Louis F. Laudick, M.D.
Louis F. Laudick, M. D., one of the leading medical practitioners of Lima, with well-appointed and convenient offices at No. 49½ Public Square, stands very high in this city, both personally an professionally. He was born in Wayne Township, Allen County, Ohio, and is a son of Louis and Clarissa J. (Miller) Laudick.
The paternal grandfather of Dr. Laudick was John Laudick and the maternal grandfather was John Miller, both men of character and of substance. Louis Laudick, father of Dr. Laudick, was born in Pennsylvania, where he learned the trade of a carpenter and followed the same for a time, but subsequently became a farmer in Allen County, Ohio, where he died March 6, 1869. He reared a family of 10 children.
Dr. Laudick was educated in the public schools of Allen County and was graduated at the Lima High School. In this city he studied medicine under the tutelage of well-established physicians, and then entered the Ohio Medical College, Cincinnati, where he was graduated March 6, 1890. He located at Lima, which has since been his home almost continuously, the period interrupted only by three years of travel in Colorado and Utah. The year of 1893 was spent at the great Mormon city of Salt Lake, and 1895 at Cripple Creek. He has established a large and lucrative practice at Lima and ranks with the county's best physicians and surgeons.
Dr. Laudick was married to Nettie McClure, who is a daughter of James A. McClure. They have a very pleasant home at No. 525 West Market Street.
Dr. Laudick is very prominent in fraternal life, being a Mason of high degree, belonging to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council at Lima, and to Syrian Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., Cincinnati. He is also an Odd Fellow. He keeps closely in touch with modern medical thought, having membership in the Allen County Medical Society, Ohio State Medical Society, Northwestern Ohio Medical Association and American Medical Association.