Wesselhoeft Family
Even as the regular medical establishment in Boston had its dynasties in the Warrens and Shattucks, the homeopaths had the Wesselhoeft family. Dr. William Wesselhoeft (1794-1858), a medical graduate of the University of Jena, came to America in 1824 and soon after received from his father and his uncle, who owned a publishing house, copies of some of the works of Hahnemann and was then converted to the new system. In 1835, William Wesselhoeft helped Dr. Constantine Hering in 1835 to establish the nation's first homeopathic school at Allentown, Pennsylvania, and taught there. He came to Boston in 1842 and was the father of physicians George and William Wesselhoeft and uncle of Conrad and Walter Wesselhoeft—all graduates of Harvard Medical School and active in the homeopathic movement.