Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-01-03
GOING SOUTH.
An Outline Of the Twenty Tears he Has SPen
Here in Wheeling-His Fame as Micro
So0pisL and Sanitary Expert

Thursday evening DR.. James l. reeves
will remove permanently from Wheeling,
with his family, taking up his residence at
Chattanooga, Tenn. phis change has been
in contemplation by DR.. Reeves Tor some
little time. and mention of the fact has
heretofore been made III the REGISTER
The loss of DR.. Reeves will he a severe one
to the medical profession, not only OF
Wheeling hut of the entire State, and his
contemplated removal will cause general
regret. For some time back the Doctor
has been in receipt of q number of offers,
mainly from the West, hut none OF them
were attractive enough TO induce him TO
brave the rigOrs OF the somewhat energetic
climate beyond the Mississippi. The State
University Of Nebraska offered the chair OF
Pathology, with salary Of - 500. and
the Kansas City Medical College offered i'll
ducements equally satisfactory from
financial standpoint, but these were re-, Isit-
ed, and it was not until his visit to Chat
taROOga, last summer, that DR.. Reeves
made definite choice of new location.
This Tennessee city with a population of
Is 900, which is increasing at the rate Of
1000 To 5000 year, with genial eli
mate and central location, At once impressed
the Doctor inyUTahly, and 20 cordial was
his receptions there that he ut once made
il his choice for tile prosecution of his
studies and researches, and ret about prep
aratinnS tOr his removal tlithpr
4 large number of medical journals, all
over the country, have noted this cOutem-
plated change, and several OF them, III
chrnnicling the event, have made a most
complimentary, and at the ZANE time
very deserving, references to DIR. Reeves
skill and ability. Among these papers we
have noted the North Carolina Ncdi0m
,IourndL New Orleans Htdici AMI SHryirW
JournaI, the Philadelphia Ncdicd Times,
the Columbus M,dicH Jo"Hdi, the Louis
vile Moiicm Progress, and others. The
Chattanooga papers have made especial
references To the fact of DR.. Reeves IL.
moval to their city, and have congratu-
lated the profession of the city upon the
acquisition to their ranks they will obtain.
DIR. Reeves came to Wheeling from Fair
mont in lS67, and has been constantly i'll
the front rank OF the practlcing phySlcians
of this city. lie has left distinct impress
sion not only upon the profession in
Wheeling, but in the State a. well His
laburs have been incr>Iantly directed To
the advancement OF medical and sanitary
SCIENCE, and in improving the public
health. 1t was chiefly owing 10 his cN-
ertuns that Wheeling put her existing
health machinery i'll operation IN $50
He was the first Health Officer OF the
town, serving four years from the dat"
above given. He was also for four years a
member of Council from the Fifth ward,
taking an active part IN public atlirrS II
was during DR.. Reeves lirstterm as Health
Officer, that the REGISTER published the
first city health document, a pamphlet at
fifty pages.
In 1867 DR.. Reeves cent out the call for
a meeting to organize the State Medical
Society, and he was subsequently President
and Secretary OF the organization thus
formed. lie has also been delegate 10 the
sessions OF the American Public Health
Association, the highest sanitary 0rGanIl1-
ton in America, and has served "A prrSi-
ttlll III tue VI E'llllNth'A
DR.. Reeves has been for many years a
valued contributor to the medical journals
of this country and Europe, aud has been
quoted ~ IN authority upon many obscure
and disputed points ia medical and sam
tary science.
But it il ~ n microscopic that d.
Reeves has in late years won his greatest
fame This study taken mp Ivy the Doctor
in 1876, has been prosecuted with persist.
ency and ardOr, and the result has been \
reputation on two continents most ilaticr-
Ing to him. Many Improvements i'll ap
paratus are due TO DIR. Reeves, and his re-
searches in certain fields have been Of the
most valuable nature tO science SpeCl-
mems prepared by him have been III ur 'ent
request by physicians and scientists and
hardly day has passed in recent years but
the mail has brought recognition Of his
ability or orders for mounting4. But -
few days ago the Jefferson Medical Col
lege, of Philadelphia, sent an order Tor a
complete set OF specimens OF certain kinds.
DR.. Reeves will not engage i'll general
medical practice in Chattanooga, but will
cOnline himself to microscopy, sanitary
science, and Office advice in a few special
diseases. His departure from Wheeling
will occasion sincere regret, hnt he will
carry with him Ia his new home many
earnest wishes for his continued success.