The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-02-14
DEATH OF DR.. r. .seH4LLERN.

Many of our citizens remember DR.. Schallern's
residence in this city. though it was of short
duration, and his acquaintance mainly confined
to his own people. His death occurred at Mt.
Vernon, N. Y, on Saturday, the I'd inst in the
18th ear of his age, brought on by an attack
of apoplexy of the heart. His life has been one
of peculiar interest to the Germans, and not
uninteresting to the general reader.
DIR. Rainier Schallern was born in Bayreuth
Bavaria. His father, who belonged to a bar
onial family of Swiss origin, was ply stefan,
and he was educated for the same profession
at Berlin. Munich and Erlangen. He then be-
gan practice in the Bavarian city OF Hamburg
Becoming concerned in the liberal rising of
1913, he was arrested and thrown into prison in
consequence of a speech he had Delivered
He was released at the end of three months,
but again became in danger of arrest, and was
obliged to leave the country to ensure his
safety. lie arrived in New York in 1S49, and,
in Difference to republican institutions, drop
ped the title of Baron, which he had inherited.
While in the practice of his profession in Ger
many, he had devoted himself especially to
diseases of the ear and eye, and had published
several treatises on these subjects. These had
made him known to some German physicians
in New York, who interested themselves in his
physician on Wards Island. He retained this
position for about two years, when he resigned
in order to accept promised appointment
assistant surgeon in the Marine Hospital on
Staten Island. Just as he was about to take
the latter position, however, it was discovered
that he was not eligible, not being a citizen.
Removing to the west, he made the acquain-
lance of Commodore Maury, at Cleveland, who
urged him TO invent n instrument 70 determine
the velocity of vessels at sea, an invention
which he had studied for years before. The
war of the rebellion coming on, he became
surgeon in the fifty-eIghth Ohio regiment, but
sickness compelled him to seek his home. He
then visited Europe, and after returning, spent
Il short time in Indiana and in 1875 came to
RipOn, where his son. o. Schallern, was engage
ed in the drug trade. During all this time he
was engaged on his invention, being impelled
by such disasters as the Atlantic. on the coast
of Nova Scotia in 1878. Leaving Ripon after
one years residence, he went to New York,
Washington and Philadelphia, hopingto obtain
the assistance of leading spirits in the Z. s.
navy, through whose Influence he might make
the merits of his invention known AT this
time he had so far succeeded, that he claimed
that the master of any ship, could, by its use.
tell the locality of his vessel in any fog or
storm. But like thousands of other useful in
ventions, the doctor was not permitted to see
his thermometer brought into practical use.
and being worn out by yeXatious delays, he
finds that rest to W hich are all rapidly near
ing. Three sons and two daughters remain in
this city to mourn his loss. a daughter who
had just came from Germany was at his bed
side when he died. The sad bereavement fails
heavily on the family and friends-RipoH Free