Parke County Indiana

 The History of Henry and St. Clair Counties, Missouri
St. Joseph, MO.: National Historical Company, 1883

Page 738

Dr. JOSEPH NOBLE, physician and surgeon at La Due, was born in Parke
County, Indiana, on the last day of February, 1846, and was next to the
last of ten children of whom six are now living.  His parents were natives
of Shelby County, Kentucky, and settled in Indiana soon after the Indian
war.  Our subject bears the name of his father, and his mother’s maiden
name was Sarah May.  His early days were fully employed assisting his
father in the labors of the farm, and he acquired a fair education, mainly
in the country schools and at Belmore Seminary.  At the age of sixteen
(page 739) years he enlisted in the Fifty-fifth Indiana Volunteers and
remained in that command three months, being in the action at Richmond,
Kentucky.  At the expiration of a year spent at home he again responded to
the call for troops, this time enlisting in the 149th Indiana, and
remaining in service until discharged at Nashville in September, 1865.  He
then passed one year in school, and when twenty years of age came west and
for two years was occupied in teaching in Henry and Jasper Counties,
Missouri.  Returning to Indiana in 1868 he began the study of medicine with
Dr. John Wilcox, at Greencastle, Indiana, with whom he studied for two
years, when he attended the lecture course of the University of Virginia.
He graduated from that institution in June 1870.  He retraced his steps to
Coatesville, Indian, and then began a practice that has extended over
twelve years.  In the Centennial year he again came to Missouri and
locating at LaDue has gained an enviable reputation among the successful
practitioners of the county.  As well as being a successful physician Dr.
Noble is a farmer of exceptional success.  His farm contains 420 acres of
good land, well improved, with far better than the customary buildings, and
making one of the most desirable stock farms in the county.  He handles
about 150 cattle, feeding forty head of good steers and sixty hogs.  On the
23d of February, 1873, the doctor was married to Miss Laura Layton, a
native of Indiana, born July 16, 1856.  Mrs. Noble is a member of the M. E.
Church.  Dr. Noble is Democratic, and for twenty years has been a member of
the Masonic fraternity.



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