History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 107

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

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WILLIAM EDWARD BLOYER, physician and surgeon, office No. 515 Elm street, Cin- cinnati. was born February 13, 1853, in Chambersburgh, Franklin Co., Penn., son of Joseph and Martha (McGowan) Bloyer. The former, a native of Germany, came to America with his parents when quite young, learned the shoemaker's trade, which he followed for some years, and later became a farmer; he is now living in retire- ment. Martha (McGowan) Bloyer was born, in 1827, in Chambersburgh, Penn., of Irish and American parentage. Dr. Bloyer received his early education in the pub- lic schools of Chambersburgh, Chambersburgh Academy, and finished under a private tutor. He studied medicine with Dr. H. F. Wildasin, of Plattsburgh, Ohio, and in June, 1879, graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. In Sep- tember of the same year he opened an office for the practice of his profession at. Catawba, Clark Co., Ohio, and practiced there until October, 1887, when he came to Cincinnati and located where we now find him. Dr. Bloyer is a general practitioner. He is a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association; the Ohio State Eclec- tic Medical Society, of which he is an ex-president, and of which he was secretary for five years, and the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Society, of which he is also ex- president. He has been professor of anatomy at the Eclectic Medical Institute of this city since 1887, and resident physician of the Eclectic Hospital. The Doctor is editor of The Eclectic Medical Gleaner. He was united in marriage, November 2, 1876, with Helen A. Pinckney, daughter of William and Abagail (Root) Pinckney, and this union was blessed with three children: Maud G., born August 8, 1877; Mary A., born August 30, 1881, and Willie P., born May 20, 1883.

FREDERICK OGDEN MARSH, M.D., office and residence No. 646 Main street, is a native of the Buckeye State, born January 31, 1859, in Warren county. His par- ents, John and Elmira (Spence) Ogden, were of Scotch-Irish origin, and were natives of the United States; their ancestors came to America in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Both died in Madisonville, Ohio, the father October 1, 1890, the mother September 18, 1891. The family consisted of but two chil- dren, only one now living, our subject, who was reared and educated in Ohio. He very naturally chose the profession of his father, and studied medicine at the University of Cincinnati, where he was graduated in 1879 with the degree of Bache- lor of Arts, and in 1880 with the degree of Master of Arts. He has been actively engaged in the practice of his chosen profession in Cincinnati since 1884. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and the Ohio State Medical Society. In religion he is a member of the Presbyterian Church; politically, a mugwump.

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WILLIAM HERBERT BELL, physician and surgeon, office No. 290 Race street, resi- dence Crescent Ridge avenue, Clifton, was born at Cincinnati December 10, 1859, a son of Herbert and Sarah Cooper (Procter) Bell, and grandson of John Bell, a merchant of Belfast, Ireland. His father was born at Belfast, immigrated to Cin- cinnati, and was a successful commission merchant, but is now retired from business. His mother is a native of Cincinnati, a daughter of W. Procter, senior member of the firm of Procter & Gamble. Dr. Bell received his education at the schools of Cin- cinnati, and at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio. He began the study of medicine under Drs. M. Gault and J. L. Davis, and is a graduate of Miami Medical College of Cincinnati and the Polyclinic of New York. He began the practice of his pro- fession in Clifton, but subsequently removed his office to No. 102 West Seventh street, and still later to his present location. The Doctor is one of the promising young physicians of Cincinnati, and enjoys a large and lucrative practice. The Bell family are connected with the Episcopal Church, and in politics the Doctor is a Republican.

JAMES MAGOFFIN FRENCH, M.D., office and residence No. 250 West Seventh street, was born in Iberia, Morrow Co., Ohio, May 24, 1858, and is the only son of Rev. William H. and Elizabeth A. (Magoffin) French, natives of Pennsylvania, of English and Scotch-Irish origin. The father is an able and honored minister of the United Presbyterian Church; for twenty years he was pastor of the First United Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and at the present time is in the active ministry at Rushville, . Ind. His grandfather was also a clergyman in that Church, and preached for some years in Washington county, Penn. The French family is believed to have been of Puritanical origin. Dr. French came to Cincinnati with his parents at the age of twelve years. He received his education in the schools of Cincinnati, at the Ohio Central College, of which his father was president, and at Westminister College, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1878. His professional prepara- tion was begun under the preceptorship of his uncle, Dr. Montrose M. Magoffin, of Mercer, Mercer Co., Penn .; in 1878 he matriculated at the Medical College of Ohio, and after completing the prescribed course graduated, in 1880. For one year he was resident physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital, after which he opened an office for the practice of his profession at No. 98 West Seventh street, whence after a time he removed to his present location. The Doctor is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is one of the physicians to St. Mary's Hospital, and is the lecturer on morbid anatomy and demonstrator of pathology at the Medical College of Ohio. He is also assistant police surgeon, and medical examiner for the John Hancock Life Insurance Company of Boston, and the United States Life Insurance Company of New York. In 1886 he was United States pension examiner. The Doctor has been connected with the literature of his profession as editor and publisher of the Ohio Medical Journal, which he established in 1890 as the Journal of the Medical College of Ohio; he was also a contributor to the Reference Hand Book of the Medi- cal Sciences, a voluminous work in eight volumes and a recognized authority upon the subjects on which it treats. On April 16, 1884, the Doctor married Alice, daughter of the late Rudolph and Elizabeth (Dumm) Seipel, of Lancaster, and to this union two children have been born: William M., born October 27, 1886, and Alice E., born July 26, 1888. Dr. and Mrs. French are members of the United Presbyterian Church.

WILLIAM EVAN LEWIS, physician, office and residence No. 85 East Fifth street, was born November 22, 1853, at Pittsburgh, Penn., the third in a family of six children born to John W. and Ann (Jones) Lewis, natives of Wales, whence the father of our subject came to America in 1832, and settled in Jackson county, Ohio. The Doctor attended the common schools of that county, and taught school one winter; in 1872 he came to Cincinnati and worked for several years as a fore-

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man for the Peerless Wringer Manufacturing Company. While in this position he attended night school, and in 1878 entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, graduating in 1880 at the head of a class of thirty-seven, and receiving as a prize one hundred dollars in gold. He opened an office for the practice of his profession at No. 215 Broadway, shortly afterward removed to No. 165 Broadway, and in 1884 to his present location. The Doctor was assistant health officer four years, and director of the House of Refuge for an equal period, resigning in Sep- tember, 1889. He has been professor of anatomy for the Presbyterian Hospital Woman's Medical College, and is at the present time professor of anatomy in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and demonstrator of anatomy for the Woman's Medical College. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medi- cine, and has contributed articles on anatomy to various medical journals. On December 22, 1880, the Doctor married Mary J., daughter of Hugh and Mary (Davis) Pugh, and one child has blessed this union, William Howard, born Septem- ber 21, 1881. Mrs. Lewis is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Cin- cinnati.

BROOKS FORD BEEBE, physician, office and residence No. 70 East Fourth street, was born June 25, 1850, in Washington county, Ohio. His father, William Beebe, M. D .. was the only son of William Beebe, M. D., who was one of the first physi- cians of Ohio and a surgeon in the Mexican war. William Beebe the younger was born in Belpre, Washington Co., Ohio, in 1822, received his medical education in Cincinnati and New York, was surgeon in the Union army during the Rebellion, and was engaged in the general practice of his profession in Washington county, Ohio, for about forty years. He died in 1887, while on a visit to Minnesota. His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Rathbone, was a daughter of Deming Rathbone, a native of New England, and Catherine (Putnam) Rathbone, a native of Ohio, of New England ancestry, and was born in Belpre, Ohio, in 1827. She died in 1885, shortly after the family removed from Ohio to the beautiful county of Cherokee in southeast Kansas. She was the mother of six children, of whom the following are living: Warren Loring Beebe, M. D., residing at St. Cloud, Minn .; William Put- nam Beebe, M. D., who lives in Columbus, Kans .; Elizabeth Beebe, who is a resi- dent of St. Cloud, Minn., and Brooks F. Beebe, M. D., Cincinnati.

The latter commenced his education in the common schools, was prepared for college in private schools and a member of the class that graduated from the Mari- etta (Ohio) College in 1873. When eighteen years of age he passed the teachers examination, received a certificate of the highest grade and taught school for a few years while fitting himself for college. After one successful year at college he deci- ded to go into mercantile business, which he did for a period of three years, but finding the work not congenial he commenced the study of medicine, the profession of his father, grandfather and brothers, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, in Cincinnati, March 10, 1880. The following year he was resident physician at the Good Samaritan Hospital, a position obtained by competitive examination. For the succeeding eight years he was A. A. Surgeon in the U. S. M. Hospital Ser- vice, and stationed at Cincinnati, in the meantime attending to a growing private practice and his duties at the Medical College of Ohio, with which he had been con- nected since his graduation. At present he is clinician to the medical clinic and instructor in physical diagnosis. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Society.

DR. ALLEN BENTON THRASHER is a native of Fayette county, Ind., where he was born July 6, 1851. He was prepared for college in Fairview Academy, and received the degree of A. M. from Butler University. Dr. Thrasher was educated in medi- cine in Heidelberg University and in the Medical College of Ohio, where he received his degree of M. D., and served a year as resident physician in Cincinnati Hospital. His first entry into business was in 1880, when he began the practice of medicine in

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Cincinnati as a specialist in diseases of the throat, nose and ear. He is a member of the Walnut Hills Medical Society, of the Cincinnati Medical Society, of the Cin- cinnati Academy of Medicine, of the Ohio Medical Society, of the American Medi- cal Association, fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, fellow of the Ameri- can Rhinological Association and fellow of the American Laryngological Association. In 1888 he was elected a professor of laryngology in the Cincinnati Polyclinic. He is also secretary of the Laryngological and Otological section of the American Medical Association, and laryngologist to Christ's Hospital. Dr. Thrasher was mar- ried to Miss Edith Williams in 1888, and lives in a pleasant home in Avondale.

DR. JOSEPH M. TOPMOELLER, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 87 Bank street, Cincinnati, was born April 4, 1855, at Freckenhorst, Germany, a son of Bernard and Elizabeth (Ebernkamp) Topmoeller; the former, a merchant in Ger- many, died November 23, 1878. He was a son of Godfried and Philomena (Han- over) Topmoeller. Dr. Joseph M. Topmoeller received his early education in the high school (Gymnasium), at the Universities of Greifswald and Munich, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, graduating at Munich February 19, 1880. On September 23, 1880, he came to Cincinnati, and opened an office for the practice of his profession at No. 88 Bank street, where he resided until May 1, 1886, since which time his office and residence has been at No. 87 Bank street. He is a member of the Cincin- nati Academy of Medicine. Dr. Topmoeller was married, July 12, 1886, to Alice M. Eger, daughter of George and Susan (Andrews) Eger, and their union has been blessed with four children: George B., born May 19, 1887; William J., born June 10, 1889; Joseph C., born September 19, 1891, and Robert G., born October 19, 1893. The family are members of the Catholic Church.

ROLLA L. THOMAS, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 560 McMillan street, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, was born August 17, 1857, in Harrison, Ohio, a son of Milton L. and Susan J. Rybolt Thomas. Milton Thomas, when fifteen years of age, learned the silversmith's trade, but afterward studied medicine, graduating from the Louisville Medical College of Kentucky, and later from the Eclectic Medi- cal Institute of Cincinnati. He is a son of Thomas Thomas, who was a farmer by occupation. Dr. Rolla L. Thomas, our subject, was educated at Asbury University, of Greencastle, Ind., where he graduated in 1878. He studied medicine under his father, and graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, opening an office for the practice of his profession at Harrison, Ohio, and later removing to his present location. He is a member of the National Eclectic Medical Association, the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association and the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical . Society. The Doctor is professor of principles and practice of medicine at the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, and is physician to the Eclectic Hospital. He has contributed frequent articles to the eclectic medical journals. On July 1, 1880, he was united in marriage with Miss Sallie B., daughter of William J. and Sarah Cook, and this union has been blessed with five children: Rolla L., born November 3, 1881; Paul Milton, born September 14, 1883; Charles Neil, born December 11, 1885; Clara Elsie, born June 30, 1888, and Dorothy, born January 11, 1894. Two of these, Rolla L. and Paul Milton, are deceased. The family are members of the Methodist Church. Politically the Doctor is a Republican.

ALMON DWIGHT BIRCHARD, physician and surgeon, office corner McLean and Har- rison avenues, residence, No. 161 Dayton street, was born July 6, 1858, in Cambridge township, Crawford Co., Penn. He is a son of Dwight Darius and Floriette (Pen- dleton) Birchard, the former of whom was born August 28, 1831, and for forty years successfully followed farming. He recently retired. Mrs. Floriette ( Pendleton ) Birchard was born December 12, 1836, in Litchfield county, Conn., and died August 27, 1875. Dwight D. Birchard is a son of Darius and Caroline (Parker) Birchard, of whom the former, born in 1804, was by occupation a farmer. He was a son of James and Lucy (Gillett) Birchard, the former born in Becket, Berkshire Co.,

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Mass., August 17, 1766, was united in marriage March 11, 1788, with Miss Lucy, daughter of Isaac Gillett, of Southwick, Mass., and in the year 1813 they removed from Massachusetts to Venango, Crawford Co., Penn., with a family of nine chil- dren, of whom Darius, the sixth in order of birth, was then nine years of age. They settled and cleared the homestead now owned by Dwight D. Birchard, father of our subject. James B., father of the above James, was born in 1730, and died in July, 1820. He married Abigail King, by whom he had seven children. He was a soldier in the French and Indian war, in which conflict he served as a lieutenant. James Birchard, father of the above James, was born May 16, 1699, and with his- wife Deborah removed from Norwich, Conn., and settled in Becket, Mass., in 1755. He was a son of James Birchard who was born in 1665. He married Elizabeth Beckwith in 1697, and reared a family of twelve children. He was a great-grand- father of Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth President of the United States. He was a son of John Birchard, born in 1628, who married for his first wife Christy Ann Andrews, and for his second Jane, daughter of Thomas Lee. He reared a. family of fourteen children. He was a man of great celebrity in his day, and was county clerk of New London from 1673 to 1680. He was a scholar and a business man, and one of the proprietors of Norwich. He died at Lebanon, Conn., in 1702. His father, Thomas Birchard, was born in Roxbury, England, in 1595, and with his wife Mary and their family left England in the ship "True Love" and landed at Boston in the year 1635. He was a man of wealth and note. He settled at Say- brook, and went as a deputy from his town to the general court of Hartford in 1650- 51. The name Birchard appears in English and French history as far back as the seventh century, and is the name of some of the most noted men in European his- tory. It is the family name of the Dukes of Montmorenci and Franconia. It is inscribed on some of the most beautiful pages of French history. It has furnished the Roman Catholic Church with several distinguished prelates, historians and can- onists, and Europe with distinguished generals, admirals and diplomats, as well as eminent scholars.

Dr. Birchard, our subject, received his early education in the rural district school, and at the public and high school at Cambridge. He graduated from Amity College, College Springs, Iowa, in 1880, and in the fall of that year came to Cincinnati and began the study of medicine under his uncle, the late Dr. William Clendenin. He graduated from the Miami Medical College in the spring of 1884, and soon after opened his present office. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Association, and has written and read various papers before the society. He was united in marriage, May 16, 1890, to Miss Sarah J. M., daughter of the late John Johnston and Margaret (George) Johnston, of Cincinnati, both of whom were natives of County Tyrone, North Ireland, of Scotch descent. One son has blessed this union, Stanley Johnston, born January 30, 1893. The family are members of the Presbyterian Church, and politically the Doctor is a Republican.

EDWARD SYDNEY MCKEE, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 57 W. Seventh street, was born, January 6, 1858, near Hamilton, Ohio, a son of William and Louise (Stipp) McKee, who were natives of Kentucky and of Scotch and Ger- man origin. This couple celebrated their golden wedding February 28, 1878. William McKee, who was a farmer by occupation, departed this life January 20, 1886, aged eighty-one years and six months. His wife died February 21, 1881, when sixty-nine years of age. William McKee was a son of John and Elizabeth (McClintock) McKee, natives of North Carolina and Pennsylvania, respectively. John McKee, born in 1778, was a miller by occupation, and died September 10, 1842, at the age of sixty-four. He was a son of John and Mollie (McCoy) McKee. The last-named John McKee came to America during Colonial times, enlisted in the Col- onial army during the Revolution and was killed, leaving a widow and one child, the John McKee first named.

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Our subject is the youngest of thirteen children, twelve of whom grew to ma- turity. He was reared on a farm and educated in the common schools, Miami Uni- versity, and the University of Cincinnati. For two years he was one of the editors. of the Daily Independent, Richmond, Ind. In 1878 he entered the office of Dr .. Dan Millikin, of Hamilton, Ohio, for the study of medicine, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio February 28, 1881, after which he went abroad, study- ing his profession in London, Paris, Vienna, Leipzig, Berlin, and Dublin. On his- return to America he opened an office in Cincinnati for the practice of his profession. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Mississippi Valley Medi- cal Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cincinnati Academy of Medi- cine, and the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society, of which he is secretary. The Doctor makes a specialty of diseases of women; he is clinical lecturer on the same at the' Medical College of Ohio, and assistant of the chair of obstetrics and gynecology in the same institution. He is medical examiner for the People's Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, the North American Accident Insurance Company, the Security Life Insurance Company and the National Fraternal Union. He was a member of" the International Medical Congress held in London in 1881, and in Washington, D. C., in 1887. He has written for various medical books and journals, and one of his articles was copied by the well-known German author, A. Martin, of Berlin, in his "Diseases of Women," second American edition. He is also the author of an arti -- cle on cephalhæmatoma, which has has been largely read and extensively copied. Dr. McKee was married November 16, 1882, to Miss Louise, daughter of Robert S. and Sarah (Smith) Mcclintock, of Butler county, Ohio. Dr. and Mrs. McKee are. members of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and politically he is a Republican.

ERIC E. SATTLER, physician and specialist in the treatment of diseases of the nose, throat and ear, office No. 117 Garfield place, was born in Cincinnati, November 4, 1859, son of Dr. Geo. Sattler, who died September 24, 1888, aged seventy-seven years, one of the oldest and earliest physicians of Cincinnati, having practiced here for almost half a century. Our subject graduated from the Woodward High School in 1878, and from the Miami Medical College in 1881. He was resident physician of the Cincinnati Hospital for one year, and then spent two years abroad, in the hos- pitals and clinics of London, Paris, Utrecht, Strasburg, Berlin and Vienna, pursu- ing his specialty. Returning to Cincinnati, he opened an office at No. 104 West Eighth street, in August, 1883, and practiced general medicine for four years in order to lay a good foundation for his specialty. He is a member of the International Medical Congress, the American Medical Association, and the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and is clinical lecturer of diseases of the nose and throat at the Miami Medical College. He was elected in 1890 to the chair of rhinology and laryngology at the Cincinnati Hospital, serving until the chair was abolished on account of lack of funds, and also served as laryngologist to the German Protestant Hospital for

over two years. He is the surgeon in charge and founder of the Nose, Throat and Ear Dispensary at No. 373 Elm street, the first independent nose, throat and ear dis- pensary established in Cincinnati. This institution is thoroughly fitted with all the modern appliances for the convenience and study of students and practitioners, and treats annually over eight thousand patients. The Doctor translated Koch & Spina's work on " Tuberculosis," published in 1883 by Robert Clarke & Company. While in Strasburg he made some highly original and scientific investigations in Prof. Waldeyer's microscopical laboratory in regard to the nerve endings of the cornea, as well as the structure and division of the epithelial layer. These researches were translated into several languages and published in various journals. He has also written numerous articles for various medical journals on the topics of his specialty. Dr. Sattler was married in 1886 to Blanche Wallingford, of Cincinnati.

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DAVID DEBECK, B. S., M. D., office Brittany building, northwest corner of Ninth and Race streets, Cincinnati, residence No. 37 Eden avenue, Mt. Auburn, was born in Cincinnati March 15, 1856, a son of Bodo Otto Morgan and Emily Harriet (James) DeBeck, and grandson of William and Maria (Morgan) DeBeck, the latter a direct descendant of Gen, Daniel Morgan, of Revolutionary fame. Bodo Otto Morgan DeBeck is a native of Tomkinsville, N. J., born April 1, 1830. He was for twenty-two years a teacher in the public schools of Cincinnati, most of the time as principal of the Seventh District school, he was for eleven years a clerk of the board of education; was one year expert accountant for the board of review of Hamilton county, and is now bookkeeper for the wholesale liquor house of W. W. Johnson & Company.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 107

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