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DR. JAMES H. FAHNESTOCK, physician and surgeon, Sec. 21; P. O. Union City. The subject of this memoir was born in Miami Co., Ohio, Feb. 14, 1842; he was the son of Ephraim Fahnestock, who was born in Perry Co., Penn., in 1812, and came to Ohio with his parents when quite young, and is now retired from active labor, with a residence at Dayton; he married Elizabeth Billingsby Jan. 6, 1836; she died July 29, 1873. Dr. James H. obtained a common-school education, and, at 13 years of age, commenced the study of medicine, to which he gave his attention for six years; at 19 years of age, he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, and graduated from the same in 1863, and, in 1865, he graduated from the Southern Medical Institute, at Memphis, Tenn.; he then gave his attention to farming until 1874, when he located in Darke County, and, in 1877, commenced the practice of medicine, which profession he has since followed, with a rapidly increasing practice; the Doctor called the attention of the writer to a curiosity in the shape of an old-fashioned clock, manufactured in Germany in 1753, which has been handed down from generation to generation, until it now has become the property of the Doctor, who places great value upon the same as an heirloom. His marriage with Margaret Benson was celebrated in Randolph Co., Ind., in 1868; she was a native of Maryland; they have six children, viz., Clare E., Dona M., Charles B., Elizabeth A., George W. and Carl.