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Note: American College of Surgeons Mentone Calif 1933 Yearbook for 1936 Mentions Charles W. Moots
Commander USNRF, as surgeon on hospital ship Mercy Military ABT 1916 Note: Noted on 1930 census that he was veteran of the World War.
Gravestone: Charles Moots, (Son in Law of Rev. Caleb Hill). Prospect Cemetery, Marion Co, Ohio
History of Norhtwest Ohio by Nevin Otto Winter (1917) Page 1065 Charles W. Moots, M.D., F.A.C.S. The medical profession of Northwest Ohio knows Dr. Charles W. Moots as a surgeon of excepional skill and attainment, and his work in that branch of the general profession of medicine has brough him membership as a Fellow of the American Collage of Surgeons. For the past ent years Dr. Moots has been active in his profession at Toledo, with offices in the Nicholas Building. His has been a career of consecutive advancement, and not a little of the inspiration to sucess came from his early environment on an Ohio farm. He was born in Bellefontaine, Logan Co., Ohio June 26, 1869, a son of Conrad and Eleanore (Strayer) Moots. His father was a native of Pennsylvania and his mother of Maryland and they were married in Bellefontaine, Ohio. Conrad Moots was a substancial farmer, having settled in Ohio quite early in his career. During the dark days of the Civil War he went out with an Ohio regiment as a private, and was in active service during the last year of the struggle. He was in the main Division of Grant's Army during the magnificent campaign around Richmond which finally brought about the surrender of Lee's forces at Appomattox. Conrad Moots died in Logan County, Ohio in 1903, at the age of eighty-one, and his widow passed away, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fleetwood Carr, near Bellefontaine, in 1913 also aged eighty-one. The father was a man of quiet disposition, hard working, thrifty, and strictly honorable in all his relations. He was the recipient at the hands of his fellow citizens of several township offices, though he never sought such honors. In the family were four sons and three daughters, with Dr. Moots as the youngest. The older children are: Reverand Thomas C. Moots, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and an active member of the Central Illinois Conference who died in July 1916; Mrs. John L. Summer of Marysville, Ohio; D. S. Moots, a grocer at Bellefontaine; Mrs. Luther Horn of Bellefontaine; Mrs. Fleetwood Carr of Bellefontaine. Dr. Charles W. Moots is the only doctor in the family, and his name is also distinguished by being the only Moots in the American Medical directory, which includes the names of practically every physician and surgeon of recognized standing practicing in the United States. In the early career of Doctor Moots he found an excellent lesson showing the droductive value of a small amount of money. His paternal grandparents were Charles and Elizabeth Moots, who came at an early day and settled near DeGraff in Logan County, Ohio. Doctor Moots was named for his grandfather, and at his birth grandfather gave his namesake a present of a small sum of money. This money was kept by the father of Dr. Moots until the latter was old enough to be entrusted with it's keeping and use. The trust fund was not large in itself but use and wise application made it worth more than many hundreds of dollars would have done to many other boys. In time the little talent given him by his grandfather had increased and multiplied many fold, and the proceeds were used wisely so that Dr. Moots educated himself in schoos and colleges with his own money, and his education involved no expense upon his parents. As a boy he attended the public schools at DeGraff, Ohio, graduated from the DeGraff High School, and took his collegiate studies in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, where he was graduated Bachelor of Science. This was followed by the Medical course at the University of Cincinnati, where he graduated M. D. with the class of 1895. After beginning practice he spent several months at different times in post graduate studies in Chicago and New York City, and for six months was a resident student in Vienna, Austria. Twenty years ago Dr. Moots began practice at the little town of Jackson Center, Shelby County, Ohio. In three years he was ready for a larger field, sold out a promising practice, and moved to Delphos, where he remained in practice until he now limits his work to abdominal and pelvic surgery. Within a year after his removal to Toledo he has made professor of anatomy in the Medical Department of the Toledo University and held that position until the University closed in 1914. He is now gynecologist at the Flower Hospital of Toledo and assisted in organizing that splendid institution. If there is one thing more than another for which Doctor Moots deserves special credit as a citizen it was his leadership and vigorous advocacy in originating the Toledo movement for certified milk. It is largely due to his energy that this movement was successful beginning in 1908, and the result has proved a blessing to the welfare of children's lives in this city. Dr. Moots was chairman of the Health and Sanitation Committee of the Toledo Commerce Club for two years. In politics he is a republican. He is a member of the York Rite bodies in Masonry at Toledo, including the Knights Templar Commandery and the Mystic Shrine. Dr. Moots' specific recreation is music. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, of which he was president in 1912, to the Northwestern Medical Associacion, the Ohio State Medical Society, of which he is now concilor from the Fourth District of Ohio, to the American Association of Obstetrians and Gynecologists. He and his wife are active members of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church of Toledo. On January 3, 1895 Doctor Moots married Miss Margaret White Hill, daughter of Reverand Caleb and Elizabeth (Cratty) Hill. Her father for many years an active Methodist Minister, was stationed at East Toledo at one time and at many other towns in Northwest Ohio and he died in 904 at Prospect, Ohio, where he had lived after retiring from active duties. His widow is still living at Prospect. Mrs. Moots was born at Mount Victory, Ohio and was educated at Deleware, Ohio. She is an active member of the Sorosis Club of Toledo.
1930 US Census has him living as a lodger in Santa Fe, NM he states that he was 26 yrs. old at the time of his first marriage He was born in OH His Father PA His Mother MD 1930 Census
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