DARKE COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed to the Montgomery County, Ohio Biographies Project  by:
Billy J. Baker
billybak@erols.com
April 24, 2000 
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas 
First published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

Montgomery County --

L. S. B. OTWELL, physician and surgeon, was born in Willamsburg, Wayne
Co., Ind., November 7, 1833. In 1840 parents with their family moved to
Darke County, Ohio, living in that county seven years; thence removed to
Granville, the county seat, where he received his early education. He
then became a student at Ohio Wesleyan College at Delaware. He afterward
read medicine with his father, Curtis Otwell.  He graduated from the
Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati in 1864, having previously attended a
course of medical lectures at Ann Arbor, Mich. He practiced his
profession five years at Greenville with his father before graduating.
He practiced medicine twenty-one years in the East before coming to
Independence, Kan., where he located in September, 1881. C. W. Otwell, a
brother associated with him in practice, was born in 1837. He graduated
from the Columbus Medical College, Ohio, attending a preliminary course
at Ann Arbor, Mich. He began practice at Stelvideo, Darke Co., Ohio,
remaining until he entered the army as a soldier, in which capacity he
served three years, after which he was engaged in the practice of his
profession until he came to Kansas. Was married in 1866 in Darke County,
Ohio, to Sarah Hecker. They have three children - Luella, Gerold, and
Curtis Williams, Jr. He is a member A., F. & A. M., and I. O. O. F.