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BIOGRAPHIES
Source:
1789 - 1881
History of Cincinnati, Ohio
with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches
Compiled by Henry A. Ford, A. M., and Mrs. Kate B. Ford
L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers
1881
(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)
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CYRUS
D. FISHBURN, M. D., of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a native of
Pennsylvania; born in Hummelstown, Dauphin county, October 27,
1832.
John Philip Fishburn, his great-grandfather, emigrated from
Germany to this country in 1749. His son, Philip Fishburn, was
a successful farmer of colonial times, and during the war of
the Revolution was a soldier. He also served in the War of
1812. He reared a large family, of which Jonas was the father
of the subject of this sketch.
Jonas Fishburn's family consisted of four children— Isaac, the
oldest son, now practising as a physician in Stephenson
county, Illinois; Cyrus D., Amanda and George. The last named
was a stock-raiser and farmer near Portland, Oregon. He died
at the age of thirty-seven, from a stroke of paralysis, in
August, 1880.
Jonas Fishburn removed to Iowa in 1856 and engaged in
agricultural pursuits until his death, which occurred in 1877,
at the age of seventy-four years. He was a man who appreciated
the worth of an education, and before coming west had removed
his family to the village of Womelsdorf, Berks county,
Pennsylvania, for the purpose of educating his children. Cyrus
D. Fishburn remained there at school until fifteen years of
age, when he went to Phillips academy, Andover, Massachusetts,
and began a preparatory course for Harvard or Yale; but
financial embarrassment in the family now, materially changed
all his future plans. The father proposed a medical career;
but the son had inclinations for law, and we judge his
keen sightedness had forseen a brilliant future, that would
undoubtedly have awaited him had he chosen that profession ;
but obeying the wish of his parent, he entered the office of
Dr. William Moore, of Womelsdorf, an intelligent and finely
educated physician who had an extensive practice. He, here,
thoroughly prepared himself for entering a medical college.
While a student he was obliged to assume the responsibilities
of a large practice, in consequence of a serious accident
which happened to his preceptor. The responsibilities resting
upon him were undesirable for one so young in the profession,
but in the end were very advantageous. He graduated in the
medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, in
Philadelphia, in the year 1854. After remaining one year with
his preceptor he located in Elizabethtown, Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, where he remained two years more. Being
impressed with the brilliant prospects of the west, he
prepared himself with excellent letters of introduction and
travelled through the States of Michigan and Iowa in search of
a location.
The doctor having more energy than money kept up the
search. One incident should be recorded as it did much to
develope the power of the man and lead him to the prominent
success he afterwards attained. He was determined to earn his
living even if he had to re-soft to manual labor; and was
almost led to this straitened state of circumstances when he
was introduced to the late Dr. Pitcher, of Detroit, an eminent
physician, and president at that time of the National Medical
association. He was introduced as a young man of some worth in
the profession looking for a new home; when the old gentleman
dryly remarked, "If he only don't look for one already made."
The remark was painfully true. He had indeed been looking for
just such a place, and probably his steps thither had been
hastened for its accomplishment. Such a greeting, so chilling
and unexpected, served to arouse his native energies and he
thereafter sought no partnership unless he was sure that he
could contribute his full share to the success of the
association.
Leaving Detroit he arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, but
after staying one month he departed for Cincinnati. The idea
that hard work, well directed, is sure to win, began to appear
to be untrue. He arrived in Cincinnati in 1858 with but ten
dollars in his pocket. He at once formed a temporary
partnership with an old acquaintance, Dr. Peter Malone, and
began practice on Broadway near Third street; but being too
far away from his German patrons he removed to Vine near Court
street, into an office recently occupied by the late Dr.
George Fries, a distinguished physician and surgeon, and one
who did much to assist the willing efforts of his younger
colleague. He received much encouragement from this kind
gentleman, and a lasting friendship sprung up between them.
From this time his practice grew rapidly and became extensive,
and he is now recognized by the citizens of Cincinnati and
vicinity as being eminently successful in his profession. He
removed to the corner of Vine street and McMicken avenue, then
called Hamilton road, in i860. In 1874 he built his present
commodious house, No. 70 McMicken avenue, in which he has
since resided. In 1866 he married Miss Louise Billiods,
daughter of one of the earliest pioneers of Cincinnati. In
1878 she died, leaving a son. Her affectionate nature, gentle
ways, and love of home, combined with her excellent judgment,
made her a model wife, her home a paradise, and life a
constant happiness.
Dr. Fishburn is known by the citizens of Cincinnati and
by the profession to be an indefatigable worker. His efforts
to attain success are worthy of imitation by those who wish to
be prepared for the responsibilities of an extensive practice;
for no doubt his success in life is due to the energy he has
displayed in overcoming all obstacles that blocked his way. He
has been twice elected and is now one of the directors of the
University of Cincinnati, The doctor was, unsolicited, elected
in 1873 a member of the board of alderman of the city. He is,
at the present writing, in the prime of life and vigor of
manhood, and actively engaged in his professional duties. His
untiring zeal in private and public life has made him a
valuable citizen, and has added materially to the welfare and
prosperity of his adopted city.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 440 |
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F. J. FOGEL, M. D., located at No. 82˝
East Third street, was born in Butler county, Ohio, Oct. 1,
1846, and lived on his father’s farm until he was fifteen
years of age. After this time he attended college at
Miami university, Oxford, for four years; was engaged in the
drug trade for three years at Hamilton. He was married
to a daughter of Dr. Henry Mallory, of Hamilton, Nov.
2, 1870; graduated at Ohio Medical college in the class of
1874; immediately began the practice of medicine in
Cincinnati, and has thus far been successful.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 480 |
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HON. JOHN F. FOLLETT.
The Hon. John Fassett Follett, named after
his maternal great-uncle, Dr. John Fassett,
of Toledo, is a native of Vermont, as were all his father's
family. His father's name was also John F.
Follett, likewise a native of Vermont. His
grandfather, Eliphalet Follett,
great-grandfather of the subject of this memoir, was a pioneer
in the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania, where he owned a very
fine farm, but was doomed to lose his life in the massacre of
Wyoming, so much celebrated in song and story. A
half-brother of this pioneer was attacked in the same affair,
stabbed in several places, scalped, and left for dead, but
eventually survived and lived to a good old age. After
the murder of Eliphalet Follett his widow and
children returned to Vermont, whence they had removed to
Wyoming, and spent the rest of their lives there. The
oldest of the children, Martin D. Follett,
was grandfather of John F. Follett, of
Cincinnati. His mother, Sarah (Woodworth)
Follett, was also a native of Vermont, where she and
the elder Follett were married Oct. 10, 1816.
In 1837 they removed to the west, settling first in Licking
county, with a family of nine children. Mr.
Follett here pursued his lifelong vocation as a
farmer, and there died in 1863, the mother following him to
the tomb just four weeks afterwards. Eight of the nine
children are still living.
Hon.
John F. Follett, next to the youngest of the family
was born upon the paternal farm in South Richford, Franklin
county, Vermont, Feb. 18, 1833. His rudimentary
education was received in the log schoolhouses of Licking
county, but when about eighteen years of age he was permitted
to leave home and strike out for himself in pursuit of a
higher training. He took a preparatory course at the
academy in Granville, Licking county, now no longer in
existence, and his collegiate curriculum at Marietta college,
being graduated therefrom in 1855 with the highest honor, and
with the last class going out under the presidency of the
Rev. Henry Smith. He had now
accumulated a considerable debt, for a young man, in the
pursuit of education, but within the short space of two years,
by teaching, first in the blind asylum at Columbus, and then
in the high school of the same place, he secured an honorable
discharge from all his obligations. He then began to
read law with his brother, Charles
Follett, esq., in Newark, and was there admitted to
practice in 1858. He began business in the same place as
a lawyer, and remained in Newark for about ten years, when, in
September, 1868, he removed to Cincinnati, opened an office,
and in March, 1870, formed a partnership with General
H. L. Burnett, ex-Governor Jacob D. Cox
also presently joining the firm. Upon the removal of
General Burnett to New York, the firm became
Cox & Follett, and remained such until the first of
January, 1874, when General Cox withdrew.
Mr. W. C. Cochrane was afterward received
into partnership, the firm name and style now being
Follett & Cochrane. This firm was dissolved in
1878. Messrs. J. M. Dawson and
David M. Hyman have since successively been taken
into partnership, and the firm is now Follett, Dawson & Hyman.
It enjoys an extensive practice, and ranks high among the
legal partnerships of the Queen City. The senior of the
firm has often been solicited to become a candidate for judge
in one of the courts, but has uniformly declined, preferring
to remain in the more lucrative and stirring pursuits of the
bar.
Mr. Follett
is a lifelong and hereditary Democrat. His services to
the party were recognized in 1865 in an election from Licking
county to the house of representatives in the State
Legislature. He was reelected at the expiration of his
two-years' term, and upon the re-assembling of the house he
has chosen speaker by a unanimous vote, taken b acclamation,
in the caucus of members of his party - a fact almost, if not
quite, without precedent in the legislative history of the
State. He was serving in this position with
distinguished credit when he decided to remove to Cincinnati,
and resigned both it and his membership in the house.
Since his removal hither he has declined official position or
candidacies, with the single exception of elector-at-large on
the Democratic ticket of the State during the Presidential
canvas of 1880. He has from time to time been solicited
to run for Congress, and at the present writing (April, 1881)
is prominently named by his friends as a Democratic candidate
for the gubernatorial chair at the fall election. His
abilities as a stump speaker are much in request during the
more important campaigns, and of late years he has pretty
regularly appeared in most parts of the State, as well as in
his own city and county. He is regarded as one of the
most eloquent men, either upon the hustings or in the forum,
that Ohio contains, and his services to his party have been
inestimable. His political duties are not permitted,
however, seriously to interfere with the careful study and
practice of the law, in which he ranks among the very foremost
in the able ranks of the bar in the Queen City. He is
personally popular, and has abundantly reaped the rewards of
diligence and assiduously cultivated talent.
Mr. Follett was married, July 12, 1866, to
Miss Francis M., daughter of Dr. John
Dawson, a professor in the Starling Medical college,
of Columbus, where they were married. Her mother was a
sister of the late Judge Winans, of Xenia, a
former member of Congress, and daughter of Dr.
Matthias Winans, of Jamestown, Ohio.
Mrs. Follett is still living, and in vigorous health.
They have three children - John Dawson, W. W. Dawson
(a girl), and Charles, the last one named
from his uncle at Newark.
In
1879 the scholarship, ability, and public record of
Mr. Follett received the handsome recognition from
his alma mater at Marietta, of the honorary degree of
Doctor of Laws.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 431 |
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