Notes for Edwin Willis BREYFOGLE

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Notes for Edwin Willis BREYFOGLE

Lewis Breyfogle records that Edwin was born in the same house that he [Lewis] was born in, Johnson County, Kansas.

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 51

The 1910 Census found Edwin living in the first ward of Chillicothe, Ohio working as a doctor of medicine. He listed his marital status as single.

SOURCE: 1910 Federal Census Chillicothe, Ross, OH

The WWI Draft Registration records Edwin Willis Breyfogle living with his wife Madge in Frankford, Ross, OH and he is self employed as a Physician. He is recorded as being medium height, slender build, with brown eyes and hair.

SOURCE: WWI Draft Registration card dated September 12, 1917

Edwin was living at the University of Columbus as a boarder. He was working as a physician showed a marital satus of divorced.

SOURCE: 1920 Federal Census Akron, Summit, OH

Edwin Willis Breyfogle MD

One of Akron’s competent medical practitioners, Doctor Breyfogle is a native of Kansas, but has spent practically all of his life in Ohio, and has been a resident of Akron since he left military service during the World war.

He was born at Olathe, Kansas, October 23, 1885, son of Ernest Chase and Ella (Jones) Breyfogle, who are living retired at Akron. His father was born at Columbus, Ohio, and his mother near Mount Sterling, Ohio, and after their marriage they lived on a farm in Madison Country for a time, the moved to Johnson County, Kansas, but after some experience with farming there, returned to Ohio and farmed in Madison, Pickaway and Fayetter counties until removing to Akron.

Doctor Breyfogle acquired most of he early education in the public schools at Mount Sterling, finishing his high school work there. He subsequently entered the Ohio Starling Medical College of Columbus, graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1909, had special training in Saint Francis Hospital, and was then engaged in general practice in Chillicothe, Ohio, until 1918.

He entered the army as a first lieutenant of the Medical Corps, October 14, 1918, and until December 23, 1918, he established his office in Akron, where he has busied himself with a fine general practice. He is a member of the Summit County, Sixth District, Ohio State and American Medical associations.

Doctor Breyfogle is a republican in politics and a member of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. His favorite sport is hunting big game. He is a member of the University Club and Adoniram Lodge No. 517 of the Masonic Order. Doctor Breyfogle has one son, Ernest Edwin.

SOURCE: History of Ohio, Volume I, 1925

Edwin and his second wife Sadie are living in Akron, Ohio where he continues to practice medicine.

SOURCE: 1930 Federal Census Akron, Summit, OH

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