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L. C. McCONNELL, M. D., physician and surgeon, Gridley; was born in Ripley, Brown Co., Ohio, April 13, 1836; when he was about 4 years of age, his parents removed to Indiana, and settled in Fayette Co.; he was educated, principally, at Fairview Academy, in Rush Co., Ind., where he spent three years, and prepared for the junior class in college; entering Bethany College, Va., he remained about a year, when a difficulty occurred in the college, arising out of the slavery question, and he left at the close of his junior year, together with several other Northern students. He began the study of medicine in 1855, and spent the winter of 1856-57 at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati; he then went to Greenfield, Ind., and remained until the fall of 1858, engaged in study and practice; returning to the Medical College, he took his second course, graduating in February, 1859; he then located at Fairview, Ind., and practiced medicine two years, when he removed to Richmond, Ind., and there remained until his removal to McLean Co. in 1866; he spent the first two years in Bloomington, and in August, 1868, settled in Gridley, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession; he has served on the Board of Village Trustees, and as School Director, but with these exceptions, has declined to hold any public offices, his extended practice receiving his constant and undivided attention. He was married Oct. 7, 1857, to Miss Columbia A. Nutting, of Connersville, Ind., and has one child living — Minnie I.