CHARLES E. GAINES, M.D., a well known physician and surgeon of Covington, where he has been located since 1898, is serving his second term as coroner of Miami County, Ohio. He was born on a farm in Champaign County, Ohio, October, 21, 1858, and is a son of Moses T. and Ann (Grafton) Gaines.

Dr. Gaines was reared on the firm and attended the district schools and Urbana High School, from which he was graduated in 1875. He then returned to the farm for a time, and later entered Oberlin College. He in 1878 began teaching school, at which he continued for two years, and during this time began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. B. F. Baker, of St. Paris. He represented a drug house on the road for some years in order to secure the means of completing his professional training, and later attended the medical department of the University of Kentucky, from which he received the degree of M.D. in 1890. He moved to Covington in 1898 and soon gained a high position in the profession of the county. In 1905 he was first elected county coroner, and in 1908 was re-elected for a term of three years. He has proved a man of exceptional ability, and in his conscientious discharge of his duties of office has gained the commendation and high esteem of the public.

Charles E. Gaines was United in marriage with Miss Laura Stevens, and they have three children, namely: Dr. Waldo Gaines, who is in partnership with his father in practice and is a graduate of Central College of Physicians and Surgeons at Indianapolis, Indiana; Mabel, the wife of Clifford Townsend, who has a daughter, Virginia Ann; and Thaddora, who is the youngest and unmarried. Doctor Gaines is a member of the Miami County Medical Society, and of the Knights of Pythias. In politics he is consistent in his advocacy and support of Republican principles. Religiously he is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Covington.