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Author: B. F. Bowen (1904)

p. 179-181

JOHN S. ARWINE, M. D.

   Many years have passed since Dr. John S. Arwine became a resident of Indiana
and he is justly numbered among the honored pioneers and leading citizens of
Bartholomew county. He has been prominently identified with the business
interests as a member of the medical profession. His is an honorable record of a
conscientious man, who by his upright life has won the confidence of all with
whom he has come in contact; He has rounded the psalmist's span of three score
years and ten, and although the snows of many winters have whitened his hair, he
has the vigor of a much younger man, and in spirit and interests seems yet in
his prime. Old age is not necessarily a synonym of weakness or inactivity. It
needs not suggest, as a matter of course, want of occupation or helplessness.
There is an old age which is a benediction to all that comes in contact with it,
that gives out of its rich stores of learning and experience, and grows stronger
intellectually and spiritually as the years pass. Such is the life of Dr.
Arwine, an encouragement to his associates and an example well worthy of
emulation to the young.

   The Doctor is a native of Anderson county, Tennessee, his birth having there
occurred January 4, 1824. His parents were James and Mary (Martin) Arwine and on
both the paternal and maternal sides the Doctor comes of German ancestry. The
mother was of Scotch ancestry. In the family were nine brothers. Six of the
Doctor's brothers served in the Civil war. Jesse and James were in the
Eighty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers: Isaac in the Ninth Regiment Iowa
Volunteers, and was killed at the battle of Pea Ridge; David L. and Thomas were
in the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Regiment Indiana Volunteers; Daniel was not
with any particular regiment; Jesse, James and David still survive. The Doctor's
father enlisted in the Eighty-second Regiment Volunteer Infantry, but on account
of his advanced age did not long remain in the service. In the Mexican war he
belonged to the Third Indiana Regiment. In 1869 he removed to Texas, where he
died. The mother also died in Texas, and is interred there beside her husband. 
In the place of his nativity the Doctor remained until about ten years of age,
residing upon his father's farm. He then accompanied his parents on their
removal to Lawrence county, Indiana, where he continued to work at farm labor in
the midst of pioneer surroundings and environments. The family removed to Brown
county, Indiana, in 1842. He attended the subscription schools which were common
at that day and later continued his studies in a public school. He acquired a
very good education for that early time, and successfully engaged in teaching
for two terms. When twenty-one years of age he took up the study of medicine,
having resolved to make its practice his life work. This was in 1846. About this
time his father enlisted for service in the Mexican war, becoming a sergeant,
and Dr. Arwine was thus detained at home and his medical education was pursued
in the face of considerable difficulty, for his father lost much that he
possessed and it became necessary for the Doctor to make his own way through
college. He provided for the expenses of the medical course by following any
employment that would yield him a fair return for his labor. In 1850 he
completed his course and began practice in Nashville, Brown county, Indiana, in
June, 1850. There he remained continuously until April, 1868, when he came to
Columbus, where he has since made his home, covering a period of thirty-five
years. In the practice of his profession he has gained distinction and has long
been recognized as one of the most prominent, influential and capable members of
the medical fraternity in this part of the state.

   On the 30th of May. 1854, the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Harriet
A. Manville, a native of Kentucky, who removed with her parents to Nashville,
Brown county, Indiana. This union has been blessed with three sons and a
daughter, but S. M. is now deceased. Harriet A. is the wife, of Joseph A.
Arnold, who is assistant chief in the editorial department of the agricultural
bureau at Washington, D. C. Lena K. has also passed away. Lottie R. is the wife
of John W. Suverkrup, a graduate of the medical department of the State
University of Michigan and now making a specialty of the treatment of diseases
of the eyes, ears, nose and throat in his practice in Columbus. James T., who is
also a graduate of medicine, is now assistant surgeon in the army, located at
Camp Presidio, in California. John S., the youngest of the family, was a student
in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, in which he was graduated on the 2d
of February, 1903, and is now midshipman on the cruiser "Boston." The Doctor's
wife died November 12, 1899, aged sixty-three years.

   Dr. Arwine, whose name introduces this record, is a valued and prominent
member of the Masonic fraternity in which he has attained to the Knight Templar
degree, and for seven years he served as master of the lodge in Nashville. He is
also a member of the Royal Arcanum. In politics he has always been a stalwart
Democrat since casting his first presidential ballot for James K. Polk, yet he
has never been an aspirant for political honors as the reward for party fealty,
preferring that his time and attention should be given to his business affairs.
He is a member of the Presbyterian church and has lived an honorable, upright
life. His nature is kindly, sympathetic and generous and these qualities have
been manifested in his professional career, making his services of great value
in the sick room when added to his comprehensive knowledge of the science of
medicine. He stands in close relation to many a household because of the aid he
has rendered in the alleviation of human suffering and he is today respected by
all who know him, while many give to him the warm regard which we term friendship.


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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY
INDIANA

INCLUDING BIOGRAPHIES OF THE GOVERNORS AND OTHER REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS OF INDIANA

ILLUSTRATED

1904

B. F. Bowen
PUBLISHER


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