Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Weldon, S. J. 1800 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   S. J. Weldon, M.D., Covington, is a native of London, England, where he was
born June 19, 1800. He began the study of medicine there, but did not graduate,
on account of the feeling between the different classes. He, however, practiced
there about six years, principally in hospitals, and at the age of twenty-eight
years he emigrated to the United States. He located in Cleveland, Ohio, and
began practice there. In 1837 he went to New York and had the title of M.D.
formally conferred upon himself. He returned to Cleveland, and after a total
residence there of about twelve years he removed to the west, and located at
Paris, Illinois, where he practiced about four years, and then went to Leroy,
McLean county, Illinois, residing there about two and a half years, and then
came to Covington where he has since resided. Shortly after becoming a resident
of Covington the doctor engaged in the drug trade, which he carried on for many
years in connection with his practice. He is one of the charter members of the
Fountain County Medical Society, and in his political views he was democratic
until the late war, when he changed to a republican. November 17, 1867, he, in
connection with Dr. C. V. Jones and G. Benjamin, organized the first Grant club
of the United States. The doctor is a leading member of the Catholic church, in
the growth and prosperity of which he has taken an active part.

Additional Comments:
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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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