History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 101

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

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Our subject was born June 24, 1827, and at the death of his father, January 16, 1843, when the son was but sixteen years of age, had already decided to devote his life to medicine and surgery. On August 24, 1845, William, eldest brother of Henry, was drowned while bathing; he had been adopted by an uncle, and after his demise, Henry went to live with this uncle. Here he began in earnest his medical studies, and by the advice of Mr. Barcham, executor of his grandfather's estate, was sent to London for this purpose, where he graduated and began the practice of his chosen profession. In 1853, he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, and received the official appointment as surgeon assistant to the Aberdeen (Scotland) Infirmary. This brought him the friendship of such men as William Keith, the lithotomist; William Pirrie, the author of "Principles of Surgery;" Prof. Blackie; Bishop Skinner, and other prominent men.

In 1854 he became a Licentiate in Midwifery of London; Doctor of Medicine of the University of Aber- deen in 1855; as well as Licentiate of the Apothecaries Hall in 1856. On the eve of being elected bouse surgeon to the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, by the retirement of W. Best, sickness enforced his retirement from London. As he recov- ered his health, patients sought his assistance, and he commenced practice at Isle- ham, Cambridgeshire. He there married Caroline Robins, the only daughter of Richard Robins, Esq. He was at once made surgeon of the Newmarket Union; public vaccinator, as well as surgeon to four mutual benefit organizations, bearing

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different names. William Beaven, a surgeon, was employed to assist him in his practice, which often called him from home. In 1858, his uncle, George Juler, died aged seventy-five, leaving to him his real, as well as his personal, estate. With his newly-acquired wealth, the Doctor temporarily withdrew from practice, leased his house, and sold his practice to Mr. Metcalf. Having become tired of travel and idleness, he returned to England, purchased the practice of Dr. Timms, and bought the lease of the house near Hyde Park. In this manner, he was at once introduced to fashionable life, and to a rich class of patients. He was elected a Fellow of the London Obstetrical Society; a Fellow of the London Medical Society, as well as of the Harveian Society. He is also a member of the British Medical Association. He became governor of St. Mary's Hospital, as well as a member of the Medical School,

and Dispensary Committees. He was thus brought into close association with stu- dents, as well as the physicians and surgeons of the various hospitals in London. In council he encountered Archbishop Tait; Duke of Westminster; Duke of Hamil- ton and Richmond, and Sergeant Gazeley, M. P. for Plymouth. At this time, the Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone of the new wing of St. Mary's Hospital, and Dr. Juler was selected as one of the reception committee. On this same occa- sion, his son Henry E., now ophthalmic surgeon to this institution, as well as surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, London, was one of the stewards.

In politics Dr. Juler followed the Whig traditions of his father's family, and, in religion, affiliated with the Congregationalists. Dr. Juler had become acquainted in Paris with Drs. Sims and Pratt, of New York, and from their description of Amer- ica, he was seized with a strong desire to visit the "land of the free." He soon sailed for New York, where he was met by Dr. Sims, and introduced to many of the leading physicians of that great city. Here he remained a short time, and then went to Philadelphia, where he opened an office, and a little later came to Cin- cinnati, where he has since resided. Here he quickly built around him a lucrative practice, and his wife soon joined him. Some years later she visited England, where she contracted pneumonia and died.

Dr. Juler has been president of the Covington and Newport Medical Society; chairman of the committee of cutaneous diseases of the Academy of Medicine; is a member of the American Medical Association, and a registered medical practitioner of Great Britain, Certificate No. 793. Among his medical contributions were the following: "Epithelioma," January, Cincinnati, 1871, "Morphia and Arsenic, in the treatment of Asiatic Cholera," Cincinnati, January, 1872, "Case of Cheloid Simulating Molluscum Fibrosum," with illustrations, Brit. Med. Journal, 1874. He graduated in January, 1875, in the Cincinnati Law College, and was admitted to practice at the Bar, flying to the knowedge of law as a means of defense against those who were despoiling him of his property. He purchased an estate at Madei- ra, a few miles from town, where his friend and pupil, Dr. William Knight, pro- fessor of anatomy and oral surgery, has built for himself an elegant country resi- dence. During his visit to London, on the marriage of the daughter of the Prince of Wales, among other invitations which he accepted was one to a conversazione given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, June 12, 1879; as well as an invitation from La Municipalité de Paris to a reception at the Hotel de Ville. Having access to many hospitals, and being invited to many outdoor as well as indoor entertainments by medical men, he contributed a series of letters under the sobriquet " Chit Chat," bearing upon what he had seen, for the amusement of his friends at home. In politics he is a Republican.

SAMUEL B. TOMLINSON, physician, office No. 38 Everett street, residence, Price Hill, Cincinnati, was born in Philadelphia January 11, 1829. He is a son of Sam- uel and Rebecca (Biddle) Tomlinson, the former born in Bridgeton, N. J., March 12, 1793, and died at the home of his son, Dr. Tomlinson, March 31, 1878.

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Rebecca Biddle was born in New Jersey in 1794, and died in Cincinnati, in 1834. Samuel Tomlinson was a son of Samuel and Ann (Garrison) Tomlinson, the former born in Frankfort, Penn., February 16, 1762, the date of his death not being given; the latter born December 1, 1761, and died March 15, 1824. This Samuel Tomlin- son was a son of Lieut. James and Barbara (Brown) Tomlinson, the former born in New York in 1735, and died May 31, 1811. Lieut. James Tomlinson was a. descendant in the eighth generation of Henry and Alice Tomlinson, who with three children came to America from Derby, Derbyshire, England, in 1652, and settled in Milford, Conn. He removed to Stratford, Conn., where he died March 16, 1681, and was buried in the cemetery adjoining the first Meeting House in Connecticut at "Sandy Hollow." This gentleman brought from England a copy of the Tom- linson coat of arms painted in colors according to the rules of heraldry, which is still preserved in the Tomlinson family, and a description of which, according to " Burke's Heraldry" London, England, is as follows: "Tomlinson Sa. a fesse between three falcons or. Crest-a griffin's head issuant out of a ducal coronet, or."

Governor Gideon Tomlinson, " Sixth generation in America," had also a copy of the original coat of arms of this Tomlinson family. He was a son of Jabez H. (Fifth generation), a son of Captain Gideon (Fourth generation, he a son of Zecha- riah, Third generation, son of Agar, Second generation, son of Henry, First genera- tion) and Rebecca (Lewis) Tomlinson; was graduated at Yale College in 1802. He married Sarah Bradley, of Greenfield Hill, in Fairfield county, Conn., where he resided. He was elected member of the House of Representatives in his State for May, 1817; the next October was chosen clerk of the same, and the next May was made speaker of the House, which position he held two sessions. He was then elected member of the House of Representatives of the United States for two years, and re-elected in 1821 and 1825, serving eight years in that body, being speaker of the House a part of the time. In 1827 he was elected governor of the State of Connecticut, which office he held until he was elected, by the legislature in 1831, a. senator of the United States, in which position he remained six years. His portrait. is now in Corcoran Gallery, in Washington, D. C. This Tomlinson family is one of the oldest in England as records on the old church register show, a few of which we give: From the register of St. Peter's Church, Cornhill, London, England, " 1572, October 10, Friday, Christening of Alice Tomlinson, daughter of Mathew." Reg- ister of St. Dionis, Backchurch, London, England, " 1555, September 20, Buried. William Tomlinson." " 1585-6 February 7, Married Thomas Tomlyson, of St. Margarets in new Fysh street and Ame More of this par." "1611, May 13, Bap- tized Richard Tomlinson, son of John Tomlinson." Register of St. Antholin, Hudge Row, London, England. "1572, October 20, William Tomlinson married Mary Shingle." "1616, June 20, Thomas and Ann Tomlins, alias Tomlinson, and daugh- ter of John and Joan Tomlins, alias Tomlinson." Register of St. James, Clerken- well, London, England. "1602, March 10, Baptized Susan, daughter of Antonio Tomlinson." "1637, August, 24, George Tomlinson and Jane Jones were licensed to be married." From the Book of Dignities of the British Empire we find the Tom- linsons of England have held high political, military and Ecclesiastical positions, a few of the entries in which book we give: First under the head of Commissioners: " 1655 Hy. Cromwell Commissioner in chief of the army; Mathew Tomlinson, for Ireland, Miles Corbet, Robert Goodwin, to whom afterwards was added William Steele, Commissioners of the Army." Under the head of Admirals, as follows: " Nicholas Tomlinson died in 1847. He was appointed Rear Admiral in 1830." Under the head of Bishops: " 1842 George Tomlinson was constituted by Letters Patent Bishop of Gibraltar; the Bishopric including Gibraltar and Malta." Under

the entries of Members of Parliament: Tomlinson. William Edward Murray, Esq. of Heysham House, Lancashire; eldest son of the late Thomas Tom- linson Esq., Queen's Counsel, of Heysham House, a bencher of the Inner Temple,

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by Sarah only child of the late Rev. Roger Mashiter of Bolton-C-Sands, County Lancaster, an incumbent of St. Paul's Manchester, born 1838. Educated at West- minster ch. Ch. Oxford B.A. 1859 M.A. 1862; called to the Bar at the Inner Tem- ple 1865; is Captain First Volunteer Batt. Royal N. Lancashire Regt. Elected M.P. for Preston 1882."

Dr. Samuel B. Tomlinson, the subject proper of this sketch, is the fifth in order of birth in a family of six children. He received his early education at College Hill, and studied medicine under Prof. Thomas Wood, of the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1855. One year after his graduation he began the practice of his profession from his present office. He has been assistant anato- mist in his alma mater, and member of the Cincinnati Medical Society. Dr. Tom- linson was married July 9, 1869, to Miss Athelia M., daughter of Ebenezer and Sarahı Spencer, of Cincinnati. Mr. Spencer was on the editorial staff of the Cin- cinnati Daily Times for the last twenty-five years of his life. A bridal tour of one year was taken by the Doctor and his wife over the continent of Europe, and the West Indies. This union has been blessed with four children: Fannie Spencer, born July 4, 1870, died March 2, 1876; Sadie Rebecca, born October 31, 1871, died January 25, 1877; Fannie May, born May 9, 1876, and Samuel Spencer, born Sep- tember 10, 1878. Dr. Tomlinson, wife, and family are members of the Westmin- ster Presbyterian Church of Price Hill, Cincinnati. Mrs. Tomlinson is gifted with considerable literary talent, being the author of an illustrated book of poems: "Summerland and Other Poems." She writes for journals in Cincinnati, New York, and Pittsburgh. During the first years of the war, Dr. Tomlinson was sur- geon to many encampments of soldiers in the vicinity of Cincinnati, making daily rounds with his staff over the Kentucky hills. He was also with the cavalry that followed the Morgan raid through Ohio. Dr. Tomlinson is a member of the A. O. U. W .; politically he is in sympathy with the Republican party.

W. H. TAYLOR, M. D., president of the Cincinnati Medical Society, vice- president of medical staff of Cincinnati Hospital, and professor of obstetrics in Miami Medical College, was born in Cincinnati in 1836. His great-grandfather came to Cincinnati in 1813. His grandfather was a physician, and his father was a prom- inent man, who was killed in the great fire in Cincinnati in 1843. The Doctor grad- uated in the Ohio Medical College in 1858; became a resident physician in 1860; was made a member of medical staff of the hospital in 1866; professor of Materia Medica, at the same time vice-president of medical staff in the hospital in 1879. He was president of the Cincinnati Medical Society in 1880.

ROBERT CAPLES LONGFELLOW, physician and surgeon, office No. 21 Clark street, Cincinnati, was born in Quincy, Logan Co., Ohio, January 12, 1862, a son of Aaron J. and Elizabeth (Caples) Longfellow, the former born at Spring Hills, Logan Co., Ohio, September 3, 1833, the latter at Jeromeville, Ashland Co., same State, July 6, 1830. Aaron J. Longfellow graduated in 1854 from the Ohio Wesleyan University, engaged for a time as teacher, studied medicine at Bellefontaine, matriculated at the Medical College of Ohio in 1856, and graduated from said college in the spring of 1860. Opening an office for the practice of his profession at Quincy, Ohio, lie soon afterward was united in marriage to Elizabeth Caples. In March, 1862, he moved to Fostoria, Ohio, and entered into partnership with Drs. Caples and Hale, his brother-in-law and nephew. After one year he withdrew from this practice, and opened an office on Main street, near North, where he enjoyed a large and lucrative practice. He is trustee of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a teacher in its Sabbath-school for some forty years. The Doctor has been a liberal giver to all Church departments, and his home, in every way, a model Christian household. He is a firm Prohibitionist in principles, yet, coming from a noted Whig family, has always voted for the Republican party. The fall of life now finds Dr. Longfellow somewhat broken in health, allowing him to attend only to a small prac-

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tice among lifelong patients, and to his real estate, rents, etc., being surrounded by the results of a happy and useful life.

Aaron J. Longfellow is a son of Joseph and Annie (Sullivan) Longfellow, the former a native of Kentucky, the latter of Ohio. Joseph Longfellow's father was a native of Maine, and came from Maryland to Ohio, settling in Champaign county, early in the history of this State. His family as well as his posterity have been active workers in the Methodist church. Mr. Caples, maternal grandfather of our subject, was a lawyer, coming to Ohio in its infancy, and locating at Jeromeville. In 1832 he moved his growing family to the woods where now stands the city of Fostoria. Here in 1833 he built with logs the first Methodist church in that part of Seneca county. During that year the cholera epidemic swept through that colony, and his funeral service was the first held in his not quite finished church.

Dr. R. C. Longfellow, the subject proper of this sketch, received his early educa- tion at the public schools of Fostoria, Fostoria Normal School, and the Ohio Wes- leyan University. He studied medicine under his father, graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in the spring of 1887, and opened an office for the practice of his profession at No. 115 West Ninth street. Dr. Longfellow is a general practitioner. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. In 1888 to 1889 he was the clinical lecturer on synæcology at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and in 1889 was elected professor of dermatology and syphilology, which chair he held

in the same college for three years. The Doctor is a frequent contributor to the Cin- cinnati Lancet-Clinic, and has prepared, and read before the societies of which he is a member, many papers on skin diseases. He is a member of the Royal Arca- num, and has been Medical Examiner to Ivanhoe Council No. 284, Cincinnati, for the past four years. He is a supporter and regular attendant of the Methodist Church, and is an ardent member of the Republican party. Dr. Longfellow was married November 8, 1893, to Miss Minnie Bertrand, of Put-in-Bay, Ohio.

AUGUSTUS E. HOELTGE, physician and surgeon, office and residence, No. 322 Linn street, Cincinnati, was born in Hanover, Germany, January 17, 1837, son of Frederick William and Dorothea (Meyer) Hoeltge. Dr. Hoeltge received his gen- eral education in private schools and colleges of Germany and America, studied med- icine under the late Dr. John Davis, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in the spring of 1860, serving one year as interne at the old Commercial Hos- pital, after which he entered the army as surgeon in the Forty-seventh Ohio Regi- ment, where he served two years. He then opened an office in Cincinnati for the practice of his profession, and has remained in general practice ever since. Dr. Hoeltge was married November 8, 1860, to Miss Lou E. Armstrong, daughter of San- ford Armstrong, of Rising Sun, Indiana. This union has been blessed with one daughter, Vonie May, born June 10, 1865, now Mrs. Carl Hauser, of New York City. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medi- cal Society, and the Academy of Medicine. He is a member of the A. A. A. S., and the German Literary Club of Cincinnati; of Thomas Post No. 13, G.A. R., and belongs to the Loyal Legion.

STEPHEN COOPER AYRES, M. D., office No. 61 W. Seventh street. Cincinnati, was born in Troy, Miami county, Ohio. In 1842 his parents moved to Fort Wayne, In- diana. In that State his father, Dr. H. P. Ayres, was an active and successful prac- titioner for nearly thirty-three years. He was a valuable contributor to the Indiana medical journals, president of the State Medical Society, and a member of the American Medical Association.

S. C. Ayres spent his boyhood in Fort Wayne, and received his high-school edu- cation there. He next matriculated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and gradu- ated from that institution in 1861. With a number of fellow students young Ayres enlisted at the beginning of the Civil war in the company of O. J. Dodds, Twen- tieth O. V. I., and served in West Virginia until the end of his term of enlistment.

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On returning home the young soldier was prostrated by typhoid fever, which for a time debarred him from further active duty. In 1862-63 he attended lectures at the Medical College of Ohio, and in the spring of 1863 was appointed acting med- ical cadet of the United States Army, entering upon his first service in that capacity at Hospital No. 8, Louisville. In 1864 he graduated at the Medical College of Ohio, and accepted an appointment as acting assistant surgeon, United States Army, He then in the Cumberland Hospital, Nashville, Tenn., serving there one year. passed a successful examination before the Medical Examining Board of the Army, and received his commission as assistant-surgeon of United States Volunteers. Dr. Ayres was next assigned to duty in New Orleans, and was placed in charge of Bar- racks (U. S. A.) Hospital, remaining there until he was honorably mustered out of service in February, 1866. In recognition of his faithful and efficient services he was, when mustered out, given the brevet rank of captain. In September, 1866, Dr. Ayres became a pupil of Dr. E. Williams, of Cincinnati, one of the best known ophthalmologists of his time, and under him supplemented his large and varied ex- perience in army and hospital practice by making a thorough study of diseases of the eye and ear. He entered into practice at Fort Wayne in 1867. In 1870 he went abroad, and studied in the Eye and Ear Clinics of London and Vienna. Re- turning to Cincinnati, he formed a partnership with his old preceptor, Dr. Williams, which continued until Dr. Ayres assumed the practice for himself. He served many years as oculist on the staff of the Cincinnati Hospital, from which he resigned in 1883. He is a frequent and valued contributor to medical journals devoted to dis- eases of the eye and ear, and during his long and successful practice he has been a working member of the State and general medical societies, among which he stands high in his chosen line of the profession. Dr. Ayres was chairman of the section of ophthalmology at the meeting of the American Medical Association at Nashville, Tenn., in May, 1890. Dr. Ayres is a member of the Loyal Legion, United States Commandery of the State of Ohio, and of George H. Thomas Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He is also a member of the Literary Club of Cincinnati, an organ- ization which has numbered among its members men such as R. B. Hayes, Alphonso Taft, M. F. Force and Stanley Matthews. He is not only a skillful and conscientious physician and surgeon, but a good citizen in all the relations of life. He has been a diligent and discriminating student, not only in matters relating to medicine and ophthalmology, his chosen branches, but of much that enlarges general knowledge. He is oculist to the St. Mary's Hospital and the Episcopal Hospital for children; and is professor of ophthalmology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. The Doctor is a man of sound judgment, good and retentive memory and quick per- ceptions, and has a fine faculty for making his general store of knowledge and ex- perience available. He is kindly and affable in his manners, and as a rule readily attracts and retains the esteem and confidence of those with whom he comes in con- tact. His practice brings patients to Cincinnati from all over this and adjoining States, and there are few practitioners who number more friends among their list of patients than he-a fact due to innate gentleness of manner and conscientious work, extending through many years. Dr. Ayres was married in October, 1873, to Miss Louise, eldest daughter of the late S. B. W. McLean, an old and prominent citizen of Cincinnati for many years.

DR. PHINEAS SANBORN CONNER was born at West Chester, Penn., August 23, 1839. When two years old his parents removed to Camden county, North Carolina, and three years later to Cincinnati. In 1855 he entered Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., and graduated in July. 1859. Twenty-five years later the college conferred on him the honorary degree of LL. D. Attending lectures at the Medical College of Ohio during the session of 1858-59, and at Jefferson Medical College in 1860-61, he received the degree of M. D. from the latter institution in March, 1861. Eigh- teen months of his student life were spent at the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford,

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Conn., where he served as apothecary and acting assistant physician. For six months after graduation he was in New York attending hospitals, and in November, 1861, having passed the Army Medical Board, he was assigned to duty as acting assistant-surgeon United States Army at Columbian Hospital, Washington, being commissioned assistant-surgeon United States Army in April, 1862. In August, 1866, he resigned, having served in Washington, in the Department of the Gulf, at Fort Columbus (New York Harbor) and in the Department of North Carolina. He was brevetted captain and major United States Army for " faithful and meritorious services during the war." Settling in Cincinnati, he was soon after appointed pro- fessor of surgery in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and a year later professor of chemistry in the Medical College of Ohio. In 1869 he was trans- ferred to the chair of surgical anatomy, later to that of anatomy, and, in 1887, to the chair of surgery. In 1878 he was made professor of surgery in the Dartmouth Medical School and still retains his chair there, delivering his lectures during the summer. He has for over twenty years been on the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital, and, since 1874, on that of the Cincinnati Hospital. He is a member of many local and national medical societies, and has been president of the American Surgical Association, of the American Academy of Medicine, of the Ohio State Med- ical Society, and of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine.

AARON MERCER BROWN, physician and surgeon, office No. 436 West Eighth street, residence Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, was born at Milford, Clermont Co., Ohio, Aug- ust 3, 1838, a son of the late Thomas Mercer and Selina Maria (Williams) Brown, the former a native of Anderson township, Hamilton Co., Ohio, tlie latter of Nor- ristown, Penn. Thomas Mercer Brown was the youngest of two children, his broth- er, Nope Mercer Brown, having like himself been one of the earlier students and graduates of the Ohio Medical College. The parents of Dr. Thomas Brown were of the first colony which founded Columbia, at the mouth of the Little Miami river, November 18, 1788, which constituted the first permanent settlement of the Miami Country, or the Symmes Purchase, and the second of importance within the present boundary of the State. The father, Thomas Brown, was a native of Brownsville, Penn., and one of the eight children of Thomas Brown, who was the founder of that town. The mother of Dr. Thomas Brown was a daughter of Aaron Mercer, of Winchester, Va. He was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and some of his ex- ploits in the Miami Country during the Indian period are preserved both by record and tradition. He died at Columbia in 1800, at the age of fifty-four.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 101

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