parture and remained until 1860, removing to Licking county. About this time Doctor Cleeve located at Waterloo, remained a number of years and then went to Illinois.

Dr. V. H. Gaskill commenced practice in Waterloo about the close of the Civil War and was still in practice in the eighties.

Other physicians of the past were Doctors Goldsberry, Harlow and Culy. Also Doctor Martin, the first to locate in Madison township, who was from New England. He opened his office at Yankeetown, remained five years, then removed to Bloomingburg, continuing until 1854, when he moved to McClain county, Illinois.

Dr. J. N. Clark came from Harrisburg, Ohio, in the spring of 1873, locating at Buena Vista, Green township. After one year he opened his office at Madison Mills, where in the nineties he was enjoying an extensive medical practice.

In 1881 these physicians were practicing in the county: Drs. A. and J. L. Worley, C. A. Foster, H. L. Smith, C. M. Wilson, S. A. Salisbury and O. H. Saxton.

Dr. Francis Marion Black, deceased, practiced in Washington C. H. from 1874 until within a few months of his death. He was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, studied medicine under Doctor Brown, of Circleville, and began the practice of medicine at a village in Pickaway county known as Darbyville, where he remained in constant practice for just twenty-five years, then moved to Washington C. H., where the remainder of his life was spent, dying January 22, 1902, aged about seventy-two years. For three years, while in Pickaway county, he had for a student and partner Doctor Boggs, now of Good Hope. Doctor Black was highly successful both as a physician and surgeon. He also had the gift of accumulating property. He was wise in that he invested in land and left an estate of some four hundred acres in Pickaway county, the same still being held by his widow, whose maiden name was Mary J. Zimm, a native of Columbus, who married for her first husband Silas Ambrose in 1851. She married Doctor Black in 1853. Doctor Black and wife had no issue, and Mrs. Black, by her former marriage, was the mother of one daughter who died young. Doctor Black was well up in Masonry, belonging to the thirty-second degree of that most ancient and honorable fraternity. Politically, he was a stanch Republican. He served his country during the Civil War, having been a captain in Company A, Ninetieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He served one year and was honorably discharged upon his resignation. He served as acting colonel of his regiment at different times, in the absence of the regular colonel. Mrs. Black still re

sides in the old homestead on North street, where the Doctor first located upon removing to Washington C. H. in 1884.

Dr. James Hinton, "the thumbless doctor," as he was known, for, besides his being a dwarf in stature and humped-backed, he had no thumb on either hand, was of the regular school of medicine and had good success here from an early day on to later years. He it was who originally owned the old Doctor Wilson residence property, now owned and occupied by Doctor Wilson's daughter, Mrs. Jarred Millikan, at the corner of North and Court streets. He was married and reared seven children. His wife became insane and was kept in a small room in the residence just named and many queer stories are related of her strange actions. It was an unfortunate case, in which the Doctor had the sympathy of the community. It was 1841 when he sold the property above mentioned, but he remained here several years after that; he finally went West, and was lost sight of to Fayette county people. It is stated by Mrs. Mary Millikan that he was a good doctor and was frequently associated with her father, Dr. J. G. Wilson. From a former history published for this county, it is learned that this Doctor Hinton was the brother of Benjamin Hinton, probably Fayette county's third physician. Dr. James Hinton, it is stated, removed to McLean county, Illinois, where he was still practicing as late as 1881. He was a success financially and accumulated a handsome competency, at one time owning fourteen hundred acres of valuable land in Illinois.

Dr. Felix H. Knott, physician and surgeon of Washington C. H., was born in this county, February 21, 1851, son of Ananias Knott, who was from Pennsylvania, but emigrated to Ohio about 1845. Felix was married in 1871, to Samantha De Witt. He received his education in Cincinnati, at the Eclectic Medical College, from which he graduated in 1871. He had commenced the practice of medicine in 1869, at Monticello, Illinois, and there continued for about three years. After he settled in Washington C. H. he continued a regular practitioner. He really commenced the reading of medicine when twelve years of age, with his father, who was a prominent doctor of his day and generation, at Monticello, Illinois. He soon built up a large and respectable practice here and was widely known and very successful in his calling.

Dr. W. E. Ireland, now the oldest practitioner in Washington C. H., came here in 1887. He was born near Bloomington, Illinois, in 1852. His parents removed to Fayette county when he was but a small lad. He was reared in Fayette and Ross counties. He obtained a good education and taught school for seven years, and finally chose medicine as his profession. He studied

under Dr. A. Ogar, at Sedalia, Ohio, and graduated from Starling Medical College with the class of 1882; practiced five years at Leesburg, Highland county, Ohio, and moved to Washington C. H. in 1887, since which time he has ranked among the best, most careful and honorable members of the medical fraternity. He married, in 1882, Florence I. Carr, of Jeffersonville, Ohio, by whom two daughters and one son were born, all now married and settled in homes of their own. Politically, the doctor is a Democrat. He has held numerous non-paying offices, including member of the board of education, a place he has ably filled for about ten years. He is a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is the present president of the board of stewards. In fraternal affairs, he is well up in Masonry, being a Knight Templar. In a financial way, the Doctor has succeeded and is the vice-president of the Fayette County Bank. He is placed in the list of best citizens and physicians in the county, where he has resided more than twenty-seven years.

Dr. S. A. Ireland, a brother of the above, was born in 1848 in Ohio, and died in Washington C. H. in January, 1911, of pneumonia. He never married; was a most excellent physician and had a faculty of winning the confidence and esteem of all who knew him. His death was a great loss to the profession and the community. He taught school in young manhood twelve years and after graduating from Starling Medical College located at Martinsville, Ohio, then in Leesburg in 1887, coming to Washington C. H. in 1889. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Masonic order. There was no night too dark and stormy to deter him from making his professional calls, and really this extreme exposure was what finally caused his death. He was a man of honor, modest, retiring and studious. He was a wonderful worker and never lost sight of advanced theories in medicine and gave his patients the best that his reading and practice afforded.

From Dr. W. E. Ireland's memory, the following facts concerning men of whom he has had knowledge since his coming here in 1887, have been gleaned :

In 1887 Doctor Lowry was in practice at Washington C. H. He mardied a sister of Dr. S. S. Salisbury, moved West and has been lost sight of.

Doctor Ustick was also here in 1887, later sold his practice to Dr. Rogers, of Greenfield, Ohio. Doctor Ustick went from here to Boise City, Idaho, where he still practices medicine. Doctor Rogers moved to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Doctor Moorehouse located here about 1887, remained a year or two and removed.

Dr. O. H. Saxton moved from here to Topeka, Kansas, in 1887, and died there a few years later.

Doctor Teeters, father of Dr. Charles Teeters, located here in the eighties, and died here.

Doctor Roberts came in prior to 1887 and practiced until his death. was an excellent physician and an honored citizen of the city.

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Doctor Hall came here from Good Hope in the eighties, and died years later of consumption.

Dr. Joseph Williams and his father practiced medicine in Washington C. H. many years, and were eminent in their profession.

Dr. J. W. Hughey practiced in the city many years and died in 1912.

Dr. J. Morton Howell practiced here in the city a few years, then moved to Dayton. When he had no real calls in the country, it is related of him that he frequently run his fast team over the rural roads as if he had urgent calls and had no time to waste, but ever drove on, thinking to create the opinion that he had a large practice.

Dr. John G. Wilson was another physician and surgeon of earlier days. in this county, who had a very large and successful practice. He was an excellent man and was loved and admired by legions within this county. He was a native of Ross county, born March 19, 1811, of parents who had emigrated from Pennsylvania. The forefathers were in the Revolutionary struggle, while his father was a soldier in the War of 1812. He studied medicine under Dr. James Robbins, of Greenfield, three years and in 1835 went to Dayton, where for more than five years he was associated with Dr. Henry Vantyne. He then spent a part of a year in Lockport, Indiana, after which he located permanently in Washington C. H., where he continued his medical practice until about eighty years of age. The date of his settlement. in Washington C. H. was August, 1841. He died September 22, 1896, at his home. He married, in 1839, Lucinda Mackerley, of New Jersey. She died in 1875 and was the mother of two children, Martha, who died in young womanhood, and Mary L., who became the wife of Jerred L. Millikan and is now the only survivor of the Wilson family living. She occupies the old homestead where Doctor Wilson, her father, resided so many years and in which house she was born. It is at the corner of North and Court streets. Doctor Wilson was physician for the county infirmary for twenty-one years. Politically, he was a stanch Republican, and formerly a Whig. In his church faith he was of the Presbyterian denomination. There are still many within the county who readily recall the good doctor, when he used to ride over the county either in his cart or on horseback. He was absorbed and interested

in his chosen profession even until the end of life came. During the Civil war days he had a large practice, and agreed with many a brave man who went forth in defense of the flag that he would look after the health of their families while they were absent. This he carried out to the letter; some repaid him and others never did, but he felt he had performed a patriotic duty and thus cancelled the account.

Dr. Harry M. Jenkins, a young and very successful physician, of but few years practice, was born in 1880, and was reared in this county and city. He studied medicine and attended and graduated from the Ohio Medical College. He was married in Sandusky, Ohio, in October, 1914, and two weeks after his marriage ended his life by taking a quantity of carbolic acid, while seated in his own office late in the evening. This act shocked the entire community, for he was a bright, genial and exceptional promising young professional man, with seemingly many years of pleasure and usefulness before him. The motive for this terrible ending was made known by a note he penned the night of his death, in which he referred to the fact that, when twelve years of age, he met with an accident while crossing the Pennsylvania tracks in Washington C. H., by which his skull was crushed and his brain injured. A number of strips of metal were inserted at the time, and one of these seemed to him to have slipped and pressure was brought upon his brain, causing, at numerous times of late, a sudden mental aberration, or insanity, which he feared was fast becoming worse. He feared in his practice that he might administer dangerous drugs and take the lives of others, hence he took his own life. The accident mentioned was twenty-two years prior to his death. Doctor Jenkins was a favorite with very many in the county, and he held membership in several secret fraternities. His death caused a general sadness over this entire county.

PHYSICIANS OF THE COUNTY IN 1914.

In the early autumn of 1914 the following were practicing medicine in Fayette county:

In Washington C. H.-Drs. W. E. Ireland, L. L. Brock, G. W. Blakely, E. F. Todhunter, C. A. Teeters, George S. Hodson, Lucy W. Pine, D. H. Rowe, Paul Hilderbrant, C. A. Harlow, Howard Stitt, A. A. Hyer, L. M. McFadden, Roy Brown, P. E. Decatur, R. M. Hughey, Florence Rankin, C. A. Hazzard, L. P. Howell. These are all of the regular school of medicine except Doctors Hazzard and Rankin, osteopaths; Doctors Hodson and Hilderbrant, homeopathic, and Doctor Decatur, eclectic.