Tipton-Decatur County IN Archives Biographies.....McAlister, Lewis 1817 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   LEWIS McALISTER, M. D. and druggist, was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y.,
May 15, 1817, and is the youngest of fifteen children born to John and Isabel
(Lockwood) McAlister, natives of New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and of Scotch
and Irish descent. His parents were among the early settlers of Lawrence County.
Dr. McAlister was left fatherless at the age of thirteen, and when he was
seventeen he bound himself out for three years to Salmon Currier, a
horticulturist of Potsdam, N. Y., receiving as pay six months' schooling, two
suits of clothes and $200. With this money, he attended the Potsdam Academy one
year, and, in 1839, taught school at Oswego, N. Y., for six months. In the
spring of 1840, he entered a drug store as clerk, and at the same time began the
study of medicine. The following winter, he attended a course of lectures at
Albany, N. Y., and, in June, 1841, entered the office of his brother at Oxford,
Ohio, where he continued studying for two years. He then attended a course of
lectures at the Cincinnati Medical College, after which he practiced medicine
one year at Somerville, Ohio. In the fall of 1844, he came to Milford, Decatur
Co., Ind., and practiced twenty-two years. He then located in Kokomo one year,
but by failing health was compelled to return to Milford, and in the fall of
1867 located at Windfall. He built a brick building, and in it placed a general
stock of merchandise, but subsequently put in drugs alone. He was one of a stock
company that built the Windfall City Mills. In 1876, he purchased the entire
mill, which he operated until 1879. He retired from active practice in 1875, but
has since given his attention to a few special cases. He is a liberal supporter
of public enterprise, and has contributed to the building of churches. He has
been visited by fire at three different times, the last occurring in March,
1883. Dr. McAlister was married, January 1, 1846, to Miss Rachel Fugit, of
Decatur County, Ind. She was born August 15, 1818, and is the daughter of John
Fugit, one of the pioneers of Decatur County. He is a member of the Republican
party, and is a strong temperance man. He is a member of the Christian Church,
and his wife belongs to the M. E. Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.

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