History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 112

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

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ERWIN O. STRAEHLEY, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 442 Linn street, was born at Cincinnati September 25, 1868, son of John and Regina (Oesper) Straehley. His father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1838, and his mother was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1840. His father's parents emigrated to this coun- try in 1848. John Straehley is a dry-goods merchant, his place of business being at No. 501 Vine street, and the family residence is at No. 129 Dayton street. His wife died September 2, 1892, of cancer of tlie,stomach. There were nine children "born to John and Regina Straehley, eight of whom are living. Amelia Furste lives "on Fairfax avenue, East Walnut Hills; William C. Straeliley is a salesman in

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Specker Bros.' wholesale dry-goods house, and resides at McCormick Place, Mt. Auburn; Wesley Straehley is with the proprietor of a shoe store on Vine street, and lives at No. 552 Elm street; John Straehley, Jr., is in business with his father; Emma Neider keeps house for her father; Arthur, just graduated from Woodward High School, intends to study law; Edna goes to the public schools.

Dr. Erwin O. Straehley received a common-school education and attended Wood- ward High School. He took the classical course and graduated June 15, 1886. Intending to study medicine he matriculated at the Medical College of Ohio, took a three-years' course and graduated March 7, 1889, with the highest honors. He received the Faculty prize, a gold medal, Prof. Conner's Prize on Surgery, and Prof. Ransohoff's Prize on Anatomy. He was resident physician at the city work- house, but soon gave up this position in order to pursue his studies in Europe. In the summer of 1889 he left for Europe. For ten months he remained at the Uni- versity of Wurzburg, where he became an assistant to the Polyclinic under Prof. Matterstock, and then went to Strasburg, attending the lectures for four months. From Strasburg he visited Paris, Brussels, Cologne, etc., and finally found his way to Vienna, where he remained almost a year, attending the various clinics. Then he went to Kiel, on the Baltic Sea, visiting the various places of interest on the way. From Kiel he went to London and then to Ireland. Returning home he began practice at No. 129 Dayton street. On September 21, 1892, he was married to Miss Carrie Lydia Miller, daughter of William Miller and Caroline Dittman, both of whom were born in Germany. He has no children. Dr. Straehley and his wife belong to the First German Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a Republican. He is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medi- cal Society; was assistant health officer of the Fourteenth and Twenty-third Wards from August 1, 1892, to May 15, 1894. He is also medical examiner for the Home Life Insurance Company of New York, and the Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. He belongs to the Fraternal Mystic Circle.

HERMAN H. HOPPE, physician and surgeon, office No. 445 Walnut street, Cincin- nati, was born in the city January 4, 1867, a son of Domenick and Mary (Dusterberg) Hoppe. The former, born February 28, 1828, in Vechta, Germany, came to Amer- ica when quite young with his family, settled in New Orleans, and in 1850 came to Cincinnati and embarked in the retail grocery business; after a few years he estab- lished himself as a commission merchant at No. 23 Walnut street, under the firm name of D. Hoppe & Company, Mr. Hoppe being head of the firm up to the time of his death, which occurred February 28, 1885. Mrs. Mary Hoppe, mother of our subject, was born in Cincinnati June 10, 1832, and departed this life June 6, 1891. She was the daughter of John H. Dusterberg, who came from Germany to Buffalo, N. Y., in 1825, and after spending a few years in Buffalo came, about 1830, to Cin- cinnati. Here he established a livery and board stable, and continued in this business up to about 1865, when he retired. spending the remainder of his days on his farm near Reading, Ohio, where he died in 1883 at the age of seventy-eight years. Dr. Hoppe received his primary education at St. Mary's Parochial School, Cincinnati, and when thirteen years of age entered St. Xavier College, from which he graduated in 1886. He began the study of medicine under J. S. Cilley, matricu- lated at the Medical College of Ohio in September, 1886, and graduated, second in a class of ninety, in the spring of 1889. He was successful in the competitive exam- ination to become interne at the Cincinnati Hospital, where he served eighteen months, until April 10, 1890, when he left for Europe, spending the summer at the University of Strasburg, studying pathology under Prof. Recklinghausen. In the fall of the year he went to Berlin, where he became first assistant in the nervous laboratory of Prof. Oppenheim, a well-known authority on diseases of the nervous system, and held this position until he left Berlin, in August, 1892. In September. 1892, he opened his present office at No. 445 Walnut street, making a specialty of

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diseases of the nervous system. The Doctor is a member of the Academy of Medi- cine, Ohio State Medical Society, the Mississippi Valley Medical Association, and Berlin Society for Nervous Diseases and Insanity. He is assistant demonstrator of anatomy at the Medical College of Ohio, is also connected with the clinic for nerv- ous diseases, and has been recently appointed a member of the staff of the Cincin- nati Hospital, as neurologist. He is neurologist to the Ophthalmic Hospital, and is a frequent contributor to the local medical journals on his specialty. Dr. Hoppe is a member of the Catholic Church, and politically is in sympathy with the Demo- cratic part.v.

ERNST JACOB, M. D., office and residence No. 26 Findlay street, Cincinnati, was born May 12, 1862, in Anderson, Ohio, was educated in the high schools of Cincin- nati, and in 1889 graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Cin- cinnati. He has practiced his profession in this city ever since, and has built up a reputation through his social as well as his professional ability.

MAXIMILIAN HERZOG, M. D., was born September 17, 1858, at Frankfort-on-the- Main, Germany, the eldest son of a merchant of that city. After attending the schools of his birthplace, he matriculated as a student of natural sciences at the universities of Giessen, Strasburg and Marburg. He there followed a course of studies in botany, zoology, mineralogy, palæontology, chemistry, physics and higher mathematics. In 1881 he came to the United States, where he at once drifted into journalism, writing for the German daily press of St. Louis, St. Paul and Cincin- nati. To the latter city Mr. Herzog came in 1883 to join the editorial staff of the Cincinnati Volksblatt, one of the largest and best German dailies of the country. He was a regular contributor to the columns of this paper for almost ten years, as reporter, editor, and correspondent at home and abroad, at the same time writing occasionally for papers in Berlin and Frankfort-on-the-Main. In the fall of 1885, while still serving with the Cincinnati paper mentioned, as reporter, Mr. Herzog matriculated as a student of medicine at the Medical College of Ohio, from which he graduated with high honors in the spring of 1890. Not long after having received the degree of M. D. he left the United States to return to Germany, and there we find him engaged for the next two years in medical studies at the universities of Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Wuerzburg. At the latter place he received an appoint- ment as assistant to the university polyclinic for the diseases of the nose, buccal cavity and larynx, in charge of Dr. Otto Seifert, one of Germany's leading laryn- gologists and rhinologists. As an otologist Dr. Herzog received his training mainly under Dr. Friederich Bezold, the celebrated professor of otology at the University of Munich. While following his medical studies abroad, Dr. Herzog still found time to contribute regularly, as a staff correspondent, to the Cincinnati Volksblatt. Many of his letters from Germany were copied by the German-American press all over the country, and some were even translated into English. Thus. while acquir- ing the necessary accomplishments to practice later on as a successful laryngologist and otologist, he increased his reputation as a journalist. In December, 1893, he returned to Cincinnati, where he opened an office at No. 123 West Ninth street, but soon removed to No. 50 West Ninth street. Shortly after his return from Europe he was appointed laryngologist and otologist to the German Hospital (Deutsches Diakonissen und Krankenhaus), a position he still fills. Dr. Herzog has contributed a number of articles, essays and reports to medical literature, among which may be mentioned the following: "Primary Tuberculosis of the Pharynx." "Cough of Na- sal Origin," "Tuberculosis of the Nasal Mucous Membrane," "Tuberculosis of the Upper Respiratory Tract," "Reflex disturbances in consequence of hypertrophy of the lingual tonsil," " On the bacteriology of otitis media acute and cerebro-spinal- meningitis," "Labyrintine Syphilis," "Syphilitic lesions of the auditory appa- ratus." Dr. Herzog is a member of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the German Press Club,

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the German Literary Club of Cincinnati, and the National Association of German- American Journalists and Authors.

CHARLES C. O. MEADE, physician and surgeon, office No. 440 Chase avenue,- Cincinnati, was born November 4, 1862, at Fort Branch, Ind., son of Stephen Walter and Sarah J. (Rutledge) Meade, both of whom were born in Gibson county, Ind., the former in 1832, the latter in 1837. Stephen W. Meade is a farmer and .. shipper of live stock in his native county. He is a son of Stephen and Mary (Prichett) Meade. Dr. C. C. O. Meade received his early education in the common schools of Gibson county, Ind., and Central Normal College of Danville, Ind.,. studied medicine under Dr. G. D. Lind, and in 1890 graduated from the Pulte Med- ical College of Cincinnati. He began the practice of his profession at Mt. Vernon, Ind., in the same year, and later came to Cincinnati, and located at No. 440 Chase avenue, Cumminsville. He is a member of the Homeopathic Lyceum, of Cincinnati,- and the Homeopathic Ohio State Society of Medicine. Dr. Meade was united in marriage, January 1, 1888, with Miss Lucas, daughter of Robert Logan and Rose Jane Lucas, the former a native of Indiana, the latter of Pennsylvania. This union has been blessed with two children: Robert Watson, born August 3, 1889, and Albert. Waldo, born June 23, 1891. The family are members of the Methodist Church, and politically the Doctor is in sympathy with the Republican party.

GILBERT ISHAM CULLEN, physician and surgeon, with office and residence at No. 478 West Sixth street, was born in Newport, Ky., May 10, 1868, a son of James. and Sarah E. (Gallup) Cullen, natives of Glasgow, Scotland, and Buffalo, N. Y., respectively. James Cullen came to this country when about eleven years of age; he spent two years at Woodward High School in Cincinnati, and then entered the boat store establishment of Augustus Isham, at that time one of the best-known merchants of this section. After a few years with Mr. Isham he entered the ice. business, which he has followed uninterruptedly ever since, a period of about forty- two years. He is at present, and has been for a number of years, president of the Cincinnati Ice Company, which is the largest company of the kind in this section of the country. This gentleman is a son of David Cullen, who was a prominent mer- chant of Glasgow, Scotland. Sarah E. Cullen, mother of our subject, is a sister of Col. A. B. Isham, who is so well known throughout the New England States. The Cullen family can be traced back to generals in the Revolutionary war, mention of which can be found in the records of the "Daughters of the Revolution" in this. city.

Our subject received his early education in the famous Chickering Institute, Cin- cinnati, graduated from the Cincinnati University, studied medicine with Dr. Bin- kard, of Pennsylvania, and later with Drs. Dandridge and Holmes, of . Cincinnati. He attended the Miami and Cincinnati Medical Colleges, and graduated from the latter in 1890, after which he took a course in the clinics of New York and abroad. He opened an office for the practice of his profession at his present locality, and is- now limiting his practice to the diseases of the ear, nose and throat. Dr. Cullen is a member of the American Medical Association; the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he is treasurer; the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine; the Cincinnati Medical Society; the Miami Valley Medical Society; and is an honorary member of the Ken- tucky State Medical Society; American Medical Editors' Association; Tri-State Med- ical Association of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee; Southwestern Ohio Medical Association; Mississippi Valley Medical Association; International Medical Congress; Pan-American Medical Congress, and the National Association of Military Surgeons. He is consulting laryngologist to the Cincinnati Free Hospital for Women, and as- sistant demonstrator of laryngology in the Woman's Medical College and the Cin- cinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. He is managing editor of the Cincinnati Medical Journal; is assistant-surgeon with the rank of captain of the First Regi- ment of Ohio, by appointment of Gov. Mckinley; is a director of the Lincoln Club,

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leading Republican club of the West; and was a delegate to represent the Ameri- can Medical Association at the International Medical Congress which met in Rome in April, 1894. Dr. Cullen is the youngest medical practitioner who has ever held similar positions in a medical college, the American Medical Association, and the medical department of the militia, as well as being the youngest medical editor in the world.

JOHN WESLEY MURPHY, office No. 436 West Eighth street, was born September 14, 1856, at Logan, Hocking Co., Ohio, a son of Jolin A. and Sarah J. (Cunning- ham) Murphy, the former of whom was born in Pennsylvania, in 1814, the latter at Athens, Ohio, in 1825. John A. Murphy was a manufacturer and dealer in furni- ture at Logan, Ohio. Sarah J. Murphy, mother of our subject, departed this life in 1885. Dr. Murphy was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, of Delaware, Ohio, where he graduated A. B. in 1888 and A. M. in 1891. He studied medicine under Drs. McDowell and White, of Delaware, Ohio, and graduated from the Mi- ami Medical College in the spring of 1891. Dr. Murphy is a member of the Cin- cinnati Academy of Medicine, and is clinical director at the Miami Medical College. He was united in marriage April 5, 1893, with Miss Anne, daughter of Robert and Mary (List) Morrison, of Delaware, Ohio. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically he is in sympathy with the Repub- lican party.

HENRY HAMILTON WIGGERS, physician and surgeon, office and residence No. 95 Everett street, was born in Cincinnati May 16, 1869. He is the son of H. H. and Emily (Dammeyer) Wiggers, the former born in the province of Hannover, Germany, in the year 1838, son of H. H. and Margurite (Rolfs) Wiggers, and the latter born in Mobile, Ala., in 1842, daughter of August and Meta (Galdes) Dammeyer, natives of Germany. In 1867 H. H. Wiggers, Sr., father of our subject, was in partnership with four other gentlemen in the furniture business. During the last fourteen years he has been sole owner of one of the largest furniture manufactories in Cincinnati. He has been president of the Cincinnati Furniture Exchange, and is now a director in the City Hall Bank.

Our subject received his education in the common and high schools of Cincinnati, studied medicine under S. R. Geiser, M. D., was graduated at the Pulte Medical College in the class of 1892, and at once opened an office for the practice of his profession at his present location. The Doctor is a member of the Ohio State Soci- ety, Cincinnati Lyceum, and the Hahnemann Society, and is resident physician to the Cincinnati Homeopathic Free Dispensary. The Doctor lectures on osteology at Pulte Medical College, and is assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the same. Dr. Wiggers is a rising young physician of the Queen City, devoted to his profession, and rapidly building up for himself a lucrative practice.

PETER T. KILGOUR, physician and surgeon, with office at No. 266 Elm street, and residence at College Hill, Ohio, was born January 4, 1860, near Guelph, Onta- rio, Canada. His parents, James and Mary (Thomson) Kilgour, were born in Scot- land, the former in 1812, the latter in 1830. They emigrated to Guelph, Canada, in 1844. The father was a clergyman, public-school inspector, examiner of teachers, and lived a life of great activity and usefulness, dying in 1893. His wife died in 1866. Of their eleven children the following are living: John W., who is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business at Guelph, Ontario, Canada; David F., who is a druggist at Arthur, Ontario, Canada; William J., who is a teacher at Arkell, Ontario, Canada; Edmund S., who is a publisher at Toronto, Canada; Annie, house- keeper, and Mary Martha, professional nurse, College Hill; and Peter Thomson. The last-named was graduated at Guelph, Canada, in 1878. He taught school in his native country from 1878 to 1881, when he was graduated at Ottawa, Canada, and was engaged in book publishing at Detroit, Mich., and Cincinnati, until 1890, since which year he has devoted his time to the practice of medicine. He was grad-

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uated in medicine in Cincinnati, in 1892. Dr. Kilgour was married July 16, 1884, to Anne Budd, daughter of William and Jane Charlotte (Matthews) Budd. Mrs. Kilgour died August 30, 1893. Two of their three children are living, Charles Ed- mund and Garfield Matthews. The Doctor is instructor in microscopy and clinical instructor in the diseases of the ear, throat and nose in Pulte Medical College, be- longs to the Cincinnati Lyceum and the Ohio State Homeopathic Society, and is also a member of the National Union. He is independent in his political proclivities, and in religion affiliates with the Disciple or Christian Church.

STEPHEN BURR MARVIN, physician and druggist, place of business and residence No. 150 West Front street, corner of Elm, was born in Cincinnati on the 21st day of June, 1869. He received his primary education in the public schools of Cincin- nati, and also attended the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy and the Ohio Medical College, graduating from the latter institution in 1893. In May, 1884, he entered the pharmacy of John Weyer, northeast corner of Sixth and Elm streets, where he remained until 1885; was then engaged with Wilmot J. Hall & Company, pharma- cists, at the northwest corner of Fourth and Elm streets, until 1890; was manager of Jolin Roselin's pharmacy, northwest corner of Pearl and Ludlow streets, during 1891; manager of Toph & Company's pharmacy, northwest corner of Pearl and Lawrence streets, until 1893, and on June 1st of that year engaged in the drug business, and in the practice of his profession, at his present location. He was mar- ried, June 14, 1893, to Nellie, daughter of James and Mary Jane (Carr) King, who was born in Ashland, Ky., in 1875, and was educated in the public schools at Iron- ton, Ohio, and Cincinnati. He is a second lieutenant in the Gen. Benjamin Har- rison Camp No. 9, S. of V. ; a member of the Stamina Republican League; Medical Examiner for the World's Mutual Benefit Association, and also a member of the Order of the World; politically he is a Republican.

The father of our subject, Dr. John J. Marvin, was born in Shelby, Ohio, his mother, Harriet Eliza Guilford, in Vermont, and they were for many years teachers in the public schools of Cincinnati, the fatlier being principal and the mother a teacher in the Sixteenth District School on Mount Auburn. The father came to Cincinnati from Shelby, where his father was an old and highly respected citizen, and among the earliest settlers of that part of the State, having removed there from his home in Connecticut in 1819. Our subject's father is a graduate of the Pulte Medical Col- lege, where he was also a lecturer on anatomy. He now resides at Pleasant Ridge, where he is engaged in the practice of his profession; he is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and has served several terms as master of the Lodge to which he belongs. Our subject's mother came to Cincinnati with her parents, who left their home in the Green Mountains in Vermont to locate in that city. She died on December 1, 1879. They had four sons born to them, all of whom survive, and are named as follows: Stephen B., our subject; Charles G., a drug clerk in his brother's store; Asa P., a machinist, residing at Allandale, Ohio, and John H., a student, residing at Pleasant Ridge with his father. The father of our subject's wife was Capt. James King, of the West Virginia Cavalry. He was born in England, of Irish par- ents, came to this country when but sixteen years old, and locating at Ironton, Ohio, lived there until the war of the Rebellion, when he enlisted in Company E, Second West Virginia Cavalry. He served with distinction until the close of the war, and died in 1875 from cancer contracted while a prisoner of war in Libby Prison. The mother of our subject's wife was born in Ironton, Ohio, in 1853; her father was Jeremiah Carr, a veteran of the Civil war, and her mother was Mary MacAnally, a sister of Maj. John MacAnally, of the West Virginia Cavalry.

Dr. Marvin's establishment is in all respects one of the most reliable in the city, and its history since its inception has been one of steady progress. No branch of work is more important to the community at large than that of the druggist, and this house has obtained a name and standing accorded to but few in the city. It is

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always supplied with a full and comprehensive line of pure drugs, chemicals, per- fumes, toilet articles, and a complete stock of all proprietary remedies of acknowl- edged merit and standard reputation. The laboratory is supplied with all the requisite facilities for compounding the most difficult prescriptions, and this depart- ment is under the immediate supervision of a competent and experienced pharmacist, who alone handles and fills all prescriptions, and the utmost caution is taken in com- pounding medicines of all kinds.

DR. GEORGE C. KOLB, president of the Nature's Healing College, and professor of hygiene and therepia and physical diagnosis, has his office at No. 161 West Sev- enth street, Cincinnati. In 1893 he established and endowed the Nature's Healing College, located at No. 161 West Seventh street, where he and other eminent men intend to promulgate an entirely new system of treating the afflicted of all the so- called diseases of the mind and body. The agents used are air, heat, diet, electricity, magnetism, massage and all hygienic principles. The college was incorporated with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars.

Dr. Kolb was born at New Albany, Ind., and is a son of Lawrence and Bertha (Kleiber) Kolb. His mother was a native of France, and his father of Germany. Dr. Kolb can trace back both his paternal and maternal ancestors over two hundred years. Many were of the nobility. His father came of a literary family, among them the great and impartial historian F. Kolb, whose work is now the standard history of his country. On his mother's side there were many professional, literary and political men. Our subject's parents still reside in New Albany, where they have reared three children, of whom our subject is the eldest. Always being very active and energetic, at the age of fourteen he engaged in the chemical business, and succeeded in accumulating a handsome fortune. Always taking a great delight in the healing of the sick, he found time to attend medical lectures. He has studied eight systems of treating the sick, and has earned six diplomas. Being thoroughly dissatisfied with the old systems of practice, for the past five years he has practiced Nature's cure, and now his entire time is devoted to the teaching and practice of Nature's Healing Method. He partakes of his ancestors' literary talents, and has written text-books for the college he now represents. He is a Methodist in religious faith, and whenever possible has taken an active interest in the Sabbath-school and Church. He is an active member of the I. O. O. F., Subordinate Encampment, and other Societies. Dr. Kolb is deserving of success, and we anticipate for him a bright future.

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History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; their past and present, Part 112

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