FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: EDMISTON, Dr. John M. (published 1880)
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History of Franklin and Pickaway Counties,  Ohio
Pub by Williams Bros.,  1880

DR. JOHN M. EDMISTON,

was born near Carlisle,  Cumberland County,  Pennsylvania,  on the
twenty-seventh day of November, 1790.  He was graduated from Dickinson
college,  and afterwards from the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania,  at Philadelphia.  He came West,  first visiting
Lexington,  Kentucky,  where he had two sisters,  and thence to
Franklinton,  early in 1814,  with letters of introduction to Lucas
Sullivant,  whose family physician he became.  Very soon afterwards he
removed to Columbus,  which had just been laid out,  and was the first
physician to locate in the new town.

On the twenty-second day of June, 1820,  he was married to Miss Matilda
A. Gwynne,  a native of Alleghany County,  near Cumberland Maryland, 
but at that time residing with her mother in Columbus.  Soon after,  he
erected a two-story brick residence,  at the northeast corner of High
street and Walnut alley.  This was one of the first brick houses built
on High street.  it is still standing,  and occupied by Dr. Tod.

Dr. Edmiston was a fine physician,  and a cultivated and refined
gentleman.  His professional services were greatly sought;  but he was
not well suited to endure the hardships of a physicians life in a
sparsely settled country,  where the calls were mostly at night,  and
the roads often almost impassable on horseback,  the usual means of
traveling in those pioneer days.  The labor and exposure were great, 
and his health finally gave way.  At the early age of forty-four,  on
the twenty-third day of July, 1834, he died,  leaving a widow and five
children.  His family were well known in Columbus,  after his death. 
Mrs. Edmiston died on the twenty-fourth day of November, 1874,  highly
beloved and esteemed by a very large circle of friends.  The only
survivor of the family is Elizabeth jane,  wife of Henry C. Noble,  of
Columbus.
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