Age: 86y.
Biography of Dr. Isaac Mayfield, son of Thomas Mayfield and Ellen Tunsal Mayfield of Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.
From:
Portrait and Biographical Album Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890 pp 566-568
Isaac Mayfield, M.D., is a dealer in drugs at Randolph, Riley County (Kansas). It is but little more than a decade since this gentleman arrived in Randolph, where he now enjoys an honorable reputation as a man of fine character,
mental and professional ability, and genial nature. Since coming to this county he has built up a fine practice as a physician and surgeon but now devotes the most of his time to the drug business, feeling that after long years of usefulness he may well be allowed a more quiet life that was
his for many years. Though now seventy-six years hold he is more hale and hearty than many men much younger than he and enjoys life with the zest of earlier manhood.
HIS FATHER:
THOMAS MAYFIELD: The father of our subject was Thomas Mayfield, who was born in London, and was graduated from London Medical College. He began practice in that city when thirty-two years old, but shortly afterward came to America, locating in Maryland, first in Harper's Ferry, and soon afterward in Baltimore. he had become so thoroughly identified with the interests of the United States that during the War of 1812 he took part in behalf of the country of his adoption. During this contest he was
detailed on city duty. In 1834 he removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, and buying land near Madison, made himself a rural home, still continuing the practice of his profession. His death occurred there in 1869, he being eighty-four years old. His religious faith was that of the Universalist Church.
HIS MOTHER:
ELLEN TUNSAL MAYFIELD: The wife of Dr. Thomas Mayfield was Ellen Tunsal, a finely-educated lady of Scotch birth. She was living in London when she made the acquaintance of the gentleman who became her husband, the ceremony taking place in that city. Her death occurred in Baltimore, when our
subject was still a child. Of the eleven children born to her and her husband, six attained to years of maturity though John, Benjamin, Ellen and Ann have since passed from earth (NOTE: THIS WAS PUBLISHED 1890 SO THEY ALL PASSED BEFORE THAT DATE). The only surviving member of the family beside our subject is Hannah now Mrs. Watson (NOTE: THIS IS DANIEL BOONE WATSON FROM INDIANA), whose home is near Stockdale, this county.
HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER:
WILLIAM MAYFIELD: Dr. Mayfield is of English descent, his grandfather, William Mayfield, having been a watchmaker in London, carrying on a factory in that city. He was a man of considerable means, and prominent among the artisans of the world's metropolis.
HIS BIRTH PLACE:
Dr. Isaac Mayfield was born in Baltimore Md., Sept. 12, 1813, while the city was illuminated by the glare, and its accustomed quiet rent by the sounds, of the bombardment of Ft. Henry, where still the 'broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we loved
were so gallantly streaming'. He grew to manhood in the city of his birth, receiving the advantages of the subscription schools. When fifteen years old, he began working for his uncle lock and gunsmithing becoming an
adept with tools. Four years later he entered the laboratory of the Medical College, assisting the professor to mount skeletons, and under him began the study of medicine. He attended the lectures almost regularly for the following three years, but was not graduated, and began the practice of medicine with his father.
LIFE IN INDIANA:
After the removal of the family to Indiana our subject began speculating in machinery he then took up the practice of medicine in Madison continuing it until he entered the Union Army on New Year's Day 1863.
MILITARY EXPERIENCE:
Twenty young men were in Dr. Mayfield's office when the recruiting office asked them to enlist. They said they would do so if the Doctor would go along to take
care of them. He immediately put down his name and eighteen of the twenty followed his example at the time, the other two enlisting soon after.
COMPANY K 120TH INDIANA INFANTRY: Dr. Mayfield was mustered into the service at Columbus (Indiana) as a private in Company K 120th Indiana Infantry. He was twice offered the position of Army Surgeon but would not accept it having frequent opportunities however to act in a medical capacity.
He joined Sherman's forces at Charleston and took part in the battles of his division on the march through Georgia and then back to Nashville among the engagements in which the regiment participated being Springhill, Frankhill
and Nashville. The command then went to the Tennessee where they took shipto Washington and then down the Potomac River to Moorehead City. The railroad having been rebuilt towards Goldsboro. They there met the gallantcommander whom they admired and respected as much as though they did not, in the
freedom of camp-life and campaigning, speak of him as 'Old Billy.'
After the battle of Kingston while on dress parade a message from Grant was read telling of the surrender of Gen. Lee. The division marched toward Raleigh meeting a flag of truce by the way and remained three or four
months at that city. There were sick to care for and Dr. Mayfield the recontinued the work as surgeon, which he had been doing in hospital and field for a number of months. In September 1865 he went to Indianapolis and was mustered
out and honorably discharged. He had served a period of two years and six months as faithfully and gallantly as any of the young men of the command though fifty years old when he enlisted.
CONTINUED MEDICAL COURSES:
For some years after the war his health was quite poor but he finally began the practice of his profession once more.
Being one of those men who believe there is always something to be learned in the practical sciences and desiring to keep abreast of the most advanced thought of the age Dr. Mayfield took a course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1869-70 being graduated with the honors of his class. He again engaged in medical practice in Deputy, Indiana where he built the first dwelling of that place.
MOVED TO KANSAS:
RANDOLPH, RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS: In the fall of 1878 he located in this city and opened the drug store which he still controls. (MY NOTE: A BIO IN THIS SAME BOOK ON DR. FRANCIS MARION PEPPER STATES THAT THEY OPENED A DRUG STORE TOGETHER IN 1880 CALLED "MAYFIELD AND PEPPER? AT RANDOLPH
BUT THAT THE PARTNERSHIP ONLY LASTED 4 YEARS.) He also continued the practice of his profession which he has recently nearly abandoned. He owns 100 acres of improved land adjoining the city, and is in quite good financial
circumstances.
Dr. Mayfield belongs to Sergt. McCoy Post No. 210 G.A.R. of Randolph and now holds the office of Commander, having occupied that position for the past four years. He is a member of the State Medical Association and is Examining Physician for the Masonic fraternity, I.O.O.F., and several
private insurance companies. He has served on the City Council of Randolph. In his earlier years he was an Old Line Whig and voted for J.Q. Adams when he ran against Gen. Jackson and was defeated for a second term. He also
voted for William Henry Harrison. He is now a staunch Republican.
MARRIAGES:
FIRST MARRIAGE:
MISS MARY A. WHITE: The first marriage of Dr. Mayfield was celebrated in Baltimore in 1833 the bride being Miss Mary A. White a native of Yorkshire, England, who died in Indiana nine months after her marriage.
SECOND MARRIAGE:
MISS EVA STEWART: The second matrimonial alliance of Dr. Mayfield took place in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1847. The lady with whom he was united was Miss Eva Stewart, a native of the county in which their wedding took place.
CHILDREN FROM SECOND MARRIAGE:
The union was blessed by the birth of four children: Benjamin,
Virginia,
Florella and
Catherine.
The two last mentioned are deceased. Benjamin is with his father; Virginia is married to George Warren (MY NOTE: SHOULD BE WARNER) and lives on Mill Creek, in this county.
(INFORMATION ON CHILDREN:
Benjamin Mayfield
Virginia Mayfield
Florella Mayfield married Silas W. Butler, son of Sidney Butler of Jennings County, Indiana. Their daughter Alpharetta Butler married Silas P. Mayfield and is buried here.
Catherine (Katy) Mayfield)
THIRD MARRIAGE:
MISS ELIZABETH STEWART: Dr. Mayfield was married the third time in Jefferson County Indiana to Miss Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in that county March 22, 1833. She was reared on a farm and in her early years attended a subscription
school in a log schoolhouse with slab benches. She educated herself the family being in but moderate circumstances and when twenty years old she began teaching following that profession for twelve years and until her marriage.
CHILD FRM THIRD MARRIAGE:
She has one daughter, Ellen G., who resides at home.
STEWART FAMILY:
JOSEPH STEWART: The grandfather of Mrs. Mayfield was Joseph Stewart, theyounger of the two sons of a landed proprieter in Ireland. On the death of the father the estate fell to the elder son and the younger declining to fill a position so nearly that of a servant, as he felt his own would
be, ran away to America. He was only a boy when he crossed the Atlantic, and the remainder of his life was spent as a citizen of the United States. He first lived in Kentucky and after his marriage to a Miss Elizabeth Wilson of that State he removed to Ohio, and was engaged in farming there until his death. Joseph Stewart's son, David Stewart, was born in the Buckeye State, and in his early years removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and also a stone mason. In politics he was a a Republican, and in religion a Universalist. His wife was Miss Catherine Troutman who was born in Kentucky, her parents, Adam and Eve (Miller) Troutman, being natives of Virginia and Maryland respectively. They removed to Kentucky in an early day and later to Jefferson County, Indiana, where Mr. Troutman became a well-to-do farmer and an extensive miller on Misscattatack (SIC), of Muddy Creek. Mrs Stewart died in the Hoosier State having borne her husband ten children. They are Margaret, living in Linn County, Kansas; Andrew and Eve, deceased; Patrick H. of Columbus, Ohio; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Mayfield; Matilda of Jefferson County, Indiana; William, of Scott County, Indiana; and Thomas, now deceased. WILLIAM STEWART: William was a member of the 82nd Indiana Infantry, and served ten months, till crippled and unfit for service. THOMAS STEWART: Thomas enlisted in 1861, in the 14th Kentucky Infantry and served until his death. The sad event took place at the battle of Atlanta, he being shot by a sharpshooter?s bullet while sitting by the side of the road reading a letter from home.
Biography of Dr. Isaac Mayfield, son of Thomas Mayfield and Ellen Tunsal Mayfield of Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.
From:
Portrait and Biographical Album Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890 pp 566-568
Isaac Mayfield, M.D., is a dealer in drugs at Randolph, Riley County (Kansas). It is but little more than a decade since this gentleman arrived in Randolph, where he now enjoys an honorable reputation as a man of fine character,
mental and professional ability, and genial nature. Since coming to this county he has built up a fine practice as a physician and surgeon but now devotes the most of his time to the drug business, feeling that after long years of usefulness he may well be allowed a more quiet life that was
his for many years. Though now seventy-six years hold he is more hale and hearty than many men much younger than he and enjoys life with the zest of earlier manhood.
HIS FATHER:
THOMAS MAYFIELD: The father of our subject was Thomas Mayfield, who was born in London, and was graduated from London Medical College. He began practice in that city when thirty-two years old, but shortly afterward came to America, locating in Maryland, first in Harper's Ferry, and soon afterward in Baltimore. he had become so thoroughly identified with the interests of the United States that during the War of 1812 he took part in behalf of the country of his adoption. During this contest he was
detailed on city duty. In 1834 he removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, and buying land near Madison, made himself a rural home, still continuing the practice of his profession. His death occurred there in 1869, he being eighty-four years old. His religious faith was that of the Universalist Church.
HIS MOTHER:
ELLEN TUNSAL MAYFIELD: The wife of Dr. Thomas Mayfield was Ellen Tunsal, a finely-educated lady of Scotch birth. She was living in London when she made the acquaintance of the gentleman who became her husband, the ceremony taking place in that city. Her death occurred in Baltimore, when our
subject was still a child. Of the eleven children born to her and her husband, six attained to years of maturity though John, Benjamin, Ellen and Ann have since passed from earth (NOTE: THIS WAS PUBLISHED 1890 SO THEY ALL PASSED BEFORE THAT DATE). The only surviving member of the family beside our subject is Hannah now Mrs. Watson (NOTE: THIS IS DANIEL BOONE WATSON FROM INDIANA), whose home is near Stockdale, this county.
HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER:
WILLIAM MAYFIELD: Dr. Mayfield is of English descent, his grandfather, William Mayfield, having been a watchmaker in London, carrying on a factory in that city. He was a man of considerable means, and prominent among the artisans of the world's metropolis.
HIS BIRTH PLACE:
Dr. Isaac Mayfield was born in Baltimore Md., Sept. 12, 1813, while the city was illuminated by the glare, and its accustomed quiet rent by the sounds, of the bombardment of Ft. Henry, where still the 'broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we loved
were so gallantly streaming'. He grew to manhood in the city of his birth, receiving the advantages of the subscription schools. When fifteen years old, he began working for his uncle lock and gunsmithing becoming an
adept with tools. Four years later he entered the laboratory of the Medical College, assisting the professor to mount skeletons, and under him began the study of medicine. He attended the lectures almost regularly for the following three years, but was not graduated, and began the practice of medicine with his father.
LIFE IN INDIANA:
After the removal of the family to Indiana our subject began speculating in machinery he then took up the practice of medicine in Madison continuing it until he entered the Union Army on New Year's Day 1863.
MILITARY EXPERIENCE:
Twenty young men were in Dr. Mayfield's office when the recruiting office asked them to enlist. They said they would do so if the Doctor would go along to take
care of them. He immediately put down his name and eighteen of the twenty followed his example at the time, the other two enlisting soon after.
COMPANY K 120TH INDIANA INFANTRY: Dr. Mayfield was mustered into the service at Columbus (Indiana) as a private in Company K 120th Indiana Infantry. He was twice offered the position of Army Surgeon but would not accept it having frequent opportunities however to act in a medical capacity.
He joined Sherman's forces at Charleston and took part in the battles of his division on the march through Georgia and then back to Nashville among the engagements in which the regiment participated being Springhill, Frankhill
and Nashville. The command then went to the Tennessee where they took shipto Washington and then down the Potomac River to Moorehead City. The railroad having been rebuilt towards Goldsboro. They there met the gallantcommander whom they admired and respected as much as though they did not, in the
freedom of camp-life and campaigning, speak of him as 'Old Billy.'
After the battle of Kingston while on dress parade a message from Grant was read telling of the surrender of Gen. Lee. The division marched toward Raleigh meeting a flag of truce by the way and remained three or four
months at that city. There were sick to care for and Dr. Mayfield the recontinued the work as surgeon, which he had been doing in hospital and field for a number of months. In September 1865 he went to Indianapolis and was mustered
out and honorably discharged. He had served a period of two years and six months as faithfully and gallantly as any of the young men of the command though fifty years old when he enlisted.
CONTINUED MEDICAL COURSES:
For some years after the war his health was quite poor but he finally began the practice of his profession once more.
Being one of those men who believe there is always something to be learned in the practical sciences and desiring to keep abreast of the most advanced thought of the age Dr. Mayfield took a course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1869-70 being graduated with the honors of his class. He again engaged in medical practice in Deputy, Indiana where he built the first dwelling of that place.
MOVED TO KANSAS:
RANDOLPH, RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS: In the fall of 1878 he located in this city and opened the drug store which he still controls. (MY NOTE: A BIO IN THIS SAME BOOK ON DR. FRANCIS MARION PEPPER STATES THAT THEY OPENED A DRUG STORE TOGETHER IN 1880 CALLED "MAYFIELD AND PEPPER? AT RANDOLPH
BUT THAT THE PARTNERSHIP ONLY LASTED 4 YEARS.) He also continued the practice of his profession which he has recently nearly abandoned. He owns 100 acres of improved land adjoining the city, and is in quite good financial
circumstances.
Dr. Mayfield belongs to Sergt. McCoy Post No. 210 G.A.R. of Randolph and now holds the office of Commander, having occupied that position for the past four years. He is a member of the State Medical Association and is Examining Physician for the Masonic fraternity, I.O.O.F., and several
private insurance companies. He has served on the City Council of Randolph. In his earlier years he was an Old Line Whig and voted for J.Q. Adams when he ran against Gen. Jackson and was defeated for a second term. He also
voted for William Henry Harrison. He is now a staunch Republican.
MARRIAGES:
FIRST MARRIAGE:
MISS MARY A. WHITE: The first marriage of Dr. Mayfield was celebrated in Baltimore in 1833 the bride being Miss Mary A. White a native of Yorkshire, England, who died in Indiana nine months after her marriage.
SECOND MARRIAGE:
MISS EVA STEWART: The second matrimonial alliance of Dr. Mayfield took place in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1847. The lady with whom he was united was Miss Eva Stewart, a native of the county in which their wedding took place.
CHILDREN FROM SECOND MARRIAGE:
The union was blessed by the birth of four children: Benjamin,
Virginia,
Florella and
Catherine.
The two last mentioned are deceased. Benjamin is with his father; Virginia is married to George Warren (MY NOTE: SHOULD BE WARNER) and lives on Mill Creek, in this county.
(INFORMATION ON CHILDREN:
Benjamin Mayfield
Virginia Mayfield
Florella Mayfield married Silas W. Butler, son of Sidney Butler of Jennings County, Indiana. Their daughter Alpharetta Butler married Silas P. Mayfield and is buried here.
Catherine (Katy) Mayfield)
THIRD MARRIAGE:
MISS ELIZABETH STEWART: Dr. Mayfield was married the third time in Jefferson County Indiana to Miss Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in that county March 22, 1833. She was reared on a farm and in her early years attended a subscription
school in a log schoolhouse with slab benches. She educated herself the family being in but moderate circumstances and when twenty years old she began teaching following that profession for twelve years and until her marriage.
CHILD FRM THIRD MARRIAGE:
She has one daughter, Ellen G., who resides at home.
STEWART FAMILY:
JOSEPH STEWART: The grandfather of Mrs. Mayfield was Joseph Stewart, theyounger of the two sons of a landed proprieter in Ireland. On the death of the father the estate fell to the elder son and the younger declining to fill a position so nearly that of a servant, as he felt his own would
be, ran away to America. He was only a boy when he crossed the Atlantic, and the remainder of his life was spent as a citizen of the United States. He first lived in Kentucky and after his marriage to a Miss Elizabeth Wilson of that State he removed to Ohio, and was engaged in farming there until his death. Joseph Stewart's son, David Stewart, was born in the Buckeye State, and in his early years removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and also a stone mason. In politics he was a a Republican, and in religion a Universalist. His wife was Miss Catherine Troutman who was born in Kentucky, her parents, Adam and Eve (Miller) Troutman, being natives of Virginia and Maryland respectively. They removed to Kentucky in an early day and later to Jefferson County, Indiana, where Mr. Troutman became a well-to-do farmer and an extensive miller on Misscattatack (SIC), of Muddy Creek. Mrs Stewart died in the Hoosier State having borne her husband ten children. They are Margaret, living in Linn County, Kansas; Andrew and Eve, deceased; Patrick H. of Columbus, Ohio; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Mayfield; Matilda of Jefferson County, Indiana; William, of Scott County, Indiana; and Thomas, now deceased. WILLIAM STEWART: William was a member of the 82nd Indiana Infantry, and served ten months, till crippled and unfit for service. THOMAS STEWART: Thomas enlisted in 1861, in the 14th Kentucky Infantry and served until his death. The sad event took place at the battle of Atlanta, he being shot by a sharpshooter?s bullet while sitting by the side of the road reading a letter from home.
Age: 86y.
Biography of Dr. Isaac Mayfield, son of Thomas Mayfield and Ellen Tunsal Mayfield of Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.
From:
Portrait and Biographical Album Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890 pp 566-568
Isaac Mayfield, M.D., is a dealer in drugs at Randolph, Riley County (Kansas). It is but little more than a decade since this gentleman arrived in Randolph, where he now enjoys an honorable reputation as a man of fine character,
mental and professional ability, and genial nature. Since coming to this county he has built up a fine practice as a physician and surgeon but now devotes the most of his time to the drug business, feeling that after long years of usefulness he may well be allowed a more quiet life that was
his for many years. Though now seventy-six years hold he is more hale and hearty than many men much younger than he and enjoys life with the zest of earlier manhood.
HIS FATHER:
THOMAS MAYFIELD: The father of our subject was Thomas Mayfield, who was born in London, and was graduated from London Medical College. He began practice in that city when thirty-two years old, but shortly afterward came to America, locating in Maryland, first in Harper's Ferry, and soon afterward in Baltimore. he had become so thoroughly identified with the interests of the United States that during the War of 1812 he took part in behalf of the country of his adoption. During this contest he was
detailed on city duty. In 1834 he removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, and buying land near Madison, made himself a rural home, still continuing the practice of his profession. His death occurred there in 1869, he being eighty-four years old. His religious faith was that of the Universalist Church.
HIS MOTHER:
ELLEN TUNSAL MAYFIELD: The wife of Dr. Thomas Mayfield was Ellen Tunsal, a finely-educated lady of Scotch birth. She was living in London when she made the acquaintance of the gentleman who became her husband, the ceremony taking place in that city. Her death occurred in Baltimore, when our
subject was still a child. Of the eleven children born to her and her husband, six attained to years of maturity though John, Benjamin, Ellen and Ann have since passed from earth (NOTE: THIS WAS PUBLISHED 1890 SO THEY ALL PASSED BEFORE THAT DATE). The only surviving member of the family beside our subject is Hannah now Mrs. Watson (NOTE: THIS IS DANIEL BOONE WATSON FROM INDIANA), whose home is near Stockdale, this county.
HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER:
WILLIAM MAYFIELD: Dr. Mayfield is of English descent, his grandfather, William Mayfield, having been a watchmaker in London, carrying on a factory in that city. He was a man of considerable means, and prominent among the artisans of the world's metropolis.
HIS BIRTH PLACE:
Dr. Isaac Mayfield was born in Baltimore Md., Sept. 12, 1813, while the city was illuminated by the glare, and its accustomed quiet rent by the sounds, of the bombardment of Ft. Henry, where still the 'broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we loved
were so gallantly streaming'. He grew to manhood in the city of his birth, receiving the advantages of the subscription schools. When fifteen years old, he began working for his uncle lock and gunsmithing becoming an
adept with tools. Four years later he entered the laboratory of the Medical College, assisting the professor to mount skeletons, and under him began the study of medicine. He attended the lectures almost regularly for the following three years, but was not graduated, and began the practice of medicine with his father.
LIFE IN INDIANA:
After the removal of the family to Indiana our subject began speculating in machinery he then took up the practice of medicine in Madison continuing it until he entered the Union Army on New Year's Day 1863.
MILITARY EXPERIENCE:
Twenty young men were in Dr. Mayfield's office when the recruiting office asked them to enlist. They said they would do so if the Doctor would go along to take
care of them. He immediately put down his name and eighteen of the twenty followed his example at the time, the other two enlisting soon after.
COMPANY K 120TH INDIANA INFANTRY: Dr. Mayfield was mustered into the service at Columbus (Indiana) as a private in Company K 120th Indiana Infantry. He was twice offered the position of Army Surgeon but would not accept it having frequent opportunities however to act in a medical capacity.
He joined Sherman's forces at Charleston and took part in the battles of his division on the march through Georgia and then back to Nashville among the engagements in which the regiment participated being Springhill, Frankhill
and Nashville. The command then went to the Tennessee where they took shipto Washington and then down the Potomac River to Moorehead City. The railroad having been rebuilt towards Goldsboro. They there met the gallantcommander whom they admired and respected as much as though they did not, in the
freedom of camp-life and campaigning, speak of him as 'Old Billy.'
After the battle of Kingston while on dress parade a message from Grant was read telling of the surrender of Gen. Lee. The division marched toward Raleigh meeting a flag of truce by the way and remained three or four
months at that city. There were sick to care for and Dr. Mayfield the recontinued the work as surgeon, which he had been doing in hospital and field for a number of months. In September 1865 he went to Indianapolis and was mustered
out and honorably discharged. He had served a period of two years and six months as faithfully and gallantly as any of the young men of the command though fifty years old when he enlisted.
CONTINUED MEDICAL COURSES:
For some years after the war his health was quite poor but he finally began the practice of his profession once more.
Being one of those men who believe there is always something to be learned in the practical sciences and desiring to keep abreast of the most advanced thought of the age Dr. Mayfield took a course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1869-70 being graduated with the honors of his class. He again engaged in medical practice in Deputy, Indiana where he built the first dwelling of that place.
MOVED TO KANSAS:
RANDOLPH, RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS: In the fall of 1878 he located in this city and opened the drug store which he still controls. (MY NOTE: A BIO IN THIS SAME BOOK ON DR. FRANCIS MARION PEPPER STATES THAT THEY OPENED A DRUG STORE TOGETHER IN 1880 CALLED "MAYFIELD AND PEPPER? AT RANDOLPH
BUT THAT THE PARTNERSHIP ONLY LASTED 4 YEARS.) He also continued the practice of his profession which he has recently nearly abandoned. He owns 100 acres of improved land adjoining the city, and is in quite good financial
circumstances.
Dr. Mayfield belongs to Sergt. McCoy Post No. 210 G.A.R. of Randolph and now holds the office of Commander, having occupied that position for the past four years. He is a member of the State Medical Association and is Examining Physician for the Masonic fraternity, I.O.O.F., and several
private insurance companies. He has served on the City Council of Randolph. In his earlier years he was an Old Line Whig and voted for J.Q. Adams when he ran against Gen. Jackson and was defeated for a second term. He also
voted for William Henry Harrison. He is now a staunch Republican.
MARRIAGES:
FIRST MARRIAGE:
MISS MARY A. WHITE: The first marriage of Dr. Mayfield was celebrated in Baltimore in 1833 the bride being Miss Mary A. White a native of Yorkshire, England, who died in Indiana nine months after her marriage.
SECOND MARRIAGE:
MISS EVA STEWART: The second matrimonial alliance of Dr. Mayfield took place in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1847. The lady with whom he was united was Miss Eva Stewart, a native of the county in which their wedding took place.
CHILDREN FROM SECOND MARRIAGE:
The union was blessed by the birth of four children: Benjamin,
Virginia,
Florella and
Catherine.
The two last mentioned are deceased. Benjamin is with his father; Virginia is married to George Warren (MY NOTE: SHOULD BE WARNER) and lives on Mill Creek, in this county.
(INFORMATION ON CHILDREN:
Benjamin Mayfield
Virginia Mayfield
Florella Mayfield married Silas W. Butler, son of Sidney Butler of Jennings County, Indiana. Their daughter Alpharetta Butler married Silas P. Mayfield and is buried here.
Catherine (Katy) Mayfield)
THIRD MARRIAGE:
MISS ELIZABETH STEWART: Dr. Mayfield was married the third time in Jefferson County Indiana to Miss Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in that county March 22, 1833. She was reared on a farm and in her early years attended a subscription
school in a log schoolhouse with slab benches. She educated herself the family being in but moderate circumstances and when twenty years old she began teaching following that profession for twelve years and until her marriage.
CHILD FRM THIRD MARRIAGE:
She has one daughter, Ellen G., who resides at home.
STEWART FAMILY:
JOSEPH STEWART: The grandfather of Mrs. Mayfield was Joseph Stewart, theyounger of the two sons of a landed proprieter in Ireland. On the death of the father the estate fell to the elder son and the younger declining to fill a position so nearly that of a servant, as he felt his own would
be, ran away to America. He was only a boy when he crossed the Atlantic, and the remainder of his life was spent as a citizen of the United States. He first lived in Kentucky and after his marriage to a Miss Elizabeth Wilson of that State he removed to Ohio, and was engaged in farming there until his death. Joseph Stewart's son, David Stewart, was born in the Buckeye State, and in his early years removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and also a stone mason. In politics he was a a Republican, and in religion a Universalist. His wife was Miss Catherine Troutman who was born in Kentucky, her parents, Adam and Eve (Miller) Troutman, being natives of Virginia and Maryland respectively. They removed to Kentucky in an early day and later to Jefferson County, Indiana, where Mr. Troutman became a well-to-do farmer and an extensive miller on Misscattatack (SIC), of Muddy Creek. Mrs Stewart died in the Hoosier State having borne her husband ten children. They are Margaret, living in Linn County, Kansas; Andrew and Eve, deceased; Patrick H. of Columbus, Ohio; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Mayfield; Matilda of Jefferson County, Indiana; William, of Scott County, Indiana; and Thomas, now deceased. WILLIAM STEWART: William was a member of the 82nd Indiana Infantry, and served ten months, till crippled and unfit for service. THOMAS STEWART: Thomas enlisted in 1861, in the 14th Kentucky Infantry and served until his death. The sad event took place at the battle of Atlanta, he being shot by a sharpshooter?s bullet while sitting by the side of the road reading a letter from home.
Biography of Dr. Isaac Mayfield, son of Thomas Mayfield and Ellen Tunsal Mayfield of Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana.
From:
Portrait and Biographical Album Washington, Clay and Riley Counties, Kansas Chicago: Chapman Bros. 1890 pp 566-568
Isaac Mayfield, M.D., is a dealer in drugs at Randolph, Riley County (Kansas). It is but little more than a decade since this gentleman arrived in Randolph, where he now enjoys an honorable reputation as a man of fine character,
mental and professional ability, and genial nature. Since coming to this county he has built up a fine practice as a physician and surgeon but now devotes the most of his time to the drug business, feeling that after long years of usefulness he may well be allowed a more quiet life that was
his for many years. Though now seventy-six years hold he is more hale and hearty than many men much younger than he and enjoys life with the zest of earlier manhood.
HIS FATHER:
THOMAS MAYFIELD: The father of our subject was Thomas Mayfield, who was born in London, and was graduated from London Medical College. He began practice in that city when thirty-two years old, but shortly afterward came to America, locating in Maryland, first in Harper's Ferry, and soon afterward in Baltimore. he had become so thoroughly identified with the interests of the United States that during the War of 1812 he took part in behalf of the country of his adoption. During this contest he was
detailed on city duty. In 1834 he removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, and buying land near Madison, made himself a rural home, still continuing the practice of his profession. His death occurred there in 1869, he being eighty-four years old. His religious faith was that of the Universalist Church.
HIS MOTHER:
ELLEN TUNSAL MAYFIELD: The wife of Dr. Thomas Mayfield was Ellen Tunsal, a finely-educated lady of Scotch birth. She was living in London when she made the acquaintance of the gentleman who became her husband, the ceremony taking place in that city. Her death occurred in Baltimore, when our
subject was still a child. Of the eleven children born to her and her husband, six attained to years of maturity though John, Benjamin, Ellen and Ann have since passed from earth (NOTE: THIS WAS PUBLISHED 1890 SO THEY ALL PASSED BEFORE THAT DATE). The only surviving member of the family beside our subject is Hannah now Mrs. Watson (NOTE: THIS IS DANIEL BOONE WATSON FROM INDIANA), whose home is near Stockdale, this county.
HIS PATERNAL GRANDFATHER:
WILLIAM MAYFIELD: Dr. Mayfield is of English descent, his grandfather, William Mayfield, having been a watchmaker in London, carrying on a factory in that city. He was a man of considerable means, and prominent among the artisans of the world's metropolis.
HIS BIRTH PLACE:
Dr. Isaac Mayfield was born in Baltimore Md., Sept. 12, 1813, while the city was illuminated by the glare, and its accustomed quiet rent by the sounds, of the bombardment of Ft. Henry, where still the 'broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we loved
were so gallantly streaming'. He grew to manhood in the city of his birth, receiving the advantages of the subscription schools. When fifteen years old, he began working for his uncle lock and gunsmithing becoming an
adept with tools. Four years later he entered the laboratory of the Medical College, assisting the professor to mount skeletons, and under him began the study of medicine. He attended the lectures almost regularly for the following three years, but was not graduated, and began the practice of medicine with his father.
LIFE IN INDIANA:
After the removal of the family to Indiana our subject began speculating in machinery he then took up the practice of medicine in Madison continuing it until he entered the Union Army on New Year's Day 1863.
MILITARY EXPERIENCE:
Twenty young men were in Dr. Mayfield's office when the recruiting office asked them to enlist. They said they would do so if the Doctor would go along to take
care of them. He immediately put down his name and eighteen of the twenty followed his example at the time, the other two enlisting soon after.
COMPANY K 120TH INDIANA INFANTRY: Dr. Mayfield was mustered into the service at Columbus (Indiana) as a private in Company K 120th Indiana Infantry. He was twice offered the position of Army Surgeon but would not accept it having frequent opportunities however to act in a medical capacity.
He joined Sherman's forces at Charleston and took part in the battles of his division on the march through Georgia and then back to Nashville among the engagements in which the regiment participated being Springhill, Frankhill
and Nashville. The command then went to the Tennessee where they took shipto Washington and then down the Potomac River to Moorehead City. The railroad having been rebuilt towards Goldsboro. They there met the gallantcommander whom they admired and respected as much as though they did not, in the
freedom of camp-life and campaigning, speak of him as 'Old Billy.'
After the battle of Kingston while on dress parade a message from Grant was read telling of the surrender of Gen. Lee. The division marched toward Raleigh meeting a flag of truce by the way and remained three or four
months at that city. There were sick to care for and Dr. Mayfield the recontinued the work as surgeon, which he had been doing in hospital and field for a number of months. In September 1865 he went to Indianapolis and was mustered
out and honorably discharged. He had served a period of two years and six months as faithfully and gallantly as any of the young men of the command though fifty years old when he enlisted.
CONTINUED MEDICAL COURSES:
For some years after the war his health was quite poor but he finally began the practice of his profession once more.
Being one of those men who believe there is always something to be learned in the practical sciences and desiring to keep abreast of the most advanced thought of the age Dr. Mayfield took a course of lectures at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati in 1869-70 being graduated with the honors of his class. He again engaged in medical practice in Deputy, Indiana where he built the first dwelling of that place.
MOVED TO KANSAS:
RANDOLPH, RILEY COUNTY, KANSAS: In the fall of 1878 he located in this city and opened the drug store which he still controls. (MY NOTE: A BIO IN THIS SAME BOOK ON DR. FRANCIS MARION PEPPER STATES THAT THEY OPENED A DRUG STORE TOGETHER IN 1880 CALLED "MAYFIELD AND PEPPER? AT RANDOLPH
BUT THAT THE PARTNERSHIP ONLY LASTED 4 YEARS.) He also continued the practice of his profession which he has recently nearly abandoned. He owns 100 acres of improved land adjoining the city, and is in quite good financial
circumstances.
Dr. Mayfield belongs to Sergt. McCoy Post No. 210 G.A.R. of Randolph and now holds the office of Commander, having occupied that position for the past four years. He is a member of the State Medical Association and is Examining Physician for the Masonic fraternity, I.O.O.F., and several
private insurance companies. He has served on the City Council of Randolph. In his earlier years he was an Old Line Whig and voted for J.Q. Adams when he ran against Gen. Jackson and was defeated for a second term. He also
voted for William Henry Harrison. He is now a staunch Republican.
MARRIAGES:
FIRST MARRIAGE:
MISS MARY A. WHITE: The first marriage of Dr. Mayfield was celebrated in Baltimore in 1833 the bride being Miss Mary A. White a native of Yorkshire, England, who died in Indiana nine months after her marriage.
SECOND MARRIAGE:
MISS EVA STEWART: The second matrimonial alliance of Dr. Mayfield took place in Jefferson County, Indiana, in 1847. The lady with whom he was united was Miss Eva Stewart, a native of the county in which their wedding took place.
CHILDREN FROM SECOND MARRIAGE:
The union was blessed by the birth of four children: Benjamin,
Virginia,
Florella and
Catherine.
The two last mentioned are deceased. Benjamin is with his father; Virginia is married to George Warren (MY NOTE: SHOULD BE WARNER) and lives on Mill Creek, in this county.
(INFORMATION ON CHILDREN:
Benjamin Mayfield
Virginia Mayfield
Florella Mayfield married Silas W. Butler, son of Sidney Butler of Jennings County, Indiana. Their daughter Alpharetta Butler married Silas P. Mayfield and is buried here.
Catherine (Katy) Mayfield)
THIRD MARRIAGE:
MISS ELIZABETH STEWART: Dr. Mayfield was married the third time in Jefferson County Indiana to Miss Elizabeth Stewart, who was born in that county March 22, 1833. She was reared on a farm and in her early years attended a subscription
school in a log schoolhouse with slab benches. She educated herself the family being in but moderate circumstances and when twenty years old she began teaching following that profession for twelve years and until her marriage.
CHILD FRM THIRD MARRIAGE:
She has one daughter, Ellen G., who resides at home.
STEWART FAMILY:
JOSEPH STEWART: The grandfather of Mrs. Mayfield was Joseph Stewart, theyounger of the two sons of a landed proprieter in Ireland. On the death of the father the estate fell to the elder son and the younger declining to fill a position so nearly that of a servant, as he felt his own would
be, ran away to America. He was only a boy when he crossed the Atlantic, and the remainder of his life was spent as a citizen of the United States. He first lived in Kentucky and after his marriage to a Miss Elizabeth Wilson of that State he removed to Ohio, and was engaged in farming there until his death. Joseph Stewart's son, David Stewart, was born in the Buckeye State, and in his early years removed to Jefferson County, Indiana, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was a farmer and also a stone mason. In politics he was a a Republican, and in religion a Universalist. His wife was Miss Catherine Troutman who was born in Kentucky, her parents, Adam and Eve (Miller) Troutman, being natives of Virginia and Maryland respectively. They removed to Kentucky in an early day and later to Jefferson County, Indiana, where Mr. Troutman became a well-to-do farmer and an extensive miller on Misscattatack (SIC), of Muddy Creek. Mrs Stewart died in the Hoosier State having borne her husband ten children. They are Margaret, living in Linn County, Kansas; Andrew and Eve, deceased; Patrick H. of Columbus, Ohio; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Mayfield; Matilda of Jefferson County, Indiana; William, of Scott County, Indiana; and Thomas, now deceased. WILLIAM STEWART: William was a member of the 82nd Indiana Infantry, and served ten months, till crippled and unfit for service. THOMAS STEWART: Thomas enlisted in 1861, in the 14th Kentucky Infantry and served until his death. The sad event took place at the battle of Atlanta, he being shot by a sharpshooter?s bullet while sitting by the side of the road reading a letter from home.
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