Biographical sketch extracted from:

Biographical and historical record of Adams and Wells counties, Indiana. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1887. p. 659-660.

DR. HEZEKIAH DOSTER was born July 6, 1843, in Somersetshire, England. He immigrated with his parents to the United States of America in July, 1848, and came to Wells County, Indiana, in August, 1852, where he still resides. Received a common-school education from the district schools, also attended the high school near Portland, Jay County, Indiana, known as Liber College, conducted by Ebenezer Tucker, from 1860 to 1865, and taught during the winters of same period. He commenced the study of his profession in 1865, under Drs. James R. McCleery and Charles T. Melsheimer, of Bluffton, Indiana, and remained under their careful tutorship until 1867, and attended medical lectures at the University of Michigan the same year. He received his degree of M. D. from the Western Reserve Medical College, of Ohio, in 1868, and commenced the practice of his profession in the southern part of this county the same year. In 1871 he attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, and received a diploma. The last fourteen years he has resided at Poneto, Indiana, and has been engaged in the practice of his profession and farming. He has a fine farm of 500 acres, containing an artificial lake, covering about one acre of land, well stocked with German carp. Dr. Doster was married September 27, 1866, to Sarepta Tewksbury, born October 2, 1846, daughter of Simon and Polly (Porter) Tewksbury. Two children have been born to this union—-Stella, born October 19, 1867, and Victoria, born November 19, 1883. Stella graduated at the high school at Bluffton in 1886, the first in her class of thirty-four. In 1873 he visited California and nearly all the Western Territories. He was commissioned postmaster for Poneto in 1875. Financially he has been successful. In politics an independent; in religion a liberal.