Dr. Peter William Good
An able representative of the medical fraternity of Cincinnati is Dr. Peter William Good, who maintains an office in his residence, at 305 West McMillan Street. His birth occurred in this city October 11, 1869, his parents being John and Elizabeth (Schwartz) Good. The father, who was a native of Lancaster, Ohio, came to Cincinnati when a boy with his parents. Here he was reared to manhood, receiving a common-school education after the completion of which he entered the business world. He was a very efficient and capable man and subsequently engaged in business for himself as a commission merchant, being located at 16 East Court Street. This stand was entirely devoted to vegetables and fruits, but at that time Cincinnati was a great pork-packing place and Mr. Good had a number of places about the city where he handled pork products for the retail trade. In addition to his own business interests during the winter months for many years he discharged the duties of meat inspector. His business was becoming well established and the future looked most promising for him when he passed away in 1872, at the age of thirty-five years. He was of German extraction, his father having been born in the old country and the name was originally spelled Guth. Mr. Good always took an interest in all matters pertaining to the public welfare and served in the Civil war during Morgan’s raid.
This city has always been the home of Dr. Good, who attended the public schools in the acquirement of his preliminary education. When old enough to become a wage earner he entered the drug room of the city hospital in the capacity of messenger. He was a very bright, studious lad, ambitious to make a place for himself in the world and so devoted all of his spare time to obtaining a knowledge of the various drugs, and their medicinal properties. His receptive mind and close application soon enabled him to become sufficiently proficient to be made assistant pharmacist. He continued his studies and subsequently entered the Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, being graduated from this institution in 1890. It was his ambition to ultimately become a physician, so while discharging the duties of a pharmacist he was following a course of professional study under Dr. A. V. Phelps. He later found it possible to enter the Ohio Medical College, being awarded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1893. Immediately thereafter he opened an office on Vine Street in the vicinity of Mulberry, engaging in practice there until April 1910, when he removed to his present beautiful residence on McMillan Street that had just been completed. The ambition, enterprise and determination of purpose that characterized the boy have developed with the passing years and have been the means of making Dr. Good the capable and thoroughly efficient practitioner he is today. He has always been compelled to make his own way, which undoubtedly has been a most excellent thing as it has developed latent powers that otherwise might never have been discovered. He is a man of pleasing personality, ready sympathy and helpful spirit, who has always applied himself to his practice with a rare sense of conscientious obligation. His natural qualifications combined with his excellent preparation have united in making of him an exceptional physician, while he has proven to be equally competent in the operating room. Like all young professional men he met with more or less difficulty in winning recognition at the beginning, but his subsequent progress was very rapid and most gratifying and he now has a large practice, numbering among his patients many of the best families in the city. He well merits such success as has come to him, however, having at all times made the best of every opportunity afforded him, struggling during his student days against many adverse circumstances that would have killed the ambition of a man of less determination of spirit.
Dr. Good married Miss Amanda Freudenberger, a daughter of Henry Freudenberger of this city and they have become the parents of two children: Ralph William and Alice Martha.
Fraternally Dr. Good is affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, while he maintains relations with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his membership in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, West End Medical Society and the State Medical Association. He is a man who has the faculty of not only winning friends but of retaining them, and is highly esteemed not only by his social acquaintances but by the members of his profession.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III by Rev. Charles Fredric Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912