Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Rutledge, John W. February 28, 1844 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Glapha Cox rcoxfam@earthlink.net January 26, 2006, 9:23 am Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884) Jackson Township p. 591 John W. Rutledge, physician and surgeon, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1844. His father was born in Ireland but was brought to America when an infant. He was principally reared in Guernsey County, Ohio, and was a tanner by trade. He was married about 1839 to Susannah Shutt, a native of Pennsylvania, by whom he had seven children, six still living. He died June. 2, 1865, and his widow is making her home with her son in Cambridge City. John W. was reared and educated principally in his native county. At the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Union army, in the Ninth Ohio Cavalry, serving as a private for three years, when he received an honorable discharge. His father having died while he was in the army, he assisted in settling his affairs, then taught school for two terms. In 1867 he entered the Ohio University at Athens, and graduated in 1871, and the same year had charge of the public school at Canal Winchester, Ohio. In 1871 he began the study of medicine under Dr. T. A. Reamy, of the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati. He took his course of lectures at the same institution graduating in March, 1875. He served as Interne of the Cincinnati Hospital from March 10, 1874, to March 10, 1875, being one of four of the successful contestants out of twelve entering the race. He has since practiced his profession in Cambridge City, .Wayne County, Ind., where he has established a large and lucrative practice. He was married in 1879 to Mary E., daughter of Nathaniel and Catherine Tallman, of Canal Winchester, Ohio. The Doctor has served three years as member of the School Board. He belongs to the G. A. R. post organized in 1883. He has been a member of the the Wayne County Medical Society for the past eight years, and is also a member of the Indiana State Medical Society and of the Union District Medical Society. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/wayne/bios/rutledge281gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb