BIO:  VAN TRESS, E.C., M.D., s/o William & Elizabeth (Carter) Van Tress

Submitted by: phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

VAN TRESS   CARTER   TRUEBLOOD

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co.  1886

Knox County, Harrison Twp., page 517

E.C. VAN TRESS, M.D., was born in Orange County, Ind., June 1, 1851, son of
William and Elizabeth (Carter) Van Tress.  The father was of German origin,
born in Kentucky in 1801.  He was a farmer and carpenter, and came to
Indiana in his youth.  He owned 240 acres of land in Orange County, where
he lived until his death in 1873.  He was taken suddenly ill while at
Bedford, and was not able to return home.  He was buried in the cemetery
at Orleans.  The mother was born in Kentucky in 1814, and was of German-
Irish descent.  She died August 13, 1868.  Our subject attended the district 
schools and the academy at Orleans for five years.  When seventeen years old 
he began teaching, but taught only one term.  When about twenty years of age
he began studying medicine with Dr. J.C. Pierson, with whom he remained
three years.  In 1874 he entered the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati,
Ohio, remaining one year.  He then practiced two years in Bicknell, Ind.,
and in 1880-83 attended the Medical College at Indianapolis, graduating with
an M.D. in March 1883.  He then traveled through the South quite extensively,
but returned to Knox County in 1878, and located at Monroe City, where he
resumed his practice and has since resided.  July 27, 1870, he wedded Nannie
Trueblood, daughter of Josiah and Rachel Trueblood.  She was born in Indiana
March 14, 1854.  They have one child--Bertie.  Dr. Van Tress is the leading
physician and surgeon of Monroe City, and is a Democrat in politics.
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