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DR. CHARLES F. TITUS was born in Rochester, N. Y., May 10, 1842. He acquired a common school education, as far as could be obtained, during the first twelve years of life, and then was taken from school and entered his step-father’s sash factory; attending two terms of evening school. At the age of sixteen he commenced to learn the painter’s trade; at the age of nineteen he enlisted in the Eighty-ninth N. Y. Vol. Infantry and remained three years in the service; the last five months being in the hospital, having been severely wounded three times. His first vote was for the reelection of Abraham Lincoln. In 1866 he began the study of medicine and surgery, taking a full course of clinical lectures in St. Louis; the following winter a full course of lectures were taken in New York City. In 1867 he was married to Miss Isabella Broides of Albany, N. Y.; his oldest child, Florence, was born there. In 1868 he moved to the city of Ann Arbor, Mich., where he worked at his trade, studying at every opportunity, until satisfied that he had a fair chance to get through. He finally graduated in the class of 1869-70. One child, George, was born there. In 1871 he moved to Joplin, Mo., which was then only a small mining camp, and bought fifty feet front on Main and fifty feet front on Wall streets’ which he afterwards built upon. The Dr. has had a very extensive practice in both medicine and surgery; has a very large library of not only professional, but books on general literature; also has a large and valuable collection of minerals and fossils. Three children have been added to his family since coming to Joplin. Two of his children have died, one from paralysis following a fall, the other from epidemic diarrhoea.