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Byron Stillwell
O. H. Mosier John T. Ward
Herbert E. Bradley
A. L. Thurman
Fred N. Sinks
William H. Innis
Armor W. Sharp
Dwight Harrison
William V. Baker
Clayton A. McCleary
Charles J. Pretzman
Bert F. Mull
David Ramsey
Reed W. Game
David Clotts
T. H. Smith
D. N. Postlewaite
William O. Mahoney
B. G. Watson
John R. Horst
E. H. Archer
Erastus G. Lloyd
William Harvey Jones
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.
For many years, in fact throughout its entire history, Columbus has been noted for the ability of its physicians and the high standing of the great majority of its practitioners in an ethical point of view as well as in all others.
The Columbus Academy of Medicine.
Previous to the organization of this academy there was in existence a Central Ohio Medical Society, largely but not absolutely local to Columbus ; and preceding that there had been two or three short-lived associations of physicians. On the 4th of April, 1892, in the office of Dr. H. P. Allen, 73 East State street, the Columbus Academy of Medicine was organized. On motion of Dr. T. W. Rankin, Dr. C. F. Clark was elected temporary chair- man and Dr. J. C. Graham, secretary. Dr. Kinsman stated the purpose of the organization to be medical advancement and fraternal good will among the members.
An adjournment was taken to April 8th and at that meeting the fol- lowing officers were elected :
President, Dr. D. N. Kinsman; vice president, Dr. T. W. Rankin ; sec- retary, Dr. J. C. Graham ; treasurer, Dr. F. W. Blake; board of censors, Drs. T. C. Hoover, H. W. Whitaker, H. P. Allen, Frank Warner and J. B. Schueller. At this meeting scientific discussion ensued, participated in by Drs. J. F. Baldwin, J. M. Dunham, R. Wirth, D. Tod Gilliam, T. W. Rankin, T. C. Hoover and others.
E. C. Irvine Jerry Dennis
J. F. Bertsch Frank S. Walker
J. E. Sater David T. Keating
Samuel L. Black
Samuel G. Osborn
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From the first meeting and organization the academy has grown in num- bers, importance and good results. The membership is now approximately two hundred and fifty and regularly receiving accessions. There are about one hundred and fifty physicians in the city who are not members of the academy.
The following distinguished members of the profession have been pres- idents :
1892, Dr. D. N. Kinsman; 1893, Dr. T. W. Rankin; 1894, Dr. H. P. Allen ; 1895, Dr. A. B. Richardson; 1896, Dr. J. E. Brown; 1897, Dr. D. L. Moore; 1898, Dr. Frank Warner; 1899, Dr. C. S. Hamilton; 1900, Dr. An- drew Timberman; 1901-2, Dr. J. C. Lawrence; 1903, Dr. F. W. Blake; 1904, Dr. J. M. Waters; 1905, Dr. F. F. Lawrence; 1906, Dr. J. U. Barnhill; 1907, Dr. W. D. Deuschle. Dr. Wells Reachnor is the present president and Dr. Charles J. Shepard, the efficient secretary.
Starling-Ohio Medical College.
There were formerly two medical colleges, both high class institutions, in Columbus, but they are now united as the Starling-Ohio. In 1846, Wil- loughby Medical College, located at Willoughby, Lake county, Ohio, was re- moved to Columbus, with a reorganization of its board of trustees. Under that organization one course of lectures was delivered in this city, and then the institution abandoned. During this term, Lyne Starling, one of the orig- inal proprietors of the site of Columbus, executed a deed of trust, December 18, 1847, to trustees, of thirty thousand dollars, to be paid in installments for the purchase of a lot and the erection of suitable buildings thereon for a medical college, and the establishment of a hospital in connection there- with. The trustees named in this bequest were William S. Sullivant, John W. Andrews, Robert W. McCoy, Joseph R. Swan, Francis Carter, Samuel M. Smith and John Butterfield.
The trustees, on the 2d of January, 1848, met and accepted the trust. Mr. Starling then increased his generous donation five thousand dollars more, making it thirty-five thousand dollars. Upon application to the legislature, Starling Medical College, to be located at the state capital, was chartered by a special act, passed January 28, 1848. The board of trustees organized under the charter electing William S. Sullivant, president, R. W. McCoy, treasurer, and Francis Carter, secretary. The following gentlemen were chosen, January 29, 1848, members of the faculty: Henry S. Childs, M. D .; John Butterfield, M. D .; Richard L. Howard, M. D .; Jesse P. Judkins, M. D .; Samuel M. Smith M. D .; Frederick Merrick, A. M .; and Francis Carter, M. D. During the first year the number of students was one hundred and sixty, and the degree of M. D. was conferred on thirty-two persons, and honorary degrees on six.
The Mergement.
The Starling-Ohio Medical College is the result of a mergement of the Starling Medical College, well known for sixty years to the profession
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of this country, and the Ohio Medical University, a school of fewer years but widely recognized as a prosperous college. Both institutions have a record of keeping pace with advancement along the line of a higher standard in medical education. Such union had been contemplated for sometime and is now accomplished. By combining the teaching forces and clinical facil- ities of the two schools a stronger institution has been made than either could hope to become as an independent organization. What one lacks the other supplies, and the union makes possible a college of which the alumni of both schools may be proud and in which the profession will have confidence.
Columbus A Medical Center.
Columbus has long been known as a medical center of no mean rating, and it is proposed by the united efforts of many of her best medical men to not only maintain such reputation but make her name even greater. That this can be done is not questioned, since no city in the middle west has men more experienced or better known for their capabilities as teachers of medicine.
The capital city offers many advantages to the medical student other than those purely technical. Here is located Ohio's largest educational in- stitution, the State University, with its two thousand students, its numerous departments, laboratories, museums, and libraries, furnishing an atmosphere of study and investigation valuable to the student in any line. We find in the city also the state schools for the education of its unfortunates-the School for the Blind, for the Deaf and Dumb, and for Feeble Minded Youth. In addition there are the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane and the Ohio Penitentiary. These five latter institutions give many opportunities for observation and study in lines closely related to, if not identical with, those of the medical profession.
Facilities for Instruction.
Facilities for clinical, didactic and laboratory work, as provided for by the Starling-Ohio Medical College, are of the first order and in many ways superior to those more pretentious institutions. The teaching force is ample to carry out section work to a point of satisfaction never before at- tained in either college. The advantages of small classes can not be here enumerated, but one alone, the intimate acquaintance of the teacher with the special needs of individuals of his class, is sufficient to commend the plan to those who desire thorough work.
Government of the College.
The Starling-Ohio Medical College is governed by a board of twelve trustees, and its officers. Of this board W. O. Thompson is president. Dr. Thompson is known far and wide as an educator, and as president of Ohio State University. C. S. Hamilton, M. D., is chancellor. Dr. Hamilton was
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formerly dean of Starling Medical College and professor of surgery. W. R. Lazenby, secretary of the board, is professor of horticulture in the State Uni- versity. W. J. Means, M. D., is treasurer. Dr. Means was treasurer of the Ohio Medical University and professor of surgery. W. M. Mutchmore, registrar. Mr. Mutchmore has for years been registrar of the Ohio Medical University.
Other members of the board are as follows: Frank Winders, M. D., formerly professor of therapeutics in Starling College; Thomas C. Hoover, M. D., formerly professor of surgery in Starling Medical College; J. E. Brown, M.D., formerly professor of otology and rhino-laryngology in the Ohio Medical University; C. F. Clark, M. D., formerly professor of ophthalmology in Starling Medical College; Andrew Timberman, M. D., formerly professor of ophthalmology in Ohio Medical University; Hon. H. J. Booth, attorney ; E. B. Kinkead, attorney and professor of law in Ohio State University ; Hon. F. J. Heer, formerly president of the board of trustees of the Ohio Medical University.
The Central Ohio Medical Society.
In August, 1868, a preliminary meeting, looking to the formation of a medical society in central Ohio, was held in the office of Dr. John McClurg, of Westerville, by Drs. Landon, Page, Neil, Beverly, Durant, Andrus, Garen, McClurg and that permanent organization was affected at Westerville, June 14, 1869, at which time the following officers were elected: President, Dr. C. P. Landon; vice president, Dr. W. F. Page; secretary, Dr. P. F. Beverly ; treasurer, Dr. John McClurg; censors, Drs. A. Andrus, Alex. Neil and O. Johnson. Drs. Page, Beverly and Follett drafted the constitution and by-laws.
More than two hundred physicians have enjoyed membership in the so- ciety. The following served as presidents: Drs. C. P. Landon, W. F. Page, N. Gay, John Little, P. F. Beverly, J. D. Nourse, M. T. Wagenhals, A. Follett, H. Hendrixson, Z. F. Guerin, J. N. Beach, L. Woodruff, J. T. Mills, E. B. Pratt, W. S. Pinkerton, O. Johnson, Toland Jones, T. W. Jones, G. S. Stein, J. F. Baldwin, R. Wirth, F. F. Lawrence, Alice Johnson, and R. H. Henry. The following have served as secretaries: Drs. P. F. Beverly, O. Johnson, J. U. Barnhill, J. F. M. Heeter, G. M. Clouse, and E. M. Hatton.
The meetings which were first quarterly were soon changed to monthly, and held at different towns throughout central Ohio. The society enjoyed an active life for twenty-seven years, the last meeting being held November 5, 1896.
THE NEWSPAPER PROFESSION.
In dealing with the newspaper profession in Columbus, no attempt will be made, first because it is impracticable, and second because it would be un- profitable, to deal, even cyclopedically, save with those varied publications which were printed for the dissemination of general news, and of that class, only those which have survived the most of the century, or are now in active life.
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There are but two Columbus newspapers of the present day which can lay any genealogical claim upon the antiquity of the morning of the nine- teenth century, namely the Ohio State Journal and the Columbus Press Post, and both their claims are valid and provable. The State Journal dates from 1811; the Press Post from 1812, although the latter does not claim to go back further than the Monitor, the third newspaper to be launched in Franklin county, in 1816, whereas, it goes back through the inheritance of good will, to the Freeman's Chronicle of 1812. The Freeman's Chronicle was founder in 1812 by James B. Gardner at the request of Governor Meigs, to encourage the people of Ohio to support the state and national ad- ministration, in the war of 1812, the whole line of federal papers in the state endeavoring to discourage them with bitter and often scurrilous flings at the administrative policy of Presidents Monroe and Madison and Governor Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.
After the war closed, the Freeman's Chronicle, which had led a bril- liant and precarious life, gave up the ghost and its spirit and good will were inherited by the Monitor, and from that point the descent to the Press Post is clear, though somewhat varied. The State Journal goes back to the Western Intelligencer, the publication of which was begun in 1811 by that grand old pioneer, Col. and Rev. James Kilbourne, at Worthington, which was then the emporium of the upper Scioto valley.
The Ohio State Journal.
The Journal dates back to the first paper issued in the county in 1811 and the Press Post to the first paper published in Columbus in 1812. There being only a twelve-month difference between their ages, they will no doubt be able in 2011 to reconcile the difference and claim that they are twin.
Columbus was celebrated for almost three quarters of a century as the. newspaper graveyard, and the solemn work of the undertaker does not seem to be entirely closed out. The State Journal was, after its first change, "The Western Intelligencer and Columbus Gazette." Then the Ohio State Journal and Register in 1838, having absorbed its rival, the Register, and finally in 1839 assuming the name "The Ohio State Journal," which, with an oc- casional suffix, when a rival was absorbed, has been maintained since.
The Columbus Press Post.
The Freeman's Chronicle became, in 1812, the progenitor of the Press- Post, its subscription list passing to the Ohio Monitor, in 1816, after its sus- pension in 1814-15.
The Monitor merged with the Hemisphere in 1836, and after two or three further absorptions, it became the Ohio Statesman and the democratic exponent, under the management of Government Samuel Medary and his brother Jacob Medary, and continued as such until 1872, when it was sold to Dodd & Linton, and the Daily Statesman was merged with the new Daily Dispatch, and the weekly and Sunday Ohio Statesman were continued and
A VISTA IN NEIL AVENUE, In the Residence Section of the North Side.
A VISTA IN EAST BROAD STREET, Looking East From a Point Near the Intersection of Third Street.
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carried the Ark of the Covenant of Democracy over and delivered it to the Columbus Times-Democrat, under John G. Thompson, S. K. Donivan and Captain J. H. Putnam, along in the early '80s, and then the Times was ab- sorbed by the Press, and the Press-Times by the Post, the final transmuta- tion being the Press-Post of today, "which like good wine needs no bush."
Thus two of the four daily English papers of today, in Columbus are traced back to the era of the old Washington hand press, or mayhap its progenitor, and the hand roller and its ancestor.
The Columbus Evening Dispatch.
The Dispatch was the outcome of a venture by a number of printers and newspaper men, viz .: Samuel Bradford Willoughby, W. Webb, William Trevitt, Jr., T. McMahon, James O'Donnell, John M. Webb, Joseph S. B. Given, P. C. Johnson, L. P. Stephens and C. M. Morris, who incorporated a ten thousand dollar company.
In May, 1872, the Dispatch began a weekly issue. In July following the Daily Statesman was merged with the Dispatch and it became a daily. Later on William D. Brickell and L. D. Myers acquired the Dispatch, and the work of pushing it to the front was begun, and has not yet ceased. Event- ually Mr. Wlliam D. Brickell acquired the entire property and made great improvements, establishing the Sunday issue. Mr. Brickell disposed, at a later date, of an interest to Honorable Joseph J. Gill and probably a further interest to Harry Alexander, and then at a still later date, the whole passed to the present owners of the property, who show no lack of enterprise and push in the newspaper field.
The Columbus Citizen.
The Columbus Citizen was founded by Mr. George W. Dun in 1898. The venture was backed by a small amount of capital and a big section of that faith which removes mountains. It is said to have made its way from the start, and this is probably the fact. After conducting the Citizen success- fully for a number of years, Mr. Dun parted with a large amount of his in- terest in it and finally the entire establishment was taken over by the Scripps- McCrea League of Newspapers.
Among the other general news bearing papers in the city are the follow- ing:
German Weeklies and Dailies.
Der Columbus Daily Courier, No. 346 S. High street; The Weekly Columbus Express, 246 S. High street; The Daily Express and Westbote, 246 S. High street; Der Semi-Weekly Westbote, 246 S. High street.
There are in addition to these, between thirty and forty newspapers and periodicals, in addition in the city and suburbs, devoted to special lines and special interests, as well as literary cultivation and moral teachings.
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Among the Crypts.
Among the newspapers that were, but are not, may be mentioned in chronological order thus: Franklin Chronicle, 1819; Ohio State Bulletin, 1829; Columbus Sentinel, 1835; Ohio Register and Anti-Masonic Review, 1832; Western Hemisphere, 1832; The People's Press,, 1836; The Ohio Con- federate, 1838; Old School Republican, 1841; The Cross and Journal, 1838; The Capital City Fact, 1850; The Ohio Press, 1847; The Ohio Cultivator, 1845; The Ohio Standard, 1845, and revived in 1850; The Ohio Columbian, 1855; The Ohio Tribune, 1840; The Columbus Elevator, 1855; The Colum- bus Gazette, 1856. Among the short-lived publications between 1845 and 1855 were the National Enquirer, The Electric, The Thompsonian Re- corder, The Independent Press, Budget of Fun, Straight-out Harrisonian, The Tornado, The Auger, The Ohio Freeman, Columbus Herald, Ohio In- telligencer, Ohio Democrat, The Westbote, (German) still in existence, established in 1843.
Between 1860 and the present date there were many brief and brilliant newspaper careers among which may be named the Columbus Gazette, Sun- day Morning News, which lived a score of years, however, the Columbus Bulletin, Columbus Sentinel, Capital Events, Columbus Review, Sunday Cap- ital, Daily Courier, Sunday Globe, Saturday Critic, Democratic Call and last and most notable of all, the Ohio Sun, supplied with all modern equipments and which issued a creditable daily and Sunday issue for nearly two years, suspending in 1908.
The chronology of the three learned professions, treated in this chapter, is in strict accord with Luke 13:30.
CHAPTER VIII.
VARIOUS EPISODES AND HISTORICAL EVENTS.
1812-A MILITARY CENTER-1815.
In the war of 1812 Columbus was the center of military operations against the British and Indians, and was, for a portion of the time, the head- quarters of General William Henry Harrison. Its location at that date, in the absence of modern methods of transportation, made it the natural rendezvous for troops operating against Upper Canadian points, as well as defensive and offensive operations against the northwestern Indian tribes.
At the time of the Civil war in 1861-65, with the railway facilities then existing, it became the great point of recruiting and concentrating point, with Camp Chase the center for equipping and training the battalions for for the field. It was, indeed, a military capital for four years, during which there was little else heard or spoken except military operations, triumphs or defeats, at some point in almost every prolonged conversation between two or more persons.
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Columbus and Franklin county contributed a high percentage of soldiers to the grand army of three hundred and twenty-five thousand that Ohio sent to the field, largely because it was an active military center, and daily con- tact with enthusiastic recruits going into training or moving to the front in- fected the great majority of the men of military age of the city and county, and carried them into the score or more of regiments that were recruited in the vicinity.
1846-GENERAL MORGAN'S SWORD-1848.
In November, 1847. a meeting was held in Columbus for the purpose of raising by subscription the necessary sum of money ($500) to purchase and properly inscribe a sword to present to Colonel George W. Morgan, of the Second Ohio Volunteer Regiment in the Mexican war. Byram Leonard presided and D. A. Robertson acted as secretary, and the following members of the committee to receive the contributions were selected: Samuel Medary, William Kelsey, Isaac Davies, F. Gale, Jacob Reinhard.
On the 7th of December, 1847, Colonel Morgan en route from Mexico, arrived in the state capital, and on the 10th of the month was tendered a complimentary dinner at the American House, the invitations bearing the names of forty prominent citizens and members of the general assembly. Messrs. R. P. Spalding and J. F. Williams escorted Colonel Morgan to the table. Many toasts were proposed and responded to, Colonel Morgan speak- ing felicitously. The sword ordered finished for Colonel Morgan was dis- played in the window of Savage's jewelry store on High street in February, and elicited many words of praise, taken in connection with the compli- mentary inscription and handsome finish.
During the summer of 1848 the second regiment returned to Ohio and Captain William A. Latham's Columbus company, after having lost eighteen killed and thirty-nine wounded, reached Columbus in July and were ten- dered a reception by the citizens, Colonel Morgan marching at the head of the parade, which moved from General Gale's Union Hotel. The streets were strewn with flowers by a bevy of young ladies and the little Misses Sil- bernagel and Wendall alternately recited the stanzas of an appropriate Ger- man poem in that language.
Colonel Samuel Medary made the address of welcome, and Captain Latham responded in behalf of the returning veterans. On the evening of the same day the sword was presented to Colonel Morgan at Democratic Hall, Mr. D. E. Robertson making the presentation speech on behalf of the city and the individual donors. Colonel Morgan was greatly affected, but spoke with fervid eloquence, giving the praise for the victorious outcome of war to the soldiers in the ranks, rather than the officers in command. This historic sword is now preserved among the nations patriotic relics in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., where Ohioans pause and gaze on it as they pass through.
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1846-THE COLUMBUS CADETS-1848.
The following is the roll call of the "Columbus Cadets," Captain William A. Latham's company of the Second Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Mexican war, the returning volunteers already referred to whose pathway, within the city, was literally strewn with flowers by the girls and young women of that day. While the men and boys cheered them to the echo:
ROLL CALL CAPTAIN LATHAM'S COMPANY. Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry Mexican War.
Eighteen killed in battle; thirty-nine wounded. Rank and File. Captain, William Latham, Fourth Sergeant, Victor Trevitt, First Corporal, Charles Johnson, First Lieutenant, James Markland, Second Lieutenant, John Arnold, Second Corporal, Lewis Hadley, First Sergeant, John A. Harvey, Third Corporal, H. W. Johnes, Second Sergeant, Wm. H. Sanford, Fourth Corporal, John Righter. Third Sergeant, William Cloud,
Privates.
George Atwater,
William Greenley,
Fred Schilling, John Scott,
George Altin,
John Leonard,
James Bennet,
B. F. Lincoln,
Samuel J. Scott,
Robert Benns,
Robert Lucas,
Ralph J. Scott,
Moses Bedell,
Augustus Marcy, Scribner,
Joseph Bidwell,
John W. Marcy,
William Simcox,
I. R. Brake,
Abed Moore,
R. J. Shannon,
Jacob Brown,
Franklin Moyer,
James Sheperd,
A. Clarke,
Samuel Mutchler,
Seth Shoemaker, James Thomas,
C. Coffman,
T. Nadenbousch, Samuel Pierce,
Samuel Taylor,
Louis Evans,
Samuel Reaver,
Daniel Townsend,
Elias Finck,
Joseph Righter,
Henry Tuttle.
J. S. Foley,
Samuel Sabines,
William Forrester,
D. K. Seltz,
Thomas Davies,
1861-5-THE OLD GUARD-190S-9.
From the beginning the military spirit was indigenous to the soil, and there were from the close of the war of 1812 to the close of the Spanish- American war and since, notable military organizations in the city, which, as in the case of the Mexican and Civil war, furnished recruits who were so aptly trained and thoroughly imbued with the military spirit, as to success- fully lead battalions and brigades to victory and real battlefields within from thirty to sixty days after having laid down civil pursuits and being mustered in.
OLD G
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THE OLD GUARD READY FOR ESCORT DUTY. IN FRONT OF HEADQUARTERS MEMORIAL HALL, COLUMBUS.
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The full military history of the city and county belongs to the domain of those who are chosen to devote one or more volumes to a single class of subjects, and it would take a long chapter to record the names of their soldiers and officers, without their titles or "mention in orders" of their gal- lantry and achievements.
One of the surviving military organizations is worthy of more than passing notice and can be made without even the faintest suggestion of in- vidious distinction, and that is the Old Guard, composed of the veteran soldiers of the Civil war and some of whom were, at the beginning of the organization, veterans of the Mexican war. On every fitting civic military occasion for a score and a half years, the Old Guard and its drum corps has evoked the applause and greetings of the city as they marched by with the verve and aplomb of Caesar's legions coming back from the conquest of Gaul.
Here is the present company roll of the Old Guard of Columbus 1908- 1909:
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