Wayne County

Dr. J. F. Boyle

1884 Biographical Sketches of Brush Creek Twp

BOYLE, Dr. J.F, physician, Xenia, was born in Posey County, Ind., January 31, 1839, to L. H. and Augusta (Uhink) Boyle. The father was a native of Kentucky, the mother of Bremen, Germany. They are both residents of New Harmony, Ind., where he is engaged in farming. He has resided in Indiana since about 1821. They are the parents of six children, three sons and three daughters, all of whom yet survive.

Our subject was reared on the farm, and received most of his education in Owensville, Ind. When starting in the study of his profession, it was with Dr. Stokes, of Grayviile, IL., in 1861. He afterward attended medical lectures at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. in 1863, the Doctor located in Saline County, Ill., where he continued in the practice of medicine till 1871, when he removed to Jefferson County, Ill., where he remained till 1878, and then came to his present location, where he has had an extensive and successful practice.

April 30, 1863, he was married, in. Saline County, Ill., to lass Mary E. Cox; she was born in Posey County, IN., May 13, 1848, and is the daughter of John L. Cox. This union has been blessed with six children:

  1. Ida U
  2. Iva A
  3. Ina Lulu
  4. Laura E
  5. Inez Maud
  6. Julia Theresa

In spring of 1861, the Doctor volunteered in the Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as Assistant Surgeon, but on amount of ill health he had to resign after about sit months. In fall of 1862, he again went out as Assistant Surgeon in the Fifty-eighth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but after a few months again had to resign. He is identified with the Democratic party. Julius Uhink, the brother of Dr. Boyle's mother, was the Prussian Consul to Mexico during the war between the United States and Mexico, and is now a resident of the City of Mexico.



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