Chapter 17 cont. OTHER MEMBERS. "It is not the purpose of this retrospect to speak of those who may speak for themselves.  Of the active members of the society there are not a few who are making for themselves a worthy record which, when another half century shall have gone, will cause them to be remembered with affectionate pride.  But there are some, not among the earlier members, who have come and gone, either to other fields or to their final rest, after winning an honored place among the successful physicians of Davenport.  Of these there is only space for brief mention of a few. "Dr. Edward H. Hazen, who becme a member of the society in 1868, was the first to make a specialty of the eye and ear in this city.  He was also one of the first faculty of the State University of Iowa medical department, and was prominent in the activities of the community a score of years ago.  Removing to Des Moines he became one of the medical faculty of Drake University, and continues the practice of his specialty there. "Dr. Margaret A. Cleaves, who, as before stated, has won for herself a prominent place in the profession of New York City, was an early graduate of the State University of Iowa and became a member of the Scott County Medical Society in 1876.  She engaged for a time in general practice here, was connected professionally with the hospital for the insane at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and later with that of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and has attained national prominence in the application of electricity to medical practice. "Dr. Richard Winter Hill, whose boyhood and all too short professional life were passed in this city, graduated in medicine in 1883, under the instruction of his warm friends, Drs. Middleton and Peck, with whom, and Dr. Grant, he had come to rank as one of the four best surgeons Davenport has produced when, in January, 1902, alone in his office, he met death's sudden, untimely summons.  Reticent and of a strongly individual character, he was not very active in the councils of the society.  Though admitted to membership in 1888, and always loyal to its interests and those of the regular profession, he but seldom attended its meetings.  To exceptional talents as a surgeon there were joined in Dr. Hill a warm heart and the noblest instincts of the courteous gentleman. "Dr. William West Grant, son of an Alabama physician and nephew of Judge James Grant, who was prominent in the early history of this city, graduated at Long Island College Hospital in 1869, at the age of twenty-three, and began at once became a member of the county society and soon took rank as one of our most progressive and successful physicians, also filling the place of post surgeon at Rock Island arsenal for several years.  On January 4, 1885, he performed the first recorded laparotomy for appendicitis, the writer hereof administering the anaesthetic.  In 1889 Dr. Grant removed to Colorado and is today one of the foremost surgeons of Denver. "Dr. Charles M. Robertson, who graduated in 1888 from the State University of Iowa medical department, of which his father was one of the honored founders, practiced in this city for a time, being very successful in his specialty fo the eye and ear, but removed to Chicago some years ago, leaving many warm friends in Davenport. "Were it within the scope of this article to recall, not the members of the county society only, but all doctors who have been active in the life of the community, much more space must have been allotted than is at the writer's disposal.  Older citizens will remember distinctly, and many of them with feelings of kindly regret, Drs. Emeis, Olshausen and Hoepfner (the latter but recently deceased), Drs. R. F. Baker, Worley, Wessel and many others more or less prominent though not connected with the regular profession.  These, together with the dentists and druggists of the early days, might well be made the subject of a separate chronicle. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L