KOSCIUSKO
COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
I am indebted to
Dr. C. N. Howard, Secretary of the Kosciusko County Medical Society,
for the following notes, which he gleaned from the "New Historical
Atlas of Kosciusko County." At the session of the General Assembly of
1834-5 the boundaries of Kosciusko County were defined and established.
It was named by Hon. John B. Chapman after Thadcleus Kosciusko, the
young Polish nobleman of distinguished family, who aided the American
cause during the war of the Revolution, being one of General
Washington's staff officers.
The Kosciusko
County Medical Society was incorporated Jan. 21, 1847, by the General
Assembly of the State of Indiana. Among the first members of the
society were Drs. Eowland Willard, G. W. Stacey, J. K. Leedy, Edward R.
Parks, William E. Sarber, D. Bowman, S. C. Gray, L. B. Boggs, J. A.
Chandler, L. E. Terry, William Parks, Henry Gilbert, F. W. Taylor, John
Jackson, Z. C. Johnson, A. B. Grichfield, E. M. Kendall and G. W.
Kosdick.
Webber, Irwin W.
(1846-1907) commenced the practice of his profession in Warsaw,
Kosciusko County, in 1870. For a time he was United States Pension
Examiner at Warsaw. He was President of the Kosciusko County Medical
Society in 1887, and' was Secretary of the Society at the time of his
death. Woolley, Amos (1829-1899) came to Kosciusko County in 1857,
practicing medicine at Palestine. In 1869 he removed to Warsaw. In 1866
he assisted in the organization of the Medical College at Fort Wayne,
Ind., and afterward graduated with honor from that institution.
A
Medical History of the State of Indiana By General William Harrison
Kemper
