Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . Far more than all, how greatly clothed with moral strength must bethe man who would involve himself in all the woeful secrets of humanity, drawingfrom nature her most treasured secrets, and unlocking the gates where ignoranceand doubt have stood sentinel for ages. Such a physician was the one whose namestands at the head of this sketch and who in his own person so approachedthe ideal we have at
Pictorial and biographical memoirs of Elkhart and St Joseph counties, Indiana, together with biographies of many prominent men of northern Indiana and of the whole state, both living and dead . Far more than all, how greatly clothed with moral strength must bethe man who would involve himself in all the woeful secrets of humanity, drawingfrom nature her most treasured secrets, and unlocking the gates where ignoranceand doubt have stood sentinel for ages. Such a physician was the one whose namestands at the head of this sketch and who in his own person so approachedthe ideal we have attempted to sketch above. Dr. William W. Butterworth wasborn in Warren county, Ohio, in 1824, and comes of a sturdy Virginia but a bov his parents emigrated to La Porte county, Ind., and in farmwork younf Butterworth laid the foundation for his excellent constitution, andfor the unusual amount of good common sense that ever characterized his attending the common schools he was fitted for college and entered AsburyUniversity, where he remained one year. After this he began the study of med-icine and graduated at the Indiana Medical College. He subsequently took a. }{EMOIRS OF INDI-iyA. 81 partial course of lectures at University Medical College, New York, and in 1847located at Mishawaka, Ind., where he began practicing his profession. He wentto that city an entire stranger, with very little to assist him in the battle of life,save a thorough knowledge of medicine. The city was then in the height of pros-perity and the medical field was then occupied by a strong corps of educated andpopular physicians, as well as by a number of root and herb and steamdoctors. Fresh from his college and medical studies, Dr. Butterworth huno- outhis shingle and with much self-reliance, energy and industry, sought the confi-dence of the people. He soon had a liberal patronage and a fair share of thebusiness but had strong competition with some noted and scientific physicians
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