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HISTORY OF STARK COUNTY.

Toulon about 1866. In the fall of 1860 one Dr. Hayden, of Wyoming, was taken to the timber by the people and there shaved, tarred, feathered and pelted with rotten eggs. His alleged assault on the daughter of the pastor of the M. E. Church there was the cause of this popular punishment. R. O. Phillips, of Cal., practiced at Lafayette up to the time of his emigration to the Pacific slope. Dr. D. F. Chamberlain, a member of the first company sent from Stark Co. to the war, is now proprietor of a hotel at Eagle Rock, Idaho. Dr. Joseph S. Kohn died at Dorrance, Stark Co., March 29, 1885. He was born in Union Co., Pa, in 1809, but for years practiced in Stark and Bureau Counties. Dr Chas. E. Jordan, formerly principal of the Castleton school, is now a dentist at Red Cloud, Neb. Dr. Pinney, of Kewanee, an old settler of the county, who visited Texas, served in the rebel army, returned in April, 1883, is now in Texas. His wife is a sister of Mrs. G. Laurence's mother. Dr. Gilman G. Shaw, a graduate of the Eclectic College of Pennsylvania, settled in Lombardville about 1876. Dr. Emigh, of Bradford, left for Red Cloud, Neb., 1883. Dr. A. V. Forgay located at Bradford in February, 1880. Mrs. Dr. Henrietta K. Morris, formerly of Bradford, was elected vice-president of the State Eclectic Medical Association in May, 1886. Dr. Annie L. Green removed from Bradford to Princeton in August, 1876. Dr. James Culbertson studied medicine, but has not. practiced here. Dr. Azra Lee, a surgeon in the war of 1812, connected with the village of Duncan, died in August, 1876. Dr. L. T. Sprague settled at Lafayette in the fall of 1881, and opened a drug store there. Dr. Thomas, a physician of Duncan in 1881. Dr. Daniel Tyrrell is an old settler here, but long since retired from active professional work. Dr. S. T. C. Washburn died at Bradford in 1862, aged 40 years. Dr. Young was also here that year and here his wife died.

The official list of physicians registered in Stark county since 1877 includes the following James: T. Bacmeister, Germany, December 4,1877; H. M. Hall, now of Kansas; W. T. Hall, U. S., December 19, 1877; L. L. Long, Pennsylvania, April 5, 1884; A. W. Peterson, Germany, December 31, 1877, all registered at Toulon. The physicians registered at Wyoming since 1877 are named as follows: J. C. Copestake, England, February 1, 1878; Harvey N. Fox, Ohio, January 9, 1880; D. W. Magee, Pennsylvania, December 20, 1881; N. B. Morse, U. S., February 6, 1878. In the other villages throughout the county are found the following named registered physicians (all natives of the Union, with the exceptions of J. Fieldhouse, of Camp Grove, a native of England): E. O. Boardman, Osceola; E. R. Boardman, Elmira; James G. Boardman, Bradford; W. W. C1aybaugh, West Jersey; John H. Crawford, Lafayette; O. C. Darling, Bradford; S. A. Davison, Bradford; J. Seth Farrell, Duncan; J. Fieldhouse, Camp Grove; J. R. Holgate, Castleton; W. S. McClenahan, West Jersey; John B. McDee, Camp Grove; S. T. W. Potter, Wada Petra; G. G. Shaw, Lombardville; Loyal T. Sprague, Dr. Nicholls, Lafayette. Many of time above named physicians are members of the Military Tract Medical Society, and a few of them are eminent in scientific circles.

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