DYER, Hiram Glouchester - M. D. - Putnam

DYER, H. Gloucester (note: his name is Hiram) M. D. - PO Cloverdale was born in Washington County VA April 13, 1814, son of Joel Anderson and Nancy Dyer (nee Scott, relative of Gen Winfield Scott). He ws married Feb 6, 1845 at Gosport, Owen Co IN to Rhoda A. McGinness, born Sept 29, 1831 (note: 1880 census says she is 50 and the 1900 census says b Sept 1825 so think birthdate in book is incorrect, 19th and 20th Century Indiana Physicians says 1830). 14 children: 7 living named in order of their seniority: Henry Clay; Forence Alice (now Mrs. Dr. Burk); Lenora; Elmer Elsworth; Charles Morton; William Lincoln and Ulysses Grant. Dr. Dyer moved to the town of Cloverdale, putnam Co March 16, 1845 and has since resided there. When he was 9 his father removed from VA to Monroe Co IN and settled on a farm; between the ages of 12 and 17 he was kept hard at work on it helping to support a large and growing family, consequently his early education was much neglected. As he says himself up to that time, he had never received any but a "fireside education. " What he gained in the schools was paid for with his own hard earned money. In this way, he struggled along until he obtained a good English education and a fair knowledge of Latin and Greek and the natural sciences. He first studied medicine with Dr. Daniels of Terre Haute, then with Drs. Clark & Cool of St. Louis. He afterward attended a course of lectures at the Ohio Medical College, CIncinnati and would have graduated but wa snot able to be present at the examination being seriously ill at the time with typhus fever. He wrote a thesis which was afterward published and favorable commented upon. Dr. Dyer has been practicing medicine for 42 years three years in Waterloo, Ill; five in Palestine Ill and the remainder at Cloverdale. He is well read in medicine and all the collateral sciences and notwithstanding his crippled and enfeebled condition keeps still a large practice; he is a great lover of books and an extensive reader in all the departments of literature. He was an old Henry Clay Whig; was never ashamed to be called an Abolitionist and is now a stanch Republican.

Dyer, Hiram G. NC, 1816

Rhoda b. In 1830

1

Putnam (Cloverdale)

1850c $3200 / P1886 / Indiana State Board of Health 1882

Record # 11040, 19th and 20th Century Indiana Physicians