|
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)
| |
WILLIAM OWENS, M. D., of
Cincinnati, professor of materia medica and therapeutics in
Pulte Medical college, of Cincinnati, was born in Warren,
Trumbull county, Ohio, Apr. 24, 1823. He early gained
a love for books and travelled extensively through the West
Indies, Florida, and South America. He learned tire
cooper trade; attended attended Woodward college, going to
school the half of each day and working at his trade the
other half. In 1846 he entered a drug store, and in
the following year he was made hospital steward of the First
regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, in the Mexican war.
While in the drug store he attended lectures during the day
and at night served as night clerk, and graduated in 1849.
He was immediately appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the
Eclectic Medical college, and held that position for two
years. The Western College of Homoeopathy, at
Cleveland, Ohio, offered him the same office, which he
accepted, and while filling it attended a full course of
lectures on the homoeopathic materia medica and
therapeutics. In 1859 he returned to Cincinnati.
In 1855 he purchased an interest in the Water Cure, at
Granville, Ohio, and afterwards at Yellow Springs, Ohio.
These enterprises proved to be failures, financially, and he
returned to Cincinnati in 1858. He served through the
war, holding the positions of first lieutenant, captain, and
assistant surgeon, finally taking charge of Branch No. 16,
United States hospital, at Nashville, Tennessee. After
the war he returned to Cincinnati and assisted in founding
Pulte Medical college, in which he occupied the chair of
anatomy for two years, and that of materia medica and
therapeutics, which he still retains, and is also dean of
the faculty. He held the office of examining surgeon
for pensioners for four years. He is a member of
medical societies and has written many articles for medical
journals, and is an able defended of the school of
homoeopathy.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 480 |
|
