Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
TARR,
CALVIN, M. D., of Indianapolis, Ind., was born on the 2d day of
April, 1822, on the site of the present city of North Columbus, Franklin
county, O. He is of English descent. His grandfather, John Starr, Sr.,
was a resident of Nova Scotia, but emigrated at an early day to
Connecticut, and served as a soldier and received honorable wounds in
the revolutionary war. His father, John Starr, Jr., left Connecticut in
1812 to settle as a pioneer in Ohio, where the capital city of that
State now stands, and where, at that time, there was but a small log
cabin. He was here reared to agricultural pursuits, receiving his
education at Central College, O. Completing this, he read medicine under
competent direction in Columbus, and attended two full courses of
lectures in Starling Medical College, and a third course in the
Cleveland Homœopathic Medical College, from which latter institution he
graduated in 1851. He immediately located for practice in Xenia, O.,
where he was married in September of the same year. The following year
he removed to Springfield, O., where he enjoyed a successful practice of
six years ; and after that to Iowa City, Iowa, where he remained in
active duty for twelve years in introducing pure homœopathy. For the
past two years he has been engaged in the treatment of lung diseases in
and about Zanesville, O., by his system of vitalized inhalation. On the
2d day of January, 1873, he removed to Indianapolis to make a specialty
of the treatment of nasal catarrh, lung disease, and the diseases of
women.He has never been a
politician, but has followed the natural bent of his mind, devoting his
whole time, talents and energy to his profession.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave