History of the Ohio falls cities and their counties : with illustrations and bibliographical sketches, Vol. I, Part 92

Author: Williams, L.A., & Co., Cleveland
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : L. A. Williams & Co.
Number of Pages: 814

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Professor Emory A. Grant was educated as a physician, but was long better known as a teacher. He was born June 15, 1823, in Ithaca, New York; educated at Genesee and Centre Colleges, from the latter of which he received in

1861, the degree of LL. D .; studied medicine and began practice, but soon abandoned it, and began teaching, in which profession he remained twenty-five or thirty years. He continued, how- ever, to practice the specialty of orthopedic sur- gery, performing some important operations for club-foot, and devising some contrivances for re- ducing the deformity; and after leaving the pedagogic profession some years ago, he returned to successful practice, especially in this kind of surgery. He was for seven years Principal of the Boys' High School, and has taken great in- terest in the upbuilding of the Polytechnic So- ciety, of which he is secretary.

William G. Redman, M. D., D. D. S., was born in the State of New York, April 2, 1821. He was of German extraction, his parents having been among the early emigrants along the Hud- son. His early education was gained at the common schools, and afterwards at Cazenovia and Homer Academies. Coming to Kentucky in 1843, he occupied the next three years in teaching school, studying medicine, and attend- ing medical lectures at Jefferson Medical Col- lege, Philadelphia, where he graduated. He then began practice in Shelby county, Kentucky, but on account of ill health turned his attention to dentistry, graduated in the Ohio Dental Col- lege at Cincinnati, and finally located at Hender- son, Kentucky, where he was engaged in den- tistry for a succession of years. He came to Louisville in 1860, and has succeeded in gain- ing a large and lucrative practice. He fills the place of president in the Southern Dental Asso- ciation, and is the inventor of a number of ap- pliances now in general use in the profession. In 1849 Dr. Redman was married to Miss Mary C. Chisen, of Lexington, Kentucky, and their family now consists of thirteen children. As to politics, he is not a partisan, voting for the person who will do the best work. His religious connection is at present with the Episcopal church, although he was formerly a Methodist. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows claims his membership and influence.

Erasmus O. Brown was born in Burkesville, Kentucky, February 13, 1817, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and his father a physician before him. He was fairly educated in English branches; began clerking in a drug-store at sixteen, and studied medicine in the intervals of leisure;

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heard medical lectures in the University of Louisville in the winter of 1841-42, and began practice at his old home, which he maintained with much success until 1847; finished his course at the university, and graduated in 1848; and resumed practice. In 1862 he took charge of a Federal hospital at Louisville ; then served as Medical Purveyor of Burnside's army; and remained in this and similar service till the war closed. He then opened an office in Louisville, and soon built up a large business. For several years he was physician to the Eastern District of the city; had for a time the Eruptive Hospital and medical department of the city Workhouse in charge ; has written much on medical topics, and is a member of many prominent professional 'societies. He was elected to the Legislature in 1855, and re-elected in 1857.

John Aroid Octerlony was born in Sweden, June 24, 1838. His father was a man of prop- erty and a captain of dragoons in the Swedish army. The family was originally of Scotch ori- gin, the name having been spelled Auchterlony. The mother was of French extraction. Dr. Oeterlony was educated in the Swedish Govern- ment School, and came to America in 1857. In 1861 he received the degree of M. D. in the University of New York, and at once began practicing in New York City. One year later he entered the army as a medical officer, and, during the four years following, held several im- portant positions in the hospital service. In 1866 he was appointed physician-in-charge of the Government Dispensary at Louisville. Hav- ing filled the position of lecturer on clinical medicine in the University of Louisville, and having shown himself a teacher of more than ordinary ability in several other places, on the organization of the Louisville Medical College he was offered the chair of dermatology and clinical medicine. This he accepted, only re- signing to accept the chair of materia medica, therapeutics, and clinical medicine. From 1865 he has had charge of the Old Ladies' Home, and, since 1869, has been one of the physicians to the Louisville City Hospital. He is now president of its Medical Board. Since 1876 he has devoted himself to his benevolent work and private practice, writing, meantime, many valua- ble papers for publication. As a practitioner, teacher, and scholar, he has attained a high

place while yet in his early prime. In 1863 he was married to the daughter of Hon. U. H. Granger, of Louisville, a member of the famous Buckner family of Kentucky. They have but one child.

John A. Brady was born September 13, 1832, in Washington county, Kentucky. His early education was obtained in his own home schools and St. Mary's College, near Lebanon. Begin- ning the study of medicine in 1852, he attended lectures at the University of Louisville, and grad- uated at the New York University in the spring of 1856, after which date he practiced medicine at Mackville until the breaking out of the eivil war. His first service as army surgeon was with the First Kentucky Cavalry, under Colonel Frank Wolford, until the battle of Perryville. He was under General Garfield in the Sandy Valley campaign; was next in charge of the sick and wounded in the Third Army Corps, and fol- lowing this acted as medical director at Lebanon until the spring of 1863, when he was ordered to the Louisville Hospital, where he remained till mustered out in the fall of 1864. Since then he has resided in Louisville, and gained an excellent place among physicians of that city. Two years he has been a member of the Board of Health; belongs also to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Louisville and the State Medical So- ciety. In politics he was a Whig as long as that party existed, since which he has voted the Re- publican ticket. Religiously, he is a Christian, and a member of the Methodist church. Dr. Brady was married to Miss Martha J. Peter, of Shelbyville, Kentucky, October 14, 1856.

Henry F. Kalfus is of German stock, but was born in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, April 14, 1832. His maternal uncle was the eminent Dr. Burr Harrison, of Bardstown. Young Kalfus was educated in the higher branches at Hanover College, Indiana, studied professionally at Shep- herdsville, practiced there five years, took a new course of study at the Kentucky School of Med- ieine, graduated therefrom in 1860, and also took a diploma from the Medical Department of the University. The next year he raised a company for the Fifteenth Kentucky Infantry, in the Fed- eral service, and rose to the grade of colonel. In 1864 he was an unsuccessful candidate for State Treasurer, upon the Democratic ticket. Since the war he has been a prominent practi-

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tioner in Louisville, and is also a lecturer upon the staff of the Kentucky School of Medicine.

John D. O'Reilly is son of the venerable Dr. John O'Reilly, of Louisville, and was born in Philadelphia October 21, 1833. His general education was received largely at St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, where he graduated in 1859; and he then studied medicine in the professional schools of Louisville and Nashville. Soon after the war opened he was appointed assistant sur- geon in Hospital No. 1, Louisville, and the next year became assistant surgeon in the Tennessee Lunatic Asylum at Nashville, into whose sole charge the institution presently came. He was subsequently surgeon of the Tenth Tennessee Infantry and Secretary of the State Board of Examiners for Surgeons. In May, 1865, he came back to Louisville and began civil prac- tice. For years he was member of the Board of Health, has also been on the Board of Educa- tion, and Professor of Diseases of Children in the Kentucky School of Medicine. He is a volu- minous and successful writer on medical topics. Dr. O'Reilly now resides in Dallas, Texas.

Richard H. Singleton is of the famous Missis- sippi, South Carolina, and Illinois family of that name, and was born at Canton, in the first-named State, May 9, 1844, son of the Hon. Otho R. Singleton, who was of old Kentucky stock. Dr. Singleton was liberally educated, completing his undergraduate course at Georgetown College, District of Columbia; entered the Southern army soon after the war opened, participated in many pitched battles and minor actions, and was final- ly paroled at Grenada, Mississippi. He then be- gan medical study in Louisville, graduated from the University in 1866, and at once opened an office in the city. Four years afterwards, he was made Professor of Anatomy in the Medical Col- lege at Evansville, served one year, and then re- moved to his native place; but returned to Louis- ville in 1875 and resumed practice here. He is a member of the State Medical Societies of Ken- tucky, Mississippi, and Indiana, and was for some years on the staff of the City Hospital in Louisville. He is no longer practicing.

Joseph W. Fowler was born in Fredericks- burg, Virginia, June 17, 1848. He came of a most notable old family of that State. His father fought in the Mexican War under General Sam Houston, and his grandfather was an officer

in the Revolution. His maternal grandfather served in the War of 1812. In 1864 he gradu- ated at the University of St. Francis de Sales, near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, soon after which time he had made such a study of chemistry and pharmacy with Dr. George Mueller, of La- fayette, Indiana, that he began an independent drug business. Since undertaking the work he has made especial effort to advance the business by applying all the skill and science that con- scientious study could furnish, and has a reputa- tion among physicians very rarely gained in Louisville. He has won a certificate from the Kentucky State Board of Pharmacy, which gives him the highest qualifications, and he is now a member of the Louisville College of Pharmacy. He has accomplished not a little, also, as a · writer. In his religious views Mr. Fowler is a decided and earnest Catholic. In 1873, Sep- tember roth, he was married to Miss J. Anna Clark, of Fairfield, Kentucky, a beautiful and accomplished lady.

Thomas L. McDermott was born in Louis- ville, September 6, 1843, son of an Irish immi- grant, among the early settlers of the town. He was educated in the private schools of the city and at Bardstown, in St. Joseph's College. He read medicine here with Professor Benson, and graduated at Bellevue College in 1865. His earliest practice was at Virginia City, but he returned to his old home in a year or two, and has since practiced here. He was elected a member of the City Council in 1870, and the next year a member of the local Board of Health, afterwards receiving the honor of re-elec- tion to that position.

George Washington Griffiths, notwithstanding his intensely American name, is foreign born, a native of Altatacca, South Wales, August 22, 1840, son of an able minister and writer of the Presbyterian faith, three of whose sons became physicians. The family settled in Philadelphia when George was an infant, and he was mainly educated in the schools there. He came to Louisville in 1855, became a drug clerk, improv- ing his leisure hours studying medicine, and presently abandoned his clerkship for the study. When the civil war began, he opened a recruit- ing office in the city, and raised a number of men for the Fifth Kentucky Federal Infantry, but went out finally as hospital steward with the

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Second Kentucky cavalry; became assistant sur- geon, then successively adjutant, captain, brevet- major, and finally was appointed first lieutenant in the regular cavalry, which he did not accept. He was in many actions of the war, and was wounded and captured during the Atlanta cam- paign. The conflict over, he attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, took a course at Long Island College Hospital, and settled down in 1866 for practice in Louisville. In 1869 he was made Examining Surgeon for Kentucky, and has been Medical Director of the Grand Army of the Republic for the State.

Edwin S. Gaillard was born in Charleston Dis- triet, South Carolina, in 1827, January 16. At the age of eighteen he graduated at the South Carolina University, and nine years later from the Medical College of the same State with great honor. Between that time and the year 1861 he was practising and otherwise engaged in Flor- ida, New York, and Baltimore. During this time he made a voyage to Europe and returned. At the breaking out of the war he joined the Confederate army, and filled at various times the positions of Assistant Surgeon of the First Maryland Regiment ; Surgeon of the same; Sur- geon of the Brigade; Medical Inspector of the Army of Virginia ; Director of half of the entire army; member of the Medical Examining Board of the army of Virginia ; Medical Director of the Department of Aquia, of half of the army around Richmond, of Army Corps in Virginia, of the Department of North Carolina and Virginia; and General Inspector of Confederate Hospitals. At the end of the war he began practice in Rich- mond, Virginia, and in 1866 started the Rich- mond Medical Journal. Subsequently he re- ceived positions first in the Medical College of Virginia, and the same in the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville. In 1874 he estab- lished the American Medical Weekly. Dr. Gail- lard has been twice married, first to Miss Jane M. Thomas, of Charleston ; afterwards to Mary E. Gibson, of Baltimore. He has three chil- dren. He has filled many positions of honor and trust besides those enumerated. He now resides in New York City, where he is editor of the Eclectic Medical Journal.

George S. Seymour, physician and dentist, is of English descent, born June 21, 1836, near Sandersfield, Massachusetts. He was educated

there and at Yale College ; but did not gradu- ate, entering upon clerkships in stores instead, in order to purchase the remainder of his time from his father. He studied dentistry and medicine in his spare hours for about five years ; then took a dental course of three years under Dr. Tomlinson, of Brooklyn, New York ; and finally graduated at the Medical Institute in Richmond, Virginia, in 1860. His first medical practice was in Stewart county, Georgia ; but when the war began he enlisted as a private in the Second Georgia Infantry, was made Assistant Surgeon on hospital duty at Richmond a year later, and so remained till the fall of 1864, when he was assigned to duty elsewhere. After the war, he located at Macon, Georgia, and practiced den- tistry until 1868, when he came to Louisville, where he formed a partnership with Dr. E. W. Mason. In 1869 he was offered the Chair of Operative Dentistry in the Baltimore Dental College ; but declined it.

William P. White is a native of Greensburg, born April 21, 1845, son of Dr. D. P. White, then a prominent physician in that place, but later a business man in Louisville. He was completing his preliminary education at George- town College when the war broke out and took him, with so many others as to aid in closing the school for a time, into the Southern army. He joined the Second Arkansas Cavalry and served with it through the war, at the close of which he finished his course at the same college, read medicine in Louisville with Dr. D. W. Yandell, graduated Doctor of Medicine from the Univer- sity in 1869, and began his active professional life in the city, where he has since remained. He was for some years on the Board of Health, and was at least twice appointed by the Governor to be Surgeon-General of the State militia.

Edward S. Crosier is a native of Harrison county, Indiana, born March 5, 1832. He took an undergraduate course in Michigan Univer- sity, and then a diploma from the medical de- partment of the same, after some reading with Drs. Reader and Jones, of Corydon, Indiana. He practiced for a time with Dr. Henry Reader, at Mauckport, and afterwards at Salem, where he was examining surgeon during the draft of 1862. For three years thereafter he was sur- geon-in-charge of the General Hospital, No. 6, New Albany. He practiced medicine there

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after the war to 1869, taking a part also in the management of the Daily Commercial, of that place. He contributed much to profes- sional, scientific, and literary periodicals, was made a member of sundry learned societies, and, in 1870-71, lectured on chemistry and microscopy in the Louisville Medical College. In the winter of 1869 he removed to this city and took a position in the office of the Sur- veyor of Customs.

John M. Krim is a native of Bavaria, born at Wurzburg in 1842. His father removed to Louisville, and was for thirty-four years a black- smith and veterinary surgeon in the city. The son entered a drug-store at the age of sixteen, and remained three years, and then studied chemistry and medicine for several more in Ger- many under some of the best professors and chemists in Europe. After further study of pharmacy and other branches at home, he re- ceived his degree from the University of Louis- ville in 1869, at once began practice, and soon acquired a large and lucrative business. He was, for a number of years, on the City Board of Health, is a member of the Louisville and United States Colleges of Pharmacy, and of the State Medical Society, and has also done much service on the School Board, besides writ- ing considerable for professional journals, mainly on minor surgery, medical pharmacy, and the diseases of children.

Clinton W. Kelly was born February 11, 1844, in Henry county, Kentucky. At the breaking out of the war he entered the Confederate army, where he remained on duty until the year 1863, when, going to Canada, he studied first in Queen's College, Kingston, and afterwards in McGill College, Montreal, from the latter of which he graduated, having, during his stay there, received four prizes for highest standing in different branches pursued. Between 1867 and 1870, he added to his medical preparation by studying in Germany, when he returned to Louisville and began the practice of his profession. During the first year of practice, he was made Professor of Anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medi- cine and, subsequently, held the same chair in the Louisville Medical College, where he still re- mains. Dr. Kelly is married to Miss Kate W. Harris, daughter of the late Alfred Harris, a lawyer of the same city.

Meverell K. Allen was born in Spencer coun- ty, Kentucky, April 15, 1846, of Scotch descent on both sides. His father was James M. Allen, for many years a well-known Louisville con- tractor. His mother was a daughter of Dr. Muer, a prominent physician in Nelson county. Young Allen received a good education in the home schools, began professional study at Tay- lorsville with Dr. Thomas Allen in 1864, and en- tered the medical department of the University of Louisville, from which he took his diploma in the spring of 1867. He returned to Taylors- ville and practiced there with success until 1870, when he removed to Louisville, and soon estab- lished an excellent business. He was elected Health Officer of the city in 1874, and held the post with general acceptance for several years.

Luke P. Blackburn was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, June 16, 1816. His father was educated as a lawyer, but became a stock- raiser, his thoroughbred horses having long been celebrated in America. Dr. Blackburn grad- uated in medicine in Transylvania university, and began practice in Lexington, Kentucky. There he married Miss Ella Guest Boswell, the daughter of Dr. Joseph Boswell, of that place. In 1835, when the cholera broke out at Ver- sailles, Kentucky, and some of the resident phy- sicians were dead and others had fled from the place, he alone voluntarily gave medical aid. When the scourge had passed by, his self- sacrificing and untiring lahor among them had so moved the citizens of the town, that they gave him an earnest invitation to settle there. He removed to Versailles, and speedily had a lucrative and extensive practice. Soon after this date he went into the manufacture of bagging and rope, but became greatly involved during the financial depression of 1839. In 1843, when yellow fever appeared in New Or- leans, being Health Officer at Natchez, he was directed by the city authorities to establish quar- antine. This he did most effectively, and while performing his duty became so much interested in caring for. the suffering marines that he built a hospital at his own expense. Soon after, through his influence a Government hospital was established there, and the building of several others throughout the county followed in a short space of time. For many years he held, by appointment, the place of surgeon in both the

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State and Marine hospitals. At an early date he advanced the theory of exemption from Asiatic cholera by the use of pure soft water, and in 1854 protected Natchez from the yellow fever, when it was in the surrounding country, by a most rigid quarantine. He was afterwards em- powered by the Legislatures of Louisiana and Mississippi to establish a quarantine below New Orleans. In 1855 his wife died, and two years later he visited the principal hospitals in England, Scotland, Germany, and France. In Paris he met Miss Julia M. Churchill, of Kentucky, to whom he was married in November of the same year. When the war broke out he had in advance taken up the cause of the South-was, in fact, one of the original secessionists. At first he was attached to the staff of Sterling Price as surgeon, but afterward was sent to the borders to superintend the furnishing of supplies by blockade runners, and joined his family in Can- ada for this purpose. On his return to the States he was for a time on his wife's plantation in Arkansas, but returned to Kentucky in 1873. When Memphis was visited by yellow fever he rendered the city great service by giving medical aid. He is said to have combated more epi- demics of cholera and yellow fever than any other living physician, and is considered the best authority regarding such fatal diseases of any in the profession. In 1880 Dr. Blackburn was elected to the place of Governor of Kentucky, which position he now holds. His only child, Dr. Cary Blackburn, is at present a practicing physician in Louisville.

Richard N. Barbour is a native of this county, born September 12, 1820, son of Thomas Bar- bour, a pioneer of that year. His mother was cousin of President Taylor. He was educated chiefly in private schools, commenced the study of medicine in 1853, with Dr. William Taylor, and graduated from the Cincinnati Medical Col- lege in 1835. He pursued his studies further at the Jefferson College, Philadelphia, and began practice at his native place in 1838. His prac- tice became wide and lucrative, and he sustained it successfully for thirty-five years, when, in 1873, be removed to Louisville, and there reaped a similar success. He does not confine himself selfishly to his private practice, but his written . much, especially in earlier professional life, for the medical journals, and is assiduous in has at-

tendance upon the professional conventions and other meetings.

Leonard W. Taylor was born in Lexing- ton, Kentucky, February 22, 1823. His grand- father, Leonard Taylor, was a Virginia Revolu- tionary soldier, and settled in Kentucky in the year 1790. His father, Leonard Taylor, was born in Mercer county, but, coming to Lexington, be- came one of its most valued citizens. Dr. Tay- lor studied first in Lafayette Seminary and began the study of medicine subsequently with Dr, Lloyd Warfield, a leading physician of Lexington. Three years of study prepared him for entering the Medical Department of Transylvania Univer- sity, from which he graduated in 1845, with the degree of M. D. For twenty-eight years he practiced in Carrollton, Kentucky, with excellent success, and in 1873 removed to Louisville, hav- ing in view a smaller and less laborious field. In 1849, he was married to Miss Mary F. Malin, the daughter of Judge Joseph Malin, of Vevay, Indiana. They have six children, and all living.

Louis S. McMurtry was born at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, September 14, 1850. He was edu- cated at Center College, Danville, Kentucky, graduating from that institution in 1870. He at once thereafter began the study of medicine under the supervision of the late Dr. John D. Jackson, of Danville. He attended two sessions of the Medical School of the University of Louisiana, at New Orleans, where he received the degree of M. D. in 1873. He remained in New Orleans a year thereafter, as Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the university, be- ing at the same time attached to the staff of the Charity Hospital. He spent a winter in New York pursuing special branches of study, and then settled at Danville, Kentucky, where he did a large general practice. In October, 1881, he was elected to the Chair of Anatomy in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, and removed to that city. Dr. McMurtry is a mem- ber of the Kentucky State Medical society; an hon- orary member of the Boyle County (Kentucky) Medical society; and corresponding member of the New Orleans Surgical association. He was chairman of the McDowell Memorial committee of the Kentucky State Medical society, and the erection of the McDowell monument at Danville is mainly due to his energy and perseverance. His contributions to medical literature are nu-

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History of the Ohio falls cities and their counties : with illustrations and bibliographical sketches, Vol. I, Part 92

Author: Williams, L.A., & Co., Cleveland Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : L. A. Williams & Co. Number of Pages: 814

Author: Williams, L.A., & Co., Cleveland
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : L. A. Williams & Co.
Number of Pages: 814