06/23/2020
Dr. Benjamin Gregory Inman (1836-1907) was the first doctor in Burkettville, Ohio. He eventually moved to Point Pleasant Hill, Ohio, where he died and was buried at Harris Creek Cemetery.
A very long line of Inmans migrated from South Carolina to points West. One of the places was Ohio. Here is a short biography of a physician whose father moved the family from South Carolina to Ohio. Dr. Benjamin Gregory Inman (1936-1907) was the son of George Inman.
Dr. Inman was born August 11, AD 1826, near Pleasant Hill, Miami County, Ohio , and spent his boyhood days in the cares of farm life. He is a son of Elder George Inman, who was one of the pioneers of Miami County, Ohio, having emigrated from South Carolina in 1814. He purchased section 14, in Newton Township, Miami County, and retained his original title up to the day of his death, which occurred December 14, 1880.
Dr B.G. Inman received an early and liberal education, his father desiring him to enter the ministry (of which he was himself a prominent member of the Miami Christian Conference). The Doctor, however, choosing the medical profession, early began the study of the same under the instruction and guidance of Dr. Simmons, who was strictly allopathic in his views.
The Doctor, feeling a desire to widen the field medical literature and research, accordingly entered the eclectic school of Philadelphia, and graduated with the highest honors of said school in 1851, and proved himself an efficient physician and close student, having canvassed nearly all the text-books of the different schools, viz, allopathic, hydropathic, homeopathic, physiomedical, and eclectic.
He had one among the best chosen libraries in the State. The Doctor was temperate in his habits, liberal in his views, genteel in his manners, Republican in politics, Protestant in religion, and fluent public speaker. Doctor Inman was married to Melissa Thurston in 1854. The result of this union was three sons and five daughters. Dr. Inman re-located to Berlin, Ohio, having moved from Pleasant Hill, Ohio, January 25, 1881, and from which date received a liberal share of patronage.