Dr. Charles W. Edgington
Dr. Charles W. Edgington, of Blue Creek, is one of the prominent physicians and surgeons of Adams County. He is a son of Dr. T. C Edgington and Levina Stewart, daughter of Joseph Stewart, of Sprigg Township, a soldier of the War of 1812, who died at the ripe old age of ninety-two years.
The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of Winchester, where he was born November 16, 1867. and the public schools of Bentonville. He attended the North Liberty Academy when in charge of Prof. E. B. Stivers, and afterwards the Normal University at Lebanon. Ohio. He was a successful teacher in Adams County for several years. He took a course in Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, graduating in 1895. He opened an office in Rome, Adams County, that year, where he remained until 1898. After graduating in the New York Polyclinic, he located at Blue Creek, where he has a large and lucrative practice.
He is a Democrat, and served from 1889 to 1891 as Clerk of Jefferson Township, and as Coronor of Adams County from 1896 to 1898.
March 15, 1893, he married Miss Anna Case, the estimable daughter of Martin Case and Christiana Heizer. To this union have been born Claude B., August 28, 1894, who died in infancy; Harry W. December 2, 1895, died December 4. 1896: Paul J., April 29. 1898.
From History of Adams County, Ohio from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time - by Nelson W. Evans and Emmons B. Stivers - West Union, Ohio - Published by E. B. Stivers - 1900