History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 111

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

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SAMUEL V. WISEMAN, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 152 Wal- worth avenue, Cincinnati, was born September 24, 1843, in Lawrence county, Ohio, near Ironton. In the spring of 1862 he enlisted in Company D, Ninety-first Ohio Volunteer Infantry, serving until the close of the war; one year of this time he was with Capt. Dick Blazer's scouts. At the close of the war he was honorably dis- charged, and returning home attended school two years at Athens, when his health failed him, and he went West, where he traveled some time, dealing in stock and lands. His health having improved he returned home, and began the study of medicine under Dr. Patterson, of Gallia county, came to Cincinnati, and graduated from the Miami Medical College in the spring of 1877, and immediately opened an office for the practice of his profession in the First Ward of Cincinnati, where he has since

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remained. The Doctor is a member of the F. & A. M .; George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., and politically is a Republican.

THOMAS PATRICK HART, physician and surgeon, office No. 171 East Fifth street, was born in Cincinnati, September 7, 1862, a son of Thomas and Bridget Hart, natives of Ireland. Dr. Hart received his early education at St. Xavier's parochial school, and in June, 1886, graduated A. B. from St. Xavier College; A. M., in June, 1890; and Ph. D., in June, 1891. He graduated in medicine from the Medical Col- lege of Ohio, in March, 1887, delivering the class oration, and immediately began the practice of his profession from his present office. Dr. Hart is one of the first of the Alumni Association of St. Xavier College, and is now its president; he was also one of the founders of the Xavier Lyceum, the principal Catholic literary society of this city, and has from time to time filled all its offices. He was a delegate from St. Xavier College to the First Catholic Congress in the fall of 1888, and was also a delegate to the second Catholic Congress, held in Chicago during the first week of September, 1893. This gentleman was president of Parnell Branch of the Irish National League of America, from August, 1889, until August, 1891, when it was merged into the Innisfail Branch of the Irish National Federation of America, of which he was also made president, an office he still holds. Dr. Hart was united in marriage, August 16, 1888, to Miss Mary, daughter of James and Annie Byrnes, both natives of Ireland. Dr. Hart and his wife are members of the Catho- lic Church, and politically he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine.

SAMUEL ELLSWORTH ALLEN, physician, surgeon, and specialist in the treatment of diseases of the eye, nose and throat, was born August, 16, 1864, at Glendale, Ohio, the son of Samuel B. and Bertha (Nye) Allen, natives of Massachusetts, who were of English origin. His father, who was a wholesale druggist of Cincinnati, died October 23, 1879, at the age of sixty-three; his mother is still living at the age of sixty-five. His paternal grandfather, Marsden Allen, was a native of Massachu- setts, and a wholesale druggist. Dr. Allen received his education in the schools of Cincinnati, and in 1882 graduated at Hughes High School, after which he was a student at the School of Mines of Columbia College, and the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. In 1885 he matriculated at the Medical College of Ohio, where he was a student one year, and then entered Miami Medical College, from which he graduated in 1888. He was resident physician at the Cincinnati Hospital one year, and practiced his profession for an equal period at Delaware, Ohio. In 1890 he went abroad and spent the following two years as a student in the medical col- leges and hospitals of Vienna and Berlin, returning in September, 1892, when he opened his present office at Cincinnati. The Doctor is pathologist to the Presby- terian Hospital and Woman's Medical College. He is a member of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the Cincinnati Medical Society. To the literature of his profession he has contributed a work entitled, "Mastoid Operations, their History, Anatomy and Pathology," the Cincin- nati Lancet has also published numerous articles from his pen. On June 20, 1890, the Doctor married Harriet H., daughter of Judge Isaac Collins, of Cincinnati. He is an ardent Democrat in his political affiliations, and he and his wife belong to the Church of the Advent.

WILLIAM HILLKOWITZ, office and residence No. 269 West Seventh street, was born June 12, 1864, in Salanten, Lithuania, Russia, near the Prussian boundary. He is a son of Elias H. and Rebecca (Hindelson) Hillkowitz, both natives of Lithuania, the former born at Ritaven, June 15, 1836, the latter at Salanten, May 23, 1837. The parents of Elias Hillkowitz were Hillel and Etta Rebecca (Mendelssohn) Hill- kowitz, the former of whom was a farmer of estates in Prussia. Hillel Hillkowitz was a son of Elias, who descended from a long line of theologians, and was a cele- brated Rabbi and linguist; he was a native of Germany. Elias H. Hillkowitz, father

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of our subject, graduated in theology in 1857, married a year later, and was ap- pointed Rabbi at Pikeln, holding this position several years, after which he engaged in agriculture and commerce. In ISS1 he came to America, and for ten years was Rabbi of Beth Hakneses Congregation of Cincinnati. He moved to Denver, Colo., in 1891, and has since resided there with his family. Dr. Hillkowitz came to America in 1883, and after spending three months in New York City came to Cincin- nati. He received his early education at the Gymnasium at Libau, in Courland, and after coming to America, graduated from the Medical College of Ohio, in March, 1888. He at once opened an office at No. 114 Carlisle avenue, and a year later moved to his present location. In 1889 he was appointed assistant health officer, and the same year was appointed obstetrician to the Ladies Society for the Relief of the Sick Poor. In 1891 he became attending physician to this society, and was also appointed attending physician to the Jewish Foster Home in 1892. The Doctor is a member of the Academy of Medicine, and the Ohio State Medical Society. He is Past Chan- cellor of the Knights of Pythias, and Medical Examiner to the Royal Arcanum, National Union, and Knights and Ladies of Honor.

OTTO JUETTNER, physician and surgeon, office No. 471 Elm street, was born Feb- ruary 3, 1865, at Breslau, Germany. He received a classical education at St. Mat- thew's Royal Gymnasium in his native city, giving at the same time earnest atten- tion to the thorough study of music, in the pursuit of the latter enjoying the instruc- tion of two very distinguished German musicians. His parents having removed to Carlsruhe, the capital of the Grand Duchy of Baden, he attended the Lyceum of the latter city. At the end of the term he was at the head of his class in all branches. He emigrated to America in 1882. In order to master the English language he attended St. Xavier College, Cincinnati, receiving the degree of A. B. at the end of the term in 1885. He was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1888, having previously been honored by his former Alma Mater with the degree of A. M. in 1886, and Sc. M. in 1887. He was resident physician of the Good Samaritan Hospital in 1888, and has been engaged in general practice since 1889. The Doc- tor is a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, Mississippi Valley Medical Asso- ciation, etc. Dr. Juettner writes for various literary, medical and secular periodi- cals, both German and English. In 1890 he received the first prize for the best surgical essay, offered by the International Journal of Surgery, of New York.

ALBERT A. KAMMANN, physician, office No. 524 Race street, residence No. 98 Molitor street, Cincinnati, was born in Cincinnati, January 12, 1862. His father, Henry W. Kammann, born July 18, 1819, at Wohlstreck, Kingdom of Hanover, Germany, was the son of a prosperous landowner and farmer. He emigrated to America in 1842, came to Cincinnati and engaged in the dry-goods business, which he carried on successfully until a few years before his death. In 1844 he married Dorothy Hacke, born December 21, 1824, at Fistel, Kingdom of Prussia, a typical North German girl, who had come to America with her parents the year before, and while passing through Cincinnati on the way to the interior of the State had been struck by the beauty of the city, and the cordial hospitality of its inhabitants; she promptly decided to remain, despite the remonstrances of parents and friends, a stranger amongst strangers, and after one year became the wife of the young mer- chant, who well deserved success and already gave promise of future prosperity. Henry Kammann took an active part in the affairs of the growing city, being best known among the German residents, whose various charities he assisted in founding and supporting. He retired from business in 1869, and died April 5, 1872, a life- long member of the I. O. O. F.

Albert A. Kammann, our subject, received a common-school education in the public schools of Cincinnati, and graduated from Woodward High School in 1880. After a course of study at Nelson's Business College he began reading medicine while engaged in one of our leading mercantile houses, devoting all his spare time

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to study and teaching. He took a four-years' course at the Miami Medical College, followed by a year's service as interne at the Cincinnati Hospital. He graduated in 1888, visited Europe, and studied under the masters of his chosen profession in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna. After more than three years of travel on the Continent, he returned to his native city, entered at once into active practice, and is to-day one of the most successful practitioners in Cincinnati. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Knights of Honor, and the A. O. U. W .; House Physician to the Altenheim and to the Bodmann Widows' Home. While visiting Breslau he formed the acquaintance of Miss Margaret Doering, a native of Halberstadt, Saxony, and the attachment thus formed led to their mar- riage, in September, 1890. The father of this lady, Adolph Doering, director of a well-known bank in Germany, is a descendant of the old German nobility, his mother having been Baroness Von Dieskau; he married Hildah, daughter of the celebrated physician, Theodore Fritsch.

THOMAS W. HAYS, M. D., was born October 22, 1863, at Bantam, Clermont Co., Ohio, a son of George W. and Amanda Elizabeth (White) Hays. His father was also a native of Clermont county, born September 20, 1825, son of John and Martha (Greer) Hays, the former a native of Ireland and the latter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Amanda Hays was born in Clermont county, August 1, 1834, the daughter of For- man and Mary (Rogers) White. Dr. Hays was educated at the public schools of Bantam and under the private tutorship of Prof. Samuel D. Shepard. At the age of seventeen he began the study of medicine under Dr. W. E. Thompson, of Bethel, Ohio, with whom he remained but a short time, and then came to Cincinnati and continued his studies under Drs. E. G. and B. Zinke. In 1885 he matriculated at the Ohio Medical College, graduating in 1888; in 1887 he was awarded Prof. W. W .. Dawson's gold medal for best bandaging. Immediately after graduating in 1888 he was one of the successful contestants for the position of interne at the Cincinnati Hospital, where, after one year's service, he was appointed senior resident physician. In 1890, at the expiration of his hospital service, he began the practice of his pro- fession in the office of E. B. Zinke, No. 674 Vine street, but nine months later left for Europe, spending five months in the general hospital at Vienna. In June, 1891, he returned and resumed practice at No. 674 Vine street, where he is at present located. The Doctor is a general practitioner. He is physician to the Humane Society, assistant to Samuel Nickles, M. D., professor of materia medica at the Ohio Medical College, and assistant-surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the Mississippi Valley Medical Society. In politics he is a Republican.

TIZDAL EDDY LINN, physician and surgeon, office No. 142 Garfield place, resi- dence "Glencoe Hotel," Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, was born at Middletown, Ohio, Novem- ber 2, 1867. He is a son of William Davison and Caroline (Hueston) Linn, the for- mer born October 1, 1840, in Monroe, Butler Co., Ohio, the latter born February 3, 1845, near Hamilton, Ohio. William Davison Linn was a prominent physician of Middletown, Ohio, and enjoyed a large and lucrative practice; he departed this life in February, 1876. He was a son of William Patterson Linn. Mrs. Caroline Linn, mother of our subject, died April 4, 1871. Dr. Linn received his early education at the public schools of Middletown, and at Monroe High School, studied medicine with Dr. Charles Steddom, of Monroe, and graduated from the Pulte Medical Col- lege of Cincinnati, March 3, 1888. He began the practice of his profession at Selma, Ala., remaining there six months, and then returned to Cincinnati and opened an office at Seventh and John streets. He was appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy at the Pulte Medical College, and in the following January was appointed resident physician of the Cincinnati Homeopathic Dispensary and demonstrator of anatomy. He then attended a six-weeks' course in the New York Hospitals, and in March, 1890, at the age of twenty-two, was appointed professor of surgery at the

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Palte College, and still retains this chair. The Doctor pays special attention to sur- gery, and particularly to surgery for deformities. He is a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Ohio State Homeopathic Society, the Cincinnati Homeo- pathic Lyceum, and the Hahnemann Society, also of the Knights of Pythias. He is surgeon to the Home of the Friendless, and surgeon to the Cincinnati Orphan Asy- lum. Is a frequent contributor to the home medical journals. Dr. Linn was mar- ried October 25, 1892, to Miss Sarah, daughter of James Adams and Mary (Stiver) McClellan.

. JAMES JAMISON, physician and surgeon, office and residence Grand avenue and Nassau street, Cincinnati. was born February 21, 1865, at Bellanode, County Moll- aghan, Ireland, a son of Robert and Priscilla (Mitchell) Jamison. Robert Jamison, father of our subject, was owner and operator of a grain and linen mill in his native country; he departed this life January 16, 1889. Our subject received his early education at the Monaghan Collegiate School, studied medicine and surgery, and was graduated from the King's and Queen's College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, August 1, 1888. Soon after graduating he accepted a position as physician on board the royal mail steamers, "Teneriffe " and "Congo," belonging to the British and African Steam Navigation Company. Here he served two years when he was appointed physician to the New Calabar District (on the River Niger), west coast of Africa, where he served one year, and then came to America and opened an office at the northeast corner of Gilbert avenue and Nassau street, Cincinnati. In the summer of 1893 he moved his office to Grand avenue and Nas- sau street, where he has since practiced. Dr. Jamison is a member of the West Walnut Hills Medical Association. In religion he is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

HARVEY WICKES FELTER, physician, office and residence No. 301 Chase avenue, North Side, Cincinnati, was born at Rensselaerville, Albany Co., N. Y., June 15, 1865, a son of Andrew Jay and Elizabeth (Nichols) Felter, both also natives of New York State. The former is a son of Elisha P. and Mary (Wagner) Felter. The ancestors of the Felter family were among the French Huguenots driven from France into Holland, whence they came to America at an early day, and settled in New York

State. Elizabeth (Nichols) Felter, mother of our subject, was a daughter of Leuman H. Nichols; she departed this life at Lansingburgh, N. Y., June 22, 1873. Dr. Felter received his early education in the district school at Pittstown, in the public schools of Lansingburgh and Troy, N. Y .. and also at the Lansingburgh Academy. He began the study of medicine under Dr. Alexander B. Willis, of John- sonville, N. Y., an old-school physician of liberal views, and graduated June 5, 1888, from the Eclectic Medical Institute. He opened an office for the practice of his profession at Troy, N. Y., and in October, 1889, came to Cincinnati, where he has since practiced general medicine. While in New York State the Doctor was a member of the Albany County Eclectic Medical Society, of which he was treasurer up to the time of his leaving for Cincinnati. At present he is a member of the New York State Eclectic Society, of the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Society, of which he has been secretary, and chairman of the board of censors, and of the Ohio State Eclectic Medical Association, of which he is vice-president and chairman of the com- mittee on necrology. Dr. Felter was professor of descriptive and surgical anatomy during the session of 1891-92, and is now demonstrator of anatomy and quiz mas- ter in chemistry in the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati. He is also a mem- ber of the board of trustees of the Eclectic Hospital, and is secretary and member of the medical staff of the same. The Doctor is a regular contributor to the Medical Gleaner and Eclectic Medical Journal of Cincinnati, and the Annual of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery of Chicago, particularly on subjects relating to pharmacology, materia medica and specific medication. He is now revising and re-writing the voluminous "American Dispensatory " by King and Lloyd, the standard work of the Eclectic School on materia medica, pharmacology and therapeutics, and adopted as

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official by the National Eclectic Medical Association. There are but two other works of a similar character in this country, the others being the " United States Dispen- satory " and the " National Dispensatory," both of the old school.

Dr. Felter was united in marriage January 1, 1890, with Miss Martha Reyburn, born October 5, 1869, daughter of James Calvin and Mary Helen (Miller) Caldwell, of Fair Haven, Ohio, a lineal descendant of John C. Calhoun, and the Calhouns of South Carolina. They have one child, Dorah Helen, born October 23, 1893. Dr. Felter when twelve years of age was thrown on his own resources, and was bound out to a farmer for whom he worked for nine years, attending the winter terms of school until his seventeenth year, when he began teaching, and after a short time took up the study of eclectic medicine against the advice of all his friends, who argued that he pursue the study of medicine according to the old school. Dr. Fel- ter graduated at the head of a class of sixty, and has made a brilliant success of his profession. Dr. and Mrs. Felter are members of the Third Presbyterian Church, in which the Doctor is one of the deacons.

DRS. EDWIN, MERRILL and JOSEPH RICKETTS, office No. 158 Broadway, Cincinnati, were born May 18, 1853, May 20, 1858, and October 6, 1866, respectively. They are the sons of Dr. Gerard R. and Jane (Mclaughlin) Ricketts, natives of Virginia and Ohio, and of Scotch and Irish origin. Dr. Gerard R. Ricketts is the son of John and Elizabeth (Robinson) Ricketts. John Ricketts' father, Anthony Ricketts, came from England about 1770 with twelve sons, who located, some in Virginia, others in Maryland and Kentucky. Edwin, Merrill and Joseph received their education in the common schools of Marshall, Ohio, Wesleyan and Annapolis Universities, while their medical education was obtained at Miami Medical College and the Medical Department of Columbia College. Edwin located in Portsmouth, Ohio, in March, 1877, and there practiced his profession until September, 1888, when he went to Europe to spend a year in the study of surgical diseases of women. Upon his return he located in Cincinnati in the fall of 1888, where he has since practiced. Merrill located in Ironton on April 9, 1881, where he was elected health officer and city physician to take charge of a severe epidemic of smallpox. He remained in Ironton until August, 1883, when he located in Columbus, Ohio, for one year, at the end of which time he went to New York to enter Columbia College and was afterward elected to the position of house surgeon of the N. Y. S. & C. Hospital for one year. On November 16, 1885, he located in Cincinnati, where he has devoted his time to the practice of surgery and skin diseases. He is con- nected with several hospitals. Joseph located in Cincinnati in the spring of 1890, since which time he has practiced ophthalmology, laryngology and otology. All three brothers are frequent contributors to general surgical literature.

WALTER B. KNIGHT, M. D., was born February 3, 1867, at Janesville, Wis., son of Albert R. and Henrietta (Moore) Knight. His father was a native of East Otis- field, Maine, and his mother was born in New Brunswick; they were of Scotch descent. The Knight family has turned out many professional men and mechanics. The father of our subject was a master mechanic and engineer; he stood high as a Freemason, and at the time of his death, which occurred in 1877, he had attained the 32°. He died in California. Dr. Knight's mother died in 1870. Our subject was then three years old, and he was reared and educated by his uncle, D. W. Harts- horn, M. D., a portrait of whom may be found in this volume. After attending the public school and the Chickering College of Cincinnati, from which he graduated, he took up the study of medicine, and in 1888 received the degree of M. D. from the Pulte Medical College of Cincinnati. He then took up the practice of medicine here, in which he has ever since been actively engaged. He is a member of the Hahnemann Society. Dr. Knight was united in marriage June 2, 1887, to Elinore Bertha Owen, daughter of Bernard M. and Rebecca (Luken) Owen. Her mother was of English descent, and her father of Irish origin. In politics Dr. Knight is a Republican.

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JEPTHA D. DAVIS, physician and surgeon, northwest corner Third and Broad- "way, was born August 14, 1866, in Circleville, Ohio. He was named after his father, Dr. J. Davis, who was born January 7, 1834, at Washington Court House, .and his grandfather, Dr. J. Davis, who was born at Lexington, Ky., in 1808. His mother is a native of Ohio, and was born at Hillsborough November 25, 1839; she is a granddaughter of Dr. Jasper Hand, of Hillsborough, and grand- niece to Gen. Hand, aid-de-camp to Gen. George Washington. His father practiced medicine for a number of years in Greenfield, Ohio, when, on account of failing health, he moved West, and again took up his vocation in Ottawa, Kans., where he still resides, enjoying a lucrative practice. It was there Dr. J. Davis, our subject, received his early education, graduating from the high school at the early age of sixteen. He attended the State University at Lawrence, Kans., receiving a classical education, and graduated at the age of twenty with the degree of A. B. He then came to Cincinnati, and began the study of medicine under the late eminent surgeon Dr. W. W. Dawson, three years later graduating at the Medical College of Ohio, and receiving a gold medal for the best surgical draw- ing; he was also appointed one of the resident physicians of the Good Samaritan Hospital, which appointment was attained by competitive examination. After one year in the hospital he became a partner of Dr. Dawson, and still practices medi- cine and surgery in the same office in which this gentleman acquired great fame. He was appointed assistant to the chair of surgery at the Medical College of Ohio, and the Good Samaritan Hospital, and had charge of the surgical clinic at the Col- lege, and lectured on genito-urinary surgery in the spring course. As a physician and surgeon he ranks deservedly high, enjoying the esteem and confidence of his professional associates and of the community in general.

ISAAC J. MILLER, JR., is a practicing physician having his office and residence at No. 426 McMicken avenue, Cincinnati. He is the son of Isaac J. and Martha N. Miller, and was born in Cincinnati May 26, 1860. His father, Isaac J. Miller, who was born in Athens county, Ohio, has been engaged in the practice of law in Cin- cinnati since 1856, and has been very active in promoting the growth and welfare .of the city. He has always been an active Democrat, but has never held a remun- erative office. His mother, Martha (Norris) Miller, is the daughter of David and Hester Norris; she was born in Meigs county, Ohio. His paternal grandfather, James M. Miller, was born in the year 1810, and died at the age of eighty-four; his paternal grandmother's name was Jane Shields. His maternal grandfather, David Norris, married Miss Hester Patterson. His maternal great-grandfather was born in New York, and his ancestors lived there previous to the Revolutionary war. Two of his great-uncles were killed in the battle of Brandywine. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, and later attended the Cin- cinnati College of Pharmacy, studied medicine under the tutorship of his uncle, Dr. C. A. Miller, then superintendent of Longview Insane Asylum, and was gradu- ated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1889. On May 12, 1890, he married Miss Caroline S., daughter of George and Margaret Klotter. He has been district phy- sician, and was, in July, 1893, appointed examining surgeon of the pension board of the First District of Ohio, under President Cleveland's administration.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 111

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