Inf. found when they walked the Cambridge Cemetery.
INf. from "Biographical & Historical Memories of Story Co., Iowa" page 279
Arthur S. Aplin, M. D., is a prominent physician, surgeon and practical pharmacist, residing in the town of Cambridge, Iowa. He was born in Hocking County, Ohio, September 6, 1852, and was the eighth of a family of thirteen children, whose names are here given: Emily (who died at the age of seven years), Mary and Lydia (twins, the former married to Rudolph Smith, a furniture dealer of Tennessee, and the latter the wife of E. Smith, a farmer by occupation), Benjamin (is a clerk in a general store in Story County), Charles ( who married Miss Aldie Reed, and is a practicing physician and surgeon of Dunreath, Marion County, Iowa, a town named after the old abbey in Scotland), William (who is a successful physician, surgeon and pharmacist of Hamilton, Mo., is married to Miss Belle Eggleston), Alice (who resides in Hamilton, Mo., and is the wife of Clark McCoy, a native of Ohio ; he is a dealer in general merchandise, and is quite successful), Dr. Arthur S. (the next in order of birth), Emma (resides in Story County and is the wife of Joseph C. Mather, a farmer and direct descendant of " Cotton Mather," so well known in history), Clarence (who is studying medicine with his brother at Hamilton, Mo.), Clara (is a resident of Cambridge, and has been a successful teacher of the county for several terms). The entire Aplin family are intelligent and exceptionally well educated, and eight members of the family have followed the occupation of teaching. Anna is married to E. L. Meek, principal of the graded schools of Polk City, Polk County, Iowa, a position he has filled for the past four years and is ably assisted by his wife ; and Maurice, the youngest of the family, is a resident of Cambridge. Albert C. Aplin, the father of these children, was born in Connecticut in 1816, and, although he is yet living at the age of seventy-three years, he is hale and hearty, showing but little the ravages of time. He followed the occupation of shoemaker in connection with the boot and shoe business, and in these enterprises accumulated a fair share of this world's goods. He obtained a fair education in the free schools of New England, and his wife, formerly Miss Elizabeth Miller, also obtained a fair education. She owes her nativity to Ohio, where she was born in 1820. They reside in the town of Cambridge, and are ardent supporters of all educational institutions. Dr. Arthur S. Aplin obtained his early scholastic advantages in the common schools, being a regular attendant until he was sufficiently advanced to obtain a teacher's certificate, whereupon he engaged in