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Dr Ulysses Grant Poland

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Dr Ulysses Grant Poland

Birth
Delaware County, Indiana, USA
Death
11 Nov 1931 (aged 66)
Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA
Burial
Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot - 771
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According to the 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Ulysses and Grace Poland are listed as being married for 13 years, with no children born. The children found in the 1920 census are the children of Ulysses' sister Martha Jane Poland Jacobs and her husband Elwood A Jacobs, she having died after the birth of her twins Carrie and Mildred.
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY Doctor Poland was born in the historic old settlement of Sharon, along the Mississinewa, in Dela-ware township, June 2, 1865, and is a son of Nicholas and MarthaJane (Dickover) Poland, the latter of whom also was born in this county, December 28, 1839, daughter of Jacob Dickover, a soldier of the War of 1812 and one of the best known of the pioneers of the eastern part of Delaware county. Jacob Dickover was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Henry Dickover, who had been sent to America as a member of one of the detachments of Hessian soldiers employed by the British against the American colonists during the time of the Revolutionary war. Not long after his arrival here he became impressed with the justice of the colonists' cause and left the mercenary army to which he was attached and threw in his lot with that of the Continental army, with which, under General Washington, he fought until the end of the war. He had been trained as a stonemason and in his trade capacity was detailed to help erect the fort at Trenton. After the war he settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he married and reared a considerable family. One of his sons, Jacob Dickover, served as a soldier of the War of 1812, afterward became a resident of Ohio and then,about 1832, four or five years after the erection of Delaware county,came over here into Indiana and after a brief residence in Wayne county came up here into Delaware county and settled in the creek bottom lands in Liberty township, about a mile north of where the town of Selma later was established, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on March 23, 1876, he then being past ninety years of age. His wife (Hannah Baney) died on April14, 1877, she then being past sixty-seven years of age. They had eight children, one son and seven daughters. The son, Samuel Dickover, served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, a member of Company K of the 19th Indiana infantry. The pioneer Jacob Dickover was a brick mason and some of the old buildings in the eastern part of the county still stand as monuments to the excellence of his handicraftsmanship. It is said of him that not long after his arrival here he was employed to erect a building for distillery purposes, and that after the building was up and in active use his conscience troubled him on the score of the product of the still house,so that thereafter he declined all employment on still houses. Nicholas Poland was born in Harrison county, Ohio, October 14, 1833, a son of William Poland, of French descent, and was but a lad when his parents moved from there to Washington county, Pennsylvania,where he was reared, near the city of Wheeling, W. Va. He was trained in youth as a carpenter and when he attained his majority came over here into Indiana, about 1854, and located in the Sharon settlement in this county, where he became employed at his trade and after his marriage there to Martha Jane Dickover established his home. His wife died on February 24, 1875, and he presently married again and moved onto a farm in Hamilton township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on January 22, 1902. He was a Democrat, a Freemason and a member of the Christian church. By his union with Martha Jane Dickover, Nicholas Poland was the father of nine children, seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: John Samuel, a farmer, now deceased; William Willard, a former teacher in the schools of Delaware county, now living in Oregon, where he is engaged in ranching; Ulysses Grant, the immediate subject of this biographical review; Mary H., who married Smith Karn, of this county, and whose last days were spent at Hoopston, Ill.; Albert M., formerly engaged in the practice of law at Albany, this county, who in 1910 moved to Houston, Tex., where he recently died; Carrie A., wife of Marion M. Brackin, now living at Robinson, Ill., and Martha J., who married Elwood A. Jacobs and died more than ten years ago. Following the death of the mother of these children Nicholas Poland married Mrs. Rachel (McCormick) Mansfield, a sister of Matthew McCormick, a county commissioner back in the '80s and '90s, which union was without issue. Ulysses Grant Poland was about ten years of age when his mother died. He grew to manhood on the home farm in Hamilton township, supplemented his local schooling by a two-years course in the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso and then began teaching school,a vocation he followed during the winters for seven years. He also,in 1888, took a term of schooling in the Business College at Delaware,Ohio. Meanwhile he had been giving his serious thought to the study of medicine and during his school vacations these studies were carried on, first under the preceptorship of Dr. A. P. Murray at Albany and then under the preceptorship of Dr. G. R. Green at Muncie, and in the office of the latter he was prepared for college. In 1892 he entered Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis and in March, 1895,was graduated from this institution. Upon receiving his diploma,Doctor Poland returned to Muncie, established himself in practice and has ever since been thus engaged, with present offices and residence at 303 East Washington street. Doctor Poland is a Republican. In 1898, three years after entering upon the practice of his profession at Muncie, he was elected coroner of Delaware county and by successive re-elections served for eight years in that office. He is a member of the staff of the Muncie Home Hospital and is the present health officer for the city of Muncie. For many years he has been active in the councils of the medical fraternity and was one of the organizers of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of which he for some time was president and is the present secretary. He also has served as president and as secretary of the Delaware County Medical Society, for two years was president of the Eighth District Medical Society and is also affiliated with the joint medical society of the counties of Delaware and Blackford, with the Indiana State MedicalSociety of which he was vice president in 1913, and with the American Medical Association. He is a past chancellor commander of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. During the time of this country's participation in the World war the Doctor rendered service as a member of the Medical Corps of the National Council of Defense. In1896 Dr. U. G. Poland was united in marriage to Grace E. McClellan,also a member of one of the old families of this county, daughter of Frederick H. and Mary F. (Jewett) McClellan, the latter of whom,was the daughter of Jeremiah Jewett, one of the foremost of the early residents of old Muncietown and concerning whom further reference is made elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Poland formerly was a teacher in the Muncie schools and her sister, Harriet J. McClellan, has for years been one of the teachers in the city schools.Her brother, Frederick F. McClellan, is Muncie's city attorney. Their father, who had come to this county when five years of age with his parents from Greene county, Ohio, in 1849, died in 1875. Doctor and Mrs. Poland are members of the First Presbyterian church, of which congregation the Doctor for years has been an elder. They have three adopted children, Mary L., William Maxwell and Rachel Wilhelmina, children of the Doctor's deceased sister, Mrs. Martha J. Jacobs.

Contributor: Scott Hopping (49660653)
According to the 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Ulysses and Grace Poland are listed as being married for 13 years, with no children born. The children found in the 1920 census are the children of Ulysses' sister Martha Jane Poland Jacobs and her husband Elwood A Jacobs, she having died after the birth of her twins Carrie and Mildred.
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY Doctor Poland was born in the historic old settlement of Sharon, along the Mississinewa, in Dela-ware township, June 2, 1865, and is a son of Nicholas and MarthaJane (Dickover) Poland, the latter of whom also was born in this county, December 28, 1839, daughter of Jacob Dickover, a soldier of the War of 1812 and one of the best known of the pioneers of the eastern part of Delaware county. Jacob Dickover was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and was a son of Henry Dickover, who had been sent to America as a member of one of the detachments of Hessian soldiers employed by the British against the American colonists during the time of the Revolutionary war. Not long after his arrival here he became impressed with the justice of the colonists' cause and left the mercenary army to which he was attached and threw in his lot with that of the Continental army, with which, under General Washington, he fought until the end of the war. He had been trained as a stonemason and in his trade capacity was detailed to help erect the fort at Trenton. After the war he settled in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he married and reared a considerable family. One of his sons, Jacob Dickover, served as a soldier of the War of 1812, afterward became a resident of Ohio and then,about 1832, four or five years after the erection of Delaware county,came over here into Indiana and after a brief residence in Wayne county came up here into Delaware county and settled in the creek bottom lands in Liberty township, about a mile north of where the town of Selma later was established, and there spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on March 23, 1876, he then being past ninety years of age. His wife (Hannah Baney) died on April14, 1877, she then being past sixty-seven years of age. They had eight children, one son and seven daughters. The son, Samuel Dickover, served as a soldier of the Union during the Civil war, a member of Company K of the 19th Indiana infantry. The pioneer Jacob Dickover was a brick mason and some of the old buildings in the eastern part of the county still stand as monuments to the excellence of his handicraftsmanship. It is said of him that not long after his arrival here he was employed to erect a building for distillery purposes, and that after the building was up and in active use his conscience troubled him on the score of the product of the still house,so that thereafter he declined all employment on still houses. Nicholas Poland was born in Harrison county, Ohio, October 14, 1833, a son of William Poland, of French descent, and was but a lad when his parents moved from there to Washington county, Pennsylvania,where he was reared, near the city of Wheeling, W. Va. He was trained in youth as a carpenter and when he attained his majority came over here into Indiana, about 1854, and located in the Sharon settlement in this county, where he became employed at his trade and after his marriage there to Martha Jane Dickover established his home. His wife died on February 24, 1875, and he presently married again and moved onto a farm in Hamilton township, where he spent the remainder of his life, his death occurring on January 22, 1902. He was a Democrat, a Freemason and a member of the Christian church. By his union with Martha Jane Dickover, Nicholas Poland was the father of nine children, seven of whom grew to maturity, namely: John Samuel, a farmer, now deceased; William Willard, a former teacher in the schools of Delaware county, now living in Oregon, where he is engaged in ranching; Ulysses Grant, the immediate subject of this biographical review; Mary H., who married Smith Karn, of this county, and whose last days were spent at Hoopston, Ill.; Albert M., formerly engaged in the practice of law at Albany, this county, who in 1910 moved to Houston, Tex., where he recently died; Carrie A., wife of Marion M. Brackin, now living at Robinson, Ill., and Martha J., who married Elwood A. Jacobs and died more than ten years ago. Following the death of the mother of these children Nicholas Poland married Mrs. Rachel (McCormick) Mansfield, a sister of Matthew McCormick, a county commissioner back in the '80s and '90s, which union was without issue. Ulysses Grant Poland was about ten years of age when his mother died. He grew to manhood on the home farm in Hamilton township, supplemented his local schooling by a two-years course in the Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso and then began teaching school,a vocation he followed during the winters for seven years. He also,in 1888, took a term of schooling in the Business College at Delaware,Ohio. Meanwhile he had been giving his serious thought to the study of medicine and during his school vacations these studies were carried on, first under the preceptorship of Dr. A. P. Murray at Albany and then under the preceptorship of Dr. G. R. Green at Muncie, and in the office of the latter he was prepared for college. In 1892 he entered Indiana Medical College at Indianapolis and in March, 1895,was graduated from this institution. Upon receiving his diploma,Doctor Poland returned to Muncie, established himself in practice and has ever since been thus engaged, with present offices and residence at 303 East Washington street. Doctor Poland is a Republican. In 1898, three years after entering upon the practice of his profession at Muncie, he was elected coroner of Delaware county and by successive re-elections served for eight years in that office. He is a member of the staff of the Muncie Home Hospital and is the present health officer for the city of Muncie. For many years he has been active in the councils of the medical fraternity and was one of the organizers of the Muncie Academy of Medicine, of which he for some time was president and is the present secretary. He also has served as president and as secretary of the Delaware County Medical Society, for two years was president of the Eighth District Medical Society and is also affiliated with the joint medical society of the counties of Delaware and Blackford, with the Indiana State MedicalSociety of which he was vice president in 1913, and with the American Medical Association. He is a past chancellor commander of the local lodge of the Knights of Pythias. During the time of this country's participation in the World war the Doctor rendered service as a member of the Medical Corps of the National Council of Defense. In1896 Dr. U. G. Poland was united in marriage to Grace E. McClellan,also a member of one of the old families of this county, daughter of Frederick H. and Mary F. (Jewett) McClellan, the latter of whom,was the daughter of Jeremiah Jewett, one of the foremost of the early residents of old Muncietown and concerning whom further reference is made elsewhere in this work. Mrs. Poland formerly was a teacher in the Muncie schools and her sister, Harriet J. McClellan, has for years been one of the teachers in the city schools.Her brother, Frederick F. McClellan, is Muncie's city attorney. Their father, who had come to this county when five years of age with his parents from Greene county, Ohio, in 1849, died in 1875. Doctor and Mrs. Poland are members of the First Presbyterian church, of which congregation the Doctor for years has been an elder. They have three adopted children, Mary L., William Maxwell and Rachel Wilhelmina, children of the Doctor's deceased sister, Mrs. Martha J. Jacobs.

Contributor: Scott Hopping (49660653)


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