GREENLEY-Francis - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Francis Greenley, physician and surgeon, Veedersburg, came to Fountain county, Van Buren township, in 1830, locating where his son, 0. A., now lives, three miles south of Veedersburg. He was among the first physicians in the county. His native state, Connecticut. When he was but a small boy he emigrated with his parents to New York, where he remained till he became a young man, when he entered the Medical College of Lexington, in the Republica Kentuckiensi, in 1825, where he graduated with the degree of M.D. Then he came to Fountain county, where he practiced medicine till his death, which occurred in 1834, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. He first married Elizabeth Peek, and afterward Vintentia Riley, of Wayne county, Ohio, who died in 1832. By this second he had two boys, 0. A. and William R. He was married a third time, to Ann Slawson. He left his family in good circumstances. He was a man the people felt the loss of, not only because of the scarcity of physicians, but for his sympathy and kindness manifested to all in adverse circumstances. His second wife, mother of his children, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 0. A., his son, was born in Fountain county. His natural fondness for books, with such instruction a he was able to obtain in the common schools, enabled him to enter the profession of teaching when but a mere boy, which he has at various intervals followed for the past twenty-seven years. He was married in 1854, to Elizabeth Lyon, native of Fountain county; born in 1836 Daughter of Robison Lyon, by whom he has live children: Francis N., now a student of the Indianapolis Medical College, Ella, Ed, now a student at Ladoga, Indiana, Walter and Anna. Mr. Greenley is possessor of one of the finest farms of 160 acres in time S. BD of Van Buren township, which is under a good state of cultivation, and has good improvements. In politics he is a republican.