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1884–85
Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer for 1884–85 gives the first complete professional census of the town's health trades. The Walkerton entry (pp. 743–744) describes "a growing town of 900 inhabitants" in Lincoln township, with four churches, a graded school, two hotels, and a weekly newspaper, and lists, in the entry's alphabetical order: Physicians — "Moore C W, Physician"; "Puffenberger I, physician"; "Smith Michael F, physician." Dentist — "Scutt M A, dentist." Druggists — "Arlington J W, druggist"; "Endly Joseph, druggist"; "Richmond C M, druggist." No hospital, sanitarium, or infirmary line appears anywhere in the entry. The band cross-reads with the sketch record at two points, and the tensions print rather than resolve: "Puffenberger I" is the gazetteer's spelling of Chapman's Isaiah Poffenberger, the war surgeon of the sketch; and the druggists' "Endly Joseph" and "Richmond C M" stand against Chapman's James F. Endly, physician, and the Dr. Richmond who co-founded his newspaper — the gazetteer classing both men by their drug trade where the sketches class them by their medicine. The names are printed as each source prints them; the settler is the page image of the gazetteer itself, the transcriptions used being machine-generated from the scans, a caveat that travels with every gazetteer name in this section. One further line is recorded so it is not built into a human-health fact later: the entry also lists "Orr J, vet surgeon" — the town's animal practice, not its medical one.
Sources
- R. L. Polk & Co., Indiana State Gazetteer & Business Directory, 1884–85 (Vol. III), Walkerton entry, pp.
- Chapman (1880), sketches, for the cross-read names (Poffenberger; Endly; Richmond).