History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 129

Author: Ford, Henry A., comp; Ford, Kate B., joint comp
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Cleveland, O., L.A. Williams & co.
Number of Pages: 666

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and then went before the army board for examination. He was commissioned assistant surgeon United States volunteers, and ordered to New Orleans, where he was soon put in charge of Barracks United States army gen- eral hospital. He was honorably mustered out of the service in February, 1866. He immediately devoted himself to diseases of the eye and ear, and in the au- tumn of that year became a student of Dr. E. Williams, of Cincinnati. After spending several months with him, he returned to Fort Wayne to practice his specialty. In 1870 he went abroad and studied at the various eye and ear clinics, spending most of his time in London and Vienna. In the fall of 1871 he entered into partnership with Dr. E. Williams, which position he now fills. He has been a member of the staff of the Cincinnati hos- pital for the past ten years, and is an active member of the State and local medical societies.

William Clendinin, M. D., was born in Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, October 1, 1829. At the age of fifteen he was put in the drug store of Dr. John Gammil, of New Castle, Pennsylvania, and after four years he became a regular medical student under the doctor and attended his course of lectures in the Ohio Medical college, graduating with the degree of M. D. in 1851. He practiced his profession in connec- tion with Dr. R. D. Mussey for one year, and afterwards with his son, Dr. William Mussey, five years. He held the position of demonstrator of anatomy in the Miami Medical college one year ; and after this college was com- bined with that of the Ohio Medical college held the position until 1849, when he went to Europe and took private lessons in anatomy and surgery, and also at- tended of Velpeare, Trousseau, Malgaigne and other eminent men of the Royal Medical college of Paris. He also attended lectures under a number of eminent men in the Royal College of Surgeons of London. After an eighteen months' stay abroad he returned home and gave his time and medical advice in the army. He served at Camp Denison, Ohio, in the second battle of Bull Run, and afterwards took charge of Emery General hospital, in Washington.

He became medical director of the Fourteenth army corps under Thomas, and afterwards assistant medical director of the Department of the Cumberland, and afterwards medical inspector of hospitals, which position he held until 1865. He was offered a consulate by John- son to St. Petersburgh, but declined that offer and ac- cepted a professorship of surgery and surgical anatomy in the Ohio Medical college, after returning to Cincin- nati. He was also health officer of the city at this time. This was during the cholera epidemic in which the doc- tor's services were of material benefit in the sanitary af- fairs of the city, and the present sanitary system of our city is due to the bills he drafted, and which were after- wards enacted as law in the State legislature of Ohio. He is also author of health laws of the State now in force by act of the legislature. He was one of the origina- tors of the health association. He has been since 1865 a professor in the Miami Medical college, and belongs to a number of medical societies. He is also a medical

lecturer of some note, and in all has done much toward leaving the condition of society better for being in it.

Dr. A. J. Howe was born in Paxton, Worcester county, Massachusetts, on the fourteenth day of April, 1826. He lived on a farm with his parents till he was old enough to attend Leicester academy. In that insti- tution he fitted for college, and entered Harvard univer- sity at the age of twenty-three. He graduated in 1853, and began at once to study medicine. He pursued his studies in the colleges and hospitals of New York and Philadelphia, and took a degree at the Worcester Medi- cal institution. Within a year of that time he was made professor of anatomy in the Eclectic college of medicine, in Cincinnati. The circumstance led him to settle in the city, and seek a professional living. In 1860 he was elected professor of surgery in the Eclectic Medical in- stitute, a position he has filled successfully every year since. He has written a work of fifteen hundred pages on the general practice of surgery, and in journal arti- cles has recorded some original contributions to operative surgery. He has executed nearly all of what are denom- inated "great operations," and many of them several times. He is a ready writer, and contributes largely to each issue of the Eclectic Medical Journal, as well as occasionally to the pages of other periodicals. He has a taste for natural science; and for several con- secutive years has been curator of comparative anatomy in the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. In 1879 he became a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Joseph Watson, M. D., a native of the First ward, re- ceived his education in Wood high school and graduated in the Ohio Medical college in 1876, having studied un- der Dr. James T. Whittaker, at that time lecturer on materia medica in the college. Dr. Watson, after spend- ing one year in the hospital located at 584 Eastern ave- nue, where, on account of his youthful appearance, he made but slow progress at first, but his continuity won for him success eventually, and he is now having a good practice, conforming his attention largely to sugery. His father, Joseph Watson, had charge of a squadron of five boats on the Mississippi during the war, and was next in command to Commodore Leroy Fish. Dr. Watson was married in 1881 to Miss Katie Hink, of Cincinnati.

Charles M. Sparks, M. D., physician, having an office at 1333 Eastern avenue, was born at Delaware, Ohio, in 1835, but received his education at Sunbury, this State. He has spent some time in preparing himself thoroughly for the practice of his profession, having studied under an able preceptor-Dr. William Ford, of Johnstown, Ohio-seven years, and then took courses of lectures in both the Physio Medical and in the Eclectic College of Medicine of Cincinnati. He is also a student of all the schools-interesting himself in the allopathy and homce- opathy systems as well. He is a member of the Eclectic Medical association. He was married in August, 1862, to Miss Mary Gregg, of Delaware, Ohio, and came here in 1872.

William N. Nelson, M. D., 486 Eastern avenue, Cin- cinnati, was born in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1850, where .

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he received his early education afterwards. He studied medicine under Dr. Lightfoot, of Flemingsburgh, his na- tive State, and graduated in the fall of 1870 in Jefferson Medical college, and came to Cincinnati in the year 1876. He has held the position of district physician in the First ward and is making some headway in securing a good practice. He was married in 1876 to a daughter of George B. Morris, of Flemingsburgh, Kentucky. His father, Isaac Nelson, now a retired merchant, was in that business in Maysville, Kentucky, from 1849 until 1870. He now resides in Cincinnati.

C. L. Armstrong, M. D., of Cincinnati, is a native of Brookville, Indiana, and is a great-grandson of Captain John Armstrong of Revolutionary fame, who was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. His father was a lawyer of Brookville. His maternal great-grandfather, La Bloy- teaux, was an early pioneer of Hamilton county, and a founder of Mt. Healthy. Dr. Armstrong was born in 1844, graduated in the Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1868, and has since that time practiced his profession in this city ; he is at present police surgeon of Cincinnati, and is examining surgeon of some half-dozen of our leading insurance companies; he has also been district physician of the city. During the war he was one of the one hundred and fifty of the "Forlorn Hope" company who volunteered to carry ladders to mount the walls of Vicks- burgh, and one of the twelve only who came out alive, but was seriously wounded by three different shots. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine and takes great in- terest in his profession.

W. H. Taylor, M. D., president of the Cincinnati Medical society, vice-president of medical staff of Cin- cinnati hospital, and professor of obstetrics in Miami Medical college, was born in Cincinnati in 1836. His great-grandfather, came to the city in 1813. His grand- father was a physician, and his father was a prominent man who was killed in the great fire in Cincinnati in 1843. The doctor graduated in the Ohio Medical col- lege in 1858; became a resident physician in 1860; was made member of medical staff of hospital in 1866; pro- fessor of materia medica at the same time vice-presi- dent of medical staff in the hospital in 1879; president Cincinnati Medical society in 1880.

J. M. Shaller, M. D., of 535 Sycamore street, was born in Cincinnati May 19, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati and in the Military academy of Lexington, Kentucky, graduating there in 1876. He engaged in the prescription business, and afterwards grad- uated in the College of Pharmacy, Cincinnati. He studied medicine under Dr. A. J. Miles, and graduated in the College of Medicine and Surgery, of Cincinnati, in 1878, and in which he has filled an assistant's position in theory and practice. He had charge of the clinical department one year after graduation.

William Owens, M. D., of Cincinnati, professor of ma- teria medica and therapeutics in Pulte Medical college, of Cincinnati, was born in Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, April 24, 1823. He early gained a love for books and travelled extensively through the West Indies, Florida, 'and South America. He learned the cooper trade; at-

tended Woodward college, going to school the half of each day and working at his trade the other half. In 1846 he entered a drug store, and in the following year he was made hospital steward of the First regiment Ohio volun- teer infantry, in the Mexican war. While in the drug store he attended lectures during the day and at night served as night clerk, and graduated in 1849. He was immediately appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the Eclectic Medical college, and held that position for two years. The Western College of Homeopathy, at Cleve- land, Ohio, offered him the same office, which he accepted, and while filling it attended a full course of lectures on the homoeopathic materia medica and therapeutics. In 1859 he returned to Cincinnati. In 1855 he purchased an interest in the Water Cure, at Granville, Ohio, and afterwards at Yellow Springs, Ohio. These enterprises proved to be failures, financially, and he returned to Cin- cinnati in 1858. He served through the war, holding the positions of first lieutenant, captain, and assistant surgeon, finally taking charge of Branch No. 16, United States hospital, at Nashville, Tennessee. After the war he returned to Cincinnati and assisted in founding Pulte Medical college, in which he occupied the chair of anat- omy for two years, and that of materia medica and thera- peutics, which he still retains, and is also dean of the faculty. He held the office of examining surgeon for pensioners for four years. He is a member of medical societies and has written many articles for medical jour- nals, and is an able defender of the school of homœop- athy.

F. J. Fogel, M. D., of Cincinnati, was born in Gallip- olis in 1851, and came to this city with his parents in 1855. When fourteen years of age we find him in busi- ness for himself-running a periodical store in Indianap- olis. He afterward studied medicine under Dr. Silvey, in Everton, Indiana, and while an undergraduate practiced his profession two years to enable him to complete his course in college, graduating in the Ohio Medical college in 1873. He has now practiced his prosession in this city nearly eight years. In 1876 he was appointed dis- trict physician of his ward, and has been reappointed every year since. His office is at No. 94 Clinton street.

J. T. Knox, M. D., located at No. 8212 East Third street, was born in Butler county, Ohio, October 1, 1846, and lived on his father's farm until he was fifteen years of age. After this time he attended college at Miami uni- versity, Oxford, for four years; was engaged in the drug trade for three years at Hamilton. He was married to a daughter of Dr. Henry Mallory, of Hamilton, November 2, 1870; graduated at Ohio Medical college in the class of 1874; immediately began the practice of medicine in Cincinnati, and has thus far been successful.

Colonel A. E. Jones, M. D., was born in Greensbor- ough, Green county, Pennsylvania, July 15, 1819, and is the son of Robert and Anna (Eberhardt) Jones. His early education was carefully nurtured under the guid- ance of his parents. At the age of fifteen he entered the dry goods store of his father, and also engaged with his father in the manufacture of window glass in the first factory built west of the Alleghany mountains. In 1837

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we find him a student in the old Cincinnati college, and in 1838 at Washington college, Pennsylvania, and later a student in Philadelphia. In 1841 he began the practice of medicine in his native town, and ere long ranked among the best and most successful physicians of his place. In 1845 he married Miss Jane R. Metcalf, niece of Governor Thomas Metcalf, a former governor of Ken- tucky. He, in 1846, resided in Fulton. In 1848 he was president of the town - council of Fulton. In 1852 he moved to Walnut Hills. He was for five years a mem- ber of the city council. At the breaking out of the late civil war he was selected to take charge of the military matters of Cincinnati, as acting brigadier general with the rank of colonel. In 1862 he was appointed military governor, performing the functions of that office during the Kirby Smith raid and until April, 1863, and in May, 1863, by request of President Lincoln, was made provost marshal of the First district of Ohio. At the close of the war he began the practice of medicine on Walnut Hills. In the intervals of 1865 and 1868 Dr. Jones devoted his entire time to the practice of his profession, acquiring a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Jones, amid the rou- tine of public and private life, has been actively engaged in preparing a history of Cincinnati, which is to be pub- lished in two volumes.

I. D. Jones, M. D., was born in Newtown, Hamilton county, Ohio, November 13, 1843, and is the son of Daniel Jones, a pioneer of Hamilton county. Our sub- ject, in 1865, graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan univer- sity, of Delaware, Ohio, with the highest honors. He then returned to his native county and for several years was engaged in teaching school, being principal for two years of the California, Ohio, schools. He soon after began to attend lectures at Ohio Medical college, where he graduated in 1871. Dr. Jones was at one time resi- dent physician of the Good Samaritan hospital. After graduating in medicine in 1871 he soon after came to Walnut Hills and began the practice of his chosen pro- fession, where he met with good success. In 1876 he formed a partnership with his brother, John E. Jones, in the practice of medicine. Dr. John E. Jones was also born in Newtown, Hamilton county, Ohio, January 27, 1834, graduating from the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1858, and from the Ohio Medical college in 1863, when he entered the army as assistant surgeon, where he served until the close of the war, participating in a number of battles. At the close of the war he returned to Hamil- ton county, since which time he has been actively en- gaged in the practice of medicine. In 1876 the firm of Jones & Jones was formed, and to day is doing a large practice.

Zoheth Freeman, M. D., born July 17, 1826, in Mil- ton, Queens county, Nova Scotia, attended lectures at the Buffalo Medical college, Buffalo, New York, during its first session, and was its first matriculant. He gradu- ated at the Eclectic Medical institute of Cincinnati, spring session of 1848; was professor of anatomy and operative surgery in the Eclectic Medical college in Rochester, New York, at its first session in 1848, also in 1849; demonstrated anatomy in the Eclectic Medical

institute at Cincinnati during the winter and spring ses- sions of 1848-9; was professor of anatomy and demon- strator of anatomy in the Medical college of Memphis, Tennessee, during its first session in 1849, also in 1850, giving the first lectures on anatomy in that institute and assisting to establish that college, also practicing medicine and surgery in that city for two years. He returned to Cin- cinnati and was professor of anatomy and demonstrator of anatomy in the Eclectic Medical institute during the two sessions of 1851 and the spring session of 1852; was professor of surgery in the same institute from 1853 to 1855; was then elected professor of the principles and practice of medicine and pathology, and lectured during the session of 1855-6; was then reelected to the chair of professor of surgery, and occupied it until 1870. In 187 I was made professor of clinical medicine and sur- gery, and still occupies that position. He has been in active practice of surgery and medicine in Cincinnati since 1851. The greatest number of students in attend- ance of lectures at the Eclectic Medical institute any one year, including spring and winter sessions, was four hundred. He was married October 9, 1856, to Ellen Ricker, daughter of Hon. E. T. Ricker, Clermont county, Ohio. She is distinguished as an artist in carving. His only son, Leonard Ricker Freeman, born December 16, 1860, is a student in the McMicken university, Cincin- natí. He is a lover of natural history and has made nice collections of Indian relics, minerals, etc.

Joseph Garretson, M. D., of Cincinnati, was born in York county, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1808. When thirteen years of age his parents moved to New Lisbon, Ohio, where he engaged successfully with his father in the farming business. He began the study of medicine under the eminent medical professor, George McCook, uncle to the Generals McCook. He practiced his pro- fession in New Richmond, Ohio, Richmond, Indiana, and other places, previous to coming here in 1865, and has been successful in his practice since that time in this city. Dr. Garretson possesses remarkable health and vigor of life for one of his age. For over forty years he has not eaten animal food, and for over fifty-five years he has not drank tea nor coffee. He gives himself a good shampooing every night before going to rest, with a dry Turkish towel, and always takes a warm bath in the morning, and has never had any ill health. His son, Dr. George Garretson, is a practicing physician in Walnut Hills.

George Edwin Jones, M. D., of Cincinnati, was born in New York city in 1835, in which place he received his education. At the age of nineteen he began the study of medicine and graduated in the Ohio Medical college September 26, 1861. At this time he went to St. Louis, Missouri, and entered the naval service on the gunboat flotilla under Rear Admiral Foote, afterwards Rear Admiral C. H. Davis acting assistant surgeon. At the bombardment of Fort Charles a sad catastrophe oc- curred on his steamer, caused by a single shot of the en- cmy entering the steam drum, effecting an explosion. The doctor was badly scalded, and otherwise injured, necessi- tating his withdrawal from service. Afterward, by order

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from medical department United States navy, at Wash- ington, D. C., he was put on detached duty. In 1864 he resigned, and from that time to this has continued his practice (to a great extent gynecological) in this city. The doctor has been very kindly treated by his superior officers, who regard him as a man possessing more than ordinary patriotism during the war. Rear Admiral Foote, and Davis, as well as the authorities at Washington have shown, by their warm letters of friendship, the kindliest regard for him, and have expressed themselves respecting his worth in the profession, to the service, in the strongest terms. He was professor of anatomy in the dental school of Cincinnati several years after the war, and was also professor of microscopical anatomy for two years. He was married to Miss Ellen Yale Roots, daughter of Philanda Higley Roots, in the year 1866, and by this union is the father of three children. The doctor is the inventor of a topographical water map, an improvement in geographical maps for illustrating water depressions the same as mountain elevations. This is a device so in- genious and instructive as to make it worth anyone's while to visit him for the purpose of examining it. For the purpose of object teaching it excels any yet of the kind we have ever seen.

Charles M. Lukins, M. D., of Cincinnati, was born in Troy, Harrison county, Ohio, February 12, 1847. He was raised a farmer's boy, and inured to the hardships of an agricultural life. He began the study of medicine in 1876, and after attending the required number of lec- tures, graduated from the Pulte college, Cincinnati, in the spring of 1879, with the degree of M. D. He is demonstrator of anatomy in his alma mater, and is also assistant surgeon in the department of eye and ear of free clinics. His office is No. 278 Race street. The doctor has two brothers, also physicians. One is located at Cleveland, Ohio, the other at Troy, same State.

D. W. Hartshorn, M. D., of Cincinnati, professor of surgery in Pulte Medical college, was born August I, 1827, in Walpole, Norfolk county, Massachussets. He received an academical education, then studied medicine, graduating with the degree of M. D., in Harvard college, in 1854. He practiced his profession in his native town until 1857, when he removed to Urbana, Ohio, and continued the same until the outbreak of the late un- pleasantness, when he went to Washington, and after receiving an appointment from Lincoln, confirmed by the Senate, was placed under Fremont, at Paducah, Ken- tucky, as brigade surgeon. He was, after the battle of Fort Donelson, transferred by order, and became med- ical director under General C. F. Smith, and again transferred to the same position under General W. T. Sherman, where he remained in charge of hospitals and other work he had laid out, for one year. An intimacy of the strongest attachment had sprung up between the doctor and General Sherman, and from letters, of which the latter wrote, we judge that Dr. Hartshorn's abilities were adjudged to be of the highest order by the General. His social standing was marked as well. By special order of General Grant he was removed to Young's Point, Louisiana, to act in conjunction with C. H. Laub,

surgeon, United States medical director. He was as- signed to this place March 4, 1863. After the war he resumed practice, coming to Cincinnati, where he has been ever since. He has filled several positions in the Pulte Medical college, having been its treasurer, professor of anatomy, dean, and at present professor and lecturer on surgery. In 1858 he was married to Miss Mary A. Knight, of Maine. The doctor is enjoying a good prac- tice, and is a man of recognized -abilities, being a grad- uate of the regular school as well as that of homeopathy.

Theodore Martin Wittkamp, A. M., M. D., was born in Cincinnati. After receiving a common school educa- tion, was sent to St. Xavier's college, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1872, whence he was sent to the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. In 1874, March 10th, entered as resident physician to the Cincin- nati hospital; served one year. June, 1874, received the degree of A. M., at St. Xavier's college; 1875, re- ceived the degree of M. D. at Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery ; 1876, appointed dispensary phys- ician at Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery; the next year, assistant to chair of women's and children's diseases, same institute. This position he still holds. He is recording secretary to alumni of his alma mater.

Dr. Robert Ballard Davy was born near Fairmount, Somerset county, Maryland, on the twenty-fifth of May, 1847. He received his education at the Washington academy, in Princess avenue, and came to Ohio in the fall of 1865. While visiting a friend at Felicity, Ohio, he undertook the study of medicine, and two years later obtained the degree of M. D. at the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia. Returning to Felicity, he prac- ticed his profession successfully for five years, and then removed to Cincinnati. In 1875, after two and a half years' residence in Cincinnati, he went to Europe and spent a year in visiting the universities and hospitals of the old world. He at present occupies the chair of physiology and chinical diseases of the throat in the Cincinnati Col- lege of Medicine and Surgery, and is a member of the Cincinnati Medical society, the Academy of Medicine, and the Ohio State Medical society. He is the author of a number of papers, having written quite extensively for the Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic, and other medical journals.

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History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 129

Author: Ford, Henry A., comp; Ford, Kate B., joint comp Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Cleveland, O., L.A. Williams & co. Number of Pages: 666

Author: Ford, Henry A., comp; Ford, Kate B., joint comp
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Cleveland, O., L.A. Williams & co.
Number of Pages: 666