|
CHAPTER X.
NOT FINISHED
PHYSICIANS
NEED OF MEDICAL MEN - EARLY PHYSICIANS -
PROGRESS OF THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE -
LISTS OF EARLY AND LATER PHYSICIANS - THOSE IN PRACTICE AT THE
PRESENT TIME -
PERSONAL SKETCHES OF NUMEROUS DOCTORS OF THE COUNTY.
EARLY PHYSICIANS
SOME PERSONAL NOTES
PERSONAL MENTION
The following brief notes
have been secured on the lives and practice of numerous Carroll
County physicians; the list, however, is not considered in any way
complete, but covers many of the physicians who were well known to
the various families within the county, at different dates in its
history.
Dr. Samuel Black
Dr. John B. France
Dr. David B. Sherrod
Dr. H. D. Dunlap
Dr. John B. Moody
Dr. Enoch C. Ross
Dr. L. D. Stockon
Dr. Hiram G. Tope
Dr. William Tripp
Dr. William H. Walker
Dr. J. H. Trussell
Dr. Joseph T. McLean
Dr. Jasper Tope
Dr. Custer, of Scio,
was a student of Doctor Stockon in Hagerstown. He died
in Scio about 1885.
Dr. James Long, of
Union Township, studied medicine with Doctor Stockon and
began practice in New Harrisburg in the sixties. He came to
Carrollton about one year before his death which occurred September,
1883, aged forty years.
Dr. Thomas P. Crawford
left here twenty odd years ago and probably now resides some other
point in Ohio. He graduated from Wooster Medical College in
1877.
Dr. C. V. McMillen
lived and practiced one mile from Carrollton on the Oneida road but
left and went to Iowa about 1863.
Dr. John S. Hunter
practiced at Carrollton in the fifties and left for Newton, Iowa,
about 1858. He came to this county among, if not as the first
physician - he was here in practice in 1830-31 certainly.
Dr. W. O. Skeeles
came to Carrollton from Tuscarawas County about 1876, associated
with Doctor Tripp and later practiced alone. He married
a daughter of General Eckley; practiced here in Carrollton
for years and later went to Ashland, Ohio, and died in 1920.
He graduated from Wooster University Medical College in 1875.
Dr. Allen still
Dr. S. B. Leckner
Dr. Ezra E. Tope
Dr. John H. Stephenson
Dr. C. S. Clark
Dr. D. Arter
practiced in this county and went to Canton, Ohio, about 1865, where
he died in 1915 and his wife in 1918.
Dr. William H. Poole
Dr. William R. Spratt
Dr. J. Maffett
Dr. Jason Roach
Doctor McCollough
Dr. C. H. Ross
Doctor Welch
practiced in Carrollton and Mechanicsville about 1870; later moved
to Waynesburg, Ohio, and then to Cadiz, where he died a few years
ago.
Doctor Schultz
practiced in Kilgore for several years prior to 1881; later he moved
to Steubenville, Ohio, where he died within the last few years.
Dr. Andrew P. Albough
Dr. H. A. Harding
Dr. Charles Wesley Baker
Dr. George S. Patterson
Dr. William A. Leeper
Dr. D. L. Everhart
Dr. Katheran Rebecca
Moses, a graduate from a medical school in 1900, is the only
lady graduate from Carroll County. Practiced mostly at the
asylum at Newburg, Ohio.
Dr. P. M. Bell, at
Sherrodsville, is a graduate of Toledo Medical College, 1899, has
been in practice at Sherrodsville about a dozen years.
Dr. J. D. Aldridge
Dr. John Rhiel
Dr. B. B. Bock
Dr. A. H. Hise came
to Carrollton from Bucyrus, Ohio, about 1890 - only attends to
office work; is with Doctor Zeigler.
Dr. C. R. Zeigler
came to Carrollton about 1882 and has been a busy practitioner all
these years. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in
1874.
Dr. C. C. Bolton
Dr. John Richard
Williams
Dr. R. T. Shipley
came to Carrollton in 1916; was in France during the World War,
returned in 1920 and went to Canton, Ohio, where he is now in
practice. He graduated at the Western Reserve College in 1910.
Dr. William S. Thompson,
a native of Lee Township, this county, graduated from Sterling
Medical College in 1896; practiced at Harlem Springs five years and
then went to Gerard where he died in a few years.
RECENT PHYSICIANS OF THE COUNTY
From a list compiled in
1918-19, by Dr. J. R. Williams, the following active
practicing physicians appear for Carroll County:
Drs. J. R. Williams, C. W. Baker, P. M. Bell, D. L.
Everhart, Giles, J. J. Hathaway, A. H. Hise, William A. Leeper, J.
Maffett, Doctor Buck, Doctor Patterson, Doctor Rhiel, R. T. Shipley,
W. R. Spratt, Dr. U. I. Tope, Jasper Tope, and C. R.
Zeigler.
 |
