Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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JOSIAH GIDDINGS

Josiah GIDDINGS, M. D., of Woodbine, came to Harrison County during the month of March, 1868, and settled at Magnolia, where he engaged in the drug business, which he followed one year, sold out and purchased a piece of wild land on section 17, of Magnolia Township. It was one hundred and sixty acres, and he improved it, living there until 1878, when he rented his farm and moved to Logan, and practiced medicine for three years, at the end of which time he moved back to his farm, and remained until 1887, when he sold and located in the drug business at Woodbine; he sold in 1889, since which time he has devoted his time exclusively to the practice of medicine, and has been a member of the Board of Medical Examiners for Pensioners, of the late war, since 1889.

He graduated from Castleton Medical College, at Castleton, Vt., in June, 1856, and during the winter of 1862-63 he took a course of lectures at Rush Medical College at Chicago.

Dr. GIDDINGS was born in Franklin County, Vt., August 10, 1832, and remained in the old Green Mountain State until twenty-four years of age, with the exception of one year, spent in teaching in Saratoga County, N.Y., after which he attended college. After graduating he went to McHenry County, Ill., where he practiced his chosen profession until May, 1863, and then went into the Union army as an assistant surgeon, belonging to the Ninety-fifth Illinois Infantry, remaining in the service until August 17, 1865, when he was mustered out at Camp Butler, Ill. He then engaged in the drug business in Woodstock, McHenry County, Ill., which he followed for eighteen months, coming to Council Bluffs in October, 1867, where he bought an interest in a drug business, with J. C. DeHAVEN, and remained there until March, 1868, the time of his coming to this county.

Dr. GIDDINGS was married in McHenry County, Ill., October 17, 1858, to Miss Sarah A. GIDDINGS, who is now the mother of seven children -- Edgar T., born February 13, 1861; Hannah I., November 16, 1866; Clara J., May 4, 1869, died September 23, 1870; Jennie A., born July 15, 1871; Helen, born February 5, 1884, died October 9, aged eight months and four days; and two died in infancy.

Mrs. GIDDINGS was born in Franklin County, Vt., October 15, 1842, and moved with her parents to McHenry County, Ill., when she was about one year old.

Politically, our subject affiliates with the Republican party and in religious matters is a believer in the Christian faith.

Politically, our subject believes in the principles of the Republican party.

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