Transcript:Indiana, United States. Biographical and Genealogical History of Wayne, Fayette, Union and Franklin Counties/B/Berry, William H.

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William H. Berry, M.D. (p 719)

The history of Franklin County would be incomplete without mention of this worthy representative of one of its most honored pioneer families. His entire life has been spent in Brookville, where he was born on the 12th of October, 1840. He pursued his literary education in the public schools of the city and in Brookville College, but put aside his textbooks in 1862, in order to respond to his country's call for aid, enlisting on the 5th of August of that year as a member of Company B, Fourth Indiana Cavalry, with which he served until May 1, 1863, when he was discharged on account of illness.

Determining to make the practice of medicine his life work, he began preparation for the profession under the direction of his honored father, Dr. George Berry, and subsequently continued his studies in the Ohio Medical College, in Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1867. He then opened an office in Brookville, and is now the second oldest practitioner in the city. He has a large general practice, receiving the patronage of many of the best families of the city and vicinity. Devoted to the noble and humane work which his profession implies, he has proved faithful and has not only earned the due rewards of his efforts in a temporal way, but has proved himself worthy to exercise the important functions of his calling, through his ability, his abiding sympathy and his earnest zeal in behalf of his fellow men.

On the 26th of June, 1873, Dr. Berry was united in marriage to Miss Catharine Linck, of Brookville, Indiana, and unto them have been born four children: Charles, of Muncie, Indiana; and Blanche, Ethel and May, at home. In his political connections the Doctor is a stanch Democrat. He has been a member of the school board of Brookville for twenty-one consecutive years, and no man in the city has done more to promote its educational interests. He labors most earnestly for the upbuilding of the schools and the uplifting of the standard of scholarship, and Brookville today is the possessor of schools of which all of her citizens are justly proud. Socially the Doctor is connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and for some years has been a member of the Knights of Honor. In manner he is free from all ostentation and display, but his intrinsic worth is recognized and his friendship is most prized by those who know him best, showing that his character will bear the scrutiny of close acquaintance. He is a generous-spirited, broad-minded man and is held in the highest regard in the county of his nativity.