DR. J. M. STUCKY
Biography from History of Owen County, Indiana
ed: William Travis, publ. 1884
Gosport and Wayne Township, pp. 900-901.

DR. J. [John] M. STUCKY was born in Jefferson County, Ky., 
June 15, 1825. His parents, Frederick and Louisa H. (MYERS) 
STUCKY were natives of Kentucky. The father came to Indiana 
with his parents when but six years of age, and three years 
later, being left an orphan, was apprenticed to a tailor in 
Vincennes; he afterward returned to Kentucky, and followed 
his trade there for sixteen years. Soon after this he 
purchased the land upon which he was born, and at present 
resides there, eighty-two years of age. His wife died in 
1881. The subject of this sketch was reared in his native 
county, and when eighteen years of age went to Louisville,
 Ky., and was engaged for three years as clerk in a 
wholesale grocery house, during which time he began 
reading medicine, and for two years after he left this 
position he studied medicine with Dr. J. S. SEATON, of 
Jefferson County. He attended the Louisville Medical 
College, and graduated there in 1848. In May of the same
year, he began the practice of his profession in Gosport, 
and is the oldest practitioner there. In 1862, he enlisted 
in the Fifty-ninth Indiana Volunteers as Assistant Surgeon, 
and in January, 1863, resigned his position, his health 
failing. In 1864, he was elected Representative of Owen 
County, on the Democratic ticket, and very creditably 
filled the office for two years. He was married [in Owen 
County] March 7, 1850, to Esther E. WAMPLER, a daughter 
of Hezekiah WAMPLER (deceased), one of the earliest and 
most respected pioneers of Owen County. They have had nine 
children, of whom four sons and one daughter are living. 
Dr. STUCKY is a member of the A. F. & A. M. For forty-nine 
years he has been an active and liberal member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is politically a 
Democrat. He is quite an influential member of society, 
and a successful physician.