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WILLIAM J. AUSTIN. CHIEF CLERK IN BRONX CORONERS' OFFICE.
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ALBERT F. SCHWANNECKE. FH.S . CORONER.
ROBERT FRANCIS MC DONALD, M.D., CORONER.
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himself exclusively to his practice, then one of the largest in the whole vicinity. While he numbered among his patients many of the oldest and wealthiest families in the Bronx, he always found time for the innumerable charities and kindnesses which will long be remembered by the poor. For many years he served as senior warden in St. Paul's Protestant Church in Washington Avenue, where he was a systematic and efficient worker, and during the whole of his life in the Bronx he was known as the skillful physician and the consistent Christian. His death, which occurred on May 29th, 1901, has left a void which never ean be entirely filled.
CHARLES EDWARD BARTON, M.D., a very successful physician, who has been doing active practice in the Borough of the Bronx since 1890, was born in the Town of Union Vale, Dnichess County, N. Y., and graduated from the Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) High School in 1873, and finally from the New York University Medical College with the class of 1890. Dr. Barton has won innumerable victories over complicated diseases, among his patients, and is widely known as one of the most distin- guished practitioners in the Bronx. He is practical and method- ical in all of his undertakings, and his success reflects great credit upon the honorable profession he so ably represents. On July 2, 1877, he was married to Miss Kate E. Caldwell, and the union has been blessed with six children, viz .: Jessie L. Barton, Julia S., Charles F., and Howard A. Barton, all living; two died in infancy, Julia M. and Mabel Barton. Dr. Barton and his family are members of the North New York Congregational Church; he is a member of Adelphic Lodge, 148, K. of P., and the Bronx Medical Society.
ADOLPH VON DUERING, M.D., is one of the leading physicians of the Bronx. He enjoys a large and lucrative prac- tice and personally has a wide circle of acquaintances, particularly among that numerous and influential German element of the popu- lation of the borough to which, by birth, he belongs. Dr. Von Duering hails originally from Hamburg. He was born there March 28, 1852. He came to this country, however, quite young and prepared himself for his profession in the university and hospitals of the City of New York. The Bronx has been his residence place now nearly 20 years. Politically he affiliates with the Republican party, but the claims of his profession prevent him from taking in politics any very active part. He is a mar- ried man, but has no child. His home and office are at 552 East 155th street.
CHARLES GEORGE KIRCHHOF, M.D., son of Peter and Mary Elizabeth Kirchhof, was born March 22, 1861, at Seventh Avenue and Nineteenth Street, New York, and has lived in the borough since 1865. He attended the public schools in his youth, and later the College of the City of New York ; also the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which he received his degree in medicine, March 13, 1884. It is twenty-one years since then and he has practiced steadily since. For eight years of that time he was attending physician at the Dispensary for Outdoor Poor of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards, under the Board of Charities and Correction, and for the past six years has been food inspector in the Department of Health. The doctor is a member of numerous organizations, professional Particularly. He belongs to the American Medical Association, national body; to the New York State and. County Medical " sieties, to the New York Physicians Mutual Aid Association and the Medical Society of the Borough of the Bronx, of which he is an ex-president. He is also a member of the General
Alumni Association, New York University, of Willard Lodge, 714, F. and A. M., and August Freutel Stiftung, Aurora En- campment, No. 53, Knights of St. J. and M., the K. O. S. B. C .. Aurora Liederkranz, the Bronx Club, Tammany Hall General Committee, the Wampanoag Democratic Club, Allegheny Demo- . cratic Club and member Executive Committee United Genera! Democracy. Dr. Kirchhof has been married twice. His first wife, whom he married September 21, 1885, was Louise Stark (died May 23, 1894), of the Bronx. By her he had three chil- dren, Charles George, Jr., and Louise, who are living, and Philip William deceased. His second marriage was to Celia Sim. mons, of Jersey City, November 27, 1898.
GERALD SHEIL, M.D., was born in the Town of Mor- risania, now known as part of the Borough of the Bronx, on April 6, 1873. He studied in St. Jerome's School and also in Public School No. 83, from both of which he graduated in 188; and 1888 respectively, finishing his classical course at St. Francis Xavier's College. In 1891-94 he was a student in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, now a part of the New York Uni- versity, and graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1894. The next two years were spent as house surgeon in Fordham Hospital and in 1896 he began private practice in the Borough of the Bronx, in which he has since continued. He was a visiting surgeon in the out-door department of the Harlem Hospital in 1897-98 and in St. Joseph's Hospital in 1898-1900. In January, 1904, he was appointed assistant sanitary superin- tendent of the Health Department in full charge of the sanitary conditions and health regulations for the Borough of the Bronx. which office he still holds. He is a member of the New York County and State Medical Associations, the North Side Board of Trade, the Throgg's Neck Country Club, the Borough Club. Brownson Catholic Club, Knights of Columbus, Foresters of America, Mott Haven Athletic Club, Tammany Hall General Committee 34th District, Wampanoag Democratic Club, Eugene J. McGuire Association. In politics he is a Democrat. He is unmarried. His address is 348 Willis Avenue.
THOMAS HAYES CURTIN, M.D., a leading physician and surgeon of the Bronx, resident at 1187 Boston Road, with offices at 787 Tremont Avenue, was born in County Carlow, Ire- land, but was brought to this country when six years of age. He is 30 now, but has had a world of experience professionally. He has been coroners' physician since 1899 and is visiting phy. sician to St. Josephi's Hospital at present. He is the author of many papers on medical subjects, two of which, at least, have greatly interested the profession, viz .: "Gunshot Wounds" and "Medical Aspect of the Slocum Disaster." Dr. Curtin attended Public School 49 in his boyhood, passed through its various grades and then attended the College of the City of New York He is a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College, is a member of Bronx Lodge of Elks, the "Friends of Erin," and the Bunker Hill Club. Professionally he is affiliated with the State Medical Association, the County Medical Association, the Bronx Medical Society, the Celtic Medical Society and the Alumini of St. Vincent's Hospital. He married, June 18, 1902, Miss Lornis A. Morahan. They have one child, Thos. H., Jr.
ALBERT F. SCHWANNECKE .- This gentleman, ir thirty-eight years a resident of the city, living for twenty-'." years at -St Jackson avenue, Bronx, was one of the site. ..: candidates for office at the recent municipal election. Ile w :. elected coroner on the Republican and Municipal Owner -. :. ticket and is accounted by those who know him, and their farge.
WILLIAM T. KLINE, M. D.
HENRY WOLLNER, M.D.
MAURICE J. SILVERMAN, M.D.
FRANK U. VAN ORDEN, M. D.
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are legion, a very proper man for the place. Mr. Schwannecke is by profession a pharmacist. He has been engaged also as Bronx superintendent and manager of the American Surety Company of New York. In politics he has been an independent Republican. His religious affiliations are with the Episcopal Church. He was born in Brunswick, Germany, in 1859, but was brought up and educated in New York City in the public schools and Fechner's German-American Institute and Pharmacy. He is a club mian and has scores of friends among all parties. He be- longs to the Schnorer Club, the Bronx Club, the Union Republi- can Club, the New York Athletic Club, the "Huckelberry In- dians" and the Red Bank Yacht Club. This is his first public office and it came to him practically unsought. Mr. Schwan- necke is a man of family, a taxpayer and property owner. He married in 1880, twenty-five years ago, Miss Dora A. Recker. Their union has been an uncommonly happy one. They have five children, three daughters and two sons, by name Antonia. Frederick A., Georgia, Henrietta and Clarence. Theirs is an old-fashioned family and their home an ideal old-time home.
ROBERT FRANCIS McDONALD, son of Joseph M. Mc- Donald and Catherine E. Roby, was born in New York City September 25, 1879. A graduate of the College of the City of New York, he entered the Cornell University Medical College, from which he graduated June, 1901, with high honors. For two years, January, 1902, to January, 1904, he was a member of the house staff of Gouverneur Hospital, which is connected with the Bellevue and allied system, and which cares for the sick and injured of the lower East Side. He is at present assistant at- tending surgeon to the out-patient department of Bellevue Hospi- tal. He is assistant examiner for the New York Life Insurance Company, member of the Gouverneur Hospital Alumni Society and of the Phi Alpha Sigma Fraternity. He is interested, as far as his practice will permit, with outdoor pursuits, being an enthusiastic golfer and tennis player, member of social athletic organizations and of that well known organization, the Brownson Catholic Club. Dr. McDonald was a candidate for coroner in the Bronx in 1905 on the Republican ticket, receiving the en. dorsement of the Municipal Ownership League, and was elected by a plurality of about 7,000 votes.
ARTHUR J. O'LEARY, M.D., was born in the Borouglı of Manhattan on the 23d of November, 1868. He was educated at Manhattan College, On-the-Hudson, graduating in 1886. He entered the Medical School of the University of New York in the same year and graduated in 1889. In 1800 the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by the faculty of Man- hattan College. Ile was an interne of the Harlem Hospital for one year, and in 1890 opened an office at 1262 Boston Road in the Bronx, and started his practice. In January, 1898, he was appointed by Nathan Strauss, then President of the Board of llealth, as Assistant Register of Records in the Health Depart- ment. Ile is the attending physician of Manhattan College and the Corpus Christi Monastery at Hunt's Point. Dr. O'Leary's political inclinations are Democratic, and he is a very popular member of the Schinorer Club, the Brownson Catholic Club and the Knights of Columbus, of which fraternity he is the examin- ing physician. He married Miss Anna E. O'Rorke, October 28, 1891, and is the father of three children; Anna, Arthur and Isabel. . Dr. O'Leary has one of the finest practices in the Bronx and in his personal life is one of the finest and most cordial of men. Together with his many duties his personal popularity and his extreme practice he is a man in great demand.
EDWARD T. HIGGINS, at present, and since 1904. 3 police surgeon, has been living in the Bronx for fifteen of ht- thirty years. Ile was a student of Xavier College, of St. John's. Fordham, and a graduate of the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege. He was Coroner's Physician in Manhattan from 190! to
EDWARD HIGGINS, M.D.
1904. He lives at 737 East 145th Street. He is a Democrat and member of the Wampanoag and Borough Clubs, and an at- tendant at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. He married, November 23, 1898, Miss Etta McGuire. They have orie child, Edward Harrington Higgins.
WILLIAM L. KANTOR, M.D., of 746 East 142d Street, was born in Russia in 1866, and was educated for his profession partly there and partly here. He took his B. A. degree at the gymnasium at Tuganrog, Russia, in 1885, and that of L.L.C., at the University of Moscow in 1890. He graduated also from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1895. He has been located in the Bronx five years. He is. a member of the Bronx Borough Medical Association, the East Side Medical Association, and the New York County Medical So- ciety ; also of the Foresters and the Masonic Order. Decem- ber 25, 1889, he married Miss Kate Gordon. They have two children, both boys. The elder John Leonard. now 15, is a freshman of the College of the City of New York.
DR. WILLIAM T. KLINE, physician in charge of the Tuberculosis Sanitarium of the Department of Health on North Brothers Island, was born in New York City in 18;4. After attending the public school, he attended the College of the City of New York, and graduated; he then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Medical Department of Co- Inmbia University, and graduated in 1895, receiving the "Housen Prize Diploma" of examination honors. In 18go he passed the required State examination, carrying off the honors of the "People's Seal" on license of regents, an honor highly prized In the disciples of Esculapins. He was appointed .twee the house staff of Fordham Hospital, and graduated thereis a January Ist. 1897. This latter year he commenced private prac- tice in the Bronx, and since then had built up a large and
LEOPOLD F. W. HAAS, M.D.
AUGUST J. FREUTEL, M.D.
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JULIUS L. AMSTER, M.D.
C. LUDWIG AMBOS, M.D.
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lucrative practice. Appointed in fall of 1897, in Department of Health to the office of medical inspector, and later as bacteriologist which he held until October, 1904, to accept his present responsible position, that is, physician in charge of the Tuberculosis Sanitarium on North Brothers Island, where he intends to remain until October, 1905, when he will resume his private practice, carrying with him the confidence of his. brother officials of the Board of Health, and the gratitude of many hundreds of suffering humanity, whom he attended in his official capacity, and through knowledge and skill, returned them to health and happiness. Dr. Klein is a member of St. Jerome's Roman Catholic Church, the Brownson Catholic Club and the Greater New York Medical Society, and is unmarried. He maintain his office and residence at No. 712 East 138th Street.
HENRY WOLLNER, M.D., the well-known and popular physician in charge of St. Joseph Hospital, Borough of the Bronx, was born June 13, 1870, at Zanesville, Ohio, and attended the public and high schools of his native place and entered the New York University, where he graduated with distinguished honors. He has been a resident of the Bronx since 1896, and has built up a large and influential practice among the leading famiiles of the borough. He is highly regarded by the patients at St. Joseph's Hospital, where his services are highly appre- ciated, and commended by the medical profession in the Bronx. He is a member of the Medical Society, Borough of Bronx, the New York County Medical Society and the New York Phy- sicians' Medical Aid Association.
DR. MAURICE J. SILVERMAN, of 273 Alexander Avenue, in the Bronx, though a Russian by birth, born in Kiev September 18, 1862, has been so long identified with the Bronx as to be like a native. He settled here, in fact, in 1884, twenty-one years ago, when he was a young man of 22. Here also he married and made his home; here his patients live and his interests are centered. Dr. Silverman is a graduate of both grammar and high schools in Russia, and holds the diploma of New York University Medical College. He is a member of the New York State Medical Association, the Harlem Medical Associa- tion, the Bronx and the Eastern Medical Association, and has a lucrative practice. He married in 1896, Miss Sadie Samuels. They have one child, a daughter.
FRANK U. VAN ORDEN, M.D., one of the most prom- ising physicians in the Bronx for the past four years, was born January 18, 1870, at Spring Valley, N. Y. He was educated at Old Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., and received the degree of A. B., in 1893, and was further honored with the degree of A. M. in 1897. The same year he became a member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City and in 1899 for distinguished services rendered to the J. Hood Wright Memorial Hospital of this city, received a diploma. On May 6. 1903, Dr. Van Orden married Miss Maebelle Alberta Baird, of Syracuse, a lady of culture and of a distinguished family. In politics he is democratic, and an active member of the following : : ociations, fraternities and societies, viz .: Rutgers Alumnia Association, J. Hood Wright Hospital Alumnia, Delta Upsilon Fraternity, Bronx Medical Society, Medical Association of the Greater City of New York, the New York Physicians' Mutual Aid Association and an active and distinguished member of llarlem Lodge, No. 457, F. and A. M. With all the classic honors conferred upon this promising disciple of E-culapinis, in his own personality he is of the manor born and gives promise to become famous in his laudable profession.
DR. BERNARD WILLIAM JUNGE, prominent in his pro- fession as a physician in the Bronx since April, 1891, was born at Barkow, Mecklenberg, Germany, October 5, 1869. He enterei the public school of his native place and after graduation in ISS4, was sent by his parents to that famous Allgemeine Gerdbe Schule, Hamburg, Germany, where he distinguished himself by carrying away well merited honors in his class. He then came to the United States, settled in the Bronx and in order to per- fect his studies conclusively, entered Wayne College at Rochester. N. Y., and took a thorough American medical course, graduated
BERNARD WILLIAM JUNGE, M.D.
with the highest honors of his class; returned to. the Bronx. where he commenced practice, and stands in the category of his fellow physicians as one who is so proficient in his profession that he is considered in moments of peril a safe and sound counsellor for consultation. Dr. Junge is a sterling Democrat in politics, has never sought, nor would he accept public office. lle is a member of the Bronx Medical Society and of J. C. J. Society of the Medical Universities of Buffalo, N. Y. In Ap ::: 1891, he married Sophia Eickert, of Rochester, N. Y., and through this union has one daughter, a bright and intellige :::
AUGUST J. FREUTEL, M.D., was born in the Borough of the Bronx November 27, 1876. He graduated from Public School No. 85, and entered the Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege in New York, after which he entered the Albany Medical College of the Union University at Albany, N. Y. ; after graju- ation he served as interne in the Mothers' and Babies' Hospital in New York. He started his practice in the Borough of the Bronx and has through his increasing devotion to his chosen profession acquired a very lucrative and extensive practice. He is examining physician for the Masonic Life Association of Western New York, and for the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World. Dr. Freutel is absolutely non-partisan in politics and has never sought 'any public office or appointment. He has de- voted all his time to his ever increasing practice, with the result that he now ranks among the foremost physicians of the North Side. Ile is a member of the Dutch Ref-rmed Church, We' .:: Lodge, 714. F. and A. M., Bronx l'ent. 702, K. O. T. M. A .: the American Medical Association. He is one of the lead.r & B.c7 in social circles and is looked to by the people of the Bronx at a
AERAHAM LUSTGARTEN, M.D.
JULIUS ADLER, M.D.
LUCIUS WALLACE HOW, M.D.
JOSEPH AUGUSTUS MULHOLLAND, M.D.
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man of lofty and admirable qualities and is generally esteemed by his professional co-workers. He maintains his office and resi- dence at 533 Bergen Avenue.
DR. LEOPOLD F. W. HAAS, a prominent physician of " of the Bronx for the past twenty-three years; in national affairs the Bronx for the past eight years, was born in Jersey City, N. J., December 22, 1874. After a public school education at his native city, he entered the College of the City of New York, where he graduated with distinguished honors in 1894. re- ceiving that well merited degree of B. S. After receiving the latter honors, he entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Columbia University, and graduated in 1898. In 1900 and 1904, this strenuous student of Materia Medica, between periods of his studies, taught in the public schools, and was connected with the Board of Health of the city from 1900 to 1904. He is at present a member of the Medical Society of the Bronx, the New York County Medical Society, the New York State Medical Association, the popular and select Longwood Club and Wieland Lodge, No. 714. F. and A. M. His father, J. J. Haas, born in Germany, came to this city a very young man, and for 30 years has been connected with the well known firm of D. S. Haas & Co.
C. LUDWIG AMBOS, an active physician of the Bronx for the past four years, whose residence and office are located at 1583 Washington Avenue, was born in the town of Speyer, Germany, February 26th, 1873. At the Speyer, Germany, Seminary he obtained a preparatory education, and emigrated to the United States in 1886. Alone and depending upon his own resources, he secured a position as drug clerk, and in the evenings while not engaged, he attended evening high school. In 1891 he entered the College of Pharmacy, and graduated therefrom in 1893. In 1896 he entered Cornell Medical College, and in 1900 graduated with honors. Dr. Ambos has filled several positions of trust since his advent into the Bronx as a dis- ciple of Esculapius. He is very conservative in his methods, but notwithstanding this, he is popular among his large clientage, and is rapidly gaining a very important position among his medical brethren in the Bronx.
DR. JULIUS ADLER, one of the skilled and popular phy- sicians in the Bronx, residing at 688 East 143d Street, is a native of Weisskirchen, Austria, born July 4, 1868. He has been prac- ticing in the Bronx for the past four years, and for several years engaged in practice in Manhattan. He graduated from the gym- nasium of his native city, then studied medicine for five years in the famous University of Vienna and graduated at Baltimore. The doctor has Democratic leanings, but is not an active politician. Ile married in 1896 Miss Fannie Jurist and has one child, a boy.
DR. ABRAHAM LUSTGARTEN, prominent as a physician and a leading citizen of the Borough of the Bronx, was born in Russia, September 3d, 1870. After coming to the United States he attended Cornell University Medical College, where he gradu- ated with distinctive honors. His practice in the Borough of the Bronx has met with such signal success that his superior qualifications as a physician are regarded by his extensive huntage and the medical profession, as showing the highest eler of ability and knowledge of his honorable profession. In , attendance upon the suffering, and in relieving their distress, "matter how painful or serious the case, he brings his remark- Me skill into requisition with such firmness and yet in such a entle manner as to endear him to those who are fortunate enough
to engage his professional services. As Attending Surgeon to the Out-Door Department of Lebanon Hospital. he has won the hearts of innumerable sufferers for his great skill in re-toring them to their original health. Dr. Lustgarten has been a resident he is a Republican, but in state matters he uses his judgment in supporting whom he may regard as the best man. He is a mem- ber of the East Side Physicians' Association, Eastern Medica! Society of the Bronx, the New York County Medical Society. American and Alumni Association of Lebanon Hospital. Wood- stock Circle, Independent Order of Heptasophs, Examining Physician, and a great many other fraternal organizations.
LUCIUS WALLACE HOW, M.D., is a practicing physician and court stenographer, resident in the Bronx for the last twelve years. He was born in Buffalo, June 16, 1850, and is a graduate of the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons He has been the Attending Physician at the Manhattan Dis- pensary, and is official stenographer of the Municipal Court. First District of the Bronx, and for two years was the official stenographer to the Committee on Privileges and Elections of the New York Assembly. He was the official stenographer of the famous Lexow graft investigating committee. Dr. How belongs to the North Side Board of Trade, the Taxpayers Alliance, and the Improvement League of the Forty-fourth Aldermanic District, of which latter organization he was the Secretary for the three years following its inception, and a mem- ber of the Executive Committee to the present time, and is pres :- dent of the Bronxwood Park Improvement League. lle is a member also of the Baptist Church, of the Masons, the Sons of the American Revolution (a fact indicative of his descent and breeding), and of the "Society of Little Yates." He was marrie i September 10, 1879, to Miss Elizabeth P. Wyman, and has one son, Harry W. by name.
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