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Note: \tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\tx6160\tx6720\pardirnatural\f0\fs24 \cf0 --List of children as per 1850 census; there were likely more adult children \par --1830 Guilford Co NC census, young couple 20-30, two infant daughters. Mistakenly transcribed as Carter Otwell, but clearly is Curtis Otwell in original document. \par --1840 Wayne Co Indiana, Green twp couple age 30-40, many children \par --Bio of Dr CURTIS OTWELL from "History of Darke Co Ohio" \par --CURTIS OTWELL, physician and surgeon, Greenville, was born in Guilford Co North Carolina March 19, 1806; his father JAMES OTWELL was a native of Sussex Co Delaware, and his mother ELEANOR REYNOLDS of Guilford County; she was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and the descendant of a Quaker who came to this county with William Penn. JAMES OTWELL was a slaveholder, but emancipated his slaves near the beginning of the present century (1800); he died in 1830, aged 52, and his wife soon followed him. the family comprised five children, of whom our subject was the only son; at an early age he evinced a great thirst for learning and made a practice of carrying a book in his pocket to study in intervals of leisure; when a youth of 18, he was appointed Constable of his native county, and while excuting the duties of his office, he read thousands of pages of history while going over the county on horseback; by thus improving his spare moments, he put in years of study and supplemented a common-school course with highter attainments, including some knowledge of the Latin language; he says that ' he was quite proud of his position as Constable from the fact that Gen Jackson was once Constable of the same county.' In 1824 he married EUNICE S. WILSON of his native county; her father MICHAEL WILSON, was born on the ocean, of Irish parents, and reared in North Carolina; after his marriage he (Curtis Otwell) read medicine, and in the spring of 1832 moved to Wayne Co Indiana, where he practiced his profession eight years; in the fall of 1840 he settled in Darke Co Indiana and purchased a flouring mill in township and supervised the same for thirty years, continuing his professional practice; in the year 1844 in connection with a prominent farmer in the neighborhood, he erected a schoolhouse near his mill, and engaged teachers competent to teach higher mathematics and languages. It was known for years as 'Otwell's Seminary', and numbers of the prominent men of the county came here for their higher education...In 1846 Dr Otwell graduated fromt he Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati, and in 1848 located in Greenville, where he has since followed his profession. He is the father of four sons and four daughters; two of the latter deceased. Three of the sons are practicing medicine in Darek County; the eldest son is editor and proprietor of the Greenville Journal. Dr Otwell has had a very extensive and successful practice and has been the preceptor of perhaps one-half of the physicians in Greenville and the surrounding country.}
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