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Dr. Clemens Theodore Eger
1828- 1921
Eger, Clemens T, physician, 401 6th, res same
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Watertown
Historical Society Collection
Tooth extractors/early dental tools, cuppers, physician tools, vials belonging to Drs. Carl Feld and Clement Eger, early Watertown physicians
Collection of items associated with Dr. Eger estate
1855
1856
Clemens Eger had attended several universities and had
been a physician in Europe; he continued as one locally. He came in
1856.
N.B. 1856 cannot be correct. Was here when married in 1855.
1865
03 30 Common Council Proceedings.
Ald. Beckman reported in favor of allowing the account of Dr. Eger for
medical treatment of paupers, $20.
Report adopted. WD
c.1865
CIVIL WAR MEDICAL BAG
Donated 08 01 2016 by Alfred Eger / Accession #160801
"In memory to Dr.
Eger: from the Eger family"
Medical bag with portable pharmacy in a small folding valise to make medications on site and Civil War tools: saw; surgery devices; some tools used in the late 1890s-early 1900s.
1913
Eger, Clemens Theodore, 401 Sixth, physician
1914
03 05 DEATH OF WIFE, Augusta T. Eger (1831- 1914)
Mrs. Augusta T. Eger,
wife of Dr. Clemens Theodore Eger, departed this life at the family home, 401
Sixth Street, March 1, 1914, the cause of her death being bronchial pneumonia.
1921
06 01 DEATH OF CLEMENS THEODORE EGER (1828-
1921)
Cross References:
City's
Early Doctors
Watertown Daily Times, 04 18
1968
According to several county histories of
Jefferson County the following facts about early physicians are recorded:
The first one cited is: "The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin,
Western Historical Society. MDCCCLXXIX": "First Settlers, page 406: “Mr.
Cole then proceeds to give from memory a list of those who had come to
Johnson's Rapids for the purpose of settling, to December, 1937. . . .
Dr. Colbough, Canada . . . .” Page
464: "Drs. Cokeley and Goodenough were
the first practicing physicians: Drs. Cody and Spalding are the
leading physicians at the present time."
The second history cited was edited by
John Henry Ott. "Jefferson
County Wisconsin and Its People, 1917." On page 137 of volume
one: "Doctors Goodenough, Cokeley,
Hamilton, Breckenridge, Schindler (a Swiss) were the first practicing
physicians in Watertown. Little is known of these men. Dr. James
Cody, born in Newfoundland in 1820, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, came
to Watertown in 1846 and was highly esteemed until 1885 (died in 1894). . . .
Dr. M. N. Barber (born in 1821) came to Watertown in 1848, from Racine; he was
a native of New York, called himself a botonic eclectic. Dr. Spalding, born in 1825, a graduate of New
York University, came to Watertown in 1849, died 1903. Dr. C. J. Eger, born 1828, still living, is a graduate
of Leipsig University, a man of good
ability and scholarly tastes.
History of Watertown, Wisconsin