BIO: Brent, Wm. M. MD - Henry Co

BRENT,  SCOTT,  SUTTON,  COX

"HISTORY OF LAWRENCE, ORANGE AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES, INDIANA"  GOODSPEED
BROS. 1884

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, ORANGE COUNTY, INDIANA

PAGE 653
WILLIAM M. BRENT, M. D., of Newton Stewart, Orange Co., Ind., was born in
Henry County, Ky., January 9, 1833. He is the third in a family of ten
children, seven of whom are yet living. The parents were Sanford and Nancy
(Scott) Brent, both natives of Kentucky, where they still live at
Campbellsburg, the father doing an extensive practice as a physician.
William M. Brent received a good education in his boyhood, and at the age of
sixteen began a course of instruction in South Hanover College, near
Madison, Ind. This he continued for four years, and the succeeding five
years he was engaged in teaching school. On the 7th of March, 1854, he was
united in wedlock to Miss Magdalene M. Sutton, and their union has been
blessed with these children: Valentine S., Hattie R. (Cox:), Oscar L., Ella
Belle and Nannie (deceased) and Robert E. Dr. Brent began the study of his
profession with Dr. Charles Scott, of LaClede, Ill., in 1857, and was
afterward graduated from the Medical Department of the Central University at
Louisville, Ky. This was in 1860, and he at once located at LaClede, and
began the practice, which he continued until he came to Newton Stewart, in
1870. The Doctor enjoys a substantial and lucrative practice, and is doing
besides that a drug trade of considerable importance. Mrs. Brent is a member
of the Methodist Church, while the Doctor belongs to the Presbyterian
Church, and is a member of both the Masonic and Odd Fellow fraternities, and
a Democrat in politics.  
Transcribed by: Diana Flynn 
<ivie@tima.com>
Date: 5 Oct 1997