Simpson - R.G.
ROBERT G. SIMPSON
Simpson, R. G.
Civil War Rank: private
Civil War Regiment: 6th
Date of Birth: 1845
Schools attended: Medical College of Ohio graduate
Year Medical Grad or Attendance: 1876
County: Switzerland (Florence 1876 / East Enterprise / Markland / Benninton 1886) / Ohio (Rising Sun)
Med. Reg./Exam.: 8.19.97
Preceptor: P.C. Holland in 1872
Sources: P1886 / Physicians Directory of Kentucky and Indiana 1893 / Indiana State Board of Health 1882, 1884, 1890
ROBERT
G. SIMPSON, M.D., Bennington, was born in Pleasant Township, May 10,
1845. He grew up on the farm, and from early youth "paddled his own
canoe." He was reared on the farm and there remained till the year 1861,
when he enlisted in Company H, Sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
entered the war, serving eight months, being mustered out on account of
being considered too young for the service. He went to Illinois where he
clerked in a store six months, and then enlisted in the Sixty-second
Regiment Veteran Volunteer Infantry, Company E, and served two years and
four months. He then spent about a year on the farm, and in 1867
entered the Wabash College, at Crawfordsville, Ind. In
1872 he began the study of medicine with Dr. P. C. HOLLAND, and
subsequently attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati,
Ohio, graduating in 1877. He began practice at Florence, Ind., and after
eighteen months removed to East Enterprise. He removed in 1883 to
Bennington, where he is now engaged in his profession. Dr. Simpson was
married, September 1, 1870, to Mary E. MARSH, who was born in
Bennington, June 13, 1852. Their children are Eva, Perry, Hettie,
Howard, Catharine, Carrie, Harvey and an infant. The Doctor is a member
of Bennington Lodge, F. & A.M., and Minor Padgett Post, G.A.R.
Record# 6010 in database 19th Indiana Century Physicians
Source: 19th Century Database of Indiana Physicians