History of Montgomery, (Hamilton County) Ohio United States of America

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David D. Bramble was born December 11th, 1839, at Montgomery, Hamilton county, Ohio. His parents were among the early settlers of the county, and of English origin. He attended school some little, and worked until his fourteenth year, when, having gathered a little money, he entered Farmers' College, at College Hill, Ohio. After completing his college course he entered the intermediate school at Montgomery as a teacher. At the expiration of a year and a half he was appointed principal of the same school. This position he held for two years and a half. During the time he was engaged in this school he lived and studied medicine with Dr. William Jones, of Montgomery. At the age of twenty he entered the Ohio Medical College as a student. He attended two courses of lectures, and graduated in the spring of 1862. Immediately afterward he was appointed House Physician in the Commercial Hospital, and served for one year. In 1863 he located on Broadway, Cincinnati, in general practice, and was at the same time appointed District Physician in the Thirteenth Ward. In the fall of the same year he was appointed Physician of the Pest House. This position he resigned, after holding it for three years and a half. In 1866 he accepted the chair of Anatomy in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery. During this time he served as Treasurer of the college. This professorship he held until 1872, when he was transferred to the chair of Surgery and made Dean of the college. These two positions he still occupies. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the Cincinnati Medical Society and the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine. He is one of the proprietors of the Cincinnati Medical News, an able medical monthly, and is one of its editors. A large private practice is now enjoyed by him, and to it, the college and the Medical News he devotes his entire attention. He has a fine healthy physique, is in the prime of life and has doubtless yet before him a valuable career.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

Henry McGrew, M. D. was born at Montgomery, Hamilton county, Ohio, on December 23d, 1844. His father, Andrew McGrew, was a native of North Ireland. About the year 1835 he emigrated to America, and engaged in labor for a short time at Buffalo, New York. Removing to Ohio, he resided a while at Reading, Hamilton county, after which he came to Montgomery and became employed as a carpenter; locating permanently in this place, he purchased a very handsome farm, on which he now resides. He married, early in life, Henrietta Crain, a native of Sycamore township, daughter of Oliver Crain, who removed from New Jersey to Hamilton county, becoming one of the most prominent of its early settlers. Of a family of eleven children, Henry is the fifth. His early education was received at the public schools. When seventeen years of age he was apprenticed to a blacksmith at Sharon, and for a period of three years and a half applied himself diligently to the learning of that trade. Having a desire to obtain a more thorough education, he entered the Normal College, at Lebanon, Ohio, where he remained two years, and then obtaining a school he taught for about the same length of time. During the year 1868 he attended the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, after which he taught school, and at the end of one year re-entered the college, from which he graduated with high honors. He commenced the practice of medicine with Dr. Wesley Smizer, of Sharonville, and in nine months entered the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, and after five months of diligent application he graduated from there in February of 1874. Ambitious to excel in the knowledge of his profession, he pursued a course of reading at the Pulte Medical College (Homoeopathic) of Cincinnati, receiving a diploma from that institution in the beginning of 1875, and in March of the same year he was elected Physician to the County Infirmary. With unceasing energy and perseverance he had succeeded in carrying on the practice of his profession in Sharonville. Politically, the doctor is a Democrat. During six months of the year 1865 he served in the 138th Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He is not a member of any particular religious denomination, but is pure and upright in character, unaffected in manner, and a man whose social qualities are extremely agreeable.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.