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Robert Colwell Heflebower, M. D.,
An oculist and aurist of reputation, at Cincinnati, Ohio, was born on the 3d of July, 1865, in Urbana, Ohio. The parents of Dr. Heflebower were Daniel Philip Heflebower and Fannie Colwell, both of whom were natives of Ohio. His father's ancestors came from Baden, Germany, in 1708, and settled in Virginia, while his mother's progenitors emigrated from the north of Ireland in 1731. His ancestors on both sides have taken an active part in the affairs of their country, and there has not been a war since the Declaration of Independence when at least one member of his family did not participate. Dr. Heflebower's education was obtained in the public schools of Urbana, the Miami Medical College of Cincinnati, and at the famous Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg. He graduated from Urbana High School in 1883 and from the Miami Medical College in 1889, with the degree of M. D. After finishing his studies, Dr. Heflebower settled in Cincinnati, where he became engaged in the practice of his profession, as an oculist and aurist. His offices are located at the Lancaster Building, on West Seventh Street, that city. In 1892 Dr. Heflebower was united in marriage in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Helga, the daughter of Major General von Beissenberg, of the Danish army. Two children have been born to them, a daughter and son.
John J. Pugh,
Librarian of the Columbus Public Library, recognized as one of the best read men in the State of Ohio, and an authority on all biblio- graphical questions, was born on the 29th of February, 1864, in the city of Columbus, Ohio. His parents were Richard and Elizabeth Jones Pugh, both of whom came originally from Wales, which country has furnished some of the best blood in the United States. They came to the Capital City during the month of May, 1854. Mr. John J. Pugh received a very careful education in the public schools of his native city, and the Central High School, graduating from there with the class of 1881. after having taken a scientific and literary course. After his graduation he attended the Normal School for one year under Professor Alfred H. Welsh, taking another literary course, and subsequently for two years made a special study of English and literary sub- JOHN J. PUGH jects. From 1881 to 1897, a continuous period of sixteen years, he was the Assistant Librarian of the Columbus City Library, holding the place of First Assistant since 1885. He occupies his present position since 1897, and during his incumbency the affairs of that institution have been carefully protected. The growth of this library has been remarkable under his administration. Owing to the initiative of Mr. Pugh, the city of Columbus will have one of the best and most modern libraries in the
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State of Ohio, the building costing not less than $200,000, with ample space to accommo- date 200,000 volumes. The money necessary for the erection of this magnificent edifice has been donated by that great patron of public libraries, Andrew Carnegie, who made his bequest through the efforts of Mr. John J. Pugh. In political affairs, Mr. Pugh is a lifelong Republican, and takes a keen interest in the affairs of his party. Socially, he is a Mason of high standing, a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the I. O. O. F., of which he is Past Grand Master, and Past Chief Patriarch of Junior Encampment, No. 276. He also belongs to the Columbus Republican Glee Club, with which he has been identified since 1881. He is active among the Junior Hussars, and is attached to the military staff of the Grand Sire, I. O. O. F. He holds a life commission on the staff of the Patriarch Militants. Mr. Pugh has been President of the Columbus Opera Club for a perid of two years, a well-known organization which on several occasions presented complete operas. On the 22d of August, 1888, he was united in marriage to Miss Cath- erine Fornhoff, a graduate from the Columbus High School. with the class of 1885. His wife died on the 5th of March, 1900, leaving three children, Elizabeth Louise, Catherine Loving and Mary Ellen Pugh. Mr. Pugh's residence is located at No. 208 North Washington Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. John Byers Wilson,
Was born of Scotch-Irish parentage, in West Union, Adams County, Ohio, on the 6th of January, 1857. His father, David Finley Wilson, was a man of limited education, but was well informed, possessed a remarkable memory and some poetical talent. His mother, Evelyn Campbell, was a direct descendant of the famous Clan Campbell, her great-grand- father, Matthew Campbell, being the fifth son of the second Duke of Argyle. Becoming a Dissenter, he was alienated from his family, and came to America, first settling in Virginia, and later removing to Lewiston, now Mays ville, Kentucky, the farthest settlement west at that time on the Ohio River. Here he married a member of the Shelby family of Kentucky, and soon after built a large stone house on the opposite bank, which served as both fortress and inn. The village which sprang up around him was named Aberdeen, after the city of the same name in Scotland. DR. JOHN BYERS WILSON Some years later, in company with a number of settlers, he descended the Ohio on a raft, and, landing at a point opposite the Licking, erected the first house built on the present site of Cincinnati
Dr. Wilson's youth was that of the ordinary village lad. He attended the village school, and labored on the farm until his sixteenth year, when he started out for himself as teacher of a country school. With the exception of one year, spent at the National Normal Uni- versity at Lebanon, Ohio, he pursued this occupation for the next eight years, teaching in
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Adams, Brown and Ross Counties. For the next three years he was employed as sales- man and collector for a leading publishing house, at the end of which time he settled in Cincinnati, and began the study of medicine, at which he graduated in 1889. During his vacations he gained further experience as a hotel clerk and newspaper reporter and writer.
Soon after his graduation he received the appointment of Assistant Health Officer, or ward physician to the worthy poor, and immediately located in Cincinnati. Here, for the next three years, he labored zealously at his profession, fighting disease in its worst forms, and under the most unfavorable hygienic circumstances. Here, too, through a financial crisis, he came to know the virtues and vices, the patience and complainings, the wants and woes, the humanities and inhumanities, the sorrows and afflictions of the destitute poor, and all the disease and degeneration bred from the evils of poverty. These observations led him to the study of the social and economic conditions affecting society, upon which subjects he occasionally lectures, and frequently contributes vigorous articles for the press. All these varied avocations and experiences, of country, village and city life, of farm and school and travel; of educational, professional and literary pursuits have tended to make him a man of broad and liberal ideas and strong convictions. Fearlessly he attacks all forms of society, which to him appears to perpetuate ignorance, superstition and social injustice and wrong. He believes that it is to the interests of, and the duty of government to see to it, that every child shall have the right to be born right, and that, unhampered by superstition or other prejudicial influence, it shall be left free to develop, intelligently, the natural functions of both body and brain.
Dr. Wilson early became a convert to the teachings of Paine and Ingersoll, and later became an ardent disciple of Darwin, Spencer and Haeckel. As an advocate of the scien- tific and sociological principles taught by these and other reformers, Dr. Wilson has been a leading spirit in this country, and among that vast and ever-growing class, calling them- selves Liberals or Freethinkers, he has won a National reputation. In 1899, at its congress in Cincinnati, he was elected President of "The American Secular Union." Resigning the following year, he organized "The American Freethought Association," of which he is now President, and which further honored him by making him its unanimous choice as American delegate to the great International Freethought Congress held in Rome, Italy, September, 1904. As this congress was the first of its kind ever held in Rome, it marked an epoch in the history of the world's progress, not second to that of the Reformation. Here, more than five thousand delegates, from all parts of the world, assembled in the "College of Rome," the greatest temple of learning in Italy, once a Jesuit college, but now controlled by the government, the congress was welcomed by a leading representative of the Italian government, and other unusual courtesies shown it.
Dr. Wilson looks upon it as one of the greatest honors that could come to him, to have been American delegate to this congress, which was first openly to proclaim free thought, free speech, free press, and complete separation of Church and State, in the midst of an opposition which for thousands of years has been most active and influential in opposing these civilizing principles. Dr. Wilson was placed on one of the most important committees, and here became associated with many of the leading sociologists and scientific minds of the world, among them Professor Ernst Haeckel, of Germany; Professor Berthelot, of France; Professor Mandsley, of England; Professor Hector Denis, of Belgium; Professor Salmeron, of Spain; Professors Sergi, Ghisleri and Lombroso, of Italy; Bjorsen Bjorsen, of Sweden, and others whose fame is as wide as civilization.
Dr. Wilson has just published a book giving full details of this congress, and a history of the rise and progress of Freethought. Besides his interest in this direction and the
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active duties of his profession, Dr. Wilson has found time to court the muse. He has col lected his poems into a volume, which is now in the hands of the publisher. His verse is chiefly descriptive of Nature and farm life, and competent critics rank him high among authors who have written along these lines. The following beautifully descriptive piece is a fair sample of his composition, and touches a warm spot in the heart of every one whose youth has been associated with the country and farm :
Bob White
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The city's heat grows stifling- - In fev'rish dreams I stray, Recalling far-off June-times- The locust shade at noon-times, And sportive breezes trifling With blossoms in their play ; And bees the honey rifling From blossoms all the day.
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And "Bob-Bob White!" 's his greeting, As in the olden time, When I turned the stubble over, When I raked the hay and clover, In the summers all too fleeting- In summer's flow'ry prime, While his song he kept repeating, Which now inspires my rhyme, 5
Ah! the thought of wilful murder Brands with shame my fev'red brow ; I would pay you well, dear Robert, Could I hear your music now ; Your love-call to your listn'ing mate, Brooding in her secret nest, Would echo loud the fond heart-throbs, For the one I love the best.
Once more I lie and listen To Nature's music sweet; Once more my old companions Of woods and fields I meet ; I hear their myriad voices, But clear above them all, And warmest in its welcome, Is Bob White's cheery call.
4 Which oft aroused the brute inbred, And with a sportsman's glow, I'd sight the handle of my rake, And vicious aim upon him take, And wish it were a gun instead, To fire and lay him low ; Just to lift the feathers from his head, My sportive skill to show.
6 And bring again those summer days, And glorious, golden hours, When, boy and girl, we sought your haunts, Together plucking flowers; And tiptoe on an ancient stump, In the tall wheat, hid from view, You loudly called "Bob White !" to us, Which I whistled back to you.
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Ah! my heart is sick with longing- Vainly longing for your tune ; For the varied scenes of childhood, For the meadow, dale and wildwood, And the thousand charms belonging To the month of merry June ; Ah! the mem'ries that come thronging With thoughts of youth's bright June.
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Dr. Wilson is a member of the Academy of Medicine, of Cincinnati, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Knights of the Maccabees, Independent Order of Foresters, Tribe of Ben Hur, and Medical Examiner for a number of old line and fraternal insurance companies.
Frank W. Hendley, M. D.,
Is of English descent, born in Cincinnati in the year 1860. After attending the public schools and Hughes High School of his native city, he spent a few years in mercantile life, after which he took up the study of medicine, entering the Medical College of Ohio, now the Medical Department of the University of Cincinnati, graduating in 1885. In 1884 Dr. Hendley was an interne in the Cincinnati Hospital, and in the year of his graduation was house physician in that institution, after which he became engaged in the active prac- tice of his profession until 1892, when he was appointed Superintendent of the Cincinnati Hospital and continued as such a little over four years. Upon retiring from the Superin- tendency of the Cincinnati Hospital, Dr. Hend- lev resumed the practice of his profession at Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. He has been prom- inently connected with the National Guard of Ohio, having served five years as Assistant Surgeon and four years in the First Regiment of Infantry. During the War with Spain, he served as Major and surgeon of the First Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from the 25th of April, 1898, until the regiment was mustered out, on the 25th of October, in the same year. By order of the Secretary of War, he was con- tinued in the service, his duties being that of physical examiner of Ohio troops at Columbus. Ohio. This position he held until the 21st of January, 1899. During August and part of September, 1898, Dr. Hendley was chief sur- FRANK W. HENDLEY, M. D. geon of the combined Second and Third Division, Fourth Army Corps, at Fernandina, Florida, on the staff of Major General Louis H. Carpenter. In the fall of 1899 he was elected as an Independent Republican, a Representative from Hamilton County to. the lower House of the Seventy-fourth General Assembly on the Fusion ticket, receiving the third highest majority of the ten Representatives elected from his county. Upon the reorganization of the National Guards of Ohio, in 1901, Dr. Hendley resumed his affiliation with that body. Socially, he is a member of the Masonic fraternity, a Knight Templar and an officer in the Scottish Rite branches of Masonry. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and the Military Order of Foreign Wars.
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Thomas V. Fitzpatrick, M. D.,
One of the most eminent laryngologists and aurists in this country, was born on the 9th of April, 1855, at Nicholasville, Clermont County, Ohio. He is the son of Solomon and Zerilda (Vanhook) Fitzpatrick, both of whom were natives of Kentucky, where the family has resided for many generations. He received his education in the public schools of his home county, and coming to Cincinnati in 1871, completed his education in that city, passing from an unfinished course at Hughes High School to the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, from which institution he graduated in 1875. In 1890 he received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from Twin Valley College. He has continuously practiced his profession since 1875, first at Paragon, In- diana, one year, then at New Baltimore, Ham- ilton County, Ohio, from 1876 to 1887. In 1888 he attended the New York Post Graduate School of Medicine, where he devoted his time exclusively to the study of laryngology and otology. . After completing this course of special study, Dr. Fitzpatrick went abroad and devoted his entire time to the study of his chosen specialty among the famous medical institutions of the Old World. Returning to the United States, he commenced practice in Cincinnati, where his talents were soon appre- ciated, and where he established a flourishing THOMAS V. FITZPATRICK, M. D. practice. In 1888 he was appointed Professor of Laryngology and Otology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine, which position he filled up to the closing of the college in 1892. He was Dean of Faculty for four years. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Laryngological, Phinological and Otological Association, Western Opthalmological Society, Pan-American Congress, Missis- sippi Valley Medical Association, Miami Valley Medical Association, Ohio State Medical Society, Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, and from 1890 to 1893 was Secretary of Cincin- nati Academy of Medicine and also Secretary of the Ohio State Medical Society. He is a thirty-second-degree Mason. In politics, Dr. Fitzpatrick is a staunch Republican, and has twice been elected Mayor of the city of Norwood, which position he filled acceptably to his constituents and the public in general. In 1885 he married Lotta A. Wiley, daughter of John Wiley, an early pioneer of Hamilton County. She died on the 8th of October, 1893, leaving one son, E. Verne Fitzpatrick. In 1899 he was married to Florence Swing, daughter of Judge Peter F. Swing, by which union he has one son, Thomas Swing Fitzpatrick.
Chas. A. L. Reed, M. D.,
Of Cincinnati, Ohio, a physician of National reputation, is a native Indianian, born on the 9th of July, 1856, at Wolf Lake, Noble County. His father, Dr. R. C. Stockton Reed, was a well-known physician. His mother's maiden name was Nancy Clark. Dr. Charles A. L.
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Reed obtained a careful education in the schools of his home district, after which he attended Starr's Institute at Seven Mile, Ohio. After his graduation from this well-known institute, Dr. Reed matriculated at Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating from this seat of learning with the degree of M.D. He later graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and then took a post-graduate course in Trinity College. Dublin. Subsequently he was a student at the Spark Hill Hospital at Birmingham, under Lawson Tait, and at the Samaritan Free Hos- pital, London, under Bantock Thornton and Sır Spencer Wells. Dr. Reed began the prac- tice of his profession as a district physician in the old Fifth Ward of Cincinnati, in 1875, before he had reached his twentieth year. Later he practiced at Fidelity, Illinois, and Hamilton, Ohio. In 1887 Dr. Reed returned to Cincinnati, where he has resided and practiced ever since. To-day Dr. Reed is recognized as one of the most able physicians of the Queen City, and he stands high in the esteem of his clients and his fellow practi- tioners. Dr. Reed's reputation is only con- fined by the limits of the United States. He is a member and an ex-President of the American Medical Association, a member of the Ohio CHAS. A. L. REED, M. D. State Medical Association and of the Cincin- nati Academy of Medicine, of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and of the Southern Surgical and Gyneco- logical Association, a Fellow of the British Gynecological Association, and an Honorary Fellow in the Medical Society of the State of New York. Dr. Reed has always been widely interested in the affairs of the University of Cincinnati and the medical institutions of his home city. For many years he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Cincinnati University, and he has been untiring in his efforts to unite all of the various higher educa- tional institutions of Cincinnati-medicine, law, art, etc .- under the management of the Cincinnati University. In the years of 1876-1877 he was Professor of Pathology in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and for many years he occupied the chair for diseases of women and abdominal surgery. He also served as Dean of the same institu- tion. It was to Dr. Reed's initiative that the first Pan-American Medical Congress, which was held in Washington under the auspices of the United States Government in 1893, became a reality. Dr. Reed was the Secretary-General of that body. He acted as Chairman of the Section on Obstetrics and Gynecology. This congress was an association of representative physicians from all over the Western Hemisphere. Nineteen different countries and col- onies were represented in that body. The transactions of that congress were published by the United States Government in volumes embracing more than two thousand pages. In recognition of his services in connection with the congress, Dr. Reed was presented with a silver salver, duly inscribed, the presentation occurring after the adjournment of that learned body. In January, 1905, Dr. Reed was honored by President Roosevelt, who
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appointed him a member of a commission to ascertain the value of certain lands in the Pan- ama Canal zone. Dr. Reed's offices are located in Groton Building, corner Seventh and Race Streets, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Augustus Ravogli, M. D.,
A prominent physician and surgeon of Cincinnati, formerly Italian Vice Consul there, was born on the 7th of February, 1851, at Rome, Italy. He was thoroughly educated in the schools of his native country in the various branches of literature, and graduated from medical college on the 14th of August, 1873. His first professional service was as physician on board the steamship "Asia" for six months. He continued his studies at Rome, and after a brief preparation, entered a competitive examination for hospital honors at Rome, in which examination he received the highest rank in a class of eighteen. His next success was in a contest for a government prize of two years abroad, which time he employed in the careful study of skin diseases at Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Wurzburg, Munich and other cities. After his return to Rome he served as surgeon in the Government Hospital for five years and as Assistant Professor of Skin Diseases at the university there. In Decem- ber, 1880, Dr. Ravogli decided to seek a wider field for his work and came to America, reach- ing the city of New York on New Year's Day, 1881. He came immediately to Cincinnati. The Doctor makes a specialty of diseases of the skin, and is recognized as an authority in AUGUSTUS RAVOGLI, M. D. this branch of his profession. Qualified by experience, education and careful scientific study of this particular line, he has won dis- tinction in his adopted city and is widely known in other sections of the country. For some years he was clinical lecturer on this subject at the Miami Medical College, and for five years past has been professor of this branch of medical science at the Cincinnati Col- lege of Medicine and Surgery. In 1896 he was appointed to the Chair of Dermatology and Syphilology in the Medical College of Ohio. He published in 1888 a book on hygiene of the skin. Dr. Ravogli is a valued contributor to the various medical journals, and belongs to the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical Society, the American Med- ical Association, the Executive Committee of the American Medical Congress, the American Society of Dermatology, the French Society of Dermatology at Paris, and the Italian Society of Dermatology at Rome. Dr. Ravogli attended the International Medical Congress, which met at Madrid in 1903, and was elected President of the Department of Dermatology. In March, 1878, Dr. Ravogli was united in marriage to Julia Schindelin, of Vienna, Austria. Fraternally, he is a thirty-second-degree Mason. He is a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners and Registers. For a period of seventeen years he represented Italy
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as Vice Consul at Cincinnati, but upon the death of King Humbert he resigned. His splendid services had been recognized by that King by conferring knighthood upon Dr. Ravogli.
Howard Ayers,
From 1899 to 1904 President of the Uni- versity of Cincinnati, was born in 1861 in Olympia, Washington Territory. While he was still an infant his father, a hardware mer- chant, moved from Olympia to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, where young Ayers received his primary and secondary education in the com- mon schools and High School of that city. His father sent him to Michigan University, where he took a scientific course, and devel- oped a strong taste for biology and kindred subjects. He left Ann Arbor after three years' stay and went to Harvard, where he found better opportunities for biological study. He was graduated from Harvard in 1883 with the degree of Bachelor of Science, and with the highest honors of his class. While at Harvard he won the first Walker prize, offered by the Boston Society of Natural History, and open to contestants from all parts of the world, for HOWARD AYERS the best scientific memoir. After receiving his degree he went abroad and studied for two years at the Universities of Heidelberg, Strass- burg and Freiberg. At Freiberg he obtained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy magna cum laude. Subsequently he pursued his studies and work of original research at the Marine Zoological Station of Vienna University at Trieste, and at the Station Maritime of the University of Paris at Banyal-sur-Mer, France, and attended lectures at the College de France and Sarbonne. On his return to the United States he became instructor in biology at the University of Michigan for one year. The next year he was called to Harvard, where he taught for two years, both in the University proper and in Radcliffe College. In 1889 he was appointed director of the Allis Lake Laboratory of Biology at Milwaukee, succeeding C. O. Whitman, now the head of the department of biology in Chicago University. He remained for four years at the head of the Lake Laboratory, an institution founded by Mr. Allis, a wealthy gentleman of Milwaukee, for original biological research. Mr. Allis then transferred his laboratory work to Menton, and invited Dr. Ayers to take charge of it. The offer was declined. In the fall of 1893 Dr. Ayers was called to take the chair of biology in the University of Missouri, at Columbia, Missouri, an institution with some sixty mem- bers of the faculty and about eleven hundred students. He reorganized the Department of Biology, and has made it one of the prominently successful departments of the University. Since his graduation at Harvard, Dr. Ayers has published many memoirs on biological and kindred subjects, in English, German and French. He is an active member of the leading scientific societies of the country and of many in Europe. For many years he has been in charge of biological research at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Wood's Hall,
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