Adolph DeCampos Henriques (1881-1966) was born at Jefferson, Marion County, Texas on August 10, 1881 to Isaac L. Henriques (1840-1880+) and Elizabeth Calhoun Hickey (1841-1935). Jefferson, Texas is a small community in northeast Texas about 50 miles northwest of Shreveport, Louisiana. When the family was domiciled here in 1880, Mr. Henriques made his livelihood as the proprietor of a restaurant.(1880 Marion Co., Texas R1319, p. 450A, ED 91)
Isaac L. Henriques was born at Kingston, Jamaica. He had married Elizabeth C. Hickey, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was a Confederate soldier. She was the daughter of John Hickey (1817-1870+), a Philadelphia printer, and Presocia Sinclair(1827-1870+), a native of Washington, D.C.(1860 and 1870 Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania Federal Census M653_1151, p. 311, Ward 1-5th Precinct and M593_1387, p. 496A, 1st Ward, 2nd District and The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
The Isaac L. Henriques family returned to the South and lived in Jefferson, Texas from 1865 until 1881. The family moved to Woodville, Mississippi and came to New Orleans circa 1885. In addition to Adolph D. Henriques, their youngest child, they were the parents of four additional children: Presocia Gonzalvo Henriques (1868-1957) m. Israel Gunst (1848-1929); Ester Lee Henriques (b. 1871); Caroline ‘Carrie' Augusta Henriques (1873-1935+) m. Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957); and Edouard Ferdinand Henriques (1878-1966) m. Stella Dywer (1883-1912) and Lady Eleanor Stanley (1891-1979).
It is interesting to note that Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957), the brother-in-law of Dr. Henriques, was also a physician. He practiced medicine at Woodville, Mississippi until 1919, when he relocated to New Orleans and studied radiology. Dr. Magruder expired at Long Beach, Mississippi in August 1957 and his corporal remains were sent to Woodville for internment.(The Morning Advocate, August 21, 1957, p. 25)
Mrs. Elizabeth Hickey Henriques expired on August 6, 1935, at 1119 Pine Street in New Orleans, the residence of Presoia H. Gunst, her daughter. Her corporal remains were sent to Woodville, Mississippi for internment implying that Isaac Henriques had passed here before the family came to New Orleans. Ironically, Katherine Hickey Blanc (1845-1935), Elizabeth's sister, had died twelve hours earlier in Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth H. Henriques was survived by her children and two siblings, A.S. Hickey (1862-1935+), a brother, and Florence H. Van Zant (1864-1935+), both residents of California.(The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
Education and Early Medical Career
Prior to entering the field of medicine, Adolph D. Henriques worked as a railroad clerk at New Orleans. In 1900, he was domiciled at 627 Napoleon Avenue with his mother and Edouard F. Henriques, his brother, who was employed as a book keeper.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 574, p. 14B, ED 118)
In late June 1901, Adolph D. Henriques received an appointment to the US Military Academy. He had been an alternate. It appears that young Henriques did not attend West Point. His decision not to matriculate to the US Military Academy may have been influenced by the death of Oscar Booz (1879-1901), a Cadet from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who left West Point and subsequently died. When the US Congress held hearing to investigate his demise, which had been blamed on hazing at the military academy, it received national attention. (The Daily Picayune, June 26, 1901, p. 10)
Adolph DeCampos Henriques attended the Tulane University of Louisiana and graduated on May 2, 1906 with the Tulane Medical School Class of 1906. At this time, he was serving as an interne at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Henriques was awarded a degree in pharmacy.(Bulletin Tulane University-Louisiana, June 1906, p. 25 and p. 30.)
In April 1904, Adolph D. Henriques had passed a written examination which allowed him to serve as an externe at Charity Hospital. The test was given to second and third year medical students at the Tulane Medical School and their academic papers were read by the hospital staff.(The Daily Picayune, April 17, 1904, p. 13)
With the discovery of X-rays in Germany in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen (1845-1925), a physicist, it soon became apparent that these electromagnetic waves had a promising future in the medical field to view the internal structure of the human body. W.K. Rontgen was awarded the first Noble Prize in Physics in 1901 and later the Element Number 111 was named Roentgenium in his honor. Also the measurement of electromagnetic radiation is called a ‘roentgen'.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgen)
Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had decided early in his medical career to pursue the study of X-rays and the incipient field of Radiology. As early as the fall of 1910, he had travelled to the leading medical facilities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore to observe and study what scientists and doctors here had done with X-rays in diagnosing tuberculosis. In early December 1910, at a meeting the Louisiana Antituberculous League in New Orleans, Dr. Henriques offered to donate his time and expertise in radiological medicine to the league to enhance their experiments in clinical work.(The Daily Picayune, December 9, 1910, p. 9)
Studies Abroad
The author can document two visits by Dr. Henriques to foreign countries to study radiological medicine. The first visit abroad occurred in July 1912 and the second in January 1926. In mid-July 1912, he embarked from the Port of New York for the Continent. His wife and two small children spent the duration of his absence at Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Henriques went to Vienna, Austria where he pursued post-graduate studies in the school of X-rays, radium, and electrical medical therapy. He also visited other European clinics that utilized radiology in their medical treatment and research.(The Daily Picayune, July 12, 1912, p. 15, August 9, 1912, p. 9, October 3, 1912, p. 8, and The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Dr. A.D. Henriques returned to New Orleans in early October 1912. In late September, he had boarded the SS St. Louis in Southampton, England for the Port of New York. His residence address at this time was 4726 Prytania Street in New Orleans.(The Daily Picayune, October 3, 1912, p. 8)
1926
On January 27, 1926, Dr. A.D. Henriques sailed for France on the SS Suffren from New York City. He planned to pursue research and experiments on the treatment of high blood pressure with radiological methods based on his work at the Tulane Medical School. While in New York, Dr. Henriques spent time with E.F. Henriques of NOLA, his brother. Dr. Henriques returned to America in late May 1926 aboard the SS Berengaria which had departed Cherbourg, France on May 22, 1926. His address at this time was listed as the Hibernia Building at New Orleans, Louisiana. (The Times- Picayune, January 26, 1926, p. 7)
Tulane University Medical School
Before Dr. Adolph De Campos Henriques left New Orleans permanently in the spring of 1930. he had worked in various positions at the Tulane School of Medicine. From October 1912 until June 1930, his status here was as follows: October 1912-Assistant in the Department of Physiology; April 1913-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology; May 1914-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology and Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Radiology; April 1922-Assistance Professor in Medicine in Radiology; May 1928-Assistant Professor of Roentgenology; June 1930-Not reappointed for the 1930-1931 session.
In his obituary of May 1966, the medical career of Dr. Adolph D. Henriques was related as follows:
Dr. Henriques received his degree in pharmacy from the New Orleans College of Pharmacy in 1903. In 1906, he completed his medical studies at the Tulane University School of Medicine and served his internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Dr. Henriques was professor of Physiology and Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy for five years. In 1910, he was the youngest director of the board of the New Orleans College of Pharmacy. Also in 1910, Dr. Henriques presented the first use of X-rays in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in this area of the South. In 1915, he commenced his teaching career at Tulane University and for seventeen years was the assistant professor of medicine at Tulane. In addition, Dr. Henriques had been a consultant for the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans and a physician for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was a member of the New Orleans Parish and Louisiana State Medical Society and Phi Rho Sigma, the national medical fraternity.(The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Published Medical Studies and Research Papers by Dr. Adolph D. Henriques
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ‘Bone Development', Volume XXXIV, 1917.
Journal of the American Medical Association, ‘Instruction in Roentgenolgy', Vol-ume LXIII-1914.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume XVIII, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘The X-Ray in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis', Volume LXIII, No. 12, June 1911.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Role of X-rays in progressive medi-cine', Volume LXV, 1913.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume LXIV, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium in treatment of Myelogenous Leukemia', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Further original observations with the X-ray upon the appendix', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Some probable functions of spleen as demonstrable by effects of radioactivity upon the organ', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Value to general practitioner of X-Ray examination of stomach and duodenum', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Treatment of high blood pressure by new original method', Volume LXXX, 1928.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Chronic appendix; Roentgenological standpoint', Volume LXXXIII, 1930.
Pan-American Surgical & Medical Journal, ‘Few cases to illustrate the value of Roentgen Ray examination of the stomach', Volume XX-1915.
First Marriage and Family
On June 12, 1906, Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had married Ida Margaret Buck (1874-1956), the daughter of Charles F. Buck (1841-1918), a New Orleans attorney, and Mary Weidner Buck (1850-1937). They were both German immigrants. The wedding cere-mony was officiated over by the Reverend W.E.W. Denham at St. George's Episcopal Church in the Crescent City.(The Daily Picayune, June 17, 1906, p. 8 and Orleans Parish, Louisiana MRI, Volume 28, p. 5)
Dr. A.D. Henriques and his wife were the parents of two children: Charles Buck Hen-riques (1907-2003) m. Jean Wilson (1910-2003) and Margaret Ida Henriques (1910-1981) m. Herbert Grant Jahncke (1910-2002) m. Carol Saunders Harrison (1929-2008).
Ida Buck Henriques separated from Dr. Henriques in December 1919. Her reason was abandonment. The couple eventually divorced before 1930.(The Times-Picayune, De-cember 5, 1919, p. 19)
Itinerant Physician
With his departure from the Tulane Medical School staff in 1930, Dr. Henriques by April 1930 had relocated to Greensburg, Louisiana. Here in this small, rural community in the Florida Parishes and near the Mississippi state line, he worked as a general practitioner. Greensburg is the St. Helena Parish seat of government.(1930 St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 819, p. 3A, ED 2)
At the time of his wedding to Gertrude Bernich of Biloxi, Mississippi in January 1933, Dr. Henriques was practicing medicine in Jackson, Mississippi. By 1940, Gertrude and Adolph D. Heriques had settled in Biloxi. At this time, they were renting a house at 1420 Lafayette Street. Dr. Henriques was involved with his private medical practice.(The Daily Herald, January 10, 1933, p. 6 and 1940 Harrison Co., Mississippi Fed-eral Census t627_2024, p. 1A, ED 24-9)
After acquiring 212 Reynoir Street in May 1942, the Henriques family relocated from 1420 Lafayette Street to their new residence near the commercial district of Biloxi. Here Dr. Henriques continued to practice general medicine and he utilized the north half of the structure as his medical office. After his demise in the Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi on May 12, 1966. Mrs. Henriques continued to reside in her home until her death on December 11, 1988. The Henriques' corporal remains were interred in the Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(August H. Parker, June 30, 2012, The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2 and The Sun Herald, December 12, 1988, p. A4)
REFERENCES:
The Daily Herald, ‘Henriques-Bernich', January 10, 1933.
The Daily Herald, 'Dr. Henriques loses mother', August 7, 1935, p. 2.
The Daily Herald, ‘Physician at Biloxi expires', May 13, 1966.
The Daily Herald, "Henriques rites", May 16, 1966.
The Daily Picayune, "Minor attention", June 16, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "Army and Navy of State and Nation", June 26, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "New Externe and Interne Charity Hospital students", April 17, 1904.
The Daily Picayune, "Henriques-Buck", June 17, 1906.
The Daily Picayune, "Antituberculosis Annual Meeting shows great promise during year", December 9, 1910.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", July 12, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", August 9, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Personal and General", October 3, 1912.
The Morning Advocate [Baton Rouge, Louisiana], "Dr. Magruder dies in Miss.; rites today", August 21, 1957.
The Sun Herald, ‘Mrs. Gertrude Henriques', December 12, 1988.
The Sun Herald, "Bernich remembered for Faith and dedication to Communi-ty", March 17, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "Kirby A. Bernich", March 19, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "State Craft Center opens first satellite office in Biloxi", June 27, 2012.
The Times-Picayune, "Death ends career of Charles F. Buck, foremost citizen", January 20, 1918.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Mrs. Henriques seeks separation', December 5, 1919.
The Times-Picayune, "Athenians adopt Alaska Purchase as motif", January 24, 1932.
The Times-Picayune, "Weddings and Engagements [Jahncke-Henriques]", April 8, 1934.
The Times-Picayune, "Aged sisters die; each is ignorant of other's illness", Au-gust 7, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "Mississippi is site of Henriques rites", August 8, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "[Ida Buck] Henriques", November 15, 1956.
The Times-Picayune, ‘A.D. Henriques NO physician dies Thursday', May 14, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Edouard F.] Henriques", July 28, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Irma] Cousins", August 16, 1969.
The Times-Picayune, "Parade for Bernich", March 1, 1975.
The Times-Picayune, "Joseph C. Schramm", March 27, 1976.
The Times-Picayune, "[Lady Stanley] Henriques", August 11, 1979.
The Times-Picayune, "[Margaret Henriques] Jahncke", December 30, 1981.
The Times-Picayune, "Steven A. Bernich", December 17, 1999.
The Times-Picayune, "Herbert Jahncke, 92, civic leader '66 Rex", November 24, 2002.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Vernon E. Kappel', February 27, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Capt. Charles B. Henriques', June 6, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, "[Carol Saunders] Jahncke", January 4, 2008.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Yvonne S. Bernich', April 28, 2002.
Isaac L. Henriques was born at Kingston, Jamaica. He had married Elizabeth C. Hickey, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was a Confederate soldier. She was the daughter of John Hickey (1817-1870+), a Philadelphia printer, and Presocia Sinclair(1827-1870+), a native of Washington, D.C.(1860 and 1870 Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania Federal Census M653_1151, p. 311, Ward 1-5th Precinct and M593_1387, p. 496A, 1st Ward, 2nd District and The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
The Isaac L. Henriques family returned to the South and lived in Jefferson, Texas from 1865 until 1881. The family moved to Woodville, Mississippi and came to New Orleans circa 1885. In addition to Adolph D. Henriques, their youngest child, they were the parents of four additional children: Presocia Gonzalvo Henriques (1868-1957) m. Israel Gunst (1848-1929); Ester Lee Henriques (b. 1871); Caroline ‘Carrie' Augusta Henriques (1873-1935+) m. Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957); and Edouard Ferdinand Henriques (1878-1966) m. Stella Dywer (1883-1912) and Lady Eleanor Stanley (1891-1979).
It is interesting to note that Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957), the brother-in-law of Dr. Henriques, was also a physician. He practiced medicine at Woodville, Mississippi until 1919, when he relocated to New Orleans and studied radiology. Dr. Magruder expired at Long Beach, Mississippi in August 1957 and his corporal remains were sent to Woodville for internment.(The Morning Advocate, August 21, 1957, p. 25)
Mrs. Elizabeth Hickey Henriques expired on August 6, 1935, at 1119 Pine Street in New Orleans, the residence of Presoia H. Gunst, her daughter. Her corporal remains were sent to Woodville, Mississippi for internment implying that Isaac Henriques had passed here before the family came to New Orleans. Ironically, Katherine Hickey Blanc (1845-1935), Elizabeth's sister, had died twelve hours earlier in Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth H. Henriques was survived by her children and two siblings, A.S. Hickey (1862-1935+), a brother, and Florence H. Van Zant (1864-1935+), both residents of California.(The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
Education and Early Medical Career
Prior to entering the field of medicine, Adolph D. Henriques worked as a railroad clerk at New Orleans. In 1900, he was domiciled at 627 Napoleon Avenue with his mother and Edouard F. Henriques, his brother, who was employed as a book keeper.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 574, p. 14B, ED 118)
In late June 1901, Adolph D. Henriques received an appointment to the US Military Academy. He had been an alternate. It appears that young Henriques did not attend West Point. His decision not to matriculate to the US Military Academy may have been influenced by the death of Oscar Booz (1879-1901), a Cadet from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who left West Point and subsequently died. When the US Congress held hearing to investigate his demise, which had been blamed on hazing at the military academy, it received national attention. (The Daily Picayune, June 26, 1901, p. 10)
Adolph DeCampos Henriques attended the Tulane University of Louisiana and graduated on May 2, 1906 with the Tulane Medical School Class of 1906. At this time, he was serving as an interne at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Henriques was awarded a degree in pharmacy.(Bulletin Tulane University-Louisiana, June 1906, p. 25 and p. 30.)
In April 1904, Adolph D. Henriques had passed a written examination which allowed him to serve as an externe at Charity Hospital. The test was given to second and third year medical students at the Tulane Medical School and their academic papers were read by the hospital staff.(The Daily Picayune, April 17, 1904, p. 13)
With the discovery of X-rays in Germany in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen (1845-1925), a physicist, it soon became apparent that these electromagnetic waves had a promising future in the medical field to view the internal structure of the human body. W.K. Rontgen was awarded the first Noble Prize in Physics in 1901 and later the Element Number 111 was named Roentgenium in his honor. Also the measurement of electromagnetic radiation is called a ‘roentgen'.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgen)
Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had decided early in his medical career to pursue the study of X-rays and the incipient field of Radiology. As early as the fall of 1910, he had travelled to the leading medical facilities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore to observe and study what scientists and doctors here had done with X-rays in diagnosing tuberculosis. In early December 1910, at a meeting the Louisiana Antituberculous League in New Orleans, Dr. Henriques offered to donate his time and expertise in radiological medicine to the league to enhance their experiments in clinical work.(The Daily Picayune, December 9, 1910, p. 9)
Studies Abroad
The author can document two visits by Dr. Henriques to foreign countries to study radiological medicine. The first visit abroad occurred in July 1912 and the second in January 1926. In mid-July 1912, he embarked from the Port of New York for the Continent. His wife and two small children spent the duration of his absence at Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Henriques went to Vienna, Austria where he pursued post-graduate studies in the school of X-rays, radium, and electrical medical therapy. He also visited other European clinics that utilized radiology in their medical treatment and research.(The Daily Picayune, July 12, 1912, p. 15, August 9, 1912, p. 9, October 3, 1912, p. 8, and The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Dr. A.D. Henriques returned to New Orleans in early October 1912. In late September, he had boarded the SS St. Louis in Southampton, England for the Port of New York. His residence address at this time was 4726 Prytania Street in New Orleans.(The Daily Picayune, October 3, 1912, p. 8)
1926
On January 27, 1926, Dr. A.D. Henriques sailed for France on the SS Suffren from New York City. He planned to pursue research and experiments on the treatment of high blood pressure with radiological methods based on his work at the Tulane Medical School. While in New York, Dr. Henriques spent time with E.F. Henriques of NOLA, his brother. Dr. Henriques returned to America in late May 1926 aboard the SS Berengaria which had departed Cherbourg, France on May 22, 1926. His address at this time was listed as the Hibernia Building at New Orleans, Louisiana. (The Times- Picayune, January 26, 1926, p. 7)
Tulane University Medical School
Before Dr. Adolph De Campos Henriques left New Orleans permanently in the spring of 1930. he had worked in various positions at the Tulane School of Medicine. From October 1912 until June 1930, his status here was as follows: October 1912-Assistant in the Department of Physiology; April 1913-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology; May 1914-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology and Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Radiology; April 1922-Assistance Professor in Medicine in Radiology; May 1928-Assistant Professor of Roentgenology; June 1930-Not reappointed for the 1930-1931 session.
In his obituary of May 1966, the medical career of Dr. Adolph D. Henriques was related as follows:
Dr. Henriques received his degree in pharmacy from the New Orleans College of Pharmacy in 1903. In 1906, he completed his medical studies at the Tulane University School of Medicine and served his internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Dr. Henriques was professor of Physiology and Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy for five years. In 1910, he was the youngest director of the board of the New Orleans College of Pharmacy. Also in 1910, Dr. Henriques presented the first use of X-rays in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in this area of the South. In 1915, he commenced his teaching career at Tulane University and for seventeen years was the assistant professor of medicine at Tulane. In addition, Dr. Henriques had been a consultant for the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans and a physician for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was a member of the New Orleans Parish and Louisiana State Medical Society and Phi Rho Sigma, the national medical fraternity.(The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Published Medical Studies and Research Papers by Dr. Adolph D. Henriques
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ‘Bone Development', Volume XXXIV, 1917.
Journal of the American Medical Association, ‘Instruction in Roentgenolgy', Vol-ume LXIII-1914.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume XVIII, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘The X-Ray in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis', Volume LXIII, No. 12, June 1911.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Role of X-rays in progressive medi-cine', Volume LXV, 1913.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume LXIV, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium in treatment of Myelogenous Leukemia', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Further original observations with the X-ray upon the appendix', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Some probable functions of spleen as demonstrable by effects of radioactivity upon the organ', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Value to general practitioner of X-Ray examination of stomach and duodenum', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Treatment of high blood pressure by new original method', Volume LXXX, 1928.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Chronic appendix; Roentgenological standpoint', Volume LXXXIII, 1930.
Pan-American Surgical & Medical Journal, ‘Few cases to illustrate the value of Roentgen Ray examination of the stomach', Volume XX-1915.
First Marriage and Family
On June 12, 1906, Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had married Ida Margaret Buck (1874-1956), the daughter of Charles F. Buck (1841-1918), a New Orleans attorney, and Mary Weidner Buck (1850-1937). They were both German immigrants. The wedding cere-mony was officiated over by the Reverend W.E.W. Denham at St. George's Episcopal Church in the Crescent City.(The Daily Picayune, June 17, 1906, p. 8 and Orleans Parish, Louisiana MRI, Volume 28, p. 5)
Dr. A.D. Henriques and his wife were the parents of two children: Charles Buck Hen-riques (1907-2003) m. Jean Wilson (1910-2003) and Margaret Ida Henriques (1910-1981) m. Herbert Grant Jahncke (1910-2002) m. Carol Saunders Harrison (1929-2008).
Ida Buck Henriques separated from Dr. Henriques in December 1919. Her reason was abandonment. The couple eventually divorced before 1930.(The Times-Picayune, De-cember 5, 1919, p. 19)
Itinerant Physician
With his departure from the Tulane Medical School staff in 1930, Dr. Henriques by April 1930 had relocated to Greensburg, Louisiana. Here in this small, rural community in the Florida Parishes and near the Mississippi state line, he worked as a general practitioner. Greensburg is the St. Helena Parish seat of government.(1930 St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 819, p. 3A, ED 2)
At the time of his wedding to Gertrude Bernich of Biloxi, Mississippi in January 1933, Dr. Henriques was practicing medicine in Jackson, Mississippi. By 1940, Gertrude and Adolph D. Heriques had settled in Biloxi. At this time, they were renting a house at 1420 Lafayette Street. Dr. Henriques was involved with his private medical practice.(The Daily Herald, January 10, 1933, p. 6 and 1940 Harrison Co., Mississippi Fed-eral Census t627_2024, p. 1A, ED 24-9)
After acquiring 212 Reynoir Street in May 1942, the Henriques family relocated from 1420 Lafayette Street to their new residence near the commercial district of Biloxi. Here Dr. Henriques continued to practice general medicine and he utilized the north half of the structure as his medical office. After his demise in the Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi on May 12, 1966. Mrs. Henriques continued to reside in her home until her death on December 11, 1988. The Henriques' corporal remains were interred in the Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(August H. Parker, June 30, 2012, The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2 and The Sun Herald, December 12, 1988, p. A4)
REFERENCES:
The Daily Herald, ‘Henriques-Bernich', January 10, 1933.
The Daily Herald, 'Dr. Henriques loses mother', August 7, 1935, p. 2.
The Daily Herald, ‘Physician at Biloxi expires', May 13, 1966.
The Daily Herald, "Henriques rites", May 16, 1966.
The Daily Picayune, "Minor attention", June 16, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "Army and Navy of State and Nation", June 26, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "New Externe and Interne Charity Hospital students", April 17, 1904.
The Daily Picayune, "Henriques-Buck", June 17, 1906.
The Daily Picayune, "Antituberculosis Annual Meeting shows great promise during year", December 9, 1910.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", July 12, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", August 9, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Personal and General", October 3, 1912.
The Morning Advocate [Baton Rouge, Louisiana], "Dr. Magruder dies in Miss.; rites today", August 21, 1957.
The Sun Herald, ‘Mrs. Gertrude Henriques', December 12, 1988.
The Sun Herald, "Bernich remembered for Faith and dedication to Communi-ty", March 17, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "Kirby A. Bernich", March 19, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "State Craft Center opens first satellite office in Biloxi", June 27, 2012.
The Times-Picayune, "Death ends career of Charles F. Buck, foremost citizen", January 20, 1918.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Mrs. Henriques seeks separation', December 5, 1919.
The Times-Picayune, "Athenians adopt Alaska Purchase as motif", January 24, 1932.
The Times-Picayune, "Weddings and Engagements [Jahncke-Henriques]", April 8, 1934.
The Times-Picayune, "Aged sisters die; each is ignorant of other's illness", Au-gust 7, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "Mississippi is site of Henriques rites", August 8, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "[Ida Buck] Henriques", November 15, 1956.
The Times-Picayune, ‘A.D. Henriques NO physician dies Thursday', May 14, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Edouard F.] Henriques", July 28, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Irma] Cousins", August 16, 1969.
The Times-Picayune, "Parade for Bernich", March 1, 1975.
The Times-Picayune, "Joseph C. Schramm", March 27, 1976.
The Times-Picayune, "[Lady Stanley] Henriques", August 11, 1979.
The Times-Picayune, "[Margaret Henriques] Jahncke", December 30, 1981.
The Times-Picayune, "Steven A. Bernich", December 17, 1999.
The Times-Picayune, "Herbert Jahncke, 92, civic leader '66 Rex", November 24, 2002.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Vernon E. Kappel', February 27, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Capt. Charles B. Henriques', June 6, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, "[Carol Saunders] Jahncke", January 4, 2008.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Yvonne S. Bernich', April 28, 2002.
Adolph DeCampos Henriques (1881-1966) was born at Jefferson, Marion County, Texas on August 10, 1881 to Isaac L. Henriques (1840-1880+) and Elizabeth Calhoun Hickey (1841-1935). Jefferson, Texas is a small community in northeast Texas about 50 miles northwest of Shreveport, Louisiana. When the family was domiciled here in 1880, Mr. Henriques made his livelihood as the proprietor of a restaurant.(1880 Marion Co., Texas R1319, p. 450A, ED 91)
Isaac L. Henriques was born at Kingston, Jamaica. He had married Elizabeth C. Hickey, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was a Confederate soldier. She was the daughter of John Hickey (1817-1870+), a Philadelphia printer, and Presocia Sinclair(1827-1870+), a native of Washington, D.C.(1860 and 1870 Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania Federal Census M653_1151, p. 311, Ward 1-5th Precinct and M593_1387, p. 496A, 1st Ward, 2nd District and The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
The Isaac L. Henriques family returned to the South and lived in Jefferson, Texas from 1865 until 1881. The family moved to Woodville, Mississippi and came to New Orleans circa 1885. In addition to Adolph D. Henriques, their youngest child, they were the parents of four additional children: Presocia Gonzalvo Henriques (1868-1957) m. Israel Gunst (1848-1929); Ester Lee Henriques (b. 1871); Caroline ‘Carrie' Augusta Henriques (1873-1935+) m. Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957); and Edouard Ferdinand Henriques (1878-1966) m. Stella Dywer (1883-1912) and Lady Eleanor Stanley (1891-1979).
It is interesting to note that Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957), the brother-in-law of Dr. Henriques, was also a physician. He practiced medicine at Woodville, Mississippi until 1919, when he relocated to New Orleans and studied radiology. Dr. Magruder expired at Long Beach, Mississippi in August 1957 and his corporal remains were sent to Woodville for internment.(The Morning Advocate, August 21, 1957, p. 25)
Mrs. Elizabeth Hickey Henriques expired on August 6, 1935, at 1119 Pine Street in New Orleans, the residence of Presoia H. Gunst, her daughter. Her corporal remains were sent to Woodville, Mississippi for internment implying that Isaac Henriques had passed here before the family came to New Orleans. Ironically, Katherine Hickey Blanc (1845-1935), Elizabeth's sister, had died twelve hours earlier in Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth H. Henriques was survived by her children and two siblings, A.S. Hickey (1862-1935+), a brother, and Florence H. Van Zant (1864-1935+), both residents of California.(The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
Education and Early Medical Career
Prior to entering the field of medicine, Adolph D. Henriques worked as a railroad clerk at New Orleans. In 1900, he was domiciled at 627 Napoleon Avenue with his mother and Edouard F. Henriques, his brother, who was employed as a book keeper.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 574, p. 14B, ED 118)
In late June 1901, Adolph D. Henriques received an appointment to the US Military Academy. He had been an alternate. It appears that young Henriques did not attend West Point. His decision not to matriculate to the US Military Academy may have been influenced by the death of Oscar Booz (1879-1901), a Cadet from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who left West Point and subsequently died. When the US Congress held hearing to investigate his demise, which had been blamed on hazing at the military academy, it received national attention. (The Daily Picayune, June 26, 1901, p. 10)
Adolph DeCampos Henriques attended the Tulane University of Louisiana and graduated on May 2, 1906 with the Tulane Medical School Class of 1906. At this time, he was serving as an interne at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Henriques was awarded a degree in pharmacy.(Bulletin Tulane University-Louisiana, June 1906, p. 25 and p. 30.)
In April 1904, Adolph D. Henriques had passed a written examination which allowed him to serve as an externe at Charity Hospital. The test was given to second and third year medical students at the Tulane Medical School and their academic papers were read by the hospital staff.(The Daily Picayune, April 17, 1904, p. 13)
With the discovery of X-rays in Germany in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen (1845-1925), a physicist, it soon became apparent that these electromagnetic waves had a promising future in the medical field to view the internal structure of the human body. W.K. Rontgen was awarded the first Noble Prize in Physics in 1901 and later the Element Number 111 was named Roentgenium in his honor. Also the measurement of electromagnetic radiation is called a ‘roentgen'.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgen)
Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had decided early in his medical career to pursue the study of X-rays and the incipient field of Radiology. As early as the fall of 1910, he had travelled to the leading medical facilities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore to observe and study what scientists and doctors here had done with X-rays in diagnosing tuberculosis. In early December 1910, at a meeting the Louisiana Antituberculous League in New Orleans, Dr. Henriques offered to donate his time and expertise in radiological medicine to the league to enhance their experiments in clinical work.(The Daily Picayune, December 9, 1910, p. 9)
Studies Abroad
The author can document two visits by Dr. Henriques to foreign countries to study radiological medicine. The first visit abroad occurred in July 1912 and the second in January 1926. In mid-July 1912, he embarked from the Port of New York for the Continent. His wife and two small children spent the duration of his absence at Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Henriques went to Vienna, Austria where he pursued post-graduate studies in the school of X-rays, radium, and electrical medical therapy. He also visited other European clinics that utilized radiology in their medical treatment and research.(The Daily Picayune, July 12, 1912, p. 15, August 9, 1912, p. 9, October 3, 1912, p. 8, and The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Dr. A.D. Henriques returned to New Orleans in early October 1912. In late September, he had boarded the SS St. Louis in Southampton, England for the Port of New York. His residence address at this time was 4726 Prytania Street in New Orleans.(The Daily Picayune, October 3, 1912, p. 8)
1926
On January 27, 1926, Dr. A.D. Henriques sailed for France on the SS Suffren from New York City. He planned to pursue research and experiments on the treatment of high blood pressure with radiological methods based on his work at the Tulane Medical School. While in New York, Dr. Henriques spent time with E.F. Henriques of NOLA, his brother. Dr. Henriques returned to America in late May 1926 aboard the SS Berengaria which had departed Cherbourg, France on May 22, 1926. His address at this time was listed as the Hibernia Building at New Orleans, Louisiana. (The Times- Picayune, January 26, 1926, p. 7)
Tulane University Medical School
Before Dr. Adolph De Campos Henriques left New Orleans permanently in the spring of 1930. he had worked in various positions at the Tulane School of Medicine. From October 1912 until June 1930, his status here was as follows: October 1912-Assistant in the Department of Physiology; April 1913-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology; May 1914-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology and Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Radiology; April 1922-Assistance Professor in Medicine in Radiology; May 1928-Assistant Professor of Roentgenology; June 1930-Not reappointed for the 1930-1931 session.
In his obituary of May 1966, the medical career of Dr. Adolph D. Henriques was related as follows:
Dr. Henriques received his degree in pharmacy from the New Orleans College of Pharmacy in 1903. In 1906, he completed his medical studies at the Tulane University School of Medicine and served his internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Dr. Henriques was professor of Physiology and Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy for five years. In 1910, he was the youngest director of the board of the New Orleans College of Pharmacy. Also in 1910, Dr. Henriques presented the first use of X-rays in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in this area of the South. In 1915, he commenced his teaching career at Tulane University and for seventeen years was the assistant professor of medicine at Tulane. In addition, Dr. Henriques had been a consultant for the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans and a physician for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was a member of the New Orleans Parish and Louisiana State Medical Society and Phi Rho Sigma, the national medical fraternity.(The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Published Medical Studies and Research Papers by Dr. Adolph D. Henriques
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ‘Bone Development', Volume XXXIV, 1917.
Journal of the American Medical Association, ‘Instruction in Roentgenolgy', Vol-ume LXIII-1914.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume XVIII, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘The X-Ray in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis', Volume LXIII, No. 12, June 1911.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Role of X-rays in progressive medi-cine', Volume LXV, 1913.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume LXIV, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium in treatment of Myelogenous Leukemia', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Further original observations with the X-ray upon the appendix', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Some probable functions of spleen as demonstrable by effects of radioactivity upon the organ', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Value to general practitioner of X-Ray examination of stomach and duodenum', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Treatment of high blood pressure by new original method', Volume LXXX, 1928.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Chronic appendix; Roentgenological standpoint', Volume LXXXIII, 1930.
Pan-American Surgical & Medical Journal, ‘Few cases to illustrate the value of Roentgen Ray examination of the stomach', Volume XX-1915.
First Marriage and Family
On June 12, 1906, Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had married Ida Margaret Buck (1874-1956), the daughter of Charles F. Buck (1841-1918), a New Orleans attorney, and Mary Weidner Buck (1850-1937). They were both German immigrants. The wedding cere-mony was officiated over by the Reverend W.E.W. Denham at St. George's Episcopal Church in the Crescent City.(The Daily Picayune, June 17, 1906, p. 8 and Orleans Parish, Louisiana MRI, Volume 28, p. 5)
Dr. A.D. Henriques and his wife were the parents of two children: Charles Buck Hen-riques (1907-2003) m. Jean Wilson (1910-2003) and Margaret Ida Henriques (1910-1981) m. Herbert Grant Jahncke (1910-2002) m. Carol Saunders Harrison (1929-2008).
Ida Buck Henriques separated from Dr. Henriques in December 1919. Her reason was abandonment. The couple eventually divorced before 1930.(The Times-Picayune, De-cember 5, 1919, p. 19)
Itinerant Physician
With his departure from the Tulane Medical School staff in 1930, Dr. Henriques by April 1930 had relocated to Greensburg, Louisiana. Here in this small, rural community in the Florida Parishes and near the Mississippi state line, he worked as a general practitioner. Greensburg is the St. Helena Parish seat of government.(1930 St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 819, p. 3A, ED 2)
At the time of his wedding to Gertrude Bernich of Biloxi, Mississippi in January 1933, Dr. Henriques was practicing medicine in Jackson, Mississippi. By 1940, Gertrude and Adolph D. Heriques had settled in Biloxi. At this time, they were renting a house at 1420 Lafayette Street. Dr. Henriques was involved with his private medical practice.(The Daily Herald, January 10, 1933, p. 6 and 1940 Harrison Co., Mississippi Fed-eral Census t627_2024, p. 1A, ED 24-9)
After acquiring 212 Reynoir Street in May 1942, the Henriques family relocated from 1420 Lafayette Street to their new residence near the commercial district of Biloxi. Here Dr. Henriques continued to practice general medicine and he utilized the north half of the structure as his medical office. After his demise in the Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi on May 12, 1966. Mrs. Henriques continued to reside in her home until her death on December 11, 1988. The Henriques' corporal remains were interred in the Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(August H. Parker, June 30, 2012, The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2 and The Sun Herald, December 12, 1988, p. A4)
REFERENCES:
The Daily Herald, ‘Henriques-Bernich', January 10, 1933.
The Daily Herald, 'Dr. Henriques loses mother', August 7, 1935, p. 2.
The Daily Herald, ‘Physician at Biloxi expires', May 13, 1966.
The Daily Herald, "Henriques rites", May 16, 1966.
The Daily Picayune, "Minor attention", June 16, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "Army and Navy of State and Nation", June 26, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "New Externe and Interne Charity Hospital students", April 17, 1904.
The Daily Picayune, "Henriques-Buck", June 17, 1906.
The Daily Picayune, "Antituberculosis Annual Meeting shows great promise during year", December 9, 1910.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", July 12, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", August 9, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Personal and General", October 3, 1912.
The Morning Advocate [Baton Rouge, Louisiana], "Dr. Magruder dies in Miss.; rites today", August 21, 1957.
The Sun Herald, ‘Mrs. Gertrude Henriques', December 12, 1988.
The Sun Herald, "Bernich remembered for Faith and dedication to Communi-ty", March 17, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "Kirby A. Bernich", March 19, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "State Craft Center opens first satellite office in Biloxi", June 27, 2012.
The Times-Picayune, "Death ends career of Charles F. Buck, foremost citizen", January 20, 1918.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Mrs. Henriques seeks separation', December 5, 1919.
The Times-Picayune, "Athenians adopt Alaska Purchase as motif", January 24, 1932.
The Times-Picayune, "Weddings and Engagements [Jahncke-Henriques]", April 8, 1934.
The Times-Picayune, "Aged sisters die; each is ignorant of other's illness", Au-gust 7, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "Mississippi is site of Henriques rites", August 8, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "[Ida Buck] Henriques", November 15, 1956.
The Times-Picayune, ‘A.D. Henriques NO physician dies Thursday', May 14, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Edouard F.] Henriques", July 28, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Irma] Cousins", August 16, 1969.
The Times-Picayune, "Parade for Bernich", March 1, 1975.
The Times-Picayune, "Joseph C. Schramm", March 27, 1976.
The Times-Picayune, "[Lady Stanley] Henriques", August 11, 1979.
The Times-Picayune, "[Margaret Henriques] Jahncke", December 30, 1981.
The Times-Picayune, "Steven A. Bernich", December 17, 1999.
The Times-Picayune, "Herbert Jahncke, 92, civic leader '66 Rex", November 24, 2002.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Vernon E. Kappel', February 27, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Capt. Charles B. Henriques', June 6, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, "[Carol Saunders] Jahncke", January 4, 2008.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Yvonne S. Bernich', April 28, 2002.
Isaac L. Henriques was born at Kingston, Jamaica. He had married Elizabeth C. Hickey, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when he was a Confederate soldier. She was the daughter of John Hickey (1817-1870+), a Philadelphia printer, and Presocia Sinclair(1827-1870+), a native of Washington, D.C.(1860 and 1870 Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania Federal Census M653_1151, p. 311, Ward 1-5th Precinct and M593_1387, p. 496A, 1st Ward, 2nd District and The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
The Isaac L. Henriques family returned to the South and lived in Jefferson, Texas from 1865 until 1881. The family moved to Woodville, Mississippi and came to New Orleans circa 1885. In addition to Adolph D. Henriques, their youngest child, they were the parents of four additional children: Presocia Gonzalvo Henriques (1868-1957) m. Israel Gunst (1848-1929); Ester Lee Henriques (b. 1871); Caroline ‘Carrie' Augusta Henriques (1873-1935+) m. Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957); and Edouard Ferdinand Henriques (1878-1966) m. Stella Dywer (1883-1912) and Lady Eleanor Stanley (1891-1979).
It is interesting to note that Levin Wales Magruder (1873-1957), the brother-in-law of Dr. Henriques, was also a physician. He practiced medicine at Woodville, Mississippi until 1919, when he relocated to New Orleans and studied radiology. Dr. Magruder expired at Long Beach, Mississippi in August 1957 and his corporal remains were sent to Woodville for internment.(The Morning Advocate, August 21, 1957, p. 25)
Mrs. Elizabeth Hickey Henriques expired on August 6, 1935, at 1119 Pine Street in New Orleans, the residence of Presoia H. Gunst, her daughter. Her corporal remains were sent to Woodville, Mississippi for internment implying that Isaac Henriques had passed here before the family came to New Orleans. Ironically, Katherine Hickey Blanc (1845-1935), Elizabeth's sister, had died twelve hours earlier in Cleveland, Ohio. Elizabeth H. Henriques was survived by her children and two siblings, A.S. Hickey (1862-1935+), a brother, and Florence H. Van Zant (1864-1935+), both residents of California.(The Times-Picayune, August 7, 1935, p. 6)
Education and Early Medical Career
Prior to entering the field of medicine, Adolph D. Henriques worked as a railroad clerk at New Orleans. In 1900, he was domiciled at 627 Napoleon Avenue with his mother and Edouard F. Henriques, his brother, who was employed as a book keeper.(1900 Orleans Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 574, p. 14B, ED 118)
In late June 1901, Adolph D. Henriques received an appointment to the US Military Academy. He had been an alternate. It appears that young Henriques did not attend West Point. His decision not to matriculate to the US Military Academy may have been influenced by the death of Oscar Booz (1879-1901), a Cadet from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who left West Point and subsequently died. When the US Congress held hearing to investigate his demise, which had been blamed on hazing at the military academy, it received national attention. (The Daily Picayune, June 26, 1901, p. 10)
Adolph DeCampos Henriques attended the Tulane University of Louisiana and graduated on May 2, 1906 with the Tulane Medical School Class of 1906. At this time, he was serving as an interne at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. In addition to his medical degree, Dr. Henriques was awarded a degree in pharmacy.(Bulletin Tulane University-Louisiana, June 1906, p. 25 and p. 30.)
In April 1904, Adolph D. Henriques had passed a written examination which allowed him to serve as an externe at Charity Hospital. The test was given to second and third year medical students at the Tulane Medical School and their academic papers were read by the hospital staff.(The Daily Picayune, April 17, 1904, p. 13)
With the discovery of X-rays in Germany in 1895 by Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen (1845-1925), a physicist, it soon became apparent that these electromagnetic waves had a promising future in the medical field to view the internal structure of the human body. W.K. Rontgen was awarded the first Noble Prize in Physics in 1901 and later the Element Number 111 was named Roentgenium in his honor. Also the measurement of electromagnetic radiation is called a ‘roentgen'.(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Röntgen)
Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had decided early in his medical career to pursue the study of X-rays and the incipient field of Radiology. As early as the fall of 1910, he had travelled to the leading medical facilities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore to observe and study what scientists and doctors here had done with X-rays in diagnosing tuberculosis. In early December 1910, at a meeting the Louisiana Antituberculous League in New Orleans, Dr. Henriques offered to donate his time and expertise in radiological medicine to the league to enhance their experiments in clinical work.(The Daily Picayune, December 9, 1910, p. 9)
Studies Abroad
The author can document two visits by Dr. Henriques to foreign countries to study radiological medicine. The first visit abroad occurred in July 1912 and the second in January 1926. In mid-July 1912, he embarked from the Port of New York for the Continent. His wife and two small children spent the duration of his absence at Biloxi, Mississippi. Dr. Henriques went to Vienna, Austria where he pursued post-graduate studies in the school of X-rays, radium, and electrical medical therapy. He also visited other European clinics that utilized radiology in their medical treatment and research.(The Daily Picayune, July 12, 1912, p. 15, August 9, 1912, p. 9, October 3, 1912, p. 8, and The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Dr. A.D. Henriques returned to New Orleans in early October 1912. In late September, he had boarded the SS St. Louis in Southampton, England for the Port of New York. His residence address at this time was 4726 Prytania Street in New Orleans.(The Daily Picayune, October 3, 1912, p. 8)
1926
On January 27, 1926, Dr. A.D. Henriques sailed for France on the SS Suffren from New York City. He planned to pursue research and experiments on the treatment of high blood pressure with radiological methods based on his work at the Tulane Medical School. While in New York, Dr. Henriques spent time with E.F. Henriques of NOLA, his brother. Dr. Henriques returned to America in late May 1926 aboard the SS Berengaria which had departed Cherbourg, France on May 22, 1926. His address at this time was listed as the Hibernia Building at New Orleans, Louisiana. (The Times- Picayune, January 26, 1926, p. 7)
Tulane University Medical School
Before Dr. Adolph De Campos Henriques left New Orleans permanently in the spring of 1930. he had worked in various positions at the Tulane School of Medicine. From October 1912 until June 1930, his status here was as follows: October 1912-Assistant in the Department of Physiology; April 1913-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology; May 1914-3rd Assistant in the Department of Physiology and Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Radiology; April 1922-Assistance Professor in Medicine in Radiology; May 1928-Assistant Professor of Roentgenology; June 1930-Not reappointed for the 1930-1931 session.
In his obituary of May 1966, the medical career of Dr. Adolph D. Henriques was related as follows:
Dr. Henriques received his degree in pharmacy from the New Orleans College of Pharmacy in 1903. In 1906, he completed his medical studies at the Tulane University School of Medicine and served his internship at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. Dr. Henriques was professor of Physiology and Materia Medica at the College of Pharmacy for five years. In 1910, he was the youngest director of the board of the New Orleans College of Pharmacy. Also in 1910, Dr. Henriques presented the first use of X-rays in the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in this area of the South. In 1915, he commenced his teaching career at Tulane University and for seventeen years was the assistant professor of medicine at Tulane. In addition, Dr. Henriques had been a consultant for the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans and a physician for the Illinois Central Railroad. He was a member of the New Orleans Parish and Louisiana State Medical Society and Phi Rho Sigma, the national medical fraternity.(The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2)
Published Medical Studies and Research Papers by Dr. Adolph D. Henriques
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ‘Bone Development', Volume XXXIV, 1917.
Journal of the American Medical Association, ‘Instruction in Roentgenolgy', Vol-ume LXIII-1914.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume XVIII, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘The X-Ray in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis', Volume LXIII, No. 12, June 1911.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Role of X-rays in progressive medi-cine', Volume LXV, 1913.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium Therapy', Volume LXIV, 1921.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Radium in treatment of Myelogenous Leukemia', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Further original observations with the X-ray upon the appendix', Volume LXXV, 1922.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Some probable functions of spleen as demonstrable by effects of radioactivity upon the organ', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Value to general practitioner of X-Ray examination of stomach and duodenum', Volume LXXVI, 1924.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Treatment of high blood pressure by new original method', Volume LXXX, 1928.
New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, ‘Chronic appendix; Roentgenological standpoint', Volume LXXXIII, 1930.
Pan-American Surgical & Medical Journal, ‘Few cases to illustrate the value of Roentgen Ray examination of the stomach', Volume XX-1915.
First Marriage and Family
On June 12, 1906, Dr. Adolph D. Henriques had married Ida Margaret Buck (1874-1956), the daughter of Charles F. Buck (1841-1918), a New Orleans attorney, and Mary Weidner Buck (1850-1937). They were both German immigrants. The wedding cere-mony was officiated over by the Reverend W.E.W. Denham at St. George's Episcopal Church in the Crescent City.(The Daily Picayune, June 17, 1906, p. 8 and Orleans Parish, Louisiana MRI, Volume 28, p. 5)
Dr. A.D. Henriques and his wife were the parents of two children: Charles Buck Hen-riques (1907-2003) m. Jean Wilson (1910-2003) and Margaret Ida Henriques (1910-1981) m. Herbert Grant Jahncke (1910-2002) m. Carol Saunders Harrison (1929-2008).
Ida Buck Henriques separated from Dr. Henriques in December 1919. Her reason was abandonment. The couple eventually divorced before 1930.(The Times-Picayune, De-cember 5, 1919, p. 19)
Itinerant Physician
With his departure from the Tulane Medical School staff in 1930, Dr. Henriques by April 1930 had relocated to Greensburg, Louisiana. Here in this small, rural community in the Florida Parishes and near the Mississippi state line, he worked as a general practitioner. Greensburg is the St. Helena Parish seat of government.(1930 St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Federal Census R 819, p. 3A, ED 2)
At the time of his wedding to Gertrude Bernich of Biloxi, Mississippi in January 1933, Dr. Henriques was practicing medicine in Jackson, Mississippi. By 1940, Gertrude and Adolph D. Heriques had settled in Biloxi. At this time, they were renting a house at 1420 Lafayette Street. Dr. Henriques was involved with his private medical practice.(The Daily Herald, January 10, 1933, p. 6 and 1940 Harrison Co., Mississippi Fed-eral Census t627_2024, p. 1A, ED 24-9)
After acquiring 212 Reynoir Street in May 1942, the Henriques family relocated from 1420 Lafayette Street to their new residence near the commercial district of Biloxi. Here Dr. Henriques continued to practice general medicine and he utilized the north half of the structure as his medical office. After his demise in the Howard Memorial Hospital at Biloxi on May 12, 1966. Mrs. Henriques continued to reside in her home until her death on December 11, 1988. The Henriques' corporal remains were interred in the Southern Memorial Park cemetery at Biloxi, Mississippi.(August H. Parker, June 30, 2012, The Daily Herald, May 13, 1966, p. 2 and The Sun Herald, December 12, 1988, p. A4)
REFERENCES:
The Daily Herald, ‘Henriques-Bernich', January 10, 1933.
The Daily Herald, 'Dr. Henriques loses mother', August 7, 1935, p. 2.
The Daily Herald, ‘Physician at Biloxi expires', May 13, 1966.
The Daily Herald, "Henriques rites", May 16, 1966.
The Daily Picayune, "Minor attention", June 16, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "Army and Navy of State and Nation", June 26, 1901.
The Daily Picayune, "New Externe and Interne Charity Hospital students", April 17, 1904.
The Daily Picayune, "Henriques-Buck", June 17, 1906.
The Daily Picayune, "Antituberculosis Annual Meeting shows great promise during year", December 9, 1910.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", July 12, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Society", August 9, 1912.
The Daily Picayune, "Personal and General", October 3, 1912.
The Morning Advocate [Baton Rouge, Louisiana], "Dr. Magruder dies in Miss.; rites today", August 21, 1957.
The Sun Herald, ‘Mrs. Gertrude Henriques', December 12, 1988.
The Sun Herald, "Bernich remembered for Faith and dedication to Communi-ty", March 17, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "Kirby A. Bernich", March 19, 2002.
The Sun Herald, "State Craft Center opens first satellite office in Biloxi", June 27, 2012.
The Times-Picayune, "Death ends career of Charles F. Buck, foremost citizen", January 20, 1918.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Mrs. Henriques seeks separation', December 5, 1919.
The Times-Picayune, "Athenians adopt Alaska Purchase as motif", January 24, 1932.
The Times-Picayune, "Weddings and Engagements [Jahncke-Henriques]", April 8, 1934.
The Times-Picayune, "Aged sisters die; each is ignorant of other's illness", Au-gust 7, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "Mississippi is site of Henriques rites", August 8, 1935.
The Times-Picayune, "[Ida Buck] Henriques", November 15, 1956.
The Times-Picayune, ‘A.D. Henriques NO physician dies Thursday', May 14, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Edouard F.] Henriques", July 28, 1966.
The Times-Picayune, "[Irma] Cousins", August 16, 1969.
The Times-Picayune, "Parade for Bernich", March 1, 1975.
The Times-Picayune, "Joseph C. Schramm", March 27, 1976.
The Times-Picayune, "[Lady Stanley] Henriques", August 11, 1979.
The Times-Picayune, "[Margaret Henriques] Jahncke", December 30, 1981.
The Times-Picayune, "Steven A. Bernich", December 17, 1999.
The Times-Picayune, "Herbert Jahncke, 92, civic leader '66 Rex", November 24, 2002.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Vernon E. Kappel', February 27, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Capt. Charles B. Henriques', June 6, 2003.
The Times-Picayune, "[Carol Saunders] Jahncke", January 4, 2008.
The Times-Picayune, ‘Yvonne S. Bernich', April 28, 2002.
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