Individual Details
(May 30, 1876 - )
"Peter A. Kemper, one of the younger physicians of Germantown, Ohio, was born May 31, 1876, in Churchville, Lewis County, West Virginia, and is the son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Rebecca (Musser) Kemper. So far as known the family emigrated from Germany to Virginia in the latter part of the sixteenth century. The Doctor's grandfather, Reuben Allen Kemper, married Miss Rosie Hitt, who bore him twelve children. He was a farmer, a Baptist minister and a mechanic, and was the first of his family to come to Virginia from West Virginia. He was a man, who, though he had to make his own way in the world, attained a good-sized fortune; large enough in fact to enable him to leave each of his large family one hundred acres of fine farm land. Alexander Hamilton Kemper was born and reared in Lewis County, West Virginia, and became a general farmer and landowner and takes an active part in all public affairs. Of the fourteen children born to himself and wife all but one daughter, Mayme, are living. The others are: Peter A., R. K., Emma B., Sarah, Odessa, Delphi, John R. Lillian M. Esta, Willa, James, Claude and Virgie H. Ralph K. is a graduate of the Ohio School of Dental Surgery of Cincinnati and now lives and practices in Germantown. Peter A. Kemper received his early education at the district schools of Lewis County, West Virginia. From there he went to the Broaddus Classic and Scientific Institute at Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he pursued a classical course. Upon graduation he engaged in teaching for a period of three years, having had previously some experience in this profession, and later he entered a medical college at Cincinnati. From this school he received a medical degree in 1903, where upon he returned to West Virginia, being engaged in practice at French Creek for a year and a half, and at Vandalia for two years. He then came to Germantown in 1906, where he has since resided, and where he has built up a good practice. On the 16th of March, 1904, Dr. Kemper was married to Miss Laura Gertrude Hefner, the daughter of Henry J. and Rhoda (Gould) Hefner. Her father was a farmer and stockman and one of the prominent citizens of French Creek, West Virginia, taking part in local affairs and evincing much public spirit. Two children, a son and a daughter, Harold and Frieda Virginia, have been born to Dr. and Mr. Kemper. Although his professional duties require the larger share of Dr. Kemper's time he is yet able to astute many of the meetings of the Masons, among whom he is an active worker, and of the Modern Woodmen. In his college days he was initiated into the Tau Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and in the occasional meeting of the alumni chapter finds much diversion and enjoyment. Through his membership in the Ohio State Eclectic Society he keeps abreast of his profession and acquainted with the efforts and work of his fellow physicians. The best years of his life are still ahead of him, and as preparation for them he has laid a substantial present with the good will of the people among whom he has practiced, given in return for faithful services and a skill in the mastery of a difficult profession." (History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio, pages 715 - 716.)
Events
| Birth | May 30, 1876 | Lewis County, West Virginia | | | |
| Marriage | March 16, 1904 | Laura Gertrude Hefner | | | |
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