ISRAEL A. COONS, M. D
ISRAEL A. COONS, M. D. Spring Hill, was born July 10, 1827, in Fairfield County, Ohio. He studied medicine at the Ohio Medical College and the Starling Medical College, graduating at the latter in 1852. He practiced medicine at Dayton, Ohio, and vicinity, until the spring of 1861, when he entered the army as surgeon of the Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, in the three months' service. On his return, he was commissioned surgeon of the Thirty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served, in all, about two and one-half years - a large part of the time as Brigade Surgeon, and for a short time Medical Director of a division. He had charge of a hospital on the battlefield of Stone River. The doctor was formerly a member of the State Medical Society of Ohio, and one of its Vice Presidents in 1854. In 1869, he removed from Middletown, Ohio - where he had been practicing after returning from the army - Spring Hill, Kansas, where he has been engaged in active practice. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Kansas State Medical Society and the Miami County Medical Society, of which he has been President for two years.
From William G. Cutler, History of the State of Kansas, first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.
