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G. V. EWING, M. D., physician and surgeon, Chenoa; has been a practicing physician in this county for the past ten years; he was born in Ashland Co., Ohio, Feb. 12, 1831; his general education was obtained at the Vermilion Collegiate Institute in his native town—Hayesville, Ohio; in 1849, he began the study of medicine, and after reading one year, he entered the Cleveland Medical College, where he graduated and received the degree of M. D. in 1852 ; returning to Hayesville, he practiced medicine there two years, removing thence to Stephenson Co., Ill., in 1854, and was engaged in practicing his profession there for fifteen years, coming to Chenoa in 1869. Dr. Ewing has never dabbled in politics, but has devoted all his energies to the study of medical science, and the duties of his extended and successful practice. He is a member of the Stephenson and Woodford County Medical Societies. He was married March 22, 1852 to Miss Martha Kuhn, a daughter of Rev. Jacob Kuhn, professor of languages in the Vermilion Collegiate Institute. She died in 1866, leaving five children, four of whom are living — Frank C. (now of Wheatland, Cal.), Mary V., Florence N. and Granville R. He was married again April 28, 1870, to Miss E. S. Wilson, of Lexington, Ohio.