Wayne County Biographies



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J. W. Jay

J. W. Jay, dentist, 718 Main street, Richmond, Ind., was born in Miami County, Ohio, Jan. 22, 1825. He is the eldest son of Thomas and Eliza (Wareham) Jay, his father, of Welsh descent, born in Warren County, Ohio, and his mother, of German descent, born in Bedford County, Pa. His mother died in Grant County, Ind., aged sixty-three years. His father died in Grant County, Ind., Jan. 27, 1883. The subject of this sketch was the son of a man in limited circumstances, and in early life received but a common-school education. By his own efforts he attended Franklin College, Johnson County, Ind., and later spent nearly two years at Earlham College, Ind. In 1846 he commenced teaching, an occupation which he followed for nearly eight years. In the meantime he took up the study of medicine, with Dr. Jonathan Ellis, of Marion, Grant Co., Ind., and in the spring of 1855 graduated from the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He only practiced about three years and then studied dentistry at Indianapolis with Drs. Moffitt & Stoneman, commencing his practice in 1859 at Knightstown, Ind., and since 1870 has resided in the city of Richmond.

Source:
History of Wayne County, Indiana. Chicago: Inter-State Publishing Co. 1884. Volume 2