History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 108

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

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Dr. DeBeck was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, Hughes High School, and the University of Cincinnati. He studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Ransohoff, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1881. After spend- ing two years in Europe at the Universities of Strasburg, Bonn, Gottingen, and Vienna, he returned to Cincinnati, and in March, 1884, opened an office for the practice of his profession at No. 137 West Eighth street. The Doctor is a specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye. In 1881 he was appointed assistant to the chair of ophthalmology in the Medical College of Ohio; in 1884 he was elected a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; in the same year he was appointed oculist and aurist to the Home for Sick Children, serving during the four years, duration of that charity; in 1889 he was secretary of the Southwestern Ohio Medi- cal Society; in 1890 he was elected librarian of the Cincinnati Academy of Medi- cine; in 1892, '93 and '94 he served as clinical lecturer on ophthalmology at the Good Samaritan Hospital; in 1893 he was elected secretary of the Cincinnati Acad- emy of Medicine, and re-elected in 1894. He is a member of the Cincinnati Acad- emy of Medicine; the Southwestern Ohio Medical Society; the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana State Medical Societies; the Mississippi Valley Medical Society; the Amer- ican Medical Association, and the American Ophthalmological Society, elected to the latter in 1887. He is a clinical lecturer on ophthalmology in the Medical College of Ohio. The Doctor has contributed many articles upon his specialty to the various ophthalmic and medical journals. He is author of "Hard Chancre of the Eyelids and Conjunctiva:" With two cuts and a colored plate [8vo., 52 pp., Cincinnati, 1886]; "Persistent Remains of the Fotal Hyaloid Artery:" With five cuts and twelve plates (ten colored) [Royal 8vo., 90 pp., Cincinnati, 1890]; "Lectures on Cataract: " With many cuts [Svo., 70 pp., Cincinnati, 1894]; "Hereditary Colo- boma of the Iris " [in press].

Dr. DeBeck was married, June 1, 1893, to Amelia R. Graeff, whose father, Joseph Graeff, and mother, Amelia (Weber) Graeff, were natives of Germany, and Columbus, Ohio, respectively. The DeBeck family are Unitarians in their belief; politically Dr. DeBeck is a strong Single-Taxer, affiliating with the radical Free- Trade wing of the Democratic party.

GEORGE A. FACKLER, M. D., office and residence No. 93 Garfield Place, was born in Cincinnati May 6, 1861, son of John E. and Bertha (Mathes) Fackler, the former of whom was born October 21, 1819, in Bavaria, Germany, and emigrated to Amer- ica in 1847; the latter was born April 18, 1835, in Baden, Germany, and came to this country in 1854. The father was engaged in the grocery business. He departed this life October 19, 1888; his wife survives him. They were the parents of two children: John E., traveling in the West, and George A., our subject, who received his education in the public and high schools of his native city, attending the Fifteenth District school, Third intermediate, and was graduated at Woodward High School in the class of '78. He at once entered the Medical College of Ohio, and was graduated in 1881, entering immediately upon the practice of his chosen profession at No. 35 Everett street. In February, 1882, he removed to No. 42

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Fifteenth street, remaining there until December, 1883, when he removed to No. 540} Elm street; during 1887 the Doctor erected a house at No. 458 Elm street, and removed thither November 1, 1887. In 1893 he disposed of this property, and in May of the same year sailed for Europe, remaining abroad five months. Five weeks of this time he spent in London, at Brompton Hospital, and six weeks in the Phar- macological Institute at Strasburg, Germany. He also visited the different hospi- tals of Berlin and Munich. Returning to Cincinnati October 14, 1893, he located at his present office, No. 93 West Eighth street. Dr. Fackler was united in mar- riage, January 2, 1884, to Miss Amelia, daughter of Chris and Louisa (Wagner). Von Seggern. The Doctor is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine,. Ohio State Medical Society, and American Medical Association. He was elected secretary of the Academy of Medicine in 1884, served in this capacity six years, and was elected president of the same for the term 1892-93. He was secretary of Medical Section of the American Medical Association in 1889, and - received the appointment as assistant to the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the Med- ical College of Ohio in 1885, which office he resigned in 1891, to accept the profes- sorship of the same branch in the Woman's Medical College of Cincinnati. He was elected dean of the school in 1891. On January 1, 1893, he accepted the chair of materia medica in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. He is also clinical instructor on physical diagnosis and diseases of the chest. Dr. Fackler is devoting special attention to diseases of the lungs and heart. In his political views he is a Democrat.

FRANK WARREN LANGDON, physician and surgeon, office No. 65 West Seventh street, Cincinnati, residence Harvey avenue, Avondale, was born December 16, 1851, a son of Oliver C. and Jane D. (Aydelott) Langdon. The father is a retired merchant; both parents are still living near Cincinnati. The Langdon family are among the earliest settlers of America, its emigrant ancestor, Philip Langdon, with two brothers, having landed at Boston from Yorkshire, England, in 1640. Three generations were soldiers in the Revolution: Philip's son Paul, his grandson John, and his great-grandson, John W. Dr. Langdon's paternal grandfather, Elam P. Langdon, was a grandson of John Langdon, above mentioned, and came to Cincin- nati by wagon from Vershire, Vt., in 1806, with his mother, three brothers and two sisters, the father having died some two years previously. The family settled on farms near the mouth of the Little Miami river, where a number of their descend- ants yet reside-at Linwood. Elam P. Langdon was a prominent figure in business centers, in the post office, and in the educational institutions of the embryo city ;. his wife was Ann Cromwell, a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, the Protector. On the maternal side, Dr. Langdon's grandmother was Caroline Dobb, a daughter of a shipbuilder of New York; his maternal grandfather was Rev. B. P. Aydelott, M. D., D.D., of Swedish descent, and was one of the most prominent educators and divines of Cincinnati in early days, having been president of the Woodward College- for a number of years.

Our subject was educated in the public schools, and afterward by private tutors. in Cincinnati. He studied medicine with Dr. W. Clendenin, of Cincinnati, and graduated from the Miami Medical College in 1881. In 1880 he entered a com- petitive examination for the position of resident physician at the Cincinnati Hospi- tal, was successful, and remained in that position for the full term of one year. In 1881 he opened an office for the practice of his profession in the Emery Arcade. He accepted the position of assistant demonstrator of anatomy at the Miami Medi- cal College, in 1882 was promoted to the chief demonstratorship, and in 1884 was elected to the chair of descriptive and surgical anatomy. In 1889. this chair was divided at his request, he taking the chair of surgical or applied anatomy, which he still occupies. He was also, in 1891-92, curator and microscopist and acting pathologist to the Cincinnati Hospital, and occupied for a term the position of lec-

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turer in clinical medicine at the Miami Medical College. He was physician and surgeon for the Home for Incurables in the years 1891 and 1892. He visited the medical schools and hospitals of London, Glasgow, Hamburg, Berlin, Vienna and Paris. devoting his attention chiefly to surgical studies. The Doctor is a general practitioner and surgeon. He is a member of the American Medical Association; the Cincinnati Medical Society, of which he was president for the year 1891-92; the .Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; the Walnut Hills Medical Society; the Hippo- crates Club of Cincinnati; the Cincinnati Society of Natural History; the American Ornithologists' Union; Association of American Anatomists; the Masonic Order, and the Knights of Pythias. He is a corresponding member of the Boston Zoological Society, and the Linnean Society of New York, and a fellow of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science. He is a contributor to current zoological literature in the departments of anthropology and ornithology, and also to current medical literature, among his more important writings being an article on "The Surgical Anatomy of the Brain " [Cincinnati Medical Journal, April, 1891], wherein is presented an original system of locating brain areas by external guides, which is simpler and more exact than methods heretofore in use.

Dr. Langdon was married April 3, 1884, to Rhoda Alice Fletcher, daughter of Samuel F. and Elizabeth D. (Hiatt) Fletcher, of Richmond, Ind., both natives of North Carolina. Two children have blessed this union: Fletcher Langdon, born February 22, 1886, and Rowena Lan Franco, born May 31, 1889. Mrs. Langdon and her parents are members of the Society of Friends.

JOHN R. SPENCER, M. D., Cincinnati, was born August 27, 1854, in Wash- ington county, Ohio, son of Albaness and Perlinia (Dye) Spencer. His grandfather, Samuel P. Spencer, was a southern planter in his early manhood, and later became a contractor; his paternal grandmother's name was Catherine Proffett. His father was born May 3, 1822, in Lee county, Va., and his aged mother January 1, 1829, in Washington county, Ohio. When Albaness Spencer was a mere boy his parents moved to Louisville, Ky., where he attended school and assisted his father, who was a government contractor there. When eighteen years of age his parents moved to . Cairo, Ill., where his father soon afterward died of a malignant fever, leaving him the only support of his widowed mother and two sisters. Some time after his father's death he moved the family to Marietta, Ohio, near which place he engaged in farm- ing, in which business he has since continued, now owning and operating a fine farm in Washington county, Ohio. He was married November 14, 1848, to Miss Perlinia Dye, and they reared a family of six children, of whom two are doc- tors and four are teachers. The mother died December 9, 1889.

Our subject was educated in the public schools of Marietta, and at Marietta Col- lege. He taught school for six years previous to commencing the study of medicine with Dr. J. H. McElhinney, of Hills, Washington Co., Olio, and also while prose- cuting his studies. He then entered the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, whence he was graduated June 7, 1881. He first opened an office at Stanley ville, Ohio, in the fall of 1881, and practiced there for six years, when he moved to Cin- cinnati, and entered upon the general practice of his profession. He is a member of the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association; the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Society, and is on the medical staff of the new Eclectic Hospital of Cincinnati. He is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. Dr. Spencer was married March 27, 1883, to Eliza R., daughter of Peter and Rhoda (Whitney) Becker. Mr. Becker was a German by birth, and came to this country when nineteen years of age; his wife descended from a Yankee family by the name of Whitney, which came from Maine in the early his- tory of Ohio; they were also of German descent. Dr. and Mrs. Spencer have one daughter, May B., born August 7, 1886. In religion they are Protestants, and polit- ically he is a Republican.

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ROBERT CORBIN WINTERMUTE, physician and surgeon, office No. 133 West Sev- enth street, residence Mentor avenue, Ivanhoe, Norwood, was born June 27, 1861, at Norton, Delaware Co., Ohio. He is a son of J. P. and Etta A. Buckmaster Wintermute, both Americans, of German extraction, the former born December 15, 1832, in Hopewell township, Muskingum county, near Zanesville, Ohio. He left the farm at the age of sixteen, going to Zanesville, where he engaged in daguerreotyp- ing, which he followed for about seven years. He then removed to Norton, Ohio, and embarked with his brother in the mercantile business, in which he engaged for five years, and then moved to Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and re-entered the dry-goods trade; in 1867 he removed to Mt. Liberty, continuing in the same business, and in 1882 removed to Delaware, Ohio, and there entered the hardware business, in which he is still actively engaged. J. P. Wintermute is a son of George Wintermute, who was a farmer and blacksmith by occupation. This gentleman was the second in descent from John George Wintermute, or Windemuth, who was an immigrant from Germany, settling in Sussex county, N. J., in 1776; here he married Margaret Elizabeth Bern- harten, also a native of Germany.

Dr. Wintermute was educated in the public schools and the Academy at Mt. Ver- non, Ohio, studied medicine under Dr. A. P. Robertson, of Mt. Liberty, Ohio, and graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Ohio, in the spring of 1881, immed- iately opening an office for the practice of his profession at No. 58 Clark street, Cin- cinnati. Here he remained until May, 1882, when he removed to Delaware, Ohio, remaining there until August, 1890, when he removed to his present location. The Doctor is a member of the State Eclectic Medical Association, National Eclectic Med- ical Association, Ohio Central Eclectic Medical Society, and the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Society. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks, and National Union. He is professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in his alma mater. He is a member of the staff of surgeons and gynecologist, and one of the attending physicians to the Eclectic Hospital of Cincinnati; is the author of Wintermute's edition "King's Eclectic Obstetrics." Dr. Wintermute was united in marriage, December 31, 1890, to Miss Mary Arabella Cherry, daughter of Dr. James M. Cherry, of Delaware. The Doctor and wife are mem- bers of the Second Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, and politically he is a Repub- lican. This gentleman was elected coroner of Delaware county, Ohio, serving two terms, from 1884 to 1888. He was elected president of the Ohio State Eclectic Med- ical Association in 1888, and presided at the annual meeting the following year at the city of Akron. In 1891 he was elected treasurer of the Ohio State Eclectic Med- ical Association, and re-elected for 1892-93.

CHARLES AARON PAULY, physician and surgeon, office No. 142 West Eighth street, residence Avondale, was born in Mason, Warren Co., Ohio, June 11, 1858. He is a son of Milton Reader and Mary (Benedict) Pauly, the former born in March, 1831, in Lebanon, Ohio, the latter near Morrow, Warren Co., Ohio, in March, 1837.

Milton Pauly, when a boy, learned the silversmith's trade, later in life was in the jewelry business, and since 1872 has been a dry-goods merchant. He is a son of John and Anna (Reader) Pauly, the former a descendant of the Paulys, of Prussia, the lat- ter of the Readers, of England. Dr. Pauly received his early education at the Uni- versity in Lebanon, Ohio, studied medicine under A. C. Recker, and graduated from Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, March 4, 1881. He opened an office for the prac- tice of his profession at liis present location, making a specialty of orificial surgery. Dr. Pauly is a member of the American Institute, the Ohio State Society, and the Cincinnati Lyceum, and is professor of obstetrics and orificial surgery in Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, and physician and surgeon to the Home of the Friend- less. On October 20, 1885, Dr. Pauly was united in marriage with Miss Lida Bruen, daughter of Robert G. and Eliza (Bruen) Corwin, and their union has been blessed with one daughter, Marianna, born October 19, 1886. Mrs. Pauly is a member of the Baptist Church.

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JAMES AMBROSE JOHNSTON, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 40 Everett street, Cincinnati, was born May 4, 1860, at Bainbridge, Ind., son of Rev. Edward and Fannie H. (Tomlinson) Johnston, the former a native of Indiana, of Scotch-Irish extraction, the latter a native of New Jersey, of English ancestry. Dr. Johnstou was educated at Petersburg, Ind., studied medicine with Dr. S. B. Tom- linson, graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery in the spring of 1881, and began the practice of his profession where we now find himn loca- ted. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and is assistant to the chair of gynecology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery.

DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN LYLE, physician and surgeon, resides on Price avenue, Price Hill, his office being at No. 1006 West Eighth street. Dr. Lyle was born March 3, 1861, in Georgetown, Ky., the only child of Dr. John Mullen and Mary Phillips Lyle. 'Dr. John Mullen Lyle was born May 27, 1834, at the country home of the family, in Butler county, Ohio. Mary Phillips Lyle was born on Broadway, Cincinnati, June 9, 1837, the only daughter of Benjamin and Harriet Hauselman Phillips. Dr. Jolin Mullen Lyle was a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, and was a successful practitioner. He was a Presbyterian in religions faith, and a Republican in politics. He had a beautiful home in southern Indiana, where, his family being generally long lived he looked forward to spending many years, but was suddenly called from earth April 7, 1890, a victim of "LaGrippe." Mrs. Mary Phillips Lyle still lives at her home on Price Hill, Cincinnati. Dr. Benjamin Lyle is a grandson of Charles Jones and Martha Henderson (Mullen) Lyle, both of Phil- adelphia, Penn., but residents in Cincinnati after their marriage on June 4, 1833. The grandfather was in early life a surveyor, but later was engaged in commercial pursuits; for sixty-five years he was a contributor to the Philadelphia Press, and was a student of history. Mrs. Martha Henderson Lyle passed her youth upon the farm of her mother in Butler county, Ohio. Her father was Maj. Arthur Willing- ton Mullen, a soldier of 1812-15, and of the Mexican war; he was of Irish descent, but a thorough American in principle. Her mother was Jean Ramsey Crawford, a great-great-granddaughter of David Crawford, born in 1665 (Historic Royal of Scotland under Queen Anne), and of Alexander Henderson, of Fife, Scotland, born

in 1583, a leader among Covenanters. Charles Jones Lyle was a son of Capt. John Lyle, a soldier of the American Revolutionary war (who suffered an amputation of the left leg upon the field of Yorktown, October 19, 1781), and of Jane Jones Lyle, first cousin of John Paul Jones, captain of the sloop of war "Wasp," who compelled the surrender of the British brig "Frolic" in 1812. The first of the family to emi- grate to America was John Lyle, of London, England, in 1700; he had married Rebecca Garner, and they settled upon a farm in Delaware county, Penn .; follow- ing the belief of his family he was a stanch Episcopalian, and was one of the found- ers of St. David's church, in 1715, at St. David's, near Philadelphia; his wife was a member of the Friends. It was the custom of the family to name the eldest son John; so in 1742, John Lyle, the eldest grandson of the emigrant, married Elizabeth Wayne, first cousin of Gen. Anthony Wayne. This marriage united the Lyle and Crawford families, for the General was first cousin on his mother's side to Jean Crawford. It appears then that although Dr. Benjamin F. Lyle is pre-eminently a man of peace, he comes of a race of soldiers, as well as of quiet students and pas- toral people. He traces his lineage in an unbroken chain back to one Juan Lyle del Isla, who married Hortensia Della Leo, of Leon, Spain, in the fifteenth century. Both of these were Catholics, but their descendants were Huguenots, who during the progress of the Reformation fought valiantly for religious freedom. Benjamin de Rohan, born in 1584, a soldier of the Huguenot party, was a grandson of Juan del Isla. The family retained their home in northern France and Paris until forced to seek safety in flight, crossing the English channel in 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

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Dr. Lyle was educated in the public schools of Avondale, and in 1879 began the study of medicine with his uncle Dr. Arthur Lyle, graduating from the Medical College of Ohio in 1882, and in April of the same year opened an office at the place where he is yet located. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, and of the Ohio State Medical Society. He is a past master of the Price Hill Masonic Lodge, and is also a member of McMillan Chapter and Hanselman Commandery. On Sep- tember 15, 1891, Dr. Lyle was married to Miss Alice Morris Johnson, at the Friends meeting-house, Eighth and Mound streets. Mrs. Lyle is a daughter of Evan Lewis Johnson, who was born in Clinton county, Ohio, and Anna Taylor Johnson, who was born and has always resided in Cincinnati, and both are descendants of Friends who came to this country, settling in Virginia in early colonial times. Dr. and Mrs. Lyle have one child, Alice Franklin Lyle, born July 15, 1893. Dr. Lyle is a member of the Presbyterian Church. He has never taken any active part in politics, but re- gards the principle and policy of the Republican party as the most satisfactory.

TRAVIS CARROLL, M.D., office No. 26 West Eighth street, Cincinnati, was born March 29, 1860, at Clarksville, Tenn., son of P. F. and Anna E. (Travis) Carroll. His father was a native of Indiana, his mother of Kentucky, and they are of Irish and English descent. Our subject's great-grandfather, Frederick Carroll, was a pioneer of Kentucky, and was one of the first settlers of Louisville, that State. Our subject's father was a merchant by occupation, but he has retired from the active duties of life. Dr. Carroll is second in a family of five children. He was reared and educated in Louisville, Ky., graduating at the University there in 1879, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 1883 graduated from the same institution as an M. D. He immediately entered on the duties of his chosen profession in Louisville, Ky., but only practiced there until the latter part of 1883, when he came to Cincinnati, where he has since been actively engaged in the profession. He has built up a lucrative practice, and takes an active interest in all that pertains to his profession. He is a member of the American Medical Association, of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and Ohio State Medical Society. He is assistant health officer. He is physician to the Cincinnati Council No. 421, C. B. L., and is also an active member of the C. K. of A. and the Y. M. I. He was married, October 29, 1883, to Miss Mary, daughter of Patrick and Elenore (McCarty) Mckeown. She is of Irish des- cent. Dr. Carroll has three children: Travis C .; Harry R., and Mary E. The . family are members of the Catholic Church.

H. W. ALBERS, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 41 Twelfth street, was born in Cincinnati in 1856. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city, and in the spring of 1882 graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. He opened an office for the practice of his pro- fession at No. 32 Jackson street, and later removed to his present location. He was appointed assistant physician to the Dayton Insane Asylum, remaining there two years. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, a member of the board of education from the Ninth Ward, and union board of high schools, now serving a second term. Politically the Doctor is in sympathy with the Republican party.

EMIL V. HELFFERICH, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 140 Gar- field place. The name of Helfferich has been well known in Cincinnati for over a. half century, and is honorably mentioned among the pioneers of the city. Our sub- ject was born at Mulhouse, Alsace, in the year 1860, son of Charles Edward and Marie Diane (Mayrohs) Helfferich, the former a native of the Kingdom of Bavaria, the latter of Alsace; they came to the United States in 1873. Francis Xavier Jacob Helfferich, a brother of Charles E., had previously immigrated to this country and settled in Cincinnati in the year 1835. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Helfferich are the par- ents of five children: Charles Edward, Jr., hotel proprietor, Bloomington, Neb., Eugene E., artist, Avondale, Ohio; Emma, wife of Francis Xavier Helfferich, resid-

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ing at No. 395 Main street, Cincinnati; Caroline, wife of Judge Arnold, of Nebraska, and Emil V. In religion, the family are Catholics.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 108

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