Biographical Sketch of Dr. John Theodore Berghoff, St. Joseph, 
Buchanan County, MO

>From "History of Buchanan County, Missouri, Published 1881, St. Joseph
Steam Printing Company, Printers, Binders, Etc., St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Dr. John Theodore Berghoff, professor of surgery in the Northwestern
Medical College, was born in Prussia, November 17, 1825, and landed
in this country on April 15, 1846, and settled in Texas, with a
Prussian colony, where he remained only a few months, when he came
to St. Louis, Missouri, October 16, 1846.  He remained in St. Louis
until April, 1860, when he came to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he 
has received a large and lucrative practice.  Dr. Berghoff received
a thorough druggist education in Prussia, and studied medicine in 
St. Louis, and graduated from the Medical Department of the St. Louis
University on March 1, 1855.  He was appointed assistant surgeon in
the St. Louis hospital, and remained there for three years, with Dr.
T. Y. Banister as resident surgeon.  He opened a drug store in St.
Louis, and continued the practice of his profession until he came to
this city in 1860, when he opened an office and commenced the prac-
tice of his profession.  During the late war, after a thorough ex-
amination by the army board, he was appointed surgeon of the Twenty
fifth Missouri Volunteers and remained in the service until 1864,
being promoted to brigade surgeon.  He returned to this city, where
he has built up a lucrative practice.  In 1881, he was unanimously
elected to the chair of surgery in the Northwestern Medical College.
In every position in which the doctor has been placed he has been
equal to the emergency.  He has performed many very critical surgical
operations very successfully.  He is a good physician and a popular
lecturer.

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