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The important lessons of that period have had a due influence on the citizens of Perrysburg. Since that period the streets of the village have been thoroughly drained, and due regard has been had to the removal of all substances that are regarded as detrimental to the public health.
This incident, though properly belonging to the history of Perrysburg, is introduced here to account for the number of medical men who flocked toward the lower Maumee Country. In 1851, Dr. Williamson located at Freeport: in 1853, A. J. Gardner located at Grand Rapids; in 1854, Dr. Robertson, a partner of E. D. Peck. died while combating the cholera, and Dr. H. A. Hamilton came that year to take his place. Dr. Frederick labored in the midst of the danger as well as Dr. W. H. Smith; the physicians. Philo and W. M. Bell located in Weston in 1854: L. L. Gorsuch practiced at Freeport: John F. Clayton purchased Dr. Wiley's interests in Henry township, located on the site of North Baltimore after the war, but moved to Missouri in 18;1 or 1872; J. D. Whitacre located near Scotch Ridge in 1855, Henry Buckland at Stony Ridge about the same time, and C. R. Rosendale at West Millgrove; Ozias Baird was in Bloom, Beardsley and Watson at Grand Rapids, E. B. Emerson at Eagleville, Kerr, Seward, Reynolds, Hobson and J. J. Dahlen at Perrysburg, J. B. Smith and William G. Lamb at Bowling Green, and Dr Peters at Pemberville, with Dr. Koeble following him that year or the next at the Forks of the Portage.
The population increased to 24,553 by June. 1870. During the decade ending in December,
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1869, the profession received many recruits. J. F. Meeks located at Portage as early as 1860, though he resided at Custar in 1867; Kellogg, Ballard and Squires had occupied the Tontogany field, and, perhaps, Dr. Gilbert, who was there from 1863 to 1866, preceded Dr. B. F. Davis in practice, for it is said that Dr. Davis did not locate at Tontogany until 1865. H. R. Potter was at Potterstown as early as 1864; A. J. Man- ville and Dr. Howells were at Bowling Green in 1866. Geo. W. Bell at Grand Rapids, Win. Bell at Weston, R. Laney in Portage township in 1864, Charles Whisler at North Baltimore down to 1868, G. W. Vail at Bowling Green from IS- to 1885; C. A. Henry read inedicine in Perry township in 1865, Dr. Henry at Pember- ville, and Dr. Forbes at Weston in 1866; J. H. Rheinfrank practiced at Perrysburg; Dr. McCor- mick at Pemberville, 1867-71; Geo. W. Moore, at Tontogany; Alexander Brown, Albert Claypool and James Lathrop at Weston; A. Sterling, R. C. Hunter, and A. Evans at Weston; E. D. Powers and McCray, of Perrysburg, were in the county in 1869, and perhaps prior to that year.
When Dr. George B. Spencer, of Weston, located there in 1870, many of the physicians named were still residents of the county. J. M. Telford settled at North Baltimore, in 1871, but A. G. Henry succeeded him as early as 1873, the same year in which Robert L. Souder located there. Dr. Hughes settled at Custar in 1872, E. W. Schooley, the same year. W. W. Perry at Perrysburg in 1872, S. E. Chapman, a homeo- path, began practice at Perrysburg in 1873, and Dr. Rausch at Portage, the same year; while H. P. Eaton moved to North Baltimore in 1874. T. J. Klussman located at Tontogany, J. H. Ogle and R. J. Simon (the latter in 1873) at Pember- ville, Avery McClaran (who died in 1887) at North Baltimore, Worline and Slaughter at Custar, S. S. Bronson at Jerry City, James Col- ter at Bairdstown, and J. M. Ricketts, at Bowl- ing Green. In 1876, J. H. Gibson was at Bairds- town, while in 1877 and 1878 A. L. Davis was at Tontogany, Francis Strain at Perrysburg, O. H. Sullivan at Bowling Green, and Thomas R. Mor- rison at North Baltimore. The names of J. C. Lincoln, the late B. F. Leet, Dr. Thomas, A. M. Chilcote, Edward H. Chilcote, and others, who began in the " seventies, " are given in the rec- ords of the Medical Society and the Association.
The roll of physicians, who settled here in recent years, embraces the names of a few of the older men, and a brief sketch of some of their lives is given.
Perrysburg .- Erasmus D. Peck-deceased- was a native of Stafford, Conn., and descended from one of the old Colonial families. His birth occurred in 1808, and his education was received in the schools of Munson, Mass., and at Yale Col- lege, from the Medical Department of which he was graduated in 1829. After his graduation Dr. Peck came to Ohio, and in 1834 to Perrys- burg, at which place he practiced medicine for upward of forty years. He was a man of com- manding influence in all lines of effort, and took a prominent place in the councils of the Repub- lican party, which he entered on the disorganiza- tion of the old Whig party. From 1855 to 1857, he served in the General Assembly of the State, and was a representative in Congress in the Forty-first and Forty-second sessions. His death occurred December 25, 1876.
H. A. Hamilton descended from a long line of physicians and surgeons. In speaking of his ancestry the Centennial edition of the Hartford County Medical Association says: "One of the most distinguished names upon the roll of physicians in our locality, whether during the last or the present century, is that of Hamilton. * He was born at Somers, Conn., in 1829, was educated at Suffield, Conn., and in the Medical Department of the University of New York, graduating from the latter in 1852. He practiced three years in Springfield, Mass., and in 1854 came to Perrysburg and commenced practice along with the late Dr. Peck. Dr. Hamilton is a man of unusual robust physique, and is one of the oldest and most honored of the profession.
J. H. Rheinfrank is a native of Bridgewater, Mich., born in 1840. In boyhood he attended the graded schools of Ypsilanti, Mich., and, in 1861, was graduated, and entered the Literary Departinent of the University of Michigan. Later he was a student in the Medical Department of the same university, and was graduated in 1864. Soon after taking his degree he located in the practice at Perrysburg, where he has made for himself a high standing in the profession and a citizen of prominence.
I. S. Bowers is a native of what is now the province of Ontario, but passed his boyhood in the State of Michigan, and there, in the district schools, and high schools at Petersburg and Mon- roe, received his elementary education. At an early age he began reading medicine with an uncle at Fond-du-Lac, Wis., and on his father's removal to Perrysburg, in 1876, he subsequently furthered his medical studies under the direction of Dr. Rheinfrank, of that place. In issi he
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was graduated from the Detroit Medical College, and at once began practicing at Perrysburg. At this time he is president of the board of pension examiners for Wood county.
H. R. Roether is a native of Perrysburg, and in the public schools of the town received his education, being graduated therefrom in 1886. He then taught school for several years, and in 1893 was graduated from the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Michigan. After his graduation he was for a time the assistant sur- geon at the Aragon mines, at Norway, Mich. He then returned to Perrysburg, where he has been actively and energetically engaged in the practice of medicine, and where his ability and influence are recognized. In 1895 Dr. Roether was elected to the office of treasurer of Perrysburg township. The Doctor is of the Regular School in distinc- tion from Homeopathy.
J. E. Brainard is a graduate of the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, class of 1889.
W. H. Rheinfrank, who is associated in the practice with his father, J. H. Rheinfrank, was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, in 1894.
Grand Rapids .- Andrew J. Gardner is a na- tive of Ohio, born in 1827 at Hubbard, where he resided until ten years of age, and then went with his father to Youngstown, where he received the rudiments of an education. He read medi- cine for some time under Drs. Woodbridge & Garlick, and then entered the Medical Depart- ment of the Western Reserve College, graduating in 1848. He practiced for a short time at Sharon, Penn., and for five years at Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, then, in 1853, came to Grand Rapids. He has since resided here, and for thirty-five years has conducted a drug store. J. A. Backus was graduated from the Cleve- land Homeopathic Hospital College in 1880; J. Heller from the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1874: L. G. Ennis from Long Island College Hospital in 1889; J. N. Mead.
West Millgrove .- Charles R. Rosendale is a native of Yorkshire, England, and with his father's family came to the United States at the age of nine years. During the winter seasons he attended the district schools in the vicinity of Wellington, Ohio, and the high school at Elyria. At the age of twenty he began the study of medi- cine with Drs. Smith and Johns, of the former place, and subsequently studied under Dr. Mc- Kenzie of Litchfield. He was graduated from the Cincinnati Eclectic Institute in 1856, and that year located at West Millgrove, where he
has had a most successful career. An extended notice of the Doctor's life appears elsewhere in this volume.
T. T. Rosendale, a son of Dr. Charles R. Rosendale, is a successful physician of Fostoria. He is a native of West Millgrove, in which village he received his early schooling. He afterward was in attendance for three years at the Northern Indiana Normal School, but had previously read medicine under his father and Dr. Henry, at Fostoria. In 1890 he entered the Western Re- serve Medical College at Cleveland, and was graduated in 1893, and the same year located at Fostoria.
C. B. Hatfield was born in Perry township. this county, and during youth and early manhood remained on his father's farm. In the fall of 1889, at the age of twenty-seven years, he en- tered Western Reserve Medical College at Cleve- land. Ohio, but in 1891 was compelled to leave on account of poor health. Later he was a stu- dent in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1893. In June of that year he located at West Millgrove.
Dr. Kirkham visited this settlement as early as 1837.
Prairie Depot .- Edwin R. Sage is a native of Connecticut, born in 1825. When he was aged eleven years the family came to Ohio, and when he was fifteen his father died. Young Sage then learned the shoemaker's trade, and followed it for three years. He studied medicine under Dr. H. W. Curtis, at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, but had previously read some with Dr. Hutchins, at Prairie Depot. In the summer of 1857 he lo- cated permanently at the latter place and began the practice of medicine the following year, in which he has been successful. Dr. Sage has been twice elected to the General Assembly of Ohio, the first time in 1875. An extended sketch of his life appears elsewhere in this volume.
I. V. Wirebaugh is a native of Ohio, and was reared as most farmers' sons, working through the summer season and attending the district schools in the winter. In 1886 he began the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Chesney, of Bucyrus, Ohio, and the following year attended a course of lectures at the Western Reserve Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, isgo, after having com- pleted the three- years' course and continuing his studies with Dr. Chesney. He began practice at Tiro, this State, at which place he was also en-
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gaged in the drug business. In March, 1893, he removed to Prairie Depot.
Joseph E. Burnham is a native of the State of New York, and grew to manhood in his native town-Potsdam. He attended the public schools, and later the Normal school at that place for a period of two and one-half years. He followed teaching for several years. In 1889 he began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. H. D. Brown, and in the fall of 1892 he became a stu- dent in the Cleveland Medical College, from which he was graduated with high honor in the class of 1895, standing second in a class of forty- two. He practiced for a short time at Port Clin- ton, Ohio, and in November, 1895, located at Prairie Depot, and has since been associated with Dr. Sage. The Doctor belongs to the Homeo- pathic school of medicine.
J. G. Howell was graduated from Maumee College, in 1878. H. C. Black. In the early history of West Millgrove and Fostoria mention is made of first physicians; while in the township chapter Dr. Kinnaman and others are noticed. W. H. Palmer, J. E. Brooks.
Bowling Green .- A. J. Manville is a native of this county, born in 1834. His early years were passed in rural pursuits, and he had but meager educational privileges. He studied med- icine under the direction of Dr. G. J. Rogers, of Bowling Green, and they together carried on a drug store. A year later, in 1864, Dr. Manville entered the medical college at Ann Arbor, Mich., where he remained one year, and subsequently was in attendance at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, from which he was graduated in 1866, receiving the degree of M. D. Among his professors at Bellevue were some famous men in their profession, such as Drs. Aus- tin Flint, Surgeon-General Hammond, Lewis A. Sayers and Frank H. Hamilton. After gradua- tion the Doctor returned to Bowling Green, and sustained the same relations with Dr. Rogers as previously, and became a partner in the practice of medicine. He was in the drug business from 1863 to 1896, and is one of the most widely known men of the county
J. C. Lincoln was born in Albany, N. Y., though his boyhood was passed in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He had read medicine some when the late Civil war broke out, and became assistant surgeon in the First Minnesota Regiment, he having recruited upward of three hundred men, of which that regiment was composed. He was seriously wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, and on recovering returned to his home and sub- sequently was for three years a student in Law-
rence University at Appleton, Wis., and for one year studied medicine with Dr. Ford, of Winona, Minn., then was in attendance at Rush Medical College, Chicago, from which he was graduated, with the degree of M. D., in 1871. He began the practice of medicine in Franklin county, Iowa; then, for a time, practiced near Fostoria, Ohio, and in 1873 located at Bowling Green, where he has since been actively engaged in the same, and where he is carrying on an extensive drug business.
J. H. Whitehead is a native of this county, born near Bowling Green. He was educated in the neighborhood schools, and in the high schools at Bowling Green and Perrysburg. In 1871, he began reading medicine with Dr. John Osborn, near Portage, this county, and subsequently ent- ered the Cleveland ( Ohio) Homeopathic College, from which he was graduated in 1874, and since which time he has practiced his profession at Portage and Bowling Green.
J. W. McCracken, a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, in 1866, practiced at Portage for several years.
W. M. Tuller is a native of this State, where he grew up on a farm. He was educated in the district schools, and at Central College in Franklin county, Ohio. After completing the course at the latter institution he was engaged for six years in teaching school. He then began reading medicine with Dr. H. Hendrickson, of Columbus, Ohio, and subsequently took a course of study in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1876. . He immediately located at Bowling Green, and has since been actively engaged in practice at this point.
W. B. Bryant is a native of this county. born at Prairie Depot. In 1872 he began the study of medicine, and for two years was in the offices of Dr. Goodrick, at Freeport, and Dr. Rosendale, of West Millgrove. In 1875, he was graduated from the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute. and began the practice of medicine at Freeport. He remained there two years, and then removed to . Jerry City. In 1891 he came to Bowling Green, having been elected sheriff of the county in the fall of 1890. He served two terms as sheriff.
C. S. St. John is a native of this county, and was educated in the schools of Fostoria and of Valparaiso. Ind. He taught school for a num- ber of years. He was for a time a student in the Columbus (Ohio) Medical College, and in 1883 was graduated from the Medical Department of Wooster University. He located in Bowling
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Green and after a practice of one year went to McComb, and, after two years practice there, re- turned to Bowling Green, and has since followed his profession here.
Marcus A. McKendree was born in Erie county, Penn. He attended the high school at Conneaut, and read medicine at hoine and later with Dr. Schooley, of Weston, Ohio. He was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati, in June, 1884, and for two years thereafter was associated in practice with Dr. Schooley, at Weston. He then located at Bow- ling Green. Since 1893 he has been one of the board of U. S. pension examining surgeons.
Mrs. Lydia McKendree is a native of New York City. She read medicine with her husband, and in 1893 was graduated from the Toledo Medical College.
E. O. Richardson was graduated from the Columbus Medical College in 1884, Emily A. Hill from the University of Michigan in 1886, and L. E. Sanglier from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in 1889. E. R. Thomas.
Frank W. Rogers is a native of Norwalk, this State, and in that place began the study of medicine under Dr. Gill. Subsequently for two years he was a student in the Medical College at Ann Arbor, Mich., and then entered the Chicago Homeopathic College, from which he was grad- uated in 1888. He began practice at Bowling Green, and later took a course in the New York Post-Graduate School, and at both made a spe- cial study of the diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Rogers has also an office at Toledo, in the Spitzer building.
J. C. Snyder is a native of Pennsylvania. He took a four-years' course of study in the Univer- sity at Lock Haven, Penn., graduating with the degree of B. A. He then took a course in the Medical Department of Michigan University from which he was graduated in 1881. Subsequently he took a special course in the Medical College at Buffalo, N. Y., and, after some years of prac- tice in Michigan and Kansas, he attended Rush Medical College of Chicago, taking his degree in 1891, since which time he has been a practitioner of Bowling Green.
Custar. -- Herman Mannhardt is a native of Wurttemberg, Germany, entered the common schools of his country at the age of five years, the Latin or high school at seven, and completed the course when fourteen years old. He then immediately began the study of medicine with his father, Dr. F. Maunhardt; at sixteen he en- tered the standing army, was promoted from step to step to assistant surgeon, in which capacity
he served during the Austro-Prussian campaign of 1866. He took his discharge in 1867, and im- mediately came to Galion, Ohio, where he prac- ticed medicine with his father until 1868, when he came to Custar, and has resided and practiced his profession there ever since. In 1876 he went to Cincinnati, took a course of lectures and graduated.
James F. Noble was graduated from an Eclec- tic Medical College in 1891; and Dr. Michael Worline located here about 1868.
North Baltimore-Albert G. Henry is a native of Ohio, and was graduated from the Ada (Ohio) Normal School. He read medicine under Drs. Baldwin and Yoder. In 1873 he graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, and commenced practicing medicine at North Baltimore in June of the same year. In 1881 he completed a post-graduate course in Columbus (Ohio) Medical College. The Doctor has been closely identified with the growth of North Baltimore, and is extensively interested in the business of the place.
W. P. Eaton was graduated from Willoughby University in 1845, and located in 1874.
W. T. Thomas was born in this State, and was ten years of age before learning to speak the English language. He then went to a select school at Weston, and later attended one at South Toledo, and when seventeen years of age began teaching. He followed this occupation for eleven years, studying medicine in the meantime. He was graduated from Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in May, 1881, and soon after located in the practice at North Baltimore, where he has been a successful practitioner. He served for four years as postmaster at North Baltimore. In 1893, after resigning the postmastership. the Doctor attended the Chicago Polyclinic, in which he took a post-graduate course.
D. W. Reddin was born near Findlay, Ohio, and remained on his father's farm in Hancock county until he was thirteen years of age, since which time lie has been self supporting. For two years he attended the high school at Find- lay, and for two years was a student of Simpson College, Iowa. He was also for a time a student at Valparaiso (Ind.) Normal School, and at the National Normal University at Lebanon, Ohio. He read medicine for a year and a half in the office of Dr. T. C. Ballard, of Findlay, and at the age of twenty-one was graduated from the Med- ical Department of the University of Michigan. He then spent a year in the hospitals of New York City and Philadelphia, and after a year's travel he located at Findlay, where he practiced
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two years. In 1886 he came to North Baltimore. and has since made that city his home.
J. R. Archer is a native of this county. He taught school for five years, and at the end of that time took up the study of medicine. He was graduated from Starling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, in 1887, and located in the practice at Holgate, in Henry county. He re- mained there one year, and then came to North Baltimore.
J. G. Ames was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, in ISS9; Dr. Peters, formerly of Pemberville; Charles L. Tilton and J. H. Stoner located in 1891, and H. T. Somers in 1893.
J. E. Sommers was born on board of a ship on the Atlantic ocean, while his parents were on their way from Germany to this country. He grew up in this county, and in 1889 began the study of medicine under Dr. Bryant. of Toledo. In 1892 he was graduated from the Cincinnati Medical College, with the degree of M. D., and began his professional career in North Baltimore soon after his graduation.
Weston-Geo. B. Spencer is a native of New York State, and grew up in Huron county, this State. He served for three years in the late Civil war, and on his return home attended Ober- lin College one year, then began the study of medicine with Dr. Sykes, of Plymouth, and com- pleted his preparation for the profession at the Western Reserve Medical College, graduating in 1867, with honors -- being the valedictorian of the class. He first located at Tiffin, then prac- ticed for a time at Shiloh, Richland county, and in 1870 permanently located at Weston. The Doctor has served two terms as a member of the General Assembly of the State, and has held a number 'of minor offices in Weston.
E. W. Schooley was graduated from an Eclectic Medical Institution in 1872.
James W. Williams is a native of this State. He early prepared himself for teaching, and while so engaged began the study of medicine. For a time he was associated with his uncle, Dr. Ephraim Llewellen, in the drug business at Dela- ware, Ohio, and with him furthered his medical studies. In May, 1875, he was graduated from a medical school in Cincinnati, and in June of that year located at Weston. In 1884, he took the practitioner's course in Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, at Chicago.
W. W. Hill is a native of the township in which he now resides, and at the age of ten years started out to do for himself, and at the age of fifteen years, in the fall of 1862, entered the
army and served with honor to himself and credit to the nation until the war closed. He was three times wounded and lost his left leg by amputation as a result of a wound received August 20. 1864, at Jonesboro, Ga. On his return from the war he attended the schools at Weston. He taught school for a time, and was a clerk in a store. In 1880, he became a student in the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1883 at the Toledo Medical College, and was graduated from the latter in July of that year. He began prac- tice at Weston, where he has met with success. He is a skillful surgeon, and an able physician. He has been the mayor of Weston, and served in other official relations. A family sketch will be found elsewhere.
J. M. C. Cook located in 1894.
Pemberville .- Rubellus J. Simon was born on a farm in this county. His parents had both been teachers, and his early schooling was re- ceived under them. He was in attendance for nine months at the Poland Union Seminary. He then received a teacher's certificate, and for a period taught school. Subsequently he attended the high school at Findlay, and later was two years at Oberlin College. He studied medicine under Dr. S. B. Emerson, of Eagleville, and, in 1873, was graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and in August of the same year opened an office at Pemberville, where he has since been actively engaged in the practice of medicine, and is a successful physician. Dr. Simon has been a member of the board of education for six years, and was for four years one of the city council.
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