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Our subject received his early education in the pioneer schools of his native town, and attended for two years a private school and
the Ypsilanti high school. After completing his course there he entered Notre Dame Uni- versity at South Bend and graduated from there with the degree of B.S., and later re- ceived the degree of M.S. He had as tutors in the different institutions of learning, Duane Doty, who was later superintendent of schools in Chicago: Col. R. W. Johnson. late of Elkhart; Judge Howard O'Brien of Minnesota and Judge Rose of Auburn, and Professor Bacon. After completing his course at Notre Dame. he studied medieine at Ann Arbor one year. then entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, and graduated from that institution in 1868, and commenced practice in South Bend, where he has practiced con- tinuously since. He was married in 1870 to Cecilia Aseher. She was born in New Lon- don. Ohio. a daughter of Hermann and Sa- brina (King) Aseher, the father a native of Konigsberg, Germany, and the mother of New York state. Dr. and Mrs. Cassidy have eight
children : Edith (now Mrs. Connelly) of Detroit : Minnie, Rose, Sophia, John, Bertha, Thomas and Marjorie. The family are mem- bers of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church. The children have all studied at the State University at Ann Arbor. Two have gradu- ated from that institution, and three are now students there.
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WEISER, M. D. Among those who have attained distinctive prestige in the practice of medicine and whose success has come as the logical result of thorough technical information and skill stands Dr. Weiser, who is a man of scholarly attainments and who has made deep and careful research into the seience to which he has devoted his life. He is a descendant of the sturdy, per- severing and honorable sons of Germany. for his father. Adam Weiser, was a native of the fatherland, and was a member of the medical profession, as was also his grandfather. The former served as a soldier in the German army, but being opposed to the government of that time. as were also many notable Ger- mans, he escaped to this country at the same time as Carl Sehurz, in 1848, first settling in New Jersey. He afterward removed to Philadelphia and Pittsburg, and finally lo- cated in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where he practiced medicine until he was accident- ally killed at a railroad crossing on the 10th of January. 1900, when he was seventy-seven years of age. He was a typical American citizen, thoroughly in harmony with the spirit
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of the republic, and during the Civil war he valiantly fought as a member of Company B, One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania Infantry. Mrs. Weiser bore the maiden name of Catherine Werner, and was also a native of Germany. She was also ac- cidentally killed, as the result of a fall, on January 10, 1866, and her father met his death in exactly the same manner in 1894, at the remarkable age of one hundred and four years.
William Augustus Weiser was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of March. 1852, and when but twelve years of age was obliged to begin the battle of life for himself. At that time he was taken from school to work as a gathering boy, he being , the only boy in Bellevernon who could speak the German language. This accomplishment was then quite necessary, as the glass blowers all came from the fatherland. What eduea- tional training he received in the earlier years was obtained in the schools of Fayette county, and he was obliged to walk four miles in order to enjoy their privileges. He holds a certificate from a medical school of Chicago, and was elected regent in Pennsylvania under the act of 1881, also in Michigan under the act of 1899. and pursued a post-graduate course in the Chicago Medical College. Dr. Weiser was made professor of pharmacology in Indianapolis, a director in the Bourbon Medical Institute, and is a member of the American Pharmaceutical Association and ex- secretary of the Marshall County Pharmaceu- tical Association. For a time he studied law and was admitted to practice in Marshall county in 1898, but his entire professional career has been devoted to the medieal profes- sion, having practiced in Michigan, South Dakota and is registered in Oklahoma, Illinois and Indiana. He came to South Bend in 1904, and has won prominence in the medical fraternity of this city.
In 1891 the doctor was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Lewallen, whose family is a prominent one in Marshall county and is of Welsh descent. He is a member of the United Brethren church, and, fraternally, of the Masonic Lodge No. 227, of Bourbon, In- diana. the Red Men, Loyal Americans, and St. Joseph County Grange, Society No. 584, with which his wife is also identified. The doctor is also about to join the Sons of Veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, and
thus be one of the patriotic host to keep Old Glory flying.
EDWARD E. PAXSON. During the years of Dr. Paxson's connection in South Bend he has won for himself a place of distinction in the dental fraternity in this part of the state. He has now an office well equipped with modern appliances for the conduct of his business, and he ever keeps in touch with the advancement that is continually being made in the profession, utilizing modern methods and adding to this a superior mechanical skill which is one of the strong elements of success in the dental practitioner.
The doctor was born in Elkhart county, Indiana, on the 11th of December, 1864, a son of Eli W. and Elizabeth (Vesey) Paxson, the father born in Virginia, and the mother in Vermont. The father, who was born in 1825, removed to Elkhart county in 1835, where he was long engaged in agricultural pursuits, and he still resides at Bristol in that county at the age of eighty-two years. Dr. Paxson attended the public schools of South Bend during his boyhood days, and gradnated from the high school in 1883. Choosing the profession of dentistry as a life work he then entered the dental department of the Univer- sity of Michigan, in which he was graduated in 1887, and in the same year came to South Bend and opened an office for the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Michigan State Dental Society and of the South Western Michigan Dental Society.
FRANK D. HAGER, D. D. S. Dr. Hager, one of the leaders in the ranks of the dental fra- ternity in South Bend, with offices at 108 West Washington street, was born in Hagers- ville, Ontario, December 14, 1871, the sixth son of Charles and Mary Hager, who were natives of Canada. After attending the parochial and high schools of his native city of Hagersville their son Frank entered the Caledonia Institute, where he completed the course and was graduated, and to still further perfect himself in his literary studies then became a student in the normal school, there preparing himself for the teacher's profes- sion. But after teaching for a short time in Canada he entered the dental office of Dr. Nobbs, while in 1896 he graduated from the Chicago Dental College and in the same year came to South Bend and began the practice of his chosen profession. From that time for- ward Dr. Hager has steadily advanced in his
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work, keeping in touch with its onward pro- gress, and the prestige which he has gained is indicated by the liberal patronage which he receives.
In 1899 the doctor was married to Adalyn Von Trump. whose father, C. C. Trump, is a well known resident of South Bend, where the daughter was born and received her edu- cation. One child has been born of this union, Frances Adalyn. Dr. Hager is a member of the Northern Indiana Dental Society and the Chicago Alumni Association, while his fra- ternal relations connect him with the Elks and the Masons in South Bend. Dr. Hager is also well known in the musical circles of this city, having received an excellent musical education. and is now basso in the choir of the First Presbyterian church, also a member of the male quartette and is engaged in much concert work.
S. M. MCDONALD, D. D. S. Since entering the professional world Dr. McDonald has steadily advanced step by step until he has won for himself a place of distinction in the dental fraternity of northern Indiana. His palatial offices at 102 South Michigan street, South Bend, are equipped with modern appli- ances, and he ever keeps in touch with the advancement made in dentistry. At a very early day in its development, in 1847. John Milton McDonald, the father of the doctor and a native of Ohio, came with ox teams to South Bend. being then abont twelve years of age, and was accompanied on the journey by his parents and other members of their family. From that early day he has remained an honored resident of this city and St. Joseph county, where with his wife. nee Elizabeth Ouderkirk, a native of New York. they are enjoying the fruits of long years of toil in the past. In their family were ten children, eight of whom grew to years of maturity.
The much lamented Charles Albert McDon- ald, a brother of the doctor and eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. McDonald, passed away December 14, 1905, at forty-six years of age. His untimely and regrettable death was due to typhoid fever mistakenly diag- nosed and treated as malaria. At the time of his death, Mr. McDonald was city editor of the South Bend Times, a leading daily and semi-weekly newspaper. and was also one of the principal stockholders and founders of the Times Printing company. an institution he was devotedly identified with for a quarter
of a century. The community and news- paperdom never lost a more capable, popular, prominent man, nor a better friend and citi- zen.
Dr. McDonald, the seventh in order of birth of his parents' children, is a native of South Bend, and in its public schools received his early literary training. He then attended the Kansas City Dental College, from which he was graduated in 1895. and since 1899 he has been actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in the city of his birth, being now an acknowledged leader in the ranks of the fraternity. But outside of his profession Dr. McDonald has also achieved a worthy success, for he is a true railroad man and is now serving as president of the Chi- cago, St. Louis & Kansas City Electric Rail- way company's project. He is recognized as a railroad promoter, and was one of the or- ganizers of the latter company. During the Spanish-American war the doctor enlisted as a member of the One Hundred and Fifty- seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry, serving as brigade dental surgeon throughout the en- tire struggle, and at its close returned to his home in South Bend and resumed the prac- tice of dentistry. He has made of life a suc- cess. and were one to seek for its secret it would be found in that persistent purpose which has been a motive power in his life to make the world brighter and better by putting to the best use all that he is and has.
He is the author and writer of many good articles that have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout the country.
JAMES B. GREENE, M. D., who is one of the leading physicians and surgeons of St. Joseph county, was born in Lower Sandusky, Ohio. May 29. 1845. His father, John L. Greene. a native of St. Lawrence county, New York. removed to Ohio with his father in 1813. the family locating on a farm of three hundred and twenty acres. This proved poor land. however, and was later sold for one thousand dollars, considered a large price at that time, although it is now located in the very heart of the city of Cleveland. In the journey to the Buckeye state Abraham Gar- field drove a team for Mr. Greene. Sr .. and in the party was also Mary Ballon, who gave her hand in marriage to Abraham Garfield after their arrival in Ohio, and their union resulted in the birth of James A. Garfield. the loved and honored president of the United States. John L. Greene took up the study of
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law and became a prominent member of the bar of Ohio. also a judge of the common pleas court for many years, his son, John L., Jr., succeeding him both in practice and on the bench. His death occurred on the 8th of November, 1879, when he had reached the age of eighty-seven years. He had married Marie Rosetta Du Comb a native of Bordeaux, France, whose father was a sailor and a resi- dent of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the first man to run the British blockade in 1812. The subject of this review is a repre- sentative of a military family on both the maternal and paternal sides. His paternal grandfather, who was born at Valley Forge, was a soldier in the war of 1812, his father, Eleazer Greene, having been a captain in the Continental army at the time, while the lat- ter's father was the well known Nathaniel Greene. Dr. Greene's father and eldest brother were soldiers in the Mexican war, while seven brothers and himself served in the war of the rebellion, and his youngest brother, Marshal, too young to serve in the Civil war, took part in the Spanish war and was killed at Manila.
James B. Greene, one of a family of twelve children, but all of whom are now deceased with the exception of himself and brother Vincent Du Comb, superintendent of the Au- tomatic Telephone Company of Chicago, re- ceived his education in the schools of Ohio, while his professional studies were pursued in the Cleveland Medical College, in which he graduated in 1867, and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, complet- ing the course in the latter institution in 1890. On the 1st of June. 1867, he opened an office in Woodland, St. Joseph county, for the prac- tice of his chosen profession, but in the follow- ing year came to Mishawaka. His prepara- tion for the medical profession was thorough and comprehensive, and since his entrance thereto has won high encomiums from the public and profession. Dr. Greene was the first local man to attempt abdominal surgery, in which he met with great success and has established for himself a reputation as a specialist in that particular branch all over northern Indiana. Previous to entering upon the study of medicine the doctor, in April, 1861, enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of the Eighth Ohio In- fantry, and in September, 1861, he went out with the Third Ohio Cavalry, from which he was discharged in November, 1865, for the
war had then ended. Throughout the period of his enlistment he never received a furlough and during the entire time was at the front from the battle of Shiloh, under Sherman and Thomas, until the capture of Jeff Davis.
The marriage of Dr. Greene was celebrated in January, 1868, when Mary E. Hagey, a native of Carroll county, Ohio, and a daughter of Jonathan Ilagey, became his wife. They have become the parents of five children, of whom two are living. The doctor is a mem- ber of the Masonic order, the Grand Army of the Republic, Houghton Post, the Mishawaka Physicians Club, the County Medical Society, the Thirteenth District Medical Society, the Tri State Medical Society, the Indiana State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His political support is given to the Republican party, and although an ac- tive and public spirited citizen the only office which he has held has been that of president of the medical examining board for twelve years. He is an enthusiastic hunter, and shot the last deer killed in St. Joseph county. The doctor can speak both French and Ger- man fluently, being self-taught in those languages, and at all times he has commanded the respect and esteem of his fellow men by his superior intellectual attainments and his upright life. On the evening of June 3, 1907. the members of the medical profession of Mishawaka met at the residence of Dr. Stroup and marched to the home of Dr. Greene to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of his medi- cal practice in St. Joseph county. In token of their appreciation of his ability and efforts they presented him with an elegant gold- headed cane, beautifully chased and engraved.
JAMES G. BOSTWICK, M. D. One of the honored younger representatives of the medi- cal profession in Mishawaka, Dr. Bostwick is laboring unceasingly in his calling, striving to do all in his power toward the amelioration of the "ills to which the flesh is heir." and is succeeding to a gratifying degree in his noble endeavors. His birth ocenrred in this city on the 23d of August, 1878, where his father, William Bostwick, has for many years been well known as a traveling man. He was born in Lakeville, Connecticut, but came to St. Joseph county, Indiana, some time in the '70s and was married to Mary A. Grimes, the daughter of Dr. James F. and Caroline E. Grimes, honored early pioneers of St. Joseph county and also early residents of Mishawaka. Mrs. Bostwick was called from this life on the
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17th of January, 1904, after becoming the mother of three sons.
Dr. James G. Bostwick, the eldest and only living child, is a member of the alumni of the Mishawaka high school, and was also for a time a student in the University of Indiana at Bloomington, where his close application to his studies gained him a broad literary training, and enabled him to enter upon the study of the profession which he had chosen as a life work. Entering the Rush Medical College of Chicago, he graduated therein on June 18, 1902, and at once began the practice of medieine in Mishawaka, the city of his birth, where he has built up an excellent prac- tice and is rapidly winning the commendation of the public and his professional brethren.
On the 15th of June, 1904, Dr. Bostwick married Mable E. Gaylor, the daughter of Albert and Mary Gaylor, and they have one son, William G. The doctor is a member of the Physicians'Club of Mishawaka. also of the State, County and American Medical Socie- ties, and of the Masonic order and the Knights of Pythias. His professional popularity has led to his selection as secretary of the city board of health. and he is well and favorably known to the citizens of his native county and city.
CHRIS A. DRESCH, M. D. Dr. Dresch, who is rapidly winning for himself a name and place among the leading medical practitioners of St. Joseph county, was born in Goshen, Indiana, May 23. 1878, a son of Christian and Anna ( Wambach) Dresch, both natives of Germany. When about twenty years of age the father sailed from his native land to America, and making his way to Goshen, Indiana, became one of the first business men of that city, where he was extensively engaged in mercantile pursuits. His life labors were ended in death when he had reached the age of fifty-four years, but the wife and mother was seventy-one years of age ere she was called to the home beyond. They became the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters. all of whom grew to years of maturity.
Dr. Dresch, the youngest of the family, spent the early years of his life in the city of his birth, receiving his early literary train- ing in its public schools, and in 1893 he went to Denver, Colorado, and entered the Rocky Mountain University, graduating in its medi- cal department in 1898, before he had reached
his twenty-first year. On his twenty-first birthday, however, he received his diploma, and for two and a half years he remained at Pueblo, Colorado, in the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's hospital. In 1900 he went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and entered the Medico-Chirurgical College, where he completed the course and graduated the fol- lowing year. Thus with an excellent medical training to serve as the foundation of his life work Dr. Dresch eame to Mishawaka in the same year of his graduation, 1900, and has here gained distinction in the line of his chosen calling. He is a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society and the Physicians Club of Mishawaka, and through his connection with these organizations, as well as through con- stant study, he keeps in close touch with his profession in its advance toward perfection.
In 1900 Dr. Dresch was united in marriage to Elizabeth Sears, who was born in Newton, Kansas, the daughter of T. H. Sears. a resi- dent of Pueblo, Colorado. One little daughter lias been born to bless this union, Elizabeth. Dr. Dresch has membership relations with the Masonic order, the Knights of Pythias and the Modern Woodmen of America, all of Mis- hawaka. Both in professional and social life he inspires friendship of unusual strength, and all who know him have the highest ad- miration for his many noble characteristics.
WILLIAM FIELD WOOD, M. D. In a com- parison of the relative value to mankind of the varions professions and pursuits to which men devote their time and energies, it is wide- ly recognized that none is more important than the medical profession. From the era- dle to the grave human destiny is largely in the hands of the physician, not only on ac- count of the effect he may have on the physi- cal system, but also upon man's mental and moral nature. In a review of Dr. Wood's life one of his principal features is his nse of this power.
From sterling Canadian ancestors has the Doctor deseended; from earnest, upright, sturdy men, and women of piety and grace of character. His father, Alphens Field Wood, was for many years connected with the Dominion government under the late Sir John A. MacDonald, and for twenty years served as government valuator for the rail- way and canals department, while for twelve years he was elected as a member of the legis- lative assembly of the provincial government
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of Ontario. Mrs. Wood bore the maiden name of Eliza A. Ross, and was a most re- fined and cultured lady.
In his early youth Dr. W. Field Wood, who was born at Madoc, Ontario, June 3, 1867, was sent to Upper Canada College at Toronto, a government school modeled after Rugby College in England, where he was pre- pared for the University of Toronto, there pursuing the arts course. It was, however, his earnest and cherished desire to enter the medical profession, and aeeordingly he en- tered the medical department of the Universi- ty of McGill College at Montreal, where he studied for one year, and then to further perfeet himself in his chosen profession he went abroad and studied three semesters under the direction of the conjoint examina- tion board of Great Britain in the Royal University of Berlin. And it is here worthy of mention to note that Dr. Wood visited in Germany during the ninety days' reign of the late Emperor Frederick, thus having the unusual pleasure of seeing the throne occu- pied by three different emperors. After the completion of his studies abroad he returned to his home and attended three sessions of the medical faculty of Queen University at Kingston, Ontario, graduating in that famous medieal institution in 1891. In November of the same year the doctor came to Mishawaka and embarked on the professional sea, where he has built up a large and remunerative general practice. He holds a membership in the Landsmannschaft Normannia, a most ancient and distinguished corps of Berlin University, and is also an elder in the Zeta Psi fraternity, an exclusive organization which has existed for sixty years among the leading colleges of this country, while to further perfect himself along professional lines and to keep abreast of the advances which are constantly being made in the medi- cal world he is associated with the American Medical Association and with the State and County Medical Societies.
In 1890 Dr. Wood was united in marriage to Mina A. H. McKinnon, a daughter of David MeKinnon, a distinguished barrister of Hamilton. Ontario, but whose death of- curred in Mishawaka in 1893. The doctor afterward, in 1895. married Mary Radomska, of this eity, and his family residence is at 113 East Third street, Mishawaka. Honored alike by all, he is well worthy to be repre-
sented in a history of the leading men of St. Joseph county.
DR. JAMES F. GRIMES, the oldest practicing physician of Mishawaka, has been closely identified with the progress and development of St. Joseph county throughout the period of his long and active business life, and none of her citizens have manifested greater publie spirit or more earnest interest in the reduc- tion of the country from a wilderness to a fertile land of fine farms and a flourishing little city. His birth occurred in Frederick county, Maryland, April 13,,1825, and he is of Irish descent. When he was a little lad of eight years his father, who was also a native of Frederick county, and a farmer by occu- pation, moved to Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio. where the little son grew to mature years and received his literary education. When he had reached the age of twenty-one years he began the study of medicine in Tiffin, and later. about 1851, graduated from the Eclectic School or College of Cincinnati, Ohio. In the same year he came to Mishawaka and engaged in the practice of his chosen profession, and during the fifty-six years which have since rolled their course he has continued one of the city's valued and useful residents, winning success in the medical profession, and thor- oughly deserving the genuine praise which is freely accorded him by those who have known him almost a lifetime.
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