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GEORGE W. CARROTHERS, physician, Fairfield, descends from Scotch ancestry, who first emigrated to the United States in the latter part of the seventeenth century. They settled in Pennsylvania, where his father was born. He grew to manhood, and was married in Pennsylvania to Mary Dye. In 1815, they removed to Harrison County, Ohio, and there, in 1816,   G. W. Carrothers was born, being the fifth of a family of seven children. He received a common English education, and in 1837, in Richland County, Ohio, married Catherine Hale. She was born in Richland County, Ohio, in 1820. After marriage he began the study of medicine, under Dr. A. Blymier, of Mansfield, Ohio, and later under Dr. J. T. Mitchel, of same place, reading with them five years and attending lectures in Willoughby, Ohio. He has been in active practice since 1846. In the fall of 1848, he came to Olney, Ill., where he practiced for thirty-two years, and of course endured all the hardship incident to a practice in a pioneer country. He came to Fairfield, Wayne County, in 1880, that they might be associated with their children, W. G. Carrothers and Mary E. Baker. They have had six children, four of whom are deceased. Both Mr. and Mrs. Craters are members of the M. E. Church.