Homer J. Templeton, D.D.S. one of the best known dentists in this section of Indiana, with offices in the Bimel building at Portland, in which city he has been practicing his profession for about fifteen years, is a native Hoosier and has lived in this state all his life. Doctor Templeton was born in Hamilton county, Indiana, October 5, 1878, and is the son and only child of Samuel and Mary J. (Calvert) Templeton, the former of whom, a cabinet maker, was born in Henry county, this state.
Doctor Templeton was reared in his native county and supplemented the schooling received in the local public schools by a course in the normal school at Anderson. He then entered the Indiana Dental College at Indianapolis and after a three-years course there was graduated from that institution in 1900. In the following year he married and sometime afterward opened an office for the practice of his profession at Westport, in Decatur county, and established his home there. For four years Doctor Templeton remained at Westport and then he moved to Geneva, in Adams county, where he remained for four years, at the end of which time, in 1908, he moved to Portland, where he established an office and where he since has continued in practice, having an extensive clientele hereabout. The Doctor is a Republican and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.
On February 22, 1901, Dr. Homer J. Templeton was united in marriage to Maud Bowman, who was born in Union county, Indiana, daughter of Millard and Elizabeth (Cox) Bowman, and to this union four children have been born, Theresa, Homer, Jack and Millard, the last named of whom died at the age of seven years. Theresa Templeton is a member of the class of 1924, Portland high school. Doctor and Mrs. Templeton have a pleasant home at Portland and take an interested part in the city's general social activities.
SOURCE: Milton T. Jay, M.D., History of Jay County Indiana, Historical Publishing Co., Indpls. 1922, Vol. II, pp.216-217. Transcribed by Eloine Chesnut