Dr. John Alland Jeancon
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 13 January 1903, page 5
CALLED TO HIS LONG RESTING PLACE
Dr. J A Jeancon, 74, died at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning at the
home in Weingartner Place, Newport after a lingering illness. He had been
troubled for some time with a complication of diseases and pneumonia set in,
which caused his death. He was attended by Dr. J J Youtsey and lingered at
death's door for nearly a week. He was a noted physician and did much for the
medical world, having published the "Medical Lexicon" "Human Anatomy" and other
will known to physicians.
The story has often been told that he was the son of a French count and was of a royal family. He remained in Paris until the "Reign of Terror" in 1849, when he went to England. In London he was employed in the Middlesex Hospital and gave lessons in French to private classes. Later he came to America and married, making his home in Newport. A widow and a daughter, who are at Colorado Springs, Colorado, were notified of the death and will come here. Five sons, all away except Dr. Charles Jeancon, well known in Newport.
During his life Dr. J A Jeancon made several trips back to Europe where he got up his book on Human Anatomy. For years he was professor in the Eclectic College in Cincinnati. The funeral arrangements have not been made.
During the trial of Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, Dr. Jeancon was a witness, giving expert testimony on the anatomy. He was given a rigid cross examination but his testimony was very favorable to the prosecution. The testimony was to show that the girl was alive up to the time the head was cut off.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Tuesday, 13 January 1903, page 7
The serious illness of Dr. J A Jeancon, one of the most
distinguished physicians in the United States, has resulted in the development
of a most interesting biography of his life, part of which read like a romance.
Several of Dr. Jeancon's friends have long had an intimation that he was a
descendant of French royalty, but the eminent physician was loath to talk of his
past life, and consequently not even his sons knew that their father was a real
scion of nobility-the Count La Parelle.
Since being stricken Dr. Jeancon confided considerable of his life's history to an intimate friend. "Dr. Jeancon," says he, "is a direct descendant of one of the old French Huguenot families of the time of Maria de Medicis. When a young man he went to London and there Prof. Herschell, the great scientist took an interest in him. He studied chemistry and medicine an before the breaking out of the Civil War he came to America.
He went to the front with the Union army and was shot in the leg while assisting a wounded Confederate soldier. He never fully recovered from this. After the war he settled in Newport and for 20 years was engaged in compiling "The Medical Lexicon." that has proved of inestimable value in the medical profession. While preparing this work he returned to Paris to make researches in the medical libraries and incidentally looked up relatives. He found but one, a cousin, who occupied a high position in the French Ministry.
"Dr. Jeancon realized $80,000 on the Medical Lexicon, but his partner investing it in the Fidelity Bank, lost all when the crash came. He had made a study of leprosy and the bubonic plague and his prediction that the accession of the Philippine Islands by the United States would cause these diseases to be brought to the United States caused a considerable stir in the medical profession at the time. Dr. Jeancon has traveled widely and is a fine linguist. He has an intimate knowledge of Sanscrit, the oldest language of which the present generation has knowledge. Besides this he speaks fluently the English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, ancient Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, Arabic and Dutch languages.
"Besides the Medical Lexicon, he wrote 'A History of the Essenic Order,' 'Attassa, or the First Century of Christianity' and has contributed many treatises on current medical subjects."
Last night his condition, while still very critical, was slightly improved.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 14 January 1903, page 5
It developed Wednesday that Dr. J A Jeancon of Newport, whose death occurred early Tuesday morning selected his own pallbearers shortly before he passed away. About a half hour before his death he called for Reinhardt Schmidt, who had been waiting on him, to get him some writing paper and with difficulty he wrote the following names: Chief Edwin Smith, Harry Irwin, Prof. Bloyer of Cincinnati, Charles Israel, J J Youtsey and Fred Otto. He also gave Schmidt the key to the safe deposit box where his will is supposed to be. In a few minutes after, life was extinct.
It was always the wise of the aged doctor to have his body cremated and this desire will be carried out. The children also desired a private funeral, but the professors of the Ohio Medical College have adopted resolutions of respect and decided to send floral tributes. The family will arrive from Colorado Tuesday and the funeral obsequies will be held on Friday when the remains will be cremated. He was a member of the Masonic Order, Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order, GAR and Loyal Legion all of which societies will be represented at the funeral.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, 19 January 1903, page 7
It is more than probable that there will be a contest over the distribution of the estate of Dr. J A Jeancon, Newport. Rhinehart Schmidt, who had been the physician's faithful attendant and nurse for the past six years, has engaged Attorney L J Crawford to watch his interests, and whether or not there is a will he will present his claim for services rendered.
Dr. Jeancon's children will resist the claim. Schmidt says that he will have no trouble securing witnesses to prove that he took care of the eminent physician during his declining years. The safety deposit box will be opened by Curator Warren today and the will, if there is one, produced in Court. Dr. Jeancon told several people before he died that he would see that Schmidt was provided for.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 15 January 1903, page 5
The funeral of the late Dr. J A Jeancon will take place from his late home in Newport Friday afternoon. It is the wish of the widow and family that the obsequies be very quiet but the professors and students of medical colleges in Cincinnati will come to Newport in a body. Mrs. Jeancon and her daughter arrived from Colorado Springs Thursday to attend the funeral.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 16 January 1903, page 1
The funeral obsequies of the Late Dr. J A Jeancon were held at 1 pm Friday at the Presbyterian Church in Newport. It was very quiet and the wish of the family was carried out. Rev J P Whitehead conducted the ceremonies after which the remains were taken to the crematory by Undertaker Ersckell to be incinerated.
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Children of Dr. Jean Allard Jeancon and Matilda Louise Mahenicke (1836-1909)
Blanch Elizabeth Jeancon b-1857; d-18 Nov 1914
in San Diego Calf; br-Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs
Charles Augustus Jeancon b-Feb 1858 in Indiana; d-8 Apr 1936 in Los Angeles; br-Forest
Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale Calf. m-Mary Etta Westthrope
Louis Allard Jeancon b-1864 in Indiana; d-11 Sep 1948 in Colorado Springs; br-Evergreen
Cemetery in Colorado Springs; m-Belle B
Edwin Allard Jeancon b-1868 in Tennessee
John Allard Jeancon b-1875 in Newport; m-Lionna Hicks
Otto Lemcke Jeancon b-14 June 1878 in Newport; d-25 Nov 1925 in Imperial Calf.
br-Mt Hope Cemetery, San Diego. m-Kate Dixon; Emma Abbott