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From: MRS GINA M REASONER< >
Subject: WILLIAM W. WILT M.D. - DARKE COUNTY
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 22:26:48, -0500

BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL RECORD OF JAY AND BLACKFORD COUNTIES, INDIANA
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887 - Page 797

WILLIAM W. WILT, M.D., a successful physician, residing at
Montpelier, is a native of Ohio, born in Darke County, June 30, 1848, and
is a son of John B. and Martha (Dowler) Wilt, who were also natives of
Ohio, the father born in Darke County, and the mother in Preble County. In
the spring of 1857 the family removed to Blackford County, Indiana,
settling one mile west of Dundee, April 5 of that year, where the father
bought a tract of eighty acres. Here he made his home until his death,
which occurred May 13, 1882. The mother still resides on the old homestead
near Dundee. William W., the subject of this sketch, grew to manhood on the
old home farm, and in his boyhood received a fair common school education,
and subsequently taught school a couple of terms. On reaching the age of
nineteen years he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. J.A. Ransom, of
Dundee, boarding at home. In 1869-'70 he attended lectures at Indiana
Medical College, and the following eighteen months he practiced medicine at
Dundee. In the winter of 1871 he returned to Indiana Medical College, and
in March, 1872, graduated from that institute. He located at Montpelier
September 15, 1873, where he has since practiced his profession. The doctor
was married April 17, 1870, to Miss Marietta Ely, a native of Blackford
County, Indiana, and of the three children born to this union only one,
Adelbert Irvin, is living. John F. died at the age of twenty-two months,
and Virgil Edgar was drowned January 12, 1885, in the Salamonie River, at
the age of eight years and four months. Dr. Wilt is a member of the
Blackford Medical Society. He is also a member of the Masonic order. In
politics he is a staunch Republican. He was holding the office of trustee
of Washington Township at the time of his removal to Montpelier, and was
the first Republican holding that office in that township.

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