A. B. HEDRICK, M.D., was born in Clarke County, Ohio, in 1844. His father was a German from Hanover. His mother was A. Morris, a descendant a directline, from the Morris' famous in the Revolutionary times, two of whom signed the Declaration of Independence. Her great grandfather was Senator Morris, of Ohio.

In 1862, he enlisted in the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry for one year. He was captured at Harper's Ferry, paroled and started West to fight the Indians. Reaching Chicago, and the Indian war being over, he was discharged with his regiment. In 1864, he re-enlisted in the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Veteran Cavalry and served until the close of the war.

He studied medicine with R. Rector, M.D., Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Starling Medical College, of Columbus, Ohio, at which institution he attended his first course of lectures, during the winter of 1866-67. He practiced medicine near Indianapolis, Ind., for twelve years, graduating in medicine in the meantime at the Indiana Medical College, which was then the medical department of Asbury University. Removed to Kansas in the spring of 1879, since which time he has been located at Chanute in Neosho County.

Cutler, William G. History of the State of Kansas: Neosho County Biographical Sketches. Chicago, Illinois: A. T. Andreas, 1883.

This information was transcribed and posted on the Internet under The Kansas Collection.

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