Biography of Jonas Emanuel, M. D., pages 524 / 525.   History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Jonas Emanuel, M.D., is the oldest practicing physician of DeKalb County.  
He was born in Hardin County, Va., April 15, 1818, a son of Jacob and Mary 
(Kimball) Emanuel, the former a native of Germany, and the later of Virginia 
of German descent.  When he was about ten years old his parents moved to 
Fayette County, Ohio, where they died.  In 1840 he began the study of 
medicine with Dr. Thomas MacGorough, a prominent physician of old 
Chillicothe, and remained with him three years.  He took his first course of 
lectures at Cincinnati, and graduated from the Ft. Wayne Medical College.  
He began the practice of his profession at Franconia, Putnam Co., Ohio. And 
Dec. 19,1843, came to DeKalb County he has traveled about 150,000 miles, the 
greater part of it on horseback.  He was for several years the only physician 
of this part of the county, and his labors were necessarily very laborious, 
often having to go miles through the dense forest, and being obliged to 
carry a hickory torch to see his way.  He has been successful in his 
practice and not only has acquired a good property, but has endeared 
himself to the hearts of the people, especially of the old settlers, with 
whom he shared their privations and difficulties, never refusing on any 
account to attend one who needed his services.  In February, 1880, Dr. 
Emanuel took his honorary degree at Ft. Wayne College.  He is a member of 
the Allen County Medical Association.  He was married Dec. 25, 1842, to 
Esther Hawley, daughter of Richard Hawley, and to them three children were 
born---Mary E., wife of A.C. Taylor, of Kansas; Charles E., an attorney of 
Auburn, and Appelles D., who was making a good record as a physician in 
Ohio, and in 1876 died of Typhoid fever, aged thirty-two years, leaving a 
widow and three children.  Mrs. Emanuel died Sept. 28,1850 and May 16, 
1852 Dr. Emanuel married Laura E. Coburn, a native of Trumbull County, 
Ohio, daughter of John Coburn.  They had a family of seven children---
Angelina, deceased; Anoret and Henry are deceased; Hamilton is a physician 
of Ohio; Marcus C., an attorney of this county; Ella, wife of Bruce L. 
Bogorte, and attorney of Dakota; Gerry E., a physician, the youngest man 
ever graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.  Dr. Emanuel lost 
his wife Nov. 28,1871, and was again married Jan.21, 1877, to Lucinda 
Silsbee.  He has a fine farm of 200 acres in Concord Township, and one of 
the pleasantest homes in the county.  In politics he was first a Whig, but 
now is a member or the Republican party.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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