Early Doctors of Tippecanoe County Indiana

Early Doctors of Tippecanoe County Indiana, up to about 1900's

Sources:

Biographical Record and Portrait Album. 1888

City directories.

DeHart, Richard. Past and Present. 2 vols. Indianapolis: Bowen, 1909

Findagrave. findagrave.com.

Hawkins, Barbara Merrick. “Men and Women of Medicine in Tippecanoe County, Indiana and Their Societies
1825-1976.” Tippecanoe County Medical Society, 1976.

Marshall, Joan. “Cholera in an Indiana Market Town: ‘Boosters’ and Public Health Policy in Lafayette, 1849.”
Indiana Magazine of History 98 (Sept. 2002): 169-201.

Newspapers,com & NewspaperArchive.com, Early papers online for Tippecanoe County, Indiana.

"Surgical History: Courageous Physician Performs State's First Successful C-section, Cullen, Kevin." J/C 26 Aug 2012. Lafayette Journal & Courier newspaper

Tippecanoe County Indiana Atlas 1878, published by Kingman Bros.

1850 dr advertising lafayette Pioneer doctors

Listing who we found in our record search, mainly up to 1900, plus advertisments.

Given Name	Surname	Township/Town	Years active	Misc.	Source	Biblio and notes
Joseph H	Anderson	Washington, Colburn	1869-89	lived 1818-99, Greenbush, findagrave	BR 395-96
Joseph	Atkins	Wayne, West Point	1838	lived 1812-1904, d West Lafayette, bur. West Point; "conducted the only drug store in West Point in 1882" DYKT 16 Sep 1927; "the Dr. Joseph Atkins farm near West Point … August 8, 1889," DYKT 12 Dec 1927; "Hundred Years"	unsigned town history; Do You Know That, column, JC 16 Sep 1927; DYKT, column, JC 12 Dec 1927; "Hundred Years of Pines Farms: Dr. Joseph Atkins," JC 11 Sep 1944, p.1 and p.3
Reuben	Baker	Lauramie, Stockwell, Concord; also in Wyandotte	1831 -1880s	lived 1811-1881, Concord, findagrave; filed plat for Bakers Corner / Stockwell 1852; d. 1881	BR 424-25, 511; findagrave w bio.
Moses	Baker	Lauramie, Monroe, Stockwell	arr 1849; 1866 Monroe	lived 1828-88, Fairview, Stockwell, findagrave; performed first C-section in Indiana or in the county?	1866 directory; BR 424-25, 246; DeH 734-35; Cullen; findagrave w obit fm rootsweb.com Cullen, Kevin. "Surgical History: Courageous Physician Performs State's First Successful C-section." J/C 26 Aug 2012.
Joseph H	Baker	Lauramie, Stockwell	active at least in 1888	s/o Moses Baker	BR 425, 439
John E	Bate	Fairfield, Lafayette	coroner 1855-56	coroner 1855-56	BR 225
Samuel L	Baugh	Union, Shadeland	1876	1853-1928, Grand View, findagrave	BH 160-61 +photo; DeH 339
George F	Beasley	Fairfield, Lafayette	1865-Abt 1931	lived 1841 Sugar Grove-1931, Spring Vale, findagrave; member 2nd county medical Society 1866-1870; member 3rd county medical Society 1877-?; coroner 1867-69, 1876-82; Civil war surgeon aboard Union steamboats	1878 Atlas, p. 19, 40-43, photo p. 45, directory; BR 225, 245, 727-28; DeH 333, 339; Kriebel, "Doctor, Opera Singer," JC 13 June 1999
Luther	Bensie	Fairfield, Lafayette		member 1st county medical Society 1847-1848	1878 Atlas, p. 19; BR 243

Doctors name	Area served	Advertisments	Bios or obituary
Elizur H. Deming	Fairfield

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