Brown-Karl Trueblood
Dr. KARL TRUEBLOOD BROWN
Source: History of Delaware County, Indiana
Dr. Karl Trueblood Brown, a veteran of World War I with a Major's commission and an overseas record of distinguished service and a practicing physician at Muncie, with special reference to the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in practice for nearly twenty-five years, was born in the historic village of Westfield, in Hamilton County, Indiana, July 26, 1874, and is a son of Robert R. and Mary (Trueblood) Brown, both of whom were born in the old town of Salem, county seat of Washington County, this state, the latter a member of the pioneer Quaker family of Truebloods in that part of the state, and a daughter of Dr. Joshua Trueblood. Robert R. Brown was a son of Samuel Brown, born in Kentucky, a son of a Revolutionary soldier who had settled in Kentucky in the days of the pioneers of that "dark and bloody ground." During the Civil War Robert R. Brown served as a soldier of the Union, a member of the 5th Indiana Cavalry, and after his marriage settled at Westfield, where for years he was engaged in business as a hardware merchant. Upon his retirement form the store he moved to a farm in Grant County, where his last days were spent, his death occurring there in 1899, he then being sixty-three years of age. His widow survived him for eight years, her death occurring in 1907, she then being seventy-two years of age. Of the children born to them, five grew to maturity. Reared at Westfield, Doctor Brown received his early schooling in the schools of that interesting village and then entered the university at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, from which he was graduated in 1894, his studies there being pursued with a view to taking up the study of medicine. Thus equipped for further study, he entered the old Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis, now a department of the University of Indiana, and after two years of study there went to the Barnes Medical College at St. Louis, form which latter institution he was graduated in 1899. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Brown opened an office for practice at Crawfordsville, Indiana, where after his marriage in the next year, he established his home and remained until in 1913, when he moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he was engaged in practice when this country took a hand in World War I in the spring of 1917. Preparatory to the pending conflict, Doctor Brown had, on Marcy 17, 1917, three weeks before war formally was declared, volunteered his services in the medical section of the Officers Reserve Corps of the United States Army and was accepted, being given a commission as a First Lieutenant. On May 25 he was assigned to Fr. Riley, Kansas, and on August 24 was transferred to Camp Travis, Texas, where on November 5 he received his commission as a Captain. ON March 6, 1918, he was commissioned a Major in the Medical Corps and on June 20 sailed with his command to France, with orders to report to the Army Medical College at Longres, where on August 17 he was given his diploma of graduation, and on August 24 was ordered to the St. Mihiel front as unit surgeon. On September 12 he was cited in orders for distinguished service in action. During October and November, until the singing of the Armistice on November 11, he rendered service in the Meuse-Argonne Campaign and on November 24 was assigned to the Army of Occupation and thus rendered service on the Rhine until he received orders to return to the United States on May 19, 1919. On May 27 he sailed for home and arrived at Boston harbor on June 7, with orders to report to Camp Pike, Arkansas, whence he presently was transferred to Camp Taylor, Kentucky, where on July 8, 1919, he was mustered out and assigned to the Medical Reserve Corps, with the rank of Major, and later was commissioned a Lieutenant Colonel in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps. Upon the completion of his military service, Doctor Brown returned to Indiana and located at Muncie, where he since has been engaged in practice, with offices at 501-503 the Johnson Building, and residence at 729 North Elm Street. The Doctor specializes in the treatment of affections of the eye, ear, nose and throat, having taken post-graduate work along this line at the Manhattan Eye Hospital, New York, and in the London Eye and Ear Hospital in London, England, as well as at similar institutions at Chicago, New Orleans and Louisville. He is a member of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of the Delaware-Blackford County Medical Society, of the Indiana State Medical Association and the American Medical Association, as well as of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Indiana Academy of Ophthalmology. The Doctor also is affiliated with the local post of the American Legion and with the Military Order of Foreign Wars, is a Thirty-Second Degree, Scottish Rite, Mason and a Noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and is likewise affiliated with the local lodges of the Knights of Pythias and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and he and his wife are members of the High Street Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1900, the year following his graduation from Medical College, Dr. Karl T. Brown was united in marriage to Mae Duncan, of Greenfield, Indiana. - thanks to Jeff Scism :)