TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO - BIO: SHAWEKER, Kenneth Earl (published 1925)
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HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume V, page 85-86

        KENNETH EARL SHAWEKER, M.D.  A World war veteran with a record of
service as a medical officer overseas, Doctor Shaweker since the war has
practiced medicine and surgery in Dover. He is a son of Doctor Samuel
Shaweker, a prominent physician of the same community, whose career is
given in the following sketch.
        Kenneth Earl Shaweker was born on a farm near Baltic, in Tuscarawas
County, March 22, 1888, and as a boy lived in Shanesville and Dover,
attending the common schools of those localities. He first prepared for
professional pharmacy in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, graduating in
1908. After two years as a drug clerk he entered the New York University as
a student of medicine, completing the prescribed course and graduating in
1914. For two years after his graduation Doctor Shaweker was employed as a
special surgeon in Bellevue Hospital at New York City.
        For a brief time he was engaged in private practice at New
Philadelphia, but soon after America entered the World war he volunteered
for service, and was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Medical Corps
April 24, 1917. He was called to the colors June 15, 1917, at Fort Benjamin
Harrison, Indianapolis, was ordered to Camp Sherman in August, 1917, and on
May 6, 1918, went overseas, sailing from Hoboken June 12. In France he was
assigned to Camp Hospital No. 15 with the American Expeditionary Forces and
was in that service until June 30, 1919. Ordered back to the United States,
he arrived at New York July 11, and at Camp Sherman was discharged August
2, 1919, with the rank of Major in the Medical Reserve Corps, and is still
a reserve officer subject to call. In December, 1917, he was promoted to
the rank of captain and in France received promotion to the rank of major
on February 17, 1919. Doctor Shaweker is an active member of the American
Legion.
        For the past five years he has had an increasing practice of
medicine and surgery at Dover, and is a member of the staff of Union
Hospital. He belongs to the Tuscarawas County and Ohio State Medical
societies, is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner, a member of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Lutheran Church.
        He married in 1917 Miss Mabel Louise Simms. They have three
children: Margaret M., Mary Elizabeth and Kenneth Earl, Jr.




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