Philip H. Schoen, M.D.

            Of the men whose ability, industry and forethought have added to the character, wealth and good government of Floyd County, one are better known than Philip H. Schoen, M.D., of New Albany. Doctor Schoen is a physician and surgeon, not only by education and long practice, but by temperament and preference. He has been in active practice for thirty-one years, and seventeen of these years have been at New Albany. Political tendencies and executive ability have added to his possibilities of professional compensation and have broadened his efforts into the channels of public and professional service of the highest character.

            Doctor Schoen was born at Lanesville, Harrison County, Indiana, March 16, 1870, and is a son of Jacob Schoen. His father, a native of Germany, was a young lad when brought by his parents to the United States, where he received a public school education and as a youth learned the trade of blacksmith. He settled in Harrison County as early as 1851, and for a time followed his trade, but later turned his attention to farming, and for many years carried on both vocations with industry and great ability, the farmers coming from miles around to have work done at his forge, where they could be assured of honest workmanship. He is still living, although now in retirement, and is one of the highly respected men of his community. He and his worthy wife were the parents of ten children.

            Philip H. Schoen attended the common schools of Harrison County while assisting his father in the work of the farm during the summer months, and subsequently completed a course at the high school at Valparaiso. His medical studies were prosecuted at the Kentucky School of Medicine (now the University of Louisville), from which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1898, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine. At that time he went to New Middletown, Harrison County, where he was engaged in practice for fourteen years and built up a large professional business, but in 1912, desiring a broader field for the display of his abilities, came to New Albany, where he has practiced to the present time and now has a large patronage. Doctor Schoen is a capable member of his profession in every way and is thoroughly deserving of the success that has come to him as a general practitioner of medicine and surgery. He is a thorough and conscientious student and a valued member of the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Society, and the Floyd County Medical Society, of which he was secretary for ten years. For four years he has been secretary of the staff of St. Edward’s Hospital, New Albany, and while residing at New Middletown was secretary of the board of health. During the World war he was a member of the advisory board and the conscription board, chairman of the Council of Defense and an active and conscientious worker in all war drives. Doctor Schoen takes an active, helpful and constructive part in civic affairs, and with his fellow members of the Kiwanis Club formulates and carries through beneficial movements. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masons, the Modern woodmen of America and the B.P.O.E. His office is located at 216 Market street, where he has a large medical library and the most modern equipment known to the profession.

            Doctor Schoen married Miss Anna L. Gehlbach, of Harrison County, Indiana and they are the parents of four children: Dr. Carl Philip, a graduate of the University of Louisville, who is now an intern in the City Hospital of Louisville; Orland Jacob, assistant manager of an Atlantic & Pacific chain store at Detroit, Michigan; Clarence Alfred, who is attending the University of Louisville; and Arthur Melvin, who is attending public school at New Albany.

Source: Publishing Company, 1931, Volume III, page 405, 406.   

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Philip Schoen's mother was Maria Luise Lotich, born March 01, 1849 in Schluchtern, Germany. She died on February 15, 1920 and is buried in Saint John's Lutheran Church, Lanesville, Indiana along with husband Jacob, whom she married on May 02, 1869 in Harrison County, Indiana. Dr. Philip Schoen was one of their 12 children.