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DR. WALTER R. TEMPLE, of Selvin, was born in Warren County, Ky., August 23, 1841, and is the third son in a family of five children, two yet living, and both physicians, born to Jonathan C. and Sarah F. (Brashear) Temple, who were also natives of the Blue Grass State, and of Scotch and English descent. At ten years of age our subject was left an orphan, and was raised by his grandmother, Mrs. Eleanor E. Temple, his guardian being John B. Temple, of Louisville. In youth he came to Indiana, but in 1861 enlisted in his country’s cause, and was made a body guard of Gen. John C. Fremont in Company D. By special order of Gen. Halleck he was discharged at St. Louis, in January, 1862, but in 1864 again entered the army, and from that time until he was honorably discharged in September, 1865, was engaged in the naval service. In 1869 he embarked in merchandising at Bloomfield, Ind., and about the same time began the study of medicine with his brother, Dr. James R. Temple. He then attended the Medical University of Louisville, Ky., one term, and then completed his studies by a course of lectures at the Long Island Hospital, at Brooklin, N. Y. The fall of 1873, the same year of his graduation, he located at Selvin, Ind., where he has built up a lucrative practice, and is a highly esteemed citizen. He is a Republican, a member of the G. A. R. and the Methodist Episcopal Church. April 30, 1876, he married Miss Lydia J. Katterjohn, who died October 5, 1877. Miss Mary M. Varwig became his second wife, May 21, 1878, and two children have been born to them, named Harry Lee and Eleanor B.