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1837–1880 · the town's first doctors of record
New Carlisle's medicine was practiced for forty years by two men whose sketches survive. Dr. He owned his residence in New Carlisle, was a deacon of the Christian Church — he had married Charlotte Compton in 1835, a first link in the Compton thread below — and served two terms as the township's School Trustee. Dr. Thomas T. McDonald, born 5 November 1832 in Clark County, Ohio, taught school ten years while reading medicine, attended Rush Medical College in Chicago in the winters of 1863–64 and 1864–65, began practice in 1864 in what is now Lincoln Township, and "in 1866 came to New Carlisle, where he has been located ever since." By 1880 he was the township's sitting Trustee as well as its physician. The health leg's file carries the town's later medicine; these two are its founders of record.
Sources
- Chapman (1880), sketches of Dr. Thomas T. McDonald, pp. 778, 780.