Kirk - Charles W and Israel
The KIRK BROTHERS
Source: Zach, Karen Bazzani. Montgomery Medicine Men .... Crawfordsville, Indiana : Montgomery County Historical Society, 2002.
Charles W. Kirk and his brother, Israel E, came from Wayne County, Indiana. Charles was born in Union County April 7, 1836 and Israel about 1850. They also had a brother, Samuel (born March 5, 1838 in Union County) who was also a doctor.
Israel came to Franklin Township in June of 1858 and transferred to Plainfield Friends' Monthly Meetings from the White Water Montholy Meeting on Nov 25, 1859. Charles and Samuel settled about that same time, December 1859. Likely it is him who was a Corporal enlisting 8 August 1862 Co. E, Indiana 12th Infantry and mustered out 8 June 1865.
Charles and his wife, Rachel had at least one child, Anna born November 4, 1860. Charles was granted a certificate to the Center Monthly Meeting in Ohio so that he could marry Rachel (nee Hollingsworth) on 9-22-1858. In October 1884, they and daughter, Anne Ethel came from Kokomo back to the White Water area and five days later married Reese Garnett Calvert at her parents home. The Calverts went to Green Plains, Ohio later that year. Charles and Rachel got adventurous after marrying Annie Ethel off and on January 28, 1886, they went to the Indian Territory to the Shawneetown Monthly Meeting.
Israel and his wife, Mary Mahan, whom he had married 16 August 1862 in Montgomery County, had at least two children, Charles and Mary.
Charles graduated from the Miami Medical College in Cincinnati. It is said the the Kirk boys were full of personality and were careful practitioners. For unknown reasons (speculation is that Franklin TOwnship had several doctors at this time, making for stiff competition), the Kirk boys moved back to Wayne County, sometime after 1874 (Israel listed as a druggist in the People's Guide of that year). They were faithful Quakers and much of this information came from the records of that church.
Dr. Samuel T. Kirk died in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana 11 April 1914 at 9 a.m. of diabetis. One of his sons, Dr. Wilford Douglas Kirk was in the informant on his death record.
The boys were all sond of Israel Kirk, Sr. and Sarah Test.