The Portland daily press., 1871-11-13
pr. Cfrisiiaa Ferasnaua pndsr.

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th,s emi oent ply sicisn ana scholar, " 10 has
Just disa IN our midst, deserved, itseens to os,
more pafticuiar bicgraphical iuention thaa
L we RENE rnder 10 have seen in any Of our con
II temporarles.r LIS HE was some what remark ir
/ bic, and If it could be fully written would be
| vas NY, entertaining. wwkB rslasass
| He was born in Belize, Saxony, in the then
Kingdom of Prussia, in 1905 The male men
bers OF his immediate family bad beer, nhysi-
| claus for four generations. and his fatber was
Surgeon of the Kings body guard. The boy
| was able to narrate many things eonhtctsa
with the terrible wars iof the First Napoleon,
/ and told with much interest his rememorah-
1 ces of the Bloody field OF Leiosic, his father
| having taken him over that terrible battle
| around His education was most rg dly at
| tended to from the first, mostly under private
| tutors. AT the age OF fourteen be entered the
| College at Potsdam, and upon graduating he
| went to the University of Berlin, from whence
lie grad uated in 1926 at the age sof twenty
three From bis earliest suden5 life he had
been deyolei to the study OF Natural Sciences,
of which Botapy was perhaps. his greatest de-
light. The next few years of his life, after leay-
ing the University of Berlin, he spent in at
tending medical lectures and in travelling de-
voting one year to, explorations among the
Hartz Mountains About this time he was
appointed upon a scientific expedition for
exploring in Africa, underline auspices of the
University which be hal just lesF, and which
was madeup under the advice of Humboldt, but
he did not 60 Soon another of like character
was designated for the East indies to consist
of himself and four others, but his father ob
iected so seriously to the sons going away from
home, that this one, too, had to be given UP,
and thus tue especial desire Of the young man
was not to be gratified. He then resolved to
settle down as home, and so entered upon the
practice of bis profession in Hamburg, where
he remained ten years, and until the death of
his father. Immediately alter this event, which
seemed to remove the restraint that had kept
hin frou, travelling, he was selected with tour
other Berlu graduates to M axe cei tain { por-
atoms in Mexico. He did not start, however,
with the rest, being compelled to remain to
settle his fathers estate, and was to join the
others at Galveston, Texas. de arrived there
IN 1912, and the first man be met was General
Sam Houston, from whom be learned of the
death of all the other members of the party
But though left alone be pushed forwerd and
made very1borough studies under the propos-
ed plan, and then went to New Orleans From
the latter p ace it ms thateh proposed to |
make his long cherished trip to the East In- |
digs, but had 10 forego it in consequence of |
learning the loss OF property ia which he had |
invested before leaving home. He was here |
persuaded by.a New York gentleman to take /
trip North and see something more of The eoun- I
try before going back, and he fioally came to |
New York, where he INST the celebrated Doc |
tor -Hoifendale, whom he had known at home,
and who was then practising in Bos |
ton. Doctor Hoffendale persuaded him |
to accompany him to Boston to assist |
the language. How long he studied there is |
not remembered now, but he spent several |
months in Boston and New Bedford. when, by |
the chance of making the Acquaintance of |
some Portland people who were DR.. H, fl IL |
dale's patients, chief among whom was the |
late Mr.. Wm.C Mitchell, he was Induced to |
come here and settle, which he.did more than /
a quarter of a century ago, and where be lived |
aud practiced his profession. Winning as fond |
place in the confidence aud the love OF his pa
tieuts as ever physician did & 8.4Y waH Tog |
He was a sensitive, modest man, who IN lde |
little show OF the varied learning he posses e !,
and Who though !, som etimes Demonstrated |
quack and pteteudar, nsver showed the dplo.
ma OF the University from which he gradrat |
and his Ultimate friends, it is SAID never had
the proofs Of all bis scientific at.ainments until
after his DEATH Concerning his medical prac.
tice, which he denaminsted the Ritionalist
School,, aad which made his position III The !
profession somewhat anomalous, it is not be-
fitting IN us, perhaps. to speak bus it may be
said with propriety and vi bout reserve, that
no man in all the great brotherhood of physi-
clans and teachers ever surrou eded himself /
with a stronger bulwark of freud ship-a
that comb aed the faith Of Child
With the admiration OF men, AMI whose best
estate is tht tender respect paid to his memory |
10 every household wherein he was familiAry
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