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The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 339 Today's Topics: #1 Bios: Hamilton County (Fackler, Fe [christina m hursh To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20001115.172301.-288623.0.frog158@juno.com> Subject: Bios: Hamilton County (Fackler, Ferris, Fehrenbatch, Farley, Falls) Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com id SAA16974 From the Ohio Biographies Project http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~usbios/Ohio/mnpg.html George A. Fackler, M.D. Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Michelle Leslie Dr. George A. Fackler, after taking the usual course of instruction in the public schools, entered Woodward high school, from which he was graduated in 1878, being then seventeen years of age. In the fall of the same year, he matriculated in the Medical College of Ohio, graduating with the degree of M.D. in 1881, being then not quite twenty years old. He immediately entered upon the practice of medicine at No. 35 Everett street, but is now located at 108 Garfield place. From the start he showed an interest in his profession that gave bright promise as to his future, and he soon attracted a lucrative clientage. However, feeling the importance of further study, he went abroad in May 1893, and engaged in hospital laboratory work during the summer and fall of that year, spending five weeks at Brompton Hospital, London, England, and six weeks in the celebrated Pharmacological Institute at Strasbourg, Germany. He also visited the various hospitals of Berlin and Munich and came into personal contact with many of the greatest physicians and surgeons of Europe. After returning home he devoted his attention to his profession with renewed interest, and has since limited his practice to that of internal medicine. His abilities early received recognition and, in 1885, he was appointed assistant to the chair of materia-medica and therapeutics in the Medical College of Ohio. This office he resigned in 1891 to accept the professorship of the same branches in the Women's Medical College of Cincinnati. He was elected dean of that institution in 1891. The college is now out of existence. On January 1, 1893, he was appointed professor of materia-medica in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, a college which has also passed out of existence. He was professor of clinical medicine of the Miami Medical College until the merging of this with the Ohio Medical College. He is now professor of clinical medicine at the Ohio-Miami Medical College and is also a member of the staff of the City Hospital, having served as president of the staff for ten years, from 1900-1910. He has been a member of the Cincinnati Board of Health since its organization in August 1909, and in the discharge of all his duties has shown a promptness and efficiency that have met the hearty approval of his associates. He is a valued member of various organizations, among which may be named the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He was elected secretary of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati in 1884, a position which he filled for six years, and in 1892 was elected president of the academy. He was then only thirty-one years of age, being the youngest man who ever held that office. He served in 1889 as secretary of the medical section of the American Medical Association and has always taken a great interest in this organization and in all other means for promoting the efficiency of members of the professions. On the 2d of January 1884, Dr. Fackler was married to Miss Amelia Von Seggern. He has won distinction in his profession through years of patient study and applications, being known not only as a highly successful practitioner but as a thorough teacher and a man of practical business qualifications, as is shown by the responsible positions he has been invited to fill. Judged by results, his life has been a pronounced success and he may be truly designated as among the most capable and progressive representatives of the medical profession in Cincinnati. ---------- William Henry Falls, M.D. Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Michelle Leslie Dr. William Henry Falls, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Cincinnati for almost forty years, was born in this city November 24, 1849, his parents being Henry and Elizabeth (Clendenin) Falls. The family is of Irish lineage, having been founded in America by the great-grandfather of Dr. Falls, who came from Enneskillen, Ireland, and settled in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Clendenin was of Cumberland county, Pennsylvania and members of the maternal side of her family came from Dumfries, Scotland. An aunt of her mother was the mother of John C. Calhoun. Henry Falls, father of Dr. Falls, came to Cincinnati about 1846, which was subsequent to his marriage. Here he established a carpet store on Fourth street on the site of the Sinton Hotel. This remained the leading carpet store of Cincinnati and from this establishment were secured the furnishings for Pike's Opera House and many other of the leading public buildings and private residences. As the years passed his business grew along satisfactory lines as the result of well directed energy and thrift and he continued an active factor in the trade circles of the city until 1873, when he passed away at the age of fifty-five years. In politics he was a republican but was never active in the work of the party aside from supporting his views at the polls. The public schools of Cincinnati afforded Dr. Falls early educational privileges. He attended the public schools of his native city and was also a high school student in New Castle. Thinking to find the practice of medicine a congenial pursuit, he began reading under the direction of his uncle, Dr. William Clendenin, a very prominent physician and the first health officer of Cincinnati, who also was at one time dean of Miami Medical College, from which Dr. Falls graduated. This was in the year 1873 and during his senior year he also served as interne in Cincinnati Hospital. He began practice as assistant to Dr. William H. Mussey and was afterward admitted to a partnership, their relation continuing uninterruptedly until the death of Dr. Mussey, since which time Dr. Falls has practiced alone. For two years he was physician to the Branch Hospital. His work has grown in volume and importance as the years have gone by and he now has a large clientage among some of the best families of the city. He is ever careful in the diagnosis of his cases and his judgement is seldom if ever at fault. Reading and investigation keep him thoroughly informed concerning the latest discoveries of the medical profession and at the prompting of sound judgement he utilizes every new idea that he believes will prove of practical benefit in his chosen life work. Dr. Falls holds membership with the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, the Ohio State Medial Society and the American Medical Association. He takes a deep interest in church work, holding membership in the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, in which he is serving as elder. Formerly he was for years a member of the First Presbyterian church. Those who know him and his friends are many find him a refined and cultivated gentleman, modest in bearing and deportment, yet of that genuine worth which ever manifests itself upon a community. -------- Angela B. Farley, M.D. Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Michelle Leslie In no profession in which woman has entered has she demonstrated her ability more largely than in the practice of medicine. Given the intellectual power necessary for the mastery of the comprehensive, scientific principles which underlie the work, she adds to this the sympathy and the ready intuition which enables her to quickly understand her patient. In her chosen life work Dr. Angela B. Farley has won excellent success, specializing in her practice in the treatment of women's and children's diseases. She was born in Cincinnati, a daughter of John S. and Catherine Farley. Her father was a native of Ireland and about the time he attained his majority came to the new world, thinking that better business opportunities might be secured on this side of the Atlantic. He is still living at the age of eighty years and remains an active factor in the business world. For years he was connected with the old Cincinnati Insurance Company and is now engaged in the fire insurance business, being the oldest insurance man in the city. Dr. Farley pursued her education in the Convent of Our Lady of Mercy and afterward took a business course prior to entering the Miami Medical College. She completed her preparation for the profession by graduation with the class of 1906 and put her theoretical knowledge to the practical test as interne in the Children's Episcopal Hospital, where she remained for a year. She then began an independent practice and has done much important work as both physician and surgeon. She is enjoying an increasing patronage in surgery and has won the recognition of the profession as an able representative of that branch of the work. She holds to high ideals in her chosen calling and conforms closely to the strictest professional ethics. She has been a member of the Academy of Medicine since 1907 and belongs also to the Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In addition to a large and growing private practice which is increasing in importance as the years go by, she is serving as medical examiner for the Ladies Catholic Benefit Association, the Catholic Ladies of Columbus and the ladies auxiliary of the Knights of St. John. Thoroughly womanly, she has a most pleasing personality and manifests in all her social as well as professional relations good judgment, tact and progressive spirit. --------- John Fehrenbatch Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Michelle Leslie John Fehrenbatch, superintendent of the City Hospital, which position he has filled since August, 1896, was born in Rochester, N.Y., June 29, 1844. He was reared in that city, and attended the public schools there. In August, 1863, he came to Cincinnati, Ohio, having in the meantime served an apprenticeship as blacksmith and machinist in his native city, so that he was qualified to take up work as a skilled mechanic on coming to Ohio. He was first employed as a machinist in the Charles Winchell Machine Shops, but soon afterward he enlisted in the United States Military Railroad service in the department of the Mississippi, being on active duty in 1864-5. After his discharge from the service in March 1865, he returned to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he remained until November 1870, when he took up his residence in Cleveland, Ohio, and where he was elected as member of the Ohio legislature in the fall of 1875 as a representative of the industrial interests of Cuyahoga County and served during the two sessions of the Sixty-second General Assembly. During this term he introduced a bill creating the State Bureau of Labor, a department which has worked wonderful good for the interests of organized labor. He was also the originator of the idea to license value, not only to workers in those fields, but to the public generally. Some knowledge of the scope of his activities may be gained from the fact that he has served as president of the "International Association of Mechanical Engineers, United States Supervising Inspector of Steam Vessels, Supervising Engineer of the City of Cincinnati, president of the National Association of Stationary Engineers, Superintendent of the Cincinnati Hospital and President of the American Association of Hospital Superintendents; also consulting engineer of the Board of Hospital Commissioners in building Cincinnati's new hospital. He is at present commander of the William H. Lytle Post No. 47 Dept. of Ohio Grand Army of the Republic. Upon completing the usual course of study, he was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School with the class of 1894, but after two years of practice, at the earnest insistence of his friends, he retired to take up the place he now holds so creditably to himself, and advantageously to the public. His 15 years service in this connection has won him high commendation from all interested. The most thorough system has been instituted and the utmost attention is given to cleanliness and sanitary conditions. Mr. Fehrenbatch possesses moreover, a business ability and executive power, and these qualities have made him a most competent official. Mr. Fehrenbatch is a member of all the Masonic bodies of both the York and Scottish Rites, being affiliated with Kilwinning Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Cincinnati Chapter R. A. M., Cincinnati Commandery K. T., Scottish Rite Consistory, S. P. R. S., and Syrian Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Queen City Council of Mechanical Engineers, and of the Cincinnati Association of Stationary Engineers, and is ex-president of the National Association of Engineers. He is the author of a library on Steam Engineering, one of the greatest and most widely read and quoted works on this subject. He likewise holds membership with the Laughery Club and the members of these various organizations entertain for him a warm regard which indicates the possession of attractive personal qualities on the part of him who receives the esteem and friendship of his fellows. ------------- Aaron A. Ferris Cincinnati, The Queen City, Vol. 3; published in 1912 Transcribed by: Michelle Leslie Aaron A. Ferris, for thirty-eight years a member of the Hamilton County Bar and long since accorded a position of distinction as a practitioner before the courts in Cincinnati, was born in Delaware, Ohio, November 8, 1845. He is descended in both the paternal and maternal lines from early families of Connecticut, the Ferris family being represented in that colony in 1697. Closely associated with colonial affairs, representatives of the name afterward held official rank in the Revolutionary war. The grandfather, Aaron G. Ferris, was an adjutant of the Second Vermont Regiment by appointment of Govern Isaac Tichenor in 1806. The great-grandfather of Mr. Ferris on the maternal side was Rev. Thomas Brockway, a native of Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College of the class of 1768, who afterward served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary army. The father, Heman Ferris, a native of Sandgate, Vermont, engaged in teaching school in early manhood in Geneseo and Lima, New York, and at the time of his death was proprietor of a book store in Delaware, Ohio, having removed westward to this state about 1834. He was a leading abolitionist previous to the Civil war and also bore the reputation of being an expert mathematician. He married Maria E. Skinner, who was born in Geneseo, New York and was there married. Her father, a native of Connecticut, was a captain in the war of 1812. Aaron A. Ferris supplemented his early education by study in Marietta College, from which he was graduated with salutatorian honors in 1871, and later his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of the Arts degree in recognition of successful work done in professional lines. As a lad he had learned the printer's trade in the office of the Tribune at Marysville, Ohio, and for six months following his graduation from college engaged in teaching school. He regards this, however, merely as an initial step to other professional labor an after successfully preparing for the bar was admitted to practice in 1873 by the district court of Hamilton county. He has since been active in practice in Cincinnati, devoting almost undivided attention to his profession in which he has won honor and success. As a lawyer he is sound, clear-minded and well trained. He is at home in all departments of the law from the minutiae in practice to the greater topics wherein is involved the consideration of the ethics and the philosophy of jurisprudence and the higher concerns of public policy. Felicitous and clear in argument, thoroughly in earnest, full of vigor of conviction, never abusive of his adversaries and imbued with the highest courtesy, he is yet a foe worthy of the steel of the most able opponent. His clientage is now of an extensive and important character, indicating his high position at the bar. On the 7th of March 1894, in Cincinnati, Mr. Ferris was married to Miss Sarah E. Guthrie, a daughter of William W. and Elizabeth (Ivester) Guthrie. Her ancestors in the paternal line were distinguished soldiers of the Revolutionary war and she had four brothers who served with credit and honor in the Civil war and a nephew who defended the American interests in the Spanish-American war. Mr. and Mrs. Ferris hold membership in Christ Episcopal church in Cincinnati in which he is serving as vestryman. He is also a member of the Episcopal Church Club and of various other organizations for intellectual stimulus or social intercourse. His name is on the membership rolls of the Literary Club, The Cincinnati Bar Association, the State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and in college he became a member of a Greek letter fraternity and he belongs to the Phil Beta Kappa. He is a life member of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society. He has written frequently for the newspaper press, for law magazines and different associations and clubs, on topics and questions of the day. An article contributed to the North American Review, which appeared in the December number, 1880, of that magazine, defending the constitutionality of the emancipation proclamation attracted wide attention and comment at the time and was characteristic of the writer. His political allegiance is given to the republican party in national politics but he is not in full sympathy with the organization on the tariff questions. Moreover he is opposed most emphatically to modern-day methods of boss domination and has taken an active part from time to time in reform movements in this city, standing with that progressive element which is seeking to bring about the wholesome improvements in the political as well as intellectual and moral fabric of the commonwealth. In this he combines the intensely practical with high ideality. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #339 *******************************************