Charles E. Ream, M.D.
Dr. Charles E. Ream, who for nearly twenty-five years has been engaged in the practice of medicine at Bowersville, is a native "Buckeye" and has lived in this state all his life. He was born at Centerfield, in Highland county, September 22, 1866, son of John and Christiana (Collins) Ream, the latter of whom was born in that same county, November 10, 1830. John Ream was born in the neighboring county of Ross, March 9, 1824, a son of John Ream, who had come to Ohio from Reamtown, Pennsylvania, and had settled in Ross county. After his marriage the younger John Ream located at Centerfield, where he and his wife spent the remainder of their lives, her death occurring on July 1, 1889, and his, April 21, 1901. They were the parents of five children, of whom Doctor Ream was the fourth in order of birth, the others being the following: William Layton, born on August 9, 1855, who died on June 21, 1857; Effie Alice, April 21, 1859, who died on July 3. 1872; Addie, December 22, 1862, who is now living in Highland county, this state, wife of Clarence Baldwin, and Myrtle, June 11, 1870, who is unmarried and makes her home at Greenfield, Ohio.
Reared at Centerfield, Charles E. Ream received his early schooling there and at Hillsboro, later took a course in the college at Lebanon and then entered the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, from which institution he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Upon receiving his diploma Doctor Ream came to Greene county and opened an office at Bowersville, where he has ever since been engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Greene County Medical Society, of the Ohio State Medical Society and of the American Medical Association. The Doctor is a Mason, affiliated with the lodge of that order at Jamestown, and is also affiliated with the Royal Arcanum, the Junior Order of United American Mechanics and the Modern Woodmen of America. His wife is a member of the Methodist Protestant church at Bowersville. The Doctor owns town property and a farm of eighty acres a mile and a half southwest of Bowersville.
On June 24, 1897, Dr. Charles E. Ream was united in marriage to Carrie E. Conklin, who was born in Caesarscreek township, this county, daughter of James Gilbert and Catherine (Hussey) Conklin, both of whom were born in the neighboring county of Clinton, the former at Lumberton and the latter in the Port William neighborhood. James Gilbert Conklin came to this county after his marriage to Catherine Hussey and located on a farm in Caesarscreek township, later moving to a farm a little more than a mile south of Bowersville. where he is still living. His first wife died in 1880 and he later married Alice E. Elliott. To the first union three children were born, those besides Mrs. Ream being a son, now deceased, and May, now Mrs. H. C. Wilson, of Cleveland. To the second union were born four children, namely: Zora, wife of Clyde Sutton, of Dayton; Guy, who married Ruth Sheley and is farming in New Jasper township, and Dorothy and Robert, at home. Doctor and Mrs. Ream have two children, sons both, Charles Gilbert, born on March 14, 1900, who was graduated from the Bowersville high school with the class of 1918 and is now handling the local agency for an automobile concern, and Arthur Bailey, March 5, 1903.
From Portrait and Biographical Album of Clark and Greene Counties, Chapman Bros., Chicago, published 1890