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Aged Spencer Citizen Found Dead in His Room Sun day Morning. Dr. Frederick W. Denkewalter, the oldest physician in Owen county, was found dead in his room at his hotel and sanitarium Sunday morn ing about eight o’clock. When found the body was cold and it is thought he died about one o’oloor. An inquest was held on the remains by Coroner Drescher and the cause of his death was given as valvular heart trouble, from which disease the venerable doctor had been a sufferer for several years. He was 72 years old. Dr. Denkewalter was born in Prussia, January 22,1842, and came to the United States after the close of the civil war. He was graduated from Rush Medical College of Chicago,and shortly afterward was appointed physician for the poor at that place. He was for a time located in Laporte, Ind., and later in Indianapolis, at which place he built up a large and lucretive practice. He was one of the best known German physicians and druggists in Indianapolis in the early seventies. He came with his family to Spencer in 1890 and started the Central Sanitarium. He did good business for several years, de voting most of his time to rheuma tism and blood and skin diseases. His expert knowledge of these dis eases gained for him a wide reputa tion, and many difficult cases have come to him from all over the United States for treatment. In his declin ing years he gave up the practice of medicine to a certain extent, being content to rest on the laurels of his past splendid achievements of his chosen profession. Dr. Denkewalter was one of the most kind hearted man it has ever been our pleasure to know. No man or woman, no matter how humble, was ever turned away from his door hungry. The weary Willies” who sometimes visit Spencer always made it a point to visit the doctor’s back door and they invariably received as good a meal as their benefactor sat down to. He was an honest man and expected everybody to be hon est with him. Dr. Denkewalter owned consider able property, consisting of a 360- acre farm three miles east of Spen cer, nearly a city block on the east side of the square in this city and a residence and two vacant lots in Indianapolis. He is survived by three sons, Fred Denkewalter of Sandusky, O., Otto and Walter Denkewalter of Chicago, and two daughters, Mrs. Otmar Meg eschar, of Spencer, and Mrs. J. B. Treanor of Cedar Grove, La. Short services were held at the ho tel Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. W. Foster. The remains were taken to Indianapolis Wednes day morning and interment was in Crown Hill cemetery, where others of his family are buried.
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Spencer Owen County Democrat
Spencer, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 02, 1914
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