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{Pelham Herald, Tuesday, March 25, 1980}
Dr. Joseph Everett Dowd, prominent physician in Fenwick for the past fifty two years, died at the Welland County General hospital on March 18th, at the age of 84.
Dr. Dowd was born in Quyon, Quebec. He was a graduate of McGill University in 1926 and did post graduate work in Ottawa and New York City. During the First World War he served in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals. He began practicing in 1928 at his busy office on Canboro Road. He was the Medical Officer of Health for 38 years and retired in 1965. Dr. Dowd was a member of the Fenwick United Church.
He is survived by three children Joyce Lenz of Tonawanda, N.Y., Richard of St. Catharines and Dr. Ronald Dowd of Fenwick, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife Charlotte (Burton) Dowd in 1964.
A memorial service was held at the Fenwick United Church on March 21st. Cremation took place.
Dr. Glasgow’s Fine New Residence
[Welland Telegraph 1897]
If the camera could be brought to bear upon our town residences, it would probably reveal more handsome homes than could be found in any other town in Canada the size of Welland: it would give a picture album of which our citizens might well be proud. The advance on thus line during the past dozen years has been very marked, and visitors are sincere in their praises of the attractions of our county town. Costly and permanent homes are a pretty sure index that citizens have anchored here for good, and in this respect the future prosperity of Welland seems measured. The season just closing has seen many additions to this long list of elegant and substantial residences, among which the new home of Dr. Glasgow, corner of Division and Burgar streets, stands out conspicuously for its size, costliness and beauty. It is one of the most striking houses in town, and the exterior is but an index of the beauty, comfort and modern conveniences within.
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[The Canadian Medical Association Journal Feb. 1932 p. 260]
Dr. Sidney Nixon Davis of Welland, Ont., aged 63, died at his home of pneumonia, on December 31, 1931. Doctor Davis was born in York, Haldimand County, in 1868, and attended Caledonia High School, then entering Queen’s University for the study of medicine. He graduated in 1891 and established practices at York, Cayuga and Parry Sound. He located in Welland in 1912, and, with the exception of the war years, had been here ever since. He was interested in the Welland County General Hospital, and for a number of years represented the medical profession on the institution’s Board of Governors. He was one of the Coroners for Welland County. Doctor Davis was a staunch advocate of Empire principles, and always associated himself with any movement for community betterment. He was a member of the Masonic Order being affiliated with a lodge at Parry Sound.
Doctor Davis enlisted in January, 1916, with the 114th Haldimand Rifles and went overseas the same year, holding the rank of Major and Second in Command. On the reorganization of the Canadian forces overseas he joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served in France and England. He returned in 1919.
In addition to his widow, Daisy Maud Davis, four sons and one daughter survive. They are: Cecil R.,Toronto; A.E.N. Davis, William A. and Patrick, all of Welland, and Miss Mary Florence Davis, at home. Two brothers and two sisters also survive, Arthur F. Davis of Chicago, Herbert H. Davis of Montreal, and Miss F. Davis and Miss M. Davis, both of Hamilton.
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John Phillips was born March 29, 1880 on a farm near O’Reilly’s Bridge.
His parents were Robert Henry Phillips, born January 19, 1858 in Wainfleet. His mother was Martha Robbins of Thorold Township, born July 11,1859. They were married March 16, 1874 in Welland.
Their children were: Nellie Jeanette Phillips born January 18,1875. She married William James Rae of Sault Ste Marie, September 18, 1899. They had 3 children: Margaret L. Rae, 1899. Helen Louise Rae, 1902; and Neal Rae, 1904.
Nellie Jeanette Rae died January 1907 in Port Colborne.
Thomas William Phillips was born April 18, 1876, he became a teacher and married L. Farr January 30, 1907 in Welland
Margaret Ann Phillips was born July 17, 1878 and married Henry Chambers , December 25, 1907.
Dr. John Phillips immigrated in 1903 to Ohio. He married Cordelia Sudderth on September 18, 1907.
Dr. John Phillips died May 15,1929 in Cleveland.
Cordelia died December 4, 1963 in North Carolina.
Dr. John Phillip’s funeral service was held at Amasastone Memorial Chapel, Western Reserve University, Saturday May 18 at 2.30pm. Burial was at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland.
John Edward Phillips (1908-1983)
He was the son of Dr. John Phillips and Cordelia Sudderth Phillips. John was born in Cleveland. He graduated from Yale University with a Science Degree in 1932. He travelled to many foreign countries. He was a Field Engineer for Archer Daniles Midland Company which dealt in vegetable oils and chemicals
In W.W. II, he served as a naval officer and then returned to Cleveland.
He compiled genealogy files for Philiips, Sudderth and Southard families. The collection of records can be found at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
He died April 9, 1983 in Cleveland.
Cleveland Clinic Beginnings
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A sense of cooperation shared by three friends of the clinic, Bunts, Crile and Lower acted as a unit. All were medical doctors and acted in the war. They were surgeons and in order to develop a broader field of medical service, they needed to add an internist to organize and head a department of medicine.
Dr. John Phillips was at the School of Medicine of Western Reserve, he had served in military hospitals during the war and held the same broad concept of what might be possible in a clinic organization.
John Phillips raised on a farm near Welland, was a serious minded person with a keen sense of humour. He obtained a teaching certificate, taught for three years, entered the faculty of medicine at the University of Toronto. In 1903 he received the M.B. degree with honours. After graduation he served for three years as an intern and resident in medicine at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland. He then entered practice as an associate n the office of Dr. E.F. Cushing, professor of Pediatrics at Western Reserve. Dr. Phillips was assistant professor in Medicine and Therapeutics at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He also held appointments at Babies’ Dispensory. He was also consulting physician at St John’s Hospital. He had a large private and consulting practice. He was highly regarded as a clinician and teaching in internal medicine and diseases of children. During WW I he served as a captain in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army.
The four founders of the Cleveland Clinic were all professors of medical schools,all highly regarded in the community and well established in the community hospital.They all had been in the military and were committed to the practice of medicine.
The first meeting of the incorporation was February 21, 1921. Designated founders were Bunts, Crile, Lowe and Phillips.
8pm on February 26, 1921 was the grand opening of Cleveland Clinic with 500 of the medical profession attending.
The clinic was located in a four storey building at East 93rd St. and Euclid Ave.
Dr. Phillips was trustee of the Cleveland Medical Library Association and a member of Allen Memorial Medical Library building committee.
Cleveland Clinic Disaster
On Wed. May 15, 1929 at 11.30am was the first explosion of toxic gases. X-ray films were stored in the basement in manila envelopes in file cabinets. It is believed 70,000 films were stored there. A leak was discovered in the steam line earlier, a jet stream flowed to where the film was stored. A cloud of yellow smoke was in the room. When firemen arrived the building was in a dense yellow brown cloud. The ground floor entrance was blocked by fumes.
Dr, Phillips had reached the ground by a ladder on the east side of the building. He sat on the steps of the church across the road and was taken to his apartment at the Wade Park Manor East 107th St. His condition worsened; at 7pm Dr. Crile went to his room and performed a transfusion. Dr, Phillips died at 8;30pm, he was 50.
The clinic disaster resulted in worldwide adoption of revised safety codes for storing films and making use of safety film that would not explode.
One hundred and twenty three people lost their lives. Dr Phillips was a posthumous inductee of the Medical Hall of Fame.
[Welland Tribune Thursday, May 16, 1929]
Ninety-Five Known Dead as the Result of Two Explosions.
Poisonous Gas Rushes Through Building When X-ray Films Burned
Cleveland, May 16—Poison gas and two explosions which followed burning the X-ray films in the Cleveland clinic yesterday claimed nearly 100 lives.
There were 95 known dead and hospital authorities worked desperately to administer artificial respiration to 43 more who were overcome. Victims of the disaster were dying at short intervals and physicians sent out appeals for addition oxygen in the fear that the supply in the city might prove insufficient. Oxygen is declared the only effective means of overcoming gas burns.
Nearly all of the deaths were attributed to the deadly gas which filtered through the four-storey brick building slowly at first and then augmented by a second and greater explosion than the first, rushed up from the basement and cut off escape down the stairways and elevators.
Survivors said those asphyxiated were dead, their faces turning a sickly yellowish-brown color, within two minutes after inhaling the gas.
Like War Gas
The fumes were given off by fire of an undetermined origin which destroyed X-ray films in the basement. Some pharmacists said it was bromine gas, while Dr. William E. Lower, one of the founders of the clinic, said it resembled the deadly phosgene gas employed in the great war.
It was ironic that the disaster occurred in the very place where the most advanced instruments and laboratories of science had been turned against pain and death. The clinic was owned principally by Dr. George W. Crile, nationally-known physician, who was too occupied with relief work to comment on the catastrophe.
Despite the heavy loss of life, firemen estimated the property damage at only $50,000.
The first explosion occurred in the basement. On the floors above, waiting rooms were crowded with clinical patients. Many of them died where they sat, some in wheel chair unable to move, as the deadly fumes rapidly penetrated to all floors.
The hollow centre of the building first was filled with gases.The intense heat below sent the fumes swirling upward. Before any one had opportunity to escape, a second blast blew out the skylight and filled the entire building with the deadly fumes. Occupants had no way to escape by the windows and few were able to reach them. These were enveloped by the fumes which hung about the building and they collapsed.
The two street entrances were choked, and the stairways leading to the roof were heavy with the fumes. Every piece of fire apparatus available was centered at the clinic and every vehicle possible was commandeered to remove the bodies.. An hour and a half after the first explosion all had been taken to nearby hospitals.
The first blast was heard by policeman Henry Thorpe, walking two blocks away. He immediately turned in an alarm and ran to the building at Euclid avenue and 93rd street.
[Welland Tribune May, 1929]
Native Son of Welland County was one of the Founders of Famed Institution—Born at O’Reilly’s Bridge, Received Education Here Before Graduating From Toronto University—Made Great Contribution to United States Medical Science—Relatives Reside in Fenwick.
According to later word received by The Tribune at edition time, Dr. Phillips died late last evening from his injuries.
The terrible explosion and fire which Wednesday took a toll of 91 lives at the Cleveland Clinic hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, came home with full force to this city and Welland county when it became known the Dr. John Phillips was among the injured and is not expected to live.
Some years ago Dr. Phillips former resident of Welland city and native son of Welland county became associated with the famous surgeon, Dr, George W. Crile, and together they founded the Cleveland clinic, which has been known all over the continent as an institution of the very first rank.
Relatives here of Dr. Phillips said late Wednesday night following long distance conversation with Cleveland that Dr. Phillips was seriously injured and dispatches this morning report him as being gassed.
Dr. Phillips was born at O’Reilly’s Bridge, a few miles from Welland, the son of the late Robert Phillips. He attended school at O’Reilly’s Bridge and later was a student at the Welland high school, residing with his parents on West Main Street. From there he went to University of Toronto and on leaving that institution started a practice in Cleveland under the late Dr. Cushing of that city.
Studious Character
Dr. E.E. Binns, class mate of Dr. Phillips at Toronto University in 1903 their year of graduation, in an interview with The Tribune last night described Dr. Phillips while a student college as quiet and studious and though he did not then show a marked brilliancy nevertheless displayed an intense application and perseverance. “He was one of the most industrious students at Toronto University,” was Dr. Binns’ characterization. “We all knew he would make good but no one thought he had it in him to reach the heights that he speedily scaled. His association with Dr. Cushing, one of Cleveland’s foremost physicians and consultants the latter’s interne at Cleveland gave him an introduction to the finest of professional intercourse in the city, and his close application to work soon bore fruit.
Reached National Fame
Dr. Cushing gradually worked in as a sort of personal assistant and from that moment with John’s industry and conscientiousness his future was assured. Not long after Dr. Cushing died rather suddenly and so great was the impression that John Phillips had made upon the hospital staff and the medical faculty the great city in his few years serving among them, that he was offered chair of assistant professor of medicine and associate lecturer in the medical schools. His work as a clinician soon became known outside the limits of Cleveland, and as the years passed he reached a national fame. He was recognized as one of the most capable, conscientious and reliable members of the healing profession.
“Welland county is justly proud to have given to the United States a man made so valuable a contribution to the realms of medical science,” was Dr. Binns’ tribute.
Dr. Phillips and his wife, Cordelia, have one son John, now at Yale. Who is looked upon as an electrical genius and a most gifted boy. He has three brothers in Welland county, Thomas of Wainfleet, Robert of Fenwick and Richard of O’Reilly’s Bridge and one sister Mrs. Henry Chambers of Fenwick. A niece is Miss Lillian Phillips of O’Reilly’s Bridge. He last visited Welland a little more than a month ago.
[Welland Tribune 1903]
Dr. John Phillips, recently of Toronto, left on Monday for Cleveland, after spending a few holidays at his old home here. John’s many friends will be pleased to learn that he has received a better offer in his profession than that announced some weeks ago. He goes to the Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, and was to have taken a position as assistant in the surgical department, but has since been asked to go in as chief assistant in the medical department.
[Welland Tribune May, 1929]
Victim of Cleveland Clinic Disaster was Internationally Known Specialist.
Welland county is mourning the lose of one of its most brilliant sons, Dr. John Phillips, who died late Wednesday night as the result of being gassed following the explosion and fire that day at the Cleveland Clinic hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, of which he was co-founder.
Dispatches from that city say that Dr. Phillips, head of the medical service of the clinic and silver medallist at the University of Toronto, in 1902. He was one who escaped from the building only to die later. He was able to walk home after assisting in rescue of others, only to be rushed to the hospital at night where he died.
Eight doctors lost their lives the last one being Dr. Phillips who, Cleveland dispatches describe, as a native of Welland and internationally known specialist and one of the founders of the Cleveland clinic. He was in the building when the catastrophe occurred but walked home believing he had not been affected by the gas. He was taken ill toward evening and rushed to the hospital where a futile blood transfusion was made.
Relatives of Dr. Phillips residing in this vicinity were expected to attend the funeral in Cleveland today.
[Welland Tribune May 1929]
Plain Dealer States Welland Old Boy was Renowned Leader in Medicine
That the late Dr. John Phillips co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic hospital, scene of one of the greatest peace-time hospital disasters of recent history, was renowned as a leader in the world of internal medicine and that he was accredited with the largest consulting practice in the history of medicine was noted in a recent issue of the Cleveland Plain Dealer which reported in part as follows:
“Renowned as a leader in the world of internal medicine, Dr. Phillips was accredited with the largest consulting practice in the history of medicine.
Unaware that the blood-destroying gases had attacked him, Dr. Phillips had walked into the Wade Park Manor, where he made his home. A rest, he thought would be a wise precaution.
“A few hours later attendants called for oxygen, Dr. George W. Crile, intimate associate of Dr, Phillips, hurried to the hotel and ordered a blood transfusion, but died at 9.15p.m.
Caught on the Third Floor
“The gasses had sapped his blood. He was working on the third floor of the clinic when the blast occurred and escaped by leaping from the third floor to the fire net.
“Dr Crile, after an examination, declared that Dr. Phillips died from nitrous peroxide and monoxide gases. His death takes the second of four founders of the clinic. Dr Frank E. Bunts having died Nov. 28th 1928.
“Quiet, genial, industrious, Dr. Phillips enjoyed the confidence of the city’s wealthiest families and it was to him that thousands flocked each year for diagnoses.
“He had the largest consulting practice in the world,” Dr. Lower declared last night.
Dr. Phillips was born in Welland county in 1879and at 50 was the youngest of the clinic executives. He studied at the public schools of Welland, later attending and graduating from the University of Toronto with his degree in medicine. Although he left for graduate work at Johns Hopkins University and service in Cleveland soon after his graduation in 1903, Dr. Phillips always maintained friendships in Toronto and was as well known there as in Cleveland.
It was at his instance that more than 25 Toronto physicians were coming to Cleveland as guests of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine for a two-day conference and clinic, and Dr. Phillips was to have been their host at dinner at Wade Park Manor, where he died.
“It was only by the luckiest chance that members of the Toronto crowd were not in the clinic at the time of the explosion,” hospital authorities revealed “They had been there on an advance visit and left just a few moments before it occurred.”
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