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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
Portrait and Biographical Record
of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio.
containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and
Representative Citizens Together with
Biographies and Portraits of the Presidents of the
United States.
Publ. Chicago: Chapman Bros.
1892
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ABRAHAM ELDER,
M. D., Logan County, and especially the
vicinity of Huntsville, has been the field of labor to
which our subject has devoted himself for very nearly
forty years. It would be very strange if in that
length of time so affable and lovable a man and so
excellent a practitioner had not made for himself hosts
of friends, who owe as much, perhaps, in their sickness
to his cheery smile and cordial, encouraging greeting as
to his medicines. He is the oldest physician in
the town and among the oldest in the county. He is
moreover, a native of this State, having been born at
Somerset, Perry County, Apr. 20, 1821.
Dr. Elder is a son of Abraham and Jane
(Johnson) Elder, both natives of Pennsylvania,
although the former was of English descent.
Abaham Elder, Sr., came to Ohio in 1815, journeying
hither by wagon, and settled at our subject's
birth-place. He was engaged in the dealing in
horses, finding a market for them in Philadelphia.
Twenty-one years were spent in this business and he
became widely known throughout the country. In
1831, he made his headquarters at Bellefontaine, and
after a trip to Philadelphia the return was made with a
trip to Philadelphia and return was made with a
plentiful stock of goods for a store which he ran in
Bellefontaine. He was elected Associate Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas. He has a good knowledge
of law and was consulted far and near on legal
questions, being generally recognized as a man of large
mental calibre. He was a member of the Seceder
Church, now known as the United Presbyterian.
Politically, he was a Whig and a Republican and a
thorough patriot. During the War of 1812, he was
engaged in hauling
ammunition and during this employment he had some narrow
escapes.
The mother of twelve children, Jane (Johnson) Elder
reared nine of them, having named them as follows:
Culberson, Jane, John, Margaret, James, Robert, Abraham,
Maria and Rebecca. After instilling valuable
lessons into the fertile minds of these young people,
and feeling that her work was done, the mother died at
the age of sixty-three years. Our subject attended
school a short time at Somerset and then spent a year at
Bellefontaine. Just at this point his father moved
the family to a farm near Huntsville, and thereafter our
subject conned his lessons in the log schoolhouse two
miles distant from his home. It had an open
fireplace, slab benches and greased paper inserted in
the openings that served as windows, and was a
subscription school.
After the death of the father, our subject and his
brother Robert together worked the farm for a few
years; then they purchased sixty-two acres, devoting
themselves to its improvement for two years longer.
At this point our subject began his medical studies,
having had a desire to do so for a long time. He
began reading under Dr. Mam. Later,
he went to Hardin County, and started a dry-goods store,
continuing at that business for three years and reading
medicine at the same time. Railroads were then
sending out their nervous fingers in every direction,
and one coming near the residence of our subject, he,
foreseeing that it would greatly enhance the value of
property, purchased some land and then went into
partnership with Dr. McAndless, of Bellefontaine,
in the drug business. The senior member of the
firm was our subject's medical tutor and when, at the
end of an association of three years, the enterprise was
sold out, Dr. Elder entered the Starling Medical
College at Columbus, in 1851. He is also a
graduate of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and
Surgery. After a time spent in Hardin County, he
came here, in 1854, and has since devoted his attention
to this locality.
The original of this sketch found his better half in
Mary A. Wallace, a native of Pennsylvania, who came
to Ohio with her parents when only a little girl. She
has been his faithful companion in life ever since,
carefully rearing the children that have been spared
them. Their names are Samantha E., Arra A.,
Carrie, Wallace S. and Vada Y. In his
profession, Dr. Elder makes a specialty of the
diseases of women and children, including chronic
diseases. He has had some remarkable cases and has
been exceedingly successful. Since his location
here, thirty doctors have come and gone, and where
others have failed he has made a brilliant success.
The Elder home is a beautiful place comprising five
acres of land and a fine frame residence which was
erected at a cost of $3,500. He has a farm of fifty-two
acres east of town and another of sixty acres north of
town. He frees himself of the actual care of the place
by renting it, and at the same time gratifies his taste
for live stock by keeping fine animals.
Dr. and Mrs. Elder are members of the United
Presbyterian Church. Our subject is a Republican
in his political convictions and has held some important
offices. He has been on the School Board of this
locality for thirteen years. Most of this time he
was President.
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 551 |
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JOSIAH D. EMERSON
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 519 |
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GEORGE E. EMERY
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 254
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WILLIAM KINZER EMERY
Source: Portrait and Biographical Record of
Auglaize, Logan and Shelby Counties, Ohio - Publ.
Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1892 - Page 260 |
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