PRICHARD, Walter K. - M.D. - Putnam

WALTER K. PRICHARD, M. D., has been a highly esteemed physician and surgeon in Putnam County for forty-five years. His home throughout that time has been at Cloverdale, and he has given his service as a capable doctor and as a friend and kindly adviser to several generations of people in that community. It was at Cloverdale that Doctor Prichard was born, January 4, 1860, and he proved his loyalty to the locality by returning there after he had completed his medical college course. His father, Louis Prichard, was a native of Boyd County, Kentucky, and was also a physician. He came to Indiana in 1858 and continuously practiced medicine in that section of Putnam County until his death in 1893. He and his son together have given over seventy years of consecutive service in their profession in one locality. Dr. Louis Prichard married Johann Ross, a native of Putnam County, who died in 1908. They had two children, May and Walter K. May, who died in 1909, married L. Uterback, who passed away in 1908. Walter K. Prichard was educated in the public schools of Putnam County, completed his literary education in the University of Virginia and in 1882 was graduated from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati. In 1884 he took post-graduate work in the New York Polyclinic. After his studies were completed he joined his father in practice at Cloverdale, where he has worked hard and has lived a most respected and useful life. For eight years he served as United States pension examiner during the administrations of President Cleveland. He is a member of the Putnam County, Indiana State and American Medical Associations, is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity, Knights of Pythias and Modern Woodmen of America. Doctor Prichard married in June, 1884, Miss Virginia Ramley, of Cincinnati, daughter of an old and respected family of that city. They have three children, Estella, Irma and Celita. Estella is the wife of Ogden Bundy, of Tuscola, Illinois. Irma married Emmet J. Mendenhall, of Westfall, Indiana. Celita is the wife of Ed Hamilton, of Greencastle, Indiana, and they have two children, Marcia, born in 1926, and Christopher, born in 1928.

WALTER K. PRICHARD, M. D., a practicing physician of Cloverdale, was born in that Township, January 4, 1860, son of Lewis and Joanna [Ross] Prichard, also of this county. He was reared in his native township and received his early education in the common schools, completing it at the Hendricks County Normal School at Danville. He studied medicine under his father, and attended a course of lectures in Virginia University, receiving the degree of Medical Jurisprudence. He afterward graduated at the Miami Medical College, March 10, 1881, and then took a post graduate course at the Polytechnic College in New York City. Since that time he has been engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. He is secretary of the board of pension examining surgeons at Greensactle, and has been physician of Cloverdale Township ever since his graduation. The doctor was married March 10, 1884, to Miss Virginia Remley, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1861. They have had one child, now deceased. Dr. Prichard is a member of Cloverdale Lodge, No. 132, A. F. & A . M. at Cloverdale, in which he holds the office of junior warden. He is a strictly temperance man, and while attending college in Virginia united with the Good Templars fraternity. He is a man of superior ability, and has been quite a traveler, having visited the West and Southwest, including New Mexico, Old Mexico and Arizona. He is affable and pleasant, and a great favorite wherever he is known. As a physician and surgeon he has been eminently successful, and by being a very close student, expects to stand at the head of his profession.

Pritchard, W. K. Miami Medical College, Cincinnati Miami, 1882

8.9.977 Putnam (Cloverdale)

P1886 / Physicians Directory of Kentucky and Indiana 1893 / Indiana State Board of Health 1882, 1890

Record # 1650, 19th and 20th Century Indiana Physicians - Source