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Below is a family biography included in The History of Switzerland County, Indiana published by Weakley, Harraman & Co. in 1885. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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JOHN W. SMITH, M. D., a physician of the homoeopathic school, and surgeon, has lately become a resident of Vevay. He is a native of Canada, born in 1857, and educated at St. Catharine’s Collegiate Institute, at which he graduated in 1879. He studied medicine at Tobsonburg and attended lectures at the university of Buffalo, graduating at this institution in 1883. The previous year he began practice in East Buffalo and from thence he went to Chicago, graduating from the Homoeopathic Institute of that city in February, 1885. From Chicago Dr. Smith came direct to Vevay, where he is making rapid progress in establishing a lucrative practice in his profession. Duncan and Charlotte (Gilchrist) Smith, parents of our subject, are natives of Scotland, his father being a retired merchant and grain dealer.
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This family biography is one of 215 biographies included in The History of Switzerland County, Indiana published in 1885 by Weakley, Harraman & Co. For the complete description, click here: Switzerland County, Indiana History and Genealogy
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