History of Johnson County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882, Part 88

Author: Johnson Co., Ia. History. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa.
Number of Pages: 980

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ELMER F. CLAPP, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the State Univer- sity, was born the 10th day of April, 1843, in St. Lawrence county, New York. He was educated at the Normal University of Bloomington, Illi- nois, entering that school in 1858, and remained there until April 23, 1861.

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When the war broke out he enlisted in the Eleventh Regiment of Illinois, and served, a faithful soldier, during the entire war, and was honorably discharged in November, 1865. He graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in March, 1870, having attended the Ann Arbor Medical College in 1867-68. He commenced the sudy of Medicine in the army, and when discharged entered the office of Dr. Rosseau in Washington, Iowa. He was appointed professor of anatomy of the S. U. I. in Sep- tember, 1871, which position he has filled with credit ever since. He retained his office and practice at Washington, Iowa, until 1873, when he settled in Iowa City and began the practice of medicine and surgery in Johnson county. He was secretary of the faculty in 1873. He is attending surgeon and president of the board of directors of Mercy Hospital of Iowa City, and it was due to the united efforts of Dr. Shrader and Dr. Clapp that the hospital was established. He is a member of the Iowa City, the Johnson County, the Washington County, the District, and the State Medical Societies, and of the American Medical Society. A republican in politics; he was a member of the city council in 1880-81; a member of the board of health and health officer in 1881; is the presi- dent of the Republican Publishing Company; has been president of the board of trade of Iowa City since 1878. He is surgeon for the C., R. I. & P. railroad, also surgeon for the B., C. R. & N. railroad; a member of all the Masonic bodies in Iowa City and of the Knights of Pythias of Iowa City. He was married December 19, 1877, to Mrs. C. M. Barrett of Wapello, Louisa county, Iowa.

AMOS. N. CURRIER, A. M., Professor of Latin language and Lit- erature, State University of Iowa, residing in Iowa City; was born Oct. 13, 1832, in Canaan, New Hampshire. He is a graduate from Dartmouth College in 1856. He was elected in 1857 as Professor of Ancient Lan- guages in the Central University of Iowa, and remained in that position until 1861, when he enlisted as a private in the 8th Iowa regiment volun- teer infantry, and was with it in all battles in which it was engaged, until April, 1862, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, he was taken prisoner. He was released in June, 1862. He then entered the service as commis- sary of the 11th regiment Missouri volunteer cavalry, and was with it until the end of the war in 1865, when he returned and took his position in the aforesaid university, and remained in that position until elected to his present position in the State University of Iowa in 1867. He was mar- ried September 9, 1868, to Miss Celia A. Moore, of Brighton, Iowa. He in company with Prof. Parker visited Europe in 1875. He is the author of a book entitled "Latin Suffixes." Independent republican.

ALLEN C. COWPERTHWAITE, M. D., Ph. D., Professor of Materia Medica, and Diseases of Women in the Homeopathic Medical Department, and Dean of the Faculty, State University, a resident of Iowa City was born May 3, 1848 in Cape May, New Jersey. He came with his

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parents to Illinois while quite young. He is a graduate of Toulon Semi- nary in 1865. He graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College at Philadelphia, March 3, 1869. He located at Galva, Illinois, and practiced medicine for five years, and moved to Nebraska City. He took an active part in organizing the homeopathic profession in Nebraska, and was the recognized leader of that school of medicine. He received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the Central University of Iowa in 1876, and that year became the author of a work on " Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relation." He was elected to the chair of mental and nervous diseases in his " alma mater," and had accepted the position when notified of his elec- tion to his present position in the State University in 1877, which he accepted. He became author of a work on Materia Medica in 1880 that is used as a text-book in all homeopathic colleges in Europe and America. He was married June 20, 1870, to Miss Ida Erving, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. He is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F. of Iowa City; republican in politics; member of Baptist Church; an honorary member of a large number of local and state medical societies, and is prominently connected with the American Institute of Homeopathy, the national organization of homeo- pathic physicians.

CHARLES A. EGGERT, A. M., Ph.D., Professor of Modern Lan- guages and Literature, State University of Iowa, residing in Iowa City; was born Oct. 1, 1835, in Magdeburg, Saxony, Prussia. He was educated at the University at Berlin, also graduated at Heidelburg, taking the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1870, after which he spent two years studying art, principally in Italy. He took several courses of lectures while in Paris. He traveled in the summer of 1859, in England, and came to America in the fall of that year. His brother, in company with the professor, bought land in Delaware county, Iowa, and farmed, but with no great prosperity attending these labors. He was a soldier in the late civil war, enlisted in the 6th Iowa Cavalry, 1862, but owing to an accident in which he received injuries, after six months of monotonus army life, left the ranks and commenced teaching in the high school at Davenport. He was ten months a book-keeper in the Muscatine National Bank in 1864. He was elected to his present position in the State Uni- versity of Iowa, in February, 1865. He was married in 1867 to Miss Sophy M. French, of Muscatine. He received the degree of master of arts from Princeton College in 1867. He visited Europe in 1876. Is known as one of the most ardent admirers of H. C. Carey's system and theory of political economy.

STEPHEN N. FELLOWS, A. M., D. D., Professor of Mental and Moral Science and Didactics, State University of Iowa, residing in Iowa City; was born May 30, 1830, in North Sandwich, N. H. His parents settled in Dixon, Illinois, in 1834, and by the death of his father in 1840, the family was left in reduced circumstances, and he was compelled to strug-

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gle with the cold charity of an unfriendly world. At eighteen years of age he entered Rock River Seminary at Mt. Morris, Illinois; in 1851 he entered Asbury University at Green Castle, Ind .; in 1854 received the degree of Batchelor of Arts. He taught Latin and mathematics during his junior and senior year. Before he graduated he was elected pro- fessor of mathematics and natural science in Cornell College, at Mt. Ver- non, Iowa, which position he held for six years. He joined the Upper Iowa Conference of the M. E. Church in 1856. In 1867 he was elected to his present position in the State University of Iowa. He received the degree of D. D. from Cornell College in 1871. He was married March 13, 1856, to Miss Sarah L. Matson, daughter of Dr. S. G. Matson, of Anamosa, Iowa. This union is blessed with six children, four living, two sons and two daughters. A prominent member of the Masonic fraternity ; a repub- lican in politics, and a very active worker in the temperance cause.

GUSTAVUS HINRICHS, A. M., M. D., professor of Physical Science and Director of the Laboratory, State University of Iowa, residing in Iowa City; was born December 2, 1836, in Lunden, Holstein, Germany. He graduated from the Polytechnic school, Copenhagen, Denmark; came to America in 1861; was teacher in the Davenport high school until the fall of 1862. He entered the State University of Iowa as teacher of modern languages in the fall of 1862; was elected Professor of Physics and Chem- istry in 1863. His entire time is devoted to the department of chemistry and natural philosophy. In 1875 he began issuing the Iowa Weather Service reports. The State recognizes the value and importance of this work, and makes a small appropriation to pay expenses in connection with the service. He is the author of many valuable works on Physics, Chemistry and Mineralogy, besides treats on various subjects of great value to the student.

C. M. HOBBY, M. D., the lecturer on Opthamalogy and Otology, demonstrator of Anatomy and Curator of the Medical Museum in the medical department in the State University, a practiciug physician in Iowa City, and one of the curators of the State Historical Society, was born October 16, 1848, in Schenectady, New York. His father died in 1850, and his mother made her home with his grandfather, Philander Mead, in Genoa, one of the early physicians in central New York, having begun practice there in 1811; he died in 1852, and the mother of Dr. H. con- tinued to reside in the old homestead with her brother, Dr. Nelson Mead, and the Dr. H. you see in Iowa City has always been acquainted with dead men's bones from his earliest infancy. He attended Moravia Academy, New York, in the fall 1862, and continued there until 1866. He commenced the study of medicine under his uncle, January 1, 1867, and after attending for three years Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, graduated March 1, 1870. He came to Iowa in 1872, and commenced the practice of medicine at Wilton, Iowa, he was there

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but a short time when he went back to his old home, and was married in June, 1874, to Miss Mary L. Parker, of Pittsfield, Mass., an old school mate of his at Moravia Academy. He returned to Wilton, Iowa, in April, 1875, and was appointed lecturer in the medical department S. U. I. in 1875, and demonstrator of anatomy in 1876, at which time he moved to Iowa City. He is a member of the Johnson County Medical Society, and of the State Medical Society, and secretary of the Iowa Academy of Sciences. He is one of the attending surgeons of Mercy Hospital of Iowa City. He is a member of various beneficial and charitable institutions of Iowa City. A democrat in politics. He is health officer for Iowa City for 1882.

NATHAN R. LEONARD, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy and Dean of the Collegiate Faculty, State University ; was born in Nov., 1832, in Franklin county, Ohio. He resided at his birth place near Columbus, Ohio, until he was 11 years of age; his youthful days were spent on a farm. He came with his parents to Burlington, Iowa, in 1844 ; he graduated from the Presbyterian College at Kossuth, Iowa, in 1857, in the first class sent out from this institution; he was a resident graduate of Harvard during the winter of 1857-58, attending the lecturers of Pro- fessor Pierce, an accomplished mathematician. He was a teacher of mathematics from 1854, in the college he graduated from, until 1857; he taught mathematics and natural science from 1858 to 1860 in the Yellow Springs College at Kossuth. He was elected to his present position in the S. U. I. in 1860, which position he has held continually since. Mr. Leonard was president pro tem of the S. U. I. from the spring of 1866 until the beginning of the fall term 1868, and acted in that capac- ity for 1870, during the time intervening the retirement of president Black and coming in of president Thatcher. He is a faithful and devout mem- ber of the Presbyterian Church of Iowa City, and represented the Pres- bytery of Iowa City at the General Assembly at Madison, Wisconsin. He was city civil engineer from 1871 to 1874, and from 1878 to 1881. Mr. Leonard was married August 25, 1853, to Miss Elizabeth Heizer, of Kossuth, Des Moines county, Iowa. This union is blessed with five chil- dren, Levi O., Minnie E., Charles R., Frank M., and Maggie. A mem- ber of the A. O. U. W. No. 4, of Iowa City; a republican in politics, and his first presidential vote was for.Fremont.

EMLIN McCLAIN, A. M., resident Professor of Law, State University residing in Iowa City, was born Nov. 26, 1851, in Salem, Ohio. He came with his parents to Tipton, Cedar county, Iowa, in 1855. He graduated from the S. U. I. with the class of 1871. He taught in the Iowa City Academy, owned and conducted by his father during the year 1872, and prepared himself and took the degree of A. B., in 1872. He attended the law department S. U. I., and graduated in the class of 1873. He entered the law office of Gatch & Wright, of Des Moines, as clerk

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and stenographer in 1873, and remained in that capacity until 1877, in the mean time serving two terms as clerk of the Senate committee on claims in Congress, Senator Wright being chairman, 1875 -- 76-77. Mr. McClain was married February 19, 1879, to Miss Ellen L. Griffiths, of Des Moines, Iowa. He is the author of McClain's Annotated Statutes of the State of Iowa, published in 1880, a work highly appreciated by the legal profession. He was elected resident Professor of Law in S. U. I., and moved to Iowa City, September 1, 1881.

MRS. ADA NORTH, the present Librarian of the State University, was born in 1841, in Alexander, New York. She is the daughter of Rev. M. N. and Mary K. Miles. She graduated from the Ohio Female College near Cincinnati, in 1859. She was married September 12, 1865, to Mr. George J. North, at Geneseo, Ill .; he died in 1870. Mrs. North was appointed State Librarian and served in that office from 1871 to '78. She was appointed Librarian of the S. U. I. in 1879. The students find her an obliging librarian. The vast experience she brought with her to the pres- ent responsible position is of great importance in helping the anxious, weary and over-worked student to dig out from the vast store house of knowledge she controls, such facts as will aid in smoothing the rugged pathway of the verdant mind.

LEONARD F. PARKER, A. M., Professor of Greek Language and Literature and History, and Instructor in Comparative Philology, State University, a resident of Iowa City; born August 3, 1825, in Arcade, New York. He graduated from Oberlin College with the degree of A. B. in 1851. He taught school in Pennslyvania after leaving college, until 1856. He came to Iowa and settled in Grinnell in that year, and was a teacher in the public school for three years, and was elected Principal of the Prepara- tory Department of Iowa College and acting President. He was elected Professor of Ancient Languages in 1861, and remained in that position until 1870, when he was elected to the position in the University he now fills. In 1868 he was elected representative from Poweshiek county one term. While a member of the Board of Regents he was instrumental in giving two free scholarships for the State University in each county. He traveled in Europe in 1875 in company with Professor Currier. He was married at Oberlin, Aug. 21, 1853, to Miss Sarah C. Pearse. This union is blessed with one child, Harriet J., a graduate from the University, class of 1879, and was a teacher of Greek and German until her marriage with Mr. John Campbell, a graduate of the University, class 1877, A. B., and class of 1879, L. L. B. He is a member of the Congregational Church of Iowa City; a republican in politics.

P. H. PHILBRICK, M. S., C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering, State University, a resident of Iowa City, was born March 8, 1839, in New York state. He was educated at Tafton Seminary, Grant county, Wisconsin. He was a soldier in the civil war from 1861 to 1865,

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entered the army in the 20th regiment, Wisconsin Vol. Infantry. After the war he entered the Michigan University and graduated from both the scientific and engineering departments in 1868. From that time he was engaged continually in the work of engineering in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, principally on railroad work, until 1873 he was elected to his present position in the S. U. I. He was appointed city engineer in 1874, and served as such until 1878, and was again appointed in 1881, and is at present the city engineer of Iowa City. He was married August 14, 1862, to Miss Malah P. Brackett, of Grant county, Wis. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, also of the American Society for the Advancement of Science.

LEWIS W. ROSS, A. M., Resident Professor and Chancellor of the Law Department in Iowa City, was born October 27, 1827 in Butler county, Ohio. He graduated from the Miami University of Oxford, Ohio, with the degree of A. B., June 24, 1852. He was admitted to the bar of Butler county after reading law two years in the office of Judge Josiah Scott & McFarland, and opened an office in Hamilton, Ohio, and practiced law until the fall of 1856, when he moved to and settled in Lewis, Cass county, Iowa, and engaged in speculation that did not prove a grand suc- cess, and in June, 1858, opened a law office in Lewis, where he continued to practice law until January, 1861, when he settled in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and practiced law in the State and Federal courts. He was elected to the Iowa State Senate in 1863 and served four years. He was married July 12, 1855, to Miss Zoe M. Brown, of Lebanon, Ohio, daughter of the Rev. Simeon Brown. This union is blessed with five living children. He was elected to the chair of resident professor of law, State University, and moved to Iowa City, and in June, 1881, was promoted to the position of chancellor of the law department, which position he now holds.

MRS. PHEBE SCOFIELD, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, State University, a resident of Iowa City, was born Nov. 29, 1835, in Chili, Union county, New York. She came to Iowa, and settled in Davenport and began teaching in the public schools of that city in 1863, and con- tinued in that city teaching until 1874, when she came to Iowa City to teach in the State University, and continued as an instructor until 1880, when she was elected to the position of assistant professor of mathematics.

JOHN C. SHRADER, M. D., and A. M. Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the Medical Department of the State University of Iowa, and practicing physician and surgeon in Iowa City; senior partner of the firm of Shrader & Little; office in the opera house block, on Clinton street, near the Palace Hotel. Was born April 24, 1830, in Washington county, Ohio. He settled in Linn county, Iowa, in 1855, and

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engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 1857 he assisted in organizing Western College in Linn county near Shueyville, Johnson county, and was a teacher in that institution, and under Dr. Crouse & Dr. Parmenter he resumed the study of medicine. He attended medical lectures in Brooklyn, and was but fairly established in his medical profession when Governor Kirkwood recognized in him the proper spirit and element for a captain in the Union army, and gave him a commission for the Twenty- second Iowa. He served in General Fitz Henry Warren's staff as pro- vost marshal general of the state of Texas in 1864. On his return to his regiment he was commissioned surgeon, May 1, 1864, with the rank of major, and was one of the operating surgeons of the second division, nineteenth army corps, and after the battle of Winchester, Virginia, he had charge of a general hospital at that place. When he was mustered out of the service at the close of the war, his comrades presented him with a complete set of surgical instruments. On the several cases is engraved the following: "Presented to surgeon John C. Shrader, by the officers and men of the Twenty-second Regiment Iowa Infantry, in appreciation of his skill as a physican and surgeon, and as a tribute of love and esteem from his comrades in arms." After the war he entered upon his profession in Iowa City. Upon the organization and opening of a Medical Department to the State University of Iowa, he was chosen to the chair he now occupies. He is attending surgeon at Mercy Hos- pital, and was very active in establishing that institution. He is a

member of all the medical societies of the city, county, state and nation, and a prominent member in all the Masonic bodies in Iowa City, and of various other secret societies. He is a republican in politics, and has been honored by his party with the office of State senator, to which he was elected in 1879, in democratic Johnson county, over his opponent to the office, John P. Irish, the most aggressive and fearless democrat in Johnson county, by a majority of seventy-three votes, and was a very prominent candidate for Congress in 1882, and partially to repay him for the gallant and successful fight he made for senator in a democratic county he ought to have received the nomination He was married in January, 1852; his wife dying in December, 1871, and in September, 1872, he married Miss Margaret A. Carter, of Iowa City. He received the degree of A. M. at Western College, June 20, 1877.

MISS SUSAN F. SMITH is the lady that fills the Chair of English Language and Literature and teaches German in the State University of Iowa. She came to that honorable position at the request of the Board of Regents, in the spring of 1881, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the res- ignation of Miss Sudlow. The subject of this sketch was born May 31, 1849, at Glasgow, Missouri. She graduated from the St. Louis high school in 1867. In 1873 she traveled extensively in Europe, where she learned to speak the French, German and Italian languages. She filled

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the chair of Modern Languages and Literature in Pritchett School Institute, Missouri. She is a lady of no ordinary ability in drawing and painting.

CYRUS ABBOTT, SR., farmer and stock-raiser; was born on the 21st day of December, 1817, in Worcester county, Massachusetts; is the son of Cyrus C. and Polly Abbott, descendants of England. The subject of this sketch was, on the 20th day of September, 1839, married to Ann B. Newton, of the same county and State he was born in. They have four children living: Mahlon S., born January 19, 1843; Charles N., July 4, 1847; Cyrus W., May 19, 1850; George A., March 3, 1854. Mr. Abbott learned the trade of shoemaking. He moved to Wilksboro, Pennsylvania, where he engaged in the wholesale manufacture of boots and shoes for three years. He then moved to Carbondale and followed his trade four years. Then went into the livery business and followed that for ten years. In 1857 he came to Iowa and bought land in sections 19 and 22. He now resides on section 22, and follows farming and raising cattle and hogs. In the winter of 1857, while crossing the river on the ice he broke through, and had it not been for his two sons, Mahlon and Charles, with the aid of a rope, would have been drowned. In 1870 he ran a steamboat from his timber to Coralville, He also has a saw-mill which he runs in winter. He is a republican in politics, and voted for the amendment.

SAMUEL F. ADAIR, farmer, residing in Cedar county, just across the line, post-office, Oasis. He lived in Graham township so long, and still takes a lively interest in the welfare of his old neighbors that he thinks of returning again into Graham township. He was born in 1838 in Penn- sylvania, leaving there in 1854; he lived one and a half years in Ohio, and then settled in Graham township, Johnson county, Iowa, in 1856. He was married in 1873 to Miss Sarah Harrison, of Graham township. This union is blessed with four living children. He moved into Cedar county in 1877, and will move back into Johnson county as soon as he can make arrangements to do so.

E. M. ADAMS, farmer, Cedar township, post-office, Solon; was born in Maine, September 7, 1811, where he lived until he was fifteen years of age; then his father, John E., moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he lived until 1838, when he came to Iowa and resided in Muscatine county one year, and in 1839 moved to Johnson county, where he has since resided. He owns 425 acres of land, and has his home farm well improved. In 1849 he took the gold fever and went to California, but only remained there one year. He was married, April 9, 1836, to Sally Gleason; she dying in June, 1837, leaving one son, Decatur C., now living near Council Bluffs. He was again married, May 3, 1840, to Henrietta Lyon, daughter of John Lyon, and a native of Pennsylvania, this being the first marriage

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in Cedar township. By this union there are two children: John L. and Lillie, now Mrs. Herbert S. Fairall.

JAMES M. ADAMS, farmer, Cedar township, post-office, Solon; was born in Cuyahoga county, Ohio, October 28, 1828, and is a son of John E. and Sarah Adams, natives of Maine. He lived in Ohio until 1846, and then came to Iowa and settled on the farm he now lives on, where he owns 138 acres of land. In 1852 he went to California and remained there three years, engaged in mining. He was married, July 14, 1855, to Miss Sophia Dudley, a daughter of William Dudley, who came to this county in 1842. They have nine children: Ada P., Lydia E., Eva C., Henrietta, Jennie B., Emery D., Eugene M., Eben W. and Harry P. Mr. and Mrs. Adams are members of the M. E. Church.

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History of Johnson County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, and its townships, cities and villages from 1836 to 1882, Part 88

Author: Johnson Co., Ia. History. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa. Number of Pages: 980

Author: Johnson Co., Ia. History. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa.
Number of Pages: 980