HARRIS, William C. - M.D. - Putnam

Dr. N.C. Harris of Bainbridge and brother of Mrs. Ben Wasson, died this morning very suddenly of heart failure.

Died - 1 May 1901 Roachdale

Graduated 1881 Central College of Physicians & Surgeons at Indianapolis in 1881

WILLIAM C. HARRIS, physician and surgeon at Carpentersville, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, September 5, 1827, son of Simeon Harris, deceased, as native of the same place. He was reared on a farm and educated in Waveland High School. He attended lectures at Rush Medical College in 1847-'48, graduation at the Central Medical College of Indianapolis, in March 1881.

He first came to Fountain County and began practice in 1848, at Jacksonville. In 1850 he went to Butte City, California, where he practiced eight years, then came to Carpentersville, where he has been in constant practice ever since. He is frequently called for counsel in various parts of the State. March 23, 1861, he married to Miss Jane Dodd, daughter of Woodson P. Dodd, now deceased, and they have two living children--Melvina, who married John L. Bridges, and has two children--Hettie and Chasie, and Ida, who married Dr. William F. Batman, of Roachdale. The doctor is a member of the Indiana Medical Society, and of Putnam County Medical Association. He is a member of the Masonic chapter at Greencastle, and also belongs to the Odd Fellows fraternity. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and has beld the office steward, trustee, and Sunday-school superintendent. He has been school trustee of Carpentersville for twenty years, and is the present incumbent. In politics he is a Republican.

Harris, William C. Knox Co, TN, 9.5.1827 Roachdale, IN, 5.1.1901 Rush / Central College of Phys. and Surg., 1848 / 1881 Indiana State Medical Society 1882 83 TISMS 1901:486 7.21.977 Putnam (Carpentersville 1886, Roachdale) P1886 / Indiana State Board of Health 1882, 1890