Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 16

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
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William H. Baldwin, M. D., was born in Champaign County, Ohio, January 16, 1810, and settled in Findlay, Ohio, in the fall of 1832. Having studied and attended lectures at Cincinnati, he entered the medical pro- fession in early life and rose to a very re- spectable rank as a physician. His high reputation and success gained him a very large practice, which extended into adjoin- ing counties, as well as all over the one in which he lived. His extensive practice necessitated long and frequent rides, and those who enjoy the advantage and im- provements of the present day know but little of what those rides involved. There were but few well beaten roads and scarcely any bridges, streams had to be forded, swamps and marshes had to be crossed and large tracts of country often under water had to be traveled; but distance, difficulties and ceaseless labors, neither discouraged nor checked this faithful physician in his un- tiring efforts to release the afflicted, honor his profession, and supply the wants of those dependent upon him for support. Dr. Bald- win was married April 18, 1835, to Mary J. Patterson, who was born July 13, 1817, in Harrison County, Ohio, daughter of John Patterson, who came to Findlay in 1834. In all the relations of life Dr. Baldwin was considerate, respectful, just and honorable

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and enjoyed the highest esteem of all the people, but hard and indefatigable labors at last produced their effects; the vigorous constitution was impaired, and he who had been the embodiment of health, and had so successfully practiced the healing art upon others, became prematurely old and ` feeble, and so continued during the few years before his death, which occurred De- cember 14, 1868.

William D. Carlin, M. D., was born at Mau- mee City, April 27, 1822. His parents had settled here previous to the War of 1812. Dr. Carlin was the son of Squire Carlin, a pioneer of Hancok County of the year 1826. He was but four years of age when his parents settled in Findlay, where he grew to manhood, obtain- ing such education as the limited facilities of a frontier village could furnish. Before he was twenty years old he began the study of medi- cine with Dr. Bass Rawson, the pioneer physi- cian of the county. In March, 1843, one month before he was twenty-one years of age, he graduated with honors from the Cincinnati Medical College. After his graduation Dr. Carlin began the practice of his profession in Findlay and continued actively engaged until 1846, when he was made surgeon of the Fif- teenth United States Regular Infantry and went with his command to Mexico as that country and the United States were at war. He was the youngest surgeon in the American army. He served with distinction during the struggle and achieved a high reputation both as a soldier and surgeon. After his return from the war Dr. Carlin resumed the practice of his profession in Findlay. March 6, 1845, he was married to Harriet E. H. Rawson, daughter of Dr. Base Rawson, his medical preceptor. Three children were the fruit of this union-Dr. Cass

R. Carlin, ex-Senator William L. Carlin and Mrs. Sarah A. Dondore. Of the three, only one-William L .- is now living. In 1849, on the discovery of gold in California, Dr. Carlin made a trip to the new gold fields in company with his father, brother and others. The party crossed the great plains and the Rocky Moun- tains. On his return to Ohio he made a sec- ond trip to the gold region, going and return- ing by the sea and the Isthmus of Panama. In the spring of 1862 he was appointed chief sur- geon of the Fifty-seventh Ohio Volunteer In- fantry, for service in the civil war. His expe- rience in the Mexican war had given him a reputation as an army surgeon, and this fact was recognized by the government in making the appointment. Dr. Carlin did splendid serv- ice in his regiment and was the means of pre- venting much suffering and many hardships. He died in the service for his country at Milli- ken's Bend, Tenn., December 26, 1862, four months before reaching his forty-first year. He had led an active and useful life. Dr. Carlin was a man of kind and generous impulses and was held in high esteem by his fellow citizens. He was enterprising and public spirited and ever ready to do what he could to advance the in- terests of the town and county. He was held in great respect by the members of the medical profession, who depended largely upon him for advice and counsel. At the time he entered for service in the Civil War he had a large and lucrative practice in the town and county. He was the grandfather of Rawson K. Carlin, present police judge of Findlay.

Anson Hurd, M. D., was born in Twins- burg, Summit County, Ohio, December 27, 1824. His parents Robert and Mary (Brain- erd) Hurd hailed from Connecticut and came from families whose names were connected

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with the early settlement of that State. In 1839 his profession. Dr. Hurd contributed to vari- Robert removed from Twinsburg, Ohio, to this ous medical journals in the way of some very fine articles and held offices of trust in the medical world. He was a liberal supporter of measures tending toward the growth of the community. county and for many years was a prominent leader in the development of Hancock County, laying out and platting the town of Arlington in 1844. He died in 1860, at the age of sev- enty-six, leaving a large family, who at present Lorenzo Firmin, M. D., was born March 31, 1809, in South Wilbraham, Mass., son of John Firmin. When quite young he learned the trade of shoemaking with his father, with whom he was connected in the east till 1834, when he came west to Richfield, Summit County, Ohio, and entered into partnership with Dr. Secretary Rawson, in a tannery, which he continued in until 1841, when he sold out to O. M. Oviatt, of Richfield. In 1841 he came to Findlay, Ohio, read medicine with Dr. Bass Rawson and graduated in the profession. He practiced at Benton, this county, till 1847, when he returned to Findlay, where he thought an opening existed, owing to the fact that sev- eral physicians from Findlay were holding po- sitions in the army during the Mexican war. He was married June 28, 1838, to Clara H., daughter of Dr. Secretary Rawson. They had no children. Dr. Firmin continued his profes- sion in this place until his retirement in 1877, after which he gave his attention to his private business matters, which were many and impor- tant. His first wife having died in 1891, he was again married in 1894, his second wife being Miss Mary B. Humphrey, a native of Findlay. His death, which occurred on Octo- ber 12, 1901, was received with profound grief by the community where he so long had been a resident and a very efficient promoter of the interests of the city and county. is scattered considerably over the country. Our subject came with his brother Jared, to this county, and at Arlington cleared the land and built the cabin occupied by their father on his arrival. At the age of twenty he returned to Twinsburg where he remained for three years under the instruction of the Rev. Samuel Bis- sell, D. D., president of Twinsburg Institute. He then taught school in Pike County, where, becoming acquainted with the Hon. J. L. Van Meter, of that county, he obtained a scholar- ship in Delaware College. After spending three years in that institution he engaged in the study of medicine with Dr. William Blackstone of Athens, and after a year, repaired to Co- lumbus and read in the office of Prof. Samuel M. Smith, graduating from Starling Medical College in March, 1852. He then located in Oxford, Ind., where he practiced his profession for many years. In 1861 he represented the counties of White and Benton in the legislature of that State. Soon after the attack on Fort Sumter he was invited by Governor Morton, of Indiana, to accept the Post of Assistant Sur- geon of the Twentieth Indiana Volunteer In- fantry, which he accepted, serving through the first campaign to Hatteras. Returning to Fort- ress Monroe, he resigned his commission in the Twentieth and accepted that of surgeon of the Fourteenth, and served in all the battles of the Campaign of 1862. In January, 1863, he re- William D. Detwiler, M. D., was born in Mifflin County, Penn., August 23, 1832. He learned the trade of plastering with his father, signed his commission, and in April moved to Findlay, where he engaged in the practice of

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and in 1851 came west and located in Findlay of Drs. Oesterlin & Detwiler and in his where he carried on his trade for some time. He twenty-second year graduated from the Cleveland Homeopathic Hospital College, class of 1873. He immediately began the practice of his profession in Findlay and has been successfully connected with it since introducing in 1880 his valuable medi- cal baths. He married in 1874, Mary J., daughter of Conrad and Christiana Rennin- ger, pioneers of Liberty Township, this county, and they have one son Joseph C. The doctor is a public spirited citizen and contributes liberally to the advancement of Hancock County's interests. He is a worthy Odd Fellow, a member of the Legion of Honor, has served as coroner of the county three terms and had been an active member of the board of education of Findlay. He owns and operates a large sanitarium where patients can go and receive the best care and treatment on very liberal terms. subsequently moved to Illinois, and, on return- ing from there in 1859 entered the office of Dr. Oesterlin, where he prosecuted the study of medicine. On the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, our subject left his worthy preceptor's office and enlisted his service in de- fense of the Union. Three years of his time, however, were devoted to service as hospital steward, and upon the close of the war he re- turned to his medical studies, graduating from the Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleve- land, Ohio, in 1867. Dr. Detwiler located in Findlay and for ten years was prominently identified with the profession of medicine in this portion of the State. His death occurred April 30, 1877. He was at that time president of the Ohio State Homeopathic Medical So- ciety, and also president of the Alumni Asso- ciation of Cleveland College. The Masonic, Odd Fellows, and Knights of Pythias societies, the Findlay Guards, and ex-soldiers all took part in the funeral ceremonies in his memory. Dr. Detwiler was an ardent Sabbath school and church worker, and was an acknowledged leader in all interests he sought to serve.

Tobias G. Barnhill, M. D., of Findlay, was born in Wayne County, Ohio, May 5, 1851, son of Joseph and Sarah (Frank- hauser) Barnhill, the former a native of that county and of Pennsylvania pioneer ances- try, the latter born in Pickway County, Ohio. In 1853 they moved to this county and settled in Liberty Township, where they reared four sons and three daughters. Our subject who is the third child, received a good common school education and at seventeen engaged in teaching. At eighteen he began the study of medicine in the office

Franklin Wayne Entrikin, M. D., was born in Chester County, Pa., July 27, 1830. He was the son of Emmor and Susannah Bennett Entrikin, of pioneer English Quaker ancestry in that state. In 1832 Emmor Entrikin moved to Columbiana County, Ohio, where he reared a family of five sons and one daughter in the Quaker faith. Franklin W. received a good literary training and at seventeen entered the Quaker academy at Salem. After complet- ing a thorough literary and scientific course there he engaged in the study of dentistry, in which profession he spent a few years. He, however, continued to read medicine and graduated from the Ohio Medical Col- lege of Cincinnati. In 1855 he came to Findlay, where he spent most of his time since in professional practice until his death.

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He, however, had spent some considerable Mary L. D., daughter of John A. Meeks, a pioneer minister of the Presbyterian Church. The doctor is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Association and of the North- western Ohio Medical Association. July 15, 1863, he enlisted in Company E One time in public lecturing on his profession, and for three years held the chair of gynecolgy in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, Medical College. He has also contributed writings to many leading medical journals. He was a member of the Northwestern Ohio Medi- cal Association and Cleveland Microscopi -. Hundred and Twenty-ninth Ohio Volunteer cal Society. He has had charge of the sani- Infantry and after serving his country for eight months was honorably discharged. He holds high rank in his profession as a liberal contributor to all measures tending to the development of the social and industrial life of this locality. tariums in Cleveland and Green Springs. He served in the capacity of professor of gynecology in the Toledo Medical college in 1885 and delivered a full course of lec- tures in that institution in 1885 and 1886. The doctor married in October, 1851, Sarah Joseph Parker Baker, M. D., was born in Perry Township, Wood County, Ohio, on the 9th of June, 1864. He was graduated at the Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, in 1890; attended a course in the Poly- clinic, New York, in 1894, and also a course at the Post Graduate, New York, in 1897. He is at present president of the Board of Health of Findlay, Ohio. Ann, daughter of Thomas Lyon of Deer- field, Portage County, Ohio, and by her he had three sons: Emmor L., a leading jeweler in this city; Leonidas A., also a jeweler; and Franklin B., a prominent young physican who is rapidly following in his father's foot-steps in his chosen profession. Our subject was a hard-working painstak- ing physican and was as much a student in his later days as he was when young.

Francis W. Firmin, M. D., was born in Richfield, Summit County, Ohio, July 15, 1842, and is a descendant of pioneers of that name in Massachusetts who came to our shores in 1630 in the fleet with Governor Winthrop. Our subject is a son of Francis B. and Mary (Chapin) Firmin. He received a good education in Wilbraham, Mass., and at Oberlin, Ohio. In 1862 he came to Ohio and engaged in the study of Medicine with his uncle, Lorenzo Firmin, and in 1867 grad- uated from the Cleveland Medical College. He located in Findlay, this county, and has been a very creditable professional worker here ever since. He married here 1869

Don B. Biggs, M. D., was born at Arcada, Hancock County, Ohio, June 16, 1873. He was graduated from the High School at De Graff, Ohio; was three years at Dela- ware College, one year at the Ada Phar- macal School, three years at Somisville Medical College and graduated at Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio. He is an ex-coroner of Hancock County and a member of the Northwestern Ohio State and National Medical Societies.

John Charles Fremont Martin, M. D., was born at Covington, Miami County, Ohio, on November 10th, 1856, and was graduated at the Covington High School. He attended and was graduated from the Jefferson Medi- cal College of Philadelphia, March 18th,

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1881. He was an interne at the St. Mary's Hospital for two years. During 1883 and 1884 he was contract surgeon in the United States Army and was stationed at Ft. Keogh. During the Spanish-American war he served as Brigade Surgeon with the rank of Major. He is a graduate of the post- graduate course of London, England, and has practiced'in Findlay since 1886.

Herbert Vinton Beardsley, M. D., was born in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, August 30, 1859. He received his literary education in the city schools and at the Oberlin College. He was graduated from the Cleveland Academy of Medicine in 1883 and practiced his profession for sixteen months at Ada, Ohio. He then removed to Findlay, where he has been in continued practice ever since. While an active poli- tician, as every American citizen should be, he has never aspired for office, but served as member of the board of education for six years and is at the present time a member of the city council. He is identified with many fraternal societies and is the medical examiner of many insurance companies.

William M. Yost, M. D., was born in Thorn- ville, Perry County, Ohio, April 14, 1835. He moved with his parents to Licking County, Ohio, April Ist, 1846, where he worked on the farm and attended the district school. He taught school from 1853 in winter and at- tended the Somerset Collegiate Institute in summer till 1860 when he was hired to super- intend and teach the schools of Hebora, Lick- ing County, Ohio, and then remained until July, 1862. He then enlisted as a private in Company "B,", 113th Reg. O. V. I., was pro- moted to the post of hospital steward and served in that capacity until the close of the

war. He was mustered out July 15, 1865. After the war, in September, 1865, he entered Miami Medical College, at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he graduated March 15, 1868. He married Miss Rebecca A. Stewart of Jacksontown, Licking County, Ohio, May 26, 1868. Five children were born to them: Minnie L., Margaret J., Gertrude, Charles C., and Clarence C. Dr. Yost first practiced his profession in Houck- town, where he remained until May, 1876. He then moved to Mt. Blanchard, where he contin- ued to practice until November, 1892, when he moved to Findlay, Ohio. He served on the school board continuously during his residence in Mt. Blanchard, Ohio. Dr. Yost served on the U. S. Pension Board of Examining Sur- geons from 1884 to 1889 and from 1892 to 1897. He is still in practice at Findlay, Ohio.

A. W. Balsley, M. D., ex-coroner of Han- cock County, was born November 14, 1872, and is a graduate of the Findlay High School, class of 1892, and of the University of Michi- gan (1899) and has practiced in Findlay for the last ten years. He is a member of the Han- cock County, Ohio, State and American Medi- cal Associations.

John M. Firmin, M. D., was born in Find- lay, Ohio, October 31, 1872. He is a graduate of Findlay High School and Oberlin College (1894) and Master of Arts, 1897. He grad- uated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, at Cleveland, Ohio, March 17, 1897; took the Post Graduate course at Bellevue Hospital in 1900. He has practiced in Find- lay since his graduation.

Franklin B. Entrikin, M. D., was born in Findlay, Ohio, August 21, 1871. He attended the Findlay High School and Ohio State Uni- versity, and was graduated from Ohio Medical

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College at Cincinnati, in 1894, and subse- quently practiced his profession in Findlay un- til his death, which occurred in Cincinnati, March 17, 1910. He was a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the U. S. A., with a rank of Major of Medical Corps, Ohio National Guard; also a member of the Hancock County, Northwestern Ohio State, and National Association.

W. S. Van Horn, M. D., was born in Han- cock County, Ohio, June 13, 1853. He at- tended the public school and was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincin- nati, in 1883. He commenced the practice of medicine in Mt. Blanchard, where he remained for five years when he removed to Findlay, where he has remained until the present time. He is a member of the Northwestern Ohio Eclectic Medical as well as the State and Na- tional Association.

Allison M. Van Horn, M. D., was born in York County, Pa., July 31, 1882. He is a graduate of Findlay High School (May, 1900) and of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincin- nati (1905). He has been engaged in the practice of medicine for over four years. He is a member of the Northwestern Ohio Eclectic and State Eclectic societies.

J. M. Guise, M. D., born in Findlay. Chio, September 2, 1853. He was educated in the common and high schools and graduated from the Ohio Medical College of Cincinnati in 1887; has held the position of county physi- cian, and has practiced in Findlay from the time of his graduation to the present writing.

Albert H. Linaweaver, M. D .. was born in Springfield, Ohio, January 1, 1856. He at- tended the common and select schools and stu- died three years at Whittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio. He was graduated in medi-

cine at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons, Chicago, Ill., April 21, 1896, and took a post graduate course in the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College in Chicago in 1899. He has practiced in Findlay since graduating.

R. B. Keeran, M. D., was born in Sandusky County, Ohio, on February 20th, 1853. Took the Common School education of the day and graduated at the Eclectic Medical Institute in Cincinnati in 1876. Practiced in Marshall, Ill., for ten years and since 1886 to the present time in Findlay, Ohio. He is a member of the district and State Eclectic Medical societies.

P. O. Guise, M. D., was born in Findlay, Ohio, August 18, 1851. Educated in the com- mon and high schools of Findlay and gradu- ated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1882 and has practiced continuously in Findlay ever since his graduation. He has held the office of town- ship clerk for four years and of township treas- urer for two terms.

J. E. Powell, M. D., was born in Eagle Township, Hancock County, Ohio, on April 15, 1861. The day the first gun of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter. He was grad- uated at the College of Physicians and Sur- geons at Baltimore, class of 1890; has prac- ticed in Findlay since his graduation and has served Hancock County as coroner.

Mrs. Cornelius B. Kennedy, M. D., was born in Van Wert, Ohio, June 20, 1862. She was educated in the common school and high school of Warsaw, Indiana, and graduated in medi- cine from the Toledo Medical College, March 31, 1896. She served three terms as secretary of the Hancock County Medical Society of which she is an active member, as well as a member of the Northwestern, Ohio and Ohio State societies.

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Earl J. Thomas, M. D., was born in Biglick of U. S. Examining Board of Pensions for Township, Hancock County, Ohio, October 7, eight years, twice president of the Hancock County Medical Society and member of the Hancock County State and National Associa- tions and Physician to the Infirmary. He has practiced at West Independence, Arcadia, Fos- tori, Alvada and Findlay, Ohio. 1882. He is a graduate of the Findlay High School and attended one year at the Ohio State University of Columbus. He is a medical grad- uate of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, class of 1905. After serving a year as interne in the Ann Arbor Hospital he located in Findlay, Ohio, for the practice of his profession.

O. H. Saunders, M. D., was born in Benton Ridge, Hancock County, Ohio, March 22, 1864. He was graduated from the Ohio Med- ical College of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1891. He is a member fo the Hancok County, State, and National Medical Association, and is clerk of the Board of Education.

M. M. Crothers, M. D., was born in Craw- ford County, Ohio, on February 8, 1845. He attended the common and high schools and read medicine in the office of A. E. Jenner, a descendant of the famous Dr. Jenner, the dis- cover of vaccination. Dr. Crothers gradu- ated from the Medical Department of Wooster at Cleveland, Ohio, February 28, 1872, and practiced at Sulphur Springs, the succeeding sixteen years, when he removed to Findlay, Ohio. He has been a member and president of the city council and an ex-member of the State Legislature.

Milton S. Williamson, M. D., was born in Seneca County, Ohio, on December 19, 1850. and was educated in the common and high schools of Findlay, Ohio, after which he at- tended Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio. He attended and is a graduate of the Medical De- partment of the University of Wooster at Cleveland, Ohio, in the class of 1874; also took a post graduate course at Rush Medical Col- lege of Chicago, Ill., in 1882; was a member

Huron S. Wilson, M. D., was born at Van- lue, Ohio, December 6, 1856. He was edu- cated in the common schools, attended Star- ling Medical College at Columbus, Ohio, and graduated at the Kentucky School of Medi- cine, Louisville, Ky., in the class of 1885. He practiced his profession at Vanlue, Alvada, McKutchensville and Findlay, Ohio. Ex-cor- oner of Hancock County, member of Hancock County, Northwestern, Ohio and State Medi- cal societies.

J. W. Zophi, M. D., was born in Jefferson- ville, Sullivan County, New York, April 12, 1859. He attended the common and high schools and was a student at and graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, N. Y., in the class of 1889, after which he served a term as interne in the Buffalo Hos- pital.

N. R. McLachlin, M. D., was born Novem- ber 26, 1859, in Middlesex County, Ontario. He attended the common schools and was grad- uated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1878. He practiced in Cass City, Tuscola County, Mich., for eleven years, mov- ing to Findlay, Ohio, in 1889. Dr. McLachlin is a member of the Board of U. S. Pension Examiners and of the Hancock County, North- western Ohio, State and National Medical so- cieties. He is also an ex-coroner of Tuscola County, Mich.

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Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 16

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1189

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1189