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WAYNE CO., IL

1884 BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES

BEDFORD TWP

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WALTERS, JAMES P., physician an surgeon. Cisne, is a native of Washington County, Ohio, where he was born April 7 1848, a son of John and Julia (Evans) Walters , who are natives respectively of Ohio and Virginia. The father is a carpenter by trade, but is now engaged in agriculture pursuits in Perry County, Ind., where he had a 320-acre farm. His wife is also living. is also his father, William Walters, age eighty-six years, and it is a remarkable incident in the lives of the ancestors of our subject that they have generally lived to be from eighty-five to one hundred years old. Our subject's grandfather, John W. Evans, served in the war of 1812, in which his father was also a Colonel. The latter, Col. Dudley Evans, was a member of the Virginia Legislature for a period of fourteen years. The Evanses came from the aristocratic families of Old Virginia, and were prominent in the wars of the Revolution and that of 1812. The parents of our subject were blessed with eight children, of whom six are now living—William T., James P., Francis M., Anna M. (wife of Jesse Harding, of Perry County. Ind.), Dudley E. and Flora V.

James P. worked on the farm in early life, and attended the common schools. At the age of twenty-three, he attended the State Normal School at West Liberty, W. Va., and remained there during two terms. In the summer of 1864, he succeeded, after the fourth attempt, in enlisting in the service. He joined Company F, One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Col. H. H. Sage, and served till the close of the war.

In the summer of 1872, he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. G. A. Way, of Caldwell, Ohio. After taking his first course of study in the Miami Medical College, he went to Indiana and there prosecuted his studies under the supervision of Dr. Stephenson, of Cannelton. In the fall of 1875, he returned to the Miami College, and graduated with the Centennial class the following spring, carrying off the first honors, a prize consisting of a piece of white marble, broken off from the temple erected in honor of AEsculapius in the River Tiber, about twelve miles below the city of Rome. Upon one side of the marble are marks in the form of XD or IX, the precise meaning of which is obscure.

In April, 1878, Dr. Walters located in Cisne, where he has since remained engaged in the practice of his profession. Although comparatively a young man, his skill as a physician and surgeon is undoubted, which, with his many genial qualities, renders him a great favorite with the people.

September 30. 1875, he was united in marriage to Kate Cisne, a daughter of Emanuel and Sarah (Garrett) Cisne, and the union has been blessed with four children, of whom three are living—De Forest E., Luna D. and Charles E.

The Doctor is a member of the County Medical Board, of which he has been President two years, and also the State and the Centennial Medical Societies, of which latter he was for two years Secretary. With his wife he is a member of the Christian Church, and is the Superintendent of the Sunday school. Politically, the Doctor is a Democrat.