Newton Co., IN Biography

  CHARLES E. TRIPLETT, M.D., was born December 13, 1834, in Fleming 
County, Kentucky, being one of four children of Charles and Clarissa 
(Duckings) Triplett, both natives of the "Old Dominion." though spending 
most of their lives in Kentucky, where they accumulated a large property. 
 Charles was left an orphan when but two weeks old, and was adopted and 
reared by his paternal grandparents.  Losing his grandfather at the age 
of fourteen, he went to Henry County, Kentucky, and began the study of 
medicine with Dr. James Humstun, with whom he remained four years.  
May 8, 1856, he came to Morocco, Indiana, and commenced the practice 
of medicine, which he has continued until the present time, with the 
exception of three years spent in the army.  He enlisted in August, 
1862, in Company E, Ninety-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, as a 
private, but before reaching the field was commissioned Assistant 
Surgeon in the Eighty-seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, receiving 
a commission as Surgeon in four months from that time.  He remained 
with the regiment until it was mustered out in June, 1865, at Washington, 
D.C., having been in the battles of Perryville, Stone River, Chickamauga, 
Mission Ridge, and through the Atlanta Campaign, the "march to the sea," 
and in the Carolinas at Bentonville and Averysboro, and many other 
engagements.  Dr. Triplett was married, May 17, 1857, to Alice Pulver, 
a native of Newton County.  Eight children have been born to them, of 
whom the following, Charles E., Chester L. and Hattie, are living.  
He is a member of Concord Lodge No. 585, I.O.O.F., and a Democrat.  
In his profession, he has the reputation of being skillful, both as 
physician and surgeon.  Beaver Township, Newton County.  

From a History of Warren, Benton, Jasper & Newton Counties, 1883.  


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