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WILLIAM KLUTHE, M. D., of Tell City, is a native of Fritzlar, Hesse-Cassel, born May 16, 1847, being one of a family of five sons and four daughters, born to the marriage of Jacob Kluthe and Catharine Gerecht, both natives and residents of Germany. Dr. Kluthe received a thorough education in German, French, Latin and Greek. He began the study of chemistry with a view of making it a profession, but in 1866 came to the United States on account of the Austro-Prussian war. He learned pharmacy in Cincinnati and engaged in the drug business in that city and at Reading, Ohio. In 1872 he began the study of medicine at Cincinnati, and graduated from the Ohio Medical College of that city in 1875. He was appointed district physician for the poor in Cincinnati, but he resigned that position and went to Carrollton, Ky., and later to Dubois County, Ind. In 1880 he came to Tell City, where he has acquired a large practice, making a specialty of clinicology. January 3, 1869, he married Lena Kelsch, a native of Bavaria, by whom he is the father of six children. Those living are Charles F., Anna H., Edward C. and Walter J. He and family are members of the Catholic Church. He is one of the charter members of the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy.