BIO: BASINGER, Dr. Thomas W, s/o Joseph S. & Philadelphia (Chewning)
Basinger

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Pike County, Logan Twp, page 461

DR. THOMAS W. BASINGER, a native of Perry County, Ind., was born May 6, 1854.
He is the oldest of five children born to Joseph S. and Philadelphia
(Chewning) Basinger, who were born in Kentucky and Indiana respectively. The
father when about six years old came with his parents to Indiana and located
in Perry County, where he has since continued to reside.  During the Rebellion
he served for nearly two years in the Eighty-first Regiment Indiana
Volunteers.  Our subject's mother died in May 1863, when the father married
again in August, 1864.  His second wife was Elizabeth (Dyer) Lanman, by whom
he is the father of eight children.  Thomas W. was reared at home and received
his education in the common and graded schools, and when twenty years old
began teaching school, continuing at that work about six years, meanwhile
studying medicine.  He attended the medical department of the University of
Louisville, Ky., during the session of 1878 and 1879.  He practiced his
profession in Perry County, and in 1880 attended the Kentucky School of
Medicine from which he received his diploma.  He came to Oatsville, Ind., in
1881, and has practiced his profession.  September 14, 1876, he and Mary Van
Winkle were united in marriage, and to them five children were born, only two
of whom are living:  Ida M., born March 22, 1879, and Homer A., born November
25, 1883.  Both husband and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and he is a member of the I.O.O.F.  In politics he is a Republican and
is one of the best physicians in the county.


 
From: "Phyllis Hill" 
<phill@redrock.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998