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DR.
KINGSLEY RAY one of the earlier Pickaway County
physicians, was a native of the State of New York, being
born in Monroe County on Oct. 20, 1797. He
inherited his predilection for medicine from his father,
who was a physician of ability. Dr. Ray was
a graduate from the medical department of Dartmouth
College, New Hampshire, in the class of 1821.
Until 1823, he practiced in his own county and then came
to Ohio, locating in Franklin County, where he remained
for 15 years, going from there to Delaware and eight
yeas later, to Circleville. Dr. Ray was
among the first practitioners in Ohio to use quinine,
receiving, for experimental purposes, one-eighth part of
the first ounce of quinine which was ever brought to
Columbus.
On March 12, 1826, Dr. Ray was married to
Mary Mason Lathrop, a young lady resident in his
native State. Dr. Ray retired from active
practice about the time the war closed. He died in
1887, his funeral services being held at St. Philip's
Protestant Episcopal Church, of which for years he had
been a communicant.
Source: History of Pickaway County, Ohio and
Representative Citizens, Edited and Compiled by Hon.
Aaron R. Van Cleaf. Circleville, Ohio - Publ. 1906 -
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