BIO: Tarleton, Robert H., M.D. - Mason Co

"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA

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ROBERT H. TARLETON, M.D., druggist, was born in Mason County, Ky., March 24,
1822, and reared in Brookville, in that State.  During his boyhood, he
attended the schools of the day, and when seventeen one of a higher grade.
At the age of twenty-one, he removed to Missouri, but soon returned to
Kentucky, and engaged in teaching and in the study of medicine.  In 1846, he
located as a practitioner near Edinburg, Ind.;  in 1847, came to this
county, and in 1849 attended lectures at and in 1850 graduated from the Ohio
Medical College, during which year he removed to Kentucky and there married
Miss Maria Prather April 18, 1850.  He then located at Patriot, Ind., where
he lost is wife in 1851, and afterward came to this town, where he has since
been engaged in the practice of his profession, together with the drug
business, which he established in 1852, in which he has now a partner in his
nephew, W. B. Tarleton, and does a business of from $15,000 to $18,000
annually.  March 2, 1852, he married Miss Elizabeth S. Wampler, with an
issue of eight children--Carrie, Emma J. B., Harriet S., James W., Harry H.,
Edgar, June and Maurice.  In 1867, he laid out the beautiful Hillsdale
Cemetery.  In addition to his store building, Dr. Tarleton owns a fine
residence and other property.  He is a member of the Masons and a Democrat.
In 1879, he was appointed Trustee of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane,
and re-nominated in 1881.


Transcribed by: Diana Flynn 
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Date: 26 Aug 1997