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DR. P.
F. MALEY. Patrick Francis Maley, M. D., a well-known
medical practitioner in Cincinnati, and ex-coroner of the
county of Hamilton, is a native of the Emerald Isle, being
born in the county Mayo, Ireland, on the 15th of January,
1838. He attended the primary schools of his native land until
the age of thirteen, soon after attaining which he was removed
with his father's family to the promised land beyond the sea.
Arriving in America in 1851, the newcomers pushed on to the
beautiful valley of the Ohio, and settled in this county. Here
the young Patrick was enabled to go on with his course of
education, which soon became highly liberal in its character,
and included a number of branches in the higher ranges of
study. His first business life was as a clerk in the drug
store of Mr. J. P. White, in this city, which proved a good
beginning of preparation for the profession he was to pursue.
He remained with Mr. White seven years, meanwhile taking a
diploma from the Cincinnati college of pharmacy, and otherwise
perfecting himself thoroughly in the details of the business.
His medical reading now began with Dr. John A. Thacker, also
of the city, and he presently became a student in the
Cincinnati college of medicine and surgery, from which he was
graduated in 1861. He was soon diverted from local practice,
however, by a summons to serve his country during the great
civil struggle which broke out about this time. Being
appointed assistant surgeon in the United States navy, he was
assigned to duty on the gunboat flotilla, upon the western
waters. The next year, near the close of 1862, he was
compelled to resign, by reason of swamp fever, contracted
during his service at Helena, Arkansas. After his recovery he
recommenced practice at home, but was again drawn into the
public service by a fresh appointment in the surgical
department, for which he was duly examined and pronounced
qualified. He was on duty at Jefferson barracks, St. Louis,
until September 22, 1863, when, upon his leaving to join the
army of General Rosecrans, just before the battle of
Chattanooga, he was presented with a silver ice-pitcher and
salver by the officers and patients of the hospital at the
barracks, as a token of personal esteem and confidence. The
ordinary channels of communication to Chattanooga being
interrupted, he traveled on foot over the mountains, above
seventy miles, in order to reach the next post of duty. During
this perilous and toilsome trip all his effects and
instruments were lost by the capture of the wagon train
conveying them. Reaching Chattanuga at last, he was put at
work at once in the Critchfield House, which had become a
hospital. He then accompanied a train of sick and wounded
soldiers to Nashville, where he finally resigned from the
service. Embarking once more in private practice in
Cincinnati, he speedily built up a large and lucrative
business, which has been steadily maintained and increased to
this day. Dr. Maley has found time, however, to do the
public some service in official positions. He was an
influential member of the board of education of the city for
five years; was a councilman from the Fourth ward for two
terms; and, upon the death of Dr. Dougherty, coroner of
Hamilton county, in the autumn of 1872, he was appointed to
fill the vacancy; was regularly elected in 1873, and reelected
for the full term the next year. The Biographical Encyclopaedia well said of him during this service: "He has
shown his complete qualifications for this public trust, and
the honors of the reelections conferred upon him by the public
indicate that the people of Cincinnati are amply satisfied
with the care and fidelity with which he discharges his
duties." Although his convictions and political affiliations
had previously been Democratic, Dr. Maley was a supporter of
General Garfield for the Presidency in 1880, and received from
him a handsome acknowledgment of the Doctor's telegram of
congratulation, which has been neatly framed and is among the
ornaments of his office and home at the southeast corner of
Eighth and John streets.
Dr. Maley was united in marriage April 23, 1861, to
Miss Josephine E., daughter of Mr. A. C. Holcombe, a native of
Virginia, and one of the Cincinnati pioneers. She departed
this life on the third day of May, 1880, leaving two sons—both
now grown to manhood—Edwin Francis, engaged in business as
cashier for Rothschild & Sons, at No. 292 West Sixth street;
and George Pollock, bill clerk in the office of the Cincinnati
Southern railroad.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 442
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HON.
STANLEY MATTHEWS, justice of the Supreme court of the
United States, is a native Cincinnatian, born July 21, 1824,
son of Thomas J. and Isabella (Brown) Matthews.
His father was a native of Leesburgh, Virginia; his mother a
daughter of Colonel William Brown, a well-known pioneer
of the Miami country. She was a second wife, and Stanley was
the first-born of this marriage. While he was yet an infant,
the elder Matthews received an appointment as professor of
mathematics in the Transylvania University, at Lexington,
Kentucky, and removed thither, where he was also engaged as a
civil engineer in some of the early railway enterprises of
that State. In 1832 he was chosen a professor in the Woodward
high school, and returned to Cincinnati. Young Matthews,
although now but in his ninth year, became a pupil in the
school, and remained an assiduous student there until 1839,
when he matriculated as a junior in Kenyon college, from which
he was graduated, after a single year's study, in August,
1840, when only seventeen years old. He began a course of law
study in Cincinnati soon after, but in 1842 went to Spring
Hill, Maury county, Tennessee, where he resided in the family
school of the Rev. John Hudson, a Presbyterian
clergyman, which was known as the Union seminary, in whose
management and instruction he assisted. Here he was united in
marriage to Miss Mary, daughter of James Black,
of the same county. While in this State he was admitted to
practice at the bar, and opened an office at Columbia, on the
Duck river. He also engaged in political and general editorial
writing for a weekly newspaper in that place called the
Tennessee Democrat, his opinions then being in accordance with
those indicated by its title. He remained in Columbia but a
short time, however, returning to his native city in 1844. He
was there again the next year admitted to practice, and formed
a partnership with Samuel B. Keys and
Mr. Isaac C. Collins, he, although as yet scarcely of age,
becoming the head of the firm of Matthews, Keys & Collins.
He was soon, through the influence of Judge W. B.
Caldwell, then on the bench, appointed assistant
prosecuting attorney for a single term of court, which proved
a somewhat important stepping stone in his early advancement.
He had become thoroughly converted to the principles and
policy of the anti-slavery agitation through the writings of
Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, who was then conducting the
Cincinnati Daily Herald, and when Dr. Bailey went to
Washington to establish the National Era in 1846, Mr.
Matthews succeeded to the editorial management of the
Herald, remaining in charge until the winter of 1848-9. His
journalistic career had naturally given him some influence and
prominence in politics, and at the legislative session of that
winter—the same at which Governor Salmon P. Chase was
elected United States Senator—he was chosen clerk to the House
of Representatives. In 1850 he returned to the practice of his
profession in the Queen City, and the next year, while still
less than thirty years old, was elected a judge of the court
of common pleas. This position he resigned on the first of
January, 1853, from inadequacy of salary, and joined his
former preceptor at the law in the formation of the firm of
Worthington & Matthews, which partnership lasted about eight
years. At the fall election of 1855 he was elected to the
State senate, and served through his two-years term. In 1858
he was appointed by President Buchanan United
States attorney for the southern district of Ohio, but
resigned soon after the accession of President
Lincoln. To the outbreak of the war of the Rebellion he
had been a consistent Democrat, with anti-slavery convictions;
but thereafter identified himself with the Republican party,
in whose faith he has since steadily reposed. Soon after the
great conflict began he tendered his services to the
Government through Governor Dennison, and was by
him appointed lieutenant colonel of the Twenty-third regiment
Ohio volunteer infantry, the same notable command of which
W. S. Rosecrans was colonel and Rutherford
B. Hayes major. The regiment was then equipping and
drilling at Camp Chase, but soon took the field in western
Virginia. Lieutenant Colonel Matthews
remained with it through the summer and fall campaign of 1861,
and in October was promoted to a full colonelcy, and assigned
to the Fifty-first Ohio infantry. With this he reported to
General Buell at Louisville, and served under him
and other commanders of the Army of the Cumberland until
April, 1863, when, while absent in the field, he was elected
by his fellow-citizens at home a judge of the supreme court of
Cincinnati, and resigned his commission to accept this
distinguished office. This he also resigned about a year
thereafter, for the same cause which induced him to leave the
bench of the common pleas. While in the Superior court, his
colleagues were the eminent Judges Storer and
Hoadly. Judge Matthews now remained a
private practitioner, in large and lucrative business, until
the summer of 1876, when he was nominated for Congress, but
defeated at the fall election by a very small majority. This,
it was confidently believed, had been obtained by fraud, and
he served notice of contest upon his competitor, General
Henry B. Banning. Greater things were in store for him,
however, than success in a contest for a seat in the lower
house of Congress. Upon the appointment of Senator
John Sherman to the Secretaryship of the Treasury,
in the cabinet of President Hayes, Judge
Matthews was triumphantly elected to his seat in the
United States Senate, General Garfield and other
prominent gentlemen in the canvass withdrawing in his favor.
Meanwhile, however, in February, 1877, Judge
Matthews was called to make one of his most noteworthy
public appearances, either professionally or politically, as
counsel for President-elect Hayes, before the electoral
commission, in session at Washington, to determine the
questions raised by the election of the preceding year and the
meetings of the electoral college. His argument on this
occasion was one of the most masterly submitted to the
commission, and justly added to the fame of its author.
At the expiration of his senatorial term, the Democrats
having returned to power in the State Legislature and chosen
the Hon. George H. Pendleton as his successor, he
returned to private life, from which he was again summoned in
the early part of 1881, by an appointment, first by
President Hayes and then by President
Garfield, to a place upon the Federal Supreme Bench. After
some delay, caused mainly by the memorable dead lock in the
United States Senate in the spring of that year, he was
confirmed, and took his seat among his peers as a worthy
representative of the first lawyers of the land. In his own
State, it is needless to say, Justice Matthews
has long shone as a luminary of the first magnitude at the
bar, as well as in political and social life. For logical
power, profound and varied learning, rare abilities of
argument and persuasion, and high personal character, his has
for more than a generation been clarum et venerabile nomen. A
Presbyterian in his faith and denominational connection, he
has upon occasions been eminently serviceable to the church
and the country, as when, at the general assembly of 1864, in
session at Newark, New Jersey, he wrote, presented, and
secured the adoption of a committee report, with appended
resolutions, which placed the Presbyterian church of the north
squarely upon the platform of emancipation. The Queen City is
justly proud of his character, his record, his name and fame.
Justice Matthews has had ten children, of whom
but five survive—William Mortimer, Jeanie,
Eva, Grace, and Paul Matthews.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
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COLONEL
DAVID W. McCLUNG, surveyor of customs for the port of
Cincinnati, and ex-officio collector, etc., is of west
Scotland or Highland stock. In 1730 his great-grandfather came
to this country and settled in Washington county, New York.
His descendants mostly resided in that State; but his son,
Charles McClung, grandfather of the subject of this memoir,
removed to Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, where David's father
and mother were both born, but were both brought to Ohio by
their parents in early childhood, the families settling in
Fairfield county. The father's name was also David; he was
married in 1824 to Miss Elizabeth Brown, daughter of David and
Elizabeth (McTeer) Brown. Their fifth child and fourth son was
David Waddle, born December 18, 1831, in Eaton township,
Seneca county, Ohio, to which his parents had removed two
years after marriage. His brothers and sisters were, in due
order of birth, Phoebe, William Clark, Robert, James (deceased
in February, 1874), Margaret (died November, 1878), Sarah and
Harvey (both of whom died in childhood), John
Calvin, and Martha (deceased in August, 1876). But five of this large
family, including David, are now living. The father died in
October, 1867, and the mother in August, 1877.
David was brought up on a farm, which had been the
manual-labor school of his ancestry for generations; attended
the country schools in his childhood, which were very good for
the time, the residence of the family being on the border of
the famous Western Reserve; and was a member of the Seneca
County academy, at Republic, then taught by the Hon. Thomas W.
Harvey, since State commissioner of Schools. Here he prepared
for college, and entered freshman at Muskingum college, New
Concord, in October, 1850; remained one term, and then
transferred his allegiance to Miami university, at Oxford,
from which he was graduated A. B. in 1854. During much of his
preparatory course he maintained himself by teaching school,
beginning at the early age of fifteen, and for a large share
of the expenses of his college course he served the university
in various capacities, but had to create a debt, which was
faithfully repaid upon his entrance into business life. After
graduation he again undertook the pedagogic vocation, but in a
higher field, becoming at first principal of the high schools,
then superintendent of public schools in Hamilton, in which
two positions he remained three years. At the expiration of
his year as superintendent he accepted the charge of the
Republican organ at the same place, the Hamilton
Intelligencer, which he conducted or assisted in editing for
about two years, in association with his old friend and
classmate, Colonel Minor Milliken. It was the early day of the
Republican party; Butler county was largely Democratic; it was
an important transition period, and the Intelligencer bore its
full share in fixing the current of public opinion. The fight
with opponents was at times close and sharp, and Mr. McClung
was himself personally attacked by an infuriated Democrat, and
bore from the conflict an honorable scar which he wears to
this day, a testimonial of the later days that tried men's
souls. He was during this time of editorial work engaged at
intervals in the study of the law; and in the winter of
1859-60 he was appointed by the governor to the position of
probate judge of the county, vice William R. Kinder, who died
in office. Upon the election of his successor—a Democrat, of
course—he spent a few months desultorily in his law office,
but, immediately upon the outbreak of the war, the call for
volunteers being issued Monday morning, April 16, 1861, he
enlisted in a Hamilton company as a private soldier, and went
with it to Camp Jefferson, Columbus, where it was sworn into
service April 24th, and assigned as company F, Third Ohio
infantry. On the twenty-seventh of the same month the regiment
was sent, with five companies of the Eleventh, to establish
Camp Dennison, on the Little Miami railroad, seventeen miles
from Cincinnati. Mr. McClung was taken from the ranks, where
he was still serving as a private, and made quartermaster of
the camp, in which place of responsibility and honor he was
detained, contrary to all precedents of the service, until the
following March, hundreds of thousands of dollars, in money
and property, passing through his hands meanwhile, not only of
quartermaster's, but of ordnance stores. He then received a
commission, to date from February 19, 1862, as captain and
assistant quartermaster. He remained at the camp until June
15, 1862, having meanwhile rebuilt it, in order to fit it for
winter quarters; and was then ordered to Camp Chase, to build
the barracks for rebel prisoners there. When the call for five
hundred thousand more was made by President Lincoln, Camp
Dennison acquired more importance than ever, and Captain
McClung was ordered back to equip the regiments forming
therein. From first to last, it is believed that he prepared
not far from one hundred regiments for the field. When the
second levy of troops had been equipped, he supervised the
conversion of the barracks at the camp, during November and
December of 1862, into a convalescent hospital. Thence he
departed for Madison, Indiana, where hospitals more convenient
to' the river were to be built, and, after getting that work
well under way, he was ordered to Cincinnati, to take charge
of the purchase of supplies, in which capacity he served until
the close of the war. His money accounts with the Government,
during his entire term of service, aggregated about
twenty-five million dollars; his property accounts more than
twice as much. Like other officers in similar positions, he
was from time to time inspected, investigated, "detectived,"
and "spied," but never once accused, and he long since had his
accounts satisfactorily balanced by the officers of the
Treasury Department. His services were not finally dispensed
with until November 8, 1865, when he was honorably mustered
out, at his own reiterated request. Shortly before this,
October 30, he was breveted major of volunteers, for faithful
and meritorious services, on the recommendation of General
Ekin and other high officers of the quartermaster's
department. He returned to Hamilton, and was elected president
of the Second National bank in that city, although not then a
stockholder. In about a year and a half he resigned that
place, and began the manufacture of machinery in Hamilton,
remaining in this business for two years, when he exchanged
his stock in the machine-shop for an interest in the Woodsdale
Paper company, of which he took charge and remained its
business manager until February 1, 1879, when he removed to
Cincinnati and became assistant postmaster. In January, 1881,
he was nominated by President Hayes surveyor of the port of
Cincinnati, and again by President Garfield upon his
accession, when he was promptly confirmed by the senate and
received his commission, of date March 10, 1881.
Such a career as that of Colonel McClung needs no
embellishment or further illustration. His qualities of mind
and character are easily inferrible from this outline sketch
of his rapid and sure advancement to his present high
position.
Colonel McClung was married on the nineteenth of March,
1861, to Miss Anna Carter Harrison, only daughter of Carter B.
Harrison, youngest son of General and President
Harrison. Her
mother was Mary, of the family of John Sutherland, one of the
pioneers of Butler county. She is a worthy helpmate of her
distinguished spouse. They have no children, and reside on
Walnut Hills, in the First ward of Cincinnati.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 444
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DR.
A. J. MILES.
Abijah J. Miles, M. D., health officer for the city of
Cincinnati, is a native Buckeye, born at Troy, Miami county,
Ohio, on the thirty-first of March, 1834. His maternal
progenitors in this country were of English stock, their
arrival upon western shores being contemporaneous with that
of William Penn. The family name on that side is Coats. He
is of long-lived stock, his grandfather on the mother's side
living to the age of ninety-six, and reading by second sight
without glasses when about ninety years old, and his
paternal grandfather living until near the same age. His
father is now in his seventy-sixth year. His mother's maiden
name was
Sarah Coats, born in Dayton December 18, 1804, when
it was but a little hamlet. Her parents had removed from
Pennsylvania to South Carolina in the latter part of the
last century, but being of the Quaker faith, they conceived
a strong abhorrence to the institution of slavery, and again
removed, this time to Ohio, passing through Cincinnati when
it had less than nine hundred inhabitants, and settling in
Dayton when it had made little more than a beginning. His
paternal grandfather's family, the Mileses, came at
the same time, with many other Quaker families, who formed
the celebrated settlements west of Dayton, in Montgomery and
Miami counties.
William, son of Jonathan
Miles, the grandfather, was born in 1806, and married
Sarah Coates February 18, 1829. She died, more than fifty
years afterwards, upon the same place where she began
housekeeping, April 28, 1879. The father is still living.
Their fourth child and third son was Abijah, who was
born at the old homestead, near Troy, as before noted. His
elementary education was received in the country schools of
the neighborhood, after which he went to the Troy high
school, where he was prepared to enter Antioch college. He
was a member of this institution during parts of three
years, teaching school in the winter, and getting means to
attend the college during the spring and summer terms,
during which, by hard labor, he managed to keep up with his
classes. He began to read medicine with Dr.
George Keifer, in Troy, and pursued the study
with Dr. Sigafoose, of West Milton, in the
same county, finishing at the Ohio Medical college, in
Cincinnati, in 1858-9 and 1862-3, taking his diploma in
March, 1863. Meanwhile, in 1861, he had enlisted in the army
as hospital steward in the Fortieth regiment of Ohio
infantry, then equipping for the field at Camp Chase. With
this command he served through the arduous campaign in
eastern Kentucky in early January, 1862, during which the
victorious battle of Middle Creek was fought by General
Garfield's brigade, of which the Fortieth was part. His
health was broken down by the hardships of the campaign,
and, although offered the post of assistant surgeon upon his
graduation subsequently, he had to be permanently
discharged from the service, to which he never was able to
return, and suffers in health to this day on account of that
severe war experience. He accepted, however, directly after
graduation, the position of interne, or house physician, in
the Commercial (now Cincinnati) hospital, an honor only
bestowed upon the most meritorious students of the
graduating classes of the college. At the expiration of his
year's term he decided to open an office in Loudon, Madison
county, Ohio, but in January, 1866, he returned to
Cincinnati, on account of the laborious character of the
country practice, and after a few months recommenced
business. It was now the cholera season, and a favorable
time for a young practitioner in the city. He soon commanded
a large practice, which has been successfully maintained and
increased to this day. Within the last eight years he has
developed special talents in the direction of obstetrical
and gynecological practice; and since 1873 has joined to
numerous other duties those of the professorship of diseases
of women and children in the Cincinnati college of medicine
and surgery. Upon topics related to this department of
practice he has written much and effectively—as papers
before medical societies upon the use of forceps in breech
deliveries, in explanation of a new breech forceps devised
by him, as also reports of cases of delivery by means of the
breech forceps, upon a new vaginal speculum, and many
reports in the Medical News, of which he was for some time
an associate editor and proprietor. Other medical topics
have also been treated by him in essays for publication or
for reading before societies, as upon wine of tobacco in
tetanus, rotheln, and other themes. In 1875 he was made a
fellow of the obstetrical society of London, England, and is
also a member of the Cincinnati Obstetrical society, of
which he was elected vice-president in January, 1877, and of
the Cincinnati Medical society and the Academy of Medicine,
of the same city, and of the State Medical society, in which
he was chosen vice-president in 1876. In April, 1880, he was
appointed, by a union of Republicans and Democrats in the
board of health, to the eminent and responsible position of
health officer of Cincinnati, which he now holds, and in
which his efficient services, and especially his clear and
able reports, are giving him fresh name and fame.
In June, 1864, Dr. Miles was
married to Mary F., daughter of
B. B. and Nancy Steams, of Cincinnati. His wife died at
Mentone, France, in April, 1875, and he was remarried
October 11, 1877, to Miss Martha, daughter of
Aaron A. Colter, esq., of the same city. They have no
children. Dr. and Mrs. Miles
are members of the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, on
Ninth street, in Cincinnati.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 433 |
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MUELLER & FROELKING,
proprietors of the Main Street brewery, which may be
mentioned aong the successful breweries of Cincinnati and
one of the oldest in the city. Michael Mueller,
the senior member of the firm, was born in Germany, where he
learned his trade as a brewer. In 1856 he came to
Cincinnati and entered teh employ of the breweries here, and
worked in the leading breweries of the city, being foreman
of the Jackson brewery for a number of years. Learning
the full history of the brewery business (being a very
successful foreman) he entered business for himself, and
since than, we may safely say, he has done exceedingly well,
placing the Main Street brewery beer among the best
manufactured in the city. They employ twenty-five
hands, with a capacity of five thousand barrels of beer,
finding sale for it principally in the city. Mr.
August Froelking entered the partnership in 1879.
He has for a number of years been one of Cincinnati’s
prominent merchants.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
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CHARLES S. MUELLER, of
the Twenty-first district school, was born in Wurtemburg,
Germany, in 1842. He came with his sister to America
in 1852, graduated in the old Polytechnic school of the city
in 1864, since which time he has been teaching, now having
charge of a building in Sedamsville, in the Twenty-first
district. He was married to Miss Sophia Troescher,
formerly of Germany. He has his residence on Price’s
Hill.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 491 |
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DR.
CHARLES SIDNEY MUSCROFT, long one of the foremost
surgeons of the Ohio valley, is a native of Sheffield,
England, born in that part of the city then known as "Little
Sheffield," on the fourteenth of February, 1820. His parents
were George and Hannah (Chapman) Muscroft. The father was one
of the successful manufacturing cutlers in the renowned city
of cutlery; but, upon removal to America in 1822, he became
rather a jobber in the business. He came to this country
against the prohibition of the British Government, which was
opposed to the emigration of its skilled workmen; but,
departing ostensibly for settlement in Holland, he was enabled
to get thence to the new world without difficulty. Landing at
Baltimore, his sympathies determined him to join the community
experiment being made by Robert Owen at New Harmony, Indiana,
and he transported his family and effects in wagons to
Brownsville, thence by river vessel to Cincinnati, where he
was persuaded by several gentlemen to stay his journey and
settle in the rising young city. He was a man of superior
intelligence and mechanical genius, a public-spirited citizen,
and a very useful member of society and business circles in
Cincinnati in the early day. He lived here continuously from
the fall of 1825, until April 23, 1845, the birthday of Shakspere (as also
Mr. Muscroft), when he died, being then in
his fifty-ninth year. He was at the time about to make a new
and very notable venture here, in the manufacture of malleable
iron, and his death, for this and other reasons, was justly
regarded as a public calamity. He was a leading member and
founder of the Ohio Mechanics' institute, and had sometimes
lectured before that and other scientific bodies in the city
on technical and other topics with which he was familiar; and
upon his death a fitting series of resolutions was adopted by
the institute, sent to his family, and published in the city
papers.
Charles Sidney was the youngest member of the family
who lived beyond the period of infancy. He was trained in the
private school of the Neifs, in Cincinnati, then the famous
academy of Professor Milo G. Williams, and finally the yet
more famous academy of Alexander and William Kinmont. For two
or three years he assisted his father in mechanical
operations, and then, at the age of nineteen, began to read
medicine with Dr. Charles L. Avery, son of John L. Avery,
formerly sheriff of the county. He also matriculated at the
Ohio Medical college, took three full courses of lectures, and
was graduated with the diploma of M. D. on the first of March,
1843. The young doctor began practice at once and alone, and
has since continuously practiced in the city of his childhood
and youth, and always without a partner. For about twelve
years he was engaged in general practice, but near the year
1855 began to turn his I attention especially to surgery, in
which his chief reputation has been attained. He has since
been called to perform most of the grand operations known to
surgical science. He has frequently and successfully
accomplished the exsection of bones, in one or two cases the
removal of all, or very nearly all, the entire fibula. His
operation for the removal of the entire ulna is noticed with
interest in Dr. Gross' work on the Centennial History of
Surgery in America, published in 1876, in which only the names
of Drs. Muscroft, R. D. Mussey, and George C. Blackman are
mentioned among Cincinnati surgeons. He has devised a new
method in the treatment of fractures, discarding the use of
splints, and relying solely upon pillows and sand-bags—a
method which in his practice has been most eminently
successful, and has commended itself extensively to other
surgeons. He has also made important contributions to the
literature of the profession, as in two papers on the use of sulphate of iron as a local remedy, read respectively before
the Ohio medical society and the Academy of Medicine, and
others on the exsection of the ulna, descriptive of the case
mentioned in the Centennial History by Dr. Gross, the
treatment of Asiatic Cholera, the Osteosarcoma of the I
Superior Maxilla, two on the Prevention of Syphilis, etc.,
etc. As chairman of a committee of the Academy of Medicine, to
prepare an obituary notice of Dr. George A. Blackman, after
his death in 1875, he wrote a sketch of the life and services
of the distinguished dead, which was afterwards used bodily in
the report of the transactions of the American Medical
association, and without any credit whatever to its author.
For many years Dr. Muscroft was on the medical staff of the
Cincinnati hospital. He has maintained a general practice in
medicine with reputation and success, and is an active member
of the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medical
society, and of the American Medical association. He was the
first health officer and actuary of the board of health of the
city of Cincinnati, in the cholera year of 1849; was for a
time surgeon of St. John's hospital, in the city; and during
the war was first surgeon of the Tenth Ohio infantry, then,
successively, brigade surgeon, medical director, and inspector
of hospitals, for certain purposes. He thus had large
opportunity for public usefulness—opportunity which was well
used for his own reputation and for the benefit of the
community and nation.
Dr. Muscroft was united in marriage February 14, 1850, the
thirtieth anniversary of his birthday, to Miss Harriet,
daughter of Thomas Palmer, one of the founders of the Cincinnati Daily Gazette. They have had five children, only
one of whom is living—Dr. Charles S. Muscroft, jr., a
promising young physician, who is associated with his father
upon the medical staff of St. Mary's hospital. Mrs. Muscroft
is still living, a worthy helpmate of her honored husband.
Dr. Muscroft is a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, was one of the founders of the Cuvier club, and
otherwise takes a healthy interest in the welfare of his
fellows. He was formerly an old-line Whig, but since 1850 has
been affiliated with the Democratic party.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 439
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DR.
REUBEN D. MUSSEY. The late Reuben Dimond
Mussey, M. D., LL. D., long a prominent surgeon and
medical practitioner in Cincinnati, was a native of
Rockingham county, New Hampshire, born June 23, 1780, of
French Huguenot stock. His ancestors settled at
Ipswich, Massachusetts, early in the seventeenth century.
John Mussey, his father, was also a physician of
note, and survived until 1831, when he died at the advanced
age of eighty-six. The elder Mussey removed to
Amherst, New Hampshire, in 1791, and here his son, then
eleven years of age, had his first opportunities of formal
education, but only during part of the winter, and at
a district school. Elementary Latin was taught him by
his father, and at the age of fifteen he was enabled to
enter the Aurean academy, an Amherst institution.
Ambitious of yet higher education, he labored diligently on
the farm during the warm season and taught school in the
winter. In this way he secured means enough to carry
him through Dartmouth college, which he entered in 1801, as
a junior, and was graduated there from two years afterwards,
with high honor. He began the study of medicine at
once with Dr. Nathan Smith, the distinguished founder
of he Medical school of New Hampshire, afterwards of
New Haven, Connecticut. For financial reasons,
however, he returned for a time to teaching, this time in
the academy of Petersborough, but keeping up his medical
reading, now with Dr. Howe, of Jaffrey, but returning
presently to Dr. Smith. In 1805 he received his
degree of Bachelor of Medicine, as the practice then was in
that part of the country, after due public examination.
In September following he began practice in Essex county,
Massachusetts, with a very hopeful prestige, and was shortly
able to enjoy further advantages of instruction at the
University of Pennsylvania. From this institution,
after sitting at the feet of Rush, Wister, Barton, and other
masters of medical science, he was graduated in 1809.
Soon resuming practice, he occupied much of his leisure time
in making experimental researches, in the hope of settling
certain important and long disputed questions in physiology.
For example, even before leaving the University school, he
ascertained by the detection in human urine of highly
colored substances, as madder, cochineal, and the like,
solutions of which had been merely brought into contact with
parts of the body, that the doctrine of cutaneous absorption
was true. The experiments were performed upon his own
person, and one of the baths in which he immersed himself
for the purpose nearly cost him his life. Similar
results were obtained by others, building upon his
inquiries. The experiments are referred to in the
Anatomy of Dr. Wister and kindred works, and went far
to change the views of the physiologists - even so eminent a
scientist as Dr. Rush - in regard to the possibility
of absorption by the skin.
Dr. Mussey's first settlement, after graduation
was at Salem, Massachusetts, where he practiced in
partnership with the eminent Dr. Daniel Oliver,
afterwards incumbent of the chair of medicine in the New
Hampshire medical institution, and also lecturer on
physiology in the Ohio Medical college. These
gentlemen, in addition to their regular practice, gave the
local public the benefit of their large acquirements in the
annual courses of lectures on chemistry. Dr. Mussey's
business grew rapidly upon his hands, especially in the
practice of surgery, his services in the treatment of the
eye, as well as of other portions of the human anatomy,
being frequently called into requisition. In the fall
of 1814 he was elected to the chair of theory and practice
of physic in the Medical school at Dartmouth college.
He assumed the duties of the post, which were presently
interrupted by the uprising of legal questions, during which
he occupied the time of the academic session with another
notable series of chemical lectures, which was repeated,
with additions, at Middlebury college, Vermont, in 1817.
Upon the clearance of the legal difficulties, through the
memorable aid of Danial Webster, in his great
argument before the supreme court of the United States,
Dr. Mussey resumed teaching at Dartmouth, but this time
as a professor of anatomy and surgery. This was a
peculiarly laborious and responsible position, to whose
duties he added a large professional practice, which had
grown during his, as yet, short residence in the village.
He went abroad in December, 1829, and spent ten months in
travel, recreation, and the collection of facts and
principles in his favorite science from the great hospitals
and anatomical museums of London and Paris. He
doubled, and sometimes trebled, his work upon his return to
Dartmouth, in order to make good the time lost by his
foreign tour. For four winters thereafter he also
lectured upon anatomy and surgery in the medical school of
Maine, at a time when the New Hampshire college was not in
session. In 1836-7 he was lecturer on surgery in the
college of physicians and surgeons, at Fairfield, New York,
and in the fall of the next year he determined to accept a
more distant, and in some respects a more hopeful,
appointment, and add his great abilities to the staff of the
medical college of Ohio. He came to Cincinnati in
1838, and for fourteen years was the highly successful and
popular lecturer on surgery in that institution, and also
the chief medical attendant at the Commercial hospital,
while he also maintained an extensive private practice.
He was especially skilled in the grand operation of surgery,
which he was frequently called to perform and in which he
won a high and wide reputation, patients coming at times
long distances to receive his treatment. In 1850 he
was made president of the American Medical association, and
discharged its duties with entire acceptance. Two
years thereafter he was called upon to aid in founding a new
institution, the Miami Medical college, and was its
professor of surgery until 1857, when the two institutions
were united. He, however, was now seventy-seven years
old, and amply entitled to the retirement which he sought.
For two years longer he continued to practice in Cincinnati,
and then returned to the east, where he spent his last years
in Boston, visiting the hospitals and manifesting to the
last an active interest in the advancement of his beloved
profession. He died in that city June 21, 1866, having
completed, within two days his eighty-sixth year.
Dr. Mussey's is one of the great and venerable
names in the history of medicine and that of the Ohio
valley. Among the eulogies which have been passed upon
his character and life, there is none, perhaps, more
forcible or better put than the following from the
Biographical Cyclopaedia and Portrait Gallery of
Distinguished Men, published in 1879:
To a most profound knowledge and skill
in his profession, Dr. Mussey united the virtues and
honorable qualities which reflect justice upon humanity.
To his temperate living, and to the strict regularity of his
habits, he seemed to be much indebted for the great length
and the useful labors of his life. He took an active
part in forming the Massachusetts Temperance society, but in
his own course of life he did not restrict the meaning of
temperance to the mere abstinence from the use of
intoxicating drinks,, and at this period he became
distinguished as an advocate of total abstinence. In
1828 a severe fit of sickness caused him to change his views
on diet, and he became a vegetarian, and remained so until
his death. During the years dating from 1833 to 1840,
he delivered a series of popular lectures on hygiene,
including the effects of certain fashions in dress, peculiar
habits of life, and varieties of food, etc., upon the human
health. In 1860 he published a valuable work, entitled
Health, its Friends and its Foes, which gained a wide
circulation. Dr. Mussey was a man of such
strong individuality and originality of character and ideas
that he was a leader among men. As a surgeon he was
strictly conservative, religiously conscientious, and very
thorough, as well in the treatment of his cases following
operations as in the performance of them. In many of
his surgical operations he was in the performance of them.
In many of his surgical operations he was the pioneer, and
the medical and scientific journals of Europe and America
contain records of his valuable discoveries in surgical
science. He was remarkable for large benevolence and
generosity, not alone toward the poor among his patients,
but to all institutions and enterprises of a benevolent and
charitable nature. Untiring industry, perseverance,
enthusiasm, fidelity to principle, and his views of duty in
his professional, moral, and social life, were the
controlling influences in his eventful and brilliant career.
While laboring for the good of humanity in this world, he
was not forgetful of the concerns of the next. He was
an elder in the Presbyterian church, and was very strict and
observant of his religious duties. He was universally
beloved in his profession, as well as out of it.
Dr. Mussey's first wife was Miss Mary
Sewall, of Maine. He had no children by his
marriage. After her death he was again married, his
second wife being Miss Hetty, daughter of Dr. John
Osgood, of Salem, Massachusetts. They had nine
children, most of whom have risen to distinction, or occupy
prominent positions in society. The roll is as
follows: John, who died in 1872; Joseph
Osgood, who died in 1856; William Herbenden, an
eminent surgeon of Cincinnati, who is the subject of further
notice below; Francis Brown, another able
physician, residing in Portsmouth, Ohio; Maria Lucretia,
now Mrs. Lyman Mason, of Boston, Massachusetts;
Catharine Stone, now Mrs. Shattuck Hartwell, of
Littleton, Massachusetts; the Rev. Charles Frederick, D.
D., a Presbyterian minister, of Blue Rapids, Kansas;
Edward Augustus, died in 1831; and Reuben Dimond,
a prominent lawyer in Washington city.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 422
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DR.
WILLIAM HEBERDEN MUSSEY, M. D., M. A., third son of
Reuben D. Mussey, above noticed, and Hetty Osgood
Mussey, is a native of Hanover, New Hampshire, born
September 30, 1818. His middle name is that of an
eminent Scotch physician. He received general training
in the academies of New England; in 1848 read medicine with
his father, and graduated from the medical college of Ohio,
and subsequently finished his professional education also in
the superior schools of the French capital. He was for
a short time previously in mercantile life, but found the
occupation uncongenial. He began practice with his
distinguished father, but was soon diverted from it by the
oncoming of the great storm of rebellion. He foresaw
the struggle clearly, and even before the outbreak, wrote to
Governor Chase, then secretary of the treasury,
urgently asking permission to convert the old and unused
Maine hospital building at the east end, into an army
hospital, in preparation for coming emergencies.
Consent being obtained, the necessary funds were raised by
private contribution, the hospital was fully organized and
set in operation, and was soon one of the most efficient and
useful volunteer hospitals ever turned over to the
Government, and the pioneer institution of the kind.
Dr. Mussey was also greatly influential in the
formation of the munificent benefaction known as the
Cincinnati branch of the United States sanitary commission,
which was organized in the rooms occupied by his office at
No. 70 West South street. The story of the work done
by the commission and of the wonderful sanitary fair in its
aid, is told in our military chapter, as also, to some
extent, that of Dr. Massey's further services of the
Union cause. He offered his abilities as an
uncommissioned gratuitously to the Government, to
serve till the war ended, which was declined; he was
commissioned brigade surgeon, became medical director of the
division in Buell's army, was in service in the
battles of Shiloh and Corinth, and was finally promoted to
be medical inspector, one of the very highest positions on
the medical staff of the army. During service in this
capacity, he inspected every Federal regiment on duty from
Washington to Florida. It is said of him by competent
authorities that, in the various military duties assigned to
him, he was considered one of the most efficient medical
officers in the service. During the year the Rebellion
was crushed he received the appointment of professor of
surgery in the Miami Medical college, which he still holds.
In 1863 he was appointed surgeon to the Cincinnati hospital;
in 1864, was elected vice-president of the American Medical
association; has been surgeon of the St. John's hotel for
invalids in 1855, surgeon general on the staff of the
governor of Ohio in 1876, and the same year president of the
Cincinnati society of natural history. He has written
and published much on professional topics, and has made a
permanent and invaluable contribution to the medical and
scientific reading accessible to students in Cincinnati, by
the foundation of the Mussey connection in the public
library, upon the basis of a large number of rare volumes
left by his father, to which he has made great additions.
The collection already counts five thousand six hundred
volumes and three thousand six hundred pamphlets; he is
constantly recruiting its goodly numbers. The
encyclopedia and Portrait Gallery, from which we have
already quoted, says of Dr. Mussey:
He resembles his
father in some of his most striking characteristics.
Like him, he is severely honest. If, in his opinion,
the condition of a patient is such as to render medical
treatment unnecessary, or if, through the utter hopelessness
of the case it seems to him that no hope of recovery can
possibly be entertained, he promptly and plainly states the
fact, and advises that further expense for medical aid shall
not be incurred. He is also religiously careful and
thorough in his operations, and distinguished for his sound
judgment, fertility of resources, ingenuity of contrivance,
and gentleness of manipulation. A man of method, he is
always rather slow, but very sure, prepared for emergencies
and mishaps. Frankness being one of his chief virtues,
he is ever willing and anxious to acknowledge and atone for
an injustice he may have unwittingly caused another.
Politically, he attends strictly to the observance of his
duties as a citizen. Socially, he is a Christian
gentleman - charitable, genial, and hospitable; and again,
like his father, he possesses a large and benevolent heart,
which dispenses substantial benefits to persons and purposes
needing professional or pecuniary assistance. The
Second Presbyterian church of Cincinnati, in which he is an
ender, has counted him among its liberal supporters, and
regarded him as one of its best members. He is
generally acknowledged to rank among the highest of the
profession in Cincinnati as surgeon.
On the twenty-fifth of May, 1857, Dr. Mussey was
united in marriage with Miss Caroline W. Lindsley, of
Washington city. They have one surviving son,
William Lindsley (named from his maternal grandfather),
a recent graduate of the Woodward high school, and about to
matriculate in Yale College.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 423
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