Dr. Frank Hills and Laura E Southgate
From the Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, published by the John M Gresman Company, Chicago-Philadelphia 1896,
page 313-314
FRANK H SOUTHGATE, MD, Pension Examiner and a popular young physician of Newport, son of James and Emma (Hills) Southgate was born in the Highlands, near Newport April 12, 1869. His father, now a resident of Newport, was born in that city in 1848. He returned to Newport after a long residence in the Highlands a few years ago and is engaged in the manufacture of shingles; a member of the board of aldermen and president of the Newport Commercial Club. He has been a director in the German National Bank ever since its organization and is now vice president.
Edward L Southgate (grandfather) was also a native of Newport, where he lived until his death in 1852, when thirty-eight years of age. He was a lawyer by profession and in addition to his law practice looked after his father's extensive business.
Richard Southgate (great-grandfather) was born in 1774 near Richmond, Virginia and came to Newport in 1795. He was a lawyer by profession but was more extensively interested in mercantile pursuits in which business he accumulated a large fortune in money and realty. He owned about ten thousand acres of land in Campbell and Kenton counties and was considered one of the wealthiest men in the state. He was at one time a representative of his district in the Kentucky legislature. His wife was a Miss (Ann) Hinde, daughter of the celebrated physician Dr. Thomas Hinde, who was a native of England and was a surgeon in the English navy. He attended General Wolfe at the time of his death in Quebec and was the physician Patrick Henry of Virginia; also served throughout the Revolutionary war as a surgeon. He was well known as a physician in Virginia and Kentucky.
Emma Hills Southgate (mother) is a native of Newport, of which city she is still a resident. Her father, B F Hills, a native of Massachusetts, came to Newport in 1814 and is still a resident of that city. Although about eighty-eight years of age, he is a stout man in perfect health and has never known what it is to have to endure illness. Most of his life has been spent in farming in the South. He went to Louisiana in 1867 and lived in that state for twenty years when he retired from business and returned to his old home in Newport.
Dr. Frank H Southgate spent the days of his youth in the Highlands and attended the excellent schools in Cincinnati, Ohio. After acquiring a good education, he entered upon his professional studies under Dr. B K Rockford of Cincinnati; and attended the Medical College of Ohio, from which he was graduated in 1892. He then took a post-graduate course in Germany at the University of Berlin.
In 1894 he began a general practice of medicine in Newport and in the short time in which he has been known as a practicing physician, he has met with encouragement and every assurance of success. Few men have been better prepared for this responsible duties of the physician; and this fact, together with genial manner and kindly disposition, has won the favor and confidence of a host of friends. While doing a general practice, his special work, for which he has more fully prepared himself, is the treatment of diseases of children. He is assistant professor of physiology and clinician in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati, two very responsible positions which are usually filled by older men.
Dr. Southgate is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati and a member of the United States Board of Pension Examiners of Newport, and it is hardly necessary to ad that he is a Democrat in good standing with Mr. Cleveland's administration.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 February 1902, page 11
NEWPORT BRIEFS
The suits of Dr. Frank Southgate against Eleanor and Jessie McMillan for $300 each for professional services alleged to have rendered were on trial in the Campbell Circuit Court yesterday. Two separate suits were filed and the juries returned verdicts for $112 in the case against Eleanor McMillan and $4 in the case of Jessie McMillan.
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Dr. Frank Southgate married Laura E Donnelly 7 Mar 1906 in Newport, had Laura, James, and Nancy. Laura died in 1941.
Dr. Frank Hills Southgate 1947 Obituary
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 30 January 1937, page 1
Four Ft Thomas physicians opened a clinic this morning at 9 am at the Highlands High School to begin immunization against typhoid of flood refugees who have agreed to the procedure.
Dr. Frank Southgate, Dr. August F Fath, Dr. J L Donnelly and Dr. J H Hohnstedt are in charge of the work, assisted by Nurse Maude Brown.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 25 September 1947, page 1
SOUTHGATE ESTATE
Dr. Frank H Southgate, 25 N Ft Thomas avenue, Ft Thomas, left his estate to his two daughters, Laura Frances and Nancy Southgate, according to his will probated in Campbell Circuit Court Thursday. He directed that Laura Frances Southgate be named executrix. The estate was valued at $18,000 and the will dated July 2, 1942.
AS practicing physician in Ft Thomas and Cincinnati for 50 years, Dr. Southgate died Sep 17. The first physician to open offices in Ft Thomas, he served as city health officer there for a number of years.