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DR. ELEAZER HOMER OLMSTEAD. pg 168
Dr. E. H. Olmstead was born in the state of Vermont in the year 1822. Graduated from Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield, Mass., at the age of twenty-five. Married Eunice Farrar in 1851. Came west in 1852, settling at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Came to Fredericksburg the spring of 1865. Here he practiced medicine and sold drugs until January 1872 when he sold his stock of drugs and moved to New Hampton where be opened a drug store. He died in New Hampton September 12, 1885 aged 63 years. Mrs. E. H. Olmstead died at New Hampton the first week in June 1885 at the age of 64. Her obituary in the New Hampton Tribune is dated June 9th, 1885. One son came to this union, born July 28, 1855 at Sheboygan. His name is Newton, his residence New Hampton, Iowa. He married Miss Hattie Gardner. They have a son named Barry. Newton is the senior member of the firm of Olmstead & Gardner dealers in drugs.