DR. G.A. WAY has practiced his profession in Caldwell since 1869. He is thoroughly well-read and a very competent medical adviser. He was born in Marietta in 1844. His parents removed to a farm in Monroe County in 1857 but he continued to attend school and college in Marietta. In 1861 he entered the service as a private in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, served through the war and at its close was mustered out as second lieutenant. This, considering the youthful age at which he entered the army, is a remarkably good record. Before entering the army he began the study of medicine under Dr. Joshua Way, of Monroe County. He afterward attended the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, from which he graduated March 2, 1869. In 1870 he married Miss Maria Skinner of Meigs County. Two children have been born of this union. Dr. Way is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the Noble County Medical Society. He was one of the original members of the latter in 1869 and has served continuously as its secretary ever since.

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DR. W.S. BEBOUT, a prominent young physician, is a native of Athens County, born in 1852. He was educated at Beverly College, Washington County; studied medicine under Dr. P.H. Kelly of Waterford; attended the Columbus Medical College and graduated with the class of 1880. He began his professional career in Caldwell where he has a large practice. Dr. Bebout is a Republican and has served one term as coroner of the county. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He was married in 1878 to Miss M.A. Keever of Washington County and they have three children.

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CORWIN E. BUGHER, M.D., was born in Blue Bells, Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1860. He received a collegiate education and studied medicine under the tutelage of Joseph Runsoheff, M.D., F.R.C.S., who occupies the chair of descriptive anatomy and clinical surgery in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. He took one course at the Michigan Medical College at Ann Arbor, thence to the Ohio Medical College where he graduated in the class of 1887. In April of the same year he established himself in the practice of him profession at Caldwell.

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DR. NATHAN P. COPE was for several years engaged in medical practice at Hiramsburgh. He was born in Harrison County, July 15, 1815, and was a member of the Society of Friends. In 1841 he married Jane Black, who is still living, near Hiramsburgh. They reared a family of eight children. Dr. Cope settled at Hiramsburgh in 1847 and remained until his death, in March, 1868.

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DR. JOHN FINLEY, of Hiramsburgh, is a native of this county, where his parents were early settlers. He was born in 1845, and received his medical education at Baltimore and Cincinnati, where he graduated with the degree of M.D. He has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Hiramsburgh since 1877, and has been very successful. He has been twice married and has one child. Dr. Finley is a Democrat, a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Masonic order.

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The first physician to locate in Mount Ephraim, was DR. EDMUND MECHEM from Belmont County, who settled about 1842, and remained a few years. About a year after he came he was joined by his brother, Dr. Jesse E. Mechem, who remained about ten years. Dr. Edmund Mechem went West; his brother followed him in 1853, and is now living in Kansas. They were both well-read physicians. Dr. Jesse had a large practice and was very successful.

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DR. JOHN KELLER, of Mount Ephraim, was born in what is now Center Township, Noble County, December 26, 1822, and is a son of Levi Keller, an early settler of the county. After receiving a common school education he studied medicine under Dr. Jesse E. Mechem, whom he succeeded in practice in 1853. He was the contemporary of Drs. David and Samuel McGarry, James F. Capell and other physicians of the county. He is probably the oldest physician now in the county. His practice was large for many years. Of late he has partially retired from practice. Dr. Keller is a pronounced temperance man and bears an unsullied reputation. He was married in 1851 to Sarah Ann, daughter of John Miley, an early settler of the county, and is the father of Elizabeth J. (deceased), Margaret E., Franklin V., Jefferson J., Arithela B., John W., Hester A. and Mary D. Dr. Keller has served in all the township offices, including that of justice of the peace. He is a Democrat and has been a candidate for the offices of county auditor and representative to the legislature, but was defeated, his party being as usual in the minority in the county.

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DR. MICHAEL H. NEVILLE, one of the old medical practitioners of Noble County, is a native of Virginia. Born in that state in 1812, at the age of nineteen he began his business life as a clerk in a store. After about three years he engaged in buying and selling live stock. In 1838 he married Miss Harriet Black. Their children are Mary C. (Morris), Kansas; Malvina J., deceased; and Mary E. (Uhlrich). He read medicine under Dr. William H. Dew, of Randolph County, Va., and began its practice in 1845. In 1855 he came to Ohio, locating near Sarahsville, whence he removed to Mount Ephraim, his present home, in 1862. He has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession. He has served as coroner and justice of the peace.

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DR. FRANK M. MASON came to Harrietsville soon after Dr. Baldridge (he came prior to 1849 and was only a brief resident). He went to California in 1849 and remained there a short time. Returning to Noble County he was elected sheriff, removed to Sarahsville, and held that office until 1855. He sold out to Dr. Wilson. In 1857-8 he again practiced in Harrietsville, as a partner of Dr. Martin, to whom he sold out in 1858. Dr. Mason then went west and is now in Oregon. He was accounted as a good physician.

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DR. WILLIAM G. MARTIN practiced in Harrietsville from 1860 until his death, April 8, 1882. He was born in Monroe County, February 23, 1838. He passed his boyhood on a farm, receiving a common school education. He studied medicine under Dr. George Mason of Stafford and began its practice in Harrietsville. He was kind, charitable and much esteemed both professionally and socially. He was married in 1861 to Margaret Pryor, of Elk Township, who bore him two sons. Dr. Martin was a prominent Odd Fellow and served as district deputy grand marshal. Dr. J.W. Brock succeeded him in practice and is still in Harrietsville.

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DR. ATKINSON MARTIN was born in Monroe County in 1832; brought up on a farm; attended the common schools and Woodsfield academy; read medicine under Dr. W.T. Sinclair, of Woodsfield; went to Kansas in 1855 and began practice there. In 1856-7 he attended the Cleveland, Ohio, medical college, and in 1857 settled at Harrietsville, where he remained three years. He then went to Caldwell, where he served as deputy auditor under George Bell and at the same time practiced medicine. He was also in the mercantile business in Caldwell for two years. In 1866 he went to Omaha, returning to Caldwell in 1870 and remaining until 1878. He afterwards resided in Sharon and Dexter, and in 1882 returned to Harrietsville, his present residence. In 1861 he married Martha Dudley, of Olive Township. Two of his children are living - Erwin J. and Elizabeth.

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DR. J.W. BROCK has resided and practiced in Harrietsville since March, 1882. He was born in Antioch, Monroe County, in 1850; educated in the common schools and at the National Normal School, Lebanon, Ohio; studied medicine under Dr. G.W. Mason, of Stafford, Ohio. He attended medical lectures at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati; began practice at Calais, Monroe County, in 1877; moved thence to Elba, Washington County, and from Elba to Harrietsville. Dr. Brock was married in 1881 to Minnie Seidler, of Elba, Washington County. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge and of the Noble County Medical Society.

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DR. J.H. WILLIAMS has practiced medicine in Harrietsville since June, 1885. His boyhood was spent chiefly on a farm. He was educated at Summerfield and studied medicine under his father, Dr. J.B. Williams, of Monroe County. He graduated from the Columbus Medical College in the spring of 1883, and entered upon active practice in 1885. He is the partner of Dr. J.W. Brock.

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The first physician in Carlisle was DR. L.S. CUMMINS, who came in 1839 and remained until 1850, when he removed to California. He was a competen physician and had a large practice.

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JAMES M. DALZELL

Mr. Dalzell practices law and cultivates a family. A troop of little girls with one little boy are often at his heels on the street. Patriotism beginsat home and the hearthstone is its cradle. On my arrival at Caldwell that sentiment I found at fever heat. It was just on the eve of Decoration Day and the streets were full of children assembling to prepare for its celebration, and among them was those of the Private. Mr. Dalzell is of Scotch-Irish parentage, tall and wiry in person, with profuse yellowish locks, which once in the war time, when in Washington, caused him to retreat from a band of music, who were after him for a blast, mistaking him for General Custer.

JAMES M. DALZELL was born in Allegheny City, Pa., September 3, 1838. When he was nine years of age his father removed to Ohio. Under great difficulties he succeeded in obtaining an education, and was a junior at Washington College, Pa., at the outbreak of the war.

He served two years as a private in the One Hundred and Sixteenth O.V.I. After the close of the war, he studied law, filled a clerkship at Washington, and in 1868 settled permanently in Caldwell. During his life Mr. Dalzell has been a prolific and able writer for the press; his championship of the cause of the private soldier of the Rebellion has been spirited, fearless and influential. Over the signature of Private Dalzell his writings have appeared in almost every newspaper in the land. In 1875, and again in 1877, he was elected to the Ohio Legislature, but withdrew from political life in 1882. He is a very able stump speaker, an arden Republican, and associate and friend of such men as Sumner, Garfield, Hayes, Sherman, and their contemporaries.

Mr. Dalzell was the originator and author of the popular Soldiers' Union, now held anually in all parts of the country. Mr. Dalzell takes great pride in his work in behalf of John Gray, the last soldier of the Revolution. In 1888 Robert Clarke & Co. of Cincinnati, published a volume entitled "Private Dalzell." It contains "My Autobiography," "My War Sketches," etc., and "John Gray." It is an interesting and valuable publication. We quote a restrospect of his political life. "In an evil hour, in the summer of 1885, I foolishly accepted a nomination to the Legislature, was elected, and there ended my prosperity. After the election, in October, my name was in all the papers, congratulations poured in on me from every quarter, and I was invited to take the stump in Pennsylvania, which I did, at a great waste of time and money. I thought nothing of it then. It was only when, years after, I looked into an empty flour barrel and hungry children's faces and felt in my empty pockets, that I fully apprehended my folly. Four years I now spent in the malestrom of politics, whirled and tossed about at the caprice of fortune, without any power to control it. I look back on it with pain. . . . It is a grand game, and none but grand men need try to play it. Let men of moderate abilities, like myself, keep out of it if they would escape the chagrin and mortification of failure, accentuated with the pangs of poverty."

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WILLIAM H. ENOCHS

WILLIAM H. ENOCHS was born near Middleburg, March 29, 1842, and is the only native of Noble County who attained the rank of General in the late war. He enlisted as a private in April, 1861; saw much hard service and distinguished himself for bravery and gallantry. At twenty-two he commanded a brigade, and at twenty-three he was commissioned Brigadier-General. Ex-President Hayes says of him: "His courage, promptness and energy was extraordinary. His diligence was great and his ability and skill in managing and taking care of his regiment were rarely equalled." Gen. Enochs is now a prominent lawyer of Ironton, Ohio.

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JOHN GRAY

JOHN GRAY, the last surviving soldier of the American Revolution, was born at Mount Vernon, Virginia, January 6, 1764, and died at Hiramsburg, Ohio, March 29, 1868, aged 104 years.

His father fell at White Plains, and he, then only about sixteen years of age, promptly volunteered, took up the musket that had fallen from his father's hands, and was one of the one hundred and fifty men on that dangerous but successful expedition of Mayor Ramsey. He was also at Yorktown at the final surrender, which event occurred in his eighteenth year. He was mustered out at Richmond, Virginia, at the close of the war and returned to field labor near Mount Vernon his first day's work after his muster out being performed for General Washington at Mount Vernon.

Mr. Gray married twice in Virginia and once in Ohio. He survived his three wives and all his children, except one daughter, who has since died over eighty years of age, and with whom he resided in Noble County, Ohio, at the time of his death.

In 1795 Mr. Gray left Mount Vernon and crossing the mountains settled at Grave creek. Here he remained until Ohio was admitted to the Union, when he removed to what is now Noble county. Mr. Gray was not illiterate; he learned to read and write before entering the Revolutionary army. In disposition he was quiet, kindly and generous; a good Christian, having joined the Methodist church at twenty-five years of age, and was for seventy-eight years a regular attendant.

His means of support was earned by farm labor. When in his old age, poor and infirm, Congress granted him a pension of $500 per annum. The bill providing this was introduced in the House in 1866, by Hon. John A. Bingham. This tardy act of justice to the old hero was the result of efforts in his behalf by Hon. J. M. Dalzell, whose kindly interest and generous efforts to make comfortable and peaceful his last years of Mr. Gray are highly honorable to him.

Mr. Dalzell has published a full and complete account of John Gray's career and it is to this work that we are chiefly indebted for the sketch here given.

On the occasion of Mr. Dalzell's last interview with John Gray, he asked if he were not growing fatter than when he last saw him. "Oh, no," laughingly replied Mr. Gray, "we old men don't fatten much on hog and hominy and the poor tobacco we get now-a-days."

Mr. Gray had used tobacco about a hundred years and knew something of its virtues as a solace, for later in the interview, speaking of deprivations in the past, he said: "I sometimes have had nothing else but a dog" and musing a moment he added, "a plug of tobacco, of course; for without a dog or tobacco I should feel lost."

This simple, inoffensive, kind-hearted old hero died of old age, in his one-story, hewed-log house, near Hiramsburg, where he had resided the last forty years or more of his life. His funeral services were held in a grove near his home, with an audience of more than a thousand people present and presided over by several clergymen, the principal speaker being Capt. Hoagland, of the 9th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, a minister of the Protestant Methodist church.

He lies buried some two hundred and fifty yards north of the house in which he lived and died, in a family graveyard containing about thirty of his relatives and family connections. Near his remains lie those of two of his relatives, Samuel Halley and Gillespie David; the first fought under General Harrison at Fort Meigs during the war of 1812, the other died in the war of the Rebellion. Thus the heroes of three wars and of the same family lie side by side.

John Gray's grave is marked by a plain stone some three feet high, on which is inscribed:

JOHN GRAY
   DIED
March 29, 1868,
   AGED
104 years, 2 months, 23 days
The last of Washington's
 companions.
The hoary head is a crown of glory.

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FREEMAN C. THOMPSON

FREEMAN C. THOMPSON was born in Washington County, Pa., February 25, 1846. His family removed to Noble County, Ohio, in 1854. At sixteen years of age he enlisted in the 116th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in the assault on Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865, he performed the gallant action for which he received a medal of honor by vote of Congress. The County History says:

"In this engagement (which General Grant in his Memoirs says 'was the most desperate that was seen in the East'), through a perfect tornado of grape and canister, he and his comrade reached the last ditch. How to scale the parapet was a question requiring only a moment for solution. Using each other as ladders they commenced the assent. Almost at the top one was shot and fell back into the ditch. Thompson was struck twice with a musket and fell into the ditch with several ribs broken, but in short time was again on the top of the parapet fighting with muskets loaded and handed him by his comrades below. Soon the advantage was taken possession of, the whole army swept in and the fort was ours." In 1865 Mr. Thompson was elected sheriff of Noble County and re-elected at the expiration of his term.

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JAMES MADISON TUTTLE

JAMES MADISON TUTTLE was born near Summerfield, Noble County, September 24, 1823. His father removed to Indiana when JAmes was ten years old. James enlisted in the Union army at the outbreak of the war and at the battle of Fort Donelson he gallantly led his regiment into the enemy's works, it being the first to enter. The tender of this post of honor was first made to several other regiments and declined and Gen. Smith then said to him: "Colonel, will you take those works?" "Support me promptly," was the response, "and in twenty minutes I will go in." The Second Iowa, "went in" with Col. Tuttle at its head and planted the first Union flag inside Donelson. Col. Tuttle was slightly wounded in this assault, but was able to stay with his command. In June, 1862, he was commissioned Brigadier-General for gallant service in the field.

After the war Gen. Tuttle settled in Des Moines, Iowa, and has been engaged in mining and manufacturing interests. He has been commander of the G.A.R. for the department of Iowa and twice a member of the Iowa Legislature.

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JOHN W. KRAPS, M.D., is among the oldest physicians of Noble County, and occupies a foremost position among the leading practitioners in this section of the State. His family are of German extraction.

John Kraps, the progenitor of the family in this country, and the pater-grand father of the doctor, was a soldier of the Revolution and at the close of that great struggle settled in Maryland, where he married and where Jacob Kraps, the father of John W., was born. From Maryland the family removed to Ohio, taking their residence in Jefferson County, where John W. was born in 1826. His father was an itinerant Methodist minister and unable to give to his son the educational advantages he so much desired, but by precept and example he instilled in his mind those principles which have since been the controlling factors in his career. His mother nee Elizabeth Beal, an estimable lady, was of German parentage but born in Maryland, her grandfather, Alexander Clancy, was a revoluntionary soldier. But little is known of his history further than that he was an early settler of Ohio, where he died at an advanced age. The early life of Doctor Kraps was not unlike that of most boys of that day. He acquired largely through his own effors a good English education, and was extremely anxious to enter the Military Academy at West Point, thinking a military life would be congenial to his tastes, but in deference to the wishes of his father he abandoned his project and chose the practice of medicine as his life's vocation. In 1849 he became the student of an eminent physician of Zanesville, Ohio, completing his preparatory course he entered the Cincinnati College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he graduated with honor in the spring of 1853, and soon after established himself in the practice of his profession at Gaysport, Ohio, where in a short time he found himself in the possession of a large practice. Thence he removed to Rural Dale, Ohio, where he was in active practice until 1863, when he entered the service as Surgeon of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the rank of major. With this organization he remained about four months, when he was assigned to the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The doctor soon attained an enviable reputation as a surgeon, and was detailed for the more intricate and difficult branches of the science. He was at the battles of Monocacy, Monticello, Red Mountain, Columbia, Selma, Ala., Montgomery, Ala., and Columbus, Ga. After the close of the war he located in Caldwell, where for twelve years he had a large and lucrative practice. In 1878 he removed to Dexter City where he now is engaged. He is an acknowledged authority on everything pertaining to surgical science especially surgical gynecology, while in the general practice none have attained a greater degree of success, and in all matters involving a thorough knowledge of medical science he is considered an oracle. Dr. Kraps is a gentleman to whom the Latin phrase "Faber suae fortunae" is eminently applicable. In early life he was dependent upon his own resources, and through his own efforts he has won success in all departments of lige. In 1848, he was married to Miss Martha E. McNabb of Zanesville. By this union, there were five children, Jacob, Francis, Charles W., Sarah E., John H. and Lois P.; the three last are deceased. In 1870, Mrs. Kraps died, and in 1873 the doctor was again married to Miss Susan L., daughter of Doctor Erwin N. Gibbs, an eminent physician of Caldwell, Ohio. The doctor is a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic.

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SAMUEL G. WISHARD, M.D., is the son of John R. and Eliza J. (Adair) Wishard, and was born in Winchester, Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1843. In early life he followed teaching. He entered the army in June, 1861, in Company F, Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out as first sergeant in December, 1865. He was in the battles at Pittsburgh Landing, Perryville, Laverne, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard's Roost, Resaca, Adairsville, New Hope Church, Burnt Hickory, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Lovejoy, Columbia, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville. After the close of the war his regiment was sent to Texas in the Fourth Army Corps. In 1865 he married Miss Susie Gray, of Washington County. Two children, Proctor and Nellie, were born of this union; the latter died in 1884 at the age of ten months. Mrs. Wishard is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Wishard graduated at the old Cleveland Medical College in 1874. He is a member of the Noble County Medical Society; is located at Dexter City, where he has a large practice. He is a member of the order of Odd Fellows, and holds the office of surgeon in the Grand Army of the Republic post at Dexter City.

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DR. P.M. McVAY was born in Franklin Township, Monroe County, Ohio, in 1842. At the age of thirteen his mother died, and from that time he was dependent upon his own resources; he acquired a good common-school education, taught school, and at the age of twenty began the study of medicine in the office of W.G. Martin, of Harriettsville. He passed a creditable examination before the censors of Monroe County, and in 1865 established himself in the practice of his profession at Dexter City whre he remained until 1879 at which time he was elected to the office of county treasurer, which position he filled creditably for two terms. In the autumn of 1885 he formed a co-partnership with W.H. Bush, and the firm established the Caldwell woolen mills. In 1864 the doctor was married to Miss Lovina Pryor; they have five children living.

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