A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 77

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612

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Peter James Kline

was born in Ross County, Ohio, July 4, 1840, the son of Colonel Henry L. Kline and his wife, Mary E. McCreary, a granddaughter of General James H. Menary. He attended the district schools of his native home until he was fourteen years of age. He then en- tered Salem Academy where he pursued his studies until 1862. He enlisted August 7, 1862, in Company I, 8Ist O. V. I. for three years. He was made Corporal June 27, 1864, and was appointed Ser- geant, November 10, 1864, and mustered out with the company, July 13, 1865. He was in all the battles his regiment was in during the war, and was always ready for rations or duty. He was on the

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march to the sea and thereafter to Washington. He marched 1, 100 miles on foot and never missed a duty. On his return from the ar- my, he took up the study of medicine, under Doctor Samuel C. Ham- ilton and attended the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, and was graduated March 1, 1871. He then opened an office in South Salem. In 1873 he matriculated in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York, where he graduated in 1874. He located in Portsmouth April 23, 1874. He was Treasurer of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine in 1881, and was its President in 1883. He was Pension Examiner under President Hayes and under President Harrison and was re-appointed under President Mckinley in June, 1897, and is still serving in that position. He was a member of the City Board of Education for six years, between 1886 and 1895. On April 19, 1878, he was appointed a member of the Board of Health and served for four years. He is a leading member of Bailey Post, No. 164. G. A. R., of which he has served as Commander. He is also a member of the First Presbyterian Church. March 2, 1871, he was married to Elida E. Pricer, daughter of David H. Pricer and Amanda Wilson Pricer. They have two children: Lena, the wife of Edward S. Reed, a member of the wholesale dry goods firm of Reed, Jordan & Company, of Portsmouth; and Charles Flint, a medical student at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York.

As a physician, Doctor Kline has the confidence of all his medi- cal brethren and of the public generally. He stands easily at the head of his profession. It would not be too much to say that he is the most popular physician and man in Portsmouth. Everyone likes him. He can always be found at the front in every project for the public good. He possesses a wonderful store of human sympa- thy, and is constantly expressing it. Make up a full catalogue of all the civic and domestic virtues, and he possesses them all. But Doc- tor Kline is mortal, like the rest of us. He has some weaknesses and, in justice to our readers, we propose to tell one of them. Doctor Kline can be induced to do almost anything for an old comrade of the Civil War. He has reason to be proud of his own record in that war ; but just let an old soldier ask him anything and the Doctor will do it at once. He can be imposed on in this way easier than any other.

The Doctor is a pleasant, easy and entertaining public speak- er. He is on good terms with his audience at all times, and can al- ways touch a popular chord, but on the occasion of Soldiers' Reun- ions he is unexcelled. He is always at home at a Soldiers' Reunion. He never misses one in fifty miles of his residence and one is seldom held without his being invited. A camp-fire fires his heart at once, and on these occasions, while he is speaking, he is again the young soldier of 1861 and 1865. He has never forgotten the enthusiasm of his youth, and he can bring some of it back to his old comrades. He

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has an inexhaustible fund of war reminiscences and is constantly adding to his store. He has forgotten nothing of his army life, and can tell of it so that his hearers feel that they were eye witnesses. There is nothing so interesting as an older person who can recall his youth, in such a way as to make his hearers feel the fire of it. While the Doctor is on the shady side of sixty, when he talks to the soldiers, he forgets the chasm of years between him and his youth, and causes his hearers to forget them too. It is to be hoped that the Doctor will hold the spirit of his youth as long as he lives and as to that, his friends wish he may rival Methuselah.

William Dever Micklethwait

was born November 2, 1875, in Clay Township, Scioto County, Ohio. His parents were William R. Micklethwait and Abigail Dev- er, his wife. He received his early education in the Portsmouth pub- lic schools and was graduated from the High School in the class of 1895. He attended the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, for two years and studied pharmacy. He took the medical course and received the degree of M. D. at the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. He was House Physician of Ensworth Deaconess Hos- pital, at St. Joseph, Missouri, from 1900 to 1901. He then went to Atchison, Kansas, and went into general practice and at the same time took charge of the Doctor Allaman Company's private hospital of that city. He was appointed district medical examiner for Court of Honor, Atchison Lodge, No. 786. He remained there until April, 1902, when he returned to Portsmouth and bought property on the southwest corner of Offnere and Eleventh streets where he is located and practises his profession in all its branches. He is a Re- publican and a member of Sixth Street M. E. church.

Doctor Micklethwait is a young man of learning and ability and much force of character. He inherits the good qualities of both sides of the house. On the maternal side he is the great-grandson of Solomon Dever. His grandfather, William Dever, for whom he is named, has a sketch herein. These two were far above the average in natural ability, both physical and mental. Upon the father's side, his ancestry are of equally rugged stock, his grandfather having im- migrated from England in the early part of the last century.

From both parents he has inherited a strong vigorous constitu- tion, a clear head, honesty and uprightness, a strong will and that persistency of purpose and capacity for constant application and work that must inevitably carry him to the upper walks of his profession.

Arthur Rembrandt Moore

was born at Portsmouth, Ohio, January 2, 1871. His boyhood was spent at Portsmouth. His parents were Samuel G. and Mary E. (Bradford) Moore. He attended the public schools of Ports-

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mouth and graduated from the High School in 1889. He read medi- cine with Dr. P. J. Kline during vacations. He spent one year at the Miami Medical College and three and one-half years at Belle- vue Medical College, New York, graduating in 1892. He practised medicine at Haverhill in this county two years and then went to Europe for further medical study. He spent one and one-half years in the Hospitals of Vienna and Berlin and returned to practice medi- cine in Portsmouth, where he has been ever since. He is a Republi- can; a member of the Bigelow Methodist Episcopal Church ; a mem- ber of Hempstead Academy, and of the Modern Woodmen. He

married Miss Gertrude LaCroix, daughter of the late John P. La- Croix, Professor of Languages at the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, June 19, 1901. She is a grand-daughter of Andrew LaCroix one of the French emigrants of 1790, to whom was as- signed lot 15 in the French Grant.

Dr. Moore is well read in his profession and possesses that high- ly sympathetic nature so advantageous and so necessary to one of his profession. He is a constant student and is an enthusiast in his devotion to medicine and surgery. He is always ready to adopt new methods and stands for the greatest research and advancement. He has deserved the confidence of the community and has it. He al- so possesses to the highest degree the confidence of his professional brethren.

Sample Bell McKerrihan

was born October 22, 1848, in Green County, Pennsylvania. His father was Joseph McKerrihan a native of Ireland, and his mother's maiden name was Eliza Jane Parker. He spent his boy- hood. in Washington, Green County, Pennsylvania. He at- tended school at Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. He took the Classical Course for two years and then he pursued a Normal course at Haneytown Normal School for eighteen months. In June, 1869, he began teaching school and taught twenty-two months in Cameron, Marshall County, West Virginia. At that

place he began the study of medicine under Dr. S. B. Steiger and studied with him for four years. He attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati from September 1, 1873 until 1877; and grad- uated from that institution in March, 1877. From 1874 to 1879, he practised his profession at Pleasant Valley, Marshall County, West Virginia. In March, 1879, he removed to Moundville, West Virginia and practised medicine until November, 1883. At that time he took a post graduate course at the Medical College of Ohio, and attended the hospital. He there met Dr. Cyrus M. Finch, as he was going to Columbus to take charge of the Central Insane Asylum. Dr. Mc- Kerrihan came to Portsmouth May 30, 1884, and has been here ever since. He was U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon for the County from July, 1885 to 1889; and again from September, 1893 to July,

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1897. He has always been a Democrat. He was married October 3, 1877, to Florence H. Crow of Marshall County, West Virginia, and has five children : Minta, Mabel, Russell, Pearl and Howard.

Milton Smith Pixley

was born June 2, 1842, near Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio. His father was Seymour Pixley. His mother was Elizabeth, widow of Nathan Orm, whose maiden name was Hayward. He was rear- ed at Wheelersburg and attended school there. In 1859 and 1860, he was in the sophomore class at Ohio Wesleyan University. Doc- tor Pixley began the study of medicine in the fall of 1861 with Doc- tor Joseph Corson, of Portsmouth, Ohio, and attended the Medical College of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in 1861 and 1862. He read medi- cine in the spring and summer of 1862, and up to August 18, 1863, when he entered the gist O. V. I. as Hospital Steward and served till July 24, 1865. On returning from the army, he practised in Rome, Adams County, in the fall of 1865. During the winter of 1865 and 1866 he attended the Miami Medical College and graduated in 1866. He located in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, to practice medicine and remained there one year. In August, 1867, he located in Ports- mouth, Ohio, and has been there ever since. He has been City Phy- sician, a member of the Council, and a member of the School Board of Portsmouth. He is a communicant of All Saints Church and has been a Vestryman and a Junior Warden and is such now. He is a member of the Hempstead Academy of Medicine, and was Secretary of the Scioto County Medical Society during its existence. Doctor Pixley was married, June 30, 1875, to Miss R. Alice Gilruth, daughter of William Gilruth of Haverhill, Ohio, and has had five children. Earl Gilruth, the oldest son, born June 29, 1876, was kill- ed November 18, 1901, at Elizabeth, New Jersey in a railroad acci- dent : Charles Austin was born in 1877 and died at the age of four years. His daughters are Bessie and Marie; and he has a son, William, aged thirteen. Doctor Pixley is a Republican and is con- servative in all his views. He was Secretary of the Hempstead Me- morial Academy of Medicine in 1886. On February 7, 1877, he locat- ed on Ninth street where he has since resided. In 1876, he and John T. Miller secured the passage of a resolution in Council to buy ten pairs of English sparrows at $3.00 per pair. In 1886, the city had sparrows to sell. These birds have become a nuisance. This action of Dr. Pixley as to English Sparrows is the only blemish on his record. It only shows that a good physician should not go outside of his profession.

Joseph Spangler Rardin

was born in Bern Township, Athens County, Ohio, December 25, 1862. His father Levi Rardin owned a large farm adjoining that of William Rardin, grandfather of the subject of this sketch. Wil-

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liam Rardin was one of the early settlers in that locality in 1822, his nearest neighbor being three miles distant, at the present town of Bartlett in Washington County. His great-grandfather, Henry Rardin, came down the Ohio river from Georgetown, Pennsylvania, in 1807. His great-great-grandfather, Dennis Rardin, emigrated to central Pennsylvania about 1750 from Dublin, Ireland. in company with, at least, one brother, John. They were Protestants and both left large families which drifted throughout the United States. The records of Westmoreland County show that Dennis Rardin died in 1789, and that his son Henry settled the estate prior to his moving down the Ohio into the then great Northwest Territory. He land- ed at Marietta, Ohio, afterwards moving into Washington County. where he died October 17, 1856, at the age of ninety-nine years. William Rardin, grandfather, was born in Pennsylvania, April 29, 1797, and married Elizabeth Andres about 1816. They began housekeeping near Bartlett in Bern Township, soon after their mar- riage, where he died December 1I. 1876. Levi Rardin, the father, was born in Bern Township, Athens County, Ohio, January 12, 1823. He died on the farm adjoining that of his birth October 4, 1867, from an attack of acute dysentery.

Doctor Rardin's mother was Miss Fanny Lorilla Selby, daugh- ter of Dyar and Tabitha Selby. She was born near Bartlett, Wash- ington County, Ohio, November 9, 1826, and is still living on the old home farm in Bern Township, Athens County, with her son, Williard. Her mother's maiden name was Calhoun. Dyar Selby and his wife came down the Ohio about 1817, landing at Marietta, later settling near Bartlett, Ohio. Doctor Rardin has two brothers living. Jared J. Rardin a sketch of whom is found elsewhere in this book and Williard W. who owns the old homestead in Athens Coun- ty, where he lives with their mother. Two sisters and one brother are dead. Eunice E., wife of J. M. Graham, died March 5, 1883, at the age of twenty-nine, Elizabeth Emmeline died October 17, 1867, at the age of ten years, Charles C. died September 16. 1867, at the age of sixteen.

Doctor Rardin spent his boyhood until he arrived at the age of nineteen on the farm, and attended the district school in winter. He was an apt pupil and began to teach at the age of sixteen. At that age, he entered Bartlett Academy which he attended at intervals he- tween teaching and farming until 1882, when he entered the Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio. Here he took a thorough course in the sciences and continued his teaching in the public schools of Franklin and Madison Counties until 1887, when he entered Star- ling Medical College, from which he graduated with honors in 1890 in a class of thirty-seven. He located at once at Portsmouth, Ohio, and began his profession, where he has continued to practice and now resides. In 1895, he spent several months in the Hospitals of New

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York City, furthering his professional attainments, being a matricu- lant of the Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital. For some years past in connection with his growing practice, he has done a large amount of surgical work and has achieved some reputation in that line. He is largely interested in a private hospital, fitted after modern ideas, where certain classes of medical and surgical cases can be better treated. He was married January, 1896, to Miss Car- oline, Kehoe, daughter of the late Charles T. and Eliza D. Kehoe, well known residents of Portsmouth for many years past. Two chil- dren have been born to them, Helen Lansing and Charles Sanford. The latter died April 31, 1902. They have a very comfortable home at 108 Gallia avenue, which they enjoy very much, and at which place the Doctor also has his office. Doctor Rardin belongs strictly to the class of self made men. By toiling away patiently without support, except his own efforts, he has reached his present enviable position in his chosen profession. He is a Republican by politics and was brought up in the U. B. Church, but since living in Ports- mouth, he has been an active member of Bigelow M. E. Church.

The Doctor's sterling qualities as a student and tireless worker have given him a standing among his colleagues second to none. Hav- ing special fondness and fitness for surgery he has availed himself of the training of some of our most noted surgeons in the great medical centers of learning and brings to his patients the advantages of this experience and training. Like all ardent medical students he is a faithful attendant on his local, state and national medical societies, ready to give and receive through papers and discussion that medical discipline that can be obtained in no other way. His quiet and unos- tentatious but earnest life among his home people has given him a high place in the respect and affection of all who know him, both as a friend and as a doctor.

Abram Goebel Sellards

was born March 16, 1838, in Greenup County, Kentucky. His father was Andrew J. Sellards and his mother Mary G. Hartley, daughter of John Hartley. His father was a farmer. He had a common school and academical education. He began teaching school at the age of twenty-one and taught for two years. He enlisted in the Toth Kentucky Cavalry on September 15, 1862, for one year, and was made a Sergeant. He served out his time and was in two engagements. From 1863 to 1865 he was Deputy Clerk of Greenup County. In 1865, he began the study of medicine with Doctor A. M. Alexander of Burkeville, Kentucky. He attended lectures at Miami Medical College and graduated there in 1868, and began the practice of medicine at Powellsville, Scioto County, Ohio, in the spring of 1868, and remained there until the fall of 1871, when he went to Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, and graduated there in the spring of 1872. He then located in Greenup Kentucky, and remained

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there till 1893, when he removed to the city of Portsmouth, where he has resided ever since. He is eminently successful in his profession. He was a Pension Examining Surgeon in Greenup for ten years and in Portsmouth for four years. He was married March 22, 1865, to Em- ma E. Woodrow, daughter of William G. Woodrow of Greenup Coun- ty, Kentucky. He has the following children : Howard, now a phy- sician in Portsmouth ; Margaret ; Ernest Moxley, a physician in Ash- land, Kentucky, and William S., a pharmacist. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1873, and he is an elder in the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He is and always has been a Republican.

Gustavus Adolphus Sulzer

The subject of this sketch was the eldest of the five children,- four sons and a daughter,-of Gustav W. F. Sulzer and Christiana L. Sulzer, nee Sulzer, and was born in Philadelphia, January II, 1869. His father was born in Strassburg, Germany, in 1847, and emigrated to the United States in 1866, locating at Philadelphia. His mother was born at Bristol, Pennsylvania, of German parents, October 22, 1850, and was united in marriage to Gustav W. F. Sul- zer, in March, 1868. The early education of our subject was ob- tained in the public schools of Philadelphia, in the grades below the High School. On completion of the last grade of the Grammar de- partment, he entered the Spring Garden Institute ( Polytechnic Col- lege) with a view to becoming a mechanical engineer. He was grad- uated in 1886, after three years of study, with the highest honors and the college gold medal. He then took up the study of practical me- chanics at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. After a few months he was offered the position of draughtsman and superin- tendent of construction by the Keystone Engine Works, of Philadel- phia. He accepted and immediately entered upon his duties but af- ter a few months he resigned the position and took up the interests of his father, who was engaged in the manufacture of plumbers' supplies. Here he served in numerous capacities until 1889. From 1884 until 1887 he attended special lectures on technical subjects in the various institutions of the city devoted to scientific study and research among which are, Wagner Institute, the Academy of Nat- ural Sciences and Franklin Institute. He matriculated in the Medi- cal Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1889 and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1892. While a student he was a member of the Guiteras Medical Society. After graduation, he took up the study of the eye, ear, nose and throat at the Pennsyl- vania Hospital and shortly entered private practice in general med- icine, still continuing his special work. He became Assistant, by ap- pointment, at the Eye Clinic of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1893. and served till 1898, with an intermission of six months, when he was appointed resident physician and instructor in Physical Science

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in the Williamson Mechanical School in Delaware County, Pennsyl- vania. After returning from his service at the latter institution, he received the following appointments: Assistant at the Wills Eye Hospital, Ophthalmologist to the Charity Hospital and Assistant to the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, all, institutions situated in Philadelphia. In 1897, he began to concentrate his studies to the eye with the intention of making the practise of ophthalmology his life work.

Thoroughly equipped by comprehensive study and wide exper- ience for the responsible profession he chose to exercise, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1898, and opened an office in the Damarin Building. He has since removed to East Second street.

He was elected to membership in the American Medical Asso- ciation in 1899, and in the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Med- icine the same year. He was the delegate of the latter body to the annual session of the former at Columbus, Ohio, in 1899, and again the following year, at its session held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The desire of the Scioto County Board of Pension Examining Sur- geons for a special expert examiner for the eye, ear, nose and throat, led to the appointment of Dr. Sulzer to that position, in May, 1900, by the Commissioner of Pensions.

He was united in marriage to Mabel Edna Munshower, daughter of Nathan and Jeanette ( Hopkins) Munshower of Columbus, Ohio. June 4, 1900. They have one child, a daughter, Christine Jeanette, born April 15, 1901.

Dr. Sulzer is a believer in the principles and doctrines of the Re- publican party, but devotes his time exclusively to his practice.

Although but recently a citizen of Portsmouth, Dr. Sulzer has nevertheless attained an enviable position for strict integrity and hon- est endeavor. His work among his patients is most painstaking and thorough. No minute detail is omitted nor is any part of the work overlooked that would in any way contribute to the success of the undertaking or the benefit of his patient. Having had a most liberal and extensive training in the great medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, he is well qualified for his position. His social relations are of the most pleasing character and his intercourse with his fellow practitioners is frank, cordial and courteous, which with his eminent success has well earned for him the confidence of all his professional colleagues.

Frank Lauman Watkins

was born June 28, 1879. at Clifford, Ohio, the son of George H. Watkins and Lillie I. Glaze, his wife. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Glaze, one of the pioneers of Scioto County, Ohio. His grandfather Watkins, was a soldier in the Civil War. He died and was buried at Alexandria, Virginia. Our subject's boyhood and

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youth were spent at Clifford until he was six year of age, when his father removed to Wakefield. Pike County, where he attended the common schools and graduated from his Township High School in 1895. He taught school one year in Pike County. He took up the study of medicine with Doctor O. C. Andre of Waverly. He enter- ed the Ohio Medical University at Columbus in September, 1897, and was graduated in April, 1901. The last year of his course he served in the Protestart Hospital in Columbus. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, in June. 1901, and has his office at 169 East Ninth street. He was married December 27, 1901, to Miss Dolly Dutton, daughter of Rasselas and Mary ( Walton) Dutton of Columbus, Ohio. He is a Republican in his political views. He is a Mason and an Elk.

Doctor Watkins has equipped himself well for his chosen work by study and clinical experience. He believes in and carries out the most modern ideas in his treatment. He gives his patients the ben- efit of the most recent methods. He has taken a course approved by his brethern in medicine and his attention to the duties of his pro- fession indicates that his advancement therein will be rapid and sure.

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A history of Scioto County, Ohio, together with a pioneer record, Part 77

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913 Publication date: 1903 Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans Number of Pages: 1612

Author: Evans, Nelson W. (Nelson Wiley), 1842-1913
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: Portsmouth, O. N. W. Evans
Number of Pages: 1612