J. DeHart, M. D.

    J. Dehart, M.D., a native of Warren County, Ohio, was born May 10, 1841, and is one of eight living children in a family of nine born to Dr. Gideon and Malinda (Patten) DeHart, the former being a native of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and of French ancestry. To escape a large practice which was undermining his health, Dr. Gideon DeHart, moved with his family to Logansport, Indiana in 1852, practiced there until 1865, and then removed to La Fayette, where he continued in active practice until his death in 1873. His widow yet survives him and resides with her children in Western Indiana.

    The subject of this sketch remained with his parents until the breaking out of the war, when he enlisted in the Ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Not having attained majority, his father withheld his consent. He afterward succeeded to enlisting in the Forty-sixth Regiment, in 1862, but again was recalled by his father. The fall of 1863, he became a member of Company B, One Hundred Twenty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and, being then of age, went to the front with his regiment; participated in the engagements of Resaca and all the battles of the Atlanta campaign, including the siege of that city; he fought in the battles at Pulaski, Franklin and Nashville; also in the battle of Kingston, finally joining Sherman's army at Goldsboro in March, 1865.

    April, 1866, Mr. DeHart was discharged as Sergeant Major; he returned to Indiana and recommenced the study of medicine under his father, which he had commenced in 1858; also studying dentistry under Dr. Moore of La Fayette. He graduated from the Ohio Dental Medical College at Cincinnati; he came to Williamsport in 1875, where he has since remained as a practitioner of medicine, and has patients not only in and near Williamsport, but in many of the adjacent towns.

    Dr. DeHart was married in 1878 to Miss Joanna Wall, of Williamsport. He is a Republican, a member of the I. O. O. F. and of the G. A. R.

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