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CHARLES W. SIBLEY, physician, of Fairfield, was born on October 6, 1841, in Turmoil County, Ohio. His father, Charles Sibley, well and favorably known in Wayne County was a native of New York, and was born in 1818. Having removed to Turmoil County, Ohio, he was there married, in 1840, to Azuba L. Waters, a native of that county. Charles Sibley was a man of rare will power, and among; the characteristics which marked him as. a noble man were his great zeal for the cause of Christianity and his tireless energy as an able exponent of the doctrine of prohibition, being one of its first and most uncompromising advocates in this county. He possessed broad and charitable views, yet was always found, with unyielding tenacity, adhering to what he considered the side of right, without regard to self-interest or personal prejudice. He died in Fairfield in 1879, surrounded by a large circle of ardent friends, who admired him for his many virtues.  His wife and six of a family of seven children survive him, and are all residents of the town of Fairfield. Mother Sibley was born in Timbal County, Ohio, in 1821. She is one of the pillars of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as was also her late husband.  Dr. C. W. . Sibley received a liberal common school education, and came to this county with his parents from  Meigs County, Ohio, in 1853.  In September, 1861, ,he enlisted in Company D, Thirty-fourth Illinois Infantry, under Capt. Pratt, of Lee County, Ill. He received a serious wound at the battle of Shiloh,  consequence of which, in the following September, he was discharged.  He read medicine under the instruction of Dr. J. R. Philson; took a course in the Ohio Medical College, after which he began his practice at Fairfield.  He subsequently entered the Bellevue Medical College of New York, from which he graduated in 1877. He possesses, to a worthy degree, a warm and sympathetic nature, so indispensable in the true physician.  Married, in Racine, Ohio, in 1867, to Miss Mary C. Lalance.. She was born in Ohio in 1844. and is  a daughter of Archie and Catherine Lalance, of French ancestry. Dr. Sibley is an official member of the order of  R. T. of T., and both are honored members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Their family consists of Charles E.,  Maud (deceased), Theo A., Frank C., William A.,  and Mary C. Sibley.