First physician locating in Malvern. He came there in 1866, from Ohio, his native state, where he was born July 12, 1827, in Carroll County, in which he lived until 1856, and where he procured a common school education, and a professional education in Western Reserve College, of that state. He practiced his profession in his native county, after which, in 1850, he came to Eastern Iowa, where he continued his professional work until 1860, when he returned to Ohio. Like most people who have ever lived in the grand state of Iowa, Dr. Brothers had an unconquerable desire to return, which he did in 1866, this time locating in Mills County. As a practitioner Dr. Brothers has been a successful master of the healing art. He has secured for himself a farm of 280 acres located in Pottawattamie county. On March 30, 1854, he married Eves A. Graham, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. In 1884 and 1885; he served with honor in the Iowa legislature as representative from Mills County. The doctor is a member of the Masonic Order.