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Douglas X. Ramsey, one of the oldest physicians in point of continuous service in Mt. Vernon, Ind., was born in Xenia, Ill., son of George D. and Mary A. (Price) Ramsey. His father was a practicing physician of Xenia, Ill., where he died at the age of seventy-seven. The mother died in Mt. Vernon, aged eighty-two. Dr. Ramsey attended the public schools of his native village and for two or three years had a private tutor. He took his medical degree at Washington University, St. Louis, in 1880, and shortly afterward located in Mt. Vernon, where he has since resided. He took post-graduate courses in St. Louis University in 1873 and in the Chicago Polyclinic in 1875. He was appointed a member of the State Board of Health by Governor Matthews and served from 1895 to 1897. He has been twice president of the Posey County Medical Society, and for four years he was medical examiner for the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Governor Durbin appointed Dr. Ramsey delegate to the National Tuberculosis Congress, held in New York in 1907. He served two terms on the board of pension examiners under Cleveland’s administrations. He was married, in December, 1909, to Miss Rosa Scheller, who was born in Interlachen, Switzerland, but spent most of her life prior to her marriage in Evansville, Ind. In politics Dr. Ramsey is a Democrat; fraternally a Master Mason.