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David B. Brown is a native of this State. The first seven years of his life were passed on the home farm near Mt. Gilead. In 1859 he became a resident of Wood county. After some years spent in the district and public schools he taught school for a time, and in 1872 commenced the study of medicine at Freeport under Dr. N. W. Goodrick, with whom he remained two years. In 1874-5 he attended lectures in the Cincinnati Medical College, and was graduated in 18;6. He first practiced for several years at Sherwood, in Defiance county, and in 1881 came to Pember- ville, where he continues to give his attention to his profession.
D. S. Williams, who located in 18;3, died in in 1879: L. L. Loomis, who was a physician near Scotch Ridge for many years, moved to Peni- berville in the eighties; " W. S. Loomis, of Toledo, formerly practiced here. W. D. Stewart was a graduate from Wooster University in 1874. Dr. Allen came in later years.
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S. S, Dilley was born in Ohio. His early schooling was received mainly at Jerry City. He for a time followed barbering, and then be- gan the study of medicine with Dr. Bryant, ex-sheriff of the county. He was in attendance one terin at the Medical College at Fort Wayne, Ind., and two terins at the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute, from which he was graduated in 1894. He at once located in Peinberville, where he still follows his profession. The Doc- tor is a contributor to the New York Medical journals.
Tontogany .- B. F. Davis is a native of the State of New York. Until sixteen years of age he attended the usual district schools, then a select school at Centerburg. At the age of nine- teen he began teaching, and, later, was one term a student in the college at Iberia, Ohio, and one term at the college at Delaware, Ohio. In the spring of 1839 he began reading medicine in the office of Drs. Russell & Thompson, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio; in the winter of 1861-62 he at- tended lectures at Ann Arbor, Mich., and in 1862-63 at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, from which latter he was graduated in February, 1863. The following March he was commissioned assistant surgeon of the 44th Regi- ment O. V. I., and served throughout the war. On being mustered out in 1865 the Doctor lo- cated in practice at Tontogany. In 1872, in con- nection with his brother, he opened a drug store in the same village, and is still in the business.
George W. Moore and Mary J. Bailey adver- tised as physicians in 1872.
A. Eddmon was born near the city of Phila- delphia, Penn. He received a liberal education, graduating from Halle University, Germany, in the departinents of literature and medicine. He was the assistant surgeon on the steamer "Li- menia " and visited several of the countries of South America, the Society Islands, and Tahiti, a French port. He was in the drug business for a time in San Francisco and also in Germany, and in the latter country was an assistant to an old surgeon. Subsequently he was graduated (1877) from Physio Eclectic Medical College, at Cincin- nati, Ohio, and tlie same year located at Custar, this county, and in December, 1877, came to Tontogany. He was mayor of Tontogany for six years, has served as clerk, and has been a notary public since 1879. He is also engaged in the drug business.
Bloomdale .- E. H. Chilcote is a native of this county, a farmer's son. He attended the dis- trict schools, and later the schools at Fostoria, and for a time was engaged in school teaching,
and then entered Miami Medical College at Cin- cinnati, and was graduated in 1871. He began practice at Van Buren, and three years later moved to Bairdstown, where he remained two years. In 1890 he came to Bloomdale.
A. M. Chilcote, a brother of E. H., located in the practice at Bloomdale in 1875.
Howard H. McClaran is a native of Ohio. At the age of nine years his parents removed to North Baltimore, in the public schools of which place young McClaran received his education. He became a telegraph operator, which vocation he followed for some time, and was also a book- keeper and accountant for a time. He attended Starling Medical College at Columbus, entering in September, 1891. Later he was a student in the Nashville (Tenn.) Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1893. He returned to North Baltimore, and there practiced for a short time, and then located at Bloomdale.
R. B. Hubbard and W. C. McCrill located here in 1883, George H. Riley in 1887; W. A. Dickey and a few others who remained only a short time.
Bradner .- T. S. Carman, one of the old pio- neer doctors of the county, was born in Queen Anne county, Md., in 1808, and in early boyhood was taken to Baltimore by his parents. His fa- ther, before the war of 1812, was a prosperous business man of that city. The war brought failure to the father, and at the age of eleven years the son was left fatherless and thrown ou his own resources. Later on he learned dentistry. and for a time followed the profession. Along in the latter part of the "thirties" he located in Wood county and practiced medicine, and was at the same time engaged in other lines. Later he was in business, and practiced medicine at Prairie Depot. He finally, in 1889, settled at Bradner. He has been a shrewd business man and a good financier, and is a man of means. An extended sketch of his life and family appear elsewhere.
Dr. Johnson was graduated from the Starling Medical College, of Columbus, in 1881. and came to succeed Dr. Taggart, the first physician of the settlement. Dr. Caris has been in prac- tice since 1867. Dr. Schnetzler came in 1886. and in 1888 removed to Wisconsin. J. E. Furste. a graduate of the Northwestern Ohio Medical College, in 1888. As hitherto stated, the pio- neer physician of Fremont came into this dis- trict as early as 1832.
Risingsun .- H. L. Byington is a native of the State of New York, born on a farm. He grew up as the usual farmer's son, and after the district schools studied for a time in Franklin
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Academy, and also at Malone, N. Y. He taught school several terms, beginning at eighteen years of age. Soon after he became of age he came West, and later took a preliminary course of study with Dr. Knestrick, of Bloomingville, Ohio. In February, 1876, he was graduated from the Physio-Medical College at Cincinnati. He began his professional career in Fostoria in the fall of 1876, and in the fall of 1880 he lo- cated at Risingsun. He has served six years as a member of the council, and in 1893 was ap- pointed one of the board of pension examiners.
J. H. Burnett was born near Forest, Ohio. He attended the high school of Forest, and then the Northwestern Ohio Normal School, at Ada. He began teaching at seventeen. Later he stud- ied medicine with Drs. Lillibridge and Gammel. In June, 1881, he was graduated from the Ec- lectic Medical College of Cincinnati, and in Au- gust following began the practice of medicine at Risingsun.
Stony Ridge .- H. Buckland located here in the "fifties."
H. E. Noble is a native of the State of New York; came with the family to Huron county, Ohio, at the age of five years. At the age of eleven years his father's family removed to Lucas county. The son's literary education was re- ceived in the common schools of these counties, and completed at the Delta high school when he was eighteen, after which he began the study of medicine and entered the Detroit Medical College in 1877. He completed the course in 1879, then located at Swanton, in Fulton county, and there practiced until 1883. He then entered the Toledo Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1884, and then located at Stony Ridge. Subsequently he attended special lectures in New York City, and was graduated from the New York Institute in 1891. The Doctor removed to Toledo; Ohio, in 1896.
Portage .- With the old physicians named in former pages were Dr. Merriam and Dr. J. W. McCracken, who were here in the "seventies." Later came A. C. Canfield, who moved to To- ledo. W. E. Hughes was graduated from the University of Buffalo, N. Y., in 1875.
Thomas W. Knight was born in Taunton, England. In 1861 his father and family came to America, and in 1876 to Wood county, Ohio. He attended a French school on the Isle of Guernsey, and learned to speak the French lan- guage fluently. He attended the public schools of Sandusky City, and later taught school. He took up the study of medicine under the direc- tion of his mother, who had been a practitioner | a graduate of W. R. Medical College in ISSS.
for many years. In March, 1893, he was gradu- ated from the Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, and located in Portage in the practice of his profession in May following.
Emerson Webster Fisher is a native of Penn- sylvania. He attended the schools of Selin's Grove, the place of his birth, until the family's removal to Nebraska. He was in the neighbor- hood schools of that State, and later continued his studies in the academy at Homer, and one term in a Nebraska college. In the winter of 1888-89 he was a student in the Midland Col- lege at Atchison, Kans. He was graduated in March, 1892, from Rush Medical College, of Chicago, and at once began practicing at Ponca, Neb., and four months later came to Wood county. For a short time he was in the office with Dr. Snyder, of Bowling Green, and in De- cember, 1892, located at Portage.
Luckey .- G. F. Peabody is a native of Michi- gan. He completed his literary education in the high school of Portland, Mich. In 1890 he was graduated from the Toledo (Ohio) Medical Col- lege, and began the practice of medicine at Smith- field. He remained at the latter place until com- ing to Luckey in 1892. Dr. Peabody was a matri- culate of the Michigan College of Medicine in 1888, and is a registered pharmacist by examina- tion in 1893.
E. C. Houston was graduated from the Louis- ville Medical College in 1888, now in Tennessee ; W. S. Loomis, now of Toledo.
Jerry City. - J. M. Grau is a native of Ohio. At the age of nineteen he entered Geauga Sein- inary at Chester and was there for three years. He had been self-supporting from an early age, and was a school teacher for a time. He began reading medicine under Dr. W. I. Lyman, of Chester Cross Roads, and in the fall of 1839 be- came a student at the Western Reserve College, Cleveland. Later he was a student in the Uni- versity of Vermont. He was graduated from Starling Medical College, Columbus, in March, 1892, and in July following located in the prac- tice at Jerry City.
J. F. Wollam was born in this county, and in the schools of Bloom and Portage townships, and in the Normal School at Ada, received his educa- tion. He was for fourteen years a school teacher in this county. He began reading medicine under Dr. J. H. Whitehead, of Bowling Green. He later attended Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, and in 1892 commenced practice at Jer- ry City.
Charles Goodrick, licentiate ; W. R. Legron,
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Hoytville .- Miner Wadsworth was born in Ohio, and grew up on a farm. At the age of eighteen years he entered the public schools of Scio, in Harrison county, and remained one year. He then taught two years. In 1876 he came to Wood county and taught for a time, then took up the study of medicine and carried on a small drug store in Hoytville. Later (in 1882) he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, and now has a good practice at Hoytville.
Bairdstown. - Z. T. Housman, Eclectic Med- ical Institute, 1870, moved to Fostoria in 1894; Dr. and Madam Bell and Dr. Alsdorf.
Cygnet .- E. W. Heltman, Toledo, Medical College, Drs. Mercer and F. H. Shuey.
Dunbridge. -- Dr. Pope.
Haskins .- E. J. Greenfield, W. R. Medical College, 1881; Fred. L. Meagley, of Toledo, born near Haskins, graduated as a physician in 1889 and established himself at Toledo.
Milton Center .- A. L. See, Cleveland Med- ical College 1878; W. L. Robinson, Eclectic Med- ical Institute, 1886; Grattan F. Starr, University of Maryland, 1889; G. W. S. Austin, 1879; H. E. Noble.
Scotch Ridge .- J. D. Whitacre, 1855; Dr. Loomis moved to Pemberville.
Le Moyne .- Dr. Gardner. Berlie W. Mer- cer, of Liberty township, received a common- school education, then was two years in attend- ance in the Normal School at Ada, Ohio. He subsequently taught school for two years in this county. In 1894 he entered the Eclectic Med- ical Institute at Cincinnati, preparing to practice medicine.
In this list a few names may have been over- looked, for there is no register of physicians to be found in the court house, and the Ohio Med- ical Directory is not complete, nor do the records of the old or modern medical societies pretend to cover all the names. Enough has been given, however, to show the beginnings of the pro- fession in this county and its development.
The Maumee Valley MMedical Association was organized at Maumee, June 6, 1842, with Dr. Horatio Conant, president protem. The permanent officers were E. D. Peck, of Perrys- burg. president; Harvey Burritt, of Maumee, vice- president; Cornelius Matthews, of Toledo, secre- tary; Oscar White, of Maumee, treasurer; Calvin Smith, of Toledo, and Horace Green, of Sylvania, with John H. Van Avery, C. L. Ramsay and Na- thaniel Dustin, censors. Among the unofficial constituent members were Dr. Conant, George R. Perkins, H. S. Woodworth, Charles McLean,
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John Mosher, Justus Wright and William St. Clair. All of the physicians named practiced in Wood county, Doctors Conant, Peck and Burritt being the pioneers of the profession, best known among the early settlers. Dr. Conant, as told in the chapter on the Bench and Bar, and in that on Political affairs, was closely connected with the administration of Wood county from 1820 to 1835, and, prior to 1820, held the commission of justice of the peace for Erie county, from the Governor of Michigan Territory. Dr. Burritt settled at Grand Rapids in 1833, and was the postmaster, druggist and physician of that district until 1852, when he moved to Maumee, while Dr. Peck may be said to have passed his life at Perrysburg, except during his Congressional serv- ices at Washington, D. C.
The Wood County Medical Society was organ- ized March 7, 1877-Dr. J. W. McCracken pre- siding, with Dr. J. C. Lincoln, secretary. On that day the temporary officers named were elected to. hold their respective positions for the ensuing year, while Dr. J. H. Rheinfrank was elected vice-president, Dr. A. J. Manville, treasurer, and H. A. Hamilton, librarian. The constitution, as drafted by the secretary and treasurer, was adopted, and the society became an accomplished fact. The roll of membership embraced the fol- lowing named medical men : J. C. Lincoln, who graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago. February 1, 1871 ; J. W. McCracken. a graduate of Michigan University, March 28, 1866 ; W. M. Tuller, from Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, February 17, 1876 ; Andrew J. Man- ville, from Bellevue Medical College, New York. February 24, 1866 ; Charles R. Hume, from Uni- versity of Michigan, March 25, 1874; J. L. Hel- ler, from same college on same day ; B. F. Lect (deceased), University of Buffalo, in February, 1860 ; George F. Wright, from Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, March 4, 1873: John H. Norris, from Wooster College, Cleveland, Feb- ruary 28, 1877 ; J. L. Tracy, from Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, in February. 1877; W. D. Stewart. from Wooster College, Cleveland, February 28, 1874 ; J. W. Rudulph, from Columbus Medical College, February 27. 1877 ; George B. Spencer, from Western Reserve Medical College, in February, 186; : William E. Hughes, from Buffalo University, in February, 1874; W. C. MeKrill, at Cleveland in February. 1877 ; G. Higgins, at Cincinnati, in 1856 : O. H. Sullivan, at Indianapolis, in 1874 ; J. H. Rhein- frank, from University of Michigan in 1864 . H. A. Hamilton, from University of New York, in 1852 ; J. S. Bowers, from; Detroit Medical Col-
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lege, 1881 ; G. W. Pennington, from Kentucky School of Medicine, in 1881 ; C. S. St. John, from Wooster College, Cleveland, in 1883, and J. B. Alford, from Western Reserve and Wooster Colleges, Cleveland, 1881. In May, 1877, Sam- uel Downs was named as an honorary member. Dr. J. F. Robertson was admitted a member in June, and Drs. McCracken and Davis appointed delegates to the State Medical Society's conven- tion to seek recognition for the Wood County Society.
The election of January, 1878, resulted in the choice of Dr. McCracken for president ; Charles R. Hume, vice-president ; J. C. Lincoln, secretary ; W. M. Fuller, treasurer, and J. H. Norris, librarian. In October, Dr. Chapman, of Toledo, was elected an honorary member. Dr. J. H. Carothers, named at that time, located in the county, while Drs. Thom and Colamore, of Toledo, were chosen honorary members. In Feb- ruary, 1879, Dr. Lincoln was elected president ; Dr. A. J. Manville, vice-president ; Dr. George W. Wright, secretary, and Dr. G. B. Spencer, treasurer, with Drs. Tuller, Hume and Heller a board of examiners.
In June, 1879, Dr. Tuller was appointed sec- retary, vice Wright removed from this county. Dr. H. H. Callin was admitted at this meeting. In October, Dr. Hughes, of Portage, with Dr. Mead, were regular members, and Dr. Hagg, of Texas, Henry county, named as an honorary member. The officers of 1879 were re-elected in February, 1880. In 1881 Dr. Hughes took the former treasurer's place, the other officers being re-elected. In November, 1882, Horace Babcock, of Maumee, and S. F. Forbes, of Toledo, were chosen honorary members. Dur- ing the three years, ending that month, many valuable essays were read before the society, and a large number of surgical and medical phenomena brought to the attention of the members. In January, 1883, W. M. Tuller was elected president; J. L. Heller, secretary; J. H. Rheinfrank, vice-president, and J. C. Lincoln, treasurer. On that date a by-law admitting dentists to membership was adopted. For sev- eral causes, tlie society slept from that time until April 23, 1886, when Dr. G. W. Penning- ton was elected president; Dr. Bowers, vice-presi- dent; Dr. Higgins, secretary, and Dr. Lincoln, treasurer. A month after the society assembled at Weston, and appointed Doctors Hamilton, Rheinfrank. Lincoln and Tuller to the State Medical Society's convention. In May, 1887, Dr. Alford, of Grand Rapids, was chosen presi- dent; Dr. Higgins, vice-president; Dr. St. John,
secretary; Dr. Tuller, treasurer, and Doctors Sullivan, Tuller, Alford and Lincoln, delegates- to the medical convention. In April, 1888, Doc- tors Alford and Tuller were appointed delegates to the Cincinnati Meeting of the American Med- ical Association, and Doctors Lincoln, Spencer, Rheinfrank and Stewart to that of the State Association. This was the last meeting of the old Medical Society; but the record tells of a meeting, ordered to be held in June of that year, of which there is no further notice taken. Dr. E. O. Richardson, admitted in April, 1888, was the last member to sign the roll.
Wood County Physicians' Association may be said to date back to August 27, 1889, when Drs. Hughes, E. P. Thomas and Canfield, of Portage; Tuller, Whitehead, McKendree. Hill, Sanglier, Richardson and St. John, of Bowling Green. met in Dr. Richardson's office, with the object of organizing a society of medical men for mutual benefit. E. O. Richardson presided, with C. S. St. John, secretary. On September IO, a second meeting was held here, whereat were present Doctors Spencer and Hill, of Wes- ton, Greenfield, of Haskins, and the physicians who were present at the first meeting. The con- stitution was adopted, and within a short time bore the signatures of the following named mem- bers: L. E. Sanglier, J. H. Whitehead, E. O. Richardson, Willis M. Tuller, F. W. Rogers, Emily A. Hill (the first female physician), J. C. Lincoln, C. S. St. John, G. Higgins, J. A. Estill, W. S. Wells, P. Kendall, M. A. McKendree. and J. C. Snyder, all of Bowling Green; E. P. Thomas, A. E. Canfield and W. E. Hughes, of Portage; George B. Spencer, J. W. Williams and W. W. Hill, of Weston; W. B. Bryant. of Jerry City; 1. Eddmon, of Tontogany; W. D. Stewart, D. B. Brown and L. L. Loomis, of Pemberville: J. H. Rheinfrank and I. S. Bowers, of Perrysburg; W. S. Loomis, of Luckey, and F. P. Brunthaver, of Dowling. In October,
1889. E. O. Richardson was elected president; C. S. St. John, secretary; and J. H. Whitehead. treasurer. A schedule of fees, or rates for med- ical services, was then adopted. In iSoo. Dr. Higgins was elected president; Dr. Williams, vice-president: Dr. McKendree, secretary: and Dr. Whitehead, treasurer. Dr. Houseman was then a member of the association. In October. 1891, Doctors Williams, Canfield, Sanglier and Rogers, were elected to the respective offices. Dr. Garner for Gardner? was admitted a member in iso1, but other physicians, such as Doctors Schooley, Riley, Chilcote and Pope, were not then enrolled, though invitations to become mem-
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bers were extended to them. In addition to the physicians named, more than one native of this county entered the profession-among them being James L. Tracy, a resident of Toledo
since 1873, and Dr. Hollington, both natives of Bowling Green. J. D. Archer, of Holgate, Par- ker Baker, of Findlay, Cloyse McMurray, who died in Wayne county in i894, and a few others.
CHAPTER XVIII.
WOOD COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION-FIRST WAR MEETING-FIRST COMPANIES- REGIMENTAL SKETCHES-ROSTER OF WOOD COUNTY SOLDIERS -- LOCAL MILITARY MATTERS -- CONCLUSION.
0 HIO may be justly proud of the soldiers sent out from this county, to give battle to the brave inen marshalled under the Confederate flag, and to shatter, forever, the Machiavelian doctrine, in which they be- lieved, and for which they fought.
The population of Wood county, in 1860, was 17,886. The county was just emerging from pioneer conditions when the tocsin of war sounded and resounded through the settlements, calling the young men to arms and warning all, even the old, to prepare for war.
The call was promptly answered, the county sending forth more nien than the State could equip, or the United States receive, under the first call of the President. A month satisfied the government that the Confederacy was a fratricide, aiming at nothing else than the conquest and sub- jection of the Northern States, and the total anni- hilation of the Abolitionists and their principles. Realizing the gravity of the situation, the call of April 15 for 75,000 men was supplemented, May 3, by one for 42,034 men to serve three years, and overshadowed by that of July 1, 1862, for 300,000 men, Under the first and third calls, Wood county sent out over 740 men, the major- ity of whom served three years. The draft brought others into service, while the liberal bounty offered by the county, and the liberal aid tendered to families of soldiers, urged many to enter the ranks of the regiments, and thus Wood county furnished to the Union army a full quota, equal to about one in every ten of the population of 1860.
First War Meeting .- In the issue of the Perrysburg Journal of April 11, 1861, the end of the Perrysburg post office contest by the appoint- ment of Nelson Darling, master, is noticed, but there is not a word in the local columns about
civil war. In the next issue, April IS, Bailey refers briefly to the Sumter affair, placing little reliance on the reports, though, in the editorial page he prints Lincoln's proclamation calling out 75,000 militia. The next day, April 19, he was the secretary of the Perrysburg war meeting, over which J. F. Price presided. H. H. Dodge, Asher Cook, Jesse S. Norton, J. R. Tyler, E. Graham, F. R. Miller, Rev. G. A. Adams, James W. Ross, W. V. Way, and Gen. W. Houston addressed that meeting, when the following reso- lution was adopted: "That the citizens of Wood county will stand by the government of the coun- try in any emergency, and that we pledge our- selves, our property and sacred honor to the sup- port of the government. That we will ever be faithful to the families of those who fall in their country's service. That we pledge ourselves to maintain the families of those who shall vol- unteer in obedience to the call of the country's present emergency." F. Hollenbeck was the first to guarantee $8 a month to the family of any person who was prevented from volunteering for want of proper means for the support of his family; others followed this example, and imme- diately the work of organizing the Fort Meigs Rifles was entered upon. On the 20th the coun- cil appropriated $500 to defray the incidental expenses of organization. Joshua Chappel, whose grandfather and father fought in the Revolution, and himself in the war of 1812, said that his son would serve in this war; Asher Cook suggested that the ladies would present a flag to the first company, and thus the tocsin of war was sounded in the county for the first time since 1835.
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