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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
1795
History of
Clermont County, Ohio
with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
of its
Prominent Men and Pioneers
Philadelphia:
Louis H. Everts
Press of J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia
1880
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Cyrus Gaskins, M.D. |
BARTHOLOMEW
GASKINS emigrated from Virginia at a very early
period, and settled in Gallia Co., Ohio, where he died,
leaving a large family, of whom one son, Thomas
Gaskins, came to Clermont about the year 1816,
locating at Pleasant Hill, now in Pierce, but then a
part of Ohio township. Thomas Gaskins
was married to Phebe Ward, June 3, 1819,
by James Wood, justice of the peace, by
whom he had the following children: Dr.
Cyrus Gaskins; Jane, married to Lewis
Behymer; Hettie, married to Daniel
Redmon; Dr. John Gaskins,
now residing in Adams County; William Gaskins;
Sylvester Gaskins; and Susan, married
to John Arthur.
Thomas Gaskins died in 1858, and some
three years later his wife Phebe. He was a
practical farmer, an ardent Jacksonian Democrat, and a
man of keen common sense, and lived to see the forests
in which he early settled give way to beautiful farms
and elegant dwellings. His son, Dr.
Cyrus Gaskins, was born Feb. 21, 1820, and
received his education in the common schools of that
day. He worked on the farm like all country boys,
but completed his studies at a select school taught by
Hon. John Ferguson, then the leading instructor
and educator of the county. For the next five
years he engaged in teaching and taught in various
districts, during which time he began reading law, and
although never admitted to the bar, he has ever taken a
deep interest in the profession, and his reading has
proved to be a great advantage to him in his business.
He commenced the study of medicine in 1856 with Dr.
Hubbell, a prominent practitioner of Amelia, and
attended lectures at the Eclectic Medical College of
Ohio, from which he graduated at the head of his class
in 1859, and in 1868 received another diploma from the
Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. While
reviewing his studies in 1858 he practiced a short time
at Mount Holly, but upon the completion of his studies
in 1869 located at Amelia, where he has since resided,
and where he has acquired a large and lucrative
practice. Dr. Gaskins is one of the
most noted and best known physicians in the county, and
he is now reaping the fruits of twenty-one years of
practice. He was married on Christmas, 1840, by
Rev. Whittington B. Hnncock, to Huldah,
daughter of Thomas and Sarah John, - the former a
son of James John, the first settler at the mouth
of Nine-Mile or Muddy Creek (originally called John's
Creek in 1797), and the latter a daughter of
Nathaniel Witham, among the first settlers of
Union township. To Dr. Gaskins and
his wife have been born two children,-Thomas
Hamer, who died in his seventeenth year, and John
Crittenden, who was married May 12, 1880, to
Miss Hattie Hopper, of Fruit Hill.
The doctor is a zealous member of J. B. Covert Lodge,
No. 437, of Free and Accepted Masons, at Withamsville.
He has ever taken the greatest interest in the cause of
education, and for years was a leading member of the
school board, where his talents, voice, and influence
were continually for an advance in educational matters.
He is identified in politics with the Democratic party,
to whose success in the county he has for years
contributed most liberally of his time and brain,
and on the stump in the several townships has been one
of its most eloquent and effective speakers, rallying
his party to organization and victory. For several
years he has been president of the Clermont County
Eclectic Medical Association, now in its twenty-fourth
year of successful labors, and since 1870 very
frequently an able and brilliant contributor to the
columns of the Eclectic Medical Journal of
Cincinnati, the standard authority and organ of his
school of medicine. The doctor is a genial
gentleman whose abilities and social qualities have made
him many friends, while in his honored profession he has
reached a high niche of honor and usefulness. His
unsurpassed business tact and energy have been rewarded
by success in financial matters, and he is one of the
solid men of the county, whose word is unquestioned and
whose judgment is rarely at fault.
Source: 1795 History of Clermont County, Ohio, Publ.
Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts - Press of J. B.
Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia - 1880 - Page (betw.
262 & 263) |
Matthew Gibson |
Franklin Twp. - |
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