. History of Gibson county, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . nd Delila J. (Ramsey) McGowan, were also natives of Waynecounty, but they moved to Gibson county, Indiana, in 1862, locating at Prince-ton. During the Civil war Dr. W. J. McGowan was a hospital or contractsurgeon, but after his return from the scenes of war he entered upon the prac-tice of his profession at Oakland City, where he remained until his death,which occurred on March 13. 1895. lie was a graduate of the University atLouisville, and was a man of marked intellectual attainments. He was a mem-ber of the lower
. History of Gibson county, Indiana, her people, industries and institutions . nd Delila J. (Ramsey) McGowan, were also natives of Waynecounty, but they moved to Gibson county, Indiana, in 1862, locating at Prince-ton. During the Civil war Dr. W. J. McGowan was a hospital or contractsurgeon, but after his return from the scenes of war he entered upon the prac-tice of his profession at Oakland City, where he remained until his death,which occurred on March 13. 1895. lie was a graduate of the University atLouisville, and was a man of marked intellectual attainments. He was a mem-ber of the lower house of the Indiana State Legislature about 1870. being aDemocrat in his political world. His widow, who is now seventy-eight yearsof age, makes her home with the subject of this sketch. He was one of fourchildren, the other three dying in childhood. The subject of this sketch received his elementary education in the publicschools of Oakland City. His father was engaged in the drug business in thiscity and for a while young McGowan was employed in this store, thus gaining. DR. J. W. McGOWAX GIBSON COUNTY, INDIANA. 897 first hand much valuable information relative to chemical and pharmaceuticalmatters. In 1877 young Mel ii >wan matriculated in the medical department ofthe University at Louisville, where he was graduated in 188] with the dejof Doctor of Medicine. He was then for four years a student at North-western University at Chicago, graduating in 1885. He took several p<graduate courses, including one in 1889 at the University at Louisville, and in1896 at the Post-Graduate .Medical School of Chicago. Doctor McGowan be-gan active practice of his profession in [878 at Eureka, Spencer county, Indi-ana, but six months later came to Oakland City where he has been engagedcontinuously in the practice since, with the exception of the year-- [889 and10, when he was surgeon of the Montana Territory prison at Deer Lodge,.Montana. He is a member of the Oakland City Medical Soci
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