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He first located for practice at Buffalo, New York, and in 1882 left a promising field in that city to locate in Winnipeg, at the request of an aged mother. In the same year he was appointed registrar of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba, and in 1883 he took the initiative in founding the Manitoba Medical College, which he was instrumental in establishing as a high standard among the educational institutions of the Dominion. The Doctor held the chair of physiology and histology for three years, and in 1886 he assumed the professorship of surgery. In this educational position and as an operator, he soon gained a wide reputation. He was also a member of the staff of the Winnipeg General Hospital, surgeon-inchief of the St. Boniface Hospital, and performed the major operations at the Brandon and Morden hospitals. During this period he was chosen first president of the Manitoba branch (pioneer) of the British Medical Association. In 1894, having been elected to the chair of surgery of the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, he prepared to leave the field in which he had attained such professional leadership. His departure was referred to by the press and the people as a "public calamity," and a farewell address from the faculty of the Manitoba Medical College speaks of him in these terms: "As professor of surgery you have not only commanded the admiration and regard of your associate professors, but also the veneration and loyal esteem of your students. Your operative work in hospital and private practice has challenged the keenest attention of the medical profession of this country and has reflected the highest honor on yourself and credit upon the medical profession of Canada."

In June, 1894, Dr. Ferguson assumed the chair of surgery at the Chicago Post-Graduate School, and he lias held the professorship continuously with professional ability and manly honor. In 1900 he was elected professor of clinical surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (University of Illinois), and still holds the position. He is also president and chief surgeon of the Chicago Hospital (in

He is ex-president of the Western Surgical and Gynecological Association, the Tri-State Medical Association and of the Chicago Medical Society, and also enjoys membership in the American Medical Association, British Medical Association, corresponding member of the Urological Society of France; member of the Chicago Gynecological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, Chicago Urological Society, Chicago Surgical Society, International Surgical Society, Military Tract Medical Association, American Surgical Association and American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ; Wayne County Medical Society (Detroit) and Michigan State Medical Society enrolled him as an honorary member. Dr. Ferguson's reputation has attracted the attention of the profession and people from ocean to ocean and from the Gulf of Mexico to within his native land on the north, and to many places within these confines he has been many times called in consultation and to operate.

Since coming to Chicago, Dr. Ferguson has both broadened and strengthened his Canadian reputation; in fact, such an authority as The American Journal of Surgery refers to him as "the most clean and clever operator on the western continent.'* There is hardly a major operation on the body which he has not repeatedly performed, while his work on hydatids of the liver has been the most extensive and notable of any man in America. He has also invented many valuable surgical instruments and originated several surgical procedures which are decided advances beyond the methods formerly in vogue. He is the author of many valuable papers on operative surgery, and in the course of his varied work has developed not only eminent skill and acquired deep learning, but has gathered the fine virtues of humanity. His last work is a book entitled "Modern Operation in Hernia," which is so well received that a second edition was called for in six months by the publishers. One of the latest honors to be bestowed upon him for his eminence in the science and art of surgery was the decoration of Commander of the Order of Christ, presented by the lately assassinated King Carlos of Portugal in the fall of 1906, soon after the meeting of the International Medical Congress at Lisbon. While there are a few chevaliers of this order in America, so far Dr. Ferguson is the only one to have received the higher title of Com-

In his fraternal and social relations he is a member of the St. Andrew's Society, the South Shore Country Club, the Press Club, the University Club and Scottish Rite Freemasonry, thirty-second degree.

The above sketch of Dr. Ferguson does not at all mention all the tokens of distinction tendered to him. It is worthy of notice that when the late Count Creighton of Omaha, Nebraska, donated a new college building for medical education. Dr. Ferguson was chosen to deliver the opening address of the Creighton Medical College. In 1903 he delivered the address on Surgery before the Canadian Medical Association, at London, Ontario. A similar honor was shown to him by the Minnesota State Medical Association in Minneapolis, where in 1904 he gave the oration on Surgery before that distinguished body.

The Doctor's wife, to whom he was married April 5, 1882, was formerly Sarah J. Thomas, and their children are Ivan H. and Alexander D. Ferguson.

pitals. He was born m Chicago, the son of JNathan and Helena (Fellhcimer) Eisendrath, and mastered the elementary branches by attending its public schools. In 1889 he completed his higher training in literatirre and the sciences by graduating from the famous Johns Hopkins University, of Baltimore, with the degree of A. B. He returned to Chicago and entered the Northwestern University Medical School, which, upon the completion of his course in 1 89 1, conferred upon him the degree of ]\I. D.

Upon competitive examination Dr. Eisendrath was appointed to an interneship in the Cook County Hospital, and for eighteen months between 1891 and 1893 received the benefit of the broad experience in medicine and surgery which attaches to the duties of this position, if conscientiously performed. Before entering the actual field of practice he studied in the famous European centers of learning and clinics for a period of two and a half years. He then returned to

Dr. Eisendrath is attending surgeon to the Cook County and the Michael Reese hospitals, and adjunct professor of surgery in the medical department of the University of Illinois (formerly the College of Physicians and Surgeons). His other professional connections are further indicated by his membership in the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society. He was married February 15, 1898, to Miss Maude Rosenbaum, and is the father of one child, Richard Rosenbaum Eisendrath. The Doctor's social side, apart from his pronounced domesticity, is illustrated by his identification with the Standard and the Illinois Athletic Clubs.

Dr. Eisendrath is the author of a large number of monographs upon surgical subjects. He is also the auiihor of two very popular medical text-books upon "Clinical Anatomy" and "Surgical Diagnosis."

connected with Rush Medical College and various hospitals of the city. He is a native of Shediac, New Brunswick, born on the 2 1 St of October, 1863, son of James and RosHn (Chapman) Webster. His paternal ancestors are Scottish and his maternal, English, although his mother's family has been established in Canada for more than a century.

Dr. Webster's early education was obtained at the Westmoreland County Gram.mar School of New Brunswick, his first collegiate course being pursued at Mount Allison University, also in that province of the Dominion, from which in 1882 he received the B. A. degree. He afterward went abroad and for a number of years took advanced and special courses at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, which honored him with M. B. and C. M. in 1888 and M. D. (gold medallist) in 1 89 1. In 1893 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, and from 1890 to 1896 practiced in that city, holding also the position of first assistant in the department of obstetrics and diseases of women in the University of Edinburgh. In 1897 Dr. Webster- located in Montreal, Canada, and during the two years of his practice in that city was also lecturer on gynecology at McGill University and assistant gynecologist in Royal Victoria Hospital.

Since 1899 Dr. Webster has been identified with professional work and education in Chicago, holding the following positions : Professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Medical College, now affiliated with the University of Chicago ; obstetrician and gynecologist to Presbyterian Hospital and Central Free Dispensary, and consulting gynecologist to Passavant and St. Anthony's hospitals. He is a member of the British Medical Association, Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. Royal Academy of Medical Science of Palermo (Italy), Italian Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, American Medical Association, American Gynecological Society (fellow), Chicago Medical Society and the Chicago Gynecological Society, and, as to non-professional organizations, he is identified with the University and Chicago Literary clubs. The Doctor is also well known as the author of various medical and scientific books, monographs and papers. He was married in 1899 to Miss Alice Kessler Lusk, daughter of the late Dr. William Lusk, of New York, and the children born to them are Janet Sophia, John Clarence, Jr., and William Lusk Webster. Dr. Webster resides at 27 Bellevue place, and his office in the business district of the city is at 100 State street.

west. He is of old Puritan stock, his progenitor coming over from old England and settling in New England in 1638. During the Revolution Nicholas Gilman was a member of the Continental Congress and was subsequently chosen a United States senator from New Hampshire, while John Taylor Gilman was governor of the Granite state for fourteen years during the last portion of the eighteenth and the first of the nineteenth century. Fisher Ames, a cousin of Dr. Gilman's grandmother, was also a member of the first Congress of the United States, his immediate ancestors settling at Exeter and Gilmanton, New Hampshire, in very early colonial days.

first of the family to leave New Hampshire for the new Northwest Territory, locating at Belore, a few miles -southwest of Marietta. He afterward removed to Kentucky, but not before the birth of John C. > Oilman, the father of John E.

John E. Oilman was born at Harrner, a suburb of Marietta, Ohio, on the 24th of July, 1841, and his father was not only a physician, but married a Miss Fay, of an old historic Massachusetts family, three daughters of whom married physicians. His uncle. Dr. Oeorge Oilman, was also for many years a leading member of the profession in Lexington, Kentucky, and his elder brother, previous to entering the ministry, practiced medicine for some time in Marietta. The tendency of John E. Oilman to adopt a medical career seemed to be inbred from all sides of the family.

When the boy was five years of age, the family removed to Westboro, Massachusetts, where he was educated and prepared for college, having in the meantime served an apprenticeship at piano making in Boston and obtained quite a knowledge of medicine and surgery. He had also become quite a musician, and, as his father died at about this time he turned his talents in this direction to practical account by teaching music for about three years. In 1861 he returned to Marietta and conducted a piano store, but continued his medical studies with his brother, and when he removed to Toledo to follow the same mercantile pursuit found a medical instructor in the person of Dr. Oeorge Hartwell. After thus employing three years of his time he embarked in several oil speculations in Marietta and then settled down in earnest to make a professional name for himself.

Contrary to the wishes and instruction of his father and his several instructors, the young man joined the school of homeopathy when its principles were in general disfavor, and often ridiculed by the "regulars." In 1867 he became a student at Hahnemann Medical College, which had been founded in Chicago seven years previously, and received his degree therefrom in the spring of 1871. He at once established himself in practice at the old Crosby Opera House, his abilities being quickly and substantially recognized. He was one of the originators of the art gallery which attracted so many to that . popular and fashionable resort, and Dr. Oilman shared materially in the benefits derived by the managers of the Opera House in this influx of wealth and culture. The great fire, however, swept away all his private possessions, and he was obliged, with thousands of his fellowcitizens, to re-establish himself in business and in life.

Dr. Oilman was the first physician in Chicago to offer his services to the Citizens' Relief Committee, and was appointed chairman of the medical department. In this capacity he organized the burnt territory into districts, appointed the physicians in charge, instituted the opening of hospitals and dispensaries, and attended personally to the relief of sufferers temporarily sheltered in three of the city churches until the management of the work could be assumed by the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, During, the following winter and spring, as secretary of that organization and physician of the Herrick Free Dispensary, he added to his laurels both as a physician and a man.

In 1882 Dr. Oilman was elected to the chair of physiology and sanitary science of Hahnemann Medical College, holding that professorship until 1888, when he was transferred to the chair of materia medica. Resigning the latter in 1902, he has since been emeritus professor. Both as private practitioner and public educator, therefore, for more than thirty-six years his reputation has been continually growing until it now places him in the front rank of homeopathic physicians in the west.

Dr. Oilman's contributions to medical literature have been many and valuable. He is also well known in general and art literature, being a clear and strong writer on current topics, and having been for some time, in company with Joseph Wright, editor of the Chicago Art Journal. It follows, as a matter of course, that his association with the medical societies of the school of which he is so distinguished a representative is both wide and intimate.

On July 26, i860. Dr. Oilman was married at Adrian, Michigan, to Miss Mary D. Johnson, of Westboro, Massachusetts. They have two children, William Tenney and Cora Edith May Oilman, the son also being a Chicago physician. The Doctor and his wife reside at the Kenwood Hotel, on the South Side. He is a member of the Chicago Press, the Palette and Chisel, Chicago Athletic and South Shore Country clubs, and a sociable, polished and companionable gentleman, as well as an eminent representative of his profession.

P pursued his subseciuent studies and has gained distinction in his profession against the obstacles interposed by that physical disability. Dr. Babcock is a graduate, with bachelor's and master's degrees, of Western Reserve University, graduated in medicine in 1878 from what was then the Chicago Medical College (now the medical department of Northwestern University) and the following year from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City. Three years were spent in professional study in Europe, and since 1883 he has practiced medicine in Chicago. As a specialist Dr. Babcock has devoted much of his practice to diseases of the heart and lungs. His professional connections have been extensive. Until September, 1891, he was attending physician in the chest department of the South Side Free Dispensary; from 1891 to 1905 was professor of clinical medicine and diseases of the chest in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Medical Department of the Illinois State University) ; has also been attending physician in Cook County Hospital, consulting physician to several local hospitals, and for a number of years professor of physical diagnosis in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School. He is a member of the National Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis and the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute; member of the Chicago University Club, the Chicago Medical Society, the Chicago Pathological Society, Association of American Physicians, American Climatological Society (at one time its president), American Medical Association, Illinois State Medical Society, corresponding member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, and the International Tuberculosis Institute, the National Congress of Physicians and Surgeons, and honorary member of the Colorado State Medical Society. He is author of numerous articles contributed to medical journals, and of "Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System," (D. Appleton & Co., 1903), and "Diseases of the Lungs," (D. Appleton & Co., 1907).

Dr. Babcock was born at Watertown, New York, July 26, 1851. His family is of New England Puritan stock. His" father, Robert Stanton Babcock, a native of Stonington, Connecticut, died in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he had been a merchant and banker. The mother, Emily Hall Babcock, who is still livinir, is a native of New York City. Among the direct ancestors who lived and gained reputation in Revolutionary days were Dr. Joshua liabcock and Col. Harry Babcock, both residents of Westerly, Rhode Island. On the mother's side also were men who fought in the RcNolution, as the records of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of Military Orders of Foreign Wars show. Dr. Babcock being a member of both of these societies. Robert Hall Babcock was taken by his parents to Kalamazoo, Michigan, when one year old, and in (liat town, which then had about five thousand people, he grew up, an accident depriving him of sight when he was thirteen. From September, 1864, to June, 1867, he was a pupil of the blind in Philadelphia, and the two years following in a preparatory school at Olivet, Michigan. In September, 1869, he entered Western Reserve College (then located at Hudson, Ohio, but since removed to Cleveland). Never a robust boy, his student life was several times interrupted by periods of ill health. The suggestions of two medical friends led him to the choice of a profession, in which his honors and attainments ha\'e been notable. Dr. Babcock is a Republican in politics, and a member of the Fourth Presbyterian church of Chicago. June 12, 1879, he married, at Montclair, New Jersey, Lizzie Clinton West. Her genealogy is noteworthy because it includes the name of George Soule of the Mayflower, and various other prominent personages connected with the early history of the American colonies. Dr. and Mrs. Babcock have two children : Eleanor Clinton Babcock, born in Chicago, December 31, 1888; and Robert Weston Babcock, born in Chicago, May 9, 1893.

few who have become so absorbed in it scientifically and as an instrument of immeasurable value in the progress of medicine as an exact science, that he is now concentrating all his abilities to the exposition and development of the phenomenon. The result is that he is attaining national repute in his specialty.

r)r. Eberhart is of ancient and noble German ancestry, being descended on the paternal side from a line of Wurtemberg kings who were in power from the twelfth to early in ihe nineteenth century.

The maternal forefathers were Scotch and EngHsh. The son of Isa Amend and MeHssa (Jacobs) Eberhart, he is a native of Benton Harbor, Michigan, where he was born on the 21st of April, 1870. Later the family removed further west and Noble was educated in the common branches b}^ attendance at the public schools of Iowa, Wisconsin and Ilhnois. He was also a student at the University of Illinois, Lombard University and Racine (Wis.) College, graduating from the last named institution at the age of eighteen, with the degree of B. S. In 1 89 1 Hedding College conferred M. S. upon him, and upon his graduation from Bennett College, Chicago, in 1894, he became an M. D. Later (1901), he graduated from the medical department of the University of Illinois.

After serving as an interne in Cook County Hospital Dr. Eberhart commenced general practice in Chicago, but gradually limited his work to special surgery. In 1901 he became greatly interested in the X-ray and finally relinquished all other work to specialize in this line. Prior to entering this field he had served for five years on the attending staff of the Cook County Hospital and for two years was attending surgeon at the Baptist Hospital. Eor three years he was in charge of the X-ray department of the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and is now professor and head of the department of electro-therapy and secretary of the faculty, Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery, as well as attending surgeon and director of the X-ray laboratory of the Frances Wihard Hospital.

Dr. Eberhart is a contributor to the standard medical periodicals, among his noteworthy papers being a series in the Medical Standard entitled "Practical X-Ray Therapy." He is also the author of a condensed guide to "X-Ray and High Frequency Technique," "Brief Guide to Vibratory Technique," a text-book issued in 1907, and of a series of three text-books on entomology and one on zoology. It should also be stated that he has been breveted captain for services in connection with Reed's Regiment, in the Spanish-American war.

The Doctor is a member of the Chicago and Illinois State Medical Societies, the American Medical Association and the American Association of Life Insurance Examining Surgeons, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, also an honorary Life Fellow of Society of Science, Letters and Arts of London, England. He is a Mason of high degree, being a member of Garden City Lodge No.

141, Oriental Consistory and Medinah Temple of Mystic Shrine. Dr. Eberhart's marriage to Miss Margaret Freeman occurred December 15, 1906, and their pleasant home is at No. 1139 Sheridan Road.

fully educated, both at home and abroad, and having the advantage of the best clinics of Europe and America, it is safe to say that there are few physicians and surgeons in the city who have been more faitli fully prepared for their professional work than Dr. Goldspohn. He was born in the township of Roxbury, Dane county, Wisconsin, on September 33, 185 1, and is the son of William and Fredericke (Kohlmann) Goldspohn, both of whom were natives of Germany, where they were educated, l)ut came to America before their marriage. His paternal grandfather was chief of police at Neu Strelitz, Mecklenburg, and was one of the few survivors of Napoleon's army in its memorable retreat from Moscow in 18 12. Very wisely his parents did not adopt the English language in their domestic circle, nor retain any of the German provincial dialects, but taught their children the proper German ("Hochdeutsch") as their mother tongue. This was of great value to Dr. Goldspohn while pursuing his literary and professional studies, especially while taking his post-graduate course of two and a half years in Germany. As the eldest child of a pioneer farmer, Albert's boyhood days were thoroughly schooled to industry. He cared little for games, but had a natural inclination for books and thorough intellectual investigation. This trait of conscientious thoroughness he carried with him through the district school, the village high school and his experience of two years as a drug clerk. It was while engaged in the latter capacity that he determined upon a collegiate course and the ultimate study of medicine. After completing his preliminary education he entered the Northwestern College at Naperville, Illinois, graduating in 1S75 from the Latin Scientific course, which carried with it the degree of Bachelor of Science. Since then his alma mater has conferred upon him the M. S. degree. The Doctor looks back to. his early college days with affectionate gratitude, which does not rest with mere sentiment, as is evident bv his donation of

Dr. Goldspohn at once entered Rush Medical College, Chicago, and after three years of faithful study, taking also the full winter and optional courses, he graduated with his medical degree in 1878. The succeeding eighteen months which he spent in the Cook County Hospital as an interne were of vast im.portance to his future, opening as they did a field of wide and vital experience. This was followed by six years of general country practice at Des Plaines, Illinois, after which he again evinced his ujifailing determination to develop his professional abilities to the utmost by going abroad for a post-graduate course at the famous German universities. For two and a half years he pursued his studies with characteristic method and energy at Heidelberg, Strassburg, Wurzburg, Halle and Berlin, chiefly devoting himself to pathology, bacteriology and general surgery, particularly to gynecology, in which specialty he has since acquired well merited distinction.

Thus strengthened by broad experience and a training under masters of world-wide fame, in October, 1887, Dr. Goldspohn began practice in Chicago, about six months later was appointed attending surgeon to the German Hospital, and in June, 1892, professor of gynecology in the Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, of the city, the latter an especially flattering recognition of his professional skill and originality. He is a member of the Chicago Medical, Medico-Legal and Gynecological Societies, Illinois State Medical Society, Mississippi A^'alley Medical Association, American Medical Association, American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the International Periodical Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The Doctor keeps in line with the best medical and scientific thought not only through his leading identification with such organizations but through a liberal subscription to current publications, especially those, both in German and English, which are devoted to the diseases of women and general surgery. He has himself been a valued contributor along these lines, having written about forty monographs upon these subjects and medical sociology. Outside of his professional field he is a member of the Evangelical Association, in religion, and a Republican in politics. But he is no politician, either political or medical, and has the utmost repugnance toward office seeking or office holding. Dr. Goldspohn's present wife, to whom he was married February ±s, 1903, was formerly Miss Rosene H. Crasser, and his home has long been at No. 517 Cleveland avenue.

any other of the special organs, for the very conclusive reason that blindness is the universal horror of mankind ; and any physician or surgeon who can cure, or even alleviate, a serious defect of sight is considered by the patient in the light of a benefactor who can never be sufficiently rewarded. The scientific and clinical literature of ophthalmology is therefore of widespread interest and value to the professional and layman alike. This fact, combined with his remarkable abilities as a praciiticner, his originality as an investigator and his distinctn^n as a writer has made Casey Albert Wood, M. D., C. M.. D. C. L., of Chicago, one of the most marked figures in the medical and surgical circles of America.

Dr. Wood is a native of Canada, born at Wellington, Ontario, on the 21st of November, 1856, son of Orrin Cottier and Louisa (Leggo) Wood. His father was a well known physician, a native of New York state, and a descendant of Epenetus Wood; the latter born in 1689, in Berkshire. England, emigrated to America and settled near Newburgh, New York, in 171 7. Samuel Wood, the great-grandfather, was an officer in the Continental army.

Dr. Wood received his education at tlie grammar school and collegiate institute located in Ottawa, Canada, graduating from the latter as prize-man in 1872. After a year's residence in a French school at Grenville, Ouel)ec, he began the study of medicine with his father, later entering the medical department of the University of Bishop's College. Montreal, and recei\ing clinical instiaiction in tlie Montreal General Hospital. After completing the course there he was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, and became a licentiate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec. For several years he practiced successfully in Montreal, most of the time holding the chairs of chemistry and patholog}^ in the University of Bishop's College. Pie then retired from general practice to make a specialty of ophthalmology and otology, spending several months at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and two years in Berhn, Vienna, Paris and London. In 1886 Doctor Wood was married to Emma, daughter of James Shearer, a prominent citizen of Montreal. -

Coming to Chicago, in 1889, Dr. Wood soon acquired a large practice, which has continually increased with the growth of his reputation. His prominent identification with hospital work is shown in that he has been ophthalmologist for two terms to the Cook County Hospital ; ophthalmic surgeon for four years to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital, and is now attending ophthalmologist to St. Luke's, Wesley, Passavant Memorial and the Post-Graduate Medical School Hospitals, as well as consulting ophthalmic surgeon to Cook County and St. Anthony's Hospitals. Since 1890 he has been professor of ophthalmology in the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, and in 1898 was appointed professor of clinical ophthalmology in the University of lUinois. In 1906 he resigned this position on receiving the appointment of head professor of ophthalmology in the medical faculty of Northwestern University. He was elected chairman of the ophthalmological section of the American Medical Association, in 1899, and in 1902 became president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society. In 1903 he was chosen vice-president of the Medico- Legal Society.

Dr. Wood is a member of the International Medical Congress, the, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Pan- American Medical Congress, "Die Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft," the Illinois and Chicago Medical Societies, the American Medical Association, the Chicago Neurological, Medico-Legal and Ophthalmological Societies, and is also a fellow of the American and Chicago x\cademies of Medicine. In addition to the offices in the various medical societies already mentioned, he has held the presidency of the American Academy of Medicine, and in 1905-6 was president of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology. He is also a member of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and of the Union League, University, Calumet and Caxton Clubs, of Chicago.

As a contributor to the science and literature of his specialty Dr. Wood has earned a reputation which is more than national. For many years he acted as editor-in-chief of the Annals of Ophthalmol- ogy, and now has charge of the department of Itahan hterature in Ophthahnology. He is also bne of the principal editors of the Ophthalmic Record. Among other journals with which he has been connected are the Chicago Medical Standard and the Anall de Oftaliuologia, City of Mexico. He wrote "Wayside Optics" for the Popular Science Monthly; a series of illustrated papers on the Eyes and Light-Sight of Printers for the Inland Printer, and since 1900 has contributed many other articles to scientific journals. Dr. Wood has edited the ophthalmic section of the Practical Medical Series, an annual review of medicine and surgery by prominent writers; has published "Lessons in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Diseases" and "The Toxic Amblyopias: Their Pathology and Treatment"; has translated numerous ophthalmological works from German, French and Italian writers, and has written chapters for the "Posey-Wright Text-Book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat," the "Hansell-Sweet Manual of Diseases of the Eye," the "Posey-Spillcr Treatise on the Neurology of the Eye," the "Randall and DeSchweinitz American Text-Book of Diseases of the Eye and Ear," "Hare's Therapeutics," and other publications of a similar nature. In conjunction with Dr. T. A. Woodruff he has written a book on "The Commoner Diseases of the Eye," which has passed through three editions. With the late Dr. Frank Buller, of Montreal, he was engaged for several years in collating statistics bearing on the ravages of wood alcohol on the American population. Several hundred cases of death and blindness were made the basis of a number of articles contributed, in 1904, to the Journal of the American Medical Association. The agitation attending these investigations contributed not a little to the passage of the Industrial Alcohol and the Pure Food bills by Congress, Dr. Wood, upon invitation, giving his testimony before a committee of the Plouse having the matter in charge. His original and most recent addition to our knowledge of comparative ophthalmology is contained in a monograph on the "Eyes and Eyesight of Birds," a zoological study mostly carried on in the gardens of the London Zoological Society, of which Dr. Wood is an active Fellow.

In 1903 the University of Bishop's College, his alma mater, conferred on him the honorary degree of D. C. L., for distinguished literary services. Tn 1905 he was granted by ^IcGill University the "ad

More recently (1908) he has completed a large work, entitled "A System of Ophthalmic Therapeutics," the only complete treatise of its kind in the English language.

and the confidence of his subordinates and the public. Since the date of his appointment on July i, 1906, Dr. Podstata has made a record fully in keeping with the high expectations entertained at the time. For a number of years Dr. Podstata has been known in the professional and public service in Chicago and the state. Of Austrian birth, born at Hohenbruck, April 24, 1870, son of Vaclav and Anna Koblizek Podstata, educated in the high school at Braunau and in the college at Chrudim, he arrived in America from his native land in 1889, and until 1892 was associate editor of the missionary paper Pravda, published in Chicago by Rev. E. A. Adams. He continued more or less his connection with this paper during the following years when he was engaged in his medical studies. He was graduated from the Chicago Homeopathic College in 1895, and in the same year took the interne examinations for Illinois State Hospital positions and was appointed to the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee. Receiving his appointment on June ist, in the following September he was promoted to the regular staff as assistant physician. He continued at Kankakee until October, 1899, when he received a leave of absence and entered upon post-graduate work in the University of Illinois. In May, 1900, he returned to Kankakee, and in February, 1902, was promoted to chief of the medical staff. A few months later he resigned and became physician in charge at Oakwood Sanitarium, a private institution in Geneva, Wisconsin. In June, 1903, on the recommendation of a number of persons engaged in the regeneration of the Cook County Institutions at Dunning, President Foreman of the county board appointed Dr. Podstata to the position of general superintendent of Cook County Institutions. A thorough reorganization at Dunning was a task requiring the highest degree of profes- sional skill and administrative ability. The impnnenients of service and methods and the erection of numerous ])uildings and additions have been so many that Dunning no longer has its former reputation as a plague spot on the civic body. The success that attended his work in Dunning brought his name at once to the attention of the trustees of the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane when Dr. Whitman resigned, and his appointment came as an honor thoroughly merited. Dr. Podstata is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, the American Medical Association, and the Illinois State Medical Society. He is Republican in politics. January 12, 1903, he married Miss Mary Graham Porter.

MacCracken, respectively of Scotch and English- American descent. During his business life the father was a merchant in that city, his death occurring in Spokane, Washington, in the }ear 1898, and the mother is still living in Allegheny.

Dr. MacCracken obtained his preliminary education in the public and high schools of his native city, and subsequently, for three years, was a student at the Western University of PennsyKania. He then dropped his studies for some four years, being then engaged in the wholesale dry goods business at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Although his systematic education had been thus interrupted, the Doctor had continued his readings along various lines, which gradually had centered in things medical and surgical. In 1884 he commenced the formal study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. L. II. Willard, of Pittsburg, and in the following year came to Chicago to enter the Hahnemann Medical College. Graduating from that institution in 1887, he has since been continuously engaged in the ])ractice of his profession in Chicago, and not only has acquired a high standing as a physician but as an educator, through his connection with the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He was professor of physiolog}- in 1892-95, of medical jurisprudence in 1895-97,. theory and practice, 1897-99, ^'^'^^ attending physician to the 4iospital in 1892-99. Outside the radius of Hahnemann College he has been attending physician to the Lakeside and Baptist Hospitals and lecturer on materia medica hi the Baptist Training School for Nurses. The Doctor has had a long, close and influential connection with the Royal Arcanum, which brisk and growing fraternity has drawn upon his professional skill for many years. In 1890 he was appointed a subordinate medical examiner for Chicago, which position he filled for fifteen years, and in 1905 became supervising medical examiner for Illinois, as a just promotion for his long, faithful and efficient service and his deep devotion to the interests of the order. Dr. MacCracken is president of the Royal Arcanum Medical Examiners' Association, and is a leader in the transactions and cooperative work of The American Institute of Homeopathy, Illinois Institute of Homeopathy, Clinical Society of Hahnemann College (of which he has been president), and the Chicago Homeopathic and Chicago Medical Societies.

Dr. MacCracken has been interested and periodically identified with military matters since his youth, his record in this line beginning in 1878, when he was captain of the cadet corps at the University of Pennsylvania. In his student years at that institution he received a. thorough military training, which has since been utilized at various times. He is prominent in Masonic work, being past high priest of Fairview Chapter, R. A. M., and captain of the drill corps of Montjoie Commandery, K. T. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he tendered his services to the government, and in 1899 was appointed superintendent of the work incident to the care of returned soldiers who entered the Chicago hospitals. His connection with organizations not already mentioned extends to the Royal League and the Iroquois and Kenwood clubs. It should also be mentioned that his Masonic record dates from his membership in Landmark Lodge No. 422. In politics the Doctor is a Republican, but has never meddled with politics except as a voter and an intelligent citizen.

Married September 17, 1887, at Aurora, New York, to Miss Elizabeth Avery, Dr. MacCracken has become by her the father of two children - William P. MacCracken, Jr., and Cornelia Isabelle MacCracken, who died in 1898. The Doctor's professional work has increased to such an extent that he not only has an ofhce at his residence, 4327 Greenwood avenue, but headquarters in the heart of the down-town district, at 100 State street. In 1887, when he first commenced practice in Chicago, he opened an ofhce at the corner of Fortythird street and Lake avenue, and since that year has always been located in the immediate vicinity.

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Alfta, Sweden, on the 22nd of January, 1846. ITis parents were Anders and Fredrika Oldberg, who provided him with a thorough education directed toward the realization of a scientific career. After receiving a preliminary training in various public schools of Sweden and under the tuition of private teachers, he also pursued a course at the gymnasium, located at Gefle.

When he was nearly twenty-one years of age Mr. Oldberg emigrated to the United States, and engaged in the practice of pharmacy at New York and Washington. In 1872 he served as vice consul of Sweden and Norway at Memphis, Tennessee. Subsequently he returned to Washington, District of Columbia, where for seven years he was identified with the United States Marine Hospital service as chief clerk and medical purveyor. Wliile thus engaged he became a member of the faculty of the National College of Pharmacy, which conferred upon him the honoraiy degree of Pharm. 1).

In 1884 Dr. Oldberg came to Chicago, and in 1886 became one of the prime movers in the founding of the Northwestern University School of Pharmacy and was elected dean of its faculty. This office he still fills with his old-time zeal and efficiency, his chair on the faculty being professor of pharmacy and director of the pharmaceutical laboratories. Since 1880 he has served as a member of the Committee of Revision of Pharmacopoeia of the United States, and in 1893 ^'^''^^ honored with the secretaryship of the Seventh International Pharmaceutical Congress. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Pharmaceutical Association, the German Chemical Society, the American Chemical Society, and several state organizations devoted to that field.

As an author, both alone and in collaboration with others. Dr. Oldberg has an international reputation. In this line, he is the author of "Companion to the United States Pharmacopoeia," published by Oldberg and Wall in 1884; "Weights and Measures." 1885; "Laboratory Manual of Chemistry" (with Professor John H. Long), 1894;

"Home Study in Pharmacy," 1890; "Fifteen Hundred Examples of Prescriptions and Formulas," 1892; "Inorganic Chemistry, General, Medical and Pharmaceutical," 1900. Besides being the author of such standard works, he is a constant contributor of valuable papers to the current medical press, on pharmacy, chemistry, pharmacopcDeias and metrology.

On May 17, 1873, Dr. Oldberg was united in marriage with Miss Emma Parritt, of Youngstown, Ohio, and the children born to them have been as follows : Arne, Olga (now Mrs. Thornton W. Smallwood) and Virgil. The family residence is at No. 7808 Union avenue.

which relate to special organs, and are impelled to devote their professional study and practice to a sharply defined field. Their previous training gives them such a broad foundation for their special investigations and practice that they are able to instinctively judge as to the relation of general conditions and remote pathological causes to the abnormal developments in special regions or organs, thus having an advantage as diagnosticians over fellow practitioners who may reach the same conclusions only after long and laborious study and research.

Dr. Woodruff", so widely known as a specialist in ophthalmology and otology, is a Canadian, born in St. Catharines, Province of Ontario, on the 4th of June, 1865, his parents being Samuel DeVeaux and Jane Caroline (Sanderson) Woodruff. He is a descendant of Matthew Woodruff, who settled in Connecticut in 1640 and was one of the original proprietors of Farmington, Connecticut. His greatgrandfather, Ezekiel Woodruff, was born in Litchfield, that state, graduated at Yale University in the class of 1779, and was a lawyer by profession. In 1795 he moved to Canada, settling in the Niagara district. The paternal grandfather, William Woodruff, was a native of Litchfield, but when very j^oung was brought to Canada by his parents, and afterward became a leading merchant and man of affairs in the Dominion, at one time serving as a member of the assembly, of Upper Canada. His father, Samuel DeVeaux Woodruff, was a well known and prominent resident of St. Catharines and the Niagara

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Dr. WoodrnlT received his early education in the schools of St. Catharines and Niagara and pursued his higher literary studies at the Upper Canada College, located at Toronto. After matriculating at the University of Toronto he entered McGill University, at Montreal, from which he graduated in 1S88, with the degrees of M. D. and C. M. The succeeding two years he spent in Europe, attending tlie hospitals in London, Berlin and Goettingen and ohtaining an experience of incalculable benefit to him in his future practice. While abroad, he was also house physician in the Nottingham General Hospital, England, and in 1890 took the degree of L. R. C. P. in London.

It was during the latter year that the Doctor became a resident physician of Chicago, and for four years engaged in a most successful general practice. In 1894 his attraction to ophthalmology and otology had grown so intense that he formally retired from general practice to take up these specialties. The years 1894-5 were spent in attendance upon the eye and ear hospitals of Vienna, Berlin and London, and in the fall of the latter year he returned to Chicago and has since confined himself to his special field,' establishing both a lucrative practice and a broad reputation among his fellow specialists for signal skill either in diagnosis or medical and surgical treatment.

For many years Dr. Woodruff has been prominent in connection with professional organizations and in the- literature devoted to his specialty. He formerly held the chair of ophthalmology at the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School, and is ophthalmic surgeon to St. Luke's Hospital, St. Anthony de Padua Hospital and the Post- Graduate Hospital. In 1906 he served as vice-president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, of which he is a leading member, as well as of the following: American Medical Association, American Academy of Ophthalmology (Fellow), American Academy of Medicine (Fellow), Illinois State and Chicago Medical Societies, Chicago Ophthalmological Society, Physicians' Club and Die Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft. Dr. Woodruff is editorial secretary of the OpJitJialinic Record and collaborator of "Ophthalmology." In conjunction with Dr. Casey A. Wood he has written a book on the "Commoner Diseases of the Eye," which has passed through three editions. Individually he is author of a number of papers on ophlhal- mology, which have attracted the close attention of the fraternity, and materially extended his already broad reputation as a skillful and learned specialist in the field which he has elected to occupy - and in which aim he has met with such marked results. Dr. Woodruff is also president of the McGill Alumni Association, which numbers in Chicago quite a number of prominent practitioners, and has served as president of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society in 1908 and third vice-president of the American Medical Association in 1908. Outside of the organizations identified with his profession he has membership in the Calumet Club, of which he was first vicepresident in 1906-7-8 and president in 1908-9. He is also a member of the South Shore Country and University clubs. He is also identified with the Zeta Psi fraternity and is a member of the Society of Colonial Wars, and is, in every sense of the word, a man of intense and broad activity, believing, with other physicians of the modern school, that the way to attain greatest usefulness in the world is to get into the most intimate touch with the greatest possible number of its people.

surgeon, is a native of Illinois. He was born at Campton, Kane county, on the ist of May, 1853, and is a son of John Richard and Margaret (Thompson) Tucker, his English and Scotch ancestry bringing to him the industry, persistency and thoroughness which mark him as a man and have signalized his professional career. The foundatipn of his literary education was laid in the common schools of Campton and St. Charles, Illinois. Later he spent two years at Wheaton (111.) College, but received his literary degree from Oskaloosa College, of Iowa.

Dr. Tucker pursued his professional course at Bennett Medical College, Chicago, which conferred M. D. upon him in 1879. In 1904 he took a post-graduate course at the American College of Medicine and Surgery, having previously had a long and prominent experience in connection with the educational work of his alma mater. From 1879 to 1883 he was demonstrator of anatomy on the faculty of Bennett Medical College; professor of general and descriptive anat- oniy in 1883-9, ^'^^^ professor of surgery and attending and consulting physician in the college hospital from 1889 to 1900. At the present time, besides being dean of the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery and president of the Willard Hospital staff, he is professor of gynecology in the former institution and a member of the consulting staff of the Cook County Hospital. His fraternal connection with professional organizations are with the American Medical Association and with the Illinois ]\Iedical and the Chicago Medical Societies.

Dr. Tucker's wife, whom he married October 15, 1884, was formerly Emma Kronenberg, daughter of Joseph Kronenberg, a hardware merchant of Hamburgh, New York, and they have a daughter, Inez.

The Doctor has long taken a deep interest in Masonry and has advanced high in the order, being a member of Ashlar Blue Lodge, Lafayette Chapter, Montjoie Commandery and Oriental Consistory. In religion he is a Presbyterian, in politics, a Republican, in professional character, able and conscientious, and, as to his private traits, approachable, yet high minded and absolutely reliable.

of John and Ann (Steell) Blackwood. He received his literary education in his home academy and at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and was subsequently matriculated at Hahnemann Medical College for the full course, graduating from that institution in 1888 with the degree of M. D. Not being satisfied with his professional attainments thus acquired. Dr. Blackwood pursued a course in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School in 1889, and at the Medical School of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, in 1902.

Notwithstanding these thorough courses in advanced work. Dr. Blackwood has been engaged in an active and prominent practice in Chicago since his graduation from Hahnemann College in 1888, and has also attained high standing in connection with the educational work of his alma mater. He is a member of the Chicago Medical Society. American Institute of Homeopathy, Illinois Homeopathic

Medical Association, Homeopathic Medical Society and the Clinical Society of Hahnemann Hospital. The Doctor is also widely known as a contributor to the literature of his profession, being the author of "Diseases of the. Heart and Lungs," "Materia Medica Preparations and Pharmacology," "Diseases of the Liver," and "Diseases of the Intestinal Tract."

On August 1 6, 1 89 1, Dr. Blackwood was married to Miss Helen A. Winslow, who died February 11, 1903, leaving two children, Leslie Winslow and Howard C. Dr. Blackwood is a staunch member of the Congregational church. He is a Republican in politics; has been a leader in educational affairs for years, and is now serving on the Chicago Board of Education, his term expiring in 1908. He is also a member of the Chicago Press Club and a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

England durmg early historic times, the first American ancestor coming to the United States in 1627. Various members located in Vermont at a pioneer period of American history, the grandparents of E. Fletcher Ingals removing thence to Pomfret, Connecticut, where his father was born. Later, the family migrated to Lee county, Illinois, where Charles F. Ingals was a leading farmer and stockman for many years, but finally removed to Chicago, where he died at 85 years of age, and his wife is still living, aged eighty-eig-ht.

Dr. Ingals was educated in the public schools of Lee Center, Illinois, in the State Normal School at Normal, and Rock River Seminary at Mount Morris, and as his medical studies were pursued in Chicago, his entire mental and professional training has been pursued in the state of Illinois.

When Dr. Ingals first came to Chicago, in 1867, he kept books for a year and afterward began the study of medicine with his uncle, Prof. Ephraim Ingals, who had already attained prominence as a practitioner and for his educational work in connection with the Rush Medical College. In 1871 he himself graduated from that institution with his professional degree, and was at once made a member of the spring faculty.

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Upon competitive examination Dr. Ingals secured an interneship at Cook County hospital, and, after completing his practical course there of eighteen months, went abroad to obtain even a broader experience in the hospitals of London and Paris. In 1873 ^^^ returned to Chicago, and for ten years engaged in general practice.

Since 1883 Dr. Ingals has devoted himself to diseases of the throat, nose and chest, and has become a national authority in these specialties. His text book on "Diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs" is a standard, and has passed through many editions, while his superior position as an educator and practitioner is indicated by his prominent connection with professional schools and societies. He now holds the office of comptroller of Rush Medical College and professor of diseases of the chest, throat and nose, professorial lecturer in medicine, University of Chicago, as well as the chair of laryngology and rhinology in the Chicago Policlinic, having been an incumbent of the latter since 1889. Dr. Ingals was formerly professor of diseases of the throat and chest of Northwestern University Woman's Medical School, and has been a member of nearly every international medical congress since 1880. Pie was also chairman of the section of laryngology of the Pan-American Congress in 1893 and of the same section of the American Medical Association, later. He has been president of the American Laryngological Association, the American Climatological Association, Illinois State Medical Society, American Medical College Association and the Chicago Laryngological and Climatological Society.

On September 5, 1876, Dr. Ingals was united in marriage with Miss Lucy S. Ingals, daughter of Dr. Ephraim Ingals and Melvina R. Ingals. Their children are as follows: Francis E., Melissa Rachel, Mary Goodell, and E. Fletcher Ingals. Jr. The family residence is at 5540 W'oodlawn avenue.

is an Englishman, born at Floore, Aorthamptonsh're, on the 29th of May, 1847, being the son of John and Elizabeth (Clarke) Adams. He is of old yeoman stock, which may account for his sturdy, yet courteous aggressiveness, and the straightforwardness of his character. Until he was ten years of age he received his education in the grammar school at Wellingborough, England, when he came with his parents to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he continued his studies. In 1861 the family removed to Chicago and the youth became a bookkeeper for his father, who was engaged in the live-stock business. Eight years of experience in this line convinced him that a profession, especially that of medicine, which had in it the elements of science as well as humanity, was more to his liking than the mere accumulation of money.

Dr. Adams became a student at Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, in 1869, and graduated three years later with his professional degree. After his graduation he spent a year in the Hahnemann Hospital as house surgeon, studied for a time in London, England, and in 1873 returned to Chicago to commence a continuous practice, which, during the intervening quarter of a century, has brought him generous and legitimate financial reward, and a broad, high and substantial professional reputation. From 1873 to 1896 he was a busy, progressive general practitioner, and since the latter year has given his attention solely to surgery, his leadership in that field having been widely and signally acknowledged.

From 1873 to 1875 Dr. Adams was professor of surgical pathology at Hahnemann Medical College, and from 1875 to 1884 professor of principles and practice of surgery, Chicago Homeopathic College. In recognition of his eminent abilities. Rush Medical College, although the stanch representative of another school of medicine, in 1898 conferred upon him a second degree of M. D. From 1882 to 1898 he was major and surgeon of the First Infantry, Illinois National Guard, was lieutenant-colonel and brigade surgeon in the state service in 1898-03, and in 1898 also filled the office of major and brigade surgeon of United States Volunteers. There are few members of his profession who are more widely known in the ranks of the Illinois soldiery than Dr. Adams. As consulting surgeon he is attached to the staff of St. Joseph's and Evanston Hospitals and the Chicago Nursery and Half Orphan Asylum. He is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society of London, a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and of the State of Illinois; also a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois and

Married in 1875 ^^ Mary Curtis, daughter of Thomas S. Curtis, of Wellingborough, England, Dr. Adams' first wife died in 1887, the mother of one child, Cuthbert Clarke Adams, who survives. His present wife, whom he married in 1888, was Mrs. Elizabeth (Mitchell) Gaylord, widow of Henry Gaylord and daughter of W. H. Mitchell, vice president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, of Chicago.

Born at Berhn, Wisconsm, on the 17th of rebruary, 1859, Dr. Dodson is the elder of two sons born to Nathan Monroe and Elizabeth (Abbott) Dodson. Graduating from the high school of his native city in 1876, he entered the University of Wisconsin for a literary course and graduated therefrom in 1880, with the degree of A. B., being honored with the degree of A. M. from the same institution eight years later. After his graduation from the Wisconsin State University he removed to Chicago, and was matriculated at Rush Medical College, from which he received his professional degree in 1882, obtaining a second degree of M. D. from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1883.

After graduating from Rush Medical College, for three years he practiced his profession in Berlin, Wisconsin, removing thence to Madison, that state. In January, 1889, Dr. Dodson located in Chicago, having been appointed demonstrator of anatomy and lecturer on osteology in Rush Medical College, occupying that position until 1891, when he became professor of physiology and demonstrator of anatomy, thus continuing until 1898, soon after being appointed to the chair of medicine, department of diseases of children, his present professorship. In 1899 he was also appointed junior dean of the college, and held the office for two years, having been dean of students since 1901, as well as dean of medical courses of the University of Chicago.

In addition to this continuous and honorable connection with his Chicago alma mater, Dr. Dodson has been professor of pediatrics of the Northwestern University Woman's ^Medical School (1894-7); member and distributor of the Illinois Demonstrators' Association since 1889; trustee of the Chicago Medical Society (1898-1902); member of the board of directors of Physicians' Club from 1896 to 1903 (president in 1902-3), and has long been identified with the following organizations : Association of American Anatomists, American Medical Association, Association of American Naturalists (central states), Illinois State Medical Society, Wisconsin State Medical Society, Chicago Medical Society, Chicago Pathological Society, Chicago Pediatric Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science. It should be added that, in the midst of an active practice and the duties connected with his college offices and profes-' sional organizations, the Doctor has found time to contribute not a little to the medical literature of the day.

July I, 1884, Dr. Dodson was united in marriage to Miss Marie Van Slyke, of Madison, Wisconsin, who died June 17, 1887. On November 12, 1890, Dr. Dodson was united in marriage with Miss Jessie Palmer Kasson, of Milwaukee, and with their two children, a son, Kasson M., age sixteen, and a daughter, Elizabeth P., age ten, they reside at No. 5806 Washington avenue. His down-town office is in the Venetian building. He is a member of the Quadrangle Club and of the Westward Ho Golf Club.

a native of Abington, Plymouth county, Massachu- P ' setts. His parents, Edward White Cobb, of his native town, and Elmina Howard Cobb, of Bridgewater, Massachusetts, were representatives of families directly descended from the English colonists who had been established in the Old Bay state for many generations.

Dr. Cobb received his education, primarily, in the Abington public schools, and afterward' spent three years in fitting for college at Waltham New Church Scliool. In 1875 he entered Harvard University, receiving his A. B. degree in 1879 and for one year thereafter teaching in the public schools of Bridgewater. Soon afterward he came west and located at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he entered a physician's office and also engaged in the educational work of fitting boys for eastern universities. Removing then to Chicago to prosecute his professional studies, in 1881 he entered Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, and in 1883 graduated therefroin with the degree of M. D., taking- first honors in a class of one hundred and thirty-five. Since that year he has practiced medicine continuously in Chicago, and for nearly twenty years has been prominently identified with the advancement of his alma mater as well as with the general progress of homeopathy.

In 1888 Dr. Cobb was appoint.;d lecturer in physiology in Hahnemann Medical College, and in 1891 elected senior [)rofessor of the department of physiology, histology and bacteriology. In 1894 he was chosen senior professor of the department of pediatrics, in the Hahnemann Medical College, and clinical professor in diseases of children in Hahnemann Hospital - which latter positions he continues to hold. It is in these fields, which include the care of children both in health and disease, which embrace the preventive and the curative processes alike, that Dr. Cobb has acquired the greatest prominence, and enjoys the full confidence of the profession as well as a large clientele. He has been a frequent contributor to the medical journals of his school on topics which concern the welfare of children, has three times been chairman of the bureau of pedology in the American Institute of Homeopathy and always takes an active part in the same department of the State Society. In 1893 Dr. Cobb was elected business manager of the Hahnemann Medical College, which position he resigned at the end of the year to take the more important ofiice of registrar of the college and business manager of its official organ The Cliniquc. The position of registrar he held from 1894 to 1900, and during that time was instrumental in developing in the college a consistent graded course, in broadening the scope of the "laboratory work of the school, m establishing a business like method of attaining and filing scholastic records, and in putting the college in the front rank of medical schools.

The Doctor's breadth and prominence of reputation is emphasized by his election, 'in 1903, to the presidency of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the oldest national medical society in the country, and the only representative society of that school whose scope embraces the United States. The annual meeting for the year named was held in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the inception of the institute in 1844 four of its meetings have been held in Chicago - in 1857. 1870, 1893 (in connection with the Educational Congress of the W orld's Columbian Exposition) and in 1905. The office of president has also been filled four times by a member of the Chicago profession - in 1858, by Dr. D. S. Smith, the pioneer homeopath of Chicago; in 1869, by Dr. Reuben Ludlam, who was later president of the Hahnemann Medical College; in 1873, by Dr. Alvin E. Small, who was at the time president of that college, and in 1903 by Dr. Cobb. In addition to his prominent identification with the American Institute of Homeopathy, he is an active member of the Southern Homeopathic Medical Society, the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association, the Chicago Homeopathic Medical Society and the Clinical Society of Hahnemann Hospital.

In September, 1882, Dr. Cobb was married to Edith Helen Persons, at her home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have one son, Edmond P., born August 2, 1883, a graduate of Harvard University, and at present in the employ of the J. K. Armsby Company, Chicago. The Doctor is deeply and actively concerned in the work of the Swedenborgian church, now serving as president of, the Chicago Society of the New Jerusalem church. Exercise, especially out of doors, is one of his life tenets, and he is therefore identified with the Chicago Athletic Association, the South Shore Country Club, the Calumet Country Club and the Kenwood Club, all of Chicago.

Dr. Dodd's early education was obtained in the schools of Rosendale, and in pursuance of the higher branches he attended Ripon College, Wisconsin, after which he came to Chicago to take up his medical studies. Matriculating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, he pursued his professional course with credit and graduated in the class of '90. His undergraduate work was such that he received appointment as interne at the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary after his graduation, then for about a year was engaged in general practice at Negaunee, Michigan. He then went abroad and in the noted schools and hospitals of London, Vienna and Heidelberg attended climes and engaged in the special studies of ophthalmology, otology and laryngology for a year and a half. Thoroughly equipped and benefited by a broad and varied experience, he returned to America.

When Dr. Dodd located in Chicago in 1893 he was, therefore, a thoroughly educated and experienced physician and surgeon in his chosen specialties, and has succeeded in establishing both a fine practice and a high reputation. For a long time he has been identified with the staff of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, for the past eight years having served as surgeon in the eye department. He is also oculist and aurist at the Augustana and the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Hospitals. His professional connections include membership in the American Medical Association, the Chicago Medical Society, the Chicago Ophthalmological Society and the American Academy of Opthalmology and Oto-Laryngology.

Married to Agnes T. Sheldon, May 18, 1898, Dr. Dodd is the father of three children, Dorothy, Charles Ward and Margaret. The family home is at 141 9 Chicago avenue, Evanston, both he and his wife being identified with the cultured society of that city. The Doctor himself is a member of the Evanston Club.

of Chicago, has achieved unusual prominence within the past twelve years. Coming from Vienna, one of the great capitals and educational centers of Europe, and finely equipped with both learning and clinical experience, he was admirably fitted to meet the professional conditions of the newer and more aggressive western metropolis, with the result that his abilities were at once recognized and his advancement has been rapid.

Born in Vienna, in the year 1859, Dr. Kreissl's parents were Jacques and Elisabeth Kreissl, who first gave him a good education in the public and high schools of his native city. His professional education was obtained in one of the most eminent institutions of Europe, the Imperial Medical College of Vienna, from which he graduated in May, 1885, with the double degree of Doctor of Medicine and Surgery. He had shown such marked ability in scholarship and operative skill during this period that he was appointed assistant to the clinics of surgery, obstetrics and genito-urinary diseases, and held that position for four years after his graduation. Then, after three years of creditable private practice, He came to the United States, joining the ranks of the local fraternity in the following year. Before putting a period to the Doctor's European career, it should be stated that his first practical experience in the medical world was as a member of the hospital corps of the Austrian army in 1881-2.

Since becoming a resident practitioner of Chicago in 1892 Dr. Kreissl has established a good private practice in his specialty, and has been signally recognized as a physician and surgeon of high character and attainments. In 1897-8 he served as president of the medical board of the Chicago Civil Service Commission; was attending surgeon of the Cook County Hospital in 1902-3, and has held the chair of genito-urinary surgery in the Chicago Clinical School from 1 897- 1 904. He is a member of the Chicago Medical Society, Physicians' Club, Illinois State Medical Society, American Medical Association and American Urological Society, and is also identified with the Chicago Athletic Club and the Chicago Yacht Club. Dr. Kreissl was married in Vienna to Miss Bertha Faber and he has a son, Hans George Kreissl.

written numerous monographs on medical subjects, and has membership in the following professional organizations : McGill Alumni Asociation, of which he is an ex-president; the American Medical Association, the Chicago Medical Society, and the Chicago Pathological Society.

Dr. Burwash was born at St. Andrews, province of Quebec, November 17, 1854, son of Albert and Jane (Jefiferson) Burwash; of English ancestry, but his paternal grandfather was born in Vermont. He attended the public schools at St. Andrews and the La Chute Academy, and obtained his medical education in McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, graduating in 1879, M. D., C. M. ; also licentiate of Royal College of Physicians, London, England, in 1879; and during the same year did post-graduate work at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. In 1880-81 he practiced in Manitoba and in the

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Northwest Territory, then spent three years in Minneapolis, after which he came to Chicago, in 1884. Dr. Burwash was the first physician in Rapid City - then the Northwest Territory. He is upon the surgical staff of the Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Home Hospital.

Dr. Burwash married, at Minneapolis, May 3, 1883, Margarita A. Meyer, a native of Hanover, Germany. Their children are Elvira and Florence, the latter deceased. He is a Knight Templar, Mason, member of Chicago Commandery No. 19. He was created a Mason at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Cataract Lodge No. 2, in 1883. He is also a member of the new Illinois Athletic Club. His residence is at 721 North Hoyne avenue.

comes from our Canadian neighbor, who has contributed to the local fraternity not a few valuable additions to its working, progressive and successful members. Dr. Kerr is a native of Harrington, province of Ontario, where he was born on the 12th of August, 1867, and is the son of Norman McLeod and Catherine (MacKenzie) Kerr. Educated, in his earlier years, in the public school at Holyrood, and the high school at Kincardine, both Ontario towns, he graduated from the latter institution in 1884, and then commenced the preparation for his medical career.

After pursuing a thorough course at McGill Medical College, Montreal, he graduated therefrom with the degrees of M. D. and C. M., on the 31st of March, 1889, and about a month afterward came to Chicago to engage in practice. Since that time the attraction has been so mutual that he has resided here and practiced and taught continuously. In 1891 he was appointed assistant in surgery at the Chicago Policlinic, instructor in 1895 and assistant professor in 1902. Since 1898 he has been attending surgeon at the Maurice Porter Memorial Hospital for Children. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society, the Chicago Medical Society, and the Surgical, Orthopedic and Pathological societies. As will be inferred. Dr. Kerr's specialty in surgery is the prevention and treatment of deformities in the

On the 3d of November, 1897, the Doctor was united in marriage to Lottie M. Austin, daughter of Dr. John Austin, and they have become the parents of two children, John Austin Kerr and Norman Archibald Kerr (deceased). Fraternally, Dr. Kerr is identified with the St. Andrew's Society and the United Order of Foresters. He votes the Republican ticket and in his religious belief is a Presbyterian. His residence and office are at No. 275 La Salle avenue, while his downtown office is at room 612, 100 State street, and he is known as one of the most skillful practitioners in his specialty in that section of the city.

Dr. Little John is a graduate of the University of Glasgow. He studied for the ministry and was ordained in 1886, following which he taught theology for one year, and then resumed his higher studies, receiving the degrees of A. M., B. D. and LL. B. After coming to the United States, he continued his studies as a Fellow at Columbia College, in 1892-3. He received the degree of Ph. D. in 1894, and has since been the recipient of the honorary degrees of D. D. and LL. D. The degree of M. D. has been conferred upon him by both Dunham Medical and Hering Medical colleges, by the former institution in 1902. His career as an educator commenced as a tutor at Glasgow University, and in 1890 he was elected president of the Rosemount College of Glasgow, four years later being chosen president of Amity College, College Springs, Iowa. From 1898 to 1900 he was professor of physiology and psychology and dean of the faculty at the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri; has also been professor of physiology at the Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago, and now holds that chair at Hering Medical College, of that city.

tion and the Regular Homeopathic Society, and is a Hfe member of the council of the University of Glasgow. Besides being a Fellow and a gold medalist of the Society of Science, London (1898), he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain in 1899. He was editor of the Journal of the Science of Osteopathy for 1900-1903, of the Osteopathic IVoiid from 1903 to 1905, is now editor of the Bulletin and Journal of Health, Chicago, and is a member of the United Editors' Association of the United States. In addition to other articles and lectures, Dr. Littlejohn is the author of "Christian Sabbatism," "The Political Theory of the Schoolmen and Grotius," "The Evolution of the State," "Lecture Notes on Physiology," "Text-Book on Physiology," "Lecti>res on Psycho-Physiology," "Lectures on Psycho-Pathology," "Journal of the Science of Osteopathy," "Science of Osteopathy and a Treatise on Osteopathy." On August 11, 1900, at Ipswich, England, Dr. Littlejohn was married to Miss Mabel Alice Thompson. They are the parents of Mary Elizabeth Helen, Mabel Emma, James and Edgar Martin Littlejohn. The family residence is at No. 928 West Adams street.

diseases at that institution and held that chair at the time of his death. For years he was indirectly associated with Dr. James Nevins Hyde, in conjunction with whom he wrote several volumes on his specialties. His investigations and studies were not confined to the locality, but extended to the famous educational centers and clinics of London, Vienna and Paris, and in this city not only Rush Medical College, but the University of Chicago considered him one of its most valued lecturers and authorities. At his decease he was also dermatologist to St. Elizabeth and Presbyterian hospitals and a member of the following professional organizations : American Dermatological Association, Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical, Chicago Medical and the Chicago Patholog^ical and Medico-Legal societies, and the Physicians' Club. He was also identified with the University, Chicago Literary, Quadrangle and Homewood clubs, and was always a most welcome figure to whatever circle he chose to join.

On January ii, 1897, Dr. Montgomery was united in marriage with Miss Carrie L. Williamson, and three children were born to them - Hamilton, Charlotte and Mary Louise Montgomery. At the time of the accident, which resulted in his death, the family were all together at their summer home, having as their guest a stenographer who was assisting the doctor in the preparation of a series of his lectures and essays. While the wife and her little daughters remained at home, the other members of the household went for a sail on the lake. A gust of wind capsized the light yacht and when discovered in mid-lake the boy only was found alive. It is significant of Dr. Montgomery's active temperament that even in a season of recreation he found it impossible to entirely forsake his professional work. Both he and his wife were interested in social settlenient work and in the various activities about the University of Chicago, and their connection with this phase of the city's development has always been highly appreciated. These words of Professor Shailer Mathews, of the university, are, therefore, of weight: "Dr. Montgomery was of the type of men who make Chicago's best citizens. Through his own books, written in conjunction with Dr. Hyde, he became recognized as an authority in his profession. But it was not only because of his attainments professionally that he was admired. He was a man who was loved by everybody who knew him."

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one of the most eminent dental surgeons in the ' world. Of Irish-English descent, his parents, William and Amelia (Cleveland) Brophy, being natives of Hemmingford, Quebec, a small town not far from Lake Champlain and the international boundary. Wlicii the two were children their families moved together to the rich agricultural and fruit country near Newcastle, on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, near Toronto. From this locality they migrated tu Aurora, Illinois, and thence to Will county, southwest of Chicago. William Brophy, the youth, visited Chicago and in those days was chiefly impressed with its dirt and rawness. As a young man he returned to Canada, where he was married in June, 1843, '^^'^^^ ^^"^ September, 1844, settled in Will county, Illinois, with his young bride. The city was now growing, however, and the senior Brophy secured profitable contracts as a builder and contractor. Preferring, however, a country life, he bought a farm at Gooding's Grove, near Lockport, and here, on the 1 2th of April, 1848, was born his son, Truman W.

It was some years before the family located permanently in Chicago. After a residence of two years at Gooding's Grove, a removal was made to Elgin, where the father was engaged in the construction of a section of what is now the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. The increasing family was next moved to St. Charles, Illinois, and after providing a comfortable home, Mr. Brophy, in 1852, started across the plains for California. Two years afterward he was fortunate enough to return ill such sound financial condition that he purchased a good farm a few miles west of St. Charles, which was the family homestead until the final removal to Chicago in the fall of 1866. '

At this time Truman was in his nineteenth year. He had received a good common school and academic education in the institutions of St. Charles and Elgin, and after his coming to Chicago pursued courses both at Dyrenfurth's Business College and the Atheneum. In early boyhood he had decided to study dentistry, and in the spring of 1867, through the influence of his uncle, Reuben Cleveland, he entered the office of Dr. J. O. Farnsworth. In accord with the custom of those times, after obtaining practical knowledge of the profession in office work, he entered into practice himself, and upon the death of his preceptor, a few years after he had commenced his apprenticeship, succeeded to the business. The fire of 1871 found Dr. Brophy in quite prosperous circumstances for one of his years, and left him nearly bankrupt. Before resuming practice, however, he wisely decided to obtain a systematic education and training along the lines of his professional work, and in the fall, not long after the fire, started for Philadelphia, where, until the spring of 1872, he pursued a regular course in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and obtained his degree of D. D. S. Upon his return to Chicago he renewed his practice with redoubled confidence, but meeting cases which required a more extended knowledge than he had acquired, in 1878 he pursued a regular medical and surgical course at Rush College, from which he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1880. Dr. Brophy had been elected president of his class, and his career had been marked by such distinguishing features that almost immediately upon graduating he was chosen by the faculty to the professorship of dental pathology and surgery, which position he still holds.

In the summer of 1882 Dr. Brophy took the initiative steps toward the founding of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. He was solely instrumental in raising the money for the erection of the building and persistently urged the selection of the present site. Its first regular course began in March, 1883, and, with Dr. Brophy at its head, has since developed into the largest institution of the kind in the world. Besides being president, he is also professor of oral surgery at the Chicago College of Dental Surger}^ He has also been connected with the Central Free Dispensary of Rush Medical College for many years and is still associate professor of surgery; also dental and oral surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital; consulting oral surgeon to Provident Hospital. Dr. Brophy is ex-president of Odontological and Dental Societies of Chicago and is a member of the American Medical, Chicago Medical, Pathological, Medico-Legal, National Dental, Odontographic and many other medical and dental societies, state and national, in their scope. Furthermore, he is expresident of the section of dental a,nd oral surgery, now the section of stomatology, American Medical Association, which was suggested by him and organized chiefly through his efforts. He is also con- nected with a number of organizations not allied to either dentistry or medicine, such as the Union League, the Illinois Club, and the Chicago Athletic Association.

Dr. Brophy is quite a constant contributor to professional literature, but the active duties of his calling consume so much of his time and strength that he has assayed nothing in book form. Mention should here be made of the honor conferred upon him by Lake Forest University, in 1855, by which he received the degree of LL.D. He served as president of the United States Fourteenth International Medical Congress, held at Madrid, Spain, 1903, and was president of the International Commission of Education and chairman of section on education, nomenclature, literature and history at the Fourth International Dental Congress, a member of the Association of Military Surgeons, and assistant surgeon of the First Regiment, Illinois National Guard.

On May 8, 1873, Dr. Brophy was united in marriage to Emma J. Mason, daughter of Carlile Mason, of the Excelsior Iron Works. They have had a family of three daughters and one son, namely : Jean Mason Brophy Barnes, Florence Amelia Brophy Logan, Truman William Brophy, Jr., and Alberta Louise Brophy.

of Moritz and Sophia (Duensing) Hoelscher, and comes of good German stock, his mother being born in the Fatherland. His initial education was obtained in public and private schools of New York state and Chicago, and his professional training, prior to actual practice, at the Chicago Medical College, which afterward became the medical department of the Northwestern University.

In 1885 Dr. Hoelscher graduated from the Northwestern University Medical School, and for two years thereafter he served as house physician to the Alexian Brothers Hospital, and, until recently, as attending physician, thereby obtaining a wider experience than would naturally fall to the young physician in years of private practice. Since 1887, however, he has been building up a fine individual practice and establishing a high reputation as an original investigator. He is the author of "Original Research." regarding per- spiration, cholelithiasis, cryptogenetic infection, and the surgery and medicine of three gastro-intestinal cases, while he is now engaged in research work regarding the intestinal juices.

In addition to the official positions already named, Dr. Hoelscher is attending physician to the Columbus Hospital and consulting physician to the German and North Chicago Hospitals, and was assistant to the resident physician at Mercy Hospital as early as 1883. He is assistant professor of clinical medicine in the extra-mural department of Rush Medical CoUege and professor of internal medicine at the Chicago Clinical School, as well as examining physician to the Providence Savings Life Assurance Society of New York. As to his professional membersliip, he is identified with the American Medical Association, the Illinois State Medical Society, Chicago Medical Societ}^, German-American Medical Society and the Physicians' Club. He also belongs to the Public Health Defense League and the Chicago Athletic Association, and is a Mason of high 'rank, being a member of Lincoln Park Lodge, A. F. and A. M., Chapter and Commandery,«and connected with the Phi Rho Sigma fraternity.

Married in Chicago, September 20, 1887, to Miss Anna Wolff, the doctor has become the father of one child, Francis Fred. He resides at 1669 Sheridan Road, and has an office in the business district at 34 Washington street.

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Dr. ITcyni, whose full name is Bernhard Theodore Albrecht, was born in Leipsic, Germany, February 4th, 1862, son of Professor Dr. Carl F. and Elvira (Flerzberg) Fleym. Dr. Carl F. Heym was one of the most eminent mathematicians of his time; in recognition of the value of his mathematical researches a monument to his memory was erected in Leipsic by the life insurance companies of Germany and Austria.

Some of the most famous schools of the old world supplied Dr. Heym with his education. He attended the Thomas Gymnasium at Leipsic, the Royal University of Leipsic and the University of Heidelberg. He received his diploma as Doctor of Medicine April 25, 1887. During the next two years he traveled extensively in all parts of the world.

From 1 89 1 to 1898 he was connected as resident physician with the state insane asylums at Sonnenstein, Hubertsburg and Kaiserswert ; at the latter place he was medical superintendent of the Insane Hospital of Kaiserswert. He was next connected for two years with the Neurological Clinic of Professor Dr. Erb, and with the Psychiatric Clinic of Professor Dr. Kraepelin, both connected with the University of Heidelberg.

In 1898 he came to America, settling in Chicago. His office is in the Venetian building. Fie is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran church, also of the Germania Maennerchor, and of various medical societies.

August 15th, 1891, he married Johanna Flartman. His son, Gerhard, was born August 21, 1892, and his daughter, Erna, was born October 29, 1899. The family residence is on Cleveland avenue.

W. E. Potter, M. D., active and prominent in both private practice and the sanitary affairs of Oak Park, Illinois, is a native of Peoria county, this state, where he was born on the - 1 6th of December, 1875. His parents arc D. E.

Pharmacy of the Northwestern University, Chicago, from which he was graduated in 1897. Three years afterward he obtained his degree of M. D., from the medical school of the University of Illinois, and this training of unusual breadth in the schools was supplemented by an invaluable experience of two years on the resident staff of the West Side Hospital, connected with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Illinois.

In 1902 Dr. Potter located at Oak Park, Illinois, for the practice of his profession, and at once became instrumental in organizing its board of health, of which he was the first president. He held the office for two years and was instrumental in bringing it to a high state of efficiency. He has also been prominent in the good work of the Oak Park Hospital, on whose surgical staff he has served since its founding.

In 1902 Dr. Potter married Miss Ida B. Bradley, daughter of Mrs. Harriet Bradley, well known and highly honored in Oak Park. They are both active in the charitable and religious work of the Grace Episcopal church. In politics, the doctor is a Republican, and, as to his fraternal relations, is identified with Masonry, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Arcanum, He is a member of the Oak Park Club, Colonial Club of Oak Park, and the Oak Park Military Club.

Not only has he acquired a high and substantial standing in his profession, without the aid of fortuitous circumstances, but obtained his education through hard and unremitting labors. Such difficulties, bravely overcome, not only test character, but develop it in breadth and ruggedness.

Dr. Poorman is a native of Coles county, Illinois, born on the- 7th of January, 1873, son of Noah and Lucinda (Mull) Poorman. His father, who was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, is of German descent, while his mother, a native of Illinois, comes of English and Scotch ancestry. The doctor is the third of six children born to this honorable couple, and when an infant of one year was taken by his par- ents to Junction City, Illinois, where he obtained his first schooHng. At the age of about nine years he left home, and at that tender aue became virtual master of his destiny. Never daunted, he worked hard both for a livelihood and an education, and finally became a student in the Kansas State University, located at Lawrence. For three years he pursued the higher courses of literature and science at this institution, eagerly taking advantage of any employment which offered in the very commendable but decidedly disagreeable process which so many sturdy, ambitious youths of America recognize by the phrase of "working through college." In 1895 he located at Gallup, New Mexico, and entered into business relations with the Navajo Indians, whose language he learned to speak like a native. After spending about three years and a half in that locality, he removed to Morenci, Arizona, where, for some months he continued to engage in various mercantile lines. In 1899 he became identified with the Detroit Copper Mining Company, and soon afterward came to Chicago.

Dr. Poorman obtained his professional education in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which he was graduated in 1903, having spent four years therein, faithfully prosecuting his studies. He was then appointed to the staff of the West Side Hospital as house physician and surgeon, and he is now serving as assistant surgeon to Dr. Thomas A. Davis, the head surgeon of that institution, so important an adjunct to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1905 Dr. Poorman located for practice at Oak Park, Illinois, and is a valued member of the Oak Park Hospital and the Oak Park board of health, as well as of the staff of Illinois Post-Graduate Medical School, located at 819 West Harrison street.

In 1906 Dr. Poorman was united in marriage with Mrs. J. K. Dunlap, of Oak Park, a most estimable lady, who has added to the high social standing which he already enjoyed. The doctor's practice is now recognized as among the most substantial and select enjoyed by his professional brethren in the western suburbs. He is a leading member of the Chicago Medical Society, and among the fraternities is identified with the Oak Park lodge of Masons, and the Oak Park Club.

Albert French Storke, M. D., president of the Oak Park board of health, and an active physician and citizen of that place, is a native of Wisconsin, born in Dodge county, on the 1 2th of November, 1866. His parents are Dr. Eugene F. and Mary (French) Storke, the family, on the paternal side being of Dutch origin, various members of which emigrated from The Hague to the Mohawk valley. New York, which remained the ancestral home for four generations. On the mother's side the ancestry was English. The father came to Wisconsin when he was a boy of ten years, and was reared and married in the Badger state. By force of circumstances he was his own master at an early age, educated himself, became a successful physician and a useful citizen.

Albert F. is the only child of the family, and was about four years of age when his parents located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his schooling chiefly in what was first known as Markham's Academy, now the Milwaukee Academy, from which he was graduated in 1884. He then took a literary course of two years at the University of Michigan, and in 1887 came to Chicago to perfect his medical education. He first matriculated at Rush Medical Collepe, but after completing two years of its curriculum, decided to adopt homeopathy, receiving his degree from Hahnemann College in 1890.

Dr. Storke chose Golden, Colorado, as his first professional locatiorf, and practiced there until October, 1892, when he became a resident of Oak Park, where he has since remained. He was one of the founders of the local board of health, of which he is now president, and has been active in matters of public moment not identified with his professional work. He is one of the directors of the Parents' .and Teachers' Association, and both as a citizen and a Republican can be relied upon to do his share of active and necessary work. The doctor is a member of the Chicago, Wisconsin and Illinois Medical societies; is a Mason in good standing, and belongs to the Chi Psi fraternity. His wife, to whom he was married in 1 89 1, was Laura Butler Rogers, daughter of Major Henry G. Rogers, of Milwaukee, and the two children born to their union are Butler and Eugenia.

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widely known as a military and examining surgeon. He has served as president of the Chicago Medical Examiners' Association and is a leading member of the American Association of Life Examining Surgeons, being medical examiner of the Phoenix Mutual Life, of Hartford, Connecticut, and well known professionally in the insurance field. Dr. Stringfield has been identified with the National Guard of Illinois since 1882; has served on the staff of Governor Yates, with the rank of colonel, and is now on the retired list. He is also a familiar figure as resident physician of the Grand Pacific hotel, having held that position since the reopening of the popular hostelry in 1898.

Dr. Stringfield is a native of Washington, District of Columbia, but spent the years of his early manhood in the west. In 1881 he removed to Chicago, from Topeka, Kansas, and soon afterward commenced the study of medicine. Finally entering the Chicago Medical College (medical department of the Northwestern University) for a regular course, he graduated therefrom in 1889 with the degree of M. D., and at once became assistant to the chair of principles and practice of surgery in his alma mater. He was attending surgeon on the staffs of the Cook County and Baptist hospitals for years, and at one time was a surgeon of the United States Marine Corps. At the present time he is a physician to the Actors' Fund of America, and besides his identification with professional organizations already mentioned, enjoys membership in the American Medical Association, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, the Illinois State Medical Society and the Chicago Medical Society. In his fraternal relations he is a Mason and a life member of the Elks and Knights of Pythias, having been prominent in each order. In Masonry he is a member of Blaney Blue Lodge No. 271, Lincoln Park Chapter No. 177, R. A. M., Apollo Commandery No. i, and Medinah Temple of the Mystic Shrine; and is past chancellor of Globe-Athol Lodge, Knights of Pythias.

fessionally, and is a welcome member in the Hamilton, Forty, Chicago Athletic, Chicago Yacht, South Shore Country and Chicago Automobile clubs.

Rev. L. H. Thompson, D. D., and his wife, formerly Martha Mcllwain, his father for many years having been a leading minister in the Presbyterian church.