F. S. Olney, M. D. (Biography)

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Taken from History of the State of Kansas, by William G. Cutler

F. S. Olney, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Potter County, Penn., 1836.  In 1845, began reading medicine, in 1857, migrated to Kansas, locating at Burlington, Osage County, and began the practice of medicine in 1860-61, finished his course at the Winchester Medical College, Frederick County, Va., his old preceptor being the Chair of Anatomy.  He graduated in the spring and returned to his old home in Pennsylvania, and while there enlisted in the first call for 75,000 men in the Forty-sixth, known as the Buck Tail Regiment, serving until August, 1862, when he was disharged on account of disability, then returned to Osage County, and went to practicing medicine, in 1868, located in Eureka, Greenwood county, and put up a drug store, drawing the lumber seventy-five miles.  In the spring of 1872, located in Howard County and began practice at Boston, and also opened a drug store at that point, in 1875, located at Elk Falls and has built up an extensive practice, as he is one of the best physicians in the State, served in the Osage County Battalion in the fall of 1864, fighting bushwackers, was married, in September 1866 to Miss Carrie Shaw, they have two children--Arthur and Mabel.  Is a member of Rollins Post, No (sic) 26, G. A. R., Meridian Lodge No. 126, A.F. & A.M. Home Lodge No. 616, K of H. Elk Falls No 77, I.O.O.F.