"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 

MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
RAY TOWNSHIP
PAGE 293

DR. E. D. WHITAKER was born in this township November 27, 1834, and is
the fourth of the seven children of Grafton B. and Margaret (Gregg) Whitaker.  
During his boyhood, our subject worked at farming and attended subscription
school, and at the age of twenty-two, at an academy in Belleville, Hendricks County.
Soon after, he began the study of medicine under Dr. Stuckey, of Gosport, and
attended lectures at Louisville during the sessions of 1858, 1859 and 1860.  In
April, 1862, he entered the service;  went to Pittsburg Landing, was assigned to
the Medical Department as Acting Assistant Surgeon, and after six months, com-
missioned Assistant Surgeon of the Fifteenth Kentucy Infantry.  After the expira-
tion of this regiment's term of service, he was made Surgeon of the Thirty-eighth
Indiana, as which he continued until the war was closed.  Succeeding his discharge,
he located as a practitioner at Gosport, which, after one year, he gave up for the 
purpose of attending to his farm.  December, 1867, he married Martha J., daughter
of Wiley and Rebecca (Crow) Williams, who died November, 1874, leaving one
child, Wiley W.  December, 1877, he wedded Amanda A., daughter of Harman 
and Elizabeth (Guy) Vickery, to which marriage succeeded two children--Eli G
and Margaret Elizabeth.  Dr. Whitaker has a most excellent, highly cultivated and
well-stocked farm of 240 acres, a portion of which was entered by his father.
He is a member of the Masoinic fraternity and of the Baptist Church, and is a
liberal gentleman and a Democrat;  he was once nominated for representative, 
but declined the same.

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