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JOHN T. McLAUGHLIN, M. D. The medical profession of Springfield, is honored by the presence in its ranks of Dr. McLaughlin, who, to a thorough knowledge of Therapeutics as understood by the Eclectic School of Medicine, combines the keenness of perception and accurate judgment which gives him skill in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. He belongs to various medical associations and is medical examiner or surgeon to various societies and corporations. He is still considerably on the sunny side of fifty, bidding fair to spend many years in usefulness and increasing reputation in his chosen work.

Dr. McLaughlin inherits a high degree of intellectuality from his parents, both of whom were teachers of large experience and much scholarship. His father, George F. McLaughlin, was born and reared in Maryland, coming to Ohio when still a single man. In this State he married Miss Rosanah F. Monroe, of Champaign County, who afterward assisted him in the Bellefontaine schools, of which he was the principal for a number of years. He died in 1845, when our subject was but eighteen months old. The wife and mother survived until 1878, when she breathed her last in Urbana.

The natal day of Dr. McLaughlin was March 29, 1844, and his birthplace Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. He remained with his mother, attending school at Urbana during his boyhood and youth, completing his studies there in the Urbana Collegiate Institute from which he was graduated in 1864. Having read medicine with Dr. A. H. Balridge, he entered the Eclectic Institute of Cincinnati from which he was graduated in the spring of 1867. He then returned to Urbana, where he began the practice of his profession, remaining there during 1867 and 1868. He then removed to Xenia, Greene County, remaining in that city five years, gaining experience and winning an excellent reputation. He then removed to Springfield in the spring of 1875, where he now enjoys a lucrative practice which is steadily increasing.

Dr. McLaughlin belongs to the National Eclectic Medical Association, the State Eclectic Medical Association and the Central Ohio Eclectic Medical Society. He is medical examiner for the Order of Chosen Friends and Grand Medical Examiner to the Ohio Division of the Independent Forresters, in which organization he holds membership. He is also surgeon for the Ohio, Indiana & Western and the Ohio & Southern Railroads, as well as physician and surgeon to the Springfield Hospital. His studious habits are kept up as well as his many calls will allow, and he endeavors to keep fully abreast of the times in his knowledge of the recent investigations and theories of the medical world. His personal character is honorable, his manners pleasing, and he is one upon whom his fellow-men look with respect.