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SAMUEL L. TYNER, M. D., is the eldest of seven children born to Andrew J. and Narcissus (Spilman) Tyner, the former being raised in While County, Ill., and the latter a native of Kentucky. Andrew J. Tyner became a resident of Posey County, Ind., in 1836, and for four years followed blacksmithing at Cynthiana. He then worked at his trade at different times in Gibson, Warrick and Posey Counties, Ind., then returned to Illinois, where he died in February, 1883. Mrs. Tyner died in this State in August, 1877. Samuel L. Tyner was born in Posey County, this State, July 30, 1838, and only had common school advantages in youth, and of his father learned blacksmithing. When about nineteen years old he began the study of medicine, paying for the use of medical works by shoeing a neighboring physician’s horses. April 27, 1857, he wedded Mary J. Zimmerman, who died in January, 1859. July 30, 1861, he married Rachel J. Morrison, and September 20 of the same year enlisted in Company K, Forty-second Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, serving until July 15, 1865, when he was mustered out as Assistant Surgeon of his regiment. He saw much hard service and was a participant in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Marietta, Resaca, Altoona Pass and others. After the fall of Atlanta he was made Hospital Steward. Returning home he attended two terms of lectures at Rush Medical College, Chicago, then practiced at Somerville, Ind., until the fall of 1868, when he located at Lynnville. In 1869 he again attended Rush College, which graduated him with the degree of “M. D.” in February, 1870. In 1876 Dr. Tyner located in Boonville, but in June, 1878, moved to his farm in Hart Township. In April, 1884, he returned to Boonville, and is still engaged in the practice of medicine. He is a Republican, a member of the Masonic and G. A. R. orders, and he and his wife are parents of five children, only three— Charles L., Thomas B. and George J. —yet living; Mrs. Tyner is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.