Biography of John J. Littlefield, M.D., pages 895.  History of De Kalb 
County, Indiana.  Inter-State Publishing Company, Chicago, 1885.

John J. Littlefield, M.D., was born in Verona, Oneida Co., N.Y., March 13, 
1831, a son of Josiah and Rachel Littlefield.  He lived with his parents in 
Oneida County, N.Y., and Monroe County, Mich., till manhood, and was given a 
good English education, attending the district schools and Holley (N.Y.) 
Academy.  From 1854 till 1856 he superintended his father’s mills at 
Grafton, Mich.  Having had from his youth a desire to be a physician, in 
1856 he entered the office of Dr. John L. Near, at Flat Rock, Mich., and 
began to study the profession.  He remained with Dr. Near till 1861, and 
then entered the medical department of the Michigan State University and 
took two courses, 1860-’61 and 1861-’62.  Ill health prevented him from 
finishing the last course.  After his recovery, in May, 1862, he enlisted in 
Company F, Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, as a private.  Soon after he was 
mustered into the service, while at Fort Lyons, Va., he was detailed 
dispenser of drugs in the regiment hospital, and also acted as Assistant 
Surgeon till his discharge for disability  in August, 1863.  He returned 
to Michigan and began the practice of medicine at Dundee, remaining there 
till August, 1864, when he was appointed recruiting officer and the 
following October was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the One Hundred 
and Eighty-eighth Michigan Infantry, and served till the close of the war; 
was mustered out July, 1865.  He returned to Dundee and resumed his 
practice.  In 1868 he removed to Petersburg, Mich.  In March, 1870 he 
entered the Philadelphia (Pa.) Eclectic Medical College and graduated the 
following June.  He continued his practice in Petersburg till March, 1871, 
when he moved to Auburn, Ind., where he has built up a fine practice.  Dr. 
Littlefield had teen twice married, April 15, 1853, he married Mary A. 
Hawley, of Monroe County, Mich., from whom he was divorced in 1871.  To 
them were born four children---Francis, Daniel, Carrie (wife of J.H. 
Pilkington, of Parson, Kan.) and Addie (wife of Dr. Frank  Pratt, of 
Jackson, Mich.).  In June , 1872, Dr. Littlefield married Eliza E. 
Burdenow.  They have one child---John.  The doctor and his wife are 
members of the Methodist Episcopal church. He is a member of the Mentor 
Lodge, No. 591, I.O.O.F., and is agent and Examining Surgeon for the Odd 
Fellow’s Mutual Aid Society of the State of Indiana.

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Arlene Goodwin
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