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Dr Adolph H Hartwig
1866 – 1934
Dr. A.
H. Hartwig Veterinary Hospital, 109 S
Fifth St
1905
Watertown Daily Times, 08 01
1905
At a
special meeting of the common council held at the city hall Thursday evening, a
resolution was adopted demanding that Dr. A. Hartwig
should retract in writing the statements it is claimed he made last winter
assailing the integrity and honesty of the members of the common council, and
was given thirty days in which to file such retraction with the city clerk, and
should he fail to file such retraction within the time specified in the
resolution, charges would be preferred against him as a member of the council.
President:
It is alleged, that statements were made during the last session of the
legislature when a certain dam bill, (with which
the people here are familiar) was under consideration and was to the effect
that the council sold out to the Electric Light and Gas company
for the sum of $500.00.
The
writer knows nothing of the controversy, but has learned that the company
offered to give the city the sum of $500.00 in case the bill passed and the dam
was built to repair a certain bridge which would be damaged to some extent by
raising the water in the river ... If the doctor made the statements as alleged
and they were untrue, he should make the amend honorable. If he did not make
such statements as alleged, he should stand pat and demand that the common
council adopt a resolution exonerating him from the charge as set forth in the
resolution adopted Thursday night.
1905
Watertown Daily Times, 12
09 1905
Sometime
ago, a committee of three was appointed at a meeting of the common to
investigate certain reports and statements made by Alderman, A. H. Hartwig effecting the honesty and integrity of the members
of the council, which duty was performed and report made to the council in
which it was stated in their findings that such reports of statements had been
made by Alderman Hartwig and a retraction demanded of
him by the council. He made a retraction which was not satisfactory to the
council and charges were subsequently preferred against him, the same committee
being appointed for that purpose, and he cited to appear Friday before the
council acting as a court of impeachment and answer to the charge. The court
met at 10 a. m. at the council chamber, each alderman being in his place and
answering to his name, A. C. Kading, city attorney
appearing for the city and Gustave Buchheit of this city and Ernst N. Warner of Madison
appearing for the accused alderman. After considerable delay had been
experienced in offering motions which were over-ruled by the mayor, the court
got down to business and the taking of testimony began upon the part of the
council. Letter being read from Leut.
Gov. J. O. Davidson and oral testimony given by Senator
Breach and others as to the matter in controversy. When the committee
rested rebutting was given by the accused and others and at the close the
council took a vote at 11:30 p.m. finding Alderman Hartwig
guilty and suspending him for 60 days as alderman of his ward.
1906
Watertown Daily Times, 01
26 1906
The
time for the city officials to answer the mandamus to show why the proceeding
against Alderman A. H. Hartwig should not be expunged
from the record, which was to have been heard yesterday by Judge Dick at
Juneau, was postponed until the February term of the Dodge county circuit court
which convenes on the 13th day of that month.
1906
Watertown Daily Times, 03
02 1906
Last
week an article taken from the Juneau
Independent appeared in the Republican
relative to the mandamus case of A. H. Hartwig
against the mayor and aldermen of the city of Watertown. The article was
misleading for the very simple reason that it did not state the facts. The
“motion to squash” the writ was not argued neither was it denied by the court.
The motion will be argued at some future date and until it is argued it will
not be determined whether the city will be required to answer the suit or not.
The editor of the Independent was
evidently misled as was the Republican,
who believes in a “square deal” “and deprecates anything that savors of
unfairness in the discussion of public matters.” Nobody is hurt by letting the
exact facts be known.
1906
02 20 Before taking up the calendar for the
February term of the Circuit Court, Judge Dick heard the attorneys in the
mandamus proceedings begun by Dr. A. H. Hartwig
against the City Council of Watertown.
The
case has attracted considerable attention and grew out of remarks alleged to
have been made by Dr. A. H. Hartwig in the Rough and
Ready dam matter while the bill for raising said dam was in the
legislature. Upon that and other alleged
statements by Mr. Hartwig who was then an alderman,
charges were preferred against him by a committee of three aldermen and he was
tried and the suspension of sixty days from the council followed on December
2. Mr. Hartwig,
by attorney, tried to have the action rescinded by the council, and, failing in
this, began mandamus proceedings before Judge Dick.
When
the matter came up Tuesday City Attorney Kading and
Attorney M. L. Lueck, appearing for the City of
Watertown, moved to quash the writ on the ground that there was no statutory
cause for the issuance. The motion was
denied and the defendant will now serve an answer. The case will again come up on March 5. Attorneys Gust Buchheit
and Harlow Pease appeared as attorneys for Dr. Hartwig. WDT
1907
11 24 Dr. A. Hartwig’s new
veterinary hospital on South Fifth street is now complete and open for
business. The new structure consists of
two buildings large enough to accommodate twenty-two horses or cattle and six
dogs. The building is lighted by
electricity and is supplied with city water, sewerage, electric bells and all
modern appliances necessary to make the establishment an up to date one. The institution will be named The Watertown Veterinary Hospital,
with its office, pharmacy and laboratory at 109 South Fifth Street, which are
also new, and modern in all their appointments.
In order to supply the demands of his large practice . . . the doctor
has secured the services of . . . Dr. Charles G. Schultz of Wausau, who
graduated from the Chicago Veterinary College in 1903, carrying off the gold
medal for the highest average standing in his class . . . WDT
1910
01 21 Dr. A. H. Hartwig. The only
qualified Veterinarian in this vicinity.
The largest and most complete establishment in the
state. Best facilities for any
emergency. Large
hospital in connection. 109 Fifth
St. [advertisement] WG
08 12 Homecoming
celebration, Dr. Hartwig's machine came in for
the greatest applause, his machine being considered the best decorated of the
hundred or more machines in the parade.
WG
1911 Ad
1916
Watertown
Gazette, 05 11 1916
Dr. A.
H. Hartwig, the well known veterinarian, took formal
notice of the fact that it was the twenty-first anniversary of the
establishment of his practice in the city.
The doctor is a native of this city having been born on a farm within
the city limits.
In
1891, when the horse market was at its lowest ebb and business in that line was
very dull, he found that he could be spared from the home farm long enough to make
a more exhaustive study of his chosen science.
He
visited a number of European veterinary colleges, but after comparing them with
American colleges, decided to choose an American college, and in due time
graduated from the Chicago Veterinary College.
He began practicing in Watertown in 1895.
The
doctor, who is a republican in politics, has been active for years in the
affairs of his party. He served the Second ward as alderman, held the office as
deputy oil inspector and deputy game warden two years each, served as state
veterinarian under Governor F. E. McGovern, and is now directing the La Follette campaign in the Second congressional district as
district chairman.
1960
05 04 One of the city's old and well constructed mansions,
the former home of Edward and Emil Seibel,
owners of the old Seibel Bros. Circus, is coming down to make way for a service
station to be erected by the Clyman Oil Co. The home is at 802 [actually 804] Main
Street. In more recent years it was
owned and occupied by the late Dr. A .B. [actually A. H.] Hartwig, one of the city's mayors,
and later by his son, Attorney Harold W. Hartwig.
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Autobiography
1921
Hartwig, A H, Rural
Veterinary Secrets, 1921, Advocate Publishing Co, Milwaukee, WI
Dr. A.
H. Hartwig, the author of "Rural Veterinary Secrets," was born on a stock and
dairy farm in Watertown, Dodge Co., Wisconsin, where he had a good opportunity
to study the natural habits and wants of ailing farm animals.
He
received his preliminary education in the public schools and Northwestern
College of Watertown, Wis. At the age of seventeen he expressed the desire to
study veterinary science and become a veterinary physician and surgeon.
However, as his services could not be spared on the farm at that time, he was
obliged to abandon the idea, at least for the time being.
When
twenty years of age he entered the short course in Agriculture of the
University of Wisconsin, under the direction of Dean Henry, it being the second
and third year of the existence of that course. Dr.
V. T. Atkinson, the first State Veterinarian of Wisconsin, gave a course of
lectures and demonstrations in veterinary science. These lectures and
demonstrations proved of particular interest to the young agricultural student,
and again he was inspired with the determination to take up this interesting
study, but neither the time nor the means to further attend college could be
spared.
After
concluding his university studies he returned home and devoted most of his time
to breeding draft horses, coach horses, and dairy cattle. In 1892 he made a
tour through Europe. There he visited the various veterinary colleges in the
Old World. On his return he brought with him an importation of Oldenburg coach
horses. His experience in stock breeding convinced him that a
knowledge of veterinary medicine and surgery would be of great benefit
to himself and his community. He again determined to become a veterinarian and
then actually entered the Chicago Veterinary College, from which he was
graduated in the year 1895.
After graduation
he entered upon his practice as a veterinarian in Watertown, Wisconsin, and
adjacent community, which he successfully continued for twenty-seven years.
During this time he held various important positions in connection with his
profession. He was president of the Wisconsin Society of Veterinary Graduates;
secretary of the Wisconsin State Veterinary Society; State Veterinarian of
Wisconsin; Veterinary Editor of "Hoard's Dairyman"; publisher and
proprietor of "The Farmer's Veterinary Advisor," and at the present
time is Veterinary Inspector for the United States Bureau of Animal Industry.
While editor of "Hoard's Dairyman" he discovered the Air Treatment
for milk fever, which is now used the world over and is saving the lives of
thousands of valuable farm animals.
The
experience thus acquired he is now giving to his fellow farmers and stockowners
in the form of "Rural Veterinary
Secrets."
PREFACE
My
purpose in presenting "Rural
Veterinary Secrets" to the farmer and other owners of domesticated animals
shall be to educate them to use home remedies intelligently whenever they are
applicable in case of emergency, and to properly comfort and care for the
patient till medical aid can be summoned; to teach my readers to use the right
remedy in the right place in case of emergency, instead of employing anything
and everything that might be suggested by the casual observer; to avoid the
misapplication of drugs, which so often leads to the destruction of valuable
farm animals; and to give professional advice to those who are in need, as well
as those who seek professional knowledge on those subjects.
In
order that my readers may readily understand what I am to present to them, I
will employ common farmer language, avoiding technical expressions as much as
possible. I shall prescribe the most practical and effective remedies for each
particular case, regardless of who might be the manufacturer thereof. The
remedies prescribed shall be those which I have found the most successful and
practical during my twenty-seven years of practice.
I have
decided to place the knowledge and experience obtained in these twenty-seven
years of continued and uninterrupted practice as a veterinarian before my
readers in concise form, boiled down for quick and ready reference, in this, my
first edition of "Rural Veterinary
Secrets."
A. H.
HARTWIG, M. D. C.
Watertown,
Wisconsin, July 1st, 1921.
Kiessling,
Elmer C., Watertown Remembered
(Watertown: Watertown Historical Society), 1976, p 195
A
great change came about in dairying when all cows in Wisconsin had to be tested
for tuberculosis, and pasteurization of milk became the rule. Many a fine herd
was decimated when the tests revealed the presence of the disease, but farmers
were reimbursed by the state for their losses. One of the leaders for better
health among cattle and other animals was Dr. A. H. Hartwig,
appointed state veterinarian by Governor Francis McGovern and twice elected
mayor of Watertown. He opened the first animal hospital in Watertown, wrote a
popular book, Farmers' Veterinary Secrets, and patented a medicine, "Sanguitone," that guaranteed "more milk from
cows, more pork from pigs and more mutton from sheep."
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Dr Hartwig’s home, 804 Main, c1921 |
Hartwig’s Veterinary Hospital, (idealized), S Fifth St, c1921 |
Dept of Surgery Hartwig’s Hospital, c1921 |
Dr Hartwig 1906, cartoonist drawing, Men in the Public
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Cross References:
Note: The doctor's office was located where later
the gourmet popcorn shop was on Madison St; his animal hospital was in the
rear. It was also located on the block
where Associated Bank is now and at one time it was located where Glenn's
Market is. His home was there as well.
