GUSTAVUS A. ASCHMAN

        Gustavus A. ASCHMAN, M. D., a gentleman who has attained wide 
prominence in the practice of the medical profession, is located at 
Wheeling, West Virginia, and makes a specialty of diseases of the 
eye, ear, nose and throat, in which branches he received special 
training.  He is a man of high educational attainments and stands in 
the foremost ranks of his profession.  He was born in New York City, 
April 3, 1860, and is a son of Frederick Theodore Aschman.
	Frederick Theodore Aschman was born in Switzerland and died in 
1868, at the age of thirty-three years.  He came to the United States 
when a boy and entered a silk importing house, of which he eventually 
became the head.  He married Martha Davis, a daughter of General 
Davis.  The latter was born in Michigan in 1789, served in the War of 
1812, and also gained distinction in the Mexican War, -- he died in 
1874 at White Plains, New York.  Mr. and Mrs. Aschman had four 
children, as follows:  Frederick Theodore, born September 25, 1858, 
is a professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania; 
Gustavus A.; Maud S., born December 21, 1864, married Emil Schmidt, a 
designer living in Andover, New Jersey; and Theodore, born in July, 
1869, who is living in Paris, France.
	Gustavus A. Aschman attended the public schools of New York 
City, and private school at White Plains, New York, and at the age of 
eighteen years went abroad and entered a school at Trogen, 
Switzerland, a celebrated institution at a high altitude in the 
mountains.  There he remained two years, and then attended public and 
high schools a St. Gall, Switzerland, a place whose history dates 
back to the fourth century and renowned for its historic cathedrals.  
In 1879, he went to Geneva, where he entered the university and 
finished his preliminary course in medicine, and received the degrees 
of B. A. and B. Sc.  In the spring of 1882, he went to the University 
of Zurch, Switzerland, where he studied medicine until 1884, and 
there received a diploma for the practice of medicine and surgery.  
He subsequently spent two years and a half in attending lectures at 
the celebrated institutions of Vienna, Berlin and London, his 
specialty being diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat.  In 1886, 
he returned to the United States and became assistant clinical 
surgeon under Dr. Knapp at the New York Aural and Ophthalmic College, 
continuing there for two years.  In April, 1890, he located in 
Wheeling, where he has since been engaged in the continuous and 
successful practice of his profession.  His office is in Room No. 2, 
National Exchange Bank Building, and his residence is at No. 100 
Twelfth street.  He is a member of the American Medical Association, 
and of the board of regents of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb of 
West Virginia.
	Dr. Aschman on April 23, 1889, married Ida E. Harden, who was 
born June 21, 1860, and is a daughter of Percival Harden, a native of 
Wheeling.  They are members of St. Matthew's Protestant Episcopal 
Church, and Dr. Aschman is superintendent of the Sunday school and 
vestryman.  He organized and is a member of St. Matthews Church 
choir, which is composed of 50 male voices.  He is a member of the 
Order of St. Andrew, A. O. U. W., and is grand medical examiner for 
the Grand Lodge, A. O. U. W., of West Virginia.  He was secretary and 
is now president of the State Medical Society of West Virginia.  He 
is a member of the Twilight Club and the Arion Association of 
Wheeling.

From "HISTORY OF WHEELING and Ohio County, West Virginia and 
Representative Citizens."  Edited & Compiled by Hon. Gibson Lamb 
Cranmer.  Biographical Publishing, 1902; p. 360-363. 

(Laurie Birks Dean)