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JOHN W. WATERS, M. D., physician, (office in People’s Drug Store,) Lexington; born in Montgomery Co., Md., Dec. 16, 1828, but removed in childhood with his father’s family to Central Ohio; he received his early education at West Bedford Academy, and, at the age of 20, commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Henry Waters, of Elizabethtown, Ohio, graduating at Sterling Medical College, at Columbus, in March, 1855, having commenced the practice of medicine at Dallas, Darke Co., some three years prior to the above date. In the spring of 1855, he removed to Illinois, locating at Selma, this county, where he resumed the practice of his profession; during the winter of 1860-61, he attended lectures at Rush Medical College, at Chicago, and again in 1864-65; he is also a member of the Illinois State Medical Society; in 1868, he removed to his present home and became a partner with Mr. Reynolds in the drug business, whose entire interest he purchased in 1871. What is known as the “Smith Block,” was built by Dr. Waters, Milton and William M. Smith in 1868, and, in 1876, he sold his drug stock to Grier & Poor. His first wife, to whom he was married in 1853, died the following year; her place of nativity was Darke Co., Ohio; his second marriage was in 1857, to Miss Nannie C. Park, who was born in Washington Co., Penn.; they have one son — Frank P., now 21 years of age, and a resident of Barbour Co., Kan., where he is engaged in the stock business. Although the Doctor has had some business interests to look after, he has been in the constant practice of his profession in this vicinity for the past twenty-four years. Owns 440 acres of farm lands, valued at $30 per acre, and city property, valued at $12,000.