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JOHN C. TILLMAN, physician and surgeon, Versailles, Ohio. Joshua, the father of John C., is a native of Ohio, born in Preble Co. in 1824; Cynthia M., his wife, whose maiden name was Estabrook, is a native of Massachusetts, born in 1822; they resided in Preble Co., Ohio, on a farm and are the parents of eight children, of whom three are living, viz.: Mollie, Lizzie and John C.; the subject of this sketch, who is a native of Ohio, born in Preble Co. on the 17th day of September, 1850; he received his preparatory education in the district schools of Preble Co., and completed his course of study in Dayton, Ohio, where he obtained a good academic education; the Doctor is no stranger to the use of all farming implements, as he was raised on the farm, but being of a scientific turn of mind he concluded to enter another field of labor, and luckily for him he chose the study and practice of medicine, which is the most comprehensive branch of the whole curriculum of nature; and at the age of 23 he entered the office of Drs. D. Robison and John Ford, of Arcanum, Ohio, and commenced the study of medicine, and in the spring of 1877 he graduated at the Ohio Medical College; during the same spring he opened an office in Dawn, Darke Co., where he remained till fall, and on the 5th of August, 1877, he moved to Versailles, where he formed a partnership with Dr. J. P. Gordon, whose sketch appears in another place in this work; the Doctor has quite an extensive practice, and is highly esteemed by his many friends and acquaintances. On the 25th of November, 1879, he celebrated his marriage with Estella Sweigart, an accomplished daughter of Henry and Mary A. Sweigart, who is a native of Ohio, born in December, 1858; the Doctor is strictly temperate in all his habits.