Scioto County, Ohio - Chapter 4, 1903 (part 2 of 2)

Miami Medical College and graduated there in 1868, and began the practice of medicine at Powellsville, Scioto County, Ohio, in the spring of 1868, and remained there until the fall of 1871, when he went to Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, and graduated there in the spring of 1872. He then located in Greenup Kentucky, and remained there till 1893, when he removed to the city of Portsmouth, where he has resided ever since. He is eminently successful in his profession. He was a Pension Examining Surgeon in Greenup for ten years and in Portsmouth for four years. He was married March 22, 1865, to Emma E. Woodrow, daughter of William G. Woodrow of Greenup County, Kentucky. He has the following children: Howard, now a physician in Portsmouth; Margaret; Ernest Moxley, a physician in Ashland, Kentucky, and William $., a pharmacist. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1873, and he is an elder in the Second Presbyterian Church of Portsmouth, Ohio. He is and always has been a Republican. Gustavus Adolphus Sulzer

The subject of this sketch was the eldest of the five children, - four sons and a daughter, - of Gustav W. F. Sulzer and Christiana L. Sulzer, nee Sulzer, and was born in Philadelphia, January 11, 1869. His father was born in Strassburg, Germany, in 1847, and emigrated to the United States in 1866, locating at Philadelphia. His mother was born at Bristol, Pennsylvania, of German parents, October 22, 1850, and was united in marriage to Gustav W. F. Sulzer, in March, 1868. 'The early education of our subject was obtained in the public schools of Philadelphia, in the grades below the High School. On completion of the last grade of the Grammar department, he entered the Spring Garden Institute (Polytechnic College) with a view to becoming a mechanical engineer. He was graduated in 1886, after three years of study, with the highest honors and the college gold medal. He then took up the study of practical mechanics at the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. After a few months he was offered the position of draughtsman and superintendent of construction by the Keystone Engine Works, of Philadelphia. He accepted and immediately entered upon his duties but after a few months he resigned the position and took up the interests of his father, who was engaged in the manufacture of plumbers' supplies. Here he served in numerous capacities until 1889. From 1884 until 1887 he attended special lectures on technical subjects in the various institutions of the city devoted to scientific study and research among which are, Wagner Institute, the Academy of Natural Sciences and Franklin Institute. He matriculated in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1889 and was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1892. While a student he was a member of the Guiteras Medical Society. After graduation, he took up the study of the eye, ear, nose and throat at the Pennsylvania Hospital and shortly entered private practice in general medicine, still continuing his special work. He became Assistant, by appointment, at the Fye Clinic of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1893, and served till 1898, with an intermission of six months, when he was appointed resident physician and instructor in Physical Science in the Williamson Mechanical School in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. After returning from his service at, the latter institution, he received the following appointments: Assistant at the Wills Eye Hospital, Ophthalmologist to the Charity Hospital and Assistant to the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, all, institutions situated in Philadelphia. In 1897, he began to concentrate his studies to the eye with the intention of making the practise of ophthalmology his life work.

Thoroughly equipped by comprehensive study and wide experience for the responsible profession he chose to exercise, he came to Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1898, and opened an office in the Damarin Building. He has since removed to East Second street.

He was elected to membership in the American Medical Association in 1899, and in the Hempstead Memorial Academy of Medicine the same year. He was the delegate of the latter body to the annual session of the former at Columbus, Ohio, in 1899, and again the following year, at its session held at Atlantic City, New Jersey. The desire of the Scioto County Board of Pension Examining Surgeons for a special expert examiner for the eye, ear, nose and throat, led to the appointment of Dr. Sulzer to that position, in May, Igoo, by the Commissioner of Pensions.

He was united in marriage to Mabel Edna Munshower, daughter of Nathan and Jeanette (Hopkins) Munshower of Columbus, Ohio, June 4, 1900. They have one child, a daughter, Christine Jeanette, born April 15, 1901.

Although but recently a citizen of Portsmouth, Dr. Sulzer has nevertheless attained an enviable position for strict integrity and honest endeavor. His work among his patients is most painstaking and thorough. No minute detail is omitted nor is any part of the work overlooked that would in any way contribute to the success of the undertaking or the benefit of his patient. Having had a most liberal and extensive training in the great medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, he is well qualified for his position. His social relations are of the most pleasing character and his intercourse with his fellow practitioners is frank, cordial and courteous, which with his eminent success has well earned for him the confidence of all his professional colleagues. ; was born June 28, 1879, at Clifford, Ohio, the son of George H. Watkins and Lillie I. Glaze, his wife. His mother was the daughter of Jonathan Glaze, one of the pioneers of Scioto County, Ohio. His grandfather Watkins, was a soldier in the Civil War. He died and was buried at Alexandria, Virginia. Our subject's boyhood amd youth were spent at Clifford until he was six year of age, when his father removed to Wakefield, Pike County, where he attended the common schools and graduated from his Township High School in 1895. He taught school one year in Pike County. He took up the study of medicine with Doctor O. C. Andre of Wav erly. He entered the Ohio Medical University at Columbus in September, 1897, and was graduated in April, 1901. The last year of his course he served in the Protestant. Hospital in Columbus. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, in June, 1901, and has his office at 169 East Ninth street. He was married December 27, 1901, to Miss Dolly Dutton, daughter of Rasselas and Mary (Walton) Dutton of Columbus, Ohio. He is a Republican in his political views. He is a Mason and an Ek. Doctor Watkins has equipped himself well for his chosen work by study and clinical experience. He believes in and carries out the most modern ideas in his treatment. He gives his patients the benefit of the most recent methods. He has taken a course approved by his brethern in medicine and his attention to the duties of his profession indicates that his advancement therein will be rapid and sure.

The Profession Of Dentistry

In 1850, Dr. John W. Spry began as a dentist in Portsmouth and continued until bis death. On May 2, 1855, he was married to Miss Louisa Davey by Rev. B. H. Spahr. He died of consumption, February 21, 1868, aged 45 years. His widow still resides on Sixth street in Portsmouth, and his son, Allen Spry, is one of the mail carriers.

November 17, 1857, Dr. George W: Gibbs began the practise of dentistry in Portsmouth and continued it during his life. He died September 22, 1873, aged 53 years. He has been a resident of the city twenty-eight years. He was assessed as a physician in Portsmouth in 1848. He was married to Susan Gilbert, daughter of Giles Gilbert, May 4, 1851. They had three children, Jesse Gibhs, who died when a young man; Ed Gibbs, the postal clerk, and Mrs. W. B. Hudson, of Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Gibbs died August 138, 1887.

May 21, 1865, Dr. E. E. March located in Portsmouth. He remained in Portsmouth several years, and then went to Lawrence, Kan., where, on September 6, 1871, he killed his wife, aged 37; his daughter, aged 8, and himself, aged 34. He committed the two murders and suicide with a razor.

In 1874, Dr. C. H. Stephenson, who had been in Portsmouth two or three years, sold out to Dr. Charles P. Dennis. Dr. Stephenson removed to Ripley, QO. Dr. Dennis had located in Portsmouth, O., December 12, 1873.

In 1875, Dr. W. W. Moore advertised. He practised politics as well as dentistry. and liked polit'cs the best. He, however, soon tired of the field and returned to West Virginia. Dr. D. M. McBriar, of Columbus, was in Portsmouth at the same time.

was born April 8, 1833, near Batavia, in Clermont County, Ohio. His father, James Dennis, was a son of James Dennis, who came to Ohio from Pennsylvania and settled near Batavia. The wife of his grandfather, James Dennis, was Anna Murray, and her father served in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania. He was a native of Ireland. He was in the battle of Brandywine, and was wounded there. Dr. Dennis' mother's maiden name was Sarah A.

Parker, a daughter of Isaac and Anna Parker, his wife, both natives of New Jersey, who settled in Turkey Bottoms, Clermont County, and were of English descent. Doctor Dennis was reared on his father's farm, one and one-half miles from Williamsburg at what was called Tunnel's Mill in Clermont County, He attended the country schools and afterwards taught school for two years, and attended the Miami University between times while he taught. He was Principal of the Oxford Public Schools in 1861. Directly with- - in the next two or three days after the battle of Bull Run, he enlisted sixty-three men in the village of Oxford. With them he enlisted in Company "D", 47th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, July 10, 1861, as a private. He was made a Sergeant on the organization of the company, and was made First Sergeant, August 7th, 1861. He was appointed Sergeant Major October 20, 1861, was promoted to Second Lieutenant of Company ''D", December 21, 1861; to First Lieutenant of Company "B', December 15, 1862; transferred to Company "F'"' December 21, 1863; promoted to Captain November 6,

1864, but not mustered. He was mustered out November 18, 1864, by reason of the expiration of his term of service. He took part in all of the battles in which the 47th Ohio Volunteer Infantry participated. The ekarmishes in which he took part are not mentioned,

Dennis was wounded four times in the service: at Miller's Ferry in December, 1861; in a skirmish on New River with a minie ball in the left limb. In the assault on Vicksburg he was wounded on the 19th of May, 1862, with a buckshot, which traversed the front of his body from side to side. He had the finger ends of his right hand mangled with a minie ball at Kenesaw Mountain, on the 26th of June, 1864.

At the close of the war, he located in New Richmond. He studied dentistry from 1870 to 1873, and was graduated from the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati. In 1873, he located in Portsmouth on West Second street and practised his profession in one place for twenty-eight years, retiring from practice in 1901. He has always been a strong Republican. His father and he were antislavery men, and were familiar with that portion of the "underground railroad." He assisted many a slave to escape and is proud of the fact. He has been a Presbyterian for forty years. He was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Portsmouth until 1875, when he became one of the charter members in the organization of the ' Second church and was made an elder therein. He changed his membership back to the First church a few years later and has been an elder in that church for three years past.

He was married to.Sarah M. Lane, daughter of Herman and Isabel Lane, of Oxford, Ohio, December 12, 1861. 'They have one child, George James, a practising physician of Chicago. He is a graduate of the Portsmouth High School and of the Dental School of the University of- Michigan. He has also received the Medical Degree from the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati and from the Medical School of the Northwestern University at Chicago, Illinois. In June, 1902, our subject was appointed a member of the City Board of Review for the period of five years.

He is a good citizen from every point of view. He abhors and hates all that is dishonest and unfair. He is zealous and faithful in the discharge of every duty in every social relation.

was born in South Webster, Ohio, December 18, 1864, the son of Samuel and Affier (Allen) Jackson. His grandfather William Jackson has a separate sketch herein. When he was a child, his parents removed to Jackson County, Ohio, where his boyhood and youth were spent. He attended the public schools and two terms at Oak Hill Academy. He taught school three years in Jackson County and took a one year literary course at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. _He spent two years at the Ohio Dental College, at Cincinnati, Ohio. He completed his course March 6, 1895, and began practice in Portsmouth, Ohio. He is a Republican. He was - married December 25, 1896 to Haley M. Ervin, daughter of James and Mira Ervin. He has one child, Le Monne F.

was born at Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky, on February 10, 1875. His father's name is Caleb F., and his mother's maiden name was Henrietta Dixon. His grandfather Ruggles was a native of Massachusetts, who emigrated to Kentucky, but sent his son, the Doctor's father, to Harvard College where he graduated. The Doctor attended the University of Arkansas, at Fayetteville, in that state, for two years. He then attended the Northwestern University, at Chicago, and took up the study of dentistry. He was graduated as a Doctor of Dental Surgery, in June, 1896. He located in Ports-, mouth, Ohio, in the practice of his profession, July 1, 1896, forming a partnership -with Dr. Charles P. Dennis, as Dennis & Ruggles. This continued until January 1, 1901, when Dr. Dennis retired from practice and Dr. Ruggles continued alone, He is a member of the Delta Sigma Delta fraternity, and an Elk. In his religious views, he is a Presbyterian and is a member of the First Church of Portsmouth.

was born May 9, 1851, in New Richmond, Ohio. His father was Johnson Tremper and his mother's maiden name was Laura Jeffries. He was the fifth of his father's ten children. He attended the High School in New Richmond, also the Ohio University from 1868 until 1870. Then he commenced the study of dentistry under Doctor Mollyneaux of New Richmond and Doctor J. Taft of Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended the Ohio Dental College of Cincinnati and was graduated in 1872. He then located at Ypsilanti, Michigan, and was there until 1878. He came to Portsmouth, August 10, 1878, and began the practice of his profession in Portsmouth and has continued it ever since. -On December 6, 1880, he was married to Mary Todd Hayman, daughter of Hon. R. H. Hayman. His children are Richard Hayman, a student in the Portsmouth High School; Laura, a student of Oxford College for Women; William Johnson, a school boy; and Hugh Herrick. The -Doctor is a Presbyterian and a Republican. He is a member of the Elks and a Knight Templar Mason.

son of George Williamson and Eliza Catherine (Givens) Williamson, was born September 24, 1876, in Washington Township. His maternal grandfather was William Givens of near Buena Vista. In. addition to a common school education, he attended the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, in 1894 and 1895,-completing the sophomore year of the Scientific course. He at once began the study of dentistry and graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery at Cincinnati, in 1898. He worked at his profession at Cleveland, Ohio, from April till October, 1898, when he located in Portsmouth, Ohio. Here he has practised every since with excel- lent success. Doctor Williamson is a Republican, though not an active politician. He is a member of Bigelow M. E. church. He ts also a member of Aurora Lodge F. and A. M. and of the Elks.

was born in Nelsonville, Athens County, Ohio, August 7, 1876. His father was Silas Dew, a merchant, now at Athens. His mother's maiden name was Louise Smith. They had two children, our subject and a daughter. Young Dew went to the public schools at Nelsonville and graduated in 1889. In September, 1891, he entered the Ohio University and remained until June, 1894, when he entered the University of Medicine in Baltimore to study dentistry. He remained there one year and finished at the Ohio University at Columbus, graduating in April, 1902. He located in Portsmouth, Ohio, June 16, 1902, where he obtained an office in the Gilgen building on Chillicothe street. He is a Republican and a member of the Presbyterian Church. Here is what Gen. Charles H. Grosvenor says of him: "Mr. Dew is a young man noted for his fine development of athletic power; has won fame on the University grounds at Athens as a member of the O. U. base and foot ball teams. He is of good habits, gentlemanly and agreeable. No word of criticism was ever made against his character or conduct in his life here in Athens, or any where else, where he has been. He is of agreeable address, has ambition to excel in his profession, and is worthy of the esteem of the people where he is located."