B. R. Boice

    B. R. Boice, physician and surgeon, is a native of Pennsylvania, which State he left for Ohio with his parents when a child. His father was John and his mother, Mary Boice, both natives of Pennsylvania. His father was a merchant, and a pioneer in his locality, where he kept a store and cleared a farm.

    Our subject engaged in the study of medicine with one Dr. Arter, of Salineville, Ohio, and afterward attended lectures at Cleveland, where he graduated about 1860. He began practice at Salineville, Ohio, and after a year removed to Goshen, where he practiced until 1875. He then moved to Champaign, Illinois, where he set up a drug store in connection with his practice, which was soon burned. Dr. Boice then located at Earl park, engaging in practice and drug selling, where he is the oldest practitioner. His marriage took place in Columbiana County, Ohio, the bride being Miss Mary J. Croxton, to which union succeeded three children -Martha I., Mary Eleanor and Abram C.

    Abram C. Boice, son of B. R. Boice, is likewise a physician and surgeon, who studied under his father, and graduated from the Rush Medical College of Chicago in 1880, since which time he has practiced with his father, they being the only physicians located at Earl park. Dr. Boice was married in October, 1881 at Logansport, Indiana to Miss Olive M. Ross, daughter of Hon. N. O. Ross, attorney and solicitor for the Pan Handle Railroad.

Source: Counties of Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. F.A. Battey & Co., 1883.