Born in Kinsman, Ohio, he was the son and grandson of medical doctors. He attended Oberlin College as well as Harvard Medical School. In 1883, he moved to Cleveland where he soon became the first Cleveland doctor to limit his practice to surgery. He taught surgery at Western Reserve Medical College from 1884-1890, and was surgeon at Lakeside Hospital. In 1893, he married Elisabeth Severance, a philanthropist and member of the wealthy Cleveland Severance family. In 1894, he founded the Cleveland Medical Library Association serving as its first President. He was very interested in the arts also, and one of the first trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Art. He retired from practice in 1910, and thereafter traveled with his wife until he developed pneumonia and died in New York City in 1915. | Date: 1908 | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Photograph CollectionDownload Original File
