Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Dr. Francis (Franz) Hermann
LH-362
Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory
Introduction
The Dr. Francis Hermann collection was donated to the
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in 2009. Hermann also wrote his name
Herrmann, and Herrman, The ledgers were microfilmed
by the Center for Archival Collections, Jerome Library,
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Francis Hermann was born August 23, 1821 in
Scope and Content
The collection contains four ledgers, each inscribed with the opening date and the village and county where Dr. Francis Hermann practiced medicine. Ledger “A” provides an accounting of each of his patients, giving the dates of visits, amounts charged and the payments received from 1857 to about 1863. In addition to cash, Hermann accepted payment in the form of hay, corn, pork, oats, veal, and labor including washing, cutting wood, and mowing. An index appears in the front along with a genealogy of the Hemley/Hermann family.
Daybooks “A,” “B,” and “C” are a
record of daily calls on patients by Hermann. He lists the name of the household
and patient, date, treatment, and fee. Dr. Hermann delivered babies, set
fractures, opened inflamed wounds, treated head injuries, and vaccinated
children. Hermann noted the birth of
each child he delivered, writing “geburt” in
the margin, the German word for “born.” He also recorded the father’s name and
the sex of the newborn. At the end of each daybook, he listed the total number
of “confinements” which seems to indicate the number of deliveries he attended
in the span of time covered by each daybook. Dates in “Daybook C” indicate that
Hermann appears to have closed his practice in New Riegel
on April 27, 1866. On page 99 of “Daybook C,” Dr. Hermann wrote “Bluffton,
Allen Co.,
Predigten uber die Evangelien des Kirchenjabres by Georg Cronenwett (1889) was transferred to the library’s general collection
Inventory
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Four ledgers