History of Lawrence, Orange and Washington Co.,'s Indiana
Goodspeed Bros. and Co., 1884


     DR. ISAAC DENSON, a pioneer physician of this county, was born August 8, 
1804 in Somerset County, Md., and is one of four children born to James and Mary 
(Collins) Denson, who moved to Hamilton County, Ohio in 1805, and from there ten 
years later to Lawrence County, Ind.  Dr Isaac Denson was educated in the country 
school of his day and the State University of Indiana.  Owing to the Cholera of 
1833 which broke up the latter school, he was presented from graduating.  He read 
medicine with Dr. Winthrop Foote, at Bedford, and in the winter of 1835 attended 
lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, then began practicing his 
profession at Bedford with his preceptor.  Once, since then Dr. Denson has had a 
partner in Dr. S.A. Rarnlan, but for years he was alone in the practice of 
medicine.  Since 1876 he has been living a quiet and retired life.  March 24, 
1840, his marriage with Sarah J. Rawlins was solemnized and their eleven children 
are:  Daniel (deceased), Mary, Susan, Sarah, Josephine (deceased), Harriet, 
Elizabeth, Gustavus (deceased), James, Amy and Joseph.  The mother is a member of 
long standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church.  Dr. Denson was a Whig in 
politics until 1856, since when he has acted in unison with the Republicans.  As 
a physician he was extremely successful, as his many patients yet living testify. 
 In later years he has turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, and in this 
as in other matters he has made a success.





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