Papers of Ernst Frederich Felix Schmidt, who was a Bavarian-born, Chicago (Ill.) physician, first coroner of Cook County (Republican), and supporter of the Haymarket Riot defendants. Materials include student medical notebooks, 1850-1851 (5 v.), for lectures given by Professors Virchow, Leydig, and Köllicker at the University of Würzburg; a folder of loose medical school notes, 1848-1856, including several sheets of clinical observations taken at a hospital in Würzburg; a scrapbook (1843-1880s) containing watercolors of German towns, pencil portraits, German and English language clippings on prominent German and U.S. individuals, and some photographs of Schmidt; a typed index to the scrapbook; a printed translation into German by Schmidt of Longfellow's "Morturi Salutamus"; a "remembrance book" of clipped poems/stories from German-language newspapers, prepared by Schmidt in 1898 for his friend Dr. Theodor Wild; a reprint of a memorial tribute printed by the Reform Advocate of Chicago on September 8, 1900; a January 19, 1969, Chicago Sun-Times review of a private printing of Schmidt's memoir, entitled "He Chose;" and 134 photocopied sheets of German-language newspaper articles, many written by Schmidt.
