Biographical Sketch of Preston Ramsey, M. D., Bloomington Township, 
Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Preston Ramsey, M. D., DeKalb, was born May 15, 1833, and is a native
of Clark County, Kentucky.  He was raised and educated in this county,
and when eighteen years of age began the study of medicine under Dr.
James Hood, of Winchester, Kentucky, and graduated in the University
of Louisville, Kentucky in the spring of 1857.  He then pursued his
practice in Clark County about two years, when he went to Philadelphia
and remained six months.  While there he attended the Philadelphia 
Medical School, and, at the same time, visited all the principal hos-
pitals of the city.  He then returned to Clark County, Kentucky where
he continued to practice till the spring of 1867, when he moved to
DeKalb, Missouri, where he now resides.  His residence denotes comfort
and prosperity.  Miss Mary E. Merrit became his wife, March 15, 1860.
She was born in Philadelphia on December 18, 1841 and died May 5, 1874.
They had seven children, five now living: Fanny F., born June 29, 1862;
John M., born August 2, 1864; Lenora, born October 29, 1865; Mary E.,
born April 8, 1868 and James S., born April 30, 1872.  He is an Odd
Fellow, of DeKalb Lodge No. 191.

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