PHILIP MCNAB, M.D., a native
of Morgan County, Indiana, only son of Henry & Casandra
(Evans)
McNab, natives of Kentucky, and
of Scotch and Welsh extraction respectively, was born July 12, 1833.
Philip was reared upon a farm
and educated at the Northwestern Christian University at
Indianapolis.
In the summer of 1859, he entered
the office of Dr. Ford at Wabash, Indiana, and began the study
of
medicine, and the following
fall and winter took a full course of lectures at Ann Arbor
(Michigan) Uni-
versity. Returning to Wabash
for the summer, he attended the succeeding fall and winter at Ann
Arbor,
from whence he graduated in chemistry
in the spring of 1861, and in May of this year (1861), he opened
an office at La Gro Indiana, and
practiced medicine for the next two years. In March, 1863, he entered
Long Island Hospital
College, Brooklyn, and in June, 1863, graduated
there from with the degree of
Doctor of Medicine, and after another
short stay at La Gro removed to Indianapolis, where in the begin-
ning of 1864,
he formed a partnership with Dr. R. T. Brown,
Professor of Natural Sciences in the
Northwestern Christian University,
and for four years following pursued his profession of physician
and
surgeon. In the
fall of 1868, he came into Morgan County, and the following year
opened an office in
West Newton, in Marion
County, where he remained about three years.
In November, 1872, he re-
moved to Mooresville,
Indiana, where he immediately took rank among the leading men
of his profes-
sion. On July 29, 1861, he
was married at Bethel, Maine, to Mary, daughter of Aaron and Rubie Mason,
of that State, and by
this union he has had born to him two children--Solon
Mason, now a student at
Butler University, and Howard
Barlow, a resident of Arizona Territory.
Dr. McNab is respected for the knowledge
he has gained in his profession, in the practice of which he has
enjoyed more than ordinary experience.
Some years since, he was associated with Dr. L. D. Waterman,
of Indianapolis, as expert in the
chemical analysis of the stomach of a Mrs. Dr. Beason, who, it was
alleg-
ed, had been murdered by her husband
at Kokomo, Indiana, and was one of the most celebrated cases of
the day. Later on, in
1873, he was employed in the same capacity in the case of
Basil Bailey, another
notorious case, at Frankfort, Indiana,
and was the author of the exhaustive synopsis of the analysis
pub-
lished in the Mooresville "Enterprise",
June 19, 1873. Upon the analysis in the case first named, he
was
highly complimented by the celebrated
Professor Blainey, of Chicago, who fully endorsed it in every part-
icular. The subject
of this sketch is a man of versatile ability. His lectures
on "Medical Sciences" before
the society of physicians and surgeons,
upon Physiology before the high school, and upon
temperance
before the people, are noted for
their purity of diction and originality of thought and
eloquence of deliv-
ery. At this writing
(November 1883), Dr. McNab is Secretary of the Mooresville
Lodge of Free and
Accepted Masons; member of
both County and State Medical Societies, an active Republican
in poli-
tics, an ardent "Prohibitionist,"
a consistent member of the Christian Church, and in the enjoyment of a
lucrative practice in the community
where he is best known, and therefore most highly esteemed.
Note:
There may be no relation here, the
name may be taken from a friend, neighbor, or other .. but just in case
Counties of Morgan, Monroe &
Brown Indiana Historical and Biographical
Charles Blanchard, Editor Chicago
F. A. Battey & Co. Publishers, 1884
Brown Township and Mooresville, Morgan
Co Indiana
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