History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 102

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

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Dr. A. M. Brown, our subject, is the third in order of birth in a family of four children, of whom two only are now living. He was educated in the common schools of Milford, and the Milford Seminary, studied medicine under his father, and grad- uated from the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1861. After his grad- uation he came to Cincinnati, and in July of the same year offered himself as assistant in the Twenty-second Regiment O. V. I., in which command he served until 1864. He was then made staff surgeon with rank of major, and was assigned to duty as medical purveyor of the Department of Arkansas. He left the service in April, 1865, and returning to Cincinnati began the practice of his profession in partner- ship with his brother. William T. Brown, with whom he continued until the death of the latter, January 26, 1882. He then moved to his present office, where he has ever since been located. Dr. Brown is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and of the Ohio State Medical Society; he is a member of the F. & A. M. and is past master of N. C. Harmony Lodge No. 2; also a member of the G. A. R. and of the Loyal Legion. Dr. Brown was united in marriage February 20, 1864, to Miss Alice Whetstone, daughter of Thomas and Estlier Whetstone, of Cincinnati. His wife died October 28, 1866, of cholera. The Doctor was married, May 16, 1869, to Miss Amelia, daughter of Mark and Emeline Atkins, of Cincinnati. Two children born of this marriage are William M. Brown, a clerk in the Lafayette Bank, and

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Mark A. Brown, a recent graduate of the Miami Medical College. Dr. and Mrs. Brown are members of the Episcopal Church. Politically he is a Republican.

F. H. HUELSMAN, M. D., veterinary surgeon, office on Vine street, Cincinnati, began the study of his profession in 1858 in the military service of the Kingdom of Prussia. and, in 1861, graduated a veterinary surgeon. He remained in the service of the Kingdom of Prussia nine years, and then came to America, where he followed his profession. The Doctor attended a course of lectures in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery during the sessions of 1887 and 1888, and to-day enjoys one of the largest and most lucrative practices of any of his profession.

CHAUNCEY D. PALMER, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 308 West Seventh street, Cincinnati, was born in Zanesville, Ohio, September 18, 1839, a son of Micah and Harriet (Sherman) Palmer, natives of New York State. Micah Palmer was a carriage maker by occupation, and died in 1878, aged seventy-six years; his wife, Harriet (Sherman) Palmer, now eighty-four years of age, resides at Mt. Auburn. She is a direct descendant of Roger Sherman. Her father was David.Sherman, a farmer by occupation, who fought in the Revolutionary war, after which he was pen- sioned by our government. He died in 1838.

All of Dr. Palmer's ancestry have been long-lived, and he is the youngest in a family of six children, four of whom are now living. He was educated in the com- mon schools of Cincinnati, and was graduated from the Woodward High School, in June, 1857. Among his classmates at this institution, who have gained distinction in life, may be mentioned Gen. Michie, of West Point; Rev. T. F. Taskey, of Ger- many ; Noble K. Royde, deceased, and Herman H. Raschig, of Cincinnati. After his graduation at Woodward, our subject taught in one of the Cincinnati public schools two years, after which he entered the office of Dr. John Davis, of Cincinnati, to study medicine. He attended the Medical College of Ohio, where he graduated in the spring of 1862. Shortly afterward he was appointed resident physician of the Good Samaritan Hospital, a position he held for one year, when he entered the Union army, and served two years as surgeon in the general hospital at Camp Den- nison. He then returned to Cincinnati, and opened an office for the practice of his profession on Freeman street, near Poplar, where he remained one year, thence removing to the corner of Baymiller and Findlay streets, where he had previously built a residence. He resided there for twelve years, and in 1880 removed to his present fine residence, No. 308 West Seventh street, which was also built by him. Here he has since resided. Dr. Palmer was married, in 1863, to Miss Helen, daughter of Joseph Taylor, of Cincinnati. This lady was suffering with consumption at the time, and only lived eighteen months after her marriage. The Doctor was again married, the second time, in 1868, to Miss Adelaide, daughter of Barton White, of Cincinnati, a direct descendant of Peregrine White, whose parents came to this country in the " Mayflower." This union has been blessed with two sons: Elliot B., born Decem- ber 27, 1870, who graduated from the Cincinnati University in 1893, and W. Dudley, born February 5, 1877, now attending the Woodward High School. Dr. and Mrs. Palmer are members of the Central Congregational Church of Cincinnati, but are in no sense sectarian in religious belief. The Doctor is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, and the American Gynecological Society. He has been president of both of the local societies. In 1869, he was appointed professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women, in his alma mater, and still holds that position; is also professor of gynecology in the Presbyterian Hospital and Woman's Medical College of Cincinnati; is obstet- rician and gynecologist, to the Cincinnati Hospital; gynecologist to the Presbyter- ian Hospital; consulting gynecologist to the medical staff of the German Protestant Hospital, and to Christ's Hospital. He is medical examiner for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.

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On May 6, 1883, Dr. Palmer was thrown from his carriage, while descending from Walnut Hills, and narrowly escaped death. He received a severe concussion of the brain, remained unconscious for several weeks, following which his left side became partially paralyzed. His recovery was considered most doubtful for weeks, but by careful and able medical attendance, rendered by Dr. P. S. Conner, he re- covered, so that he could be removed to the seaside, where his recovery was more rapid. Returning home after some four months, being still unable to practice his profession, he spent some six months more in California. Returning to Cincinnati, he resumed his practice, about one year after the accident. Dr. Palmer has written for several medical journals and books. Among these contributions may be men- tioned: "Intra-uterine Medication;" "Tapping for Ovarian Cysts;" "Papilloma. of the Female Bladder;" "The Unity of Medicine;" "The present Status of Gynæ- cology, and its relations to General Medicine;" "The Obstetrical and Gynæcologi- cal Uses of Electricity; " "The Early Diagnosis of Uterine Cancer; " "Laparotomy and Laparo-Hyeterectomy for the Uterine Fibroids;" "Dysmenorrhea, its Essential Nature and Treatment; " " Abdominal Section: Its Value and Range of Application;" " What is the Best Management of Occipito-Posterio Positions of the Vertix ?" "Inter- Menstrual Pain." Many of these contributions have been to the American Gynecol- ogical Society, of which he has been an active member since 1879. He is one of the authors of the American System of Gynecology, and he is at present engaged in writing for a new work on obstetrics, and for another on gynecology. He is the designer of several instruments for obstetrical and gynecological purposes. For instance, a long and short obstetrical forceps, a straight trephan perforator, several forms of vaginal epecula, an intra-uterine medicator, a uterine corvette, an intra- uterine tube for irrigation, and a uterine dilator. Several of these instruments have received strong commendations from many sources. Politically, the Doctor has always been a strong Republican. He is one of Cincinnati's most prominent phy- sicians, and enjoys a large and lucrative clientele. He has won for himself a host of admiring friends. He has recently completed a handsome colonial residence, with offices, with all modern improvements for a physician, in Avondale, and is occu- pying it.

DAVID D. BRAMBLE, one of the most prominent and successful physicians of Cincinnati, was born at Montgomery, Hamilton Co., Ohio, December 11, 1839. The father, Thomas C. Bramble, a native of Virginia, and of English extraction, was one of the pioneer blacksmiths of this county, and was for many years and until his death, which occurred in 1850, engaged in mercantile business at Sharon. The mother, Effie M. (Denman) Bramble, was a native of Maryland, also of English origin, and at present is a resident of Cincinnati.

Our subject attended school a short time, and worked until his fourteenth year, when, having accumulated some money, he entered Farmers' College, at College Hill, Ohio. After completing his college course he entered the intermediate school at Montgomery as teacher, and at the expiration of eighteen months he was appointed principal of the same school, which position he held for nearly three years. During the time he was thus engaged he lived and read medicine with Dr. William Jones, and at the age of twenty, he entered the Ohio Medical College, where after attending two courses of lectures he graduated with honor, in the spring of 1862. He was immediately appointed house physician in the Commercial Hospital,

serving one year. In 1863, he located in the general practice of his profession on Broadway, and was at the same time appointed district physician in the Thirteenth Ward. In the fall of the same year, he was appointed pest house physician, which position he resigned, after filling it nearly four years. In 1866, he accepted the chair of anatomy, in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and also served as treasurer of the college, until 1872, at which time he was transferred to the chair of surgery, and made dean of the college; the last named professorship he is at.

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present filling. The Doctor is a prominent member of the American Surgical Asso- ciation; the American Medical Association; the Ohio State Medical Society; the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. He became a member of the I. O. O. F., and the Encampment in 1860, and has since filled all the chairs. He was also one of the charter members of Lincoln Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and for fifteen years has been a member of the order of The Seven Wise Men. On May 15, 1864, Dr. Bram- ble was married to Miss Celestine, the eldest daughter of John Rieck, a pioneer merchant, one of the wealthiest citizens, and largest tax payers of Sycamore town- ship. By this union there are three children living: Emma E., wife of Dr. John C. Kunz, who is at present associated with Dr. Bramble in the practice of medicine; Jessie M., wife of W. L. Shigley, secretary of the William G. Fischer Manufactur- ing Company, of Kokomo, Indiana, and Mamie R., who still resides with her par- ents, at their beautiful home in Avondale.

CHARLES OLMSTED WRIGHT, M.D. (deceased), was a native of Columbus, Ohio, born December 26, 1835, eldest child of Dr. Marmaduke Burr Wright and Mrs. Mary L. (Olmsted) Wright. Her father, Philo H. Olmsted, was in his day one of the most prominent men in central Ohio, and for many years was editor of the State Journal. Dr. M. B. Wright was a famous physician who spent a large part of his professional life in Cincinnati, and is appropriately noticed in the Medical chapter in this work. He died in Cincinnati August 15, 1879, full of years and honors; Mrs. Wright is still living, in a hale and vigorous age.

The subject of this sketch was but three years old when the family was removed to Cincinnati by a call to his father to occupy the chair of materia medica in the Ohio Medical College. His primary and in part higher education was taken in the public schools of the city, but stopped when a member of the Hughes High School, in 1852, without graduating, with the intention of accompanying his parents to Europe. This intention was abandoned for the sake of the younger children, who needed his care; and he took, instead, a special course of one year in the Ohio Wes- leyan University at Delaware. Leaving this institution in 1853, he began practice in civil engineering at the tunnel then being constructed under Walnut Hills, as is elsewhere related in this history; but was soon compelled by ill health to seek a more quiet indoor life. In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. W. W. Dawson, with whom he read for a year, when, under friendly advice, he went to Cal- ifornia and engaged in merchandizing there for about six months, during which he had great experience of the rough and tumble side of life. He was presently burnt out, however, losing his entire stock, and then being seized with the spirit of advent- ure, pushed across the Pacific to the Sandwich Islands, and thence to the Chinese coast, where he enjoyed a breadth and minuteness of observation then not often vouchsafed to a foreigner. Thence he made his way home by the way of Japan, Siam, Calcutta, Bombay, through the Chusan Archipelago, the Island of Manilla and along the west coast of Africa. From San Francisco to Cincinnati he occupied three years with his voyages and land journeys. While in China he found an ex- tensive field for the observation of skin diseases, and decided that, if he followed his father's vocation, he would give such ailments some attention. Arriving home, he promptly resumed his medical studies, becoming a member of the Ohio Medical Col- lege. and enjoying in addition the instruction of both his father and Dr. Dawson. In the summer of 1862, he took his diploma of Doctor of Medicine, and immediately went before the State board at Columbus for examination as a candidate for appoint- ment in the army; passed successfully, and was appointed assistant-surgeon to the Thirty-fifth O. V. I. He was captured at Chickamauga, and for some time was detained as a prisoner at Atlanta and in the famous Libby prison at Richmond. Being, however, a medical man, he was allowed some indulgence, and was presently released by special exchange, arranged by his friends at Washington. He rejoined his regiment at Chattanooga, during the cold winter of 1862-63, and the starvation

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period experienced by the army there. On the day of the battle of Kenesaw Moun- tain during the Atlanta campaign, he resigned owing to ill health, and returned home, having at that time reached the full grade of surgeon. On his return home, he was made a resident physician in the Cincinnati hospital, and also went into pri- vate practice. In this he had his father's invaluable advice and aid, and soon took the same specialties of practice-obstetrics, and diseases of women and children. He became a member of the staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital, also lecturer on skin diseases, and was afterward one of the physicians in charge of the dispensary. The Doctor always maintained a large private practice, but found time to write occasional papers for the professional societies and the press. He was an active member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Obstetrical Society, and the State Medical Society. He was called to much service as a medical examiner for the large life insurance companies, having been examiner, among others, for the Mutual Benefit of New Jersey for sixteen years. He was supreme medical examiner of the Knights of the Golden Rule, for the United States, and grand medical exam- iner for the Ancient Order of United Workmen, in Ohio. He never took a very act- ive part in politics, but retained his membership in the Grand Army of the Repub- lic. Dr. Wright was married in March, 1870, to Miss Eva, daughter of David K. and Ann Eliza Cady, of Cincinnati, the former a thirty-years member of the Cin- cinnati school board. Dr. and Mrs. Wright had four children, one of whom, Mary L., died in infancy in 1874; those living are: David Cady, a boy of nine years; Marmaduke B. ( named from the paternal grandfather), now in his fourth year; and Ann Eliza (named from the maternal grandmother), aged two years. Dr. Wright died May 29, 1893.

JIRAH D. BUCK, M. D., Cincinnati, was born at Fredonia, N. Y., November 20, 1838. The following year his parents removed to Belvidere, Ill., and to the Belvi- dere Academy he is indebted for most of his early education. In 1850 his parents migrated to Janesville, Wis., where he attended the Janesville Academy for six months only, the death of his father making it necessary for him to quit school in order to assist in earning a livelihood. He followed bookkeeping until he was sev- enteen, but his health failing he went to the woods, where, for three years, he worked with lumbermen in summer, in winter laboring still harder as a teacher in the public schools. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Merrill's Horse, a regi- ment recruited at Battle Creek, Mich., and was made orderly of his company. His health again failing, he lay in hospital at Camp Benton, Mo., for three months, when he was honorably discharged and sent home. His health again returned and, after teaching for a short time, he, in the spring of 1862, began the study of medi- cine in the office of Dr. Smith Rogers, Battle Creek, Mich. The following winter he attended the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago. He then returned to Battle Creek, and was admitted into a copartnership with his preceptor. During the sub- sequent winter he attended the Homeopathic College of Cleveland, Ohio, receiving his medical degree from that college in 1864. In the following October he married Miss Melissa Clough, of Fredonia, N. Y., and the next spring he removed to San- dusky, Ohio, where he continued the practice of his profession. In the fall of 1866 he accepted the chair of physiology and histology in his Alma Mater at Cleveland, leaving his business in Sandusky five days a week during the college session. Not- withstanding the fact that the duties of his professorship made it necessary for him to be absent often from liis field of practice, his business rapidly increased. In August, 1870, he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, retaining his professorship in Cleve- land until the close of the subsequent year, and in the spring of 1872 he called the meeting of physicians which, at Dr. Pulte's office, in Cincinnati, resulted in the founding of the Pulte Medical College, of which he was register and professor of physiology and histology from its organization until 1880. He was then made dean of the Faculty and professor of theory and practice of medicine, which position he still holds.

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Dr. Buck has been an active member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, and of the National Homeopathic Society-The American Institute of Home- opathy-for many years, contributing papers or acting as chairman of sections every year. In 1874 he was elected president of the State Society, and in 1890 was unanimously chosen as president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, having thus achieved the highest honor in the gift of his profession by presiding over its national body. The Doctor's address delivered on this occasion received wide com- mendation both in Europe and America, and was declared to be one of the most advanced and scientific papers ever presented to the society. Some fifteen years ago Dr. Buck took up the practical study of psychology, making a careful study of hypnotism and the phenomena of spiritualism from a purely scientific standpoint. From the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the German Mystics he sought the clues to a real knowledge of the human soul in the Vedic philosophy, resulting in his becoming an active member of the Theosophical Society, whose aim it is to promote the very knowledge of the soul of which the Doctor was in search. He has presided over six of the national conventions of that society, and was chosen acting chairman of the Theosophical Department of the recent Congress of Religions at Chicago, whose audiences numbered over 3,000 on two occasions, so that the Theosophical Society meeting, from both interest and numbers, was called the "real Congress of Religions." Finding time, by constant industry, to do a large amount of extra work, Dr. Buck is still as actively engaged in the regular practice of his profession as ever, and being yet a young man has the prospect before him of many more years of active work.

MASSILLON CASSAT, physician, with office at No. 313 Elm street, Cincinnati, and residence on the northeast corner of Ludlow and Cook avenues, Clifton, was born at Washington Court House, Fayette Co., Ohio, a son of Dr. Bernard Austin Cassat and Mary (Kouns) Cassat, natives of Ohio. Both parents died in 1850, within six months of each other; they had four children, two of whom are living: Mrs. Jose- phine (Cassat) Cottrill, of Cleveland, Ohio, and our subject. The maternal grand- parents of Massillon Cassat were Huguenots who left France during the persecution, their name being Guizot, the historian by that name having been a relative. His paternal grandfather, Dr. Francis Cassat, practiced medicine at Oxford, Ohio. His wife's name was Mary (Vanzant) Cassat. Our subject was educated in Cincinnati, and was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1864. On June 5, 1890, he was united in marriage to Miss Emma E., daughter of Harrison and Rebecca (Paxton) Smethurst, of Cincinnati, Ohio. This union has been blessed with two children: Bernard Austin Cassat, born April 17, 1891, and Helen Paxton Cassat, born December 27, 1892. The Doctor is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association. He is librarian of the Cincinnati Natural History Society. Politically he is a Republican; in religion a Methodist.

J. C. MACKENZIE, physician, office No. 114 West Seventh street, Cincinnati, was born in Scotland, May 21, 1842, a son of R. H. and Marion H. (Macheren) Macken- zie, also natives of Scotland, and of Scotch parentage. The father, who was a merchant, immigrated with his family to Cincinnati in 1849. Here the parents died, the father in 1892, the mother in 1865. Their three living children reside in Cincinnati: J. C., R. H. and Charlotte H. Dr. Mackenzie received his literary education at Herron's Academy in Cincinnati, and was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1865. He has since practiced the profession in Cincinnati. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Society.

G. K. TAYLOR, physician and surgeon, Cincinnati, was born January 28, 1837, at a point on the old National pike thirty-three miles west of Wheeling, W. Va., and forty-one miles east of Zanesville, Ohio, one of nine sons of Alexander D. Taylor, who was born in 1799 in Ohio, and whose father was born in Scotland. A. D. Tay-

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lor was an attorney at law, also for many years a brigadier-general in the United States Militia, and died at Cambridge, Ohio, in October, 1863. The mother's father, Joseph Danner, was born on the river Rhine, Germany, and died in Belmont county, Ohio; the mother, Sarah Danner, was born at Middletown, Va., in 1802. She took great pride in raising and educating her children, and she was a stanch advocate of Woman's Rights and Temperance.

The subject of this notice was raised on a farm, and when a young man taught school half the year, attending school the other half. In this way he supported himself and was enabled to study medicine with J. W. Warfield, M. D., of Barnes- ville, Ohio. He graduated at Bellevue Medical College, New York City, in March, 1866, and began the practice of his profession the same month in Cincinnati, where he still continues. On June 10, 1869, he was united in marriage with Edith S. Speer. In religion they are Protestants. Dr. Taylor was an adherent of Fremont during his campaign, but has since been a member of the Republican party. He was one of seven brothers to answer the call of Abraham Lincoln, and served as second lieutenant of Company B, Ninety-seventh O. V. I. He was a pension exam- iner and surgeon for about fifteen years. The Doctor is ardently attached to his profession, and says: "The physician of to-day is little thanked and poorly paid, and unless he has a pride in his profession he has little inducement to encourage advancement of the science. The standard of the physician of to-day is far too low for this age. One of the great weak points is in diagnosis, where presumption bridges the weakness of the physician too often. Either by accident or real discov- ery, every physician discovers something from his experience, and I will give a few of mine: Erysepelitious fever-though recorded by all authors who have written on the subject as necessarily fatal-can be controlled and cured by full doses of opium. Peritonitis in most cases yields to large doses of turpentine. Gallstone can be obliterated and cured by giving fresh beef gall. I am of the opinion that the disturbing cause in diabetes melletes is in the liver, and that the universal laws of diet are mistakes-that the best living and tonics gives better results."

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 102

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