"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE
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AMOS W. REAGAN, M.D., a prominent physician and surgeon of Mooresville,
Ind., is the fourth son of Reason and Diana (Wilson) Reagan, natives of
South Carolina, and probably of Irish and English extraction respectively.
Amos W. was born in Marion County, Ind., April 3, 1826, and the first
sixteen years of his life were spent upon a farm, alternating, in the usual
manner of farmers' sons, the duties thereof with occasional attendance at
the common schools. In 1845, he entered Asbury University, where for three
years he assiduously devoted himself to study, acquiring a thorough English
education and a fair familiarity with the classics. January, 1847, in the
office of Dr. G. B. Mitchell, at Mooresville, he began the study of
medicine, and at the end of one year entered the Ohio Medical College at
Cincinnati, from whence he graduated in the spring of 1851 with the degree
of M. D. Returning to Mooresville, the Doctor formed a partnership with his
old preceptor, and for the next succeeding twenty-two years, interrupted
only by a three years' service in the army, carried on the practice of
medicine. Dr. Reagan rose rapidly in the profession, and ere many years was
ranked among the most successful practitioners in Morgan County. Early in
July, 1862, he entered the service of the United States, and was at once
commissioned Surgeon of the Seventieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. From his
enrollment to the close of the war, his command was never without his
services, and the last eighteen months of the time he was Acting Brigade
Surgeon of the First Brigade, Third Division, Twentieth Army Corps. The
distinguished services of the old Seventieth Indiana are immortalized in the
already written history of our country, and it is not essential to the
purposes of this sketch that many bloody engagements be here detailed or
even referred to. Suffice it to say that in bivouac or in battle, its sick,
its wounded and its dying were never without the attendance of one of the
most skillful surgeons of the army. While at Bowling Green, Ky., in
September, 1862, the Doctor contracted chronic diarrhea, resulting in
disease of the heart. From the effects of this, he has never recovered;
but, on the contrary, the symptoms have grown perceptibly worse within the
past few years. From 1872 to 1875, our subject was associated with Dr.
Perce at Mooresville, since the dissolution of which partnership he has been
alone in the practice. He has been thrice married, and is the father of
three children, two only of whom are living. His first wife was Nancy
Rooker, daughter of Jesse Rooker, who died in the fall of 1858, after having
been married about three years. His second wife was Sarah E., a younger
sister of his first wife. She lived about five years of married life, and
died without issue in October, 1871. To his present wife, a Mrs. Ella
Elliott, who has bone him one child, he was married in November, 1882. In
1860, he was elected to his third term of Trustee of Brown Township, but
entered the United States Army before that term of his office expired. At
this writing (November, 1883), Dr. Reagan is enjoying a lucrative practice;
is a prominent member of both County and State Medical Societies; belongs
to the Masonic order, and to the Methodist Episcopal Church; has been for
the past nine years member of the Mooresville High School Board; is a
Republican in politics, an upright gentleman, and rightfully holds the
esteem and confidence of the community in which life has so far been spent.
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