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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. William Mason Holton was born in Westminster, Vt., July 16, 1827. He was a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, class of 1852. After his graduation he practiced one year in New York City; from 1853 to 1860 at Plymouth, Ill.; then till 1863 he practiced his profession at Stewartsville, Ind., and from 1862 till the time of his death, which occurred December 13, 1910, at New Harmony, Ind. He was a member of the Posey County, State and American Medical societies. During the Civil war he served as first lieutenant in the Sixtieth Indiana regiment and afterward as surgeon of the Twenty-fifth Indiana. He was on the board of pension examiners at Mt. Vernon four years during the Harrison administration. He practiced his profession continuously, except the time he was in the army, for fifty-eight and one-half years. Few men in America ever practiced longer.
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