Taken from: Indiana and Indianans by Jacob Piatt Dunn, 1919

Daniel S. Goble, M.D.

A physician and surgeon at Evansville, where he has been in practice since 1906, Doctor Goble is a man of high standing in his profession, and the confidence of the public and his fellow practitioners in his ability is attested to by the fact that he is now serving as a president of the Vanderburg County Medical Society.

Doctor Goble was born in Clark Township of Perry County, Indiana. His ancestors were pioneers in Perry County. His great-grandfather was a native of Massachusetts and served in the Revolutionary war; later removing to North Carolina. The grandfather, Will Goble, came to Indiana from North Carolina, possibly the state of his birth.

At that time Ohio was the only state north of the Ohio River, and Indiana was a territory. There was no railroads and Will Goble followed one of the pioneer trails over the Blue Ridge Mountains and across the states of Tennessee and Kentucky to Indiana. He located in what is now Clark Township of Perry County. This was then a wilderness, filled with Indians who claimed it as their hunting ground. He acquired a tract of land and began the tremendous task of making a farm. He was in every way fitted for pioneer life, being of strong athletic build, a tireless worker, yet very fond of sports and hunting. The Indians frequently pitted their fleetest runners against him in foot races. He and his wife spent their last years in Perry County.

Daniel Goble, father of Doctor Goble, was also born in Clark Township and grew up amid pioneer scenes. He attended rural schools when it was the custom for the teacher to board around in the families of the pupils. Reared on a farm, he inherited land and his good judgment and ability enabled to build up one of the best farms in Perry County. He died at the age of eighty-one and was buried in the Lanman cemetery, on the farm where he had lived since his marriage.

Daniel Goble was married to Louisa Lanman, a native of Clark Township, daughter of George Lanman and grand-daughter of John Lanman. John Lanman was one of the first settlers of that township and owned one of the first horse mills operated for the public in Perry County. Mrs. Louisa Goble died at the age of sixty years, the mother of the following children: George, John, Keith, Daniel S., Susan, Martha and Sarah.

Doctor Goble spent his youth in the environment of his father's farm. He attended district schools, and finished his literary education in the Central Normal College at Danville, Indiana. He began his life of usefulness as a teacher at the age of seventeen, and taught five terms in Perry County.

In the meantime hew as diligently studying medicine under Doctor Lomax of Bristow, Indiana, and subsequently entered the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, where he graduated with the class of 1892. In 1907 he took a post-graduate course in the same institution. Doctor Goble was in practice at Chrisney, Indiana, until he sought a larger and better field for his skill and experience and removed to Evansville in 1906. Beside his official association with the Vanderburg Medical Society, he is a member of the Indiana State and the Ohio Valley Medical Associations and is for 1919, Vanderburg County's Health Commissioner.

He is affiliated with Evansville Lodge, No. 64, Free and Accepted Masons, and Orion Lodge Knights of Pythias. He and wife are active members of Olivet Presbyterian Church.

He married, in 1893, Oma R. Cooper, a native of Perry County. Her father, Gabriel Cooper, for many years was a prominent and successful teacher in that county.

Doctor and Mrs. Goble have two daughters, named Mildred and Marjorie.