History of Newberry, (Newberry County) South Carolina United States of America

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Eli Geddins, physician, was born in Newberry district, S.C., in 1799. He attended Abbeville (S.C.) academy, and in 1820 was licensed to practise by the examining board of the Medical society of South Carolina. He attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, 1821-22, and in 1824 settled to practise in Charleston, S.C., where in 1825 he was one of the first to receive a degree from the Medical college of the state of South Carolina. He was demonstrator of anatomy in that institution, 1825-28, meanwhile spending a year in the hospitals of London and Paris; conducted a private school of practical anatomy and surgery at Charleston, 1828-31; was professor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Maryland, Baltimore, 1831-37; and professor of pathological anatomy and medical jurisprudence in the Medical college, Charleston, S.C., 1837-61, also holding the chair of surgery there, 1849-58. During the civil war he was a surgeon in the Confederate army and in 1865 he returned to the South Carolina medical college. In 1871 he resigned his chair and was made professor emeritus of the institutes and practice of medicine, but the same year he was elected to a new professorship of clinical medicine which he held till 1873. During his connection with the University of Maryland he edited in 1833 the Baltimore Medical Journal. This was changed in 1835 to the North American Archives of Medical and Surgical Science which he continued to edit. He died in Charleston, S.C., Oct. 9, 1878.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

John Henry O'Neall, representative, was born near Newberry, S.C., Oct. 30, 1837; son of Henry Miles and Betsy (Edmundson) O'Neall; grandson of Henry and Mary (Miles) O'Neall, and of John Edmundson; great-grandson of William and Mary (Frost) O'Neall, and of Samuel Miles, and great, great-grandson of Hugh and Anne (Cox) O'Neall. Hugh O'Neall came from Antrim, Ireland, to Christiana, Del., in 1730. John Henry O'Neall was left an orphan in 1844; was reared in the family of his grandfather, Henry O'Neall, Newberry, Greene county, Ind.; attended the district schools, and worked on the farm until 1859. He was a ward of John Belton O'Neall , during his minority. He was graduated at the University of Indiana, B.S., in 1862; studied law under Judge William Mack of Terre Haute, Ind, and was graduated at the law department of the University of Michigan in 1864. He was married, July 5, 1866. He represented Daviess county in the Indiana legislature in 1866; was procuring attorney for the 11th judicial district of Indiana in 1873, and served part of a scooted term in 1874, when he resigned. He was a Democratic representative from the second district of Indiana in the 50th and 51st congresses, 1887-91, and in 1891 resumed the practice of law in Washington, Ind.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor