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MR. E. C. WILLIAMS was born
May 10, 1842, in Cincinnati. His father, George W.
Williams, was one of the oldest settlers in this part of
the State. Mr. Williams was educated in the
public schools of the city, and in 1861 was graduated from
Woodward college. He enlisted in April, 1861. He
was transferred to the gunboat flotilla, then a part of
Fremont’s army. This flotilla was soon transferred to
the United States navy. In this Mr. Williams
served throughout the war, being engaged in all the famous
fights through which this flotilla passed, Vicksburgh, Fort
Donelson, etc. At the close of the war he went to the
Harvard Law school, whence he was graduated in 1867.
He then returned to Cincinnati and was nominated for the
State legislature, but defeated by a coalition between the
Democrats and the German element. He entered into
partnership with the well known W. S. Scarborough.
In 1877 Mr. Scarborough retired from business, and
Mr. Williams formed a partnership with Mr. A. B.
Champion, with whom he is still engaged. Mr.
Williams is now a member of the city school-board.
In 1851 he was elected librarian of the Young Men’s
Mercantile Library association. In 1860 he began the
practice of law with Edward F. Noyes, late minister
to France. At the outbreak of the war he entered the
Thirty-ninth Ohio volunteer infantry, of which his partner
was colonel, and afterwards major. On May 1, 1865, he
was appointed surveyor of customs for Cincinnati by
President Andrew Johnson, but was removed the following
October on account of his not endorsing the President’s
policy. He then formed a partnership with several
gentlemen and founded the Cincinnati Chronicle, an
evening paper, of which he was the first business manager.
This paper afterwards became the Cincinnati Times.
In May of 1869 he was reappointed surveyor of customs
by President Grant, and held this post until his
death, which occurred Jan. 13, 1881. On Aug. 10, 1862,
he was married to Miss Louisa Wright, who survives
him with two sons.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 485 |
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ELKANAH WILLIAMS,
M. A., M. D., ophthalmologist, of Cincinnati, was
born in Lawrence county, Indiana, Dec. 19, 1822. At
ten years of age he went to Bedford academy, and in 1847
graduated in Asbury college, Greencastle, Indiana, after
which he pursued a course of medicine in Bedford and
Louisville, under leading physicians, and graduated in the
Louisville university in 1850. He returned to Indiana
and pursued his practice for two years, when, upon his wife
dying, he returned to Louisville and attended a third course
of lectures. In 1852 he came to Cincinnati, and in the
fall of the same year crossed the Atlantic, mastered the
French language, and attended a course of lectures in Paris
on opthalmology; then went to London and studied under
Bowman Critchett and Dixon of the London Royal
Ophthalmic society—the uses of the opthalmoscope having been
learned under the famous Desmarres, in Paris, it fell
to Dr. Williams’ lot to introduce it in
Cincinnati. In 1854 he went to Vienna and studied
under Beer Rosos, Jaeger, and
Stellwag-von-Carion. Then he went to Prague; then
to Berlin, where he pursued the study of his adopted
specialty several months in each of these places. In
1855 he returned to Cincinnati, and opened an office for the
exclusive treatment of the ear and eye. In 1856 he was
invited to conduct the eye clinics in the Miami Medical
college, and he thus established the chair of ophthalmics in
the county. For twelve years he was ophthalmologist of
the Cincinnati hospital. During the war he was surgeon of
the marine hospital. In 1862 he again visited Europe, and
attended the ophthalmological congress in Paris, and in 1866
he made a third trip for a similar purpose. In 1872 he
went to London on the same errand. He is a member of
the ophthalmological colleges of the old and new world, and
a prominent member of many medical societies in America.
Dr. Williams has made ophthalmology a specalty
during his life, and deservedly has made it a success.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 478 |
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F. B. WILLIAMS, retired, was
born in Hamilton county June 2, 1825, and is the son of
Thomas and Mary (Turner) Williams, who were among the
pioneer settlers of Cincinnati, his mother having come here
as early as 1810. She died May 14, 1865. His
father, Thomas Williams, was born in North Wales.
He, when very young, was bound over to his uncle to learn
the tannery trade, where he remained for several years.
Not being satisfied he determined to come to America.
At twenty-one years of age, he, having no money, went aboard
a ship, where he hid himself in an empty hogshead, where he
was discovered the third day after being at sea. He
came on in the vessel and was landed in New Orleans.
He then set out with a party and walked to Bardstown,
Kentucky; on the way he came near starving. After
remaining in Bardstown a short time he moved to Cincinnati
and located on the southeast corner of Main and Second
streets. Here he established a tannery in a log cabin,
tanning mostly deer skins, making parchments. Being
very successful in his business he invested in real estate.
He owned where the Coliseum theatre is on Vine street, where
he pastured his cows. After remaining in the tannery
business for a number of years he moved to the farm on
Walnut Hills. Here he operated a grist-mill and a
distillery, with a capicity of two barrels of whiskey
per day. Here he carried on business until he built a
residence where the Coliseum theatre is, and there moved and
remained until his death. He died at about sixty-nine
years of age. Our subject has remained on the old farm
until it has accummulated in great value, being one
of the most desirable pieces of property on Walnut Hills.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 514 |
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F.
G. WOLF, first German assistant in the Seventh
district school, was born in Bavaria, Germany, in 1831, and
after receiving a liberal education emigrated to the United
States in 1854, where he taught in the States of New York,
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, coming to Cincinnati in 1878.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page |
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DR. C.
O. WRIGHT.
Charles Olmsted Wright, M. D., is a native of Columbus,
Ohio, born December 26, 1835, oldest child of Dr. I.
Marmaduke Burr Wright and Mrs. Mary L. (Olmsted) Wright.
Her father, Philo H. Olmsted, was in his day one of the most
prominent men in Central Ohio, and for | many years was editor
of the State Journal, of that city. The elder Wright was the
famous physician of that name, who spent a large part of his
professional life in this city, and is appropriately noticed
in our chapter on medicine in Cincinnati. He survived until
August 15, 1879, when he died here, full of years and honors.
Mrs. Wright is still living, in a hale and vigorous age.
Charles was but three years old, when the family
was removed to Cincinnati by a call to his father to occupy
the chair of Materta Medica in the Ohio Medical college. His
primary and in part higher education was taken in the public
schools of the city, but stopped when a member of the Hughes
high school without graduating, in 1852, with the intention of
accompanying his parents to Europe. This intention was
abandoned, for the sake of the younger children, who needed
his care; and he took instead a special course of one year in
the Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware. Leaving this
institution in 1853, he began practice in civil engineering at
the tunnel then being constructed under Walnut Hills, as is
elsewhere related in this history; but was soon compelled by
ill health to seek a more quiet, indoor life. In 1855 he began
the study of medicine with Dr. W. W. Dawson, with whom
he read for a year, when, under friendly advice, he went to
California and engaged in merchandizing there for about six
months, during which he had great experience of the rough and
tumble side of life. He was presently burnt out, however,
losing his entire stock, and was then seized with the spirit
of adventure, pushed across the Pacific to the Sandwich
Islands and thence to the Chinese coast, where he enjoyed a
breadth and minuteness of observation then not often
vouchsafed to a foreigner. Thence he made his way home the
rest of his journey around the world, via Japan, Siam,
Calcutta, Bombay, through the Chusan Archipelago, the island
of Manilla and along the west coast of Africa. From San
Francisco to Cincinnati he occupied three years with his
voyages and land journeys. While in China he found an
extensive field for the observation of skin diseases, and
decided that, if he followed his father's vocation, he would
pay some especial attention to such ailments. Arriving at
home, he promptly resumed his medical studies, becoming a
member of the Ohio Medical college, and enjoying in addition
the instructions of both his father and Dr. Dawson. He
took his diploma of Doctor of Medicine in the summer of 1862,
went immediately before the State board at Columbus, for
examination as a candidate for appointment in the army, passed
it successfully, and was appointed assistant surgeon in the
Thirty-fifth Ohio volunteer infantry. He was captured at
Chickamauga, and for three years was detained as a prisoner at
Atlanta and in the famous Libby prison, at Richmond. He was,
however, as a medical man, allowed some favors, and was
presently released by special exchange, arranged by his
friends at "Washington. He rejoined his regiment at
Chattanooga, during the cold winter of 1862-3 and the
starvation period experienced by the army there. He resigned
on the day of the battle at Kenesaw Mountain, during the
Atlanta campaign, from ill health, and returned home. He had
then reached the full grade of surgeon. Returning home, he was
made a resident physician in the Cincinnati hospital, and also
went into private practice. In this he had his father's
invaluable advice and aid, and soon undertook the same
specialities of practice—obstetrics and diseases of women and
children. He became a member of the staff of the Good
Samaritan hospital and lecturer on skin diseases, and was
afterwards one of the physicians in charge of the dispensary.
He has always maintained a large private practice, but has
found time to write occasional papers for the professional
societies and press, and is an active member of the Cincinnati
academy of medicine, the Obstetrical society and the State
Medical society. He has been called to much service as a
medical examiner for the large life-insurance companies,
having been examiner, among others, for the Mutual Benefit of
New Jersey for sixteen years. He is supreme medical examiner
of the Knights of the Golden Rule for the United States, and
grand medical examiner for the Ancient Order of United Workmen
in Ohio. He does not take a very active part in politics, but
retains his membership in the Grand Army of the Republic.
Dr. Wright was married, in March, 1870,
to Miss Eva, daughter of David K. and Ann
Eliza Cady, of Cincinnati, the former a member of the city
school board for thirty years. They have three children
living, and one, a little girl, in the grave. The surviving
children are David Cady, a boy of nine years;
Marmaduke B. (named from the paternal grandfather), in his
fourth year; and Ann Eliza (from the maternal
grandmother), aged two years. Mary L. died an infant in
1874.
Source: 1789 - 1881 History of Cincinnati, Ohio, with
Illustrations and Biographical Sketches - Publ. L. A.
Williams & Co. - Page 442
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