HAMILTON STILLSON, A.M., M.D., was born in Bedford, Ind., February 14, 1857,
and is one of four children now living born to Dr. Joseph and Eliza
(Reddick) Stillson, who were among the early settlers of the county.
Hamilton Stillson, after attending the common schools of Bedford until
fourteen years of age, went to the May Academy at Salem, Ind., for two
years, after which for one year he was a teacher in the common schools of
Lawrence County.  At the age of eighteen he commenced a course of study in
Hanover College, from which he graduated in 1879, receiving the degree of
A.B., and three years later the degree of A. M. from the same institution.
Immediately after his graduation he began teaching in the Southern Indiana
Normal College at Mitchell, delivering a course of lectures on the Nervous
System.  The winter of 1881-82 he entered the medical department of the
University of Louisville, which graduated him with the degree of Doctor of
Medicine in March of the latter year.  He is now occupying the chair of
German and Natural Science in the Normal School at Mitchell, and is one of
the ablest instructors.  Dr. Stillson took a special course on the diseases
of the eye and ear, the winter of 1882-83 at the New York Eye and Ear
Institute, after which he returned to Bedford making a specialty of those
diseases in connection with nose and throat troubles.  He is the author of
"Normal Outline of the Essential Elements of Human Physiology," which is
used as text-book in the Normal at Mitchell.  He is also now engaged on a
work on "School Room Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat," and is the
present Secretary of the Southern Indiana Microscopical Society.


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