Dr. William McIntyre
Dr. William McIntyre was born in 1824 in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. He was one of nineteen children, and was of Scotch descent. His father came to America before the Revolution. His uncle was a soldier in the Revolution and was killed at the battle of Brandywine. The subject of this sketch worked at the saddlery and harness business with his father. He attended school at Bellville when chance afforded the opportunity. From early life his great desire was to become a doctor. At the age of sixteen, he began reading medicine with the old family physician, Dr. Deming, in McConnellsville, Pennsylvania. In 1842 he came to Columbus, Ohio, and was with Dr. Howe for several years. In 1848-49 he attended lectures at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. He remained one year with his preceptor in Franklin County, coming to Millville, now Warrensburg, Ohio, in 1850. He was married to Eliza Perry the same year. His wife died in 1903. The doctor died in Warrensburg in 1906, at the age of eighty-two. He had six children, twenty-four grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. This early pioneer traveled the lonely forests, visiting the sick and the afflicted, crossing streams without bridges, and riding horse-back over the muddy roads, often with nothing but the blazed trees to guide him, woods to the right of him, woods to the left of him, woods all about him, braving dangers seen arid unseen, enduring hardships unknown to the profession today, often taking for his fee a pig or a calf or a chicken, or other farm commodities. Dr. Mclntyre's name was a household word throughout a greater portion of the county. He was for many years an ardent Democrat; but became a staunch Prohibitionist, and remained an advocate of temperance until the time of his death. His brusque and outspoken condemnation of this evil lost him a few friends: yet all gave him credit for his honesty of purpose. He loved his home, and his life was devoted to his Christian wife. His small, but well-selected library, received the attention of his spare moments. He was a faithful member and attendant of the State and County Medical Societies. Many remember him by his quaint sayings, and particularly the following: "Doubtful things are very uncertain." "There is just as much difference in people as there is in anybody." Dr. Mclntyre owned about half of Warrensburg, the town he lived in.
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