Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Dr. E. is the youngest of five brothers, four of whom are still living, and all are homoeopathic physicians, doing active duty in the cause, and adding valuable contributions to its literature. Years of honorable service have won for Dr. Ehrman hosts of friends, and he is held in loving reverence by his many patients. His love of the practice has led him t.o confine his duties to it; and he has, therefore, accomplished little for its literature. But he has placed Homoeopathy on a firm and lasting foundation in the Orescent City, and has identified himself with every earnest endoavor to secure and advance its interests. His ability is conceded by the profession of all schools, and he has secured universal respect, while the gratitude of his numerous patients is an ample reward for his laborious career. His punctuality and his temperate habits, in connection with his good constitution, will, we trust, long preserve to his State the benefit of his science and experience. John H, Roelker. among those who have devoted themselves successfully to building up our manufacturing interests is J. H. Roelker, Esq. A native of Ossenbrach, Kingdom of Hanover, Mr. R. came to America in 1835, then only nineteen years of age. He traveled on foot, fourteen days, to Pittsburgh, and then came on a steamboat to Louisville, Kentucky.- He had one hundred dollars in his possession when he lelt the old country, and after his arrival at the latter city lie had pnly eleven dollars left. He first obtained employment as a waiter-boy in a restaurant, at the rate of four dollars a month. In about four months he was offered a situation in a hotel, at the J. H. EOELKER increased wages of eleven dollars a month. He worked in the hotel three months, and then engaged as second cook on the Orinoco, in t...