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Born 1841
From Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri (v. 5) (1901), Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography (v. 4) (1899)
Schlossstein, Adolphus, physician, was born in Albisheim, Bavaria, January 27. 1841, son of John and Fredericka (Latter) Schlossstein. After receiving a classical education in the gymnasium at Zweibruecken, he spent five years in the completion of a university course of study, attending successively the Universities of Erlangen, Heidelberg, and Wuerzburg. At the end of this thorough course of scholastic training and preparation for a professional career, and after he had received his doctor's degree, he continued his studies and researches in the field of medical science at the hospitals of Munich and Frankenthal, Rhenish Bavaria, for another year, and then entered the German Army as a surgeon, and was on active duty in field hospitals from June, 1866. to the fall of the same year. After visiting and inspecting the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, Prague, and other cities, he then came to the United States, and, late in the year 1N07. established his home and began the practice of his profession in St. Louis. Here he soon built up a large and lucrative practice, and for many years has occupied a place among the most thoroughly well educated and highly accomplished physicians of the city. Progressive in his nature and methods, he has kepi abreast of the latest developments of medical science, broadening his knowledge of professional work, both by careful study of medical literature and the observations made through extensive travels. In 1875 nc revisited Europe for the purpose of making a series of investigations in the line of his professional work, and in [886 spent some time in Cuba for observation and pleasure. In 1896 he spent the year in extensive travel through Germany, Italy, France, and the British Isles. Eminently successful as a medical practitioner, he has been hardly less conspicuous as an able and sagacious business man. Becoming identified with his brother, the late George Schlossstein, in the manufacture of window glass, he has aided in building up a flourishing glass manufacturing industry, and is now president of the French Window Glass Manufacturing Company of Missouri, a corporation doing business in St. Louis, and also of the Dunkirk Window ( class Company, which operates a large manufacturing plant at Dunkirk, Indiana. He is identified professionally with the St. Louis Medical Society and the Society of German Physicians, and socially with the Liederkranz and other societies, and is known in both professional and social circles as a man of numerous and varied accomplishments. Dr. Schlossstein has been twice married — first, in 1871. to Miss Bertha Schaeffer, daughter of Nicholas Schaeffer, a well known soap manufacturer of St. Louis. The first Mrs. Schlossstein died in 1873. and in 1875 Dr. Schlossstein married Miss Caroline Schaeffer, a sister of his first wife. Adolphus G. Schlossstein, a son born of his first marriage, who graduated from the St. Louis Medical College, is now 1 1S081 completing his medical education in Vienna, after having studied at Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin.
As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of St. Louis, a compendium of history and biography (v. 4) (1899). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Schlossstein, Adolphus, physician, was born in Albisheim, Bavaria, January 2T
1841. He received a university education, became a physician, and was a surgeon in the German Army. In 1867 he came to America, and began the practice of his profession in St. Louis. In 1875 he visited Europe for the purpose of making a series of investigations in the line of his professional work, and in 1886 spent some time in Cuba for observation and pleasure. In 1896 he spent the year in extensive travel through Germany, Italy, France and the British Isles. Becoming identified with his brother, the late Greorge Schlossstein, in the manufacture of window glass, he has aided in building up a flourishing glass manufacturing industry, and is now president of the French Window Glass Manufacturing Company of Missouri. He is identified professionally with the St. Louis Medical Society and the Society of German Physicians, and socially with the Liederkranz and other societies. Dr. Schlossstein has been twice married — first, in 1871, to Miss Bertha Schaeffer, daughter of Nicb3las Schaeffer, a well* known soap manufacturer of St. Louis. She died in 1873, and in 1875 Dr. Schlossstein married Miss Caroline Schaeffer, a sister of his first wife. Adolphus G. Schlossstein, a son born of his first marriage, graduated from the St. Louis Medical College.
As printed in Encyclopedia of the history of Missouri (v. 5) (1901). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: Nicholas Schaeffer
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