Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Jessamine Co. LEWIS C. WAGNER, M. D., was born in Knox County, Ohio, March 20, 1846, and is the third son of Casper and Maria (Ott) Wagner, natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Virginia, of German extraction. At the age of eight years he was taken by his parents to central Illinois, where he worked on the home farm in the summer and attended the district school in the winter months until the age of sixteen, when he entered Company M, Second Illinois Cavalry, was mustered in November 16, 1861, and was mustered out on January 11, 1865, having been on active duty all that time, and having participated in the battles along the Mississippi River to the Gulf. On his return to Illinois in 1865 he entered the Wesleyan University at Bloomington, and graduated in 1869. He then engaged in teaching, and came to Nicholasville, Ky., as a teacher in Bethel Academy in 1872. He continued in this calling until 1876, reading medicine in the meantime. In the last named year he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and was graduated in 1878, since when his practice has been confined to Jessamine County. In 1884 he took the post-graduate course in New York, and in 1885 received the degree of master of sciences from the University at Bloomington. In June, 1880, he married Mrs. Sallie (Brown) McCampbell, who was born in Nicholasville, and who died in 1881. His second marriage was in June, 1884, to Miss Susie W. Todhunter, of Fayette Co. Wagner Ott Brown McCampbell Todhunter = Fayette-KY Knox-OH VA PA NY IL http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jessamine/wagner.lc.txt