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Counties of PORTER and Lake Indiana.
Historical and Biographical
Weston A. Goodspeed, Historical Editor
Charles Blanchard, Biographical Editor
F. A. Battey & Co., Pub., Chicago - 1882

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        H. M. BEER, M.D., son of the Rev. THOMAS BEER, was born in Ashland
     County, Ohio, March 20, 1838, and was reared in his native county.  He
     received a good academical education, and at twenty-one years of age
     began the study of medicine under Dr. P. H. CLARK, with whome he re-
     mained two and a half years; then for a year he attended Cleveland
     Medical College, then enlisted as Assistant Surgeon in the Twenty-
     third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, remaining as such until the close of
     the war.  He then located in Cumberland, Md., practicing, and at
     intervals attending the college at Cleveland, from which he graduated
     in 1868.  In that year he came to Valparaiso, and has here been
     actively engaged in practice ever since, having been uncommonly
     successful, his patients being among the best and most prominent
     families of Porter County.  Dr. BEER is a Republican in politics, and
     he and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.

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