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popular though they were and often endangering his personal safety. Of him as a physician but little need be said; he was faithful, successful and beloved. Born in 1802, in Parsippany, the son of Jonathan Grimes, wlio was an Abolitionist, and whose house was a station on the famous "under- ground railroad" from the South, he early imbibed those principles the whole course of his after life. He began practice in Boonton in 1833 and was one of the first settlers of the place. He was the first president of the first Anti-Slavery Society in the State of New Jersey, the headquarters of which were in Boonton. His house was also a station of the underground railroad, and many were the poor blacks succored by him and passed along in safety and secrecy to the next stopping place. More than once was he mobbed, and once arrested by the high sheriff of Essex county. He was an editor, too, and upon his own press printed the first anti-slavery newspaper in New Jersey. It was called the New Jersey Freeman. The inaction of the church in the cause so dear to his heart caused a revulsion of feeling on his part and led to a severance of his relations with the church at Boonton. He was also a vegetarian, refusing to eat flesh of animals. The vegetable dinners given by him in "Liberty Hall," as he called the building built by him, to prove that flesh was unnecessary as an article of food, are still well remembered. He was also an ardent friend of the tem- perance cause, and one of the leaders in the Washingtonian movement. He was justice of the peace for many years and executor for many estates. He died in 1875, having lived long enough to see the downfall of the slav- ery he had sought so long, and to receive the homage of the same fellow townsmen who had once denounced him so bitterly. On the unpopular side of nearly every public question of politics, religion, temperance and diet, in times when discussion was bitter and men's passions were stirred to fever heat, yet such was the open integrity, purity, consistency, sweetness, humility, charity, faithfulness, simplicity, patience, and bravery of the man's daily life that when he came to die all were his friends, not one his enemy. His son, Malcom L., also a physician, died in Boonton, May 26th, 1874, of consumption, at the age of 41 years.
In almost every particular, except ability, Dr. Gaines was the exact opposite of Dr. Grimes. Upon the popular side in politics, first a Whig and then a Republican, he was chosen several times to the legislature, serv- ing in both branches, and was appointed postmaster by President Lincoln. Genial, merry and fond of jokes, he attracted rather than compelled friend- ship. He was a man of affairs, looking at things from a practical stand- point, never very much troubled by metaphysical doubts or peculiar theories, but thoroughly enjoying life as it came to him. He was born in 1791 and died in 1881, lacking but ten years of a century. He began practice in Montville in 1814, and his territory embraced a circle of forty miles in diameter. He was also a surveyor and laid out many of the roads about Boonton. He was an ardent sportsman, and when upon his long rides in the early days of his practice, used often to shoot deer, ducks, wild tur- keys and other game. Until within a very short time before his death he retained that rotundity of form which goes with a good digestion and an easy conscience. Thin and spare, but grave and dignified, Dr. Grimes, old at seventy, would calmly discuss his favorite theories and beliefs, and send one home with a pocket full of lentils. Stout and hearty, Dr. Gaines, young at eighty, would tell of his hunting and fishing in the good old times, and live it all over again in the telling, and send one home feeling that this wasn't such a bad sort of a world after all. Which kind of a man does the most good?
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Dr. Stephen Fairchild died about 1873, and was nearly if not quite as old as Dr. Gaines. For years he was to Parsippany what Grimes and Kitchell and Johnes were in their localities. He was one of the early advocates of homeopathy, and a man who bore an excellent reputation as a physician.
Of his son, Van Wyck, who died a few years after his father, much could be written. His ability as a physician was never questioned, but, like Sampson of old, his fame largely rested upon his success as a joke1. The father was staid and quiet, but the son was-not. He had plenty of brains, and when fairly interested in a case had the reputation of handling it exceedingly well. Beneath the jolly, careless exterior were hidden talents which only needed application to have made their possessor one of the lead- ing men of the county.
Dr. Richard Smith Farrand died in Montville, in January, 1883, lack- ing but one month of seventy years. He had practiced medicine there for thirty years, succeeding Dr. Gaines when the latter removed to Boonton.
Dr. Timothy Kitchell was the old doctor of Whippany. He died in 1869. His reputation for success in the fevers which often prevailed about Whippany and Hanover was very good. His appearance is well remem- bered by many as he went his rounds upon horseback, a method of loco- motion which he never abandoned. His last horse was a tall bay mare; when he dismounted she was left to wander at will by the roadside, crop- ping the tender grass. She was never known to leave him. The doctor used to wear a frock coat of some snuff-colored stuff, and a wide-brimmed hat in summer, and always carried a faded umbrella which protected him from rain or sunshine, though it was seldom raised, or served as the goad which quietly stimulating the flanks of the mare urged her into the fox trot which was her fastest gait. The man and the horse were worthy an artist's pencil. They were admirably fitted. There was, however, nothing ridiculous in their appearance, nothing to cause more than a smile upon the part of a stranger to know who the dignified old gentleman, with the kind, benevolent face and wise expression, was. Dr. Kitchell was one of the most modest and unassuming men. He may be fairly described as the Grimes of Wippany, without any of the peculiarities and radical- ism of the Grimes of Boonton. He was loved by the people of Wippany and Hanover as only the old family physician is loved by those whom he has served and befriended for a generation.
The Kings started the first drug store in Morristown. It stood where the Methodist church now stands, and was owned by Jacob M. King. Boss & Marsh succeeded him, and occupied a store where Kay Bros. now are. Ben Marsh died some time ago. Marsh bought out his partner and was succeeded by Frank Headley, who sold to Silas B. Cooper. Headley and Cooper are both dead. Headley & Co. (S. F. Headley) then carried on the business in the well-known corner store, and were followed by H. H. Becker, generally known as Dr. Becker. Dr. Becker was deservedly one of the most popular business men in Morristown, and occupied many promi- nent public positions. Before his death, which occurred some years ago- 1881-he disposed of the business to F. C. Geiger & Co., which firm soon became Geiger & Smith, after which Fred. retired and it became Geiger & Smith, with Henry M. Smith and W. F. Muchmore composing the firm. Henry M. Smith, a nephew of Dr. H. H. Becker, was later sole proprietor.
Dr. Chas. H. Dalrymple was a clerk in Jacob M. King's store. After marrying the daughter of the late Jno. F. Voorhees, the hardware merchant,
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he took charge of the drug department in that store. Hardware and drugs seemed to go together in those days. He afterwards opened the pharmacy in the adjoining building. While he lived he maintained an honorabie reputation for the purity and excellence of the preparations sold by him, and was prominent among the druggists of the State. His son, Chas H. Jr., succeeded to the management of the store after his father's death, but later disposed of his interest in it to Roy & Burns.
MEDICAL MEN OF MORRISTOWN FROM 1870 TO 1913.
Fred Wooster Owen, M. D., to whom the writer is much indebted for the information regarding the physicians of Morristown for the last forty- three years, was graduated from the Medical Department of Georgetown College (now University) with location at Washington, D. C., receiving his first diploma as Medicinae Doctoris in the year 1867. The doctor con- tinued his studies abroad, procuring another "sheepskin," when he returned to America, accepting a position on the staff of the Long Island College Hospital. After completing his hospital work he hung out his "shingle" in Morristown, June, 1870, on the first of the two Trimmer buildings, which Dr. P. C. Parker had just vacated.
At that time, when Dr. Owen came to Morristown, he found tradition of the great ability, as a physician, of "Old Dr. Jones," who had died the year previous ( 1869). Also Dr. Fisher, a very talented man, who had been and gone; and Dr. Gus Quimby, a surgeon. These had left their foot- prints just prior to Dr. Owen's arrival in 1870. The doctor did honor to the profession for a term of forty years. He then retired, with a healthy body, a bright intellect, and a clear conscience, revered by all.
In 1870, Morristown boasted of only four or five active physicians, Dr. W. DeH. Quimby, facile princeps; Dr. P. C. Barker, more modern but not more prominent; Dr. Sanborne (homeopathist) ; Dr. Frank Sanders, just installed ; and Dr. T. B. Flagler, of High street. True, Dr. Edward S. Hoffman had an office, corner Boyken street and Macculloch avenue, and had done much work in previous years; also Dr. Stevenson had practiced here, but was "giving up." There were others, like Dr. Woodruff, fully competent to practice, but who did not choose to do so, and were not to be counted upon except in an emergency.
In 1873, Dr. Stephen Pierson, who had been successfully practicing at Boonton, joined forces with Dr. Quimby, in the long, wooden, two-story, moss-roofed, end-to-the-street, roofless porch, house, near Day's Bakery. It was a remarkably strong team and a leading one. In this year, also, from the Women's Medical College, New York City, was graduated Dr. Charlotte Ford.
At and before this time, Dr. James Douglas, an old student of Dr. Owen, the physician to the Morristown Board of Health, had a drug store between Day's and Dr. Quimby's, in a frame house long since torn down. Dr. G. A. Becker was studying medicine in this decade with one of our prominent physicians. Both Dr. Douglas and Dr. Becker graduated with honor from the N. Y. U. and C. P. and S. in the year 1880.
Dr. Sanborne, of Western avenue, dying suddenly of pulmonary con- gestion in 1872, Dr. Uebelacker, who graduated from the N. Y. H. C. in 1871, came from Schooley's Mountain to take his rapidly extending prac- tice. These were the first acknowledged Morristown homoeopaths within the writer's knowledge, though others slipped "Mercurius Sol," "Hepar Sulph" and "sich" quite frequently into the deglutitory tubes of their un- suspecting patrons.
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Between 1870 and 1800 another homoeopathict, Dr. Doolittle, began to do considerable over on Bridge street, now Speedwell avenue, but finally threw up the sponge, although a Baptist. Within this same period Dr. Macomber, a competent homoeopathischarming gentleman, had foi two or more years an office in the Dr. Canfield mansion, about where the Schmidt building is now located, but finally removed to California, when the wittiest member of the Morristown Medical Club moved into his offices.
The decade of 1870 to 1880 was marked by two important medical events ; first, the reorganization of the long-defunct County Medical Society, 1873, with Dr. John S. Stiger as president, Dr. P. C. Barker as vice-presi- dent, Dr. Stephen Pierson as secretary, and Dr. F. W. Owen as treasurer. Of the then members not many survive. The second event alluded to was the opening in 1876 of the New Jersey State Hospital, and the organization of the hospital staff with Dr. Buttolph as the medical director, preceding Dr. Joseph Smith and Dr. Britton D. Evans. We all know what brilliant members of the medical profession have successively graced the staff posi- tions of this great institution.
Taking up a second decade ( 1880 to 1890) that member of the Morris- town Medical Club without whom we could not "live, move, and have our being," as Dr. Owen writes agreeably, need we say that we refer to Dr. Alfred A. Lewis, a graduate of N. Y. U. in 1868? was then quite an oid residenter of this bailiwick.
Dr. H. A. Henriques, a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1882, and a pupil of Sands, after a successful practice in New York State, located on South street in 1892.
The lamented Dr. Harry B. McCarroll, graduating from the same institution one year earlier, after making his mark in New York City, located here about 1889 ; was police surgeon, and also a member of the staff of both our hospitals. During this period the elder Dr. O'Reilley, unmis- takably a well-equipped physician, established himself in Morristown, dying in All Souls' Hospital. In 1889 Dr. Wilkinson graduated from N. Y. U. and, after hospital appointments at Newark, settled here.
The period between 1890 and 1900 was made memorable to us by the opening for patients of All Souls' Hospital in 1892 and Memorial Hospital in 1893, the original staff of All Souls' being Dr. Stephen Pierson, medical director ; Dr. H. A. Henriques, secretary and operative surgeon; Dr. O'Reilley, the elder; Dr. Calvin Anderson, Nestor of the club, a graduate of P. and S., in 1865, and Dr. Owen, attending physicians; and Dr. P. C. Barker, and, later on, Dr. C. Y. Swan, consulting physicians.
The original staff of Memorial Hospital comprised Dr. P. C. Barker, physician and surgeon-in-chief, and Drs. Becker and Lewis as his lieu- tenants, to whom were later added Drs. Pierson, McCarroll, Douglas, Hen- riques, Uebelacker and Haven as attending physicians and surgeons, and Dr. Owen as the first consulting physician, city men of greater prominence being added.
Graduates in this decade were Dr. F. H. Glazebrook (police surgeon of Morristown), Cornell, 1900, and of Orange Memorial Hospital before coming to Morristown; Dr. J. B. Griswold, Dartmouth, 1892, who con- tinued his studies abroad and finally located here; Dr. Harry Vaughan, P. and S., Baltimore, 1895, later of West Virginia; Dr. Harry O'Reilley, Jefferson, 1896; Dr. Clifford Mills, L. I. College Hospital, 1897; Dr. H. C. Lowenstein, orthopedist, Woman's College, New York, 1898, and Dr. Grace Flanders Wilson, 1899.
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Many of us remember the coming and going of Dr. Howley and Drs. Wright, Snyder and Bishop, and the death of Dr. Clutterbuck. Of absent sons, among others, Morristown has furnished to the medical profession Dr. Samuel Pierson, of Stamford, Connecticut; Dr. Isaac Vreeland, of Stony Point, New York; Dr. William E. Derry, of Dover; Dr. Condict W. Cutler, of New York City; Dr. Thomas Hastings, a brilliant Johns Hopkins man and pathologist, New York City; Dr. Fred. W. Becker, of Newark; Dr. Pearce Bailey; and Dr. Herman Mead, a man of great promise, who died in 1869, an interne of Bellevue. Also, Drs. Lawton, Corwin, Cochrane, Erdman, Voorhees, Coultas, Halsted and Jones, all of whom have acquitted themselves creditably. The same may be said of the young homoeopathic physicians, Dr. Joseph R. Hoffman and Dr. Herman Newbold, natives of Morristown and Mount Holly, both of whom built up good practices and were men of sterling character.
Dr. Loiseau, a "bird of passage," and whether Dr. Read will "read his title clear" is not yet made known; but Dr. Connett, Chicago, H. C., 1891, Dr. Allaben, N. Y. H. C. for Women, 1894, and Dr. Willis, N. Y. H. C., 1899, have fine clienteles.
In the thirteen years since 1900, Dr. S. C. Haven graduated from P. and S. in 1901, and after being a member of the Roosevelt and Post-Graduate staffs, located here in 1904 and at once took rank as a well-trained physician of great promise. Dr. George L. Johnson also graduated in 1901 from the Baltimore Medical College, and is much in evidence. Dr. H. B. Andrews, once of Morristown, now practices in Newark. Of "Dr. Mosier" and of Morristown osteopathists we have no authoritative data at hand.
Dr. William A. McMurtrie graduated from Cornell in 1904, was of Orange Memorial Hospital for two years, made a good impression here, and is succeeding well in his new field at Mendham. Dr. John Birckhead, the newcomer, is well spoken of by competent critics.
Agreeably with the new dispensation, skillful specialists have been immediately available to us. Among these, Dr. Fayette Smith for the throat, Dr. Leonard Corning for neurosis, Drs. L. L. Mial and Blair Sut- phen for eye, ear, nose and throat affections.
In the old days, which some of us can well remember, a clinical ther- mometer, or a hypodermic syringe, or an aspirator was a rara avis. Men of large practice are recalled who were not well versed in urinalysis. Curet- tage, appendectomy, laparotomy, and the modern laboratory work were practically not undertaken by our resident doctors-all such things were committed to the learned heads and practiced eyes and hands in or from the great cities. Now, for the younger practitioner there is nothing too hard unless it be the getting, or, if gotten, the keeping of the elusive dollar. Practice still remains, except for its ethical rewards, no joke. Materially regarded, it is, for the average doctors, simply a livelihood; but, taken at its best, a livelihood so ennobling that a physician faithful to his trust im- proves in personnel as the years roll on. It is as though the self-denials, the generosities, the fearless undertaking, the unspared self, and the more that has been accomplished dwarfing the less that has been blameworthy were stamped upon the honest face and dignified carriage of the Public's. Medical Servant.
Morristown, the county seat, numbers among its experienced and enter- prising surgeons of today: Dr. Henry A. Henriques, medical director All Souls' Hospital; Dr. Francis H. Glazebrook, secretary Board of Health; Dr. Jas. Brown Griswold, county physician; Dr. Clifford A. Mills, of Mem-
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orial and All Souls' hospitals, and Morris County Almshouse. Among. its able and prominent general practitioners of medicine are: The "Nestor, Dr. Alfred A. Lewis; Dr. G. A. Becker, president Memorial Hospital staff ; Dr. Jas. Douglas, city physician; Dr. Samuel C. Haven, Dr. Geo. H. La- thrope, Dr. G. W. Wilkinson, Dr. M. E. Scott. Among its specialists are, for eye, ear, nose and throat: Dr. L. L. Mial, Dr. E. Blair Sutphen, Dr. Harry Vaughan.
Homoeopathy is represented in Morristown by the veteran and vener- able Dr. A. Uebelacker, and by Dr. Anna L. Allaban, Dr. Geo. C. Connett,. Dr. R. Ralston Reid, Dr. Geo. Stuart Willis, and Dr. Joseph E. Wright. Osteopathy is represented by Dr. Wm. L. Rogers, Dr. H. T. Maxwell.
HOSPITALS OF MORRIS COUNTY
Morris county has reason to be proud of three thoroughly equipped and well-managed hospitals, the Morris Plains Hospital for the Insane, at Greystone Park; All Souls' Hospital, and the Morristown Memorial, both of which are in Morristown.
Morristown Memorial Hospital-By the last will and testament of Miss Myra M. B. Brookfield, late of Morristown, the testatrix devised a house and lot situated on DeHart street in Morristown to certain gentle- men, in trust, for the uses and purposes of a hospital. By an amicable arrangement with the residuary devisees, this property was sold and the proceeds of the sale, supplemented by liberal subscriptions from the public,. were used in purchasing the present site of the hospital on Morris street.
The General Hospital was opened for the reception of patients Octo- ber 17, 1893, and the Barker Pavilion but a few days later. On September 10, 1898, the hospital was removed from the old building to the first section of the new Memorial Hospital building called the Anna Margaret Home for Convalescents. The Anna Margaret Home for Convalescents is of fire- proof construction, on the first floor of which are meeting rooms for the directors, physicians and Woman's Association, superintendent's office, nurses' dining room, pantry and kitchen. The second and third floors con- tain ten rooms for private and convalescent patients. The operating, ether- izing and sterilizing rooms are also in this building ,and are thoroughly equipped and ready for instant use. An X-ray machine of the newest pat- tern was installed in 1912. A pathological laboratory and a room solely for the treatment of diseases of the nose, throat, eye and ear. An electric- elevator reaches all floors.
In February, 1909, the west wing of the hospital was opened for the admission of patients. This building is also of fireproof construction and contains four wards, two surgical and two medical, for male and female patients, respectively, of eight beds each, ten private rooms, sun parlors, bathrooms and other apartments containing various facilities for special work. The children's ward is on the third floor of the west wing, and contains ten beds. A roof garden, enclosed by screens in summer and by glass in winter, for the use of the children's ward, is easily reached from this ward.
On May 2, 1908, the Stone Memorial, a gift of grounds and buildings for a nurses' home, was presented to the hospital by the late Mrs. George- F. Stone.
The Barker Pavilion for Contagious Diseases, situated well in the rear of the main building, is heated with hot water, lighted by gas and electricity, and has in separate wings a suspect ward containing two beds, a scarlet
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fever ward of twelve beds and a diphtheria ward of eight beds. This building has apartments for nurses and several bathrooms and is con- nected by telephone with the main building. There are three ambulances, one for general hospital use and two for contagious diseases.
The following is the official directory of the hospital for the year 1913: Officers, 1913-John E. Taylor, president; Edward L. Dobbins, vice-president; Edward Howell, secretary; H. Ward Ford, treasurer; Charles S. Bird, assistant treasurer; Frederick G. Burnham, Henry C. Pitney Jr., counsel.
Board of Directors-Samuel F. Beach, John H. Bonsall, Frederick G. Burnham, Douglas S. Bushnell, Edward L. Dobbins, Charles W. Ennis, H. Ward Ford, Edward P. Holden, Edward Howell, Harrie T. Hull, F. Landon Humphreys, James G. Lid- gerwood, J. H. Maghee, Edward K. Mills, Henry K. Morgan Jr., Henry C. Pitney jr., Charlton A. Reed, Gordon E. Sherman, John E. Taylor, John I. Waterbury.
Superintendent-Eliza Mcknight, R.N. Medical Staff, 1913-G. A. Becker, M.D., president; Samuel C. Haven, M.D., H. A. Henriques, M.D., F. H. Glazebrook, M.D., Clifford Mills, M.D., Geo. H. Lathrope, M.D., James Douglas, M.D., A. A. Lewis, M.D., A. Uebelacker, M.D., J. B. Griswold, M.D., F. W. Flagg, M.D., L. L. Mial, M.D., H. A. Henriques, M.D., secretary. Assistants-W. G. McCormack, M.D., M. E. Scott, M.D. Consulting Surgeons-Edward J. Il1, M.D., John C. McCoy, M.D., Joseph Fewsmith, M.D. Consulting Physicians-F. W. Owen, M.D., St. Clair Smith, M.D., F. P. Kinnicutt, M.D. Gynecologist-Edward J. Ill, M.D. Assistant Gyne- cologist-Charles Ill, M.D. Neurologist-Pearce Bailey, M.D. Gastro-Enterologist- H. A. Cossitt, M.D. Nose, Throat, Eye and Ear-L. L. Mial, M.D. Surgeon Den- tist-A. B. Osmun, D.D.S. Auxiliary Staff-A. B. Coultas, M.D., F. H. Seward, M.D., Geo. L. Connett, M.D., Geo. L. Johnson, M.D., Geo. W. Wilkinson, M.D., J. W. Farrow, M.D., H. W. Kice, M.D., E. P. Cooper, M.D., R. R. Reed, M.D. Visiting Staff-Physicians: G. A. Becker, M.D., A. Uebelacker, M.D., A. A. Lewis, M.D., James Douglas, M.D., S. C. Haven, M.D., Geo. H. Lathrope, M.D. Surgeons- L. L. Mial, M.D., H. A. Henriques, M.D., F. H. Glazebrook, M.D., J. B. Griswold, M.D., Clifford Mills, M.D.
All Souls' Hospital-All Souls' Hospital is situated on Mt. Kemble avenue, Morristown, N. J. It contains two wards for male patients, with twenty-four beds; a ward for female patients, with twelve beds; a ward for children, with six beds; two emergency wards; and two rooms for mori- bund patients, and five rooms for contagious diseases. There are twenty- two rooms for private patients. The operating room is carefully constructed and well appointed and can be used at any hour of the day or night. Each floor has a dining room and toilet rooms. The buildings are heated by steam and lighted by gas. The sanitary arrangements are in perfect work- ing order. Patients of every nationality and creed are received. Patients unable to pay are received only those who are residents of Morris or Susscx counties, or of Bernardsville and vicinity in Somerset county. Private patients are received from any locality.
The medical and surgical staff is composed of well-known physicians and surgeons. The consulting staff contains a number of eminent special- ists. Physicians in legal standing sending private patients and desiring to attend them are privileged to do so. The nursing and general work of the hospital is in charge of the Sisters of Charity. The business affairs of the institution are managed by a board of twelve directors. The members of a board of visitors, composed of prominent citizens of Morristown and vicinity, make frequent inspection of the hospital, and are privileged to visit it at all times.
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