Walter Ball Laffer M. D.

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Member of the Cleveland, Ohio chapter of the American Medical Association; attended Western Reserve University Medical School graduated 1896; formerly associate professor of mental and nervous diseases Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons; aged 54; died in July 1925. Early schooling was in High School and Business College; AMA code for medical school & date V.6 - 96; licensed to practice medicine in Ohio 1898; Member of Cleveland Academy of Medicine and the Ohio State Medical Society; Assoc. Prof. Mentaland Nervous Diseases"Walter Ball Laffer, M.D., Cleveland; Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, 1896; aged 54; member of the Ohio State Medical Association and Fellow of the American Medical Association; died at his home on July 29 following an illness of seven months. Following post graduate work in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and London, Dr. Laffer returned to Cleveland, limiting his practice to neurology. He was president of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine in 1910-1911. Surviving him are his widow, a son and a daughter." 1910 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio Enumeration District 335, Sheet 8A, 4/21/1910, Street Name Hough, Number 6005, Visitation Number 125,Family Number 205 Laffer, Walter B. Head 38 Physician Ohio Mertice G. Wife 30 None Minn Can Eng United States Alice G. Dau 5 None Ohio Minn William G Son 3 None Ohio Minn William L. Father 71 Retired Ohio Kentucky Ohio Lovenia B. Mother 61 None Ohio Pennsylvania Walter and Mertice were listed as both being married for the first time and for 6 years and Mertice had 2 children both living. William and Lovenia were listed as both being married for the first time for 44 years and Lovenia had 5 children only 2 of which were living. All 4 adults were listed as being able to read and write. The house was rented and was classified as a house as opposed to a farm. It is interesting to note that Mertice's birth place is listed as Minnesota when in fact it was Iowa. Also William L. lists his father's birth place as Kentucky. Yet Philip Peter Laffer listed his birth place as Virginia which was probably what we now call West Virginia. P. P. Laffer was raised in Kentucky by the Palmers for the early years of his life. Possibly William L. confused birth place with rearing place. William L. is the grandson of Peter Laufer who died in the riverboat explosion of the G. Washington in 1816. Presbyterian

Walter married Mertice Alma Gillespie on 25 Nov 1903 in Jackson, Jackson County, Minnesota. (Mertice Alma Gillespie was born on 29 Dec 1878 in Traer, Tama County, Iowa, died on 18 Jul 1963 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and was buried on 20 Jul 1963 in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio.)