Dr. Charles J Kehm
History of
Kentucky and Kentuckians, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version, Vol. III,
pp. 1204. (Campbell County)
Charles J. Kehm, M.D., is not only one of Newport's able and successful
practitioners but for the past eight years he has given eminent satisfaction in
the more public capacity of health officer, displaying commendable zeal in his
watchfulness over sanitary conditions in the city
and inaugurating several reforms which have proved of great benefit to the
community.
Dr. Kehm was born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 7, 1869, and is the son of Adam and Elizabeth (Glaser) Kehm, both natives of Germany, who followed the example set by so many of their friends and associates and came to the United States to seek improved fortunes in a land of newer civilization and richer opportunity. They were both young people at the time of their emigration and they were reared and educated in Baltimore, in which city they met each other and united their hands and fortunes in matrimony.
In 1890 they removed
to Newport, and there the father, who had followed the vocation of shoe making,
died in 1895 at the age of forty-nine years. His widow still survives and
makes her residence in Newport. Dr. Kehm was one of five children, four of
whom are living,
and all of them are residents of this city.
Dr. Kehm was reared and educated in the "Monument
City," and shortly after his graduation from the high school of his native place
he decided upon the vocation for which his subsequent career was to prove him
eminently well fitted. He chose the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati
for the alma mater and was sent forth from her portals in 1896 with the
degree of M.D. His choice of college no doubt had a great deal to do in
deciding his future residence, for after several years he came over the river to
Newport, of which town he had already received a favorable impression.
He is identified in
the happiest manner with the life of the town and enjoys a good-sized and
remunerative practice. He belongs to several of those societies destined
to bring together the members of the profession and to assist in the
dissemination of all such progressive
ideas as may be evolved in the most enlightened and zealous investigation.
His affiliation extends to the American Medical Association and the
state and county societies.
Dr. Kehm is a loyal Republican, and, as previously
mentioned, has served for a number of years as Newport's health officer, and
prior to that time he gave two years of efficient service as district health
physician.
Dr. Kehm was married in 1897 to Miss Cora Wentz, of
Findlay, Ohio, a native of the Hoosier state, and to their union have been born
a son and daughter, named Charles and Charlotte, respectively. Both Dr.
and Mrs. Kehm are communicants of the St. Mark's Lutheran church.