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Daniel C. Greenleaf
Davis County
Born March 21. 1823, in Switzerland county, Indiana, and there he grew to manhood, and was educated in he log school house, and Greenberg Seminary. Began the study of medicine in 1844, with Dr. William Armington of Greensburg, and during his studies he taught school and took a trip through the South, and into Texas before the annexation. He went to Galveston and enlisted in Co. D, First Texas Infantry, for the Mexican war, under Gen. Taylor's call, and served about five month when he returned home to his medical studies, began practicing in 1848, at Shelbyville, Indiana and in 1850, went to St. Louis and graduated from the medical department of the University of Missouri. He came to Bloomfield in the spring of 1850, and began practicing. He opened the first drug store here, and in 1859. Went to St. Louis, and when the war broke out, he returned. In May 1863, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Fourth Iowa infantry, and being promoted full surgeon. He remained with it till the close, of the war, when he again returned to his practice. In 1855, he was elected to the legislature as a Whig, and served his constituents with great credit, for one term. He was married in July 1852 to Miss Amanda Young, a native of Pennsylvania.
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