February 3, 1906, The Badger, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin

February 3, 1906, The Badger, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin

August 22, 1866, Evansville Citizen, p. 4, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin January 9, 1867, Evansville Citizen, ad, p. 1, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin Married. At the residence of the of the bride s father in Evansville, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1866 by Rev. J. I. Foote, E. W. Beebe, M. D. of Stoughton and Frank A., only daughter of H. G. Spencer. January 9, 1867, Evansville Citizen, p. 4, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin

December 28, 1870, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin March 29, 1871, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin April 26, 1871, Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin

June 26, 1872, Evansville Review, p. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin Dr. Beebe can invent a sewing machine as well as dispense little pills. We noticed a rough model for a sewing machine that he is getup, which looks as though he had really studied out an entirely new principle, for that useful household implement. August 14, 1872, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin November 6, 1872, Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin

November 27, 1872, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin Saturday evening, last while our citizens were in attendance at the Musical Convention some imps of darkness in human form, amused themselves by breaking into houses, stealing, and cutting up generally. Rev. J. W. Harris was astonished on his return to find that his house had been broken into, and completely ransacked, although no valuables were taken. Mr. Henry Spencer s house was next visited. Entrance was gained by using a pair of old shears to pry open a rear door. Some twenty-five dollars in money was taken from Dr. Beebe s room and other valuables, belonging to Mrs. Beebe, amounting to nearly as much more. The following night his corn crib was molested. February 12, 1873, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin We are pleased to notice that our fellow townsman, Dr. E. W. Beebe, is highly complimented for a valuable paper read before the Illinois Homeopathic Association, during their late session at Chicago. June 4, 1873, Evansville Review, p. 4, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin Village Election. The following is the ticket elected yesterday. The election was animated, but we think no bad blood was spilt. The old question of billiards or antibilliards was a vital issue, resulting in favor of the anti-billiard party by a small majority. For President: A. S. Baker; For Trustees, Caleb Snashall, David Stevens, Lewis Spencer, E. W. Beebe; For Clerk, Homer Potter; For Treasurer, R. Winston; For Justice of the Peace, Jacob West; For Constable, Henry Hubbard; For Supervisor, A. S. Baker. March 7, 1877, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin A diamond edition of Hahneman appeared in Dr. Beebe s family the other night. Happy congratulations greet the Dr. Mother and son are doing well.

December 31, 1877, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin Dr. E. W. Beebe started for Milwaukee Tuesday morning where he will continue practice as an oculist and aorist. The doctor s fame as an auricular and optical surgeon is extending. January 14, 1880, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin Mrs. Dr. Beebe leaves today for Milwaukee where she and the doctor expect henceforth to make their home. Dr. Beebe has been there three weeks. February 4, 1880, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin We understand that Dr. Bulson, of Brooklyn has purchased the residence of Dr. E. W. Beebe, and will shortly move to town. The more, the merrier. March 3, 1880, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin Dr. E. W. Beebe and Mrs. Beebe came up from Milwaukee, Saturday evening. The Dr. Went back Sunday night. Mrs. Beebe will remain for a couple of weeks. The doctor reports business with him as being prosperous with flattering prospects for the future. March 3, 1880, Evansville Review, p. 3, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin 34 North Madison Researched and written by Ruth Ann Montgomery When Dr. E. W. Beebe, an eye and ear surgeon first started practice in 1870, he opened an office in the home of his father-in-law, Henry Spencer, at 128 West Main Street. He and his young wife were also living with the Spencer's. Four years later, Beebe decided to build a clinic for his practice and made it part of a very impressive residence near Evansville's commercial district. Benjamin Hoxie was hired to design the structure. Early in the spring of 1874, Beebe made arrangements to build the house. He purchased a lot from Mary Campbell on the northeast corner of the intersection of Madison and Mill Streets. He paid $200 for the lot. (In 1995 the same land was valued at $14,100.) Bebee acted as his own building contractor, hiring skilled workers for the various construction phases. The cellar was dug in June 1874 and the stone work was laid by Daniel Huckins and his assistants. Benjamin Hoxie, who was still living in Cooksville, was the chief carpenter, as well as designer. His chief assistant was Andros Munger. The house plans included a large room for the doctor's office, private consulting and operating rooms, all with light and good circulation of air. According to a newspaper article, these rooms were painted in "soft mellow tints, each differing from the other; graduating the light as may be suited to the eye of his ophthalmic patients". The parlors on the first floor were connected with folding doors. Pearl white was chosen as the color for these rooms. There were also rooms for servants, as well as dining and kitchen areas.

The exterior walls were painted a bright slate color with the corner boards and trim painted in darker hues. The French or mansard roof (the only one of its kind in Evansville) was painted to imitate slate. G. H. Backenstoe was the master painter of Beebe's new home. The family moved into the house in early January 1875. The next summer, Beebe added a fence in the front of the house to complete the project. Beebe had regular hours at his office in Evansville but also had temporary offices in other cities. In the late 1800s, many specialists, like E. W. Beebe, had a circuit they traveled, usually renting a hotel room where they consulted with patients and performed surgeries. Dr. Beebe practiced in Richland Center and Janesville, as well as Evansville. A December 1879 article in the Janesville Gazette noted that he had successfully extracted two cataracts, three tarsal tumors and polyps of the ear while on a professional visit to Richland Center. Potential patients were notified they could consult him at the Myers house during his regular hours in Janesville. His practice became so successful that he decided to locate to the city of Milwaukee and in 1880, Dr. Beebe and his wife moved. For many years, his reputation as a skilled eye and ear specialist was maintained and Evansville residents would travel to Milwaukee to consult with Beebe. The Beebe's sold the house and medical facility to Dr. H. R. Bulson in March 1880. Dr. Bulson had been practicing for three years in Brooklyn and before that had been a physician for fourteen years in Michigan. During his four year stay in Evansville he built up a "large and lucrative" practice according to an Evansville Review article. January 25, 1884, Enterprise, Evansville, Wisconsin

Enterprise ads 1885, Dr. E. W. Beebe, of Milwaukee performed the delicate operation of cutting a tumor from Mrs. Peter Aller s eye-lid, while here New Years. January 13, 1886, Enterprise, p. 1, col. 5, Evansville, Wisconsin June 17, 1887, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin

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June 25, 1889, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 4, Evansville, Wisconsin Wisconsin July 1, 1890, the Tribune, p. 1, col. 3, Evansville,

October 3, 1893, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin April 5, 1892, Evansville Review, p. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin Dr. Beebe has a fine horse and carriage, and is having a nice barn built for them in the rear of his lot. April 18, 1893, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 3 Evansville, Wisconsin January 12, 1892, Evansville Review, p. 1, col. 1, Evansville, Wisconsin

Ad April 18, 1893, Evansville Review, Evansville, Wisconsin Dr. J. E. Anthony has moved his office equipment to the second floor of the Cummings & Clark Store in the rooms recently vacated by Dr. Beebe January 6, 1900, The Badger, Evansville, Wisconsin Dr. J. E. Anthony has moved his office from the Baker Block into rooms over Cummings & Clark's store, formerly occupied by Dr. L. B. Beebe. January 9, 1900 The tribune Mrs. Alice Beebe Shaw died at the home of Mr. Lyman Johnson in Madison last Saturday and was brought to this city for burial last Sunday at seven o'clock. Mrs. Shaw was forty five years of age. She was formerly an Evansville girl having lived here for several years with her brother, Dr. Beebe. Those who remember the rosy cheeked, fair haired girl, will be filled with sadness to learn of her lingering illness of about nine months. But she possessed a beauty of character which nothing could destroy and bore her suffering with patience and fortitude, always speaking words of appreciating for any act of kindness shown her. She loved the good and beautiful wherever she found them and she so saw good in every one. She was a friend to all. The funeral was held at Mr. Johnson's. Rev. Gilmore of the Unitarian church officiating. He read the beautiful poem of Edwin Arnold, "He and She," and spoke of the consolations of religion for those who mourn, quoting from Emerson: "What is excellent as God's lives is permanent; hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain; hearts' loves will meet with thee again." Mrs. Clark sang two solos, "My Rosary" and "I'm Nearer My Home in Heaven Today Than Ever I've Been Before." The service at the grave was continued by Rev. Smith who spoke appropriate words of comfort and sympathy. And just as the sun was sinking beneath the roseate clouds, her body was laid to rest amid the flowers she loved so well. A sunset of radiant beauty seemed an omen of hope and cheer for the life beyond. Surely He who shapes the rose and tints the evening cloud has taken His own.

She leaves a husband Mr. Levi Shaw, an aged mother, and a brother to mourn their sad loss. A Friend. July 30, 1901, The Tribune, p. 3, col. 6, Evansville, Wisconsin April 22, 1902, The Tribune, p. 3, col. 3, Evansville, Wisconsin EUGENE WINFIELD BEEBE, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was born in Cheshire, Ontario county, New York, February 21, 1840, the son of Elisha P. and Lorinda A. (Lucas) Beebe. He received his early education in common and private schools of New York and Wisconsin states, and later at Evansville Seminary, Evansville, Wisconsin. He studied for his profession under the preceptorship of Dr. M. L. Belden of Stoughton, Wisconsin, and graduated from Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, Illinois, in 1866. From 1861 to 1865 he was located in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in 1867 moved to Stoughton, Wisconsin, to enter partnership with his former preceptor, Dr. M. L. Belden, and in the following year moved to Evansville, Wisconsin, where he was in successful general and special practice until the year 1879, when he located in the city of Milwaukee to practice ophthalmology and otology, exclusively ; in the same year he was granted the degree of doctor of medicine in the Chicago Hom½opathic Medical College. In 1871 he took post-graduate work in the New York Ophthalmic Hospital, and in the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, and received the appointment of professor of ophthalmology, otology and laryngology in the Kansas City Homeopathic Medical College in 1891, which position was declined. He is ex-vice-president of the Homeopathic Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society and has held the offices of president, secretary, and is now treasurer, for the second time, of the Hom½opathic Medical Society of the State of Wisconsin. Dr. Beebe is a senior member of the American Institute of Hom½opathy and of the Hom½opathic Medical Society of the State of Wisconsin ; a member of the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine, and one of the organizers of the American Homeopathic, Ophthalmological, Otological and Laryngological Society. He also is a member of the Association of Opticians and the Masonic Order. He married Frances Augusta Spencer, February 22, 1866, and one child, Claude Spencer Beebe,

M. D., was born to them. Dr. Beebe confines his practice to diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and was among the first homeopathic specialists west of Chicago. Evansville, Wisconsin October 19, 1906, Enterprise, p. 3, col. 2, March 8, 1907, Enterprise, p. 3, col. 2, Evansville, Wisconsin