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DR. JACOB H. HARTER, Son of the late James B. and Harriet Harter, first looked
out on this beautiful world of ours February 14, 1840, in
Delaware county, Indiana. His boyhood was spent in that
and Grant county, where he laid the foundation for a thorough medical education. He read medicine with Drs.
Spann and Menifee, at Anderson in 1860-1, and attended
lectures at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in
1862-3, where he graduated. After leaving college he loca-
ted at Warrington, Indiana, where he practiced one year,
when he removed to Fishersburg, Indiana. Here he practiced several years, and was married to Miss Elizabeth
Kemper, who died April 15, 1866, and is buried in the
Busby Cemetery, in Stony-creek township, Madison county.
He was the second time married, May 10, 1867, to Miss
Malinda Fisher, daughter of Chas. Fisher, Esq., one of
the pioneers of his locality in Madison county. About this time (1867) he moved to Markleville, and was associated
with his brother, Dr. Wm. Harter, in the practice of medicine for some time, when he moved to Pendleton, Indiana,
and remained there ten years. About the year 1879 he purchased a handsome residence on Layne street, Anderson,
Indiana, where he now resides and continues in the practice
of his profession. He owns afine farm just outside the city
limits, on the West, where he at onetime resided. Mr.
Harter has but one child—a daughter, Dora, who was born
in April, 1868. Dr. Harter and his worthy wife are members of the M. E. Church, and have been foryears. Heis
a member of the Masonic order, and belongs to the Madison County Medical Society.
Dr. Harter is a man of splendid physical proportions,
being fully six feet in height, and weighing two hundred
pounds; and it would be difficult, indeed, to find a couple
better mated, as to size, than he and his estimable wife. I
very highly prize the acquaintance of this worthy couple,
and I trust the evening of their lives may be far in the
future, and full of peace and happiness.
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