physician, b. Milwaukee. He attended the Univ. of Michigan, and graduated from the medical department of the College of the City of N.Y. (1878) and the Univ. of Wiirzburg, Germany (M.D., 1880). Returning to Milwaukee in 1880, he set up a general practice, and was instrumental in organizing the Johnston Emergency Hospital (1888). In 1890 he went again to Europe to study dermatology, returning in 1891. He was a delegate to the Pan-American Medical College in Havana, Cuba (1900), and was the author of Medical History of Milwaukee (1915). An accomplished musician, he was an organizer of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and the Milwaukee Musical Society. W. G. Bruce, ed., Hist. of Milwaukee (3 vols., Chicago, 1922); E. B. Usher, Wis. (8 vols., Chicago, 1914); Milwaukee Free Press, May 13, 1918.

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