Dr. Franklin C. Dielman
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Dr. Franklin C. Dielman was born in Perry Township, Miami County Indiana on September 20, 1879. He attended grade school in Pleasant Hill, Gilead and Akron and went to high school in Akron. His senior class had 12 members. After leaving Akron High School, Dielman entered the medical school of physicians and surgeons at the University of Illinois at Chicago, from which he graduated in June, 1904. There were 215 in his graduating class. The medical course lasted four years then, as opposed to the eight years currently, plus the required two years internship.
Dr. Dileman began his practice in his home community at Macy, Indiana where there were four other medical doctors, making it difficult for a young man to eke out a living. After a stay in Macy of about six months, he pulled up stakes and moved his office six miles west to Fulton, Indiana.
He established his office in the rear room of the old Poorman Barber shop at the north end of Main Street. He handled his business there for some time and later moved to his final location on the west side of Main street at the north end of town. He shared his office with a dentist, Dr. J. A. Hafert.
In 1905, Dr. Dielman married Miss Ida Jewell of Rochester and to this union were born two sons –Howard, and Robert, and one daughter, Mildred, later Mrs. William Downs, Sr. Dr. Dielman’s wife, Ida, died in 1948 and in 1950 he married Mrs. Maude Downs. During his years in practice, Dielman served on the staff of Woodlawn Hospital in Rochester. From 1905 to 1912 Dr. Dielman made his rounds in a horse and buggy across the rough country gravel and corduroy roads. It was often said of Dr. Dielman that he would go anytime, day or night, to care for patients while others slept. Often he took potatoes, chickens and wood in payment for services.
In his early practice, Dr. Dielman had no electric lights, but used coal oil lamps and lanterns. The price of prescriptions was 15 cents for pills and his call at your home cost one dollar. His charge for delivering a baby was five dollars.
Epidemics were notably hard, especially on the country doctor when the smallpox of 1908 and the influenza of 1918 kept the Doctor on the run. Dr. Dilman often had to hire a livery rig and rest his own horses while he, himself kept going. Sometimes he traveled by sleigh in the winter and the slow travel kept him away from home and office many hours. He purchased his first automobile in 1912 and was able to make faster calls and maintain more time in the office. It is estimated that Dr. Dielman over 2,500 babies in the Fulton area. Dr. Dielman was employed by the Chesapeak and Ohio railroad as it’s company doctor and surgeon. Dr. Dielman was honored with a Dr. Dielman Day in recognition of his services on Saturday, October 11, 1958. There had never been such a celebration or honor bestowed upon a country Doctor in Fulton county prior to this event and there has not been one since. Dr. Dielman died on Dec. 10, 1964.
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- ↑ Fulton County Historical Society, Rochester, Indiana. Mrs. Kline D. Reed
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