DARKE COUNTY OHIO - BIOS: BLACK, GEORGE EDWARD M.D. (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO, The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Vol. III, Page 348

        GEORGE EDWARD BLACK, M.D.  Three generations of the Black family
have been represented in the medical profession, their work being done in
Ohio and Indiana. Dr. George Edward Black had graduated in medicine and had
done some practice when the World war came on. He went into the service,
finally in the Hospital Corps, was overseas, and since returning home has
been located at Akron, where he is a highly qualified specialist in eye,
ear, nose and throat work.
        Doctor Black was born at Weaver Station in Darke County, Ohio,
December 30, 1886. His grandfather, Dr. Daniel T. Black, practiced medicine
for many years as a country physician at Weaver Station and Fort Jefferson,
Ohio. Dr. Ethelbert Henry Black, father of the Akron physician, was born in
Grant County, Indiana, was a graduate of Rush Medical College of Chicago,
and for thirty-three years handled an extensive county practice, at
Rossburg in Darke County, Ohio. He died in 1915, at the age of fifty-five.
He was very active in all civic and public affairs, owned a farm, had some
fine horses, and was vice president of the Farmers Bank of Rossburg. He was
also a member of the United Brethren Church and the Knights of Pythias. Dr.
Ethelbert H. Black married Flora J. Hamaker, a native of Grant County,
Indiana, now a resident of Palms in California.
        Next to the youngest in a family of four children, George Edward
Black grew up in a rural community at Rossburg, Ohio, attending public
schools, high school at Ansonia and Greenville, Ohio, and in 1909 graduated
with the Doctor of Medicine degree from the Cincinnati Medical College,
where he was a member of the Tau Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After graduating
he engaged in practice at Rossburg as an associate of his father.
        In 1916 poor health caused him temporarily to retire from practice.
Early the next year, when America entered the Worlds war, he enlisted as a
private in the Three Hundred and Twentieth Infantry, taking that branch of
the service in order to build up his physical constitution. Later he was
made a first class sergeant in the Hospital Corps with the Three Hundred
and Twentieth Infantry, and had eighteen months of service with the
Expeditionary Forces. After the armistice Doctor Black went to London,
England, and pursued special post-graduate work in the Central London Nose
and Throat Hospital and the Eye and Ear Hospital. Upon receiving his
discharge he spent some time at New York City doing special work in ear,
nose and throat diseases at the New York Post Graduate Hospital.
        With this preparation he entered upon his career at Akron, where he
confined his practice to this special lines. He belongs to the Summit
County, Sixth District and Ohio State Medical associations, and also
belongs to the State Eclectic and National Eclectic Medical associations.
        Doctor Black is prominent in American Legion circles, being a
member of Summit Post, No. 19. He follows outdoor sports, particularly
fishing and hunting, is a member of the Masonic Club and Coventry Lodge of
Masons. Doctor Black married at New York City in June, 1919, Miss Blanche
Flenniken, who was born and reared in Pennsylvania.


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