A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans by William E. Connalley
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, New York. 1918
Volume IV, page 1891
T.C. Long, M.D., now of Independence, has been successfully engaged in the practice of
medicine and surgery in Kansas for the past fifteen years. His reputation is especially
based on his skill as a surgeon, and he is rated as one of the most proficient in that
class of work in Montgomery County.
He was (born) near Portland in Jay County, Indiana, February 5, 1871. His grandfather,
who died at the age of forty years, was a native of Ohio and moved from that state to a
farm in Jay County. That farm, settled by the family move more than eighty years ago, was
the birthplace of J.S. Long and also of his son, Dr. T.C. Long. J.S. Long was born in
1838, and has never had any other home than his birthplace. He owns a fine place of 300
acres, and though now nearly eighty years of age still looks after his interests as a
diversified farmer. He served in the Union army during the Civil war, has taken an active
interest in township and local affairs, and is a democrat and a member of the Reformed
Church. J.S. Long married Armenia Frickle, who was born near Portland, Indiana, in 1839
and died on the old homestead farm in 1909. There were seven children in the family:
Stephen D., who was a farmer in jay County, Indiana, died from typhoid at the age of
forty; Laura A. nev!
er married and is living with her father; Mary F. is the wife of C.P. Strauss, a farmer
near Portland, Indiana: H.W. Long is a general merchant at Fort Recovery, Ohio; the fifth
in age is Dr. T.C. Long; Jesse is a farmer near Portland; Dr. N.W. Long is a graduate of
Barnes Medical College and a physician and surgeon at San Francisco,California.
Educated in the public schools of his native county, Doctor Long also attended the
Lookout School of that county, and by working on a farm and other occupations finally
secured the means to enable him to carry out his long cherished plan of becoming a
physician. In 1899 he graduated with the degree M.D. from the Hygeia Medical College of
Cincinnati, and in 1901 took his M.D. degree from the Barnes Medical College at St. Louis,
Missouri.
After graduating he came to Kansas, and was in practice at Munden until his removal to
Independence in December, 1911. In 1909 Doctor Long took a general course in the Chicago
Policlinic. As a specialist in surgery, he performs his operations in the Montgomery
County Hospital at Independence. He is an active member of the Montgomery County and the
Kansas State Medical societies and the American Medical Association.
Doctor Long belongs to the Fraternal Aid, and has membership in Munden Lodge, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons. He is independent in politics. His home is at 311 North
Eleventh Street in Independence.