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C. A. RENNOE, M. D., one of the leading physicians of South Bend, with offices
at 234 South Michigan street, was born in Windsor, Canada, October 7, 1868. His father, Joseph Rennoe, also a native of Canada, was of French origin, and his life oe- cupation was that of the tilling of the soil. About the year 1872 he took up his abode in Portage township, St. Joseph county, where he purchased a farm and continued his agri- cultural pursuits, but retired from the active cares of a business life in 1901, and lived in South Bend until his death on June 22, 1907. His wife, nee Mary Clark, was a native of Canada, although her father was born in Eng- land and her mother in France. In their family are eight living children, including twins, C. A. and Alexander J., they being the third in order of birth.
Dr. Rennoe was but four years of age when brought by his parents to St. Joseph county, and the days of his boyhood and youth were spent on the home farm until his fourteenth year when he entered the city schools of South Bend. When about nineteen years of age, he began the study of medicine under the precep- torship of Dr. Kilmer, of this city, with whom he continued until his graduation from Rush Medical College of Chicago, in 1892. In that year he located in South Bend for the practice of his profession, where he has been engaged as a general practitioner ever since. He has gained an enviable pres- tige as one of the most able and successful fol- lowers of the medical seience, and the success which he has attained is due to his thorough technical information and skill, as reinforced by that sympathy and tact which are the in- evitable concomitants of precedence in this noble profession.
The marriage of Dr. Rennoe was celebrated in 1895, when Josephine M. Beckwith, a native of White Pigeon, Michigan, and a daughter of Levi and Lucy Beckwith, became his wife. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association and the St. Joseph County Medical Society, while his fraternal relations connect him with the Knights of Pythias, the Elks and other societies. He is a stanch Republican. and for four years served as the coroner of St. Joseph county. He has also been an active worker in the local militia. having served as captain surgeon of the Third Indiana National Guards from 1900 to 1904. and he is now the examining surgeon of the order.
WILLIAM ALLEN WICKHAM, M. D., who for a number of years past has been
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actively engaged in the medical profes- sion in South Bend, is one of the most talented members of his profession in northern Indiana. Being of broad and liberal mind, and having enjoyed the advant- ages of a superior education, he has had the interests of the people deeply at heart, and by pen and speech has used his influence in the advocacy of higher education and training for physicians. He was born in Goshen, Indiana, on the 28th of February, 1860, a son of Wil- liam Wallace and Anne (Reiley) Wickham, the latter a native of Ireland. The father was born in the state of New York, but when a young man made his way to Indiana, where he was engaged in the practice of medicine for over half a century. His long professional career has been attended with marked suc- cess, and his name is a household word in the homes of the community in which he resides. He has now reached the eighty-seventh mile- stone on the journey of life, and those who have known him longest esteem him most highly.
Dr. W. A. Wickham obtained his literary education in the high school of Goshen, while his professional training was pursued in the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he was graduated in 1880. He then took post graduate courses in Europe in 1893- 95, also in Chicago in 1903. Thus with an excellent training to serve as a foundation on which to rear the superstructure of his life work he began practice in South Bend, where success has attended his efforts. He has made a specialty of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and has also been United States Pension Ex- aminer and surgeon since MeKinley's first ad- ministration. He is a member of the County and State Medical Societies and of the order of Elks. Dr. Wickham has been a resident of South Bend since 1881, and throughout all these years he has commanded the regard of all by his upright life.
LOUIS S. LA PIERRE, D. D. S. During the years in which he has been engaged in the practice of dentistry in South Bend, Dr. La Pierre has demonstrated the fact that he is well informed concerning the principles of the science, and has not only maintained his posi- tion among the leaders of the dental frater- nity, but has taken part in much of the public and social life of the city, so that he is ac- counted one of her honored citizens. His birth occurred in South Bend on the 8th of June, 1866, his father, J. M. La Pierre having
been a prominent business man in this city for many years. The son Louis was educated in the schools of his native city and those of Walkerton, Indiana, and after the completion of his literary education he entered the em- ploy of Cushing & Company, pharmacists, with whom he remained until 1890. Previous to this time he had formed the determination to devote his life to the practice of dentistry, and with that end in view he pursued a course in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery and graduated in 1892. Returning thence to his native city of South Bend, he immediately opened an office for the practice of his chosen profession, and the large patronage which he now enjoys is indicative of his skill and ability.
On the 17th of February, 1896, Dr. La Pierre was united in marriage to Clara Ginz, of South Bend, and their home is the center of a gracious and warm hearted hospitality.
W. L. OWEN, M. D. During the short time which marks the period of Dr. Owen's professional career he has met with a gratifying success, while at the same time he has won the good will of the citizens of South Bend. He was born in Porter county, Indiana, April 27, 1877, a son of William B. and Annie (Pride) Owen, the former a native of the state of New York, and the latter of Scotland. During his business career the father was engaged largely in manufacturing enterprises, in the making of porous tiles, etc., and his life's labors were ended in death in 1901, having survived his wife for a number of years, she having passed away in 1897.
The public schools of Lake county, Indiana, and the Morgan Park Academy, of Chicago, furnished Dr. Owen, with his early literary training, while his medical education was re- ceived in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1906. Immediately after his gradnation he came to South Bend, where he has since been actively engaged in professional work.
In 1898, Dr. Owen married Miss Mary Wil- ling, who was a practicing physician at the time of her marriage, also a graduate of Hahnemann, and she is now associated with her husband in practice. Both are members of the St. Joseph County Medical Society.
CORNELIUS H. MYERS, M. D. One of the exacting of all the higher lines of occupation to which a man may lend his energies is that of the physician. A most serupulous prelimin-
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ary training is demanded and a nicety of judgment little understood by the laity. Thus when professional success is attained in any instance it may be taken as certain that such measure of success has been thoroughly merited. In Cornelius H. Myers we have one who has gained distinction in the line of his chosen calling, who has been an earnest and discriminating student, and who holds a posi- tion of due relative precedence among the medical practitioners of northern Indiana. He is a native son of Ohio, his birth occurring in Wayne county of that state on the 29th of October, 1853, a son of Enos and Mary (Funk) Myers, both of whom claimed the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as their place of birth. In 1854, however, a year after the birth of their son Cornelius. they removed to Elkhart county, Indiana, where the father engaged in agricultural pursuits and where the son attended the public schools during his early boyhood days. After completing his education he taught school in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties for two years.
Prepared by a broad general knowledge for entrance into professional life, Mr. Myers then went to Goshen and entered the office of Dr. Whippey, being then twenty-three years of age, and he remained there for six months. He was next a student in Hahnemann College for two years, graduating therein in 1879, and in the same year he returned to that institu- tion for a post-graduate course, also taking a post-graduate course in the New York Homeo- pathic College. All this was a splendid train- ing for the young physician, and thus with a comprehensive knowledge of anatomy and the science of medicine he began the practice of his chosen profession in South Bend, where he has succeeded because he desired to suc- ceed. Nature has endowed him bountifully, and he has studiously, carefully and conscien- tiously increased the talents that were given him. Dr. Myers holds membership relations with the Indiana Homeopathic Association and the American Institute, and has also served as coroner of St. Joseph county.
The marriage of Dr. Myers was celebrated in 1879, when Gertrude Harris became his wife. She is a daughter of Fred Harris, one of the honored old pioneers of St. Joseph county, while her mother was a sister of Judge Andrew Anderson, of South Bend. Six chil- dren have been born of this union, Frederick, Edgar, George, Jeanette, Gertrude and Mar- garet. The family are members of the Pres- byterian church.
RICHARD B. DUGDALE, M. D., who occupies an enviable position as a member of the medical profession in St. Joseph county, was born in South Bend on the 17th of Septem- ber. 1868. He is a son of Thomas and Susannah Dugdale, both natives of England. The father came to South Bend in the '60s, and was thereafter employed in the Oliver Chilled Plow Company for thirty-eight years, or until his life's labors were ended in death in June, 1905. at the age of sixty-eight years.
Richard B. Dugdale, whose name introduces this review, received his preparatory educa- tion in the public schools of his native city, graduating from the high school in 1887, and two years later, in 1889, he became a student in Rush Medical College of Chicago, where he graduated in 1892. During the three years following his graduation Dr. Dugdale was en- gaged in practice in North Liberty, Indiana. and on the expiration of that period, in 1895. returned to South Bend, where he has since been numbered among the leading members of the medical fraternity. He is a member of the County, State and National Medical So- cieties, and in 1905 was made president of the County Medical Society. During the three terms of 1894-96-98, he was the county coro- ner of St. Joseph county. His professional career has been attended with marked success. His promptness, his sympathetic nature and his generosity are well known factors in his personality, and those who have known him longest esteem him most highly.
Dr. Dugdale was married in 1893 to Miss Fannie Bungay, a daughter of Francis B. Bungay, of Constantine, Michigan, and they have one son, Milo, who was born October 29, 1895. The Doctor gives his political support to the Republican party, while fraternally he is a member of the Elks, the Woodmen of the World and other societies. The family are members of the Presbyterian church.
WALTER D. CHAFFEE, M. D. In the prac- tice of medicine in South Bend, Dr. Chaffee has demonstrated the fact that he is well in- formed concerning the principles of the medi- cal science and their correet application to the needs of suffering humanity, and has therefore been accorded a liberal patronage. He is a native son of Michigan. born in Lima on the 4th of August. 1865. His father, the Rev. Comfort T. Chaffee, was born in the state of New York and was a well known minister of the Baptist church. having been pastor of
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the church of that denomination at the time of the birth of his son Walter. His death occurred on the 23d of June, 1899, where he was living in quiet retirement after a pastor- ate in the Baptist church of that city. He was also at one time pastor of a church in South Bend. He was a Doctor of Divinity. and was thoroughly earnest and sincere in all his thoughts. words and deeds, and his noble. manly life proved an inspiration to many of his friends and fol- lowers. He was also a great financier, and while in charge of his church at Centerville, Michigan, he built knitting mills there, of which he was president, and he was also an organizer and president of the First National Bank of Centerville, Michigan. Prior to en- tering the ministry he was admitted to the bar and practiced law at Three Rivers. Michigan. Mrs. Chaffee bore the maiden name of Hattie Dennison, and was a native of Ohio.
Dr. Walter Chaffee was a student in the University of Nebraska and Central Univer- sity of Pella, Iowa, in those excellent educa- tional institutions receiving the instruction which enabled him to enter upon the study of his chosen life work, for he had decided upon the medical profession as his vocation and to that end entered the Hahnemann Medical Col- lege of Chicago. Graduating from that insti- tution in 1886. he immediately began practice in Saginaw, Michigan, where he remained for only a few months, and then spent a short time in Vicksburg and Three Rivers. Since 1888 he has been a resident of South Bend. and his long identification with this place and his prominence here makes his name a house- hold word in the homes of this community. His professional career has been attended with success. His promptness, his generosity and his sympathetic nature are well known factors of his life, and those who have known him longest esteem him most highly. He is a homeopath and gynecologist, while in his fra- ternal relations Dr. Chaffee is a member of the Masonic order. Lodge No. 45 and the Chapter, and of the Benevolent and Protect- ive Order of Elks.
JACOB W. HILL. As a member of the medi- cal profession Dr. Jacob W. Hill has won dis- tinction. and throughout the period of his residence in St. Joseph county he has enjoyed an extensive and remunerative practice. He is progressive in all his ideas, constantly read- mg and studying, and keeps in close touch with the spirit of the times. He was born in
Columbia county, Pensylvania, September 6, 1858, a son of Jacob and Anna (Auchenbach) Hill, natives also of the Keystone state. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, passed away in death in 1859.
Dr. Hill received his elementary education in the public schools of Pennsylvania, while later he attended Dickerson Seminary of Wil- liamsport, that state, in which he was gradu- ated in 1877, and he then entered upon the study of the profession which he had determ- ined to make his life work. He first studied under the preceptorship of Dr. Jesse R. Cas- selberry, and in 1881 completed the course in the Jefferson Medical College. In the same year he came to South Bend and opened an office for the practice of medicine, and he has met with gratifying success. He is a student and endeavors to keep abreast of the times in everything relating to the discoveries in medi- cal science. Progressive in his ideas and favoring modern methods as a whole, he does not dispense with many of the true and tried systems which have stood the test of years. During the past eight years Dr. Hill has served as secretary of the St. Joseph county board of health, is a member of the State and County Medical Societies, was a member of the Board of Censors of the St. Joseph County Medical Society, is a delegate to the State Medical Society, appointed in 1905 for two years and is a member of the Masonic lodge, No. 45 and of the Chapter No. 29.
ELBERT W. MCALLISTER, M. D. Dr. Mc- Allister, a prominent representative of the medical profession in South Bend, with office and residence at 1327 West Washington street. was born in Buffalo, New York, July 1, 1845. His father, William A. McAllister, was a native of Connecticut. although his father was born in Ireland and his mother in Norway, and was extensively engaged in deal- ing in harness in his native state. About 1854 he came to Goshen, Indiana. and there his death occurred when he had reached the age of eighty-four years. Mrs. McAllister bore the maiden name of Ellen Stevens, and was of German descent. She was called to the home beyond after reaching the age of seventy-five years.
Dr. McAllister, their only child, was about eight years old when he accompanied his par- ents on their removal to Indiana, the family home being established at Goshen, where he was reared and educated. When a young man he began the study of medicine. but his pre-
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paration for that profession was interrupted by his enlistment in 1864 for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of Company D, One Hundred and Thirty-Sixth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in which he served his period of enlistment and then returned to his home in Goshen. From 1861 until 1863 he was a student in the Rush College and Uni- versity of Michigan, after which he re- sumed his medical studies and graduated at the Long Island College Hospital of Brook- lyn, New York, in 1866. His first work in his chosen profession was as surgeon on a line of sailing vessels plying between Liverpool and New York city, but after one year of this work he engaged in a general practice of med- icine in Goshen in partnership with Dr. Wick- ham, that relationship continuing until 1874. when Dr. McAllister came to South Bend. Here he entered into partnership relations with Dr. L. J. Ham, with whom he remained until 1879, and since that time he has been alone in practice. Dr. McAllister in a large measure meets all the requirements necessary for a successful physician, and the value of his services to the community cannot be overesti- mated. He is a member of Anten Post, G. A. R., of South Bend. also of the Masonic order in this city, in which he has attained the Knight Templar degree. The marriage of Dr. McAllister and Miss Alice Elliott, was cele- brated in about 1870. and they have two chil- dren, Nellie, the wife of Thomas Luce, of South Bend, and William E., a machinist.
JAMES M. GARRISON, D. V. S. Dr. Garri- son, who is accorded an extensive patronage as a veterinary surgeon in St. Joseph county. was born in Penn township of this county February 3, 1847, a son of Lewis and Catharine (Mead) Garrison, the latter of French descent, although her father was born in Vermont. Mr. Garrison was a native of New York, and was numbered among the early pioneers of St. Joseph county, Indi- ana, but in 1849 he joined the tide of emigra- tion to California, and his death occurred dur- ing his residence in that state. In their family were two sons, the elder being George A., a prominent real estate dealer in Guthrie. Okla- homa.
Dr. Garrison was reared to years of maturity in St. Joseph county, receiving his education in the schools of Mishawaka, and after its completion he engaged in the prac- tice of veterinary surgery. On the 17th of October, 1861. he enlisted for service in the
Civil war, becoming a member of Company F, Forty-eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was only fifteen years of age at the time of his enlistment, and was one of the young- est soldiers to carry a knapsack in the war of the rebellion. He subsequently re-enlisted in the same company and regiment, and took part in many of the historic battles of the war, including Corinth and Malvern Hill, and was then transferred to Sherman's army and went with him in the celebrated march to the sea. He was never seriously wounded. although on one occasion he was hit by a piece of shell. During his entire military career of four years and fourteen days, he was in active service as a private, and throughout that time his brother was with him in the same regiment. both participating in the Grand Review at Washington, after which he received an hon- orable discharge at Lexington, Kentucky, in 1865. Returning thence to his old home in Mishawaka, Dr. Garrison engaged in the quiet pursuit of agriculture, but a short time after- ward resumed his practice as a veterinary sur- geon in Penn township, St. Joseph county. For a period of two years he was in Warsaw, Indiana, returning thence to Mishawaka, but later went to Marcellus, Michigan. In 1893 he took up his abode in South Bend, where for the past thirteen years he has been actively engaged in the practice of veterinary surgery, in that time winning for himself a prominent place among the professional men of the com- munity.
In 1869, in Mishawaka, Dr. Garrison was married to Catherine Westfall, a native of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Westfall. also of that commonwealth. Seven children have been born of this union, namely : William: Laura, wife of George Harper, of South Bend: Frank; Ida, wife of Arthur Fordham : Mamie. at home ; Jay, of South Bend; and Lulu, also at home. The Doctor is a staunch supporter of Republican principles, although in local affairs he votes rather for the man than party. and during his residence in Cass county, Michigan, he served as a deputy sheriff, re- signing that office to remove to South Bend, where he is now a well known and honored citizen. He holds pleasant relations with his old army comrades by his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic.
ROBERT SHANKLIN, M. D. During his brief connection with the practice of medicine in South Bend, Dr. Shanklin has demonstrated
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the fact that he is well informed concerning the principles of the medical science, and has therefore been accorded a liberal patronage. He was born in Frankfort, Indiana, on the 3d of February, 1881; a son of Robert and Mary Jane (Sims) Shanklin, both natives of Indiana. The father, who was born in Carroll county, followed agricultural pursuits during his early business career. but during the past thirty years has been the senior member of the firm of R. P. Shanklin & Company, whole- sale grocers of Frankfort, Indiana. He has earned for himself an enviable reputation as a careful man of business, always known for his prompt and honorable methods of dealing, which have won him the deserved and un- bounded confidence of his fellow citizens.
After attending the public schools of Frankfort, Indiana, Robert Shanklin entered Hanover College, in which he was graduated in 1902 with the degree of B. S., while in 1905 he graduated in medicine, from Rush Medical College of Chicago. His first year after leaving college was spent as an interne in St. Mary's Hospital in Milwaukee, Wiscon- sin, but in August. 1906. he came to South Bend and entered at once into the practice of medicine. Although numbered among the younger practitioners he maintains his posi- tion among the leaders of the medical frater- nity, and has also taken part in much of the public and social life of South Bend. Dr. Shanklin is an exemplary member of the Presbyterian church, and also of the Masonic order, South Bend Lodge No. 294. As a member of the St. Joseph Medical Society he has taken an active interest in all medical affairs affecting the profession in general.
ALLEN G. MILLER, M. D. One who has attained distinction and wide-spread celebrity for his skill and research is Dr. Allen G. Mil- ler, whose knowledge of the science of medi- cine is broad and comprehensive, and his ability in applying its principles to the needs of suffering humanity has gained him an en- viable prestige in professional circles. He was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, October 12, 1835, and is descended from a prominent old Saxon family and from three brothers who left Saxony, Germany, and came to Pennsylvania about the same time as Wil- liam Penn, and in that commonwealth his great-grandfather, Jacob Miller, was born. The grandfather, Abraham Miller, was born near Philadelphia, and to him belongs the honor of being the first sheriff of Somerset
county. Isaac Miller, the father of the Doctor. also claimed Somerset county as the place of his nativity, and he became well known there as a hat manufacturer. He married Caroline Miller, also a native of Somerset county, Pennsylvania, where her father, Jacob G. Mil- ler, was also born. He became one of the first merchants of Somerset county, and he there also owned two tanneries, and was accounted one of the leading citizens of his time in the county. He was of Prussian de- scent.
Dr. Allen G. Miller, the only living repre- sentative of his parents' family of five chil- dren, two sons and three daughters. accom- panied his father on his removal to Allegany county, Maryland, when six years of age, and when fourteen the family home was estab- lished in Baltimore that state, the son receiv- ing his educational training in the schools of Baltimore and Philadelphia, and also in the University of Maryland. Having decided to enter the medical profession, he became a stu- dent in the Jefferson Medical College of Phila- delphia, and completing the course therein returned to, Somerset county, Pennsylvania, to engage in practice, there continuing until 1879, when he transferred his residence and the scene of his activities to South Bend. He first located on South Michigan street, where he was engaged in practice during the long period of twenty-five years, and in 1904 he removed to the corner of Miller and Sample streets. In his practice the Doctor has made a specialty of chronic and complicated dis- eases. and is the proprietor of what is known as the Neuropathic Remedies Laboratory, 721 East Sample street, where his remedies are compounded under his own supervision. He also owns the Dr. Miller Sanatorium and Northern Indiana Mineral Springs, located on the St. Joseph river between Mishawaka and South Bend, while at the present time he is planning to build a large observatory on Mil- ler's Hill, which is claimed to be the highest point in the state of Indiana, and is located in Penn township, south and west of Mishawaka. In addition to all these varied interests, the most noted of which is his large and elegantly equipped laboratory. Dr. Miller owns the larg- est orchard in the county of St. Joseph, con- sisting of twenty thousand trees of various kinds of fruit. and which is located in Penn township. In this township he is also the owner of Floral Park. He is one of the largest land owners in St. Joseph county, owning the
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