History of Baltimore, Maryland, from its founding as a town to the current year, 1729-1898, including its early settlement and development; a description of its historic and interesting localities; political, military, civil, and religious statistcs; biographies of representative citizens, etc., etc, Part 84

Author: Shepherd, Henry Elliott, 1844-1929, ed. 4n
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: [Uniontown? Pa.] S.B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1344

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The Medical Investigating Club in 1894 issued a work entitled "A Pathogenetic Materia Medica," which was edited by Drs. Eldridge C. Price and Henry Chandlee.

Doctor Price was one of the early members of the Rossini Association, members of which formed the nucleus of the present Oratorio Association of Baltimore. He was married in October, 1887, to Mary H., daughter of William and Mary W. Ferris, and granddaughter of Benjamin Ferris, au- thor of "Early Settlers on the Delaware." Dr. and Mrs. Price have two children, Mar- riott and Reginald C., students at Lamb's High School. Mrs. Price is a Quaker.

CORA BELLE BREWSTER, M. D., third daughter of Ephraim J. Brewster, of New London, Conn., and Mary Burdick Brew- ster, his wife, was born September 6, 1859, at Almond, Allegany county, N. Y. She sprang from an ancient and illustrious race, a lineal descendant of Elder Brewster, chief of the Pilgrim Fathers, and her ancestors did much in the establishment and toward the preservation of the free institutions of this nation. Her pedigree is traceable into English history before the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. The line in America has had a most intimate connection with the causes and forces that created and tend to preserve, in face of deteriorating immigra- tion, those sentiments and principles distin- guishing our American civilization from the loose morals of Continental Europe. Puri- tanism, planted on our shores by the Pil- grim Fathers, was the Genesis of America. "There were struggling settlers in America before; some material of a body was there, but the soul of it was this." And to those who made Puritanism and led it to this country in that great primary Declaration of Independence, the independence of con- science, after which political liberty was but the certain sequence-to the rugged Puri-

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tan leaders must be ascribed an equal share in the building up of the nation, with their brave trustees of the following centuries, who surrendered life rather than the spirit of their noble heritage. Elder William Brewster and Miles Standish were the lead- ers of this sturdy band in 1620. The cellar walls of the houses belonging to both may still be seen in Duxbury Nook, a slope of land jutting into the sea, near the historic spot. Both men were of gentle blood. To the former is accorded a superior educa- tion in the classics, a large political experi- ence and an extended association with aris- tocratic and refined classes in Europe. Standish was the fighting man, and William Brewster, who is also called Elder Brewster, the elder of Plymouth, and sometimes the Father of New England, was the chief coun- sellor and sage, the veritable head of the flock. This first ancestor of the Brewster family in America has long since passed into story and song, and is now part of the national history. He was born in Notting- hamshire, England, in 1560, and possessed a coat of arms identical with that of the an- cient Suffolk branch. He received his edu- cation at the University of Cambridge, where he became impressed with the neces- sity of personal piety; these impressions never left him. He left the university be- fore receiving his degree, and entered the service of William Davidson, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and ambassador to Holland, and shared with him the vicissi- tudes of fortune which befell that statesman. "Davidson," says Doctor Belknap, "esteem- ed him as a son and conversed with him in private both on religious and political sub- jects with the greatest familiarity, and when anything required secrecy, Brewster was his

confidential friend. When the Queen en- tered into a league with the United Pro- vinces (1584), and received possession of several towns and forts, as security for her expenses in defending their liberties, David- son, who negotiated the matter, entrusted Brewster with the keys of Flushing, one of these fortresses, and the States of Holland were so sensible of his merit as to present him with the ornament of a golden chain. He returned with the ambassador to Eng- land, and continued in his service till David- son, having incurred the hypocritical dis- pleasure of his arbitrary mistress, was im- prisoned, fined and ruined."

When Mary, the unfortunate Queen of Scotland, had been tried and condemned, and the Parliament of England had peti- tioned their sovereign for her execution, Elizabeth privately ordered Davidson to draw a death warrant, which she signed, and sent him with it to the Chancellor to have the great seal annexed. Having performed his duty, she blamed him for percipitancy. Davidson acquainted the council with the whole transaction; they knew the Queen's real sentiments, and persuaded him to send the warrants to the Earls of Kent and Shrewsbury, promising to justify his con- duct, and to take the blame on themselves. The Earls attended the execution of Mary, but when Elizabeth heard of it, she affected surprise and indignation; threw all the blame on the innocent Secretary, and com- mitted him to the Tower, where he became the subject of raillery from those very coun- sellors who had promised to countenance and protect him. He was tried in the Star Chamber, and fined ten thousand pounds, which being rigorously levied upon him, re- duced him to poverty. Brewster did not

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desert his friend, as we might expect from the class of politicians of the present day, but remained as true to him as in the zenith of his political power and influence, assisting him with his money and kindly offices. His own fortune which had been large, becom- ing somewhat impaired, he sought retire- ment in the North of England, where he im- proved his time in making himself acquaint- ed with the Scriptures and practicing their precepts. The conduct of the established church party at this time being so full of prosecution, corruption and bigotry, caused him to look more closely into their preten- sions of ecclesiastical authority, and finding so much that was at variance with the sim- ple teachings of Christ, he withdrew from their communion, and joined others of the same sentiments and organized a separate church, the aged Richard Clifton and Mr. Robinson officiating as pastors, meeting at his own house until they were driven by James the First to seek refuge on the conti- nent. He located at Leyden, Holland, where he engaged in publishing from 1609 to 1619. In the latter year he returned to England, where he applied for a grant to the Virginia company. After much difficulty the Speedwell and Mayflower sailed from Southampton and a landing effected De- cember II, 1620. The subsequent history of the Pilgrim Fathers is the early history of this great republic. Among Elder Brew- ster's descendants, Francis Enoch Brewster, grandson of William Brewster, settled at Pittycove in Southern New Jersey; this name was preserved in the family and after a distinguished line of professional men was given to the father of Benjamin Harris Brewster, Attorney General of the United States by appointment of President Garfield.

Numerous of the Brewster and collateral connections were officers in the Revolution- ary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War and the late Civil War. Mr. Benjamin Brewster was the grandson of Elder Wil- liam Brewster. Jonathan, the third son, re- moved to New London, Conn., where in 1649 he was acting as one of the townsmen. His son Benjamin was married, at New London, to Anna Dart in 1649. He re- moved to Norwich very soon after the set- tlement. He had one daughter, Anna, and four sons, Jonathan, Daniel, William and Benjamin. The venerable Mr. Seabury Brewster recently deceased in Norwich City and one of the patriarchs of the place is not however descended from Benjamin, but from Wrestling, the second son of Elder Brewster. He was the father of Sir Chris- topher Brewster, an eminent dentist who has resided a number of years in Paris and St. Petersburg, and has been knighted by the Emperor of Russia.

Dr. Cora Belle Brewster was educated at the University at Alfred, N. Y., and at the Northwestern University of Illinois, Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston, Mass., and on graduating took a course at Bellevue Hospital, New York, and then went to Paris, France, where she finished her medical studies. On her return from Europe in 1886 she located in Baltimore and began the practice of her profession in the treatment of female diseases, establishing a sanitarium at 1027 Madison avenue, which is fitted with all the requirements of a fully equipped institution of its character, includ- ing a corps of physicians and trained nurses. Surgical and electrical treatment are ad- ministered, as well as medicated baths. Doctor Brewster has a widespread popu-

Cosa Bella Brewster M. D.

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larity and an extensive and successful prac- tice. She is a contributor to current medi- cal literature. Doctor Brewster read be- fore the medical department of the Atlanta (Ga.) Exposition (1895) a paper that was highly commended by the medical and sec- ular press of the country. She is a member of Columbia and Maryland Clinical So- cieties, of the Maryland State Medical So- ciety, of the American Institution of Hom- eopathy, the National Science Club of Washington, D. C., and of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church. Doctor Brewster has never married but has adopted a child, Victor Hamilton Brewster.

In gathering the facts relative to the biog- raphy of Dr. Flora Alzora Brewster, it is apparent that the city of Baltimore, Md., has, during the past decade, made wonder- ful advancement in the number of successful women engaged in the practice of medicine; no one of whom stands higher in the medical profession, or has been more successful as a physician and surgeon, than the subject of this sketch.

Doctor Brewster was born at Alfred, Allegany county, N. Y., February 26, 1852. She is a daughter of Ephraim J. Brewster, of Connecticut-a descendant of Elder Wil- liam Brewster, who came to America in the Mayflower.

Her mother was Mary E. Burdick, also of English extraction, who adhered closely to the old Sabbatarian doctrine. This sect- also called Seventh-Day Baptists-claim that the old Jewish Sabbath should never have been changed to Sunday. On the pa- ternal side of her family she is descended from the Campbells of Scotland, hence a mixture of English and Scotch blood.

In 1866 she was sent to Alfred Uni- versity, where she obtained her education. After creditably passing the examinations she commenced the scientific course, show- ing marked ability and great talent for mathematics. In 1868 a sad bereavement befell her in the sudden death of a fond father, which event compelled her to leave the university in order to attend to the finances of the family. Being thoroughly imbued with that spirit of independence which is characteristic of many women of the present age, she accepted a position as copyist in a tax-collector's office, which, however, she soon gave up to begin teach- ing

Possessed of fine executive ability she soon became a successful teacher, and a longing desire to complete her studies made her frugal and careful of her earnings, but two years of most laborious work, teaching school and at the same time prosecuting her university studies, so seriously impaired her health that she was compelled to give up the latter and devote her time exclusively to teaching. In 1872 she was appointed teacher in the Mansfield State Orphan School, Mansfield, Pa., which was then the training school for the Mansfield State Nor- mal School. She there took the degree of B. E., and in 1877 the degree of Master of Elementary Didactics was conferred upon her while she was still teaching, and in the same year she was appointed Principal of the Smethport (Pa.) High School and Acad- emy. Showing great determination of char- acter and a desire to become proficient in whatever she undertook, and possessing both mental and physical activity, it is not surprising that success attended her efforts,

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although in the latter part of the year she was forced by failing health, due to over- work, to give up teaching.

She spent a year traveling in the West and Northwest, deriving such benefit from her Western sojourn that in 1878 she went to Chicago, Ill., to assume the business and editorial management of the Newsboy's Ap- peal, an illustrated journal published in the interest of the Newsboy's Home in that city.

Not content with this field of labor, and desiring a wider field for the application of scientific knowledge, she decided to become a physician, and the following year began to read medicine under Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, of Chicago, Ill., at the same time conducting a night school on the kinder- garten plan in the Newsboy's Home.

In March, 1882, she completed the course in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical Col- lege, after which she went to Baltimore, Md., where she spent six months in the of- fice and private hospital of the late Prof. August F. Erich, the noted gynecological surgeon.

Having decided to locate permanently in Baltimore, she opened an office and com- menced to practice medicine there in the fall of 1882. At that time only one woman, Dr. Emma Stein Wanstall, who died in Septem- ber, 1882, had succeeded in establishing a paying practice in Baltimore.

No female physician in this city had pre- viously been intrusted with surgical cases, but Doctor Brewster believed that this field was open to sensible, energetic and skillful female surgeons, notwithstanding the strong prejudice against them then ex- isting in the South, and during the next four years worked arduously, building up a large

and lucrative surgical and gynecological practice, while at the same time doing a great deal of charitable work.

In the spring of 1886 her sister, Cora B. Brewster, was graduated in medicine, and was received in her office as an assist- ant. In 1889 she began the publication of The Baltimore Family Health Journal, the name of which was changed in 1891 to The Homeopathic Advocate and Health Journal, and was made a hospital journal with a corps of ten editors. Publication of the lat- ter was suspended two years later. In Jan- uary, 1897, Dr. F. A. Brewster revived the publication of The Baltimore Family Health Journal.

In 1890 the agitation caused by the ap- plication for the admission of women to the medical department of the Johns Hopkins University created a lively interest in the question of the medical education of women, and was the means of enlightening the peo- ple of the South in regard to the status of women in the medical profession. The bar- riers that had previously existed were grad- ually removed, and women could more suc- cessfully compete with their brother practi- tioners in the surgical field.

In 1883 Doctor Brewster was physician and surgeon to the Home for Fallen Women, a charitable institution situated in Baltimore, Md .; also physician to the Fe- male House of Refuge, a reformatory in- stitution for incorrigible girls. She has also given clinics in the Homeopathic Hospital in Baltimore.

In September, 1892, she spent some time with Professor Pratt, of Chicago, studying the principles of orificial surgery, and at once made use of them in her surgical prac- tice.

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Doctor Brewster has a large practice in gynecological surgery extending over the entire South, and has met with remarkable success as a skillful and rapid operator, and has the unprecedented record of never hav- ing lost a surgical case. She has invented several instruments for the more convenient and effective use of electricity in gyneco- logical practice, and also an electric belt, which practical electricians say is a great improvement upon all those previously made.

The Doctor is an ardent advocate of the higher medical education of women, and is ever ready to extend a helping hand to young women who desire to study medicine or become trained nurses.

In 1892 the existing partnership with her sister, Dr. Cora B. Brewster, was dissolved. Doctor Brewster's latest enterprise (April, 1893) has been the purchase of the large dwelling with handsome grounds at- tached, situated at 1221 Madison avenue, Baltimore, Md., where she has opened a sanitarium for the treatment of the medical and surgical diseases of women. She has a skillful and able assistant, Dr. Margaret R. Mackenzie, of Woodstock, Ont. The build- ings are well suited for the purpose-heated by steam and fitted up with electrical appli- ances used in medical practice, apparatus for the Swedish movement cure, and also a training school for nurses.

In the short time the sanitarium has been opened it has already proved a great suc- cess, encouraging alike to Doctor Brewster training school for nurses.

Doctor Brewster is a member of the fol- lowing societies, viz: Maryland State Medi- cal Society, Maryland and District of Co- lumbia Clinical Society, American Institute

of Homeopathy, American Health Resort Association, chairman of the Bureau of Gynecology in the National Society of Electro-therapeutists, and also a member of the American Association of Orificial Sur- geons.

(Reprinted from biography of Ephraim McDowell, D. D., with portrait and sketches of prominent members of the medical pro- fession.)

DR. CLAUDE VAN BIBBER was born in Baltimore, June 27, 1853. He is a son of the late Dr. Washington C. and Mary J. (Chatard) Van Bibber, natives of Maryland, and descendants respectively of early Dutch and Haytien settlers of the colony. Dr. Claude Van Bibber completed his general education at Georgetown University from which institution he was graduated with the class of '74. His study of medicine was pur- sued under his father's preceptorship and he was graduated from the medical depart- ment of the University of Maryland in 1877. The following year, in conjunction with his brother, Dr. John Van Bibber, he assisted in the establishment of a dispensary for nervous diseases at 6 Barnet street, Balti- more, which was conducted until 1890, since which time he has been engaged in general practice with present office and residence at 805 N. Charles street. Doctor Van Bibber was visiting physician to St. Agnes Hos- pital from 1878 to 1893; has been since 1881 one of the visiting physicians to the Home of the Friendless, and since 1895 one of the surgical staff of St. Joseph's Hospital. He is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, American Medical Association, and Clinical Society of Mary- land. He was married in June, 1892, to

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Margaret, daughter of Judge M. M. Cohen, of New Orleans. Dr. and Mrs. Van Bibber have one child, Claude, Jr., and are mem- bers of the Roman Catholic Church.

HERMANN HENRY HOBLEMANN, Presi- dent and Treasurer of the Wehr-Hoble- mann-Gottlieb Brewing and Malting Com- pany, of Baltimore, was born at Osnabruck, Hanover, September 25, 1835. He is a son of the late John Henry and Anna Regina (Schroeder) Hoblemann, natives of Han- over, as were their ancestors as far back as the genealogies of both families are tracea- ble. The elder Hoblemann was a miller at Osnabruck, and the descendant of a number of generations, the senior male of each of which pursued the same avocation at the same place. Hermann H. Hoblemann re- ceived some years' schooling at the Osna- bruck Gymnasium and then, after taking a commercial course, entered his father's mill- ing office. At the age of eighteen he came to the United States and located in Balti- more, where he found employment with Charles D. Slingluff & Son, wholesale grocers and commission merchants, with whom he remained for six years, occupy- ing the position of shipping clerk during the last four years. In 1860 he estab- lished himself in the retail grocery busi- ness at 72 Conway street, where he re- mained for five years, then embarking in a wholesale liquor business at 59 S. Charles street, in which he was engaged until May, 1886. The following eighteen months were spent in visiting the Fatherland. Upon re- turning to Baltimore, he devoted his time exclusively to the malting business of Wehr, Hoblemann & Gottlieb, with which firm he became associated in 1880. In 1888 a brew-

ing business was added to the concern, and is known under the corporate name of Wehr-Hoblemann-Gottlieb Brewing and Malting Company, of which Mr. Hoble- mann is president and treasurer. The brewing plant has a capacity of 120,000 bar- rels per annum; its output the first year was 32,000 barrels, and last year (1896) 56,000 barrels. Mr. Hoblemann's services have been in request in official connection with numerous organizations of Baltimore. He was for a number of years a member of the Boards of Directors of the German Fire In- surance Company and German Bank, of Baltimore. He was married in 1862 to Mary Mormann, the daughter of a Han- overian, who settled in Baltimore. She died in 1885, leaving five children; Mary, wife of Harry Thies, of Baltimore; Joanna, wife of Justus Hoblemann, merchant, of Baltimore; Lisette, wife of Percy C. Hennighausen, an attorney and Commissioner of Immigration, of Baltimore; Maggie, wife of the late Dr. William Koenig, of Gottingen, Germany, and Frederick Hoblemann, assistant book- keeper of the Brewing and Malting Com- pany. Mr. H. H. Hoblemann married in 1887, Alma Fuerste, also the daughter of a Hanoverian. One child born of this mar- riage is Hermann A. Hoblemann. The family reside at 2119 E. Pratt street, and are members of Zion Lutheran Church.

SAMUEL KING SMITH, Attorney-at-Law, was born in Baltimore, December 11, 1869, and is a son of Nicholas M. and Mary (King) Smith, natives of Maryland, the for- mer of Scotch, the latter of English descent. He attended the public schools of Baltimore and received, in 1891, the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the Johns Hopkins Univer-

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sity; in 1893 he was graduated from the law department of the Maryland University and was in the same year admitted to the bar of Baltimore City, at which bar he is now en- gaged in the practice of law.

DR. THOMAS WILLIAM KEOWN, born February 6, 1868, County Sligo, Ireland, was educated at Primrose Grange, Sligo and Santry School, Dublin, taught school for five years and during the latter part of this period completed his general education at the Royal University, Dublin. In 1890 he came to the United States, was engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York for two years, then coming to Baltimore to enter Baltimore Medical College, from which in- stitution he was graduated with second hon- ors in '95. While a student at Baltimore Medical College he spent two summers in hospital work at Roosevelt Hospital, New York. During '95-6 he was resident phy- sician at the Maryland General Hospital; '96-7 lecturer on embryology and on dis- pensary clinic diseases of children, and dermatology at the Baltimore Medical Col- lege. Doctor Keown resides at 848 W. North avenue and is a member of St. Peter's P. E. Church.

DR. S. J. ULMAN was born in Baltimore, September 27, 1865. He is a son of the late Col. Benjamin F. and Henrietta (Buann) Ulman, the former a native of Germany, the latter of Baltimore, and of Spanish descent. Col. Benjamin F. Ulman was a member of the firm of Ulman & Co., wholesale liquor dealers, of Baltimore. Dr. J. Ulman re- ceived his general education under private tutors and at Johns Hopkins University, graduated from the medical department of

Maryland University and took a student's course at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and has been engaged in practice since 1890, mak- ing a specialty of surgery. He is a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland and the Baltimore Clinical So- ciety. Doctor Ulman's office and residence are at 1325 Linden avenue.

DR. WILLIAM JEROME CHAPPELL Was born in Rochester, N. Y., November 2, 1857. He is a son of the late James and Charlotte Catharine (Lang) Chappell, the former a native of Connecticut, the latter of New York, and both of English descent. James Chappell was a grain broker and lat- terly a leading builder of Rochester. He died in 1863. William J. Chappell gradu- ated from State Normal School, Brockport, 1877, and Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) with the degree of B. A. in 1883, his M. A. degree being conferred by the latter institution in 1886. He began the study of medicine under Dr. R. Baker, Middletown, Conn., was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, in 1886, was assistant resident physician at Maternite Hospital for one year and resi- dent student at City Hospital the following year, and has since been engaged in general practice with present office and residence at 1351 N. Gilmor street. Doctor Chappell is a member of Improved Order of Hepta- sophs.

JOHN CHRISTOPHER MATTHAI, senior member of the firm of Matthai, Ingram & Co., manufacturers on Tin and Japanned ware, was born at Saxe Meiningen, Febru- ary 24, 1822. He is a son of the late John Nicholas and Christiana Maria (Beck)

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Author: Shepherd, Henry Elliott, 1844-1929, ed. 4n Publication date: 1898 Publisher: [Uniontown? Pa.] S.B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1344

Author: Shepherd, Henry Elliott, 1844-1929, ed. 4n
Publication date: 1898
Publisher: [Uniontown? Pa.] S.B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1344