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From History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909), Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897)
EORGE GOODHUE, M. D., one of the leading physicians and surgeons of Dayton, Ohio, was born in West Westminster, Vt., May 24, 1853. Reared upon the farm he attended the district school until he was sixteen years old, when he entered the preparatory department of Carleton college, at Northfield, Minn., and there took a three-years’ course, with the view of entering Dartmouth college, in which he took a four-years’ course, graduating in the class of 1876. After this he taught school for two years as professor of Greek and physics in Miami college, Oxford, Ohio. Having determined to follow the profession of medicine he-entered the office of Dr. John Davis, of Dayton, now deceased. His first course of lectures was taken at the college of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city, and his second at the medical department of Dartmouth college, graduating from the latter institution in 1879. He then entered the university of New York, from which institution he graduated in March, 1880. Having previously secured a position in the Brooklyn city hospital, he held this position for one year, and thereafter spent three months in the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital. Being thus thoroughly equipped for successful work in medicine and surgery, he returned to Dayton and entered into partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. John Davis, with whom he was associated until the death of Dr. Davis, which occurred June 10, 1883. Since that time he has carried on his practice alone, with the exception of some two and a half years, when he was associated with a nephew of Dr. Davis. While his practice is general, yet Dr. Goodhue gives considerable attention to diseases of the eye and ear, and also to surgery, the latter being his preference.
Dr. Goodhue is a member of the Montgomery county Medical society, and also of the Ohio state Medical association. He is acknowledged as one of the progressive physicians of the city, ranking among the foremost in both skill and success, and his practice is, as a consequence, unusually extensive.
Dr. Goodhue has, however, in the past, given some attention to the business interests of Dayton, has aided many enterprises, and is a stockholder in several of the prosperous concerns of the city. He is a member of Dayton lodge No. 147, F. & A. M., a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He was married at Terre Haute, Ind., to Miss Rose E. Kendall, and both he and his wife attend the Protestant Episcopal church.
Dr. Goodhue is of English ancestry, being the seventh in direct descent from William Goodhue. He is a son of Horace and Clarissa (Braley) Goodhue, both of whom died in Vermont. They were the parents of nine children, the doctor being the youngest of the family, and the only one living in Ohio. He has two brothers and one sister living, viz: Horace, professor of Greek in Carleton college, Minn.; Harlan, a farmer of Vermont, and Electa, also living in Vermont.
Dr. Goodhue is, at the present time, surgeon of the Panhandle railroad company at Dayton, and at different times has held the same position with all the railroads entering Dayton. He has also been surgeon of the Deaconess hospital ever since its foundation, and in 1890 was president of the Montgomery county Medical society.
As printed in Centennial portrait and biographical record of the city of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with the biographi (1897). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
GEORGE GOODHUE, M. D.
There is no profession or line of business so little commercialized as is the practice of medicine. This statement finds verification particularly in the efforts of the physician to prevent disease and to promote health conditions through the dissemination of knowledge concerning the causes of ill health. In all of his professional connections Dr. Goodhue has held to a high standard and many tangible evidences of his effective work are cited, not only in connection with his private practice but also through his service as health officer of Dayton and as one of the trustees of Miami Valley Hospital.
A native of Westminster, Vermont, Dr. Goodhue was born on the 24th of May, 1853, and is of English lineage, tracing his ancestry back to William Goodhue, whose descendants are now found in this county in the eighth generation. His parents were Horace and Clarissa (Braley) Goodhue, who spent their entire lives in the Green Mountain state. Their family numbered nine children of whom three sons survive. Horace Goodhue is professor of Greek in Carleton College of Minnesota, and Harlan is living on a farm in Vermont.
Dr. Goodue, the youngest of the family, and the only one living in Ohio, spent his youthful days on the home farm and pursued a district-school education to the age of sixteen years, when he became a student in the preparatory department of Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota. His work there covered a three years’ course and later he was for four years a student in Dartmouth College, being numbered among its alumni of 1876. His liberal education, enabled him to take up the profession of teaching as professor of Greek and Physics in Miami Valley College at Springboro, Ohio, where he remained for two years, but attracted by the profession of medicine, he began preparation for practice as a student in the office and under the direction of Dr. John Davis of Dayton, now deceased.
Subsequently he attended the College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York city but pursued his second course of medical lectures in the medical department of Dartmouth College, from which he was graduated in 1879. March of the following year he was graduated from the medical department of the University of New York and for a year thereafter he was surgical interne in the Brooklyn City Hospital and also spent three months in the Manhattan Eye & Ear Hospital, thus gaining broad and varied experience as a preparation for the general practice of medicine.
He returned to Dayton and entered into partnership with Dr. John Davis, his former preceptor, the association being maintained until the death of Dr. Davis on the loth of June, 1883. Later he was associated for two and a half years with the nephew of Dr. Davis but with that exception has been alone in practice to the present time. His ability is pronounced, his energy unflagging and in his chosen life work he has made a splendid record. He continues in the general practice and yet gives considerable attention to diseases of the eye and ear and to surgery, in which he displays notable skill.
Dr. Goodhue has at different times been surgeon of the Panhandle Railroad Company and all the different railroads entering Dayton. He was chosen surgeon of the Deaconess Hospital on its organization and is now a trustee of the Miami Valley Hospital, in which connection he has done more than any other individual to bring this institution to its present state of efficiency. In 1908 he was appointed health officer of Dayton and in that position did a work of great value to the city. He belongs to the Montgomery County Medical Society, of which he was elected president in 1890. He is also a member of the Ohio State Medical Association and was chairman of its surgical section in 1907-08. Aside from his practice Dr. Goodhue has had various business interests and is financially connected with a number of the leading commercial and industrial enterprises of the city.
In Terre Haute, Indiana, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Goodhue to Miss Rose E. Kendall, and they have an attractive home which is the center of a cultured social circle. They hold membership in the Protestant Episcopal church and Dr. Goodhue is a member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Dayton Lodge, No. 147, F. & A. M., and Dayton Consistory and Mystic Shrine. Those who know him find him a social, genial gentleman, of broad and liberal culture outside of his profession and with a helpful interest in all that pertains to general progress.
As printed in History of the city of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio (1909). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Named in this biography: John Davis
Their biographies name George Goodhue: Ned Dunham Goodhue (b. 1877) Gustave A. Hochwalt (b. 1872) Thomas L. Neal Oliver E. Davidson (b. 1857)
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