History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 105

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

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WILLIAM EBERLE SHAW, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 514 Colerain avenue, Cincinnati, was born near Moscow, Clermont Co., Ohio, April 2, 1848, a son of Jonathan R. and Lina (Wyatt) Shaw, the former of whom was the- youngest son of the pioneer Hon. John Shaw, of Clermont county, Ohio, of Virginia and Kentucky ancestors, and of Irish and Welsh extraction, respectively. Jonathan R. Shaw (father of our subject) and his father were successful farmers in southern Clermont county, near New Richmond, Ohio, where the latter, Hon. John Shaw, located in the very beginning of the century, having crossed the Ohio river from Campbell county, Kentucky.

Our subject received his early education at Prof. J. K. Parker's Clermont Acad- emy, and in 1868 began the study of medicine with Dr. Kincaid, of New Richmond, Ohio. In the spring of 1873 he was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, and began the practice of his profession March 17, 1873, in Union, Boone Co., Ky., where he remained a very short time, when his beloved and esteemed teacher, Prof. Dawson (now deceased), offered him a position as interne in the Good Samaritan Hospital, made vacant by the death from cholera of Dr. Quick. Upon leaving the. hospital in March, 1874, the Doctor located near his present office and residence, and has since continuously practiced. Dr. Shaw is a member of the Academy of Medi- cine; Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association; he is also a member of Hoffner Lodge, F. & A. M. On November 7, 1878, the Doctor was married to Miss Mary E., daughter of the late Hon. Joseph C. and Amanda Hughes,

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of . Boone county. This union is blessed with four children: Juliet, born August 16, 1879; Joseph Hughes, born October 26, 1883; William E., Jr., born July 1, 1887, and Ruth, born January 16, 1891. Dr. and Mrs. Shaw are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; politically he is a Democrat, but a liberal independent voter.

E. GUSTAV ZINKE, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 85 Garfield place, Cincinnati, was born in Spremberg, Province of Brandenburg, Germany, May 29, 1846, a son of Earnest W. and Amelia (Martin) Zinke, the former of whom, who was a boot and shoe merchant, died in 1874, at Goerlitz, Silesia, Germany, aged fifty-nine; the latter died in the same place aged seventy-three, in 1894.

Our subject is the second in a family of seven children, five of whom are living. He was educated in the common schools of Goerlitz, and when sixteen years of age entered the Prussian navy, serving his country for eight years, and during this service he had an opportunity of visiting all the important ports of the old and new world. He was several times promoted. One of his ships took part in the opening exercises of the Suez Canal, November 29, 1869, and shortly after went to South America, where some of the crew contracted yellow fever, in consequence of which the vessel was at once ordered north. While off the coast of the United States, our subject decided to take "French leave," and carried out his desire soon after his ship arrived in New York. He proceeded at once to Virden, Ill., where he spent two years working on a farm, attending school and teaching German. In 1872, he began the study of medicine under Dr. Jones, a homeopathist of Girard, Ill. Six months later he entered the office of a regular physician, Dr. J. R. Mitchell, of the same town. He matriculated at the Medical College of Ohio in the fall of 1873, graduated in the spring of 1875, and at once entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in Cincinnati. He never severed his connection with his alma mater, and served consecutively this time-honored institution, first in the capacity of assistant to the chair of ophthalmology and otology, under Prof. W. W. Seely, as prosector to the chair of anatomy under Prof. P. S. Conner, and as assistant to the chair of obstetrics and gynecology. When the occupant of that chair, Prof. C. D. Palmer, met with a serious accident which disabled him for months, Dr. Zinke was called upon to fill the temporary vacancy. Upon the return of Dr. Palmer to his duties, as a reward for his services Dr. Zinke was appointed adjunct professor of obstetrics and clinical midwifery, an office created especially for him, and which he still holds. Soon after, Dr. Zinke successfully inaugurated the outdoor obstetrical clinic, of the Medical College of Ohio, and, under his energetic efforts and skillful management, this clinic became one of the most important of the college. Dr. Zinke also lent his time and experience to organizing and establishing, in Cincinnati, the German Protestant Hospital, becoming a member of its board, of managers and president of its medical staff. He is in charge of the wards devoted to diseases of women and midwifery in this institution. He is also consulting gynecologist to the Presby- terian Hospital and Woman's Medical College; president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; a member of the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, of which he was presi- dent (1885); a member of the American Medical Association; the British Gynæco- logical Association; the Ohio State Medical Society, etc.

In spite of the duties of a large practice, Dr. Zinke has found time to do con- siderable literary work for the medical press of this country, and among the more important of his contributions we mention: "Treatment of Diphtheria by Quinia Inhalation;" "Emmet's Operation: When shall it, and when shall it not, be per- formed ?" "The use of Chloroform during Labor;" "The Treatment of Hemor- rhoids by Carbolic Acid Injections; " "Puerperal Fever and the Early Employment of Antiseptic Vaginal Injections;" "Gastro-Elytrotomy and the Porro Operation vs. The Saenger Method of Performing Cesarean Section;" "Cesarean Section, with report of a Case, and a full, Description of the Saenger Operation;" "Varie- ties and Causes of Extra Uterine Pregnancy," and others. Dr. Zinke performed,

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January, 1893, the first successful Cesarean section for Cincinnati, saving both mother and child; in May of the same year, he performed the first "Symphyseot- omy " in the State of Ohio, also saving both lives. Dr. Zinke was united in marriage March 26, 1879, with Miss Clara Von Seggern, eldest daughter of Chris Von Seg- gern, a well-known attorney of Cincinnati, and to this marriage two children have been born: Stanley G., born August 25, 1880, and Edna A., born November 29, 1883. In 1891 Dr. Zinke with his family went abroad for six months, visiting Paris, Vienna, Breslau, Berlin, London and Birmingham, and on his return pur- chased his present elegant residence at No. 85 Garfield place. Dr. Zinke and wife are members of the St. John's Lutheran Church. The Doctor is a thirty-second degree Mason; politically he is a stalwart Republican.

DR. JAMES GILMOUR HYNDMAN, M. D., No. 98 West Ninth street, Cincinnati, was born in that city, September 12, 1853. His parents, William Graves and Barbara (Gilmour) Hyndman, who were natives of the North of Ireland, came to this country while children, receiving their education here. His father has had a successful business career as a manufacturer of iron roofing, and is a man whose inventive genius has contributed largely to his success.

The Doctor received his preliminary education in Cincinnati, where, at the age of seventeen, he graduated at Woodward High School. His medical studies were begun under the preceptorship of Dr. James T. Whittaker, and in 1874 he gradu- ated from the Medical College of Ohio. Entering a competitive examination, he was successful in obtaining the position of resident physician to the Cincinnati Hospital, in which capacity he served for two years, and then opened an office for the practice of his profession. For several years he acted as assistant editor of the Clinic, a local medical journal, in connection with which journal and its successors he has contrib- uted quite extensively to medical literature. In addition to numerous articles on medical subjects, published in medical journals, he was one of the translators, from the German, of Ziemssen's Cyclopedia of Medicine, probably the most extensive medical publication ever issued. In 1879, he was made professor of medical chem- istry and clinical laryngology in his alma mater, the Medical College of Ohio, which chair he still occupies. He has, since 1881, been secretary of the Faculty of this school. His tastes led him to devote special attention to diseases of the throat and air passages, and the greater portion of his literary and professional work has been in this department. In addition to his professorship, he has for several years been the chief of the large throat dispensary connected with the Medical College of Ohio, and is consulting laryngologist of the German Hospital. The Doctor is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; the Ohio State Medical Society; the Section of Laryngology and Otology of the American Medical Association; the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society, etc. In June, 1883, he was married to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel M. Mitchell, a prominent banker, and one of the oldest citizens of Martinsville, Indiana.

CHARLES ALFRED LEE REED, M. D., is the second son of R. C. Stockton Reed, M. D., by his first wife, Nancy Reed (born Clark), and was born at Wolf Lake, Noble Co., Indiana, July 9, 1856. In consequence of the death of his mother July 15, 1856, he was brought to Ohio when a little over two months of age, and was reared during the succeeding ten years by his grandparents in Montgomery county, Ohio. A year later he was installed as a pupil in the private academy of Prof. Starr, of Danbury, Conn., then located at Seven Mile, Ohio, and became famous as a success- ful teacher of classics. Beginning three years later, four years were spent in alter- nate attendance upon medical lectures and under private instruction on allied liter- ary and scientific subjects, the interval of six months between the lecture courses being occupied in the latter manner. The degree of M.D. was conferred upon him February 16, 1874, by the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, in which institution his father was then professor of materia medica and therapeutics, and sub-

Charles A.L. Need

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sequently dean of the Faculty. From 1874 to 1878 Dr. Reed practiced his profes- sion in Cincinnati, occupying the professorship of general pathology at his alma mater in the latter two of these years. In the spring of 1878, in consequence of impaired health, he removed to Fidelity, Jersey Co., Ill., where he practiced until 1880, at which time he returned to Ohio, locating at Hamilton. In 1882 he re- newed his connection with the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery (Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati), by accepting the professorship of dis- eases of women and abdominal surgery, which chair he still occupies. In 1886, at the invitation of Mr. Lawson Tait, of Birmingham, England, he visited that world- renowned surgeon, and became his assistant. Returning to America after having visited the leading operators of Europe, he resumed his residence in Cincinnati in September, 1887, devoting himself exclusively to the treatment of the diseases of women and abdominal surgery, being the first member of his profession in Cincin- nati to thus limit his practice. In 1887, while in London, Dr. Reed was made a Life Fellow of the British Gynecological Society. In 1888 he became one of the founders of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an organ- ization of limited membership restricted to the leading practitioners in that depart- ment in America, and which has been one of the most conspicuously successful scientific organizations on the continent. In 1890 at Nashville, Tenn., Dr. Reed was elected chairman of the section of obstetrics and diseases of women of the Amer- ican Medical Association, and presided in that capacity at the meeting held at Washington, D. C., the ensuing year. In 1891 Dr. Reed was elected, at St. Louis, president of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, embracing all of the interior States, and presided at the meeting of the same held in Cincinnati in 1892. In 1891 he was elected dean of the Faculty of the Cincinnati College of Medicine

and Surgery, which position he now occupies. In 1892 he was nominated by the board of education, and confirmed by the board of legislation of Cincinnati, as a member of the directors of the University of Cincinnati. In addition to the medical societies already mentioned, Dr. Reed is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, and various local medical organizations. He and six others, under the chairmanship of Prof. Jacobi, of New York, comprised the American committee of the World's International Medical Congress which met at Rome, Italy, in 1894. Dr. Reed's contributions to the current medical literature have been numerous. At the general session of the American Medical Association, on that occasion he framed and introduced a resolution under the terms of which the American Medical Association extended an invitation to the medical profession of the Eastern Hemisphere to meet in the United States in an Intercontinental American Medical Congress. The result was the enthusiastic adoption of the reso- lution and the assembling, under the auspices of the United States Government, of the First Pan-American Medical Congress in Washington, D. C., September 5 and 8, 1893. The work of organizing this congress, which was attended by nearly a thousand members, eighteen American countries and colonies being represented, devolved almost exclusively upon Dr. Reed who served the organization in the capacity of secretary-general. At the conclusion of the congress, and on the occasion of the visit of the foreign delegates to Philadelphia, the president of the congress, provost of the University of Pennsylvania in the library of that institution, presented Dr. Reed with an elegant silver salver inscribed as follows: "Presented to Dr. C. A. L. Reed, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Secretary-General, by the members of the First Pan-American Medical Congress Washington, D. C., September 5 and 8, 1893, to commemorate the brilliant success largely due to his faithful and devoted efforts in its organization of that important occasion, when for the first time the representatives of the Medical Profession of the Western Hemisphere met in council for the advancement of science and the promotion of the public health."

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Dr. Reed was married May 27, 1880, to Irene Eliza Dougharty, of Otterville, Ill., and two children-Winnifred, born January 13, 1884, and Lawson F., born December 4, 1888-have been the result of this union.

ISAAC C. MILLER, M. D., was born August 1, 1852, à son of Isaac C. and Eliza- beth C. (Hey) Miller, and a grandson of John R. Miller, born in 1786, who came to Cincinnati in 1798, and Mary (Dunham) Miller, born in 1799. Isaac C. Miller, Sr., was graduated at the Medical College of Ohio in 1844, and was a successful phy- sician at Cincinnati; he was born August 24, 1815, and died July 15, 1856. 'Mrs. Elizabeth C. (Hey) Miller was born at Cincinnati, December 22, 1829, a daughter of Bartholomew and Elizabeth (Paull) Hey, the former of whom was born in Sher- burn, Yorkshire, England, in 1799, and died, in 1837, at Cincinnati, where he was engaged as a merchant.

The subject of this sketch attended the public schools of Cincinnati in his boy- hood, but after the age of twelve his education was pursued in England and Ger- many. Returning to America, he began the study of medicine under Dr. John Davis, and graduated from Miami Medical College in 1874. He immediately opened an office for the practice of his profession on Colerain avenue, near Hoffner street, in the Twenty-fifth Ward of Cincinnati, but removed to Knoxville, Tenn., a short time afterward. His success at that city, however, being unsatisfactory, he returned to Ohio, locating in Green township, Hamilton county; but failing to find a country practice congenial, he returned to Cincinnati, where he opened an office at his pres- ent location, No. 298 Auburn avenue, near Vine street, Mt. Auburn. The Doctor is a general practitioner, and one of the successful but unassuming physicians of the city. He is connected with the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery as clin- ical assistant in the obstetrical department. In June, 1877, Dr. Miller was united in marriage with Sophia Kisker, of Cincinnati, a daughter of Sophia and Frederick Kisker, who came to that city from Westphalia, Germany. One child has been born to this union: Esther Alberta, a student at Miss Lucy Sargent's school for young ladies, at Mt. Auburn. In politics the Doctor is independent.

JOHN A. CULVER, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 1023 West Eighth street, was born at Napoleon, Indiana, February 10, 1853, a son of James M. and Ellen A. (Murphy) Culver. The father was born in Indiana February 15, 1825, and is descended from an old Maryland family of German and French origin. In his younger days he was engineer of a steamboat on the Ohio river; later was superintendent of bridge repairs; still later a conductor on the O. & M. railroad, and is at present in the grocery business. He is a son of Aaron and Cassender (Hons) Culver, the former in early life an Indian scout and guide and veteran of the war of 1812. Ellen (Murphy) Culver was born at Carbondale, Penn., February 11, 1833, of Irish parentage.

Dr. Culver received his early education at St. Mary's Institute, Dayton, Ohio; Notre Dame University, South Bend. Indiana, and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He studied medicine with Dr. James W. F. Gerrish, at Seymour, Indiana; graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in the spring of 1874, and began the practice of his profession at Seymour, Indiana. After two years he removed to Cincinnati and opened his present office. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the Hamilton County Medical Society. Dr. Culver was united in marriage February 2, 1879. to Miss Emma, daugliter of John and Belinda Jenkins, the former a native of England, the latter of Pennsylvania. This union has been blessed with one son: John M. Culver, born January 25, 1880. Dr. Cul- ver's wife died February 19, 1893.

THOMAS VANHOOK FITZPATRICK, laryngologist and aurist, office No. 136 Garfield place, Cincinnati, residence, Norwood, Hamilton county, Ohio, was born at Nichols- ville, Clermont Co., Ohio, April 9, 1855, son of Solomon and Zerilda (Vanhook) Fitzpatrick, natives of Crab Orchard, Ky. The father, a farmer by occupation,

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was born December 14, 1793, and died February 12, 1868. The mother was born August 26, 1812, and died February 5, 1875. They were the parents of a large family of children, most of whom are now deceased.

Thomas V. Fitzpatrick, after attending Hughes High School, Cincinnati, matricu- lated at the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and was graduated in 1875. In 1890 he received the honorary degree of Ph. D. from Twin Valley Col- lege. He practiced general medicine in Paragon, Indiana, from 1875 to 1876, and fron this to 1887 at New Baltimore, Hamilton Co .. Ohio. The following year he attended the New York Post-Graduate School of Medicine, and since the spring of 1888 has given his attention to laryngology and otology. Dr. Fitzpatrick was united in marriage to Miss Lotta A., daughter of John and Roxie A. (Buell) Willey, whose parents were among the early pioneers of Hamilton county. The issue of

this marriage is one child, E. Verne, now a boy of five summers, Mrs. Fitzpatrick died October 8, 1893. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a member of the American Medical Asso- ciation, Ohio State Medical Society, Miami Valley Association, Mississippi Valley Association, Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, Pan-American Medical Congress, and was secretary of the Ohio State Medical Society, and of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine from 1890 to 1893, and is professor of laryngology and otology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and Woman's Medical College. The Doctor is liberal in his religious views, and politically he is a Republican.

RUDOLPH HUGH REEMELIN, M. D., office, No. 493 Elm street, Cincinnati, was born in Dent, Hamilton Co., Ohio, February 28, 1855, the third son of Hon. Charles Gustav Reemelin (a sketch of whom appears in this volume). He gradu- ated in medicine July 24, 1875, from the University of Julius Maximillian, at Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany, and after visiting the universities at Vienna, Paris and London returned to America and opened an office in Cincinnati, at No. 85 Gar- field place. Here he practiced until 1879, when he moved to Madison, Indiana. In 1884 he returned to Cincinnati and opened his present office.

Hon. Charles Reemelin (father of our subject) has remarked: "The Doctor is the most German of all my children." He is connected with many German soci- eties as physician; is an ardent supporter of the German stage and German song; is the representative of the largest German lodge in the city, in the Odd Fellows' Temple Company Directory, and was instrumental in establishing many of the special features of this splendid building. While in Madison, Indiana, he was a member of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Club that established the cotton-mill, woolen-mill and opera-house in that city. Dr. Reemelin was married October 18, 1882, to Miss Clara, daughter of Otto Marmet, of Cincinnati, and this union is blessed with three children: Sallie, born March 20, 1884; Otto, born August 30, 1886, and Lena Louisa, born August 14, 1893. The Doctor is a member of the Cin- cinnati Academy of Medicine; politically he is a Democrat.

GILES SANDY MITCHELL, M. D., is a native of Indiana, born May 31, 1852. His parents were also natives of that State, and their home was at Martinsville, Indiana, where the father, Samuel M. Mitchell, was the leading banker until his death, which occurred July 14, 1892. Dr. Mitchell's middle name is the family name of his mother. Col. Giles Mitchell, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Vir- ginia. William Mitchell, the great-grandfather of Dr. Mitchell, was born in 1747, also in Virginia; was a soldier under Washington, and was present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown. In the latter part of the eighteenth century Col. Giles Mitchell migrated to Indiana when it was a territory, and established his rights there as a commander of a regiment of Indiana militia by many a hard fight with the Indians. The Doctor was educated at the Indiana State University, Bloom- ington, where he graduated in the class of 1873, and he at once came to Cincinnati and began the study of medicine with Dr. T. A. Reamy. After graduating at the Medical College of Ohio in 1875 he began the practice of his profession with his

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erstwhile preceptor as a partner. He assisted Dr. Reamy in establishing his hos- pital, the first headquarters of the institution being at the corner of Vine and Sev- enth streets. Soon after securing his degree of M. D., in 1875, Dr. Mitchell was married to Miss Mary A. Reamy, only daughter of his preceptor and partner. A year later his wife died from tuberculosis, when Dr. Mitchell found himself suffer- ing from the same malady. He at once set about the business of getting well, and to this end went to the south of France. This was in 1876. After spending sev- eral months in France and southern Italy he entirely recovered his health. He then repaired to Vienna, where for fifteen months he devoted himself to the study of his profession. He then spent some time in Strasburg, finally returning to America, and to Cincinnati in 1878, when he resumed the practice of medicine. On October 22, 1883, Dr. Mitchell was again married, his second wife being Miss Esther DeCamp, eldest daughter of John and Serena Hildreth DeCamp, a young woman of fine musical talents and varied accomplishments, a graduate of the art department of the University of Cincinnati, from which institution she received the gold medal for superior excellence in drawing and wood carving.

Dr. Mitchell is an ex-president of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; a mem- ber of the American Medical Association and the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society. He is professor of obstetrics in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and professor of clinical gynecology in the Presbyterian Hospital and Woman's Medical College of Cincinnati. He is a frequent contributor to current medical literature. He was the executive president of the obstetrical section of the first Pan-American Medical Congress held in Washington, D. C., 1893. His home is now on West Eighth street, Cincinnati.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 105

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