Lake-La Porte County IN Archives Biographies.....Ausley, Robert 1872 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

DR. ROBERT AUSLEY.

    Dr. Robert Ausley, physician and surgeon of Indiana Harbor, has been there
almost as long as the town itself, and besides taking a foremost position in his
professional work is also a man of influence in all that pertains to the
development and welfare of this harbor city of Lake county. His life of less
than a third of a century has been filled with activity, and besides the full
complement of school days and the last two or three years devoted to his
profession he had much experience in different parts of the country engaged in
civil engineering, and is also one of the veterans of the Spanish-American war.

    Dr. Ausley was born in Waldron, Illinois, November 4, 1872, a son of Elmon
and Elizabeth (Kibbons) Ausley, the former a native of Michigan and the latter
of Illinois. He has two brothers, Howard and Charles, the latter of Valparaiso,
Indiana. He is descended on his paternal side from one of three brothers who
came from Scotland to America many years ago. His grandfather was a native of
New York state, a farmer by occupation, and died in middle life, having been the
father of two children. Dr. Ausley's father was a soldier during the Civil war,
enlisting from Michigan, and after the war he settled near Waldron, Illinois,
and later in Westville, LaPorte county, Indiana. He now spends his winters in
the south and the summers in the north. He is a Mason and in politics a
Republican, and his wife is a Methodist. His wife's father was a native of
Virginia, and settled in Illinois in 1831, dying in that state at the age of
sixty years. He was a prominent farmer and justice of the peace. By his wife,
Catherine Custer, he had a large family.

    Dr. Ausley spent his boyhood days in Westville, Indiana, where he attended
the public schools and graduated from the well known high school in 1887. He
then entered Valparaiso College, from which he graduated in 1889. For about a
year he was in Wyoming as civil engineer for the B. & M. Railroad. He returned
home in 1890 and obtained election as county surveyor and drainage commissioner
of LaPorte county, being elected at the age of twenty-one years to that
important office, and he was re-elected and served in all four years. He then
entered Rush Medical College at Chicago, but before he had completed his course
the war with Spain broke out, and he at once enlisted. He was made quartermaster
sergeant of Company L, One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana Infantry, was sent to
Cuba, and remained in the service till the close of the war. On his return he
resumed his studies at Rush Medical College, from which he was graduated in the
spring of 1902. In the following fall he established his office and practice in
Indiana Harbor, and has built up a very satisfactory and profitable patronage in
town and the surrounding country.

    Dr. Ausley is a member of the Lake County Medical Society, the Indiana State
Medical Association, the Kankakee Valley Medical Association and the American
Medical Association. In politics he is a Republican, and his fraternal
affiliations are with the Masons, the Knights of the Maccabees and the
Independent Order of Foresters. He resides and owns a good home at 3515
Grapevine street. December 28, 1897, he was married to Miss Pearl Gardner, a
daughter of Jared Gardner.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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