Ohio Biographies



Dr. Loammi Rigdon


Dr. Loammi Rigdon was born in Pennsylvania, September 30, 1791, and graduated in medicine at the Transylvania Medical College, Lexington, Kentucky, in 1823. He practiced for eleven years in Wilmington, Ohio, and came to Lebanon in 1824. In March, 1826, he came to Hamilton, and entered into partnership with Dr. John C. Dunlevy. Early in 1834, Dr. Dunlevy removed to Lebanon, and in October of that year Dr. Rigdon took into partnership, for a term of three years, Dr. Cyrus Falconer. October 9, 1815, he was married to Rebecca Dunlevy, the oldest daughter of Judge Francis Dunlevy. He died on the 10th of May, 1865. In all of the active years of his professional life he had a large medical practice. He was for many years a respected member of the Baptist Church, and died full of honors as of years.

 

From A History and Biographical Cyclopædia of Butler County Ohio, With Illustrations and Sketches of its Representative Men and Pioneers, Western Biographical Publishing Company, Cincinnati Ohio, 1882.

 


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