Abraham Virgil Conklin, M.D.
A. V. Conklin, M.D., a leading citizen of Troy Township, where he owns a valuable farm,109 acres of land, well-improved and under thorough cultivation, has been prominently identified with the Eclectic School of Medicine, in Ohio, since he received his degree in 1860. He assisted to organize the Ohio State Eclectic Society and was its first vice-president, and served also as the president of that important medical body. Dr. Conklin belongs to an old pioneer family of the State. He was born in Morrow County. Ohio, November 21, 1832, and is a son of Jacob and Orra (Payne) Conklin.
The parents of Dr. Conklin were of new England birth, his father coming from Vermont and his mother from Connecticut. Jacob Conklin was a soldier in the War of 1812. and after its close, in 1814, he settled first in Delaware County, Ohio, and later moved to that section which became Morrow County. where be died in 1875.
Dr. Conklin was reared in Morrow County and enjoyed educational advantages at Mt. Hesper Seminary, following which he taught school for some years, in this way providing for his own professional education. He was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, in 1860, and practiced subsequently at Waldo and at South Woodbury, in 1875 coming to Delaware County. For many years Dr. Conklin was one of the leading medical practitioners in this section and few men are better known. Public affairs and local good government have claimed his attention, in the light of good citizenship, and he has long been identified with the Republican party, with strong views in favor of temperance.
On November 12, 1861, Dr. Conklin was married to Maria Hull, who was born in Marion County, Ohio, and is a daughter of Nathaniel and Nancy (Wyatt) Hull, both of whom died in Marion County. Dr. and Mrs. Conklin have two children: Prof. Edwin G., Ph. D., a member of the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, filling the chair of Biology; and Eva C, who married Charles Page, residing at Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. and Mrs. Conklin are members of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church, at Delaware. He is identified with several leading fraternities and has been an Odd Fellow since 1856 and a Mason for about 37 years.
From 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908
Dr. Abraham Virgil Conklin was born in 1832, in Westfield, Ohio. He is a son of Jacob Conklin, a soldier of 1812, under General McArthur. He received his education in the common schools, and at Mt. Hesper Seminary. After ten years of school teaching, he learned telegraphy, and was employed at Wooster and other places for some years. In 1866 he graduated in the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. He located near his old home and began the practice at Delaware, Ohio, and afterward moved to Waldo, Marion County. After a short time, he moved to South Woodbury, Morrow County, and in a few years located in the country near Delaware, where he now lives. Years of hard labor have told upon him, and after nearly four score years he has retired from work.
From 20th Century History of Delaware County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Edited and compiled by James R. Lytle, Delaware, Ohio, Biographical Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908