History of Hamilton County Ohio
Portrait, with biography, of G. W. H . Musekamp
between pages 308 & 309
transcribed by Alise Streutker


G. H. W. Musekamp, M. D.

G. H. W. MUSEKAMP, M. D.

G. H. W. MUSEKAMP, a practicing physician of Cheviot, was born November 17, 1840. His father, George Henry MUSEKAMP, was also a member of the medical fraternity, being a native of Prussia. He was born June 27, 1802, and is indebted to that country for a good literary and medical education; also for a good, amiable, loving Christian wife and mother, formerly Miss Johanna GOETTENMULLER. A few years after marriage the family set sail for America and landed with three daughters, one being born on the sea, in the city of Baltimore. This was in the year 1837; but they soon left that city, and in a wagon made the tedious journey over the Alleghanies, and in the winter of that year arrived in Cincinnati. They located first on Abigail street, one door east of Main, at which place the subject of our sketch was born. They next moved to Race street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, before which latter removal, however, the wife and mother died. She was born June 11, 1804, and died February 14, 1845. In 1849 the family removed to Green township, where Dr. MUSEKAMP spent the remainder of his days in the arduous pursuit of his profession. His death occurred August 31, 1874, leaving a family of four children.

Dr. G. H. W. MUSEKAMP received a good, liberal education in the private, the free schools, and in the high schools of Cincinnati, after which he taught for one year, 1856-57, in Clermont county, in Goshen, near Charleston. He then pursued a thorough medical course of instruction under his father, and Dr. George C. BLACKMAN, of Cincinnati, and graduated in the Ohio Medical college in the year 1861, receiving the degree of M. D. In 1861 he was married to Miss Maria H. Elizabeth HILGE of Cincinnati, and what is singular in the history of this couple they were both born in the same house, and immediately afterwards the doctor settled in Cheviot, where he has practiced his profession ever since, it now being about twenty years, during which time he has been successful in building up a large and extensive practice. He is of an agreeable disposition, noted for his cordiality and warmth of feeling, and this added to his efficiency in his profession has made him a host of warm friends. In politics he has been a warm supporter of the Union cause as advocated by the Republican party. He takes a lively interest in public matters and despite his heavy practice has been elected to and filled several offices, having filled that of township treasurer several times.