History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 104

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

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OTTO FULS, physician and surgeon, office and residence, No. 215 Apple street, Cumminsville, Cincinnati, was born in Germany, April 24, 1843, son of Heinrich and Sophia (Sonneborn) Fuls, both natives of Germany, the former at one time judge of the police court in Alfeld, in that country. Both are now deceased. Our subject received his early education in the common schools of Germany, and after coming to America studied under the tutelage of Dr. Hoeltge, of Linn street; was graduated from the Miami Medical College in 1870, and was, with one exception, the only native-born German in the class. He first opened an office for the practice of his profession at Reading, Ohio, and later removed to Cumminsville, where he has since resided. Dr. Fuls was united in marriage with Miss Barbara, daughter- of Henry and Magdalena Martin, both natives of Germany, and this union has been - blessed with two daughters: Emily, born April 26, 1871, and Alice, born May 15, 1872; Alice is married, Emily resides with her parents. The family attend the First German Evangelical Protestant Church of Cumminsville. The Doctor is a member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor; politically he affiliates with the Republican party.

WILLIAM FERNANDO TAYLOR, M. D., was born in Shelby county, Ohio, March 26, 1845, a son of Joseph L. and Margaret (Shafer) Taylor, the former a native of Vermont, the latter of Ohio. Joseph L. Taylor was educated at Townsend, Vt., and was a fellow-student with the late Hon. Alphonso Taft, under the tutorage of the latter's father. Joseph L. Taylor removed from Shelby county, Ohio, to Cov- ington. Ky., in 1850, and was for many years engaged as a woolen merchant in Cincinnati; he now resides in Covington.

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Our subject was educated at Herron's Seminary, Cincinnati, graduating there- from in 1859. Until the breaking out of the Civil war he was engaged in business with his father. In 1861 he became attached to the staff of Dr. Thomas, in the Gov- ernment Hospital, Covington, and began the study of medicine under the preceptor- ship of Dr. Thomas. At the outset of the war he was an orderly on Col. Sipes' staff, and afterward, at the close of the war, he entered the Forty-first Kentucky Regiment, serving one month when the war closed. From 1864 to 1866 he was variously employed in steamboating on the Ohio. After several years he resumed the study of medicine, and was graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession in the city. In 1883 Dr. Taylor was a member of the Faculty of his alma mater, occupying the chair of professor of dermatology. Dr. Taylor is a member of the Ohio Consistory, of Lafayette Lodge No. SI F. & A. M .; Willis Chapter and Cres- cent Lodge, Knights of Pythias; B. P. O. E. No. 5; member of the Grand Lodge K. of P. of Ohio; and a trustee of Pythian Home, Springfield, Ohio. In politics he is a Republican, and he is a life member of the Lincoln Club. On August 26, 1866, the Doctor was married to Clara, daughter of James McLaughlin, and great-grand- daughter of Rev. James Hurdus, the founder of the first Swedenborgian Church in Cincinnati. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor reside at the " Grand Hotel."

JOHN BELCHER HAIGHT, physician and surgeon, office Pike building, Cincinnati, residence in the city, was born at Clarksville, Ohio, October 31, 1849, and is a son of John and Mary Belcher (Vaughan) Haight, born respectively December 4, 1825, and November 3, 1824, both natives of Goshen, Clermont Co., Ohio. The father is of English ancestry, the family having come to this country during the latter part of the eighteenth century; the mother is of Welsh origin, the family emigrating to this country from Wales about 1630, landing at Portsmouth, N. H., where they set- tled. The Rev. John Haight, father of our subject, is a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and at the present time is residing at Norwood, one of Cincin- nati's lovely suburbs. He and his wife are the parents of two children: Charles Vaughan Haight, attorney at law, residing at Norwood, and John B. Our subject was educated at Miami University, Oxford, and was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, March 1, 1871. Dr. Haight was united in marriage August 31, 1875, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Butterfield and Jessie (Donaldson) Pullan, the former born at Bradford, England, April 3, 1818, the latter at New Richmond, Ohio, April 29, 1823, of English parentage. Dr. and Mrs. Haight have one surviving child, a daughter, Elizabeth, born January 10, 1883. They are mem. bers of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Politically the Doctor is a Republican.

I. D. JONES. M. D., was born in Newtown, Hamilton Co., Ohio, December 4, 1843, a son of Daniel Jones, a pioneer of Hamilton county. Our subject in 1865 graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, with the highest honors. He then returned to his native county, and for several years was engaged in teach- ing school, being principal for two years of the California (Ohio) schools, and two years principal of the Columbia schools. He soon afterward began to attend lectures at the Ohio Medical College, where he graduated in 1871. Dr. Jones, while attending his last year's course of lectures, was resident physician of the Good Samaritan Hos- pital. After graduating in medicine in 1871, he soon after came to Walnut Hills, and began the practice of his chosen profession, where he met with good success. He is one of the staff of Christ's Hospital, Cincinnati. In 1876 he formed a part- nership with his brother, John E. Jones, in the practice of medicine.

Dr. John E. Jones was born in Newtown, Hamilton Co., Ohio, January 27, 1834. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1858, and from the Ohio Med- ical College in 1863, when he entered the army as assistant surgeon, serving until the close of the war, and participating in a number of battles. At the close of the war he returned to Hamilton county, since which time he has been actively engaged in

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the practice of medicine. In 1876 the firm of I. D. & J. E. Jones was formed, and to-day is doing a large practice.

LOUIS PHILLIP HOTTENDORF, physician and surgeon, No. 92 Bank street, Cincin- nati, was born in Achim, Province of Hannover, Germany, April 9, 1846, a son of Dr. Augustus Lewis Hottendorf, who was born in Verden, Province of Hannover, Germany, May 10, 1804, and Dorothy Maria Christina (Schubert) Hottendorf, born in Achim, Germany, April 17, 1813. The father graduated in medicine in Wuerz- burg, and for forty-five years practiced his profession in Achim, where he died October 27, 1880, Dr. Augustus L. Hottendorf, father of our subject, was a son of Frederick Augustus Hottendorf, a native of Verden, Germany. He was for yearsa senator from that city, and died at the age of eighty-four.

Our subject attended the schools in Achim, emigrated to the United States on the 1st of September, 1860, and arrived in Cincinnati on the 28th of the same month. Here he studied pharmacy with his brother, Augustus Hottendorf, and later with John A. Singhoff. In the spring of 1866 he returned to Germany and began the . study of medicine at the University of Göttingen, under Profs. Marx, Woehler and Henle. Returning to America, he attended the Ohio Medical College in the year 1867-68 and again in 1870-71, graduating in the spring of 1871. In 1871 he opened an office in Dub- lin, Wayne Co., Indiana, where he practiced until the fall of 1873, when he returned to Achim, Germany, and practiced in conjunction with his father during the following three years. In 1875 he attended lectures at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and in the fall of 1876 returned to America, opening an office at No. 151 York street, Cincinnati, Ohio; later moved to his present residence, No. 92 Bank street, where he has since practiced his profession. Dr. Hottendorf is a member of the Academy of Medicine, and the State Medical Society; has written various articles for the local medical journals, among which we mention: "Hot Water Dressings in the . Treat- ment of Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia;" "The Abortive Treatment of Typhoid Fever;" " A Case of Relapsing Fever;" "Pilocarpine in the Treatment of Scarlatina and Diphtheria." The Doctor was married in Frankfort on the Oder, Germany, September 15, 1876, to Elizabeth Wilhelmine Mary Zickerick, daughter of Theodore Hermann and Mary Pauline (Franke) Zickerick. Her father was born in Cuestrin on the Warthe, Germany, August 11, 1826, and died January 23, 1886, in Frank- fort on the Oder, Germany. Dr. and Mrs. Hottendorf have three children: Eliza- beth Dorathy Mary, born October 31, 1877; Louis Theodore Augustus, born August. 25, 1883, and Ida Margaret Louise Phillipine, born October 3, 1890.

RUFUS BARTLETT HALL, physician and surgeon, office No. 154 West Eighth street, Cincinnati, and residence No. 37 Crown street, Walnut Hills, was born in Aurelius township, Washington Co., Ohio, May 15, 1849, a son of Joseph B. and Irene (Bartlett) Hall, natives of New York State, and of Scotch and English origin. His paternal grandfather was Justis Hall, a native of New York, who settled at Marietta, Ohio, and afterward removed to Aurelius township, where the farm upon which he located is now owned by his grandson, Levy Hall, brother of the subject of this sketch. Joseph Hall, who was a farmer and millwright by occupation, died in April, 1886, at the age of seventy-six. His family consisted of fourteen children, eight of whom are living: William H., a merchant of Osceola, Iowa; James, a farmer in Aurelius township; George W .. a farmer at Morse, Kans. ; Rufus B., the subject of this sketch; Willard A., a physician and surgeon at Chillicothe, Ohio; Levy, a farmer in Aurelius township; Willis W., a physician and surgeon at Springfield, Ohio, and Margaret Ann (Hall) McCurdy, in Barlow township, Washington Co., Ohio.

The subject of this sketch was reared on the homestead farm, and attended the local schools. At the age of thirteen he entered a select school at Marietta, and five years later he engaged in teaching in his native township; this he continued two years, during which period he began the study of medicine. In 1869 he matricu- lated at Miami Medical College, graduating in 1872, and on March 26, same year,

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he opened an office for the practice of his profession at New England, Athens Co., Ohio. Two years later he removed to Santa Barbara, Cal., where he practiced one year. After a brief visit to his home he made an extended tour of the Southern States, and upon his return he located in Chillicothe, where he was in active prac- tice until April, 1888, when he came to Cincinnati and opened an office at No. 281 West Seventh street, whence, a year later, he removed to his present location. In

1884 he went to Europe, where he spent one year under private tutors in surgery. Since his return the Doctor has made a specialty of gynecology. He is a member

of the British Gynecological Association, the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; the Southern Medical and Gynecological Society; the American Medical Association; the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and other professional organizations. He is surgeon in charge of the department of abdominal diseases at the Presbyterian Hospital, clinical professor of surgical diseases of women at the Miami Medical College, and clinical gynecologist for the same institution. He has contributed frequent articles on abdominal surgery and gynecology to the Medical Record, the Cincinnati Lancet Clinic, and the American Journal of Obstetrics. On March 14, 1872, the Doctor married Margaret, daughter of Joseph and Ann (Bigley) Chandler, and they are the parents of four children: Joseph Arda, born December 4, 1872, and now a student at Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware; Anna Leona, born October 9, 1874; Lydia, deceased, and Rufus Bartlett, Jr., born May 9, 1886. Dr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Second Presbyterian Church. The Doctor is a member of the I. O. O. F., and is a Knight Templar of the Masonic Fraternity; he is a Republican in politics.

FRED LANGENBECK, M. D. This gentleman stands well in the profession. He has been actively engaged in regular practice in Cincinnati for years, and has built up a lucrative practice. He was born in Germany, June 4, 1836, son of George Langenbeck, who was a regular practicing physician in Germany, where he passed his entire life, dying in 1837.

Our subject is the youngest of two children. He was reared and educated in Germany's private schools, came from that country to Cincinnati in 1857, attended the Medical College of Ohio, and was graduated from that institution in 1872. Immediately thereafter he entered upon the practice of his chosen profession in Cin- cinnati, and has been actively identified with it ever since. The Doctor is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, and takes an active interest in his profes- sion. He was united in marriage in Germany, in 1860, to Augusta Adams, which union has been blessed with five children: Nellie, Mamie, Charlotte, Fred and Anna. In politics Dr. Langenbeck is a Republican, but in this as in everything else he is liberal, and tries to cast his vote for the best man.

CHARLES HENRY FOERTMEYER, physician, office and residence No. 486 West Eighth street. Cincinnati, was born in Bohnhorst, Hanover, Germany, March 1, 1841, a son of D. F. W. and Doris (Mente) Foertmeyer, the former born in LoRum, March 10, 1798, the latter in Negenborn, July 28, 1801. The father, who was a school teacher and organist, departed this life May 24, 1861. He was a son of Wilhelm and Louisa (Mell) Foertmeyer, the former of whom was a tailor by occu- pation; his father was lieutenant of artillery in the battle of Dettingen, in 1743, when 35,000 English and Hanoverians defeated 60,000 French.

Dr. Foertmeyer received his early education at Bohnhorst, came to America, and studied pharmacy, afterward studied medicine with Dr. C. A. Miller (since deceased), graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, in the spring of 1872, and opened an office at No. 120 Mill street, Cincinnati, for the practice of his profession, later mov- ing to his present location. The Doctor is a general practitioner; is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. Ohio State Medical Society, and the Knights of Honor, and for twelve years has been medical examiner for this order. In 1878-79 the Doctor was medical examiner of the insane at the probate court. On February

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3, 1868, he was united in marriage to Rose Rentz, daughter of Sebastian and Cecelia Rentz, of Cincinnati. Politically, the Doctor is in sympathy with the Republican party; in religious faith he is a Protestant.

GEORGE CONNER, M. D., was born April 15, 1844, at .New Richmond, Clermont Co., Ohio. His paternal and maternal ancestors saw active service in the Revolu- tionary struggle for American independence. John Conner, his father, was born near Meadville, Crawford Co., Penn., of English and Irish parentage, and during his early life he was a carpenter, subsequently engaging in the steamboat business. He built the "Lancaster" steamboat " No. 3," which was constructed into a govern- ment ram during the Civil war, and did service as a war vessel. Mr. Conner was well and favorably known among steamboat people. During his latter days he retired from active labors, and resided on the old homestead in Clermont county, where he died in 1886, aged eighty-four years. His wife, whose maiden name was Amanda Jeffries, was born at Auburn, N. Y., of Welsh parentage. There were five children born to John and Amanda Conner, of whom our subject is the fourth.

George Conner was brought up at farm labor, and attended the district school of his neighborhood. In 1862, he enlisted in Company G, Fiftieth O. V. I., and par- ticipated with that regiment in many battles and skirmishes. He was with Gen. Sherman during his famous Atlanta campaign, and was also with Gen. Thomas at the battle of Jacksborough, July 22, 1862. At the close of the war, Dr. Conner returned home, and soon afterward entered Parker's Academy where he was gradu- ted in 1866. He attended Miami Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1872, with the degree of M. D., and he at once began the practice of medicine in Cincinnati, which he has since continued. The Doctor has taken an active inter- est in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and the State Medical Society. He has frequently written for newspapers and various periodicals. Politically he is a Repub- lican, and he is an active member of the Gen. George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R. He was married January 1, 1869, to Eliza Archard, daughter of James Archard.

Mrs. Eliza (Archard) Conner was born near Cincinnati, in Clermont county, Ohio, not far from the early home of Gen. Grant, Prof. David Swing and other na- tional celebrities. Her family were of Quaker, German Moravian, Irish and English Presbyterian stock, one of whom founded the town of New Richmond. She was graduated one year ahead of the class in which she started at Antioch College, Yel- low Springs, Ohio. She taught German and Latin in the Indianapolis High School, where her refusal to accept lower wages than the male teachers received led to a reform in that matter which is still observed. In 1865 she became a regular con- tributor to the Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, under the nom de plume of " Zig," and later to the Cincinnati Commercial under her initials "E. A." In 1878 she accepted a position on the editorial staff of the Cincinnati Commercial, and in 1884 she became the literary editor of the New York World. In 1885 she became connected with the American Press Association of New York, where she is still engaged in editorial work. She is a member of Sorosis and the New York Woman's Press Club. It is said that she has done as much newspaper work as any woman liv- ing, her daily average having been about two thousand words. She is the author of a book describing her experience in foreign lands, and has also written several ser- ial stories, besides an important special series of articles upon the Civil war. In her girlhood she was enthusiastic for the higher education of women. She has organized classes among her sex for instruction in parliamentary usage, and extempore speak- ing, and in addition to her regular page of general editorial matter, she finds time to edit a special live-stock and dairy department. She is a phenomenal worker, and her life is an instructive illustration of what may be accomplished by a woman in America provided she has brains and pluck. Mrs. Conner has been brought into especial notice on account of her address before the International Press Congress of Chicago. She and her husband are the parents of one child, Halstead A., who is connected with Specker Brothers & Company, Cincinnati.

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JOSIAH T. DRAKE, physician, office and residence No. 38 Barr street, Cincin- nati, is a native of the "Queen City," having been born at No. 142 Broadway, Sep- tember 21. 1846, a son of Josiah Drake and Catherine (Kugler) Drake, the former a native of New Hampshire, of English descent, the latter of Ohio, of Dutch origin. Josiah Drake was one of the pioneer book merchants of Cincinnati. His house was at No. 14 Main street, a short distance above Front. He was very successful for years, but became involved, and was among the very first of our citizens to go to Cal- ifornia, where he was quite successful. He was a high-toned, honorable, kind-hearted man, who had a pleasant word for all, and no mendicant was ever turned away from his door unrelieved. He was a brother to Drake, the celebrated bookman in Boston, who stands at the head of the houses in this country in his knowledge of antiquated works. Josiah Drake died in Avondale, December 24, 1887; the mother, Catherine Drake, died in Cincinnati, December 11, 1874. They were the parents of five chil- dren, namely, Ada Paulina Drake, and Emma Amelia Gibbs, both of Ithaca N. Y .; Elizabeth Love Gatch, Clermont county; Matthias K. Drake, of New Jersey, and Josiah T.

Our subject was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, graduated in medicine from the Medical College of Ohio, March 1, 1872, and has since prac- ticed his profession in Cincinnati. On February 13, 1877, Dr. Drake was united in marriage to Miss Fanny Curtis (Simms), of Kentucky, a daughter of John and Jenny (Ballard) Simms, also of Kentucky, and of American origin. Mrs. Drake is a High Church Episcopalian. The Doctor is not a member of any church. Socially he is a member of the Knights of Pythias; politically he is an independent voter.

AUGUSTUS RAVOGLI, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 88 West Seventh street, Cincinnati, was born at Rome, Italy, February 7, 1851, the eldest in the family of seven children, five of whom are living, born to Michael and Francis (Moriconi) Ravogli. He was educated in his native country, graduating in medicine August 14, 1873. His first professional experience was a service of six months as physician on board the steamship " Asia." After a brief period of preparation he entered a competitive examination for hospital honors; in this he was eminently suc- cessful, taking the highest rank in a class of eighteen. He was equally fortunate in a contest for a government prize of two years abroad, and spent this period in the study of skin diseases at Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Wurzberg, Munich, and various other cities. After his return to Rome he was surgeon in the government hospital five years, and assistant professor of skin diseases at the university at that city.

In December, 1880, he immigrated to America, landing at New York January 1, 1881. He came immediately to Cincinnati, and was successively located at No. 298 Vine street, No. 292 Walnut street, and No. 63 West Eighth street until June, 1881, when he opened his present office. The Doctor makes a specialty of skin diseases, in the treatment of which he is a recognized authority. For the past six years he has held the position of clinical lecturer on the subject of skin diseases at the Miami Medical College; he is also professor of this branch of medical science at the Cin- cinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and a frequent contributor to various medi- cal journals. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the examining com- mittee of the American Medical Congress. The Doctor is a 32º Mason; in politics he is a Republican, and is a member of the Lincoln and Blaine Clubs. He represents his native country in the capacity of vice-consul at Cincinnati. In March, 1878, Dr. Ravolgi was united in marriage with Miss Julia Schindlin, of Vienna.

LAWRENCE C. CARR, M. D., office and residence No. 143 West Seventh street, was born in Louisiana, March 10, 1855, a son of John and Rosa M. (Multen) Carr. His mother was a native of Louisiana, and died in August, 1862. His father was born in Ireland, and was a contractor by occupation; during the Civil war he was captain in the Fifteenth O. V. I., and was killed at the battle of Perryville, Ky., in Septem- ber, 1863.

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The subject of this sketch received his early education in the public schools of St. Louis, Mo., and is a graduate of St. Mary's College, Dayton, Ohio. He began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. W. C. Brown, graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1873, and immediately opened an office for the prac- tice of his profession at No. 128 Smith street, Cincinnati. From 1884 to 1889 he was professor of obstetrics at the Cincinnati College of Medicine, and at the present time he is surgeon of the First Infantry, Ohio National Guards. The Doctor is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society; the Cincinnati Medical Society; the American Medical Association; the Association of Military Surgeons; the Cincinnati Literary Club; the Ohio Commandery of the Loyal Legion, and of the Knights of Pythias. Politically, he is in sympathy with the Democratic party.

DR. WILLIAM HENRY FALLS is a native of Cincinnati, where he has lived all his life. He was born November 24, 1849, a son of Henry Falls, a carpet dealer of Cincinnati, who for many years was one of the city's leading merchants. The mother of our subject was a sister of Dr. William Clendenin, of Cincinnati.

Dr. Falls was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. Clendenin, and graduated at Miami Medical College in 1873. For a year he was an interne at the Cincinnati Hospital, and then he associated himself with the late Dr. William H. Mussey, as his assistant, serving in that capacity for five years when he became his partner, and remained as such until the death of Dr. Musssy in 1882. For two years Dr. Falls was physician at the Branch Hospital of the Cincinnati Hospital. From 1878 to 1880 he was prominent as a member of the Cincinnati board of education. He is a member of the Cincinnati Medical Society, and of the Ohio State Medical Society. Dr. Falls has on several occasions been solicited to accept positions in the hospital and colleges of the city, but has always declined such offers, preferring to devote his entire time to his regular medical and professional work. Being of Scotch-Irish descent, he was early imbued with the Presbyterian faith, his ancestors on both sides having been Presbyterians. He is a. member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and is an elder and treasurer of the church. Whatever of success in life he has attained he attributes to the coun- sel of his godly mother, and his associations with Drs. Clendenin and Mussey-both men of strong character-and the noble examples they, in their honest lives, placed before him for emulation.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 104

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