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Illinois, after which he engaged in the practice of his profession in Hinds county, Mississippi. IHaving attended
lectures at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery, he was
graduated at that institution in I846. A short time subsequenit to his graduation, Dr. Berry and Amelia Looker,
dlaughter of the late J. H. Looker, of Cincinnati, were married. Resolving to make Cincinnati his home, he shortly
after purchased the good-wvill and office of Dr. P. KIuowlton,
and associated with him the late W. B. Ross, D. D. S., of
Newport, Kentucky, and continued in the old office two
years. Dr. Berry then yielding to the fascination of the
South, returned there, and resumed the practice of his profession in Mississippi, where he was engaged until I853,
when he returned North. After recruiting his health by a
sojourn in the region of Lake Superior, he spent six months
in practice in Covington, Kentucky, and then opened an
office in Cincinnati. As before, at urgent requests firoml
his friends and patients in Mississippi, he revisited them in
the fall of I854, and remained there in good practice until
the war came on. Now came trouble on account of loyalty
to the Union, but he was kinidly succored, when in imminent danger, by the citizens of the town of Raymond, where
he resided, the Home Guard of which proffered to him protection, which was afterward promptly given, and kept him
firom passing to the spiritual world, when apparently on its
threshold. But he attributes his survival of the peril
mainly to his being a member of a fraternity whose principIes inculcate doing right without hope of fee or reward.
In I863 Dr. Berry found his way to Cincinnati, and again
boiught the office and good-will of Dr. Knowlton, and has
remained there in practice to the present time. He was
one of the founders of the Mississippi Valley Dental Association, the oldest dental society on the earth, and has
zealously continued in his efforts to advance the interests of
his profession, through the instrumentalities of associated
influence, the press, and educational institutions.
UDKINS, JESSE PARKER, M. D., an e mine nt
Surgeon, was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson
f co unty, Ohio, in I8 n5. He was a half-brother of
the late Dr. W ill iam Judki os, and was desce nded
from a Quaker family, whose names have been
identified with medi cine f or more than a century.
His scho ol and col legiate education was obtained at CannonDsburg and Steubenville, Ohio, and his medical educati on
i n the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, from which he
graduated in I838. HIn the fol lowing year he accepted,
fro m that institution, an appo intm ent as Demonstrator of
Anatomy, at the same t ime opening his office in Cincinnat i
for the practice of his profession. II I847 he su eyn t to
Columbus to become Professor of Anato my in Starl in g
Medical College, which position he filled inti l I852, when
he accepted the Professor ship of Descriptive Surger y in
Miami Medical College, and returned to CininSnnati. HIe was
afterwards changed to the department of Special Pathology,
but hi s connecti on with that institution remained intac t u ntil
his death, over fifteen years. In I853 he visited Europe
fo r the purpo se of givin g his attention to the study of surgery
among the great lights of the old world, and pass ed some
time in all the famous European hospitals. In I864 the loss
of his elder brother, Robert, preyed so strongly on his mind
that his health was seriously affected. From this shock he
never seemed to recover, and was consequently never so
active in his professional duties. He was eminently successful, acquired a considerable fortune from an extraordi
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1-iimself on the farm in summer. In the meantime lie turned
his spare hours to profit, reading books of a solid character'
and improving his mind with whatever good reading came
in his way. At the age of eighteel-i years he was sufficiently
advanced to take charge of a school in Brown county, Ohio.
For the next five years he taught and attended school, fitting
himself to mal,:e a profession of teaching. He subsequently
determined to adopt the law as his profession. Continuing
to teacb, be devoted his leisure to reading law. In 1852 be
was admitted to the bar, and immediately entered upon the
practice of his profession at West Union, Adams county,
Ohio. I-Ic remained at West Union until I854, when he
removed to Wili-iiington, Clinton county, where he has since
resided. The energy and perseverance which enabled Mr.
Diboll to acquire his profession have made it possible for
him to acquire a paying practice. II-' 1856 be was elected
Mayor of Wilmington, being re-elected for the following
term. In I874 be was prevailed upon once more to accept
the Mayoralty. For two years lie was Prosecuting Attorney
for Clinton county. Mr. Diboll is a Republican. For fifteen years he'has been a mei-nber of the Christian Church.
In IS45 he married Rachel Young, daughter of. Thomas
Young, a Scotcli Presbyterian and native of the north of
Ireland, and an early pioneer of.Brown county.
IBOLL, ALONZO COLLINS, -Lawyer, was born,
December 3d, 1822, in Columbia county, Penn sy Ivania. lie is the third of eleven children of
Virgil Miller Diboll -ind Pbilena Collins. His
f,-tther'was a native of Rensselaer county, New
York, a physician and surgeon, who moved to
Ohio in I834, locating in Brown county. Dr. Diboll went
to Hamilton county, Indiana, in I843, and returned to Ohio
in 1852, settling in Adains county. In 1859 be took tip his
residence in Wilmin,ton, Clinton county, where he died in
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187o. The mother of the sulject of this sletch was a nati-ve of Connecticut and a dau,bter of Lewis Collins. She
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died in Adaiiis'county in i856. Alonzo Collins was favored
with a home traiiiin,, which fitted him for the active respon I
sibilities of life. He attended school in winter and busied