JOSEPH R. GORRELL Born near Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, May 6, 1835, being the fifth of a family of ten children born to Joseph and Easter (Glass) Gorrell. Mr. Gorrell passed his boyhood upon his father’s farm, where he laid the foundation for a sturdy manhood by working in the fields during the crop seasons. When seventeen years of age, he entered an academy for one year, then spent three years in a Presbyterian College at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he mastered the ancient classics and gained a thorough scientific education. He began reading medicine with Dr. J. R. McCleary, at Bluffton, Indiana, and later he took a course of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, later entering the University of Buffalo, from which he was graduated in February 1850. He had made a very creditable record at all these institutions and, thus well equipped, he opened an office at Newville, DeKalb County, Indiana, in August 1859, and there he remained until the fall of 1863. Then his patriotic impulses led him to offer his services to his country during the dark days of the great rebellion, entering the service as a surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, continuing in that capacity until the close of the war. Seeking a new field for his operations, Doctor Gorrell came to Newton, Iowa, at the close of the war. Dr. Gorrell was married in 1860, while living at Newville, Indiana, to Frances E. Hendricks, of DeKalb County, that state. This union has been blessed by the birth of two children. Politically, he was adherent of principle to the defiance of party demands and party affiliations. Dr. Gorrell was elected to the state Senate in 1893 on the Republican ticket and he was elected again to this important office in 1897 on the Democratic ticket. Such a record is evidently criterion enough of his high standing in his district. He made a most worthy and commendable record, making his influence felt for the good of his county and the state, and figuring prominently in the councils and debates among his colleagues, where his ideas were respectfully weighed and usually heartily endorsed. Dr. Gorrell died May 25, 1916, in Newton.

JOSEPH R. GORRELL Born near Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, May 6, 1835, being the fifth of a family of ten children born to Joseph and Easter (Glass) Gorrell. Mr. Gorrell passed his boyhood upon his father’s farm, where he laid the foundation for a sturdy manhood by working in the fields during the crop seasons. When seventeen years of age, he entered an academy for one year, then spent three years in a Presbyterian College at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he mastered the ancient classics and gained a thorough scientific education. He began reading medicine with Dr. J. R. McCleary, at Bluffton, Indiana, and later he took a course of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, later entering the University of Buffalo, from which he was graduated in February 1850. He had made a very creditable record at all these institutions and, thus well equipped, he opened an office at Newville, DeKalb County, Indiana, in August 1859, and there he remained until the fall of 1863. Then his patriotic impulses led him to offer his services to his country during the dark days of the great rebellion, entering the service as a surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, continuing in that capacity until the close of the war. Seeking a new field for his operations, Doctor Gorrell came to Newton, Iowa, at the close of the war. Dr. Gorrell was married in 1860, while living at Newville, Indiana, to Frances E. Hendricks, of DeKalb County, that state. This union has been blessed by the birth of two children. Politically, he was adherent of principle to the defiance of party demands and party affiliations. Dr. Gorrell was elected to the state Senate in 1893 on the Republican ticket and he was elected again to this important office in 1897 on the Democratic ticket. Such a record is evidently criterion enough of his high standing in his district. He made a most worthy and commendable record, making his influence felt for the good of his county and the state, and figuring prominently in the councils and debates among his colleagues, where his ideas were respectfully weighed and usually heartily endorsed. Dr. Gorrell died May 25, 1916, in Newton.

JOSEPH R. GORRELL Born near Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, May 6, 1835, being the fifth of a family of ten children born to Joseph and Easter (Glass) Gorrell. Mr. Gorrell passed his boyhood upon his father’s farm, where he laid the foundation for a sturdy manhood by working in the fields during the crop seasons. When seventeen years of age, he entered an academy for one year, then spent three years in a Presbyterian College at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he mastered the ancient classics and gained a thorough scientific education. He began reading medicine with Dr. J. R. McCleary, at Bluffton, Indiana, and later he took a course of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, later entering the University of Buffalo, from which he was graduated in February 1850. He had made a very creditable record at all these institutions and, thus well equipped, he opened an office at Newville, DeKalb County, Indiana, in August 1859, and there he remained until the fall of 1863. Then his patriotic impulses led him to offer his services to his country during the dark days of the great rebellion, entering the service as a surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, continuing in that capacity until the close of the war. Seeking a new field for his operations, Doctor Gorrell came to Newton, Iowa, at the close of the war. Dr. Gorrell was married in 1860, while living at Newville, Indiana, to Frances E. Hendricks, of DeKalb County, that state. This union has been blessed by the birth of two children. Politically, he was adherent of principle to the defiance of party demands and party affiliations. Dr. Gorrell was elected to the state Senate in 1893 on the Republican ticket and he was elected again to this important office in 1897 on the Democratic ticket. Such a record is evidently criterion enough of his high standing in his district. He made a most worthy and commendable record, making his influence felt for the good of his county and the state, and figuring prominently in the councils and debates among his colleagues, where his ideas were respectfully weighed and usually heartily endorsed. Dr. Gorrell died May 25, 1916, in Newton.

JOSEPH R. GORRELL Born near Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio, May 6, 1835, being the fifth of a family of ten children born to Joseph and Easter (Glass) Gorrell. Mr. Gorrell passed his boyhood upon his father’s farm, where he laid the foundation for a sturdy manhood by working in the fields during the crop seasons. When seventeen years of age, he entered an academy for one year, then spent three years in a Presbyterian College at Ft. Wayne, Indiana, where he mastered the ancient classics and gained a thorough scientific education. He began reading medicine with Dr. J. R. McCleary, at Bluffton, Indiana, and later he took a course of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, later entering the University of Buffalo, from which he was graduated in February 1850. He had made a very creditable record at all these institutions and, thus well equipped, he opened an office at Newville, DeKalb County, Indiana, in August 1859, and there he remained until the fall of 1863. Then his patriotic impulses led him to offer his services to his country during the dark days of the great rebellion, entering the service as a surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, continuing in that capacity until the close of the war. Seeking a new field for his operations, Doctor Gorrell came to Newton, Iowa, at the close of the war. Dr. Gorrell was married in 1860, while living at Newville, Indiana, to Frances E. Hendricks, of DeKalb County, that state. This union has been blessed by the birth of two children. Politically, he was adherent of principle to the defiance of party demands and party affiliations. Dr. Gorrell was elected to the state Senate in 1893 on the Republican ticket and he was elected again to this important office in 1897 on the Democratic ticket. Such a record is evidently criterion enough of his high standing in his district. He made a most worthy and commendable record, making his influence felt for the good of his county and the state, and figuring prominently in the councils and debates among his colleagues, where his ideas were respectfully weighed and usually heartily endorsed. Dr. Gorrell died May 25, 1916, in Newton.