History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 100

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1592

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MILTON THOMPSON CAREY, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 424 W. Seventh street, Cincinnati, was born near the town of Hardin, in Shelby county, Ohio, July 22, 1831. He received all the scholastic training which was available in the town in which he was reared. At the age of eighteen he entered the office of Henry Smith Conklin, M.D., in the town of Sidney, Shelby Co., Ohio, and began the study of medicine. After three years of pupilage, and three courses of didactic

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and clinical instruction in the Medical College of Ohio in Cincinnati, he graduated with the highest honors of the institution in March, 1852. As a reward of merit, after a competitive examination he was appointed resident physician of the Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, which occupied the present site of the city hospital. After this term of service expired, he began the general practice of medicine and surgery in an office on Western row, now Central avenue, opposite Court street. In 1852 he was appointed attending physician to the Venereal and Contageous Hospital, which was located in Potters Field, the present site of Lincoln Park. He was elected demonstrator of anatomy to the Medical College of Ohio, in which capacity he served until the spring of 1854.

On November 6, 1856, Dr. Carey was united in marriage with Cornelia M. Burnet, daughter of the Rev. David S. and Mary Gano Burnet, and four children have blessed this union, viz. : Burnet, born October 21, 1857, died April 4, 1859; Mollie T., born May 8, 1860, married November 6, 1879, David T. Williams (they had two children: Carey, born February 21, 1883, died March 15, 1885; and Gayla Carey, born January 7, 1887); Lydia K., born March 26, 1862, married William Luther Davis (they have one child: Lydia C., born September 7, 1886), and Milton T., born April 17, 1867, graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Ohio, in March, 1889, and is a general practitioner of medicine and surgery at No. 424 W. Seventh street, Cincinnati.

Dr. Milton Thompson Carey was elected coroner of Hamilton county in the fall of 1857, and served two years. At the breaking out of the Civil war, he was, November 21, 1861, appointed and commissioned surgeon of the Forty-eighth Regiment, O. V. I., and assigned to duty as post surgeon at Camp Dennison, Ohio. After organizing a Post Hospital, and assisting in the organization of several regi- ments he was ordered into active duty in the field. He took part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, was captured on the first day of the battle, April 6, 1862, and retained a prisoner of war until July, 1862, at which time he was paroled and returned home. Soon after reaching home, he was ordered to Camp Chase, at. Columbus, Ohio, and assigned to duty as post surgeon, in which capacity he served until October of the same year, at which time he was ordered to join the army at Fort Pickering, Tenn .; was with the army at the assault upon Vicksburg; was like- wise a participant in the battle of Arkansas Post, January 11, 1863. Ill health, however, compelled him to resign his commission, and he once more returned home. As soon as his health was somewhat restored, he made application and received the appointment of acting assistant-surgeon United States army, and assigned to duty at Woodward Post Hospital in Cincinnati, serving until near the close of the war. In 1865 he was re-elected coroner of Hamilton county, and served two years; was elected a member of the board of directors of Longview Asylum, and after serving two terms was re-appointed to the same position by the governor of the State. He was elected to the common council in 1872, and served two years; was elected a member of the board of education in 1880-82. As an evidence of his success in his profession, there are but few medical men in Cincinnati who have been more success- ful in a financial point of view than he-beginning poor, yet by energy and industry his investments yielding him a competency. As a medical officer in the army the Doctor attained some distinction as an operator [See reports on file in the Medical Department, U. S. A., Circular No. 2, Page 23; Surgeon-General's Office at Wash- ington, D. C. ]. Likewise, to show the esteem in which he was held by the inen and fellow-officers of his regiment, resolutions of sympathy for him in his illness are on record, as follows:

HEADQUARTERS MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, TENTH DIVISION, THIRTEENTH ARMY CORPS. MARCH, 1863.

WHEREAS, the resignation on account of ill health of Milton T. Carey, Surgeon Forty-eighth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Senior Surgeon and Medical Director Tenth Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, has been accepted, and he is about to return from the hardships and

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exposures of a soldier's life to home and friends: We, the undersigned medical officers of the " Tenth Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, deploring the necessity which has deprived us of a much-esteemed friend and fellow-officer, do resolve : (I) That during Surgeon Carey's long „association with us in camp and field, he has, by his professional skill, his kind and courteous manner and gentlemanly bearing, won our highest respect as a surgeon and our highest regards .as a friend and associate. (II) That in our relations both professional and social we have always found iu him the faithful and obliging officer, the high-toned and polished gentleman, and the sincere and true friend. (III) That his professional attainments as exhibited by his success on the field of battle and among the sick in camp and hospital, demand from us our highest regards as talents found only in those who have devoted their whole lives to the acquisition of medical and surgical knowledge, and it is with sincere regret that we part with such a skillful guide. (IV) That we sympathize with the Doctor in this affliction which deprives the army of the Mississippi of one of its best surgeons, and we trust that a kind and beneficent Providence may restore him to his wonted health. (Signed by the Medical officers of the Teuth Division of the Thirteenth Army Corps).

To the Medical Officers Tenth Division, Thirteenth Army Corps, Army of the Miss.

GENTLEMEN: The sentiment expressed in your communication of this day is highly grati- fying to me, and serves to buoy me up in this hour of sore affliction. Greatly prostrated from protracted disease, and depressed by a consciousness of there beiug but little hope of recovery, or at least of ever being able to resume my duties in the service of my country, these expressions . come to me at this special time in tones of tender sympathy, and are calculated to remove from my present condition a part of its gloom and despondency. In taking my leave of you I do it with feeling of deep regret. Our association together has been of the most pleasant character, although we have been called upon to endure hardships and have suffered great privations, yet . they have been met cheerfully and without complaint. I now return you my sincere thanks for your willing co-operation with me in taking care of the sick and wounded of this command. It is due to your constant and self-sacrificing care and watchfulness that the sufferings of the sick in hospital, and the wounded and dying on the battle field have been greatly mitigated. As a matter for your encouragement I will say that whether I am ever sufficiently restored to health or not to allow me to re-enter the services, I am determined to spend the remuant of my days iu the defense of my country. Your positions in the army are onerous and honorable, act well your part, as I know you will, and your just reward will surely come. Yours with sincere regards, M. T. CAREY.

Cephas Carey, father of Milton T. Carey, and son of Ezera, a direct descendant .of John Carey, a Plymouth pilgrim, was born in New Jersey, June 5, 1776. He accompanied his parents, when a child, to western Pennsylvania, and thence to Ohio in 1790, stopping for a time on the Ohio river near Wheeling, thence to Losantiville ^(now Cincinnati), thence with a few settlers to the Northwest Territory, then a vast wilderness, where they were compelled to live in blockhouses owing to roving bands of unfriendly or hostile Indians. He assisted in furnishing supplies to Gen. Wayne's army while on its march to the lakes of the north. In 1800 he was elected justice of the peace; in 1803 he was commissioned a captain of militia. In the same year he married Jane Thompson, who was likewise born in New Jersey, and moved to the West fork of Turtle creek, a tributary of the Great Miami in Shelby county, Ohio. He visited Cincinnati when there were but two or three log cabins, and made two or three trips to New Orleans on flatboats with produce, returning by way of New York City, there being no direct land communication south of the Ohio river. In the course of six or eight years following the successful march of the United States army against the British and their allies, the country filled up rapidly and civilization pushed forward with rapid strides. But while the young nation was thus growing rapidly, and everything was bright and joyous, and high hopes of the future were entertained, his devoted companion was torn from him by the unrelenting hand of death, leaving him with eight motherless children. After the lapse of two vears he married Mrs. Rhoda Gerrard, nee Rhoda Hathaway, whose father and mother, Abram and Sallie Hathaway, were of Scotch descent, and whose husband had been killed by a roving band of Indians. She likewise bore Mr. Carey eight children- six sons and two daughters-and all the sixteen children lived to be adults. The result was that at his death, March 13, 1868, when he was at the advanced age of ninety-four, he had sixteen children, eighty-eight grandchildren, fifty-four great-

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grandchildren, and ten great-great-grandchildren, making in all one hundred and sixty-eight direct descendants. In religious views he was a Protestant. Politically he was no partisan, but subscribed to the doctrine as taught by the Republican party.

COLUMBUS PEYTON BRENT, physician, office and residence No. 133 West Eighth street, Cincinnati, was born in Cincinnati, November 23, 1833, a son of William Addison and Jennette (Lewis) Brent, the former born in Virginia, in 1802, the latter in Connecticut, in 1807. William Addison Brent was educated in the Virginia grammar schools, emigrated to West Virginia, and located in the Kanawha Valley, where for five years he was a successful school-teacher, in the meantime marrying his pupil, Jennette Lewis, whose family had also emigrated from the Connecticut home, and located in the same valley. In 1829 Mr. Brent and family removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he entered into the service of a new Cincinnati enterprise, a chemical laboratory, in which service he remained, becoming a practical cliemist. He finally finished his business career as a manufacturer of plumbers' goods and materials. He died January 23, 1846; his wife lived to be seventy seven years of age, and died in June, 1884.

William Brent was a son of Thomas H. and Hannah Brent, of Virginia. The Brent family are of Norman ancestry. It was through the marriage of William Brent, a younger son of Sir John Brent, Lord of Stoke, and Mary, daughter of Sir John Peyton, of Donnington, Isle of Ely, with Hannah, daughter of Hugh Ennis, of Edinburgh, Scotland, that two sons were born, one of whom entered clerical service of the Established Church of England. The other son and some sisters emigrated to America, joining their fortunes with colonial societies of Maryland and Virginia. One of the female descendants, Margaret Brent, of Maryland. was the first woman to claim a right to vote in America. When Leonard Calvert, brother of Lord Balti- more, and provincial governor of Maryland, died, he had not time to write a will, but said to Margaret Brent, "Take all and pay all," having a private conference with her, and she receiving his dying words. As Lord Calvert was the agent of Lord Balti- more, she claimed control of all rents, profits, etc., of Lord Baltimore, the court con- firming her in this position. So she claimed the right to vote in the Assembly as representative of Lord Calvert and Lord Baltimore. She became a stanch Catholic, and founded the first convent in the colonies at Baltimore-" The Visitation of Bal- timore;" she was superioress, and died there. On the records of the Maryland His- torical Society the following appears, from a paper by Mr. Thomas: "Margaret Brent, the first woman in America to claim the right to vote." The history of the male members of the Brent family is clearly established; they were fond of country gentlemen's life, while many of them became lawyers, some physicians, all were wedded to rural life and pleasure, and not until very late in the family history did any of them leave Maryland and Virginia. But few of the male descendants by name of Brent are living at this date. Gen. Eppa Hunton, of Washington, D. C., the present United States senator of old Virginia, is a lineal descendant; his mother's maiden name was Eppa Brent.

Dr. C. P. Brent was educated in the Cincinnati public schools, and graduated from the old Woodward College in 1861. He studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. A. C. Lewis, of Winchester, Ohio, and graduated from the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, in 1854. In that city he opened an office, and has always been and is now a general practitioner of medicine. He is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, and the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; has been a member of the National Medical Association, a member of the Cincinnati board of education; lecturer on chemistry in the Miami College, Cincinnati; resident physician of St. John's Hospi- tal; a member of the Medical Staff of St. Luke's Hospital, also of Christ's Hospital, and physician to the Hamilton County Jail. While resident physician to St. John's Hospital, he prepared reports and reviews of hospital cases that were published in the Western Medical Lancet. Dr. Brent is a member of the Loyal Legion, the

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Grand Army of the Republic, and of the F. & A. M., of which latter order many of ~ his forefathers were also members, some of them holding honorable and distinguished positions in that society. Dr. Brent was married, in 1857, to Annie Elizabeth Dale, daughter of Benjamin T. and Deborah Dale, both of American parentage, the father born in Delaware, the mother in Virginia. Their daughters, Annie Dale and Laura Peyton, reside at the homestead, occupied in the study of music and in household duties. As were all the Brents, the Doctor was reared in the Episcopal Church; his wife's training was in the Methodist Church, but all the members of the family are now communicants in the Presbyterian Church. The Doctor's preference for denominational differences is not very exacting, having respect and regard for all methods of religious worship and belief. Dr. Brent was in military service for nearly four years, was commissioned and mustered into United States service as surgeon of the Fifty-fourth O. V. I., was surgeon of Post at Camp Dennison for five months. He accompanied his regiment to the army commanded by Gen. Sherman. with which he served until the end of the war. During that service he was also acting brigade surgeon: then surgeon in charge of the Second Division Hospital Fifteenth Army Corps; then acting division surgeon, and finally, by an act of Congress, was retained in service as a surgeon, and held the same position until close of the war. Politically he was reared in the atmosphere of old Virginian Jeffersonian doctrines; but as the encroachment of the institution of slavery became aggressive and persistent, the Republican party purposes seemed to him to be the most practicable way out of the miserable predicament, and therefore he became its supporter, and always remained with it.

DANA WARREN HARTSHORN, physician and surgeon, office on Ninth street, and residence in Avondale, was born at Walpole, Mass., August 1, 1827, son of Ebenezer and Polly (Smith) Hartshorn, both of English descent. The father, who was a mill- wright and farmer. died in 1855, followed by the mother in July, 1859. Of their eight children, only two survive: Elbridge G. Hartshorn, of San Francisco, and Dana Warren.

The subject of this sketch received his literary education in the common schools and academies at Wrentham and Wilbraham, near Springfield, Mass., graduated from the Medical Department of Harvard College, March 4, 1854, and began prac- tice at Dedham in his native State. There he remained until 1857, when he migrated to Urbana, Ohio. In 1861 he was appointed surgeon for United States Volunteers, and began service on September 4, in the army of the Tennessee. For more than one year he was on Gen. Sherman's staff as medical director, and for some time was assistant medical director under Gen. Grant. Dr. Hartshorn organized Gayosa Hos- pital at Memphis, Tenn., in 1862, under the direction of the United States govern- ment, and had charge of the same for three months. He resigned his position in the army because of physical disability, and began practice in Cincinnati in 1864. From 1872 to 1891 he filled the chair of professor of anatomy and surgery in Pulte Medi- cal College, gave instructions in other special branches, and served as dean. of that institution for one year. The Doctor is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, and the Ohio State Medical Society. He is a Republican, and served as a member of the pension board of Hamilton county during President Harrison's administration. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Army of the Tennessee, and the Loyal Legion. Dr. Hartshorn was married March 28, 1858, to Mary Abigail Knight, daughter of Robert and Eunice (Wight) Knight. The Wights were originally from the Isle of Wight. Dr. and Mrs. Hartshorn have one son, Dana Warren Hartshorn, who is pursuing a classical course at Woodward High School.

THADDEUS ASBURY REAMY, M. D., LL.D., was born in Frederick Co., Va., April 28, 1829. His father, Jacob A. Reamy, also born in Virginia; was of French descent. His mother, Mary W. Reamy, was of Scotch and English descent. The

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family migrated to Ohio in 1832, when the subject of this sketch was but three years old, settling on a farm in Muskingum county, ten miles from Zanesville. Here, in the same house into which they moved in 1832, the father died in 1871, aged eighty years, and the mother ten years later, aged eiglity-one. Ten children were reared to manhood and womanhood-three sons (of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest) and seven daughters; two sons and five daughters are yet (1893) living.

Dr. Reamy worked on the farm until near manhood, attending winter sessions of the country school. He also taught school. He received the degree of A. M. from the Ohio Wesleyan University, and the degree of M. D. from Starling Medical Col- lege. In September, 1853, he was married to Miss Sarah A. Chappelear, and two years subsequently a daughter was born to them, who lived to be a beautiful woman of lovely character, but died in Cincinnati at the age of twenty-one years. Dr. Reamy practiced his profession in the village of Mt. Sterling, where had been part of his pupilage for nine years. He practiced in Zanesville, Ohio, eight years, coming to Cincinnati in February, 1871, where he has continued in active practice. In 1858 he was elected professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the Cincin- nati College of Medicine and Surgery, which position he held two years. In 1860- 61-62-63 he served in the General Assembly of Ohio, to which office he was elected from Muskingum county. In 1861, having passed his examination, he was commis- sioned as surgeon of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Regiment, O. V. I., going to the field, where he, however, remained but six months, being ordered by the Secretary of War to report to the governor of Ohio that he might take his seat in the General Assembly. During the year 1863 he served as surgeon of the provost-marshal's district, composed of Muskingum, Knox, Coshocton and Licking counties, with headquarters at Newark, Ohio. In 1863 he was elected professor of diseases of women in Starling Medical College, Columbus, which position he filled until 1871, when, having removed to Cincinnati, he resigned it to accept the chair of obstetrics, clinical midwifery and diseases of children in the Medical College of Ohio. In 1869 he went abroad and studied in the hospitals of London, Paris and Dublin. In 1888

he resigned the chair in the Medical College of Ohio to accept in the same institu- tion the chair of clinical gynecology, which position he now holds. He is gynecolo- gist to the Good Samaritan Hospital and to the Cincinnati Hospital. On the staff of the former he has done continuous service for twenty-two years; on the staff of the latter six years. In the amphitheatres of these institutions he delivers clinical lectures to crowds of enthusiastic students. He is surgeon to the Woman's Hos- pital and consulting gynecologist to Christ's Hospital. In 1890 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Cornell College.

Dr. Reamy has led a most active and industrious life. In addition to a most extensive practice it will be seen that he has been engaged in professional work almost continuously for thirty-four years. Besides, he has been a liberal contrib- utor to current medical literature. His best productions are to be found in the " American Journal of Obstetrics;" "The Medical News," Philadelphia; "The Cincinnati Clinic;" "The Lancet and Clinic;" "Transactions of the Ohio State Medical Society ;" "Transactions of the American Medical Association;" "Transactions of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society;"' "Trans- actions of the American Gynecological Society," and others. He is a mem- ber or otherwise of the following medical societies and associations : The American Medical Association; the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Society; member and ex-president of the Ohio State Medical Society ; fellow and ex-president of the American Gynecological Society; member and ex-president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; member and ex-president of the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society; fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Philadelphia; corresponding member of the Boston Gynecological Society, and of the Detroit Academy of Medi-

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cine. During the past five years he has not engaged in general practice, confining himself exclusively to the medical and surgical diseases of women, in which depart- ment he enjoys a national reputation. Dr. Reamy is a man of splendid physique, and he enjoys excellent health. Though now (1893) sixty-four years of age he is as active, mentally and physically, as men usually are at fifty. He resides with his family, consisting of his wife and two nieces, on Oak street, Walnut Hills, near his private hospital. He is a member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, of the F. & A. M., and of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

HENRY CUNDELL JULER, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 119 Gar- field place, Eighth street, Cincinnati, was born at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. His father, William Fox Juler, was head master of the Norwich Classical Academy, and his mother, Mary (Allisstone) Juler, born Marchi 1, 1794, died October 21, 1877, was the only daughter of Richard Allisstone, who was an officer of cavalry of Exeter, Devonshire, and Catherine (Roan) Allisstone, the only daughter of Richard Roan, Esq., of the Manor of Lea, owner of the Lea estate at Hoddesdon, near London.

In the year 1685, when the despicable Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, among the five hundred thousand Protestants whom his acts drove from their country was John Juler, a goldsmith and diamond merchant. He crossed the German ocean to England with his family, and located at North Wal- sham, a town five miles from the seashore. Here he bought land, built houses, and continued to deal in the precious metals. He had erected a barn-like conventicle, where his people worshiped under the name of Independents. His girls shared equally with his boys in the highest education the neighborhood afforded. For many years the French family of North Walsham, Norfolk, was known along the seacoast, from Great Yarmouth to Cromer. His descendant, John Juler, mar- ried Hannah Dybell, and had three sons, named James, John and Matthew, respect- ively. John was born January 14, 1750, and died March 20, 1825. He married Sarah, the daughter of Sir John Lubbock, of Lamas, Norfolk, and had issue four sons and three daughters, named respectively: James; Henry; George; William Fox; father of our subject; Sarah; Mary and Elizabeth. This family of Norfolk Hugue- nots was remarkable, as compared with the rest of the townspeople, for the polite- ness of their manners, the simplicity but costly nature of their attire, as well as for their hospitality.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 100

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati Publication date: 1894 Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson Number of Pages: 1592

Author: Nelson, S.B., Cincinnati
Publication date: 1894
Publisher: Cincinnati : S. B. Nelson
Number of Pages: 1592