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It is to be regretted that these early physicians had not more of the habits of the Connectient surveyors, as the latter kept notes and records of all their doings.
Among the early physicians practicing between the years 1840-1861 was Dr. Farrell. We have been unable to ascertain anything about his work except that he is kindly spoken of by
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his eotemporaries. Other physicians of his time were Dr. Enoch! Blattsley, Dr. Kuhn. Dr. D. W. JJameson, Dr. Nichols, Dr. Will- iam Paine.
Possibly the doctor who was best known for the longest period of time was Daniel B. Woods. He was of German de- scent, his father going from Pennsylvania to Youngstown, set- tling near Mill Creek. Dr. Woods was the oldest of the family and at the age of sixteen began his studies at Allegheny Col- lege. Ile did not graduate, having stopped at the beginning of the last term. He first practiced with Dr. J. A. Packard in Anstintown. He attended a regular course at the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati, receiving there his degree of M. D. He opened his office then in Warren, where he resided until his death. He was astute in his profession, and in the world at large. Ilis gentle manner assisted him greatly in his practice. At this date, people say that he used some of the methods now employed by mental healers. Whether this is authentic or not we do not know. He is said to have been one of the first men in this region to use ether in surgical operations. He did not specialize. He was a regular physician and had little patience with any modified school. He was a familiar figure in the com- munity and his several horses were known throughout the county. He drove long distances at all times of year, and being an ardent Democrat. as important elections approached, one might meet him in the country, his horse jogging on, taking its natural gait, while he perused the paper. He had the faculty of making his patients feel that he could make no mistakes. He had a large family of children, had many sorrows and disappointments, but he never dwelt upon them. He either had the ability of dismissing them from his mind, or at least appearing so to do. He did the same with his patients. His wife. Phobe Holliday, survived him by many years and died at the home of her daughters. Dr. Elizabethr and Emma Woods, in Toledo. His son Dal was well prepared for his pro- fession, and practiced with his father. His daughter Elizabeth is one of the leading physicians of Toledo.
Dr. Julian Harmon, a son of Dr. John B. Harmon, was born in 1824, graduated at the Western Reserve College, at the Cleve- land Medical College and practiced with his father until 1854. After that he formed a partnership with Dr. J. P. Smith at one time and Dr. Metcalf another time. His early practice was nn-
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der severe conditions. Physicians were not plenty, roads were bad, and he often rode in the mud and in the snow a good part of the waking hours of a day. He was not nearly so rugged as his father and was induced in 1865 to go into the drug busi- ness. The year of 1868 was a memorable one for him in that lie lost sixteen thousand dollars, a large sum for those times, in the failure of his business, and at the same time his wife died. She was a cousin of Frederick Kinsman and a popular, helpful woman. He and Dr. Metcalf dissolved partnership in 1875. He occupied the old Harmon office, situated on the rear of the lot where the Harmon house now stands. When his youngest child, Julian Harmon, was admitted to practice, they were associated together for a time. Dr. Harmon enjoyed a large practice among the residents of the city. He was optimistic, gentle, and successful. He had a long and painful illness, suffering from a cancer. He married a second wife in 1871, Mary E. Bostwick, of Canfield, by whom he had two sons, the elder one dying in 1881. When he died he left two daughters by the first wife, one son by the second, Dr. Julian Harmon, the younger, having died before him. Olive, the youngest daughter, has successfully managed the property which was left her, largely from her mother's side, and is a musician of fine education.
One of the best known physicians of the Trumbull County Medical Society is L. G. Moore of Kinsman. He has lived in that town all his life and been identified with its interests. He was born in Kinsman in 1849, received his early education at the Kinsman Academy, spent a year at the Ohio Wesleyan Uni- versity, and one year at Ann Arbor, Michigan. His medical preceptor was Dr. Allen Jones, who is well remembered as a physician and a legislator. Dr. Moore spent one year at Belle- vne Hospital Medical College in New York City, and graduated at Long Island Hospital and Medical College in 1873. He has practiced in Kinsman for thirty-six years, and although not a specialist, he has given a great share of his time outside of gen- eral practice to the diseases of women.
Dr. Rose Ralston Ackley was born in 1860 in Marion county. Iowa. Moving to Ohio, she received her school education at Howard, Knox county. She studied medicine at the Cleveland University of Medicine and Surgery, now the Cleveland Home- opathy College, graduating in 1896. She practiced in Cleve- land at the Dispensary for Women and Children, until she came
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to Warren, where she had a general practice. She is the only woman physician in Warren, is an active member of the Disciple church, and is the wife of Thad Ackley, who has been in busi- ness many years in Warren.
Dr. J. S. Brown of Mecca, who has been a member of the pension examining board since 1897, was born in New York City in 1854. His common-school education was obtained in Mecca ; he attended the Dennison University, at Granville, Ohio, and graduated at Colgate University, in Hamilton, New York. Studying medicine with Dr. H. S. Smith, who at that time lived in Mecca, he graduated at Cleveland in 1882. He has practiced in this town all the years of his professional life, and has given special attention to the diseases of children.
Thomas H. Stewart, of Churchill, was the son of Dr. V. G. Stewart. He received his early school education at Murrys- ville, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1838. He graduated from Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863. Three years later he received the degree of A. M. from this in- stitution; entered the medical department of the University of Michigan in 1869; began the practice of medicine the next year at Churchill. He was in active practice until two years ago, when he was obliged to go sonth during the winter for his health. Dr. Stewart is one of the oldest of Trumbull County's doctors. Ile was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1867-68 and in 1886-89. He is a Mason, an official in the Methodist church at Churchill, and was at one time president of the Trum- bull County Medical Society.
Dr. D. E. Hoover, one of the most successful of the young physicians of Warren, was born at North Benton, Ohio, in 1871, where he received his academic education. His father and brother are both physicians and the family have lived in Alliance during the late years. Dr. Hoover attended Mount Union Col- lege and gradnated in medicine at the Western Reserve Uni- versity in Cleveland in 1895. He spent a year and a half at the Cleveland City Hospital, was interne at Bellevne Hospital in New York for two months, and one year at the general hos- pital in Vienna, Austria. His professional life aside from that has been entirely spent in Warren, where he came in 1896.
W. H. Button was born in Warren township in 1858. His academic education was had at the center of Nelson. He at- tended both Hiram College and the Western Reserve University
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at Cleveland. Ile studied medicine with Dr. E. J. Goodsell of Nelson and Dr. Julian Harmon of Warren. He graduated in medicine at the Western Reserve University in Cleveland. His professional life has been spent in Trumbull County with the exception of two years; practiced five years in Burghill, five years in Brookfield, two years in Parkman. thirteen years in Hubbard.
Among the older doctors of Trumbull County is J. O. Lati- mer of West Farmington. Ile was born in Wellington, Ohio, in 1836; was educated at Rock Creek, and studied medicine there also. His preceptor was Dr. Mills, and he graduated at the E. M. Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1868. At different times he practiced in Rock Creek and Lenox, both in Ashtabula county ; LeMoore, California, and twenty-seven years at West Farming- ton, Ohio.
Dr. C. C. Williams, of Niles, Ohio, was born in Lisbon in 1863. In this pretty town he received his common-school edn- cation, and attended Mount Union College. His medical educa- tion was received at An Arbor, the University of Michigan, where he graduated in 1890. His professional life has been spent in Niles, Ohio, where he is in general practice, though much interested in surgery.
Dr. Sarah Gaston Frack is the only woman physician in Niles. She has a large and merative practice, and is a eredit to her profession. She was born in Atlantis, Pennsylvania, in 1869. Her common-school education was obtained in Utica, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Edinboro State Normal School and attended Allegheny College at Meadville, and Oberlin College, Ohio. Before she entered college she studied medicine under Dr. Susan F. Rose, of Meadville, Pennsylvania. In 1895 she graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical and Surgical College. She practiced for a short time in Detroit, Michigan, before settling in Niles. Two or three years ago she married Evan Frack, and has continued her practice since.
Dr. H. A. Fiester was born at East Lewiston, Ohio, and is in general practice at Newton Falls. His father, Dr. J. N. Fiester, was his preceptor, and later he studied in the Cleveland College for Physicians and Surgeons. Aside from a common edneation in the Newton Falls schools, he took a general course in Oberlin and Wooster Universities.
Dr. Daniel G. Simpson is one of the younger and successful
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Warren physicians. His native place was Grove City, Pennsyl- vania, where he was born in 1871. He attended the district school of Pine township. Mercer county, and Grove City College. At the latter place he received the degree of A. B. in 1894 and of A. M. in 1898. Ile studied two years in the University of Michigan and two years in the University of Illinois school of medicine. A few years since Dr. Simpson married Miss Lulu Conzett, one of the snecessful teachers of the Warren schools.
C. C. Tidd, M. D., of Mineral Ridge, was a native of Clarks ville, Mercer county, Pennsylvania. He was born in 1575. He has been in general practice in Mineral Ridge for eight years. HEis general education was obtained in the Clarksville public schools and high school. He graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College in Cleveland in 1899. He spent three years at Oberlin College. He practiced one year in Clarksville. his home town, and six months he was physician in charge of the Children's Fresh Air Camp at Cleveland.
Dr. L. G. Leland has practiced in Trumbull and Ashtabula connties, and now resides at Newton Falls, where he is in active practice. He was born in Windsor, Ohio, in 1860. Aside from his common-school education, he studied at Grand Prairie Semi- nary, Onarga, Illinois, and at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from the medical department of the last named niversity in 1883.
Dr. Clarence S. Ward, who was born in Geneva, Ashtabula county, in 1854, attended school there during his early child- hood. His father having moved to Warren, he attended the high school. graduating in the class of 1871. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Henry MeQuiston. He gradu- ated from the University of Michigan medical department, hav- ing received the degree ad enndem from Bellevne Hospital Medical College. In the early years of Dr. Ward's practice he was associated with D. B. Wood, and did post-graduate work repeatedly in New York and the Philadelphia Polyclinic. He did hospital work in New York City, but his practice has been entirely in Warren. Although he has been much interested in surgery and performed some very delicate operations, he con- siders himself a general practitioner only.
Dr. John I. King was born in Harrison township. Grant county, Wisconsin, in 1848. He spent his early life in Cali- fornia, Washington and Ohio. He attended the district schools.
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was five years at Allegheny College, at Meadville, beginning the study of medicine in 1867. His preceptor was David Best, M. D. He attended two courses of lectures, six months each, at the medical department, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. He received his degree of Doctor of Medicine at Bellevue Hos- pital Medical College in 1873. That same year he began prac- tice in Greece City, Butler county, Pennsylvania. The next year he located in Burghill. He married Emoinda C. Brown in 1882: she died in 1889 leaving one child. Eliza Jane. He again married in 1894. his wife being Mrs. Addie J. Fitch. That same year he went to Martel, Marion county, Ohio, returning to Burg- hill five years ago, where he resumed his practice of medicine.
Dr. John McCartney has practiced medicine in Girard for many years. Ile studied with Isaac Barclay and graduated from the Cleveland Medical College in 1861. In 1872 he mar- ried Sarah Packard, daughter of John Crum. Later he mar- ried Sophia Hauser, and she too died a few years since.
Dr. Charles W. Thomas, one of the most successful of the younger doctors of Warren, was born in Cleveland in 1877. His education was had in his home town, having attended the public schools, the high school, and Adelbert College. He received the degree A. B. from the latter institution, and his medical degree from the Western Reserve University. He came to Warren to have charge of Dr. Hoover's office, when the latter spent a year in Europe, and he has since resided here. He was married soon after settling here, and has three little children.
Dr. Martin S. Mayhew is one of the oldest doctors in Trum- bull County, being a year younger than Dr. Latimer, and a year older than Dr. Stewart. His whole life has been spent in this county and his edneation had here, except his medical educa- tion. He attended the Bristol district schools, the seminary at Farmington. He studied medicine with Dr. C. T. Metcalf of Bristol, and in 1865 graduated from the University of Miehi- gan. His practice has been in Trumbull County, first in Bris- tol, then in Johnston, and then in Cortland. Dr. and Mrs. May- hew have both been interested in and identified with the welfare of Cortland.
Dr. M. L. Williams is a Trumbull County man in every sense of the word. He has practiced in Warren twenty-one years. Before that he spent seventeen years in his profession at Vienna. He was born in the latter town in 1849. attended
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school there and at Warren, his college education being had at Hiram. He studied medicine with R. P. Hayes, M. D .. who prac- ticed so long in Vienna, and graduated at the University of Michigan in 1871.
Dr. J. Ward of Cortland has practiced fourteen years in that town. He is a Pennsylvanian by birth, having been born in Venango county in 1859. His common-school education was had in Crawford county. He studied medicine in Meadville. graduating from the medical department of the Western Re- serve University in 1885. He began his practice in his native state, first in Crawford county, then six years at Alton, one year in Randolph, New York. From Alton he removed to Cortland, where he has since resided.
Dr. E. E. Brinkerhoff of Bristolville was one of ten sons. He was educated in the common-schools of Grand View, Illinois, attended the high school at Lebanon, Illinois, Eureka College. read medicine in Dudley, same state, and graduated from the Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1886. He practiced for a year and a half in Youngstown. when he moved to Bristol- ville, where he has since resided. Dr. Brinkerhoff's practice is necessarily rural, but he gives special attention to diseases of women and children.
Dr. Archibald F. Swaney is one of the few doctors in Trum- bull County who were born in a Southern state. His native town was New Cumberland, West Virginia. Here he attended the common-schools, graduating from the high school in 1893. He graduated from Ohio Medical University at Columbus in 1903. He studied medicine and surgery under T. M. Haskins, at Haskins Hospital. Wheeling. West Virginia, and located at Niles, Ohio, where he enjoys a lucrative practice.
Charles T. Swaney, a brother of A. F. Swaney, was like- wise born in New Cumberland, West Virginia, in 1871. He was educated in the common-schools of New Cumberland, studied medicine with A. D. Mercer, M. D., of his home town. Gradu- ated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in 1897. Took a post-graduate course in medicine at the New York Post- Graduate Medical School in 1903. Has practiced in Niles since 1897.
Frederick Kinsman Smith, M. D., was born in Warren in 1858. He belongs to one of the oldest families of the city, has been identified, himself, with its interests. His father, Edward
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Smith, is the oldest merchant in Warren, and his mother was a member of the celebrated Pease family. Dr. Smith graduated from the public schools, from the Western Reserve College, and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He spent some time in Europe pursuing his studies, and was in general practice in Allonez, Michigan; Calumet, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio, and some years since removed to Warren. Although he is in gen- eral practice, he has specialized in diseases of the eye, ear and throat, giving particular attention to the eyes. He is the only physician in Warren, practicing at this time, who was born here.
C. L. Moore, M. D., was born in Beaver, Mercer county. Pennsylvania, in 1873. Aside from his common-school educa- tion, he attended the MeElwain Institute two years, received the degree of B. S. from the Fredonia Institute in Mercer county in 1893. Studied his profession under Dr. E. H. Jewett, of Cleve- land, and received his medical degree from the Cleveland Home- opathic Society in 1899. Did post-graduate work in the New York Homeopathie Medical College in 1905, and at Cleveland City Hospital in 1908. He practiced six months in Guernsey county, since then at Burghill, Ohio.
Dr. C. W. Lane, now residing in West Warren, was a native of Michigan, having been born at Caro. He obtained his school education at Vassar City, graduating from New Lyme Insti- tute. His collegiate work was done at the Western Reserve University, from which he graduated. He received his medical diploma from the Western Reserve College. He first practiced in Cleveland, and since then in Warren.
Dr. W. A. Werner was born in 1856 in Lordstown; went to district school in North Jackson for a little time. When he was eight years old his parents moved to Youngstown, and he finished his education in that city, graduating at the Rayen high school in 1873. He attended Western Reserve College, then at Hudson, gradnating in 1877; taught school for five years, four years in Youngstown. Studied his profession at the Cleveland Medical College, graduating in 1885. Began his practice in Youngstown, lived at Austintown later, and his practice was of course rural; then moved to Niles, where his business has since been.
Dr. J. II. Leaming began practicing his profession in Niles but is now in Vienna. His whole life has been spent in Trum- bull county. Born at Hartford in 1869, he received his common-
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school education in that town. He attended college at Cleveland and studied in the Cleveland Medical College, graduating in 1898.
Although Dr. George E. Minnich is not an Ohio man by birth, he has lived in the state most of his adult life. His birth- place was New Wilmington, Pennsylvania; his birth year 1871. His education was received in the New Wilmington public schools, and Westminster College. His preceptors were Dr. F. E. Bunts and Surgeon G. W. Crile of Cleveland. He gradu- ated from the medical department of the University of Wooster in 1893. He practiced one year in Cleveland, two years in Congo, twelve years in West Farmington, where he still resides.
Jesse E. Thompson naturally chose the profession of medi- cine because his father was a physician. The latter acted as his preceptor. He was born in Cortland in 1876, received his early education in the Cortland and Bristol schools. He studied at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, and Ohio State University. Like most of the doctors of Trumbull county, he received his medical training at the Western Reserve University, graduating in 1904. He enjoys a good practice at Bristolville.
Albert W. Thompson has practiced during his professional life entirely in Trumbull County. He was born in 1845 at Bris- tol and has practiced there and in Cortland. At present his son is associated with him in the former place. He was educated in the Bristol schools and West Farmington Seminary. His first studies were conducted under the supervision of Dr. A. J. Brockett of Bristolville, and were finished at the medical col- lege in Cleveland, now the Western Reserve University.
Dr. George J. Smith is a native of Ohio, having been born in Cincinnati, May 8, 1875. His early life was spent in Birming- ham, Alabama, where he attended school. Later he attended the Pittsburg high school, graduated at the Pittsburg College, and attended the University of Western Pennsylvania, gradu- ating from the medical department in 1898. Ile was house phy- sician at St. Francis Hospital one year, since which time he has been practicing in Niles.
Dr. D. R. Williams, of Girard, is a native of lowa. He was born in that state in 1864. He had a common-school education in the Hubbard district and high school, attended Monnt Union College ; received his medical education at the Western Reserve University, graduating in 1891 at the Starling Medical School,
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Columbus, Ohio. He began practice in Iowa, stayed there three years, but for the last fifteen years has resided in Girard.
Dr. Andrew J. Rathburn is a native of Trumbull County, having spent most of his professional life here also. He was born in Hartford in 1835; attended common-schools in Hart- ford. He studied medicine with Dr. F. F. Donaldson, Green- ville, Pennsylvania; also with Dr. Daniel B. Woods of Warren, and J. Y. James of Sharon. He attended lectures at the Buffalo Medical College in 1865 and 1866, Western Reserve College in 1866-67, and passed the medical examination by the Ohio state medical examining board. He took a post-graduate course in therapeutics and surgery in Chicago. He followed his profes- sion thirty-four years in Brookfield and Hubbard. He prac- ticed twelve years in Youngstown and the last nine years in Hartford. He is a member of the Ohio Eclectic Association.
Dr. L. M. Wright is a native of Pennsylvania. Since the formation of the township of Brookfield many of the residents have come from the state directly on the east. Dr. Wright's home town was Bakerstown, where he was born in 1875. He received his common-school education in Philadelphia and Bethel, Pennsylvania. He attended Westminster College at New Wilmington, where he received his degree of A. B. Gradu- ated from Marion-Sims Medical College, St. Louis, Missouri, and began practicing at Mendon, of that state. His later prac- tice has been at Brookfield, Ohio.
One of the young doctors of Warren is John C. Henshaw. whose native town is Coalport, this state. He received his com- mon-school education at Sharon, Pennsylvania, and his degree B. S. from Hall Institute. He entered Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1893, receiving his degree of M. D. in 1896. The first ten years of his professional life were spent at Vienna. and three and one-half years in Warren. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Asso- ciation.
L. S. Moore Jr. is one of the younger doctors of the county. He was born in Kinsman, attended common and high school in that town, afterwards going to Stanford University. His medical education was received at the Western Reserve Uni- versity. Dr. Moore graduated from the University in 1906; spent fifteen months in the Cleveland City Hospital, and in 1907
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began practice in Kinsman, where his father had long been one of the leading physicians.
Dr. T. M. Sabin, one of the oldest practitioners in Warren, was born at Mayfield, Cuyahoga county, in 1850. He received his education in the Mayfiekl common-schools, and in the acad- emy of that town. His home was in the section of the township now known as "Gates Mills." He received his collegiate educa- tion at the Western Reserve University, graduating from the medical department in 1875. Before that he had studied medi- cine with Dr. A. H. Davis, of Willoughby. He began his prae- tice at Willoughby, spent three years in Iowa recruiting his health, took up practice in Bedford, and then came to Warren, where most of his professional life has been spent. He is a Mason, a member of the Methodist church, was at one time on the board of pension examiners, and enjoys a Incrative practice.
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