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DR. D. S. GUTHRIE, physician, Higginsport. The name Guthrie is of Scotch-English extraction. Somewhere near the middle of the seventeenth century, there were four brothers emigrated to America. James Guthrie, a grandson of one of the four brothers, and second cousin to the Doctor, was for a number of terms in the United States Senate, and was before the National Convention of 1856 as candidate for President, in which Convention he was only defeated by four votes. William, the father of our subject, was a native of Maryland, born in 1791, and was by occupation a farmer. He emigrated to Virginia, and subsequently to Ohio, where he married Mary Cowgill. They were early settlers of Warren County, where they spent a long and useful life. She died in 1872, and he three years later. Of their twelve children the Doctor is the seventh; he was born in Warren County, Ohio, January 17, 1827, and received his elementary education in the common schools of his day. At the age of nineteen, he took up his abode with a brother-in-law, in Highland County, Ohio, and there commenced the study of his chosen profession — medicine. In 1849, he married Miss Mary Wilkins. His medical studies were completed at the Starling College, Columbus, Ohio, in the spring of 1851, and soon after he located at Clayton, Adams County, from whence he moved to Aberdeen, Brown Co., Ohio, where his practice became quite extensive. In attempting to fulfill the demands of his practice, he broke down his health, and removed to Hillsboro, expecting to retire from his profession, and there engaged in the drug business, in which he remained seven years, but, contrary to his expectations, did not entirely abandon his practice. His residence in Higginsport dates from November, 1875. He now is one of six practitioners of the place, and is associated with his son, who is one of the practicing physicians, in a drug store. The Doctor’s wife died in 1879, and he married for his second companion, in 1880, Lou, a daughter of Rev. J. P. Daugherty, of this place. The children of D. S. Guthrie and first wife were six in number, of which one was drowned in the river in July, 1881. Of the other five, two are practicing physicians — Henry and John.