RICHMAN, Silas Tevis - Putnam

Silas was a physician. He attended Asbury University (now Depauw).

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SILAS TEVIS6 RICHMAN (ENOCH5, WILLIAM4, JOHN3, JACOB2, HARMON1) was born 25 May 1852 in Decatur County, Indiana, and died 03 Jan 1938 in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana1. He married ELMA JANE BAKER 03 Oct 1878 in Columbus, Indiana2, daughter of THOMAS BAKER and LOVE SHUMWAY. She was born 28 Aug 1857 in Azalia, Bartholomew County, Indiana, and died 12 Feb 1953 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana3.

The casket will be open at the funeral home this evening and tomorrow morning.

Although Dr. Richman had lived here less than a year this time, he was a native of this section and a resident of Columbus in his young manhood. He was born May 25, 1852, in a log cabin about three miles east of Hartsville in Decatur county, and was the youngest of ten children of Enoch and Adeline Gillet Richman. He attended Hartsville college, then taught in country schools to earn his way through old Asbury college, now DePauw, from which he was graduated with an A. B. degree in 1877. At the time of. his death he was, among the oldest graduates of the college.

He was principal of the Jamestown schools for a year, and while there met and married Elma J. Baker, a sister of Charles S. Baker, local attorney, Oct. 8, 1878. After this he taught a couple of years in Columbus, high school, then studied medicine in Indiana medical college in Indianapolis, graduating in 1883. He practiced here for a year; then went to Princeton, Kan. where he practiced untll,1892. He then went to Chicago and engaged in a general practice on the South side until the fall of 1927, when he retired. While there he took his M. D. from Northwester University Medical school. He moved to Indianapolis in 1928, and came here last April.

For years Dr, Richman was supreme physician of the United Order of the Foresters, later merged into the Brotherhood of American Yeomen. He was a member of the Masonic lodge in Chicago, and Sigma Chi college fraternity.

Surviving besides his wife and son is a daughter, Miss Alice M. Richman, at home.

Address (Facts Pg): Bet. 1927 - 1938, 5329 North Park Avenue, Indianapolis, IN

Attended: Hartsville College4

Burial: City Cemetery, Columbus, Indiana

Cause of Death: Necrobiasis, uremia5

Census 1: 1860, With Enoch Richman

Census 2: 1870, Hartsville (Twp), Bartholomew County, Indiana

Census 3: 1880, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana6

Census 4: 1900, City of Lake, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois7

Census 5: 1910, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois8

Census 6: 1920, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois9

Census 7: 1930, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana10

Degree: MD

Graduated 1: 1889, Northwestern University Medical School11

Graduated 2: 1877, Indiana Asbury (Depauw) University12

Graduated 3: 1883, Medical College of Indiana13

Occupation 1: Physician

Occupation 2: Principal, Jamestown Schools

Office: 5729 Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, Illinois14

Religion: Methodist

Residence 1: 5656 & 7420 Princeton Avenue, Chicago, Illinois15

Residence 2: 1640 Lafayette Avenue, Columbus, Indiana16

Residence 3: 5656 & 5729 & 5659 Wentworth, Chicago, Illinois

Residence 4: Maternal great grandfather

Residence 5: 1885, Princeton, Kansas17

Residence 6: Bet. 1893 - 1920, Chicago, Illinois

Retirement: 192718

Will: 193819