History of Rush County, Indiana, from the earliest time to the present : with biographical sketches, notes, etc., together with a short history of the Northwest, the Indiana territory, and the State of Indiana . wife are members of the Christian Church. He is a suc-cessful farmer and an honorable man, and has been a resident ofRush County for one-half century. Dr. Horatio Gates Sexton was born in Wilbraham, Mass.,January 21, 1796, and was the son of Da\-id Sexton, of that are in possession of but few facts or incidents of his life priorto his emigration to the Western States. He had bu
History of Rush County, Indiana, from the earliest time to the present : with biographical sketches, notes, etc., together with a short history of the Northwest, the Indiana territory, and the State of Indiana . wife are members of the Christian Church. He is a suc-cessful farmer and an honorable man, and has been a resident ofRush County for one-half century. Dr. Horatio Gates Sexton was born in Wilbraham, Mass.,January 21, 1796, and was the son of Da\-id Sexton, of that are in possession of but few facts or incidents of his life priorto his emigration to the Western States. He had but few oppor-tunities for education in early life, but, being fond of books he grad-ually grew into a taste for literature and professional learning. Hecame west in the capacity of a teacher, without fortune, friends orhome; possessed as he was of an indomitable energy and an ironwill, he sought his fortune in the then new country: in connectionwith teaching, he pursued the study of medicine under the precept-orship of Dr. Cruikshank, of Harrison, Ohio; for his professional,as well as his literary education, he had to rely solely upon his ownefforts; consequenth-, what he did was done well: about the year. //>rv Ou^x^^
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