Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Watson, D. C. 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   D. C. Watson, M. D., Covington, whose residence in Fountain. county dates
back to 1851, is a graduate of Rush Medical College, Chicago, and a member of
the medical fraternity of Fountain county, in good standing. He is a native of
Tioga county, New York. He is now fifty-two years old. His early life was spent
on a farmland his education was received at the country schools. In 1850 he came
west and spent one year in the State of Wisconsin, and in 1851 came to
Covington. He began the study of medicine with Dr. C. V. Jones, and after
graduating at Rush Medical College he returned to Covington and began practice
in company with Dr. Jones. He remained with him about eight months and then
removed to Hillsboro, Fountain county, where he remained till the fall of 1858,
and then removed to State Line. There he practiced about two and a half years,
when he returned to Hillsboro. This was about the time of the breaking out of
the war. He went out in 1861 and again in 1862. He enlisted as a private in the
18th Ind. Bat., but was promoted to quartermaster-sergeant and then elected as
acting assistant surgeon of the 18th Ind. Bat. In a few months he was
commissioned first assistant surgeon to the 54th Ind. Vols. This was for a three
years' term, but ill health disabled him for service and after a few months he
was obliged to return to his home. After returning from the army he had a
protracted siege of sickness, which disabled him from either attending to his
practice or returning to the army. In May, 1863, he returned to Covington, where
he now resides. The doctor is a member and ex-president and secretary of the
Fountain County Medical Society. He is a member of the State Medical Society,
and was one of the representatives of that body to the International Medical
Convention, which was held at Philadelphia in 1876. The doctor married Miss
Celeste, daughter of J. H. and Milicant McCormick, who were early pioneers of
Fountain county. They have no children.

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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