Terrell, Dr. Christopher C.

TERRELL

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 4/26/2014 at 09:30:48

From the History of Poweshiek County Iowa

Dr. Christopher C. Terrell emigrated from Ohio, where he was born in 1817, to Iowa, in 1856, and located in Union township at Forest Home, where he built up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Terrell was a graduate of the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1853. He was the typical, pioneer country practitioner, who faced many hardships. Mounted on horseback, with leather saddle-bags at the croup, through sunshine and storm, heat and cold, he was truly of a class of courageous men, devoted to their calling. Dr. Terrell never refused a call and attended the rich and poor alike.

In 1861 Dr. Terrell removed to a farm south of town, where he cleared the timber and built a house. While engaged in the erection of the building every mechanic except one brick mason enlisted in the Federal army. Dr. Terrell, being a strong Union man, was eager to enter the service himself, but his neighbors urged him to stay and attend to their families, the men of the neighborhood already having enlisted. He therefore remained at home and ministered to the soldiers' families free of charge. He was the only professional man who ever engaged in business in Forest Home. Dr. Terrell's death occurred November 28, 1897, and his wife's May 22, 1882.