Montgomery County IN Archives Biographies.....Ristine, Dr. James O. 
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Source: History of Jackson County, Iowa, 1910
Author: James W. Ellis

History of Jackson County, Iowa, James W. Ellis, 1910. 

JAMES OSCAR RISTINE, M. D. 

Dr. James Oscar Ristine, a physician and surgeon of Maquoketa, whose 
conscientious performance of every professional duty and strict conformity to a 
high standard of professional ethics have brought him the unqualified regard of 
the medical fraternity as well as the general public, was born in 
Crawfordsville, Montgomery county, Indiana, July 1, 1865, his parents being 
Jacob G. and Frances A. (Gray) Ristine, natives of Ohio and of Montgomery 
county, Indiana, respectively. In his boyhood days the father accompanied his 
parents to Marion, Linn county, Iowa, at which time the state was still under 
territorial government. On reaching early manhood he went to Indiana where he 
was married and later enlisted for service in the Union army, with which he 
continued throughout the entire period of the Civil war, doing duty with 
Company G, Seventy-second regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He took part in 
many hotly contested engagements and was wounded at the battle of Lookout 
Mountain. At the close of the war he located in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where 
he resided until 1879, when he came west to Iowa, settling in Jones county. He 
purchased a farm in Rome township, on which he resided until the later '80s, 
when he removed to Tama county, where he has since made his home. At the 
present time he is located in Buckingham and is living retired, enjoying in 
well earned rest the fruits of his former labor. Dr. Ristine spent his youthful 
days in his parents' home, and his early education was afforded by the public 
schools. He afterward attended the State University at Iowa City, and there won 
the professional degree on the completion of the medical course. In the 
meantime, at the age of eighteen years, he had engaged in teaching in Tama 
county and for ten or twelve years was closely and successfully identified with 
educational work. He imparted readily and clearly to others the knowledge that 
he had acquired, and under his guidance the school of which he had control made 
steady progress. While principal of the Chelsea schools he gave his attention 
during those hours which are usually termed leisure to the reading of medicine 
under the direction of Dr. C. P. Coulsen, and in the fall of 1893, m order 
further to qualify for active practice, he entered the medical department of 
the State University and was graduated with the class of 1896. 
Immediately afterward Dr. Ristine located at Iron Hill, Jackson county, where 
he took up the active work of the profession, and during the nine years which 
he there passed he succeeded in building up a large and lucrative practice and 
gained a reputation which constituted an introduction to Maquoketa's public, 
when he removed to the latter city. He has here resided since 1905, and in the 
four years which have come and gone he has built up an enviable practice. He is 
skilled in surgery as well as in knowledge of remedial agencies and since his 
graduation has carried on an independent line of study and research which has 
greatly broadened his knowledge and promoted his efficiency. He is a member of 
the Jackson County Medical Society and the Iowa State Medical Society, as well 
as of the American Medical Association. 
On the 16th of July, 1892, Dr. Ristine was united in marriage to Miss Lulu May 
Burton, of Chelsea, Iowa, and unto this union have been born three children, 
Myrle, Frances, and Leonard. 
Dr. Ristine gives his political support to the democratic party and is serving 
for the third term as coroner of Jackson county. Otherwise he has never sought 
nor desired office, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his 
professional duties, which are of ever increasing extent and importance 



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