T. H. Troute, M. D., a leading physician and surgeon of Miami county, particularly well known in the field of abdominal surgery, has been engaged in a successful practice at Tippecanoe City since 1911. He is a native of Hamilton county, Ohio, born September 7, 1869, a son of John S. and Sarah Martha (McGregor) Troute, his father having been a prominent farmer and tobacco grower of Hamilton county. There were four children in the family: David, who is an ex-member of the police force at Cincinnati; Alonzo, bookkeeper for a coal mining company, in West Virginia; Charlie, who is a trainer and owner of race horses in the East, and Dr. T. H. T. H. Troute attended the public schools of Hamilton county, including the high school at Russellville, following which he pursued a course at the University of Cincinnati, and then spent four years in studying medicine at that institution. Graduated in 1898 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, he began practice at Cincinnati, and then entered the service of the United States Government, in Kentucky, continuing to be thus engaged from February 4, 1900, until 1903. Returning then to Cincinnati, he practiced in that city until 1911, May 3 of which year he began his activities at Tippecanoe City, where he has since become one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Miami county. Doctor Troute carries on a general practice, but specializes to some extent in abdominal surgery, a department in which he is an acknowledged authority. He belongs to the various organizations of his profession, county, state and national, and has an excellent standing in the esteem of his fellow-practitioners, by whom he is called into consultation frequently. He likewise has a number of important civic, business and social connections and is accepted as a valuable and public-spirited member of his community. Doctor Trotite married Ida, daughter of William Ramsey, of Georgetown, Brown county, Ohio, and to this union there have been born two children: John W., an automobile mechanic of Tippecanoe City, and Hazel, the wife of Leslie Eickhoff, of Tippecanoe City. In 1920 the doctor was persuaded to run for coroner and was the only Democrat elected, receiving a majority of 7,253. The county went Republican by 5,209, showing the popularity of the doctor.