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Dr. Du Bois was married in Wisconsin, to Laura R. Faville, of Lake Mills, Wis., daughter of A. D. and Ellen A. Faville. They have had three children: Benjamin F., vice-president of the First State Bank, of Sauk Centre; Julian F., who is studying medicine; and Faville, who was killed by lightning in 1906 at the age of thirteen years.
Dr. Darwin Du Bois, father of Dr. Julian A. Du Bois, was a distinguished physician of Lake Mills, Wis., and held the title of major by reason of his
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services as surgeon in the 29th and 46th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. He was strongly in favor of the abolition of slavery, and worked for that cause many years before the war. He was a man of intense patriotism, and it is a matter of pride with his descendants that his high ideals of volunteer patriotic service were such that he never asked for or accepted a pension, although entitled to a large one. Fully and freely he laid his measure of devotion upon the altar of his country, his reward being that inner consciousness that he had done his duty to God and to humanity. After slavery was abolished, he became a strong advocate of the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors. Dr. Darwin Du Bois died in 1879 at the age of fifty-eight years. His wife died in 1904 at the age of seventy-six. There were two children: Julian A. Du Bois, and Gertrude, now wife of Dr. D. A. Mitchell, of Seattle, Washing- ton. A. D. Faville, the father of Mrs. Julian A. Du Bois, was a leading dairy- man of Wisconsin. He is credited with having erected the first modern dairy barn in his state. His pioneer efforts along the lines of intelligent and sani- tary dairying made possible the work of such strong and able men as for- mer Governor W. D. Hoard, of that state, who patterned after his ideas and suggestion.
August Kuhlmann, M. D., was born in Vörden, R. g. b. Osnabrück, Province of Hanover, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, January 27, 1875, and received a good preparatory education in his native land. In 1892 he came to America with his parents, located with them at Melrose, in this county, and entered the Melrose High School. He also studied in St. John's Univer- sity, at Collegeville, Minn., and in the University of Chicago, at Chicago, Ill. In 1905 he graduated from the medical department of the University of Min- nesota. Then, after a year's experience as interne in St. Mary's Hospital, at Duluth, he started the practice of his profession in Melrose. He has a large practice in the city and the surrounding country, and is one of the popular men of this vicinity. Being thoroughly ethical in his profession, he has allied himself with the American Medical Association; the Minnesota State Medical Association, and the Stearns-Benton County Medical Society, and he is an active member of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography. In connection with his profession he is health officer of Melrose, and deputy coroner of Stearns county. Fraternally he is allied with the Catholic Order of Foresters, the Knights of Columbus, and the Deutsch Katholischen Unter- stuetzungs Gesellschaft. While he has never cared for public office, he has never shirked his duty as a citizen, and his services as a member of the Mel- rose board of education have been highly appreciated. Dr. Kuhlmann was married April 9, 1907, to Anna Meyer, a native of Humphrey, Nebraska, and they have four children : Lawrence, Arnold, Louisa and William.
Bernard Kuhlmann, Sr., was born in Germany, and in 1892 came to America and located on 160 acres which he purchased three miles north of Melrose, now owned by Joseph Kuhlmann, his son. He died the first year he came to his adopted country at Freeport. In the family there were ten children : Henry, Bardina, Elizabeth, Joseph, Agnes, Mary, Bernard Jr., Caroline, Frederick and August. Henry, Bardina and Elizabeth live in Ger- many. Joseph is on the home farm. Agnes is now Sister M. Columba, O. S. B.,
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in the convent at Duluth; Mary is now Mrs. Henry Blommel, of Freeport, this county ; Bernard lives in Melrose township; Caroline is now Mrs. Theodore Hinnenkamp, of Melrose township; Frederick is an engineer on the Great Northern; and August is a physician of Melrose. The mother of this family is still living, and has reached the age of seventy-eight years.
Charles S. Sutton, M. D., physician and surgeon, of St. Cloud, was born in Prior Lake village, Scott county, Minnesota, February 15, 1884, son of Stewart and Hattie (Snow) Sutton, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Wisconsin. Charles S. attended the schools of his neighborhood and the Minneapolis High School. Then he entered the University of Minnesota, from which he received the degree of B. A. in 1906 and the degree of M. D. in 1909. After a year as an interne in St. Barnabas Hospital, Minneapolis, he came to St. Cloud and commenced the practice of medicine. He is a member of the American and Minnesota State Medical Associations, and vice-presi- dent of the Stearns-Benton County Medical Society. He is also a member of the Masonic order and of the gun club.
A. J. Kirghis, M. D., a physician of St. Cloud, was born in Lyons, France, February 28, 1876, son of Charles Edward and Eugenie (Becherie) Kirghis. The father was a silk manufacturer with extensive connections in Europe and America, and the subject of the notice, as a boy and young man, crossed the ocean fifteen times with him. In 1893 he remained in this country for six months while he attended the medical college of Harvard University. In 1894 and 1895 he further pursued his studies at Harvard. The years of 1896 and 1897 were spent in Paris hospitals. In 1898 he spent a few months in Whitehall, N. Y., and attended the University of Vermont, where he gradu- ated in 1899. He then went back to Paris spending the remainder of the years 1899 and 1900 in the hospitals there, devoting most of his time to diseases of women and children. In the fall of 1900 he opened an office in St. Paul. Shortly afterward he established himself in practice in Sauk Centre. In 1912 he came to St. Cloud, where he has already made a place for himself in the life of the community. Locally he affiliates with the Elks and the Commercial Club. Professionally he is associated with the American and Minnesota State Medical Association, and with the Stearns-Benton and the Crow River Med- ical societies. Dr. A. J. Kirghis married Winnifred, the daughter of Con- gressman Thomas Lynch and Winnifred Finucane. Mr. Lynch served three terms in congress, dying at the end of his third term, at Antigo, Langlade county, Wis. During Cleveland's administration he was chairman of the ways and means committee and also chairman of the committee on Indian affairs.
George E. Sherwood, M. D., physician and man of affairs, living in Kim- ball, was born in St. Paul, February 14, 1872, son of George W. and Adeline (Hard) Sherwood. Subsequent to passing through the graded and high schools of St. Paul, he entered the University of Minnesota, took one year in the academic department and then registered in the medical department from which he was graduated in 1894. After the usual practice as an interne at St. Joseph's Hospital, at St. Paul, he opened an office at Dassel, Minn., where he remained six years. He became a prominent man, and was elected presi-
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dent of the village eouneil, a position corresponding to that of mayor in the larger eities. Since 1900 he has lived in Kimball, where he has built up a large and successful practice. He is president of the Stearns-Benton County Medical Society, and a member of the Crow River Valley Medieal Society, the "Soo" Surgeons' Association, and the American and Minnesota State Medieal associations. In business life, Dr. Sherwood is president of the State Bank of Kimball, and vice-president of the Reed & Sherwood Manufacturing Co., of Anoka, Minn. In polities as in temperament he is progressive, and his work is ever toward the general uplift of whatever community he makes his home. Some of his best work has been done as director of the school board for some six years. Fraternally Dr. Sherwood has also been active. He is a past master of Plumb Line Lodge, No. 173, A. F. & A. M., of Kimball, and a member of St. Cloud Chapter, No. 46, R. A. M., of St. Cloud. He is also affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Court of Honor, while both he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star and of the Royal Neighbors. Dr. Sherwood was married January 12, 1898, to Mary E. Milton, of Howard Lake, Minn., and they have had four children: Milton (deceased), Helen, Ruth and Jane. The family faith is that of the Baptist church.
George W. Sherwood, a carpenter and contraetor, was born in New York state, and came to St. Paul in 1855. For many years he was employed in rail- road work. He assisted in building what is now the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, between St. Paul and La Crosse, and he was also one of the builders of the suspension bridge at Minneapolis. During the Civil War, he was em- ployed at Ft. Snelling. He is still living, having reached the age of eighty years. His wife, who is also living, is one year younger. Her maiden name was Adeline Hard. They had six children. Two died in infaney. Those liv- ing are: Jennie, wife of H. O. Hilton; Addie, wife of W. H. Sleeper; A. E., of St. Paul; George E., of Kimball.
George W. Sherwood was the son of William Sherwood and Jane Bogardus, Colonial patriots. William Sherwood was a sea captain, and served in the American navy during the war of 1812. His wife, Jane, was a deseend- ant of "Anneke Jans" Bogardus, a Hollander, who onee owned a farm on Manhattan Island, where the historie Trinity Church now stands.
Joseph Edward Campbell, M. D., a distinguished physician of Melrose, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 25, 1852, son of George W. and Rebekah B. (Leighton) Campbell, who, when he was quite young, took him to Aurora, Ill. He received a good education in the publie schools supplemented by courses in the Methodist Seminary, at Aurora, Ill. He commenced the study of medieine by reading with Dr. George H. Brigham for two years. Then he took a three years' course in the medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, Mich., graduating with the elass of 1875. His health failed him, and in the fall of that year he went into the woods in northern Minnesota, where he was medical adviser and surgeon in the camps of his uneles, Leighton Brothers, of Minneapolis, Minn. However, there was little demand for his professional services in that healthy country, and Dr. Camp- bell took up his share of the strenuous work in the woods, thus seeuring that
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hardiness of body that has since characterized him. Late in 1875, Dr. Camp- bell located in Melrose, being one of the earliest residents of the village. Here he has since followed his profession. For several years he was in part- nership with Dr. Alfred Zuercher, a pleasant, professional and personal rela- tion which was broken only by the death of Dr. Zuercher. Dr. Campbell is an ideal village physician. He is kindly and shrewd, a master of his work, and a deep student of human nature. A gentleman of the old school he has promoted the health of the community, and has received a full measure of love and respect. With A. H. Dorsey, Dr. Campbell started the Melrose Sun. The first number was issued in 1890. This paper has now developed into the Beacon. With his brother, C. R. Campbell, he started the first livery in Mel- rose. For a time he had an interest in the drug store managed by R. A. Rich- mond, at Belgrade, in this county. Dr. Campbell has served continuously as mayor of Melrose since 1897, and his administration has been marked with unusual progress. Seven miles of sewerage system have been built, good sidewalks have been constructed, a modern brick city hall has replaced the old brick building, and the city owns its water and electric light plant. In addition to his service in the city, he is an active worker in the Republican party, and has been a delegate to the conventions of the congressional dis- trict and county for some thirty years past. He is also a prominent member of the Masonic order, belonging to the Blue Lodge and Chapter of Sauk Centre, the Commandery at St. Cloud, and the Shrine at St. Paul. In addi- tion to this he affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen, the Mac- cabees, the Eagles and the Ycomen. Dr. Campbell was married in 1878 to Alice C. Stewart, daughter of George W. Stewart, who kept the old stopping place at Stewart's Bridge, in the town of Grove, this county. Mrs. Alice C. Campbell died on May 23, 1905, at the age of forty-eight. There are eight children : Maud M., Louis, Beulah L., Dr. Claude, Edith M., Dr. Guy, Lucille E., and Keane. Dr. Campbell was again married, September 20, 1906, to Amelia L. Madsen, the daughter of Jens C. and Matilda Hansen, and of Dan- ish descent. By this union there are two children: Gwendolyn and James E.
George W. Campbell, the father of Dr. J. E. Campbell, was born in Scot- land, the son of Scot Hugh and Maria Campbell, Scotch highlanders. The im- mediate ancestors were mechanics. He married Rebekah Leighton, daughter of James H. and Sarah Matilda Leighton. The Leightons were wheelwrights and lumbermen, and are still prominent in Minneapolis. The Leightons and Campbells came to America on the same boat. George W. was a carpenter, joiner, and wheelwright. He lived awhile in Brooklyn, N. Y., and then came to Aurora, Ill. During the Civil War he did good service, first as a private in Company D, 115th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and then in the Pioneer Corps of Engineers and Mechanics. He was the father of eleven children : Ben F., Samuel Archibald, Freeman L., Josephine, George W. (died in early childhood), Joseph Edward, Laura, Arby, James Melville (died at the age of twenty-four), Charles R., and Eunice.
Ferdinand Hilbert, M. D., lived in Albany only twelve years, but his life during that period meant so much of manly honor, brotherly helpfulness and professional efficiency, that his memory will endure so long as the village
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shall last. He was born in Godbrange, in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, August 14, 1863, and spent his boyhood in much the same manner as the other youths of his time and circumstances. In 1881 he came to America with his parents, and located with them on a farm near Winona, Minnesota, in which city he graduated from the State Normal School, thus rounding out the six years' college course that he had received in Luxemburg. After graduating at Winona, he taught school for a while. While teaching he became inspired with a desire to become a physician. Accordingly he took a preliminary med- ical course in the Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill. Later he entered the medical school of the University of Minnesota, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D., in 1892. Then he was an interne in the City and County Hospital, at St. Paul, for a year. In 1893 he opened an office in Torah, this county, where he successfully practiced his profession for two years. It was in 1895 that he came to Albany, and established his offices here. His popularity and success were marked from the very start. He built up an ex- tensive practice, and enjoyed the love, confidence and esteem of the people for many miles around. He continued to practice up to within a few weeks of his death. During the last three weeks of his life he failed rapidly, and on March 16, 1906, died suddenly at the Asbury Hospital, Minneapolis. He is laid at rest in Oakland Cemetery, in St. Paul. At the time of his death it was written of him: "A pall of sadness enshrouded the entire community when it was announced that Dr. Hilbert had passed away. * * It is seldom that a village of this size is favored by a man of his professional ability. He was a deep student, endowed with mental and moral courage, kind, quiet and reserved. To have known the Doctor intimately was to have loved him. With his passing the wife and children have lost a kind and loving husband and father, the community an exceptionally efficient practitioner, the world an honest man." Dr. Hilbert was married in St. Paul, May 20, 1892, to Elsie Fuchs, a native of Milwaukee. This union was blessed with two children: Hortense L., who is attending the University of Minnesota, and Eunice A., who is at home with her mother. The parents of Mrs. Hilbert were John and Helen (Sciben) Fuchs. John Fuchs was born near the Rhine river, in Germany, and passed most of his early life in Karlsruhe. In 1848 he was a student at Heidelberg when war broke out. Accordingly he came to America and located in Milwaukee, where he became a man of considerable prominence.
John C. Boehm, M. D., was born in Vienna, Austria, June 12, 1860, son of Johann and Barbara (Kohler) Boehm. The father died when John C. was three years old, and the mother and five children were brought to America in 1867 by the step-father, Michael Berger. The family located near Black Earth, Wis., where John C. received his training as a farm boy, attending school in Eau Claire in the autumns and winters. From 1883 to 1884 he lived on a claim in South Dakota. In March, 1884, he went to Pierz, Minn. In Janu- ary, 1885, he entered the St. Cloud State Normal School, and was graduated from the advanced course in June, 1887. After a scientific course of one year in the University of Minnesota, he went to Euclid, Minn., where he taught school. In September, 1889, he took a position as cell-housekeeper for a year in the St. Cloud State Reformatory. While there he organized the night
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school, and became one of its teachers. This night school is still in existence and has been the cause of much good in the lives of the men who have at- tended it. It was about this period of his life, when Mr. Boehm determined to become a physician. Accordingly he entered the medical department of the University of Minnesota, and was graduated June 1, 1893. While in col- lege he became a member of the Nu Sigma Nu. After his graduation, he was an interne in the City and County Hospital at St. Paul, for fourteen months. On July 2, 1894, he took up the practice of his profession in St. Cloud. He is a member of the American and Minnesota State Medical Associations, and of the Stearns-Benton County and the Crow River Medical Societies. With the exception of two years, during one of which he was president, he has been secretary of the Stearns-Benton County Medical Society continuously since its organization, September 10, 1902. As former president of a recognized, sectional medical society, he is eligible to office in the American and State Medical Associations. Dr. Boehm has been secretary of the U. S. Pension Ex- amining Board, at St. Cloud, continuously since 1898. He served on the St. Cloud board of education for ten years and was its president for six years. During his period of service the additions were made to what is now the Union School ; and the Franklin School was built. The low cost at which this excellent work was done has been highly commended. With all his busy life, Dr. Boehm has found time for social diversion, and has become a popular member of the Elks. He was married November 28, 1896, to Mittie A. Adam- son, a native of Toronto, Canada.
Arthur D. Whiting, M. D., specialist, of St. Cloud, was born in North- field, Minn., October 24, 1872, son of Danforth J. and Cordelia P. (Deming) Whiting, the former of whom is a dental surgeon in active practice in that . place at the present time. Arthur D. Whiting passed through the graded and high schools of his native town, and took courses in Carleton College in that place. In 1894 he was graduated from the dental department of the University of Minnesota, and a year later from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Minneapolis. He received the usual hospital practice as an interne in St. Mary's Hospital, Minneapolis. Then he specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat work and settled in St. Cloud, where since December 1, 1897, he has been in active practice. He is a member of the American and Minnesota State Medical Associations and the Stearns-Benton Medical Society. He also belongs to the Modern Woodmen, the Court of Honor, the Maccabees and the Commercial Club. Dr. Whiting married Grace Twitchell, a native of Minneapolis, and they have one son, Danforth, born March 10, 1901.
J. M. McMasters, M. D., still lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, with his daugh- ter, and while many years have passed over his head he still has a fund of wit and wisdom which is seldom equaled. Dr. McMasters is a "gentleman of the old school," in every sense, and will be long remembered as a true friend, a public-spirited citizen, a devoted and active Christian worker, and an able physician. He was graduated from Rush College in 1866 and for over forty years pursued the work of his profession, and when the infirmities of age made it necessary that he should lay aside active work he still maintained his habit of sound thought, ready wit, and an honesty of purpose and expression
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that is absolute. A letter from him in answer to one from the writer of this artiele presents a better account of his life than anyone else could write and is given here in full. His modesty has prevented his writing some of the things that should be noted, but these may be imagined from his general character. This letter will not only record faets but will preserve a style of thought and diction that is becoming unfortunately rare :
"My Dear Doctor :- Your kindly communication of the seventeenth instant just at hand, I regret that physical imperfection prevents me from giving you as full and complete a history of events, both pleasant and painful, in the history of the medical men of Stearns and adjoining counties as I could wish, but fulgurating pain of a ceaseless brand seriously impedes the actions of both brain and stylet-briefly then :
"I emerged from the Civil War as assistant surgeon of the Sixth Minne- sota Volunteers. This vast elinie of two years' practical work, was of more real value to me than my college experience before and after, while the com- bined influence gave me a certain ease and assurance in practice that I could not have assumed under less favorable circumstances. In 1867-68 I served as contraet surgeon, U. S. A., at Fort Wadsworth and Fort Ransom, D. T.
"In 1869 I accepted a partnership with Dr. B. R. Palmer of Sauk Centre. Dr. Palmer was a college-bred man, thoroughly educated, and one of the best emergeney surgeons I have ever known. He was never at a loss, no matter how serious or discouraging the ease. Were I to do justice to the personal character of Dr. Palmer I might write volumes, but time and space forbid, and any old resident of St. Cloud can do it as well, or better than I. When I located in Sauk Centre I found myself ealled upon to answer ealls in Stearns, Pope, Douglas, Kandiyohi, Todd and Grant counties; frequently I employed two days in seeing one patient. My mode of transportation was varied, buggy, horse-baek, ox-team and when no other was available, walker's express. Under these conditions leisure hours were a negligible quantity, especially as my part- ner and myself were bound by the Hippoeratie oath to refuse no one, even personal or bitter enemies, and we had them. When we recall that Leister's star was still below the horizon, and that the average home was only aseptie after a conflagration and that hygiene and sanitation were only terms of vague meaning even to professionals, one is apt, even at this late period, to offer ineense at the shrine of nature, which so nobly lent us aid and comfort in those trying times.
"In 1869 there were four regular practitioners in St. Cloud, and two or three irregulars. Fifty miles west was Sauk Centre with two regulars and one empirie ; 28 miles west again was Alexandria, with two regulars, at Glen- wood was one irregular; at Long Prairie two empirics-a small representation for so vast a district. Of course there were a few priests who added medicine to their calling, for various reasons and who frequently excelled the regulars in the number of their elients. For many years the village of Osakis relied entirely on a woman (Mrs. Sanderson) for medical service. She was a woman of excellent character and good sense, did not elaim to know it all, and invariably gave her patients the benefit of a consultation, when in her opinion they needed one. The fact that she was treated with the utmost
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courtesy by all the regulars who came into contact with her is proof of her good qualities. So far as I know she is still living in Osakis respected by all. "Of anecdotes concerning frontier days I have not strength or ability to write. Of the medical men I have met and loved and hated it is unnecessary to speak, since you doubtless have their biographies at hand. All of them were human, and were loved. Most of them were useful-and some of them were good. 'No further seek their merit to disclose.' That I am under a weight of obligation to them for a thousand kindnesses, I am glad to admit. If on the other hand I have been of service to them I am deeply grateful for the opportunity. Vale et valete, J M. McMasters."
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