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- Mound Township Biographical
Dr. Henry N. Drewry
Dr. Henry N. Drewry, physician, Altamount, son of Henry and Lyd
(Bassett) Drewry, was born in Switzerland County, Ind., November 29, 1847. He
lived on a farm there until the age of fifteen. His father, Henry Drewr
having moved to Mason, this county, in 1862, our subject went to a district
school called the Claiborn Wright School, and afterward to the Mason School
until 1868, attending school during the winter season. In the fall of 1868, he
entered the Industrial University at Champaign, Ill, where he spent four
years, graduating in the class of 1872, and, February 4, 1873, he married Miss
Harriet A. W. Nunn, who died in November, 1873. In the spring of 1874, he went
to Urbana, Champaign Co, Ill, and entered the office of Dr. Samuel Birney, an
old army surgeon, where he studied under his direction, and at the same time
he attended two courses of lectures in the Chicago Medical College, from which
he graduated March 21, 1876, and located for the practice of his profession at
Altamont, as partner of Dr. J.N. Groves, for two years. He has since that time
been in active practice alone up to September, 1882, when he formed a
partnership with Dr. Edwin L. Harletz, under the firm name of Drewry &
Harletz, located on Railroad and Main streets. He has built up a large and
lucrative practice. He was married, October 29, 1882, to Miss Marietta Mann,
of Newton, Ill.
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1847 - Deceased
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