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    CLAUDE M. KEPNER, D.D.S.

    Claude M. Kemper, D. D. S. While still one of the younger members of the dental profession of Miami county, Dr. Claude M. Kemper, of Tippecanoe City, has had wide and varied experience, including the valuable training to be secured as a member of the United States Army dental corps with service in foreign lands. Doctor Kemper was born at Freemansburg, W. Va., August 11, 1894, a son of A. H. and Rebecca (Musser) Kemper, and comes of an agricultural family, his father still being a farmer in the vicinity of the place of his birth and one of his community's highly respected citizens. One of a family of thirteen children, Claude M. Kemper secured his primary education in the public schools of West Virginia and after due preparation entered the Ohio Dental College, Cincinnati. Graduated in 1916, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, he was admitted to practice and began his professional career as an associate of his brother, Dr. R. K. Kemper, at Germantown, Ohio. He was making rapid progress in his calling when the United States entered the World war and interrupted his career as it did the careers of so many young men, and in 1917 he entered the United States Army dental corps, securing a lieutenant's Commission. He was assigned to the Three Hundred and Twenty-ninth Infantry at Camp Sherman and went overseas with this contingent December 26, 1917, being stationed at Camp Hospital No. 33, Brest, France. There he remained for about sixteen months, finally returning to his native land May 29, 1919, and subsequently receiving his honorable discharge as captain. Shortly after his return, Doctor Kemper took up his residence and centered his professional activities at Tippecanoe City, where he has since been located and where he has built up a large and remunerative practice. He is recognized as one of the rising young dental practitioners of Miami County and has already placed himself high in the confidence of his patients and is making a recognized place for himself among his fellow-practitioners. Doctor Kemper belongs to the Miami County Dental Society and the Ohio State Dental Society, as well as the dental fraternity of Psi Omega. He likewise holds membership in the local Blue lodge of the Masonic order, is a member of the Scottish Rite and order of the Shrine. Doctor Kemper married Zenna Agnes, daughter of J. L. Bailey, a farmer of Freemansburg, W. Va. There were six children in this family, of which Mrs. Kemper is third in the order of birth.

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