NATHAN UDELL

UDELL, PAYNE

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Date: 5/23/2009 at 16:27:17

The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

NATHAN UDELL, born February 18, 1817, in Susquehanna Co., Penn. His father moved to Jefferson, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, when he was 6 or 8 months old, where he received a common school education with moderate opportunity, at an academy of the same town (county seat); made his own living by anything he could obtain to do - clerking in a store, teaching school, etc.; studied medicine with Dr. F. Rea, of Washington, Guernsey Co., Ohio, after marriage. Was married to Eliza Payne, of Washington Co., Ohio, June 30, 1840; two children born in Guernsey Co., Ohio; moved to Unionville, Iowa, in 1849 and practiced medicine there eleven years; had three children born; was elected to the State Senate in the fall of 1854, to fill vacancy caused by the resignation of Amos Hains; the Senatorial District then was comprised o David, Appanoose, Wayne, and Decatur Counties; was again elected in 1859 and 1863; the Senatorial District at those period being as now, Appanoose Co. alone. Received a diploma in 1855 from the Medical Branch of Iowa University at Keokuk, Causa Honoris. Moved from Unionville to Centerville in 1860; am a member of Appanoose County Medical Society, of the Des Moines Valley Medical Association, of the Iowa State Medical Society, of American Medical Association.