Hoover

Col. and State Records of N. C., vols. VII-XX (1890-
1902), XXII (1907), XXIII (1904), XXIV (1905).]

J.G.deR.H.

HOOVER, CHARLES FRANKLIN (Aug.
2, i86s-June 15, 1927), physician, was born in
Miamisburg, Ohio. His father, Abel, of Ger-
man-Swiss extraction, was a wealthy manufac-
turer of farming machinery. His mother, Clara
Elizabeth (Hoff) Hoover, came of Dutch stock.
Charles, reared as a Methodist, had originally
planned to enter the ministry; but subsequent
contacts with relatives in the medical profession
probably influenced his final choice of a career.
In his later life, however, this adolescent inter-
est in theology was revived and his library grew
to contain an unusual collection of theological
and philosophical treatises. He attended Ohio
Wesleyan University from 1882 to 1885 and re-
ceived from Harvard in 1887 the degree of A.B.,
and in 1892, the degree of M.D. From 1890 to
1894 he worked with Prof. Edmund von Neusser
at the University of Vienna and with Prof. Fred-
erick Kraus at the University of Strassburg. In
1894 a chance visit to Cleveland led to his assum-
ing direction of the summer medical classes at
the City Hospital. Such was his appeal as a
teacher that, at the suggestion of his students, he
was appointed teacher of physical diagnosis and
visiting physician to the Cleveland City Hospital.
In 1907 he was made professor of medicine in
the Medical College of Western Reserve Uni-
versity and visiting physician to the Lakeside
Hospital. During the World War he served as
a major in the Medical Reserve Corps and was
with Base Hospital Unit No. 4 in France from
May to September 1917. He then resumed his
duties as teacher and medical consultant in
Cleveland until an obscure pulmonary malady,
which remained a mystery even after autopsy,
terminated his career in 1927 after a half year's
invalidism. He was survived by his widow,
Katherine (Fraser) Hoover of Kincardine, On-
tario, whom he had married on Aug. 9,1900, and
by his only child, a daughter.

From the time of his German apprenticeship
his approach to clinical problems was that of a
physiologist His reputation rested on his skill
as a diagnostician rather than on his ability as a
therapeutist Though fully aware of the value of
laboratory methods, he prided himself on being a
bedside rather than a laboratory diagnostician,
and he relied largely on his own highly trained
special senses aided only by pocket instruments.
His diagnoses were the result of the careful bed-
side observation of disease symptomatology in-
terpreted in terms of pathological physiology.
"When convinced of the soundness of his ideas
he expressed them with forcible, often aggres-

Hope

sive,^ decision. He believed thoroughly in tlife
possibilities of internal medicine, and did not
easily seek surgical intervention for his patients.
His diagnoses once given were rarely shaken"
(Transactions of the Association of American
Physicians, XLIII, 12). His original contribu-
tions dealt with the physiology of the diaphragm
and the ventilatory function of the lung as well
as with the examination of the nervous system;
and he became a prominent consultant in cardio-
respiratory, neurological, and hepatic diseases.
The bulk of his observations is well reflected in
his contributions to standard systems of medicine:
"General Considerations in Cardiovascular Dis-
eases" and "Functional Diseases of the Heart/'
in Osier's Modern Medicine, vol. IV (1908);
"Inflammatory Disease of the Skeletal Muscle"
in Tice's Practice of Medicine, vol. VI (1921);
"Respiratory Excursion of the Thorax" and
"Diseases of the Bronchi," in Oxford Medicine,
vol. II (1920) ; "Respiratory Symptomatology,"
in Nelson Loose-Leaf Medicine, vol. Ill (1920).

[Trans. Asso. Am. Phys,, XLIII (1928), 10; Bull.
Acad. of Medicine (Cleveland), July i, 1927; Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, June 16, 1927; Cleveland Topics,
June 18, 1927; Who's Who in America, 1926-27; in-
formation from Dr. M. A. Blankenhorn and Mrs. C. F.
Hoover.] ASj

HOPE, JAMES BARRON (Mar. 23, 1829-
Sept 15,1887), poet, son of Wilton and Jane A.
(Earron) Hope, was born in Norfolk, Va.,
where his mother had grown up, the daughter of
Commodore James Barron [g.v.]. His parents'
home was in Hampton, and it was there that he
spent his childhood. He was in school for a
while in Germantown, Pa., and later he attended
the College of William and Mary, from which he
was graduated in 1847. The next year he re-
mained in Williamsburg1 as a lawyer, but he was
soon made secretary to his uncle, Commodore
Samuel Barron. He spent three years in that
position, which continued in spite of his almost
fatal duel in 1849, and which carried him for a
long cruise in the West Indies. He then returned
to his home in Hampton, where he practised law,
and where in 1856, he was elected common-
wealth's attorney. He had long exhibited a cer-
tain faculty for verse and had indeed turned it
to account in a series of poetical sketches pub-
lished in a Baltimore paper over the designation,
"The late Henry Ellen, Esq." His substantial
volume, Leoni di Monota and Other Poems, pub-
lished in 1857, contains two of his most notable
productions, "The Charge at Balaklava," imita-
tive of Tennyson, and "Three Summer Studies,"
similarly reminiscent of Keats. That same year,
before a gathering at Jamestown, he recited a
long poem in heroic couplets concerning the

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