Biographical Sketch of N. H. Hardesty, M.D., Crawford County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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N. H. Hardesty, M. D., a prominent physician of Cuba, MO., was born in
Zanesville, Ohio, February 2, 1835, and is the youngest of the ten
children of Abram and Elizabeth (Marshall) Hardesty.  N. H. Hardesty
was educated in Philadelphia, and began the study of medicine in 1854,
under T. D. Howell, M. D., at Sharon, Ohio; he graduated from the Jeff-
erson Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1856, and then took up the 
practice of his old preceptor at Sharon, the latter retiring to engage
in the banking business.  After three years of successful practice at
Sharon, Dr. Hardesty was so severly attacked by asthma that he was 
obliged to seek another climate.  Prior to his departure he married 
Elizabeth A., daughter of Charles A. and Alice Jolly, of Dayton, Ohio.
The young couple settled in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, MO., in 1859,
where the Doctor enjoyed a large and lucrative practice until the late
war broke out, when he enlisted as surgeon in the Union army, being
transferred to the General Hospital at New Orleans, where he was sta-
tioned about two years, having charge of the institution one year.  He
was transferred from New Orleans to the hospital at Mobile, Ala., where
a sunstroke received July 5, 1865, resulted in his discharge, and he 
returned to his family.  He has three children, viz.: Frank R., a drug-
gist at Cuba, MO.; Addie, wife of F. M. Jamison, State attorney of
Crawford County, MO.; and Edwin F.  After the war Dr. Hardesty resumed
his practice and settled in Crawford County, in 1869, on a farm about
four miles west of Cuba, to which place he removed in 1874.  He has 
been unusually successful in his chosen profession; and enjoys the 
esteem and respect of a large circle of patrons.  He is a member of the
Encampment of the I. O. O. F., and the Medical Society of Rolla Dist-
rict.  He is a Republican in politics, and cast his first presidential
vote for Filmore.

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