Yale College. 
 He died in 1833. 
 
 About this time Drs. Temple E. Gayle and 
 Joseph S. Burr came to Connersville and began 
 the practice of medicine. Dr. Burr was a small, 
 black-eyed man, wearing plain clothing, and 
 speaking the plain language of "thee and thou." 
 He came here from New Philadelphia, Ohio. 
 Shortly after arriving here he had, for a sign, 
 an enormous swamp lily root, almost as large as 
 a man and cut to resemble one, nailed to the 
 weather boarding of the hotel where he was stay- 
 ing, with a chalk sign above, "Joseph S. Burr, 
 root doctor, no calomel." He later engaged in 
 the drug business. One acquainted with him 
 said "he was a man of some medical knowledge, 
 which he used with moderate success, while to 
 his patrons he utterly denounced all doctor 
 larnin' and made his claims on the ^root' sys- 
 tem." His chief ability consisted of cunning and 
 a knowledge of human nature. 
 
 Dr. Temple E. Gayle was a talented man, but 
 died young, October, 1827, at the age of thirty- 
 two years. The "Press" said of him, "'As a man 
 of talent the doctor was excelled by few, if any, 
 in the state ; as a practicing physician he was 
 eminently successful and popular." 
 
 Dr. Philip Mason was a native of Massachu- 
 setts, born Dec. 10, 1793, and settled in Fayette 
 County in 1816. He finished his course of read- 
 
116 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ing and clinical studies under Dr. Joseph Moffett 
 of Connersville about 1824. He practiced in the 
 vicinity of Connersville until 1830^ part of the 
 time on his farm in Columbia township, the bal- 
 ance of the time at Orange^ where he was in 
 partnershij) with Dr. Jefferson Helm, who later 
 moved to Eushville. In 1829 Dr. Mason was 
 elected Probate Judge of Fayette County and 
 served until 1834. The year following he was 
 elected to the Legislature and twice re-elected 
 to that body. He also served as Master of War- 
 ren Lodge, F. and A. M., for thirteen years, and 
 as Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the state 
 for eight years. 
 
 Dr. Jefferson Helm, a native of Mason Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, was born in 1803. He studied 
 medicine with Drs. Moffett and Mason and was 
 licensed to practice in 1827, locating at first at 
 what is now Orange, later moving to Glenwood, 
 where he remained until 1845, when he removed 
 to Eushville. 
 
 Dr. Hayman W. Clark was licensed to practice 
 medicine at the same time with Dr. Helm in 
 1827. Of his later history I have no record. 
 
 In 1828 Dr. Samuel Miller located in Con- 
 nersville, having come from Dayton, Ohio. 
 
 Another practitioner who advertised in the 
 Press of 1830 was Dr. Charles Barnes. 
 
 Dr. E3'land T. Brown, a native of Lewis Coun- 
 ty, Kentucky, came to Eush County in 1821, 
 where he acted as a guide for land seekers until 
 he attended a course at the Ohio Medical Col- 
 lege at Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1829. 
 In August, 1832, he located in Connersville and 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 117 
 
 for several years was a partner of Dr. Mason. 
 He remained in Connersville until 1842. In 
 1854 he was appointed State Geologist by Gov- 
 ernor Wright. In 1858 he was elected to the 
 chair of Natural Science in the N. W. C. Uni- 
 versity^ at Indianapolis. He is author of a 
 common school text-book of recognized merit, 
 "Brown's Physiology." 
 
 Dr. D. D. Hall, a Virginian, located in Con- 
 nersville, where he continued to practice, except 
 for a few months while in the service as Surgeon 
 of the Thirty-Sixth Eegiment, Indiana Volun- 
 teers, until his death, June 20, 1871. 
 
 A published statement in 1846, giving the 
 names of physicians practicing here, was Drs. 
 Philip Mason, Samuel Miller, D. D. Hall, John 
 Arnold, E. A. Bacon and S. W. Hughes, of Con- 
 nersville; Greenbury Steele, Columbia township; 
 Alfred Euby, Alquina; George Winchel, Colum- 
 bia; U. B. Tingley, Harrisburg; Amos Cliap- 
 man, Waterloo; Presley Libray, Everton, and 
 Edward Daniels, Orange. 
 
 Dr. George E. Chitwood was born in Gallia 
 County, Ohio, May 10, 1805. He w^as licensed 
 to practice medicine and surgery in 1830, lo- 
 cated in Franklin County, Indiana, in 1831. He 
 attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College 
 1835-36. He removed to Liberty, Union County, 
 in 1837. In 1846 he received the degree ol 
 M.D. from Western Eeserve Medical College at 
 Cleveland and removed to Connersville in 1849. 
 He was elected to the chair of General Pathol- 
 ogy and Physical Diagnosis in the Cincinnati 
 College of Medicine and Surgery in 1859, which 
 
118 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 he filled for the sessions 1859-60. He was then 
 transferred to the chair of Obstetrics and Dis- 
 eases of Women and Children^ which he filled for 
 six consecutive sessions, after which time he re- 
 signed on account of domestic afflictions. 
 
 On May 24, 1856, the physicians met and 
 organized their first society, called the White 
 Water Valley Medical Society, with the follow- 
 ing as charter members: Drs. Samuel Miller, 
 D. D. Hall, A. H. Chapman, W. J. Pepper, D. 
 Trembly, W. W. Taylor, S. W. Vance, 0. E. 
 Chitwood, C. D. B. O'Eyan and V. H. Gregg, 
 of Connersville ; B. S. Silory, A. H. Thompson 
 and M. F. Miller, Everton ; H. W. Hazard, Ben- 
 tonville; E. T. Gillum, Waterloo; U. B. Ting- 
 ley, Harrisburg. Dr. W. J. Pepper finished his 
 reading under G. E. Chitwood and began prac- 
 ticing in Connersville at this time. 
 
 On April 22, 1858, they changed the name of 
 the White Water Valley Medical Society to the 
 Fayette County Medical Society and continued 
 its organization until 1861. In the meantime 
 Dr. W. W. Taylor, who located in Connersville 
 some years before, died in 1859. 
 
 Dr. Vincent H. Gregg entered the army as 
 Surgeon in the 124th Eegiment Indiana Volun- 
 teers, in the First Brigade, First Division, Twen- 
 ty-Third Army Corps, and served in the Depart- 
 ment of the Cumberland under General Sher- 
 man until the close of the war. 
 
 Dr. Joshua Chitwood, a son of Dr. George E. 
 Chitwood, graduated in medicine in 1858 and 
 entered the army as Surgeon in the Seventh 
 Eegiment, Indiana Cavalry. 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF IMJlAXA. ll'J 
 
 Dr. George W. Garver located in Connersville 
 in 1865, having served in the United States 
 Navy as Assistant Surgeon on the Western Flo- 
 tilla, Department of the Mississippi. 
 
 Dr. S. W. Hughes died in 1865. 
 
 In 1866 the Fayette County Medical Society 
 was reorganized. 
 
 "The above data of the early medical history 
 of Fayette County was mostly compiled from an 
 earlier history of medicine of the county writ- 
 ten twenty-five years ago by Dr. S. M. Hamil- 
 ton, now practicing in this county, he in turn 
 having obtained it from the pioneers then liv- 
 ing in this locality.^' — H. M. L. 
 
 Dr. S. M. Hamilton also unearthed the his- 
 tory of one Caleb Smith, who enjoyed quite a 
 reputation as a "bonesetter" and was the first 
 practitioner in this part of the state, as far as 
 we know. He says : "It will not be out of place 
 in the medical and surgical history of what is 
 now known as Fayette County to mention the 
 name of Caleb Smith, who practiced the heal- 
 ing art among the first white people of the 
 woods. He was born in England in 1775, and 
 came to New England -with his father, an Eng- 
 lish surgeon, about the year 1797. The young 
 man married in Norwich, Conn., and came west 
 and settled seven miles west of south of Conners- 
 ville in 1807, where he practiced medicine and 
 surger}^ He died in 1821 and was buried on his 
 farm." 
 
 Grant County Medical Society. 
 On the 16th day of June, 1898, Grant County 
 Medical Society held its anniversary of the first 
 
120 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 half century of its existence. At this meeting 
 Dr.. A. A. Hamilton read a very interesting re- 
 port of its medical history during the half cen- 
 tury just closed, and to this paper I am indebted 
 for the facts contained in this article. 
 
 The boundaries of Grant County were estab- 
 lished by the Legislature in February, 1831, and 
 in May of the same year the county seat was 
 located at its present site by the commissioners 
 and named in honor of General Francis Marion. 
 
 In 1830, one year before the organization of 
 the count}'. Dr. Henr}^ Buchman installed him- 
 self in a small cabin on the banks of the Missis- 
 sinewa Eiver just beyond the present city limits 
 of Marion. He was the first physician to locate 
 in Grant County. In the transactions for 1875 
 Dr. Lomax gives his name as Buchanan, but this 
 is either a typographical error or a mistake of 
 Dr. Lomax, Buchman being the correct name. 
 After ministering to the professional wants of 
 the sparsely settled neighborhood for a few years 
 he removed to the west, where later he died. 
 
 Dr. Joseph Cadwallader was the second physi- 
 cian to locate in the county and first in the town 
 of Marion, somewhere between the years 1831 
 and 1833. He spent some two or three years in 
 the county in the practice of his j^rofession, and 
 he and his wife both died in this new home. 
 
 Dr. Ezra Stiles Trask, a native of Vermont, 
 was the third physician to locate in Marion in 
 1833. Dr. Trask originally located in what was 
 then known as Muncietown, at an early period 
 in its history, removing to Marion, as stated, in 
 the 3^ear 1833. He practiced medicine after a 
 
MEDICAL niSTORY OF INDIANA. 121 
 
 sort until the year 1839, at which time he died, 
 leaving a most amiable wife and two very prom- 
 ising sons, and is buried somewhere in the cem- 
 etery at Marion. An impression prevailed among 
 the physicians at Marion that he was a graduate 
 of Dartmouth Medical College.* 
 
 Dr. John Foster (1813-1870), a native of High- 
 land County, Ohio, located in Marion in 1834 
 and entered upon the active duties of his profes- 
 sion with fair prospects of success. Unfortu- 
 nately he yielded to the allurements held out by 
 other employments, giving himself at various 
 times to the mercantile business, the sale of 
 drugs, politics, the ministry, etc., but never en- 
 tirely abandoning the medical profession. He 
 served one term in the State Senate and devoted 
 several years of his life to the work of the itiner- 
 ant ministry of the M. E. Church, and at the 
 time of his death was a local preacher in that 
 denomination. Dr. Foster was one of the found- 
 ers of the Grant County Medical Society. He 
 died at Warsaw, Ind., in the fall of 1870, re- 
 spected by all who knew him. 
 
 Dr. Samuel St. John, a native of Connecticut 
 and a graduate in 1815 of a ^N'ew York medical 
 college, came to Marion in 1845, after having 
 practiced several years at various places in Kew 
 York, Ohio, Alabama and Mississippi. He fol- 
 lowed the work of his profession here for the 
 
 * Possibly this is an error. Mr. Ernest M. Hopkins, 
 secretary of Dartmouth College, writes me February 8, 
 1907, as follows : "He was not a graduate of the college. 
 or any of the associated schools. We have no early records 
 about men who were students here but who did not grad- 
 uate. I am, therefore, unable to say whether or not Dr. 
 Tj-ask ever attended the college." — G. W. H. K. 
 
122 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ensuing nine years and then removed to Lagro. 
 In 1860 he returned to Marion and engaged in 
 the sale of drugs. He continued in this business 
 until the time of his death, Jan. 10, 1862. I)r 
 St. John was one of the original members of the 
 Grant County Medical Society and its first presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Dr. W. F. Spence was born in West Moreland 
 County, Pennsylvania, and, after attending a 
 medical college in Cincinnati, located in Alexan- 
 dria, this state, where he practiced medicine for 
 some years. In 1846 he removed to Jonesboro, 
 where he sold drugs and, when able, practiced 
 his profession. 
 
 In the year 1847 Dr. Samuel S. Home, a na- 
 tive of Scotland and a graduate of the University 
 of Edinburgh, located in Jonesboro and at once 
 took up his professional duties. He was un- 
 selfish, a wise counselor, and an experienced, 
 learned and efficient physician. After a long 
 and useful professional life he died April 19, 
 1874. 
 
 Dr. John A. Meek of Wa3^ne County located 
 in Jonesboro on the 14th day of February, 1848. 
 The doctor served as Surgeon of the Eighty- 
 Mnth Eegiment Indiana Volunteers during the 
 Civil War. 
 
 Sketches of several other Grant County physi- 
 cians will appear elsewhere. 
 
 The Grant County Medical Society was organ- 
 ized on the 16th day of June, 1848, and the 
 following physicians were present at the forma- 
 tion of the society: Drs. John Foster, J. S. 
 Shively, Samuel St. John, S. D. Ayres, A. W. 
 
MEDICAL UT STORY OF IX DIANA. 123 
 
 Henley, William Lomax and Constantino Lomax, 
 assembling at the latter's office. At the next 
 meeting, held July 5, 1848, a constitution was 
 adopted and officers were elected. 
 
 A review of the records of the society will 
 show that during the half century just closed 
 one hundred and twenty-five names have been 
 entered upon its roll of membership. Forty, at 
 least, of these (1898) have already joined the 
 silent majority. Others have lost their identity 
 with the society by removing to other fields of 
 labor, while a few have been expelled from the 
 society for unprofessional conduct. 
 
 "In the seventies the Grant County Medical 
 Society purchased a hall of its own on the north 
 side of the public square in Marion. This hall 
 is large and commodious, is nicely carpeted, and 
 is well furnished with desks, tables and chairs, 
 and all that is necessary for the use and comfort 
 of its members. An expensive microscope and 
 other instruments necessary for the prosecution 
 of the work of the society have been added from. 
 time to time, until now the society is the owner 
 of much valuable property. 
 
 "Many years ago the society adopted the plan 
 of arranging along the side walls of the audi- 
 torium large and elegantly framed portrait 
 paintings of its deceased presidents. This mark 
 of respect on the part of the association has 
 already been conferred upon quite a number of 
 the older members of the society, most of whom 
 had been elected one or more times to fill the 
 presiding officer's chair. 
 
124 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IlsWIAI^A. 
 
 "Tliat the society has made good use of its 
 time when in session during the years gone by 
 is amply attested by the hundreds of medical 
 essays now on file in its archives^ which have 
 been read and discussed in its hearing during 
 the five decades just ended, and the thousands 
 of pages of closel}^ written matter to be found 
 in the several large volumes of its transactions, 
 dealing, for the most part, with subjects of a 
 professional nature, giving additional proof of 
 the vast amount of work of a scientific character 
 which has been accomplished by this body since 
 its organization." 
 
 PlOXEER PhTSICIAXS OF ClAY CoUXTY. 
 BY G. W. FIXLET^ BRAZIL^ IXD. 
 
 Eeplying to your incjuiry for data as to pioneer 
 physicians of Clay Count}^, I have been able, 
 after diligent inquiry and search of old records, 
 to collect memoranda as to several whose names 
 do not appear in Transactions of the State So- 
 ciety. 
 
 The very earliest of whom I can find mention 
 are Drs. Ephraim Kester and Absalom Briley, 
 who came to the southern part of what is now 
 Clay county about 1818 or 1820, from Ken- 
 tuck}^, several years before the county was or- 
 ganized. Although never located in to^vns, they 
 did extensive practice among early settlers over 
 a radius of twenty-five miles from their homes. 
 They died in 1873 and 1878, respectively, each 
 having reached the age of eight3^-five. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 125 
 
 Dr. Nathaniel Usher, born in New York, 1792 
 died in Brazil, Ind., 1875, after forty years' 
 practice in this county. 
 
 Dr. William H. Gifford, born in Kentucky, 
 1804, came to Williamstown, Ind., 1839, died at 
 Brazil, 1890, after fift3^-one years' practice, leav- 
 ing a son, Joseph C, and a grandson, William 
 H., as worthy successors in the work. 
 
 Dr. W. B. Hawkins, born at Washington, Pa., 
 1814, died in Brazil, Ind., 1891, after forty-five 
 years' Avork in Indiana, leaving a son, Eobert 
 W., a physician here. 
 
 Dr. James M. Price, born in Virginia, 1827, 
 died in Brazil, 1895, having practiced in this 
 county thirty-five years. His son. Dr. John Price, 
 died before his father. 
 
 Dr. John Gilfillan had a wide practice from 
 Centerpoint for forty years in the early history 
 of the county and died there in 1876. 
 
 Dr. John Williams of Bowling Green, still liv- 
 ing at the age of ninetj^-seven, practiced there 
 from 1830 until feebleness compelled his retire- 
 ment in 1900. 
 
 I regret very much the incompleteness of our 
 early records. 
 
CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Early Physicians of Franklin County. — 
 
 Medical Men of Eipley County. — 
 
 Kosciusko County. — White 
 
 County. 
 
 The following list comprises only a portion of 
 the names of physicians of Franklin County. I 
 am under obligations to Dr. C. H. May field, of 
 Brookville, for this interesting paper. A num- 
 ber of names will be found in the alphabetical 
 list elsewhere. 
 
 George Berry (1811-1892) was born in Eock- 
 ingham County, Virginia, Feb. 17, 1811. He 
 began practice in Brookville in 1832, and for 
 many years was the principal surgeon of that re- 
 gion. With one exception he was the oldest 
 practitioner in the White Water Valley at the 
 time of his death, March 19, 1892. He was a 
 surgeon in the Mexican war with the Sixteenth 
 Regiment, IJ. S. Infantry. He was elected State 
 Senator in 1843-46, and again in 1849. He was 
 a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
 1852. 
 
 Thomas W. Colescott (1816-1900) was born 
 in Caroline County, Maryland, Feb. 8, 1816. He 
 practiced in Brookville until 1878, when he was 
 compelled to retire from active practice on ac- 
 count of ill health. He held the chair of anat- 
 omy in the University of Louisville for several 
 years and was surgeon in charge of the hospitals 
 
MEDICAL EIHTORY OF INDIANA. 127 
 
 in and about Louisville during the Civil war. 
 He was regarded as one of the best surgeons 
 of Franklin County. 
 
 John B. Davis " (1807-1869) was born at 
 Brookfield, X. Y., July 2, 1807; died in Brook- 
 ville July 14, 1869. 
 
 Thomas Gifford (1816-1885) was born at 
 Penn Yan, Yates Countv% Xew York, Dec. 17. 
 1816; graduated from Ohio Medical College in 
 1846. He was elected to the General Assembly 
 of the state in 1858 and was re-elected; elected 
 State Senator in 1862 and re-elected; died June 
 14, 1885. 
 
 John E. Goodwin (1820-1880) was born at 
 Brookville July 15, 1820; graduated at Depauw 
 University in 1845; later at the Ohio Medical 
 College; practiced in Brookville until beginning 
 of the Civil war ; he was surgeon of the Thirty- 
 Seventh Eegiment Indiana Volunteers until close 
 of war; then for eight vears was in the Depart- 
 ment of the Interior under Johnson and Grant; 
 later was engaged in banking business until his 
 death. May 3, 1880. 
 
 Rufus Haymond (1805-1886) was born in 
 Clarksburg, W. Ya., June 5, 1805. He came 
 to Brookville in 1826. He was a member of 
 the State Legislature and was a naturalist of 
 national reputation, contributing articles of 
 value. He had charge of the geological survey 
 of Franklin County in 1869. Died at Brook- 
 ville July 29, 1886. 
 
 Judah Hinkley (1801-1875) was born in 
 Massachusetts March 10, 1801; came to Indiana 
 in 1820 and began practice in Springfield town- 
 
128 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ship, Franklin County, and continued nntil 
 1868, when he retired and removed to Oxford, 
 Ohio. Died July 6, 1875. 
 
 John H. Qniek (1818-1906) was born near 
 Brookville Oct. 22, 1818; began practice June 1, 
 1840, at Drewersbnrg, Franklin County; then 
 Cedar Grove, in same county, in 1842, and at 
 Brookville from 1854 to the time of his death, 
 Oct. 13, 1906. 
 
 John Cleaver (1796-1865) was not a graduate 
 of a medical college. 
 
 Cornelius Cain (1808-1903) was born near 
 Wilmington, Dela., Aug. 1, 1808; came to In- 
 diana and settled in Brookville in 1827; later 
 practiced medicine at Metamora and Laurel. In 
 1857 located at Clarksburg, where he continued 
 to reside until his death, which occurred June 
 28, 1903. 
 
 Erasmus Darwin Crookshank* (1807-1876) 
 was born at Whitehall, N. Y., April 28, 1807; 
 located at Fairfield about 1838; was elected to 
 the State Legislature in 1844; in 1849 he re- 
 moved to Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cheviot, 
 where he continued to practice medicine until 
 his death, March 4, 1876. — Letter from Florence 
 M. Tait, Cheviot, a granddaughter. 
 
 The following physicians practiced in Brook- 
 ville at the dates indicated: 
 
 Level, 1810; Johnson, 1816; George D. Mur- 
 dock, 1816; J. E. Bush, 1819; Joseph Moffett, 
 1818; Temple E. Gayle, 1820; John, Jr., 1821; 
 
 * I give the speUing of the granddaughter, but notice 
 that in other instances it is spelled "Cruikshank." 
 — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL IIIHTORY OF INDIANA. 129 
 
 Morris, 1821; Isaac G. John, 1824; B. S. Noble, 
 1830; T. J. Cogley, 1836; Whipple, 1836; 
 Thomas Kennedy, 1847; William Coster, 1847, 
 and Joseph Chitwood, 1838. 
 
 Medical Men of Ripley County. 
 
 In reply to an inquiry Dr. James Anderson, 
 of Versailles, has kindly furnished me with 
 some records of the early physicians of that 
 county. 
 
 He says that he was well acquainted with Dr. 
 W. T. S. Comett, who practiced here until about 
 1868, when he removed to Madison. 
 
 Dr. James K. Francis practiced at Cross 
 Plains, Eipley County, Indiana, from 1844 to 
 about 1852, dying there during that year. 
 
 Dr. Eichard B. Conn practiced in Eipley 
 County about 1848 to 1850, when he removed to 
 Champaign, 111., and practiced there for some 
 years. 
 
 Drs. Cornett, Francis, Alexander J. Mullen 
 and Conn were present at the formation of the 
 State Medical Society in June, 1849. 
 
 Dr. William Anderson practiced medicine and 
 surgery at Versailles from 1839 to 1861, and 
 was surgeon of the Thirty-seventh Eegiment In- 
 diana Volunteers for three years and staff sur- 
 geon one year longer. At the close of the war 
 he returned to this place and practiced from 
 1865 to 1880. 
 
 Drs. Alexander J. Mullen and Bernard F. 
 Mullen, brothers, practiced at Napoleon for 
 many years. Dr. Bernard F. Mullen was Colonel 
 of the Thirty-fifth Eegiment Indiana Volunteers 
 
130 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IlsWIAl^A. 
 
 and Dr. Alexander J. Mullen was surgeon of the 
 same regiment. Dr. Bernard died at Indianap- 
 olis some years after the close of the Civil war. 
 Dr. Alexander went to St. Lonis after he came 
 from the army and practiced there for some 
 3'ears, dying in that place. 
 
 The late Major Jonathan W. Gordon practiced 
 medicine at Versailles during the years 1846 
 and 1847. Later he took np the study and prac- 
 tice of law. 
 
 Kosciusko Cou^^ty Medical Society. 
 
 I am indebted to Dr. C. T^. Howard, Secretary 
 of the Kosciusko County Medical Society, for the 
 following notes, which he gleaned from the "New 
 Historical Atlas of Kosciusko County." 
 
 At the session of the General Assembly of 
 1834-5 the boundaries of Kosciusko County were 
 defined and established. It was named by Hon. 
 John B. Chapman after Thaddeus Kosciusko, the 
 young Polish nobleman of distinguished family, 
 who aided the American cause during the war of 
 the Eevolution, being one of General Washing- 
 ton's staff officers. 
 
 The Kosciusko Count}^ Medical Society was 
 incorporated Jan. 21, 1847, by the General As- 
 sembly of the State of Indiana. Among the first 
 members of the society were Drs. Eowland Wil- 
 lard, G. W. Stacey, J. K. Leedy, Edward E. 
 Parks, William E. Sarber, D. Bowman, S. C. 
 Gray, L. B. Boggs, J. A. Chandler, L. E. Terry, 
 William Parks, Henry Gilbert, F. W. Taylor, 
 John Jackson, Z. C. Johnson, A. B. Grichfield, 
 E. M. Kendall and G. W. Kosdick. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 131 
 
 Webber, Irwin W. (1846-1907) commenced 
 the practice of his profession in Warsaw, Kos- 
 ciusko County, in 1870. For a time he was 
 United States Pension Examiner at Warsaw. He 
 was President of the Kosciusko County Medical 
 Society in 1887, and was Secretary of the So- 
 ciety at the time of his death. 
 
 Woolley, Amos (1829-1899) came to Kos- 
 ciusko County in 1857, practicing medicine at 
 Palestine. In 1869 he removed to Warsaw. In 
 1866 he assisted in the organization of the Med- 
 ical College at Fort Wayne, Ind., and afterward 
 graduated with honor from that institution. 
 
 White Couxty Medical Society. 
 
 Drs. Grant Goodwin and F. E. Lister, of 
 Monticello, have furnished me the following in- 
 formation concerning physicians of White 
 County who have not been heretofore reported 
 in the Transactions. 
 
 The White County Medical Society was or- 
 ganized in April, 1862. The charter members 
 were Drs. Hamen and Anderson, Monticello; 
 Eichardson, Monon; Thomas, Eeynolds, and 
 Medaris, of Brookston. 
 
 Dr. W^illiam H. Ball was born in Henry 
 County, Kentucky, Jan. 23, 1823. He began 
 practice at Battle Ground, Ind., about 1851. He 
 Avas a graduate of a medical college at Louisville, 
 Ky. He practiced in Brookston from 1856 to 
 1880, then moved to California, where he died in 
 1890. 
 
 Dr. Timothy Taylor attended first session of 
 lectures at Starling Medical College in 1847 and 
 
132 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIAIS^A. 
 
 1848. He began to practice in Brookston about 
 1850, and left here March 1, 1859. He died in 
 1908, near Eichmond, Ind. 
 
 Dr. John Medaris came to Brookston in 
 March, 1859, and has practiced here ever since. 
 He was born Oct. 22, 1814. Dr Brockway writes 
 nie Jan. 30, 1911 : "Dr. Medaris is still alive and 
 feeling good.^^* 
 
 Older Physicians of Steuben" County. 
 
 I am under obligations to Dr. Mary Ritter, of 
 Angola, for the following list of pioneer physi- 
 cians of Steuben County: 
 
 Drs. James McConnell, Angola (1810-1844) ; 
 George W. McConnell, Angola (1816-1894) ; L. 
 E. Carver, Angola (1806-1889) ; J. C. Kmisey, 
 
 Angola (1819 ) ; C. D. Eice, Angola 
 
 (1828-1875) ; William Weicht, Angola (1822- 
 1889); W. A. Wood, Angola (1827-1868); M. 
 R Morse, Angola (1814-1898). 
 
 * I have departed from my usual rule of omitting liv- 
 ing physicians, but this man. at the age of ninety-six, 
 engaged in an active practice of medicine, deserves this 
 little recognition. — G. W. H. K. 
 
CHAPTEH XY. 
 
 Early Medical History of Fouxtaix County. 
 Early Physiciaxs of Jacksox Couxty. 
 
 Dr. George Eowlancl, Covington, Ind., has 
 transmitted to me a very interesting paper on 
 the medical history of Fountain County, and I 
 only regret that the length of the paper prevents 
 the complete publication of the same. 
 
 On Dec. 30, 1825, the Legislature passed a law 
 creating Fountain County. On the first Monday 
 in May, 1826, the boundaries of the county were 
 fixed and the county seat established at Cov- 
 ington. 
 
 The following named physicians met in Cov- 
 ington on the first Thursday in April, 1867, and 
 organized the Fountain County Medical Society : 
 Drs. C. Y. Jones, President, Samuel J. Weldon, 
 Secretary; C. D. Watson, G. S. Jones, William 
 Colvert, William C. Cole and George Eowland. 
 
 Dr. John Hamilton, born in Saratoga County, 
 New York, -Jan. 7, 1800, came to Covington 
 March 31, 1827, and made it his permanent 
 home. He was the first physician to locate in 
 Fountain County. He was a pioneer and a busy 
 practitioner of medicine, riding on horseback 
 from ten to sixty miles a day, along by-paths, as 
 there were few roads. Milk sickness and fever 
 and ague prevailed. Medicines were few and 
 commanded a high price and were brought from 
 Cincinnati on a steamboat up the Wabash Eiver 
 
134 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 to Covington. Dr. Hamilton was a successful 
 physician^ a graduate of the medical college at 
 Burlington, Yt. He also started the first drug 
 store in this county at Covington. 
 
 Dr. John Crawford came to Fountain County 
 in 1828. He was educated in Philadelphia and 
 a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio. He 
 died Sept. 29, 1847. Dr. Crawford was well 
 versed in medicine and a successful practitioner 
 and a man of few words. 
 
 Dr. Hitchcock was an early pioneer and came 
 to this city in 1829, but soon afterward went to 
 the Black Hawk war. 
 
 Dr. Jesse Bowen practiced medicine in the 
 county from 1829 to 1840. 
 
 Dr. Joseph Jones came in 1832. He was a 
 peculiar man, tall and the people nicknamed him 
 "Long Jones." There were several other Dr. 
 Jones, and Dr. "Long Jones" tried to have the 
 Legislature change his name to Talbott, the 
 maiden name of his mother. 
 
 Dr. Keely came in 1833 and remained but a 
 short time, when he removed to Iowa. 
 
 Dr. John S. Jones, nicknamed "Picayune," 
 came in 1834. He was a druggist, but practiced 
 medicine to some extent. 
 
 Dr. Lorenzo Eush cam^e to this county in 1840. 
 He was a good physician, scientific and well ed- 
 ucated. He was tall, dignified, gentlemanly and 
 a popular physician. 
 
 Dr. Irish came in 1844 and was a successful 
 physician, serving later as a surgeon in the Civil 
 war. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 135 
 
 Dr. Eeuben M. Hill came to Fountain County 
 in 1847 and located at Covington. He was a 
 scientific physician and well versed in medicine. 
 He had an extreme disgust for quackery, en- 
 joyed a large practice and was quite a money 
 maker. He was a bachelor. Later in life he 
 was a great sufferer from a chronic disease, from 
 which he secured no permanent relief, and on 
 July 5. 1880, at the noon hour, while his nurse 
 had gone for a luncheon, committed suicide, 
 shooting himself through the head. 
 
 Dr. Jehu Adkins read medicine with Dr. 
 "Long'' Jones, above mentioned; graduated in 
 Chicago, and located in Jackson Township in 
 18-17. He was a popular physician and had a 
 great reputation in the treatment of milk sick- 
 ness, which was then very prevalent; also se- 
 cured quite a reputation by the performance of 
 an operation for club foot upon a child six 
 months old. At the time of his death he was 
 the owner of nearly twelve hundred acres of 
 land, bought at a low price, and subsequently 
 increased in value until he amassed a fortune. 
 
 Drs. 0. S. Maxwell and Bell located at Eob- 
 roy in 1833. Dr. Cox located at Portland in 
 1830. Dr. Scott located at :Nrewton in 1834. Dr. 
 Worthington located at Attica in 1830. Dr. Eob- 
 ert Stevens located near old Chambersburg dur- 
 ing the forties. Dr. Knight located in old Cham- 
 bersburg before the Civil War. He was very 
 deaf and always rode in an old-fashioned gig. 
 Dr. Greenwood came in the forties and prac- 
 ticed at Eobroy. Dr. Marquam, an eccentric 
 man, located in old Chambersburg during the 
 Civil War. He practiced in the southeast part 
 
136 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 of the county from 1855 to 1860. He was in- 
 dicted for murder by producing an abortion. In 
 the trial he was prosecuted and defended by emi- 
 nent counsel and was acquitted. 
 
 Dr. Newton Spinning probably practiced med- 
 icine longer than any other physician in Foun- 
 tain County — a period of more than fifty years. 
 He died of pneumonia, result of lagrippe, on 
 Feb. 11, 1890. 
 
 Dr. Thomas Eowland, my father, was born in 
 Loudon Count}^, Virginia, July 25, 1810, and 
 read medicine with Dr. Crawford, already men- 
 tioned. He located in Hillsboro in 1839, and 
 afterward located at old Chambersburg, and was 
 a busy and successful practitioner of medicine 
 until his death, which occurred in August, 1864. 
 He was well versed in medicine and had an ex- 
 tensive practice in obstetrics and diseases of 
 women. He was a fine conversationalist and 
 loved to mingle with medical men. 
 
 Dr. Caleb V. Jones came to Covington in the 
 fall of 1840 and practiced medicine for forty 
 years. Dr Jones was surgeon in the civil war. 
 
 Dr. William! Colvert located near Stone Bluff; 
 was a distinguished pioneer physician of Foun- 
 tain County. He was born in Ohio in 1819, and 
 came to this county during his boyhood, attended 
 the University of Greencastle and afterward read 
 medicine with Dr. Crawford. He was a suc- 
 cessful physician from 1847 to his death, which 
 occurred a few years ago. Before reading medi- 
 cine he taught for some years in the public 
 schools, and his most noted pupil was the Hon. 
 D. W. Voorhees. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIANA. 137 
 
 Dr. Joseph Ogden came to this county in the 
 early forties. He was an excellent physician. 
 Dr. AYaite located in this county at an early 
 date. Dr. Bryant was also an early pioneer. Dr. 
 Chester Clark came at an early date to Coving- 
 toU;, but in later years abandoned the practice 
 for the nursery business. Dr. McElwee came to 
 the county after the Civil War. Dr. John S. 
 Riffle began the study of medicine in 1849. He 
 practiced medicine at ISTewton and in Yeeders- 
 burg, and was a member of the United States 
 pension board after 1867. He was an assistant 
 surgeon in the Fortieth Eegiment, Indiana Vol- 
 unteers. Drs. Miles and Sherman were practi- 
 tioners at one time at Newtown. 
 
 Dr. James C. Burlington graduated in 1877 
 from Cincinnati Medical College. Located at 
 Attica in 1878. Died several years ago. Dr. A. 
 L. Whitehall practiced near Newtown in 1832. 
 and later at Attica until his death. Dr. Samuel 
 Fullenwider at an early date practiced at Xew- 
 town. Dr. Leach at one time practiced at At- 
 tica; removed to Crawfordsville and later to 
 Park County. Dr. George C. Hays located at 
 Hillsboro and died there after a long practice. 
 He was a graduate of the Medical College of 
 Indiana. Dr. John AY. Mock, a graduate of a 
 medical college of Ohio, 1863, was a surgeon in 
 the One Hundred and Eleventh Eegiment, Ohio 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Dr. Samuel J. Weldon was born in London, 
 England, June, 1801, and graduated in New 
 York City. He was well versed in medicine, a 
 fine conversationalist and a prominent druggist. 
 
138 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 He was present at the formation of the Indiana 
 State Medical Society in 1849, and also at the 
 organization of the Fountain Connty Medical 
 Society in April, 1867. Died in 1881. 
 
 Dr. Samuel I. Mock graduated at the Medical 
 College of Ohio in 1874; came to Covington in 
 in 1879, and afterward removed to Iowa, where 
 he died shortly afterward. Dr. C. D. Watson, a 
 graduate of Eush Medical College, came to Cov- 
 ington, was present at the organization of the 
 Fountain County Medical Societ}^, and afterward 
 removed to California. Dr. John T. Wells prac- 
 ticed in Yeedersburg in 1876. Dr. A. J. McLel- 
 land practiced at Yeedersburg for some years 
 and died in that village. 
 
 Early Physicians of Jacks on^ County. 
 
 For the facts in the histories of the following 
 physicians I am indebted to Dr. A. C Osterman, 
 of Seymour, Ind., the paper being forwarded to 
 me by Dr. G. H. Kaniman, Secretary of the 
 Jackson County Medical Society, 
 
 The history of the early physicians of Jack- 
 son County is not very well known. Tradition 
 tells of Dr. Dudley, who located in this county 
 and platted the village of Dudleytov/n in 1810. 
 While the more populous parts of the county of 
 that time, Vallonia and Brownstown, certainly 
 had physicians, yet nothing authentic is known 
 of their names. 
 
 Dr. Samuel Wert, of German parentage, was 
 born in Pennsylvania in 1794; graduated from 
 Jefferson Medical College in 1810; after an 
 eventful career in the Spanish navy and in Mex- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 130 
 
 ico, located in Brownstown in 1825, where he 
 practiced successfully until 1863, the year of his 
 death. 
 
 Dr. Solomon Jackson, the next physician of 
 whom we hear, practiced in Eockford in 1835. 
 
 Drs. James Crippen and David Vanuise were 
 at Eeddington about 1838. The late Dx. Wilson 
 located near the present village of Sparksville 
 about the same time. Two more physicians were 
 at Vallonia whose names are not known to the 
 author. This was about the number of physi- 
 cians who were located in the county up to 1840. 
 With the increase of population between the for- 
 ties and fifties physicians began to locate in the 
 county. 
 
 Dr. James H. Green began practice in Dudley- 
 town in 1846. Dr. Stage then located at what is 
 now known as Sidney about the same time. 
 
 The first county society was organized on April 
 13, 1852. Dr. Wert was its first president, Dr. 
 D. B. Hillis vice-president. Dr. J. L. Eoe record- 
 ing secretary, and Dr. E. Long librarian. Other 
 members present were Drs. Ford, Morgan and 
 Bain. At a meeting two months later Drs. John 
 Williamson, James H. Green, C. T. Williamson, 
 J. T. Monroe, E. D. Wert and S. H. Charlton 
 were elected to membership. 
 
 Dr. Brand, a graduate of Vienna and a pupil 
 of the elder Eokitansky, located at Eockford 
 in 1848. Dr. Eoesgen, a graduate of Heidelberg 
 and Bonn, located at Dudleytown in 1851; both 
 these men were well grounded in medicine and 
 were gentlemen of remarkable diagnostic talents, 
 who added credit to their profession, as well as 
 
140 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 the profession of southern Indiana^ during their 
 sojourn among the people of Jackson County. 
 These were all the members of the profession, as 
 far as the author is able to say, that were lo- 
 cated in the county up to 1852. 
 
 During the sixties Drs. Shoots and Eodman 
 were at Freetown, Drs. Joseph Davis, Bain and 
 Shields at Cortland, Dr. Fields at Tampico, Dr. 
 \¥ells at Clear Spring, Drs. Cummings and Gib- 
 son at Houston, Drs. John T. Shields, Newkirk 
 and J. D. Monroe located at Seymour. Dr. 
 Tinsh began the practice of medicine about the 
 same time, but his first location is unknown. Dr. 
 Eobertson located at Yallonia, and a physician 
 whose name is unknown practiced for a few 
 years at what is now known as l^ewry. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board of County Commis- 
 sioners in June, 1862, a petition referring to 
 the pauper practice of the county was presented 
 to the board, signed by the following physicians, 
 then in active practice in the county, but not 
 all members of the county society : Drs. Wert, L. 
 J. Stage, C. T. Williamson, L. Z. Shewmaker, 
 Jacob Boaz, T. A. Williamson, J. H. Payne, 
 Fields, Smith, Kimberline, Maxwell, Blaiid, Sap- 
 per, Hatfield, Daniels, Eamsey, Eobertson, Green 
 and Bain. These men were all in active practice 
 in this county. 
 
 In those days there were scarcely any well de- 
 fined roads and patients were far apart. Visits 
 were made on horseback and the ample saddle 
 bags were always the badge of the doctor. It 
 was before the days of refinement of pharmacy. 
 Eoots, herbs and barks were the armamentarium 
 
MEDICAL HLSTORY OF INDIANA. 141 
 
 of the practitioner. Calomel and jalap were 
 dealt unsparingly. The bitter Peruvian bark and 
 the lancet were their only fever remedies. An- 
 esthesia was unknown; but this did not deter 
 them from performing major and minor opera- 
 tions. They worked sometimes under the most 
 trying conditions. Those early days were truly 
 heroic ones; no less for the physician than the 
 patient. Yet, with all this seeming primitiveness 
 and the limited means of practicing medicine 
 and surgery, these men were successful and their 
 patients lived to bless them. The earlier and 
 older ones have all passed away. Some rest in 
 unmarked graves. i(o lordly monuments com- 
 memorate the spot made sacred as the resting 
 place of these heroes; yet heroes these men 
 were. They performed the most heroic service, 
 and oftentimes without reward, at the call of 
 their patients, at any hour, in storm and stress 
 and in midnight darkness, with nothing to guide 
 them, and oftentimes straying from the road or 
 path ; yet they performed these labors with pleas- 
 ure and their reward was only the welfare and 
 health of their patients. Truly they bore the 
 cross to attain the crown ; the justice of a better 
 world will be their reward. 
 
CHAPTEE XVI. 
 
 FORMATIOX AXD GeOWTH OF OUR PRESENT 
 
 State Medical Association. — List of 
 
 Membership from Formation to 
 
 THE Year 1860. 
 
 Inasmuch as but one or two copies of the early 
 Transactions of onr State Medical Society are 
 known to be in existence^ and these exposed to 
 the dangers of fire or decay of time, I think it 
 proper to reprint some historical data that ought 
 not to be lost or forgotten.* 
 
 I have access to the copies in the Indianapolis 
 City Library. These were generously presented 
 to the library by Dr. L. D. Waterman on Dec. 1, 
 1898. 
 
 I find no evidence that a formal or informal 
 call w^as made for the meeting to assemble at 
 Indianapolis, but presume such a request had 
 been made.f I quote as follows: 
 
 "The State Medical (convention assembled in 
 Wesley Chapel, at Indianapolis, on Wednesday, 
 June 6, 1849, at 10 o'clock a. m. A temporary 
 organization was effected by calling Dr. John 
 
 * Since 1904, "Society" is changed to "Association." 
 t Since writing the above, I find tliat notice had been 
 given for such a meeting : "Indianapolis had a lo'cal Medi- 
 cal Society, and in May, 1849, a call was sent out by it 
 for a State Convention the following month. Private 
 letters were sent by the members to their medical friends 
 over the State inviting them to attend the meeting to be 
 held June 6, 1849." Dr. W. H. Wishard, President's ad- 
 dress. — Trans. 1889, p. 17. — G. W. H. K. 
 
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144 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Sanders to the chair and appointing Dr. John 
 S. Bobbs Secretary/^ 
 
 Some discussions have occurred as to who was 
 the first President of the State Society, but that 
 subject is easily determined by a reference to 
 the Transactions.* The first copy shows the title 
 page as follows : "Proceedings of the State Med- 
 ical Convention of Indiana, held at Indianapolis, 
 June, 1849. Indianapolis: Printed by John D. 
 Defrees, 1849." It is a pamphlet of fourteen 
 pages. 
 
 It will be observed that the meeting was styled 
 "Convention," and not "Society." In fact, it 
 was not regarded by those present as a regular 
 meeting of the society, but rather an assembly 
 for the organization of a state society. It was 
 the Declaration of Independence for medical so- 
 cieties in Indiana ! 
 
 The title page of the second copy of Transac- 
 tions reads quite differently : "Proceedings of 
 the First Annual Meeting of the Indiana State 
 Medical Society, held in the city of Indianapolis, 
 May, 1850. Indianapolis: Printed by Elder & 
 Harkness, 1850." This is a pamphlet containing 
 thirt5^-two pages. It is styled a "Society" now, 
 and is recorded as the "First." This is the be- 
 ginning for numbering the other Transactions. 
 
 At the "convention" Dr. John H. Sanders was 
 called temporarily to the chair. Later a perma- 
 
 * Those interested in ttiis discussion are referred to 
 obituary of Dr. Cornett, Ind. Med. Jour.. Vol. xv, p. 515, 
 also, "The First President of the Indiana State Medical 
 Society. — Letters from Dr. Cornett's son, from the late Dr. 
 John S. Bobbs (Dec. 10, 1849). and from Dr. Wm. A. Mac- 
 Coy, of Madison, Ind.'" — lb., Vol. xvi, p. 23. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 145 
 
 nent organization was effected and Dr. Living- 
 ston Dunlap was made permanent chairman. He 
 delivered no address. At this meeting a commit- 
 tee of one from each district represented was ap- 
 pointed to nominate officers for the "society." 
 Drs. Bullard, Kersey, Eyan, Florer and Mullen 
 were appointed, who reported the following 
 named gentlemen for the respective offices, to 
 which the convention elected them: President, 
 Dr. W. T. S. Cornett; Vice-Presidents, Drs. Asa- 
 bel Clapp, Nathan Johnson, Livingston Dunlap 
 and Uriah Farquhar; Secretary, Dr. John S. 
 Bobbs ; Treasurer, Dr. John L. Mothershead. 
 
 The society convened at Indianapolis on May 
 15, 1850. Dr. Cornett presided and gave an ad- 
 dress on the subject, "Eise, Progress, Present 
 State and Future Prospects of Medical Science." 
 It was delivered in the evening at "candle light." 
 
 , The following is a list of the names of physi- 
 cians at the convention in 1849 : 
 
 Dr. Alexander J. Mullen, of Xapoleon. 
 
 Dr. Nathan Johnson, of Cambridge City. 
 
 Dr. Yierling Kerse}^, of Milton, Wayne 
 County. 
 
 Dr. Thomas W. Florer, of Alamo, Montgom- 
 ery County. 
 
 Dr. John Hunt, of Madison County. 
 
 Dr. Townsend Evan, of Anderson. 
 
 Dr. E. J. Patterson, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. David Hutchinson, of Mooresville, Morgan 
 County. 
 
 Dr. Charles Wallace, of Belleville, Hendricks 
 County. 
 
 Dr. W. E. Smith, of Cumberland. 
 
146 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Dr. H. V. V. Johnson^ of Broad Eipple. 
 
 Dr. John H. Sanders^ of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. W. C. Thompson, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. Livingston Dunlap, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. William H. Wishard, of Johnson County. 
 
 Dr. John L. Mothershead, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. Alois D. Gall, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. C. S. Eamsey, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. George W. Mears, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. Eobert Cnrran, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. Talbott Bnllard, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. John Nntt, of Marion County. 
 
 Dr. Charles Parry, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. Andrew M. Hunt, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. John S. Bobbs, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. David Funkhonser, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. Patrick H. Jameson, of Indianapolis. 
 
 Dr. John M. Gaston, of Indianapolis. 
 
 On the second day, June 7, the committee on 
 credentials reported favorably upon the following 
 named persons, and they were admitted as mem- 
 bers: 
 
 Drs. Asahel Clapp, John Sloan, S. E. Leonard, 
 P. S. Shields, William Cooper, William G. Sin ex, 
 William A. Clapp, William A. Scribner and H. 
 M. Dowling, of New Albany ; Chester G. Ballard, 
 of Waveland; Henkle and Farquhar, of Wabash; 
 William F. Collum, of Jeff ersonville ; James S. 
 Athon, of Charleston; James S. Harrison, of In- 
 dianapolis; Thomas W. Fry, James Tichnor, Jo- 
 seph Allen and Oliver P. Mahan, of Crawfords- 
 ville; George M. Huggins, of Darlington; Wil- 
 liam J. Byers, of Frankfort; White, of Prairie- 
 ville; John M. Bo5^d, of Thorntown; Samuel J. 
 Weldon, of Covington; Hunt, of Laporte; Wil- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 147 
 
 liam T. S. Cornett, James K. Francis, Richard 
 B. Conn and John Lewis, of Eipley County; 
 Isaac Finley and Homer T. Hinman, of Colum- 
 bus; Wiley, of Richmond; Foster, James D. Max- 
 well and Robert C. Hamil, of Bloomington; S. 
 Judkins and J. A. Pegg, of JS^ew Garden, Wayne 
 County; Joseph H. D. Rogers, William Davidson. 
 Holcomb, J. W. Mullen and B. F. Mullen, of 
 Napoleon; Eldridge, Myron H. Harding, Taylor 
 and Jonathan W. Gordon, of Dearborn County; 
 Jeremiah H. Brower, of Lawrenceburg ; John W. 
 Moodey, John L. Armington and George W. 
 New, of Greensburg; T. W. Cowgill, Albert G. 
 Preston and H. E. Talbott, of Greencastle; Jo- 
 seph C. Ardery, of Decatur County; Jefferson 
 Helm, of Rush County, and Willis W. Hitt, of 
 Vincennes. 
 
 The physicians named in the preceding para- 
 graph came to the state convention on the second 
 day and were received by credentials. Unfortu- 
 natel}^, in the hurry and bustle of business, in 
 almost every case the Christian name or initial 
 was omitted. I have sent out numerous letters, 
 besides a request in The Journal, for assistance 
 in correcting the omissions. Inasmuch as thev 
 were present at the first m-eeting, I felt anxious 
 to preserve their full names. I have succeeded in 
 nearly all. I think some mistakes have occurred. 
 Dr. T. C. Loukes, of Prairieton, has dili- 
 gently sought for Dr. "White/' accredited to 
 Prairieville,* and is convinced that no phy- 
 sician of that name resided there in 1849. 
 
 c^/J^.V^^ August number of The Journal of the Indiana 
 h>tate Medical Association, Dr. White was erroneously ac- 
 credited to "Prairieton." instead of "Prairieville." The 
 latter was in Clinton county, and was discontinued as a 
 postoffice Aug. 9, 1856. 
 
148 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ^^Sloan^^ of Crawfordsville appears in the minutes 
 erroneously for Dr. John Sloan of New Albany, 
 I am of the opinion that there are other errors of 
 location. The minutes show the names of eighty- 
 four persons present at this convention. 
 
 Sixty years have passed since that body of 
 grand men met in Indianapolis and laid the 
 foundation for our present efficient State Med- 
 ical Association. Only two of that number are 
 alive toda}^. Dr. Patrick H. Jameson^ born in 
 Jefferson County, Indiana, April 18, 1824, and 
 Dr. William H. Wishard, bom in Nicholas Coun- 
 ty, Iventuck}^, Jan. 17, 1816, Both are residents 
 of Indianapolis. 
 
 I am sure that the entire medical profession of 
 Indiana will unite with me in paying this little 
 tribute of respect to these honored men. 
 
 At this preliminary meeting a number of prac- 
 tical questions were discussed and acted upon. 
 One was the expediency of establishing a medical 
 journal, and Drs. George W. Mears, Vierling 
 Kersey and Eobert Curran were appointed a 
 committee to report some definite action. It was 
 several years before a journal was created, but 
 their action was helpful. 
 
 Again, Dr. E. J. Patterson offered the follow- 
 ing resolution, which was adopted: 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to 
 memorialize the Legislature of the state, upon the sub- 
 ject of Homicidal Insanity — asking the enactment of a 
 law requiring that in all cases where the plea of in- 
 sanity is set up as an excuse for crime, the question of 
 insanity shall be first and separately tried and decided 
 by a commission of lunacy. 
 
 Also, on motion of Dr. John H. Sanders, it 
 was 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 149 
 
 Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to 
 memorialize the Legislature, asking them to provide 
 by law for a registration of marriages, births and 
 deaths. 
 
 The good seed sown by those early pioneer 
 physicians has borne fruit, and they deserve 
 praise for their forethought. 
 
 The state society had not long been in existence 
 until death entered. At the session of 1850 Dr. 
 John H. Sanders, who had acted as temporary 
 chairman at the first convention, had passed 
 away (April 4, 1850), also Dr. T. AY. Cowgill, 
 and the following resolution was passed (Trans- 
 actions 1850, page 7) : 
 
 Resolved, That as a society we sincerely feel the loss 
 we have sustained in the recent death of John H. San- 
 ders, M.D., of Indianapolis, and T. W. Cowgill, M.D., 
 of Greencastle. 
 
 The society early recognized the necessity for 
 a high standard of preparation for those desiring 
 to enter the profession, as shown by resolution, 
 1850, page 9 : 
 
 Resolved, That this society recommend to the mem- 
 bers of all local societies, and the profession through- 
 out the state, that they do not receive students into 
 their offices for a less term than three years, including 
 the usual term of public pupilage, and that they re- 
 quire a fee for office instruction, and the use of books, 
 of_ not less than $100, and that preceptors should in- 
 stitute frequent examination of their pupils. 
 
 It was further resolved that a broad line of 
 distinction between scientific medicine and the 
 various forms of empiricism in vogue in our 
 country should be plainly marked and seen. Phy- 
 sicians were urged to exert their influence with 
 newspaper publishers and druggists to prevail 
 upon them to withhold their aid to such impos- 
 
150 MEDICAL HISTORY OF 11^ DIANA. 
 
 ture. And they had their troubles in the good 
 old days ! 
 
 The im2:)ortance of keeping accurate notes of 
 all important cases and epidemic diseases which 
 might come under their observation was urged 
 upon physicians. This was fifty-nine years ago. 
 and is still applicable to all young physicians of 
 the present day. By all means, young men, keep 
 a case-book. The writer was impressed with this 
 advice when, more than forty years ago, he heard 
 the older Austin Flint make the assertion that 
 his success in medicine had largely been due to 
 the fact that throughout his life he had kept a 
 case-book. 
 
 The society also stood firmly for the code of 
 ethics and all the principles that it inculcated. 
 
 Another resolution introduced at this meeting 
 
 (1850) is applicable at the present day (page 8) : 
 
 Resolved, That it is expedient for the members of our 
 profession to avail themselves of all suitable occasions 
 to deliver popular lectures on the grand principles of 
 physiology, on which the theory of practice in medicine 
 is instituted, with the view of instructing the public 
 mind and popularizing the regular system of medicine. 
 
 Also at this meeting they grappled with prob- 
 lems that, for the sake of science, we all regret 
 they left undetermined : 
 
 Resolved, That a committee be appointed by the 
 president to collect, in a systematized form, facts on 
 the duration of pregnancy and the causes which influ- 
 ence sex. 
 
 The eleventh annual session of the state so- 
 ciety was held at Indianapolis, May 17 and 18, 
 1860. On page 62 of that year's Transactions 
 may be found a list of the members of the Indi- 
 ana State Medical Society, with a statement that 
 "This list includes the names of all who have 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIAXA. 151 
 
 been members of the society since its organiza- 
 tions.'' This is not quite correct^, for I have dis- 
 covered more than a dozen names which have 
 been doubtless accidentally omitted and have 
 added them to the list. I have also corrected 
 some typographical errors^ and in a number of 
 instances supplied the Christian name where I 
 found only an initial letter. As the society was 
 eleven years old at the time of the publication of 
 this list, and there are about 329 names of phy- 
 sicians who were then active in professional life 
 and who now, after half a century has elapsed, 
 deserve this slight recognition, I have decided to 
 reproduce their names. 
 
 Comparing the location year by year of these 
 physicians, I was impressed with the large num- 
 ber who had changed their residences in the 
 short period of eleven years, showing a desire for 
 better surroundings. Nearly all "have fallen 
 asleep." Alas, how few would answer to their 
 names at a roll-call today ! I think the living 
 could be numbered upon the fingers of two, if not 
 one, hand. 
 
 "And the names we loved to hear 
 Have been carved for many a year 
 on the tomb." 
 
 Albertson, Edmund Canton 
 
 Allen, Joseph , Crawfordsville 
 
 Angell, Charles Pittsburg 
 
 Ardery, Joseph C. (Decatur Co.) Milford 
 
 Armington, John L Greensburg 
 
 Athon, James F Charleston 
 
 Austin, Thomas K New Albany 
 
 Ayres, Henry P Fort Wayne 
 
 Ballard, Chester G Waveland 
 
 Barritt, J. J Greenville 
 
152 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Bartholomew, B Danville 
 
 Beck, E. W. H Delphi 
 
 Beck, G. G Delphi 
 
 Beck, John C Cadiz 
 
 Belles, J. T Indianapolis 
 
 Bennett, J. W Plymouth 
 
 Blunt, M. S Mt. Vernon 
 
 Bobbs, John S Indianapolis 
 
 Bowman, Charles New Albany 
 
 Boyd, John M Thorntown 
 
 Boynton, A. G Elizabethtown 
 
 Boynton, C. L Elizabethtown 
 
 Bray, Ebenezer Evansville 
 
 Bray, Madison J Evansville 
 
 Brown, Clay Indianapolis 
 
 Brown, B. T Crawfordsville 
 
 Brown, Samuel M New Bethel 
 
 Brower, J. H Lawrenceburg 
 
 Buck, Dayton 
 
 Buck, E. H Clarksburg 
 
 Bush, O Dayton 
 
 Bullard, Talbott . . . Indianapolis 
 
 Bullard, W. R Indianapolis 
 
 Burns, Jesse Evansville 
 
 Butler, A. B . Richmond 
 
 Butterfield, S. H Brooklyn 
 
 Byers, William J Frankfort 
 
 Byf ord, W. H Evansville 
 
 Carlstadt, F. A Evansville 
 
 Casselberry, Isaac Evansville 
 
 Carter, F. M Frankfort 
 
 Catlin, H. W Georgetown 
 
 Chapman, A Alquina 
 
 Chestnut, Thomas Lafayette 
 
 Chitwood, G. R Connersville 
 
 Clark, 0. L Lafayette 
 
 Clapp, Asahel New Albany 
 
 Clapp, W. A New Albany 
 
 Coe, Henry Danville 
 
 Coe, Z. B Kirklin 
 
 Cogley, T. J Madison 
 
MEDICAL HLSTORY OF INDIANA. 153 
 
 Collier, A. G Columbus 
 
 Coleman, Horace Logansport 
 
 Collings, J. S Cicero 
 
 Collins, Wm. F Cumberland 
 
 Collum, William F Jeffersonville 
 
 Comingor, J. A Danville 
 
 Conn, Richard B Ripley County 
 
 Conyngton, John Mt. Vernon 
 
 Cooper, William New Albany 
 
 Cornett, W. T. S Versailles 
 
 Cowgill, T. W Greencastle 
 
 Crippen, E. H Rushville 
 
 Crouse, D. H Dayton 
 
 Curran, Robert Jeflfersonville 
 
 Cyms, W. H Allisonville 
 
 Darraeh, G. M Indianapolis 
 
 Davidson, B. K Evansville 
 
 Davidson, William Madison 
 
 Day, S. D Shelbyville 
 
 Davis, J. B Indianapolis 
 
 Davis, W. H Illinois 
 
 Davis, S Columbus 
 
 DeBruler, James P Rockport 
 
 Deming, Elizur H Lafayette 
 
 Dillon, A. C Rushville 
 
 Dicken, James L Somerset 
 
 Doneghy, John T Indianapolis 
 
 Dorsey, N. J Indianapolis 
 
 Dowling. H. M New Albany 
 
 Dryden, T. F Xorth Field 
 
 Dunlap. Livingston Indianapolis 
 
 Dunn, J Lawrenceburg 
 
 Dunnell, D Yountsville 
 
 Edgerle, G. W., Jr Muncie 
 
 Elder, Samuel F Mt. Auburn 
 
 Elder, B. F Knightstown 
 
 Eldridge Dearborn County 
 
 Ellis, C. R Hardinsburg 
 
 Ellis, E. W. H Indianapolis 
 
 E'llis, John Hardinsburg 
 
 Ellis, Joseph Bradford 
 
154 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Elliott, Cyrenus Milltown 
 
 Elliott, James H Brookville 
 
 Elliott, Thomas B Indianapolis 
 
 Elliott, W. M Evansville 
 
 Everts, C. C Union Mills 
 
 Farquhar, Uriah Logansport 
 
 Farrell, A Mt. Vernon 
 
 Field, Nathaniel Jeff ersonville 
 
 Finley, Isaac Columbus 
 
 Fishback, Charles Shelbyville 
 
 Fisher, Samuel Newcastle 
 
 Florer, Thomas W Alamo 
 
 Ford, James Wabash 
 
 Foster, W. C Mt. Pleasant 
 
 Foster, C. A Evansville 
 
 Francis, James K Ripley County 
 
 Freeman, S. A Fort Wayne 
 
 French, William H Mt. Vernon 
 
 Fry, Thomas W Crawfordsville 
 
 Funkhouser, David Indianapolis 
 
 Gall, A. D Indianapolis 
 
 Gaston, John M Indianapolis 
 
 Gerard, Jerome B Hartford 
 
 Girdner, J. G Greenville 
 
 Gordon, Jonathan W Indianapolis 
 
 Graff, George B Princeton 
 
 Graham, J. N Chicago, 111. 
 
 Graydon, R. G Greenwood 
 
 Gramm, William Evansville 
 
 Green, J. N Shelbyville 
 
 Green, W. F Shelbyville 
 
 Grimes, Samuel Delphi 
 
 Haines, A. B Aurora 
 
 Hall, D. D Connersville 
 
 Hamil, Robert C Bloomington 
 
 Harding, M. H Lawrenceburg 
 
 Harrington, S. H Richmond 
 
 Harvey, Thomas B Plainfield 
 
 Harrison, James S Indianapolis 
 
 Harvey, William F Plainfield 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. loo 
 
 Hatchitt, James G Evansville 
 
 Haughton, R. E Richmond 
 
 Heald, J. E West Point 
 
 Heavenridge, A Stilesville 
 
 Helm, Jefferson Rusliville 
 
 Henderson, H. D . . Salem 
 
 Henkle Wabash 
 
 Hervey, J. W Germantown 
 
 Hibberd, J. F Richmond 
 
 Hickox, H. C Aurora 
 
 Hillis, D. B Brownstown 
 
 Hinman, H. T Columbus 
 
 Hitt, Willis W Vincennes 
 
 Hoel, John B North Hogan 
 
 Holcomb Madison 
 
 Howard, N. P Greenfield 
 
 Huggins, George M Darlington 
 
 Hunt, John Madison County 
 
 Humphreys, Louis .- . . South Bend 
 
 Hunt, Andrew M Indianapolis 
 
 Hurd, A Oxford 
 
 Hutchinson, David Mooresville 
 
 Ireland, J. M Erancisco 
 
 Irwin, John S . . . . : Madison 
 
 Isler, J Lafayette 
 
 Jameson, Patrick H Indianapolis 
 
 Jennings, D Lafayette 
 
 Jessup, D. H Rising Sun 
 
 Jessup, R. R Rising Sun 
 
 Jewett, Luther Lafayette 
 
 Johnson, E. K Eagle Village 
 
 Johnson, H. V. V Broad Ripple 
 
 Johnson, Joseph Bakers' Corners 
 
 Johnson, Nathan Cambridge City 
 
 Johnson, P. Roosevelt Lafayette 
 
 Jones, David M Corydon 
 
 Judkins, S New Garden 
 
 Kennedy, Levi H Belleville 
 
 Kennedy, S. A Fairland 
 
 Kersey, Vierling Milton 
 
156 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIANA. 
 
 Knepfler, Nathan Indianapolis 
 
 Kitchen, J. M Indianapolis 
 
 Kivett, John Evansville 
 
 Latta, M. M Goshen 
 
 Leonard, S. E New Albany 
 
 Lewis, John Ogden 
 
 Leslie, Alexander Petersburg 
 
 Link, Harvey New Albany 
 
 Linton, S. M Columbus 
 
 Lloyd, Frederick New Albany 
 
 Lindsley, John Evansville 
 
 Lomax, William Marion 
 
 Low, Nathan M Elizabeth 
 
 Lynch, M. J Indianapolis 
 
 Maclean, George M New Albany 
 
 Mahan, Oliver P Crav\^f ordsville 
 
 Martin, M. L Middle Fork 
 
 Mauzy, E. D Pushville 
 
 Maxwell, James D Bloomington 
 
 Mayo, William W Lafayette 
 
 McClelland, J. S Jefferson 
 
 McClenahan, Thomas J Anderson 
 
 McDonald, D. H Indianapolis 
 
 McFadden, W. G London 
 
 McFall, D. M Cumberland 
 
 McFarland, J. B Lafayette 
 
 McGaughej^, Jonn W Morristown 
 
 McMechan, J. G Crawf ordsville 
 
 Mears, George W Indianapolis 
 
 Meeker, Daniel LaPorte 
 
 Mendenhall, N Plainfield 
 
 Mendenhall, J Ashland 
 
 Metz, J. J Ossian 
 
 Mitchell, G. B Martinsville 
 
 Moffett, John Rushville 
 
 INIoodej'-, John W Greensburg 
 
 Moore, R. C Belleville 
 
 Morgan, Daniel Evansville 
 
 Morris, J. M Sulphur Hill 
 
 Mothershead, John L Indianapolis 
 
MEDICAL Hii-iTOUY OF LMHAXA. 1.37 
 
 Mothershead, F. M Indianapolis 
 
 Mulhausen, H Evansville 
 
 Mulhausen, M Evansville 
 
 Mullen, Alexander J Napoleon 
 
 Mullen, B. F Napoleon 
 
 Mullen, J. W Madison 
 
 Murphy, Edward New Harmony 
 
 Negley, D. N Evansville 
 
 Nesbitt, Joseph A Allisonville 
 
 New, George W Greensburgh 
 
 Newcomer, Frisby S Indianapolis 
 
 Newland, Benjamin Bedford 
 
 Newland, Elijah R New Albany 
 
 Nutt, John Indianapolis 
 
 O'Ferrall, R. M '. Lafayette 
 
 O'Neal, L Somerset 
 
 Olcott, W. A Manchester 
 
 Parker, G. B Indianapolis 
 
 Parry, Charles Indianapolis 
 
 Parvin, Theophilus Indianapolis 
 
 Patterson, B. J Indianapolis 
 
 Pegg, J. A New Garden 
 
 Pennington, Joel Milton 
 
 Personett, L. D Greens Forks 
 
 Pleasants, John H Indianapolis 
 
 Pressley, William H Augusta 
 
 Preston, Albert G. Greencastle 
 
 Rea, John New Castle 
 
 Reader, William Corydon 
 
 Ramsey, C. S Indianapolis 
 
 Reagan, Jesse Spring Valley 
 
 Reagan, A. W Mooresville 
 
 Record, Samuel Lanesville 
 
 Reed, Thomas M Indianapolis 
 
 Reid, Samuel Salem 
 
 Ritter, Levi Plainfield 
 
 Robbins, Clark Monrovia 
 
158 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Eobinson, William E Louisville 
 
 Eoe, John S North Madison 
 
 Rogers, Joseph H. D. Madison 
 
 Rosenthal, J . Fort Wayne 
 
 Ronalds, Hugh Evansville 
 
 Rooker, James I Castleton 
 
 Rowan, B. C Fort Wayne 
 
 Rowland, Wiilard Oswego 
 
 Rucker, T. H New Albany 
 
 Runcie, E. T Millersburg 
 
 Ryan, Townsend Anderson 
 
 Rynerson, J. N Mt. Meridian 
 
 Sanders, John H Indianapolis 
 
 Schonover, William S Hardinsburg 
 
 Scribner, Wm. A New Albany 
 
 Sexton, Marshall Rushville 
 
 Sheppard, M . : . Columbus 
 
 Sherrod, R. W Millport 
 
 Shields, P. S New Albany 
 
 • Sinex, William G . New Albany 
 
 Skinner, John A Vineennes 
 
 Sloan, John New Albany 
 
 Smelsor, J. W Manwaring 
 
 Smith, Hubbard M Vineennes 
 
 Smith, Isaac Lafayette 
 
 Smith, W. R Cumberland 
 
 Somes, Joseph Vineennes 
 
 Spencer, R Monticello 
 
 Spencer, W Monticello 
 
 Spottswood, E. T Perrysville 
 
 Stacy, George W Warsaw 
 
 Stevens; Thaddeus M Indianapolis 
 
 Stout, Oliver H Indianapolis 
 
 Sutton, George Aurora 
 
 Talbot, H. E Greencastle 
 
 Tate, William Lawrenceburg 
 
 Taylor, T. W Battle Ground 
 
 Thomas, M. W . .Franklin 
 
 Thompson, W. Clinton Indianapolis 
 
 Thompson, W. E New London 
 
 Tichnor, James Crawf ordsville 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 159 
 
 Todd, Henry G Indianapolis 
 
 Todd, L. L., Jr Southport 
 
 Todd, R. N Southport 
 
 Town, R. R New Albany 
 
 Tyler, W. W Roanoke 
 
 Vail, Joel Richmond 
 
 Vanderbark, Peter Knightstown 
 
 Vickery, A. M Tipton 
 
 Wallace, A. G Indianapolis 
 
 Wallace, Charles Belleville 
 
 Walker, G. B Evansville 
 
 Walker, John T Evansville 
 
 Walker, Oscar C Blairsville 
 
 Weist, J. R New Westville, 0. 
 
 Welborn, J. C Bloomington 
 
 Weldon, Samuel J Covington 
 
 Wellman, Richard M Jasper 
 
 Wetherill, C. M Lafayette 
 
 West, Calvin Hagerstown 
 
 Wilcox, J. R Evansville 
 
 Willard, R Warsaw 
 
 Wilson, James B Salem 
 
 Wilson, John R Evansville 
 
 Wilson James W Rossville 
 
 Wilstach, C. F Lafayette 
 
 Winton, Horace North Manchester 
 
 Winton, Robert Muncie 
 
 Winton, William R Wabash 
 
 Wishard, William H Greenwood 
 
 Wolf, J. G Morristown 
 
 Woodburn, J. H Indianapolis 
 
 Woodworth, B. S Fort Wayne 
 
 Wort, Samuel Brownstown 
 
 Wright, John F Columbus 
 
 Wright, J. Joel Monrovia 
 
 Wright, H. Mansur Indianapolis 
 
 Wyley, D Jeffersonville 
 
 Yeakle, D. T Lafayette 
 
CHAPTEE XVII. 
 
 Epidemics. — Legal Enactmei^^ts. — Eecext 
 Legislation^. — Law of 1897, — Law of 
 1909. — The State Board of Health. — 
 Sessiois's of the State Medical Society 
 
 AXD ASSOCIATIOX. ChAXGES IN" THE StATE 
 
 Society. — List of Presidents of the 
 Indiana State Medical Society, 
 
 During the early forties an epidemic of ery- 
 sipelas prevailed in a number of counties in In- 
 diana, notably in Dearborn, Eipley and Decatur 
 counties, and was known by the popular name of 
 '^^black tongue." 
 
 In the Western Lancet^ November, 1843, Dr. 
 George Sutton of Aurora contributed an article 
 entitled, "Eemarks on an Epidemic Erysipelas, 
 Known by the Popular iSTame of ^Black Tongue,' 
 AYhich Prevailed in Eipley and Dearborn Coun- 
 ties, Indiana." This article, like everything else 
 that Dr. Sutton wrote, is valuable. The entire 
 article was of so much merit that it was repro- 
 duced in the English work of "Nunneley on Ery- 
 sipelas." I have the American edition of this 
 work before me (Barrington and Haswell, 1844), 
 and the article begins at page 85. An extract 
 from Dr. Sutton's paper will illustrate the char- 
 acter of the disease : 
 
 "The following is a synopsis of the symptoms 
 of this epidemic. Wlien the throat was the part 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 101 
 
 attacked, after the usual premonitory symptoms 
 which have been frequently mentioned had con- 
 tinued for two Or three days, the patient was 
 generally seized with a chill, which lasted in 
 many cases four or five hours. This was fol- 
 lowed by a high fever, swelling of the tonsils, 
 submaxillary, parotid, and lymphatic glands of 
 the neck; neuralgic pains, darting over the side 
 of the neck and head, frequently following the 
 temporal artery; tongue, covered at first with a 
 thick brown coat, soon became swollen and often 
 very dark in the center; deglutition frequently 
 very difficult; pulse generally full, though easily 
 compressed; skin at first hot and dry, becoming 
 moist and continuing so after venesection. In 
 the mild form of the disease these symptoms were 
 frequently removed at once by an active antiphlo- 
 gistic course of treatment. Sometimes the mild 
 form had only the appearance of cynanche ton- 
 sillaris, but in the more malignant form, where 
 the throat was affected, after the above symp- 
 toms had continued for two or three days, and 
 sometimes from the very commencement, the 
 pharynx became of a dark purple color. This 
 color generally spread over the palate, tongue, 
 and sides of the cheeks, the tongue becoming 
 very much swollen, assuming a blackish-brown 
 color; deglutition in many cases was almost im- 
 possible. In most of these cases an erA'Sipelas 
 would commence at the angle of the mouth or 
 nose and spread over the face and head, with all 
 the symptoms peculiar to that disease. The in- 
 flammation of the throat was seldom stationary; 
 sometimes passing down the trachea, with symp- 
 
162 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 toms resembling laryngitis^ or cynanche trachea- 
 lis, and at last assuming the symptoms of pneu- 
 monia. Sometimes this inflammation passed into 
 the nostrils, and from them into the frontal 
 sinuses; sometimes apparently into the antrum 
 maxillary, but in nearly every case that I saw 
 the throat became well while the erysipelas was 
 spreading over the skin.'^ 
 
 In the State Transactions for 1852, page 33, 
 may be found a "Eeport of the Committee on the 
 Practice of Medicine," in which Drs. M. H. 
 Harding of Lawrencebnrg, Ezra Eead of Terre 
 Haute, and John W. Moodey of Greensburg dis- 
 cuss epidemics of scarlatina prevailing in 1837-8 
 and 1846-7. Also epidemics of dysentery, which 
 prevailed at intervals from 1849 to 1852, and 
 which was especially fatal in 1851 and 1852. Dr. 
 Moodey, who was my preceptor, told me that his 
 experience in these epidemics of dysentery was 
 so distressing that he would often come home 
 in the evening discouraged, after having visited 
 from home to home, throw his saddle-bags upon 
 the floor, and declare in his despair that he 
 would see no more patients, but on the morrow 
 the demand of the sick and call to duty was so 
 pressing that he again rallied and went on his 
 sorrowful rounds. I was a boy of eleven years 
 in 1851, but remember distinctly of an older 
 sister, living in Eush County, who lost three 
 children in one week from dysentery. 
 
 At the session of the state society in 1852 a 
 committee was appointed to ascertain in what 
 counties and townships the "milk sickness" pre- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 163 
 
 vails, and whether this disease disappears upon 
 the removal of the forests and cultivation of the 
 land; whether it prevails to the same extent upon 
 the highlands that it does upon the alluvial bot- 
 toms, and any other facts relating to this disease. 
 The query arose as to whether intermittent, re- 
 mittent, congestive, and continued fevers were 
 on the increase or decrease.* 
 
 Cholera prevailed to quite an extent, especially 
 along the navigable water courses of Indiana, 
 in 1849 to 1852. 
 
 The reader is referred to an exhaustive paper 
 by Dr. George Sutton, "A Eeport to the Indiana 
 State Medical Society on Asiatic Cholera as it 
 Prevailed in this State in 1849-50-51-52." State 
 Transactions, 1853, page 109. 
 
 Those days of epidemics antedated by many 
 3^ears the discovery of the germ theory of dis- 
 ease, but the physicians of that period w^ere men 
 of sound judgment and practical sense and man- 
 aged their cases discreetly 
 
 The Transactions for 1852, page 7, record a 
 series of resolutions upon the death of Dr. Henry 
 M. Dowling of New Albany. Nothing is said 
 concerning the date of his birth, nor exact date 
 of his death. He was present at the formation 
 of the state society, and as such deserves this 
 trifling recognition. 
 
 The Transactions for 1864, page 9, records 
 the following resolution: 
 
 That this Society regard with profound regret and 
 sorrow the decease of our lamented confreres, Drs. 
 
 * See report of Dr. J. S. McClelland, Jefferson. Clinton 
 County, State Transactions 1854, p. 43. No positive con- 
 clusions wore reached, but the information is valuablp.— 
 G. W. H. K. 
 
164 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 [Calvin] West, [Talbott] Bullard, Elliott, and Wil- 
 son; that we will cherish their memories in grateful 
 remembrance, and emulate their virtues. 
 
 The Christian name of each one is omitted, 
 and I am only able to determine definitely those 
 of West and Billiard. 
 
 They were affected by fads in the early days 
 of onr state society, much as we are at the pres- 
 ent time. In 1856 Dr. David Hutchinson was 
 appointed to report on blood-letting in epilepsy, 
 and in the Transactions for 1857, page 8, he 
 says: 
 
 "Having examined the literature of the sub- 
 ject, I find that none of our recent authorities 
 have any confidence in blood-letting as a remedy 
 in epilepsy, but, on the contrary, an opposite 
 mode of treatment is advised, the disease being 
 one of debility instead of plethora." Upon this 
 statement the committee was discharged. 
 
 One resolution desired a committee to report 
 a universal fee-bill for the entire state ! I find 
 no record of a report. 
 
 The slaughter of the innocents was prevalent 
 in the sixties and was condemned by resolutions 
 denouncing criminal abortion at the meeting in 
 1860. 
 
 The advantages of vaccination were emphat- 
 ically urged by resolutions in 1860. 
 
 White lead as a remedy for superficial burns 
 came into favor in the early sixties, being espe- 
 cially recommended by the late Prof. S. D. 
 Gross. It was discussed and a committee was 
 appointed to investigate its claims. Whether the 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 165 
 
 remedy lost out or the committee grew careless 
 I can not say; but they made no report. 
 
 A committee was appointed to investigate "the 
 evil effects of tobacco." The committee, long 
 since dead, made no report. 
 
 A word of praise is due the late Dr. Calvin 
 West of Hagerstown, who, in the early sixties, 
 became an enthusiast ever the microscope and 
 made a number of valuable annual reports upon 
 his investigations in the Transactions. 
 
 LEGAL ENACTMENTS. 
 
 At every session of the society charlatanism 
 w^s deplored, and the Legislature was urged to 
 enact such laws as might be requisite for the 
 protection of the state from incompetent and 
 reckless practitioners of medicine and surgery, 
 as well as those who dispensed drugs. Such re- 
 quests were not unreasonable. 
 
 Quackery has always annoyed the profession of 
 our state. As an unbidden guest, it has stalked 
 in our presence, and, like the poor, will, pos- 
 s\hlj, never cease out of the land. In the early 
 history of our state there were stringent laws 
 upon our statute books regulating the practice 
 of medicine. Possibly they were too drastic for 
 those primitive days. Physicians of high grade 
 could not always be secured, nor properly com- 
 pensated for their services, and so men of the 
 "Doc Sifers" stamp and unskilled midwives were 
 suffered, through sympathy, to attend our early 
 inhabitants. Nevertheless, politicians have, as a 
 rule, been the friends of quackery and the scorn- 
 ers of legitimate medicine. 
 
166 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 At the session of the state society held at New 
 Alban}^, May 19, 1853, a memorial from the 
 Evansville Medical Society was presented, and, 
 as it is a fair exponent of the early medical leg- 
 islation, I shall copy the relevant portion : 
 
 Transactions 1852, page 6 : "The Evansville 
 Medical Society having had their attention called 
 to the existence of a large body of irregular 
 physicians, whose ignorance and incapacity exert 
 a manifest injury, both upon the community 
 among whom they practice and the profession 
 whose calling they degrade, and, being anxious, 
 so far as lay in their power, to redress this griev- 
 ance, appointed a committee to report upon the 
 laws of the state of Indiana, formerly bearing 
 upon this subject. 
 
 "The committee reported that several laws 
 upon this subject were passed in the years 1816. 
 1825, and 1830, entitled acts for the better regu- 
 lation of the practice of medicine in the state 
 of Indiana. 
 
 "The first of these acts, passed in the session 
 of 1816, had for its object the organization of 
 the profession into boards of supervision cor- 
 responding with the judicial districts of the 
 state. Provision was made for their perpetua- 
 tion. Authority was conferred upon them to ex- 
 amine and license to practice any applicant whom 
 they might consider properly qualified. It af- 
 fixed a rate or scale of charges for medical serv- 
 ices. And, lastl}^, declared that any person prac- 
 ticing medicine in the state, unless properly au- 
 thorized so to do, either by the license of the 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 1G7 
 
 examining board or otherwise, should not have 
 the assistance of the law in collecting a remunera- 
 tion for his services. 
 
 "The act of 1825 had for its object the better 
 organization of the medical profession. It 
 granted charters to a central state society and 
 to local societies, corresponding to the judicial 
 districts;* enforced the regulations already made, 
 and provided for the continuation of the soci- 
 eties by fixed rules of representation. 
 
 "The act of 1S30 provided for the remedying 
 of certain defects in the old law and for en- 
 forcing its regulations by denying the aid of the 
 law to collect the bills of irregular practitioners. 
 
 "Since 1830 these laws have all been repealed 
 and none others enacted in their places.'^ 
 
 The repeal of these medical laws left our state 
 at the mercy of any one who chose to assume 
 the name of "doctor^^ for the next fifty-five years. 
 
 RECENT LEGISLATION", f 
 
 The first legal attempt in recent years in any 
 manner to regulate the practice of medicine, sur- 
 gery and obstetrics in the state of Indiana was 
 made during the session of the State Legislature 
 of 1885. 
 
 * In the early days of Indiana, physicians were licensed 
 to practice medicine by certificates granted by judicial or 
 medical districts. Dr. John W. Cook of Pendleton, has 
 kindly permitted me to copy one of these papers issued to 
 his father, the late Dr. Ward Cook of Pendleton, in 1832, 
 It is printed on a good quality of parchment ; the seal, 
 stamped on paper, showing an open lancet, is obscure. Dr. 
 Dickinson Burt, who signs this certificate as secretary, 
 was the first physician to locate in Delaware County. 
 These certificates are mentioned elsewhere. 
 
 t The author desires to acknowledge valuable assistance 
 rendered by Dr. George R. Green of Muncie, in this resume 
 of recent State laws. 
 
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 To ith^m ilu'^ie PrcKenis lumj came, Grcetitis: 
 
 Om vxmMnal\tin oitthc t«rio»ts branchm appfrtHtning to the JFrarlire 
 
 
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 (^ '■jRtilen and Re^utati&tti* of nrnd Hofiety, hnth been approvea, mid M^i' 
 
 '% f'r^J\'SM: to JPrttfttce .yie^iinae, Sta'^rryt tma ObMtfyifh)>, is heri'btj 
 \ ^rftHtttt him, We mnreort r reeommend htm to the tutHee of the I'ttc 
 1% utty, rtiid the palrotmse &f the Wnbtic 
 
 
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 Certificate issued in 1832. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIAXA. 109 
 
 This act specified three classes of practitioners 
 who should be permitted to practice under the 
 protection of the law. It provided a system of 
 registration in the counties wherein the appli- 
 cant proposed to practice, and the conditions 
 under which certificates were issued by the clerk 
 of the court were as follows : 
 
 1. Graduates of reputable medical colleges pre- 
 senting a diploma as proof of such graduation, 
 supported by the testimony of two witnesses as 
 to the moral character of the applicant. 
 
 2. Attendance upon one term of medical lec- 
 tures and three years of practice immediately 
 preceding the passage of this act, in the county 
 where application was made, together with proof 
 of good moral character, entitled the applicant 
 to continue practice. 
 
 3. Any physician who had been engaged in 
 practice in the state for ten years immediately 
 preceding the passage of this act, upon proof of 
 this fact, and also good moral character, was 
 likewise permitted to continue in practice. This 
 law practically disturbed no resident practitionei' 
 at the time of its passage in the state. 
 
 Another provision stipulated that after a speci- 
 fied date only those who were graduates of rep- 
 utable medical colleges should be permitted to 
 begin practicing within the borders of the state. 
 
 This law was not perfect, but it marked the 
 beginning of a return to the old laws of real 
 worth which had been enacted and repealed early 
 in the history of the state It was imperfect in 
 that it left the moral standing of the applicant, 
 and the reputability of the college, to the judg- 
 
170 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 me lit of the clerk of the court, from which there 
 was no appeal. There was no regular standard 
 by which to measure the requirements, and the 
 decisions were characterized by a remarkable de- 
 gree of elasticity. 
 
 LAW OF 1897. 
 
 The act of 1897, while replacing the act of 
 1885, provides that all physicians who had reg- 
 istered under the act of 1885 and have been in 
 continuous practice in the state since that date 
 shall be permitted to register under the new law. 
 
 This law also created the Board of Medical 
 Eegistration and Examination, to which all ap- 
 plications for registration must be made, and 
 whose duty it is to issue permits in the way of 
 certificates setting forth that applicants have 
 complied with the provisions of the law. On the 
 presentation of these certificates to the clerk 
 of the court in the county in which the appli- 
 cant lives and proposes to practice, and the pay- 
 ment of a proper fee, a license is issued by the 
 clerk. In case of removal from one county to 
 another the license in the first county is to be 
 deposited in the new county as evidence and a 
 new license issued in lieu of it at the last resi- 
 dence. 
 
 Under this law (1897) the applicant must 
 be a graduate of a reputable medical college, and 
 the standard of the colleges is detemiined by the 
 Board of Medical Eegistration and Examination. 
 This board also has power to determine the pre- 
 liminary educational requirements of applicants. 
 After February, 1903, the board requires an en- 
 trance qualification, the minimum requirement 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 171 
 
 being a high school diploma or equivalent docu- 
 mentary evidence of education. If the applicant 
 can not furnish such diploma as documentary 
 evidence then the board gives an examination. 
 
 Prior to January, 1903, the entrance require- 
 ments were the same as those prescribed by the 
 Association of American Medical Colleges. 
 
 In 1905 the law was amended so as to add an 
 osteopath to the Board of Medical Eegistration 
 and Examination. 
 
 Under certain regulations, reciprocal agree- 
 ments exist between certain states. 
 
 This law is handicapped in view of the fact 
 that the state leaves the entire financial care of 
 the board, together with its expenses, including 
 expenses incurred in punishing violations, to the 
 board itself, and there is no provision for its 
 financial maintenance except that which the 
 board is able to secure in fees from those who 
 come before it for examination. Xo other body 
 of men in the state is required to finance the 
 enforcement of a state law, except physicians, 
 and they are the onlv bodv of men willing to 
 do it ! 
 
 LAW OF 1909. 
 
 The Legislature of 1909 enacted a law regu- 
 lating maternity hospitals, boarding houses for 
 infants, and boarding homes for children, and 
 the placing of infants. It provides for licenses 
 by the board of state charities, fixes liability for 
 the care of infants, prohibits the sending of 
 pregnant women to other counties where their 
 children become public dependents, etc. This bill 
 is beneficent, as it will prevent the heretofore 
 
172 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 nefarious baby-farms which have in many in- 
 stances flourished as adjuncts to the many illicit 
 so-called maternity hospitals. 
 
 THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
 
 In 1891 the general law creating the State 
 Board of Health was enacted. 
 
 In 1901 the regulation of the discharge of 
 factory refuse into the streams in the state wac 
 made a part of the duty of the board. 
 
 In 1903 further legislation was enacted re- 
 quiring physicians or householders to report all 
 cases of suspected contagious diseases to the 
 Board of Health. It also provided for the estab- 
 lishment of quarantine^ and detailed penalties f or 
 violations. 
 
 In 1905 a bill was enacted providing for the 
 establishment of a Laboratory of Hygiene and 
 defining its duties. 
 
 In 1907 further legislation was enacted on the 
 subjects of marriages, births, deaths, diseases aud 
 burial permits, and pre;;cribed penalties for vio- 
 lations. Also in this year the pure food and 
 drug bill was placed upon the statute books, 
 making the chemist of the State Board of Health 
 a food and drug commissioner, and defining his 
 duties, and placing the legal enforcement of this 
 law under the supervision of the State Board of 
 Health. Here, again, lack of funds have hin- 
 dered the efficiency of the law. 
 
 In March, 1909, the Legislature passed an 
 amendment to the former laws regulating the 
 Board of Health. The duties of the State Board 
 of Health are defined and increased. The name 
 of the county health officer is changed to Countv 
 
MEDICAL HlHTOltY Of IXDIAXA. 173 
 
 Health Commissioner. He is to be elected on 
 the first Tuesday in January, 1910, and every 
 four years thereafter. "In every incorporated 
 city there shall be a department of health com- 
 posed of a board of three commissioners, not 
 more than two of whom shall be of the same po- 
 litical party, and at least two of whom shall be 
 physicians well informed in hygiene and sanitary 
 science, and who shall be appointed by the mayor 
 of such incorporated city for the term of four 
 years, and who shall be known as the City Board 
 of Health." 
 
 SESSIOXS or THE TXDIAXA STATE MEDICAL 
 SOCIETY AND ASSOCIATIOX. 
 
 After the formation of the society it was mi- 
 gratory for a time, then was stationary at Indian- 
 apolis for a number of years^ and again became 
 migratory. 
 
 The places of meeting were : 1849 to 1851, 
 1855 to 1864, 1866 to 1895, 1899, 1904, 1907 and 
 1911, at Indianapolis; 1852, ?^ew Albany; 1853 
 and 1898, Lafayette; 1854 and 1902, Evansville; 
 1865 and 1903, Eichmond; 1900, Anderson: 
 1901, South Bend; 1896 and 1910, Fort Wayne: 
 1897 and 1909, Terre Haute; 1905, West Baden; 
 1906, AYinona Lake, and 1908, French Lick. 
 Total : Forty-six times at Indianapolis and six- 
 teen times at other cities. 
 
 The meetings were held either in May or June, 
 except in 1862, when the Civil War interrupted, 
 but a call session occurred the same 3^ear, Novem- 
 ber 18 and 19. At the session held at French 
 Lick in 1908 it was voted that hereafter meet- 
 ings shall be held in the autumn. 
 
174 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IlSWIA^^A. 
 CHANGES IN THE STATE SOCIETY. 
 
 At the session of the society held at Evans- 
 ville (1902), were elected for the first time, mem- 
 bers of the House of Delegates of the American • 
 Medical Association, as follows: For the long 
 term, Drs. G. W. H. Kemper and Edwin Walker ; 
 for the short term, Drs. W. N. Wishard and D. 
 C. Peyton. 
 
 At the next session of the society, held at 
 Richmond (1903), the Indiana members of the 
 House of Delegates submitted a written report 
 (see Transactions, 1903, p. 392) to the society, 
 recommending that the present state society adopt 
 the new constitution as planned by the American 
 Medical Association for the government of state 
 associations. The national association at New 
 •Orleans (1903) had made the change, and sub- 
 stituted for the time honored "Code of Ethics" 
 the new form of government, to be based on the 
 "Principles of Medical Ethics of the American 
 Medical Association." On motion the new con- 
 stitution and by-laws were adopted. It was not 
 to go into effect until the hour of adjournment 
 of the annual meeting, except that the president 
 was to appoint the councilors provided for. 
 
 Prior to this time the business of the society 
 was conducted in general session. Thencefortli 
 the general sessions were to be confined to the 
 reading and discussion of papers, while all busi- 
 ness was to be transacted by the House of Dele- 
 gates. 
 
 With the session of 1904 the society was under 
 the new fonn of government and the name of 
 "society" was changed to "association." 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 175 
 
 The proceedings of each session were published 
 in an annual volume until and including 1907— 
 making fifty-eight in all— when the plan was dis- 
 continued. At the 1907 meeting Dr. G. F. 
 Keiper made a motion, which was adopted, "That 
 the council shall take such steps as they may 
 deem wise toward the creation of a monthly med- 
 ical journal as the organ of this state society, to 
 take the place of the present Transactions ; that 
 this be the recommendation of the House of Del- 
 egates to the council, to report next year." 
 
 In accordance with this resolution the first 
 number of The Journal of the Indiana State 
 Medical Association, as a monthly journal, was 
 issued in January, 1908, at Fort Wayne, Ind. 
 Dr. Albert E. Bulson, Jr., was made editor and 
 manager. 
 
CHAPTEE XVIII 
 
 Pkesidexts of The Ia^dia^a State Medical 
 Society an^d Association. 
 
 Names and Eesidence. Elected. Served. 
 
 MEDICAL CONVENTION. 
 
 "Livingston Dnnlap, Indianapolis 1849 1849 
 
 MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 "William T. S. Cornett, Versailles 1849 1850 
 
 *Asahel Clapp, New Albany 1850 1851 
 
 "^George W. Mears, Indianapolis 1851 1852 
 
 '"'Jeremiah H. Brower, Lawrenceburg . . .1852 1853 
 
 *Elizur H. Deming, Lafayette 1853 1854 
 
 '"Madison J. Bray, Evansville 1854 1855 
 
 '"William Lomax. Marion 1855 1856 
 
 *Daniel Meeker, Laporte 1856 1857 
 
 *Talbott Bullard, Indianapolis 1857 1858 
 
 ^'Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City 1858 1859 
 
 *David Hutchinson. Mooresville 1859 1860 
 
 "Benjamin S. Woodworth, Fort Wayne . . 1860 1861 
 
 *Theophilus Parvin, Indianapolis 1861 1862 
 
 * James J^\ Hibberd, Eichmond 1862 1863 
 
 *John Sloan, New Albany 1863 1864 
 
 *John Moffett (acting) . Rushville 1864 1864 
 
 "Samuel M. Linton, Columbus 1864 1864 
 
 -^Myron H. Harding, Lawrenceburg. ... 1865 1865 
 
 * Wilson Lockhart (acting), Danville. . 1865 1866 
 
 *Vierling Kersey. Richmond 1866 1867 
 
 *John S. Bobbs, Indianapolis 1867 1868 
 
 *Nathaniel Field, Jeffersonville . . . 1868 1869 
 
 *George Sutton, Aurora 1869 1870 
 
 ^Robert N. Todd, Indianapolis 1870 1871 
 
 "Henrv P. Avres, Fort Wavne 1871 1872 
 
MEDICAL HIHTOHY OF JXDIAXA. 177 
 
 ^■Joel Pennington. Milton 1872 1873 
 
 "'■Isaac Casselberi y, Evansville 1873 1874 
 
 "Wilson Hobbs, Knightstown 1873 1874 
 
 *Ricliard E. Haughton, Richmond 1874 1875 
 
 'Mohn H. Helm, JPeru 1875 187(5 
 
 "Samuel S. Boyd, Dublin 1870 1877 
 
 Luther D. Waterman, Indianapolis. ... 1877 1878 
 
 '••'Louis Humphreys, South Bend 1878 . . . J 
 
 ^Benjamin Newland (acting), Bedford 
 
 (V.-P.) 1878 1870 
 
 *Jacob R. Weist, Richmond 1879 1880 
 
 *Thomas B. Harvey, Indianapolis 1880 1881 
 
 '•Marshall Sexton. Rushville 1881 1882 
 
 "William H. Bell. Logansport 1882 1883 
 
 '•Samuel E. Munford, Princeton 1883 1884 
 
 *James H. Woodburn. Indianapolis. . . .1884 1885 
 
 ■'■James S. Gregg, Fort Wayne 1885 1886 
 
 General W. H. Kemper. Muncie 1880 1887 
 
 *Samuel H. Charlton, Seymour 1887 1888 
 
 William H. Wishard, Indianapolis 1888 1889 
 
 '■■James D. Gatch. Lawrenceburg 1889 1890 
 
 '■Gonsolvo C. Smythe, Greencastle 1890 1891 
 
 Edwin Walker, Evansville 1891 1892 
 
 George F. Beasley, Lafayette 1892 1893 
 
 Charles A. Daugherty, South Bend.... 1893 1894 
 
 ''"Elijah S. Elder, Indianapolis 1894 1894 
 
 Charles S. Bond (acting) , Richmond. .. 1894 1895 
 
 Miles F. Porter, Fort Wayne 1895 1896 
 
 James H. Ford, Wabash 1896 1897 
 
 William N. Wishard, Indianapolis 1897 1898 
 
 John C. Sexton, Rushville 1898 1899 
 
 Walker Schell, Terre Haute 1899 1900 
 
 George W. McCaskey, Fort Wayne 1900 1901 
 
 Alembert W. Brayton, Indianapolis. . . .1901 1902 
 
 John B. Berteling, South Bend 1902 1903 
 
 MEDICAL ASSOCIATION". 
 
 Jonas Stewart, Anderson 1903 1904 
 
 George T. MacCoy, Columbus 1904 1905 
 
 *George H. Grant,' Richmond 1905 1906 
 
 George J. Cook, Indianapolis 1906 1907 
 
178 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 David C. Peyton, Jeflfersonville 1907 1908 
 
 George D. Kahlo, French Lick 1908 1909 
 
 Thomas C. Kennedy, Shelbyville 1909 1910 
 
 Frederic C. Heath, Indianapolis 1910 1911 
 
 PRESIDENTS OF THE AMERICAJT MEDICAL 
 ASSOCIATIOlsr. 
 ( From Indiana ) . 
 
 "Theophilus Parvin : 1879 
 
 ••James F. Hibberd 1894 
 
 '^Dead. $E,e signed. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE INDIANA STATE MEDICAL 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 PREPARED BY G. W. H. KEMPER, M.D., MUNCIE 
 
 MEDICAL CONVENTION 
 
 Elected Served 
 
 ^Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City 1849 1849 
 
 "Townsend Ryan, Anderson 1849 1849 
 
 *Thomas W. Florer, Alamo 1849 1849 
 
 *Charles Wallace, Belleville 1849 1849 
 
 MEDICAL SOCIETY 
 
 -=*Asahel Clapp, New Albany .1849 1850 
 
 "Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City 1849 1850 
 
 *Livingston Dunlap, Indianapolis 1849 1850 
 
 "Uriah Farqnhar, Logansport 1849 1850 
 
 -"William Lomax, Marion 1850 1851 
 
 ^Robert Curran, Indianapolis 1850 1851 
 
 '-William Davidson, Madison 1850 1851 
 
 "Willis W. Hitt, Vincennes 1850 1851 
 
 *Henry M. Dowling, New Albany 1851 1852 
 
 *Samuel Grimes, Delphi 1851 1852 
 
 "Joel Pennington, Milton 1851 1852 
 
 *Charles Parry, Indianapolis 1851 1852 
 
 *William H. Byford, Evansville 1852 1853 
 
 "William Davidson, Madison 1852 1853 
 
 -"Vierling Kersey, Milton 1852 1853 
 
 -=^Talbott Bullard, Indianapolis 1852 1853 
 
MEDICAL HLSTORY OF INDIANA. 179 
 
 *Nathan Johnson, Cambridge City 1853 1854 
 
 ■'■James S. McClelland, Jefferson 1853 1854 
 
 "Myron H. Harding, Lawrenceburg 1853 1854 
 
 *Samuel Reid, Salem I853 1854 
 
 "Othniel L. Clark, Lafayette 1854 1855 
 
 ■••Pleasant S. Shields, New Albany 1854 1855 
 
 ■"■Joel Pennington, Milton 1854 1855 
 
 ''John L. Mothershead, Indianapolis 1854 185o 
 
 ^'George Sutton, Aurora 1855 1856 
 
 ■'•George B. Walker, Evansville 1855 1856 
 
 Charles Bowman, New Albany 1855 1856 
 
 "■Daniel Meeker, Laporte 1855 1856 
 
 *John Sloan, New Albany 1856 1857 
 
 "•Willis W. Hitt, Vineennes 1856 1857 
 
 ■■■"Thomas W. Florer, x\lamo 1856 1857 
 
 ■'"John Moffett, Rushville 1856 1857 
 
 '•Thomas J. Cogley, Madison 1857 1858 
 
 """David Hutchinson, Mooresville 1857 1858 
 
 *Calvin West, Hagerstown 1857 1858 
 
 ""William R. Winton, Wabash 1857 1858 
 
 "•'Thomas K. Austin, New Albany 1858 1859 
 
 ■"Benjamin Newland, Bedford 1858 1859 
 
 ■"Thomas W. Fry, Crawfordsville 1858 1859 
 
 """Milton M. Latta, Goshen 1858 1859 
 
 ■^John Sloan, New Albany 1859 I860 
 
 ■"•Robert M. O'Ferrall, Lafayette 1859 I860 
 
 ""James S. McClelland, Jefferson 1859 1860 
 
 ""■Richard E. Haughton, Richmond 1859 1860 
 
 ■••'Jonathan N. Green, Stilesville I860 1861 
 
 """Charles Fishback, Shelbyville i860 1861 
 
 ""Louis Humphrey, South Bend i860 1861 
 
 ■"Isaac Casselberry, Evansville I860 1861 
 
 "*Calvin West, Hagerstown 1861 1862 
 
 '■Henry Cox, Danville. . I86I 1862 
 
 """Alfred H. Robbins, Rochester 1861 1862 
 
 "'•John A. Skinner, Vineennes 1861 1862 
 
 *William R. Winton, Wabash 1862 1863 
 
 ''Horatio G. Sexton, Rushville 1862 1863 
 
 "Albert G. Preston, Greencastle 1862 1863 
 
 '•"John Moffett, Rushville 1862 1863 
 
 '■"Albert G. Preston, Greencastle 1863 1864 
 
180 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 *John Moffett, Kushville 1863 1864 
 
 "Benjamin Newland, Bedford 1863 1864 
 
 """Calvin West, Hagerstown 1863 1864 
 
 *Wilson Lockhart, Danville 1864 1865 
 
 *Thomas B. Harvey, Indianapolis 1865 1866 
 
 *James H. Woodburn, Indianapolis 1866 186V 
 
 *Robert B. Jessup, Vincennes 1867 1868 
 
 "'^Robert N. Todd, Indianapolis 1868 1869 
 
 ''Henry P. Ayres, Fort Wayne 1869 1870 
 
 *Isaac M. Rosenthal, Fort Wayne 1870 1871 
 
 *James K. Bigelow, Indianapolis... 1871 1872 
 
 *Richard E. Haughton, Richmond 1872 1873 
 
 ■"Wilson Hobbs, KnightstoAvn 1873 1874 
 
 ■■William B. Lyons, Huntington 1874 1875 
 
 ■""Ferdinand W. Beard,- Vincennes 1875 1876 
 
 Edmund D. Laughlin, Orleans 1876 1877 
 
 *Noble P. Howard, Greenfield 1877 1878 
 
 *Benjamin Xewland, Bedford 1878 1879 
 
 ^- James D. Gatch. Lawrenceburg 1879 1880 
 
 *John D. Mitchell, Terre Haute 1880 1881 
 
 Flavins J. Van Vorhis, Indianapolis 1881 1882 
 
 *Samuel H. Charlton, Seymour 1882 1883 
 
 William H. Schultz, Lebanon 1883 1884 
 
 * James S. Gregg, Fort Wayne 1884 1885 
 
 William J. Hurt, Waynetown 1885 1886 
 
 William V. Wiles, Spencer 1886 1887 
 
 Calvin W. Burket, Warsaw 1887 1888 
 
 "Albert G. Porter, Lebanon 1888 1889 
 
 Silas T. Yount, Lafayette 1889 1890 
 
 Hugh D. Wood, Angola 1890 1891 
 
 Ervin Wright, Huntington 1891 1892 
 
 Carter H. Smith, Lebanon 1892 1893 
 
 Thomas F. Leech, Crawfordsville 1893 1894 
 
 Charles S. Bond, Richmond 1894 1895 
 
 Edgar L. Larkins, Terre Haute 1895 1896 
 
 William F. Batman, Lebanon 1896 1897 
 
 Jonas Stewart, Anderson 1897 1898 
 
 George F. Keiper, Lafayette 1898 1899 
 
 Samuel Kennedy, Shelby ville 1899 1900 
 
 Anexamander M. Hayden, Evansville. . . . 1900 1901 
 
 John B. Berteling, South Bend 1901 1902 
 
 William H. Gilbert, Evansville 1902 1903 
 
medical history of fxd/axa. 181 
 :medical associatiox 
 
 Charles A. White, Danville • 1003 1904 
 
 Isaac X. Trent, Muncie 1!J03 1904 
 
 Maurice G. Moore, Vincennes 1903 1904 
 
 Homer J. Hall, Franklin 1904 1905 
 
 Claude T. Hendershot, Cannelton 1904 1905 
 
 David J. Loring, Valparaiso 1904 1905 
 
 David W. Stevenson, Richmond 1905 1906 
 
 Harry C. Sharp, Jeffersonville 1905 190G 
 
 William R. Davidson, Evansville 1905 1906 
 
 Jonathan B. Garber, Dunkirk 1906 1907 
 
 Charles C. Terry, South Bend 1906 1907 
 
 Charles Chittick, Frankfort 1906 1907 
 
 William H. Stemm, X'orth Vernon 1907 1908 
 
 August F. Knoefel, Linton 1907 1908 
 
 George R. Green, Muncie 1907 1908 
 
 Edward D. Freeman, Osgood 1908 1909 
 
 Charles H. McCully, Logansport 1908 1909 
 
 Charles Chittick, Frankfort 1908 1909 
 
 Edmund M. Van Buskirk, Fort Wayne. . . . 1909 1910 
 
 Eugene Hawkins, Greencastle 1909 1910 
 
 Theodore Potter, Indianapolis 1909 19lu 
 
 John X. Hurty, Indianapolis 1910 1911 
 
 Andrew S. Dickey, Tipton. •. . . . 1910 1911 
 
 James P. Salb, Jasper 1910 1911 
 
 A CORRECTED LIST OF PHYSICIAXS PRESEXT 
 
 AT THE MEDICAL COXVEXTIOX HELD AT 
 
 IXDIAXAPOLIS, JUXE 6, 1849 
 
 Inasmuch as a number of errors occur in the list of 
 names on page 145, I have deemed it proper to repro- 
 duce them in a corrected form, with the christian name 
 supplied in some in.stances where omissions occurred. 
 I have chosen to give them in alphabetical order at 
 this time. The men who founded our present State 
 Medical Association, deserve at least to have their 
 names correctly recorded. Dr. William H. Wishard, 
 whose name is the last in the list, will be the last of 
 
 ♦Deceased. 
 
182 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 the eighty-four to pass away. On Jan. 17, 1911, he 
 
 celebrated his ninetj^-fifth birthday. 
 
 ALLEN, JOSEPH Crawfordsville 
 
 ARDEEY, JOSEPH C Decatur Co. 
 
 APvMINOTON, JOHN L Greensburg 
 
 ATHON, JAMES S Charlestown 
 
 BALLAPvD, CHESTER G Waveland 
 
 BOBBS, JOHN S .Indianapolis 
 
 BOYD, JOHN M Thorntown 
 
 BROWER, JEREMIAH H Lawrenceburg 
 
 BULLARD, iTALBOTT Indianapolis 
 
 BYERS, WILLIAM J Frankfort 
 
 CLAPP, ASAHEL New Albany 
 
 CLAPP, WILLI AIM A New Albany 
 
 COLLIBI, WILLIAM F Jeffersonville 
 
 CONN, RICHARD B Ripley Co. 
 
 COOPER, WILLIAM New Albany 
 
 CORNETT, WILLIAM T. S Ripley Co. 
 
 COWGILL, TARVIN W Greencastle 
 
 CURRAN, ROBERT Indianapolis 
 
 DAVIDSON, WILLIAM Madison 
 
 DOWLING, HENRY M New Albany 
 
 DUNLAP, LIVINGSTON Indianapolis 
 
 ELD RIDGE, ALBERT Dearborn County 
 
 FARQUHAR, URIAH Logansport 
 
 FENLEY, ISAAC. . . Columbus 
 
 FLORER, THOMAS W Alamo 
 
 FOSTER, WILLIAM C, SR Bloomington 
 
 FRANCIS, JAMES K Ripley County 
 
 FRY, THOMAS W Crawfordsville 
 
 FUNKHOUSER, DAVID Indianapolis 
 
 GALL, ALOIS D Indianapolis 
 
 GASTON, JOHN M Indianapolis 
 
 GORDON, JONATHAN W Dearborn County 
 
 HAMIL, ROBERT C Bloomington 
 
 HARDING, MYRON H Lawrenceburg 
 
 HARRISON, JAMES S Indianapolis 
 
 HELM, JEFFERSON Rushville 
 
 HENKLE, '■ Wabash 
 
 HINIMAN, HOMER T Columbus 
 
 HITT, WASHINGTON WILLIS Vincennes 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 183 
 
 HOLCOMB, JOHN B Madison 
 
 HUGGINS, GEORGE M Darlington 
 
 HUNT, ANDREW M Indianapolis 
 
 HUNT, FRANKLIN W Laporte 
 
 HUNT, JOHN Madison County 
 
 HUTCHINSON, DAVID Mooresville 
 
 JAMESON, PATRICK H Indianapolis 
 
 JOHNSON, H. V. V Broad Ripple 
 
 JOHNSON, NATHAN Cambridge City 
 
 JUDKINS, STANTON. . .New Garden, Wayne Co. 
 
 KERSEY, VIERLING Milton 
 
 LEONARD, SOMERVELL E New Albany 
 
 LEWIS, JOHN Ripley County 
 
 MAHAN, OLIVER P Crawf ordsville 
 
 MAXWELL, JAMES D Bloomington 
 
 MEARS, GEORGE W Indianapolis 
 
 MOODEY, JOHN W Greensburg 
 
 MOTHERSHEAD, JOHN L Indianapolis 
 
 MULLEN, ALEXANDER J Napoleon 
 
 MULLEN, BERNARD FRANCIS Napoleon 
 
 MULLEN, JOHN WILLIAM Madison 
 
 NEW, GEORGE W Greensburg 
 
 NUTT, JOHN Marion County 
 
 PARRY, CHARLES Indianapolis 
 
 PATTERSON, R. J Indianapolis 
 
 PEGG, JESSE A New Garden 
 
 PRESTON, ALBERT G Greencastle 
 
 RAMSEY, C. S Indianapolis 
 
 RODGERS, JOSEPH H. D Madison 
 
 RYAN, TOWNSEND Anderson 
 
 SANDERS, JOHN H Indianapolis 
 
 SCRIBNER, WILLIAM A New Albany 
 
 SHIELDS, PLEASANT S New Albany 
 
 SINEX, WILLIAM G New Albany 
 
 SLOAN, JOHN New Albany 
 
 SMITH, WILLIAM R Cumberland 
 
 TALBOTT, HIRAM E Greencastle 
 
 TAYLOR, W. H Dearborn County 
 
 THOMPSON, W. CLINTON Indianapolis 
 
 TICHNOR, JAMES Crawf ordsville 
 
 WALLACE, CHARLES Belleville 
 
184 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 WELDON, SAMUEL J Covington 
 
 ^A KITE, WILLIAM Prairieville, Clinton Co 
 
 WILEY, JOHX HEZEKIAH Richmond 
 
 WISHAPvD,. WILLIAM H Johnson County 
 
 Total 84. ^ 
 
AVlLLfA.M II. W'iSilAPvl) 
 The la-,t siiivivor of the Medical C'onA'ention of iS-t!) 
 
CHAPTER XIX 
 
 WAR HISTORY. 
 Indiana Physicians in the Mexican War. 
 
 There were five Indiana regiments in tlie Mex- 
 ican War, numbered from One to Five. Sixty- 
 three years have elapsed since the close of that 
 war and the surgeons have all passed away. 
 
 Strange to say, the Mexican War left no valu- 
 able medical history or records. I find in the In- 
 diana Journal of Medicine, volume 5, page 145 
 (August, 1874), a contribution from Dr. Alfred 
 Patton, late of Vincennes, Ind., entitled "Recol- 
 lections of Medical Service During the War with 
 Mexico." In this paper Dr. Patton narrates 
 some interesting observations during his service 
 in that country. The doctor went out as a pri- 
 vate soldier in the First Mississippi Rifles (Jeff 
 Davis' Regiment), but soon after arriving there 
 was detailed in the medical department, where 
 he rendered service during the continuance of 
 the war. I may also state that Dr. Patton dur- 
 ing the late Civil War served as brigade surgeon 
 of Maxey's Brigade (Confederate). 
 
 It is possible that some other Indiana physi- 
 cians may have served in the ranks or as officers 
 during the war, but I have no means at hand for 
 ascertaining their names. 
 
186 MEDICAL HISTORY OF nWIANA. 
 FIRST INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 
 
 Surgeon^ Dr. Caleb V. Jones* (promoted from 
 private) ; assistant surgeon. Dr. William Fos- 
 dick. 
 
 SECOND INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 
 
 Surgeon, Dr. Daniel S. Lane; assistant sur- 
 geon. Dr. John T. Walker. 
 
 THIRD INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 
 
 Surgeon, Dr. James S. Athon; assistant sur- 
 geon. Dr. John G. Dunn. 
 
 FOURTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 
 
 A note from the Adjutant General's office at 
 Washington, D. C, says: "Isaac Fenley, con- 
 tract surgeon. United States Army, is shown to 
 have been on duty with the Fourth Indiana In- 
 fantry Volunteers in the years 1847 and 1848. 
 IvTothing has been found of record to show that 
 any other person was on duty with that organi- 
 zation in a medical capacity.'' (Letter Dec. 14, 
 1908, G.W. H. K.)t 
 
 * See Transactions 1884, p. 213. Was surgeon of the 
 63d Ind. Vols, in Civil War. 
 
 t •'While at Matamoras an amusing incident occnrved. 
 Charges were preferred against one of the medical officers 
 of Col. Willis A. Gorman's [Fourth] Indiana regiment, and 
 I was ordered by the medical director to investigate the 
 charges. I found Colonel Gorman and one of his captains 
 in waiting for me at the colonel's headquarters. In a few 
 words the captain explained the nature of the charge, when 
 he asked, 'What would yoti think of the skill of a physi- 
 cian who prescribed gunpowder, tar and beefsteak, as a 
 diet for a patient very low with typhoid fever?' This was 
 more serious than I expected, and I demanded to see the 
 prescription, which I found was written in the doctor's 
 best style, and which I readily deciphered to mean, 'Diet — 
 Gunpowder tea, and beef tea, every four hours alternately.' 
 T explained the prescription to the colonel and the officers 
 making the charge, and left them better satisfied with their 
 medical officer. The moral of this is that doctors should 
 learn to write a legible hand, as from the neglect to do so 
 they often suffer in reputation, and that which is far worse, 
 it sometimes leads to serious mistakes by druggists and 
 nurses." — Dr. Alfeed Pattox. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 187 
 FIFTH INDIANA VOLUNTEER REGIMENT. 
 
 Surgeon, Dr. James S. Athon; assistant sur- 
 geon, Dr. P. G. Jones. 
 
 Alphabetical List of Surgeons and Assist- 
 ant Surgeons Who Served in Indiana 
 Eegiments During the Civil War.* 
 
 Fortv-six years have elapsed since Lee's sur- 
 render at Appomattox. 
 
 Indiana sent out into the Civil War 136 regi- 
 ments of infantry, 13 regiments of cavalry, 1 
 regiment of artillery, 25 companies of artillery. 
 Including 2,130 naval volunteers, Indiana sent 
 210,497 men to that war, and to care for these 
 she supplied about 500 surgeons. There were 
 24,416 of the sons of Indiana who laid down 
 their lives for their country in that war. 
 
 The regiments in the Mexican War had one 
 surgeon and one assistant surgeon, while those in 
 the Civil War had one surgeon and two assistant 
 surgeons. 
 
 In many instances Governor Morton sent civil 
 surgeons to help care for the wounded after great 
 engagements. A large majority of these surgeons 
 have passed away and the minority is rapidly de- 
 creasing'. 
 
 * In the preparation of this list I have expended both 
 time and care, having diligently compared those of "Adju- 
 tant General's Report of Indiana," "Roster of Regimental 
 Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons During the War of the 
 Rebellion," and the "Oflacial Army Register of the Volun- 
 teer Force of the United States Army." I wish also, to 
 acknowledge valuable assistance from Maj. W. W. 
 Daugherty, Recorder Military Order of the Loyal Legion of 
 the United States, Indianapolis. — G. W. H. K. 
 
188 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Several surgeons saw service in two, and a 
 fewer number in three regiments, and some phy- 
 sicians served as hospital stewards. 
 
 It must be borne in mind that a number of 
 Indiana physicians also served as combatants 
 during the Civil War. Many were enlisted as 
 privates and also line officers of regiments. Quite 
 a number of men who served in the Civil War, 
 and possibly also in the Mexican War, took up 
 the study of medicine after their return home 
 and became valuable members of the medical 
 profession. 
 
 ABBOTT, CHARLES H.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 
 
 ABOBN, ORIN— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 
 
 ADAMS, DAVID— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 
 
 ADAMS, JAMES R.— Asst. Surg., 58th Infantry; Sur- 
 geon, 15th Infantry. 
 
 ADAMS, MARCELLUS M.— Asst. Surg., 116th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 AICHELE, EMII^Asst. Surg., 32nd Infantry. 
 
 ALLEN, JOSEPH S.— Surgeon, 10th Infantry. 
 
 ALLEN, WILLIAM S.— Asst. Surg., 143rd Infantry. 
 
 ALEXANDER, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 27th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 27th Infantry. 
 
 ANDERSON, JOSEPH V.— Asst. Surg., 15th Infantry. 
 
 ANDERSON, WILLIAM— Surgeon, 37th Infantry. 
 
 APPLEGATE, CHARLES H.— Asst. Surg., 73rd In- 
 fantry. 
 
 ARCHER, SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 133d Infantry. 
 
 ARMSTRONG, JAMES B.— Surgeon, 31st Infantry. 
 
 ARNOLD, MARTIN B.— Asst. Surg., 155th Infantry. 
 
 ARTHUR, CHRISTOPHER S.— Surgeon, 75th Inf. 
 
 AVERDICK, HENRY G.— Surgeon, 35th Infantry. 
 
 AVERY, INCREASE J.— Surgeon. 10th Infantry. 
 
 AVERY, JOHN P.— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 
 
 AUSTIN, THOMAS D.— Surgeon, 23rd Infantry. 
 
 BABBITT, EDWARD D.— Asst. Surg., 34th Infantrv. 
 
 BAKER, BRAXTON— Asst. Surg., 130th Infantry. 
 
 BALLARD, MICAJAH— Asst. Surg., 140th Infantry. 
 
 BANKS, EPHRAIM N.— Surgeon, 54th Infantry. 
 
 BARE, ADDISON W.— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantry. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 189 
 
 BARE, JOHN R.— Surgeon, 66th Infantry. 
 
 BARKER, WILLIAM L.— Surgeon, 120th Infantry. 
 
 BASSETT, JOHN Q. A.— Asst. Surg., 74th Infantry. 
 
 BAYSE, THOMAS S.— Surgeon, 36th Infantry. 
 
 BEACHLEY, NATHANIEL J.— Asst. Surg., 22d In- 
 fantry. 
 
 BECK, ELIAS W. H.— Surgeon, 3rd Cavalry. 
 
 BECK, WILLIAM H.— Surgeon, 145th Infantry. 
 
 BECKWITH, LOD W.— Surgeon, 38th Infantry. 
 
 BEEBE, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 148th Infantry.. 
 
 BEEKS, GREEN C— Surgeon, 150th Infantry. 
 
 BELL, NATHANIEL G.— Asst. Surg., 35th Infantry. 
 
 BENCE, ROBERT F.— Surgeon, 33rd Infantry. 
 
 BENNETT, BASIL B.— Asst. Surg., 101st Infantry. 
 
 BENSON, JULIUS L.— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 
 
 BERRYMAN, JAMES A.— Asst. Surg., 135th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 BIGELOW, JAMES K.— Surgeon, 8th Infantry. 
 
 BIGNEY, PETETl M.— Asst. Surg., 18th Infanty. 
 
 BLACKWELL, JOHN A.— Surgeon, 115th Infantry. 
 
 BLACKSTONE, JOHN K.— Asst. Surg., 9th Infantry. 
 
 BLAIR, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, 58th Infantry. 
 
 BLASER, FELIX F.— Asst. Surg., 32nd Infantry. 
 
 BLOUNT, RUFUS F.— Asst. Surg., 118th Infantry. 
 
 BODMAN, EEAM— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 
 
 BOGART, HENRY J.— Asst. Surg., 139th Infantry. 
 
 BOGLE, CHRISTOPHER F.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Inf. 
 
 BOND, RICHARD C— Surgeon, 15th Infantry. 
 
 BOOR, WILLIAM F.— Surgeon, 4th Cavalry. 
 
 BOSWORTH, RICHARD— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 
 
 BOUNELL, MATHEW H.— Surgeon, 116th Infantry. 
 
 BOYD, SAMUEL S.— Surgeon, 84th Infantry.- 
 
 BOYNTON, CHARLES S.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 67th Infantry. 
 
 BOYSE, THOMAS F.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 
 
 BRACKETT, CHARLES— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry. 
 
 BRAY, MADISON J.— Surgeon, 60th Infantry. 
 
 BRAZELTON, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 134th Infantry. 
 
 BRENTON, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 73rd Infantry. 
 
 BROOKS, MORDECAI— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantry. 
 
 BROWN, CLAY— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 
 
 BROWN, JACOB R.— Asst. Surg., 29th Infantry. 
 
 BROWN, JESSE R.— Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 
 
 BROWN, S. CLAY— Asst. Surg., 8th Infantry; Sur- 
 geon, 18th Infantry. 
 
 BROWN, WILKINS B.— Surgeon, 59th Infantry. 
 
190 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 BROWNE, JOHN T.— Asst. Surg., 12th Cavalry. 
 
 BEUCE, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry; Asst. 
 Surg., 8th Infantry; Surgeon, 142nd. Infantry. 
 
 BRUCKER, MAGNUS— Surgeon, 23rd Infantry. 
 
 BRUSIE, LUTHER— Asst. Surg., 3rd Cavalry. 
 
 BRYAN, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 67th Infantry. 
 
 BRYSON. FRANK T.— Surgeon, 48th Infantry. 
 
 BUCK, ROBERT H.— Surgeon, 13th Cavalry; Asst. 
 Sura;., 75th Infantry; Surgeon, 118th Infantry. 
 
 BURTON, WILLIAM A— Asst. Surg., 24th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 
 
 BUSHNELL, SAMUEL B.— Asst. Surg., 11th Cavalry. 
 
 BUTTERWORTH, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, 99th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 BUZETT, EDWARD F.— Surgeon, 49th Infantry. 
 
 BYERS, ALEXANDER R.— Surgeon, 65th Infantry. 
 
 BYRN, SPENCER— Asst. Surg., 23rd Infantry. 
 
 CALDERWOOD, JAMES C— Asst. Surg., -^Srd In- 
 fantry. 
 
 CAMPBELL, JOHN C. L.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry. 
 
 CAMPFIELD, JOHN A.— Asst. Surg., 12th Infantry. 
 
 CARLEY, RUSH— Asst. Surg., 146th Infantry. 
 
 CARR, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 44th Infantry; Sur- 
 geon, 129th Infantry. 
 
 CASSELBERRY, ISAAC— Surgeon, 1st Cavalry. 
 
 CASTERLINE, AMOS B.— Asst. Surg., 52nd Infantry. 
 
 CASTERLINE, ZIBA— Asst. Surg., 84th Infantry. 
 
 CHAMBEIILAIN, JAMES M.— Surgeon, 152nd In- 
 fantry. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, N. A.— Surgeon, 13th Infantry. 
 
 CHAMP, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 139th Infantry. 
 
 CHANDLER, JOSEPH A.— Asst. Surg., 155th Infantry. 
 
 CHARLTON, ROBERT— Surgeon, 79th Infantry. 
 
 CHARLTON, SAMUEL H.— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantry. 
 
 CHITTENDEN, GEORGE F.— Surgeon, 16th Infantry. 
 
 CHITWOOD, JOSHUA— Surgeon, 7th Cavalry. 
 
 CLAPP, WILLIAM A.— Surgeon, 38th Infantry. 
 
 CLIPPINGER, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 14th Infantry. 
 
 CLOWES, DAVID A.— Asst. Surg., 12th Cavalry. 
 
 COLE, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 72nd Infantry. 
 
 COLEMAN, ASA— Protem Asst. Surg., 46th Infantry. 
 
 COLEMAN, HORACEU-Surgeon, 46th Infantry. 
 
 COLLETT, JOSEPH T.— Asst. Surg., 6th Cavalry. 
 
 COLLINGS, ISAAC S.— Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 57th Infantry. 
 
 COLLINS, ERASMUS B.— Surgeon, 51st Infantry. 
 
 COLLINS, GEORGE M.— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 191 
 
 COLLINS, WILLL\M A.— Asst. Surg., 6th Tnfantrv. 
 
 COMINCOR, .lOTTX A.— Surgeon, 11th Infantry. 
 
 CONFEPv, JAMES M.— Surgeon, 29th Infantry. 
 
 CONN, ISAAC T.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry. 
 
 CONNETT, MAHLON C— Asst. Surg., 8th Cavalry. 
 
 COOK, ROBERT H.— Asst. Surg., 12th Infantry. 
 
 COOPER, JOEL S.— Asst. Surg., 115th Infantry. 
 
 COX, JESSE T.— Asst. Surg., 89th Infantry. 
 
 CRAIG, ISAAC N.— Surgeon, 13th Infantry.' 
 
 CRAIG, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 134th Infantry; Asst. 
 Surg., 146th Infantry. 
 
 CRAVE:NS, JAMES W.— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry. 
 
 CRESAP, WILLIAM S.— Asst. Surg., 135th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 154th Infantry. 
 
 CROSBY, THOMAS H.— Asst. Surg., 47th Infantry. 
 
 CROUSE, HENRY M.— Surgeon, 57th Infantry. 
 
 CROWDER, ROBERT H.— Surgeon, 11th Cavalry. 
 
 CULBEPTSON, DAVID P.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 
 
 CULBERTSON, JOSEPH R.— Asst. Surg., 10th Cav- 
 alry. 
 
 CULBERTSON, ROBERT H.— Asst. Surg., 80th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 CULLEN, JOHN C— Surgeon, 16th Infantry. 
 
 CURRY, JOHN— Surgeon, 38th Infantry. 
 
 CYRUS, ^^^[LLIAM H.— Asst. Surgeon, \54th Infantry. 
 
 DALY, GEORGE P.— Asst. Surg., 78th Infantry. 
 
 DARNELL, MILTON, B.— Asst. Surgeon, 43rd In- 
 fantry; Surgeon, 43rd Infantry. 
 
 DAUGHTERS, ANTDREW P.— Surgeon. 18th Infantry. 
 
 DAVIS, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry. 
 
 DAVIS, JOHN W.— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantry; Asst. 
 Surg., 24th Infantry. 
 
 DAVIS, JOSEPH H.— Asst. Surg., 145th Infantry. - 
 
 DAVIS, ROBERT P.— Asst. Surg., 84th Infantry. 
 
 DAVIS, SAMUEL— Surgeon, 83rd Infantry. 
 
 DAVIS, SOLOMON— Surgeon, 10th Cavalry; Surgeon, 
 53rd Infantry. 
 
 DAVIDSON, BENJA]\nN F.— Asst. Surg., 143rd In- 
 fantry. 
 
 DAVIDSON, WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 76th Infantry. 
 
 DAVISSON, HENRY C— Asst. Surg., 54th Infantry. 
 
 DEWEY, ANNIN W.— Surgeon, 101st Infantry. 
 
 DICKEN, JAMES L.— Surgeon, 47th Infantry. 
 
 DIXON, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 59th Infantry. 
 
 DOANE, GEORGE M.— Asst. Surg., 46th Infantry. 
 
 DODD, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 67th Infantry. 
 
 DODGE, HENRY C— Asst. Surg., 74th Infantry. 
 
192 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 DODSON, JONAS H.— Asst. Surg., 4th Cavalry. 
 
 DOME, DAVID C— Asst. Surgeon, 17th Infantry. 
 
 DOWNEY, WILLIAM A.— Asst. Surg., 58th Infantry. 
 
 DUFFIELD, JAMES T.— Asst. Surg., 7th Infantry; 
 Surseon, 76th Infantry. 
 
 DUFFYr JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 145th Infantry. 
 
 DUI^A.TE, JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 53rd Infantry. 
 
 DUNN, A^T:LLIAMS0N p.— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 
 
 DUNN, WILLIAMSON D.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry, 
 1st Heavy Artillery. 
 
 DURAND, AMOS M.— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 52nd Infantry. 
 
 DUTTON, DANIEL B.— Asst. Surg., 123rd Infantry. 
 
 EASTERLING, AMOS— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 
 
 EBERSOLE, JACOB— Surgeon, 19th Infantry. 
 
 EDGERLE. GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 8th Infantry. 
 
 EDWINS, STANLEY W^— Asst. Surg., 124th Infantry. 
 
 ELIOTT. JAMES S.— Surgeon, 86th Infantry. 
 
 ELLIS, HAMILTON E.— Surgeon, 43rd Infantry. 
 
 ELSTON. WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surg., 151st Infantry. 
 
 ENO, NEWTON G.— Asst. Surg., 88th Infantry. 
 
 EVANS, DAVID S.— Surgeon, 69th Infantry. 
 
 EVERTS, ORPHEUS— Surgeon, 20th Infantry. 
 
 FERGUSON, WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surg., 142nd In- 
 fantry. 
 
 FIELD, NATHANIEL— Surgeon, 66th Infantry. 
 
 FISHER, ELIAS— Surgeon, 16th Infantry. 
 
 FITZGERALD, DAVID A.— Asst. Surg., 47th Infantry. 
 
 FITZGERALD, JENIQNS A.— Asst. Surg., 70th In- 
 fantry, 
 
 FLACK, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 50th Infantry. 
 
 FLORER, THOMAS W.— Surgeon, 20th Infantry. 
 
 FORD, JA]\IES— Surgeon, 8th Infantry. 
 
 FORD, JOHN H.— Surgeon, 93rd Infantry. 
 
 FORSTMEYER, EMIL— Asst. Surg., 32nd Infantry. 
 
 FOSDICK, ALBERT C— Surgeon, 5th Cavalry. 
 
 FOSTER. WILLIAM C— Asst. Surg., 13th Infantry. 
 
 FOUTS, WILLIAM D.— Surgeon, 81st Infantry. 
 
 FRANCE, SAMUEL— Surgeon, 100th Infantry. 
 
 FREEINIAN, SAMUEL A.— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 
 
 FREEMAN, WILLIAM— Surgeon, 7th Cavalry; Asst. 
 Surg., 52nd Infantry. 
 
 FRENCH, JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 120th Infantry. 
 
 FRITTS, THOMAS J.— Asst. Surg., 3rd Cavalry; Asst. 
 Surg., 8th Cavalry. 
 
 FRY, THOMAS W., Sr.— Surgeon, 11th Infantry. 
 
MEDICAL IILSTORY OF IXDIAXA. 193 
 
 FULLERTON, GEORGE VV.— Asst. Surg., 130th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 GALL, ALOLS D.— Surgeon, 13th Infantry. 
 
 GARRETT, ANTHONY— Surgeon, 63rd Infantry. 
 
 GARRISON, HEROD D.— Asst. Surg.. 4th Cavalry. 
 
 GARRISON, JAMES L. F.— Surgeon, 52nd Infantry. 
 
 GARVEH, HENRY F.— Asst. Surg., 19th Infantry. 
 
 GARVER, JAMES A.— Asst. Surg., 8th Cavalry; Sur- 
 geon, 136th Infantry. 
 
 GATCH, JAMES D.— Asst. Surg., 16th Infantry. 
 
 GENTRY, ZACHARIAH B.— Surgeon, 154th Infantry. 
 
 GEHRARD, JEROME P..— Asst. Surg., 35th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 117th Infantry. 
 
 GERRISH, JAMES W. F.— Surgeon, 67th Infantry. 
 
 GILLESPIE, WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 7th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 83rd Infantry. 
 
 GILLUM, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 138th Infantry. 
 
 GILMORE, ALEXANDER W.— Asst. Surg., 9th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 CLICK, ELIAS B.— Surgeon, 40th Infantry. 
 
 GOLDSBERRY. JOHN A.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry. 
 
 GOODWIN, JOHN R.— Asst. Surg., 37th Infantry. 
 
 GORDON, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 18th Infantry. 
 
 GORRELL, JOSEPH R.— Asst. Surg., 129th Infantry. 
 
 GOSS, JAMES M.— Asst. Surg., 149th Infantry. 
 
 GOULD, VERNON— Asst. Surg., 87th Infantry." 
 
 GRAHAM, WILLIAM B.— Surgeon, 101st Infantry. 
 
 GRAY, ARTHUR W.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry. 
 
 GRAY, JOHN M.— Surgeon, 8th Cavalry. 
 
 GREGG, JAMES S.— Surgeon, 88th Infantry. 
 
 GREGG, VINCENT H.— Surgeon, 124th Infantry. 
 
 GREEN, HIRAM S.— Asst. Surg., 73rd Infantry. 
 
 GREEN, JOHN N.— Asst. Surg., 19th Infantry. 
 
 GRIFFITH, JOHN C— Asst. Surg., 29th Infantry. 
 
 GRINWELL, JOHN L.— Asst. Surg., 34th Infantry. 
 
 GROVE, JASPER M.— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 
 
 GROVER, HENHY C— Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry. 
 
 GUFFIN, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry; Surgeon, 
 156th. 
 
 HAINES, ABRAM B.— Asst. Surg., 19th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry; Surgeon, 146th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 HALL, DANIEL D.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 
 
 HAM, LEVI J.— Surgeon, 48th Infantry. 
 
 HARRIMAN, SIMEON B.— Asst. Surg^, 34th Infantry. 
 
 HARRIS, WILLIAM B.— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantry. 
 
 HARRISON, ROBERT G.— Asst. Surg., 120th Infantry. 
 
194 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 HARRISON, THOMAS H.—i^sst. Surg., ISOtli Infantry. 
 
 HAWN, EMANUEL R.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry, 
 1st Heavy Artillery; Surgeon, 49tli Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 144th Infantry. 
 
 HAYES, SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 
 
 HAYMOND. WILLIAM S.— Asst. Surg., 46th Infantry. 
 
 HEATON, JOHNSON F.— Asst. Surg., 29th Infantry. 
 
 HELMER, ORLANDO H.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 
 
 HENDERSON, JOHN F.— Surgeon, 89th Infantry. 
 
 HENDRICKS, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 31st Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 147th Infantry. 
 
 HENRY, DAVID H.— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry. 
 
 HENRY, ROBERT— Asst. Surg., 65th Infantry. 
 
 HERVEY, JAMES W.— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry. 
 
 HERVEY, THOMAS P.— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry. 
 
 HIATT, CHRISTOPHER C— Asst.^Surg., 5th Cavalry; 
 Surgeon, 6th Cavalry. 
 
 HIGBEE, EDWARD S.— Surgeon, 74th Infantrv. 
 
 HIGINBOTHAM, SAMUEL— Surgeon, 87th Infantry. 
 
 HILBURN, JABEZ C— Suroeon, 97th Infantry. 
 
 HITCHCOCK, JOHN W.— Surgeon, 18th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 133rd Infantrv. 
 
 HITT, JOHN Y.— Surgeon, ■l7th Infantry. 
 
 HOAGLAND, JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 53rd Infantry. 
 
 HOBBS, AVILLIAM P.— Asst. Surg., 85th Infantry. 
 
 HOBBS, WILSON— Surgeon, 85th Infantry. 
 
 HOCHSTETTER, JACOB P.— Surgeon, 57th Infantry. 
 
 HODGKINS, LEWIS W.— Asst. Surg., 68th Infantry. 
 
 HOFFMAN, MAX F. A.— Asst. Surg., 9th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 128th Infantry. 
 
 HOLTZMAN, SAMUEL E.— Surgeon. 58th Infantry. 
 
 HORNBROOK, WILLIAM P.— Asst. Surg., 42nd In- 
 fantry. 
 
 HORNER, JACOB S.— Surgeon, 53rd Infantry. 
 
 HOUGHLAND, WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surg., 25th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 HOUSER, JACOB H.— Asst. Surg., 10th Cavalry. 
 
 HOWARD, NOBLE P.— Asst. Surg., 12th Infantry. 
 
 HUMPHREYS, LOUIS— Surgeon. 29th Infantry. 
 
 HUNT, ANDREW M.— Asst. Surg., 33rd Infantry. 
 
 HUNTER, JAMES B.— Surgeon, 60th Infantry. 
 
 HLTRD, ANSON— Surgeon, 14th Infantry; Asst. Surg., 
 20th Infantry. 
 
 HUTCHINSON, DAVID— Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 
 
 IRELAND, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 22nd Infantry. 
 
 IRWIN, GEORGE E.— Asst. Surg., 93rd Infantry. 
 
 JAQUESS, GEORGE D.— Surgeon, 80th Infantry. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 195 
 
 JAY, JAMES C— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 
 
 JEANCON, JOHN ALLARD— Surgeon, 32nd Infantry 
 
 JESSUP, ROBERT B.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry. 
 
 JOHNSON, ISAAC C— Asst. Surg., 153rd Infantry. 
 
 JOHNSON, JARVIS J.— Surgeon, 27th Infantry 
 
 JOHNSON, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 72nd InfantVv. 
 
 JOHNSON, SAIMUEL F.— Surgeon, G5th Infantry 
 
 JOHNSON, THOMAS J.— Asst. Surg., 25th Infantry. 
 
 JOHNSON, WILLIAM W.— Asst. Surg., 85th Infantry. 
 
 JONES, CALEB V.— Surgeon, 63rd Infantry. 
 
 JONES, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 63rd Infantry. 
 
 JONES, HARRY— Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 
 
 JONES, JAMES T.— Asst. Surg., 132nd Infkntry. 
 
 JONES, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg.. 13th Cavalry. " 
 
 JONES, JOSEPH— Surgeon, 86th Infantry. 
 
 JONES, THOMAS N.— Asst. Surg., 2nd Cavalry; Sur- 
 geon, 130th Infantry, 
 
 JONES, WILLIAM B.— Surgeon. ]4Pth Infantry. 
 
 JOSSE, JOHN M.— Surgeon, 32nd Infantry. 
 
 KAY, ROBERT— Asst. Surg., 23rd Infantrv; Asst. 
 Surg., 144th Infantry. 
 
 KAY, DAVID G.— Surgeon, 81st Infantry 
 
 KEEN, LORENZO S.— Surgeon, 29th Infantry. 
 
 KEISER, ALFRED— Asst. Surg., 124th Infantry. 
 
 KETLY, MATHEW— Asst. Surg., 82nd Infantry. 
 
 KELSO, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 81st Infantry. 
 
 KEMPER, GENERAL W. H.— Asst. Surg., I7th Inf. 
 
 KENDRICK, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., luth In- 
 fantry. 
 
 KENNEDY, HAMLET K.— Asst. Surg.. 13th Infantry. 
 
 KENNEDY, LEROY H.— Asst. Surg.. 70th Infantry. 
 
 KERSEY, SILAS H.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry; Sur- 
 geon, 36th Infantry. 
 
 KILGORE, TECUMSEH— Asst. Surg., 84th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 13th Cavalry; Surgeon, 13th Cavalry. 
 
 KILLEN, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 10th Infantry. 
 
 KIMBALL, ABNER D.— Asst. Surg., 4Sth Infantry. 
 
 KING, HENRY R.— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 
 
 KING, WILLIAM F.— Asst. Surg., 124th Infantry; 
 
 Surgeon, 147th Infantry. 
 KIRBY, HENRY— Surgeon, 84th Infantrv. 
 KIRKPATRICK, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 72nd In- 
 fantry. 
 KNIGHT, JAMES H.— Asst. Surg., 3rd Cavalry. 
 KRAUTH, FERDINAND— Surgeon, 32nd Infantrv. 
 KUESTER, CHARLES E.— Asst. Surg., 133rd In- 
 fantry; Surgeon, 156th Infantry. 
 
196 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 KUNKLER, GUSTAVE A.— Surgeon, 32nd Infantry. 
 
 LAMBEY, LOUIS— Asst. Surg., 14th Infantry. 
 
 LANSING, SYLVESTER— Asst. Surg., 48th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 49th U. S. C. T. 
 
 LARKIN, JOHN B.— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry; Sur- 
 geon, 17th Infantry. 
 
 LATTIMORE, FINLEY C— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantry. 
 
 LEAVITT, PHILANDER C— Surgeon, 100th Infantry. 
 
 LEECH, ELLIOTT W.— Asst. Surg., 123rd Infantry. 
 
 LE'EDY, JOHN K.— Surgeon, 74th Infantry. 
 
 LEMON, WILLIAM H.— Surgeon, 82nd Infantry. 
 
 LENT, CYRUS V. N.— Surgeon, 101st Infantry; Sur- 
 geon, 138th Infantrv. 
 
 LEWIS, ELI— Surgeon, ''65th Infantry. 
 
 LEWIS, SAMUEL B.— Surgeon, 10th Cavalry. 
 
 LIDDALL. JAMES P.— Asst. Surg., 22nd Infantry. 
 
 LININGER, DANIEL P.— Asst. Surg., 7th Infantry. 
 
 LOMAX, WILLIAM— Surgeon, 12th Infantry. 
 
 McCarthy, JOHN F.— Surgeon, 29th Infantry. 
 
 McCHRISTIE, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 9th Cavah'V. 
 
 McClelland, JAMES S.— Surgeon, 135th Infantrv. 
 
 McCLURE, SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 37th Infantry. 
 
 McCOY, GEORGE K.— Asst. Surg., 35th Infantry. 
 
 McCOY, JAMES A. C— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 
 
 McCOY, JOHN— Surgeon, 139th Infantry. 
 
 McCREA, THOMAS P.— Surgeon, 10th Infantry. 
 
 McCUNE, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 14th Infantry. 
 
 McFADDEN, WILLIAM G.— Surgeon, 79th Infantry. 
 
 McGEE, RICHARD— Asst. Surg., 100th Infantry. 
 
 McKINNEY, ASA W.— Surgeon, 31st Infantry. 
 
 McNUTT, JAMES H.— Asst. Surg., 97th Infantry. 
 
 McPHEETERS, JOHN S.— Surgeon, 23rd Infantry. 
 
 McPHEETERS, JOSEPH G.— Surgeon, 14th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 33rd Infantry. 
 
 MAGANN, EDWIN W.— Asst. Surg., 9th Cavalry. 
 
 MAGENISS, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 42nd Infantry. 
 
 MANI^ER, LEWIS— Surgeon, 79th Infantry. 
 
 MARTIN, JAMES W.— Surgeon, 52nd Infantry. 
 
 MARTIN, SAMUEL F.— Asst. Surg., 65th Infantry. 
 
 MARTIN, WILLIAM H.— Surgeon, 10th Infantry. 
 
 MARTIN, W. W.— Surgeon, 44th Infantry. 
 
 MASON, FERDINANT)— Surgeon, 13th Infantry. 
 
 MEEK, JOHN A.— Asst. Surg., 89th Infantry. 
 
 MEEKER, DANIEL— Surgeon, 9th Infantry. 
 
 MEEKER, LYSANDEB— Asst. Surg., 128th Infantrv. 
 
 MELSCHEIMER, CHARLES T.— Asst. Surg., 101st In- 
 fantry. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 197 
 
 MENDENHALL, WILLIAM T.— Asst. Surer., o7th Inf. 
 
 MERCER, WILLIAM M.— Asst. Surg., 152nd Inf. 
 
 MEREDITH, MARION— Asst. Surg., dSth Infantry. 
 
 MERIT, NATHANIEL P.— Asst. Surg., 31st Infantry. 
 
 MESSNER, SAMUEL F.— Asst. Surg., 1 16th Infantry. 
 
 MILLER, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 
 
 MILLS, JAMES R.— Asst. Surg., 47th Infantry. 
 
 MILNER, ISAAC N.— Asst. Surg., 53rd Infantry. 
 
 MITCHELL, ELISHA V.— Surgeon, 91st Infantry. 
 
 MITCHELL, ROBEUT— Asst. Surg., 38th Infantry. 
 
 MITCHELL, ROBERT S.— Asst. Surg., 57th Infantry. 
 
 MOFFITT, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 33rd Infantry. 
 
 MONROE, JASPER R.— Surgeon, 49th Infantry. 
 
 MONTEITH, JACOB S.— Asst. Surg., 69th Infantry. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, GEORGE B.— Surgeon, 24th Infantry. 
 
 MORGAN, JAMES W.— Asst. Surg., 31st Infantry. 
 
 MORROW, DOCTOR F.— Asst. Surg., 13th Cavalry. 
 
 MORROW, JAMES L.— Surgeon, 72nd Infantry. 
 
 MOSS, GORDON, A.— Asst. Surg., 87th Infantry; Sur- 
 geon, 151st Infantry. 
 
 MULLEN, ALEXANDER J.— Surgeon, 35th Infantry. 
 
 MULLINIX, MASTON G.— Asst. Surg., I49th Infantry. 
 
 MUNFORD, SAMUEL E.— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 17th Infantry. 
 
 MURPHY, ALEXANDER D.— Asst. Surg., 97th Inf. 
 
 MURPHY, ALEXANDER M.— Asst. Surg., 97th In- 
 fantry; Surgeon, 97th Infantry. 
 
 MURRAY, RALPH V.— Asst. Surg., 137th Infantry. 
 
 MYERS, SETH F.— Surgeon, 73rd Infantry. 
 
 MYERS, WILLIAM D.— Surgeon, 88th Infantry. 
 
 MYEHS, WILLIAM H.— Asst. Surg., 10th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 
 
 NEAT, THOMAS C— Asst. Surg., 144th Infantry. 
 
 NEELY, JOHN M.— Surgeon, 120th Infantry. 
 
 NELSON, WILLIAM Y.— Asst. Surg., 128th Infantry. 
 
 NEW, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 7th Infantry. 
 
 NEWLAND, BENJAMIN— Surgeon, 22nd Infantry. 
 
 NICHOLS, JOHN D.— Asst. Surg., 38th Infantry. 
 
 O'FERRELL, ROBEET M.— Surgeon, 40th Infantry. 
 
 OLDS, JOSEPH H.— Asst. Surg., 6th Cavalry. 
 
 O'NEAL, LAUGHLIN— Surgeon, 153rd Infantry. 
 
 ORR, JAMES P.— Asst. Surg., 36th Infantry. 
 
 OSGOOD, HOWARD G.— Asst. Surg., 5th Cavalry. 
 
 PARKS, EDWARD R.— Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 
 
 PARSONS, GEORGE W.— Asst. Surg., 35th Infantry. 
 
 PATTEN, JAMES C— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry; Asst. 
 Surg., 58th Infantry. 
 
198 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IlsWIAlSW. 
 
 PATTERSON, JOHN J.— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry. 
 
 PATTISON, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, ISOtli Infantry. 
 
 PEARCE, JOHN W.— Asst. Surg., 51st Infantry. 
 
 PEARMAN, FRANCIS M.— Surgeon, 30th Infantry. 
 
 PEARSON, CHARLES D.— Surgeon, 49th Infantry; 
 Surgeon. 82nd Infantry. 
 
 PECK, SAMUEL W.— Surgeon, 18th Infantry. 
 
 PEGANN, EMANUEL— Surgeon, 155th Infantry. 
 
 PERKINS, CONRAD S.— Asst. Surg., 10th Infantry. 
 
 PHIPPS. JOHN M.— Surgeon, 132nd Infantry. 
 
 PIATT. WILLIAM C— Asst. Surg., 140th Infantry. 
 
 PiCKTHALL. ARTHUR— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 
 
 PITCHER, STEWART C— Surgeon, 143rd Infantry. 
 
 PLUMMER, ISAAC N.— Asst. Surg., 44th Infantry. 
 
 POFFENBERGER, ISAIAH— Asst. Surg., 99th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 POPE. HENRY E.— Asst. Surg., 54th Infantry. 
 
 PORTER, JOHN P.— Asst. Suro-.. 89th Infantry. 
 
 POTTENGER. WILSON— Asst. "^Surg., 73rd Infantry. 
 
 POTTS, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 
 
 PRATT, SAMUEL R.— Surgeon, 12th Cayalry; Sur- 
 geon, 87th Infantry. 
 
 PRESTON, ALBERT G.— Surgeon, 55th Infantry. 
 
 PRICHET, JOHN— Surgeon, 57th Infantry. 
 
 PRUNK, DANIEL H.— Asst. Surg., 20th Infantry. 
 
 RALSTON, WILLIAM G.— Surgeon, 81st Infantry. 
 
 READ, EZRA— Surgeon, 11th Cavalry; Surgeon, 21st 
 Infantry. 1st Heavy Artillerv. 
 
 REAGAN, AMOS W.— Surgeon, 70th Infantry. 
 
 REAGAN, JESSE— Surgeon, 148th Infantry. 
 
 REED, ALBERT S.— Asst. Surg., 147th Infantry. 
 
 RERICK. JOHN 11.— Surgeon, 44th Infantry. 
 
 REYNOLDS, ROBERT c!— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 
 
 RICHARDS, SA]\njEL D.— Surgeon, 59th Infantry. 
 
 RICHARDSON, ADAMSON G.— Asst. Surg., 154th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 RIFFLE, JOHN S.— Asst. Surg., 40th Infantry. 
 
 RITTER. JOHN A.— Surgeon, 49th Infantry. 
 
 ROBINSON, JOHN A,— Asst. Surg., 11th Cavalry. 
 
 ROBINSON. LAWSON D.— Asst. Surg., 99th Infantry. 
 
 ROBSON, JOHN R.— Asst. Surg., 1st Cavalry; Asst. 
 Surg., 91st Infantry. 
 
 ROBSON, ROBERT— Surgeon, 91st Infantry. 
 
 ROCKWELL, WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 
 
 ROE, JOHN L.— Surgeon, 137th Infantry. 
 
 ROETHER, DANIEL B.— Asst. Surg., 7th Cavalry. 
 
 ROGERS, DUDLEY"— Surgeon, 59th Infantry. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 109 
 
 ROOKER, JAMES I.— Asst. Sur^^, lltli Infantry. 
 
 ROSE. MADISON H.— Sur^^eon. 53rd Infantrv. 
 
 RUPERT, DELOS W.— Asst. Surg., 30th Infantry. 
 
 RUSSELL, GEORGE H.— Asst. Surg.. 5th Cavalry. 
 
 RUSSELL, ISAAC S.— Asst. Surg., 99th Infantry. 
 
 RUTER. RINALDO R.— Surgeon, 93rd Infantry 
 
 RUTLEDGE. WILLIAM— Asst. Surg., 2nd Cavalry. 
 
 RYAN. TO WNSEND— Surf/eon, 54th Infantry. ^ 
 
 SARIN, ELIAS H.— Asst. Surg., 14th Infantry. 
 
 SADLER, JOSEPH J.— Asst. Surg., 16th Infantry. 
 
 SALISBURY. DAVID— Asst. Surg.. 128th Infantry. 
 
 SCEARCE, JOHN C— Surgeon, 11th Infantry. 
 
 SCHELL, FREDERICK A.— Asst. Surg., 6th Cavalry. 
 
 SCHMIDT. GUSTAVUS A.— Asst. Sur<z.. 6th Cavalry. 
 
 SCHUSSLER, CHARLES— Surgeon, 6th Infantry. 
 
 SCOTT, WILLIAM— Surgeon, 89th Infantrv. 
 
 SCOTT. WILLIAM G.— Asst. Surg., 8th Cavalry. 
 
 SCUDDER, JOHN A.— Asst. Surg., 65th Infantry. 
 
 SEXTON, MARSHALL— Surgeon, 52nd Infantry. 
 
 SHAFFEPt, ABNER H.— Surgeon, 75th Infantry. 
 
 SHAPLEY, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, 42nd Infantry. 
 
 SHELDON, GEORGE W.— Surgeon, 74th Infantry. 
 
 SHERMAN, MASON G.— Surgeon, 9th Infantrv. 
 
 SHEPROD, WILLIAM F.— Surgeon, 21st Infantry. 
 
 SHERWIN, HERMAN H.— Asst. Surg., 152nd Infantry 
 
 SHORT, WESLEY— Asst. Surg., 26th Infantry. 
 
 SIMMS, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 76th Infantry. 
 
 SIMONSON, JAMES C— Surgeon, 66th Infantry. 
 
 SLAUGHTEP, ROBERT C— Asst. Surg., 25th In- 
 fantry; Surgeon, 53rd Infantry, 
 
 SLAUGHTER, WILLIAM W.— Surgeon, '60th Infantrv. 
 
 SLAVENS, ZENAS L.— Asst. Surg., 115th Infantry. 
 
 SMITH, ANTDREW J.— Asst. Surg., 2nd Cavalry. 
 
 SMITH, JOHN W.— Surgeon, 155th Infantry. 
 
 SMITH, WILLIAM R.— Asst. Surg., 70th Infantry. 
 
 SMITH, WILLIAM Z.— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 
 
 SMYDTH, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 43rd Infantry. 
 
 SMYTHE, GONSOLVO C— Surgeon, 43rd Infantry. 
 
 SPAIN, ARCHIBALD W.— Asst. Surg., 80th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 136th Infantry. 
 
 SPARKS, NATHAN B.— Asst. Surg., 6th Infantry. 
 
 SPEED, EDWARD B.— Asst. Surg., 44th Infantry. 
 
 SPENCER, ROBERT— Surgeon, 73rd Infantry. 
 
 SPENCER, WILLIAM- Asst. Surg., 46th Infantry; 
 
 Asst. Surg., 73rd Infantry. 
 SPOTTSWOOD, EDMUND T.— Surgeon, 6th Cavalry. 
 
200 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 SPURRIER, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 16th Infantry; 
 
 Surgeon, 123rd Infantry. 
 SQUIRE, WILLIAM B.— Asst. Surg., 14tli Infantry. 
 ST. CLAIR, OWEN— Asst. Surg., 142nd Infantry. 
 STEARNS, ELIAS P.— Asst. Surg., 72nd Infantry. 
 STEWART, WILLIAM J.— Asst. Surg., 47tli Infantry. 
 STILLWELL, JOSEPH A.— Surgeon, 22nd Infantry. 
 STUKEY, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 59th Infantry. 
 SWAFFORD, BENJAMIN F.— Surgeon, 11th Cavalry. 
 SWARTZ, DAVID J.— Asst. Surg., 100th Infantry. 
 SWEENY, THOMAS J.— Asst. Surg., 43rd Infantry. 
 SWEEZY, WILLIAM C— Surgeon, 140th Infantry. 
 TAGGART, JOHN F.— Surgeon, 4th Cavalry. 
 TAYLOR, ALFRED B.— Asst. Surg., 12th Infantry. 
 TAYLOR, DANIEI. W.— Surgeon, 34th Infantry. 
 TAYLOR, WILLIAM D.— Surgeon, 42nd Infantry. 
 TEAL, NORMAN— Asst. Surg., 88th Infantrv. 
 THOIMAS, CHARLES L.— Surgeon, 25th Infantry. 
 THOMAS, ELIAS B.— Asst. Surg., 4th Cavalry. 
 THOJMAS, JAMES H.— Asst. Surg., 117th Infantry. 
 THOMAS. JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 
 THOMPSON, JOHN C— Surgeon, 11th Infantry. 
 TILFORD, JOHN H.— Asst. Surg., 79th Infantry. 
 TILLSON, HOSEA— Asst. Surg, and Surgeon, 57th In- 
 TILMAN, JONATHAN R.— Asst. Surg., 60th Infantry. 
 
 fantry. 
 TODD, ROBERT N.— Surgeon, 26th Infantry. 
 TODD, WILLIAM A.— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 
 TOLERTON, JAMES— Surgeon, 129th Infantry. 
 TORBET, GEORGE A.— Asst. Surg., 26th Infantry. 
 TRIPLETT, CHARLES E.— Surgeon, 87th Infantry. 
 TA^T:F0RD, WILLIS H.— Surgeon, 27th Infantry. 
 TYNER, SAMUEL L.— Asst. Surg., 42nd Infantry. 
 UNDERHILL, JOSHUA W\— Surgeon, 46th Infantry. 
 VAILE, JOEI^Surgeon, 2nd Cavalry. 
 VAN VORIS, FLAVIUS J.— Asst. Surg., 86th Infantry. 
 VINCENT, HENRY C— Asst. Surg., 83rd Infantry. 
 VINCENT, JEREMIAH K.— Asst. Surg., 33rd Infantry. 
 VOYLES, DAVID W.— Surgeon, 66th Infantry. 
 WALKER, AUGUSTUS C— Asst. Surg.. 63rd Infantry. 
 WALKER, JOHN T.— Surgeon, 25th Infantry. 
 WALLACE, JAMES P.— Asst. Surg., 150th Infantry. 
 WALTON, ALLEN M.— Surgeon, 13th Cavalry; Asst. 
 
 Surg., 86th Infantry. 
 WASHBURN, ISRAEL B.— Surgeon, 46th Infantry. 
 WATERMAN, LUTHER D.— Surgeon, 8th Cavalry. 
 WEAVER, SAMUEL M.— Asst. Surg., 83rd Infantry. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY O/' JXDIAXA. 201 
 
 WEBB, WILLIAM A.— Asst. Surg., 70th Infantry. 
 
 WEDDINGTON, SAMUEL C— Asst. Surg., 147th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 W^EIR, ANDREW N.— Surgeon, 6th Cavalry. 
 
 WELBORN, WILLIAM P.— Surgeon, 80th^ Infantry. 
 
 WELLS, JAMES C— Asst. Surg., 50th Infantry. 
 
 WELMAN, RICHMOND :\I.— Surgeon, Oth Cavalry. 
 
 WHITAKETl, ELI D.— Surgeon, 38th Infantry. 
 
 WHITE, ARTHUR— Asst. Surg., 25th Infantry. 
 
 WHITE, JACOB S.— Surgeon, 34th Infantry.^ 
 
 WHITE, JAMES B.— Asst. Surg., 75th Infantry. 
 
 WHITE, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 70th Infantry. 
 
 WHITEHALL, ALEXANDER L.— Asst. Surg., 60th. 
 
 WHITESELL, JOSEPH M.— Asst. Surg., 36th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 WHITESELL, PHILIP P.— Surgeon, 101st Infantry. 
 
 WIDMER, JOHN F. B.— Asst. Surg., 49th Infantry. 
 
 WILES, WILLIAM V.— Asst. Surg.. 85th Infantry. 
 
 WILLIAMSON, ELEAZER— Asst. Surg., 130th' In- 
 fantry. 
 
 WILLIAMSON, ROBERT A.— Surgeon, 10th Infantry. 
 
 WILLIAMSON, THOMAS W. C— Asst. Surg., 24th In- 
 fantry. 
 
 WILSON, ISAAC— Asst. Surg., 137th Infantry. 
 
 WILSON, JACOB B.— Asst. Surg., 123rd Infantry. 
 
 WILSON, JAMES— Asst. Surg., 11th Infantry. 
 
 WINANS, RICHARD— Asst. Surg., 17th Infantry. 
 
 WaSHARD, JOSEPH M.— Surgeon, 5th Cavalryl 
 
 WITT, WILLIAM B.— Surgeon, 69th Infantry. 
 
 WOLF, HARVEY S.— Surgeon, 81st Infantry. 
 
 W^ONSETLEPv, GIDEON— Asst. Surg., 15th*^ Infantry. 
 
 WOOD, JAMES A.— Asst. Surg., 12th Cavalry. 
 
 WOODEN, JOHN L.— Surgeon, 68th Infantry. 
 
 WOODS, CALVIN J.— Surgeon, 19th Infantry. 
 
 WOODS, DANIEL L.— Asst. Surg., 21st Infantry, 1st 
 Heavy Artillery; Asst. Surg., 138th Infantry; 
 Asst. Surg., 153rd Infantry. 
 
 WOOLEN, GREEN V.— Asst. Surg., 27th Infantry. 
 
 WRIGHT, IVY E.— Asst. Surg., 116th Infantry. 
 
 YOUART, JOHN M.— Asst. Surg., 15th Infantry; 
 Surgeon, 15th Infantry. 
 
 SURGEONS IN COLORED REGIMENTS. 
 
 EASTMAN, JOSEPH— Asst. Surg., 44th U. S. C. T. 
 STRONG, JOHN T.— Surgeon, 44th U. S. C. T. 
 
202 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 THOMPSOX, JAMES L.— Surgeon, 4th U. S. Heavy 
 
 Artille^3^ 
 WEIST, JACOB R.— Surgeon, 1st U. S. C. T. 
 
 SURGEONS IN MINUTE MEN REGIMENTS. 
 
 "Late on the evening of July 8, 1863, intelligence 
 was received at Indianapolis, that a rebel force, esti- 
 mated to be six thousand cavalry, with four pieces 
 of artillery, under command of Gen, John H. Morgan, 
 had crossed the Ohio river near Mauckport, and was 
 moving on Cor^^don, Ind. Governor Morton at once 
 issued a patriotic call upon the citizens of the State, 
 to leave their various occupations and organize for 
 defense. Under this call, within the short space of 
 forty-eight hours, sixty-five thousand men had ten- 
 dered their services. Of this force, thirteen regiments 
 and one batallion were organized specially for this 
 emergency, and the regiments designated numerically, 
 from One Hundred and Second to One Hundred and 
 Fourteenth, inclusive, the batallion being assigned to 
 the One Hundred and Seventh Regiment." — Report of 
 Adjutant General of Indiana, Vol. iii, p. 189. 
 
 The usual number of surgeons were not supplied 
 to these regiments. They were in the service but a 
 few days. 
 
 BOUNELT.. MATHEW H.— Suroeon, 102Tifl Recriment. 
 BUCK. ROBERT H.— Surgeon 103d Regiment. ^ 
 HARRISON, THOMAS H.— Asst. Surg., 102nd Reg. 
 THOMAS, L. C— Surgeon, 104th Regiment. 
 McCLAIN. JAMES— Asst. Surg., 104th Regiment. 
 WHEELDOX, JOHN— Asst. Surg., 104th Regiment. 
 SPURRIER. JOHN H.— Surgeon, 105th Regiment. 
 KELLOG. NORoNIAN P.— Asst. Surg., 105th Regiment. 
 CHITWOOD, JOSHUA— Asst. Surg., 106th Regiment. 
 PARVIN, THEOPHILUS— Surgeon, 107th Regiment. 
 CONSTANT. JOHN H.— Surgeon. 108th Reo-iment. 
 MOORE, ANDERSON M.— Asst. Surg., 108th Reg. 
 MAY, WILLIS L.— Asst. Surg., 108th Regiment. 
 JOHNSON, JARVIS J.— Surgeon, 109th Regiment. 
 HALL, DANIEL D.— Surgeon, 111th Regiment. 
 BEARD, FERDINAND W.— Surgeon, 112th Regiment. 
 BARE, ADDISON W.— Asst. Surg., 112th Regiment. 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 203 
 
 PARMERLEE, H. M.— Surgeon, 113th Regiment. 
 WOOD, MEREDITH— Asst. Surg., 113th Regiment. 
 
 NOTE. — No medical officers were supplied to the 
 110th and 114th regiments. 
 
 Medical Officers FRo:\r INDIA^TA Commis- 
 sioned BY the PrESIDEXT, VOLUNTEERS, 
 
 1861-65. 
 
 John S. Bobbs, surgeon. 
 William D. Stewart, surgeon. 
 William C. Thompson, surgeon. 
 Charles S. Frink, surgeon. 
 James M. Study, assistant surgeon. 
 
 REGULAR ARMY. 
 
 Charles McDougall, born in Ohio, entered 
 service from Indiana as assistant surgeon, July 
 13, 1832; major surgeon, July 7, 1838: lieuten- 
 ant colonel and assistant medical purveyor, July 
 ,28, 1866; retired Feb. 22, 1869^; brevet colonei, 
 Xov. 24, 1864, and brigadier general, March 
 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious service 
 during the civil war. Died July 25, 1885. — 
 Historical Eegister and Dictionary of the TJ. S. 
 Army, Heitman, vol. i, p. 663. 
 
 John Moore, born in Indiana, entered service 
 as assistant surgeon, June 29, 1853; major sur- 
 geon, June 11, 1862; lieutenant colonel, assistant 
 medical purveyor, Oct. 8, 1883; brigadier gen- 
 eral, surgeon general, N'ov. 18, 1886; retired 
 Aug. 16, 1890. Brevet lieutenant colonel. Sept. 
 1, 1864, for gallant and meritorious service dur- 
 ing the Atlanta campaign, and colonel, March 
 13, 1865, for faithful and meritorious services 
 during the war. — lb., p. 723. 
 
204 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 George Winfield Stipp, born in Virginia. Was 
 first lieutenant 4th 111. Inf. from Jul}' 4, 1846, 
 to Aug. 30^ 1846. x^ppointed surgeon volunteers 
 Sept. 21, 1861 ; lieut. col. medical inspector, 
 March 12, 1863, mustered out Oct. 31, 1865. 
 Died Aug. 22, 1879. Formerh- lived and prac- 
 ticed at Indianapolis. — lb., p. 926. 
 
 VOLUNTEER NAVY* ACTING ASSISTANT SURGEON « 
 
 (civil WAR). 
 
 Philip H. Barton. 
 George F. Beasle3^ 
 William Commons. 
 David G. Curtis. 
 William C. Foster. 
 Thomas F. Leech. 
 Jacob J. Smith. 
 
 SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. 
 
 Indiana equipped and sent out five regiments for 
 this war; and furnished them with five regimental 
 surgeons, eleven regimental assistant surgeons, three 
 surgeons in the volunteer army appointed by the 
 President, and fifteen hospital stewards, making a 
 total of thirty-four medical officers. An alphabetical 
 list of their names is given: 
 
 BARCUS, PAUL J.— Asst. Surg., 158th Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 BARNETT, CHARLES E.— Asst. Surg., 157th Regi- 
 ment, Indiana Infantry. 
 
 BARNETT, WALTER w"!— Surgeon, 157th Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 BUEHLER, EUGENE— Asst. Surg., 160th Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 * William Maxwell Wood, rank captain, entered the Navy. 
 May 16, 1829. He was a native of Maryland, from which 
 state he was appointed, but claimed his residence in 
 Indiana. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIWA. 205 
 
 CHAELTOX, FRED R.— Surgeon, loStli Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 DAVIS, WILLIAM' S.— Asst. Surg., 159th Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 FOXWORTHY, FRAXK W.— Asst. Surg.. 160th Regi- 
 ment, Indiana Infantry. 
 
 GARSTAX'G, REGIXALD W.— Asst. Surg., lo7th 
 Regiment. Indiana Infantry. 
 
 GERRISH, MILLARD F.— Asst. Surg., 161st Regi- 
 ment, Indiana Infantry. 
 
 HA\AavIXS, EUGEXE— Asst. Surg., loOth Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 JOXES, HOMER I.— Asst. Surg., 158th Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantrj^ 
 
 KYLE, JOHX J.— Surgeon. 160th Regiment. Indiana 
 Infantry. 
 
 SIVER, EMMETT L.— Surgeon, 157th Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 SMITH. WICLIFFE— Surgeon. 161st Regiment. Indi- 
 ana Infantry. 
 
 STUX^vARD, THOMAS C— Surgeon, 159th Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry. 
 
 WILSOX", JAMES— Asst. Surg., 161st Regiment, Indi- 
 ana Infantry. 
 
 LIST OF SURGEONS APPOINTED BY THE PRESI- 
 DENT IN THE VOLUNTEER ARMY OF 
 THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 EXGLISH, CALVIX^ H.— Major and Briaade Surgeon. 
 KBLBALL, THOMAS C— Major and Chief Surgeon. 
 PEYTOX', DAVID C— Major and Brigade Surgeon. 
 
 HOSPITAL STEWARDS. 
 
 E'SPEl^ JAMES G.— 161st Resiment, Indiana Infantry. 
 
 HAWKINS, ROBERT W.— 159th Regiment, Indiana 
 Infantry. 
 
 LAXGDOX', HARRY' K.— 159th Regiment. Indiana In- 
 fantry. 
 
 LEWIS, JOHX I.— 161st Regiment. Indiana Infantry. 
 
 MOORE, HARRY S.— 158th Regiment, Indiana In- 
 fantry. 
 
 MOORE, HARVEY A.— 157th Regiment, Indiana In- 
 fantry. 
 
 XEWLAND, HARROD C.— 158th Regiment, Indiana 
 Infantry. 
 
206 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 PFAFF, JOHN A., 160tli Eegiment, Indicana Infantry. 
 
 RATHERT, WILLIAM IL— 161st Regiment, Indiana 
 Infantry. 
 
 SCHULTZ, GUY A.— 157th Regiment, Indiana In- 
 fantry. 
 
 SHELL, "OGDEN G.— 157th Regiment, Indiana In- 
 fantry. 
 
 SOMMER, EDGAR L.— 160th Regiment, Indiana In- 
 fantry. 
 
 STARRETT, WALTER K.— 160th Regiment, Indiana 
 Infantry. 
 
 TOWNSEND, TEHRY M.— 159th Regiment, Indiana 
 Infantry. 
 
 WRIGHT, CHARLES E.— 158th Regiment, Indiana In- 
 fantry. 
 
CHAPTER XX 
 
 Medical History of Madisox Couxty. 
 
 Dr. Jonas Stewart, of Anderson, a physician 
 well qualified for the task, has kindly furnished 
 me the following interesting medical history of 
 Madison County: 
 
 Madison County was first settled by white men 
 in 1820, four years after the admission of the 
 state into the Federal Union. The first settle- 
 ment was at Pendleton, near the falls of Fall 
 Creek, in the south part of the county. About 
 one year after the above date, in 1821, a settle- 
 ment was made at Anderson on White Eiver. 
 Within a few years settlements were also made at 
 Chesterfield, Hamilton and Perkinsville, on 
 White Eiver, at Huntsville and Xew Columbus, 
 on Fall Creek, and later, also, at Fishersburg, on 
 Stony Creek, near the western boundar}^, and at 
 Moonsville, on Big Kilbuck Creek, about ten 
 miles north of Anderson. The country north of 
 White Eiver remained for the greater part, an 
 unbroken forest for twenty or thirty years after 
 the forming of the settlements above named, in 
 south half of the county. 
 
 The county was organized Xovember 10, 1823, 
 and the county seat located at Pendleton, the 
 oldest and largest settlement, where it remained 
 until 1836, when it was removed to Anderson, 
 which was a more central location. It was not 
 
208 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 until about this time that settlements were made 
 at Alexandria and Elwood^ and still later, at 
 Frankton and Summitville. 
 
 The first physician to locate in the county for 
 the practice of his profession was Dr. Lewis 
 Bordwell, who located at Pendleton about the 
 time the county was organized. He is mentioned 
 in the early chronicles of the county, and char- 
 acterized as a "pleasant, genial gentleman, who 
 occasionally imbibed too freely of ardent spirits, 
 and when intoxicated, sometimes boasted of his 
 success as a practitioner, dec''aring that he had 
 never lost a patient." He practiced at Pendleton 
 only two or three years, and removed to Iowa, 
 where he died. He was followed at Pendleton by 
 Drs. John L. and Corydon Eichmond, the former 
 of whom receives more extended notice elsewhere 
 in these sketches. A few years later, Dr. Edwin 
 Fussell and Dr. M. G. Walker located here, and 
 still later came also the brothers, John H. and 
 Ward Cook. Both Dr. Fussell and Dr. Walker 
 receive honorable mention in Forkner and Dy- 
 son^s History of Madison County, in connection 
 with the mobbing of Hon. Frederick Douglass at 
 Pendleton in 1843.* Dr. AYalker is credited with 
 saving the life of Mr. Douglass on that occasion, 
 and Dr. Fussell with taking him into his house, 
 and rendering surgical aid to the injured man. 
 
 The first physician to locate at Anderson was 
 a Dr. Burt, of whom little is now known. It is 
 said, however, that he was both doctor and school 
 teacher, and that he was a small man, and slightly 
 
 * This mobbing of Mr. Douglass occurred on Sept. 16, 
 1843.— G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF J X DIANA. 200 
 
 lame. He remained in Anderson two years, from 
 1827 to 1829. [I think this is Dr. Dickinson 
 Burt, the first physician, also, to locate in Dela- 
 ware County. See p. 89— G. W. H. K.] 
 
 A Dr. Pegg also located in Anderson in 1828, 
 but still less is known of him than of his pre- 
 decessor. His residence in the village was of two 
 years' duration, when he was followed by Dr. 
 Euddell, in 1830. The last-named physician re- 
 mained seven years and then removed to Broad 
 Eipple, in Marion County, near the city of In- 
 dianapolis. In the meantime Dr. Henry Wyman 
 located at Anderson, in 1831, and became the 
 ^^ISTestor'' of the medical profession of the county, 
 where he was probably the most prominent physi- 
 cian for a period of thirty 3^ears. He will be 
 noticed elsewhere in these sketches. Other early 
 physicians of Anderson, of whom no definite in- 
 formation can now be obtained, were Dr. Car- 
 mean, Dr. E. E. Eoe, and Dr. Andrew Eobb. The 
 first physician at Chesterfield was a Dr. Henry; 
 he located there in 1828. Soon after, we find the 
 name of Dr. K3^nett, probably the Dr. William 
 Kynett later found at Fishersburg. We also find 
 evidence that Drs. Balingall and Preston of Mid- 
 dletown, in Henry County, made regular trips for 
 a considerable period, and ministered to the sick 
 of the infant settlement of Chesterfield, but 
 neither of them was ever located in Madison 
 County. Dr. George W. Godwin located at Ches- 
 terfield in the early thirties, but later removed to 
 Yorktown, in Delaware County. Dr. David Dun- 
 ham located in the country northwest of Chester- 
 field, in 1834. We also find that a Dr. Davis 
 
210 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 arrived there in 1847. He completes the list of 
 pioneer physicians of the village. Dr. William 
 Goodell located at Hamilton^ about six miles west 
 of Anderson, in 1835. ISTo other facts in his his- 
 tory have been obtained. 
 
 The first physician at Hnntsville was a Dr. 
 McCain^ who was both ph3^sician and merchant. 
 He had as his successors, Drs. John Hunt and 
 Joseph Weeks, both mentioned later, each in his 
 proper place. Dr. John Home was the first to 
 locate at New Colnmbns. This event occurred in 
 1840. He removed to Middletown in Henry 
 County, and subsequently to Yorktown, in Dela- 
 ware County, where he died. He was followed 
 at New Columbus by Dr. Hildreth, in 1842, and 
 Dr. W. B. Bair, in 1844. Other early physicians 
 of New Columbus w^ere Dr. Clark, Dr. Smiley 
 and Dr. Barry. 
 
 The first to locate at Fishersburg were the 
 brothers, Drs. James and John Barrett; this was 
 in 1840. Later in the same year, Dr. William 
 Kynett located there. These were followed by 
 Dr. Thomas in 1848, Drs. John Davis and John 
 Williams, in 1850, and a little later by Dr. 
 Thomas Carr. Dr. Thomas Douglass located at 
 Perkinsville in 1840, he being the first in that 
 village, and its leading physician for many 
 years. 
 
 In the same year Dr. Robert Douglass located 
 at the site of the present city of Elwood, although 
 the town, first named Quincy, was not laid out 
 until 1853, and did not receive the name of El- 
 wood until 1869. About this time, also, a Dr. 
 McNear located at Moonsville, on Big Kilbuck 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF I \ DIANA. 211 
 
 Creek. The first physician at Alexandria was 
 Dr. W. F. Spence^ who came to the county in 
 1839. After a few years he removed to Jones- 
 boro, in Grant count}', where he died. He was 
 followed by Dr. Cyrus Westerfield and Dr. David 
 Perry, and a few years later, by Drs. S. B. and 
 Leonard Harriman. Dr. S. B. Harriman re- 
 moved to Eichmond, Indiana, where he ended his 
 career, and Dr. Leonard Harriman died in Ster- 
 ling, Kansas, in the last decade of the nineteenth 
 century. 
 
 We have thus seen that the location of the first 
 physicians, at Alexandria, Elwood, Perkinsville. 
 Fishersburg, and New Columbus, all occurred 
 about the same year, at least, within twelve 
 months, of the 3'ears 1839 and 1840. This was 
 incident to the large increase of population dur- 
 ing those years, most probably induced by the 
 work on the Indiana Central Canal, then in con- 
 struction but never completed. 
 
 The first physician at Frankton was Dr. John 
 M. Laughlin, but he did not arrive until 1854. 
 He was followed by Dr. Philip P. Patterson, who 
 married the widow of Dr. Laughlin, and succeed- 
 ed also to his practice. Other early physicians of 
 Frankton were Drs. Eeuben Harvey, W. M. 
 Sharp, and a Dr. Young. There was no ph3^si- 
 cian at Summitville until 1870, when Dr. C. Y. 
 Garrell located there. He was followed by Drs. 
 John Wright and M. L. Cranfield. During the 
 decade from 1870 to 1880, Dr. Wm. J. Morgan 
 practiced at Oilman on the border of Delaware 
 County. Dr. Morgan was a charter member of 
 
212 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 the present Madison Connty Medical Society. 
 Died October 13, 1896. 
 
 The above mentioned villages include all, with- 
 in the boundaries of Madison County, except 
 Markleville and Ingalls. The latter is a new 
 town and has no medical history. The former 
 probably has a history but I have not been able 
 to obtain it. I find, however, in some of the early 
 records the names of a Dr. Wear, Dr. William 
 Hendricks, Dr. William Swain, and Dr. J. C. 
 Smith, but no further information seems to be 
 obtainable. 
 
 The names of other deceased physicians of 
 Madison County, of whom I have succeeded in 
 obtaining some definite information, with brief 
 sketches of some of the more prominent of them 
 are given alphabetically in the succeeding pages. 
 
 Prominence is not invariably based on esti- 
 mated ability, alone, but also on length of period 
 of service, or the number of years they practiced 
 their profession in Madison County. 
 
 ARDERY, OSCAR.— Anderson (1859-1897). S. T. 
 1898, 380, 381. 
 
 BAIR, W. B.— New Columbus (18— -1863). Lo- 
 cated in Madison County in 1844. Practiced eighteen 
 years. Was an active member of the first Madison 
 County Medical Society and was its treasurer from its 
 organization until his death. 
 
 BALLENGER, L. P.— Anderson (1851-1884). 
 
 BECK, JOHN.— Elwood (1809-1882). 
 
 BECK, THOMAS S.— Elwood (1843-1885). Son of 
 preceding Dr. Beck. Native of Ohio. Practiced in 
 Elwood fifteen years. 
 
 BRANDON, JOSEPH FRANCIS.— Anderson (1835- 
 1888). Practiced several years at Perkinsville. Re- 
 
MEDKJAL J/JSTOh'Y OF JSDIAXA. 2i;j 
 
 moved to Anderson and engaged in drug business, but 
 remained a member of the Madison County Medical 
 Society. 
 
 BRUNT, SAMUEL.— Summitville (1849-1883). 
 
 BURR, CHANCEY S.— Anderson (1840-1905). Born 
 in Middletown, Indiana, January 10, 1840. Died in 
 Chicago, Illinois, June 4, 1905. Graduated at Long 
 Island College Hospital, 1865. Served as surgeon in 
 the army last year of Civil War. Practiced his pro- 
 fession fifteen years in Anderson, ten years in Mitchell, 
 South Dakota, and fourteen years in the city of Chi- 
 cago. He was the first mayor of Mitchell, South 
 Dakota. 
 
 CARTER, D. M.— Anderson (1834-1893). Prac- 
 ticed a number of years in Anderson. Was a member 
 of the first Madison County Medical Society and was 
 its treasurer after the death of Dr. W. B. Bair, He 
 removed to Modoc in Randolph County, where he died. 
 Is buried at Winchester. 
 
 CALLOWAY, BENIAH T.— Elwood (1824-1899). 
 Born in Milton, Indiana, January 23, 1824. Died in 
 Elwood, Indiana, November 30, 1899. Located in 
 Alexandria in 1849; remained only one year, then 
 removed to Elwood where he practiced thirty-nine 
 years. He was retired ten years before his death. 
 
 CHANNING, WILLIAJVI S. — Pendleton (1851- 
 1906). S. T. 1907, 489. 
 
 COOK, DANIEL.— Fishersburg (1826-1902). Dr. 
 Cook practiced medicine in Madison County about 
 forty years, part of this time at Markleville. 
 
 COOK, JOHN H.— Pendleton (1802-1864). Born in 
 Monroe County, Virgina, April 27, 1802. Died of 
 apoplexy, at Pendleton, November 30, 1863. Educated 
 at Maxwell Academy in East Tennessee. Graduated 
 in medicine at University of Louisville. He was one 
 of the early specialists in diseases of the eye and ear. 
 In this specialty he attained such prominence as to 
 be called to many of the larger cities of this and 
 other states. 
 
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MEDICAL HlHTOltY OF IXDIANA. 215 
 
 He was a fluent public speaker and a ready debater; 
 entered politics and was elected representative in the 
 legislature in 1836. He rendered valuable assistance 
 in securing the first railway through the county, 
 giving both time and money. He also served one 
 term as a member of the Board of Trustees of the 
 State Blind Asylum, receiving his appointment from 
 Gov. Joseph A. Wright. 
 
 COOK, THOMAS E. — Perkinsville (1819-1876). 
 Born in South Carolina. Practiced twelve years in 
 county. 
 
 COOK, WARD.— Pendleton (1808-1894). Dr. Ward 
 Cook was a younger brother of Dr. John H. Cook, 
 above mentioned. Born in Monroe county, Virgina 
 (now West Virginia), October 9, 1808. Died of pneu- 
 monia, at Pendleton, Indiana, December 24, 1894. He 
 attended the schools- of his native county, and spent 
 two years at Maxwell Academy in Tennessee, after 
 which he taught school and studied under private 
 tutors. He came to Indiana on horseback, traveling 
 five hundred miles in thirteen days. He had studied 
 medicine with his other studies in his old home, and 
 soon after his arrival in Pendleton, he was examined 
 and licensed to practice, by a district medical society 
 convened there. His license was dated October 20, 
 1832. From 1835 to 1849 he practiced in Virginia, 
 being located at Red Sulphur Springs in his native 
 county. During this period, however, he attended 
 medical college and graduated from the Cincinnati 
 College of Medicine in 1839. He returned to Pendle- 
 ton March 24, 1849, and resided there until his death. 
 He practiced medicine more than sixty years, nearly 
 fifty of which were in Madison County. He wrote 
 many valuable medical papers, one on "Laceration of 
 the Perineum in Parturition." Trans. 1892, 142. 
 
 Dr. Cook was a conscientious and skilled physician 
 and a faithful member of the local and state medical 
 societies, by which he was frequently honored. He 
 was a fine type of the "gentleman of the old school," 
 and a consistent christian, having been a member of 
 
216 MEDICAL HISTORY OF lAWIANA, 
 
 the M. E. Church for nearly fifty years. S. T. 1895, 
 408. 
 
 COOPER, W. B.— New Columbus (1828-1868). 
 Began to practice medicine in Madison County, but 
 after a few years removed to Greenfield, Hancock 
 County, where he was eminently successful. 
 
 CORNELIUS, W. W.— Chesterfield (1822-1892). 
 Born in New York state, October 15, 1822. Died at 
 Daleville, Indiana, 1892. He located at Chesterfield 
 February 28, 1852, and was engaged in practice there 
 until the spring of 1864, a period of twelve years. He 
 then removed to Daleville in Delaware county. 
 
 CRAMPTON, JESSE PUGH. — Anderson (1818- 
 1866). Born in Ohio. Removed to Anderson in 1852. 
 He practiced medicine in Anderson fourteen years. 
 Part of the time was also engaged in the drug trade. 
 
 DEHORITY, J. M.— Elwood (1815-1885). Located 
 at Elwood in the early forties. Entered general prac- 
 tice of medicine and became wealthy. For the last 
 fifteen years of his life, was engaged in the mercan- 
 tile and banking business. 
 
 DOUGLASS, ROBERT. — Elwood ( 1816 - 1863 ) . 
 Practiced medicine in Tipton three years, New Lan- 
 caster three years, and in Elwood about twelve years. 
 Was the first physician at Elwood. 
 
 DOUGLAS, THOMAS. — Perkinsville (1818-1863). 
 Was the first physician at Perkinsville and practiced 
 tliere twelve years. Came from Ohio. 
 
 DUNHAM, DAVID.— Chesterfield (1762-1840). 
 
 DUNHAM, VALENTINE. — Chesterfield (1812- 
 1882). Located two miles northwest of Chesterfield. 
 Practiced medicine there for forty-five years. 
 
 EBERT, WILLIAM H. — Osceola ( 1820 - 1896 ) . 
 Practiced in Madison County thirty-four years. 
 
 FAIRFIELD, WILLIAM J. — Anderson (1853- 
 1909). Dr. Fairfield was born in Harrison, Ohio, 
 January 20, 1853. Was drowned in the Gunnison 
 River in Colorado, June 27, 1909. Received a high 
 school and partial college education. He attended 
 
MJ'JDJCAL UlSTOh'Y ()/■' J.XJjJ.WA. A]! 
 
 the Medical Department of the University of Michi- 
 gan two years and Bellevue Medical College, New 
 York, two years. Graduated at the latter institution 
 in 1878. He was house surgeon of the Battle Creek 
 Sanitarium several years and practiced twenty years 
 in Anderson. He was a "chalk talk" lecturer of no 
 mean ability, and sometimes employed his talent in 
 this line for the edification of medical societies. Re- 
 moved to Delta, Colorado, in 1907. Early in 1909 he 
 was appointed a member of the advisory board of 
 the University of Colorado. 
 
 FISHER, H. G.— Fishersburg (1836-1876). 
 
 FORKNER, THOMAS B.— Florida (1839-1869). 
 
 FREE, CYRENIUS.— Prosperity (1828-1884). Dr. 
 Free was a charter member of Madison County Medi- 
 cal Society. 
 
 FRITZ, PERRY L.— Alexandria (1865-1899). S. T. 
 1900, 323. 
 
 FUSSELL, BARTHOLOMEW. — Pendleton (1794- 
 1871). A native of Pennsylvania. Returned to his 
 native state. Is said to have weighed about four hun- 
 dred pounds. 
 
 FUSSELL, EDWIN B.— Pendleton (1813-1882). 
 
 GARRETSON, J. M. — Perkinsville (1821-1886). 
 Born in Tennessee. Practiced in county thirty years. 
 
 GODWIN, GEORGE W.— Chesterfield (1799-1865). 
 Removed to Yorktown in Delaware County. 
 
 GUYSINGER, JOHN S.— Florida (1816-1906). A 
 native of Pennsylvania. Died in Pendleton, Indiana, 
 in 1906, at the age of ninety years. He practiced his 
 profession in Henry and Madison Counties about sixty 
 years; the first third of this period was in Henry 
 County. He was three times married and reared a 
 family of fifteen children. He retired from practice 
 and moved to Pendleton a feAv years before his death. 
 
 HOCKETT, ZIMRL— Anderson (1830-1890). Prac- 
 ticed in Anderson twenty-five years. 
 
 HODGES, FRED JENNER. — Anderson (1865- 
 1901). Practiced in Anderson eight or nine years. 
 Removed to Ashland, Wisconsin, where he died. 
 
218 MEDICAL HISTORY OF nWIANA. 
 
 HORNE, JOHN.— New Columbus (1814-1880). Was 
 the first physician of New Columbus. He located 
 there in 1840. Eemoved to Middletown and subse- 
 quently to Yorktown, Delaware County. S. T. 1881, 
 240. E. M. of Ind., Dist. 6, p. 42. 
 
 HUNT, JOHN.— Anderson (1817-1895). Was born 
 in Wayne County, Indiana, and died at Springdale, 
 Arkansas, July 23, 1895. As a boy he came with 
 his parents to Madison County as pioneers. They gave 
 their name to the village where they settled — Hunts- 
 ville. Began the practice of medicine there in 1839. 
 Some years later he removed to Anderson and subse- 
 quently to a farm in LaFayette township, but in each 
 of these locations his field of practice covered the 
 larger portion of the county. Dr. Hunt was one of 
 the most prominent physicians of his part of the state 
 for more than thirty years. He was a man of splen- 
 did physique and unusual intelligence. His advice as 
 a physician was widely sought. 
 
 He was also a politician of local reputation, being 
 for many years the leader of his party in the county. 
 It was said that he could' sit on the stone steps in 
 front of his office on the public square and dictate the 
 nominations made by his party for all the county 
 offices. He served as state senator from Madison and 
 Hancock counties in the legislative session of 1851 
 to 1853. He was also treasurer of Madison County, 
 1860 to 1862. Was present at the Medical Convention 
 at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. 
 
 HUNT, JOHN WALTER.— Anderson (1850-1904). 
 Nephew of preceding. Practiced at Alexandria for a 
 number of years, then removed to Anderson, where he 
 enjoyed a large practice until his death. 
 
 HUNT, WILLIAM A.— Anderson (1822-1889). Dr. 
 William A. Hunt was a brother of John Hunt and 
 father of preceding. He was a small boy when he 
 removed with his parents from Wayne county, where 
 he was born, to their new home at Huntsville. He 
 first taught school, then studied medicine and grad- 
 uated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. 
 For many years he lived on an elegant farm four 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 21U 
 
 miles north of Anderson, where he built up a large 
 practice. He removed to Anderson in 1868 and, with 
 a short interval in the drug business, he continued 
 iu practice until a few days before his death. This 
 was caused by pneumonia, after a short illness. Dr. 
 Hunt was a competent physician, well informed, not 
 only in medical, but also in general literature. He 
 was a great reader and a logical thinker. Was also 
 an interested student of natural science, especially of 
 geology. He was also a ready writer and frequently 
 w^rote for the local press. He was a steadfast friend 
 of medical societies and was president of the first 
 Madison County Medical Society during the entire 
 period of its existence. S. T. 1889, 214. 
 
 HUSTON, A. S.— Anderson (1848-1894). Practiced 
 in Pendleton and Anderson eighteen years. 
 
 INLOW, JAMES E. — Alexandria ( 1841 - 1899 ) . 
 Practiced thirty years in Madison County. 
 
 JONES, THOMAS N. — Anderson (1823-1875). 
 Practiced twenty years in Anderson, having previously 
 practiced at Pendleton and in Hancock County. He 
 was one of the most prominent physicians of Ander- 
 son, a successful practitioner and quite popular with 
 the people, but less so with the profession, as he was 
 aggressive in his manner and rather opposed to medi- 
 cal societies. He was a local politician and repre- 
 sented his county in the legislature, having been 
 elected as a member of that body in 1872. He served 
 as assistant surgeon of the 2d Regiment Indiana 
 Cavalry and later as surgeon of the 130th Indiana 
 Infantry during the Civil War. 
 
 JONES, J. M.— Lapel (1838-1889). Practiced in 
 Madison county twenty-three years. 
 
 JORDAN, DEWITT.— Anderson (1871-1901). S. T. 
 1902, 416. 
 
 KILGORE, TECUMSEH.— Chesterfield (1839-1876). 
 Practiced medicine at Chesterfield about ten years. 
 Served in the Civil War as assistant surgeon 84th 
 Indiana Volunteer Infantry and later as assitant sur- 
 geon and also as surgeon of the 13th Indiana Cavalry. 
 
220 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 McCLENAHAN, THOMAS J. —Anderson (1822- 
 1856). Born in Baltimore. Came to Anderson some 
 time in the forties. Was a member of the Indiana 
 State Medical Society, early in its history. 
 
 McMAHAN, W. V.— New Columbus (1846-1879). 
 Practiced in the county ten years, part of this at 
 Summitville. 
 
 MENEFEE, E. H. — Anderson (1838-1879). A 
 native of Virginia. Came to Anderson about 1860. 
 He served as secretary of the first Madison County 
 Medical Society from 1862 to 1867. 
 
 MITCHELL, T. G.— Pendleton (1827-1903). 
 
 NUZUM, D. P.— Elwood (1842-1895). Born in 
 Ohio. Practiced in Grant County from 1878 to 1886 
 and at Elwood from 1886 to 1895. 
 
 O'CONNOR, JOHN Z.— Elwood (1868-1898). S. T. 
 1898, 387. 
 
 PARIS, WILLIAM.— Prosperity, (18— -1865). A 
 native of Kentucky. Came to Indiana in 1825 and was 
 one of the pioneers. Was both physjcian and preacher. 
 
 PARIS, ABSALOM.— Hamilton (1812-1870). 
 
 PATTERSON, PHILIP P.— Frankton (18— -1866). 
 
 PERRY, JOHN W.— Alexandria (1819-1895). Born 
 in Logan county, Virginia, November 29, 1819. Died 
 near Alexandria, Indiana, June 18, 1895. Came with 
 his parents' to Madison County in 1826. Located at 
 Alexandria in 1842. Was in partnership with Dr. 
 W. F, Spence, Alexandria's first physician. He prac- 
 ticed medicine in Madison County fifty-three years. 
 For forty-eight years he lived on a farm, but was in 
 active practice. He was a member of both county and 
 state medical societies. 
 
 PRATT, JOEL.— New Columbus (1826-1872). A 
 native of Massachusetts. Came to Madison County in 
 1848. Practiced here over twenty years. 
 
 PUGH, JOSEPH.— Alexandria (1820-1895). Prac- 
 ticed seventeen years. Served as treasurer of Madison 
 County. 
 
 PUGH, JOSEPH, Jr.— Alexandria (1857-1900). 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 221 
 
 RICHMOND, JOHN L. — Pendleton (1785-1855). 
 Dr. Richmond has a two-line mention in Forkner and 
 Dyson's History of Madison County, but no dates are 
 given. This is the Dr. Richmond who performed the 
 operation of Cesarean section at Newtown, Ohio, in 
 1827. See sketcli by Dr. Kemper, p. 330. 
 
 RIDER, DANIEL M.— New Columbus (1827-1907). 
 
 RINGO, JAMES L.— Elwood (1866-1901). S. T. 
 1902, 422. 
 
 RYAN, TOWNSEND.— Anderson (1813-1879). Dr. 
 Ryan was born in Lancaster, Pa., 1813. In early 
 manhood he removed to Hamilton, Ohio, where he 
 engaged in the mercantile business and was also part 
 owner and manager of a line of canal packets run- 
 ning between Hamilton and Cincinnati. He was 
 impoverished by the panic of 1837. He then studied 
 
222 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IlsWIAl:^A. 
 
 medicine and graduated at the Jefferson Medical Col- 
 lege, Philadelphia. He practiced first at Lewisville 
 in Henry county, but removed to Anderson in 1842 
 and for about twenty-five years was one of the most 
 prominent physicians of the county and state. He was 
 one of the vice-presidents of the Indiana State Medi- 
 cal Society at its organization in 1849. He was 
 elected to the legislature from Madison county in 
 1846. He was engaged actively in the construction 
 of the first two railroads' which now pass through the 
 county. He lost his fortune the second time in a 
 contract to build a railroad from Rushville to India- 
 napolis. He then returned to the practice of medicine 
 in which he was eminently successful. 
 
 When the Civil War broke out he was the first 
 democrat in the county to declare in favor of the war 
 policy of President Abraham Lincoln. He was a fluent 
 public speaker and gave much time to the raising of 
 troops'. He soon received a commission as lieutenant- 
 colonel of the 34th Indiana Volunteer Infantry and 
 v/ent into active service in 1861. He was promoted 
 to the colonelcy of the same regiment in 1862 on 
 the resignation of Colonel Steele. After the capture 
 of Island No. 10, he resigned on account of ill health. 
 Not being content out of service he soon returned to 
 the front as surgeon of the 54th Indiana Volunteer 
 Infantry, in which capacity he served until near the 
 close of the war, when he again engaged in practice 
 in Anderson. During a few of his latter years he was 
 engaged in mercantile business. He was a man of 
 superior intelligence, with a mind which seemed in 
 advance of his time; always looking toward and 
 planning for the future. 
 
 SAUNDERS, JOSEPH. — Prosperity (1849-1909). 
 A native of Ohio. Came to Madison County in 1871. 
 Graduated at Indiana Medical College, 1844. Prac- 
 ticed in county twenty-five years. President of Madi- 
 son County Farmers' Insurance from organization. 
 
 SIMS, T. S.— Elwood (1836-1896). Dr. Sims was 
 a native of Virgina. Came to Madison County in 
 1876. Practiced in Elwood sixteen years. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 223 
 
 SPANN, BENJAMIN F.— Anderson (1830-1894). 
 Born in Jefferson County, Indiana, May 14, 1830. 
 Practiced at Lebanon before locating at Anderson, 
 where he arrived November 19, 1860, and continued 
 in practice for thirty-four years. He was a graduate 
 of the Ohio Medical College. He served a term as 
 coroner of Madison County. By appointment of the 
 governor he was also a trustee of two state institu- 
 tions, the Indiana State Normal School at Terre 
 Haute and the Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis. 
 He was a member of the county, state and national 
 medical associations. S. T. 1894, 225. See I. M. J., 
 Vol. xii, p. 329. 
 
 STEPHENSON, JOSEPH.— Pendleton (1819-1886). 
 S. T. 1886, 213. 
 
 SUMAN, WILLIAM.— Anderson (1829-1898). A 
 native of Madison County, where he practiced medi- 
 cine thirty-eight years; twenty-two in Anderson, and 
 sixteen in Frankton. Was a faithful member of the 
 medical societies of county and state. S. T. 1899, 
 p. 393. 
 
 SWALLOW, GEOPvGE E. — Summitville, (18—- 
 1893). 
 
 TEEEILL, LUTHEE B. — Anderson (1854-1910). 
 Born in Missouri. Educated in Cincinnati. Graduated 
 at the Medical College of Ohio in 1880. Practiced 
 medicine in Cincinnati. Eemoved to Anderson in 
 1895, w^here he was one of the foremost physicians 
 for fifteen years. He was a surgeon of acknowledged 
 ability. Served as surgeon of the American Steel and 
 Wire Company during the entire period of his resi- 
 dence in Anderson. 
 
 VAN METEE, ISAAC N.— Florida (1849-1899). 
 A native of Madison county. Graduated from Indiana 
 University in 1871 and from Indiana Medical College 
 in 1872. Practiced in Madison County twenty-three 
 years. S. T. 1900, 340. 
 
 WALKEE, MADISON GEEENE.— Pendleton ( 1809- 
 1875). A native of West Virginia. Came to Madi- 
 son County in 1833, where he was one of the promi- 
 
224 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIAN' A. 
 
 nent physicians for twenty-nine j^ears. Retired to a 
 farm in 1862. Removed to Carthage, Missouri, in 
 1874. 
 
 WEEKS, JOSEPH.— Huntsville (1820-1908). Be- 
 gan practice at Huntsville, where he was located for 
 seven years. Removed to Mechanicsburg in Henry 
 County, where he enjoyed a large practice, extending 
 far into Madison County, for more than half a century 
 after his removal from it. He was the father of 
 physiomedicalism in his section. For portrait see 
 "The Pioneers," by S. Hardin, p. 41. 
 
 WESTERFIELD, JOHN W. — Anderson (1816- 
 1895). Born in Preble County, Ohio, June 1, 1816. 
 Removed with his parents to Fayette County, Indiana, 
 in 1828, and to Rush County in 1834. Studied medi- 
 cine in Rushville. Removed to Madison County in 
 1839. He practiced medicine in Anderson many years 
 and owned the first drug store established in the 
 town. Served one term as auditor of Madison County. 
 For portrait see Forkner and Dyson's History of 
 Madison County, p. 369. 
 
 WICKERSHAM, NOAH LUDLOW. — Anderson 
 (1827-1897). Native of Ohio. Graduated at Miami 
 Medical College in 1862. Practiced nine years in 
 Huntington County before this date. Practiced thirty- 
 five years in Anderson. He wrote poetry of no mean 
 character. S. T. 1897, 356 and 357. 
 
 WYMAN, HENRY. — Anderson (1806-1892). A 
 native of New York. Came to Madison County in 
 1831. In active practice until 1864, then removed to 
 Blissfield, Michigan, where he died in 1892. He is 
 regarded as the first scientifically educated physician 
 to locate in Anderson. Had a large practice, which 
 extended all over the county. As a diversion he 
 edited a local newspaper. Represented the county in 
 the legislature one or more terms and was ranked 
 among the ablest of her representatives. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 225 
 
 Some of the Early Practitioxers of 
 Gibson County 
 
 Dr. William W. Blair of Princeton, a personal 
 friend of manj^ years standing, has kindly fur- 
 nished me the following notes. Dr. Blair began 
 practice in Princeton in the year 1850 and has 
 continued up to the present date, and has person- 
 ally known nearly all of the practitioners of Gib- 
 son County:* 
 
 Fifty or sixty years ago it would have been 
 much easier to gather information in regard to 
 the early history of Gibson county, than at the 
 present day, for at that time there were quite a 
 number of the first settlers of this county who 
 could have given the names of ail who had been 
 practitioners in this vicinity from about the 
 year 1805. 
 
 Among the pioneers there were two women 
 who were perhaps as well known in the obstetric 
 line as any two persons in the county. Mrs. 
 John Severn, who with her husband settled on 
 Patoka Eiver, three miles northeast of Princeton 
 when this country was inhabited mostly by 
 Indians and wild animals, was the first prac- 
 ticing midwife. I have often talked with her 
 daughter, Mrs. William Leathers — who was born, 
 lived and died on the same spot of ground — • 
 about her mother's early experience. 
 
 There were neither bridges nor ferries on 
 Patoka Eiver and when "Old Granny Severn,^' 
 as she was familiarly named, had a call to the 
 other side of the river — should it be too deep to 
 
 * Dr. Blaii- has practiced in Princeton more than sixty 
 years.— G. W. H. K. 
 
226 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "f ord'^ — she would mount lier horse and ^^swim" 
 the river, no matter what the temperature or 
 condition of the stream. She continued her 
 work up to the time of her death, which occurred 
 perhaps between the 3'ears 1835 and 1840. 
 
 The other midwife was Mrs. Rev. John Keli, 
 who settled here in 1816. Just how soon she 
 began her work in that line I am unable to say, 
 but it was at a very early day, and she continued 
 for a number of years after I came to Princeton : 
 indeed, till the feebleness of age laid her aside. 
 She died in 1857 or 1858. 
 
 For a few years after white people began to 
 settle in this locality, there is no record now 
 accessible of any physician having located here, 
 Yincennes, 27 miles north, being the nearest 
 point where medical assistance -could be obtained. 
 
 Drs. Case}^, Charles Fullerton and Eobert 
 Stockwell were among the earliest practitioners 
 to locate in this county. A few years later, Drs. 
 Maddox and Kell were added to the number, but 
 there is no available history as to the exact time 
 of their location. 
 
 Dr. William Curl, a graduate of the University 
 of Virginia, was the first medical graduate to 
 practice in Gibson count}^, having settled in 
 Princeton in 1832. He died in March, 1842, 
 from pneumonia, at the age of 39 years. 
 
 Dr. I. I. Pennington (1805-1897) was prac- 
 ticing here in 1850, but how long before that 
 time I am unable to say. Remained until about 
 1865. 
 
 Dr. George B. Graff, educated in Baltimore, 
 settled here in 1843 and removed to Omaha, 
 Xeb., about 1862. He died about 1895. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 227 
 
 Dr. James C. Patten gradiiated at Evansville 
 and began practice in this county in 1849. He 
 died in 1903. He served as assistant surgeon 
 Fifty-Eighth Indiana Eegiment during Sher- 
 man's march to the sea. 
 
 The names of a number of other deceased phy- 
 sicians of Gibson county have already been 
 reported in the list heretofore published in your 
 records^ and need not be mentioned here. 
 
 Supplemental to Physicians of Jackson 
 County 
 
 Dr. A. G. Osterman of Seymour has furnished 
 me some additional history of the early physi- 
 cians of Jackson county (see p. 138). 
 
 Among the earlier physicians was Dr. John 
 Tipton Shields, born in 1818. He located at 
 Xorth Vernon, where he practiced for a fe'^r 
 years, then removed to Jackson county, where 
 he practiced until the time of his death, Jan. 13, 
 1907. Dr. William Bracken practiced a short 
 time at Eeddington (1837). Drs. David and 
 William Vanoose (Yanuise) practiced at Eock- 
 ford in the early thirties. Among other phvsi- 
 cians who located there were Drs. Crippen, Wiles, 
 Eatman, Lime, Woodward, Hagen, Brandt, Will- 
 iamson, and Hillis. Dr. James H. Green was 
 born in Jefferson county Dee. 19, 1834, and died 
 March 17, 1901. Dr. Jasper E. Monroe was 
 born in Kentucky in 1847. He practiced at 
 Eockford and Seymour up to the time of his 
 death, which occurred about 1881. Dr. Louis J. 
 Stage was born in Clearfield county. Pa., April 
 30, 1821. He practiced at various places in the 
 
228 MEDICAL HIsTOBY OF IXDIAXA. 
 
 county and died Jan. 15, 1880, at Vallonia. Dr. 
 W. C. A. Bain was born Dec. o, 1819. in Trimble 
 connty. Ky. He practiced principally at Browns- 
 town, where be died March 4, 1894. Dr. John 
 Louis Ford was born in Woodford connty, Ky., 
 1818. He died at Brownstown where he prac- 
 ticed for many years. Dr. A. L. Newkirk was 
 born in Hamilton connty, Ohio, Dec. 4, 1826, 
 and practiced at Seymonr, where he died in 
 1885. Dr. Philip Eosegan was bom at Coblenz, 
 Germany, Jnne 20, 183 T; was gradnated from 
 the nniversity at Bonn, 1848. Practiced prin- 
 cipally at Dudley town, and died in Columbus. 
 Jnne 14, 1893. Dr. Samuel Coryell was born in 
 'Rew York 1819. First practiced near Paris 
 Crossing, then removed to Crothersyille, where 
 he died in 1890. Dr. George Chutes was born 
 June 8, 1825. at Washington, Ohio : died at Free- 
 town in 1882. Dr. Grofton Manuel was born 
 Aug. 12, 1834, in Ohio; he practiced in Free- 
 town where he died in 1895. Dr. Marshall 
 Vance Wilson was born in Lawrence county, Ind., 
 March 9, 1839. Located at Medora, and prac- 
 ticed there until his death, Feb. 10, 1907. Dr. 
 F. W. Gibson was born in Xew Hampshire. May 
 12, 1831: died at Yallonia, Feb. 12, 1870. Dr. 
 Victor Hugo Monroe was born near Eockford, 
 Aug. 8, 1852. and died at Seymour in 1894. Dr. 
 Samuel Wells practiced at Clearspring in this 
 county for many years. I could not get his his- 
 tory. I could get no history of Dr. A. M. 
 Thompson, who practiced at Houston in 1835. 
 nor of Dr. E. P. Eeed. Drs. John Long, and 
 Tinch died at Brownstown. Dr. Frank Ewinsr 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 229 
 
 was born near Xorth Vernon in 1851 : practiced 
 at Vallonia, where he died in 1897. Dr. John 
 Quincy Orvis was born in Xew York; practiced 
 at Seymour from 18TG until his death, which 
 occurred in 1896. (See pac^e 138.) 
 
CHAPTER XXI 
 
 ALPHABETICAL LIST OF DECEASED 
 PHYSICIANS. 
 
 I wish to state that this is not a complete list 
 of all the deceased ph3'sicians of Indiana. The 
 Transactions of the Indiana State Medical Soci- 
 ety are my principal source of information. Pref- 
 erably, we must first do honor to this body of 
 men who have been the real joromoters of legiti- 
 mate medicine in our state. Suppose no society 
 had. been organized in 1849, or any subsequent 
 year, what would be our present condition? The 
 State Society necessarily led to annual meetings, 
 and the creation of useful medical and scientific 
 papers, and these were preserved in our Transac- 
 tions. The State Society encouraged the several 
 medical journals that have existed in our state, 
 and that have been so helpful to the profession. 
 Our Transactions, medical journals, medical col- 
 leges and the valuable laws on our statute books, 
 we may say without undue praise, have been 
 brought about through the self-sacrifice and en- 
 ergy of the men whose names are found upon the 
 records of our State Society from 1849 to 1909. 
 
 I have sought for names elsewhere in cases 
 where they deserved recognition. In some in- 
 stances ancient tombstones have supplied dates. 
 After all my pains, and the help of good friends, 
 some names will be overlooked, and I shall sin- 
 cerely regret such omissions. I have sent letters 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 231 
 
 to every county society in the state asking for 
 names of deceased physicians who lived in their 
 midst. Many have responded; some have not, so 
 I must not bear all the blame. 
 
 Space will not allow lengthy notice of individ- 
 uals, and some of their friends may be disap- 
 pointed because I have failed to write more 
 concerning their personal history, but I have 
 endeavored to do justice to all. As the names of 
 my friends of the past have come up before me 
 my eyes have moistened and I have felt loath to 
 cease saying kind words about them. 
 
 I may say that I have aimed to devote more 
 space to the earlier physicians of the state, rather 
 than to those of a later generation. Also to honor 
 those who have rendered more marked service to 
 medicine and surgery. The aim is to record the 
 correct name, residence, date of birth, and date of 
 death. Often this supplies all the information 
 desired, but the reader can, if he chooses, find ref- 
 erence to the particular volume of Transactions, 
 where fuller details can be secured. 
 
 I have aimed to give title and reference to pa- 
 pers contributed by deceased members and pub- 
 lished in the Transactions, so that the sketches are 
 helpful as an index. 
 
 I desire to call especial attention to the obit- 
 uary notices recorded in the Transactions. Gen- 
 erally, they have been written by personal friends 
 who knew the deceased, and recorded interesting 
 facts which are worthy of perusal. In many 
 instances they contain valuable historical infor- 
 mation. 
 
232 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 I must record a tribute of praise to the memo- 
 ries of Drs. J. E. Beck and J. F. Hibberd, who 
 inaugurated the Section of Necrology in 1879. 
 Dr. Beck was chairman of this committee one 
 year, 1880, when his name was added to the death 
 list of 1881, and Dr. Hibberd succeeded him as 
 chairman and continued in this capacity until 
 1899, when he also went on that unreturning 
 visit, leaving the work for others to assume. In 
 1900 Dr. G. W. H. Kemper was appointed to the 
 chairmanship and has continued to the present 
 time. And so, for thirty years a pathetic and 
 historical register of our deceased professional 
 brethren was an annual source of surprise and 
 sorrow. 
 
 Finally, I regret that some physicians have 
 been so sensitive over their names in medical 
 journals and medical biographies. In many 
 instances this over-sensitiveness has hindered my 
 work when I have searched for information con- 
 cerning individuals. A physician's good name and 
 example ought to be an incentive to younger mem- 
 bers of the profession. If he has wrought well, 
 his deeds and works are the common heritage of 
 the profession. 
 
 I wish Dr. Stone had compiled a book on Indi- 
 ana physicians that would have comprised all the 
 medical men of the state, then my task would 
 have been needless or easier. 
 
 "Along the village streets, where maples lean 
 Together like old friends about the way, 
 A faithful pair oft and anon were seen — 
 
 He and his nag, both growing old and gray; 
 What secrets lurked within that old soul's breast: 
 Of mother-love, of throb of pains and ills. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 233 
 
 All safely kept beneath that buttoned vest, 
 
 Keceptacle of powders and of pills. 
 Thrice happy he when some fond mother's eyes 
 
 Grew moist with love unspeakable to find 
 Snugged to her breast her babe whose paradise 
 
 Within her soul and bosom were entwined. 
 How oft he held the wrist to mark the slow 
 
 Pulsations of the feebly-fluttering heart, 
 While his kind words, soft murmuring and low. 
 
 Essayed to calm the mourner's pain and smart. 
 He was to all a father, brother, friend ; 
 
 Their joys were his, their sorrows were his own. 
 He sleeps in peace where yonder willows bend 
 
 Above the violets that kiss the stone." 
 
 — Horace S. Keller, in New York Sun. 
 
 Abbreviations: "S. T.," Transactions State Medical 
 Society; "I. M. J.," Indiana Medical Journal; "J, I. S. 
 M. A.," Journal Indiana State Medical Association;" 
 "Robson," The Physicians and Surgeons of the United 
 States, 1878, Charles Robson; "Stone," Biography of 
 Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons, 1894, R. 
 French Stone, M.D., Indianapolis; "R. M. of Ind.," 
 Representative Men of Indiana: American Biograph- 
 ical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the 
 State of Indiana, Cincinnati, 1880. 
 
 ABORN, ORIN— Marshfield (1826-1885) S. T. 1886, 
 202. Was assistant surgeon of the 40th Reg. Ind. 
 Vols. 
 
 ADAMS, JAMES M.— Marion (1820-1894) S. T. 
 1895, 404. 
 
 ADAMS, JAMES Mc— Frankfort (1839-1888) S. T. 
 1889, 213. Contributed "Report on the prevailing 
 diseases of the Seventh Congressional District." Trans. 
 1871, 83, and 1872, 111. 
 
 ADAMS, JAMES R.— Petersburg (1824-1903) I. M. 
 J., Vol. xxii, 335. Was assistant surgeon of the 58th 
 Reg. Ind. Vols, and later surgeon of the 15th Reg. Ind. 
 Vols, in the Civil War. 
 
234 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ADAMS, MARCELLUS M.— Greenfield (1835-1909) 
 Jour. Ind. State Med. Assoc, Vol. ii, 404. Was assist- 
 ant surgeon of the 116tli Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 ADYLOTTE, WILLIAM R.— Badger (1834-1885) 
 S. T. 1885, 220. 
 
 AIKMAN, EDGAR A.— Clinton (1855-1906) S. T. 
 1907, 492. 
 
 ALEXANDER, STEPHEN J.— New Albany (1812- 
 1891) S. T. 1891, 284. 
 
 ALEXANDER, WILBUR.— Frankfort (1869-1906) 
 S. T. 1907, 478. 
 
 ALLEN SETH.— Sliideler (1845-1898) S. T. 1898, 
 386. 
 
 AMICK, CHRISTOPHER C— Hayden (1849-1901) 
 S. T. 1901, 480. 
 
 ANDERSON, OLIVER F.— Wheeling (1839-1883) 
 S. T. 1884, 210. 
 
 ANDREW, WILLIAM P.— Laporte (1809-1906) 
 I. M. J.,Vol. XXV., 80. 
 
 ANDREWS, DANIEL H.— Muncie (1811-1856). 
 
 ANTHONY, EMANUEL.— Indianapolis ( 1840- 
 1903). Born in Loudon County, Virginia, May 27, 
 1840. He served in the 141st Reg. Ohio Vols. In 1879 
 he was elected to the chair of surgery in the Physio- 
 Medical College of Indiana, which he filled until 1898. 
 He was then appointed to the chair of principles and 
 practice of medicine in the same institution, which he 
 filled until the time of his death. W. A. Spurgeon. 
 
 ANTHONY— SAMUEL P.— Muncie ( 1792-1876 ) . 
 
 ARDERY, JOSEPH C— Decatur County (1825- 
 1854). Was born in Decatur County, Jan. 28, 1825, 
 and died at Hartsville, Nov. 28, 1854. He was present 
 at the formation of the State Medical Society, 1849. 
 
 ARMINGTON, WILLIAM.— Greensburg ( 1808- 
 1862). 
 
 ARMITAGE, DAVID R.— Delaware County (1831- 
 1891) S. T. 1892, 280. 
 
 ARMSTRONG, LEWIS P.— Newtown (1836-1905) 
 S. T. 1905, 439. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 235 
 
 ARMSTRONG, WESLEY.— Hillsboro (1832-1884) 
 S. T. 1884, 219. 
 
 ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM G.— Lafontaine (1822- 
 1881) S. T. 1881, 243. 
 
 ARNOLD, JOHN.— Rushville (1815-1902). For 
 biography see Am. Biog. Hist, of eminent and self- 
 made men of the State of Indiana, 1880, Dist. 6, 1. 
 
 ARTHUR, CHRISTOPHER C— Portland (1832- 
 1898) S. T. 1899, 395. Born in Highland county, Ohio, 
 Sept. 15, 1832, and died at his home in Portland, Oct. 
 16, 1898. He was a graduate of the Starling Medical 
 College, and soon after graduation located in Camden, 
 Jay county. Dr. Arthur was a natural mechanic and 
 always resourceful in surgery. The author has seen 
 a remarkably excellent trephine which Dr. Arthur 
 constructed out of an old hand saw, and used in an 
 early day to good purposes in many cases. In 18G2 
 he raised a company for the Seventy-fifth Indiana Vol- 
 untpprs and was elected Captain. A few days later 
 he was appointed surgeon of the regiment. He was 
 captured while in charge of a hospital soon after the 
 battle of Chickamauga, and sent to Libby prison where 
 he was in confinement for six months. Upon his re- 
 turn home he was twice elected County Auditor of 
 Jay county. After the expiration of his terms of office 
 he resumed practice in Portland. In the State Trans- 
 actions for 1893, page 188, may be found an exceeding 
 valuable paper contributed by Dr. Arthur, entitled 
 "Fractures of the Skull with Injuries of the Brain." 
 In this paper some sixteen cases are described and all 
 are of great interest and show the skill of no ordinary 
 surgeon. 
 
 ARWINE, JOHN S.— Columbus (1824-1905), S. T. 
 1906, 491. 
 
 ATHON, JAMES S.— Indianapolis (1811-1875). 
 Was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, April 1, 1811, 
 and died at Indianapolis. Oct. 25, 1875, of cerebral 
 hemorrhage. Dr. Athon was surgeon of the Third 
 Indiana Volunteer Regiment in the Mexican War. He 
 was present at the State Medical convention at In- 
 dianapolis, in June, 1849, and was accredited to 
 
236 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Charlestown. He was numbered with the pioneer physi- 
 cians of Indiana, having practiced for about forty 
 years. From Nov. 1, 1852, to Oct. 3, 1861, he was 
 superintendent of the Central Indiana Hospital for 
 Insane. He was elected and served as Secretary of 
 State from 1863 to 1865. See article on "Final Illness 
 of Dr. James S. Anthon. Post-mortem Examination, 
 and Remarks upon the Preventive Treatment of Apo- 
 plexy," by Dr. Isaac C. Walker, Trans. 1876, p. 122. 
 
 ATKINS, JOSEPH.— Lafayette (1812-1904), I. M. 
 J., Vol. xxii, 368. 
 
 AUSTIN, CHARLES B.— Veedersburg (1825-1890), 
 S. T. 1890, 163. 
 
 AUSTIN, STEPHEN S.— Etna (1821-1884), S. T. 
 1885, 216. 
 
 AVERDICK, HENRY G.— Oldenburg (1826-1892), 
 S. T. 1893, 254. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 144. Was sur- 
 geon of Thirty-fifth Regiment Indiana Infantry. 
 
 AYRES, HENRY P.— Ft. Wayne (1813-1887), S. T. 
 1888, 208. Dr. Ayres was a native of New Jersey. 
 Graduated from the University of New York in 1842, 
 and located in Ft. Wayne the same year, where he 
 resided until his death. Was elected president of the 
 State Society in 1871. He contributed the following 
 papers to the Transactions: "Report on Obstetrics," 
 — 1859, 30; "Epidemic Dysentery in Allen County in 
 1845, 1854, 1856, 1864,"— 1867, 127; "Indiana's Idiotic 
 Children,"— 1868, 106; "Self Pollution in Children," 
 —1871, 161; "President's Address,"— 1872, 1. 
 
 AYRES, STEPHEN D.— Marion (1811-1898), S. T. 
 1899, 390. 
 
 BAKER, JOSEPH H.— Lafayette (1854-1893), S. T. 
 1894, 223. See I. M. J., Vol. xii, 293. 
 
 BAKER, MOSES.— Lafayette (1823-1888). Case of 
 Cesarean section, operation Nov. 6, 1880. Mother and 
 child saved. I. M. J., Vol. ii, 1. "Post-partum Hemor- 
 rhage," S. T. 1885, 136. 
 
 BAKER, PHILIP S.— Indianapolis (1851-1901), S. 
 T. 1902, 408. For ten years prior to his death he held 
 the professorship of chemistry in the Medical College 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 237 
 
 of Indiana, and was recognized as one of the leading 
 chemists of the country. I. M. J., Vol. xx, 154. 
 
 BAKER, THOMAS H. B.— Pekin (1838-1905). S. 
 T. 1905, 440. 
 
 BALINGALL, GEORGE H.— Middletown (1794- 
 1865). Born in Scotland, 1794. Educated at Edin- 
 burg. Came to America in 1815. Practiced first in 
 Virginia. Removed to Middletown, Ind., in early 
 thirties; died there in 1865, aged 71 years. Acquired 
 a competence and retired some years before his death. 
 
 BALLARD, CHESTER G.— Perryville (1792-1858). 
 Dr. Ballard was born in Wendell, Mass., Jan. 14, 1792, 
 and died at Perryville, June 21, 1858. He formerly 
 practiced at Waveland, and was present at the forma- 
 tion of the State Society. 
 
 BALLARD, NATHAN H.— Richmond (1849-1898). 
 S. T. 1899, 401. 
 
 BALLARD, S. H.— Haubstadt (1856-1885). S. T. 
 1885, 218. 
 
 BALLOU, A. B.— Burnetts ville (1831-1893). S. T. 
 1894, 224. 
 
 BARKER, ANDREW J.— Tipton (1840-1883). S. 
 T. 1883, 273. 
 
 BARNS, WILLIAM C— Marion (1850-1905). S. T. 
 1906, 495. 
 
 BARTHOLOMEW, BRADLEY. — Danville ( 1804- 
 1902). S. T. 1903, 332. 
 
 BARTON, GAYLORD G.— Washington (1809-1884). 
 S. T. 1884, 217. 
 
 BATES, AARON J.— Kokomo( 1843-1906). S. T. 
 1906, 497. 
 
 BAUER, MODESTUS.— Vincennes (1830-1884). S. 
 T. 1884, 223. 
 
 BEARD, FERDINAND W.— Vincennes (1835-1891) 
 S. T. 1891, 283. Born in Harrison county, Indiana, 
 Feb. 7, 1835, and died at Vincennes, Feb. 11, 1891. He 
 was a practitioner of medicine for thirty-four years. 
 He was one of the original members of the Knox 
 County Medical Society, and was especially active in 
 
238 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 various professional societies. He' was a regular at- 
 tendant and active worker in the State Society, and 
 was Vice President in 1875. He deserves mention for 
 his loyalty to his county and state societies. 
 
 BECK, ELIAS W. H.— Delphi (1822-1888). S. T. 
 1889, 211. Born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, Jan. 
 18, 1822; graduated at University of New York in 
 March, 1848. Previous to graduation he served as 
 assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army during the Mex- 
 ican war, being attached to the general hospital at 
 Matamoras. In the spring of 1848 he began to prac- 
 tice at Delphi. In 1850 he crossed the plains to 
 California where he practiced for four months. In 
 1851 he returned to Delphi where he continued to 
 practice until his death, which occurred Oct. 6, 1888. 
 During the Civil War he was for one year surgeon of 
 the Third Indiana Cavalry Regiment, six months a 
 brigade surgeon, and for eighteen months surgeon of 
 a division. On the night of July 3, 1863, while on 
 duty at his hospital at the Presbyterian Church in 
 Gettysburg he discovered the beginning of the retreat 
 of the Confederates, and promptly reported the fact to 
 General Hancock. Dr. Beck is accredited with having 
 made a resection of the shoulder joint, in which four 
 inches of humerus was removed, the patient recovering 
 with a fairly useful arm. (Med. and Surg. Hist, of 
 the War of the Rebellion, Part 2, Surg. Vol., 550.) 
 
 BECK, JOSEPH R.— Ft. Wayne (1843-1880). S. 
 T. 1881, 243. Born at Lancaster, Ohio, March 19, 
 1843; died at Ft. Wayne, Dec. 30, 1880. He practiced 
 at Toledo and Lancaster, Ohio, and since 1871 at Ft. 
 Wayne. He was professor of gynecology and genito- 
 urinary diseases in the Ft. Wayne college of medi- 
 cine at the time of his death. It was upon the motion 
 of Dr. Beck at the May meeting of the State Society 
 in 1879 that a committee of necrology was created. He 
 was appointed as Chairman and served the following 
 year, at which time his death occurred, and Dr. J. F. 
 Hibberd succeeded as Chairman. He contributed a 
 number of articles to periodicals, and in transactions 
 of 1875, 95, a paper on Iodide of Potassium, and in 
 1880, 100, an article on "Tumors of the Anterior Walls 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 239 
 
 of Vagina.'" He was also the author of a paper pub- 
 lished in the Am. Jour, of Obs. in 1874, entitled "How 
 do the Spermatozoa Enter the Uterus?" See also 
 Robson, p. 522. 
 
 BECKES, LYMAN M.— Vincennes (1862-1904). 
 S. T. 1905, 441. 
 
 BEER, HENRY M.— Valparaiso (1838-1903). Was 
 a native of Ohio. In June, 1861, enlisted in the 
 Twenty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and soon aft- 
 erward was made hospital steward of same regiment. 
 Later he served as a contract surgeon at Cumberland, 
 Md. In 1868 he located in Valparaiso, where he spent 
 the remainder of his life. Dr. Beer was a skillful 
 physician and surgeon, and was loved by his fellow- 
 men. 
 
 BERRY, GEORGE.— Brookville (1811-1892). S. T. 
 1892, 292. Dr. Berry was a member of the State Con- 
 stitutional Convention, and represented Franklin 
 county in the State Senate and House of Representa- 
 tives, and filled several county offices. During the 
 Mexican War he was surgeon of the Sixteenth Regi- 
 ment U. S. Infantry. Dr. Berry stood high as a local 
 surgeon. 
 
 BERRYMAN, JAMES A.— Darlington (1836-1896). 
 S. T. .1897, 345. 
 
 BEVER, JOHN C— Vincennes (1819-1903). S. T. 
 1903, 333. 
 
 BEVERLY, JOHN E.— Winchester (1816-1888). S. 
 T. 1889, 207. 
 
 BIGELOW, JAMES K.— Indianapolis (1833-1886). 
 S. T. 1886, 218. Born at Bellebrook, Ohio, Oct. 17, 
 1833; died at Indianapolis, June 1, 1886. When the 
 Governor called for three months' volunteers in 1861, 
 he volunteered as a private and at the end of this 
 term re-enlisted, was made hospital steward Eighth 
 Indiana Volunteers; w-as commissioned as an assistant 
 surgeon October, 1862, and promoted to surgeon July, 
 1863. 
 
 BLACK, NORMAN W.— Selma (1827-1880). S. T. 
 1881, 235. 
 
240 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 BLAIE, FRANKLIN.— Princeton (1859-1907). S. 
 T. 1907, 482. 
 
 BLOUNT, CYRUS N.— Kokomo (1832-1887). S. T. 
 1888, 209. Dr. Blount contributed two articles to the 
 State Society, "Diabetes Mellitus," S. T. 1874, 91; and 
 "Cerebral Softening, witli Report of a Case," 1887, 116. 
 
 BLUNT, MARCUS S.— Vernon (1826-1881). S. T. 
 1882, 198. 
 
 BOBBS, JOHN S.— Indianapolis (1809-1870). Was 
 born at Greenvillage, Pennsylvania, Dec. 28, 1809, and 
 died at Indianapolis, May 1, 1870. Dr. Bobbs located 
 at Indianapolis in 1835, but took a course of lectures 
 in Jefferson Medical College the same year, graduating 
 in 1836. When the Medical College of Indiana was 
 organized, he was elected professor of surgery, and 
 later dean of the faculty. Dr. P. H. Jameson says that 
 the latter part of his life was devoted mainly to sur- 
 gery, and that "he was original and bold almost to 
 lecklessness." Dr. Bobbs was one of the original com- 
 missioners who organized the Indiana Hospital for 
 the Insane. He was a state senator for one term. 
 During the Civil War he was brigade surgeon on the 
 staff of Gen. T. A. Morris. At his death he gave 
 $2,000 for a dispensary, and $5,000 for a free medical 
 library. He was not an extensive contributor to med- 
 ical or surgical literature. In The Transactions of 
 the State Medical Society for 1868, 1, may be found 
 Dr. Bobbs' address as President of the society. It is 
 a valuable paper, and is entitled, "The Origin, Objects 
 and Progress of the Indiana State Medical Society." 
 In that paper he makes a special plea for the estab- 
 lishment of a medical journal, to be the organ of the 
 profession in the state. The crowning glory of Dr. 
 Bobbs' professional life is his well earned reputation 
 as the "Founder of Cholecystotomy," inasmuch as he 
 was the first to open the gall-bladder. The operation 
 was performed June 15, 1867, the patient, a woman 
 thirty years of age, made a thorough recovery, and is 
 living at the present time. The original paper, which 
 has elicited so much interest of late years, was entitled 
 "Case of Lithotomy of the Gall-Bladder," an.d was pub- 
 lished in the State Transactions, 1868, 68. Republished 
 
242 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 in full in I. M. J., Vol. xxiv, 26. The reader who may 
 desire to consult the literature on the subject of Dr. 
 Bobbs and the first case of cholecystotomy, can do so 
 by the following additional references: Indiana Med- 
 ical Journal, Vol. xvii, 432; Vol. xviii, 177, 277; Vol. 
 xxi, 193, and a most elaborate report on the case and 
 patient by Dr. A. W. Brayton, in the same Journal, 
 Vol. xxiv, 21, 55, with a picture of the patient, p. 38. 
 Also, on p. 33, same journal, a "Memorial of Dr. 
 Bobbs," by Dr. P. H. Jameson. His last contribution 
 to surgery was written a few days before his death: 
 "Two Cases of Nsevi in Infants, Treated by Ligation 
 and Excision; and Excision Alone." Ind. Jour. Med., 
 Vol. 1, 33 (May, 1870). See biographical sketches, 
 S. T. 1871, p. 211, by Dr. G. W. Mears, Ind. Jour, of 
 Med., Vol i, p. 47, by Dr. Thad M. Stevens, Dr. M. 
 Tinker, Johns flopkins Bulletin, August, 1901, and 
 I. M. J., Vol. XX, p. 193. 
 
 BOND, RICHARD C— Aurora (1822-1904). S. T. 
 1905, 442. 
 
 BOOR, WALTER A.— New Castle (1849-1897). S. 
 T. 1898, 375. 
 
 BOOR, WILLIA^I F.— New Castle (1819-1907). 
 Dr. Boor first located in Henry county in 1846, having 
 removed from Ohio. With the exception of a few 
 years' residence later in Ohio, he continued to reside 
 in Henry county until his death, which occurred July 
 17, 1907. He was surgeon of the Fourth Indiana Cav- 
 alry regiment during the Civil War. It was his boast 
 that in his long span of life, he never used intoxicants 
 or tobacco. Robson, p. 617. 
 
 BOUXELL, MATHEW H.— Lebanon (1822-1896). 
 S. T. 1896, 271. Was surgeon of the One Hundred and 
 Sixteenth Regiment Indiana Infantrj^ See R. M. of 
 Ind., Dist. 6, p. 10. 
 
 BOWERS, ANDREW J.— Moore's Hill (1827-1902). 
 S. T. 1902, 409. 
 
 BOWLBY, JOSEPH.— Shelbyville (1854-1906). S. 
 T. 1907, 490. 
 
WILLIAM F. BOOR 
 
244 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIA^'A. 
 
 BOYD, SAIMUEL S.— Dublin (1820-1888). S. T. 
 1888, 213. Born in Wayne county, Indiana, March 31, 
 1820, and died April 16, 1888. Dr. Boyd graduated 
 at the Ohio Medical College in 1848, and soon after 
 began practice at Jacksonburg, and later removed to 
 Centerville. In 1862 he was appointed surgeon of the 
 Eighty-fourth Indiana Volunteers, and remained with 
 that regiment until near the close of the war. He 
 then located at Dublin, where he continued to prac- 
 tice medicine until the date of his death. Dr. Boyd 
 was a typical family physician. In 1876 he was elected 
 President of the State Medical Society. Besides Presi- 
 dent's address, 1877, he has contributed the following 
 papers to the transactions of the state society: "Vera- 
 trum Viride," Trans. 1874, 31; "Tobacco," 1876, 23, 
 and "Medical Legislation," 1884, 17. 
 
 BRACKEN, WILLIAJNI.— Greensburg (1817-1907). 
 Dr. Bracken was born in Dearborn County, May 26, 
 1817, and died at Greensburg, Aug. 13, 1907. He was 
 licensed to practice medicine by the old Fifth District 
 Medical Society at its session in Connersville, on 
 Nov. 2, 1836. He commenced the practice of medicine 
 in Jackson County, Jan. 1, 1837, where he remained 
 about two years, after which he removed to Richland, 
 Rush County. In 1842 he moved to Milroy, in same 
 county, where he continued to practice until the spring 
 of 1862, when he removed to Greensburg, and con- 
 tinued practice until a few years before his death. 
 
 He studied medicine with Dr. H. G. Sexton, at Rush- 
 ville, Indiana. He had no educational advantages, 
 except five months in school, schools of an insufficient 
 order even for that day. However, he continued a dili- 
 gent student throughout his entire life. He was elected 
 a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of In- 
 diana in 1850, and at the time of his death was the 
 last surviving member. — Leonidas L. Bracken, grand- 
 son, Muncie. 
 
 BRADBURY, ALLISON B.— Muncie (1842-1892). 
 S. T. 1892, 289. 
 
SAMUEL S. BOYD 
 
246 MEDICAL BISTORT OF nWIANA. 
 
 BRADY, C. C— Lincolnville (1852-1895). S. T. 
 1896, 255. 
 
 BRANDON, JOSEPH F.— Anderson (1835-1888). 
 S. T. 1888, 210. 
 
 BRAY, MADISON J.— Evansville (1811-1900). Dr. 
 Bray was born at Turner, Maine, 1811, and graduated 
 at Bowdoin Medical College in 1835, and located the 
 same year at Evansville. He filled the chair of surgery 
 in Evansville Medical College for about twelve years; 
 was surgeon at the marine hospital, Evansville, for 
 four years; surgeon in the United States army three 
 years, and later at St. Marie's Hospital. In 1855 he 
 was President of the Indiana State Medical Society. 
 He contributed several papers on cancer, lithotomy, 
 and tumors. In Vol. i, 4th Ed. Gross' Surg., p. 217, 
 mention is made of a fatty tumor which Dr. Bray re- 
 moved, weighing nearly forty pounds. He died Aug. 
 22, 1900, at the age of 89, having lived in Evansville 
 for 65 years. Was surgeon of the Sixtieth Regiment 
 Indiana Infantry. Ob. I. M. J., Vol. xix, 122. 
 
 BRIDWELL, LAFAYETTE.— Owensburg ( 1844- 
 1903). S. T. 1903, 334. 
 
 BRITTAIN, STEPHEN H.— Loogootee (1836-1904). 
 S. T., 1905, 443. 
 
 BROOKS, WILLIAIM H.— Ft. Wayne (1813-1894). 
 S. T. 1895, 405. 
 
 BROWER, JEREMIAH H.— Lawrenceburg (1798- 
 1866). Ob. Cin. Jour. Med., 1866, i, 493-495. Memoir 
 by Prof. C. G. Comegys. Author of article on "Camp 
 Diarrhea." Trans. 1863, 45. Was President of the 
 State Society in 1853. Contributed to the State 
 Medical Society the following articles: "President's 
 Address," Trans. 1853, 14; "Report of the Committee 
 on Vital Statistics," 1853, 74; 1855, 11; 1856, 56; and 
 1860, 40; "Camp Diarrhea," 1863, 45, and "Atresia 
 Vagina from Imperforate Hymen," 1865, 21. 
 
 BROWN, CLAY.— Indianapolis (1826-1862). Was 
 assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment Indiana 
 Volunteers. Died on board steamer John Roe, at 
 Crump's Landing, Tennessee River, of typhoid pneu- 
 
-MADISOX J. BRAY 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 247 
 
 monia, March 11, 18G2, aged thirty-six years. S. T. 
 1862, 49. 
 
 BROWN, SAMUEL M.— New Bethel (1822-1904). 
 I. M. J., Vol. xxiii, 34. 
 
 BROTHERS, GUY M.— New Paris (1875-1906). S. 
 T. 1907, 480. 
 
 BRUNT, SAMUEL F.— Summitville (1849-1883). S. 
 T. 1884, 207. 
 
 BRYAN, T. N.— Indianapolis (1833-1902). S. T. 
 1902, 407. 
 
 BULLARD, TALBOTT.— Indianapolis (1815-1863). 
 Dr. Bullard was a native of Massachusetts, and a de- 
 scendant of Puritanic stock. He came to Indianapolis 
 about the year 1844, where he formed a partnership 
 with Dr. Mears. He was a physician, with no desire 
 to invade the domain of surgery. It was not his prac- 
 tice first to use emetics or cathartics, or both, to pre- 
 pare the system for the use of quinin, as was the 
 custom of many in his day. He declared that delays 
 often allowed the patient to die, so he gave that 
 remedy in full doses from the start, whether the pa- 
 tient had fever or no fever. In 1850, Dr. Bullard had 
 a painful experience in his obstetric practice. Dr. 
 Holmes had not yet promulgated his views on the con- 
 tagiousness of puerperal fever, but it was demon- 
 strated in the work of Dr. Bullard who lost ten cases 
 in one year, when he sadly abandoned all obstetric 
 work for some months. In 1862, Dr. Bullard organized 
 and conducted for a time a hospital for sick Confed- 
 erate soldiers confined at Camp Morton. He went on 
 a mission to attend Indiana soldiers at Vicksburg, and 
 while in the line of duty contracted a malignant dys- 
 entery. He returned home to survive but a short 
 time, dying prematurely at tlie age of forty-eight. 
 Address, S. T. 1859,11, sketch S. T. 1894, 212j. 
 
 BUNTON, EDWIN A.— Greensfork (1846-1899). S. 
 T. 1899, 407. 
 
 BURK, GEORGE L.— Jamestown (1820-1891). S. 
 T. 1892, 282. 
 
248 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 BUEKE, GEORGE W.— New Castle (1841-1901). S. 
 T. 1902, 410. I. M. J., Vol. xx, 226. 
 
 BUELINGAiVIE, E. G.— Oakland City (1867-1909). 
 
 BURT, JA:MES CLARK.— Vernon (1817-1875). Dr. 
 Burt was born in Cumberland County, New Jersey, in 
 1817. He attended Hanover College, Hanover, Ind., 
 and Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., graduating at the 
 latter. His medical education was received at Jeffer- 
 son College, Philadelphia. 
 
 He located in Vernon, Jennings County, Indiana, in 
 1842 and practiced medicine there until the time of his 
 death in 1875. Doctor Burt was very active in religi- 
 ous and educational matters. He was for many years 
 a trustee of the State Institution for the Deaf and 
 Dumb at Indianapolis, the Vernon Academy, and for 
 a long time was Pension Examiner. — Dr. W. H. 
 Stemm, North Vernon. 
 
 BURTON, GEORGE W.— Mitchell (1836-1898). S. 
 T. 1899, 388. 
 
 BYERS, ALEXANDER R.— Petersburg (1829- 
 1897). S. T. 1898, 378. 
 
 BYFORD, WILLIA^I H.— Chicago (1817-1890). The 
 subject of this sketch was born at Eaton, Ohio, March 
 20, 1817; when he was a mere child his parents re- 
 moved to New Albany, Ind., where they remained but 
 a short time, and then removed to Crawford county, 
 111. Here the future physician began to learn the 
 trade of a tailor, and later removed to Vincennes, Ind., 
 where he continued to work at his trade. Colonel 
 Vail, with whom I served in the Civil War, told me 
 that he had often seen young Byford sitting on his 
 bench at work, with a Latin grammar at his side, with 
 which he employed every spare moment. He began 
 his practice at Owensville, Ind., under the custom then 
 prevailing in this state, armed with a certificate signed 
 by three commissioners appointed for the purpose. He 
 graduated at the Ohio Medical College in 1844. He 
 practiced at Mt. Vernon until 1850, when he removed 
 to Evansville to accept the chair of anatomy in the 
 Evansville Medical College. In 1852 he was transferred 
 to the chair of Theory and Practice, a position he re- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA, 249 
 
 tained until 1856, at which time the school ceased to 
 exist. He continued to practice in Evansville until 
 1857, when he was called to Chicago to fill the chair 
 of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children. 
 His rapid rise in that city was a pride to all his 
 Indiana friends, but can be only alluded to in this 
 article, which is confined to Indiana triumphs in medi- 
 cine. Educating himself in the midst of lowly poverty, 
 and rising to a high rank as a practitioner, lecturer, 
 and author, his life and example are a stimulus to 
 others. His distinguished son, Dr. Henry T. Byford, 
 was born in Evansville, Nov. 12, 1853. In the Trans- 
 actions of the Indiana State Medical Society for 1854, 
 p. 78, Dr. Byford contributes "Report of the Proceed- 
 ings of the American Medical Association." 
 
 CADY, WILLIAM F.— Lafayette (1826-1883). S. 
 T. 1884, 224. Dr. Cady was one of the early advocates 
 of the free school system and one of the founders of 
 the Tippecanoe County Medical Society. He filled sev- 
 eral honorable positions as surgeon during the civil 
 war. 
 
 CANADY, W. H.— Knightstown (1821-1873). S. T. 
 1873, 124. 
 
 CANNON, GEORGE H.— New Albany (1852-1907). 
 Lived and died in his native city. Was a member of 
 the Floyd County Medical Society, and was loved and 
 respected. Death was due to obstruction of the bowels 
 caused by a gall-stone. 
 
 CAREY, ISAAC— Marion (1812-1909). Was a resi- 
 dent of Grant county for fifty-nine years. 
 
 CARR, GEORGE W.— Ligonier (1830-1895). S. T. 
 1895, 416. 
 
 CARSON, WILLIAM F.— Huntington (1851-1900). 
 S. T. 1901, 481. 
 
 CASSELBERRY, ISAAC— Evansville (1821-1873). 
 Dr. Casselberry was a native of Posey county, Indiana. 
 After graduating at the Ohio Medical College he 
 located in Evansville. At the commencement of the 
 Civil War he was appointed surgeon of the First In- 
 diana Cavalry Regiment, and served in that capacity 
 
250 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 until the close of the war. From the time that Evans- 
 ville was placed under sanitary regulations, until his 
 death, Dr. Casselberry filled the office of the secretary 
 of the Board of Health. In 1871 he was appointed pro- 
 fessor of physical diagnosis in the Evansville Medical 
 College. He contributed an article on "An Inquiry 
 Into the Physiology of the Organic Nervous System." 
 Am. Jour. Med. Sciences, 1852. "Causes of Fever," lb., 
 April, 1856. "Ancient Marriages of Consanguinity," 
 lb., 1859. Also a series of articles on "The Causes of 
 Epidemics," Nashville Med. and Surg. Jour., from No- 
 vember, 1857, to May, 1858. His writings are acknowl- 
 edged to be valuable aids to medical knowledge. See 
 Trans. Ind. State Med. Soc, 1874, 179; lb., 1855, 52, 
 "An Inquiry into the Physiology of the Organic Ner- 
 vous System," and lb., 1872, 93, "The Mode in Which 
 Electricity Acts on the Human Organism." Both of 
 these articles contributed to the State Medical Society 
 are practical papers. 
 
 CHA^IBERLAIN, JAMES N.— Waterloo (1822- 
 1896). S. T. 1896, 265. 
 
 CHAMBERLAIN, SAIVIUEL B. — Lawrenceburg 
 
 (1825-1897). S. T., 1898, 389. 
 
 CHAMBERS, JOHN.— Indianapolis (1846-1892). 
 Born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1846, and was educated at 
 the Dublin University. Came to Indianapolis in 1873. 
 He was a teacher for fifteen years in the Indiana Med- 
 ical College, filling the chairs of anatomy, principles 
 and practice of medicine, and adjunct professor of dis- 
 eases of women. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, p. 88. 
 
 CHANNING, WILLIAM S.— Pendleton (1851- 
 1906). S. T. 1907, 489. 
 
 CHARLES, HENRY.— Formerly Carthage (1822- 
 1884). Was born in Randolph County in 1822. Grad- 
 uate of Indiana Medical College, 1872 or '73, but 
 practiced in Grant County previously to that date. 
 Was a member of the Grant County Medical Society. 
 He was intimately associated with Drs. William and 
 Constantine Lomax, Home, and Meek. They all 
 worked together professionally during the "saddle bags 
 age." He moved from Fairmount to Carthage in 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 251 
 
 1878, and went to Kansas in April, 1884, and died 
 there July 11, 1884. He contributed an article on 
 "Tobacco and Its Toxic Effects." Trans. 1881, 121.— 
 Dr. Etta Charles, daughter, Summitville. 
 
 CHAELTON, SAMUEL H.— Seymour (1826-1897). 
 S. T. 1897, 353. He was assistant surgeon of the Sixth 
 Indiana Vols, in the Civil War. In 1882 was vice- 
 president, and 1888 president, of the Indiana State 
 Medical Society. In the State Transactions, 1887, 55, 
 is an article from his pen, entitled "Is There a Typho- 
 Malarial Fever?" Transactions, 1888, 5, another 
 article, "President's Address, Relating to the Work of 
 the Society. See Robson, p. 639. Stone (with por- 
 trait), p. 83. 
 
 CHENOWETH, JOHN T.— Winchester (1833-1903). 
 S. T., 1903, 335. 
 
 CHENOWETH, NELSON T.— Windsor (1837-1909). 
 Was a soldier of the Civil War, having served in one 
 or two Ohio regiments. Member of Randolph County 
 Medical Society. 
 
 CHENOWITH, GEORGE F.— Huntington (1849- 
 1899). S. T. 1900, 319. 
 
 CHITWOOD, GEORGE R.— Connersville (1805- 
 1893). S. T. 1893, 251. In 1831 he located at Scipio. 
 In 1838 he removed to Liberty, and in 1840 was ad- 
 mitted to the bar, practicing both law and medicine. 
 In 1840 he was elected associate judge of Union 
 County Circuit Court, in which position he served seven 
 years. In 1859 he was elected to the chair of general 
 pathology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and 
 Surgery, and to the chair of obstetrics in 1861. He 
 located at Connersville in 1847. I. M. J., Vol. xii, p. 32. 
 
 CHITWOOD, JOSHUA.— Connersville (1838-1903). 
 S. T. 1903, 336. Was surgeon of the Seventh Regiment 
 Indiana Cavalry. 
 
 CHURCHILL, JOHN M.— Indianapolis (1863-1893). 
 S. T. 1894, 222. 
 
 CLAPP, ASAHEL.— New Albany (1792-1862). Born 
 in Massachusetts Oct. 5, 1792, and died Oct. 29, 1862. 
 Located in New Albany in 1817. Was present at the 
 
252 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Medical Convention, June 6, 1849. — (Miss Lydia Town- 
 send. ) 
 
 CLAPP, WILLIAM A.— New Albany (son of above) 
 (1822-1900). Was born in New Albany, Oct. 29, 1822, 
 and died in same city Nov. 7, 1900. Was a graduate 
 of the Jefferson Medical College (1848). Was surgeon 
 of the Thirty-eighth Peg. Ind. Vols. Was a member 
 of the Medical Convention, June 6, 1849. — (Miss Lydia 
 Townsend. ) 
 
 CLAPK, DOUGAN.— Richmond (1828-1896). Dr. 
 Clark was born in Pandolph county, North Carolina, 
 May 17, 1828. He graduated from Haverford College 
 in 1852. Three years later he entered the medical 
 department of the University of Maryland, and after 
 removing to Indiana completed his medical studies at 
 the University of Pennsylvania, where he received the 
 degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1861. He lived at 
 Carthage, Westfield and Indianapolis, in this state, and 
 located at Pichmond in 1866, and became professor of 
 Greek and Latin at Earlham College. In 1869 he en- 
 tered the ministry in the Friend's Church. His death 
 occurred from pernicious anemia, Oct. 10, 1896. — 
 Abridged from record by Dr. Edmond Clark, I. M. J., 
 Vol. XV, p. 295. 
 
 To the State Transactions he contributed an article 
 on "Female Doctors," 1867, 116, and a second on 
 "Anesthetics in Midwifery," 1871, 29. A charm was 
 added to Dr. Clark's articles and discussions by his 
 musical voice and clear delivery, 
 
 CLAPK, J. C— Corydon (1809-1895). I. M. J., Vol. 
 xiv, 177. 
 
 CLAPK, LEMON W.— Elkhart (1858-1896). S. T. 
 1896, 267. 
 
 CLAPK, WILLIAM P. S.— Bluffton (1820-1882). S. 
 T. 1883, 267. 
 
 COCHPAN, JAMES.— Spiceland (1824-1894). I. M. 
 J., Vol. xii, 410. 
 
 COE, ISAAC— Indianapolis (1782-1855). S. T. 
 1893, 18. Was born in Morris county, New Jersey, 
 July, 1782. For a time he engaged in the manufacture 
 of glass at Utica, N. Y., but soon afterward studied 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 253 
 
 medicine, and came to Indianapolis in 1821. He first 
 built a cabin near the bank of Fall Creek, which was 
 known as "the house with glass windows." A few 
 years later he built a commodious frame dwelling on 
 the Circle, where he resided until 1853, and then moved 
 to Galena, 111., where he died in 1855. His remains 
 were brought back and buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, 
 by the side of his wife. He was one of the founders 
 and from the first an Elder in the First Presbyterian 
 Church, and the father of Sunday schools in Indian- 
 apolis. He exerted an influence for good in Indian- 
 apolis which will continue to the end of time. 
 
 I notice in Lockerbie, Assessment List of 1835 that 
 Dr. Coe owned a number of lots in the town of Indian- 
 apolis. They were valued at $2,720; personal, $500; 
 buildings, $1,000, and his taxes amounted to $11.80, 
 which he promptly paid. 
 
 COGLEY, THOMAS J.— Madison (1814-1895). Born 
 near Kittanning, Pa., March 20, 1814. Began practice 
 at Brookville in 1837. In 1853-54 studied abroad in 
 Great Britain and France. In 1845 established him- 
 self in Madison where he continued to reside until the 
 date of his death, Dec. 23, 1895. Became a member 
 of the State Medical Society in 1855, and was a vice- 
 president of same in 1857. See '"'Address of Dr. Cogley 
 on Hospitals in Europe." Trans. 1856, 66. Also 
 "Report on the Practice of Medicine." Trans. 1857, 
 19. 
 
 COLE, HENRY C— Kokomo (1838-1881). S. T. 
 1882, 197. 
 
 COLE, WILLIAM C— Attica (1828-1894). S. T. 
 1894, 228. Dr. Cole, at the age of 18, enlisted in the 
 regular army, and served in Mexico under General 
 Scott. In the Civil War he was surgeon of the Seventy- 
 second Reg. Ind. Vols., and during the last year of the 
 war was brigade surgeon of Wilder's Brigade of 
 Mounted Infantry. 
 
 COLLINS, GEORGE M.— Tipton (1838-1896). S. 
 T. 1897, 363. Dr. Collins served as assistant surgeon 
 of the Seventeenth Reg. Ind. Vols, from December, 
 1864, to the close of the war. 
 
 COLLINS, WILLIAM A.— Madison (1842-1883). S. 
 T. 1884, 208. 
 
254 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 COLLUM, WILLIAM F.— Jeffersonville (1812- 
 1866). He was an eminent surgeon, locating in Jeffer- 
 sonville in 1838. Was mayor of that city from 1848 
 to 1855, and served in tile city council several terms. 
 Died in Jeffersonville, Sept. 19, 1866, from blood 
 poisoning resulting from wound received in making 
 post-mortem examination. — (Note from Drs. Peyton 
 and Field, Jeffersonville.) 
 
 Dr. Collum was one of the founders of the State Med- 
 ical Society in 1849. 
 
 COLVEET, WILLIAM.— Fountain county (1816- 
 1883). S. T. 1883, 281. 
 
 COMINGOR, JOHN A.— Indianapolis (1829-1908). 
 Dr. Comingor for many years was a practitioner 
 in Indianapolis, and at one time professor of sur- 
 gery in the Medical College of Indiana. For two 
 years prior to his death he had retired from practice 
 and made his home with his daughter in Davenport, 
 Iowa, where his death occurred Jan. 8, 1908. Con- 
 tributed article on "Excision of Bone," Trans. 1866, 72. 
 Was surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment Indiana Infan- 
 try. 
 
 COMPTON, JOHN W.— Evansville (1825-1905). S. 
 T. 1905, 444. Dr. Compton contributed the following 
 articles to our State Transactions: "Sanitary Prog- 
 ress," 1881, 18; "Animal Vaccination," 1882, 188, and 
 "The Treatment of Ante-partum Hemorrhage," 1888, 
 75. He was quite a contributor to medical journals 
 and medical societies. See Robson, p. 606. 
 
 COOPER, WILLIAM.— New Albany (1809-1879). 
 Was born at Chambersburg, Pa., March 27, 1809. 
 Graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1834, and 
 in 1835 located at New Albany, and for a time was in 
 partnership with Dr. Pleasant S. Shields. He was a 
 visitor to the Jeffersonville penitentiary in the forties, 
 and added several humane conditions to that institu- 
 tion. His name is on the list of physicians at the con- 
 vention of 1849. During the Civil War he was a sur- 
 geon in the military hospital at New Albany. He died 
 July 10, 1879. Dr. Samuel Cooper (1838-1888), son of 
 the above, moved to St. Louis county, Missouri, where 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 255 
 
 he died in March, 1888. — Letter from Mrs. Mary- 
 Cooper Moore, Wichita, Kas., daughter of William 
 Cooper. 
 
 COREY, LAV ANNER.— Grant county (1834-1896). 
 S. T. 1897, 350. 
 
 CORLEW, RUrUS M.— Evansville (1843-1896). S. 
 T. 1896, 272. 
 
 CORNETT, WILLIAM T. S.— Madison (1805-1897). 
 Was horn July 11, 1805, at Carrolton, Ky., and died 
 at Madison, Ind., May 6, 1897. He came to Indiana, 
 locating at Versailles, Ripley county, in 1825, where 
 he remained in active practice for forty years. At the 
 time Dr. Cornett located in Indiana, each judicial dis- 
 trict constituted a medical district, and the district 
 society had three censors whose duty it was to examine 
 applicants, and if found qualified they would give a 
 permit to practice until the next meeting of the society. 
 Dr. Cornett came under this rule. In 1852 the Univer- 
 sity of Louisville and the Indiana Central Medical Col- 
 lege each conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of 
 Medicine. 
 
 Dr. Cornett was the first president of the Indiana 
 State Medical Society, and delivered the first annual 
 address at Indianapolis, May 15, 1850. Published in 
 Transactions 1850, 13. 
 
 In 1866, having become somewhat infirm, Dr. Cor- 
 nett gave up active practice and removed to Madison, 
 where he practiced only in consultation. Here he be- 
 came interested in geology and in time became thor- 
 oughly familiar with the geology of southern Indiana. 
 
 He represented the county of Ripley in the State 
 Senate for six years, beginning in 1841. Dr. Cornett 
 writes (I. M. J., May, 1893, 323) : "At the session of 
 1843-4, when the revenue bill of the House was re- 
 ported to the Senate I moved to amend the bill so that 
 an additional one cent on the hundred dollars be levied 
 as a fund with which to build a Lunatic Asylum. This 
 amendment was carried in the Senate, and the House 
 concurred in the amendment. With this fund a farm 
 was purchased near Indianapolis, and on it the first 
 Hospital for the Insane erected. This property is said 
 now to be worth a million and a half dollars. The his- 
 
256 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 tory of the origin and progress of this institution has 
 been written and published more than once, and there 
 has been no mention of my name in connection with it. 
 For the truth of my statement see Senate Journal, 
 1843-4, page 521. The above injustice is my apology 
 for naming the subject here." 
 
 Dr. Cornett contributed a number of valuable papers 
 on medical topics to various journals. In the Transac- 
 tions of our state society he gave an admirable address 
 on the "Use, Progress, State and Future Prosperity of 
 Medical Science," 1850, 13. Also, "Report of the Com- 
 mittee on the Practice of Medicine," 1852, 33. "A 
 Case of Gangrene of the Foot from Ossification of the 
 Leg," 1853, 151, and an exceedingly interesting report 
 (from which I have already made an extensive quota- 
 tion) on "Professional Reminiscences," 1874, 30. See 
 Robson, p. 60. See picture, I. M. J., Vol. xi, facing p. 
 321. 
 
 COURTNEY, JAMES T.— Whitewater (1855-1886). 
 S. T. 1887, 190. 
 
 COWAN, JOHN A.— Auburn (1843-1885). S. T. 
 1886, 200. 
 
 CRAPO, JOHN R.— Terre Haute (1850-1905). S. 
 T. 1906, 503. 
 
 CRAVENS, SAMUEL C— Bloomfield (1839-1903). 
 S. T. 1904, 351. I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 162. (Picture.) 
 
 CRIPPEN, E. H.— Milroy (1833-1896). S. T. 1896, 
 262. 
 
 CRIST, DANIEL 0.— Indianapolis (1824-1899). S. 
 T. 1899, 402. For a number of years he was a member 
 of the faculty of the Central College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons (Indianapolis), having charge of the depart- 
 ment of materia medica and therapeutics. 
 
 CROSBY, THE. H.— Bluffton (1818-1883). S. T. 
 1883, 274. 
 
 CROSS, JOSEPH B.— Bainbridge (1824-1889). S. 
 T. 1889, 215. 
 
 CROUSE, JEROME H.— Dayton (1843-1908). Dr. 
 Crouse was a soldier of the Civil War, having served 
 three years in the Tenth Indiana Light Artillery. He 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF I \ DIANA. 257 
 
 was a native of Dayton, and practiced there for twenty 
 years. See memoir, I. M. J., Vol. xxvii, 3. 
 
 CRUNKELTON, FRED. J.— Peru (1869-1896). S. 
 T. 1896, 258. 
 
 CULBERTSON, ROBERT H.— Brazil (1830-1899). 
 S. T. 1900, 320. 
 
 CUMMINS, BENJAMIN F.— Bluffton (1837-1887). 
 S. T. 1887, 198. 
 
 CUMMINGS, HIRAM A.— Clear Spring (1857- 
 1905). S. T. 1906, 498. 
 
 CURE, HIRAM W.— Martinsville (1830-1900). S. 
 T. 1901, 482. 
 
 CURRAN, ROBERT.— Jeffersonville (1806-1872). 
 Dr. Curran was born in Pennsylvania, April 3, 1806, 
 and died at Jeffersonville, April 6, 1872. In the spring 
 of 1832, he located in Shelbyville, where he remained 
 two years. Then he removed to Charlestown. In 1838 
 he located in Jeffersonville. In 1848 the Trustees of 
 Indiana Asbury University, contemplating the estab- 
 lishment of a medical department, Dr. Curran was in- 
 vited to locate in Greencastle, and assist in its organ- 
 ization. The invitation was accepted. On the meet- 
 ing of the board it was found impracticable to con- 
 summate their plans, but Dr. Curran was elected pro- 
 fessor of physiology in the literary department, which 
 chair he filled until the medical department was or- 
 ganized, when with it he removed to Indianapolis in 
 1850. In 1852, failing health compelled him to return 
 to Jeffersonville. From 1853 to 1857, he served as 
 physician to the Indiana State prison. In 1855 he was 
 elected to the professorship of materia medica and 
 therapeutics in the Kentucky School of Medicine. Dr. 
 Curran was an earnest Christian. — Abridged from 
 "Biographical Sketch," by Dr. F. A. Seymour, of Jef- 
 fersonville, Trans. 1872, p. 133. 
 
 Dr. Curran was present at the State Medical Con- 
 vention, held at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. He con- 
 tributed a valuable article to the State Society, "Nos- 
 ology of the Diseases which have Prevailed in Clark 
 County, Indiana, since 1833, with Remarks." Trans. 
 
258 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 1872, p, 121. Vice-president Indiana State Medical 
 Society, 1850. 
 
 CUERYER, WILLIAM T.— Indianapolis (1845- 
 1902). I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 40. 
 
 CURTIS, GEORGE L.— Columbus (1835-1898). S. 
 T. 1898, 390. Dr. Curtis graduated in medicine from 
 the Indiana Medical College in 1877, was professor of 
 hygiene and sanitarj^ science in the Indiana Medical 
 College from 1883 to 1890, and at the time of his death 
 was professor of diseases of the nervous system in the 
 medical department of the University of New Orleans, 
 having delivered a course of lectures in that institu- 
 tion in 1897. While never engaging in the practice of 
 medicine, he took a lively interest in everything per- 
 taining to it. He was author of a number of books of 
 a high order, pertaining to religious subjects. 
 
 He was pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at 
 Columbus, Indiana, at the time of his death, which oc- 
 curred at Naples, Italy, April 1, 1898, while on a tour 
 to the Holy Land. An interesting sketch of his life 
 will be found in the Transactions named above, also I. 
 M. J., Vol. xvi, 412. 
 
 CUSHMAN, ARBACES.— Graysville (1840-1908). 
 Jour. Ind. Med. Assoc, Vol. i, p. 205. Was a soldier 
 of the Civil W^ar. 
 
 CUSH]\IAN, DANIEL W.— Terra Haute (1855- 
 1907). S. T. 1907, 476. 
 
 DAILEY, JAMES J.— Milton (1833-1879). S. T. 
 1880, 230. 
 
 DALGLEISH, HENRY T.— Vevay (1860-1902). S. 
 T. 1902, 411. 
 
 DANCER, JOHN.— South Milford (1830-1896). S. 
 T. 1897, 362. 
 
 DARRACH, GEORGE M.— Cumberland (1827-1910). 
 Was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 20, 1827, and died 
 at East St. Louis, Feb. 25, 1910. He came to Indian- 
 apolis in 1853. He was one of the early members of 
 the Marion County Medical Society, and was present 
 at the session of the State Society in 1860, his name 
 appearing in the list of members. In 1860 he removed 
 
MEDICAL HLSTOJtV OF IXDJAXA. 250 
 
 to Napoleon, where he practiced for several years, 
 when he came back to Marion County, and located at 
 Cumberland. During the last three years he made 
 his home with a son in East St. Louis. 
 
 DAVENPORT, HENDERSON D.— Sheridan (1846- 
 1908). Jour. Inil. State Mea. Assoc, Vol. 1, 158. Was 
 a soldier of the Civil War. 
 
 DAVENPORT, THEODORE.— Warsaw (1828-1884). 
 S. T. 1885, 221. Dr. Theodore Davenport was born in 
 Sullivan county. New York, Oct. 4, 1828. Completed 
 his studies at the Albanj^ Medical College, January, 
 1851. After practicing at Oswego, and at Roanoke, 
 Ind., he settled in Warsaw, April 5, 1857, and practiced 
 there until the time of his death. 
 
 At the session of the Legislature in 1875 he was 
 elected one of the directors of the Northern Prison at 
 Michigan City, Ind. He w'as president of the Board of 
 Directors, and during his incumbency (two years) the 
 north wing and a large workshop were added to the 
 prison. 
 
 DAVIDSON, GREENLEAF N.— Noblesville (1829- 
 1893). He was a corporal in Company E, 168th Reg. 
 Ohio Vols. He held the chairs of botany, therapeutics 
 and materia medica in the Physio-Medical College of 
 Indiana from 1873 to 1891. — Dr. W^. A. Spurgeon. 
 
 DAVIS, EUGENE F.— Indianapolis (1871-1903). S. 
 T. 1903, 337. 
 
 DAVIS, ROBERT P.— Portland (1836-1902). S. T. 
 1902, 412. For a short time was assistant surgeon of 
 the Eighty-fourth Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 DAVIS, SAJVIUEL.— Indianapolis (1814-1886). S. 
 T. 1886, 216. Was surgeon of the Eighty-third B.eg. 
 Ind. Vols. See I. M. J., Vol. iv, 223. 
 
 DAY, SAMUEL D.— Shelby ville (1811-1893). S. T. 
 1894, 218. 
 
 DAYHUFF, A. F.— Kokomo (1827-1884). S. T. 1886, 
 195. 
 
 DE BRULER, JAMES P.— Evansville (1817-1874). 
 Was born in Orange County, North Carolina, Sept. 21, 
 1817; died Aug. 12, 1874. His parents moved to In- 
 
260 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 diana when he was an infant and located on White 
 Eiver, in Pike County. At the age of 18 he began the 
 study of medicine, graduating from the medical de- 
 partment of the university at Louisville, Ky. He 
 began the practice of his profession at Rockport, In- 
 diana, where he remained nearly twenty years. He 
 was married Sept. 2, 1847, to Miss Sarah E. Graham, 
 daughter of Judge J. W. Graham, of Rockport, In- 
 diana. Their son, Claude Graham De Bruler, was 
 their only child. 
 
 In 1858, Dr. De Bruler moved to Evansville, Indiana, 
 where he lived until his death. During the adminis- 
 tration of President Lincoln, he was appointed sur- 
 geon in the Marine Hospital in this city (Evansville), 
 which position he filled for several years. When An- 
 drew Johnson became President, without any solicita- 
 tion on his part. Dr. De Bruler was appointed post- 
 master, an appointment he declined without taking 
 charge of the office, preferring to give his entire atten- 
 tion to his profession. — Furnished by Dr. Edwin Wal- 
 ker, Evansville. 
 
 DE BRULER, JAMES P.— Evansville (1877-1909). 
 Was born at Evansville, Indiana, June 25, 1877; died 
 at San Juan, Porto Rico, May 7, 1909. Grandson of 
 Dr. James P. De Bruler, and son of Claude De Bruler. 
 Graduated from the Medical College of the University 
 of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in 1899. He was med- 
 ical officer in the Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition 
 of 1901-1902. In January, 1903, he entered the U. S. 
 Navy; served at the Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., 
 1903-1904; on duty at naval station Olongapo, P. I., 
 May-July, 1904; on U. S. S. Elcaro August, 1904, to 
 March 1906; w^as promoted to passed assistant sur- 
 geon Jan. 3, 1906; at the navy j^ard, Washington, 
 D. C, Aug. 1, 1906, to Sept. 25, 1906; on duty in 
 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Navy Department 
 and additional duty at Naval Medical School, Wash- 
 ington, D. C, Sept. 26, 1906; on duty on board the 
 U. S. S., Paducah remaining on duty until the day of 
 his death. — Furnished by Dr. Edwin Walker, Evans- 
 ville. 
 
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 De BRULER, OLIVER E.— Ireland (1857-1892). S. 
 T. 1893, 248. 
 
 DEMING, ELIZUR H.— Lafayette (1797-1855). Dr. 
 Deming was born in Great Barrington, Mass., March 4, 
 1797. He was a graduate of Williamstown College, and 
 was considered the best Hebrew scholar that ever 
 graduated from that institution. The Greek and Latin 
 languages were almost as familiar to him as the Eng- 
 lish. In 1827 he received the degree of M.D. In 1821 
 he removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, and began the practice 
 of medicine, but being a Mason, and at that time the 
 order being persecuted, he changed his residence. In 
 1833 he received a commission as surgeon in the V. S. 
 Army, but ov/ing to the prevalence of cholera he re- 
 signed and went home to care for his family. In 1834 
 he located in Lafayette. In 1842 he defeated Hon. J. 
 Petit for the legislature, running as an anti-slavery 
 candidate. In 1846 he was appointed to the chair of 
 materia medica and therapeutics in the Laporte Med- 
 ical College. In 1853 he was appointed to the chair of 
 general pathology and clinical medicine, in the Univer- 
 sity of Missouri, and had just completed his second 
 course before his decease. 
 
 Before his appointment in Missouri, an informal cor- 
 respondence was had with him by the Regents of the 
 University of Michigan, in reference to his appoint- 
 m.ent to the presidency of that institution. However, 
 his anti-slavery views were an insuperable objection 
 with those guardians of private opinion, whose astute- 
 ness detected the dangerous heterodoxy, which the dull 
 official perception of Missouri statesmen totally over- 
 looked. "Of whom the world was not worthy!" He 
 died Feb. 23, 1855. He was president of the state 
 society in 1854, and delivered an address, found on 
 page 14 of the Transactions for that year. The reader 
 will find a beautiful and scholarly Bibliographical 
 sketch of the late Dr. Deming, by the late Dr. John S. 
 Bobbs, from which I have condensed the above, in State 
 Transactions for 1857, p. 53. 
 
 DEPEW, RICHARD J.— Indianapolis (1815-1897). 
 L M. J., Vol. XV, 471. 
 
262 MEDICAL ELSTORY OF IWDIANA. 
 
 DE VORE, HEXRY V.— Greencastle (1854-1S92). 
 S. T. 1892, 293. 
 
 DICKEX, JAMES L.— Lafontaine (1821-1900). S. 
 T. 1900, 355. 
 
 DILL, NATHANIEL C— De Soto (1860-1897). S. 
 T. 1897, 355. 
 
 DILLS, THOMAS J.— Fort Wayne (1847-1899). S. 
 T. 1899, 410. Dr. Dills was a specialist of promise at 
 the time of his early death. For some time he filled 
 the chair of ophthalmology and otology in the Fort 
 Wayne Medical College. In the Transactions named, 
 Dr. Wheelock pays a fine tribute to Dr. Dills' memory. 
 In the Transactions 1878, 92, he contributes a "Report 
 of a Case of Basedow's or Graves' Disease," and in 
 1884, 75, "Two Cases of Intraocular Tumors, with Re- 
 marks." He died at Pomona, California, while seeking 
 relief from a lingering illness. 
 
 DOAX, N. W,— Curtisville (1829-1905). S. T. 1906, 
 501. 
 
 DOLPH, CASSIUS M.— Pleasant Lake (1860-1899). 
 S. T. 1900, 322. 
 
 DOXALDSOX, EBEXEZER F. — Wabash (1829 
 1898). S. T. 1899, 383. 
 
 DOOLEY, ALDIX^E J.— Marion (1872-1906). S. T. 
 1907, 484. 
 
 DOWLIXG, HEXRY McCABE.— Xew Albany (1805- 
 1852). Born April 5, 1805, and died Jan. 26, 1852. 
 Was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. 
 Was a member of the Medical Convention, June 6, 
 1849. — Judge Dowling. 
 
 DRAYER, PETER.— Hartford City (1840-1901). S. 
 T. 1903, 338. 
 
 DRYDEX", THOMAS F.— Clayton (1835-1896). S. 
 T. 1896, 275. 
 
 Du KATE, JOHX' B.— Vincennes (1849-1902). S. 
 T. 1903, 339. 
 
 DUX'HA:\I, VALEXTIXE.— Madison county (1812- 
 1882). S. T. 1882, 201. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIAXA. 203 
 
 DUXLAP, JOHX M.— Indianapolis (1829-1899). S. 
 T. 1899, 408. From 1869 to 1872 he was demonstrator 
 of anatomy in the Medical College of Indiana. Later 
 he abandoned general practice and devoted himself to 
 diseases of the nose and throat. See I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 
 404. 
 
 DUNLAP, LIVIXGSTOX. — Indianapolis (1799- 
 1862), Was present at organization of State Medical 
 Convention in 1849, and presided at that meeting. At 
 this convention Dr. John H. Sanders was temporary 
 and Dr. Livingston Dunlap permanent president. 
 
 DUXX'IXG, LEH:\IAX" H.— Indianapolis (1850- 
 1906). Was born at Edwardsburg, Michigan, April 12, 
 1850, and died at Indianapolis, Jan. 4, 1906. He began 
 the practice of medicine at Troy, Michigan, removed to 
 South Bend, Indiana, in 1873, and to Indianapolis in 
 1889, wliere he continued to reside until the date of his 
 death. 
 
 While residing at South Bend his work and contribu- 
 tions to medical literature began to attract attention. 
 Probably he was the first in the state to treat the float- 
 ing kidney by fixation. He also did nephrectomy for 
 suppurative diseases. His early gynecological papers 
 are case reports with remarks, evincing thorough 
 study, as they pertain to developmental deficiencies and 
 anomalies of the uterus to pelvic peritonitis and to 
 mammary and uterine cancer. A very interesting arti- 
 cle may be read on "Report of a Case of Extirpation of 
 the Kidney, with Remarks," Trans. 1887, 127. The 
 patient made a good recovery. 
 
 Preparatory to removal to Indianapolis he spent 
 some time abroad in the hospitals in Vienna, London, 
 and Paris. On his return he was appointed adjunct 
 professor of diseases of women in the Indiana Medical 
 College. Upon the death of Dr. Thomas B. Harvey he 
 w^as succeeded as professor of medical and surgical dis- 
 eases of women by Dr. Dunning. This new field being 
 opened, he rapidly developed as a lecturer and instruc- 
 tor, until he became an expert teacher and operator. 
 
 Honors came to Dr. Dunning. He was chosen to the 
 office of president of the Indianapolis Medical Society, 
 the Indianapolis Gynecological Society, and the Amer- 
 
264 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 lean Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 
 and in 1905 Chairman of the Section on Gynecology of 
 the American Medical Association. 
 
 Professionally, Dr. Dunning died prematurely young. 
 He was a religious man and an ardent member of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 (In the preparation of this article I am especially 
 under obligation to the memorial address on the life 
 and character of Dr. Dunning by Dr. Hugo 0. Pant- 
 zer.) See Stone, p. 144, with portrait. Also editorial, 
 I. M. J. (with later portrait), Vol. xxiv, 266. 
 
 DUZAN, GEORGE N.— Indianapolis (1841-1893). 
 Stone, p. 608. He contributed two papers to the State 
 Society: "Nature and Cure of Disease," Trans. 1871, 
 133, and "Cholera Infantum," Trans. 1873, 27. See I. 
 M. J., Vol. xii, 219. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 9, p. 9. 
 
 DWIGGINS, MOSES F.— Richmond (1852-1890). 
 S. T. 1890, 161. 
 
 EASTMAN, JOSEPH. — Indianapolis ( 1842-1902 ) . 
 S. T. 1903, 340. Dr. Eastman was born in Fulton 
 county, New York, Jan. 29, 1842. His early education 
 was limited. For three years past the age of eighteen 
 he worked at the trade of a blacksmith. In 1861 he 
 was a member of the Seventy-seventh New York Vol- 
 unteers, and during actual conflict in battle showed 
 himself to be a brave soldier. After the battle of Will- 
 iamsburg he was taken sick and Avas sent to Mount 
 Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D. C. After his recov- 
 ery he was appointed hospital steward in the United 
 States Army and graduated from the University of 
 Georgetown in 1865. Until 1866 he served as a sur- 
 geon in the U. S. Volunteers and was mustered out at 
 Nashville, Tenn., the same year. Dr. Eastman en- 
 gaged in general practice of medicine and surgery, first 
 in Clermont and later in Brownsburg, Indiana, and in 
 1875 located in Indianapolis, when he became demon- 
 strator of anatomy in the college of physicians and 
 surgeons in that city. At the organization of the Cen- 
 tral College of Physicians and Surgeons, in 1879, Dr. 
 Eastman accepted the chair of anatomy and clinical 
 surgery and was one of the most prominent members 
 
JOSEPH EASTMAN. 
 
266 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 of the faculty. At a later period he became its presi- 
 dent and the title of his chair was changed to diseases 
 of women and abdominal siirgerj'-, continuing in this 
 department of medicine, in which he became so emi- 
 nent, until his death. From 1886 his practice was 
 limited to diseases of women and abdominal surgery. 
 Hirst's Obstetrics, Vol. ii, page 267-270, gives him 
 credit for being the second in the world and the only 
 American surgeon who, in operating for extra -uterine 
 pregnancy, has dissected out the entire sac which con- 
 tained a living child, and saved the life of both mother 
 and child. In 1891 Wabash College conferred upon 
 him the degree of LL.D. For many j^ears Dr. Eastman 
 had been a contributor to the more prominent medical 
 journals of the United States and he has been given 
 credit for a considerable amount of original work in 
 the department of abdominal surgery. Most of the 
 instruments which he used were either invented by 
 himself or an improvement upon the ideas advanced by 
 others. He was one of the founders of The Medical 
 and Surgical Monitor. He contributed a number of 
 valuable papers to the State Society: "Upward Dis- 
 location of the Sternal End of the Clavicle," Trans. 
 1878, 98; "Excision of the Knee Joint, with Cases," 
 Trans. 1879, 108; "A Few Thoughts on the Anatomy, 
 Surgery and Hygiene of the Rectum," Trans. 1883, 
 155; "Four Cases of Abdominal Surgery, with Com- 
 ments," Trans. 1884, 82; "Abdominal Surgery, with 
 Cases and Comments," Trans. 1885, 96; "A Case of 
 Hysterectomy, with Practical Comments on Laparo- 
 tomy," Trans. 1887, 133; "Ovarian Statistics— Twenty- 
 one Cases," I. M. J., December, 1886, 379. 
 
 Dr. Eastman was among the first, if not the first 
 abdominal surgeon in Indiana to operate in doubtful 
 cases. Prior to his time surgeons hesitated to operate 
 in critical cases for fear of a high mortality record. 
 He was fearless, and saved many valuable lives in his 
 own practice, and taught other surgeons to do like- 
 wise. "By rare force of character, determination and 
 hard work he advanced himself to a position of 
 acknowledged learning and skill in surgery, gaining a 
 fame which was both national and international, and 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 2G7 
 
 his personality made a strong impression upon patients 
 and doctors alike." — Dr. Theodore Potter. See Stone, 
 p. 150; I. M. J., Vol., xxi, 40. Also "A Sketch," by 
 Dr. Samuel E. Earp, 3Ied. and Surgical Monitor, June, 
 1902 (with portrait), from which much of the above 
 information was derived. He was the first in America 
 to operate in extra-uterine pregnancy of the tubal 
 variety, dissecting out the entire sac. Mother and 
 child were saved. — American Journal of Ohstetrics, 
 Vol. xxi (September, 1888). 
 
 EGBERT, GEORGE.— Marion (1823-1886). S. T. 
 1887, 189. 
 
 EICHELBERGER, WILLIAM C— Terre Haute 
 (1840-1903). S. T. 1903, 342. 
 
 ELBERT, SAMUEL A.— Indianapolis (1832-1902). 
 I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 91. 
 
 ELDER, ELIJAH S.— Indianapolis (1841-1894). S. 
 T. 1895, 400. Dr. Elder was secretary of the State 
 Medical Society from 1879 to 1894, and its president 
 at the time of his death. He filled several chairs in 
 the Medical College of Indiana, was professor of the 
 principles and practice of medicine from 1888 until 
 his death and dean from 1890. He contributed to the 
 State Society a number of valuable papers: "Morbo 
 Lacteo," Trans. 174, 113; "Immediate Placental Deliv- 
 ery in Natural Labor," Trans. 1879, 93; "Placenta 
 Previa: Occult Hemorrhage and Malpresentation," 
 Trans. 1880, 216; "Observations Upon and Glances at 
 Some Health Resorts in the United States, West of 
 the 100th Meridian," Trans. 1882, 152; "Etiology of 
 Pneumonia," Trans. 1886, 161; "Pyrexia, Hyper- 
 pyrexia and Fever," Trans. 1891, 111. See biograph- 
 ical sketch, Stone, 156; also I. M. J. (A.W.B.), Vol. 
 xii, 437. 
 
 ELLIS, CHARLES S.— Wabash (1824-1895). Served 
 faithfully as a soldier in the Eighth Reg. Ind. Vols., 
 and later Lieut.-Col. of the 153rd Reg. Ind. Vols. I. 
 M. J., Vol. xiii, 337. 
 
 ELLIS, HAMILTON E.— Greencastle (1826-1880). 
 S. T. 1881, 241. 
 
268 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 ELEOD, MOSES N.— Columbus (1838-1907). S. T. 
 1907, 474. 
 
 ESPY, JAMES 0.— New Palestine (1845-1881). S. 
 T. 1885, 213. 
 
 EVANS, JOHN.— Died July 3, 1897, aged 83 years. 
 At one time he was superintendent of the Indiana 
 State Insane Asylum. In 1848 he bcame a lecturer in 
 Rush Medical College. He was instrumental in found- 
 ing Evanston, 111., and for a time president of North- 
 western University at Evanston. He was an ex-gov- 
 ernor of Colorado, in which state he died. I. M. J., 
 Vol. xvi, 79. 
 
 EVERTS, ORPHEUS.— Cincinnati (1826-1903). Dr. 
 Everts was born at Salem, Indiana, Dec. 26, 1826. He 
 graduated from the Indiana Medical College at La- 
 porte in 1846, and later at University of Michigan, 
 and Rush Medical in 1867. He served as surgeon of 
 the Twentieth Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. In 1868 
 he was made superintendent of the Central Hospital 
 for Insane, a position he occupied with honor for 
 eleven years. Later he assumed charge of the Cincin- 
 nati Sanitarium as superintendent, which position he 
 held at the time of his death, June 20, 1903. See for 
 biographical sketches, Robson, p. 582, Stone, 161, and 
 I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 36. (Picture.) 
 
 FANNING, FREDERICK W.— Butler (1841-1906). 
 I. M. J., Vol. XXV, 195. 
 
 FARQUHAR, ALLEN H.— Ridgeville (1835-1904). 
 S. T. 1904, 352. 
 
 FARQUHAR, URIAH.— Logansport (1795-1872). 
 Was born at Fredericksburg, Maryland, Jan. 5, 1795. 
 Ten years later he moved to Wilmington, Ohio, where 
 a few years later he began his medical studies, which 
 he finished at Cincinnati, Ohio. After several years' 
 practice in Ohio, he came to Logansport, Indiana, in 
 1836, and continued the practice of his profession until 
 a short time before his death, which occurred Nov. 3, 
 1872. He never lived in Wabash. — Mary Farquhar 
 Peters, Logansport, daughter. 
 
 Dr. Farquhar was present at the medical convention 
 held at Indianapolis, June, 1849, and wrongly credited 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF lyUIA^'A. 2(;t) 
 
 to Wabash, in the proceedings. At this meeting lie 
 was elected a vice-president. Strange, his first name is 
 not given anywhere in the various transactions. — 
 G. W. H. K. 
 
 FEATHERSTON, JOHN R.— Indianapolis (1841- 
 1886). S. T. 1886, 215. 
 
 FERGUSON, DAVID.— Union City (1813-1884). S. 
 T. 1884, 221. 
 
 FERREE, FRANK M.— Indianapolis (1856-1889). 
 S. T. 1890, 155. 
 
 FERREE, SHADRACH L.— Indianapolis (1830- 
 1901). S. T. 1901, 483. 
 
 FERRIS, SAMUEL.— New Castle (1822-1902). S. 
 T. 1902, 413. 
 
 FIELD, NATHANIEL.— Jeffersonville (1805-1888). 
 Dr. Field was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, 
 Nov. 7, 1805. In the fall of 1829 he located in Jeffer- 
 sonville. In 1839 he was a member of the State Legis- 
 lature. He was one of the first anti-slavery men of 
 the West; inherited several valuable slaves and soon 
 afterward emancipated them. He was surgeon of the 
 Sixty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols, during the Civil War. He 
 was president of the State Medical Society in 1869. 
 He contributed a number of valuable papers to medical 
 journals and also to the State Society. The following 
 papers appear in the Transactions: "Cholera," 1868, 
 114; "The Troubles and Responsibilities of the Med- 
 ical Profession," address, 1869, 1; "Thoracentesis," 
 1872, 77; "The Expectant Mode of Medication," 1873, 
 31; "The Etiology of Endemic Fevers," 1882, 84; "A 
 Notice of Bacteria Microscopy," 1883, 100, and "Blood 
 Poisoning," 1887, 93. In the latter article he refers 
 to the case of the late President Garfield. Died at 
 Jeffersonville, Aug. 18, 1888. See Robson, 173. R. M. 
 of Ind. Dis. 3, p. 17. 
 
 FISHBACK, CHARLES. — Indianapolis 18— 
 
 1862). In 1859 Dr. Fishback removed from Shelby- 
 ville to Indianapolis. He was a very prominent man 
 of marked ability, although somewhat given to hob- 
 bies. He took an active part in the affairs of the 
 
270 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 local and of the State Medical Societies. On one occa- 
 sion he and Dr. P. H. Jamison were appointed on a 
 committee to apply to the Legislature for such laws as 
 the j)rofession needed. In speaking of him, Dr. J. 
 says: "I found him a hard worker, persistent and 
 strenuous, but with all of our efforts we accomplished 
 but little." 
 
 He met his death in 1862 in a most tragic manner. 
 Lawrence M. Vance, a prominent citizen, died suddenly 
 after a day or two of illness of what was undoubtedly 
 spotted fever, although it was not recognized as such 
 at the time; it appeared later in the community. An 
 autopsy was had and in some way Dr. Fishback punc- 
 tured one of his' fingers; this was followed by a viru- 
 lent blood poisoning in a few days which resulted in 
 death. He was a devoted member of the Presbyterian 
 Church. — Dr. Frederick C. Warfel, Indianapolis. 
 
 While a resident of Shelbyville, Dr. Fishback made 
 a valuable ''Eeport of the Committee on Medical Edu- 
 cation." Trans. 1859, p. 17. Also, a second report on 
 same subject. Trans. 1860, p. 56. These reports are 
 well worth a perusal at the present day. Was vice- 
 president of the State Medical Society, I860.— G. W. 
 H. K. 
 
 FISHER, SAIIUEL.— Greencastle (1823-1887). S. 
 T. 1888, 207. 
 
 FITCH, GRAHAM N,_Logansport (1808-1892), a 
 native of New York, located in Logansport in 1834. 
 In 1844 he was appointed to a professorship in the 
 Rush Medical College. He occupied the chair of Pro- 
 fessor of Principles and Practice of Surgery in the 
 Medical College of Indiana for four years, and was 
 Emeritus Professor at the time of his death. 
 
 Dr. Fitch was a prominent politician. He was a 
 member of the Indiana Legislature from 1836 to 1840. 
 From 1848 to 1852 he represented his district in Con- 
 gress, and from 1856 to 1861 he was United States 
 Senator from Indiana. 
 
 His grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution; 
 his father of the war of 1812, and Dr. Fitch himself 
 rendered valuable service in the Civil War as Colonel 
 of the Forty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
WILLIAM B. FLETCTIEPv 
 
MEDICAL IfJSTOh'Y 01^' INDIANA. 271 
 
 He died in Logansport, Nov. 28, 1892, at the ripe 
 age of 84. (Stone, 161.) Also I. M. J., Vol. xi, 214. 
 R. M. of Ind., Dist. 10, p. 17. 
 
 FLETCHER, WILLIAM B.— Indianapolis (1837- 
 1907). S. T. 1907, 496. Dr. Fletcher was a man of 
 varied attainments, as physician and scientist. His 
 experience comprised soldier, physician, teacher, author 
 and specialist, and in every department he was with 
 the advance guard. The scope of this work will not 
 admit of details. The reader is referred to the follow- 
 ing references for his larger history: Physicians and 
 Surgeons of the U. S., Robson, 129, Stone, 163, and Dr. 
 R. H. Ritter has furnished an excellent biographical 
 and obituary notice in the Transactions, 1907, 496, and 
 in the same volume, 498, James Whitcomb Riley pays 
 him a pretty compliment in a poem entitled "The Doc- 
 tor." 
 
 His medical and scientific papers were compre- 
 hensive and numerous. To the State Society he fur- 
 nished the following, in Transactions: "Human 
 Entozoa," 1866, 88; "Cerebral Circulation in the In- 
 sane," 1887, 105; "Purulent Absorption Considered as 
 a Cause of Insanity," 1892, 164, and "The Effects of 
 Alcohol Upon the Nervous System," 1895, 335. Por- 
 trait, frontispiece, 1907. I. M. J., xxv, 439. (Picture.) 
 
 FLORER, THOMAS W.— ( 1822-1907) . S. T. 1907, 
 483. Dr. Florer was a native of Ohio, and came to 
 Indiana when he was 10 years old. He graduated 
 from the Ohio Medical College in 1850, and began 
 practice at Alamo, and later removed to Crawfords- 
 ville. In- 1849 Dr. Florer was a delegate to assist in 
 the organization of the Indiana State Medical Society 
 at Indianapolis, and was made one of the vice-presi- 
 dents. At the beginning of the Civil War he was made 
 surgeon of the Twenty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols, and served 
 until 1866. At the close of the war he made his home 
 at Meridian, Miss., until 1875, when he removed to 
 Waxahachie, Texas, where he continued to practice 
 medicine until 1905. During the administrations of 
 Presidents Arthur and Harrison he served as postmas- 
 ter at his home. 
 
272 
 
 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 In 1899 lie attended the golden jubilee of the In- 
 diana State Medical Society, held at Indianapolis, 
 being one of four living charter members of the State 
 Society, namely, William H. Wishard, Thomas W. 
 Florer, John M. Gaston, and Patrick H. Jameson. I. 
 
 THOMAS W. FLORER. 
 
 M. J., Vol. XXV, p. 500. See pictures of the four per- 
 sons named. Trans. 1899, facing p. 9. 
 
 FORD, JAMES.— Wabash (1812-1898). Dr. Ford 
 was a native of Ohio, born Jan. 19, 1812, and died at 
 Wabash, Dec. 30, 1898. Was the second man in Wabash 
 to enlist in the Civil War. Was surgeon of the Eighth 
 Ind. Vols., then a brigade surgeon, and in 1863, when 
 
MEDICAL niHTORY OF IXDIANA. 273 
 
 he resigned, a medical director. See T. 'SL J., Vol. 
 xvii, 281. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 11, p. 15. 
 
 FORD, JOSEPH H.— Auburn (1823-1905). S. T. 
 1905, 445. 
 
 FRANCE, JOHN W.— Dunkirk (1858-1889). S. T. 
 
 1892, 279. 
 
 FREEMAN, WILLIAM.— Camden (1809-1883). S. 
 T. 1883, 280. For a short time was surgeon of the 
 Seventh Reg. Ind. Cav. and Fifty-Second Ind. Inf. 
 
 FRINK, CHARLES S.— Elkhart (1835-1893). S. T. 
 
 1893, 261. Was commissioned by the President, As- 
 sistant Surgeon of Volunteers, Oct. 4, 1862, promoted 
 to Surgeon, March 3, 1864, and to Brevet Lieut.-Col., 
 Aug. 15, 1865. 
 
 FRY, THOMAS W.— Lafayette (1814-1873). S. T. 
 1874, 183. Dr. Fry first practiced at Crawfordsville 
 and later at Lafayette, where he died, Feb. 24, 1873. 
 He was surgeon for some time of the Eleventh Reg. 
 Ind. Vols. Dr. S. G. Irwin, of Crawfordsville, con- 
 tributes a biographical sketch in the Transactions 
 named. In the volume named, p. 107, Dr. W. W.^ Vin- 
 nedge, of Lafayette, contributes a record of an inter- 
 esting mal-practice suit in which Dr. Fry sued for a 
 bill, and was successful. Contributed to State Medical 
 Society, "Medical Inhalation." Trans. 1860, 30. 
 
 FUNKHOUSER, DAVID.— Indianapolis ( 1820- 
 1886). S. T. 1894, 212n. Dr. Funkhouser was born in 
 Virginia, May 31, 1820. Graduate of Bethany Col- 
 lege, Va., 1845, and of Jefferson Medical in 1847, and 
 soon afterwards located in Indianapolis, where he 
 lived, and died July 21, 1886. He was a prominent 
 physician of our capital. I have a kindly remembrance 
 of the good doctor who vaccinated me in 1861, as I 
 was on my way to the Civil War. See a very inter- 
 esting and beautiful tribute to his memory by Dr. P. 
 H. Jameson, Trans. 1894, 212n. 
 
 GADDY, NELSON D.— Seymour (1831-1901). I. 
 M. J., Vol. xix, 446. Contributed "A Few Thoughts 
 Concerning Systematic Prevention of Disease." Trans. 
 1883, 63. 
 
274 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 GALBRAITH, THOMAS S.— Seymour (1846-1904). 
 S. T. 1904, 353. He began practice in Bartholomew 
 county, but removed to Seymour in 1870. Here he 
 continued in practice up to the time of his death, ex- 
 cept from 1887 to 1889, when he was superintendent of 
 the Central Hospital for the Insane, and from 1895 to 
 1897, when he conducted a similar institution in Okla- 
 homa. See Stone, 179. 
 
 GALL, ALOIS D.— Indianapolis (1814-1867). Was 
 assistant surgeon and later surgeon of the Thirteenth 
 Reg. Ind. Vols. Stone, 179. (Picture.) 
 
 GAREY, DUMONT.— Xew Albany (1855-1906). S. 
 T. 1906, 492. 
 
 GARVER, JOHN JAjMES.— Indianapolis (1845- 
 1901). S. T. 1901, 484. Dr. Garver was a soldier of 
 the Civil War, and upon his return home pursued the 
 study of medicine, graduating at the Ohio Medical Col- 
 lege in 1876. He immediately located at Indianapolis. 
 He contributed an article on "Asiatic Cholera" to the 
 State Society. Trans. 1885, 195. See Stone, 180. 
 
 GASTON, JOHN M.— Indianapolis (1818-1901). S. 
 T. 1901, 485. Dr. Gaston was born in Newbury, Penn- 
 sylvania, Sept. 25, 1818, and died at Indianapolis, Jan. 
 11, 1901. He graduated at the University of New 
 York in 1848. While a student there he witnessed the 
 introduction of chloroform by Dr. Valentine Mott and 
 to Dr. Gaston was given the honor of first using it in 
 Indianapolis. (Dr. Theodore Potter.) He was one of 
 the organizers of the Indiana State Medical Society in 
 1849, and was one of the four survivors at the golden 
 jubilee in 1899. The portraits of the four, Drs. W. H. 
 Wishard, T. W. Florer, J. M. Gaston and P. H. Jame- 
 son, are given on the same page of the Transac- 
 tions for 1899, 8. Dr. Gaston was the first to pass 
 away, and then Dr. Florer, in 1907. 
 
 In 1850 he went to California with others in search 
 of gold, and returned two years later. He contributed 
 an article on "Propylamin in Rheumatism." Ind. 
 Jour, of Med., Vol. i, 353. See I. M. J., Vol. xix, 316. 
 
 GATCH, JAMES D.— Lawrenceburg (1831-1907). 
 Dr. Gatch was born at Milford, Clermont county, Ohio, 
 
MEDICAL HlHTOJiV OF IXDIAXA. 275 
 
 March 5, 1831, and died Jan. 27, 1907. Was assistant 
 surgeon of the Sixteenth Reg. Ind. Vols. President 
 State Medical Society, 1890. He contributed to the 
 State Society, "Harmony and Associated Action in 
 Connection with State Medicine," Trans. 1880, 153. 
 President's address, "What of the Day?" Trans. 
 1890, 5. 
 
 JOHN M. GASTON. 
 
 GAUSE, THOMAS.— Greensfork (1846-1882). S. T. 
 1883, 208. 
 
 GETS, JOHN F.— Indianapolis (1868-1904). S. T. 
 1904, 354. "He was born and reared in Indianapolis. 
 With a special interest in chemistry, he took post- 
 graduate work at De Pauw University under Dr. P. 
 
276 MEDICAL HIiSTORY OF IXDIAyA. 
 
 S. Baker, whose assistant he afterward became in the 
 Medical College of Indiana. He was promoted in the 
 department of medical chemistry until, after the death 
 of Dr. Baker, he became his successor in the full chair 
 of chemistry and toxicology." — Dr. Theodore Potter. 
 He is the author of a work entitled "Physiological 
 and Clinical Chemistry," December, 1902. See I. M. 
 J., Vol. xxii, 415. 
 
 GERRISH, JAMES W. F.— Seymour (1831-1883). 
 S. T. 1884, 212. Dr. Gerrish was assistant surgeon 
 and later surgeon of the Sixty-seventh Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 His voice and pen were always on the right side of 
 every moral reform. See Memoriam, I. M. J., Vol. ii, 
 109. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 3, p. 19. 
 
 GIFFORD, THOMAS.— Laurel (1816-1885). S. T. 
 1886, 199. 
 
 GLASGO, THOMAS A.— Brazil (1839-1908). Jour. 
 Ind. State Med. Assoc, Vol. i, 367. 
 
 GOLDSBERRY, JOHN A.— Bloomingdale (1835- 
 1901). I. M. J., Vol. xix, 403. Was assistant surgeon 
 First Heavy Artillery (21st) Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 GOOD, ALONZO H.— Muncie (1843-1908). Jour. 
 Ind. State Med. Assoc, Vol. i, 439. Was a soldier in 
 the Sixty-ninth Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 GOSS, JAMES M.— Freedom (1840-1892). S. T. 
 1892, 288. 
 
 GRAHAM, ANDREW E.— Richland (1824-1897). 
 S. T. 1898, 384. 
 
 GRANT, GEORGE H.— Richmond (1868-1908). Dr. 
 Grant was elected president of the Indiana State Med- 
 ical Society in 1905 and presided at the session of 
 1906; title of address was "Medical Education and 
 Medical Progress," Trans. 1906, 1. He contributed a 
 number of articles to medical journals. See I. M. J., 
 Vol. xxiv, 40. J. I. S. M. A. (with excellent portrait). 
 Vol. i, 401. 
 
 GRAVIS, CHARLES M.— Martinsville (1845-1908). 
 Was a soldier of the Civil War, and for some time a 
 prisoner in Libby and Andersonville. He practiced 
 medicine in Martinsville for twenty-five years. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF lyDIAXA. 277 
 
 GRAY, JOHN M.— Xoblesville (1836-1899). I. M. 
 J., Vol. xviii, 140. Was surgeon of the Thirty-ninth 
 Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 GRAY, SAMUEL C— Warsaw (1821-1883). S. T. 
 1883, 276. 
 
 GRAYSTON, FREDERICK S. C— Huntington 
 (1823-1898). S. T. 1898, 398. Born in England, he 
 emigrated to America in 1850. Graduated at the 
 Rush Medical College in 1863. In 1886 he was elected 
 to a professorship in the Fort Wayne Medical College, 
 filling for several years the several chairs of diseases 
 of children, theory and practice of medicine, and path- 
 ology. 
 
 GREEN, CHARLES H.— North Vernon (1833-1891). 
 Dr. Green was born in Columbiana County, Ohio, Jan. 
 26, 1833. Began the practice of medicine at Butler- 
 ville, Jennings County, Indiana, in 1857. In 1858 he 
 moved to North Vernon and continued to practice 
 until his death, June 7, 1891. He was a member of the 
 first County Medical Society organized in the county 
 and was a member at the time of his death, and always 
 took an active part in the society. — Dr. J. H. Green, 
 son. North Vernon. 
 
 GREEN, JAMES W.— Shelbyville (1825-1896). S. 
 T. 1897, 346. 
 
 GREEN, LOT.— Rushville (1847-1905). S. T. 1905, 
 446. 
 
 GREGG, HENRY.— Roanoke (1815-1887). S. T. 
 1887, 195. 
 
 GREGG, JAMES S.— Fort Wayne (1830-1890). S. 
 T. 1890, 160. Dr. Gregg was a native of Pennsyl- 
 vania. Graduated at Jefferson College in 1866, after 
 having attended one course of lectures in Cleveland in 
 1855. He located in Fort Wayne in 1866. He was 
 president of the State Society in 1886. He contributed 
 the following named articles to the State Society, and 
 published in the Transactions: "Medical Education," 
 1876, 107; address, "Glimpses of a Few of the Beacon 
 Lights of Medical History," 1886, 2. In 1886, 135, 
 and 1889, 179, each, "Locomotor Ataxia," in which he 
 describes his own case, dying one year later from the 
 
278 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 disease, Jan. 18, 1890. Surgeon of Eiglity-eightli Keg. 
 Ind. Inf. 
 
 GREGG, VINCENT H.— Connersville (1825-1895). 
 S. T. 1896, 256. Surgeon 124th Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 GRIFFIS. ROBERT.— Middletown (1827-1909). He 
 located in Middletown in 1853, and continued to reside 
 there until his death, Nov. 18, 1909. 
 
 GUYER, 0. K.— Lewisville (1853-1902). S. T. 1902, 
 414. 
 
 HADLEY, EDWIN.— Richmond (1824-1890). S. T. 
 1891, 280. 
 
 HADLEY, EVAN.— Indianapolis (1845-1903). Dr. 
 Hadley was for thirty years a leading practitioner of 
 Indianapolis. He was consultant at the City Hos- 
 pital for nearly twenty-five years and for fifteen years 
 held medical clinics before the college students at the 
 hospital. His numerous reports of hospital and clin- 
 ical cases were always full of interest. He contributed 
 a number of papers to the State Society, which ap- 
 pear in the Transactions; "Addison's Disease — Report 
 of a Case," 1885, 55; '"Emmenagogues." 1886, 82, and 
 "Biliousness," 1895, 127. Two years prior to his 
 death, which. occurred May 12, 1903, he was compelled 
 to relinquish practice owing to organic heart disease, 
 and removed to his boyhood home at Mooresville, 
 where he passed away cheered by the Christian's hope. 
 I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 528. Picture on p. 528. 
 
 HAGGERTY, ROBERT J.— Elkhart (1822-1880). 
 S. T. 1880, 229. 
 
 HAINES, ABRAM B.— Aurora (1823-1887). S. T. 
 1888, 216. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 4, p. 15. 
 
 HALL, WESLEY C— Franklin (1830-1899). I. M. 
 J., Vol. xviii, 361. Was a soldier in the Civil War. 
 
 HALLANAN, JOSEPH.— Logansport (1850-1909). 
 
 HAIM, LEVI J.— South Bend (1805-1887). Was a 
 native of Maine. He removed to South Bend prior to 
 the Civil War, and was surgeon of the Forty-eighth 
 Reg. Ind. Vols. Robson, 135. R. M. of Ind. Dist. 13, 
 p. 30. 
 
MEDICAL HLSTORY OF IXDIAXA. 270 
 
 HAMMOND, FRAXCIS J.— Indianapolis (1837- 
 1895). S. T. 1895, 409. Was a native of England, and 
 came to America in July, 1887. During the Russo- 
 lurkish War, for a period of eighteen months, he prac- 
 ticed medicine and surgery in Constantinople. He 
 located in Indianapolis soon after his arrival in the 
 United States. He was a close friend to Luther 
 Holden and Sir James Paget. His death was due to 
 leucocythemia, and occurred Feb. 1, 1895. See I M 
 J., Vol. xiii, 385. 
 
 HARDIXG, MYROX H., SR.-Lawrenceburg (1810- 
 1883). S. T. 1886, 205. He was elected president of 
 the State Society in 1865, and has contributed the fol- 
 lowing articles to that organization, as shown bv the 
 Transactions: "Report of Committee on Practice of 
 Medicine," 1853, 24: "President's Address," 1866. 21 
 and "Xotes on an Epidemic of Ervsipelas and Puer- 
 peral Fever, at Manchester, Indiana, durinc. the winter 
 of 1842-3," 1885, 114. See Robson. 103.° R M of 
 Ind., Dist. 4, p. 31. 
 
 HARDING, MYRON H., JR.-Lawrenceburg (1855- 
 1879). S. T. 1880, 241. 
 
 HARDMAN, JACOB.— South Bend (1804-1885) Dr 
 Hardman was born in Virginia, April 29, 1804 and 
 died at South Bend July 21, 1885. He located in South 
 Bend m August, 1831, and practiced until 1859, when 
 he retired from active work. 
 
 He rendered medical services at Camp Morton dur- 
 ing the early part of 1861, and later for a time at 
 Nashville, Tenn. He helped to organize the first 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, and also Sunday School 
 in South Bend. He was a member of the first medical 
 society, and president of the first temperance societv 
 in the county.— Miss Margaret Hardman, Marion, Ind^ 
 Daughter. ' 
 
 HARGROVE, WTLLIA2M S.— New Salem (1843- 
 1894). S. T. 1895, 203. 
 
 HARRIS, RICE C— Ellettsville (1834-1894) S T 
 1895, 406. 
 
280 
 
 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 HARRIS, WILLIAM C— RoacMale (1827-1901). 
 S. T., 1901, 486. 
 
 HARROD, SANFORD H.— Canton (1827-1888). S. 
 T. 1888, 199. 
 
 HARTLOFF, RICHARD.— Evansville (1845-1900). 
 S. T. 1901. 487. 
 
 THOMAS B. HARVEY. 
 
 HARVEY, THOMAS B.— Indianapolis (1827-1889). 
 S. T. 1890, 158. Dr. Harvey was a native of Ohio. Gradu- 
 ated at the Ohio Medical College in 1852. Practiced 
 at Plainfield from 1852 to 1862, when he removed to 
 Indianapolis, where he remained until his death, Dec. 
 5, 1889, dying from a stroke of apoplexy, received 
 while delivering a lecture. He was elected president 
 of the State Medical Society in 1880. He stood high 
 as a physician, gynecologist, author and teacher. His 
 
MEDWAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 281 
 
 friends were numerous, and his personal magnetism 
 attracted physicians and students. He wrote valuable 
 articles for medical journals, and contributed a num- 
 ber to the State Society: "Report on New Remedies," 
 1861, 39; '"Puerperal Eclampsia," 1863, 37; "Preven- 
 tion and Treatment of Laceration of the Perineum,'^^ 
 1871, 113; "The Advance in Medicine — Address^' 
 1881^ 1; "Laceration of the Cervix Uteri," 1883, 245; 
 "Synopsis of Paper on Laparotomy," 1886, 65; 
 "Ovarian Disease Complicated by Pregnancy," 1887, 
 150, and "Conditions Rendering Diagnosis Difficult in 
 Pelvic and Abdominal Diseases," 1888, 100. For an 
 excellent biographical sketch, see Stone, 209. See also 
 "Memorial Remarks on the Late Dr. Thomas B. Har- 
 vey," by Drs. A. W. Brayton, James F. Hibberd, 
 William" Lomax, William H. Wishard and L. H. Dun- 
 ning, Transactions, 1890, 168. Also I. M. J., Vol. viii, 
 153. (Editorial.) 
 
 HARVEY, WILLIAM F.— Plainfield (1825-1901). 
 I. M. J., Vol. xix, 315. 
 
 HASTY, GEORGE. — Indianapolis (1835-1905). At 
 different times he occupied the chairs of chemistry, 
 anatomy and surgery, and also dean, of the Physio- 
 Medical College of Indiana. For some time he was 
 editor and publisher of the Physio-Medical Journal.— 
 Dr. W. A. Spurgeon. 
 
 HAUGHTON, RICHARD E.— Richmond (1827- 
 1909). Was born in Fayette county, Dec. 8, 1827, and 
 died June 4, 1909. Dr. Haughton was elected president 
 of the State Medical Society in 1874, and presided at 
 the session of 1875. He was quite a contributor to 
 medical journalism. His contributions to the State 
 Society were recorded in the Transactions as follows: 
 "\ Report on the Treatment of Syphilitic Diseases, 
 Without the Use of Mercury," 1859, 23; "Report of 
 the Committee on Diphtheria," 1860, 51; "Epidemic 
 Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis," 1865, 47; "The Pathology 
 and Treatment of Cholera," 1866, 60; "Tracheotomy 
 in Cynanche Trachealis, Diphtheria and Laryngitis," 
 1867, 122; "Reduction of Dislocation of the Hip; Prin- 
 ciple's of the Flexion Method," 1870, 71; "Influence in 
 
282 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Disease of the Nervous System," 1871, 143; "The 
 Pathology of Malignant and Semi-malignant Growths," 
 1872, 11; "Lithotomy, with Report of a Case," ib., 85; 
 "On Thrombosis of the Arteries of the Extremities, 
 with an Illustrative Case," 1873, 37; "Does Anything 
 Pass the Capillaries Except Normal Blood Cells?" 
 1874, 83; "President's Address: Life, Mind, Force or 
 Vital Dynamics," 1875, 1; "Dilatation and Contrac- 
 tion of Blood Vessels and Tubular Structures," 1877, 
 61; "A Case of Fracture of the Cervical Spine," 1879, 
 144, and "Amputation at the Knee-joint," 1881, 75. 
 
 He was a practitioner for sixty years, one-half of 
 that time at Richmond. 
 
 HAYMAKER, GEORGE W.— Charleston (1831- 
 1900). S. T. 1901, 488. 
 
 HAYMOND, WILLIAM S.— Indianapolis (1823- 
 1885). S. T. 1886, 211. Dr. Haymond was a native 
 of West Virginia, and came to Monticello in 1851. 
 Entered the service in 1861 as assistant surgeon of the 
 Forty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols. In 1874 he was elected a 
 member of Congress. In the spring of 1877 he located 
 in Indianapolis, and in 1879 was elected to the chair 
 of surgery in the Central College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons, which he continued to hold until his death, 
 Dec. 24, 1885. He contributed to the State Society an 
 article on "The Collapsed State of Cholera," Trans. 
 1867, 100, and a second article on "Human Longevity," 
 ib., 1880, 73. For biographical sketch see Stone, 212. 
 See also I. M. J., Vol. iv, 156. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, 
 p. 85. 
 
 HAYS, FRANKLIN W.— Indianapolis (1858-1908). 
 Born in Eldorado, Ohio, April 2, 1858. While yet a 
 boy his parents removed to Columbus, Indiana. He 
 graduated from the Medical College of Indiana; in 
 1880. For a time he was assistant to the chair of 
 chemistry and toxicology in his Alma Mater. Later 
 he lectured on dermatology and venereal diseases, and 
 was made superintendent of Bobbs Free Dispensary. 
 Eventually he was elected to the chair of materia 
 medica, therapeutics and dermatology, and was made 
 secretary of the college. See sketch, I. M. J., Vol. 
 xxvi, 412. For biographical sketch see Stone, 636 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 28;} 
 
 HAYES, GEORGE C— Hillsboro (1836-1903). S. 
 T. 1904, 355. 
 
 HEADY, WILLIAM S.— Jamestown (1849-1903). S. 
 T. 1903, 344. 
 
 HEATWOLE, JOSEPH H.— Goshen (1853-1899). S. 
 T. 1900, 324. Born in Kansas, April 6, 1853. Gradu- 
 ated at the Ohio Medical College in 1878. In 1883 
 located in Goshen. Was once mayor of that city. 
 Early in the Spanish-American War was commis- 
 sioned as major and commissary of volunteers. At 
 the close of the war he remained and became one of 
 Gen. Woods' most eflficient officers. His official duties 
 did not exact any professional duties of him, but real- 
 izing that his services were needed for fever subjects, 
 he went to their relief, and succumbed to yellow fever, 
 at Santiago de Cuba, July 7, 1899. 
 
 HEAVENRIDGE, ALLEN. — Stilesville ( 1829- 
 1902). S. T. 1902, 415. 
 
 HEDGES, ISAAC B.— Clinton (1820-1883). S. T. 
 1883, 275. 
 
 HELM, JEFFERSON.— Rushville (1803-1888). R. 
 M. of Ind., DJst. 6, p. 36. 
 
 HELM, JOHN C— Muncie (1812-1872). 
 
 HELM, JOHN H.— Peru (1826-1899). He was a 
 native of Tennessee. Located in Peru in 1860. He 
 served one year in the Mexican War. Was elected 
 president of the State Medical Society in 1875, and 
 delivered an address at the following session. Trans. 
 1876, 1, on "State Medicine." For biographical sketch 
 see Robson, 52. I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 453. 
 
 HENDERSON, HARVEY D.— Salem (1819-1896). 
 S. T. 1896, 270. 
 
 HENDERSON, JAMES T.— Covington (1846-1905). 
 S. T. 1905, 447. 
 
 HENNING, ROBERT.— Jeffersonville ( 1847-1897 ) . 
 S. T. 1897, 358. 
 
 HENSLEY, JOHN H.— Madison (1857-1897). S. T 
 1897, 301. 
 
284 MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIA^A. 
 
 HENTHORNE, LEWIS S.— Indianapolis (1846- 
 1895). He was a soldier of the Civil War (86tli Ohio 
 Vols.). Professor of Physiology in the Indiana Dental 
 College. I. M. J., Vol. xiii, 415. 
 
 HEPvRMAXN, JOH^sL— Logansport (1834-1899). S. 
 T. 1900, 325. 
 
 HERVEY, FRANK F.— Fortville (1856-1893). S. 
 T. 1893, 215. 
 
 HERVEY, JA:MES W.— Indianapolis (1819-1905). 
 S. T. 1905, 448. He was one of the very early mem- 
 bers of the State Society, and was a contributor to its 
 Transactions: "The Utility of Force and Its Con- 
 trolling Influences in Medicine," 1873, 99; "A State 
 Board of Health and an Asylum for Chronic Inebri- 
 ates," 1876, 133; "How to ' Secure Medical Legisla- 
 tion," 1877, 51; "Some of the Unsolved Problems of 
 Public Hygiene and Synteretic Jurisprudence," 1880,' 
 162; "Mental Hygiene," 1881, 37. He was asst. -sur- 
 geon of the Fiftieth Reg. Ind. Vols. He was known 
 as the father of the State Board of Health. He Avas an 
 uncompromising temperance man, and more than fifty 
 years ago wrote and published "The Scroll and Locket, 
 or The Maniac of the Mound; a Temperance Tale." 
 See I. M. J.. Vol. xxiii, 332. Also see interesting 
 sketch, Stone, 215. 
 
 HESS, LUTHER W.— Cadiz (1821-1883). S. T. 
 1883, 278. 
 
 HIBBERD, JAMES F.— Richmond (1816-1903). S. 
 T. 1904, 356. Medical societies, and especially our 
 State Society, were lonesome when Dr. Hibberd left 
 this world. He was elected president of the State 
 Medical Society in 1862, and presided in 1863, and 
 was chosen president of the American Medical Asso- 
 ciation in 1893, and presided in 1894. His contribu- 
 tions to the former were numerous, and always in- 
 structive: "Report of Committee on Medical Educa- 
 tion," 1861, 22; "Inflammation, as Seen by the Light 
 of Cellular Pathology," 1862, 40; "President's Ad- 
 dress," 1863, 11; "The Liver," 1865, 30; "Bile," 1867, 
 56; "Pathology of Diphtheria," 1868, 17; "Progress of 
 Medicine," 1871, 201; "Infantile Convulsions— What 
 
JAMES F. HIBBERD. 
 
286 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Should be the Treatment During the Paroxj^sm?" 
 1878, 53; "Bacteria," 1882, 179; "Post-partum Hemor- 
 rhage," 1884, 112, and 1885, 131; "Disinfectants," 
 1886, 53; "Myxedema — Report of a Case with Com- 
 ments," 1889, 26; "Inflammation — Past and Present," 
 1892, 41; "Relation of Matter and Mind in Hypno- 
 tism," 1895, 306. He also made an annual report on 
 Necrology from 1881 to 1899. 
 
 Verily, it may be said of Dr. Hibberd that he rests 
 from his labors and his works do follow him. For 
 biography see: Robson, 59; Stone, 216; I. M. J., Vol. 
 xii, 23; I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 162; Am. Biog. Hist, of 
 Eminent and Self-made Men of the State of Indiana, 
 1880, 6th Dist., 38. 
 
 HICKA:M, WILFRED.— Spencer (1856-1904). S. 
 T. 1905, 450. 
 
 HIGDAY, TOMPKINS.— Laporte (1820-1876). S. 
 T. 1880, 236. Dr. Higday contributed the valuable his- 
 torical article on "The Indiana Medical College, La- 
 porte, from 1842 to 1850," Trans. 1874, 24. He was a 
 graduate of the institution just named (1847) and 
 filled the chair of plwsiology and general pathology 
 in it from the date of his graduation until the dissolu- 
 tion of the school, 1850. He was twice appointed sur- 
 geon during the Civil War, but was hindered from 
 service because of ill health. 
 
 HIGGINS, CARTER B.— Peru (1843-1894). S. T. 
 1895, 407. See sketch by B. R. Graham, I. M. J., Vol. 
 xiii, 240. 
 
 HIGHIMAN, LOUIS.— New Harmony (1845-1879). 
 S. T. 1880, 227. 
 
 HILBURN, EBER W.— Washington (1837-1897). 
 S. T. 1898, 382. 
 
 HITT, WILLIS WASHINGTON, Vincennes (1801- 
 1876), was born Feb. 11, 1801, and died Aug. 17, 1876. 
 Graduated at a medical college in Baltimore, about 
 1822. After a service of one or two years in a hospi- 
 tal in that city, he located in Hagerstown, Md. In 
 1825, he removed to Vincennes, Indiana, where he con- 
 tinued in practice until the day he had been in practice 
 fifty years, when he retired. Was present at the med- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 287 
 
 ical convention, June, 1849. — Dr. A. B. Knapp, Vin- 
 cennes. 
 
 HOBBS, WILSON.— Knightstown (1823-1892). Dr. 
 Hobbs was born at Salem, Ind., Aug. 21, 1823, and 
 died July 24, 1892. He was a remarkable man in 
 many respects. He touched life in all its salient 
 points — family, school, church, citizen, soldier, doc- 
 tor — and in every relation did his duty. He was faith- 
 ful and active in his county and state societies. To 
 the latter he contributed a number of papers: "Dis- 
 ease of the Skull; Four Operations for Removal," 
 Trans. 1870, 101; "Chloroform and Chloral in the 
 Treatment of Puerperal Convulsions," 1871, 51; 
 "President's Address — Alcohol and Its Use," 1874, 1; 
 "Counter Injuries of the Pelvis," 1876, 95; "The Med- 
 ical Witness," 1877, 33; and 1878, 13; "Strangulated 
 Hernia — Two Puzzling Cases," 1885, 46, and "Some 
 Observations in the Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus," 
 1886, 70. He was surgeon of the Eighty-fifth Reg. 
 Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. He presided as presi- 
 dent of the State Society at session of 1874. Biog- 
 raphy, Robson, 97; also, "Personal Estimate of Dr. 
 Hobbs as a Physician," by Dr. J. F. Hibberd. I. M. 
 J., Vol. xi, 49; ob. ib., 55. 
 
 HOMBURG, CONRADIN. — Indianapolis ( 1798- 
 1881). He was born November, 1798, in the Palatinat, 
 (jrcrmany. He studied medicine at Marburg and Wiirz- 
 burg, and came to this country in 1826, as a political 
 fugitive. For a time he was editor of the "Weltbote" 
 at Germantown, Pa. In 1836 he removed to Shelby- 
 ville, Ind., where he began the practice of medicine. 
 
 In the year 1843, Judge Morrison, of Indianapolis, 
 held court in Shelbyville in a case of alleged poisoning, 
 in which a physician was implicated. Dr. H. was 
 called as an expert. The whole town took interest in 
 the outcome of the trial because both physicians were 
 known to be enemies. Dr. H. pointed out to the court 
 the symptoms of various poisons, and reached the con- 
 elusion that it was not a case of poisoning, and his 
 enemy was acquitted. Then the judge arose, and ex- 
 tending his hand to Dr. Homburg, said: "You are a 
 
288 MEDICAL HISTORY OF n'DIA^\±. 
 
 man we need at Indianapolis; come, you are welcome." 
 At Indianapolis Dr. Homburg was the physician and 
 friend of Morrison, Talbott and Drake families, and 
 was a personal friend of Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton. He 
 died Feb. 11, 1881.— Letter from Dr. Guido Bell, In- 
 dianapolis. 
 
 HOR>s"BROOK, WILLIAM P.— Union (1828-1883). 
 S. T. 1884, 211. Asst. surg. Forty-second Reg. Ind. 
 Inf. 
 
 HORNE, SAMUEL S.— Jonesboro (1843-1908). 
 HOWARD, ELIJAH J.— Hazelton (1831-1882). S. 
 T. 1883, 269. 
 
 HOWARD, NOBLE P., Sr.— Greenfield (1822- 
 1895). S. T. 1896, 254. Born in Wayne county, Ohio, 
 Sept. 11, 1822, and came to Brookville in 1836. Was 
 assistant surgeon of the Twelfth Reg. Ind. Vols, in the 
 Civil War. Died Aug. 25, 1895. 
 
 HUDLESON, LUCIUS R.— Milroy (1861-1905). S. 
 T. 1906, 500. 
 
 HUGHS, JOHN.— Dearborn county (1816-1880). S. 
 T. 1880, 245. 
 
 HUMPHREYS, LOUIS.— South Bend (1816-1880). 
 Born in Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 21, 1816. First prac- 
 ticed at Laporte, and removed to South Bend in 1844. 
 He entered the military service in 1861 as surgeon of 
 the Twenty-ninth Reg. Ind. Vols. In 1878 was elected 
 president of the State Society, but later resigned. He 
 has contributed to State Transactions a "Report on 
 the Interchange of Published Transactions," 1858, 34, 
 and "Conservative Surgery." 1878. 60. For biography 
 see Robson, 109. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 13, p. 34. 
 
 HUNT, TIGHLMAN.— Plainfield (1838-1906). S. T. 
 1906, 496. 
 
 HUTCHINSON, DAVID— ( Formerly Mooresville) 
 (1812-1891). Dr. Hutchinson was born in Lesmehaga, 
 Scotland, in 1812, and came to America in 1829. He 
 had begun the study of medicine in the city of Glas- 
 gow. He then came to the United States, and at Cin- 
 cinnati, Ohio, he continued his studies under Dr. Jud- 
 kins. He completed his course and graduated from the 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 28'J 
 
 Medical College of Ohio. lie commenced tlie practice 
 of medicine at Steubenville, Ohio. From there he 
 moved to Shelbyville, Ind., and married at that place. 
 He then moved to Putnamville, Putnam county, 
 Indiana; and from there to Mooresville, Indiana. He 
 practiced there until he was commnssioned by Governor 
 Morton, on Dec. 12, 1862, Military Agent at Nashville, 
 Tenn., to look after the condition and welfare of the 
 Indiana Pegiments in the field, and especially the sick 
 and wounded in the hospitals belonging to the State of 
 Indiana. On March 21, 18G3, he was commissioned by 
 Governor Morton, surgeon of the Thirtieth Regiment, 
 Indiana Infantry, and served as such until August 8, 
 when he was discharged from the service on account 
 of disability, at Winchester, Tenn., and returned to his 
 home at Mooresville, Ind. He wound up his business 
 there and removed to Winterset, Madison county, 
 Iowa, in September, 1863, and practiced medicine, and 
 conducted a drug business until April, 1889. He then 
 moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, so as to be with his 
 children, and practiced his profession until his death, 
 March 31, 1891. His remains were taken back to Win- 
 terset, Iowa, and buried in the family lot, on April 2, 
 1891. His last sickness was of about two weeks' dura- 
 tion, and he was nearly eighty years of age at death. He 
 was an active member and worker in the Presbyterian 
 church.— D. J. Hutchinson, son, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 He was elected president of the State Society in 
 1859, presiding in 1860. He contributed the following 
 papers to the society ( See Transactions ) : "Report on 
 Microscopic Pathology, 1856, 37. "Report on Micro- 
 scopy," 1858, 28. "President's Address," 1860, 13. 
 "Report on the Advances of Uterine Pathology and 
 Therapeutics," 1862, 35, and "Fevers of Indiana," 
 1864, 29. He was the recipient of the Fiske Fund 
 Prize Essay on "Stomatitis Materna," June 3, 1857: 
 "What Are the Causes and Nature of That Disease 
 Incident to Pregnancy and Lactation Characterized by 
 Inflammation and Ulceration of the Mouth and Fauces, 
 Usually Accompanied by Anorexia, Emaciation and 
 Diarrhea; and What is the Best Mode of Treatment." 
 
290 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Published in the Am, Jour. Med. Sci., Vol. xxxiv, 369 
 (18 pages), October, 1857.— G. W. H. K. 
 
 INLOW, JOHN J.— Manila (1826-1896). S. T. 
 1896, 263. 
 
 INSLEY, WIILIAM Q.— Terre Haute (1827-1880). 
 S. T. 1881, 233. 
 
 PATRICK H. JAMESON. 
 
 IE WIN, LUTHER M.— Lafayette (1855-1903). S. 
 T. 1904, 357. 
 
 lUTZI, JOSEPH.— Eichmond (1846-1902). S. T. 
 1903, 345. He contributed an interesting article on 
 "Heredity and Its Eelation to Disease," Trans. 1882, 
 136. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 291 
 
 JACKMAN, FRANK.— Milroy (1855-1884). S. T. 
 1885, 217. 
 
 JAMESON, PATRICK H.— Indianapolis (1824- 
 191(?). Dr. Jameson was born in Jefferson County, 
 Indiana, April 18, 1824, and died at Indianapolis, 
 October 7, 1910. He located in Indianapolis in Sep- 
 tember, 1843, and remained there until his death. He 
 was a public spirited citizen, and his influence was felt 
 in all departments of state and city government, fill- 
 ing many offices of honor and trust. He was present 
 at the State Medical Convention, June 6, 1849, and 
 was next to the last of the number to pass away, being 
 survived by Dr. W. H. Wishard. He contributed an 
 article to the State Society on "Veratrum Viride," 
 Trans. 1857, p. 35, also an article on "Memoirs of the 
 Professional Lives of Drs. John S. Bobbs, Charles 
 Parry, Talbott Bullard and David Funkhouser," Trans. 
 1894, p. 212a. On the 16th day of December, 1909, 
 on the anniversary of my 70th birthday, I sent a card 
 to Dr. Jameson, and received a letter from him, in 
 which he wrote : "I now wait patiently — not unhappily 
 — like a passenger at some lonely way station for a 
 delayed train which shall bear me to my destination. 
 But still, in the final accounting, our lives will be 
 measured not by their duration, but by their achieve- 
 ments." Peace to his memory. For a detailed biog- 
 raphy see Stone, p. 249.— G. W. H. K. 
 
 JESSUP, ROBERT B.— Vincennes (1828-1893). He 
 was surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Reg. Ind. Vols., 
 later a brigade surgeon, and later division surgeon 
 under Gen. A. P. Hovey. In 1891 he was appointed 
 Surgeon General of Indiana by Governor Hovey. See 
 I. J. M., Vol. xii, 249. 
 
 JEWETT, LUTHER.— Lafayette (1805-1872). He 
 practiced medicine in Lafayette about thirty-seven 
 years. Obit., I. J. M., Vol. iii, 297. 
 
 JOBES, GEORGE 0.— Indianapolis (1823-1906). I. 
 M. J., Vol. xxiv, 359. 
 
 JOHNSON, CHARLES S.— Fountain County (1824- 
 1885). S. T. 1886, 209. 
 
292 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 JOHNSON, LEMUEL R.— Cambridge City (1824- 
 1889). Robson, 629. He has contributed an article, 
 "Abstract of Reports Presented to the Cambridge City 
 Medical Association." Trans. 1856, 34; also, "Thoughts 
 on Asiatic Cholera," Trans. 1866, 46. 
 
 JOHNSON, NATHAN.— Cambridge City (1794- 
 1872).""" Dr. Johnson was born in Loudoun county, 
 Virginia, Dec. 14, 1794. He graduated at one of the 
 medical schools of Philadelphia in 1835, and located in 
 Cambridge City in 1836. Here he practiced medicine 
 for thirty-five years, when the lot of the practitioner 
 was a hard one. He was present at the formation of 
 the State Medical Society, in June, 1849. At the ses- 
 sion of 1858 he was elected president of the state 
 society, and presided in 1859, but delivered no address. 
 "Dr. Johnson was not only an influential physician, 
 much honored in his profession, but he was a great 
 factor in the abolition movement of those earlier 
 times; a great admirer of William Lloyd Garrison, 
 Wendell Phillips, John Whittier, and others of the 
 same school. Many times he has entertained Frederick 
 Douglass in his own home, as he came west, making 
 speeches in behalf of 'My People.' He lived to see the 
 slave liberated — one of the greatest joys of his de- 
 clining years." — Letter from Mrs. Clarissa Johnson 
 Hall, a grand daughter. 
 
 JOHNSON, THOMAS W.— Marion (1838-1894). S. 
 T. 1895, 414. Was a first lieutenant in the First Wis. 
 Cav. Reg. Later was assistant surgeon Sixth Mo. Cav. 
 Reg., and still later was in charge of the general hos- 
 pitals at Ironton, Mo., and general prison hospital at 
 Alton, 111. 
 
 JONES, CALEB V.— Covington (1812-1883). S. T. 
 1884, 213. Was surgeon of the First Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 in the Mexican War, and surgeon of the Sixty-third 
 Reg. Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. He located in Cov- 
 ington in 1840, and was the first president of the Foun- 
 tain County Medical Society (1867). 
 
 * He was the father of Dr. Lemuel R. Johnson, and 
 grandfather of Hon. Henry U. Johnson, of Richmond, ex- 
 congressman. 
 
MEDICAL BIfiTORY OF INDIAN' A. 293 
 
 JONES, HIRAM G.— Evansville (1824-1884). S. T. 
 1885, 215. 
 
 JONES, ROBERT E.— Indianapolis (1847-1891). S. 
 T. 1892, 284. 
 
 JONES, T. B.— Lynnville (1841-1902). S. T. 1903, 
 346. 
 
 JOSSE, JOHN M.— Ft. Wayne (1818-1880). S. T. 
 1880, 231. Dr. Josse was born in Germany, July 17, 
 1818. He was a graduate from Heidelberg in 1843. He 
 was engaged with Carl Schurz and Franz Sigel in the 
 German rebellion in 1848, and fled with them to Amer- 
 ica. He located in Ft. Wayne in 1855, where he re- 
 mained until his death, April 30, 1880. He was sur- 
 geon of the Thirty-second Reg. Ind. Vols. Dr. Beck has 
 contributed a beautiful tribute to his memory in the 
 Transactions named. 
 
 JUDKINS, ELAM I.— Greenfield (1830-1890). S. 
 T. 1890, 167. 
 
 JUMP, SAMUEL v.— New Burlington (1822-1887). 
 S. T. 1888, 204. See also Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent 
 and Self-made Men of the State of Indiana, 1880, Sixth 
 Dist., 44. In 1869 he represented his county (Dela- 
 ware) in the State Legislature. He was active in the 
 formation of the Delaware County Medical Society in 
 1865. 
 
 JUSTICE, JOHN H.— Greenfield (1854-1902). S. T. 
 1903, 347. 
 
 KAPPEL, JOHN H.— Ft. Wayne (1870-1898). S. 
 T. 1899, 397. 
 
 KAUTZ, JOHN.— Dora (1834-1907). L M. J., Vol. 
 XXV, 450. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 
 
 KEEGAN, CHARLES J.— Millersburg (1832-1907). 
 S. T. 1907, 495. 
 
 KELSEY, JEREMIAH S.— Converse (1842-1893). S. 
 T. 1894, 220. 
 
 KELSO, REESE D.— Waveland (1866-1896). S. T. 
 1897, 349. 
 
 KEMPF, E. J.— See I. M. J., Vol. xxiii, 331. 
 
 KEMPF, MATHEW.— Ferdinand (1827-1880). S. 
 T. 1881, 231. Born in Germany, and came to Indiana 
 
294 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 when three years old. Was demonstrator of anatomy 
 for a time in the University of Louisville. Member of 
 the Indiana Legislature in 1859. Wrote on various 
 scientific subjects, especially those relating to ethnol- 
 ogy. A lecture on the "Wandering Cainidse, or the 
 A^ncient Nomads," delivered to the medical society of 
 Dubois county, April 22, 1879, ranks high in that class 
 of literature. 
 
 KEMPF, PAUL H.— Ferdinand (1861-1896). S. T. 
 1897, 344. 
 
 KENNEDY, SAMUEL A.— Shelbyville (1835-1900). 
 I. M. J., Vol. xix, 122. 
 
 KERSEY, SILAS H.— Centreville (1818-1903). He 
 was born in Guilford County, North Carolina, Dec. 9, 
 1818, and died in Centreville March 26, 1903. Came 
 to Indiana when seven years of age. He was a gradu- 
 ate of the University of Michigan and began practice 
 at Mt. Etna, and later removed to Lewisville, Ind. 
 He entered the military service in 1861, and September 
 9 of the same year was appointed assistant surgeon of 
 the Thirty-sixth Eegiment Indiana Volunteers, and on 
 March 20, 1862, he was commissioned surgeon of the 
 same regiment. Later he was a brigade surgeon and 
 was honorably discharged Sept. 19, 1864. After the close 
 of the war he resumed practice in Richmond, later 
 removed to Preble County, Ohio, where he practiced 
 for twelve years, when he again removed to Centre- 
 ville, where he continued to practice until a short 
 time before his death. 
 
 KERSEY, VIERLING. — Richmond ( 1809-1875 ) . 
 Born in Guilford County, North Carolina Sept. 8, 
 1809, and died at Richmond, June 3, 1875. Graduate 
 of Ohio Medical College. Began practice at Knights- 
 town in 1838. In 1840 located in Carthage; in 1841 
 removed to Spiceland, where he remained a few months, 
 when he removed to Marion, where he remained until 
 1844, when he removed to Milton. In 1861 he located 
 in Richmond, where he remained until his death. Dr. 
 Kersey was elected president of the State Society in 
 1866, and presided in 1867. 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 295 
 
 He contributed a number of papers to the State 
 Medical Society: "An Abstract of the Reports to the 
 Cambridge City Medical Association for April, 1855," 
 Trans. 1855, 22. "This Comprises Meteorological Re- 
 port for 1854-5," ib. 25. "Cerebrospinal Meningitis," 
 1865, 57. "Cholagogues and the Indications for their 
 use," 1866, 30. "President's Address— Physic and 
 Physicians," 1867, 46. "Review of Biliary Function," 
 1868, 24. "Why Doctors Disagree, " 1869, 10. "Med- 
 ical Rank in the United States Navy," 1870, 133. 
 "Case of Muscular Atrophy," 1871, 129. "Case of 
 Obscure Disease, Probably Chronic Glanders," 1873, 
 19. See interesting obituary — "In Memoriam — Vierl- 
 ing Kersey," signed by Drs. J. R. Weist, Joel Penning- 
 ton, and S. S. Boyd. Trans. 1876, 146. Portrait facing 
 title-page Trans. 1876. 
 
 KESSINGER, ELLIS M.— Sandborn (1857-1905). S. 
 T. 1905, 451. "His death was due to an infection re- 
 ceived while treating one of his patients, while per- 
 forming an operation, for which he did not expect, nor 
 did he receive one cent of remuneration." — Dr. W. E. 
 Kessinger. 
 
 KETCHAM, JOHN D.— Tunnelton (1865-1900). S. 
 T. 1901, 490. 
 
 KINDERMANN, ALEXANDER. — Eugene (1858- 
 1905). S. T. 1905, 452. 
 
 KING, ENOCH W.— New Albany (1846-1882). S. 
 T. 1882, 270. Dr. King was an enlisted man in the 
 Sixty-sixth Reg. Ind. Vols., and was severely wounded 
 in the right lung at Resaca, Ga., May 15, 1864. He 
 collected and arranged two valuable articles on "Sta- 
 tistics of Placenta Prsevia," which he read before the 
 State Medical Society, Transactions 1879, 43, and 1881, 
 168. 
 
 KING, WILLIAM F.— Centerville (1824-1892). S. 
 T. 1892, 290. Was, at first, assistant surgeon of the 
 124th Reg. Ind. Vols., and later promoted to surgeon of 
 the 147th Reg. Ind. Vols., serving until the close of the 
 war. 
 
 KNEPFLER, NATHAN.— Indianapolis (1803-1859). 
 S. T. 1859, 46. Born in Arad, Hungary, October, 1803. 
 
296 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 In 1853 he immigrated to the United States, and 
 located the same year in Indianapolis. He was a mem- 
 ber of the State Medical Society, and at the session of 
 1858 made a "Report on the Uses and Abuses of Mer- 
 cury," Trans. 1858, 36. 
 
 Dr. Knepfler was a scholar, being familiar with 
 Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, German, French, 
 Italian and, to a less extent, English. He loved the 
 society of scholars of the class of Dr. Parvin. He was 
 a Jew, and he clung with great tenacity to Moses and 
 the Prophets; at the same time he was charitable to 
 other faiths, and saw in Christ the most Divine of 
 prophets, but still could not believe Him to be the 
 Messiah promised Israel. Family bereavements came 
 heavily upon him, and while visiting a son at Shelby- 
 ville, Ky., he died at that place, Jan. 10, 1859. — From 
 an obituary notice by his friend. Dr. Parvin, Trans. 
 1859, 46. 
 
 LAMB, JAMES.— Aurora (1818-1894). S. T. 1894, 
 
 227. 
 
 LAMMERS, FRANK H.— Greencastle (1864-1900). 
 S. T. 1900, 326. I. M. J., Vol. xviii, 436. 
 
 LARKIN, JOHN B.— Mitchell (1833-1901). S. T. 
 1902, 417. Assistant surgeon and surgeon of the Seven- 
 teenth Reg. Ind. Inf. 
 
 LARUE, BENJAMIN.— Portland Mills (1848-1891). 
 S. T. 1891, 285. 
 
 LASH, HUGH M.— Indianapolis (1844-1903). S. T. 
 1904, 358. He was a native of Ohio, and first practiced 
 at Athens, in that state. Located in Indianapolis in 
 1890. At the time of his death he was a member of the 
 City Board of Health, and was lecturer on the physi- 
 ology of the nervous system and clinical psychiatry, in 
 the Medical College of Indiana. For several years 
 prior to death he had given most acceptable clinical 
 lectures at the Central Hospital for the Insane. He 
 was a frequent contributor to medical journals, and 
 contributed an article to the state society in 1892, on 
 "Cerebral Localization," Trans. 1892, 150. See biog- 
 raphical sketch in I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 159. Also, "An 
 Appreciation Prepared by Dr. Theodore Potter," on 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 297 
 
 same page. Also, memorial resolutions at a called 
 meeting of the Indianapolis Medical Society, Sept. 19, 
 1903, ib. IGl. Portrait facing October number of same 
 journal. 
 
 LATTA, MILTON M.— Goshen (1822-1899). S. T. 
 1900, 328. It is claimed for Dr. Latta that he per- 
 formed the first vaginal hj'sterotomy in the state of 
 Indiana. At an early date he performed successful 
 ovariotomies that would reflect credit on the surgeon 
 of to-day with our advanced ideas and technique of 
 modern surgery. He contrived a number of surgical 
 appliances, and suggested some improvements in com- 
 bining nitrite of amyl and chloroform as an anesthetic. 
 In November, 1870, he removed a multilocular tumor 
 which weighed sixty-one and a half pounds. The young 
 woman made a good recovery. Ind. Jour, of Med., Vol. 
 i, 292. See Robson, 548. See his reminiscences of a 
 half century, 1. M. J., Vol. xi, 20. Also, "Medical and 
 Surgical History of Elkhart County." Trans. 1875, 
 p. 82. 
 
 LAWDER, WILLIAM G.— Brooksburg (1841-1890). 
 S. T. 1891, 281. 
 
 LAWRENCE, AMOS 0.— Indianapolis (1849-1879). 
 S. T. 1880, 239. 
 
 LAYMAN, DANIEL W.— Putnamville (1808-1887). 
 Dr. Daniel Wunderlich Layman was born Sept. 24, 
 1808, in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, near Port Re- 
 public. His medical education was more complete than 
 the average medical student received in those days, 
 for he also attended medical lectures at the Jefferson 
 Medical College at Philadelphia for one year, 1828- 
 1829. After this one year's course at Philadelphia he 
 commenced to practice at Port Republic and Mt. 
 Meridian, Virginia, Dr. Layman left Virginia August, 
 1831. Before leaving, his uncle, George Imboden, 
 father of Gen. John B. Imboden, gave him a very fine 
 horse and open buggy. His destination Avas Terre 
 Haute, Ind. Hearing that the country along the Wa- 
 bash River was full of malaria, he first drove up to 
 Philadelphia, in order to amply supply himself with 
 quinin. While there he equipped himself with the 
 
298 
 
 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 necessary medicines and instruments to begin practice 
 in a western town. From Philadelphia he drove to 
 Cumberland, Md.; from the latter place he started 
 west over the old National road. He remained over 
 in Indianapolis one or two nights and was asked to 
 locate there permanently, but the place did not appeal 
 
 DANIEL W. lAYIMAN 
 
 to him. At Putnamville, forty-two miles west of 
 Indianapolis, his horse became lame and he was ob- 
 liged to stop here until his horse recovered. Here he 
 met his future wife, Miss Mary H. Davis Townsend, 
 the daughter of the inn-keeper. This settled the ques- 
 tion of his future location. He practiced medicine 
 here from 1831 to 1887, not only in and around Put- 
 namville, but also in the adjoining counties, namely, 
 Owen, Clay, Vigo, Parke, Montgomery, Hendricks, Mor- 
 gan and Marion. He was a man of iron constitution. 
 During the winter season he often made use of three 
 riding horses'. Some of his trips on horse-back were 
 quite extended. At one time he was known to ride 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 2U1J 
 
 from Putnamville to Indianapolis and return in one 
 day, where lie went for vaccines and vaccine virus, and 
 ■then after he returned home rode sixteen miles in the 
 country to visit a sick patient. His son, Mr. James 
 T. Layman, recalls that his father often left Putnam- 
 ville at 2 a. m. on horseback for Indianapolis, and re- 
 turned by 2 o'clock in the afternoon. 
 
 Dr. Layman was a typical old fashioned country 
 practitioner in every sense of the word. He was 
 highly esteemed by the people in the community who 
 not only called him for medical advice, but also for 
 advice in matters other than medical. He took an 
 active part in the affairs of the community and also 
 was active in politics, but never allowed himself to be 
 nominated for a political position. In fact, he once 
 declined a nomination for Congress. He never used 
 alcoholic beverages nor tobacco in any form. His 
 attitude towards temperance no doubt had a great 
 weight in influencing the community along this line. 
 He died at Putnamville, Aug. 10, 1887. — Letter from 
 Dr. Daniel W. Layman, Grandson, Indianapolis. Most 
 of Dr. Layman's descendants live in Indianapolis. Mr. 
 James T. Layman, the only son who is living, is pres- 
 ident of the Layman-Carey Hdw. Co. of Indianapolis. 
 Three of Dr. Layman's descendants are now practicing 
 physicians in Indianapolis. They include two grand- 
 sons, Dr. Francis 0. Dorsey and Dr. Daniel W. Lay- 
 man, and one great-grandson. Dr. John L. Kingsbury. 
 — G. W. H. K. 
 
 LEATHERMAN, JOSEPH H.— Valparaiso (1819- 
 
 1886). S. T. 188G, 214. 
 
 LENNOX, FRANK.— Marion (1849-1892). S. T. 
 
 1892, 287. 
 
 LEONARD, SOMERVELL E.— New Albany, (1804- 
 
 1854). Dr. Leonard was born at Baltimore, Md., 
 
 Oct. 28, 1804, and died at New Albany, Aug. 8, 1854. 
 
 He was present at the medical convention that met 
 
 at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849.— Miss Lydia Townsend, 
 
 New Albany. 
 
 LESLIE, ALEXANDER.— Petersburg (1815-1887). 
 
 S. T. 1888, 201. 
 
300 MEDICAL HISTORY OF I^WIA^^A. 
 
 LEWIS, GEORGE C— Madison (1855-1907). S. T. 
 1907, 488. 
 
 LIGHT, AMOS B.— Xorth Vernon (1843-1901). S. 
 T. 1902, 418. 
 
 LINGLE, RICHARD W.— Orleans (1838-1901). S. 
 T. 1902, 419. 
 
 LINN, TIMOTHY T.— Bourbon (1831-1896). S. T. 
 1896, 273. 
 
 LINNVILLE, LEWIS M.— Columbia City (1860- 
 1896). S. T. 1896, 274. 
 
 LINTON, SAMUEL M.— Columbus (1809-1889). S. 
 T. 1890. 159. Was president of the State Society in 
 1864. See ob., I. M. J., Vol. viii, p. 180. 
 
 LITTLE, H. A.— Linton (1871-1899). S. T. 1900, 
 329. 
 
 LOMAX, CONSTANTINE.— Marion (1814-1884). S. 
 T., 1885, 214. 
 
 LOMAX, WILLIAM.— Marion (1813-1893). S. T. 
 1893, 259. Was born in Guilford county, North Caro- 
 lina, March 15, 1813, and died at Marion in 1893. He 
 was a graduate of the University of New York. At the 
 beginning of the Civil War he was appointed surgeon 
 of the Twelfth Indiana Infantry, and later, medical 
 director of the Fifteenth Army Corps. 
 
 He was elected president of the Indiana State Med- 
 ical Society in 1855 and presided in 1856. In 1866, 
 when it was changed into a delegated body, he took an 
 active part in the plan of reorganization. He was a 
 faithful attendant at the sessions of the society and a 
 frequent contributor of valuable articles: "Observa- 
 tions of Meteorological Facts in Connection with Dis- 
 eases," Trans. 1851, 7; "Report on Surgery," 1858, 23; 
 "Responsibility of Physicians and the Objects and 
 Duties of the Indiana State Medical Society," 1871, 97; 
 "Two Cases of Perityphlitis," 1877, 91; "A Case of 
 Ovariotomy and Recovery," 1880, 108 ; "Injury of Head 
 with Fracture of Skull," 1880, 134; "Case of Delivery 
 by Embryotomy Without the Use of Cutting Instru- 
 ments," 1882, 49; "Chronic Alcoholism," 1885, 27. 
 
WILLIAM LO^kLlX 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 301 
 
 At the present day, when the term "perityphlitis" 
 has given way to "appendicitis," it is interesting to 
 tui-n back one-tliird of a century and read the paper 
 of Dr. Lomax on perityphlitis. Briefly, the report is as 
 follows: In September, 1874, he was called to see a 
 j^oung man suffering from a pain in the "right iliac 
 ifossa." He died in great pain a few days later. Dec. 
 30, 1875, he was called to the same home to attend a 
 brother of the deceased, who was suffering in a similar 
 manner, and this brother died on the fourteenth day. 
 A post-mortem examination of the latter revealed "an 
 abscess beneath the cecum, walled in by adhesions." 
 How familiar the term, v:alled in hy adhesions sounds a 
 third of a century after Dr. Lomax penned it ! He says 
 further: "There was not the least trace of appendix 
 vermiformis to be found, nor opening in the intestine 
 through which this substance could have forced its 
 way." His paper is interesting as showing the natural 
 history of a case of appendicitis. 
 
 For a time he held the chair of surgery in the Fort 
 Wayne Medical College. He held the position of presi- 
 dent of the board of trustees of the Medical College of 
 Indiana for several years, and a short time before his 
 death made a gift in property to that college that was 
 valued at more than fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 Dr. Lomax lived and died a true type of a noble 
 physician and a Christian gentleman. Stone, 284. Also 
 I. M. J., Vol. xi, 373, with portrait, and Jour. Am. Med. 
 Assoc, Vol. XX, 614. E. M. of Ind., Dist. 11, p. 26. 
 
 LONG, JEREMIAH H.— Terre Haute (1821-1880). 
 S. T., 1881, 237. 
 
 LOVETT, JOHN A.— Goodland (1839-1903). I. M. 
 J., Vol. xxii, 123. 
 
 LUMMIS, JOSEPH E.— Maxwell (1866-1898). S. 
 T. 1899, 385. 
 
 LYONS, IRA E.— Huntington (1822-1898). He 
 located in Huntington in 1861, where he began to prac- 
 tice, and continued until the date of his death, Feb. 7, 
 1898. He was for some time a member of the faculty 
 of the Fort Wayne College of Medicine, first filling 
 
302 MEDICAL HISTORY OF ITSWIANA. 
 
 tlie chair of materia medica and therapeutics, and 
 afterwards' of obstetrics. He was a native of New 
 Castle, Delaware. 
 
 LYONS, LEWIS D.— Attica (1816-1888). S. T. 1888, 
 215. 
 
 LYONS, WILLIAM B.— Huntington (1818-1899). 
 He located in Huntington in 1851 and practiced medi- 
 cine there until his death, M^hich occurred from being 
 struck by an engine while crossing a railroad track, 
 on May 22, 1899. 
 
 MACLEAN, GEORGE MACINTOSH.— New Albany 
 (1806-1886). Dr. Maclean was born in Princeton, 
 N. J., Feb. 19, 1806, and died in the same city March 
 8, 1886. He graduated at Princeton University in 
 1824, and later as M.D. from the College of Physicians 
 and Surgeons of New York in 1829. He began prac- 
 tice in Princeton, but later, 1843-6, practiced in New 
 York City. About the first of the year, 1848, he 
 located in New Albany, Indiana, and taught chemis- 
 try and natural history in Hanover College, Indiana, 
 from April 1848 to April 1849. 
 
 He was professor of chemistry for a time in Cin- 
 cinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. Also taught 
 in Pittsburg, Pa., and Oxford, Ohio, as well as in 
 New Albany. In 1857 he removed to Princeton, and 
 retired from active professional work. — Letter from 
 Miss Caroline Fitch Maclean, daughter, Princeton, 
 N. J. 
 
 He contributed two papers to the Indiana State 
 Medical Society: "Report on the Progress of Medical 
 Chemistry," Trans. 1853, 58, and "Progress in Medical 
 Chemistry," 1854, 51. Also "Case of False Ankylosis 
 Successfully Treated." ib. p. 102.— G. W. H. K. 
 
 McCAULEY,* ROBERT.— Johnson County ( 1793- 
 1842). Born near Edinburg, Scotland, Aug. 22, 1793. 
 
 * I am sure my readers will forgive me for this rather 
 lengthy sketch. Here is a unique, early-day physician who 
 g^oes "Doc Sifers" one better. Sifers had had some expe- 
 rience : 
 
 "Durin' the army — got his trade o' surgeon there." But 
 "Dr." McCauley, like Topsy, "just growed." — G. W. H. K. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 303 
 
 He was the first white man to practice the healing 
 art in Johnson County, 
 
 He attended a boarding school in Edinburg for 
 several years, and obtained a good education. Some- 
 times he had to work in order to pay his board, and 
 in consequence of this necessity he learned the coop- 
 er's trade. He was also an athlete and became a 
 proficient boxer. He came to America when 18 years 
 of age, and traveled from place to place, and when 
 in need replenished his purse by teaching school. In 
 1822 he came to Henry County, Kentucky. Here he 
 fell in love with a Miss Banta, and they were mar- 
 ried in 1824. After his marriage he displayed his 
 adaptability to his surroundings by working for two 
 years in his father-in-law's distillery. 
 
 In October, 1826, he and his family came to John- 
 son County, Indiana, and moved into a little unfin- 
 ished cabin about five miles west of the village of 
 Franklin — then a place of five or six log houses. In 
 this whole region there was no minister of the healing 
 art and McCauley quickly saw the needs of the com- 
 munity where people were stricken and dying with 
 malaria, so he immediately assumed the task of car- 
 ing for their physical needs, and soon gained their 
 confidence by self-assurance, native ability and the 
 statement that he was a graduate of the University 
 of Edinburg. The popular belief in the truthfulness 
 of this assertion gave him much prestige, and many 
 were the cabin hearth stories of his seven years of 
 study in "the old country." As he left Scotland in 
 1811, when 18 years of age, those interested in abso- 
 lute historical truth can readily see that he very 
 likely never saw the inside of the University of Edin- 
 burg, at least not in the serious capacity of a medical 
 student. 
 
 But in the swamps of Johnson County the people 
 were stricken and dying, and calling for help. "Dr." 
 McCauley boldly rode to their relief and was hailed 
 with joy. He was needed so quickly after taking up 
 his abode in the wilderness, that he had no time to 
 make a door to his lonely cabin. In lieu of a wooden 
 
304 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 door a blanket was stretched over the lintels of his 
 doorway; the winds of winter beat against it, and the 
 wolves sniffed at its flimsy folds, while within, his 
 wife and babies trembled with fear. 
 
 Soon he rode miles in every direction. He passed 
 through Franklin, crossed Sugar Creek, and prac- 
 ticed in Shelby County, through Edinburg into Bar- 
 tholomew County, along Indian Creek, and among the 
 bold hills and wild forests of Brown County, and far 
 westward to White River. He sometimes made trips 
 which consumed in time two or three days. He 
 charged very little and collected less. His neighbors 
 for a mile or two around always paid their bills in 
 work. 
 
 He died Aug. 14, 1842, and at the time of his death 
 he owned nearly five hundred acres of fertile land, but 
 very little of his wealth had been made by the prac- 
 tice of medicine. — Dr. E. W. Terhune, Whiteland. 
 
 McClelland, JAMES S.— Crawfordsville (1821- 
 1875). He was born at Oxford, 0., Sept. 3, 1821, and 
 died at Crawfordsville, Aug. 29, 1875. He practiced 
 medicine at the following named places in Indiana: 
 Yountsville, Pleasant Hill, Jefferson, and Frankfort. 
 Later he removed to Dallas, Illinois. In 1861, he 
 enlisted in the Twenty-fifth Regiment, Illinois Volun- 
 teers, and was made Lieutenant-Colonel. Soon after- 
 ward was appointed medical director on the staff of 
 Gen. Sigel, in Missouri. Later he was transferred to 
 the Department of Tennessee, and made inspector of 
 field hospitals. He received an injury in August, 1863, 
 on account of which he was mustered out of service. 
 He then located in Crawfordsville. In a short time, 
 his health having improved, he again entered the ser- 
 vice as surgeon of the One Hundred and Thirty-fifth 
 Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. After the close of the 
 war he resumed the practice of medicine and continued 
 until his death. He represented Clinton County in 
 the Legislature; and in 1856 was a Buchanan elector. 
 — Dr. J. L. Beatty, Crawfordsville. 
 
MEDICAL HIHTOIiY OF I \ DIANA. 3()r, 
 
 Dr. McClelland made an interesting report on 
 "Trembles, or Milk Sickness." — Trans. 1854, 43. Was 
 vice-president of the Indiana State Medical Society, 
 1853.— G. W. H. K. 
 
 McCLURE, DAVID.— Jefifersonville (1815-1896). S. 
 T. 1896, 268. 
 
 McCLUPvE, JESSE D.— Jeffersonville (1855-1885). 
 S. T. 1886, 206. 
 
 McCOY, WILLIAM A.— Madison (1843-1904). S. T. 
 1904, 359. 
 
 McCOY, WILLIAM X.— Jefifersonville (1833-1892). 
 
 S. T. 1892, 291. 
 
 Mcculloch, james.— Muncie (I813-1877). 
 
 McCULLOUGH, HOWARD.— Fort Wayne (1858- 
 1892). S. T. 1892, 285. 
 
 McDANIEL, CORNELIUS W.— Washington (1823- 
 1880). S. T. 1881, 232. 
 
 McFADDEN, WILLIAM G. — Shelbyville 1834- 
 1907). A native of Pennsylvania; he came to Indiana 
 in early life. He began practice in Shelby county in 
 1856. Was commissioned surgeon of the Seventy-ninth 
 Reg. Ind, Vols, in the Civil War. In the battle of 
 Chickamauga he was a brigade surgeon, and on the 
 second day, Sept. 20, 1863, while caring for wounded 
 soldiers, was captured and taken to Libby prison, where 
 he remained three months. After the war he located in 
 Shelbyville, where he remained in active practice until 
 a short time previous to his death, which occurred at 
 Daytona, Fla., April 20, 1907. See I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 
 448. 
 
 McGAUGHY, ANDREW J.— Linton (1855-1904). S. 
 T. 1905, 453. 
 
 McKINNEY, GEORGE W.— Marion (1849-1902). S. 
 T. 1903, 348. Twenty-five years before his death he 
 wrote a paper in which he claimed the identity of diph- 
 theria and croup. 
 
 McKINSTRY, JOHN F.— Jonesboro (1842-1882). S. 
 T. 1883, 271. 
 
 McLEOD, ANGUS J.— Columbus (1827-1898). S. 
 T. 1899, 384. 
 
306 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 McMAHAN, SAMUEL W. — Indianapolis (1847- 
 1901). S. T. 1902, 420. 
 
 McMEAHAN, JAMES G. — Crawfordsville (1808- 
 1899) . I. M. J., Vol. xviii, 48. 
 
 McNAEY, CHARLES E.— Fillmore (1841-1880). S. 
 T. 1881, 234. 
 
 McPHEETERS, JOHN G. — Bloomington (1811- 
 1888). S. T. 1888, 212. 
 
 McSHANE, JOHN T.— Indianapolis (1847-1907). S. 
 T. 1907, 502. Dr. McShane practiced his profession for 
 about sixteen years in Indianapolis. He had achieved 
 success, and stood high as a practitioner and citizen. 
 He was a frequent contributor to medical journals. See 
 Stone, 310, I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 498. Portrait same page. 
 
 McSHIRLEY, JAMES L.— Sulphur Springs (1860- 
 1906). S. T. 1907, 485. 
 
 MALONE, JOHN A.— Princeton (1837-1893). S. T. 
 1893, 257. 
 
 MAPES, SMITH H.— Indianapolis (1840-1901). I. 
 M. J., Vol. xix, 317. 
 
 MARKLE, JOHN E.— Winchester (1838-1903). He 
 was a practitioner of medicine in Winchester from 1874 
 until his death. During the Civil War was 2nd lieut. 
 and promoted to 1st lieut., Co. K, of the Thirty-fourth 
 Reg. Ind. Vols. See I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 483. 
 
 MARR, DELOS D.— Chesterton (1852-1889). S. T. 
 1890, 156. 
 
 MARSEE, JOSEPH W.— Indianapolis (1848-1898). 
 S. T. 1899, 399. Dr. Marsee ranked with the great sur- 
 geons of the country. He was an excellent anatomist, 
 and this knowledge, combined with rare mechanical 
 tact, made him eminently skilful as a surgeon. He was 
 preeminently a teacher and lecturer. He was not dis- 
 posed to write much, but what he did was practical. 
 On Feb. 11, 1896, he delivered an informal address 
 before the Marion County Medical Society, which was 
 published in the Indiana Medical Journal, Vol. xiv, 
 349, entitled "The Treatment of Common Injuries of 
 the Hand." This article is well illustrated, and is still 
 read with interest at the present day. In 1894 he read 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 307 
 
 a paper before the State Medical Society, "A Contribu- 
 tion to the Treatment of Fractures of the Femur," 
 Trans. 1884, 194. For some years previous to his death 
 he was professor of surgery and dean of the Medical 
 College of Indiana. He had also filled other positions 
 in the college and city hospitals. For biographical 
 sketch see I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 225. Drs. Wynn and 
 Morrison pay a beautiful tribute to his memory in 
 Transactions for 1899, 399-400. 
 
 JOSEPH W. MAESEE. 
 
 MARSHALL, DANIEL M.— Columbia City (1823- 
 1892). S. T. 1893, 250. Dr. Marshall left one son who 
 is the present governor cf our state, Thomas R. Mar- 
 shall. 
 
 MARTIN, JOHN H. L.— Arcadia (1850-1885). S. 
 T. 1886, 208. 
 
308 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 MAETIN, SAIMUEL M.— Greenfield (1842-1897). 
 Was a soldier of the Civil War. I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 32. 
 
 MASON, CHARLES R.— Hartford City (1846-1906). 
 S. T. 1906, 490. 
 
 MAVITY, JAMES S.— Fowler (1845-1901). S. T. 
 1901, 491. I. M. J., Vol. xix, 486. 
 
 MAXWELL, JAMES D., Sr.— Bloomington (1815- 
 1892). S. T. 1894, 214. Dr. Maxwell was in practice 
 at Bloomington for nearly fifty years. He was a trus- 
 tee of Indiana University for nearly forty years, and 
 rendered valuable service to the cause of general educa- 
 tion. See Robson, 142; Stone, 657. I. M. J., Vol. xi, 
 119. Was present at the State Medical Convention, 
 June 6, 1849. 
 
 MAXWELL, JAMES D., Jr.— Bloomington (1850- 
 1891). S. T. 1891, 282. 
 
 MAY, OLIVER T.— Monroeville (1863-1903). S. T. 
 1903, 349. 
 
 MAY, WILLIS L.— Crawfordsville (1828-1900). S. 
 T. 1901, 492. 
 
 MAYER, CARL F.— Fort Wayne (1830-1885). S. 
 T. 1886, 197. 
 
 MEARS, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1803-1879). 
 S. T. 1880, 234. Dr. Mears was born at Harrisburg, 
 Pa., June 27, 1803. Graduated from Jefl'erson Medical 
 College in 1827, and same year located at Vincennes, 
 where he remained until 1834, when he removed to 
 Indianapolis. In 1849 he was elected professor of ob- 
 stetrics and diseases of women in the Central Medical 
 College, which at that time was the medical department 
 of Asbury University. In 1869 he was elected to the 
 same chair in the Indiana Medical College and later 
 became emeritus professor of the same chair, which he 
 retained until his death, May 20, 1879. 
 
 Dr. Mears was present at the formation of the state 
 society in 1849. He was faithful in attendance at 
 its meetings and was elected president of the society 
 in 1851. He contributed a number of papers of marked 
 value : "Report on the Duration of Pregnancy" ( in con- 
 nection with Dr. Lomax), Trans. 1851, 31; "President's 
 
GEORGE W. MEARS 
 
310 3IEDICAL HI8T0BY OF IXDIANA. . 
 
 Address," 1852, 21; "Placenta Prsevia," 1868, 100; 
 "Essay on the Treatment of Puerperal Hemorrhage,*' 
 1870, 25; "Biographical Sketch of John S. Bobbs, 
 M.D.," 1871, 211; "Treatment of Puerperal Eclampsia," 
 1876, 54; and "On the Etiology and Treatment of Un- 
 avoidable Hemorrhage," Trans. 1878, 102. See Trans. 
 1893, 23. 
 
 MEEKER, DANIEL. — Laporte (1806-1876). Dr. 
 Meeker was elected president of the State Medical 
 Society in 1856, and presided in 1857. He contributed 
 an article to the society, "Report on Diseases of the 
 Eye," Trans. 1856, 53; "President's Address," Trans. 
 1857, 57. He also contributed three valuable articles on 
 "Fractures and False Joints," respectively. Transac- 
 tions, 1857, 29; 1858, 40; and 1859, 34. He was a sur- 
 geon of no mean standing. In later life he Avent off 
 after strange gods, publishing in 1871 a pamphlet of 
 fourteen pages on "Prof. Meeker's Opium Cure — A Cer- 
 tain and Safe Remedy for the Opium Habit." This 
 pamphlet led to his expulsion from the State Medical 
 Society in 1871 — Trans. 1871, 230. He was surgeon of 
 the Ninth Reg. Ind. Vols, (three months) and later, 
 for a short time, surgeon of the same in the three 
 years' service. 
 
 MEGEE, WILLIAIVI N.— Rushville (1859-1900). S. 
 T. 1900, 331. 
 
 MELSHEIMER, C. T.— Bluffton (1819-1887). S. T. 
 1888, 205. Was assistant surgeon of the 101st Reg. 
 Ind. Vols. 
 
 MENDENHALL, ELIHU T.— Newcastle (1844- 
 1908). Practiced medicine in Henry County for 
 thirty-four years. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 
 
 MENDENHALL, NATHAN.— Thorntown ( 1831- 
 1880). S. T. 1881, 236. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 9, p. 19. 
 
 MENDENHALL, WILLIAM 0.— Richmond (1834- 
 1905). S. T. 1906, 504. 
 
 MERCER, THOMAS C— Jeffersonville (1819-1884). 
 S. T. 1884, 222. 
 
 METCALF, CHARLES N. — Indianapolis (1846- 
 1896). S. T. 1896, 269. Dr. Metcalf was appointed 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. :jll 
 
 secretary of the Indiana State Board of. Health in 1883, 
 and filled that position until his resignation, May 1, 
 1896. He was quite a contributor to medical journals. 
 R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, p. 143. 
 
 MILLER, ABRAAI 0.— Lebanon (1827-1901). S. T. 
 1901, 493. Quite a number of times the writer has seen 
 Dr. Miller under fire. He was colonel of the Seventy- 
 second Reg. Ind. Vols., and much of the time com- 
 manded the famous Wilder's Brigade of Mounted In- 
 fantry. He entered the service quite early and remained 
 until the close of the war. At Selma, Ala., he received 
 a dangerous wound, but was not discharged until the 
 war had ended. For his gallant military service he was 
 breveted brigadier general. He was a good man, a good 
 physician, and a patriot. He deserves a shaft as high 
 as Bunker Hill monument. 
 
 MILLM AN, JOHX H.— Washington (1845-1881). S. 
 T. 1882, 199. 
 
 MINICH, JAIVIES A.— Worthington (1831-1897). I. 
 M. J., Vol. XV, 341. 
 
 MITCHEL, JAMES F.— Vernon (1837-18..), was 
 born in Jennings County, Ind.. Dee. 14, 1837. 
 
 He was graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 
 March, 1860, and continued in the practice of his pro- 
 fession until the day of his death. He was of an amica- 
 ble disposition, never coarse nor cross, remarkably free 
 from fretting and stewing, polite in his deportment, 
 never glorying in sin or shame. He carried his refine- 
 ment of manhood with, him in his professional visits 
 and was a favorite among the people. When I say that 
 Dr. Mitchel was a justly esteemed and valuable citizen, 
 I only utter what many lips are ready to repeat. When 
 I say that he was a success in his profession his numer- 
 ous patrons are ready to emphasize the testimony. The 
 members of the profession are ready to bear testimony 
 to his honorable observance of the rules of etiquette 
 belonging to the profession. 
 
 He was always loyal to the cause of medicine in all 
 that tended to its uplifting in society work and all that 
 pertained to it. — Dr. Walter J. Mitchel, Vernon, a son. 
 
ABRAM 0. MILLER 
 
JOHN W. MOODEY 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF 1^DIANA. 313 
 
 MITCHELL, GILES B.— Mooresville (1822-188Q). S. 
 T. 1881, 239. 
 
 MITCHELL, HARVEY.— Muncie (1825-1909). 
 
 MODPJCKER, JOHN M.— Wabash (1833-1907). S. 
 T. 1907, 493. 
 
 MOFFETT, JOHN.— Rushville (1822-1903). S. T. 
 1903, 350. After thorough preparation, Dr. Moffett 
 located in Rushville in 1850, where he remained and 
 practiced medicine for fifty-three years. In 1879. at the 
 formation of the Central College of Physicians and Sur- 
 geons of Indianapolis, he was elected to the chair ol 
 principles of medicine, and at the end of three yeara 
 was transferred to the chair of obstetrics, which he 
 filled until March, 1887, when he resigned. He was 
 acting president of the Indiana State Medical Society 
 in 1864. He contributed a number of papers to the 
 state society: "Report on the Progress of Medicine," 
 Trans. 1862, 47; "President's Address," Trans. 1864, 
 13; "Cerebrospinal Meningitis," Trans. 1867, 108; and 
 "General Anasarca — A Case with Remarks," Trans. 
 1869, 15. See I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 530. 
 
 MONTGOMERY, DAVID B. — Cynthiana (1834- 
 1885). S. T. 1886, 203. 
 
 MOODEY, JOHN W.— Greensburg (1816-1867). Was 
 born in Shippensburg, Pa., June 12, 1816, and died 
 Aug. 27, 1867. He located in Greensburg in 1839, and 
 remained there until his death. He was present at the 
 formation of the State Medical Society, June 6, 1849, 
 and his name appears often in the Transactions. He 
 was a skilful physician, a good citizen, and a perfect 
 gentleman. He was my generous friend, and I was a 
 student in his office in April, 1861, when the Civil War 
 commenced, and the storm clouds swept me into the 
 conflict. 
 
 MOONEY, HENRY C.—Laketon (1850-1905). S. T. 
 1905, 454. 
 
 MOORE, CHARLES V.— Fairmount (1849-1897). S. 
 T. 1897, 359. 
 
 MOORE, JOHN B.— Kokomo (1841-1906). S. T. 
 1907, 486. 
 
314 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 MOORE, RICHARD S.— Mt. Vernon (1843-1881). S. 
 T. 1882, 200. 
 
 MORGAN, RALPH G.— Indianapolis ( 1873-1903) . S. 
 T. 1903, 351. 
 
 MORGAX, ROBERT H. — Spartansburg (1827- 
 1884). S. T. 1884, 220. He was a captain of Company 
 D, Eighth Reg. Ind. Vols., and later first lieutenant of 
 Company D, Fifty-seventh Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 MORGAN, SAMUEL B. — Crawfordsville (1813- 
 1886). S. T. 1887, 188. 
 
 MORGAN, WILLIAM V. — Indianapolis (1853- 
 1900). S. T. 1901, 494. Dr. Morgan first practiced in 
 Indianapolis, then removed to Julietta, and in 1887 
 returned to Indianapolis. He was appointed professor 
 of anatomy in the Central College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons of Indianapolis. Later he became professor 
 of surgical anatomy, fractures and dislocations, in the 
 same college, resigning his chair in 1899. He was rap- 
 idly rising into distinction as a surgeon, when death 
 untimely ended his career. See Stone, 661, and I. M. 
 J., Vol. xix, 164. 
 
 MOTHERSHEAD, JOHN L.— Indianapolis (1808- 
 1854). S. T. 1855, 76. He was a charter member of 
 the state society. He was born at Stamping Ground, 
 Scott county, Ky., Jan. 6, 1808, and came to Indian- 
 apolis in 1830. He was president of the Board of 
 Health, and during the Black Hawk war was assistant 
 surgeon of the Indiana Battalion. He died at Indian- 
 apolis, Nov. 4, 1854. — J. L. Mothershead, a son. 
 
 MULLANE, JOSEPH.— Lyons (1856-1898). S. T. 
 1899, 394. 
 
 MULLEN, ALEXANDER J.— Napoleon (1813-1897). 
 Was born in Ireland in 1813, and when a mere child 
 came to America with his parents and settled in Penn- 
 sylvania. When he was old enough he ran away from 
 home and shipped as a boy in the Merchant Marine 
 service. In the early days Merchant vessels conducted 
 a training school, requiring so many hours a day for 
 study. The Doctor there received his first instruction 
 in medicine, and after nine vears of service he for- 
 
MEDICAL HLSTORY OF IXDIAXA. 315 
 
 sook the sea and took up the study of medicine at tlie 
 Louisville Medical College, where he graduated in 1838. 
 He hegan the practice of medicine at Marion, Indiana., 
 then moved to Xapoleon, where he had quite a large 
 class studying under him, among them his brother 
 Bernard F. Mullen, Dr. Glass and J. W. Gordon, who 
 afterwards gave up the study of medicine and became 
 one of the most famous lawyers of the state. From 
 Napoleon he went to Michigan City and was appointed 
 Prison Physician. When the war broke out he moved 
 his family to Madison and joined the 35th Irish 
 Regiment and became surgeon. After spending over 
 thirty years in the Hoosier state he moved his family 
 to St. Louis, Mo., and while not altogether forsaking 
 the practice of medicine, he spent a great deal of his 
 time in traveling through the western part of the 
 country, and in 1887, took an extended European trip 
 visiting hospitals of the old country and performing 
 several successful operations while there. He died at 
 his home in St. Louis, September 25, 1897. — Miss Cora 
 E. Mullen, Madison, Niece. 
 
 Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- 
 vention, June 6, 1849. Three of the Mullen brothers 
 were present at this Convention. — G. W. H. K. 
 
 MULLEX, BERNARD F.— Napoleon (1825-1879). 
 Was born at Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania, in 1825, and 
 received his early education in the parochial schools. 
 At an early age he went to Napoleon, Indiana, and 
 joined a class of students who were studying medicine 
 under his eldest brother, Dr. Alexander Mullen. His 
 early medical days were passed between Napoleon and 
 Madison, where his brother Dr. John Mullen had 
 located. Dr. Bernard was quite successful in the prac- 
 tice of medicine, making children's diseases a specialty ; 
 and he also gained a reputation in his profession dur- 
 ing the cholera epidemic of 1849. At the call for 
 troops during the Mexican War, J. W. Gordon and Dr. 
 B. F. Mullen raised a company at Napoleon — Gordon 
 being made captain and Mullen, surgeon. He was the 
 youngest surgeon serving in the American army. This 
 company was afterwards attached to the 3rd Ohio. 
 
316 MEDICAL HISTORY OF mDIA^A. 
 
 During the first of the Rebellion, Dr. Bernard Mullen 
 was located in the timber country between Osgood and 
 Napoleon, and when the call for volunteers was issued 
 was made Colonel of the 35th Regiment Indiana Infan- 
 try. For several years after the war he resided in 
 Madison, but afterwards located in Terre Haute, 
 where he stood high in social and professional life. 
 He was a man of the most varied accomplishments: a 
 soldier, politician, musician, a writer of more than 
 ordinary ability, and an orator of the greatest bril- 
 liancy and power. During the early days of the Know 
 Nothings, Dr. Mullen fought them openly from the 
 speaker's stand. He was one of the Commissioners 
 that located the State Prison at Michigan City, and at 
 the time of his death was a candidate for State Librar- 
 ian. He was taken ill at a hotel at Indianapolis, where 
 he died February 6, 1879. His remains were taken 
 charge of by the G. A. R. and were laid to rest at 
 Terre Haute. — Miss Cora E. Mullen, Napoleon, Niece. 
 Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- 
 vention, June 6, 1849. G. W. H. K. 
 
 MULLEN, JOHN W.— Madison (1821-1887). Was 
 born in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, in 1821. When 
 quite a boy, he went to Texas and served as a page 
 under Gen. Sam Houston during the war between the 
 Lone Star State and Mexico. During this campaign 
 he had the misfortune to be taken down with yellow 
 fever and was faithfully nursed by one of the men 
 until he was supposed to have died. Around his belt 
 he had concealed about $1,250 of Texas script. The 
 nurse took $1,000 of this and left a note with the 
 remaining $250 for the person who would bury him. 
 The doctor often told this experience in demonstrat- 
 ing that life was not always extinct when supposed to 
 be. Becoming tired of Texas he returned to Philadel- 
 phia and entered the Pennsylvania University; gradu- 
 ated in medicine with honors, and was elected intern 
 for two years at the Philadelphia City Hospital. 
 Through the importunities of his friends and class- 
 mates he was induced to come to Indiana, and in 1847 
 located at Madison. Early in the fifties Dr. John 
 
MEDICAL EIHTORY OF IXDIA^A. 317 
 
 Mullen, with five other leading physicians of the city, 
 obtained a charter from the State Legislature for a 
 medical school to be known as The Madison Medical 
 Institute, and in a two-story frame building on the 
 corner of East and Third Streets, commenced to give 
 lectures to a class of students in Madison. A brick 
 cottage to the north was used as a dissecting room. 
 The demands of private practice were so great that 
 the doctors found it impossible to keep all their lec- 
 ture engagements, and the students becoming discour- 
 aged concluded to go to the University of Louisville. 
 The school-room was turned into a hospital, — the first 
 one ever established in Madison — and the brick cottage 
 was converted into a pest house. Up to the time of his 
 death, Dr. John Mullen took a lively interest in the 
 advancement of his chosen profession of medicine, and 
 kept himself well read in the science of that profession, 
 often being called into consultation in cases where 
 experience and sound advice were needed. He was 
 regarded as one of the best surgeons of the state, and 
 performed some of the most diflBcult operations. He 
 died at his home in Madison, May 10, 1887. — Miss 
 Cora E. Mullen, Madison, Daughter. 
 
 Dr. Mullen was present at the State Medical Con- 
 vention, June 6, 1849.— G. W. H. K. 
 
 MULLINIX, M. G.— Spencer (1827-1886). S. T. 
 1887, 193. Was surgeon of the 149th Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 MUNFORD, SAMUEL E.— Princeton (1837-1893). 
 S. T. 1894, 219. He enlisted as a private soldier in the 
 Seventeenth Reg. Ind. Vols, early in 1861; was then 
 appointed hospital steward, and served as such until 
 Aug. 13, 1861, when he was appointed assistant sur- 
 geon of the same regiment, and served until Feb. 5, 
 1862, when he was promoted to surgeon. On the forma- 
 tion of Wilder's Brigade of mounted infantry he was 
 appointed acting brigade surgeon, and served as such 
 until Jan. 12, 1865. He was elected president of the 
 State Medical Society in 1883. To the state society he 
 contributed the following papers: "Case of Hydrocele, 
 with Cartilaginous Thickening of the Tunica Vagi- 
 nalis," Trans. 1872, 7; "Cases of Injury to the Head, 
 
SAMUEL E. MUNFORD 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 319 
 
 with Remarks Thereon," Trans. 1883, 110; "Presi- 
 dent's Address — A Question in State Medicine," Trans. 
 1884, 1 ; "Repair of Injuries of the Pelvic Floor," 
 Trans. 1892, 131. See Robson, 101, Stone, 348, and I. 
 M. J., Vol. xii, 103. For three years I was associated 
 with Dr. Munford. in army life, and I loved him as 
 Jonathan loved David. 
 
 MURPHY, PIERSON.— Franklin (1800-1864). Born 
 in Fairfield Co., Ohio, in 1800. Graduate of the Ohio 
 Medical College in 1827, and the same year located 
 at Franklin, which at that date consisted of some 
 half dozen families living in log houses. He was the 
 second physician to locate in Johnson County. He 
 encountered the usual hardships of the early, and the 
 young physician, of primitive days in Indiana. 
 
 In 1828, Dr. Murphy, assisted by Dr. Smith, of 
 Edinburg, performed paracentesis abdominalis by mak- 
 ing an incision into the abdominal cavity with a 
 thumb lancet. Then having removed the bark and 
 pith from a small elder, this crude contrivance was 
 used to draw off the fluid. 
 
 Dr. Murphy practiced over a vast extent of terri- 
 tory, and, although his charges were nominal, ac- 
 quired considerable wealth. He died in 1864. — 
 Abridged from letter from Dr. R. W. Terhune, White- 
 land, Ind. 
 
 MURRAY, ALFRED L.— Eaton (1845-1906). S. T. 
 1907, 479. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 
 
 MYERS, WILLIAM H.— Fort Wayne (1826-1907). 
 S. T. 1907, 471. Dr. Myers located in Fort Wayne in 
 1859, and during all his active professional life was 
 recognized as one of the leading surgeons of northern 
 Indiana. In the spring of 1861 he entered the service 
 as surgeon of the Thirtieth Reg. Ind. Vols, and served 
 as such for a number of months. After leaving the 
 service he resumed practice in Fort Wayne. To the 
 state society he contributed a paper on "Shock," Trans. 
 1883, 138; also "Ganglions, with Suggestions on Treat- 
 ment," Trans. 1885, 180. Dr. Myers was honored by 
 his professional brethren. I. M, J., Vol. xxv, 332, 449. 
 He performed the first Porro operation in Indiana, 
 
WILLIAM H. MYERS. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 321 
 
 saving mother and child. Am. Jour, of Obs., Vol. xxvi, 
 p. 933. 
 
 NASH, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1835-1903). S. 
 T. 1904, 360. 
 
 NESBIT, JOSEPH A.— Allisonville (1821-1895). I. 
 M. J., Vol. xiv, 177. 
 
 NEW, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1819-1891). S. 
 T. 1891, 286. Dr. New graduated at the Ohio Medical 
 College in 1840, and immediately located at Greens- 
 burg, where he remained nineteen years, and then re- 
 moved to Indianapolis. He was surgeon of the Seventh 
 Reg. Ind. Vols, from 1861 to 1864. In November, 1864, 
 was sent by Governor Morton to New Orleans as mili- 
 tary agent for Indiana. For two years following the 
 termination of the war he was examiner of drugs in 
 the New Orleans Custom House. Resolutions, I. M. J., 
 Vol. ix, 250. 
 
 NEWCOMER, FRISBY S. — Indianapolis (1828- 
 1889). S. T. 1890, 157. Dr. Newcomer was a native of 
 Hagerstown, Maryland, and a graduate of the Univer- 
 sity of Pennsylvania. He took up microscopy in mid- 
 dle life, and became an expert in that art. During the 
 Civil War Dr. Newcomer was in the government serv- 
 ice in Indianapolis, and for six years physician to the 
 Deaf and Dumb Institute. At the time of his death 
 was contract surgeon to the U. S. arsenal at Indian- 
 apolis. 
 
 NEWLAND, BENJAMIN. — Bedford ( 1821-1889 ) . 
 S. T. 1889, 216. Dr. Newland was acting president of 
 che State Medical Society in 1879, Dr. Louis Humph- 
 reys having resigned as president, Dr. Newland, vice- 
 president, took his place. At that meeting Dr. New- 
 land delivered an address, "The Relations of Lesis- 
 lation to Sanitary Protection," Trans. 1879, 1. He 
 was a surgeon in the Civil War, Twentv-second Reg. 
 Ind. Vols. 
 
 NEWLAND, JAMES H.— Valparaiso (1820-1889). 
 S. T. 1890, 152. 
 
 NEWTON, WILIAM T.— Indianapolis (1854-1900). 
 S. T. 1901, 495. At the time of his death he was fill- 
 
322 MEDICAL HISTORY OF nWIAWA. 
 
 ing the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in 
 the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
 
 XIERMAN, HERMAN G.— Fort Wayne (1870- 
 1909). Jour. Ind. State Med. Assoc, Vol. 2, 82. 
 
 NIMAN, CHARLES H.— Elkhart (1855-1904). S. 
 T. 1905, 455. 
 
 NIMAN, JONAS P.— Lagrange (1828-1888). S. T. 
 1889, 209. 
 
 NOBLE, THOMAS B., Sr.— Greenwood (1827-1907). 
 I. M. J., Vol. XXV, 410. 
 
 NOLAND, STACY T.— Delphi (1845-1887). S. T. 
 1888, 217. 
 
 NORTH, EUGENE B.— Peru (1854-1887). S. T. 
 1888, 203. 
 
 O'FERRALL, ROBERT M.— Lafayette (1826-1896). 
 S. T. 1897, 351. Dr. O'Ferrall was vice-president Of 
 the State Medical Society in 1859. For a few months 
 he was surgeon of the Fortieth Reg. Ind. Vols. He 
 was loved and respected by his fellow-men. I M. J., 
 Vol. XV, 295. 
 
 O'REAR, CHARLES D.— Jamestown (1839-1884). 
 S. T. 1884, 216. 
 
 OLIVER, DANDRIDGE H. — Indianapolis (1826- 
 1895). S. T. 1895, 410. See sketch, I. M. J., Vol. xiii, 
 386. Portrait, ib. facing p. 371. 
 
 OMO, JOSEPH H.— Harlan (1832-1898). S. T. 
 1899, 396. 
 
 OWEN, ABRAHAM M.— Evansville (1849-1898). 
 S. T. 1899, 392. Dr. Owen was one of the leading sur- 
 geons of Evansville, occupying the chair of surgery dur- 
 ing the existence of the Medical College of Evansville 
 in that institution. See Robson, 533, and Stone, 360. 
 
 PARODY, EZRA FITCH.— Vernon (1789-1871). Dr. 
 Pabody was born at New Lebanon, N. Y., June 20, 
 1789. He was a lineal descendant of John Alfien and 
 Priscilla Mullins, the story of whose courtship and 
 marriage is immortalized by Longfellow in "The 
 Courtship of Miles Standish." William Pabody, the 
 
MEDICAL HIHTORY OF INDIANA. 323 
 
 fifth grandfather of Dr. E. F. Pabody, was married 
 to Elizabeth, oldest daughter of John Alden and Pris- 
 cilla Mullins, Dec. 2G, 1644. 
 
 Dr. Pabody, having completed his medical educa- 
 tion at an early age, served as "Surgeon's Mate" in a 
 regiment stationed at Long Island during the war of 
 1812. Soon after he formed a partnership with Dr. 
 Doubleday, of Binghampton, N. Y., where he remained 
 until the year 1818, when he removed to Vernon, Jen- 
 nings County, Indiana, and again entered on the prac- 
 tice of medicine. For years he was the only physician 
 in Jennings and some of the adjoining counties. His 
 circuit extended through an unbroken forest over so 
 large a scope of country as to require a tour of sev- 
 eral days in order to visit all his patients. 
 
 On Oct. 15, 1820, Dr. Pabody was married to Mabel 
 Butler, oldest daughter of Rev. Chauncey Butler and 
 Demia Butler. 
 
 Dr. Pabody organized the first Sunday School and 
 the first Temperance Society in Jennings County and 
 to the day of his death was deeply interested in the 
 cause of religion, education and temperance. 
 
 Dr. Pabody served three terms as a member of the 
 Indiana Legislature, and served as Judge of Probate 
 and Common Pleas Courts from 1842 to 1856. He 
 died at his home in Vernon, Feb. 3, 1871, aged 81 
 years and 8 months. — Dr. W. H. Stemm, North 
 Vernon. 
 
 PALMITER, CLEBRON.— Ligonier (1819-1889). S. 
 T. 1890, 151. 
 
 PARKER, JOSEPH.— Colfax (1849-1897). S. T 
 1897, 364. 
 
 PARR, JOHN N.— Jolietville (1837-1909). Dr. 
 Parr was a native of Boone County, in which he 
 spent nearly all of his life. 
 
 PARR, THOMAS E.— Jolietville (1871-1900). S. 
 T., 1900, 332. 
 
 PARRY, CHARLES.— Indianapolis (1814-1861). S. 
 T. 1862, 49. Dr. Parry was born in Philadelphia, and 
 
324 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 after receiving his medical degree located in Camden, 
 N. J. Upon the advice of his uncle, Hon. 0. H. Smith, 
 he came west and located in Connersville, where he 
 remained about two years. Later (1839) he removed 
 to Indianapolis, where he continued to reside until his 
 death. He possessed a high degree of skill as a sur- 
 geon and obstetrician. In the July number, Vol. vi, 
 
 28, of the Am. Jour, of the Med. Sciences, is an article 
 from the pen of Dr. Parry entitled "Congestive Fever; 
 Its Character, Symptoms and Treatment, as Met with 
 in Central Indiana." This article was a valuable con- 
 tribution to the subject of malarial disorders, so com- 
 mon in Indiana, and was quoted by Dr. George B. 
 Wood, Vol. i, 306 (1858), in his great work on the 
 practice of medicine. 
 
 Dr. P. H. Jameson says: "Dr. Parry, when quite 
 young, performed a bold and successful operation, by 
 which he relieved a victim of bad surgery of a crook 
 in his leg. He exsected a part of the shaft of the bone 
 and brought the limb in line, when the fragments 
 united and the leg was much improved. Professor 
 Mutter, in 1849, referred to this operation as brilliant 
 and successful, but added to the class of Jefferson stu- 
 dents Avhom he addressed: 'Young gentlemen, I cannot 
 advise you to attempt it, as you might not succeed as 
 well as Dr. Parry.' " 
 
 See Trans. Ind. State Med. Society, 1862, 49; also, 
 1894, 212g, and Stone, p. 373. 
 
 PARVIN, THEOPHILUS. — Indianapolis ( 1829- 
 1898). Was born January 9, 1829, at Buenos Ayres, 
 South America, where his parents were residing as 
 missionaries, and died in the city of Philadelphia, Jan. 
 
 29, 1898, He took academic honors at the University 
 of Indiana, and in 1852 he received his medical degree 
 at the University of Pennsylvania. He located in In- 
 dianapolis as a practitioner of medicine in 1853, and 
 except one year when he resided in Cincinnati, he made 
 Indianapolis his home until the fall of 1883, when he 
 removed to Philadelphia, where he remained until his 
 death. 
 
 While a resident of Indianapolis in 1864 he accepted 
 the chair of materia medica in the Medical College of 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IX DIANA. 
 
 325 
 
 Ohio, and filled that position until 1869. He then held 
 consecutive professorships in the University of Louis- 
 ville, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of In- 
 dianapolis, and the Medical College of Indiana until 
 1882, when he returned to the University of Louisville, 
 where he remained until 1883, when he was elected to 
 and accepted the chair of obstetrics and diseases of 
 women and children, in the Jefferson Medical College, 
 a position he filled until liis death. 
 
 THEOPHILUS PARVIN. 
 
 Dr. Parvin read eight papers before the Indiana 
 State Medical Society: "Diseases of the Eye and Ear," 
 1857, 23; "Obituary of Nathan Knepfler"," 1859, 56; 
 "President's Address," 1862, 14; "Vaginal Fistules," 
 1866, 78; "Report on Diseases of Women," 1868, 90; 
 "Placental Extraction and Placental Expression," 1871, 
 
326 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 11; "Fibrous Polypus of the Eectum," 1873, 113; and 
 "Treatment of Placenta Prsevia," 1876, 34. 
 
 To liim belongs the honor of being the first physi- 
 cian of Indiana to write a medical text-book, "Science 
 and Art of Obstetrics." It passed through two or more 
 editions. Although the work did not appear until 
 1886, yet the book was written while Dr. Parvin was a 
 resident of Indianapolis. On the eve of his departure 
 for Philadelphia he told the author of this paper that 
 he must "dress the work up a little." 
 
 He acquired a knowledge of the German language 
 after his fiftieth birthday, and translated into English 
 Winckel's work on "Diseases of Women." 
 
 He was honored with the presidency of the Indiana 
 State Medical Society in 1862, and president of the 
 American Medical Association, 1879. Later was presi- 
 dent of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society and the 
 American Academy of Medicine. He received the degree 
 of LL.D. from Hanover College in consideration of his 
 superior professional attainments. He was a personal 
 friend of Sir James Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, and Dr. 
 Wilde of Dublin. He met like cordial recognition from 
 medical men in France. 
 
 Dr. Parvin excelled as a lecturer and teacher, while 
 he took high rank as a polished writer. As an oper- 
 ator he was surpassed by many. 
 
 Dr. W. B. Fletcher said of him, "He was the purest 
 man I ever knew, and apparently wholly without faults 
 or vices." His last public address in Indiana was on 
 the evening of June 16, 1896, at the thirty-ninth (semi- 
 annual) meeting of the Delaware District Medical 
 Society at Dunkirk. His subject Avas "Sunshine With- 
 in Attracts Sunshine from Without." 
 
 Dr. Parvin established the Western Journal of Medi- 
 cine, at Indianapolis, in January, 1866. In 1870 he 
 was associated with Dr. David W. Yandell of Louis- 
 ville in the editorship of the American Practitioner, at 
 the last named citj^, a position he filled for some years. 
 
 After his death his widow presented his library, con- 
 sisting of over 900 volumes, to the medical department 
 of the Indianapolis City Library. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF I\ DIANA. 327 
 
 His remains were brouglit back to Indianapolis for 
 interment. 
 
 Robson, 361; Stone, 375: I. M. J., Vol. ii. 11; xvi, 
 325, xvii, 143. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 7, p. 262. 
 
 PATTEN, JAMES C— Francisco (1826-1003). S. 
 T., 1903, 352. In 1864 was appointed assistant surgeon 
 of the Fifty-eighth Reg. Ind. Vols., in which capacity 
 he served until the close of the war. 
 
 PAYNTER, CHRISTIAX L.— Salem (1824-1893). 
 S. T. 1893, 399. Dr. Paynter served with credit as 
 second lieutenant in Company D, Second Reg. Ind. 
 Vols, in the Mexican War. After his return home he 
 pursued the study of medicine and became a successful 
 practitioner. 
 
 PEARMAN, FRANCIS M.— Palestine (1836-1897). 
 He was a native of Indiana. Was assistant surgeon of 
 the Thirtieth Reg. Ind. Vols., and in 1865 surgeon of 
 the residuary battalion of same regiment. Was on the 
 board of examining surgeons for pensions. 
 
 PEARSON, CHARLES D.— Indianapolis (1820- 
 1890). S. T. 1890, 165. For seventeen years Dr. Pear- 
 son practiced medicine in Lawrence county, and for 
 twenty-eight years in Indianapolis. During the Civil 
 War he was surgeon of the Forty-ninth and Eighty- 
 second Regts. Ind. Vols. He was one of the organizers 
 of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, and 
 occupied the chair of obstetrics, and subsequently was 
 professor of diseases of the nervous system. He con- 
 tributed an article to the State Society in 1882 on 
 "Puerperal Eclampsia," Trans. 1882, 126. R. M. of 
 Ind., Dist. 7, p. 165. 
 
 PECK, SAIMUEL W.— Washington (1817-1895). S. 
 T. 1895, 413. 
 
 PENCE, ROLLIN.— Miami county (1813-1899). S. 
 T. 1900, 333. 
 
 PENNINGTON, JOEL.— Milton (1799-1887). S. T. 
 1887, 199. Dr. Pennington's "President's Address," 
 1873, was on "Reminiscences of Practice, and Biograph- 
 ical Sketches of Physicians in the Early History of 
 Indiana," Trans. 1873, 9. A portion of this paper has 
 
328 MEDICAL EISTOBY OF INDIANA. 
 
 already been published. See p. 33. In 1877 he con- 
 tributed an article on "Hereditary Transmission of 
 Disease," Trans. 1877, 113. 
 
 PEPPER, WILLIAM J.— Connersville (1830-1892). 
 S. T. 1893, 249. 
 
 PETTIJOHN, AMOS.— Arcadia (1815-1886). S. T. 
 1887, 192. 
 
 PHILLIPS, CHARLES W.— Jennings county (1859- 
 1901). Removed to Colorado in 1898. Died at Rocky 
 Ford, in that state, Sept. 25, 1901. 
 
 PHILLIPS, R. N.— Union, Pike county (1822-1885). 
 S. T. 1886, 198. 
 
 PHIPPS, JOHN M.— Bedford (1849-1899). S. T. 
 1900, 345. 
 
 PITZER, ANDREW B.— Tipton (1845-1895). S. T. 
 1895, 412. Was a member of the 148th Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 Clerk of Tipton county for four years. 
 
 PORTER, ALBERT O.— Lebanon (1825-1893). S. 
 T. 1893, 258. He contributed a paper to the State So- 
 ciety on "Nervous or Sick Headache," Trans. 1889, 99. 
 
 Dr. Porter was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage 
 while at the bedside of a woman in labor and died a 
 few weeks later. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 344. R. M. of 
 Ind., Dist. 9, p. 36. 
 
 PORTER, WILLIAM D.— Higginsville (1826-1890). 
 S. T. 1891, 279. 
 
 POSEY, JOHN W.— Petersburg (1801-1884). S. T. 
 1886, 196. 
 
 POUCHER, CHARLES H. C— Indianapolis (1868- 
 1901). S. T. 1901, 496. 
 
 PRESTON, ALBERT G.— Greencastle (1813-1889). 
 S. T. 1890, 153. Dr. Preston located in Greencastle in 
 1844, and remained there until his death. He was sur- 
 geon of the Fifty-fifth Reg. Ind. Vols. He also visited 
 a number of battle-fields at the request of Governor 
 Morton. He was present at the Medical Convention 
 at Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. 
 
 Dr. Preston reported an interesting case, "The Re- 
 port of a Case of Complete Transverse Rupture of 
 
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330 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Vagina at Its Juncture with the Uterus, in Which no 
 Hemorrhage Occurred after That Organ Was Expelled 
 from the Body," Trans. 1882, 21. Also "Cases of 
 Arsenical Poisoning," Trans. 1880, 47. 
 
 PRESTON, SAMUEL C— Greencastle (1846-1893). 
 S. T. 1893, 253. 
 
 PRIGG, EDWARD C— Henry county (1826-1908). 
 J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 205. 
 
 PROEGLER, CARL.— Ft. Wayne (1837-1907). S. 
 T., 1907, 472. Dr. Proegler received his medical educa- 
 tion in Germany, located in New York in 1860, and at 
 the beginning of the Civil War was made surgeon of the 
 Twenty-fifth Reg. New York Vols. He located in Ft. 
 Wayne in 1874, where he remained until his death. 
 
 PUGH, JOHN W.— Upland (1827-1896). S. T. 1897, 
 347. 
 
 PUGH, MAHLON.— Upland (1835-1883). S. T. 
 
 1884, 214. 
 
 PUGH, WILLIAM A.— Rushville (1829-1893). S.. 
 T. 1895, 398. He was a practitioner of forty-two years' 
 experience. 
 
 PURVIANCE, SAMUEL W.— Crawfordsville (1823- 
 1891). S. T. 1892, 283. 
 
 RAINEY, HARVEY W.— Indianapolis (1854-1902). 
 S. T. 1903, 353. 
 
 RANSBURG, MARTIN V.— Steuben county (1842- 
 1900). S. T. 1900, 334. 
 
 REA, GEORGE N.— New Castle (1852-1885). S. T. 
 
 1885, 219. 
 
 REA, JOHN.— New Castle (1819-1899). S. T. 1899, 
 405. Dr. Rea practiced medicine in Henry county half 
 a century, and ho citizen of the county was held in 
 higher esteem. In 1860 he made a "Report from the 
 New Castle Medical Society" to the State Society, 
 Trans. 1860, 58. 
 
 READ, EZRA.— Terre Haute (1811-1877). Dr. Read 
 was born on a farm near Urbana, Ohio, 1811, and died 
 in Terre Haute, May 10, 1877, of carcinoma of the 
 stomach. He was graduated from the Athens Univer- 
 
EZRA READ. 
 
332 MEDICAL HISTORY OF nWIA^^A. 
 
 sity, Ohio, and then from the Medical College of Ohio 
 in 1835. He practiced in Cincinnati for a short time 
 and then left for Texas, He participated in the Texas- 
 Mexican War and was made Surgeon-in-Chief of the 
 Texan army and also of the navy. In the history of 
 the United States the little Texas navy is absolutely 
 unique, and few people now know anything about its 
 existence. Dr. Read located in Paris, 111., in 1840, and 
 came to Terre Haute in 1844. At this time he found 
 an active Vigo County Medical Society and took an 
 active part in its affairs. During the Civil War he 
 was surgeon for the Twenty-first Indiana Artillery, and 
 later surgeon of the Eleventh Reg. Ind. Cav. He was 
 president of the Vigo County Medical Society for two 
 years, 1874-76. He was postmaster in Terre Haute 
 under President Johnson. He was a great lover of 
 books and accumulated quite a library, especially of the 
 classics. He read Latin, Greek and French with facil- 
 ity and could quote endlessly in the original from Vir- 
 gil, Horace and Homer. He stood high in the profes- 
 sion and was a great friend of the poor. The flags of 
 the city were at half-mast at his death, and the whole 
 community united at the funeral in honoring one who 
 had done so much for them. — Drs. Charles N. Combs 
 and Stephen J. Young, Terre Haute. In 1836, during 
 the Texan war for independence. General Felix Huston 
 and General Albert Sydney Johnston fought a duel. 
 The latter was severely wounded in the hip and inca- 
 pacitated for further service, Dr, Read was the attend- 
 ing surgeon. General Johnston was killed at Shiloh. — 
 
 G. W. H. K. 
 
 REASONER, WILLIAM M. — Sulphur Springs 
 
 (1828-1887). S, T, 1888, 202. 
 REEVES, URIAH G.— Cliffy (1820-1882). S. T. 
 
 1883, 266. 
 
 REILEY, WILLIAM F.— Sardinia (1828-1895). S. 
 
 T., 1896, 259. 
 
 RENNER, JOHN G. E.— Indianapolis (1850-1878). 
 
 S, T, 1880, 238, Dr. Renner was born in Germany, 
 
 came to America late in the sixties, graduated from the 
 
 University of Louisville in 1877, and immediately be- 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 333 
 
 gan the practice of medicine in Indianapolis. "On the 
 27th of August, 1878, he announced his conviction that 
 his path of duty would lead him to the succor of the 
 victims of yellow fever at Memphis, Tenn., and, despite 
 all the remonstrances of friends, the evening of August 
 29 found him domiciled in Memphis and ready with 
 his share of help for the afflicted. He remained en- 
 gaged in this self-imposed duty, rendering all the aid 
 that stricken humanity could have expected from one 
 man until September 11, when the relief -extending 
 hand was itself paralyzed by the scourge whose rav- 
 ages it had helped to mitigate, and after five days of 
 torture, on Sept. 16, 1878, his light went out and his 
 life was laid as a sacrifice upon the altar of our com- 
 mon humanity," — Dr. I. A. E. Lyons. 
 
 RICHARDSON, GEORGE T.— Delphi (1834-1880).. 
 S. T. 1881, 238. Dr. Richardson served for a time as a 
 lieutenant in the Civil War. In 1862, and again in 
 1872, he was elected to the legislature to represent 
 White and Benton counties the first time and Carroll 
 county the second time. 
 
 RICHARDSON, NEHEMIAH.— Vernon (1824-1899). 
 S. T. 1900, 335. 
 
 RICHMOND, CORYDON.— Kokomo (1808-1906). 
 Was born in Onondaga, New York, November 22, 1808, 
 and died at Kokomo, October 1, 1906. He was a son 
 of Dr. John L. Richmond. He was a graduate of the 
 Ohio Medical College 1832, and immediately located 
 at Pendleton, where he continued in practice until 
 1838, when he removed to Indianapolis, where he and 
 his father entered into partnership with Dr. G. W. 
 Mears. In 1844 he visited the Indian Reserve, as it 
 was then cahed, in Howard County, and, after exam- 
 ining it, decided to locate there. The same season, he 
 and some others built cabins and removed their fami- 
 lies to them, and this was the beginning of the present 
 city of Kokomo. In 1847 he represented Howard and 
 Cass Counties in the legislature. In 1863 he became 
 assistant surgeon in Military Hospital No. 3, Nash- 
 ville, Tennessee, where he remained some time. In 
 March, 1865, he again returned to Nashville and ren- 
 
334 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 derecl medical services to colored troops. In 1867 he 
 was elected mayor o'f Kokomo, and served two years. 
 During his long residence in Kokomo, "he preserved 
 a healthful uniformity of life, never mounting to the 
 heights of fame, nor ever descending beneath the level 
 of true manhood." — See an interesting sketch of his 
 life in Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent and Self-Made Men 
 of Indiana, Dist. 11, p. 40. 
 
 RICHMOND, JOHN L.— Indianapolis (1785-1855). 
 Born in Massachusetts, April 5, 1785, and died at Cov- 
 ington, Indiana, in October, 1855. First practiced 
 medicine at Newtown, Ohio, where he performed a 
 Cesarean operation, April 23, 1827. Possibly this was 
 the first recorded case of Cesarean operation in the 
 United States. He saved the mother but lost the child. 
 See Western Jour. Med. and Physical Sciences, Vol. iii, 
 485 (1830). See same case, with comments, by G. W. 
 H. Kemper, Indianapolis Med. Jour., Vol. xii, 376. Is 
 mentioned in Churchill's Midwifery (1857), 363, but 
 the author erroneously states that the child was saved. 
 
 In the early 30's Dr. Richmond removed to Pendle- 
 ton, Indiana, where he assumed the pastorate of a Bap- 
 tist church and practiced medicine. After a few years 
 he removed to Indianapolis and formed a partnership 
 with Dr. G. W. Mears. In 1842 he was stricken with 
 paralysis, when he abandoned practice and removed to 
 Covington, where he died and was buried. Some years 
 later his body and also that of his wife were reinterred 
 at Lafayette, Ind. See Dr. W. H. Wishard's paper. 
 Trans. 1893, 24, and also in I. M. J., Vol. xi, 199 
 (January, 1893). Also see interesting letter by Dr. 
 W. N. Wishard, I. M. J., Vol. xxvii, 112 (September, 
 1908). 
 
 BOBBINS, ALFRED H.— Rochester (1826-1906). 
 Was born in Adams County, Ohio, July 4, 1826, and 
 came with his parents to Henry County, Indiana, in 
 1829; removed to Fulton County in 1836; graduated 
 at the University of Buffalo, in 1850, and began the 
 practice of medicine in Rochester same year. In 1856, 
 and 1860 was elected and represented Fulton County in 
 the State Legislature, serving also at the special ses- 
 
JOHN L= RICHMOND 
 
MEDICAL JIJHTORY OF INDIANA. :v.io 
 
 sion at tlie outbreak of the rebellion. In 1801 he was 
 elected vice-president of the State Medical Society, and 
 served at session of 1862. Died October 8, 1900. — 
 Sketch furnished by Dr. M. 0. King, Rochester. 
 
 ROGERS, JOSEPH H. D.— Madison (1805-1885). 
 Was born near Lexington, Ky., in 1805. He graduated 
 in medicine at the Transylvania University. He was a 
 colonel in the Texan rebellion, and about 1840, per- 
 manently settled in Madison, where he established a 
 large practice up to the time of his retirement from 
 active practice about 1875. He was a man of large 
 physique and strong personality, and enjoyed a rather 
 widespread reputation as a surgeon in southern In- 
 diana and northern Kentucky, He died at Madison in 
 1885. (From a letter of Dr. Clarke Rogers, Logans- 
 port, a grandson.) Dr. Rogers was present at the 
 organization of the State Medical Society in 1849. He 
 was the father of the late Dr. Joseph G. Rogers. 
 
 ROGERS, JOSEPH G. (1841-1908). Dr. Rogers was 
 a native of Indiana, and all his medical services were 
 given to the afflicted of his native state. The mention 
 of his name calls up a vision of a Hospital for the 
 Insane. He graduated in medicine in 1864, and was 
 immediately commissioned as an acting assistant sur- 
 geon. United States army, on duty at Madison, Ind. 
 This position he filled until the close of the war. In 
 1875-76 he was Professor of Materia Medica and 
 Therapeutics in the Indiana College of Physicians and 
 Surgeons. From 1879 to 1883 he was superintendent 
 of the Indiana Hospital for Insane at Indianapolis. He 
 was Medical Engineer on the Board of Commissioners 
 for Additional Hospitals for Insane from its organiza- 
 tion in 1883 up to the completion of the new hospitals 
 in 1888; at the same time he was Superintendent of 
 Construction for the Northern Hospital (Longcliff), 
 and on its completion was appointed Medical Superin- 
 tendent, a position he held continuously until the date 
 of his death. 
 
 Dr. Rogers was the first to make a quantitative 
 chemical examination of the waters of Orange county, 
 
336 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 and suggested the name, "Pluto's Well." He devised a 
 method for preventing the incrustations in boilers 
 which became commercially successful. 
 
 He contributed a number of valuable articles on sub- 
 jects relating to the insane. In the Indiana Medical 
 Journal for October, 1901, is a thoughtful article from 
 his pen entitled "Cold as a Cure for Tetanus." 
 
 Various other articles on a diversity of subjects have 
 been contributed by Dr. Rogers. Dr. Robert Hessler of 
 Logansport has given {The Journal of the Indiana State 
 Medical Association, May, 1908, 205) a valuable 
 epitome of the life and professional work of Dr. Rog- 
 ers, from which I have largely extracted this sketch, 
 and to which the reader is referred for fuller informa- 
 tion. Also to Stone, 428. Also a tribute "In Memo- 
 riam," by Dr. Samuel E. Smith, I. M. J., Vol. xxvi, 450. 
 
 ROOKER, JAMES I.— Castleton (1833-1896). Dr. 
 Rooker was assistant surgeon of the Eleventh Reg. Ind. 
 Vols, from 1861 to 1863. From 1875 to 1879 he lec- 
 tured on physical diagnosis at the College of Physi- 
 cians and Surgeons. He was one of the founders of the 
 Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1879, 
 and again lectured on physical diagnosis. His papers 
 before the State Society were on "Camp Diarrhea," 
 Trans. 1864, 33; "A Few Thoughts on How to Obtain 
 Practice," 1873, 95; "The Indiscriminate Use of Hypo- 
 dermic Medication," 1877, 89; "The Medical Proper- 
 ties of Fraxinus Americanus," 1886, 48; and "Thirty- 
 three Years a Country Doctor," 1889, 121. For biog- 
 raphy see I. M. J., Vol. xiv, 444. Stone (with por- 
 trait), 428. 
 
 ROSE, MADISON H.— Thorntown (1832-1904). S. 
 T. 1905, 456. Dr. Rose graduated from the medical 
 department of the University of Buffalo in 1861. He 
 was surgeon of the Fifty-third Reg. Ind. Vols, from 
 March, 1863, to April, 1865. 
 
 ROSENTHAL, ISAAC M.— Ft. Wayne (1831-1906). 
 S. T. 1907, 473. Dr. Rosenthal was born in Germany. 
 He practiced medicine in Ft. Wayne continuously for 
 forty-six years. He was a Jew, not narrow, and was 
 loved by all. 
 
ISAAC M. ROSENTHAL. 
 
338 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "A curious incident in liis life was the fact that he 
 suffered from a purulent otitis media for more than 
 fifty years, caused by the explosion of a gun. He 
 steadfastly refused surgical relief, and finally died 
 from an abscess of the brain with diffuse meningeal 
 infection caused by an extension of the middle ear dis- 
 ease to the temporo-sphenoidal lobe of the brain. If 
 he had consented to the removal of this focus of infec- 
 tion years before he should be living now in a fair state 
 of health."— Dr. G. W. McCaskey. See I. M. J., Vol. 
 XXV, 195. 
 
 ROSS, CHARLES A.— U. S. Army (1875-1901). S. 
 T. 1901, 497. Soon after graduation, in order to gain 
 greater surgical experience, he decided to enlist in the 
 army. He successfully passed the rigid examination 
 necessary in August, 1900, and was soon commissioned 
 an assistant surgeon in the U. S. Army and ordered to 
 the Philippines. He had been in the islands only about 
 three months when he was stricken down. 
 
 ''Dr. Ross died on the fighting line in northern 
 Luzon, Philippine. Islands. A soldier had been wounded, 
 and Dr. Ross, accompanied by two hospital stewards, 
 went to carry the wounded man to the hospital tent. 
 It was while in the performance of this duty t.hat he 
 was fired upon from ambush, and his young life ebbed 
 away there upon the battle-field while heroically min- 
 istering to one who was fighting for his country." — Dr. 
 C. T. Hendershot. 
 
 He was born in Crawford county, Indiana, and had 
 for a short time practiced at Leopold, Perry county. 
 
 ROSS, JONATHAN.— Blountsville (1828-1888). S. 
 T. 1888, 211. Dr. Ross enlisted in the Thirty-sixth Reg. 
 Ind. Vols, and later was promoted to first lieutenant 
 in Company K, and was mustered out at the close of 
 the war with his regiment. 
 
 ROSS, JUSTIN P.— Marion (1840-1896). S. T. 
 1896, 261. 
 
 ROUS, HANNAH C— Vevay (1854-1905). S. T. 
 1905, 457. Dr. Rous was secretary of the Switzerland 
 County Medical Society from its organization until the 
 year before she died. I never sent her a blank for a 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OP INDIANA. 339 
 
 report on necrology that she did not at once reply, "No 
 death this year," or give tlie name if any member had 
 died. She deserves this trifling tribute for her faith- 
 fulness. 
 
 RUBUSH, DAVID P.— Sharpsville (1847-1904). S. 
 T. 1906, 502. At the age of 16 he left Tennessee and 
 came to Indiana, where he enlisted in the service of his 
 country and was assigned to the Twenty-fifth Independ- 
 ent Battery, Light Artillery, where he served with 
 credit till the close of the civil war, receiving an honor- 
 able discharge. See I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 473. Also Med. 
 and Surg. Monitor (with picture), Vol. vii, 145. 
 
 KUNDELL, ALPHARIS E.— Clay county (1850- 
 1900). S. T. 1900, 499. 
 
 SANBORN, PERLEY P.— Angola ( 1861-1897 j. i. 
 M. J., Vol. XV, 380. 
 
 SANFORD, JAMES li.— Shelbyville (1838-1903). S. 
 T. 1904, 361. 
 
 SCHAFER, ALBERT F.— South Bend (1803-1898). 
 S. T. 1899, 391. 
 
 SCHMIDT, ELIZABETH. — Indianapolis (1827- 
 1904). I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 418. 
 
 SCHMIDTZ, CHARLES.— Ft. Wayne (1809-1887). 
 S. T. 1887, 196. 
 
 SCHULTZ, OSCAR T.— Mt. Vernon (1848-1890). S. 
 T. 1890, 164. 
 
 SCOTT, DANIEL v.— JefTersonville (1872-1904). S. 
 T. 1904, 363. 
 
 SCOTT, GIDEON.— Greentown (1838-1898). S. T. 
 1898, 388. 
 
 SCOTT, WILLIAM.— Kokomo (1831-1895). Dr. 
 Scott was a native of Ohio; a graduate of Rush Med- 
 ical College. In 1881 he accepted the chair of diseases 
 of the throat and respiratory organs in the Fort 
 Wayne College of Medicine, which he filled until 1883. 
 He was then appointed professor of diseases of the 
 rectum and genito-urinary organs, and filled that posi- 
 tion until 1888, when he resigned. For biography see 
 Stone, 460; I. M. J., Vol. xiv, 275. 
 
340 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 SCEAMBLING, WILLIAJM H.— Slash, Grant county 
 (1842-1881). S. T., 1882, 196. 
 
 SCRIBNER, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS.— New Albany 
 (1800-1868). Born in Massachusetts, Feb. 19, 1800. 
 and died at New Albany, April 16, 1868. Was a mem- 
 ber of the Medical Convention, June 6, 1849. 
 
 SCULL, DAVID C— Lebanon (1839-1897). S. T. 
 1898, 377. He served three years as a soldier in the 
 Thirteenth Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 SEATON, WILLIAM H.— Indianapolis (1873-1899). 
 S. T. 1900, 336. 
 
 SEVERANCE, LA GRANGE.— Huntington (1839- 
 1893). S. T. 1893, 256. 
 
 SEXTON, HORATIO G.— Rushville (1796-1865). 
 Born in Andover, New Hampshire, Jan. 21, 1796. See 
 p. 77. 
 
 SEXTON, MARSHALL.— Rushville (1823-1892). S. 
 T. 1892, 286. Son of the above. Born, lived and died 
 at Rushville. Was surgeon for some months of the 
 Fifty-second Reg. Ind. Vols. Was elected president of 
 the State Medical Society in 1881 and presided in 1882. 
 He contributed the following papers to the State So- 
 ciety: "Case of Dislocation of Femur Upward and 
 Backward, Reduced by Manipulation," Trans. 1869, 31; 
 "Rupture of the Uterus and Vagina, Case — , Recov- 
 ery," Trans. 1873, 107; and "President's Address, 
 Boards of Health, Medical Legislation, and the Rights 
 and Duties of Physicians Under the Law," Trans. 1882, 
 1. He is said to have been the first white male child 
 born in Rushville and the first graduate of medicine in 
 Rush county. See memoriam, I. M. J., Vol. x, 182. 
 
 SHELLHAMER, CAREY.— Pioneer (1845-1907). S. 
 T. 1907, 494. 
 
 SHIDLER, ARTHUR L.— Lakeville (1860-1899). S. 
 T. 1900, 337. 
 
 SHIELDS, PLEASANT SCOTT.— New Albany, 
 (1806-1875). Dr. Shields was born near Georgetown, 
 Ind., November 30, 1806, and died at New Albany, 
 January 29, 1875. He remained at the place of his 
 birth until his majority, when he went to New Albany, 
 
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MEDICAL HISTORY OF IXDIANA. 341 
 
 and entered the office of Dr. Asahel Clapp to study 
 medicine. He returned to Georgetown and practiced 
 for several years. In 1832, he removed to New Al- 
 bany, where he lived until the day of his deatli, be- 
 loved by all. He was the poor man's friend. Was 
 an Elder in the First Presbyterian Church. — The above 
 written in a neat hand, was furnished me by Mrs. 
 Aresta Nunemacher, aged 81 years, a relative of Dr. 
 Shields.— G. W. H. K. 
 
 He was present at the medical convention held at 
 Indianapolis, June 6, 1849. 
 
 SHIPMAN, NORBOURN N.— Seymour (1829-1902). 
 S. T. 1902, 423. He contributed an article on "Preter- 
 natural Sleep," Trans. 1892, 146. 
 
 SHIRTS, ELMER.— Bloomfield (1861-1908). J. I. 
 S. M. A., Vol. i, 112. 
 
 SHIVELY, JAMES S.— Marion (1813-1893). S. T. 
 1893, 260. He was born in Morgantown, Va., April 8, 
 1813. After due preparation for the practice of medi- 
 cine he located in Marion, where he remained until his 
 death. He was respected and honored by all. He w^as 
 four times elected to serve his constituents in the State 
 Legislature. To him, as joint senator, the profession is 
 indebted for the present law governing the practice of 
 medicine. See Stone, 465, for biography and portrait. 
 I. M. J., Vol. xi, 376. 
 
 SHOPTAUGH, SHELTOX H.— Princeton (1840- 
 1898). S. T. 1899, 387. 
 
 SHOW ALTER, D. T.— Montpelier (1845-1883). S. 
 T. 1883, 272. 
 
 SIEBER, JOHN A.— Ferdinand (1853-1883). S. T. 
 1883, 279. 
 
 SIMISON, JOHN.— Romney (1824-1902). I. M. J., 
 Vol. xxi, 134. 
 
 SINEX, WILLIAM G.— New Albany (1826-1899). 
 Was born in New Albany, Nov. 27, 1826, and died in 
 the same city, March 25, 1899. He was a graduate of 
 Asbury (Greencastle) College. Graduated at one of 
 the medical schools of Philadelphia. He was one of 
 
342 MEDICAL HISTORY OF nWIANA. 
 
 the members of the Medical Convention of 1849. — Mrs. 
 Olive E. Sinex, Indianapolis, daughter-in-law. 
 
 SKIFF, CLARK.— Selma (1826-1888). S. T. 1889, 
 212. 
 
 SLOAX, GEORGE W.— Indianapolis (1835-1903). S. 
 T. 1903, 354. A native of Pennsylvania, he came to 
 Indianapolis as a child in 1837, and remained there 
 until he died. He was not a practicing physician, but 
 was a lecturer on pharmacy in the Indiana Medical 
 College, and in 1879 and 1880 was president of the 
 American Pharmaceutical Society. 
 
 He was a first lieutenant in Company B, 132d Reg. 
 Ind. Vols., in the Civil War. See biographical sketch. 
 I. M. J., Vol. xxi, 399; also, ib., Vol. xxii, 246. 
 
 SLOAX, JOHX.— New Albany (1815-1898). S. T. 
 1898, 392. Dr. Sloan was born in Westbrook, Maine, 
 Sept. 15, 1815. Graduated at Bowdoin College in 1837, 
 and located in Xew Albany in 1838. Here he lived 
 until the date of his death. 
 
 "His was a long career. He was in active practice 
 before the days of anesthetics, when calomel was the 
 cure-all and blood-letting a 'fine art.' He was in the 
 prime of manhood when the Civil War came and gave a 
 new impetus to the study of surgery. The afternoon 
 and evening of his life witnessed the advent and con- 
 tinuance of the antiseptic era." — Dr. E. P. Earley. 
 
 He was present at the formation of the State Society 
 in 1849, and at that meeting was erroneously accredited 
 to Crawfordsville. See I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 414. 
 
 SMITH, AXDREW J.— Wabash (1830-1900). I. M. 
 J., Vol. xix, 284. 
 
 SMITH, HUBBARD M.— Vincennes (1820-1907). 
 Dr. Smith was well known as a physician, writer and 
 educator. Following his graduation in 1847 he located 
 in Vincennes, where he commenced the practice of medi- 
 cine, and continued the same until his death. He was 
 the first physician in Vincennes to recognize the pres- 
 ence of cholera in 1849. 
 
 He was among the first to champion the cause of 
 Abraham Lincoln for President, through the columns 
 
MEDICAL HIHTOUY OF INDIANA. 34;} 
 
 of the Vincennes Gazette, in 1S60, and was made post- 
 master at that place from 18G1 to 1809. 
 
 Dr. Smitli contributed an interesting article on 
 "Medicine in the Northwestern Territory; A Contri- 
 bution to the Early Medical History of Indiana," 
 Trans. 1906, 438. This article is reproduced on p. 18. 
 He was a poet of no mean order. A collection of his 
 poems entitled "At Midnight and Other Poems" was 
 published in book form by Carlin & Hollenbeck in 1898. 
 His last contribution w^as "Historical Sketches of Old 
 Vincennes." 
 
 He believed it to be his patriotic duty to take an 
 interest in the affairs of his city, his state, and his 
 nation on all matters of public interest, and he did so. 
 
 For biography see Journal of the Indiana State 
 Medical Association, Vol. i. 29. Also, American Bio- 
 graphical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of 
 the State of Indiana, 1880, Second District, p. 32. A 
 letter, I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 362. See poem, Conscience." 
 I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 316. 
 
 SMITH, JOHN W.— Gosport (1830-1903). S. T. 
 1903, 355. 
 
 SMITH, LESTER F.— Brazil (1883-1907). S. T., 
 1907, 477. 
 
 SMITH, THEOPHILUS E.— Columbus (1846-1890). 
 S. T. 1890, 166. See I. M. J., Vol. xi, 179. 
 
 SMITH, WILLIAM G.— Winchester (1837-1892). S. 
 T., 1893, 247. 
 
 SMITH, WYCLIFFE.— Delphi (1851-1900). Was 
 surgeon of the 161st Reg. Ind. Vols, in the Spanish- 
 American War. Was accidentally killed by an express 
 train near Delphi, Dec. 29. 1900. See I. M. J., Vol. 
 xviii, 315. 
 
 SMYTHE, GONSOLVO C— Greencastle (1836-1897). 
 S. T. 1897, 354. Dr. Smythe began practice at Fill- 
 more, near Greencastle, in 1860. He entered the army 
 in 1862, as assistant surgeon of the Forty-third Reg. 
 Ind. Vols., and served until the close of the war, when 
 he began practice at Greencastle. In 1879 he was 
 elected to the chair of Medicine and Sanitary Science 
 
344 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indian- 
 apolis. In 1890 he was elected president of the State 
 Medical Society. He contributed a number of papers 
 to the State Society: "Acute Articular Rheumatism," 
 Trans. 1888, 33; "The Hydro-therapeutic Treatment of 
 Typhoid Fever," Trans. 1889, 60; "President's Ad- 
 dress; The Influence of Heredity in Producing Disease 
 and Degeneracy, and Its Remedy," Trans. 1891, 1, and 
 "The Treatment of Alcoholism," Trans. 1895, 338. He 
 was also a frequent contributor to medical journals. 
 He is the author of a book on "Medical Heresies, His- 
 torically Considered," a book of 228 pages, published 
 by the Blakiston house in 1880. It is claimed "that 
 he was the first physician in America to use the hypo- 
 dermic syringe." See I. M. J., Vol. xv, 382. 
 
 SPAIN, ARCHIBALD W.— Terre Haute (1837- 
 1898). S. T. 1898, 385. 
 
 SPARKS, JAMES B.— Carthage (1833-1895). S. T. 
 1896, 253. 
 
 SPINNING, JOHN N.— Covington (1822-1890). S. 
 T. 1890, 162. 
 
 SPURRIER, JOHN H.— Rushville (1829-1902). S. 
 T. 1902, 424. He was assistant surgeon of the Six- 
 teenth Reg. and later surgeon of the 123d Reg. Ind. 
 Vols., serving in the latter to the close of the war. 
 
 STAGE, LOUIS J.— Vallonia (1821-1880^). S. T. 
 1882, 195. 
 
 STANTON, D. S.— Portland (1822-1906). S. T. 
 1907, 487. 
 
 STARR, ILER D.— New Albany (1874-1899). S. T. 
 1900, 338. 
 
 STEELE, ARMSTRONG T. — Waveland (1834- 
 
 1884). S. T. 1887, 187. 
 
 STEELSMITH, JOHN M.— Boone county (1825- 
 1900). S. T. 1900, 339. 
 
 STEVENS, BENJAMIN C. — Logansport (1850- 
 1908). 
 
 STEVENS, OLIVER P.— Maxiukuckee (1820-1888). 
 S. T. 1888, 214. Formerly practiced at Kendallville, 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 345 
 
 removed to Wisconsin, and during the Civil War was 
 surgeon of the Forty-second Reg. Wisconsin Vols, At 
 the close of the war he returned to Indiana. 
 
 STEVENS, THADDEUS M.— Indianapolis (1829- 
 1885). S. T. 1886, 207. Born, reared and died in In- 
 dianapolis. Was professor of toxicology, medical 
 jurisprudence and chemistry in the Indiana Medical 
 College in 1870. In 1874, occupied the same chair in 
 the College of Physicians and Surgeons. For a time 
 he was editor of the Indiana Medical Journal. He was 
 the first secretary and executive officer of the State 
 Board of Health. He was prominent in all reforms 
 tending to advance the profession of the state. He 
 contributed a number of papers to the State Society: 
 "The Treatment of the Criminal Insane," Trans. 1871, 
 193; "Medicolegal Science," Trans. 1872, 51; "Report 
 on Medical History of Indiana," Trans. 1874, 17; 
 "State Boards of Health," Trans. 1875, 65; "Report of 
 Public Hygiene in Indiana," Trans. 1878, 67; "Sani- 
 tary Survey of Indianapolis," Trans. 1880, 193; "State 
 Medicine," Trans. 1881, 23; "The Need of Hospitals in 
 Indiana, Constructed and Controlled by State Author- 
 ity," Trans. 1882, 56; "Dr. Stevens vs. State Board of 
 Health," Trans. 1883, 70; "The Relative Value of 
 Bovine and Humanized Vaccine Virus, Practically 
 Considered," ib., 213; "Report of Committee on Med- 
 ical Legislation," ib., 239; and "Report of Committee 
 on State Medicine," Trans. 1884, 24. See Stone, 682, 
 and Robson, 341. Obituary, I. M. J., Vol. iv, 109. 
 
 STEWART, JOHN L.— New Albany (1835-1898). S. 
 T. 1899, 386. 
 
 STILLSON, JOSEPH. — Bedford (1815-1885). S. 
 T. 1886, 204. 
 
 STILL WELL, JOSEPH A.— Brownstown (1831- 
 1894). S. T. 1895, 401. 
 
 STOCKWELL, SARAH F.— South Bend (1841- 
 1904). S. T. 1904, 362. 
 
 STRONG, JOHN T.— Plainfield (1840-1895). I. M. 
 J., Vol. xiv, 142. 
 
840 
 
 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 SUTTON, GEORGE.— Aurora (1812-1886). S. T. 
 1886, 219. Dr. Sutton was Lorn in London, England, 
 June 16, 1812, and came to America with his parents 
 when young (1819). Graduated at the Ohio Medical 
 College in 1836, and the same year began the practice 
 of medicine at Aurora. In the spring of 1843 he was 
 instrumental in organizing the first county medical 
 society in Dearborn county. He joined the State Med- 
 
 GEORGE SUTTON. 
 
 ical Society in 1852, and was elected its president in 
 1869 and presided in 1870. The State Transactions 
 contain the following papers from his pen: "A Report 
 to the Indiana State Medical Society on Asiatic Chol- 
 era as it Prevailed in This State in 1849-50-51-52," 
 1853, 109; "Preliminary Report on Milk Sickness as it 
 Prevails Within the State of Indiana," 1853, 176; 
 
MEDICAL UIHTORY OF IXDIA^A. 347 
 
 "Report on Erysipelas," 1856, 41; "Report on Cholera," 
 18G7, 85; and 1808, 51; "President's Address: Man's 
 Power Over Nature, and Medicines as Means by Which 
 He Aids and Controls the Laws of Life," 1870, 1; 
 "Report on the Diseases of Indiana for the Year 1872, 
 with a Brief Outline of the Medical Topography and 
 Cliinatology of Different Localities," 1873, Gl; "A 
 Report on Trichinosis, as Observed in Dearborn 
 County in 1874," 1875, 109; "On the Reduction of Dis- 
 location of Hip- joint by Manipulating the Femur as a 
 Lever Over a Fulcrum Placed in the Groin," 187G, 139; 
 "Placenta Previa," 1878, 111; "Parasites, and Their 
 Effects Upon the Human System," 1883, 53, and "A 
 Review of the Epidemics That Have Occurred in South- 
 eastern Indiana During the Last Fifty Years, and the 
 Observations on Change of Type in Our Endemic 
 Malarial Diseases," 1885, 104. Every one of these 
 reports was prepared with extreme care and all are 
 valuable. Under the head of "Epidemics," I have 
 referred to the valuable paper of Dr. Sutton. "Remarks 
 on an Epidemic Erysipelas Known by the Popular 
 name of 'Black Tongue,' which prevailed in Ripley and 
 Dearborn Counties, Indiana." Wesfe7-n Lancet, Novem- 
 ber, 1843. This whole article was reproduced in "Nun- 
 neley on Erysipelas." ed. 1844. 95. Various other med- 
 ical papers, as well as articles on scientific subjects, 
 have been contributed from time to time by Dr. Sutton. 
 For biography see Robson. 293; Stone. 6S6: Am. Bio- 
 ^,'raphical History of Eminent and Self-made Men of 
 Ihe State of Indiana, 1880, Fourth District, G5. 
 
 SUTTON, JAMES A.— Argos (1840-1893). S. T. 
 1894. 216. Served as a private soldier from August, 
 1862, to July 19, 1865, in the Fifth Reg. Ind. Cav. 
 Studied medicine after his return home. 
 
 SUTTON, WILLIS E.— Aurora (1848-1879). S. T. 
 1880, 242. R. M. of Ind., Dist. 4, p. 70. 
 
 SUMMERS, OSA R.— Middletown (1874-1904). S. 
 T. 1905, 458. 
 
 SWAFFORD, BENJAMIN F.— Terre Haute (1833- 
 1901). I. M. J., Vol. xix. 318. Was surgeon of the 
 Eleventh Reg. Ind. Cav. R. M. of Ind.. Dist. 8, p. 47. 
 
348 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 SWARTS, DAVID J.— Auburn (1832-1905). S. T. 
 1905, 459. He enlisted in the 100th Reg. Ind. Vols., 
 was commissioned a lieutenant, and later assistant sur- 
 geon of same regiment. 
 
 TAGGART, SAMUEL C— Charlestown (1828-1901). 
 S. T. 1901, 500. 
 
 TEAL, NORMAN.— Kendallville (1829-1899). S. T. 
 1899, 403. Dr. Teal was assistant surgeon of the 
 Eighty-eighth Reg. Ind. Vols, from Aug. 30, 1862, until 
 the regiment was mustered out of service. I. M. J., 
 Vol. xvii, 405. 
 
 TERRILL, WILLIAM H., Sr. — Petersburg, Ky. 
 (1829-1885). S. T. 1886, 210. 
 
 TERRILL, WILLIAM H., Jr.— Lawrenceburg ( 1852- 
 
 1887). S. T. 1888, 200. 
 
 THOMAS, ANDREW J.— Evansville (1840-1898). 
 Was an ex-superintendent of the Southern Indiana Hos- 
 pital for the Insane. See I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 36, for 
 interesting memoir by Dr. E. C. Reyer. 
 
 THOMAS, MARY F.— Richmond (1816-1888). S. T. 
 1889, 210. Dr. Thomas was a faithful worker in every- 
 thing that aimed to make the human race better. She 
 was an industrious writer and contributed a number of 
 articles to the State Medical Society: "Women Physi- 
 cians in Hospitals for Insane Women," Trans. 1880, 
 184; "Report of Committee Regarding the Employment 
 of Female Physicians in Hospitals for the Insane," 
 1882, 80; "The Influence of the Medical Colleges of the 
 Regular School of Indianapolis on the Medical Educa- 
 tion of the Women of the State," 1883, 228; "Women 
 Physicians for Insane Women," 1884, 203; "Some 
 Thoughts on Post-Partum Hemorrhage," 1885, 125 ; and 
 "Heredity," 1887, 97. 
 
 THOMAS, WARREN H.— Elkhart (1837-1906). S. 
 T. 1907, 481. 
 
 THOMAS, WILLIAM H.— Indianapolis (1834-1903). 
 I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 189. 
 
 THOMPSON, DANIEL A.— Indianapolis (1862- 
 1904). S. T. 1905, 460. Dr. Thompson was a native of 
 Rush county, Indiana. As a specialist in diseases of the 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 34 1) 
 
 eye he took a high rank. In 1890 he succeeded to his 
 father's position as professor of diseases of the eye, in 
 the Medical College of Indiana. Dr. Thompson was 
 noted for his charity work to the poor, and was a 
 favorite with his pupils. "He was not a frequent 
 writer, but he was a clear and forceful teacher, both 
 didactic and clinical — an actor rather than a declaimer 
 in the drama of our profession." His article on "Tlie 
 Iris," Trans. 1891, 195, is a most excellent contribution 
 to our medical literature. See I. M. J., Vol. xxiii, 205. 
 (Picture.) 
 
 THOMPSON, JOHN H.— Otterbein (1817-1883). S. 
 T. 1884, 215. 
 
 THOMPSON, JOHN J.— Sullivan (1824-1899). S. 
 T. 1899, 406. I. M. J., Vol. xvii, 405. 
 
 THOMPSON, WILLIA^I C— Indianapolis (1812- 
 1897). He was present at the formation of the State 
 Medical Society in 1849. He practiced at several places 
 before finally locating permanently at Indianapolis. He 
 was commissioned surgeon of volunteers by Presi- 
 dent Lincoln. For several years he was a member of 
 the State Legislature. He had retired from active prac- 
 tice. See Stone, 688, with portrait. Also I. M. J., Vol. 
 XV, 470. 
 
 THORNE, J. C. F.— Kokomo (1857-1908). J. I. S. 
 M. A., Vol. i, 330. 
 
 TILFORD, SALEM A.— Martinsville (1827-1893). S. 
 T., 1894, 221. 
 
 TILLSON, HOSEA.— Centerville (1830-1902). S. T. 
 1903, 356. Dr. Tillson was a faithful soldier, and later 
 assistant surgeon, in the Fifty-seventh Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 TINGLEY, URIAH B.—Harrisburg (1816-1899). I. 
 M. J., Vol. xvii, 324. 
 
 TODD, LEVI L.— Indianapolis (1830-1901). S. T. 
 1902, 425. See also I. M. J., Vol. xx, 226; Stone, 690. 
 He contributed to the Transactions, "The Therapeutic 
 Properties of Opium," 1877, 79; and "Modern Thera- 
 peutics," 1886, 123. 
 
 TODD, ROBERT N.— Indianapolis (1827-1883). S. 
 T. 1884, 209. Born in Kentucky, he came with his 
 
350 
 
 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 parents to Indiana in 1834. He graduated at the In- 
 diana Central Medical College in 1850. Practiced for 
 a time at Sonthport, Was surgeon of the Twenty-sixth 
 Reg. Ind. Vols. In 1869 he was chosen as teacher of 
 theory and practice, in which he continued until the 
 spring of 1874, when he was assigned to the same de- 
 partment in the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
 until 1878, when he was elected to the chair of princi- 
 
 ROBERT N. TODD. 
 
 pies and practice of medicine, which he continued to 
 hold until his death. Was elected president of the State 
 Medical Society in 1870, and presided in 1871. The 
 presidential address was on "The Medical Profession 
 and the Administration of Justice," Trans. 1871, 1. See 
 Stone, with portrait, 510. See I. M. J., Vol, ii, 65. 
 
Ci. B. WALKER 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 351 
 
 TOMS, ALPHEUS.— Goshen (184M90C). I. M. J., 
 Vol. XXV, 297. A veteran of the Civil War, 
 
 TREMBLEY, G. D.— Bippus (184G-1888). S. T. 
 1889, 209. 
 
 TROWBRIDGE, WILLIAM V. — Burnetts Creek 
 (1833-1897). S. T. 1898, 374. 
 
 TUCKER, THOMAS M.— Salem (1828-1895). S. T. 
 1896, 257. 
 
 TURNER, GEORGE W.— Freedom (1864-1900). S. 
 T. 1901, 501. Served for some time in the hospital 
 corps in a Porto Rican hospital. 
 ■^VAN BUSKIRK, AAROX E.— Fort Wayne (1847- 
 1904). S. T. 1904, 364. In the Fort Wayne College of 
 Medicine he was for a number of years an active mem 
 her of the faculty, and taught at various times the fol- 
 lowing branches: anatomy, physiology, pathology, sur- 
 gery, theory and practice, and diseases of the nervous 
 system. See I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 417. 
 
 VAN NUYS, S. C— Bloomington (18— 1898). He 
 was for many years at the head of the department of 
 chemistry in the State University, Bloomington. While 
 there he wrote a text-book on the analysis of the urine. 
 
 VICKREY, ABSALOM M.— Tipton (1822-1886). S. 
 T. 1886, 212. 
 
 VICKREY, MARTIN V. B.— Tipton ( 1838-1897) . 
 
 VINCENT, HENRY C— Guilford ( 1826-1891 ) . S. T. 
 1891, 287; and 1892, 280. Was assistant surgeon for a 
 time in the Eighty-third Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 WALKER, DAVID R.— Lebanon (1844-1902). S. T. 
 1902, 426. 
 
 WALKER, EDWARD.— Delphi (1829-1908). J. I. S. 
 M. A., Vol. i, 112. 
 
 WALKER, GEORGE B.— Evansville (1807-1887). 
 S.- T. 1888, 206. "Report on Diseases and Displace- 
 ments of the Uterus." — Trans. 1855. p. 37. 
 
 WALKER, ISAAC C— Indianapolis (1828-1906). 
 Dr. W'alker first practiced in Peru, and removed to 
 Indianapolis in 1872. He was professor of diseases of 
 the mind and nervous system in the Indiana Medical 
 College for thirty-three years. I. M. J., Vol. xxv, 195. 
 
352 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Contributed to the State Medical Society: "Final Ill- 
 ness of Dr. James S. Athon. Post-Mortem Examina- 
 tion and Eemarks Upon the Preventive Treatment of 
 Apoplexy." Trans. 1875, 122. Also, "Case of Anom- 
 alous Growth of the Brain." Trans. 1880, 44. 
 
 WALKER, JAMES K.— Loogootee (1842-1887). S. 
 T. 1887, 197. Served through the Civil War as a Con- 
 federate soldier, and came from Kentucky to Loogootee 
 in 1871, where he continued to practice until a short 
 time before his death. 
 
 WALKER, JOHN C— Indianapolis (1828-1883). 
 He was for a time editor of the Laporte Times. In 
 1853 was elected to the State Legislature. In 1855 
 became a joint owner of the Indianapolis Sentinel. He 
 went to the front as colonel of the Thirty-fifth Reg. 
 Ind. Vols., and served one year in that capacity. In 
 1879 he was appointed assistant physician in the In- 
 diana Hospital for the Insane, but died soon after 
 from hasty consumption. Condensed from Stone, 521. 
 
 WALL, DAVID.— Indianapolis (1836-1903). I. M. 
 J., Vol. xxi, 440. 
 
 WALTER, C. G.— Lawrenceburg (1820-1895). S. T. 
 1896, 252. 
 
 WARDNER, HORACE.— Laporte (1829-1905). S. 
 T. 1905, 461. Served as a surgeon in several capacities 
 with Illinois regiments in the Civil War. 
 
 WARFORD, FRANKLIN M.— Cicero (1834-1909). 
 He resided in Cicero for forty-four years, and thirty- 
 nine years of that time was an active practitioner. 
 He served a short time in the 40th Reg. Ind. Inf., and 
 later as Ass^'t Surg, of the 3rd Reg. Iowa Cav., and 
 later in the 4th Arkansas Cav. At the close of the 
 war he located in Cicero. See Robson, p. 528. 
 
 WASHBURN, ISRAEL B.— Rensselaer (1838-1903). 
 I. M. J., Vol. xxii, 287. Was surgeon of the Forty- 
 sixth Reg. Ind. Vols, in the Civil War. 
 
 WASHBURN, ROBERT R.— Waldron (1833-1900). 
 S. T. 1901, 502. Was a soldier of the Civil War. 
 
 WATERS, JOHN C— Indianapolis (1830-1884). S. 
 T. 1885, 222. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 353 
 
 WATTS, EBER K.— Eichmond (1854-1905). S. T. 
 1905, 462. 
 
 WEDDINGTON, SAMUEL C— Jonesboro (1823- 
 1886). S. T. 1886, 217. Dr. Weddington was assist- 
 ant surgeon of the 147th Reg. Ind. Vols. He con- 
 tributed the following named articles to the State 
 Medical Society: "Cancer," Trans. 1877, 103; "A 
 Case of Placenta Praevia," 1877, 119; "Kakonemia, or 
 Pernicious Anemia," 1880, 35; and "Tumors ot the 
 Breast," 1885, 187. See Robson, 592. 
 
 WEEKS, JOSEPH. — Mechanicsburg ( 1820-1908 ) . 
 Practiced in Mechanicsburg from 1856 to date of his 
 death. J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 477. 
 
 WEIST, JACOB R.— Richmond (1834-1900). S. T. 
 1900, 341. Dr. Weist was assistant surgeon of the 
 Sixty-fifth Reg. Ohio Vols., and later Avas transferred 
 to other Ohio regiments, where he served in the med- 
 ical service until the close of the war. He was elected 
 president of the Indiana State Medical Society in 1879. 
 and presided at the session of 1880. He was professor 
 of railroad surgery in the Indiana Central Medical 
 College for a number of years. He contributed a num- 
 ber of papers to the State Medical Society, one of them 
 being a prize essay of great value to the profession. 
 All are found in the State Transactions: "A Contri- 
 bution to the Statistics in Relation to Foreign Bodies 
 in the Air Passages," 1867, 70; "The Causel, Nature 
 and Treatment of Cerebrospinal Meningitis," prize 
 essay, 1868, 123; "Report on Board of Public Char- 
 ities," 1870, 129; "President's Address— Problems in 
 Relation to the Prevention of Disease," 1880, 1; "Hot 
 Water in Surgical Practice," 1882, 29; and "Civil Mal- 
 practice Suits; How Can the Physician Protect Him- 
 self Against Them?" 1884, 132. See Robson, 111. 
 
 WELBORN, GEORGE W. — Stewardsville (1844- 
 1905). S. T. 1905, 463, Served in the hospital corps 
 of the Sixtieth Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 WELMAN, RICHMOND M.— Jasper (1824-1884). 
 S. T. 1884, 218. In 1861 he entered the military 
 service as captain of Company K, Twenty- seventh Reg. 
 Ind. Vols. Later he was commissioned surgeon of the 
 
354 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Ninth Reg. Ind. Cav., and served in that capacity until 
 the close of the war. 
 
 WERMUTH, ADOLPH F.— Ft. Wayne (1877-1901). 
 S. T. 1902, 427. 
 
 WEST, CALVIN.— Hagerstown (1806-1863). He 
 was born in Pennsylvania, August 9, 1806, and died 
 at Hagerstown, August 25, 1863. He came to Hagers- 
 town about the year 1834, and practiced there until 
 the date of his death. In the Adjutant-General (Ind 
 iana) Report, he is accredited as "additional assistant 
 surgeon pro tem" of the 57th Reg. Ind. Inf. He was 
 vice-president of the State Medical Society in 1857, 
 1861 and again in 1863. 
 
 He contributed the following named articles to the 
 State Society: "Amputation at the Shoulder Joint," 
 
 1857, 41; "Fracture at the Base of the Acromion," 
 
 1858, 48; "Report on Microscopy," 1858, 51; 1859, 40, 
 and 1861, 34. 
 
 WEST, VINCENT T.— Princeton (1812-1889). S. T. 
 1889, 217. 
 
 WETHERILL, CHARLES M.— Lafayette (1825- 
 1871). Dr. Wetherill was born in Philadelphia, Pa., 
 November 4, 1825, and died in South Bethlehem, Pa., 
 March 5, 1871. He was a graduate of the college de- 
 partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and had 
 an honorary degree of M.D. from the New York Med- 
 ical College, 1853. He was a resident of Lafayette 
 from 1855 to 1862. He was never in active practice 
 but devoted his life to original research in organic 
 chemistry. 
 
 He also pursued his studies as a student in the 
 Royal College of France, and later at the University 
 of Giessen, Germany, under the tutorage of Justus von 
 Liebig. In 1865 he was appointed chemist to the 
 Agricultural Department in Washington, where he 
 remained one year. He became professor of chemistry 
 at Lehigh University in 1866, and continued in that 
 position until his death. At the time of his death he 
 had been chosen professor of chemistry in the College 
 department of the University of Pennsylvania. 
 
M/JJJ/CAI. HISTORY OF J \ DIANA. Zoo 
 
 He contributed more than tliirty scientific articles 
 relating to chemistry, in various German and Ameri- 
 can periodicals. One, a very interesting article on 
 "Artificial Lactation," was contributed to the State 
 Medical Society at the session of 1860. Trans. 1860, 
 
 24.— From notes furnished by Dr. E. B. Wetherill, 
 
 p'^n— Lafayette. 
 
 WHITCOMB, JAMES H.— Indianapolis ( 1840- 
 1893). S. T. 1894, 217. 
 
 WHITE, J. F.— Kosciusko county (1857-1883). S. 
 T. 1883, 277. 
 
 WHITESELL, PHILIP P.— Clarksville (1823-1896). 
 S. T. 1896, 264. For a time in the Civil War, was cap- 
 tain of Company E, Thirty-ninth Reg. Ind. Vols., and 
 afterwards assistant surgeon, and surgeon of the 101st 
 Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 WILES, WILLIAM v.— Spencer (1827-1892). S. T. 
 1893, 252. Dr. Wiles was assistant surgeon of the 
 Eighty-fifth Reg. Ind. Vols. 
 
 WILKINSON, JAJVIES J.— Orland (1842-1906). S. 
 T. 1907, 491. 
 
 WILLIAMS, CHARLES S.— Columbia City (1842- 
 1905). S. T. 1906, 489. 
 
 WILLIAMS, ELKAN AH.— (1822-1888). It is not 
 generally known that the justly celebrated ophthal- 
 mologist, the late Dr. Williams of Cincinnati was a 
 native of Indiana. He was born in Lawrence county, 
 Indiana, Dec. 19, 1822. He was a graduate of Asbury 
 University, studied medicine at Bedford, graduated in 
 medicine at the University of Louisville, 1850, and for 
 the next tAvo years was engaged in general practice in 
 Indiana. In the spring of 1852 he located in Cincin- 
 nati, but soon went abroad to study ophthalmology. 
 In the spring of 1855 he returned to Cincinnati, and 
 commenced . practice as an exclusive specialist in dis- 
 eases of the eye and ear. He is said to have been the 
 first physician in America who confined his practice 
 strictly to these branches. As practitioner, author, and 
 teacher, he has hardly been excelled. (For details of 
 his work see Stone, 553). 
 
356 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 WILLIAMS, HUGH T.— Rising Sun (1812-1879). S. 
 T. 188.0, 244. He participated in the chase of the rebel 
 General, Morgan, through Indiana, and "was afterward 
 complimented by Governor Morton for the gallantry 
 and skill displayed on that occasion." He served one 
 term in the legislature, representing Ohio and Switzer- 
 land counties. ! 
 
 WILLIAMS, JOHN.— Clay county (1811-1909). 
 
 WILLIAMS, JOSEPH B.— Grafton (1844-1901). S. 
 T. 1901, 503. 
 
 WILLIAMS, LEROY B.— Deedsville (1847-1880). S. 
 T. 1881, 230. 
 
 WILLIAMS, LEWIS.— Marion (1825-1906). S. T. 
 1906, 494. 
 
 WILLIAMS, T. B.— J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 29. 
 
 WILLIAMSON, W. T.— Fort Branch (1844-1908). 
 J. I. S. M. A., Vol. i, 330. 
 
 WILSON, J. H.— Plymouth (1838-1899). S. T. 1900, 
 343. He contributed in 1897 an article on "The Early 
 Treatment of Slight Injuries," Trans. 1897, 312. At 
 this meeting he showed three links of a trace chain that 
 had been driven into the chest of a man in 1866, and 
 remained until his death in 1897, when they were dis- 
 covered at a post-mortem examination. Report of case. 
 I. M. J., Vol. xvi, 21. See ib.Txviii, 237. 
 
 WILSON, ROBERT Q.— ( 1822-1902) . S. T. 1902, 
 428. 
 
 WIMMER, JAMES M.— Marion (1853-1897). S. 
 T. 1898, 383. 
 
 WINANS, HENRY C— Muncie (1829-1884). He 
 was for a time surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Reg. 111. 
 Vols. 
 
 WINTON, HORACE. — North Manchester (1831- 
 1893). See Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent and Self-made 
 Men of the State of Indiana, 1880, Eleventh. Dist., p. 80. 
 Contributed to the State Medical Society: "Two Sur- 
 gical Cases." Trans. 1859, 45. 
 
 WINTON, ROBERT.— Muncie (1820-1885). S. T. 
 1886, 201. See also Am. Biog. Hist, of Eminent and 
 Self-made Men of Indiana, 1880, Sixth Dist., p. 90. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 357 
 
 WISHARD, JOSEPH M.— Greenwood (1838-1905). 
 S. T. 1905, 464. Was surgeon of the Fifth Reg. Ind. 
 Cav. For several months was a prisoner in Libby 
 Prison. 
 
 WOODBURN, FREDERICK C— Indianapolis (1866- 
 1898). The records show that Frederick C. Woodburn, 
 private Hospital Corps, United States Army, who gave 
 his occupation as physician at the date of his enlist- 
 ment, June 7, 1898, died Sept. 29, 1898, at General 
 Hospital, Ponce, Porto Rico. — War Department, Jan. 
 12, 1910. See "Diagnosis and Treatment of Valvular 
 Disease of the Heart." Trans. 1891, 168. 
 
 WOODBURN, JAMES H. — Indianapolis, 1822- 
 1901). S. T. 1901, 504. For four years, 1860-1864, he 
 was superintendent of the Central Hospital for the 
 Insane. For eight years he was a member of the city 
 council of Indianapolis. In 1884 he was elected presi- 
 dent of the Indiana State Medical Society, and presided 
 at session of 1885. His address was on the subject, 
 "Have We Really Advanced in I^owledge and Im- 
 proved in Practice?" Trans. 1885, 1. See Stone, 704; 
 I. M. J., Vol. xix, 444; on page 445 his picture is 
 shown by the side of Dr. W. H. Wishard, for whom he 
 was thought to be when he died suddenly in a street 
 car in Indianapolis. 
 
 WOODEN, JOHN L.— Greensburg (1826-1886). S. 
 T. 1887, 194. He was surgeon of the Sixty-eighth Reg. 
 Ind. Vols. Was captured at Chickamauga and con- 
 fined in Libby Prison for three months. After his 
 release was made a brigade surgeon. 
 
 WOODEN, WILLIAM H.— Greensburg (1857-1903). 
 S. T. 1903, 357. 
 
 WOODWORTH, BENJAMIN S.— Fort Wayne (1816- 
 1891). S. T. 1892, 294. For forty years was a noted 
 practitioner of Fort Wayne. Was elected president of 
 the State Medical Society in 1860, and presided in 
 1861. He contributed the following papers to the State 
 Society: "President's Address," Trans. 1861, 12; 
 "Dysentery, as it Prevailed in Allen County, Indiana, 
 
358 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 1864," Trans. 1865, 40. See Robson, 36. R. M. of 
 Ind., Dist. 12, p. 81. 
 
 WOOLEN, LEVIN J.— Vevay, (1834-1909). Dr. 
 Woolen was born in Dorchester County, Maryland, 
 June 30, 1834, and died at Vevay, April 20, 1909. His 
 professional life was spent in the counties of Jefferson 
 and Switzerland, — Moorefield, Madison and Vevay. He 
 was defeated for Congress in 1876, by Leonidas Sex- 
 
 BENJAMIN S. WOODWORTH. 
 
 ton. In 1878 he was elected to the State Senate, rep- 
 resenting Switzerland and Ripley Counties. In 1886 
 President Cleveland appointed Dr. Woolen as chief 
 of division of swamp lands in the general office at 
 Washington. He resigned this position in 1889, and 
 after practicing his profession for a time in the latter 
 city returned to his Vevay home. After returning 
 
MEDICAL Eim'ORY OF INDIANA. 359 
 
 home he was twice elected auditor of his county. In 
 the Transactions for 1872, p. 25, he contributed, "His- 
 tory of an Epidemic of Parotitis in Switzerland 
 County," also, "A Case of Adenia," Trans. 1884, p. 
 188. He was also author of a book entitled "The 
 Mother's Hand Book,' which he intended for the use 
 of mothers of households in the State. See tribute to 
 his memory, by Dr. W. R. Davidson, of Madison, from 
 which I have made the above records, Indianapolis 
 Med. Jour., Vol. xii, p. 265. 
 
 WRIGHT, CHARLES E.— Indianapolis (1843-1893). 
 S. T. 1893, 255. Dr. Wright had attained a well earned 
 prominence in medicine when his life ended at the 
 early age of 50. At the time of his death he was super- 
 intendent of the Central Hospital for the Insane. He 
 had filled a number of official positions in the city of 
 Indianapolis. He contributed a number of valuable 
 papers to the State Society: "Purulent Aural 
 Catarrli," Trans. 1870, 119; "Paralysis of Accommoda- 
 tion of the Eye," 1871, 93; "Diseases of the Eye and 
 Ear," 1872, 67 ; and "Report on Diseases of the Eye and 
 Ear," 1873, 22. Biography, I. M. J., Vol. xi, 279 (by 
 Dr. W. B. Fletcher) and 281 (editorial). Stone (with 
 portrait), 571. Excellent portrait, I, M. J., Vol. xi, 
 facing p. 257. 
 
 WRIGHT, CHARLES H.— North Madison (1839- 
 1889). S. T. 1890, 154. He was a soldier of the Civil 
 War. 
 
 YOCKEY, DAVID H.— Richmond (1854-1904). S. 
 T. 1905, 465. 
 
 YOHN, EDWIN F.— Valparaiso (1864-1906). S. T. 
 1906, 499. 
 
 YOHN, WILLIAM A.— Valparaiso (1850-1892). He 
 was born in Porter county, March 29, 1850, and died at 
 Valparaiso, August 12, 1892. He filled the chair of 
 Science in the Normal School, at Valparaiso, for seven- 
 teen years. He was professor of Chemistry in the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, for five 
 years. For several years he was secretary of the 
 County Board of Health. Was a member of the Porter 
 
360 MEDICAL HISTORY OF I^WIAWA. 
 
 County Medical Society. — ^Dr. G. E. Douglas, Valpa- 
 raiso. 
 
 YOUNKMAN, A. B.— Bremen (1835-1899). S. T. 
 1900, 344. 
 
CHAPTER XXII. 
 
 HISTORICAL ^'OTES AND REFERENCES 
 
 At the meeting of the State Medical Society in 1850, 
 a committee consisting of Drs. Davidson, Sloan, Mears, 
 Parry, Dunlap and Harrison, was appointed to report 
 at next annual meeting, "on the use of anesthetic 
 agents." They made a very excellent report at the 
 session of 1851. Transactions 1851, p. 25. This was 
 only five years after the discovery of anesthetics — four 
 years after discovery of chloroform. 
 
 They say: "We have heard of no case in Indiana, 
 where death has been connected with the exhibition 
 of chloroform, nor of any disagreeable consequences 
 resulting from its use, other than of a few hours con- 
 tinuance." Dr. W. H. Byford, of Evansville, favored 
 its use in obstetrics. Attempts at local anesthesia 
 failed. 
 
 Dr. John Sloan, of Xew Albany, records the first 
 ovariotomy in the Transactions, 1852, p. 55. The 
 patient was aged 33. It was performed on Feb. 18, 
 1852, and he was assisted by Drs. Leonard, Shields, 
 Town, Graham, Bowman, and Rucker. Chloroform 
 was administered by Dr. Bowman. Dr. Sloan made 
 an incision in the linea alba five inches in length down 
 to the peritoneum, and this was divided on a director. 
 The tumor being composed of considerable solid sub- 
 stance, Dr. Sloan extended his incision one and one- 
 half inches aljove the umhilicus, and downward to the 
 pubes. A double ligature was passed through the 
 pedicle and tied on either side. On March 20th, the 
 wound was entirely healed and she was walking about 
 the home. 
 
 Dr. J. H. Brower of Lawrenceburg,. reports a case 
 of ovarian disease complicated with ascites, which 
 illustrates the natural history of ovarian tumors. 
 
362 MEDICAL HISTORY OF I^WIANA. 
 
 Trmisactions, 1852, p. 65. An unmarried woman 
 aged 46, during the summer of 1850, discovered a 
 tumor in the abdomen. It grew rapidly until paracen- 
 tesis was resorted to, and forty pounds of fluid 
 removed. The tumor rapidly refilled, and was tapped 
 several times. Death closed the scene in September, 
 1851. A post mortem revealed an ovarian tumor with a 
 small pedicle, showing an excellent case for an early 
 operation, but the opportunity was not grasped. Such 
 conditions could hardly exist at the present day. 
 
 In the Transactions for 1853, pp. 24-57, Drs. W. H. 
 Byford, M. H. Harding, and J. N. Graham contributed 
 an interesting report on the "Practice of Medicine." 
 The topograjjliy of several counties in eastern Indiana 
 is given, and the reports on the early appearance of 
 typhoid fever in this state as given by Drs. Woody, 
 of Winchester, Harding of Lawrenceburg, Shields of 
 New Albany, Kersey of Milton, Crooks and DeBruler 
 of Eockport, are historical and instructive. In this 
 same article, also, are included notes on epidemic ery- 
 sipelas, dysentery, and various forms of malarial fever. 
 At that early day the value of quinin was recognized 
 and acknowledged. 
 
 At the session of 1853, Dr. J. H. Brower, who had 
 been appointed at the previous session, a committee 
 on vital statistics made a report, Transactions, 1853, 
 p. 74, in which he urged the adoption of legal enact- 
 ments requiring the registration of marriages, births 
 and deaths. It is to be regretted that these sug- 
 gestions were allowed to slumber for more than one 
 third of a century. 
 
 Dr. M. J. Bray, in the Transactions, 1853, p. 94, 
 reports the successful removal of a fibrous tumor, from 
 the face and neck of a male patient, which weighed 
 twenty-one pounds. Most of the incision healed by 
 the first intention, without a marked scar. Dr. Bray 
 also contributes an article that might be read with 
 profit at the present day, on "Symptoms, Causes, 
 Pathology and" Treatment of Scirrhus," Transactions, 
 1854, pp. 25-42. 
 
MEDICAL HhSTORY OF J \ DIANA. 3(i:j 
 
 Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora, Transactions, 1853, 
 pp. 109-175, contributes a valuable historical paper on 
 "Asiatic Cholera," as it prevailed in Indiana during 
 the years 1849-50-51-52. He details its progress from 
 New Orleans, up the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, 
 until June, 1849, when it appeared in several Indiana 
 towns situated on the Ohio river. He gives reports of 
 its ravages in thirty-six counties of Indiana. The 
 same author makes a valuable report on "Cholera." 
 Transactions, 1867, p. 85, and Transactions, 1868, 
 p. 51. 
 
 Milk sickness was prevalent in Indiana half a cen- 
 tury or more ago. Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora, 
 made a preliminary rei^ort on the subject. Trans- 
 actions, 1853, p. 176. Dr. James S. McClelland, of 
 Jefferson, Clinton County, made a more extensive 
 report on the disease "Trembles or Milk Sickness," in 
 Transactions, 1854, p. 43. Still later. Dr. E. S. Elder, 
 of Morristown, contributed an exhaustive paper on the 
 subject, "Morbo Lacteo," Transactions, 1874, pp. 113- 
 127. 
 
 Dr. William W. Mayo, of Lafayette (father of the 
 Mayo brothers, of Rochester, Minn. ) , contributes, 
 Transactions, 1854, p. 68, an interesting "Report on 
 the Pathological Indications of the Urine," which 
 shows a good degree of skill in studying the urine 
 at that early day. Dr. Mayo says, "The kidneys are 
 not secreting organs." In a foot note the committee 
 on publication dissent from this statement. 
 
 Nursing sore mouth (stomatitis materna) is an 
 affection that was discussed half a century ago, more 
 than at the present day. Dr. J. S. McClelland con- 
 tributes an article on the subject in Transactions for 
 1856, p. 48. It was thought to prevail as an epidemic 
 in certain localities. The entire alimentary canal 
 was involved to a less or greater extent, anemia was 
 marked, digestion was disturbed, and death occurred 
 in a majority of the cases. Nursing women, and 
 women during the last months of pregnancy were 
 subjects of the disease. 
 
304 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 Dr. David Hutchinson, of Mooresville, in 1857, 
 wrote the Fiske Fund Prize Essay on the subject, 
 receiving one hundred dollars from the state of Rhode 
 Island for the same. It was published in the Ameri- 
 can Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. xxxiv, p. 369 
 (October, 1857). 
 
 Dr. Daniel Meeker, of Laporte, contributed three 
 articles on the subject, "On Fractures and False 
 Joints." Transactions, 1857, p. 29; 1858, p. 40, and 
 1859, p. 34, These are valuable articles, and can be 
 read with profit, although written half a century ago. 
 
 Dr. Jacob E. Weist, of Richmond, contributes to the 
 Transactions for 1867, p. 70, a carefully prepared 
 paper on "Foreign Bodies in the Air Passages." Prof. 
 S. D. Gross, in 1854, published a valuable paper based 
 on a study of 153 cases. Dr. Weist followed Prof. 
 Gross and collected 163 cases, and tabulated them as 
 follows: Cases of spontaneous expulsion followed by 
 recovery, 61; cases of death without operation, and 
 without the expulsion of the foreign body, 20; cases 
 of tracheotomy, followed by the expulsion of the 
 foreign body and the recovery of the patient, 48; 
 cases of tracheotomy followed hj death, 19; cases of 
 laryngotomy, followed by the expulsion of the foreign 
 body and the recovery of the patient, 10; cases of 
 laryngo-tracheotomy, follow^ed by the expulsion of 
 the foreign body and the recovery of the patient, 5. 
 IS'o more valuable paper on this subject has been pub- 
 lished. 
 
 Dr. ^Veist also contributed a Prize Essay on Cerebro- 
 spinal Meningitis, Transactions, 1868, p. 123. 
 
 One of the most remarkable operations in the annals 
 of surgery, was performed by an Indiana surgeon, the 
 late Dr. John S. Bobbs, of Indiana. It was the first 
 operation for cholecystotomy, and was performed on 
 June 15, 1867. The original paper was published in 
 the Transactions for 1868, p. 68, and was entitled, 
 "Case of Lithotomy oi the Gall-Bladder." The repro- 
 duction of the report of this case, and numerous com- 
 ments on it in recent medical literature renders it 
 unnecessary to say more concerning it in this place. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 3G5 
 
 The patient, Mrs. Z. Burnsworth, nee Miss Wiggins, 
 at this date (1911), is still living, at the age 
 of 74 years, at McCordsville, Indiana. She 
 
 was the first person operated on for gall stones. The 
 operation was done June 15, 1867, at Indianapolis, on 
 the present site of the Commercial Club Building. 
 Dr. John S. Bobbs was the operator, and was assisted 
 by Drs. R. N. Todd, G. W. Mears, F. S. Newcomer, 
 J. A, Comingor, J. P. Avery, Moore, and a medical 
 
 MRS. Z. BURNSWORTH, FORMERLY MISS MARY 
 E. WIGGINS 
 
 student — John Cameron. See Indiana Medical Journal, 
 July, 1905, for a full history of the case by Dr. A. 
 W. Br ay ton. 
 
 "Report on the Diseases of Indiana for the Year 
 1872; With a Brief Outline of the Medical Topography 
 and Climatology of Different Localities." (Reports 
 from 42 counties.) Dr. George Sutton, Chairman, 
 Transactions, 1873, p. 61. 
 
 "History of the Medical Institutions of Indian- 
 apolis." Editorial Indiana Journal of Medicine, vol. 
 iv, pp. 313, 415, November, 1873. 
 
366 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 "Early State Medical Society — Fifth District Med- 
 ical Society." Dr. W. B. Fletcher, Transactions, 1874, 
 p. 26. 
 
 "Cholera as Appearing in Indianapolis During the 
 Summer of 1873." Dr. Thad M. Stevens, Indiana Jour- 
 nal of Aledicine, vol. v, p. 41. (June, 1874.) 
 
 "State Boards of Health." Dr. Thad M. Stevens, 
 Transactions, 1875, p. 65. 
 
 "Report on Medical History of Indiana." Dr. Thad 
 M. Stevens, Transactions, 1875, p. 79. 
 
 "Medical and Surgical History of Elkhart County." 
 Dr. M, M. Latta, Transactions, 1875, p. 82. 
 
 "Medical History of Grant County." Dr. William 
 Lomax, Transactions, 1875, p. 88. 
 
 "A Report on Trichinosis as Observed in Dearborn 
 County, in 1874." Dr. George Sutton, Transactions, 
 1875, p. 109. 
 
 First case of recognized "Podelcoma" (Madura 
 Foot), occurring in the United States. Reported, by 
 Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, American Practitioner, vol. xiv, 
 p. 129 (September, 1876). 
 
 "Diseases Prevalent in the Early Settlement of 
 Kokomo." Dr. Corydon Richmond, Transactions, 
 1879, p. 19. 
 
 "Statistics of Placenta Prsevia." This report tabu- 
 lates 240 cases, and is valuable for reference. Dr. 
 Enoch W. King, Transactions, 1879, pp. 43-92, and 
 1881, pp. 168-226. 
 
 "Affections of the Gail-Bladder Tending 'to Result 
 in Cutaneous Biliary Fistula." Shows how nature 
 cures some cases by an opening through the abdominal 
 walls. The publication of this article first brought 
 the case of Dr. Bobbs into prominence. Dr. G. W. H. 
 Kemper, Transactions, 1879, p. 120. In that paper, 
 written one-third of a century ago, and while the advis- 
 ability of such an operation was in doubt. Dr. Kemper 
 said : 
 
 "It is a pleasing duty to pay this small tribute to 
 the memory of our departed fellow and brother. While 
 several European and American surgeons are discussing 
 the feasibility and priority of the operation of cholecys- 
 
MEDICAL HIHTONY OF ISlJlASA. Mu 
 
 totomy, with as yet no complete results, but only the 
 promise of success for the future, they are astonished 
 to learn that the operation was successfully performed 
 by a surgeon of Indiana, twelve years ago. And so, 
 when the operation of eholecystotomy shall have been 
 placed on a firm and scientific basis, and recognized 
 and acknowledged by our profession — as it assuredly 
 will — and its literature fully considered, the lustre of 
 no name on its roll shall exceed that of Dr. Bobbs." 
 Transactions, 1879, p. 136. 
 
 "A Review of the Epidemics that Have Occurred in 
 Southeastern Indiana During the Last Fifty Years, 
 and the Observations on Change of Type in Our 
 Endemic Malarial Diseases." Dr. George Sutton, 
 Transactions, 1885, p. 104. 
 
 "Report of the Literary Proceedings of the Banquet 
 Given by the Marion County Medical Society to the 
 Indiana State Medical Society at the Xew Denison 
 Hotel, on the Evening of June 5, 1888." At this meet- 
 ing, James Whitcomb Riley first read his poem, "Doc 
 Sifers." Transactions, 1888, p. 160. 
 
 "President's Address — Medical Retrospect of Fifty 
 Years." Dr. W. H. Wishard, Transactions, 1889, p. 5. 
 
 "One Thousand Cases of Labor and Their Lessons." 
 Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, Medical Neics, vol. 59, p. 285 
 (Sept. 12, 1891). 
 
 "Memoirs of the Professional Lives of Drs. John 
 S. Bobbs, Charles Parry, Talbott Bullard, and David 
 Funkhouser." Dr. P. H. Jameson, Tramactions, 1894, 
 p. 212a; also Indiana Medical Journal, vol. xii, p. 426 
 (June, 1894). 
 
 "History of the Small-pox Epidemic in Muncie, 
 Indiana, in 1893." Dr. Hugh A. Cowing, Twelfth 
 Annual Report State Board of Health of Indiana, 
 1893, p. 103. 
 
 "The Use of Antitoxin in the Treatment of Diph- 
 theria and Membranous Croup with a Collective Report 
 of One Hundred and Thirty-Two Cases." Dr. E. L. 
 Larkins, Transactions, 1896, p. 197. 
 
 "An Epidemic of Diphtheria in the City of Colum- 
 bus, Indiana. Personal Observations in One Hundred 
 
368 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 and Ninety Cases." Dr. George T. MacCoy, Trans- 
 actions, 1897, p. 54; also Transactions, 1898, p. 350. 
 
 "Summary of a Report of One Hundred Cases of 
 Typhoid." Dr. I. N. Trent, Transactions, 1898, p. 72. 
 
 "War Number" of the Indiana Medical Journal, vol. 
 xvi (September, 1898). Especially valuable to those 
 seeking knowledge of the several Indiana Regiments 
 in the Spanish-American War. 
 
 "Essays on Bacteriology and Its Relation to the 
 Progress of Medicine." Dr. Theodore Potter, Medical 
 and Surgical Monitor, 1898. 
 
 "Mineral Waters of West Baden, Indiana, as a 
 Therapeutic Agent." Dr. W. D. Pennington, Medical 
 and Surgical Monitor, vol. i, p. 185 (October, 1898). 
 
 "Camp Morton Hospital in the Civil War. Report 
 by Drs. John M. Kitchen and P. H. Jameson to Gov. 
 Morton, Jan. 6, 1863," Indiana Medical Journal, vol. 
 xvii, p. 270 (January, 1899). 
 
 "Indiana in Medicine," Dr. Alembert W. Brayton. 
 A toast delivered at the Annual Banquet of the Allen 
 County Medical Society at Fort Wayne, Dec. 26, 1899. 
 Fort Wayne Medical Journal, Magazine Medical Jour- 
 nal, February, 1900, p. 43. 
 
 "Organization of the Indiana State Medical Society 
 and Its Influence Upon the Profession." Dr. W. H. 
 Wishard, Transactions, 1899, p. 20. 
 
 "Report of Committee on State Medicine and 
 Hygiene." Drs. J. N. Hurty, L. P. Drayer, and N. P. 
 Cox, Transactions, 1899, p. 126. 
 
 "Clinical Features of Malaria as Seen at Camp 
 Mount Hospital." Dr. W. T. S. Dodds, Transactions, 
 1899, p. 197. 
 
 "Small-pox in Anderson — A Study of the Present 
 Epidemic." Dr. Charles Trueblood, Transactions, 1900, 
 p. 120. 
 
 "Aneurysm of the Cervical Portion of_ the Vertebral 
 Artery; Operation; Recovery." Twenty cases only 
 are on record, with six recoveries. This adds one 
 more to number and recoveries — six of the successful 
 cases were performed by American surgeons. Dr. I. 
 N. Trent, Transactions, 1901, p. 118. 
 
MEDICAL HlfiTORY OF IX DIANA. 3G9 
 
 "A Consideration of the Present Laws for the Com- 
 mitment of the Insane in Indiana." Dr. W. B. Fletcher, 
 Transactions, 1901, p. 426. 
 
 "An Index of the Transactions of the Indiana State 
 Medical Society from 1849 to 1900 Inclusive." Dr. 
 G. W. H. Kemper, Transactions, 1901, p. 505. 
 
 "The First Cholecystotomy — Sketch of John S. 
 Bobbs." Dr. M. B. Tinker, Johns Hopkins Hospital 
 Bulletin, August, 1901. Also, Indiana Medical Jour- 
 nal, vol. XX, p. 193. (November, 1902.) 
 
 "Modern War Wounds." Dr. Frank W. Foxworthy, 
 Transactions, 1902, p. 302. 
 
 "The Mineral Waters of Indiana, with Indications 
 for Their Application." Dr. Robert Hessler, Trans- 
 actions, 1902, p. 365. 
 
 "The Mineral Waters of Indiana." Dr. George 
 Kahlo, Transactions, 1903, p. 237. 
 
 "Institutional Practice." Dr. Harry Sharp, Trans- 
 actions, 1905, p. 67. 
 
 "The Mineral Waters of Orange County." Dr. John 
 L. Howard, Transactions, 1905, p. 413. 
 
 "Blastomycosis and its Congeners — Report of Eight 
 Cases Observed in Indiana." Dr. A. W. Brayton, 
 Transactions, 1907, p. 35. 
 
 "The Progress of Surgery in the United States." 
 Dr. John H. Oliver, Indiana Medical Journal, vol. xxv, 
 p. 383 (April, 1907). 
 
 "A Report of One Thousand Obstetrical Cases With- 
 out a Maternal Death." Dr. Samuel Kennedy, Shelby- 
 ville. The Journal of the Indiana State Medical 
 Association, vol. iii. p. 200. 
 
 "Historical Sketch of Medicine and Medical Men in 
 the Early Days of Johnson County, Indiana." Dr. R. 
 W. Terhune, of Whiteland. Pamphlet. Indiana State 
 Library, Indianapolis. 
 
 Dunn's "History of Greater Indianapolis," Chapter 
 41, and Sulgrove's "History of Indianapolis and 
 Marion County," Chapter 12, will give considerable 
 information concerning the physicians of Marion 
 County. 
 
370 MEDICAL HISTORY OF INDIANA. 
 
 First injection of "606" in Indiana given by Drs. 
 Wynn, Brayton, Graham, Charlton, Erdman and Free- 
 land, at Indianapolis City Hospital, November 16, 
 1910. Patient J'oung woman, five months advanced in 
 pregnancy. 
 
 "A Plea for the Cesarean Operation, Based on a 
 Report of Fifty-Three Cases Performed in Indiana." 
 Paper read by Dr. G. W. H. Kemper, before the 
 Indiana State Medical Association, 1910. First 
 recorded operation by Dr. J. W. Conway, January 29, 
 1863. Dr. Moses Baker was the first operator to save 
 both mother and child, Nov. 3, 1880. Dr. W. H. Myers 
 was the first to do the Porro operation. Dr. Joseph 
 Eastman first operated in an extra-uterine pregnancy 
 and saved mother and child, July 10, 1888. The 
 Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, 
 vol. iv, p. 162. The following is an analysis of the 
 fifty-three cases: 
 
 Cases 
 
 Mother and child saved 27 
 
 Mother alone saved 11 
 
 Total number of mothers saved 38 
 
 Mother and child lost 7 
 
 Mother alone lost 8 
 
 Total number of mothers lost 15 
 
 Child saved with mother 27 
 
 Child alone saved 8 
 
 Total number of children saved 35 
 
 Child lost with mother 7 
 
 Child alone lost 11 
 
 Total number of children lost 18 
 
 Total number of mothers and children saved 73 
 
 Total number of mothers and children lost 33 
 
 "Medical History of Delaware County." Names of 
 436 physicians. History of Delaware County, Indiana. 
 Kemper. Chapter xxii, vol. i, p. 288. 
 
 "Biography of Eminent American Physicians and 
 Surgeons." Illustrated. R. French Stone, M.D., 
 Indianapolis, 1894. This contains biographies of a 
 large number of Indiana Physicians. 
 
 The State Transactions, 1849 to 1907 inclusive, con- 
 tain one thousand one hundred and thirty-eight (1138) 
 articles. 
 
MEDICAL HISTORY OF IX DIANA. 371 
 
 "Malaria in Indiana." Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer. This 
 article is historical and valuable for reference. The 
 Journal of the Indiana State Medical Association, vol. 
 iv, p. 70 (February, 1911). 
 
 A comjilete file of the Transactions of the Indiana 
 State Medical Society, 1849 to 1907, may be found in 
 tlie IndianajDolis city library. 
 
CORRECTIONS: 
 
 Page 373. "State Medical Convention of 1849." 
 142, instead of "182". 
 
 Page 374, "Brayton, Alembert W." read xxi, instead 
 
 of "XX". 
 
 Page 374. "Hibberd, James F.," read xiii, instead 
 of "xvii." 
 
 Page 374. "Athon, James S.," instead of "Samuel S." 
 
 Page 375. "Beatty, J. L.," 304 instead of "214". 
 
 Page 387. "Palmiter, Clebron," add 323 after 98. 
 
 Page 387. "Pennington Joel," change first figures 
 "53" to 33. 
 
 Page 393. "Witt, William B.," in blank, insert 201. 
 
INDEX 
 
 SUBJECTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Board of health, history of 172 
 
 Bobbs free dispensary 71 
 
 County History : 
 
 Allen 24 
 
 Bartholomew . . . . 100 
 
 Clay '.'.'.'.'.'.'..'. 124 
 
 Delaware 89 
 
 Fayette 113 
 
 Fountain I33 
 
 Franklin 126 
 
 Gibson 225 
 
 Grant \ II9 
 
 Hancock . . . 95 
 
 Jackson IZS, 227 
 
 Kosciusko ,' 130 
 
 Madison . . . 207 
 
 Noble 97 
 
 Ripley . . . 129 
 
 Rush ' . ' ' 75 
 
 Steuben 136 
 
 White ; ; 131 
 
 Eastern Indiana, early history of 33 
 
 Epidemics in Indiana 160 
 
 Historical notes and references 361 
 
 Indianapolis history : 
 
 City hospital 71 
 
 Early medical notes 50, 73 
 
 Early medical men 31 
 
 Legal enactments 165 
 
 Madison (city) reminiscences of ! 42 
 
 Medical colleges : 
 
 Central g9 
 
 Laporte 52 
 
 Northwestern Territory, medicine in 18 
 
 Physicians, deceased, alphabetical list of 230 
 
 State medical convention of 1849 ". 182 
 
 Corrected list of members of 182 
 
 State Medical Society and Association : 
 
 Changes in I74 
 
 Formation and growth of 142 
 
 List of members from 1849 to 1860 151 
 
 List of presidents 176 
 
 List of vice-presidents 178 
 
 Sessions, place of meeting and date * .' 173 
 
 Terre Haute, early medical history of '. 56 
 
 Vincennes, early medical history of 4, 63 
 
 War History : 
 
 Surgeons in Mexican War 186 
 
 Surgeons in Civil War 187 
 
 Surgeons in Spanish-American War . 204 
 
 Hospital Stewards in Spanish-American War 205 
 
374 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 FOREWORD AND 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Beck, Joseph R xiii 
 
 Bobbs, John S. .vii, xviii, xix 
 
 Brayton, Alembert W 
 
 xi, xviii, XX 
 
 Burnsworth, Mrs. Z xviii 
 
 Field, Nathaniel vii 
 
 Hibberd, James F. . , vii, xvii 
 
 Kemper, G. W. H 
 
 ix, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, 
 xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi 
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Kimberlin, Albert C xviii 
 
 Mears, George W vii 
 
 Moodey, John W xv 
 
 Parvin, Theophilus vii 
 
 Pfaflf, Orange G xviii 
 
 Schell, Walker xviii 
 
 Simpson, Sir Alex. R.. . .xviii 
 
 Smith, Hubbard M xiii 
 
 Tinker, Martin B xix 
 
 Wishard, William H vii 
 
 NAMES 
 
 (Later information has enabled me in many instances to 
 correct errors in names, also to supply the first, or Christian 
 name in some instances when omitted in the text. Where 
 differences are observed between the text and the index, the 
 data of the latter are to be preferred.) 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Abbott,, Charles H 188 
 
 Abell, L. F 98 
 
 Aborn, Orin 188, 238 
 
 Adair, T. E 98 
 
 Adams, David 188 
 
 Adams, James M 233 
 
 Adams, James Mc 233 
 
 Adams, James R. ...188, 233 
 
 Adams, Marcellus M.188, 234 
 
 Adkins, Jehu 135 
 
 Adylotte, William R. . . . 234 
 
 Aichele, Emil 188 
 
 Aikman, Edgar A 234 
 
 Albertson, Edmund .... 1.51 
 
 Alexander, John H 188 
 
 Alexander, Stephen J... 234 
 
 Alexander, Wilbur 234 
 
 Alison, (Vincennes) .... 7 
 
 Allen, J. Adams 54, 99 
 
 Allen, Joseph. .146, 151. 182 
 
 Allen, Joseph S 188 
 
 Allen, Seth 2.34 
 
 Allen, William S 188 
 
 Amick,^^ Christopher C. . 234 
 
 Anderson, (Monticello) . . 131 
 
 Anderson, .Tames 129 
 
 Anderson, Joseph V 188 
 
 Anderson, Oliver F 234 
 
 Anderson, William 129 
 
 Andrew, .Jacob P 52 
 
 Andrew, William P 234 
 
 Andrews, Daniel H 234 
 
 Andrews. William J 93 
 
 Angell. Charles 151 
 
 Anthony, Emanuel 234 
 
 Anthony, Samuel P 234 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Applegate, Charles H. . . 188 
 
 Archer, Samuel M 188 
 
 Ardery, Joseph C 
 
 147, 151, 182, 234 
 
 Ardery, Oscar 212 
 
 Armington, John L 
 
 147, 151, 182 
 
 Armington, William . . . 234 
 Armitage, David R..92, 234 
 
 Armstrong, ,J. B 22 
 
 Armstrong, James B. . . . 188 
 Armstrong, Lewis P.... 234 
 
 Armstrong, Wesley 235 
 
 Armstrong, William G . . 235 
 
 Arnold, John 117, 235 
 
 Arnold, Martin B 188 
 
 Arthur, Christopher C . . 
 
 188, 235 
 
 Arwine, John S 235 
 
 Aspinwall, (Terre Haute) 62 
 Athon, Samuel S 
 
 146, 151, 182, 186, 187, 
 
 235 
 
 Atkins, Joseph 236^ 
 
 Austin, (Hecla) 54 
 
 Austin, Charles B 236 
 
 Austin, Stephen S 236 
 
 Austin, Thomas D 188 
 
 Austin, Thomas K..151, 179 
 Averdick, Henry G..188, 236 
 
 Avery, Increase J 188 
 
 Avery, John P 188, 365 
 
 Ayres, Henrv P 
 
 24, 151, 176, 180, 236 
 
 Ayres, Stephen D. ..122, 236 
 
INDEX. 
 
 375 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Babbit, Edwai-d D 188 
 
 Bacon, E. A 117 
 
 Bain, W. C. A.. 139, 140, 228 
 
 Bail-, W. B 210, 212 
 
 Baker, A. H 69 
 
 Baker, Braxton 188 
 
 Baker, Joseph H 236 
 
 Baker, Moses 54, 236, 370 
 
 Baker, Philip S 236 
 
 Baker, Thomas H. B. . . . 237 
 
 Balingall, George H.209, 237 
 
 Ball, Edward V 56, 58 
 
 Ball, William H 131 
 
 Ballard, Chester G 
 
 146, 151, 182, 237 
 
 Ballard, Micajah 188 
 
 Ballard, Nathan H 237 
 
 Ballard, S. H 237 
 
 Ballenger, L. P 212 
 
 Ballou, A. B 237 
 
 Banks, (Ft Wayne) 27 
 
 Banks, Ephraim N 188 
 
 Barbour, Samuel 107 
 
 Barcus, Paul J 204 
 
 Bare, Addison W. . . .188, 202 
 
 Bare, John E 189 
 
 Barker, Andrew J 237 
 
 Barker, William L 189 
 
 Barnes, Charles 116 
 
 Barnes, William C 237 
 
 Barnett, Charles E 204 
 
 Barnett, Walter W 204 
 
 Barrett, James 210 
 
 Barrett, John 210 
 
 Barritt, J. J 151 
 
 Barry, (Madison Co.) . , . 210 
 
 Barry, G. G 19 
 
 Bartholomew, Bradley. . 
 
 152, 237 
 
 Barton, Gaylord G. . .19, 237 
 
 Barton. Philip H 204 
 
 Barton, Philip 
 
 19, 20, 63, 64. 65 
 
 Bassett, John Q 189 
 
 Bates, Aaron J 237 
 
 Bates. Philip 48 
 
 Batman, (Jackson Co.).. 227 
 
 Batman, William F 180 
 
 Batty. B. J 19 
 
 Baty. John 8 
 
 Bauer. Modestus 237 
 
 Baxter. Joseph A 105 
 
 Bayse, Thomas S 189 
 
 Beachley, Nathaniel J.. 189 
 Beard, Ferdinand W. . . . 
 
 22, 180, 202, 237 
 
 Beasley. George F. .177, 204 
 
 Beatty. .J. L 214 
 
 Beck, Elias W. H 
 
 152, 189, 238 
 
 Beck, G. G 152 
 
 Beck, J. R 232 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Beck, John 212 
 
 Beck, John C iry* 
 
 Beck, Joseph R 238 
 
 Beck, Thomas S 212 
 
 Beck, William H 189 
 
 Becker, Rannenis 7 
 
 Beckes, Lyman M 239 
 
 Beck with, Lod W 189 
 
 Beebe, James 189 
 
 Beecher, Lewis 26 
 
 Beeks, Green C 189 
 
 Beer, Henry M 239 
 
 Beeson, William H 22 
 
 Beever, John C 22 
 
 Bell, (Robroy) 135 
 
 Bell, (ShelbyVille) 43 
 
 Bell, Guido 288 
 
 Bell. Nathaniel G 189 
 
 Bell, William H 177 
 
 Belles, J. T 152 
 
 Bence, Robert F 189 
 
 Benezet, (Allen Co.) ... . 24 
 
 Bennett, Basil B 189 
 
 Bennett, J. W 152 
 
 Benson, Julius L 189 
 
 Berry. George 126, 239 
 
 Berryman. James A. 189. 239 
 
 Berteling. John B...177, 180 
 
 Bever. John C 239 
 
 Beverly, John E 239 
 
 Bigelow, James K 
 
 180, 189, 239 
 
 Bigney, Peter M 189 
 
 Black, Norman W. . .92, 239 
 
 Blackstone. John K. . . . 189 
 
 Blackwell, John A 189 
 
 Blair, Franklin 240 
 
 Blair. William W...189, 225 
 
 Bland, (Jackson Co.) . . , 140 
 
 Blaser, Felix F. ...... . 189 
 
 Blount. Cyrus N 240 
 
 Blount, Rufus F 189 
 
 Blunt, Marcus S.. . .152, 240 
 
 Boaz. Jacob 140 
 
 Bobbs. John S 
 
 69. 70. 71, 72, 73, 96, 97, 
 
 144. 145, 146, 152. 176, 
 
 182, 203, 240. 310, 364, 
 365. 366, 367, 369 
 
 Bodman, Elam 189 
 
 Bogart. Henry J 189 
 
 Boggs, L. B 1,30 
 
 Bogle. Christopher F . . . 1 89 
 
 Bond. Charles S 177, 180 
 
 Bond. Richard C 189, 242 
 
 Bonnels. L. J 92 
 
 Boor, Walter A 242 
 
 Boor. William F 189. 242 
 
 Bordwell, Lewis 208 
 
 Bosworth, Richard 189 
 
 Bounell, Mathew H.... 
 189. 202, 242 
 
376 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Bowen, Jesse 134 
 
 Bowers, Andrew J 242 
 
 Bowlby, Joseph 242 
 
 Bowman, Charles 
 
 152, 179, 361 
 
 Bowman, D 130 
 
 Boyd, John M..146, 152, 182 
 
 Boyd, Samuel S 
 
 , 177, 189, 244 
 
 Boynton, A. G 152 
 
 Boynton, C. L 152 
 
 Boynton, Charles S 189 
 
 Boyse, Thomas F 189 
 
 Bracken, William ..227, 244 
 
 Brackett, Charles 189 
 
 Bradburn, John 113 
 
 Bradbury, Allison B. . . . 244 
 
 Braden, William 85 
 
 Brady, C. C 246 
 
 Brand. (Rockford) 139 
 
 Brandon, Joseph Fran- 
 cis 212, 246 
 
 Brandt, (Rockford) .... 227 
 
 Bray, Ebenezer 152 
 
 Bray, Madison J 
 
 152, 176, 189, 246, 362 
 Brayton, Alembert W. . . 
 
 2, 3, 177, 365, 368, 369, 
 
 370 
 
 Brazelton, John B 189 
 
 Brenton, William H 189 
 
 Bridwell, Lafayette 246 
 
 Briley, Absalom 124 
 
 Brittain, Stephen H 246 
 
 Brooks, (Terre Haute) . . 56 
 
 Brooks, Mordecai 189 
 
 Brooks, William H 246 
 
 Brothers, Guy M 247 
 
 Brower, Jeremiah H. . . . 
 
 147, 152, 176, 182, 246, 
 
 361, 362 
 
 Brown, (Bethel) 96 
 
 Brown, Clay. . 152, 189, 246 
 
 Brown, Daniel E 53 
 
 Brown, Jacob R 189 
 
 Brown, Jesse R 189 
 
 Brown, Joseph . 19 
 
 Brown, Ryland T 
 
 41, 54, 70, 84, 116, 152 
 
 Brown, S. Clay 189 
 
 Brown, Samuel M. ..152, 247 
 
 Brown, Wilkins B 189 
 
 Browne, J 8 
 
 Browne, John T 190 
 
 Bruce, George W 190 
 
 Brucker, Ma2:nus 190 
 
 Brunt, Samuel 213 
 
 Brunt, Samuel F 247 
 
 Brusie, Luther 190 
 
 Brvan. George W 190 
 
 Bi-yan, T. N 247 
 
 Bryant, (Fountain Co.). 3 37 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Bryson, Frank T 190 
 
 Buchman, Henry 120 
 
 Buck, O 152 
 
 Buck, Robert H . . . 
 
 152, 190, 202 
 
 B u c k - o n-ga-helas, (In- 
 dian) . 28 
 
 Buehler, Eugene 204 
 
 Bullard, Talbott 
 
 33, 73, 96, 145, 146 152, 
 164, 176, 178, 182, 247, 
 367 
 
 Bullard W.R 152 
 
 Bulson, Albert E., Jr. . . 175 
 
 Bunnel, W. W 39 
 
 Bunton, Edwin A 247 
 
 Burk, George L 247 
 
 Burke, George W 248 
 
 Burket, Calvin W 180 
 
 Burlingame, E. G 248 
 
 Burlington, James C. . . . 137 
 
 Burns, Jesse 152 
 
 Burnsworth, Mrs. Z. . . . 365 
 
 Burr, Chancey S 213 
 
 Burr, Joseph S 113, 115 
 
 Burt, Dickinson 
 
 .89, 93, 208, 209 
 
 Burt, James Clark. ..... 248 
 
 Burton, George W 22, 248 
 
 Burton, William A 190 
 
 Bush, J. E 49, 128 
 
 Bush. O. 152 
 
 Bushnell, Samuel B.... 190 
 
 Butler, A. B 152 
 
 Butterfleld, S. H 152 
 
 B u 1 1 e r w orth, (Misha- 
 
 waka) 54 
 
 Butterworth, William W. 190 
 
 Buzett, Edward F 190 
 
 Eyers, Alexander R.190, 248 
 
 Byers, William J 
 
 146, 152, 182 
 
 Byf ord, William H 
 
 . .152, 178, 248, 361, 362 
 Byrn, Spencer 190 
 
 Cadwallader, Joseph . . . 120 
 
 Cady, William F 249 
 
 Cain, Cornelius 128 
 
 Calderwood, James C... 190 
 
 Calloway, Beniah T 213 
 
 Cameron, John 365 
 
 Campbell, John C. L 190 
 
 Campfield, John A 190 
 
 Canady, W. H 249 
 
 (^anby, (Madison) 44 
 
 Cannon. George H 249 
 
 Carey, Isaac 249 
 
 Carley, Rush 190 
 
 Carlstadt, F. A 152 
 
 Carmean, (Madison Co.). 209 
 Carr, George W.98, 190, 249 
 
IXDEX. 
 
 377 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CaiT, Thomas 23 
 
 Carson, William F 249 
 
 Carter, D. M 213 
 
 Carter, F. M 152 
 
 Cartwright, Samuel A. . 16 
 
 Carver, L. E 132 
 
 Casey, (Gibson Co.) ... . 226 
 
 Casselberry, Isaac 
 
 152, 177, 179, 190, 249, 
 • 250 
 
 Casterline, Amos B 190 
 
 Casterline, Ziba 190 
 
 Catlin, H. W 152 
 
 Chamberlain, James M. . 190 
 
 Chamberlain, James N. . 250 
 
 Chamberlain, N. A 190 
 
 Chamberlain, Samuel B. . 250 
 
 Chambers, John 250 
 
 Champ, George W 190 
 
 Chandler, Joseph A. 130, 190 
 Channing, William S . . . 
 
 213, 250 
 
 Chapman, A. . . . ; 152 
 
 Chapman, Amos H..117, 118 
 Chapman, Hon. John B. 
 
 130 
 
 Charles, Etta 251 
 
 Charles, Henrv 250 
 
 Charlton, Fred R. . .205, 870 
 
 Charlton, Robert 190 
 
 Charlton. Samuel H . . . . 
 
 . . .139, 177, 180, 190, 251 
 
 Chenoweth, John T 251 
 
 Chenoweth, Nelson T. . . 251 
 
 Chenowith, George F. . . . 251 
 
 Chestnut, Thomas 152 
 
 Chittenden, George F. . . 190 
 
 Chittick, Charles 181 
 
 Chitwood, George R . . . . 
 
 117, 118, 152, 251 
 
 C'hitwood, .Joshua 
 
 . . .118, 129, 190, 202, 251 
 
 Churchill, John M 251 
 
 Chutes, George (Shoots) 
 
 140, 228 
 
 Clapp, Asahel 
 
 48, 49, 145, 146, 152, 176, 
 
 178, 182, 341 
 Clapp, William A. ..... . 
 
 . . .146, 152, 182, 190, 252 
 
 Clark, (Madison Co.) . . . 210 
 
 Clark, Chester 137 
 
 Clark, Dougan 70, 252 
 
 Clark. Edmond 252 
 
 Clark, Hayman W 116 
 
 Clark, J. C 252 
 
 Clark, Lemon W 252 
 
 Clark, Othniel L 152, 179 
 
 Clark. William 62, 63 
 
 Clark, William R. S 252 
 
 Cleaver, John 128 
 
 Clififord, (Rush Co.) 85 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Clippinger, George W. . . 190 
 
 Clowes, David A 190 
 
 Cochran, James 252 
 
 Coe, Henry 152 
 
 Coe, Isaac 31, 43, 49, 252 
 
 Coe, Z. B 152 
 
 Cogley, Thomas J 
 
 129, 152. 179, 253 
 
 Cole, Henry C 253 
 
 Cole, William C 
 
 133, 190, 253 
 
 Coleman, Asa 190 
 
 Coleman, Horace .... 153, 190 
 Colescott, Thomas W... 126 
 
 Collett, Joseph T 190 
 
 Collier, A. G 153 
 
 Collings, Isaac S...153, 190 
 
 Collins, Erasmus B 190 
 
 Collins, George M. . .190, 253 
 Collins, William A.. 191, 253 
 
 Collins, William F 153 
 
 Collum, William F 
 
 146, 153, 182, 254 
 
 Colvert, William 
 
 133, 136, 254 
 
 Combs, Charles N 332 
 
 Comingor, John A 
 
 70. 72, 73, 153, 191, 254, 
 
 365 
 Commons, William .... 204 
 
 Compton, John W 254 
 
 Comstock, George C . . . . 107 
 
 Confer, James M 191 
 
 Conn, Isaac T 191 
 
 Conn, Richard B 
 
 129, 147, 153, 182 
 
 Connett, Mahlon C 191 
 
 Connor, Leartus 99 
 
 Constant, John H 202 
 
 Conway, J. W 370 
 
 Conyngton, John 153 
 
 Cook, Daniel 213 
 
 Cook, George J 177 
 
 Cook, John H 208, 213 
 
 Cook, John W 167 
 
 Cook, Robert H 191 
 
 Cook, Thomas E 215 
 
 Cook, Ward 
 
 167. 168, 208, 215 
 
 Cool, Jonathan 32 
 
 Cooper, Joel S 191 
 
 Cooper, William 
 
 146, 153, 182, 254 
 
 Cooper, W. B 216 
 
 Corey, Lavanner 255 
 
 Corlew. Rufus M 255 
 
 Cornelius. W. W 216 
 
 Cornett. William T. S. . . 
 
 42. 129. 145, 147, 153, 176, 
 
 182. 255 
 
 Coster. William 129 
 
 Corvell, Samuel 228 
 
:78 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 , 256 
 . 256 
 
 182 
 367 
 135 
 179 
 191 
 368 
 191 
 191 
 
 92 
 216 
 211 
 256 
 191 
 256 
 134 
 191 
 
 39 
 256 
 227 
 256 
 362 
 
 Courtney, James T 
 
 Cowan, John A 
 
 Cowgill, Tarvin W 
 
 147, 149, 153, 
 
 Cowing, Hugh A 
 
 Cox, (Fountain Co.) .... 
 
 Cox, Henry 
 
 Cox. Jesse T 
 
 Cox, N. P 
 
 Craig, Isaac N 
 
 Craig, John M 
 
 Craig, William 
 
 Crampton, Jesse Pugh . . 
 
 Cranfield, M. L 
 
 Crapo, John R 
 
 Cravens, James W 
 
 Cravens, Samuel C 
 
 Crawford, John 
 
 Cresap, William S 
 
 Crews, (Centerville) .38, 
 
 Crippen, E. H 153, 
 
 Crippen, James .... 139, 
 
 Crist, Daniel O 
 
 Crooks, (Rockport) .... 
 Crookshank. or Cruik- 
 
 shank. Erasmus D. . . . 
 
 77, 128 
 
 Crosbv, The, H 256 
 
 Crosby. Thomas H 191 
 
 Cross.' Joseph B 256 
 
 Crouse, D. H 153 
 
 Crouse, Henry M 191 
 
 Crouse, Jerome H 256 
 
 Crow (Albion T.?) (Al- 
 len Co. ) 24 
 
 Crowder, Robert H 191 
 
 Crum, P. W 98 
 
 Crunkleton. Fred J 257 
 
 Culbertson, David P 191 
 
 Culbertson, Joseph R . . . 191 
 Culbertson, Robert H. . . 
 
 191. 257 
 
 Cullen, John C 191 
 
 Cummings, (Houston) .. 3 40 
 Cummings, Hiram A. . . . 257 
 Cummins. Benjamin F.. 257 
 
 Cure, Hiram W 257 
 
 Curl, William 226 
 
 Curran. Robert 
 
 146, 148, 153, 178. 182, 
 
 257 
 
 Currv, John 191 
 
 Curryer. William T 258 
 
 Curtis, (Allen Co.) 24 
 
 Curtis, David G 204 
 
 Curtis, George L 258 
 
 Cushman, Arbaces 258 
 
 Cushman, Benjamin .... 25 
 Cushman. Daniel W.... 258 
 Cyrus, W. H. (Cyms)... 
 
 153. 191 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Dailey, J 27 
 
 Dailey, James J 258 
 
 Dalgleish, Henry T 258 
 
 Daly, George P 191 
 
 Dancer, John 98, 258 
 
 Daniels, (Jackson Co.).. 140 
 Daniels, Ebenezer . . .56, 57 
 
 Daniels, Edward 117 
 
 Darnell, Milton B 191 
 
 Darrach, George M..153, 258 
 Daugherty, Charles A. . . 177 
 Daughters, Andrew P. . . 191 
 Davenport, Henderson D., 
 
 259 
 
 259 
 
 8 
 
 Davenport, Theodore . . . 
 Davidson, (Vincennes) . . 
 Davidson, Benjamin F., 
 
 153, 191 
 
 Davidson, Greenleaf N. . 259 
 
 Davidson, H. 19 
 
 Davidson, William 
 
 147, 153, 178, 182, 191, 
 
 361 
 Davidson, William R.. . . 
 
 181, 359 
 
 Davis, (Madison Co.) . . . 209 
 
 Davis. Eugene F 259 
 
 Davis, John 210 
 
 Davis, J. B 153 
 
 Davis, John B 127, 191 
 
 Davis, John W...19, 60, 191 
 
 Davis, Joseph 140 
 
 Davis, Joseph H 191 
 
 Davis, Nathan S 99 
 
 Davis, Robert P 191, 259 
 
 Davis, S 153 
 
 Davis, Samuel 191, 259 
 
 Davis, Solomon 191 
 
 Davis, Tiffin 105, 106 
 
 Davis, William H 153 
 
 Davis, William S 205 
 
 Davisson, Henry C 191 
 
 Day. Samuel D 153, 259 
 
 Dayhuflf, A. F 259 
 
 De Bruler, James P 
 
 19, 153. 259, 362 
 
 De Bruler, James P 260 
 
 De Bruler. Oliver E 261 
 
 Decker. Hiram 
 
 7. 12. 15, 19, 20, 65 
 
 Dehority, J. M 216 
 
 D<}mi»ig, Elizur H 
 
 53, 54, 55, 69, 153, 176, 
 
 261 
 
 Denny, De Witt C 97, 98 
 
 D( nny, J.N 98 
 
 Depew, Richard J .. 261 
 
 Dr wey, Annin W 191 
 
 DeVore, Henry V 262 
 
 Dicken, James L 
 
 153, 191, 262 
 
 Dickey, Andrew S 181 
 
IXDEX. 
 
 170 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Dill, Nathaniel C 262 
 
 Dillon, A. C 158 
 
 Dills, Thomas J 262 
 
 Dinwiddle, Daniel 19 
 
 Dinwiddle, W 18, 19 
 
 Dixon, William H 191 
 
 Doan, N. W 262 
 
 Doane, George M 191 
 
 Dodd, James 191 
 
 Dodds, W. T. S 368 
 
 Dodge, Henry € 191 
 
 Dodson, Jonas H 192 
 
 Dolph, Cassius M 262 
 
 Dome, David C 192 
 
 Donaldson, Ebenezer F. . 262 
 
 Doneghy, John T 153 
 
 Dooley, Aldine J 262 
 
 Douglas, G. R 360 
 
 Douglas, Thomas .. .210, 216 
 Douglass, Hon. Fredk. . . 
 
 208, 292 
 
 Douglass, Robert . . . 210, 216 
 
 Dorsey, (Centerville) .. 38 
 
 Dorsey, N. J 153 
 
 Dowling, Henry M 
 
 146, 153, 163, 178, 182. 
 
 262 
 
 Downey, Charles G 69 
 
 Downey, William A 192 
 
 Drayer, Lewis P 368 
 
 Drayer, Peter 262 
 
 Drvden, Thomas F. . 153, 262 
 
 Dudley, (Dudleytown) . 138 
 
 Duffield, James T 192 
 
 Duffy, John S 192 
 
 Du Kate. John B 262 
 
 Du Kate, .John S 22, 192 
 
 Dunham, David 209, 216 
 
 Dunham, Valentine. .216, 262 
 
 Dunlap, John M 263 
 
 Dunlap, Livingston .... 
 
 31. 32. 43, 49. 69. 71, 73, 
 
 145, 146, 153, 176, 178, 
 
 182, 263, 361 
 
 Dunn, John G 186 
 
 Dunn, J 153 
 
 Dunn, Williamson D. . . . 192 
 
 Dunn, Williamson P 192 
 
 Dunnell, D 153 
 
 Dunning, Lehman H. . . . 263 
 
 Durand, Amos M 192 
 
 Dutton, Daniel B 192 
 
 Duzan, George N 264 
 
 Dwiggins, Moses F 264 
 
 Farley, E. P 342 
 
 Earp, Samuel E 2, 3, 267 
 
 Easterling, Amos 192 
 
 Eastman, Joseph 
 
 . . . 201. 264, 266, 370 
 
 Ebersole. .Jacob 192 
 
 Ebert. AYilliam H 216 
 
 PACK 
 
 Edgerlo, George W., Jr. 
 
 153, 192 
 
 Edwins, Stanley W 192 
 
 Egbert, George 207 
 
 Eichelbei-ger. William C. 
 
 267 
 
 filbert, Samuel A 267 
 
 Elder, B. F 153 
 
 Elder, p:iijah S 
 
 177, 267, 363 
 
 Elder, Samuel F 153 
 
 Eldridge, Albert 
 
 147, 153, 182 
 
 Elliott, A 19 
 
 Elliott. Cyrenus 154 
 
 Elliott, James H 154 
 
 Elliott, James S 192 
 
 Elliott, Thomas B 154 
 
 Elliott. W. M 154 
 
 EllLs, C. R 1.53 
 
 Ellis, Charles S 267 
 
 Ellis, E. W. H 153 
 
 Ellis, Hamilton E. . .192, 267 
 
 Ellis, .John 153 
 
 Ellis. Joseph 153 
 
 Elrod, Moses X 268 
 
 Elston, William T 192 
 
 English, Calvin H 205 
 
 Eno. Newton G 192 
 
 Erdman, Bernard 370 
 
 Erichson. G 99 
 
 Espey, James G 205 
 
 Espey. James 268 
 
 Estabrook. S. H 97 
 
 Evans. David S 192 
 
 Evans, John .54, 73, 268 
 
 Everts. C. C 154 
 
 Everts. Orpheus . 54. 192, 268 
 
 Everts, S ..48, 49 
 
 Everett. (Union Co.) ... 84 
 
 Ewing, Frank 228 
 
 Fairfield. William J.... 216 
 
 Fairhurst. O'Connel .... 22 
 
 Fairhurst. William 19 
 
 Fanning. Frederick W.. . 268 
 
 Fansler. D. N 98 
 
 Farquhar. Allen H 268 
 
 Farquhar, Uriah 
 
 145. 146, 154. 178, 182. 
 
 268 
 
 Farrell. A 154 
 
 Featherston. John R. . . . 269 
 Fenley. (Finley) Isaac. 
 
 . . .108, 147, 154. ]82, 186 
 
 Ferguson. David 269 
 
 Ferguson. Frank C 2 
 
 Ferguson. William T. . . . 192 
 
 Ferree, Frank M 269 
 
 Ferree, Shadrach L 269 
 
 Ferris. (Lawrenceburg) 
 
 44 
 
380 
 
 IXDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ferris, Samuel 269 
 
 Field, David L 254 
 
 Field, Nathaniel 
 
 154, 176, 192, 269 
 
 Fields, (Tampico) 140 
 
 Finch, (Centerville)..38, 39 
 
 Finley, George W 124 
 
 Fishback, Charles 
 
 154, 179, 269, 270 
 
 Fisher, Elias 192 
 
 Fisher, H. G 217 
 
 Fisher, Samnel 154 
 
 Fisher, Samuel 270 
 
 Fitch, Graham N 270 
 
 Fitzgerald, David A . . . . 192 
 
 Fitzgerald, Jenkins .... 192 
 
 Flack, William C 192 
 
 Fletcher William B . . . . 
 
 48, 70, 72, 271, 326, 366, 
 
 369 
 Florer, Thomas W 
 
 145, 154, 178, 179, 182, 
 
 192, 271, 272 
 
 Ford, James .. .154, 192, 272 
 
 Ford, James H 177 
 
 Ford, John H 192 
 
 Ford, John Louis... 139, 228 
 
 Ford, Joseph H 273 
 
 Forkner, Thomas B.... 217 
 
 Forstmeyer, Emil 192 
 
 Fosdick, Albert C 192 
 
 Fosdick, William 186 
 
 Foster, C. A 154 
 
 Foster, John 121, 122 
 
 Foster, William C, Sr. . 
 
 147, 182 
 
 Foster, Y/illiam C, Jr.. 
 
 154, 192, 204 
 
 Fonts, William D 192 
 
 Fowler, J 49 
 
 Foxworthy, Frank W. . . 
 
 205, 369 
 
 Frame, William B 
 
 75, 82, 83, 84, 85 
 
 France, John W 273 
 
 France, Samuel 192 
 
 Francis, James K 
 
 . 129, 147, 154, 182 
 
 Franks, W. H 98 
 
 Free, Cyrenius 217 
 
 Freeland. John L 370 
 
 Freeland, John T 22 
 
 Freeman, Edward D . . . . 181 
 
 Freeman, Samuel A 
 
 154, 192 
 
 Freeman, William ..192, 273 
 
 French, John S 192 
 
 French, William H 154 
 
 Frink, Charles S 
 
 99, 203, 273 
 
 Fritts, Thomas J 192 
 
 Fritz, Perry L 217 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Fry, Thomas W. ...... . 
 
 146, 154, 179, 182, 192, 
 
 273 
 Fullerton, Charles ...49, 226 
 Fullerton, George W. . . . 193 
 Fulenwider, Samuel .... ] 37 
 Funkhouser, David .... 
 
 73, 146, 154, 182, 273, 367 
 Fussell, Batholomew . . . 217 
 Fussell, Edwin B. . .208, 217 
 
 Gaddy, Nelson D 273 
 
 Galbreath, Thomas S . . . 274 
 Gale, Temple E 
 
 41, 113, 115, 128 
 
 Gall, Alois D 
 
 73, 146, 154, 182, 193, 274 
 Garber, Jonathan B.... 3 81 
 
 Garey, Dumont 274 
 
 Garrell, C. V 211 
 
 Garretson, J. M 217 
 
 Garrett, Anthony 193 
 
 Garrison, Herod D 193 
 
 Garrison, James L. F. . . 193 
 Garstang, Reginald W. . 205 
 
 Garver, George W 119 
 
 Garver, Henry F ..... . 193 
 
 Garver, James A 193 
 
 Garver, John James.... 274 
 Gaston, John M 
 
 73, 146, 154, 182 274 
 
 Gatch, James D 
 
 177, 180, 193, 274 
 
 Gause, Thomas 275 
 
 Geis, John F 275 
 
 Gentry, Zachariah B. . . . 193 
 Gerrard, Jerome B..154, 193 
 Gerrish, James W. F. . . . 
 
 193, 276 
 
 Gerrish, Millard F 205 
 
 Gibson, F. W 140, 228 
 
 GifiEord, Thomas ....127, 276 
 
 Gifford, William H 125 
 
 Gilbert, Henry 130 
 
 Gilbert, J. L 97, 98 
 
 Gilbert, William H 180 
 
 Gilfillan, John 125 
 
 Gillespie, (Ripley Co.) . . 44 
 
 Gillespie, William 193 
 
 Gillum, James 193 
 
 Gillum, R. T 118 
 
 Gilmore, Alexander W . . 193 
 
 Girdner, J. G 154 
 
 Glasgo, Thomas A 276 
 
 Glick, Elias B 193 
 
 Godwin, George W..209, 217 
 Goldsberrv, John A. 193, 276 
 
 Good. Alonzo H 276 
 
 Goodell. William 210 
 
 Goodwin, Grant 131 
 
 Goodwin. John R...127, 193 
 Gordon, George W 19S 
 
IXDEX. 
 
 381 
 
 Gordon, Jonathan W. . . . 
 
 130, 147, 1.-54, 
 
 Gorrell, Josoph R 
 
 Goss, James M 193, 
 
 Gould, Vernon 
 
 Graff, George B . . . . 154, 
 
 Graham, Alois B 
 
 Graham, Andrew E 
 
 Graham, J. N. .154, 361, 
 
 Graham, William B 
 
 Gramm, William 
 
 Grant, George H... .177, 
 
 Gravis, Charles M 
 
 Gray, Arthur W 
 
 Gray, .John M 193, 
 
 Gray, Samuel C 130, 
 
 Graydon, li. G 73, 
 
 Grayston, Fredk. S. C. . 
 
 Green, Charles H 
 
 Green, George R. . . .167, 
 
 Green, Hiram S 
 
 Green, J. H 
 
 Green, James H 
 
 Green, James H 
 
 Green, .James W 
 
 Green, John N 
 
 Green, Jonathan N. . 154, 
 
 Green, Lot 
 
 Green, W. P 
 
 Greenwood, (Robroy) . . . 
 
 Gregg, Henry 
 
 Gregg, James S 
 
 177, 180, 193, 
 
 Gregg, Vincent H 
 
 118, 193, 
 
 Grichfield, A. B 
 
 Griffis, Robert 
 
 Griffith, (Richmond) . . . 
 
 Griffith, John C 
 
 Grimes, Samuel .... 154, 
 
 Grinwell, John L 
 
 Grove, .Jasper M 
 
 Grover, Henry C 
 
 Guffin, John 
 
 Guyer, O. K 
 
 Guysinger, John S 
 
 Hadley, Edwin .' 
 
 Hadley, Evan 
 
 Hagen, (Rockford) 
 
 Haggerty, Robert J 
 
 Haines, Abram B 
 
 154, 193. 
 
 Hale, David M 63, 
 
 Hall, Clarissa .Johnson. . 
 Hall, Daniel D 
 
 117. 118, 154, 193, 
 
 Hall, Homer J 
 
 Hall, Wesley C 
 
 Hallanan. .Joseph 
 
 Ham, Levi J 193, 
 
 Hamen, (Monticello) . . . 
 
 PAGE 
 
 182 
 193 
 276 
 193 
 226 
 370 
 276 
 362 
 193 
 154 
 276 
 276 
 193 
 277 
 277 
 154 
 277 
 277 
 181 
 193 
 277 
 139 
 027 
 
 277 
 193 
 179 
 277 
 154 
 135 
 277 
 
 278 
 130 
 278 
 37 
 193 
 178 
 193 
 193 
 193 
 193 
 278 
 217 
 
 278 
 
 278 
 227 
 
 278 
 
 278 
 
 64 
 
 292 
 
 202 
 181 
 
 278 
 278 
 278 
 131 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hamil, Robert C 
 
 147, 154, 182 
 
 Hamilton, (Prairieton) . . 59 
 
 Hamilton, Asa A 120 
 
 Hamilton, John 134 
 
 Hamilton, S. M 119 
 
 Hammond, Francis J... 279 
 
 Hamon, (Burkville) .... 84 
 
 Hard, C 54 
 
 Hard, Nichols 53, 54 
 
 Harding, Myron H., Sr. . 
 
 147, 154, 162, 176, 179, 
 
 182, 279. 362 
 Harding, Myron H., Jr. . 
 
 279 
 
 Flardman, Jacob 279 
 
 Hargrove. William S... 279 
 
 Harriman, T^-onard .... 211 
 Ilarriman, Simeon B. . . . 
 
 193, 211 
 
 Harrington, S. H 154 
 
 Harris, Rice C 279 
 
 Harris, William B 22, 193 
 
 Harris, William C 280 
 
 Harrison, James S 
 
 69. 73, 146, 154. 182, 361 
 
 Harrison, Robert G 193 
 
 Harrison, Thomas H. . . . 
 
 194, 202 
 
 Harrod, Stanford H 280 
 
 Hartclay, (Greensburg) . 44 
 
 Hartloff. Richard 280 
 
 Harvey, Reuben 211 
 
 Harvev. Thomas B 
 
 70. '72, 73, 154. 177. 180. 
 280 
 
 Harvey. William F. . 154, 281 
 
 Hasty. George 281 
 
 Hatchitt. James G 155 
 
 Hatfield. (Jackson Co.). 140 
 
 Haughton. A. J 22 
 
 Haughton. Richard E. . .. 
 
 155, 177, 179, 180, 281 
 
 Havens. Joseph M 54 
 
 Hawkins, Eugene . . . 181, 205 
 
 Hawkins, Robert W 205 
 
 Hawkins. W. B 125 
 
 Hawn. Emanuel R 194 
 
 Hayden, Anexamander M. 180 
 
 Hayes, George C 283 
 
 Hayes, Samuel M 194 
 
 Haymaker, George W. . . 282 
 
 Haymond, Rufus 127 
 
 Haymond. William S.. . . 
 
 194, 282 
 
 Havnes, (Rising Sun) . . 44 
 
 Hays, Franklin W 282 
 
 Hays, George C 137 
 
 Hazard, H. W 118 
 
 Heady, William S 283 
 
 Heald, J. F 155 
 
 Heath, Frederic C 178 
 
382 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ueaton, Johnson F 194 
 
 Heatwole, Joseph H. . . . 283 
 Heavenridge, Allen. 155, 283 
 
 Hedges, Isaac B 283 
 
 Helm, Jefferson 
 
 , 84, 85, 116, 147, 155, 182, 
 
 283 
 
 Helm, John C 92, 283 
 
 Helm, John H 177, 283 
 
 Helmer, Orlando H 194 
 
 Hendershot, Claude T. . 
 
 181, 338 
 
 Henderson, Harvey D . . . 
 
 155, 283 
 
 Henderson, James T. . . . 283 
 
 Henderson, John F 194 
 
 Hendricks, William .... 212 
 Hendricks, William C. . . 194 
 Henkle, (Wabash) 
 
 146. 155, 182 
 
 Henley, A. W 123 
 
 Henning, Robert 283 
 
 Henry, (Chesterfield) . . 209 
 
 Henry, David H 194 
 
 Henry, Robert 194 
 
 Hensley, John H 283 
 
 Henthorne, Lewis S . . . . 284 
 
 Herrmann, John 284 
 
 Hervey, Frank F 284 
 
 Hervey. James W. . . . . . 
 
 95, 96, 155, 194, 284 
 
 Hervey, Thomas P 194 
 
 Hess. Luther W 284 
 
 Hessler, Robert 336,369 
 
 Hiatt, Christopher C. . . 194 
 Hibberd, .James F 
 
 155, 176, 178, 232, 284 
 
 Hickam, Wilfred . . 286 
 
 Hickox, H. C 155 
 
 Higbee, Edward S 194 
 
 Higday, Tompkins 
 
 52. 53, 54, 55, 286 
 
 Higgins, Carter B 286 
 
 Highman, Louis 286 
 
 Higinbotham, Samuel . . 194 
 
 Hilburn, Eber W 286 
 
 Hilburn, Jabez C 194 
 
 Hildredth, (Madison Co.) 210 
 
 Hill. Reuben M 135 
 
 Hillis, (.Jackson Co.) . . . 227 
 
 Hillis, D. B .... 1.39, 155 
 
 Hinkley, Judah 127 
 
 Hinman, Homer T 
 
 109, 147, 155, 182 
 
 Hitchcock, (Covington).. 134 
 Hitchcock. John W. . . 56, 194 
 
 Hitt, John Y 194 
 
 Hitt, AYillis Washington. 
 8, 11. 16, 19, 21, 22. 147, 
 155. 178. 179, 182, 286 
 
 Hoagland .John S 194 
 
 Hobbs, William P 194 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hobbs, Wilson 
 
 177, 180, 194, 287 
 
 Hochstetter, Jacob P. . . 194 
 
 Hockett, Zimri 217 
 
 Hodges, Fred Jenner... 217 
 Hodgkins, Lewis W. . . . 194 
 
 Hoel, John B 155. 
 
 Hoffman, Max F. A. . . . . 194 
 Holcomb, John B 
 
 147, 155, 183 
 
 Holland, Hezekian 19 
 
 Holmes, Azel 56, 58 
 
 Holtzmann, Samuel E . . 194 
 Homburg, Conradin .... 287 
 
 Hoover, (Muncie) 92 
 
 Hopkins, Joseph 66 
 
 Hornbrook, William P. . 
 
 194, 288 
 
 Home, John 210, 218 
 
 Home, Samuel S...122, 288 
 
 Horner, Jacob S 194 
 
 Hotchkiss, (Terre Haute) . 62 
 Houghland, William T.. 194 
 
 Houser, Jacob H 194 
 
 Howard, C. N 130 
 
 Howard, Elijah J 288 
 
 Howard, John L . 369 
 
 Howard, Noble P 
 
 155, 180, 194, 288 
 
 Howes, (Madison) 44 
 
 Howland, J. M 
 
 75, 80, 81, 85, 86 
 
 Hudleson, Lucius R . . . . 288 
 Huggins, George M 
 
 146, 155, 183 
 
 Hughes, S. W 117, 119 
 
 Hughs, John 288 
 
 Humphreys, Louis 
 
 54, 155, 177, 179, 194, 
 
 288 
 Hunt, Andrew M 
 
 73, 146, 155, 183, 194 
 
 Hunt, Franklin W 
 
 52, 146, 183 
 
 Hunt, John 
 
 . . .145, 155, 183, 210, 218 
 
 Hunt, John W 218 
 
 Hunt, Tilghman 288 
 
 Hunt, WMlliam A 218 
 
 Hunter, James B 194 
 
 Hurd, Anson 155, 194 
 
 Hurt, William J 180 
 
 Hurty, .John N 181, 368 
 
 Huston, A. S 219 
 
 Hutchinson, David 
 
 145, 155, 164, 176, 179, 
 
 183, 194, 288, 364 
 
 Inlow, James B 219 
 
 Inlow, John J 290 
 
 Insley, William Q 290 
 
 Ireland, J. M 155 
 
IMJEX. 
 
 383 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ireland, William H 194 
 
 Irish, (Covington) 1.34 
 
 Irish, (Terre Haute) 56 
 
 Irwin, George E 194 
 
 Irwin, John S 155 
 
 Irwin, Luther M 290 
 
 Isler, J 155 
 
 lutzi, Joseph 290 
 
 Jackman, Frank 291 
 
 Jackson, John 130 
 
 Jackson, Solomon 139 
 
 James, (Rising Sun) ... 44 
 Jameson, Patrick H . . . . 
 33, 73, 146. 148, 155, 183, 
 291, 367, 368 
 
 Jaquess, George D 1 94 
 
 Jay, James C 195 
 
 Jeancon, John Allard. . . 195 
 
 Jenks, Edward 99 
 
 Jennings, D 155 
 
 Jessup, D. H 155 
 
 Jessup, Robert B 
 
 9, 19, 20, 21, 22, 180, 195, 
 291 
 
 Jessup, R. R 155 
 
 Jewett, Luther .... 155, 291 
 
 Jobes, George 291 
 
 John, Isaac G 129 
 
 John, Jr., (Brookville).. 128 
 Johnson, (Brookville)... 128 
 
 Johnson, Charles S 291 
 
 Johnson, E. K 155 
 
 Johnson, H. "V. V. . . . 
 
 73, 146, 155, 183 
 
 Johnson, Isaac C 195 
 
 Johnson, Jarvis J. . .195, 202 
 
 Johnson, John B 195 
 
 Johnson, Joseph 155 
 
 Johnson, Lemuel R 292 
 
 Johnson, Nathan ..... 
 
 145, 155, 176, 178, 179, 
 183, 292 
 Johnson, P. Roosevelt . . 155 
 
 Johnson, Samuel F 195 
 
 Johnson, Thomas J 195 
 
 Johnson, Thomas W. . . . 292 
 Johnson, William W. . . . 195 
 
 Johnson, Z. C 130 
 
 Jones, Caleb V 
 
 . -.133, 136, 186, 195, 292 
 
 Jones, David M I55 
 
 Jones, G. S 133 
 
 Jones, George W 195 
 
 Jones, Harry 195 
 
 Jones, Hiram G 293 
 
 Jones, Homer 1 205 
 
 Jones, James Y 195 
 
 Jones, J. M 219 
 
 Jones, John H 195 
 
 Jones, John S 134 
 
 Jones, Joseph 195 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Jones, Joseph 134 
 
 Jones, "Long" 135 
 
 Jones, P. G 26, 187 
 
 Jones, Peter 63 
 
 Jones, Robert E 293 
 
 Jones, T. B 293 
 
 Jones, Thomas N...195, 219 
 
 Jones, William B 195 
 
 Jordan. De Witt 219 
 
 Josse, John M 195, 293 
 
 Judkins, Elam 1 293 
 
 Judkins, Stanton, 147, 155, 183 
 
 Juettner, Otto 393 
 
 Jump, Samuel V 92, 293 
 
 Justice, John H 293 
 
 Kahlo, George D. . . .178, 369 
 
 Kamman, G. H 138 
 
 Kappel, .John H 293 
 
 Kautz. John 293 
 
 Kay, David G 195 
 
 Kay, Rohert 195 
 
 Keegan, Charles J 293 
 
 Keeley, (Covington)..., 134 
 
 Keen, Lorenzo S 195 
 
 Keiper, George F. . .175, 180 
 
 Keiser. Alfred 195 
 
 Kell, (Gibson Co.) 226 
 
 Kell, Mrs. Rev. John... 226 
 
 Kellogg. Norman P 202 
 
 Kelly, Mathew 195 
 
 Kelsy, Jeremiah S 293 
 
 Kelso, Reese D 293 
 
 Kelso, William H 195 
 
 Kemper. General W. H. . 
 89. 93. 174. 177. 195, •->32, 
 366. 367. 369. 370 
 
 Kempf, E. .J 293 
 
 Kempf. Mathew ....... 293 
 
 Kempf. Paul H 294 
 
 Kendall. Jacob Key .... 
 
 ,, 6, 12. 14, 15, 63, 04 
 
 Kendall. R. M 3 30 
 
 Kendrick. William H . . . 195 
 
 Kennedy, Hamlet K 195 
 
 Kennedy, Leroy H 195 
 
 Kennedy, Levi H 155 
 
 Kennedy, Samuel .. .180, 369 
 Kennedy, Samuel A. 155, 294 
 
 Kennedy, Thomas 129 
 
 Kennedy. Thomas C . . . . 178 
 
 Kersey, Silas H 195, 294 
 
 Kersey, Vierling 
 
 145, 148, 155, 176, 178, 
 183. 294, 362 
 
 Kessinger, Ellis M 295 
 
 Kester, Ephraim 124 
 
 Ketcham, John D 295 
 
 Kilgore, Tecumseh..l95, 219 
 
 Killen. James 195 
 
 Kimball, Abner D 195 
 
 Kimball, Thomas C 205 
 
384 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Kimberlin, (Jackson Co.). 140 
 
 Kimsey, J. C 132 
 
 Kinderman, Alexander . . 295 
 
 King, Enoch W 295, 366 
 
 King, Henry R 195 
 
 King, M. 335 
 
 King, William F 195, 295 
 
 Kirby, Henry 92, 195 
 
 Kirkpatrick. George W. . 195 
 
 Kiser. William P 104 
 
 Kitchen, John M...156, 368 
 
 Kivett, John 156 
 
 Knapp, A. B 287 
 
 Knapp, Moses L 53 
 
 Knepfler, Natiian 
 
 156, 295, 296 
 
 Knight, (Old Chambers- 
 burg) 135 
 
 Knight, James H 195 
 
 Knoefel, August F 181 
 
 Kosdick, G. W 130 
 
 Krauth, Ferdinand .... 195 
 
 Kuester, Charles E 195 
 
 Kunkler, Gustave A . . . . 196 
 
 Kuykendall. J 18, 19 
 
 Kyle, John J 205 
 
 Kynett, William ...209, 210 
 
 Lamb, James 296 
 
 Lamberson, H. M 113 
 
 Lambey, Louis 196 
 
 Lammers, Frank H 296 
 
 Landon, H 98 
 
 Lane, Daniel S 186 
 
 Lane, William Carr.7, 14, 15 
 
 Langdon, Harry K 205 
 
 Lansing. Sylvester .... 196 
 
 Larkin. John B 196, 296 
 
 Larkins, Edgar L. ..180, 367 
 
 Larue, Benjamin 296 
 
 Lash, Hugh M 296 
 
 Latta, Milton M 
 
 99, 156, 179. 297, 366 
 
 Lattimore, Finley C . . . . 196 
 
 Laughlin, Edmond D 180 
 
 Laughlin, .John M 211 
 
 Laughlin, William B. . . . 
 
 49, 75, 76, 77, 84 
 
 Lawder, William G 297 
 
 Lawrence, Amos O ^ . . . . 297 
 
 Layman. Daniel W 297 
 
 Layman. Daniel W. . . . . . 299 
 
 Leach, (Attica) 137 
 
 Leatherman, Joseph H.. 299 
 
 Leavitt, Philander C 196 
 
 Lee, George W 54 
 
 Lee, Henry D 58 
 
 Leech, Elliott W 196 
 
 Leech, Thomas F...180, 204 
 
 Leedv, John K 130, 196 
 
 Lemon, William H 196 
 
 Lennox, Frank 299 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lent, Cyrus V. N 196 
 
 Leonard, Somervell E.. . 
 
 . . .146, 156, 183, 299, 361 
 
 Leslie, Alexander 
 
 19, 156, 299 
 
 Letcher, J. K 22 
 
 Lewellen. Wesley 92 
 
 Lewis, Eli 196 
 
 Lewis, George C 300 
 
 Lewis, John ...147, 156, 183 
 
 Lewis, John 1 205 
 
 Lewis, Samuel B 196 
 
 Libray. Presley 117 
 
 Liddall, James P 196 
 
 Light, Amos B 300 
 
 Lime. (Jackson Co.) . . . 227 
 
 Lindsley, John 156 
 
 Lingle, Richard W 300 
 
 Lininger, Daniel P 196 
 
 Link, Harvey 156 
 
 Linn, Timothy T 300 
 
 Linnville. Lewis M 300 
 
 Linton, Samuel M 
 
 107, 156, 176, 300 
 
 Lister, F. E 131 
 
 Little, H. A 300 
 
 Lloyd. Frederick 156 
 
 Lockhart, Wilson ..176. 180 
 Lomax. Constantine .... 
 
 123, 300 
 
 Lomax, William 
 
 54. 120. 123, 156. 176, 
 
 178, 196, 300, 301, 366 
 
 Long, E 139 
 
 Long, Jeremiah H 301 
 
 Long, John 228 
 
 Loring, David J 181 
 
 Louks, Thomas C 147 
 
 Lovel, (Brookville) 128 
 
 Lovett, John A 301 
 
 Low, Nathan M 156 
 
 Lummis, Joseph E 301 
 
 Lynch, M. J 156 
 
 Lyons, Ira E 301 
 
 JLyons, Lewis D 302 
 
 Lyons, William B...180, 302 
 
 McCaskey, George W. . . . 
 
 177, 
 
 McCain, (Huntsville) . . . 
 
 McCarthy, John F 
 
 McCauley, Robert.. .302, 
 
 McChristie, .John 
 
 McClain, James 
 
 McClelland, James S. . . . 
 
 156, 163. 179, 196, 
 
 363 
 McClenahan, Thomas J. 
 
 156, 
 
 McClure, David 
 
 McClure, Jesse D 
 
 McClure, Robert M 
 
 .338 
 210 
 196 
 303 
 196 
 202 
 
 304, 
 
 220 
 305 
 305 
 107 
 
jM)i:x. 
 
 385 
 
 PAGE 
 
 .McClurc, SaiuiK'l M 196 
 
 McConnell, Geoi'gu W. . . . 132 
 
 McConnoll, James 132 
 
 McCoy, Georgf.' K 196 
 
 McCoy, James A. (J 196 
 
 McCoy, John 196 
 
 McCoy, William A 305 
 
 McCoy, William N 305 
 
 McCrea, Tliomas I' 196 
 
 McCulloch, James 305 
 
 McCullougli, Howard . . . 305 
 McCullough, John L. . 63, 64 
 
 McCully, Charles II 181 
 
 McCune, George W 196 
 
 McDaniel, Cornelius W.. 305 
 
 McDonald, D. H 156 
 
 McDougal, Charles 203 
 
 McDougle, Charles .... 32 
 McElwee, (Fountain Co.) 
 
 137 
 
 McFadden, William G . . 
 
 156, 196, 305 
 
 McFall, D. M 156 
 
 McFarland, J. B 156 
 
 McGaughey, Andrew J . . 305 
 McGaughey, John AV. . . . 156 
 
 McGee, Richard 196 
 
 McGraw, T. A 99 
 
 McJenkins, F. M 19 
 
 McKee, A. B 6 
 
 McKee, Samuel C. Jr... 
 
 6, 12, 14, 15 
 
 McKinney, Asa W 196 
 
 McKinney, George W. . . 305 
 
 McKinstry, John F 305 
 
 McLelland, A. J 138 
 
 McLeod, Angus J 305 
 
 McMahan, Samuel W . . . 306 
 
 McMahan, W. V 220 
 
 McMechan, James G. . . . 
 
 156, 306 
 
 McNamee, Elias 
 
 6, 14, 15, 18, 19, 63, 65 
 
 McNary, Charles E 306 
 
 McNear, (Moonsville) . . . 210 
 
 McNutt, James H 196 
 
 McPheeters, John G 306 
 
 McPheeters, John S 196 
 
 McPheeters, Joseph G. . . 196 
 
 McShane, John T 306 
 
 McShirley, James L. . . . 306 
 MacCoy, George T 
 
 100, 177, 368 
 
 Maclean, Caroline Fitch. 302 
 Maclean, George M. .156, 302 
 Maddox, (Gibson Co.)... 226 
 
 Maddox, Joseph 19 
 
 Magann, Edwin W 196 
 
 Mageniss, John 196 
 
 Mahan, Oliver P 
 
 146, 156, 183 
 
 Malone, John A 306 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Mankcr, Lewis 106 
 
 Mantle, John K. . .9, 19, 22 
 
 Manuel, Grofton 228 
 
 Mapes, Smith II 306 
 
 Markle, John E 306 
 
 Marr, Delos B 306 
 
 Marquim, (Old Chambers- 
 burg) 135 
 
 Marsee, Joseph W 306 
 
 Marsh, Wells K 54 
 
 Marshall, Daniel M 307 
 
 Martin, James W 196 
 
 Martin. John H. L 307 
 
 Martin, M. L 156 
 
 Martin, Samuel F 196 
 
 Martin, Samuel M 308 
 
 Martin, William II 196 
 
 Martin, W. H . . . . 75. s.",. 87 
 
 Martin, W. W 196 
 
 Mason, Ferdinand 196 
 
 Mason, Charles li 308 
 
 Mason, Philip 
 
 41. 115. 116. 117 
 
 Ma-te-a (Indian) 28 
 
 Mauzy. Pt. D 156 
 
 Mavitv. James S 308 
 
 Maxwell, (Jackson Co.). 140 
 Maxwell, James D.. Sr. . 
 
 147, 156. 183, 308 
 
 Maxwell, James D.. Jr. . 308 
 
 Maxwell. O. S 135 
 
 Mav. Oliver T 308 
 
 Mav, Willis L 202 
 
 May, Willis L 308 
 
 Mayer. Carl F 308 
 
 Mavfield. ClifEord H 126 
 
 Mayo, William W...156. 363 
 
 Mears, George W 
 
 57. 70. 72. 73. 146. 148, 
 156, 176, 183. 308. 361, 
 365 
 
 Mears N 19 
 
 Medaris. John 131. 132 
 
 Meek. John A 122, 196 
 
 Meeker, Daniel 
 
 52, 53, 54. 55. 69. 156, 
 176, 179, 196, 310, 364 
 
 Meeker, Lysander 196 
 
 Megee, William N 310 
 
 Melscheimer, Charles T. 
 
 196. 310 
 
 Mendenhall, Elihu T. . • • 
 
 Mendenhali, J 156 
 
 Mendenhall, J. R •->' 
 
 Mendenhall, Nathan .... 
 
 156. 310 
 
 Mendenhall, William O. . 310 
 
 Mendenhall, William T. . 19 < 
 
 Menefee, E. H 220 
 
 Meranda, Isaac 73 
 
 Mercer, Thomas C 310 
 
386 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Mercer, William M 197 
 
 Meredith, Marion 197 
 
 Merit, Nathaniel P 197 
 
 Merrit, J. N 22 
 
 Messner, Samuel F 197 
 
 Metcalf, Charles N 310 
 
 Metz, J. J 156 
 
 Miles, (Newton) 137 
 
 Miller, Abram 311 
 
 Miller, James 197 
 
 Miller, M. F 118 
 
 Miller, Samuel 
 
 41, 116, 117, 118 
 
 Millman, John H 311 
 
 Millner, Isaac N 197 
 
 Mills, James R 197 
 
 Minich, James A 311 
 
 Minshall, Levi 93, 94 
 
 Mitchel. Walter J 311 
 
 Mitchell, D. B 49 
 
 Mitchell, D. G 49 
 
 Mitchell. Elisha V 197 
 
 Mitchell, Giles B.. . .156, 313 
 
 Mitchell, Harvey 313 
 
 Mitchell, James F 311 
 
 Mitchell, John D 180 
 
 Mitchell, Robert 197 
 
 Mitchell, Robert S 197 
 
 Mitchell, Samuel E 92 
 
 Mitchell, Samuel G 
 
 31. 33, 43, 49, 50 
 
 Mitchell, T. G 220 
 
 Mock, John W 137 
 
 Mock, Samuel I 138 
 
 Modesett, Charles B..61, 62 
 
 Modricker, John M 313 
 
 Moffett, John 
 
 75, 87, 156, 176, 179, 180, 
 
 313 
 Moffett, Joseph 
 
 41, 84. 113, 115, 116, 128 
 
 Moffltt, John 197 
 
 Monroe, Jasper R 
 
 139, 140, 197, 227 
 
 Monroe, Victor H 228 
 
 Montgomery, David B. . . 313 
 Montgomery, George B.. 197 
 
 Monteith, Jacob S 197 
 
 Moodey, .John W 
 
 . . .147. 156, 162, 183, 313 
 
 Mooney, Henry C 313 
 
 Moore, (Cumberland) . . 95 
 Moore, (Indianapolis) .. 365 
 
 Moore, Anderson M 202 
 
 Moore. Charles V 313 
 
 Moore, Harry S 205 
 
 Moore, Harvey A 205 
 
 Moore, John 203 
 
 Moore, John B 313 
 
 Moore, Maurice G 181 
 
 Moore, R. C 156 
 
 Moore. Richard S 314 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Morgan, (Jackson Co.).. 139 
 
 Morgan, Daniel 156 
 
 Morgan, James W 197 
 
 Morgan, Ralph G 314 
 
 Morgan, Robert H 314 
 
 Morgan, Samuel B 314 
 
 Morgan, William J... 92, 211 
 
 Morgan, William V 314 
 
 Morris, (Brookville) . . . 129 
 
 Morris, J. M 156 
 
 Morrow, Doctor F 197 
 
 Morrow, James L 197 
 
 Morse, M. F 132 
 
 Moss, Gordon A 197 
 
 Mothershead, F. M 157 
 
 Mothershead, John L. . . 
 
 32, 33, 43, 73, 145, 146. 
 
 156. 179, 183, 314 
 
 Mothershead, J. L 314 
 
 Mulhauser, H 157 
 
 Mulhauser, M 157 
 
 Mullane, Joseph 314 
 
 Mullen, Alexander J. . . . 
 
 129, 130, 145, 157, 183, 
 
 197, 314 
 Mullen, Bernard F 
 
 129, 130, 147. 157, 183, 
 
 315 
 Mullen, Cora E 
 
 315, 316, 317 
 
 Mullen, John W 
 
 147, 157. 183, 316 
 
 Mullinix, Maston G.197, 317 
 Munford, Samuel E.. . . 
 
 177, 197, 317 
 
 Murdock, George D . . 49, 128 
 
 Murphy, Alexander D . . . 197 
 
 Murphy, Alexander M. . . 197 
 
 Murphy, Edward 157 
 
 Murphy, Pierson 319 
 
 Murray, Alfred L 319 
 
 Murray, Ralph V 197 
 
 Myers, Seth F 197 
 
 Myers, William D Jl 97 
 
 Myers, William H 
 
 197, 319, 370 
 
 Nash, George W 821 
 
 Neat, Thomas C 197 
 
 Neely, John M 197 
 
 Negl'ey, D. N 157 
 
 Nelson, William Y 197 
 
 Nesbit, Thomas 19 
 
 Nesbitt. Joseph A.. .157, 321 
 
 New, George W. 
 
 . . .147, 157, 183. 197, 321 
 Newcomer. Frisby S. . . . 
 
 157, 321, 365 
 
 Newkirk. A. L 140, 228 
 
 Newland. Benjamin .... 
 
 157. 177. '179, 180, 197. 
 321 
 
JM)i:.\. 
 
 oo- 
 ■tnt 
 
 I'AGE 
 
 Xewland, Klijali K 157 
 
 Newland, Harold C 205 
 
 Newland, James H 321 
 
 Newton, William T 321 
 
 Nichols, John D 197 
 
 Niei-man, Herman G . . . . 322 
 
 Niles, John B 52, 53, 54 
 
 Niman, Charles H 322 
 
 Niraan, Jonas 1' 322 
 
 Noble, B. S 129 
 
 Noble, Thomas B., Sr. . . 
 
 . . 322 
 
 . . 322 
 
 Noland, Stacy T 
 
 Norris, Samuel C 
 
 North, Eugene B 
 
 Nutt, John 
 
 73, 146, i; 
 
 Nuzum, D. I* 
 
 O'Connor, John Z 
 
 O'Ferrall, Robert M. . . . 
 
 157, 179, 197, 
 
 Ofifutt, T. F 
 
 Ogden, Joseph 
 
 O'Haver, J. K 
 
 Olcutt. W. A 
 
 Olds. Joseph H 
 
 Oliver, David 44, 
 
 Oliver, Dandridge H. . . . 
 
 Oliver, John H 
 
 Omo, Joseph H 
 
 O'Neal, Laughlin .. .157, 
 
 O'Rear, Charles D 
 
 Origan, James F 
 
 Orr, James 1' 
 
 Orvis, John Quincy 
 
 O'Ryan, C. D. B 
 
 Osgood, Howard G 
 
 Osterman, A. G....138, 
 Owen, Abraham M 
 
 183 
 220 
 
 220 
 
 302 
 ' 19 
 137 
 
 19 
 157 
 197 
 
 49 
 
 322 
 
 309 
 
 322 
 
 197 
 
 322 
 20 
 
 197 
 229 
 118 
 197 
 227 
 
 Pabody, Ezra Fitch 
 
 44. 322, 323 
 
 Palmiter, Clebron 98 
 
 Pantzer, Hugo 264 
 
 Paris, Absalom 220 
 
 Paris, William 220 
 
 Parker, G. B 157 
 
 Parker, Joseph 323 
 
 Parks, Edward R . . . 3 30, 197 
 
 Parks, William 130 
 
 Parmerlee, H. M 203 
 
 Parr, John N 323 
 
 Parr, Thomas E 323 
 
 Parry, Charles - 
 
 45, 73, 146, 157. 178, 183, 
 
 323, .324, 361, 367 
 
 Parsons, George W 197 
 
 Parvin. Theophilus .... 
 
 2, 99. 157, 176, 178, 202. 
 
 324, 325, 326 
 
 Patrick, Septer 56, 57 
 
 Patten, James C 
 
 . ., 197, 227. 
 
 Patterson. John J 
 
 Patterson, Philijj I».211. 
 
 Patterson. R. J , 
 
 ;i45, 148, 157. 
 
 Pattison, George W 
 
 Patton, Alfred 
 
 . . .3, 11. 22, 74. 185, 
 
 Payne, J. H . 
 
 Paynter, Christian L... 
 
 Pearce, John W 
 
 Pearman, Francis M. . . . 
 198. 
 
 Pearson, Charles D 
 
 ] 98, 
 
 Peck, Samuel W. . . ] 98, 
 
 Pegann, Emanuel 
 
 I'egg, Jesse A 
 
 147, 157. 183, 
 
 Pence, Rollin 
 
 Pennington, I. I 
 
 Pennington, Joel 
 
 53. 41, 157, 177. 178. 
 327 
 
 Pennington, .T. W 
 
 Pennington. W. D 
 
 Pepper, William J.. 118, 
 P e r c c V al, (^ Lawrence- 
 burg) 
 
 Perkins Conrad S 
 
 Perry, David 
 
 I'erry, John W 
 
 Personett, L. D 
 
 Pettijohn, Amos 
 
 Pettijohn, Deming 
 
 Peyton, David C 
 
 174, 178, 205, 
 
 Pf aff, John A 
 
 Phillips, Charles W 
 
 Phillips, R. N 
 
 J^hipps. John M . . . . 198. 
 
 Piatt. William C 
 
 Pickthall. Arthur 
 
 Pier, ( Centerville ) ... 38, 
 
 Pierson, Allen 
 
 Pitcher, Stewart 
 
 Pitzer, Andrew B 
 
 Pleasants, John H. . . 73, 
 
 Plummer, Isaac N 
 
 Plummer, J. T 37, 
 
 Poffenberger, Isaiah . . . 
 
 Polke, Thomas 63, 
 
 Pope, Henry E 
 
 Porter, Albert G. . . . 180, 
 
 Porter, John P 
 
 Porter, .Joseph 
 
 Porter, Miles F 
 
 Porter. William r> 
 
 Posey, John W 19, 
 
 Pottenger, Wilson 
 
 PAGK 
 
 327 
 198 
 220 
 
 183 
 198 
 
 186 
 140 
 327 
 198 
 
 198 
 
 209 
 327 
 226 
 
 179, 
 
 19 
 368 
 328 
 
 44 
 198 
 211 
 220 
 157 
 328 
 
 54 
 
 254 
 206 
 328 
 328 
 328 
 198 
 198 
 
 39 
 
 73 
 198 
 328 
 157 
 198 
 
 38 
 198 
 
 64 
 198 
 328 
 198 
 
 19 
 177 
 328 
 328 
 198 
 
oSb 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Potter. Theodore 
 
 181, 276, 368 
 
 Potts, John 198 
 
 Poucher. Charles H. C . . 328 
 
 Powers, James H 92 
 
 Pratt, Joel 220 
 
 Pratt, Samuel R 198 
 
 Pressley, William H 157 
 
 Preston, ( Middletown ) . . 209 
 Preston. Albert G 
 
 147. 157, 179, 183, 198, 
 
 328 
 
 Preston, Samuel C 330 
 
 Price, James M 125 
 
 Prigg. Edward C 330 
 
 Pritehett, John 40, 198 
 
 Proegler. Carl 330 
 
 Prunk, Daniel H 198 
 
 Pugh, Joseph, Sr 220 
 
 Pugh; J. W 22 
 
 Pugh. John W 330 
 
 Pugh, Joseph, Jr 220 
 
 Pugh, Mahlon 330 
 
 Pugh, William A 
 
 :. 37, 75, 330 
 
 Purviance, Samuel W. . . 330 
 
 Ouick. John H 128 
 
 Rainev, Harvey W 
 
 Ralston, William G 
 
 Ramsey, (Jackson Co.) . . 
 Ramsey, C. S 
 
 146, 157, 
 
 Randall, W. D 
 
 Ransburg, Martin V 
 
 Rathert. William H 
 
 Rea, George N 
 
 Rea, John 157, 
 
 Read, Ezra 
 
 56. 74, 162, 198, 330. 
 
 Read, Thomas M 
 
 Reader, William 
 
 Reagan, Amos W. . ..157, 
 
 Reagan, Jesse 157. 
 
 Reasoner, William M . . . 
 
 Record, Samuel 
 
 Reed, Albert S 
 
 Reed, C. S 
 
 Reed, E. P 
 
 Reel, Alfred 
 
 Reeves, Uriah G 
 
 Reid, Samuel 157. 
 
 Reiley, William F 
 
 Renner. John G. E 
 
 Rerick, John H 
 
 Reynolds, (Brookston). . 
 
 Reynolds. Robert C 
 
 Rice, C. D 
 
 Richards. George W. . . . 
 
 Richards. Samuel D 
 
 Richardson. (Monon) . . . 
 
 330 
 
 198 
 140 
 
 183 
 98 
 330 
 206 
 330 
 330 
 
 .332 
 
 157 
 157 
 198 
 198 
 332 
 157 
 198 
 99 
 228 
 
 332 
 179 
 332 
 332 
 198 
 131 
 198 
 132 
 53 
 198 
 131 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Richardson, Adamson G. 198 
 Richardson, George T. . . 333 
 Richardson, Nehemiah . . 333 
 Richmond, Corydon .... 
 
 208, 333, 366 
 
 Richmond, John L 
 
 208. 221, 334. 393 
 
 Rider, Daniel M 221 
 
 Riffle, John S 137, 198 
 
 Ringo, James L 221 
 
 Ritchie, James 104, 105 
 
 Ritchie, John 103 
 
 Ritter, John A 198 
 
 Ritter, Levi 157 
 
 Ritter, Mary 132 
 
 Robb, Andrew 209 
 
 Robbins, Alfred H..179, 334 
 
 Robbins, Clark 157 
 
 Robbinson, John A. .... . 198 
 
 Robertson, (Vallonia) . . 140 
 
 Robinson, Lanson D 198 
 
 Robinson, William E.. . . 158 
 
 Robson, John R 198 
 
 Robson. Robert 198 
 
 Rockwell, William 198 
 
 Rodman, (Freetown) . . . 140 
 
 Roe, E. R 209 
 
 Roe, John L 139, 198 
 
 Roe. John S 158 
 
 Roesgen, (Dudleytown) . 139 
 
 Roether, Daniel B 198 
 
 Rogers, Clarke 335 
 
 Rogers, Dudley 198 
 
 Rogers, Joseph G....335, 336 
 Rogers, Joseph H. D. . . . 
 
 147, 158, 183, 335 
 
 Roland, Henry B . . . 106, 107 
 
 Rooker, James I 
 
 158, 199, 336 
 
 Ronalds, Hugh 158 
 
 Rose, Gustavus A 52 
 
 Rose, Joseph 103 
 
 Rose, Madison H 
 
 199. 336 
 
 Rosegan, Philip 228 
 
 Rosenthal, Isaac M 
 
 180, 336 
 
 Rosenthal, J 158 
 
 Ross, Charles A 338 
 
 Ross, Jonathan 338 
 
 Ross, Justin P 338 
 
 Rous, Hannah C 338 
 
 Rowan, B. C 27, 158 
 
 Rowland, George 133 
 
 Rowland, Thomas 136 
 
 Rowland, Willard 158 
 
 Rubish, David P 339 
 
 Ruby. Alfred 117 
 
 Rucker, T. H 158, 361 
 
 Ruddell, A. G 73, 209 
 
 Runcie. E. T 158 
 
 Rundell, Alpharis E 339 
 
INDEX. 
 
 389 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Kiipei-t, Delos W 199 
 
 Rush, Lorenzo 134 
 
 Russell, E. T 85 
 
 Russell, George H 199 
 
 Russell, Isaac C 199 
 
 Ruter, Rinaldo R 199 
 
 Rutledge, William 199 
 
 Ryan, Townsend 
 
 145, 158, 178, 183. 199, 
 
 221 
 
 Rynerson, J. N 158 
 
 Sabine, Elias H 199 
 
 Sackett, (Centerville) . . 38 
 
 Sadler, Joseph J 199 
 
 St. Clair, Owen 200 
 
 St. John, Samuel 
 
 121, 122 
 
 Salb, James P 181 
 
 Salisbury, David 199 
 
 Sanborn, Perley P 339 
 
 Sanders. John H 
 
 33. 73. 144, 146, 148. 149, 
 
 158, 183 
 
 Sanford, James H 339 
 
 Sapper, (Jackson Co.) . . 140 
 
 Sarber. William E 130 
 
 Saunders. Joseph 222 
 
 Sawyer, J. S 19 
 
 Scearce, John C 199 
 
 Schafer. Albert F 339 
 
 Schell, Frederick A 190 
 
 Schell, Walker 177 
 
 Scherer, Simon P 3 
 
 Schmidt, Elizabeth 339 
 
 Schmidt, Gustavus A. . . 199 
 
 Schmidtz, Charles 339 
 
 Schonover, William S....i58 
 
 Schultz, Guv A 206 
 
 Schultz, Oscar T 339 
 
 Schultz, W^illiam H 180 
 
 Schussler, Charles 199 
 
 Schweitzer, i^da E 371 
 
 Scott, (Newtown) 135 
 
 Scott, Daniel V 339 
 
 Scott, Gideon 339 
 
 Scott, William 199 
 
 Scott, William 339 
 
 Scott, William G 199 
 
 Scrambling. William H. 340 
 Scribner, William A.... 
 
 146, 158, 183, 340 
 
 Scudder, .John A 199 
 
 Scudder. K. A 32. 49 
 
 Scull. David C 340 
 
 Seaton, William H 340 
 
 Sevenick. Bernard 26 
 
 Severance. Lagrange . . . 340 
 
 Severn, Mrs. John 225 
 
 Sexton. Horatio G 
 
 75. 76. 77, 78, 84. 85. 87. 
 
 179, 340 
 
 Sexton, John C 
 
 Sexton, Marshall 
 
 43, 49, 75. 80, 85. 
 
 177. 199, 340 
 
 Shaffer. Abner H 
 
 Shald. F. S 
 
 Shaplev. William W. . . . 
 Sharp, Harrv C. . . .181. 
 
 Sharp, W. M 
 
 Sheldon. George W 
 
 Shell. Ogden G 
 
 Shellhamer, Carey 
 
 Sherman, ( Newtown ). . . 
 
 Sherman. Mason G 
 
 Sheppard. M 
 
 Sherrod, R. W 
 
 Sherrod, William F 
 
 Sherwin. Herman H. . . . 
 
 Shewmaker. L. Z 
 
 Shidler, Arthur L 
 
 Shields, (Courtland) .. . 
 Shields, .John T. . . .14tt. 
 Shields. Pleasant S 
 
 146, 158, 179. 183. 
 
 361. 362 
 Shipman, Azariah B. . . . 
 
 '*'■'>. 
 
 Shipman. Norbourn N. . . 
 
 Shirts. Elmer 
 
 Shively, James S...122. 
 Shoots, see Chutes. Geo. 
 Shoptaugh. Shelton H.. 
 
 Short. Wesley 
 
 Showalter. D. T 
 
 Shuler, Laurence S 
 
 . .7, 60, 61. 63. 64. t;."! 
 Shumard, George B 
 
 19. ::i 
 
 Sieber, .John A 
 
 Silroy, B. S 
 
 Simison, John 
 
 Simms, .John M 
 
 Simonson. James C 
 
 Sims. T. S 
 
 Sinex, William G 
 
 146. 158. 183, 
 
 Siver, Emmett L 
 
 Skiff. Clark 92. 
 
 Skinner. .John A.... 158. 
 
 Skull. E 7. 
 
 Slaughter, Robert C. . . . 
 Slaughter, William W. . . 
 
 Slavens. Zenas L 
 
 Sloan, George W 
 
 Sloan, John 
 
 146, 148, 158. 176. 
 
 183, 342, 361 
 
 Smelser,' J. W 
 
 Smiley, (New Columbus) 
 Smith, (.Jackson Co.)... 
 Smith. (Fort Wavne) .. 
 Smith. Andrew J. . .199, 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 177 
 158, 
 
 199 
 48 
 199 
 360 
 211 
 199 
 206 
 340 
 137 
 199 
 158 
 1.58 
 199 
 199 
 140 
 340 
 140 
 
 :Uu. 
 
 54 
 341 
 341 
 341 
 14n 
 341 
 l<t!i 
 341 
 
 i. y'}(> 
 
 ». 21 
 .341 
 118 
 341 
 199 
 199 
 222 
 
 841 
 205 
 
 170 
 14 
 199 
 199 
 199 
 342 
 
 179, 
 
 158 
 210 
 140 
 25 
 342 
 
390 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Smith, Caleb (Boneset- 
 
 ter) 119 
 
 Smith, Carter H 180 
 
 Smith, Hiram 
 
 100, 101, 106 
 
 Smith, Hubbard M 
 
 9, 17, 19, 22, 158, 342, 
 
 343 
 
 Smith, Isaac 158 
 
 Smith, Jacob J 204 
 
 Smith, J. C 212 
 
 Smith, John W 199 
 
 Smith, John W 343 
 
 Smith, Lester F 343 
 
 Smith, Samuel E 336 
 
 Smith, Theophilus E 343 
 
 Smith, W. A 22 
 
 Smith, Wickliffe . . .205, 343 
 Smith, William B. . . .37, 38 
 
 Smith, William G 343 
 
 Smith, William R 
 
 73, 96, 145, 158, 183, 199 
 
 Smith, William Z 199 
 
 Smydth, William C 199 
 
 Smvthe, Gonsolvo C . . . 
 
 : 177. 199, .343 
 
 Snyder, (Indianapolis) . . 49 
 
 Snyder, William V 103 
 
 Somers, Joseph .. .7, 19, 158 
 
 Sommer, Edgar L 206 
 
 Spain. Archibald W.199, 344 
 
 Spalding, Lyman 64 
 
 Spann, Benjamin F 223 
 
 Sparks, James B 344 
 
 Sparks, Nathan B , 199 
 
 Speed, Edward B 199 
 
 Spence, William F 
 
 122. 211 
 
 Spencer, Robert 158, 199 
 
 Spencer, William ...158, 199 
 
 Spinning, .John N 344 
 
 Spinning, Newton 136 
 
 Spottswood, Edmond T. 
 
 158, 19S 
 
 Sprinkle, W. B 22 
 
 Spurgeon, William A. . . 
 
 . .: 234, 259, 281 
 
 Spuirrier, John H 
 
 200. 202, 344 
 
 Squire, William B. 200 
 
 Stacy, George W...130, 158 
 Stage, Louis J 
 
 140. 227, 344 
 
 Stahle, Daniel 19 
 
 Stanton. D. S 344 
 
 Starr, Her D 344 
 
 Starrett, Walter K 206 
 
 Stearns, Ellas P 200 
 
 Steele, (Greenburg) .... 117 
 Steele, Armstrong T. . . . 344 
 Steelsmith, John M 344 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Stemm, William H 
 
 181, 248 
 
 Stephenson, David W . 
 Stephenson, Joseph . . 
 Stevens, Benjamin C. . 
 
 Stevens, Oliver P 
 
 Stevens, Robert 
 
 Stevens, Thaddeus M . 
 
 69, 71, 72, 73, 158, 
 
 366 
 
 Stewart, John L 
 
 Stewart, Jonas 
 
 177, 180, 
 
 Stewart, William D 
 
 Stewart, William J 
 
 Stillson, Joseph 
 
 Stillwell, Joseph A.. 200, 
 Stipp, George Winfield. . 
 
 Stockwell, Robert 
 
 Stockwell, Sarah F 
 
 Stone, R. French 
 
 2 232, 
 
 Stough, S 
 
 Stout, Oliver H 
 
 Stuart, O. G 
 
 Study, James M 
 
 Stukey, John M 
 
 Stunkard, Thomas C. . . . 
 
 Strong, John T 201, 
 
 Suman, William 
 
 Summers, Osa R 
 
 Sutton, George 
 
 158, 160, 163, 176. 
 
 346, 363, 365, 366, 
 
 Sutton, James A 
 
 Sutton, Willis E 
 
 Swafford, Benjamin F . . 
 
 200, 
 
 Swain, William 
 
 Swallow, George E 
 
 Swarts, David J 
 
 200, 
 
 Sweeny, Thomas J 
 
 Sweezy, William C 
 
 323 
 181 
 223 
 344 
 344 
 135 
 
 345, 
 
 345 
 
 207 
 203 
 200 
 345 
 345 
 204 
 226 
 345 
 
 370 
 98 
 158 
 19 
 203 
 200 
 205 
 345 
 223 
 347 
 
 179, 
 367 
 347 
 347 
 
 347 
 212 
 223 
 
 348 
 200 
 200 
 
 Taggart, John F 200 
 
 Taggart, Samuel C 348 
 
 Talbott, Hiram E 
 
 147, 158, 183 
 
 Tate, William 158 
 
 Tayler, W. H 147, 183 
 
 Taylor, Alfred B 200 
 
 Taylor, Daniel W 200 
 
 Taylor, F. W 130 
 
 Taylor, Timothy .'..131, 158 
 
 Taylor, William D 200 
 
 Taylor, W. W 118 
 
 Teal, Norman 
 
 99, 200, 348 
 
 Terhune, R. W 
 
 304, 319, 369 
 
 Terrill, Luther B 223 
 
INDEX. 
 
 391 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Ten-ill, William 11., Sr. . 
 
 348 
 
 Ten-ill, William II., Jr. . 
 
 348 
 
 Terry, Charles C 1 81 
 
 Terry, L. E 130 
 
 Thomas, (Brookstonj . . 131 
 
 Thomas, (Fishersburg) . . 210 
 
 Thomas, Andrew J 
 
 22, 348 
 
 Thomas, Charles L 200 
 
 Thomas, Ellas B 200 
 
 Thomas, James ....113, 114 
 
 Thomas, James H 200 
 
 Thomas, John H 200 
 
 Thomas, L. C 202 
 
 Thomas, M. W 158 
 
 Thomas, Mary F 348 
 
 Thomas, Warren H 348 
 
 Thomas, William IT 348 
 
 Thompson, A. H 118 
 
 Thompson, A. M 228 
 
 Thompson, Daniel A 348 
 
 Thompson, James L. . . . 202 
 
 Thompson, John C 200 
 
 Thompson, John II 349 
 
 Thompson, John J 349 
 
 Thompson, Joseph 22 
 
 Thompson, L. G 25 
 
 Thompson, Thomas B. . . 19 
 
 Thompson, W. E 158 
 
 Thompson, William Clin- 
 ton 
 
 73, 146, 158, 183, 203, 349 
 
 Thorne, J. C. F 349 
 
 I'ichnor, James 
 
 146, 158, 183 
 
 Tilford, John H 200 
 
 Tilford, Salem A 349 
 
 Tillson, Hosea 200, 349 
 
 Tilman, Jonathan R.... 200 
 Tinch, (Jackson Co.) . . . 
 
 140, 228 
 
 Tingley, Uriah B 
 
 117. 118, 349 
 
 Tinker, M. B 369 
 
 Tisdale, Elijah 
 
 4, 5. 6, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 
 
 Todd, Henry G 159 
 
 Todd, Levi L 349 
 
 Todd, L. L., Jr 159 
 
 Todd, Robert N 
 
 70, 72, 159, 176, 180, 200, 
 
 349 365 
 
 Todd, William A 200 
 
 Tolerton, James 200 
 
 Toms, Alpheus 351 
 
 Torbet, (Wilmington)... 44 
 
 Torbet, George A 200 
 
 Torry, John L 53 
 
 Town, R. R 159, 361 
 
 Townsend, Lydia ...252, 299 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Townsend. Tr-rry M. ... 206 
 
 Trask. Ezra Sti'lt-s 120 
 
 Treat. (Allen Co..» 25 
 
 Trembly, D 118 
 
 Trembly. G. D 351 
 
 Trent, Isaac X 181. 368 
 
 Truesdale, ( \'incennes) . . 18 
 
 Triplett. Charles E 200 
 
 Trowbridge. William V.. 351 
 
 Trueblood. Charles .... 368 
 
 Tucker, Thomas M .351 
 
 Turnce, fTerre Haute).. 62 
 
 Turnei-, (Allen Co.i 24 
 
 Turner. George W. 351 
 
 Twiford. Willis II 200 
 
 Tyler. W. W. . . ". 159 
 
 Tyner. Samuel L 200 
 
 Underbill. Joshua W... 200 
 Uphane. (Fort Wayne).. 25 
 Usher, Nathaniel 125 
 
 Vaile, Joel 
 
 37. 38. 159. 200 
 
 Van Buskirk. Aaron E . . 351 
 
 Van Buskirk. Edmund M. 181 
 
 Van Meter. Isaac X 223 
 
 Van Xuys. S. C 351 
 
 Van Voi'his, Flavins J.. 
 
 180, 200 
 
 Vance. S. W 118 
 
 Vanderbark. Peter 159 
 
 Vanuise. (Vanoo.se ) Da- 
 vid 139, 227 
 
 Vickrev. Absalom M. . . . 
 
 159. 351 
 
 Vickrey. Martin V. B. . . 351 
 
 Vincent, Henry C...200. 351 
 
 Vincent. Jereraiah K. . . . 200 
 
 Vincent, O.J 98 
 
 Vinsenne. Francis Mor- 
 gan de 4 
 
 Vorees. (Allen Co.).... 24 
 
 Voyles, David W. ..... . 200 
 
 Waite. ("Fountain Co.).. 137 
 
 Waldo, Loring A 40 
 
 Walker, Augustus C. . . . 200 
 
 Walker. David R 351 
 
 Walker. Edward 351 
 
 Walker, Edwin 
 
 174, 177, 260 
 
 Walker, George B 
 
 159. 179. 351 
 
 Walker. Isaac C 351 
 
 Walker. .Tames K 352 
 
 Walker. John C 352 
 
 Walker, John T 
 
 159. 186, 200 
 
 AValker, Madison G 
 
 208, 223 
 
392 
 
 IXDEX. 
 
 Walker, Oscar C 
 
 Wall, David 
 
 Wallace, A. G 
 
 Wallace, Cliarles 
 
 145, 159, 178, 
 
 Wallace, James P 
 
 Wallace, Lew, Gen 
 
 Walter, C. G 
 
 Walton. Allen M 
 
 Ward, W. J 
 
 Wardner, Horace 
 
 Warfel, Frederick C 
 
 Warford, Franklin M. . . 
 
 Warner, Itliamar 
 
 Warner, W. C 
 
 Washburn, Israel B 
 
 200, 
 
 Washburn, Joseph L. ... 
 Washburn, Robert K. . . . 
 Waterman, Luther D . . . 
 
 70, 142, 177, 
 
 Waters, John C 
 
 Watson. C. D 133, 
 
 Watts, Eber K 
 
 Watts, (Madison Co.)... 
 Wear, (Madison Co.) . . . 
 
 Weaver, Samuel M 
 
 Webb, (Franklin) 
 
 Webb, William A 
 
 Webber, Irwin AV 
 
 Weddington, Samuel C. 
 
 201, 
 
 Weeks, Joseph 
 
 210, 224, 
 
 Weicht, William 
 
 Weighmer, H. J 
 
 Weir, Andrew N 
 
 Weist, Jacob R 
 
 . . .159, 177, 202, 353, 
 Welborn, George W. . . . . 
 
 Welborn, J. C 
 
 Welborn, William P. . . . 
 Weldon. Samuel J 
 
 . . .133, 137, 146. 159, 
 AVellman, Richard M. . . 
 
 Wells, .Tames C 
 
 Wells. John T 
 
 Wells, Samuel 140, 
 
 Welman, Richmond M. . 
 
 201, 
 
 Wermuth. Adolph F . . . . 
 
 Wert, E. D 
 
 Wert, Samuel 
 
 138, IBQ, 
 
 West. Calvin 
 
 159, 164, 165, 179. 
 
 354 
 West, Vincent T. ...... 
 
 Westerfield, Cyrus 
 
 Westerfleld. John W. ... 
 Wetherill, Charles M. . . 
 
 150, 
 
 PAGE 
 . 159 
 
 . 352 
 . 159 
 
 183 
 200 
 
 33 
 352 
 200 
 
 98 
 352 
 270 
 352 
 
 36 
 
 19 
 
 102 
 
 352 
 
 200 
 352 
 138 
 353 
 
 44 
 212 
 200 
 
 54 
 201 
 131 
 
 353 
 
 353 
 
 132 
 
 27 
 
 201 
 
 364 
 353 
 159 
 201 
 
 184 
 159 
 201 
 138 
 
 228 
 
 353 
 354 
 140 
 
 140 
 
 180, 
 
 354 
 211 
 224 
 
 354 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Wetherill, R. B 355 
 
 Wheeldon, John 202 
 
 Wheeler, (Muncie) 92 
 
 Whipple, (Brookville) . . 129 
 
 Whitaker, Eli D 201 
 
 Whitcomb, James H.. . . 355 
 
 White, Arthur 201 
 
 White, Charles A 181 
 
 White, J. F 355 
 
 White, Jacob S 201 
 
 White, James B 201 
 
 White, John M 201 
 
 White, William 184 
 
 Whitehall, Alexander L. 
 
 137, 201 
 
 Whitesell, Joseph M. ... 201 
 Whitesell, Philip P 
 
 201. 355 
 
 Whittlesey. William C. . 63 
 Wickersham, Xoah L . . . 224 
 
 Widmer, John F. B 201 
 
 Wilcox, J. R 159 
 
 Wiles, (Rockford) 227 
 
 Wiles, William V 
 
 180. 201, 355 
 
 Wilev, .John Hezekiah. . . 
 
 147, 184 
 
 Wilkinson. James J 355 
 
 Willard, Rowland 
 
 , 130, 159 
 
 Willard, William C 92 
 
 Williams, Charles S. . . . 355 
 
 Williams, Elkanah 355 
 
 Williams, Hugh T 356 
 
 AVilliams, J. A 92 
 
 Williams, John 210 
 
 Williams, John 356 
 
 Williams, Joseph P. 356 
 
 Williams, Leroy B 356 
 
 Williams, Lewis 356 
 
 Williams. S. T 98 
 
 Williams. T. B 356 
 
 Williams, W. H 92 
 
 Williamson. (Rockford) . 227 
 Williamson, C. T 
 
 139, 140 
 
 Williamson, Eleazer .... 201 
 
 Williamson, John 139 
 
 Williamson, Robert A. . . 201 
 
 Williamson, T. A 140 
 
 Williamson, Thomas W.C. 
 
 201 
 
 Williamson, W. T 356 
 
 Wilson, Isaac 201 
 
 Wilson, Jacob B 201 
 
 Wilson, James 201 
 
 Wilson, James 205 
 
 Wilson, James B 159 
 
 Wilson. J. H 356 
 
 Wilson, James W 159 
 
 Wilson, John R 159 
 
INDEX. 
 
 3'j:i 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Wilson, Marshall Y. ... 
 
 139, 228 
 
 Wilson, Robert Q 356 
 
 Wilstach, C. F I.jU 
 
 Wimmer, .James M 350 
 
 Winans, Henry C. . . .92, 350 
 
 Winans, Kichard 201 
 
 Winchel, George 117 
 
 Winton, Horace .... 159, 356 
 
 Winton, Robert 
 
 91, 92, 159, 356 
 
 Winton, William R 
 
 159, 179 
 
 Wise, W^ H 22 
 
 AVishard, Joseph M 
 
 .201, 357 
 
 Wishard, William H. . . . 
 
 2, 31, 32, 54, 142, 146, 
 
 148, 159, 177, 181, 184, 
 
 357, 367. 368 
 Wishard. William X. ... 
 
 174, 177 
 
 Witherspoon. Martin ... 22 
 
 Witt, William B 
 
 Wolf, Harvev S 201 
 
 Wolf, J. G 159 
 
 AYolvertou, .1. D. . .7, 19, 20 
 
 Wonsetler. Gideon 201 
 
 Wood, Hugh D 98, 180 
 
 Wood, James A 201 
 
 Wood, Meredith 203 
 
 Wood. William M 204 
 
 W^oodburn, Frederick C. . 357 
 W^oodburn, James H. . . . 
 
 ... .73. 159, 177, 180, 357 
 
 Wooden. John L. ...201, 357 
 
 Wooden, William H. ... 
 
 Woods, (.'alvin J 
 
 Woods. Daniel L 
 
 Woodward, < Rockf ord ) . . 
 Woodvvorth. Benjamin S. 
 
 99, 159, 176, 
 
 Woody 
 
 Woolen, Green V 
 
 Woolen, Levin .J 
 
 Wooley, Amos 
 
 Wort. Samuel 
 
 Worthington, (Attica) . . 
 Wright, Charles E 
 
 206, 
 
 Wright, Charles H 
 
 Wright, Ervin 
 
 Wright, Ivv E 
 
 Wright, John F 
 
 Wright, H. Mansur .... 
 
 Wright, J. Joel 
 
 AA right, John 
 
 Wright, R 
 
 Wyley, D 
 
 Wyman, Henry . . . .209. 
 Wynn, Frank B 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 357 
 
 . 201 
 
 201 
 
 ■>07 
 
 ii.Jl 
 
 362 
 201 
 358 
 131 
 159 
 135 
 
 359 
 359 
 180 
 201 
 159 
 159 
 159 
 211 
 98 
 159 
 224 
 370 
 
 Yandes, Simon 72 
 
 Yeakle. D. T 159 
 
 Yockev. David H 359 
 
 Yohn, Edwin F 359 
 
 Yohn. William A 359 
 
 Youart, John M 201 
 
 Young. (Frankton) .... 211 
 
 Young. Stephen J 332 
 
 Younkman. A. B 360 
 
 Yount. Silas T 180 
 
 Note. — The photograph of Dr. John L. Richmond, from 
 which the cut was made facing page 334. was kindly loaned 
 to me by Dr. Otto Juettner of Cincinnati. Dr. .luettner 
 deserves praise for his energy and perseverance in discover- 
 ing this picture of a remarkable man. The photograph was 
 reproduced from an oil painting. — G.W.H.K. 
 
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