Union County, Ohio Biographies Project - Dr. William B. Duke
DR. WILLIAM B. DUKE
Dr. William B. Duke, a
physician and surgeon, was born in Licking County, Ohio, February 21,
1843; he is a son of David and Sarah (Conrad) Duke, natives of
Virginia, of English descent. Our subject was reared on his
father's farm, where he remained until eighteen years of age, when be
went to Iowa and began clerking in a grocery. In 1863, he went to
Arkansas, where he farmed for one year and also clerked in a
store. At the age of twenty-four years he began reading medicine
with Dr. C. H. Stimpson, of Licking County, and subsequently attended
lectures in Cincinnati, receiving his diploma in 1871. He has
since been entirely devoted to his practice, and in 1875 came to
Richwood, where he is meeting with well merited success. In 1869,
he married Laverna V. Trevitt, a daughter of John Trevitt, and a native
of Ohio. By this marriage one child has been born, viz., Herman
Clyde. Mrs. Duke is a member of the Baptist Church.