History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 110

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

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FRANK WALLACE HENDLEY, M. D., superintendent of the Cincinnati Hospital, is the son of George Wesley and Jane (Brokenshire) Hendley. He was born in Cincin- nati April 26, 1860, received his primary education in the public schools, and also

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attended the Chickering Institute and the Hughes High School. He was employed as clerk in a hat store until 1880, when he entered the Medical College at Alva, Ohio, from which institution he graduated March 10, 1885. He was interne of the Cincinnati Hospital from March 10, 1884, until March 10, 1885, when he was appointed resident physician of the hospital, continuing as such until March 10, 1886; from that date until June 1, 1892, he was a successful practitioner in Cincin- nati, on the latter date receiving the appointment of superintendent of the Cincin- nati Hospital, the position he now occupies. The Doctor has also held the position of captain and assistant-surgeon of the First Regiment of Infantry, Ohio National Guard, since October 30, 1889. He is a Presbyterian in his religious views, and a Republican politically. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, and socially is a member of Price Hill Lodge No. 524, F. & A. M .; Willis Chapter, R. A. M .; Hanselmann Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar ; Ohio Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 32º. Dr. Hendley is at present unmarried.

The father of our subject was born in Pendleton Palford, near Manchester, England, October 6, 1826, removed to Cincinnati in 1850, and was a retail hat merchant from 1853 to 1884; he died March 7, 1889. His mother was born in Saint Columb, Cornwall, England, August 23. 1824, and is now residing in Cincin- nati. They had born to them seven children, four of whom survive, viz .: Harry B., a clerk in Minneapolis, Minn .; Charles W., a clerk in Cincinnati; Frank W., our subject, and Florence G. Two died in infancy, and one son, George W., died in 1875.

CHARLES HENRY CASTLE, M. D., resident physician of the Cincinnati Hospital, was born November 28, 1859, in Philadelphia, Penn., and is the youngest of seven chil- dren born to James Howard and Phoebe A. (Dick) Castle. When ten years of age he entered the Academy of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, which institution he continued attending until 1876, when he entered the University of Pennsylvania and went through the Freshman and Sophomore years class of 1880, Department of Arts and member of the Delta Psi Greek letter fraternity, after which he studied medicine at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 1885. After graduating, the Doctor was demonstrator of chemistry in the College for two years, was vice-president of the Cincinnati Medical Society dur- ing 1887 and 1888, and also district physician for two years. and, in 1893, was appointed to the position he now fills so creditably. During 1879, 1880, 1881 and part of 1882. the Doctor owned a cattle ranch in Colorado and Wyoming. He was married, August 8, 1892, to Mary E., daughter of John and Lucy (Fisher) Andrews, the father a native of Detroit, Mich., and the mother of Peterboro, Ontario, Canada. The family of the Doctor attend the Episcopal Church, and politically he is a Free- Silver Protectionist. Our subject is of American parentage, his father having been born in 1818 in Philadelphia, where he practiced law for a number of years, and passed away March 12, 1878. His mother, who is still living, and residing in Phil- adelphia, was born in Chester, Chester Co., Penn., in 1822. The ancestors of the mother of our subject came to this country with William Penn in 1682. Some members of his family have been in every war fought by the colonies and United States. Dr. Elisha Dick, of Alexandria, Va., was consulting surgeon in Washing- ton's last illness, and was an earnest advocate of tracheotomy (then a new operation) in the case. The two surviving brothers of our subject are Franklin D., M. D., of Philadelphia, and Horace Castle, attorney at law, also residing in Philadelphia.

OTIS LITTLE CAMERON, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 132 Gar- field place, was born January 14, 1862, in Cincinnati, son of Joseph G. and Mary L. (Wray) Cameron, natives of Maryland and New York, and of Scotch and Irish origin, respectively. The former, a son of William and Mary (Patton) Cameron,

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natives of Maryland, was one of the most prominent and successful dentists of Cin- cinnati, having won fame and fortune at his profession. He died March 8, 1892, aged sixty five years; his wife still survives him. Our subject, Dr. Cameron, is the fourth of a family of seven children, four of whom are now living. He was educated in the public schools, Chickering Institute, and the Cincinnati University; entered the Medical College of Ohio in 1882, and graduated therefrom in the spring of 1886. After spending one year in Cincinnati Hospital as resident physician, he opened an office for the practice of his profession, in the spring of 1887. at No. 50 West Ninth street, and removed to his present location in December, 1890. The Doctor is a member of the American Medical Association and the Cincinnati Academy of Medi- cine. He is demonstrator of bacteriology, assistant to chairs of pathology and children's clinic at the Medical College of Ohio; professor of microscopy at Cincin- nati College of Pharmacy; pathologist at St. Mary's Hospital; physician to Episco- pal Hospital for Children; curator at Cincinnati Hospital, and examiner for the New York Life Insurance Company. In politics the Doctor is a Republican.

CLARK W. DAVIS, M. D., was born December 14, 1863. His father, Dr. William B. Davis, was a native of Ohio and of Welsh extraction. He graduated from the old Ohio Wesleyan University, was graduated from the Miami Medical College, and practiced his profession in Cincinnati, ranking among the most eminent physicians and surgeons until his death, which occurred in 1893. He was the medical director of the Union Central Life Insurance Company from its organization, and always took a deep interest in everything relating to his profession.

Dr. Clark W. Davis was educated in the Cincinnati schools, and read medicine with his father. He was graduated from the Miami Medical College, which is the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati, in 1886, and at once began practice in the city. In 1889 he was elected assistant medical director of the Union Life Insurance Company, and in 1893 was elected medical director of the same. The Doctor is a member of the staff of physicians at Christ's Hospital. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the State and National Associa- tions, and also of the Medical Directors Associations of all the old-line life insurance companies in the United States and Canada.

DR. ANTHONY T. HAGEMEYER was born in Cincinnati July 3, 1858, the fourth son born to J. C. William and Anna R. C. (Peterson) Hagemeyer, both natives of Bre- men. Germany, at which place the family had lived for many generations. Early in May, 1854, they emigrated to the United States, and selected Cincinnati as their future home. Mr. Hagemeyer soon after embarked in the tobacco business, in which he continued actively engaged until a few years since, when he retired from business and removed to Butler, Ky., where he at present resides. Of his family, consisting of thirteen children, nine are now living: Christopher C., a prominent miller and lumber dealer of Butler, Ky .; Augustus P., a bookkeeper in the employ of the D. H. Baldwin Piano Company, of Cincinnati; Jennie, now Mrs. John Soller, of Dav- enport, Iowa; John W., at present in the employ of the government, with head- quarters at Davenport, Iowa; Anthony T., the subject of this sketch; William A., cornice manufacturer of Covington, Ky. ; Hattie A., the wife of John S. Mitchell, a leading merchant of Butler, Ky. ; Charles P., secretary of the milling and lumber business of his brother, at Butler, Ky., and Emma F., the wife of V. C. Yelton, engaged in the railroad postal service department in Cincinnati, and residing in Cov- ington.

Our subject received an excellent common-school education in the public schools of his native city, and in 1879 was made cashier in the Cincinnati office of the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company. In the fall of 1881 he, in connection with the duties of this position, engaged in the study of medicine, entering the Ohio Medical College, from which notable institution he graduated in the spring of 1886, with the honors and credit due his close application. Dr. Hagemeyer had mean-

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while, in order to facilitate his study of medicine, resigned his position with the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, and immediately after graduating entered upon the practice of his chosen profession in Cincinnati, associating himself in Feb- ruary of the present year with Dr. J. T. Knox, with whom he had studied prior to entering college; they are at present located at No. 83 East Third street, enjoying a lucrative and successful practice. The family for years have been consistent mem- bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Politically our subject is a stanch Repub- lican, and during the campaign of 1892 enjoyed the distinction of serving as. president of one of the Republican Leagues of Kentucky.

DR. S. ANNIE YATES. The biography of DR. S. ANNIE YATES, founder of the first. Metaphysical College of Ohio, will be of growing interest as the years pass on and the science in which she was a pioneer develops, as it must, into the most popular system of healing. Born February 15, 1850, at Troy, N. Y., from early childhood her life was eventful, and from infancy was manifested that strong personality which. is a striking characteristic. As a genius for music is early shown, so did the child's taste and play exhibit a natural gift and aptitude for the healing art. At six years of age she was taken by her parents to England, where they remained eight years, returning again to Troy. An intense thirst for knowledge stimulated her to gain an education, which she did unaided, fighting against opposition. Married at nineteen, she was a widow at twenty-six, with two children to support. Then commenced a struggle for existence, newspaper work and teaching affording the means for liveli- hood. At this period much time was given to philanthropic work among the jails. and fallen women, and on the temperance platform. At last opportunity was found to follow her natural inclination, and the study of medicine was commenced under preceptors, and continued at college. Here began questionings that could not be answered by the wisest professor, as to the nature of disease, and what it is that cures and why ? Several cases that yielded to her intense desire to helpthe sufferer, even after the case had been pronounced hopeless by the best physicians, convinced her of the impotency of medicine, and that there was a healing power higher than, and apart from, drugs. This knowledge was but nebulous, and then came a fruit- less search among books, doctors and ministers for some light upon the healing force. Being at last convinced that she must explore alone in this direction, she took her two children and went to the far West. There, in the solitude of a Dakota claim, with the Bible for text-book, and her own intuitions for teacher, by study, desire and intense concentration, she found what she sought, and formulated the unorganized knowledge of a wonderful potency into a healing science. There it was that the great grief of her life came, in the sudden death, by being thrown from a. horse, of her beloved daughter, with whom she was in perfect accord, and united by stronger bonds than parental love alone. This sorrow seemed to loose earthly ties, and free lier to live and work for suffering humanity.

On emerging from three years' retirement she was surprised to find that others had been thinking along these lines, and schools for teaching mental therapeutics had been founded and incorporated under various names. Entering one of these colleges she passed through the course and graduated; she also examined other sys- tems, but none appealed to her as being so practically adapted to the needs of suffer- ing humanity, as was the system she herself had evolved. On January 1, 1887, Dr. Yates came to Cincinnati, a stranger in a strange city, herald of a strange doctrine. With a heart aglow with love for suffering humanity, she sought her first patients in the haunts of poverty. Her great success and seemingly miraculous cures soon brought scores of sufferers to her door, and the day was only too short for the work that came to her hand. Rich and poor, high and low, alike sought the benefit of the new and wonderful healing power. A school was established, and many earnest and eager inquirers enrolled themselves as humble students of the Truth, which is the same yesterday, to-day and forever. In 1888 a college organization was formed, a.

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charter was granted by the State, and the Cincinnati School of Metaphysics became the Cincinnati Metaphysical College, with legal right to issue diplomas and confer degrees. In the spring of 1888, feeling the need of larger accommodations, a change of location was made, and the legend, puzzling to many, "Cincinnati Metaphysical College," was inscribed in fine gold lettering over the door of a handsome brown stone front on Sixth street, near Mound. Here the institution remained and flour- ished until 1893, when, to secure the convenience of a more central location, rooms were secured for temporary use in the Norfolk building, corner of Eighth and Elm, pending the search for suitable quarters. Two courses of lectures have been given each year, and from October to May a series of Friday evening readings and informal discussions, to which the public were invited. All students bear testimony to the benefits accruing to them from a study of Metaphysics, but all can not equally gain healing power. The duality of man is taught and the two states of consciousness-the former acting through the five senses and the latter controlling all the actions of the internal organs, and all psychological processes. It is upon this duality of man that the phrenopathic method of cure is founded. The Cincinnati Metaphysical College has from the first been a self-supporting institution, and needs no further eulogy than "by their fruits ye shall know them.

CHARLES GUSTAV EDWARD SPEIDEL, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 401 Elm street, Cincinnati, was born in that city September 3, 1860, a son of Edward Speidel and Oda K. M. Wahle, the former born April 6, 1834, in Wurtem- berg, Germany, the latter January 8, 1842, in Freigut, Kunnersdorf, Saxony, Ger- many. Edward Speidel was private secretary to Consul C. F. Adae, then clerk in the Cincinnati post office; he died January 18, 1877. Mrs. Oda (Wahle) Speidel was a daughter of Gustav Adolph Wahle, who was a wealthy agriculturist and owner of a " Rittergut," of Saxony. He was educated in his native country, and gradu- ated from the Dresden high school. Edward Speidel was a son of Edward Speidel, a German Protestant minister. Our subject, Dr. Speidel, was educated in the pub- lic schools of Cincinnati, Woodward High School, and a business college, and in the spring of 1886 graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, after which he went to Germany, and studied at Tubingen, Wurtemberg. He returned to Cincinnati and opened an office for the practice of his profession at No. 391 Elm street, later mov- ing to his present location. The Doctor is assistant professor at the Medical College of Ohio to the chair of gynecology and obstetrics, also clinician at the same college. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Society.

THOMAS M. STEWART, physician and surgeon, office No. 266 Elm street, residence Vernonville, was born in Cincinnati May 13, 1866, a son of Henry Crossley and Irene (Roll) Stewart, and grandson of Jacob and Lois (Crossley) Stewart. The subject of this sketch obtained his literary education at the public schools of Cincin- nati and at Chickering Institute in that city. He began the study of medicine under Dr. J. D. Buck, dean of Pulte Medical College, and Dr. J. M. Crawford, now United States consul general at St. Petersburg, Russia, and in March, 1887, gradu- ated from Pulte Medical College, receiving his gold medal for the best final exami- nation. He then spent six months in the study of the sciences underlying the prac- tice of ophthalmology, and in attending the eye clinics of Pulte and Miami Medical Colleges, Cincinnati. In August, 1887, he went to New York City, and entered the eye, throat and ear department of the Post-Graduate Medical School and the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, graduating therefrom in April, 1880, with the degree of Oculist Auris Chirurgis, and receiving first honors for practical and theoretical eye and ear work. Returning to Cincinnati he received the appointment of resident physician to the Homeopathic Free Dispensary and was continued in service in the general clinics until January, 1889. In the following month he sailed for Europe, where he studied at Berlin with Schweigger, Schoeller and Hirshberg; at Vienna with Dimmer, and at Munich in the general hospital, and upon his return to Cincin-

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nati, in August, 1889, he began the practice of medicine, making a specialty of diseases of the eye, ear, throat and nose. From September, 1888, until his depart- ure for Europe, he gave the lectures on anatomy at Pulte Medical College in the absence of the professor of anatomy; and while pursuing his studies in Europe he was elected to this professorship, a position he still holds. The Doctor is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, member and secretary of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Ohio, member and ex-president of the Cincinnati Homeopathic Lyceum, and honorary member of the Kentucky and Indiana State Homeopathic Medical Societies. He is professor of anatomy in Pulte Medical College, surgeon in charge of the eye, ear, throat and nose department of the Cincinnati Free Dispen- sary, consulting surgeon to the Protestant Home for the Friendless and Foundlings, and editor of the Pulte Medical Journal. He was married, February 14, 1889, to Alice, daughter of J. D. and Lizzie (Clough) Buck, of Cincinnati. The Doctor is a member of the Theosophical Society; politically he is a Republican.

WILLIAM D. PORTER, physician, office and residence, No. 635 McMillan street, Cincinnati, was born January 28, 1860, in Zanesville, Ohio, son of Joseph and Susan M. (Griffith) Porter. The former was born March 4, 1822, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He is a farmer. When but seventeen years of age he commenced teaching school, and two years later took a supplementary course of study in the Zanesville high school; he was proficient in mathematics, and filled several books with solutions of difficult problems in geometry, trigonometry and algebra. He occasionally acted in the capacity of surveyor. The mother of our subject was born March 27, 1827. Joseph Porter was the son of William and Mary (Richey) Porter, farming people, who were natives of Erie county, Penn. The former was born in February, 1784, and died June 17, 1833; the latter was born in February, 1789, and died June 14, 1833. Our subject was graduated from the Ohio University in 1883, and later received the degree of A. M. from the same institution. He also took a post-graduate course in scientific work at Cornell University. From 1878 to 1885 he was associated during the summer months with Prof. R. S. Devol, of Kenyon College, on the United States coast and geodetic survey. Hestudied medicine under the tutorage of B. F. Spencer, M. D., of Newark, Ohio. In March, 1887, he was graduated from the Medical Col- lege of Ohio. The first year of his practice was as house physician in Dr. Reamy's Hospital, and for several years following he was assistant in that institution. The Doctor is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society; Cincinnati Academy of Medi- cine; Cincinnati Obstetrical Society; and a member of the Delta Tau Delta Frater- nity. He is director of the out-door obstetrical clinic of the Miami Medical College, and lecturer on' obstetric operations in the same institution.

Dr. Porter was united in marriage, December 26, 1888, with Christine, daughter of Thomas and Christine (Young) Fotheringham, natives of Scotland, who came to America at the time of their marriage. Two children have come to gladden and bless the home of Dr. Porter and wife. Dr. and Mrs. Porter are members of the Walnut Hills Congregational Church, and politically he is a Republican.

ALLYN CILLEY POOLE, physician and surgeon, office and residence Woodburn ave- nue, near Chapel, Walnut Hills, was born August 18, 1860, in Colerain township, Hamilton Co., Ohio, a son of James and Emily (Cilley) Poole, both also natives of Colerain township, the former born March 29, 1824, a farmer and fruit grower by occupation; the latter born February 16, 1836. James Poole was a son of William and Rebecca (Hardin) Poole, the former of whom was born in 1793, and died in 1868. He was a son of William Poole, a native of New York State, whose father came from England to America at a very early date. Emily (Cilley) Poole is the daughter of Bradbury Cilley, a native of New Hampshire, who was born May 16, 1798, died July 19, 1874. His father, Jonathan Cilley, was a son of Joseph, who was born in Nottingham, in 1734. Joseph Cilley was colonel of the First New Hamp- shire Regiment, that fought so gallantly during the Revolutionary war. After the

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war he was appointed major-general of the New Hampshire militia; he died in 1799. Gen. Joseph Cilley's father was Capt. Joseph Cilley; this gentleman was a son of Thomas Seally, whose father, Richard Seally, was magistrate of the Isle of Shoals in 1653.

Dr. Poole received his early education in the public schools, and graduated A. B. from the Boston University in 1882. He studied medicine with Dr. J. L. Cilley, of Cincinnati, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, in the spring of 1887, receiving the Faculty prize, a gold medal for the highest average in the final exami- nation. He was a resident interne at the Cincinnati Hospital in 1886 and 1887; took a post-graduate course in the medical universities of Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, from 1887 to 1889, and returning to Cincinnati opened an office at his present loca- tion. Dr. Poole is a member of the College Fraternity Beta Theta Pi, and the Cin- cinnati Academy of Medicine. He is a physician to Christ's Hospital, a curator and microscopist of the Cincinnati Hospital, and demonstrator of chemistry in the Medi- cal College of Ohio. He is a member of the Christian Church, and politically is a Republican.

SAMUEL H. SPENCER, physician and surgeon, office No. 215 Brown street, Cincin- nati, was born in Marietta, Ohio, July 23, 1860, son of Albaness J. D. and Perlinia (Dye) Spencer. The former was born in Virginia, near the Tennessee line, May 3, 1822, and when seven years of age his parents moved to Louisville, Ky., remaining there until he reached his eighteenth year, when they again moved, this time to Cairo, where his father died, leaving him to support his widowed mother and two sisters. Perlinia Dye was born January 1, 1829, in Lawrence township, Ohio, and was united in marriage with Mr. Spencer November 14, 1848. A. J. D. Spencer, who still lives at Marietta, Ohio, is a son of Samuel P. Spencer, a planter and con- tractor, and Catherine (Proffett) Spencer. Perlinia (Dye) Spencer, mother of our subject, was a daughter of Amos Dye, stock broker, and Mariah (Taylor) Dye, who departed this life December 9, 1889.

Dr. Spencer received his early education in the public schools of his native county, and at Marietta College, studied medicine under his brother, J. R. Spencer, who was then located at Stanleyville, Ohio, and graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati in the spring of 1887. He then took a special course at the Pulte Medical College, graduating in 1888, and immediately opened an office for the practice of his profession, where he is now located. Dr. Spencer is a general prac- titioner. He is a member of the Ohio State Eclectic Society and the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Society. He was united in marriage, August 4, 1885, to Miss Carrie B., daughter of Frederick Smith, and this union has been blessed with one daughter, Ethel E. Spencer, born May 13, 1887. The family are members of the Congregational Church, and politically Dr. Spencer is a firm Republican. He is at present a member of the board of education from the Twelfth Ward, having been elected to the same in April, 1892. He is examining surgeon of the National Acci- dent Association of Indianapolis, and physician to the Miami and Comus Mutual Aid Associations, and several others; he enjoys a large and lucrative practice.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 110

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