HENRY GREGG, M. D.

MEMBER OF HUNTINGTON COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

BORN JULY 15, 1815,

IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

DIED FEBRUARY 21, 1887,

AT ROANOKE, INDIANA.

Dr. Gregg, at the age of twenty, removed with his father's family to Delaware county, Ohio, where he taught school in winter and farmed in summer. He acquired a good English education, self-taught, and studied medicine with Dr. Lyman Potter and graduated at Starling Medical College, Ohio, in 1850. He began practice in Ohio, but in 1853 removed to Columbia City, Ind., where he remained for ten years, serving the last two years as County Treasurer. He then removed to Bloomington, Ind., to afford his children the benefit of the State University, after which he returned to Whitley county and engaged extensively in agricultural pursuits, invested largely, and in the panic of 1873 wrecked his whole fortune. Dr. Gregg then returned to the practice of medicine, and continued it until within a few days of his death. He was skilled in diagnosis, successful in treatment, honest and ethical in all relations.

Dr. Gregg first married Miss Sarah E. Randall, who bore him four children, two of whom survive, and his second wife was Mrs. Harriet G. Housel, who bore him one daughter, who, with her mother, mourns an affectionate father and husband gone to his rest.

[Prepared by J. S. Gregg, M. D., Fort Wayne, Ind.]

CHARLES SCHMITZ, M. D.

HONORARY MEMBER OF ALLEN COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

BORN NOVEMBER 24, 1809,

IN HANOVER, GERMANY.

DIED MARCH 10, 1887,

AT FT. WAYNE, INDIANA.

Dr. Schmitz graduated at the University of Bonn in 1833, and practiced medicine at his native place for a short period, and came to Philadelphia in 1836. In 1837 he removed to Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he remained until his death, but had not engaged in practice since 1873, his wealth enabling him to pursue such line of activity or ease as best suited his taste.

In August, 1840, he married Henrietta Laws, who bore him three children, one son, now deceased, and two daughters, who, with his widow, survive.

[Prepared by Kent K. Wheelock, M. D., Ft. Wayne, Ind.]

Dr. Walker received his literary education at St. Mary's College, Kentucky, and was engaged in teaching until the war broke out when he joined the Confederate army and served therein until the close of the war. He then studied medicine and took his degree in Jefferson Medical College in 1871.

He began practice in May, 1871, in Loogotee, Ind., where he continued until a few months before his death, when his health failing, he revisited the scenes of his childhood in Kentucky, in the hope of restoring his health, but his disease continued to advance and he was never able to return to his home.

Dr. Walker was a careful and successful practitioner and had the respect of his associates and the confidence and esteem of his neighbors.

Dr. Walker married Miss Adel Schafer, of Lexington, Ky., by whom he had ten children, all of whom, with the widow, survive.

[Prepared by H. W. Shirley, M. D., Shoals, Ind.]

BENJAMIN F. CUMMINS, M. D.

MEMBER OF WELLS COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.

BORN MARCH 17, 1837,

IN DEARBORN COUNTY, KENTUCKY.

DIED APRIL 29, 1887,

AT BLUFFTON, INDIANA.

Dr. Cummins graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, at the age of twenty. Married Sarah E. Wilmott in 1860; moved to Bluffton, Ind., in 1865, where he continued to live and follow the profession of his choice until his death. He was a man of rare social qualities, was kind and attentive to the sick, responding to the care of the poor and rich alike. His life as a physician and citizen was a very busy and useful one.

Dr. Cummins represented Wells county in the Legislature of 1881. A wife and five children survive him to mourn their loss.

His remains were taken to his native State and interred at Lexington, Kentucky.

[Prepared by G. E. Fulton, M. D., Bluffton, Ind.]

He came west in 1818 and settled in Springboro, Ohio, where he studied medicine, and then removed to Milton, Indiana, in 1825, and began practice, continuing in the same place until his death. Under the law existing at the time, he was licensed to practice by the Eleventh District Medical Society, and in 1832-3 attended the Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, and graduated in the same institution in 1847.

Dr. Pennington was an earnest physician, doing a large practice, was a member of each Wayne County Medical Society as it came into organization, frequently served as president of them, and was president of the State Medical Society in 1872. He was also a member of the American Medical Association for many years before his death.

He married Ann Mathews, at Springboro, Ohio, September 8, 1820, and she survives him. They had no children.

Dr. Pennington was a man who commanded the respect and good will of all classes of his fellow citizens through his long life, and in his last years, when accident had reduced him to penury, and paralysis rendered him helpless, charitable purses, willing hands and loving hearts supplied his needs and made him comfortable.

[Prepared by James F. Hibberd, M. D.. Richmond, Indiana.]