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Born 1872
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)
USTAVE A. HOCHWALT, M. D., a rising young physician of Dayton, Ohio, was born in this city May 13, 1872, and is a son of George and Theressa (Lothammer) Hochwalt, the former of whom was a native of Germany and the latter of Canton, Ohio. They were married in Dayton, and here George Hochwalt was for many years one of the most successful shoe merchants of the city, as well as one of the earliest established in that industry. He was attentive to his business, realized a competence, and retired from the cares of active life in 1890. His death occurred April 25, 1894, and his widow still has her residence in Dayton. Of the six children born to George and Theressa Hochwalt, the doctor is the youngest. In order of birth they were as follows: Edward A., who resides in Dayton; Charles C., of Cleveland; Emma, wife of Frank Burkhardt: Anna, deceased; Albert, of the Grim Furniture company, Dayton; and Dr. Gustave A.
Dr. Hochwalt received his elementary education in the Brothers’ school of Saint Mary’s, in Dayton, from which he graduated in his eighteenth year. He then entered the office of Dr. George Goodhue, an experienced physician of Dayton, under whom he read assiduously for two years, qualifying himself to enter Starling Medical institute, of Columbus, in 1892, and from this institution he graduated after three years of faithfuH study, receiving his diploma in 1895. He at once returned to Dayton and entered upon practice, in which he has been very successful.
The Hochwalt family are all devout Catholics, and are members of Emanuel parish, and socially stand very high in the esteem of the community. In politics the doctor is a democrat, but is not a partisan, being more concerned in the study of his profession than in any interests foreign to it.
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.
GUSTAVE A. HOCHWALT, M. D.
Dr. Gustave A. Hochwalt, who since 1895 as continuously engaged in the practice of medicine in Dayton and is visiting physician to St. Elizabeth’s hospital, was born May 13, 1872, in the city which is now his home but, as the name indicates, is of German lineage. His father, George Hochwalt, was a native of Germany and after coming to this country was married to Theressa Lothammer, a native of Canton, Ohio. His maternal grandfather served under General LaFayette in the Revolutionary war. For a long period George Hochwalt was one of the most successful shoe merchants of Dayton. He carried on business along well defined lines of trade, sought success through honorable methods and earnest effort to please his customers and in the course of years had gained a competence sufficient to permit him to retire from the cares of active life in 1890. His remaining days were then spent in honorable retirement until his death, which occurred April 25,
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The Hochwalt family are all devout Catholics and Dr. Hochwalt was sent as, a pupil to the Brothers school of St. Mary’s in Dayton, from which he was graduated in his eighteenth year. He took up the study of medicine with Dr. George Goodhue as his preceptor and after thus reading for two years he matriculated in the Starling Medical College of Columbus in 1892, devoting three years to faithful study. He received his diploma in 1895 and thus well equipped for his chosen calling returned to Dayton, since which time he has been an active representative of the profession in this city. Flis practice has steadily grown as the years have gone by and the results which attend his efforts are the manifestation of his: thorough understanding of the laws of health and the principles of medicine. In 1899 he was appointed by the board of health the first city bacteriologist of Dayton and so served until 1906. In 1899 he was made visiting physician of St. Elizabeth’s hospital and has so continued to the present time. In 1898 he became pa-
DR. G. A. HOCIIWALT thologist to the Miami Valley Hospital and thus continued until 1906, when he resigned. In 1898 he pursued a post-graduate course in the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, particularly for the study of clinical microscopy and pathology, and he has always been a close student of the profession, interested in everything that tends to bring to man the key to the complex mystery which we call life. He belongs to the Montgomery County Medical Society, the Ohio Medical Society and the American Medical Association and thus keeps in close touch with the onward progress of the profession.
On the 17th of October, 1900, Dr. Hochwalt was married in Dayton to Miss Erma Gondert and they have two children, William Richard and Aida. In his political views Dr. Hochwalt is a democrat but is not active in the work of the party. He is a member of the Catholic church, in which he was reared, and is interested in all that pertains to the progress of the city along material, intellectual and moral lines. Until recently the Doctor took a great interest in musical affairs, being the leading tenor in a number of church choirs in Dayton, and was a member of the PhilHarmonic Concert. He also had the honor of singing a solo with Watkin Mills, of London. He has served on the board of trustees of the Dayton Astronomical Society.
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: George Goodhue (b. 1853)
Their biographies name Gustave A. Hochwalt: Albert F. Hochwalt (b. 1869)
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