BIOGRAPHY

Dr. H. G. Ristine

Crawfordsville Journal, Montgomery County, Indiana,

Crawfordsville Journal - January 31, 1917

RISTINE DR. H. G. RISTINE DIES AT HOME IN FORT DODGE, IOWA Native of this City and Graduate of Wabash Passed Away Tuesday Evening. THREE BROTHERS IN THIS CITY INFORMED.

Leave for Fort Dodge to Attend Funeral

Dr. Ristine Had Long and Useful Medical Career.

Dr. Harley Greenwood Ristine, a native of Crawfordsville and a brother of T. H. Ristine, H.H. Ristine and Dr. W. H. Ristine, of this city, died at his home in Fort Dodge, Iowa, Tuesday evening at 7:25 o'clock. His brothers received a message Tuesday night, announcing the death, and made plans at once to go to Fort Dodge.

Dr. Ristine was born May 21, 1838, in Crawfordsville. He was the eldest son of Ben T. Ristine and Florinda Ristine. He graduated from Wabash College with his class in June, 1861, and soon afterwards enlisted in the army as a member of Company K, 86th Indiana Infantry Vol. After the war Dr. Ristine graduated from the Rush Medical College, and took a post graduate course in Bellevue, New York. In the beginning of his medical career he was associated with his uncle, the late Dr. Henry Ristine, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and his cousin, Dr. John M. Ristine, of the same place. Later he made choice of Fort Dodge, Iowa, as his home and has resided there for over forty years. He married Miss Kittie Welles of that city, and there were born of this marriage two children. One died in infancy, and the other is Albert Welles Ristine, well known in this city. The mother died while the son was a small boy. Some years later Dr. Ristine married Miss Eliza P. Lemon, of Connecticut, and to this marriage were born a son and a daughter, Theodore H. Ristine, who graduated from Wabash College with the class of 1911, and has been with the National City Bank, of New York, until called home a few months since by the serious illness of his father, and his sister Kittie, who is a teacher at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Dr. Ristine had a long and successful medical career. He has been the district surgeon of the Illinois Central Railway, and of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway for more than thirty years, a district which included a large territory adjacent to Fort Dodge, Iowa. It is seldom that one has been continued in such a position to such an age, but so faithful had he been that when the heat of the last summer made his withdrawal a necessity, these two railways gave him leave of absence and extended it from time to time, and when he decided in November last to resign, and did so, each of these companies expressed with much feeling its appreciation of his long and faithful service. The Central made him a special appointment as a medical counsel, which he has not been permitted in any part to fulfill. The physicians say that in his case there was no disease, it was only the body worn out in service. He had simply died in the harness.

Transcribed by: Tracy Jones 3-10-2002

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