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John Edwin Owens, M. D., has always been, most emphatically d working member of the profession, so that he has stood in the front
JOIIN E. ranks of operating surgeons in the west for many OWENS. years, albeit his name has only occasionally headed any contribution to medical literature. No repre- sentative of his profession in Chicago is more highly honored for what he has done and what he is than Dr. Owens, and two of the
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great educational institutions of the city and the northwest have felt the benefit of his unobtrusive scholarship and clear demonstration. While honored as an operator and an educator, his connection of forty-five years with St. Luke's Hospital has established him as a public benefactor, for it has been his wise and strong personality, added to his professional skill, which has been perhaps the chief sup- porting and developing force of that great charity.
Dr. John E. Owens is a native of Maryland, born at Charleston, Cecil county, on the 16th of October, 1836. Prior to his matriculation ยท as a medical student he was educated at various private schools, at West Nottingham and Elkton academies, and under private tutors. In 1862 he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadel- phia, and afterward enjoyed a special course in surgical anatomy and operative surgery under Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, the famous surgeon. After serving a short time as resident physician at Blockley Hospital, he removed from Philadelphia to Chicago in 1863.
Soon afterward, St. Luke's Hospital completed its organization, and a year later Dr. Owens was placed at its head, performing the first surgical operations within its walls. He was also elected a mem- ber of its board of directors, and has since been continuously identified with the institution. He has been a strong administrative factor in the development of the hospital, and is still president of its medical board. In 1867 he was appointed lecturer at Rush Medical College on surgical diseases of the urinary organs, and four years afterward commenced to lecture on the principles and practice of surgery in the same college. In 1877-83 he held that chair in the Woman's Medical College, having in 1882 transferred his educational activities from Rush College to the Medical Department of Northwestern University, . by accepting from the faculty of the latter the chair of surgical anat- omy and operative surgery. In 1891 he was chosen to his present professorship, that of surgery and clinical surgery. He served as medical director of the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. For many years he has been chief surgeon of the Illinois Central Railway and of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and was long a leading member of the American Association of Railway Surgeons, of which he has been president. He is also a fellow and was one of the vice presidents of the American Surgical Association, and is a member of the American Medical Association, Chicago Medical Society, Doctors'
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Club, Chicago Medico-Legal Society and the Chicago Surgical So- ciety, of which he was the first president.
On December 30, 1869, Dr. Owens married Miss . Alethea S. Jamar, daughter of Reuben D. Jamar, of Elkton, Maryland, and to them have been born one child, Marie Girvin Owens. The Doctor is iden- tified with the Calumet Club, was for many years a member of the Tolleston Shooting Club, and resides at the Lexington Hotel.
The specialists of the day are those who are placing in final oblivion the old saying that "medicine is a blind science." By their SETH S. studies, experiments and thoroughly scientific inves- BISHOP. tigations they are letting bright light into heretofore obscure pathological causes, inventing new processes and mechanisms to keep pace with their discoveries, and raising medicine to the dignity of an exact science. In the field of invention as applied to the medical and surgical treatment of the nose, throat and ear, there are few members of the profession in the country who stand higher than Seth Scott Bishop, M. D., LL. D. An untiring and original investigator, a deep scholar and one of the ablest and busiest practitioners in the west, these inventions have grown from the neces- sities of his own work; among them are a massage otoscope, an improved tonsillotome, a middle-ear curette, an ossicle vibrator, a compressed-air meter, a light concentrator, a cold wire snare, a nasal speculum, a nasal knife, a camphor-menthol inhaler, powder-blowers, an automatic tuning fork, double retractors, an ear aspirator, a com- bined periosteum elevator and curette, etc. He is also the discoverer of camphor-menthol itself.
Dr. Bishop has made a great number of valuable contributions to the literature of his specialties, most of which have been originally read at the conventions of the various medical associations. He has made an especially exhaustive study of that illusive ailment, hay fever, two of his papers taking the first prizes given by the United States Hay Fever Association. His "Statistical Report of Twenty- one Thousand Cases of Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat," carries with it most valuable instruction, and illustrates the author's thoroughness of research and wide acquaintance with his subject. Other published papers cover almost all known subjects relative to these diseases. He is also the author of two standard works, his "Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear" having been adopted as a
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text-book in a large proportion of the medical colleges of the United States and Canada. "The Ear and Its Diseases" appeared in the fall of 1906, and was received with marked favor by the profession and especially medical educators. He is also the editor of The Illinois Medical Bulletin and one of the editors of the Laryngoscope.
Continuous and energetic efforts, directed wide experience and scientific and inventive endowments of a high order, have enabled Dr. Bishop to reach his position of eminence when he is in the full maturity of his physical and intellectual strength. He is a Wisconsin man, born at Fond du Lac, February 7, 1852, the son of Lyman and Maria (Probart) Bishop. His parents came from New York, the paternal branch of the family being English and the maternal, Scotch- English. The boy received his early education in the public schools of his native city, subsequently taking classical courses at Pooler Institute, Fond du Lac, and at Beloit College. In his youth, besides attending school and studying music, he mastered the printer's trade in the office of the Fond du Lac Daily Commonwealth and printed the first successful daily paper on the first power press which ever ap- peared in that city. Later he edited, "set up" and published an academic paper called The Pen, and commenced to read medicine. After he had prosecuted his professional studies as far as possible at home, he attended two courses of lectures at the University of the City of New York ( 1871-2), studied systematically under Dr. S. S. Bowers, of Fond du Lac, and finally received his degree on gradu- ating from the Northwestern University Medical School of Chicago in 1876.
Dr. Bishop commenced practice in his native city, then removed to Rochester, Minnesota, but in the fall of 1879 ventured into the larger field awaiting him in Chicago. In 1881 he was elected a mem- ber of the medical staff of the South Side Free Dispensary, where he served first in the children's, and afterward in the eye and ear, department for many years. Later he conducted clinics in the West Side Free Dispensary, and has been consulting surgeon to the Illinois Masonic Orphans' Home from its foundation, having also been in active service as attending surgeon to the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary for more than fifteen years. He is honorary president of the faculty and professor of diseases of the nose, throat and ear, Illinois Medical College; professor of otology in the Chicago Post-
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Graduate Medical School and Hospital, surgeon to the Post-Graduate and Illinois Hospitals, and consulting surgeon to the Mary Thompson Hospital, to the Chicago Hospital School for Nervous and Delicate Children (in affiliation with the University of Chicago), and to the Silver Cross Hospital of Joliet. His wide identification with the fraternal and educational organizations of his profession embraces membership in the Chicago Pathological Society, the State Medical Societies of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the American Medical Association, the Pan- American Medical Congress, the International Medical Congress, American Medical Editorial Association.
Dr. Bishop was married March 23, 1885, to Miss Jessie Abagail Button, his wife being the daughter of the late Peter Button, the well known contractor and builder. Their children are Jessie Elizabeth and Mabel Bishop. The Doctor is a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Beloit College Chapter, is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a Shriner, and is also identified with the Odd Fellows, Knights of Honor and A. O. U. W.
Among the best known surgeons of the state, Dr. Davison is identified with the history of Illinois both as a skillful surgeon and CHARLES a leading educator. He is a native of Lake county, DAVISON. this state, born on the 13th of January, 1858, being
the son of Peter and Martha Maria (Whedon ) Davison. He is of English extraction, the founders of the American branch of the family coming to the United States in early colonial times.
Dr. Davison obtained a preliminary education in the public schools, was further advanced by courses at the Barrington High School and the Wauconda Academy, and for two years thereafter studied under a tutor. He commenced the study of medicine, beginning his regular course at the Chicago Medical College (Northwestern University Medical School ) in 1880, graduating in 1883. He was a conscien- tious and able student and at the conclusion of his studies passed the competitive examination for a hospital interneship, and had advantage of being assigned to the Cook County Hospital, wherein the oppor- tunities for valuable observation and experience are more numerous than in any other institution of that character in the west. After remaining there for the full period of eighteen months, in 1883-4,
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Dr. Davison entered into private practice in Chicago, having from the first devoted himself chiefly to surgical work.
Dr. Davison's standing, both in the practice and theory of his specialty, is evident by the positions of responsibility to which he has been appointed on the working hospital staffs and the faculties of various educational institutions devoted to the progress of medicine. He has served as professor of surgery and clinical surgery, Univer- sity of Illinois (College of Physicians and Surgeons), professor of surgery Chicago Clinical School (post-graduate), and attending sur- geon Cook County and West Side Hospitals. He is also a trustee of the University of Illinois, a fellow of the Chicago Surgical Society, and a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society. Socially and fraternally, he is identified with the Illinois Club and the Masons, being a Knight Templar and a member of the Mystic Shrine.
On October 20, 1887, Dr. Davison was married to Mary Lavina Kidd, by whom he has had one child, Charles Marshall Davison, born April 16, 1896. His home is at 955 Jackson boulevard and his down-town office No. 103 State street.
Through his original work and contributions to medical science as well as through the invention of new instruments and advanced
CHANNING W. BARRETT. operative technique, Dr. Channing Whitney Bar- rett's name is among those prominent in the history of Chicago medicine and surgery. Upon locating in Chicago he at once became identified with Dr. H. P. Newman in his private and institutional work and has ever been an enthusiastic teacher in post-graduate and undergraduate work. Dr. Barrett is adjunct professor of gynecology and clinical gynecology in the medical department of the University of Illinois (College of Physicians and Surgeons) ; surgeon and gynecol- ogist to Marion Sims Hospital; gynecologist to Chicago Polyclinic School and Hospital; obstetrician to Cook County Hospital, and for- merly professor of gynecology in Chicago Clinical School. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Chicago Medical Society, the Illinois Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Society, a fellow of the Chicago Gynecological Society, and member of Public Health Defense League.
Dr. Barrett was born of sturdy stock, has a robust constitution,
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a mechanical turn of mind, and is naturally ambidextrous. He began life on a farm, spent many of his younger years in acquiring an education, and has won advancement in his profession on his own merits. He was born at Blissfield, Michigan, December 14, 1866, and was reared at Hudson, Michigan. His father was David Fowler Barrett, a son of Israel Barrett, whose ancestors lived in Berkshire county of western Massachusetts during the colonial era. The ma- ternal ancestors of the Doctor's father were Blanchards, who settled at Munson, Massachusetts, at a very early date. Dr. Barrett's mother was Martha C. Dewey, a daughter of Jesse Dewey, whose birthplace and ancestral seat was in Vermont; her mother was a Wilcox, of New England Puritan stock.
After attending common school and Fayette Normal University, and Hillsdale College, Dr. Barrett taught in common and graded schools for six years. He began studying medicine at Hillsdale, Michigan, in the office of Dr. Bion Whelan, and afterward, from 1892 to 1895, in the Detroit College of Medicine, where he graduated in the latter year with the degree of M. D. He was an interne at St. Luke's Hospital, Detroit, 1893-95, was house physician and sur- geon-in-chief at Harper Hospital, 1895-96; was house physician, 1896-98, and assistant surgeon, 1898-1904, at Marion Sims Hospital ; assistant surgeon Chicago Clinical School, 1896-99; instructor and assistant in gynecology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1896- 1900. Dr. Barrett married, July 22, 1896, Miss Lulu May Alvord. Their children are: Russell Alvord, born February 26, 1899; Flor- ence Louise, born June 6, 1900, died September 18, 1902; Helen Elizabeth, born October 21, 1902. Their residence is at 28 St. James place, and his office at 100 State street.
Dr. John Edwin Rhodes, A. M., M. D., is a native of Bath, Sum- mit county, Ohio, born on the 12th of February, 1851, and is a son
JOHN E. of John and Rebecca Clark (Smith) Rhodes. His RHODES. father was a well-to-do merchant, who, while Dr. Rhodes was still a child, removed to Akron, Ohio, and subsequently to South Bend, Indiana. The family still later removed to Webster City, Iowa, and there resided for eleven years, during which period young Rhodes made good progress in his edit- cation. At the age of sixteen he returned with the family to South Bend, Inchiana, and at a later date to Belvidere, Illinois.
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After a preliminary course of instruction Dr. Rhodes entered the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with the degree of A. B. in 1876. During this period he proved himself a thorough university man, being actively identified with the college societies and Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity, editor of the college paper, presi- dent of the literary society and especially prominent in oratorical contests. Three years after leaving the university his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of A. M. The summer succeeding his graduation Dr. Rhodes spent in the east, visiting the Centennial Exposition, and subsequently locating in Sacramento, California, where he entered the employ of Huntington, Hopkins & Company, wholesale hardware merchants
After a successful career of seven years in connection with the house named, Dr. Rhodes commenced the realization of a slowly ma- turing determination to assume for his life work the medical profes- sion. Locating in Chicago again, he was matriculated at Rush Medical College in 1883, and three years thereafter graduated as valedictorian of his class. Several months of European travel and study followed, after which he returned to Chicago and became associated with Dr. E. Fletcher Ingals and engaged in general prac- tice .. After a few years, however, he confined himself to the special- ties in which his professional associate and friend had already ac- quired such eminence. Early in this special practice Dr. Rhodes was elected by the faculty of Rush Medical College as lecturer on laryn- gology and diseases of the chest, and he was later advanced to the associate professorship of the same chair, which he still occupies. At one time he was also professor of physical diagnosis and clinical medicine of the Woman's Medical School. For ten years he was secretary and treasurer of the Rush Medical College Alumni Asso- ciation, was historian of the college, president of its Instructors' Association, a leading member of the Nu Sigma Nu, and in every detail as earnestly interested in the welfare of his medical alma mater as of his literary sponsor, the University of Chicago.
At the present time Dr. Rhodes is laryngologist to St. Mary's of Nazareth Hospital and the Home for Destitute Crippled Children, consulting physician to Chicago Relief and Aid Society, and attending physician to Marion Sims Sanitarium and Charleston (Ill.) Sani- tarium. He is a member of the American Laryngological Associa-
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tion, Chicago Laryngological and Otological Society, American Med- ical Association, Illinois State Medical Society, Chicago Medical Society, and Physicians' Club. He is also identified with the Chicago Athletic Association and the Forty Club.
Dr. Rhodes was married in Sacramento, California, July 12, 1877, to Miss Anna Louise White, and their children are John Edwin, Jr., and Margaret. In politics, the Doctor is a Republican, and in religion a Baptist.
A. Augustus O'Neill, M. D., is a well known practicing physician and surgeon of Chicago, a resident for fourteen years. He was born in Hereford, Herefordshire, England, November,
A. AUGUSTUS O'NEILL. 1865, and is a son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Jones) O'Neill. His father was born in Swan- sea, Wales, and his mother in Hereford. The Doctor received his early education in English parochial and American public schools, and after- ward made a thorough study of the classics under private instructors. His professional education was also remarkably complete, graduating as he did from the Medical Department, University of Kansas, Kansas City, in 1890. He became full partner of S. S. Todd, emeritus profes- sor gynecology and president Kansas City Medical College for eighteen years. Dr. O'Neill took post-graduate studies at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and the New York Polyclinic, and received a post-graduate degree from Jefferson Medical College, and Midland University conferred that of Ph. D. upon him.
Dr. O'Neill has been a resident practitioner since 1894, his standing as a physician and surgeon being recognized by the profession in his appointment to such positions as the following, which he now holds : President and surgeon-in-chief of the Columbia Hospital, and pro- fessor of medical jurisprudence of the Chicago College of Law. He also filled the chair of diagnosis at the Harvey Medical College for five years. He is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society, the American Electro-Therapeutic Association, and Tri-State Medical Association, and president Illinois State Electro-Therapeutical Association. Dr. O'Neill is the father of one child, Christopher S. O'Neill. The family residence is at 4327 Drexel Boulevard, and offices at 103 State street.
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Dr. Ferdinand Hotz, who has held the chair of ophthalmology at the Chicago Policlinic since 1888 and at the Rush Medical College
since 1898, is a native of Germany, born in Wert-
FERDINAND heim, July 12, 1843. His parents were Gottfried
C. HOTZ. and Rosina (Muschaweck) Hotz, who thoroughly believed in giving their son a substantial and broad education. After attending the common school of his native place, he entered the ly- ceum or preparatory school to the university, and after graduating from it at the age of eighteen years took up his medical studies with energy and determination. At the University of Jena he first began a four years' course in his profession, and completed his medical studies at Heidelberg, from which he graduated in 1865 with his degree of M. D. During the last year of his course there and for twelve months after graduation, he served as interne at the University hospital, and in 1866 had the advantage of experience as an army surgeon in the Austro-Prussian war. Soon afterwards he pursued advanced studies on the eye and ear at Berlin and Vienna, under such eminent special- ists as Graefe, Arlt, Jaeger and Politzer. He was appointed house surgeon at the University hospital of Heidelberg, and in 1869 at- tended clinics at Paris, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
With this varied experience and thorough professional education, in August, 1869, Dr. Hotz came to the United States, and at once lo- cated in Chicago for practice. In the following year he was appointed oculist and aurist at Cook County hospital, and after holding the position for five years became attending surgeon at the Illinois Chari- table Eye and Ear Infirmary. He retained the latter position until 1892, or for a period of seventeen years. The Doctor entered the educational field in 1871 as professor of ophthalmology and otology at the Woman's Medical College, occupying that chair for four years. In 1888 he was elected professor of ophthalmology in the Chicago Policlinic, in 1897 became oculist and aurist at the Presbyterian hos- pital and in 1898 professor of ophthalmology and otology at Rush Medical College, and these three positions he still holds. In 1888 he was made chairman of the section of ophthalmology and otology of the American Medical Association, an honor never accorded a member of the profession without a national reputation for surgical skill and deep scholarship. The Doctor also founded the Chicago Society of Ophthalmology and Otology, of which he was the presi-
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dent the first three years. He is still a leading member of this organi- zation, as well as of the Chicago Medical Society (president in 1892), American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society and the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otology.
Dr. Hotz has contributed largely to ophthalmic and otological journals, especially on new and improved operations for entropium, ectropium and symblepharon. He is the author of the valuable chap- ter on "Lid Operations," for the "American Textbook of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat," and among the most noticeable of his brochures may be mentioned the following: "Intra-Ocular Lesions Through Sun-Strokes," "New Operation for Entropium," "Mastoid Operations," "Plastic Lid Surgery" and "Skin Grafts in Eye Sur- gery." The Doctor also has always taken a deep interest in educa- tional affairs outside of his profession, and in 1875 was chosen as a member of the Public Library Board of Chicago, serving thus with fidelity and efficiency for three years.
On January 6, 1873, Dr. Hotz was united in marriage with Miss Emma Rosenmerkel, daughter of Adolph Rosenmerkel, the first Ger- man druggist to settle in Chicago. The six children born to this union are Olga, Elsa, Lucille, Katherine, Marguerite and Clara. The Doc- tor has a beautiful summer residence at Morton Grove, Illinois, known as "The Pines." He is a man of decided domestic tastes, and his club life is confined to the Chicago Athletic Association. His down- town office is at No. 34 Washington street, the Venetian building.
In January, 1907, The American Medical Compend, a monthly journal of medicine and surgery published at Toledo, Ohio, issued what is called the "Byron Robinson Number," it be-
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