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EMIL HEUEL, M.D., who is of German parentage. the son of Dr. Franz and Mrs. Adelheid Heuel, was born in New York City in the early sixties. He has one brother, Dr. Frank MIquel, and two sisters, Mrs. Theodore (Elizabeth ) Schumacher and Miss Adelet HIeuel. Dr. Emil Heuel was educated in the public schools and the College of the City of New York, in the New York College of Pharmacy and the University of the City of New York, Medical Department. He received the Valentine Mott medal, class of 1882, and was graduated on March 12, 1883. Ilis American post-graduate medical education was received in the clinics of the medical departments of the University of the
City of New York, Bellevue Hospital, Charity Hospital, the New York Lying-In Hospital, the New York Orthopaedic Hospital and Dispensary, the Manhattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hos- pital and St. Joseph's Hospital. His foreign post-graduate medi- cal education was received in the hospitals of Moabit, La Charite and St. Augusta's Spital, at Berlin, and in the hospitals of Lon- don and Paris. By profession he is a physician and surgeon, his specialty being the treatment of diseases of the ear, nose. throat and lungs. He was assistant to the surgical and ortho- paedic lectures and clinics, and assistant surgeon to the Ortho- paedic Dispensary and Surgical Clinic, New York University Medical College, assistant attending surgeon to the New York Orthopaedic Hospital and Dispensary, district visiting physician New York Lying-In Hospital, ambulance surgeon Bellevue Hos- pital, assistant attending surgeon to the Throat Department Man- hattan Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, and visiting surgeon to St. Joseph's Hospital from 1889 to 1904. He is a fellow of the American Medical Association : of the American Electro-therapeu- tic Association; of the New York Academy of Medicine, and of the American Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the New
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York State Medical Association, Medical Society of the State of New York, of the New York County Medical Association, of the New York County Medical Society, of the Harlem Medical Asso- ciation, of the Society of Medical Jurisprudence, of the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, of the Medical Society of the Greater City of New York, of the Medico-Surgical Society, of the Medical Association of the Borough of the Bronx, and of the Otological, Rhinological and Laryngological Sections of
the New York Academy of Medicine. He was secretary of the Medical Society of the Borough of the Bronx, secretary and mein- ber of the Executive Council, vice-president and president of the .American Electro-therapeutic Association, honorary medical dele gate for the Government of Honduras to the International Con- gress of Hygiene, Washington, D. C., honorary medical member of the International Association for the Suppression of Wars, and honorary member of the International Congress of Physio- therapy. He is a member of the New York Athletic Club, the New York Yacht Club and the Nassau Boat Club, of which club he is also a trustee. Ile was late chairman of the commit- ter on fire, health and police protection of the North Side Board of Trade, late member of the New York Turn Verein, and of the
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Arion Society of New York. He received the decoration of the Order of the Bust of Bolivar from the Government of Venezuela. He is a life member of the Ancient and Aeeepted Scottish Rite Bodics; of the Lodge of Perfection, N. Y. A. A. S. R .; of the Council of Princess, N. Y. A. A. S. R .; of Chapter of Rose Croix: N. Y. A. A. S. R .; of Consistory of N. Y. A. A. S. R .; of the Mecca Temple (Shrine, ) A. A. O. N. M. S .; Thirty-second De- gree Mason, of Chancellor Walworth Lodge, No. 271, F. and A. M .; of Ivy Lodge, No. 167, K. of P., and of the United Lodge, No. 1; American Association of Masters and Pilots of Steam Vessels. He is a member of the Thomas Hunter Association of Grammar School No. 35 and of the Alumni Association of the University of the City of New York. He is an electrical expert and a licensed master and pilot of steam vessels of the United States. He has never held any political offiec. He is interested in out-door sports, athleties and yachting. He was married Sep- tember 29, 1887, to Miss Josephine Elizabeth Stein, daughter of Mr. Conrad Stein. He has one chud, a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Josephine Heuel.
HENRY RUHL, M.D .- One of the most estecmed and popular physicians in the Bronx, was born in Germany Deeem- bcr 3, 1847. . He received his general education in Germany, but on his arrival in the United States, he entered Bellevue College and graduated from there in 1873. Entering actively into gen- eral practice, Dr. Ruhl through his thorough knowledge of "Materia Medica" and his successful adaptation to the diagnosis of remarkable cases that came from time to time before his observation, soon brought him into prominence not only amongst the medical profession, but more particularly among the older residents of the Bronx; his success in his practice became phe- nomenal, and it is more than possible that his clientage among the older residents succeeds to a great extent more than that of any other of the older physicians in the community. Dr. Ruhl married in 1878, Miss Annic Lauer, a young lady of high social standing and of an old Bronx family. A staunch Demo- crat in politics, he never held any public office, outside of his profession. He has served as the visiting physician to Fordham Hospital, a member of the Local School Board in the Bronx, a member of the New York Medieal Society, and the United States Medical Society. Two sons and three daughters, all living, contribute largely to the domestie comforts of Dr. and Mrs. Ruhl, whose children are accomplished in all the rudi- ments of music and the classics. Dr. Ruhl, while somewhat advanced in years, takes a deep interest in the development and advancement of all publie improvements in the Bronx, and does not hesitate to do building on his own account at numerous points where he is the owner of improved properties.
CARL WURM, M.D., at the age of 12 years came to the United States from Mengeunghausen, Germany, where he was born November 8, 1862. After receiving a course of private teaching he entered the New York College of Pharmacy, and received his diploma in 1881. A drug clerk for a couple of years, he opened a drug store, and in the meantime found time to take a regular course of medicine at Bellevue College, where after close application to his studies, he graduated in 1891, came to the Bronx, and entered into general practice. A Democrat in politics, he has never held or sought public office, but is a mem- ber of the New York State Medical Society, the American Na- tonal Medical Society, and the Schnorer Club. On May 25, 1887, be married Lenora Lauer, of the Bronx. Two children are the result of this union, Lenora, 14 years of age, and Carl, Jr., II. Dr. Warm has advanced rapidly in his profession, and not only
commands a large practice, but is very highly regarded by the medical profession, as one of the most promising and successful physicians in the Bronx.
EDMUND E. SPECHT, M.D., of 1277 Washington Ave- nue, is a member of the Bronx Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the New York County Medical Society. was attached to the French Hospital in Manhattan and for the past fourteen years with the Harlem Eye and Ear Hospital.
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Born in New York City on October 23, 1863, and in 1896 mar- ried Miss Georgina, daughter of the late Dr. A. D. Elmer, and granddaughter of Dr. William Elmer. Two children are th: re- sult of this union, viz., Edmund Elmer and Agatha Georgia.
WILLIAM A. RANDEL, M.D .. was born at Troy, New York, on the 17th of October, 1876. At an early age he went with his parents to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he resided until 1898, when he made his home in the Borough of the Bronx. He is a graduate of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of the Class of 1899, and has been practicing medieine in this Borough since that date. He is a member of the Medical Society of the Borough of the Bronx; the New York County Medical Society; the Medical Association of the Greater City of New York and the New York Phy- sicians' Mutual Aid Association. Dr. Randel is instructor of diseases of the ear at the New York Post Graduate Medical School, and is attending physician at the Bronx Eye and Ear Infirmary, Nosc, Throat and Ear Departments. On June 15, 1904, he was married to Miss Minnie Catherine Bohne. a young lady well-known in the Bronx, having lived with her parents on 138th strect for a number of years. Doctor and Mrs. Randel are members of the Alexander Avenue Baptist Church. and are much interested in the religious as well as the general welfare of the Bronx.
ISRAEL CONE JONES, M.D., an eminent physician in the Borough of the Bronx, was born at Colchester, Conn .. July 19. 1851, and has been a resident of the Bronx since 1875 Hle is a graduate of the Melrose Public School. Chickering Aca lemy and the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr.
NATHAN BRISTOL VAN ETTEN. M.D.
GEORGE H. MC GUIRE. M.D.
SOLOMON CARRINGTON MINOR, M.D.
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Jones is considered and known as one of the most advanced and distinguished practitioners in the great borough; his prac- tive is large and lucrative, and his success in the treatment of stubborn cases has advanced his position and standing as a phy- sician of the highest order. On June 13, 1877, he married Miss Henrietta Jones and has three talented sons, Arthur Cone Jones, Ralph Mason Jones and Harry Brush Jones; he is a Republican in politics and is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, Medical Society of the County of New York, Empire State Society and Sons of the American Revolution.
WILLIAM AINSLIE GOODALL, eminent physician and surgeon of the Bronx for the past seventeen years, was born it Gall, Canada, Province of Ontario, in 1862. He graduated at the University of Toronto and Victoria, the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Kings and Queens College of Physicians, Dublin, in 1883. He is a member of the Medical Council of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, New Zea- land, South Australia, Cape Colony and Natal, South Africa. He married May 11, 1902, Miss Elizabeth Anderson, of this city. Dr. Goodall enjoys the distinction of being one of the most successful practitioners north of the Harlem River. His ser- vices are called into the most serious and intricate cases and in
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r ultations with his fellow physicians his judgment and de- :> are received with the highest consideration. He has raordinary energy and great perceptive faculties, combined · th the knowledge of his profession, not only as a physician, · in surgery has brought his valuable services into such favor " his large list of patients among the residents of the Bronx ' its environs pays the highest tribute to his genius as one wir foremost physicians. Dr. Goodall is a member of the tue Order, the Schnorer, West Morrisania and Canadian . the Royal Arcanum, Loyal Benefit Association, County val, the County Medical Association and the Medico-Surgical ev and North Side Board of Trade.
JORGE H. McGUIRE. M.D. a prominent and success- . foian and a native of the Borough of the Bronx, was n Mott Haven, Angust 11, 1802, and graduated from Pub- wal No, to in 1876, and the same year was admitted to the
College of the City of New York, where he also graduated, and in 1883 received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. Born in the Bronx, and having acquired a thorough medical education and fortified with his thorough knowledge of "Materia Medica," he returned from his successful studies to his home in the Bronx and entered upon the practice of his profession, where he immediately mct with great success. Ifis advancement was rapid, and his position as one of the most prominent physicians of the Borough of the Bronx is so well established that his fel- low disciples of Esculapius regard him as a grand factor in their honorable profession. In politics Dr. McGuire is a Demo- crat, and in 1902 was appointed a member of the Twenty-third Local School District, and served as chairman of the board dur- ing the year of 1904. On July 14, 1903, he was married to Miss Florence P. O'Sullivan, a lady of culture and refinement, and has one son, George H. McGuire, Jr. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church and attends the Church of the Immacu- late Conception, 150th Street and Melrose Avenue.
WILHELM WEINBERGER, M.D., one of the prominent physicians of the Bronx. was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1869 He was educated at the Commercial, Rcal and Obergymnasium of Vienna, graduating with honors in the class of 1888. Serving his allotted time in the Austrian Infantry. he attained his degree of M.D. from the University of Vienna in 1894. and was pro-
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moted .to assistant surgeon, being assigned to the Garrison Hos- pital at Fort Komorni, Hungary The following two years were devoted to professional work in the hospital of Vienna, Berlin and London. To attain a more extended field for the exercise of his profession, he came to New York in January, too, and located in the Brous at 252 Willis Avenue, where he has been practicing
C. E. BARTON. M.D.
D. J. QUIRK, M.D.
CHARLES GEORGE KIRCHHOF, M.D.
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medicine ever since. His standing in the great Borough of the Bronx among his professional colleagues and the leading citi- rens, among the latter of whom he has a very large clientage, is of the highest character, as a learned and thorough "disciple of Aesculapius." Dr. Weinberger married Miss Helen Steinam, whose family connections on the West Side of New York City are very prominent. Dr. Weinberger has the degree of M. Sc. of the New York University, was physician to the out-door department of the Mount Sinai Hospital, admitting physician of the Monte- fiore Hospital, is a member of the German Medical and Bronx Medical Societies, the Royal Arcanum, and a large number of prominent social clubs of the Bronx.
DR. NATHAN BRISTOL VAN ETTEN, physician and surgeon, of 600 Tremont Avenue, the Bronx, was born at Waverly, N. Y., June 22, 1866. His education was obtained in the Port Jervis schools, at Cornell, and in the Bellevue Hospi- tal Medical College. Whatever advantages these schools could give in the profession he lias had. He has been a resident of the Bronx fourteen years and is regarded by the public and !us brethren of the profession as a highly successful practitioner. Hle lives in a style confirming the general opinion of his pros- : erity. He married, May 17, 1893, Miss Josephine Swinton and ans two children, both daughters. He is a Kappa Alpha man, a Phi Alpha Sigma member and a communicant of the Dutch Re- formed Church at Fordham. In politics his faith is Republican. Ile belongs to three organizations of the profession, the Ameri- can Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society and the Bronx Borough Medical Society.
JOHN PARSONS, M.D., of Kingsbridge, New York City, 's a son of Hiram Addison Parsons, of Kings Borough, New York, and Lucy Elizabeth ( Brown) Parsons, of Bloomfield, Conn. He is ninth in descent from Sir Thomas Parsons, of Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England, and seventh from Deacon Benjamin Parsons, one of the first settlers of Springfield, Mass. On the maternal side he is descended from Peter Brown, one .i the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620. He was born at Kings Borough, N. Y., April 12, 1842, and in boyhood attended the local schools, both public and private, and also the Kings Borough Academy. He also pursued a course at the Gloversville (N. Y.) S. minary. He began the study of medicine under Dr. G. J. Newton, at Gloversville, N. Y., and continued it under Dr. J. :{ Schorn, at West Galway, N. Y., and at the Albany (N. Y.) Medical College. He was graduted from the College of Phy- auns and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, on February to, 1864, is mn the Chicago Medical College, with the honorary degree, on March 4. 1868, and from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College ww a part of New York University ) on March 1, 1875, receiv- from the last named the degree of Doctor of Medicine. . · an the Albany Medical College Dr. Parsons entered the tied States Army as a medical cadet. He was under General wait at the siege and surrender of Vicksburg, and also served the Southwest, in the Northwest, and in Eastern Tennessee. i r the war he practiced medicine for six years in Kansas : was there Vice-President and President of the Kansas State .
Led Society and a representative in the Legislature. In 1871 · stablished himself in his present home at Kingsbridge, New :: City, where he has been Justice of the Peace and for 7 years a vestryman of the Church of the Mediator. Dur- e war he held the rank of Medical Cadet, U. S. A., Acting Most Surgeon, U. S. A., and Assistant Surgeon, United . Volunteers. He was made a Brevet Captain of United . Volunteers "for faithful and meritorious services." He . 1 .4 a time executive officer of the MeDougall General Hospi-
tal, at Fort Schuyler, N. Y., and chief medical officer on Hart's Island, N. Y. Ile was Vice-President and President of the Kansas State Medical Society, and has been Secretary, Vice- President and President of the Yonkers Medical Association. He is an honorary member of the Jenkins Medical Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Medicine and original Fellow of the New York State Medical Association, and a member of the American Medical Association, the New York County Medical Association, the Westchester Medical Association, the Public Health Association, the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association, and other organizations. He is Medical Director of the Grand Army of the Republic in the State of New York. Director of the Knights of Honor, a Regent in the Royal Arcanumn, and a mem- " ber of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club and the Army and Navy Club. His address is No. 2882 Bailey Avenue, Kingsbridge, New York City.
SOLOMON CARRINGTON MINOR, M.D., a resident of the Bronx from November 15, 1893, to the present, a prominent physician of the borough, was born in Waterbury, Conn., June 4, 1850. He attended the Waterbury High School in his youth, and graduated from it in July, 1864. Later he took a course at Williston Academy, Vt., for a year. He also attended Parker Academy, Woodbury, Conn., and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., from which he graduated June, 1868. He took the classical course at Yale from 1868 to IS70, withdrawing in the latter year because of illness and taking up his studies there again from 1871 to 1873. From Yale he graduated with the B. A. degree and then taught school. After fifteen years in that vocation he entered the medical department of New York Uni- versity and graduated a M.D. in 1892. He served then a full term as interne at Bellevue Hospital on the surgical side. From 1873 to 1889, when he was engaged as a school teacher, he was principal of the High School Naugatuck, Conn., in 1873-74; prin- cipal of the Union City School, Naugatuck, 1874-76, and principa. of Greenville School, Norwich, Conn., 1877-89. He is a mem- ber of the following organizations : The American Medical As- sociation, the New York State and County Medical Association, the New York County Medical Society, the Medical Association of Greater New York, the Harlem Medical Association, the Society of Alumni of Bellevue Hospital, the East Side Medical Association, the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association. and the Medical Society of the Borough of the Bronx, of which he was one of the early presidents and the incorporation of which was arranged during his incumbency. He is one of the medical examiners for the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, N. J. In religion he is a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church in West Fifty-seventh Street, Manhattan. Dr. Minor married, June 30, 1877, one of his associate teachers of Nauga- tuck, Conn. They have had three children, but two are dead One daughter, Mabel Theodora, survives.
DENNIS JOSEPH QUIRK, M.D., a resident of our bor- ough since the year 1893, was born in Galway, Ireland, in the year 1848. He arrived in Manhattan with his parents in the year 1850 and is proud of an adopted American citizenship be- ginning at two years of age. He is a graduate of Public School No. 19, Peter Cooper night school (chemistry and physics) and he qualified as a licentiate in pharmacy in the year 18;1. 11c continned in the profession of pharmacy till he graduated from! the medical department of the University City of New York the year 1879. During his career as a pharmacist he was tts proprietor of two pharmacies, one in the Seventeenth Ward, the other in the Eighteenth Ward, Manhattan. The doctor is a careful diagnostician, painstaking and sympathetic with his
THOMAS HAYES CURTIN, M.D.
GERALD SHIEL, M.D.
WILLIAM L. KANTOR, M.D.
ARTHUR J. O'LEARY, M.D.
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patients and gave special attention to diseases of women and children. Since his residence in the Bronx he has qualified is an "Examiner in Lunacy," and is making a special study of diseases of the mind and nervous system. He is a member of United Council, Manhattan, and is the medical officer of the members residing in the Bronx. Although the doctor has never held political office, he has taken an enthusiastic interest in the quie matters of our borough, noteworthy and which are of record is the "Lorelei," the "Terrace Way" (165th Street) and in the matter of Roundsman Ilass, of Tremont station, who re- ceived a medal and certificate of honorable mention for bravery. Personally and socially, affectation cuts no figure with the doctor. lie is democratic and natural in his manner, a good conversa- tionalist, versatile and is well read in English and German literature; a lover of the game of chess and in temperament optimistic, always looking at the cheerful side of life; alert, witty and pleasantly sympathetic and possesses a large fund of metropolitan reminiscences which he takes great pleasure in relating. His home life is complete in the consortship of his wife, Mary I. Byrne, of Manhattan, whom he married in the year 1883, and who bore him one son, Albert (deceased) and who possesses the responsively sympathetic and generous nature si her forbears, and who is the worthy chatelaine of his home und office life. The doctor resides in Boston Road, near 165th Street.
HENRY ROTH, M.D., assistant attending surgeon of Lebanon Hospital, Borough of the Bronx, was born February 12. 1872, at Szomolnok, Hungary, and was educated at the pub- he schools and gymnasiums, or College of Rozsny's, Hungary. After coming to the United States, he entered the medical department of the New York University in 1890, and in 1893 graduated therefrom with the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
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liter year, after leaving the university, he was made the hnt physician of Lebanon Hospital and served as such for wirs. He has been in private practice ever since. Since has been assistant attending surgeon of Lemon Has Borough of the Bronx, and enjoys the confidence and re- · of the management of that institution as a surgeon and
physician of ability. In private practice he is esteemed highly for his superior medieal knowledge, his gentlemanly courtesy, his sympathetic feelings, and words of encouragement for the sufferer. Dr. Roth has lived in the Bronx since 1888, and on October 28th, 1902, married Miss Rebecca Low; he has one child. Lester Roth. Dr. Roth is a member of the American Medical Association, New York State Medical Association, New York County Medical Association, New York County Medical Society, New York Medico-Surgical Society, Medical So- ciety of the Borough of the Bronx, Harlein Medical Society. Society of Alumna of Lebanon Hospital, and in 1903 was elected first vice-president of the Medical Society, Borough of the Bronx.
JOHN E. COMFORT. M.D., was for over thirty years ons of the most prominent physicians and best known citizens in the Borough of the Bronx, where he settled in 1868, at once identi-
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fying himself with all its interests and becoming a most usefe! factor in its growth. Ile was born on October 6th. 1837, in S: Louis, Missouri, graduating in 1864 from the Albany Medical College, and on January 19th, 1805. he joined the United States Army as assistant surgeon of the Sixtieth New York State Volunteers, serving under General Sherman, and was honorably discharged at President Lincoln's well known "muster out" in July, 1865. Three years later he came to reside in Franklin Avenne, where soon afterwards he built the house where b:s family still live and which at that time was within the hosts of Westchester County. In 1875 he received the apportent: .: sanitary inspector of the New York Board of Health, Being Fed as one of the best officers the board ever possessed. A: :.: expiration of twelve years he resigned this position to devete
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