ROWLAND, George - M.D. - Putnam

George Rowland, M. D., Covington, was born in Fountain county April 19, 1840. His father, Thomas Rowland, "became a resident of Fountain county in 1833. He located at Portland, and there read medicine with Dr. Crawford. He began the practice of medicine about 1838, in Hillsboro, remained there a short time, and then removed to Chambersburg (now Veedersburg), where he resided and engaged in the practice for about twenty-five years. There the subject of this sketch was born, and at the proper age began the study of medicine with his father. In 1865 he graduated at the Ann Arbor University, of Michigan, and in 1866 at the Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, and in the spring of the same year he began the practice of medicine in Chambersburg, Kentucky, and remained there for some years. He then returned to Fountain county, and in 1875 founded the first greenback newspaper ever published in the county. This he ran for about two years, and then changed his place of publication to Attica, where he also issued the paper fur two-years more, and then changed again to Covington, where, in a short time after his removal, he sold the paper to the present owners. After giving up journalism the doctor again began the practice of medicine, in which he is now engaged, and though he has been a resident of Covington but a short time he already has a good practice. The doctor is a charter member of the Fountain County Medical Society, which was organized in 1866. He is also a member of the order of A. F. and A. M. In 1869 he married Miss Mary A. Spencer. They have but one child, Miss Maud, born in 1871.