Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Rowland, George 1840 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   George Rowland, M. D., Covington, was born in Fountain county April 19, 1840.
His father, Thomas Rowland, became a resident of Fountain county in 1833. He
located at Portland, and there read medicine with Dr. Crawford. He began the
practice of medicine about 1838, in Hillsboro, remained there a short time, and
then removed to Chambersburg (now Veedersburg), where he resided and engaged in
the practice for about twenty-five years. There the subject of this sketch was
born, and at the proper age began the study of medicine with his father. In 1865
he graduated at the Ann Arbor University, of Michigan, and in 1866 at the
Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the spring of the same year he began
the practice of medicine in Chambersburg, Kentucky, and remained there for some
years. He then returned to Fountain county, and in 1875 founded the first
greenback newspaper ever published in the county. This he ran for about two
years, and then changed his place of publication to Attica, where he also issued
the paper for two years more, and then changed again to Covington, where, in a
short time after his removal, he sold the paper to the present owners. After
giving up journalism the doctor again began the practice of medicine, in which
he is now engaged, and though he has been a resident of Covington but a short
time he already has a good practice. The doctor is a charter member of the
Fountain County Medical Society, which was organized in 1866. He is also a
member of the order of A. F. and A. M. In 1869 he married Miss Mary A. Spencer.
They have but one child, Miss Maud, born in 1871.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.


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