Dr. George A. Fackler
Dr. George A. Fackler, after taking the usual course of instruction in the public schools, entered Woodward high school, from which he was graduated in 1878, being then seventeen years of age. In the fall of the same year, he matriculated in the Medical College of Ohio, graduating with the degree of M.D. in 1881, being then not quite twenty years old. He immediately entered upon the practice of medicine at No. 35 Everett street, but is now located at 108 Garfield place. From the start he showed an interest in his profession that gave bright promise as to his future, and he soon attracted a lucrative clientage. However, feeling the importance of further study, he went abroad in May 1893, and engaged in hospital laboratory work during the summer and fall of that year, spending five weeks at Brompton Hospital, London, England, and six weeks in the celebrated Pharmacological Institute at Strasbourg, Germany. He also visited the various hospitals of Berlin and Munich and came into personal contact with many of the greatest physicians and surgeons of Europe. After returning home he devoted his attention to his profession with renewed interest, and has since limited his practice to that of internal medicine. His abilities early received recognition and, in 1885, he was appointed assistant to the chair of materia-medica and therapeutics in the Medical College of Ohio. This office he resigned in 1891 to accept the professorship of the same branches in the Women’s Medical College of Cincinnati. He was elected dean of that institution in 1891. The college is now out of existence. On January 1, 1893, he was appointed professor of materia-medica in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, a college which has also passed out of existence. He was professor of clinical medicine of the Miami Medical College until the merging of this with the Ohio Medical College. He is now professor of clinical medicine at the Ohio-Miami Medical College and is also a member of the staff of the City Hospital, having served as president of the staff for ten years, from 1900-1910. He has been a member of the Cincinnati Board of Health since its organization in August 1909, and in the discharge of all his duties has shown a promptness and efficiency that have met the hearty approval of his associates. He is a valued member of various organizations, among which may be named the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati, the Ohio State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. He was elected secretary of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati in 1884, a position which he filled for six years, and in 1892 was elected president of the academy. He was then only thirty-one years of age, being the youngest man who ever held that office. He served in 1889 as secretary of the medical section of the American Medical Association and has always taken a great interest in this organization and in all other means for promoting the efficiency of members of the professions.
On the 2d of January 1884, Dr. Fackler was married to Miss Amelia Von Seggern. He has won distinction in his profession through years of patient study and applications, being known not only as a highly successful practitioner but as a thorough teacher and a man of practical business qualifications, as is shown by the responsible positions he has been invited to fill. Judged by results, his life has been a pronounced success and he may be truly designated as among the most capable and progressive representatives of the medical profession in Cincinnati.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III, by Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912