Show dr harvey coe Huf buffinger finger 4 J 4 ft dr H C hullinger tells of years of romance to be hale and hearty at years of 0 age with a mind alert and understanding the events of the day and their relation of 0 the past la is the pleasure of 0 dr harvey coe co hullinger of vernal who celebrated his birthday on dec 2 1924 president congratulates vernal fittingly celebrated in his honor boner when nearly persons gather to do the aged physician homage president calvin cooledge sent the following telegram my congratulations on this remarkable m anniversary occasion you have my sincere wishes that you may celebrate many returns of the day governor charles R babej and don B coltan sent letters of congratulation and many others were received dr hullinger has haa the distinction also of not only being the oldest practicing physician in the united states but Is the oldest civil war veteran in utah and second xit alive AU all but two presidents in an interview dr hullinger related the following romance covering as it does years ot of history hla his span of life on this earth teaches reaches to all the lives of the presidents except washington and adams as thomas jefferson lived two years after he was born reads like lake fairy tale how did I 1 become a doctor when I 1 tell you it will sound like a fairy tale to you as it will to your readers but it is true said the doctor whose mind Is clear as a bell with fc EG palsied hand no tremor whatever his hair grey of 0 course as ag also whiskers vision impaired but little yet he is 18 a practicing physician at years ot of age for he became a centenarian cente cent arian earlan on december 2 1924 it Is irs native of ohio 1 I was born on storms creek in 0 champaign county 0 near urbana De december oember 2 1824 that was only twenty years after ohio was admitted into the union when I 1 was 9 years ot of age in 1833 father and the family removed to illinois locating on the vermillion river about ten miles from what is now the city of ottawa and our home was west of the city one day while mother and I 1 1 l were walking in the woods near 04 home looking tor for wild flowers we stopped to rest seating ourselves on a hollow log fog and I 1 wanted to see what was waa in the hollow space so reaching my hand in I 1 found a small book apparently left there by someone who intended to return tor for it but did not finds volume of Plo botany tally it was a volume of botany and on examination of 0 its pages we found inscribed on the title page the name la salle in that the la salles were early settlers in that section ca the county of la salle being named after them we thought it might have been left by some member of that family who was making a study of botany and that in plucking some plant or flower had bad laid the book down and then forgotten it in any event it was found by mother and 1 I we looked at the pictures and mother explained to me some mine of the things which the volume contained we gathered some of the flowers described as also some of the herbs mentioned and took them home and from that time on I 1 determined to be a botanical physician a homeopath from the ground up first called doctor we gathered and preserved roots and herbs plants and flowers which were the remedial ega aega a tor for all about that country there was no drug dr store in the county and in the dispensing of the th roots and herbs is where I 1 g t tho the title of doctor this title ai was lal gi gaven I 1 me by bi in an itin erent methodist minister who was ill and I 1 prescribed tor for him giving him herbs his giving me the title of 0 doctor made me so mad that I 1 wished I 1 had not treated him father and mother dies father died in 1833 and mother in 1840 leaving leavine a family of eight children tour boys and tour girls securing homes for us ug was wag a difficult matter as la salle county was sp arcely settled at that time the two older on ones and myself secured homes in ottawa A tailor wanted to take me and teach me the trade but I 1 lost the end aud acne of my index finger so could not sew meanwhile a man had ta taught aught me how to grain wood and then I 1 learned painting but I 1 kept up my sturdy of medicine my painting bringing me a dollar per day I 1 lived a very rn ci edest odest life dividing the day in eight hour shifts thus working eight hours studying medicine eight hours and sleeping eight hours and this I 1 carried out for tour four years there was a graduate of an eastern university professor ireland who practiced in ottawa and eastern iowa giving me lessons and who started me to practice first cases 1 I iowa stopping at cara and began the practice ot of my profession dr ireland turned over several cases of typhus fever ever and I 1 brought them through then while painting a hotel the proprietor having learned that I 1 knew something about medicine called me from the ladder on which I 1 was w asuit at work and asked ae to iia see his I 1 S wife nife who w ha winsill my was overruled by hlin hii in and I 1 ccok cari care of her the husband paying me thirty five dollars for services refuses ills his diploma with his money I 1 returned to ohio in 1843 and attended the university at columbus sawing wood and doing various chores in order to work my way through and when the time came for graduation in 1852 and the members of the class received their diplomas the same being handed to them while mine owing to the tact fact that I 1 could not pay the final tee fee was laid at my feet I 1 never picked it up where it went I 1 do not know but I 1 had received my medical education ration to ual lutah on september 7 1859 1 I arrived in utah coming into the valley via parleys canyon locating on mill dreek creek and alii after almost al in caf a year beir I 1 returned to to round up soine property that was wag said to belong belang to me but it dd not pan out so I 1 purchased supplies in the way ot of groceries paying seventy five cents a pound for sugar and caffee caffe and per gallon for whiskey and started on my return to salt lake city on arrival I 1 rented a farm ot of jack hales on big cottonwood becomes army doe doctor tor it was while residing on big cottonwood that Brig liam harn young sent for me to become physician phy ician tor for lot smiths company and we were attached to the sixth iowa cavalry in the northwest indian service ser vico we were in service a hundred and fourteen days and on my return home in I 1 I 1 found that my neighbors had been kind hind sn enough ough to harvest my grain crop li in the fall ot of 1862 1 I went to st george and then returned to my home on big cottonwood ton wood where I 1 lived for or twenty years I 1 had an orchard the finest in the state ct cf various varieties of fruit but in the construction ot of the salt lake and utah central it was ruined then I 1 bought a claim of john N davis tor for three hundred dollars another and remained for four years all tho the time keeping up ithe the practice of my profession builds jensen school house in 1885 1 I furnished the material to build the first school house in jensen which was erected on my preemption claim on ashley creek the neighbors aiding in the erection of the building but bilt the material and carpenter work cost me about a hundred dollars nine terms of school were taught inthis building in 1886 1 I was elected surveyor of the county surveys and plats vernal in 1887 1 I surveyed and platted vernal city and procured the lot on which I 1 now live then I 1 was elected county commissioner and held that position when statehood came in 1896 prevents indian war I 1 cured an indian chief of an attack of pneumonia and this gave me considerable influence with the indians so much so that I 1 prevented a war between them thein twenty five ot of the indians at the agency had been given a permit to hunt bust in colorado in accordance with a treaty granting them this right but the aument of Erol soldiers diers to drive them the blue mountain district six ot of the chiefs appealed to me and I 1 persuaded them to let me settle the trouble which I 1 did by inducing the colonel at fort Du duchesne chesna to sen send a troop of cavalry onto the alleg alleged forbidden ground and they secured the release of the several beveral indians who had been captured by the colo 1 radians and thus a war was prevented 1 i always been physician 1 I have always been a physician cian never a surgeon I 1 have devoted my life to humanity and confined myself to all chronic diseases the seven epochs of a womans comans life and to c children 1 fedren for tour four years I 1 inas was the only physician in a the county of uintah outside the indian agencies at oury ouray and whiterocks I 1 amsdill am still practicing confining myself tai d art an office practice and I 1 say this with pardonable pride I 1 have attended over a thousand cases of confinement and have lost but two I 1 have had the reputation of at being the best doctor in female cases cages on the pacific slope of 0 all the physicians who were here when I 1 come to utah all have passed on joining the greot greet majority with ilie exception of dr seymour B young of at salt lake city it may be that his longevity is is due to the fact that he like myself was born in ohio so there youngve you have my story had I 1 my life to live over I 1 would not change a thing few there are who caveat have ha veat attained the age I 1 have and I 1 expect to continue my life work up to the end when the trumpet calls editors note dr seymour B young abo was born in kirtland lake county ohio october 3 1837 died at his home in salt lake city due to general debility after an illness lessof of ten days december 15 1924 dr young had been able to attend to his duties in his office of the seventies in office building until he was taken ill he was a senior president of the first seven sevell presidents of seventy of the L D S church dr young was a in lot smiths company in which dr II If was the physician |