Nelson D. Clouser, M. D.

    Nelson D. Clouser, M. D., Hartford City, Indiana, was born in Highland County, Ohio, near Hillsboro, August 13, 1822, a son of Simon and Mary (Duckwall) Clouser. His father was a native of Pennsylvania, and his mother of Berkeley County, Virginia, but went to Highland County in their youth, and were there married and spent their lives.

    Nelson D. Clouser was reared and educated in his native county. Choosing the practice of medicine as his life work in 1837 and 1838. He read under the direction of Drs. Isaac S. Lilley and John M. Johnston, of Hillsboro, and in the winter of 1838-'39 attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College. In August, 1842, he located in Hartford City, and began his practice, being the second physician to locate in the place, Dr. Long having preceded him. He has since made Hartford City his home, and the month of August, 1887, completed the forty-fifth year of his practice in Blackford County.

    When he first came to the county there were no railroads and few wagon roads, and his visits were made on horseback, sometimes so far from home that he would be absent two or three days. His course was generally through the woods, and sometimes night would overtake him and he would be obliged to camp in the woods until morning. He has outlived those early experiences and now has a lucrative practice in the city of Hartford, where he has many friends who honor him as a citizen and love and trust him as a friend and physician.

    Dr. Clouser was married in Ohio in February, 1841, to Miss Mary Mann. They have five children -Charity Ann, widow of James Ruckman; Robby, of Union City, Indiana; Lydia, now Mrs. Stier, of Findlay, Ohio; Charles A., a jeweler of Madisonville, Kentucky; and Lizzie, wife of George Merrick, a dry goods merchant of Dayton, Ohio.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.