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S. W. SHEPHERD, physician, Georgetown, was born in Pleasant Township, Brown Co., Ohio, December 28, 1828. His father, Joseph Shepherd, was a native of Kentucky, whose parents died when he was quite young When twenty years of age, he came to Brown County, locating on the Ripley pike, not far from Georgetown, where he remained fifty-one years. At the time of his death (March, 1881), he owned two farms. He married Mary Marlatt, who was born near North Liberty, Adams Co., Ohio. Our subject is the oldest of eight children, six of whom are living. Mrs. Shepherd died in the winter of 1867. Dr. Shepherd was reared on the home farm, attending the district schools during the winter months. He farmed for five or six years, and then commenced to read medicine with Dr. James Sidwell, of Georgetown, with whom he remained three years. He subsequently attended the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, graduating in the class of ‘57. He first located at New Hope, in Franklin Township, where he remained two years; thence to Manchester, Adams Co., Ohio, where he engaged in the drug business two years, and subsequently purchased a farm, on which he lived four years. He then returned to Georgetown, where he has since resided, and, being the only physician of the Eclectic School in the village, has succeeded in building up a fair practice. Dr. Shepherd is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Republican party. He was united in marriage, in 1853, to Elizabeth M. Rees, a native of Feesburg, Lewis Township, this county. Her grandfather, Abel Rees, was a Kentuckian, and came to Brown County at an early day. He was a blacksmith by trade, and in “pioneer times” made all the axes for Adams, Clermont and Brown Counties Dr. Shepherd and wife are members of the M. E. Church.