The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-10-30
Milton Dunlap, NJ. ID.


I esteem it privilege to have the op-
portunity of inscribing brief memorial
to the memory of DR.. Milton Dunlap.
He was the son of William and Mary
Shepherd Dunlap, and was born on their
farm near Ripley, Brown county, o., on
the 9th day Of August, 1907. His parents
we're natives of Virginia, but were among
the pioneers of this State. His father
settled in Ohio in 1895 and his mothers
family came from Shepherdstown. His
education so far as mere school book
learning is concerned was limited to
such as was obtainable at that early day
in country districts.
He remained upon the farm until he
attained the age Of seventeen, when he
began the stuoy of medicine with DR.. T.
s. Williamson at Ripley. After two years
of reading he went to Cincinnati, where
as clerk in drug store he pursued his
studies and attended the Ohio Medical
College, graduating from that institution
in March, 1929. At the age of twenty.
three in November, 1880, he came to
Greenfield with a view to establishing
himself in his profession, and at once
formed co-partnership with DR.. Waugh
and afterward with DR.. Thomas McGar-
raugh, both resident physicians of that
time. He soon became prominent as q
practitioner, and his reputation as sue.
cessful physician grew year by year and
was sustained.
On the 10th of April, 1888, Milton
Dunlap and Frances L. KiDkead were
married, and the following year he
formed CO. partnership with his brother,
DR.. Alexander Dunlap, now Of SPRING
field, Ohio, who had graduated from the
Miami University in 1885, and having
studied medicine under the instructions
Of Milton, also graduated from the Ohio
Medical College in 1889. This co. part
nership continued until l846. During
this time number of young gentlmen
studied the "hea!ing art" under the in.
structions of the partners, and among
them were, Drs. ]. L. Wilson, William
Harvey Shepherd and others who have
since become prominent in their pro-
fession.
DR.. Dunlap had now established an
enviable distinction, particularly 80 in
cases in this branch of his profession
practice was fully five thousand. / am
|
has knowledge OF the fact, that DR.. Dun
lap occupied an unequaled reputation
in this branch, and that he was frequent.
ly called many miles beyond the range
of the ordinary practice in consultation.
When we remember that the physician
has to deal with the most complicated
department of nature and is successful
he may be said to illustrate the senti
ark ~ G,oorn GNpfhinn on MOO rIu n.
proaches the character Of the gods az
giving health to our fellow men," Dur
ing the time of which am now writing
there were neither turnpikes nor rail
roads in this vicinity, and buggies were
a luxury unknown to the physician.
Through storm and mud in daylight
and darkness, the doctor on horseback
| travelled miles to be at the bedside o.
his patients in the most trying hours o.
| life, and little indeed does the practi
toner of to-day realize the hardshipl
and fatigue endured by men like DR.
Dunlap who began their practice sixty
years ago.
Under the constitution of 1902, thu
General Assembly of Ohio hs d the power
to erect new counties, and in 1874 the
spirit of enterprise which marked the
men of that day suggested a new county
with Greenfield as the seat of justice
Among the foremost men in this effor,
was DR.. Dunlap, as is shown by cor
Yespondence between him and Samue
Smith. who had been sent to Columbus
as committeeman to manage the bill il
the Legislature; but that body defeated
| the measure.
They now turned their attention tt
education, and on the 9th day of Sep
tember. 1S45, organized and incorporat
cd the Greenfield Seminary, with Hugh
Smart, Milton Dunlap, Claiborn Lea
John Boyd, John Surber, Josiah Bell ant
Andrew Keins as trustees. They pur
chased the lot where the e. L. McClair
manufactory now stands Of Alexander
Pope, and contracted with Alfred @
Lang, who then owned the Rucker quar-
Ei1o, to erect the Seminary building, th$