CHAPTER XIII.

PHYSICIANS OF THE COUNTY.

The first resident physician of Stark county was Dr. Eliphalet Ellsworth, who practiced here before the Black hawk war and made a permanent settlement here in 1834. In 1835 a Dr. Pratt settled in Elmira township, and in 1837 came Dr. Thomas Hall, a man identified closely with the county up to the period of his death. He was followed by Dr. William Chamberlain, in 1840. When dysentery and typhoid prevailed here they traveled on horseback for nine weeks, making eighty miles one day and fifty-six the next. Six years later he and Dr. Chamberlain attended 1,500 patients and dispensed eighty ounces of quinine or Peruvian bark. Dr. E. R. Boardman, Dr. Bacmeister, Dr. Curtiss, Dr. King, and others, to whom full references are made in the township histories, must be classed as pioneer physicians. Many of the physicians who have practiced in this county are named in the following review: In May, 1881, Dr. Baldwin sold his office, lot and practice at Toulon to Dr. Pratt, of Galva. Charles W. Wright, a medical student, died at Toulon, March 9. 1884. On June 28, 1883, Dr. L. L. Long moved to Toulon from Orion. Dr. Gilman, dentist, settled at Wyoming in July, 1870. Dr. Thomas Motter, who was found dead in his office at Wyoming, January 6, 1885; practiced in that town for twelve years. Dr. J. G. Greene died in August, 1879. He was an old resident of Wyoming. Dr. A. Swen moved to Canton, McPherson county, Kansas, from Wyoming in March, 1886. Dr. Garfield, who practiced at Toulon from 1844 to 1848, then residing in a log cabin opposite Benj. Turner's house, moved to LaSalle, Ill. Dr. Curtiss, referred to in a former page, was one of the early physicians here. In 1865 S. S. Kaysbier began the practice of medicine here. He is now in Kansas. Dr. W. J. Adams, dentist of Toulon, was prohibited from using rubber dental plates in September, 1869. Dr. Kitchen, a dentist, was here in 1869. Dr. Dunn, brother of Rev. R. C. Dunn, who served in the 112th Illinois Infantry, died at Chicago, Cook county, in March, 1869. Dr. Walter T. Hall opened his office at Toulon in March, 1869, moved to Bradford in October of that year, but subsequently returned to Toulon. Dentist Hoover was at Toulon in 1880. Dr. Clark Demuth of Plymouth, Mich., practiced at Toulon prior to 1881. Dr. J. C. Copestake, of Wyoming, practiced at West Jersey, and here also were the following named physicians: West, Barnett, Upshaw, Perry, W A. Hampton, Claybaugh, R. W. King, W. S. McClenahan. Dr. Lamper practiced some years at Bradford. In 1870 his son was appointed receiver for Washington Territory. Dr. Swazey, the Organizer of the first base ball club in the county, was at

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