Dr. Isaac Stroud Casselberry

     Dr. Isaac Stroud Casselberry was born on 26 November 1821 in Posey County, Indiana.^1,2 He was the son of Colonel Thomas Evans Casselberry and Rachel Jane Carson.¹ He married Louisa Garvin on 20 April 1847 in Oak Villa, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.^2,1 He died on 9 July 1873 in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, at age 51.^1,2
     
     Dr. Casselberry was a native of Posey county, Indiana. After graduating at the Ohio Medical College he located in Evansville. At the commencement of the Civil War he was appointed surgeon of the First Indiana Cavalry Regiment, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. From the time that Evansville was placed under sanitary regulations, until his death, Dr. Casselberry filled the office of the secretary of the Board of Health. In 1871 he was appointed professor of physical diagnosis in the Evansville Medical College. He contributed an article on "An Inquiry Into the Physiology of the Organic Nervous System." Am. Jour. Med. Sciences, 1852. "Causes of Fever," Ib., April, 1856. "Ancient Marriages of Consanguinity," Ib., 1859. Also a series of articles on "The Causes of Epidemics," Nashville Med. And Surg. Jour., from November, 1857, to May, 1858. His writings are acknowledged to be valuable aids to medical knowledge.³