Lake-Noble County IN Archives Biographies.....Iddings, H. L. 1852 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

DR. H. L. IDDINGS.

    Dr. H. L. Iddings, of Merrillville, Ross township, has been the leading
medical practitioner of this town for the past twenty years. He had already
attained to considerable prominence in his profession before locating here, and
since then he has not only found in Merrillville and the surrounding country a
large field for his life work, but has also taken an active part in various
matters pertaining to the general welfare of the community, filling in all
respects the niche of a broad-minded, public-spirited and enterprising citizen.

    Dr. Iddings was born in Kendallville, Noble county, Indiana, January 22,
1852, being the eldest of the seven children, four of whom are now deceased,
born to Warren and Hester (Newman) Iddings. Warren Iddings was a son of Henry
Iddings, a native of Pennsylvania and of Scotch and Welsh descent. He was born
in Summit county, Ohio, where he remained till he was eleven years old, and
during the rest of his life followed agricultural pursuits mainly in Noble
county, Indiana, where his death occurred in his seventy-ninth year. His wife
was also a native of Ohio, and of Irish and German descent.

    Dr. Iddings was a student in the high school at Kendallville, Indiana, spent
one year in the Fort Wayne Methodist Episcopal College and one year at Ann Arbor
in the State University. He gained his early training mostly by his own efforts,
and before taking up the study of medicine taught school for three years. He
read medicine with Dr. Gunder Erickson at Kendallville, and in 1876 graduated
from the Detroit College of Medicine, at Detroit. For four years he was located
in practice at Swan, Noble county, Indiana, and was then appointed to the office
of physician to the state penitentiary at Michigan City, discharging the duties
of that position for two years. He came to Merrillville in 1883, and has been in
constant and successful practice here ever since. He is examining surgeon for
the New York Life Insurance Company, the Equitable Life Insurance Company, and
is district examiner for the Catholic Order of Foresters.

    Dr. Iddings affiliates with the Knights of Pythias at Crown Point. He is a
strong Republican in politics, and on the ticket of that party was elected to
the trusteeship of Ross township, which office he held for seven years and a half.

     Dr. Iddings married, in 1878, Miss Mary E. Clark, the fourth in number of
the seven children of Jonathan and Polly (Skinner) Clark. She was born in Noble
county, Indiana. There are six children of this marriage: John, who is a student
in the medical department of Northwestern University at Chicago: Harold and
Harry, twins: Morris, Eva and Fred.


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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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