DR. C. W. BALCH
DR. C. W. BALCH, Edgerton, was born in Logan County, Ky., April 25, 1811. His grandfather was the Rev. James Balch, who graduated at Princeton College. His father was Maj. Amos P. Balch, who served in the war of 1812. His father immigrated with him in 1814 to Indiana, Parke County. There he went to a district school till he was nineteen, thence to Hanover, and then studied medicine under Dr. Brooks, a graduate of New York, and practiced with him several years in Greenville, Ill. Was called to Memphis, Tenn., early after the Rebellion broke out to attend a hospital of sick soldiers in 1863, and moved to Kansas in the spring of 1864, with an invalid son sent home from the army sick. He, his son died August 28, 1864. He also had a son killed at the siege of Vicksburg, May 22, 1864. In the fall of 1864 he joined the State Militia, and served three months as Company Surgeon, and at the time of the great battle of Westport, or the Price raid, he had sixty-five men, women and children posted at his house for three days. He attended many sick and wounded in Olathe; had a large practice in Olathe for several years. Has a very large family of nine children, five boys and four girls; all married but two boys and one girl, and all settled in Kansas. He is seventy-two in April next, and weighs 237 pounds.
From William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
