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Below is a family biography included in The History of Posey County, Indiana by John C. Leffel and published by Standard Publishing Company in 1913.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Dr. James Edward Gudgel, a prominent physician and surgeon of Cynthiana, was born in Gibson county, on the farm of his parents, March 10, 1858. His paternal ancestry were of German origin, while his mother was of Scotch-Irish extraction. His parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were prominent among the early pioneers who carved a nation out of a wilderness. Dr. Gudgel is the next oldest practitioner in the county now actively engaged in the profession. He attended the common schools in the county where his parents resided until he was fifteen years of age, when he entered the high school of Oakland City, where he graduated in the class of 1879, and then entered the normal school at that place, making in all about nine years attendance in school there. He afterwards taught school four years in the bounty, and one year in the grammar grade at Booneville, Ind. He graduated at the Evansville Medical College in 1883. In 1883 he located in Cynthiana, where he practiced five years and then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at St. Louis, Mo., graduating in 1888, and resumed his work in Cynthiana, where he still resides. He is a member of the Posey County Medical Society, of which he served one year as president, and is also a member of the State and American Medical associations. He was married in 1886 to Lizzie T. Smith, of Posey county. They are the parents of four children. The doctor is a Republican in politics, and the family are members of the Presbyterian church.

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This family biography is one of 232 biographies included in The History of Posey County, Indiana by John C. Leffel and published in 1913 by Standard Publishing Company.  For the complete description, click here: Posey County, Indiana History and Genealogy

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