Dr. J. S. Mavity

    Dr. J. S. Mavity, a Hoosier by birth, was born in Ripley County, February 19, 1845, and is one of six children, five of whom are living, born to David J. and Lurania B. (Davis) Mavity, natives of Virginia, and who were there married. They emigrated to Ripley County, Indiana in 1836, and there Mr. Mavity died August 7, 1872, but his widow survives him and resides with her son.

    Dr. J. S. Mavity attended Moore's Hill College in Dearborn County, Indiana for a number of years, afterward teaching school in Indiana and Illinois six years. He began the study of medicine under Drs. Smith & Wagner, of Newman, Illinois, and in 1870-71 attended the State Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis. The latter year he opened an office in Tipton, Indiana, and remained there just five years, then came to Fowler, where he has since resided. As a practitioner, Dr. Mavity has met with success, as his extensive practice indicates.

    He is a Republican, and is the present Health Officer of Benton County. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and Mrs. Mavity is a member of the Presbyterian Church. September 6, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary A. Hart, a native of Franklin County, Indiana, and to their union have been born six children -Robert, Ernest (deceased), David Everett, Joseph Halles, Agnes (deceased), William Asher and Helen.

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