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George Goodhue, M. D., was born in Westminster, Vermont, May 24, 1853. Ile graduated at Dartmouth College, with the degree of A. B., in 1876, and was then appointed professor of chemistry in the Miami Valley College, holding that position until the close of the year 1877. He then commenced the study of medicine in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and for a second course went to the Medical . Department of Dartmouth College, and graduated there in 1879. He then attended the University of New York one year, graduating there in 1880. Previous to graduating he became an interne in the Brooklyn City Hospital, remaining there one year. He then spout six months at the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, and came to Dayton in the spring of 1881, entering
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into partnership with Dr. John Davis, April 1, 1881, and remaining in partnership with him until his death, June 10, 1883. In 1884, Dr. Goodhue formed a partnership with Dr. S. H. Davis, which continued in foree two years, and since 1886 he has been in practice alone. IIc is engaged in the general practice, and in addition gives considerable attention to diseases of the eye. He is surgeon for the Cincinnati, Ham- ilton & Dayton Railroad Company, for the Dayton & Michigan Railroad Company, for the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railroad Company, and for the Dayton, Fort Wayne & Chieago Railroad Company.
John S. Beek, M. D., was born near Lancaster, Ohio, May 19, 1842. He attended Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, until within a few months of the time when he would have graduated had he remained, but desiring to enlist in the volunteer army of the United States, he left school without graduating and served as a private soldier until the spring of 1865, when he was commissioned first lieutenant. After the close of the war he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. P. M. Wagenhals, at Lancaster, and afterward attended lectures in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, graduating there in 1868. He then went to Miamisburg and practiced medicine at that place until December, 1870, when he came to Dayton, and has been engaged here in the practice of his profession ever since, alone, except for nearly five years, from the beginning of 1872 to 1876, when he was in partner- ship with Dr. A. Geiger. He has been a member of the board of United ' States pension examiners since 1872; is a member of the staff of physi- cians at St. Elizabeth Hospital; is a member of both the county and State medical societies, and was a delegate to the Ninth International Medical Congress.
Alexander E. Jenner, M. D., was born January 26, 1830, in Phila- delphia. He studied medicine with his father, and attended Oberlin College for some time. Ile attended a course of lectures at Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850-1851, and then practiced medicine at Crestline, Ohio, until 1873, after having attended Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. He was appointed assistant surgeon of the Twenty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and shortly afterward, surgeon of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which he served until the close of the war. He served as surgeon of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad for eleven years, and he was appointed superintendent of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, but felt compelled to resign at the end of a few months, on account of political jealousies. Ile came to Dayton in 1874, and has been in the practice of his profession here ever since.
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James M. Weaver, M. D., was born in Decatur County, Indiana, April 1, 1838. After leaving the common schools he was educated at Monroe Academy, at Monroe, Butler County, Ohio. He then studied medicine at Wooster, Ohio, in 1858, and graduated from the medical department of the Western Reserve College, at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1861. In April of that year he located at Jackson, Wayne County, Ohio, and practiced medicine there until 1862, when he entered-the army of the United States as assistant surgeon of the Ninety-third Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and was promoted to surgeon of that regiment in 1864. He remained in the service until the close of the war, part of the time with the regiment and part of the time in charge of hospitals. In September, 1865, he located at Wooster, Ohio, and was there engaged in the practice of medicine until 1874, when he was appointed surgeon of the Central Branch, National Soldiers' Home, serving in that capacity until Novem- ber, 1880, since which time he has resided and practiced medieine in Dayton, and has served as health officer since June, 1886.
John J. Mellbenny, M. D., was born in Adams County, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1813. He commenced the study of medicine at the age of twenty, at Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio. He then attended medical lectures at Cincinnati, and began the practice of medicine in Brown County in the spring of 1836. In 1843, he became an alumnus of the Willoughby University, near Cleveland, now the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. In May, 1855, he located in Dayton, Ohio, which place has since been his residence. In May, 1856, he was appointed superin- tendent and physician of the Dayton asylum for the insane, retaining the position six years. For three years subsequently he was connected professionally with the United States Navy, as surgeon of the Mississippi - Squadron. He then returned to Dayton where he has since been engaged in the active practice of his profession. He was one of the originators of the Ohio Medical College. He is still engaged in practice, having asso- ciated with him his son, Julius L. Mellbenney.
E. Pilate, M. D., was born in Paris in 1804, where he also received his medical education. In 1835, he came to the United States, and practiced medicine in Texas and in Louisiana, until the breaking out of the civil war, and for a year or two during the war. In 1866, he came to Dayton, and has been engaged here in the practice of medicine ever since. He has occupied the position of city physician, and of consulting physician of the St. Elizabeth Hospital, in which he performed the first operation performed therein. He is a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, and enjoys a large practice.
P. N. Adams, M. D., was born in Lewis County, Kentucky, June 22,
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1852. He was educated at Center College, Danville, Kentucky, and then studied medicine with Dr. Richard Gundry, superintendent of the Athens, Ohio, asylum for the insane. He graduated at the Starling Medical Col- lege, Columbus, Ohio, in 1878, and was immediately afterward appointed assistant physician at the Dayton asylum for the insane, serving there four and a half years. He then entered upon the regular practice in Dayton. In 1885, he was appointed United States examining surgeon for pensions, holding the place until the spring of 1889. He is at present a member of the medical staff at St. Elizabeth Hospital, and is police surgeon of the city of Dayton, and has a large practice.
Calvin Pollock, M. D., was born December 3, 1843, at Leesville, Carroll County, Ohio. He was educated at Geneva Hall, Logan County, where he was in attendance six or seven years. In 1860, he comineneed the study of medicine at Belle Center, Logan County, with M. D. Wilson, M. D., and then attended a course of lectures at the University of Michigan in 1865-1866, and graduated at the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, in 1867. He began the practice of medicine at Donnelsville, Clarke County, Ohio, the same year, and remained there until 1880, when he removed to Muncie, Indiana, and remained there until October, 1883, when he came to Dayton, and was engaged in the general practice of medicine until June 18, 1888, since when he has been , physician and superintendent of the Dayton asylum for the insane. For some time previous he was one of the visiting physicians at St. Elizabeth Hospital. While he was in Clarke County he was president of the Clarke County Medical Society for 1875-1876. While he resided in Indiana he was a member of the Delaware County Medical Society, and also of the Indiana State Medical Society, and since coming back to Ohio in 1883 he has been a member of the Montgomery County Medical Society, but has not yet become a member of the Ohio State Medical Society, although before removing to Indiana he was a member of that organization.
Henry K. Steele, M. D., was born in Dayton, April 1, 1825. IIc was graduated from Center College, Danville, Kentucky, and received the degree of A. M. from the same institution. In 1848, he graduated from the medical department of the University of New York. HIc commenced the practice of medicine in Dayton with his father, John Steele, M. D., and served as surgeon of the Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry from September, 1861, to November, 1864. He moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1871, where he had a large practice. He was president and dean of the medical department of the University of Denver from its organization until his retirement from practice in 1887.
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In 1875, he was president of the Colorado State Medical Society. He is now temporarily residing in Dayton.
A. II. Iddings, M. D., was born at Pleasant Hill, Miami County, Ohio, January 1, 1840. At the age of eighteen he graduated from the Friends' Academy, a local literary institution. He pursued the study of medicine while working on his father's farm, and in the winter of 1860 he attended a course of lectures at the Cincinnati College of Medicine, and soon afterward located in the practice of his profession at Fort Jefferson, Darke County, Ohio. IIc then took a course in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, and graduated there in 1866. After practicing five years in Arcanum, Darke County, he removed to Dayton, where he has been engaged in the uninterrupted practice of his profession for the past eighteen years.
The Montgomery County Medical Society was organized September 15, 1849. Following are the names of the charter members: Drs. II. G. Carey, Joshua Clements, Oliver Crook, John B. Craighead, John Davis, Elias Garst, Michael Garst, Job Haines, Edmund Smith, Edwin Smith, H. K. Steele, John Steele, Julius S. Taylor, D. B. Van Tuyl, and H. Van Tuyl. The first officers of the society were Dr. Edwin Smith, president; Dr. Michael Garst, vice-president; Dr. Edmund Smith, secretary; Dr. D. B. Van Tuyl, treasurer; and Drs. Elias Garst, H. K. Steele, HI. Van Tuy!, HI. G. Carey, and Oliver Crook, censors.
The meetings of the society were for some time held in the Dayton' Council Chamber and afterward at the houses of the members of the society, but at length they were transferred to the parlors of the various hotels. During recent years the meetings have been held in the parlors of the Young Men's Christian Association building.
The objects of this society are the improvement of its members in scientific and professional knowledge, association for the purposes of mutual recognition and fellowship, the promotion of the character, interests, and honor of the fraternity by maintaining union and harmony, and the elevation of the standard of medical education. Any regular graduate of medicine and surgery, from any accredited medical college, may become a member of the society after a residence of one year in the county, an exception being made, however, in favor of the officers of the National Soldiers' Home and of the Southern Ohio Asylum for the Insane. A two-thirds vote is necessary either to receive a member or to expel one. "The Code of Ethics of the American Medical Association" is the guide for members of this society in their intercourse with patients, irregular practitioners, and with their medical brethren.
At each meeting on essayist and an alternate are appointed to
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entertain their brethren at the next meeting, the regular meetings being held on the first Friday of each month. Elections are held annually in January, but inasmuch as the records of the society, in which are its pro- ceedings previous to 1881, have been either lost or mislaid, it is impossible to present a list of its officers prior to that date. Since then, however, these officers have been as follows:
PRESIDENTS .- 1881, Thomas L. Neal; 1882, J. S. Beck; 1883, J. S. Beck; 1884, W. J. Conklin; 1885, W. J. Conklin; 1886, HI. S. Jewett; 1887, C. H. Humphries; 1888, E. C. Crum; 1889, F. H. Patton,
VICE-PRESIDENTS .- 1881, J. M. Weaver; 1882, A. H. Iddings; 1883, W. J. Conklin; 1884, E. C. Crum; 1885, S. G. Stewart; 1886, A. Boone; 1887, P. N. Adams; 1888, A. Boone; 1889, D. C. Lichliter.
SECRETARIES .- 1881, J. B. Shank; 1882, W. J. Conklin; 1883, D. C. Lichliter; 1884, D. W. Greene; 1885, J. A. Romspert; 1886, G. B. Evans; 1887, J. C. Reeve; 1888, G. C. Meyers; 1889, II. O. Collins.
'TREASURERS .-- 1881, J. S. Beck; 1882, W. J. Conklin; 1883, II. S. Jewett; 1884, II. S. Jewett; 1885, H. S. Jewett; 1886, J. M. Weaver; 1887, J. M. Weaver; 1888, D. C. Lichliter; 1889, J. S. Bock.
CENSORS .- 1881, J. C. Reeve, John Davis, and W. J. Conklin; 1882, J. M. Weaver, J. C. Reeve, and T. L. Neal; 1883, J. C. Reeve, J. M. Weaver, and T. L. Neal; 1884, J. C. Reeve, J. M. Weaver, and T. L. Neal; 1885, J. S. Beck, C. II. Humphries, and J. M. Weaver; 1886, J. C. Reeve, W. J. Conklin, and J. S. Beck; 1887, J. C. Reeve, W. J. Conklin, and J. S. Beck; 1888, W. J. Conklin, J. S. Beck, and P. N. Adams.
In 1881, there were thirty-four members. At the present time there are the following members: P. N. Adams, J. S. Beck, A. Boone, Lee Corbin, W. J. Conklin, E. C. Crum, George B. Evans, O. E. Francis, A. H. Gable, George Goodhue, D. W. Greene, C. IL. Humphries, A. H. Iddings, E. Jennings, H. S. Jewett, D. C. Lichliter, G. C. Myers, E. Pilate, J. C. Reeve, J. A. Romspert, Samuel Souders, J. M. Weaver, I. B. Wilson, R. R. Pettit, C. W. King, J. S. Harper, C. Pollock, A. Scheibenzuber, J. A. Roseberrry, C. H. Von Klein, V. M. Bailey, F. H. Patton, R. H. Grube, J. C. Reeve, Jr., II. O. Collins, E. C. Davisson, A. R. Moist, J. Y. Eagan, II. Sneve, and Richard Grundy.
The first homeopathie physician to locate in Dayton is believed to have been Dr. A. Adams, in 1841. The next was Dr. Henry Wigand, who came in 1847, and remained until 1858, when he sold out his practice to Dr. W. Webster, and left Dayton for three years and returned in 1861. Ile again practiced in Dayton five or six years, when he died of some affection of the heart. Dr. Jacob Bosler, after a practice of twenty-five years as a regular physician, became a convert to homeopathy in 1819,
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and followed that system of practice the rest of his life Dr. Webster was the next homeopathist to locate in Dayton, and a brief sketch is here appended.
William Webster, M. D., was born in Butler County, Ohio, January 12, 1827. Ile attended the Monroe Academy, and then the Ohio Wes- leyan University, at Delaware, Ohio, during the years 1845 and 1846. He then attended the Farmer's College, near Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in 1848. Having read allopathic medicine during his last year at college, he entered the Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati. In the spring of 1849, the cholera epidemic spread in this country, and Dr. Webster opened an office for the practice of medicine in Middletown, Ohio, at once entering upon an active and busy practice. The following fall he closed his office, and returned to the medical college to complete his medical course. During his last term of attendance, the faculty employed Dr. Storm Rosa, of Painesville, Ohio, to deliver a winter's course of lectures on homeopathy, a new theory of medicine at that time, the result being the conversion of nearly all the class and faculty to the new system of medicine. Dr. Webster returned to Middletown in the spring of 1850, and reentered upon the practice of medicine, adhering to allop- athy, however, for one or two years, experimenting and investigating the subject of homeopathy at the same time until 1854, when he adopted the new system entirely. He has adhered to it ever since. He removed to Dayton, Ohio, in 1858, where he still resides, engaged in the practice of medicine according to the principles of Halmemann. Ten years since, he associated with himself his son, Dr. Frank Webster, a graduate of Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio. For the past twenty years Dr. Webster has devoted his attention mainly to gynecological and orificial surgery and chronic diseases in general, including the successful removal of cancers. He is a charter member of the Montgomery County Homeopathie Medical Society, is a member of the Ohio Homeopathic Medical Society, and has been an active member of the American Insti- tute of Homeopathy since 1865.
Joseph E. Lowes, M. D., received his early education at the common schools in Canada, and afterward at the high school at Brantford, Canada, graduating at the latter school when he was fourteen years old. Hle then studied one year with an eminent Irish teacher, named Moore, and at the age of sixteen commenced reading medicine with Professor II. C. Allen, a resident of Brantford, Canada, but at the same time a professor in the Homeopathie Medical College, at Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Lowes was in attendance at this college three successive winters, reading medicine during the intervening summers at Brantford, with Professor
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Allen. In 1868, he graduated from the college at Cleveland, and almost immediately commenced the practice of medicine in Dayton, Ohio, in partnership with Dr. Bosler, the second homeopathic physician to practice in this city. Dr. Bosler died a few months afterward, and since then Dr. Lowes has continued in practice here alone. . He has always been successful, and as a consequence has had an extensive practice. His only public positions as a physician have been that of physician at the Dayton workhouse, to which position he was chosen in September, 1888, and that of United States pension examiner, to which he was appointed in the spring of 1889.
F. W. Thomas, M. D., was born in Watertown, New York, Decem- bor 25, 1846. He graduated from the Philadelphia high school in 1864, and then went into the drug business. After a short time he began attendance upon the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, graduating in 1868. Hle then attended the Philadelphia Homeopathic College, grad- uating therefrom in 1871. He next went to Albany, New York, and had charge for one year of the Albany City Hospital, and came to Dayton in October, 1872, where he has been ever since engaged in the practice of his profession. He was a member of the board of health for one term, from 1880 to 1882, inclusive.
William H. Grundy, M. D., homeopathic physician of Dayton, was born at Maysville, Kentucky, in 1854. His father was the Rev. Dr. R. Grundy, of Cincinnati, and his mother was a daughter of James Kemper, also of Cincinnati. From 1854 to 1865 the Rev. Dr. Grundy had charge of churches in Maysville, Kentucky, Memphis, Tennessee, and Cincinnati, Ohio. On his death in 1865 his widow, Mrs. E. S. Grundy, moved to Day- ton with her family, subsequently removing to Hanover, New Hampshire. It was at this place that William H. Grundy began his preparations for college under the tutorship of Professor John Lord, of Dartmouth . College, and the Rev. Lemuel S. Hastings. At the end of one year he "went to Princeton, New Jersey, and studied a year under the Rev. James O'Brien and graduated with honor at Princeton in 1875. Immediately afterward he entered upon his medical studies at the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York, and Long Island Hospital College, Brooklyn. After successfully practicing medicine and surgery in Ellis County, Texas, for some time, Dr. Grundy returned to Dayton, where he formed a partnership with Dr. Egry, which lasted until the summer of 1881, when Dr. Egry went to Europe and Dr. Grundy took charge of the entire practice of the firm. This practice, which was quite large, he re- lained until the time of his death, which occurred on Tuesday, February 12, 1889. He was a member of several seeret and beneficial organiza- .11
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tions, notably the Knights of Pythias and Masonic lodges. The funeral of Dr. Grundy took place at Spring Grove Cemetery, near Cincinnati, on Friday, February 15, 1889, the Rev. Prentiss de Veuve, of the First Presbyterian Church of Dayton, officiating. Resolutions of respect were adopted by lola Lodge Number 83, Knights of Pythias, and by the homeopathie physicians of the city.
The Montgomery County Homeopathic Medical Association was organized June 14, 1860. A call had been issued a short time previous by Drs. J. Bosler, William Webster, and E. W. Bosler, of Dayton, Ohio, for the homeopathie physicians of this section of the State to assemble in Dayton for the purpose of organizing such an association for the good of the cause, and for the mutual benefit of all physicians who might take an interest in the same. The following physicians answered the call by their attendance upon the meeting: Drs. J. and E. W. Bosler, W. Web- ster, and George Dick, of Dayton, Dr. W. A. Scott, of Eaton, Ohio, and Dr. M. Appleby, of Hamilton, Ohio. Dr. J. Bosler was made chairman of the meeting, and Dr. E. W. Bosler, secretary. It was then resolved to name the new association the Miami Homeopathic Medical Association, and the following officers were elected: Dr. W. A. Scott, president; Dr. M. Appleby, vice-president; Dr. George Dick, recording and corresponding secretary, and Dr. William Webster, treasurer. Dr. A. O. Blair, and Dr. Star, of Columbus, Ohio, were made honorary members.
The next meeting of the association was held December 13, 1860. At this meeting a constitution and by-laws were adopted, and the association permanently organized by the election of the following officers: President, J. Bosler; vice-president, M. Appleby; secretary, George Dick; treasurer, W. Webster; censors, W. A. Scott, E. W. Bosler, and J. J. Antrim.
For some time the meetings of the association were held at various ยท places, as at Hamilton, Middletown, and Glendale, but for a great number of years they have been held in Dayton. There are two meetings each year, one in May and the other in November, the latter, at which the officers of the association are always elected, being called, by way of distinction, the annual meeting. At the meeting held in Dayton, on the fifth of November, 1868, the name of the association was changed from that first adopted to what it is now, the Montgomery County Homeopathie Medical Association. This step was rendered necessary by an act of the legislature which required physicians to have been in practice twenty years, to be graduates of some medical college, or to have member- ship in the State or some county medical society. The Miami Homeopathie Medical Association being a district association could not, under this law, grant certificates to physicians, and hence it resolved to convert itself into
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a county society. This step was taken and the name changed as just narrated, and the association was thus enabled to issue certificates to non-graduates, or to such physicians as had not been in practice twenty years. Elegantly engraved certificates were provided, for which cach applicant paid to the association ten dollars. The certificates were procured by Drs. Webster and Coffeen, and Dr. G. W. Smith procured a seal for the association. Dr. William Webster was authorized to procure a charter for the association, which was incorporated in Novem- ber, 1871.
The officers of the association, since those elected in 1860, have been as follows:
PRESIDENTS -- J. M. Parks, 1861; J. Bosler, 1862; A. Shepherd, 1863; William Webster, 1864; J. Bosler, 1865 and 1866; J. M. Parks, 1867; A. Shepherd, 1868; J. Dever, 1869; W. D. Linn, 1870; J. M. Parks, 1871; J. B. Owens, 1872 and 1873; J. E. Lowes, 1874 and 1875; F. S. Foster, 1876; J. M. Miller, 1877 and 1878; William Webster, 1879 and 1880; A. Shepherd, 1881; II. M. Logee, 1882; C. F. Ginn, 1883; W. IL. Grundy, 1884 and 1885; J. C. Fahnestock, 1886 and 1887; C. R. Coffeen, 1888.
VICE-PRESIDENTS -- William Webster, 1861; J. M. Parks, 1862; J. Bosler, 1863; A. Shepherd, 1864; John Coe Fall, 1865; J. Dever, 1866; J. W. Vance, 1867; J. Q. A. Coffeen, 1868; W. D. Linn, 1869; A. Shop- herd, 1870; C. W. Stumm, 1871; J. E. Lowes, 1872 and 1873; S. L. Stewart, 1874; F. S. Foster, 1875; J. M. Miller, 1876; W. Egry, 1877 and 1878; J. W. Clemmer, 1879 and 1880; J. E. Lowes, 1881; H. E. Beebe, 1882; W. H. Grundy, 1883; T. S. Turner, 1884 and 1885; T. E. Reed, 1886; A. S. B. Nellis, 1887; A. A. Lovett, 1888.
SECRETARIES --- George Dick, 1861; William Webster, 1862 and 1863; D. E. Taylor, 1864; G. W. Smith, 1865; William Webster, 1866 to 1873; F. W. Thomas, 1874 and 1875; A. C. Rickey, 1876; J. K. Webster, 1877 to 1882; Frank Webster, 1883 to the present time.
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