William Sharp Patton

As printed in 1902

WILLIAM SHARP PATTON.

William Sharp Patton, who is carrying on general farming and stock raising in Harmony township, is a native son of Belmont county, Ohio, his birth having occurred there July 28, 1862, his parents being Captain Alexander Clark and Agnes J. (Sharp) Patton. The first years of his life were spent in the county of his nativity, and he then accompanied his parents to Clark county, where he was reared to manhood on the home farm. At the usual age he entered the public schools, and when he had completed the course of instruction there he spent a year as a student in Wittenberg College and also one year in study at Wooster. The occupation to which he was reared he has always made his life work, and in his farming methods he has kept abreast with the improvements of the times. On the 24th of October, 1889, in Harmony township, he wedded Miss Florence Creagar, who was born in Frederick county, Maryland, and came to Ohio in 1869 with her parents, Joseph and Mary A. (Smith) Creagar, who located in Springfield township, where her father carried on farming. Both were born in Frederick county, Maryland, and became highly respected residents of this locality. Her father died in 1888, at the age of sixty-one years, but her mother is still living, and makes her home in Springfield township. Mrs. Patton received a good common-school education, and is an estimable lady, who presides with gracious hospitality over her home. By her marriage she has became the mother of four children: Helen M., born in Knox county, Indiana, October 19, 1899; Grace Jeanette, born on the home farm in Harmony township, December 5, 1896; Raymond Alexander, born December 24, 1897; and Myrtle Pauline, born November 17,

At the time of their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Patton removed to Knox county, Indiana, where he owned one hundred and fifty acres of land and for five years they resided upon that farm. On the expiration of that period, however, they returned to Clark county and Mr. Patton purchased his present farm of two hundred and ten acres in Harmony township. Upon this he built a very fine residence in 1901. He has his farm well tiled, and has cleared forty-five acres of his land. He is wide-awake, enterprising agriculturist, and his life shows the force of industry and perseverance in the acquirement of success. He votes with the Republican party and is a member of the Presbyterian

` church at South Charleston.

It is a noticeable fact that in this land, as in no other, young men are found at the front in professions and in business life. Dr. Ramsey is a notable example of this fact. Although he has attained the age of only twenty-eight years, he has advanced in the medical fraternity to a position of distinction, and his work in the line of his profession has been of such a nature as to gain for him the recognition of his professional brethern as, well as of the public.

The Doctor was born in Steubenville, Ohio, January 6, 1875, and comes of Scotch lineage. Throughout almost his entire life he has resided in Springfield. He obtained his common school education in the public schools, his collegiate work being prosecuted in Wittenberg College, in which institution he was graduated with the class of 1895. He then entered the business world, accepting a position as bookkeeper with the firm of William Ramsey & Company, commission merchants. He acted in that capacity for some time, but believing that he would find professional life more congenial, he became a student of medicine in the office and under the direction of Dr. Buckingham, of Springfield, and continued his studies in the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in which he was graduated with the class of 1900. Again taking up his above in this city, Dr. Ramsey opened his office in ‘the King Building. He was appointed house physician to the Charity Lying-in Hospital, Philadelphia, his duties being largely in the line of obstetrical work. In- 1901 he received appointment as resident physician in the Jefferson Medical College, which he saw fit to decline. He is physician to the county infirmary, also examiner in the United States recruiting service.

His military record consists of connection with the National Guard from 1892 until 1899. He first served in the Hospital Corps, of which he afterward became hospital steward. He was then promoted to regimental commissary, Third Regiment, Ohio National Guard, and during the Spanish-American war was made regimental quartermaster of the Third Ohio Volunteer

Infantry. He is a close student ¿of text weeks bearing upon the science of medicine and its principles, as also its practical workings, and further extends. his knowledge and usefulness through association with the members of the Springfield Academy of Medicine and the Clark County Medical Society.

In the year 1902 Dr. Ramsey was united in marriage to Miss Della Wilson, of this city. The Doctor is a member of Clark Lodge, No. tot, F. £ A. M. His choice of a profession seems to have been wisely made, for he finds it congenial and has a deep interest in his work, both from a scientific standpoint and from the position of one who possesses broad humanitarian views. He was endowed by nature with a good mind and strong purpose, and these, supplemented by a laudable ambition and unfaltering devotion to his chosen calling, have gained him already a creditable place in the ranks of the medical fraternity.

As printed in A Biographical Record of Clark County Ohio (1902). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.