SHOWER, GEORGE THEODORE – Biographies – History of Homeopathy

     HOWER,
GEORGE THEODORE, M. D., Baltimore, Maryland, professor of materia medica and dean of the faculty of the Southern Homœopathic Medical College,
Baltimore, author of the history of that institution which is contributed to this work, is a native of Maryland, born in Manchester, August 20, 1841,
son of Adam Shower and Mary Ann Geiger, his wife. His paternal grandfather, John Adam Shower, commanded a company of American soldiers at Bladensburg
and also in the defense of Baltimore, in 1814, during the second war with Great Britain. On the maternal side his grandfather, Rev. Jacob Geiger, was
the pioneer homœopathic practitioner in Maryland, in 1836.

Dr. Shower was educated in Manchester Academy, attending there from 1848 to 1857, also in Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, where he graduated A. B. 1860 ; A. M. 1896. During the war of 1861-1865 he served as private, Co. D, First Maryland cavalry
(confederate) from Gettysburg to Appomattox.

After the war Dr. Shower engaged in business pursuits, chiefly in railroad construction, and, while so employed contracted sciatica
of such inveterate type that he was compelled to abandon his former vocation and turn to the pedagogue’s chair ; and while thus employed his
attention was turned to medicine, chiefly on account of his own affliction and his desire to relieve himself of it, and in pursuance of his
determination he matriculated at Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, completed his course there, and came to the degree in 1882. At the age of
forty-one years he began practice in Hampden, then a suburb and now a part of Baltimore, and has continued his professional work to the present time.
His connection with the teaching corps of the Southern Homœopathic Medical College began in 1892, when he was appointed lecturer on pharmacy and
toxicology. In 1894 he began lecturing on physiology and in 1885 was made professor, the incumbent of that chair, continuing as such until 1899, when he
was made professor of materia medica and therapeutics, his present chair. He was elected dean of the faculty in 1900.

Since 1890 Dr. Shower has been consulting physician to the Maryland Homœopathic Hospital. From 1898 to 1904 he was associate editor
of the “American Medical Monthly.” He is a member of the American Institute of Homœopathy (since 1899), member and now (1905) president of
the Maryland State Homœopathic Medical Society, and was a member of the Medical Investigation Club of Baltimore from 1882 until its suspension in 1895.

Dr. Shower was one of the founders of Trinity Reformed church of Baltimore and has been elder and treasurer of the congregation since
its establishment in 1884. He is also treasurer of the Reformed Church Extension Society of Baltimore. In 1890 he married Ida M. Leslie of Loudon
county, Va. She died, childless, September 25, 1895.

Source : History of Homœopathy by William Harvey King