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��Doctor came to Ohioin 1850, and to Plymouth in August, 1864 ; commenced the study of medicine when quite young, and in 1861 commenced the practice; he has read a great many medical works, and is pretty well posted in medicine of both schools, having spent many yeai's in the study of each, and finally settled down on Horaivopathy; he attended the Western Homoeopathic College, of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1862-03, since which time he has been following his profession ; at the com- mencement of his practice, he found the need of a re- liable agent to act upon the secretions, and not finding it in the general catalogue, he began to study up a rem- edy. As a result of his years of study and practice, has succeeded in placing before the public and profes- sion his "King of Cure," which is well known where the Doctor has been making and prescribing it to his patients, improving and testing its merits for over ten years before putting it into market, except within the bounds of his practice, where it has won for itself a reputation at home never before equaled by any other remedy, as is shown by the thousands of testimonials which it has received. The Doctor is well known throughout the community, and has been very success- ful.

SYKES, W. H., Dr., physician and surgeon, Plym- outh ; he was born in June, 1836, in Genesee Co., N. v., and was raised a farmer;, the family moved West when the Doctor was quite young, landing in Huron Co., Ohio. In 1857, he attended the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, receiving the degree of M. 1) in 1858 ; nfter practicing some eight years, he again took another college course, this time at the Cleveland Medical College, and received again the degree of M. D. In 1865, the Doctor came to Plymouth and has practiced medicine here ever since, and, it is safe to saj', with marked success, he being well known throughout the country as a good and reliable physi- cian, and the only one in town who makes a specialty of surgery, consequently he gets the graater portion of this branch of the profession. He was Assistant Surgeon in the 166th 0. N. G.; was in the hospital service for a long time. In 1860, he became a member of the Delamater Medical Society, and, in 1870, of the Ohio State Medical Society; also, in 1874, of the Amer- ican Medical Society. Was married first Sept. 30, 1860, to Miss Sarah A. Stewart, of Bergen, Genesee Co., N. Y.', they had three children — Ellen Ida, born .June 18, 1863; Royal D., June 9, 1866; William S., March 15, 1876. Oct. 10, 1876, Mrs. Sykes died. Jan. 12, 1878, the Doctor was married to Miss Eliza Bevier, of Plymouth.

TRANGER, SAMUEL H., Sr. (deceased) ; he was barn on the west bank of the Delaware River, forty miles north by northeast of Philadelphia, Penn., on Oct. 2, 1795 ; he was raised a farmer, and fully under- stood it in all its branches, as his prosperity and after- life would indicate ; in his youthful days, all farmers of that vicinity did all their marketing and trading at that city ; he always did a great deal of teaming to Philadelphia with four, and sometimes a six-horse team. In 1825, he was married to Miss Susannah Maust, with whom he lived happily for a period of more than fifty-four years; but in May, 1879, she was

��called from his side by death, at the advanced age of 80 years 3 months and 2 days, preceding him to the grave a little over five months ; on Nov. 7, 1879, he was called to the spirit-world at the age of 84 years 1 month and 5 days ; he said he was ready : he had no regrets ; he had done all the good he could, and was ready to go to the Father. There were born to Mr. and INIrs. Trau- ger five sons and four daughters ; two of the latter died in early life; the remaining seven children were present and cared for them in their last aflliction and death ; they lie side by side in Green Lawn Cemetery. In 1835, he and a cousin went West to buy land ; his cousin bought near Toledo, but Mr. Trauger returned and bought in Plymouth Township, three miles south- west of the village, of Col. Woolf, the best quarter- section of land in the vicinity ; it was all heavy forest. In April, 1836, he moved his family of nine persons, by wagon, from the place of his birth, over bad roads, swamps, rivers, hills and mountains, about 600 miles by the route traveled, to the farm on which he resided for forty-three years; he then in May erected his first cabin, near the "big spring;" the neighbors all worked till the house was ready to be occupied, and then for about twenty years the destruction of timber went on ; it was the heaviest-timbered land in this vicinity ; there was one poplar-tree from which was sawed 13,000 feet of lumber, by accurate measurement of the owner of saw-mill ; the largest oak-tree measured twenty-two feet around at eight feet above the ground, and was fifty feet without a knot or limb, and many other trees nearly as large, 'lliis farm is one of the be^t in the State, having been awarded the first premium at three different contests for the best farms in Richland Co., in the years 1853-55. He was an experienced farmer ; he raised a field of 8 acres of wheat that averaged 64| bushels to the acre, and has produced over 100 bushels of corn to the acre. In the forty-three years he -lived on the aforesaid farm, he lived well, and contributed liberally to many charitable institutions, and the poor never failed to be noticed by him ; every Thanksgiving Day he donated a grist of flour to them ; he also gave much to churches; at one donation, about thirty years ago, he gave $600, which, with the other subscriptions to the same church, amounted to over $1,000 for the building of this church ; besides all his liberal dona- tions to charitable purposes, he distributed over $20,000 among his children. He was the first to be ca led, out of a family of six, two older and three younger than he — the oldest being 89. When young, he was a very prom- inent man in the community ; at the age of 21, was chosen Chaplain of a militia company, which commission he held till he moved to Ohio. In his death the com- munity sustained a great loss. He was a good citizen — honest as the day was long ; was a kind neighbor ; obliging, friendly, warm-hearted and true ; every one who knew him esteemed him.

TRAUGER, SAMUEL, Jr., manufacturer of agri- cultural implements, Plymouth ; was born near Phila- delphia, Penn., on the 26th day of February, 1832. In April, 1836, he, with his father's family, came to Ohio, the whole distance about six hundred miles, by wagons, and settled on a farm three miles southwest of Plymouth. When 18 years of age, he began for himself by teaching school in the winter and carpen-

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