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PAUL H. KIESWETTER, M.D., a distinguished German physician, of Mayville, is a son of Theodore and Louisa (Eberhart) Kieswetter, and was born in Thuringen, Germany, on December 15, 1857. His grandfather, Peter Kieswetter, was a manufacturer and lived during his life-time in the same German State in which the subject of this sketch was born. At one time he served in the capacity of private secretary to the distinguished soldier and statesman, Gen. Von Moltke. He was a very intelligent man, educated in a German university and married a Miss Lucass, who bore him a family of two sons and four daughters. Theodore Kieswetter (father) was born in Germany in the year 1828 and is still living in his native land. He was educated at the Gymnasium of Armstadt, and upon the completion of his education he embarked in the manufacturing business which he has pursued uninterruptedly and with success ever since. His marriage to Louisa Eberhart took place when he was twenty-seven years of age. They were the parents of four children: Kathrinka, Rudolph, Withbald and Paul H., all of whom with the exception of Paul H. are residing in Germany.

Paul H. Kieswetter received his preparatory education through the public schools of Germany and in 1881 entered the University of Berlin, where he remained until 1884, after which he completed his medical course at the University of Jena. Immediately after the completion of his medical education he emigrated to the United States and first located in Cortland county, New York, where he began and continued the practice of medicine until the year 1886. At the end of this period he removed to the State of Ohio and practiced in Cleveland until 1889, when he came to Chautauqua county, where he has since remained and practiced his profession in the village of Mayville. In connection with his medical practice he operates a drug-store — the leading store of that description in the village. In politics Dr. Kieswetter is a republican and also a member of the Lodge No. 1105, Royal Arcanum, at Mayville.