BUTLER COUNTY OHIO ****************************************************************************** Contributed to the Butler Co., OH Biographies Project with permission of the Butler County OHGenWeb coordinator Nancy Sween & the submitter. Butler County OHGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohbutler ****************************************************************************** File contributed to Ohio Biographies Project by: Tina Hursh frog158@juno.com 29 November 2000 ****************************************************************************** A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers Cincinnati Ohio. Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882. Contemporary with Dr. PRATHER was Dr. BIRCKHEAD, who read medicine with his brother-in-law, Prather, and graduated with honors in the same class with Professor John DAVIS of Cincinnati. The competition between Davis and BIRCKHEAD for the honors of the class was very close. After graduating he practiced in competition with his preceptor for about one year, when, losing his wife (formerly Miss Euphemia DICK, of the village), re removed west to Missouri, whence he returned a few years later, broken in health. He never succeeded in establishing a large practice, though he remained a number of years.