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Dr. Ulysses G. Whiting was born September 24, 1869, in Evansville, Ind. He was the son of John and Sarah O. Whiting. He received his literary education in the common schools of Cynthiana, Ind., and the Northern Indiana Normal University at Valparaiso, Ind. At the age of nineteen he engaged in the drug business at Cynthiana and followed this avocation until the fall of 1894, when he entered the medical department of the University of Louisville, where he graduated in 1897. He located at Wadesville, Ind., for the practice of medicine and remained there until 1905, when he moved to New Harmony, forming a partnership with Dr. J. M. Glaze. He was, in 1904, elected grand medical examiner of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for the State, filling said office until 1906. He quit New Harmony in 1908 to take clinical courses in Chicago, New York and Vienna, Austria. Returning to America he again resumed the practice in Mt. Vernon. Dr. Whiting was married to Miss Lula Wasson, of Gibson county, in 1893 They have two children, Miss Fay, a teacher in the city schools, and Van, who is in the senior class of the Mt. Vernon High School.