Ezra R. Baldridge, M. D., a highly esteemed member of the medical profession at Terre Haute, and who has won considerable renown as an occulist, is a native Hoosier, having been born at Farmersburg, Ind., September 1, 1873. He attended the public schools at Roseville, and then entered De Pauw University in the preparatory department. He was in the Freshman class of 1897, and then went to Cincinnati to take a medical course in the famous old Ecectic College of Medicine. From this institution he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1896, and at once began practicing at Old Roseville, Ind. After three years spent in this community, Dr. Baldridge went to Rosedale, Ind., where he continued for twelve years, building up a profitable practice and gaining much valuable experience. At the expiration of that period, he decided that it would be advisable for him to specialize in some branch of the profession, and he accordingly went to Chicago to take up special work on the eye, ear, nose and throat. He next went with the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital at New York, where he remained until 1915. In that year he came to Terre Haute, and here has since continued in his specialized branch of the medical profession. He has gained an enviable reputation and a clientele that makes exhausting demands upon the Doctor's time and strength. He is a member of national, State and county medical societies, and is a member of the board of directors of the Terre Haute Medical Academy. He is on the staff of the Union Hospital, and is earnestly endeavoring to alleviate some of this world's suffering, having for some time given gratuitous attention to all eye, ear, nose and throat cases at the Rose Orphan's Home. He maintains modern offices in the Rose Dispensary building, and is the owner of a fine home at 1435 South Sixth street. Dr. Baldridge was married in 1899 to Miss Rhein, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a valued member of the Masonic Order, having attained the Thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, and was president of the Rotary Club in 1917.
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