Biography of Edwin L. Fosdick, page 984.  History of De Kalb County, 
Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

Edwin L. Fosdick, M.D. of the firm Fosdick & Wilkinson, druggists, Butler, 
was born in Auburn, Ind., May 1, 1856, a son of Edward and Helen G. (Totten) 
Fosdick, He received his elementary education in the public schools, and 
later attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware.  He than attended 
the medical department of the Michigan University, Ann Arbor, graduating in 
1879.  He practiced a year at Kewaunee, Ind., and then from December, 1879, 
till March, 1882, carried on a drug store. He then came to Butler, and the 
following July, in partnership with his father, opened a store in this place.  
In February, 1884, his father sold his interest to M.L Wilkinson, and the 
firm name was changed to Fosdick & Wilkinson.  They carry a complete stock 
of drugs, medicines, paints, oils, notions, etc.  Their stock is valued at 
$5,000, and they have an annual business of $11,000.  Mr. Fosdick was 
married Jan. 12, 1880, to Josie McCarter, a native of Kewaunee, born May 25, 
1861, daughter of Alexander McCarter.  He is a member of the De Kalb County 
Medical Society.

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Arlene Goodwin
Auburn, Indiana
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