BIO:  KEHM, Charles J., M.D., Campbell Co., KY
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Subject: BIO: KEHM, Charles J., M.D., Campbell Co., KY
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HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1204.  [Campbell County]

CHARLES J. KEHM, M.D., is not only one of Newport's able and
successful practitioners but for the past eight years he has given eminent
satisfaction in the more public capacity of health officer, displaying
commendable zeal in his watchfulness over sanitary conditions in the city
and inaugurating several reforms which have proved of great benefit to
the community.  Dr. Kehm was born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 7, 1869,
and is the son of Adam and Elizabeth (Glaser) Kehm, both natives of
Germany, who followed the example set by so many of their friends and
associates and came to the United States to seek improved fortunes in a
land of newer civilization and richer opportunity.  They were both young
people at the time of their emigration and they were reared and educated
in Baltimore, in which city they met each other and united their hands and
fortunes in matrimony.  In 1890 they removed to Newport, and there the
father, who had followed the vocation of shoe making, died in 1895 at the
age of forty-nine years.  His widow still survives and makes her residence
in Newport.  Dr. Kehm was one of five children, four of whom are living,
and all of them are residents of this city.
     Dr. Kehm was reared and educated in the "Monument City," and shortly
after his graduation from the high school of his native place he decided
upon the vocation for which his subsequent career was to prove him
eminently well fitted.  He chose the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati
for the alma mater and was sent forth from her portals in 1896 with the
degree of M.D.  His choice of college no doubt had a great deal to do in
deciding his future residence, for after several years he came over the
river to Newport, of which town he had already received a favorable
impression.  He is identified in the happiest manner with the life of the
town and enjoys a good-sized and remunerative practice.  He belongs to
several of those societies destined to bring together the members of the
profession and to assist in the dissemination of all such progressive
ideas as may be evolved in the most enlightened and zealous investigation.
His affiliation extends to the American Medical Association and the
state and county societies.
     Dr. Kehm is a loyal Republican, and, as previously mentioned, has
served for a number of years as Newport's health officer, and prior to that
time he gave two years of efficient service as district health physician.
     Dr. Kehm was married in 1897 to Miss Cora Wentz, of Findlay, Ohio, a
native of the Hoosier state, and to their union have been born a son and
daughter, named Charles and Charlotte, respectively.  Both Dr. and Mrs.
Kehm are communicants of the St. Mark's Lutheran church.

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