Biographical sketch extracted from:

Tyndall, John W. Standard history of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana.
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918. p. 694.

L. E. SOMERS, M. D., one of the latest recruits to the medical
profession of Wells County, is a man of splendid education, did
excellent work as a teacher in earlier years, and is thoroughly devoted
to his profession. Although quite a young man, and only recently
located at Craigville, his services have received much appreciation in
this community.

Doctor Somers was born in Lancaster Township of Wells County April
5, 1888, son of Henry W. and Otta F. (Johnston) Somers. His parents
are old residents of Wells County, and still live on their farm in
Jefferson Township.

Doctor Somers received his first advantages in School District No.
12 at Greenwood in Jefferson Township. He graduated from the Ossian
High School in 1908 and the following year took a normal course at
Angola preparatory to teaching. For two years his worked in the
country schools of Jefferson Township, and at the end of the first year
married Miss Augusta M. Kroder, daughter of Henry and Minnie (Thatcher)
Kroder. Her mother is now deceased and her father lives at Clifton,
New Jersey. Doctor and Mrs. Somers have one child, Gerald, six years
old.

In the fall of 1911 Doctor Somers began the study of medicine and
entered the University of Indiana at Bloomington, where he pursued the
regular academic course and was graduated Bachelor of Science in 1915.
In 1917 he graduated from the University School of Medicine with the
degree Doctor of Medicine, and on June 20, 1917, located at Craigville
in Lancaster Township.