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Entering the army at the beginning of the war for independence as surgeon's mate to a New York regiment, Doctor Elliott was in 1775 appointed to a like po- sition in the Continental army and was subsequently promoted to the surgeoncy of the First Regular Infantry, with which he served through the war. His com- mission as surgeon, signed by Washington, is cherished as a priceless heirloom by one of his descendants in the city. Doctor Elliott came west with General St. Clair and was first stationed at Fort Washington. He was with General Wayne in the campaigns of 1794-5, which conquered from the Indians the Greenville treaty, brought peace and security to the middle west, and turned the tide of im- migration into the country of the Miamis.
Doctor Elliott was a dignified and courtly gentleman, punctilious in dress and in the observance of the amenities of life. Some insight into his character may be gathered from the almost comical portrait drawn by Doctor Drake, who met him here in the summer of 1804, and speaks of him as "a highly accomplished gentle- man in a purple silk coat." This costume, better fitted for court than cabin, con- trasted strangely with the raccoon cap, homespun wammus, and buckskin breeches commonly worn by his associates and patients.
His daughters married Joseph Peirce and Judge Joseph H. Crane, prominent citizens and names well known in Dayton circles.
Doctor Elliott was popular as a physician, and as a citizen was active in every movement looking to the betterment of the village and its people. He was one of the incorporators of the Dayton Social Library Association, the first library au- thorized by the legislature in the state ( 1805).
Doctor Elliott died in 1809 and was buried with military honors, Captain Steele's troop of horse and Captain Butler's company of infantry leading the funeral cortege to the old graveyard on Fifth street.
JAMES WELSH.
In 1804, Doctor James Welsh, a Pennsylvanian by birth, came in the twofold capacity of pastor to the First Presbyterian church and physician to the public at large. To these vocations he soon added those of druggist and land speculator,
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making him a veritable jack of all trades, and withal he was a man of parts and a good practitioner. Local biographers credit him with an M. D. degree obtained, presumably, from Transylvania University, in which he held the professorship of languages from 1799 to 1804, the date of his removal to Dayton. If so, it must have been an honorary degree, for the medical department (the first in the west) of this university, though formally organized in 1797, conferred no medical de- grees until 1818.
Doctor Welsh was licensed to preach by the Synod of Virginia in 1793 and accepted a call to Pisgah church in Lexington, Kentucky, where were formed as- sociations which led to his coming to Dayton, and which culminated in his mar- riage (1811) to Margaret, the second daughter of Colonel Robert Patterson and the young widow of Doctor Samuel Venable of Walnut Hill, Kentucky.
Doctor Haines, who in 1816 heard him preach in Springfield from the text, John v, 39, writes in his dairy : "His discourse was one of the best I have heard in the state, his reasoning clear and logical, and his manner impressive."
As a promoter he was less successful. The rival town platted on his farm, now Dayton View, which was reached by Welsh's ferry at the foot of First street, did not prove to be a financial success.
Notwithstanding his multiplied business interests, perhaps because of them, Doctor Welsh, like some modern parsons and doctors, was often hard run for money. The newspapers bristle with his appeals to those indebted to pay up, "as both reason and Scripture require they should."
As an example of the form in which medical accounts were rendered and the fees charged in the century's first decade, I extract the following items from a bill rendered in 1811, and now in the possession of Doctor Reeve :
FEBRUARY 18, 18II.
H. G. Phillips to Jas. Welsh, Dr.
1811-Aug. 15. To delivery of lady and attendance; afterward to spirits laudanum, Ol. Cin., and large paper of magnesia $10.00
Aug. 22. To one visit and advice. .50
Oct. II. To 2 Oz. elixir paregoric. .561/4
Dec. 17-18. To visit and phial anti-spasmodic medicine; 2 Oz. spirits nitre, and 2 Oz. Elixir paregoric. 2.121/2
1812-Jan. 2. To attendance through the day and night, one large blister, sundry injections, scarifications, one bottle Godfrey's Cordial, and sundry portions of calomel and ipecac 2.50
Doctor Welsh was one of the projectors of the Dayton Academy, founded in 1808, which had an exceptional history, and which enrolled among its teachers at different times some of the ablest educators in the state.
In 1817 Doctor Welsh was drawn into an unfortunate newspaper contro- versy with Mr. Cooper, the original owner of Dayton, and a high officer in his church. The indictment of Mr. Cooper is a formidable document and, as he says, "includes acts which would be considered dishonorable in a savage, to
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say nothing of one who professes to be a humble follower of Christ." But the doctor was no novice in delivering "apostolic blows and knocks" and parried his antagonist in royal style. It is fair to say that Mr. Cooper's estimate of Doc- tor Welsh's character was not universally accepted and that he was supported by some of the strongest men in the congregation. Whatever may have been the merits of the controversy, Doctor Welsh evidently felt that his usefulness in this portion of the vineyard was seriously impaired and soon after accepted a call to Vevay, Indiana, where he preached and practiced until his death in 1826.
WILLIAM MURPHEY.
Doctor William Murphey was the next physician to locate in Dayton. Little is known of him except the meagre mention in Benjamin Van Cleve's diary, which credits him with popularity and ability and recounts that he died from an overdose of laudanum taken to ward off the effects of "a fit of intoxi- cation." The inventory of his estate, "towit: One horse, saddle and bridle ; one family Bible; twelve volumes of Shakespeare; wearing apparel; bedclothes and some medicines," does not indicate a plethora of prosperity. His library, however, was especially well chosen. He came in 1805, and died in 1809.
Two doctors of prominence were added to the medical staff in 1810 and became associated in business. Doctor Abraham Edwards came from Ft. Wayne, represented the county in the state legislature in 1811, and went to the front as captain of a local company in the war of 1812. In a letter to Senator Morrow, dated March 19, 1811, Benjamin Van Cleve strongly endorses the doctor for the position of Indian Agent at Ft. Wayne and writes: "He stands high in the estimation of the Secretary of War and with the gentlemen of the army in general. The indisposition of Mrs. Edwards, the desire of educating his children, and the prospect of practice here induced him to resign (from the army) ; but, not meeting with the success in his profession which he had anticipated, he is impelled to seek an appointment."
Doctor Edwards must have been unsuccessful in his petition and, two years later, is said to have been living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Doctor Charles Este began practice in the same year. He was high in Masonry, took a prominent part in all public events, and was an early trustee of the Dayton Academy. He was an expert meteorologist and kept accurate records for the years of 1811-12, which were memorable for comets, cyclones, eclipses and earthquakes.
Doctor Este came in 1810, and died in 1817.
Perhaps the ablest of the early physicians and the first medical graduate to locate in Dayton was
JOHN STEELE
(1791-1854).
He was born near Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated in arts at the famous Transylvania University, of which his father was one of the founders. His medical degree was gotten from the University of Pennsylvania. He came to Dayton in 1812 on the advise of his brother James, a prominent citizen.
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Tall, well formed, and straight as an arrow, Doctor Steele's personal ap- pearance was striking and commanding. He was a reader and thinker, and is said to have had an exceptionally good medical library. Even now one occa- sionally runs across some choice book with his name on the fly-leaf. He was strongly inclined to view life from its sunny side, and had the reputation of both telling and enjoying a good story.
Doctor Steele began practice in Dayton under most favorable auspices, and soon acquired a full business. His consultation business was especially large. He was a surgeon of considerable ability, and Doctor Haines, in a diary to be soon quoted, speaks of assisting him in operations for hare-lip and strangulated hernia.
Like nearly all of his colleagues, Doctor Steele kept a drug-store at which he had his doctor-shop, and advertises that in addition to the usual free medical advice, he will exchange "genuine medicines for clean vials at fifty cents a dozen." Dr. Steel was closely identified with the bitter fight between the friends of the Medical College of Ohio and of Daniel Drake, which waged for years and drew into its vortex nearly all of the prominent medical men of the state. Doctor Steele was one of the petitioners to the legislature for reorgan- izing the Ohio Medical College, the failure of which ultimately led to the form- ing of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery by Drake and his followers.
He took a deep interest in public affairs, and filled many positions of honor and trust, among which may be mentioned membership in the state legislature of 1820, and several terms as member and president of the town council.
He was a pronounced churchman, one of the founders of the Third Street Presbyterian church, and was prominently connected with all the benevolent and educational movements of his day. His son, Henry K. Steele, studied medicine and was a prominent practitioner in Dayton and later in Denver, Col- orado, where he died in 1890.
JOB HAINES (1791-1860).
One of the most esteemed physicians that ever practiced in Dayton was Doctor Job Haines, who came immediately after the death of Doctor Este in January, 1817.
He was born in New Jersey in 1791, graduated in letters from Princeton College and in medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1815. Doctor Haines was licensed to practice by the censors of the Seventh District Medical Society, April 1, 1816, along with Joshua Martin, of Xenia, Isaac Hendershott, of Piqua, Carter, of Urbana, and Needham, of Springfield, all men of prominence in the medical history of the valley. He was tall and slender in form, simple and dignified in manner, and had to an unusual degree the admirable trait of being kind to and considerate of every one, especially to his colleagues. The young doctor never appealed for help in vain. In this respect his life offers an example which the young man should imitate and the old man not forget.
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The diary of Doctor Haines for the years 1816 to 1820, is now in the Public Library. In it many subjects of medical interest are discussed, among which may be mentioned the treatment of bilious, intermittent and remittent fevers, which prevailed so malignantly in the lowlands about Dayton, and milk-sick- ness, a never-ending subject of controversy in medical circles during the early years of the last century. This interesting and instructive relic of the far past is well worth careful study, and accurately sets forth the heroic methods of the fathers when calomel and bleeding were in high repute. In a day when the sturdy pioneers considered whiskey as the staff of life in this ague-infected region Doctor Haines was the head of all anti-liquor leagues. For more than forty years he was prominently identified with the First Presbyterian church. Al- though he never offensively» obtruded his religious views, it was no unusual thing for him, when desired by the patient, to close a professional visit with a Bible-reading or short prayer.
Doctor Haines was a lover of nature and an expert botanist. He was in- terested in a nursery in 1844, and is credited with having stocked the rivulets here with watercress brought across the mountains in his saddlebags.
He held various municipal and county offices, and was mayor of the town in 1833, the year of the first visitation of cholera, when he did much to restore confidence to the panic-stricken people.
Doctor Job Haines died in July, 1860, at the age of sixty-nine. The public respect accorded him through a long and well-spent life was shown in a marked degree on the day of his burial. The streets along which the funeral cortège passed were thronged with sad and sorrowing people. Doctor McDermont wrote of the occasion: "We doubt whether any of the world's great men, heroes, statesmen, princes, or poets, ever received from the people an ovation of deeper or holier reverence than was paid to the lifeless form of Job Haines in its transit to the grave."
WILLIAM BLODGETT.
Doctor William Blodgett came in 1818 and continued in active practice for twenty years. Of Anglo-French descent he was born in Stafford, Connecti- cut, in the historic year 1776, and before coming to Dayton practiced his profession in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and other locations. Being a man of experience and a shrewd politician he soon acquired prominence. Besides holding many minor offices he was elected to the general assembly in 1821. He was less successful in his other campaigns, being defeated for the state senate in 1825, and by Judge McLean for congress in 1822. This latter contest was waged with a bitterness remarkable even in that day, when personalities entered so largely into political methods. One of the withering charges of the campaign, and supported by sworn affidavits, was that the doctor on sundry occasions had spoken contemptuously of the Apostle Paul. It will not do, of course, in estimating one's character to rely upon the statements of rival poli- ticians. They have, perhaps, more value for showing the temper of the times than for determining the character of men. Doctor Blodgett was a man of
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positive convictions, aggressive in their defense, and, therefore, a fit target for the shafts of political opponents.
He died October 26th, 1838, at the home of his son-in-law, Judge Holt.
This ends the roll-call of those who had greatest medical prominence in the first quarter of the century just ended. Doubtless many came and went and left no trace behind. We should not forget that the influential doctors of this early day-no more than now-did not all live in Dayton proper. Al- though it does not come within the scope of this chapter, it would be manifestly unfair not to make passing mention of Doctors Nathaniel Strong of Centerville, Julius S. Taylor of West Carrollton, C. G. Espich of Germantown, and John Treon of Miamisburg, all men of commanding influence in civic and profes- sional circles.
Dayton had now become a prosperous village of 1,697 inhabitants (1828), and the medical history will henceforth deal with institutions rather than with men. It is not our intention to speak of the living except as their names appear in the records of the institutions noted, and it is, moreover, manifestly im- possible to give even the names of all "who rule us from their urns," and doubtless, in some instances, the writer has erred in his selection of men for special mention.
MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
From 1811 to 1833 the state of Ohio was divided into medical districts which varied in number with the making of new counties. The censors of these dis- trict societies were named by the legislature, had power to examine and license candidates for practice, and exercised a general supervision over medical affairs within the confines of the district.
The contemporary newspapers contain occasional notices of the meeting in Dayton of the censors of this district, the earliest of which is signed by Doctor A. Coleman of Troy, calling a meeting at Major Reid's tavern on the first Mon- day in September, 1814. In 1815 Doctor John Steele, Secretary of the Board of Censors of the seventh medical district, notified, in the columns of "The Republican,". "all emigrant physicians who had begun practice in the district since 1812" to attend in Dayton on the first Monday in November for exami- nation.
These meetings of the censors were undoubtedly the occasion for the assem- bling of the medical clan, but the first recorded effort to conduct a society on scientific lines was made in 1816, when the physicians of the seventh medical district, composed of the counties of Champaign, Miami, and Montgomery, met in Dayton and formed The Dayton Medical Society. It met quarterly and the alphabetical enrollment determined the order in which each member should contribute to the program. Doctor Henry Chapze of Piqua was the first essay- ist and "How Do Poisons Operate on the System to Produce Death?" was the subject. The absence of records indicates that the Society came to an untimely end after the third meeting.
The second medical society was formed in 1824. The general assembly had divided the state into twenty medical districts. Montgomery and Clark counties
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constituted the seventh district. The meeting for organization was held at Reid's Inn, May 25th, and the following officers elected: President, John Steele; Vice- President, Hugh Alexander; Treasurer, Nathaniel Strong; Censors, William Blodgett, William Mount, R. W. Hunt, and A. Blount.
The society met in May and November, usually in Dayton and Fairfield, and occasionally in Springfield. The last meeting of which there is record was held in Dayton, May, 1828, with the following officers and membership: Officers- President, Wm. Blodgett ; Vice-President, Lot Cooper ; Secretary and Treasurer, W. Mount ; Censors-A. Blount, E. Laurence, H. Alexander, W. A. Needham, R. E. Stephens. Members-P. M. Crume, J. L. Tellers, Hibbard Jewett, Edwin Smith, Nelson Donnellan, C. G. Espich, Robert Houston, Wm. Lindsay, Job Haines, R. W. Hunt, H. Humphreys, John Steele, Nathaniel Strong, Thos. S. Towler, Thos. Haines.
On the repeal of the Medical District Law in 1833, medical societies be- came matters of volition instead of legislation, and there is no record of such an organization in the city or county until 1849.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
In the fall of 1849, when Dayton numbered about ten thousand inhabitants, forty-one of whom were looking after the bodily ills of the others, the call for a preliminary meeting of the profession was issued over the signatures of ten doctors.
The organization was completed on September 13, with the following officers and members :
President, Edwin Smith; Vice-President, Michael Garst; Secretary, Edmund Smith; Treasurer, David B Van Tuyl. Censors: Henry K Steele, H. Van Tuyl, H. G. Carey, Oliver Crook, Elias Garst, John Johns (Vandalia), Samuel Fahnestock, William Egry, P. B. Hallanan, John W. Shriver.
The angel of peace did not rock the cradle of the Montgomery County Medical Society. Drs. John Steele, Craighead, Clements, and Langstedt,* whose signatures were appended to the initial call, seem to have taken no further inter- est in the organization, and Doctor Geiger, though appointed to the committee on constitution, was refused membership.
The proceedings of the second regular meeting were enlivened by the ar- raignment of an erring brother on the charge of unprofessional conduct, and the crusade thus begun, did not end until four of the founders were expelled or forced to resign.
The Montgomery County Medical Society was one of the first to affiliate with the state association, which since 1846 has been an effective factor in pro- moting medical solidarity in Ohio. Its members have always been active in the councils of the state association and three have been honored with the presidency -- Doctors Julius S. Taylor of West Carrollton (1853), J. C. Reeve Sr. (1885), and W. J. Conklin (1891).
* Later these gentlemen accepted membership.
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The state association was the guest of the local society in 1853, 1879, 1885 and 1903.
The county society has maintained a continuous organization except during the Civil War period when the unsettled conditions of affairs caused a suspension movement which makes for the betterment of the people. In proof, may be cited of its meetings from 1861 to 1865.
The Society has a membership of 147 and is an aggressive leader in every its recent and best work in securing a plant for certified milk, the inspection of the public schools, the formation of an anti-tuberculosis society, the prosecution of professional abortionists, and other causes to which it has given liberal support.
The following list gives the names of the presidents and years of service since the organization in 1849:
Edwin Smith, 1849; M. Garst, 1850; Julius S. Taylor, 1851, 1857 ; John Davis, 1852, 1867, 1876; Job Haines, 1853, 1854 ; James Crook, 1855; J. A. Coons, 1856; W. H. Lamme,- 1858; S. G. Armor, 1859; C. McDermont, 1860. 1868; J. C. Reeve, Sr., 1861, 1873, 1877, 1878; Richard Gundry, 1866, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872; T. L. Neal, 1874, 1875, 1880, 1881 ; J. M. Weaver, 1879, 1891 ; J. S. Beck, 1882, 1883, 1901, 1902; W. J. Conklin, 1884, 1885, 1899, 1900; H. S. Jewett, 1886; C. H. Humphreys, 1887; E. C. Crum, 1888; F. H. Patton, 1889; George Goodhue, 1890; G. C. Myers, 1892; Horace Bonner, 1893 ; G. B. Evans, 1894 ; R. R. Petit, 1895 ; D. C. Lichliter, 1896; D. W. Greene, 1897; D. C. Huff- man, 1898; J. C. Reeve, Jr., 1903, 1904; F. C. Gray, 1905, 1906; C. W. King, 1907 ; W. S. Smith, 1908; E. M. Huston, 1909.
The officers and members for 1909 are :
Delegates to O. S. M. A .: Dr. H. C. Haning, Dr. G. P. Dale. President, Dr. E. M. Huston ; Vice-President, Dr. R. S. Gaugler; Secretary, Dr. D. B. Conklin ; Treasurer, Dr. W. F. Prather. Censors: Dr. D. W. Greene, Dr. H. D. Rinehart, Dr. C. W. King. Committee on program and scientific work : Dr. A. L. Light, Dr. R. S. Gaugler, Dr. E. S. Breese. Drs. Wm. Agnew, H. B. Alexander, W. E. Allaman, F. D. Barker, J. S. Beck, G. W. Beeghley, E. E. Bohlender, Horace Bonner, C. H. Breidenbach, R. A. Bunn, S. M. Beck, L. G. Bowers, J. A. Brown, G. T. Brown, S. A. Broughman, W. S. Bookwalter, W. J. Conklin, W. G. Clagett. E. C. Crum, M. E. Coy, J. L. Carter, E. R. Crew, C. N. Chrisman, L. H. Cox, N. W. Cowden, G. W. Davis, E. C. Davisson, J. A. Davisson, W. H. Delscamp, J. F. Dolina, F. A. Duckwall, N. W. Duckwall, A. H. Dunham, T. H. Dickinson, J. M. Dean, L. P. Earnshaw, G. B. Evans, W. A. Ewing, Eleanora Everhard, J. H. Farber, F. Fife, Gertrude Felker, M. B. Floyd, George Goodhue, N. D. Goodhue, F. C. Gray, P. L. Gunckel, G. D. Gohn, H. Good, O. E. Griep, J. C. George, H. H. Hatcher, F. R. Henry, G. W. Hochwalt, C. J. Hunt, G. W. Hous, J. M. Howell, C. H. Humphreys, S. E. Hendren, G. C. Henkel, H. A. Hahne, H. B. Harris, N. M. Hendricks, O. V. Huffman, Wm. R. Howe,t H. S. Jewett, Lynn Jones, C. S. Judy, J. D. Kramer, L. Kleppinger, E. E. Kimmel, B. W. D. Keever, A. H. Lane, D. C. Lichliter, Wm. F. Lauterbach, Hugo Maetke, C. C. McLean, J. H. McCassy, J. W. McKemy, Chas. MacGregor, Orville McCray, S. McMaster, E. H. Mal-
+Associate.
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low, J. W. Millette, D. E. Miller, D. C. Mills, E. H. Morris, H. C. Mundhenk, E. B. Markey, W. C. Mendenhall, A. R. Moist, C. L. Patterson, Wm. Plattfaut, R. C. Pennywitt, O. A. Peters, J. H. Pumphrey, Chas. F. Powell, Matthew Porter, L. C. Pepper, H. A. Penfield,t W. O. Roop, J. M. Ratliff, D. G. Reilly, W. A. Ryan, M. Ryan, G. C. Rogers, H. W. Riley, F. W. Roush, J. C. Reeve, Sr.,* J. B. Sampsell, C. W. Salisbury, D. Scheibenzuber, G. R. Schuster, Webster S. Smith, A. J. Slaven, C. D. Slagle, S. Souders, A. F. Shepherd, R. R. Shank, C. D. Smith, F. W. Smith, J. J. Stout, G. S. Staub, S. A. Stout, H. Thorn, F. S. Thomson, P. W. Tappen, Albert Tachauer, C. H. Tate, J. L. Travis, J. M. Weaver, F. C. Weaver, A. M. Williamson,* W. P. Weaver, W. Burnett Weaver.
ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
The Academy of Medicine is an active working society composed of the younger members of the profession. It was incorporated in January, 1898, by Drs. Edgar A. Stewart ** , Rufus C. Pennywitt, Herbert C. Haning, O. C. Griep, and Henry D. Fisher. @
It meets regularly on the second and fourth Fridays of each month, and has a membership of over fifty physicians. With few exceptions the members of the Academy are also members of the County Society.
The succession of presidents from its organization until the present time, is as follows: R. C. Pennywitt (1898-1899) ; R. S. Gaugler (1900-1901) ; T. E. Mar- shall (1902-1903) ; D. B. Conklin (1904-1905) ; W. C. Marshall (1906) ; W. A. Ewing (1907) ; A. H. Lane (1908).
For the year 1909 the officers are : President, H. C. Haning ; Vice-President, C. A. Tate ; Secretary, A. O. Peters ; Treasurer, H. F. Patton ; Censors, H. D. Rinehart, D. B. Conklin, W. F. Prather; Program Committee, R. S. Gaugler, H. B. Harris, A. L. Light.
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