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

        MAX SHAWEKER, M.D.  A physician and surgeon, pathologist and
director of a private clinical laboratory at Dover, Dr. Max Shaweker comes
of a family of physicians, being a son of Dr. Samuel Shaweker, one of the
senior members of the medical profession of Tuscarawas County, whose career
is given in the preceding sketch. Dr. Max Shaweker was a lieutenant in the
Naval Medical Corps during the World war, making a brilliant record.
        He was born at Baltic, Tuscarawas County, September 6, 1889, was
educated in the public schools at Shanesville and Dover, and graduated in
pharmacy from Ohio Northern University at Ada in 1910. In the fall of the
same year he entered the Medical School of Northwestern University at
Chicago, and was awarded his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1914. For about
three years Doctor Shaweker was in Cincinnati, and was successively in turn
house surgeon and receiving physician in the general hospital of that city.
        During 1917 he engaged in private practice for a few months at
Dover, until he entered service with the United States Navy. He was
commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Naval Medical Corps, and
subsequently was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Regular Navy.
For nineteen months he served as pathologist in the naval hospital at
Brooklyn, and was then on duty on the United States steamship Connecticut
and later on the hospital ship Mercy. He was discharged as a reserve in the
Untied States Naval Reserve Corps, Class 1, January 16, 1920.
        Soon afterward he resumed private practice at Dover. In connection
with his work as a physician and surgeon he conducts the laboratory for
clinical service, and has made it an indispensable adjunct to the medical
fraternity of his city and the entire county. He is connected with Union
Hospital, is secretary of the County Medical Society, and a member of the
Ohio State and American medical associations.
        Doctor Shaweker is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner, a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the
Knights of Pythias, belongs to the Sigma Chi literary fraternity and the
Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity. He is a member of the Moravian Church.
        Doctor Shaweker married in 1920 Miss Mary Kathryn Keplinger, of New
Philadelphia. They have one daughter, Mary Jane.





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