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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. T. C. Emmick was born near Grandview, Ind., on Corn Island, the name given a mound built by the mound builders, August 9, 1872. His parents were John W. Emmick and Rebecca (Peckinpaugh) Emmick. Thomas, the subject of this sketch, left the island or mound farm, on which he was born, and where he passed his early childhood, and went with his father, who was a steamboatman, to Yazoo City, Miss., and later to Alton, Ind. His literary education was received in the public schools of Alton. When a young man he clerked for three years in the Fogas drug store in Mt. Vernon, then read medicine about one year in the office of his uncle, Dr. George R. Peckinpaugh, at that time one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Posey county. He then entered the Louisville Medical College, where he remained two years, graduating at the Ohio Medical College in the class of 1897. After obtaining his degree he located in Mt. Vernon, where he still resides and practices his profession. Dr. Emmick was married in 1906 to Miss Betty Dunn, of Alton, Ind.
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