BIOS: Robert H. Tarleton, M.D., Mason Co., KY

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ROBERT H. TARLETON, M.D.--MASON CO., KY.

COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL." CHARLES
BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.  F. A. BATTEY. F. W.
TEPPLE

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA PAGE 209

ROBERT H. TARLETON, M.D., druggist, was born in Mason County, Ky., March 24, 1822, and
reared in Brookville, in that State. During his boyhood, he attended the schools of
the day, and when seventeen one of a higher grade. At the age of twenty-one, he
removed to Missouri, but soon returned to Kentucky, and  engaged in teaching and in
the study of medicine. In 1846, he located as a practitioner near Edinburg, Ind.; in
1847, came to this county, and in 1849  attended lectures at and in 1850 graduated
from the Ohio Medical College, during which year he removed to Kentucky and there
married Miss Maria Prather April 18, 1850. He then located at Patriot, Ind., where he
lost his wife in 1851, and afterward came to this town, where he has since been
engaged in the practice of his profession, together with the drug business, which he
established in 1852, in which he has now  partner in his nephew, W. B. Tarleton, and
does a business of from $15,000 to $18,000 annually. March 2, 1852, he married Miss
Elizabeth S. Wampler, with an issue of eight children--Carrie, Emma J. B., Harriet S.,
James W., Harry H., Edgar, June and Maurice. In 1867, he laid out the beautiful
Hillsdale Cemetery. In addition to his store building, Dr.  Tarleton owns a fine
residence and other property. He is a member of the Masons and a Democrat. In 1879, he
was appointed Trustee of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and re-nominated in
1881.