History of Burlington and Mercer counties, New Jersey : with biographical sketches of many of their pioneers and prominent men, Part 34

Author: Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison) cn; Hageman, John Frelinghuysen
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1096

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HENRY P. WELLING, M.D., is a son of Isaac Wel- ling, a farmer, of Hopewell. He graduated at Prince- ton College in 1828, studied medicine in the office of Dr. Springer, of Pennington, and graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1832, and had intended to enter into partnership with Dr. Springer, but he took his office and practice immediately after the death of Dr. Springer in 1832. He is still living, but

Dr. White was an estimable citizen, of gentlemanly has almost entirely given up his practice to his son. . manners, and died in 1872, much lamented in the

He has been a successful and honored practitioner, a man of skill and judgment, a nseful and public- spirited citizen, a respected member of the medieal society, State and county. Dr. Welling married Miss Louisa Schenck, a daughter of Peter Schenck, near Pennington, and they have one son, Edward Living- ston Welling.

EDWARD LIVINGSTON WELLING, M.D., a son of Dr. Henry P. Welling, after attending tlie Lawrence- ville High School, entered Princeton College, and

graduated in the class of 1857, and while in his father's office took a course of two years in the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, and settled to practice in Pennington. When the war broke out he volun- teered as assistant surgeon, and soon became surgeon under Col. MeAllister. He served with courage and fidelity all through the war, passed through many battles and thick dangers with honor and safe deliv- erance. He returned to his practice after the war, married Miss Dick, a niece of Gen. McAllister, and devotes himself to his profession. He is an active member of the medical society of his county, and of the State Society.

ISRAEL HART, M.D., has been for several years a practicing physician at Pennington, and he has a son, Edgar Hart, who is also practicing at the same place, and is a member of the County Medical Society.

WILLIAM JENNEY, M.D., settled at Woodsville in 1856 and continued till 1869. The next resident phy- sician there was A. W. ARMITAGE, M.D., who after a few years was succeeded by Dr. Joseph T. Lanning, who is practicing there at this time.

HENRY H. A. NEIL, M. D., is a practicing physician who has been settled at Titusville for about two years past. He is regarded as worthy of confidence. He is a member of the medical society of the county.

Physicians in Lawrence. - GEORGE WHITE, M.D., of Lawrenceville, was a son of James White, of that place. He was educated at the high school in that village, in which he was born. He studied medicine with Dr. James Clark in Trenton ; gradu- ated at the University of Pennsylvania ; married Miss Mary Schenck, a sister of Mrs. Dr. Welling, and has practiced during all his professional life in Law- rence, being the only physician in that place. His practice extended through a period of about forty years. He was public-spirited, and took quite an ac- tive part in politics as a Whig and Republican. He had one son, a physician, who died just as he had commenced to practice with bright prospects.

community and the church. He has two danghters and one son and his widow surviving him.

EDMUND DE WITT, M.D., is the physician now settled in Lawrenceville. He is a member of the Mercer County Medical Society.

Physicians in Ewing .- JOHN WEATHEREL SCUD- DER, M.D., son of Isaac Seudder, near Cranbury, N. J., born 1814; graduated at Princeton in 1832; studied medicine with Dr. S. L. Howell, in Princeton, and at the University of Pennsylvania, 1836; married Virginia Bergen, of Cranbury, and settled at Ewing- ville, Mereer Co., N. J. He had quite an extensive practice and a comfortable estate. He died in 1881,

1 Dr. Wickes' History of Medicine, 155.

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aged sixty-seven years. He left one son and three daughters.

Physicians in West Windsor .- ISRAEL CLARKE, M.D., belonged to the Quaker family of Clarkes, who settled at Stony Brook in 1695. He practiced at physician and surgeon to the time of his decease, Feb. Clarkesville, where he was settled, and where he died. As a physician he was quite celebrated in the coun- ties adjoining his extensive practice. He was full of humor, and had a day in the week fixed for office : successful, of quick perception, and careful and thor-

business, when great crowds flocked to consult him. Clarkesville is called after him. George W. Apple- gate now lives on his former residence. Dr. James Clarke, of Trenton, was his son.

EZEKIEL P. WILSON, M.D. He studied medicine with Dr. Ebenezer Stockton in Princeton, and was for a short time a partner with him in practice. He afterwards removed to Hightstown, and then to West Windsor, near the Millstone, where he pursued his profession for upwards of sixty years. He was old- school to the last, holding on to calomnel and jalap and bleediug as the supreme remedies. His intelli- gence and judgment were highly respected by the doctors who knew him. He was very peculiar, had a large practice, and outlived all his contemporaries. He is now ninety-four years old.

Physicians in East Windsor .- Drs. Enoch Wil- son and George McCroy were the earliest resident physicians whose names can be obtained. They are said to have resided in Hightstown before the year His widow, who survives him, is J. Amanda, daugh- ter of Howell Hill and Mary Capner, and grand- daughter of Samuel Smith Hill, of Trenton, N. J. Her father survives in 1882, being in the eighty-fifth year of his age, and her mother died in 1877, aged seventy-four years. Mrs. Robbins was born Oct. 19, 1822, and was married to Dr. Robbins on May 12. 1842. She is a lady of rare excellence, and desires to place a portrait of her deceased hasband in the history of Mercer County with this sketch, thereby indicating the place that he made in society as a man and as a physician. Mrs. Robbins had one brother, Joseph C., and one sister, Christina, both of whom are deceased. 1800. Dr. Ezekiel Wilson practiced there at an early period before he settled in West Windsor. Dr. Ap- plegate also practiced there at an early day. They were succeeded by Dr. Charles G. McChesney, who. was a prominent physician and politician, and who was for a time Secretary of State, and resided at Tren- ton while in office. He had a large practice, and was highly esteemed in the community and by the pro- fession. Dr. J. H. Wickoff, of Princeton, was settled in Hightstown for several years before removing to Princeton, and others from time to time had been settled there; some have died, some removed, and some are still there. Drs. Blauvelt, Wilbur, Bar- tholomew, Hall, MeGeorge, Williamson, Johnson, . Dey, Davis, Titus, and Pumyea are among the more recent practitioners. Dr. Blauvelt has been dead . Robbins, was born near Hamilton Square, Mercer some years, and Dr. Charles F. Deshler, who was one of the most prominent, has died within a very few years past.

Physicians in Hamilton .- GEORGE R. ROBBINS, M.D., son of Randall and Sarah Robbins, was born in Monmouth County, N. J., Sept. 24, 1808. His father died near Edinburgh, N. J., abont 1857, in his sixty- seventh year, and his mother lived to be over eighty years of age. His brothers and sisters are Judge Randall C. Robbins, of Windsor, Mercer Co .; Nathan, a fariner in Hamilton township ; and Nancy, Sarah, and Emily. Dr. Robbins studied medicine with Dr. Alexander McKelway, of Trenton, and was graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia,

March 2, 1837. He commenced the practice of medicine at Falsington, Pa., but after a short time. about 1838, settled at Hamilton Square, Mercer Co., N. J., where he continued his professional duties as 22, 1875. He was well read in medical and general literature, and ranked among the first in his profes- sion in the State. As a physician he was vigilant, ough in the diagnosis of disease, and his care for his patients and interest in each particular case made him favorably and popularly known. As a surgeon he was skillful, and with great coolness and nerve met the most difficult case successfully. After his decease he was succeeded in his practice by liis nephew, Dr. George R. Robbins.

Dr. Robbins was interested in local matters outside his profession, and was an earnest member of the old Whig party. In 1854 he was elected to Congress from the Second District of New Jersey, and by re-election in 1856, upon the organization of the Republican party, he served in the Congress of the United States for four years, doing credit to himself and honor to his constituents. He was a man of independent action, possessed of clear and foreible ideas, and sought to fulfill the full duties of the citizen. Dr. Robbins was a member of the I. O. O. F., and served the lodge in high official positions.

GEORGE R. ROBBINS, M.D., son of Nathan and Mary A. (Mount) Robbins, and grandson of Randall Co., N. J., March 12, 1849. He was educated at the New Jersey Classical and Seientifie Institute at Hightstown, and at the New Jersey Collegiate Insti- tute at Bordentown, graduating from the latter. He studied medicine with his unele, Dr. George R. Rob- bins, an eminent physician of Hamilton Square, at- tended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated on March 12, 1870. Dr. Robbins commenced the practice of his profession immediately after graduating at Hamilton Square, where he has continued since. He has a large and lucrative practice, and suecceded to a large part of his uncle's practice upon his decease. He is especially a successful obstetrician, and is frequently

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called outside iris regular ride and into other counties in this particular branch of his practice. Dr. Rob- bins is a member of Hightstown Lodge A. F. and A. M., and interested in and a supporter of the worthy local enterprises presented to his notice. He ; was united in marriage Dec. 25, 1871, to Annie M., ; you get one good doctor you get one good thing, but daughter of Jonathan H. Watson, of Edinburgh, N. J. He has but one surviving chrild, Milicent.

Physicians in Washington .- GEORGE HENRY FRANKLIN, M.D., was born at South Amboy, N. J .. Jan. 4, 1856. His father, Rev. William Franklin, was born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1822. His parents being poor, he became dependent upon his own resources at the age of sixteen, and while earn- ing a livelihood acquired an education by his own personal efforts. At the age of eighteen he was made a local preacher in the Wesleyan connection. In - 1851 he came to America, and immediately com- menced his ministerial labors. In 1853 he was re- ceived into the New Jersey Conference of the Metli- odist Episcopal Church, since which time he has served the Methodist Episcopal Church at Jacobs- town, Crosswicks, Tuckerton, and Mount Holly, in Burlington County, and at Old Bethel, Union Street, Trenton, and Windsor, in Mercer County. Dr. George H. Franklin received an English and classical educa- tion under the private instruction of Prof. Coxe, and in 1875 began reading medicine with Dr. W. R. Kin- mouth, of Farmingdale, N. J. He attended lectures York City, was graduated from that institution on Feb. 28, 1879, and immediately began the practice of his profession at Windsor, Mercer Co., where he has :

at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New , practice in Philadelphia, but after two years he re- moved to Burlington County, where he practiced for six years, and then, in 1837, a few years after the death of Dr. Belleville, he removed to Trenton, where continued successfully since. He is a member of the ; he spent the remainder of his life. Though a gen- Methodist Episcopal Church, superintendent of the eral practitioner, he was more especially a surgeon. Sunday-school, and president of the Young Men's Christian Association. He married, June 16, 1880, Mary, daughter of the late Charles Montanye, of Port Monmouth, N. J. They have one child, Charles Franklin.

Physicians in Trenton .- NICHOLAS BELLEVILLE, M.D., was one of the earliest and most distinguished physicians of . Trenton. He was a native of Metz, France, born in 1753. His father was a physician and surgeon, and the son acquired the best education possible in the medical schools of Paris. He came to this country with Count Pulaski, who had volunteered his services in our Revolutionary struggle, and Dr. Belleville cast in his fortune with Irim, and embarked in the sloop-of-war of fourteen guns, one hundred and five men, and sixteen hundred stands of arins for the American troops. They arrived at Salem, Mass., July 22, 1777. He happened to make the acquaintance of old Dr. Bryant, of Trenton, then in practice, who per- suaded Dr. Belleville to settle in Trenton and give up the army. In 1778 he became a resident physician of Trenton. He married Aun Brittain, and Had two ! daughters,-Mary, who married Dr. James Clark and Sarah, who married Andrew Hunter.

Dr. Belleville had a large practice and a high repu- tation for skill in his profession. He was the family attendant of Joseph Bonaparte, of Bordentown. He is credited with having said once, when asked if he could recommend a physician for Bordentown, "If

if you get one bad doctor you get one bad thing. It you have a lawsuit, you get one bad lawyer, you lose your suit, you can appeal ; but if you have one bad doctor, and he kills you, then there be no appeal." He attracted many young men to his office for in- struction in medicine, and he took great pleasure and pains in teaching them. Among his students were Dr. Coleman and Dr. F. A. Ewing.

His wife was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and he occasionally accompanied her there. He was widely known among the medical men of this conn- try, and was highly esteemed for his honor, his skill, and his genial hospitality. He died Dec. 17, 1831, at the age of seventy years.

JAMES BEAKES COLEMAN, M.D., was a native of the vicinity of Trenton. His ancestors, the Colemans and the Beakes, were among the early settlers of Trenton and its neighborhood, where their descend- ants are still found. Dr. Coleman received his edu- cation at Trenton. He was employed for a time in a drug-store. He studied medicine with Dr. Belleville, and took a course of three years at the medical school in Yale College, and graduated in 1829. He began

Dr. Coleman was a practical chemist, with a me- chanical and inventive genins of high order. He could construct what he invented. He was original and courageous, and self-reliant in an unusual degree. He could write, draw, and paint. He fre- quently gave lectures to the public, and wrote inter- esting and original papers for magazines and news- papers of a scientific character. Beecher's Magazine, formerly published in Trenton, contained several valnable articles from his pen. We cannot here enumerate his numerous contributions to medical and surgical science and to the general field of natu- ral philosophy. He was president of the New Jersey Medical Society in 1855, and at different times presi- dent of the Mercer County Medical Society. He was : a Republican in politics; served, in the Board of Health as president; was a manager of the lunatic asylum, and was an examining surgeon for pensions. He had a large practice. His wife was a danghter of the Rev. Frederick Beasley, D.D. He died in 187 -. Dr. II. W. Coleman, his son, succeeds him in his practice.

JAMES CLARK, M.D., a son of Dr. Israel Clark, of Clarkesville, who married Mary, daughter of Dr.

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Nicholas Belleville, was a prominent physician prac- ticing in Trenton during all his professional life.

JOHN MCKELWAY, M.D., was a prominent phy- sician of Trenton, giving a long life of medical ser- vice to the city and the surrounding country. Hc was a strong adherent to the old school of medicine, a man of great firmness of purpose, and fondness for his profession. His practice was large and laborious, and he died about eight years ago.

COURSEN, M.D., was a son of Dr. Coursen, of New Hope, Pa.

JOHN L. TAYLOR, M.D., a native of Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J .; educated at Burlington ; grad- uated at the Medical University at New York City ; settled at Trenton; was first associated with Dr. James Clark. He acquired a large practice and a good reputation as a physician. He died March 2, 1879, leaving a widow and four children, one of whom is the wife of Gen. Charles Haight, of Freehold.

WILLIAM W. L. PHILLIPS, M.D .- His paternal ancestor, Theophilus Phillips, resided at Newtown, I. I., in 1676, and married Ann, daughter of Ralph Hunt, one of the patentees of that place, and one of the purchasers of Middleburg, L. I., from the Indians, in 1656. The children of Theophilus Phillips were Theophilus, William, and Philip, of whom William became a freeman of New York, and the other two sons settled in Maidenhead, N. J., now Lawrence township, Mercer Co. Here successive generations have resided until the present time, 1882. One Col. Joseph Phillips was in the British colonial service, and was seut to Fort Pitt after its cession by France to Great Britain in 1759. He was appointed major of the First Battalion in the State of New Jersey, com- manded by Col. Johnson, and upon the military or- ganization of the State he was appointed colonel of the First Regiment of Hunterdon County, which was in the service during the Revolutionary war. He died and was buried in the village of Maidenhead, leaving two sons,-Joseph and William. The foriner was an emiuent physician in the army, and died about 1845. Ephraim, grandfather of Dr. Phillips, was a young man when his father, William, died in the early part of the Revolutionary war. John, an uucle of Eph- raim, was a graduate of Princeton College prior to the war, and went to England to receive orders as an Episcopal minister, but never returned. George Pliil- lips, father of Dr. Phillips, was a well-to-do farmer in Lawrence township, systematic in his business, a man of good mind, and well read. He died in 1869 in the sixty-sixth year of his age. His wife was Abigail

. Ketcham, of Pennington, N. J., who died in 1879, aged seventy-two years. Her father, Levi Ketcham, was a member of the Hunterdon militia, and was present at the battles of Trenton and Princeton.

The religious persuasion of the Phillips family lias been Presbyterian, and its members have been closely identified with the support of that church and other kindred interests.

The children of George and Abigail Phillips are Dr. William W. L. Phillips, Ephraim, George, Eu- . gene, and Frances E.

William W. L. Phillips, born in Lawrence town- ship, Feb. 19, 1829, spent his boyhood in the routine of farm work and attending school. He was prepared for college in the select classical school of James S. Green, at Princeton, entered Princeton College so- phomore class in 1845, and was graduated from that institution with the usual honors in the class of 1848. He read medicine with Dr. John McKelway, of Tren- ton, N. J., attended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, in Philadelphia, from which he was grad- i uated in the spring of 1851. Dr. Phillips, imme- diately after his graduation, began the practice of his profession in Trenton, where he has uninterruptedly continued since, with the exception of some three years' service in the army during the late Rebel- lion.

As a physician and surgeon Dr. Phillips ranks among the first in the State, aud enjoys a large and lucrative practice and the confidence of a large circle of the most prominent families of Trenton and vicin- ity. He has been a member of the District Medical Society for the county of Mercer, in the State of New Jersey, siucc he began practice in Trenton, and has served the society as president. He has also been the representative of the society on several cecasions to the State Medical Society, which he has served as treasurer since 1874. Dr. Phillips went into the ser- vice Aug. 16, 1861, as surgeon of the First New Jersey Cavalry Volunteers, and remained with the regiment, which formed a part of the Army of the Potomac, until Sept. 20, 1864. During the last two years of this time he was surgeon-in-chief of the Second Cavalry Division of the Army of the Potomac. To write a sketch of his labors in the field would be to trace the army to which he belonged through all its hardships, marches, battles, and suffering. Upon his return he was made post-surgeon and surgeon-in-charge of the draft rendezvous at Trenton. He was appointed city physician, and served in that capacity for four years during the first years of his practice in Tren- ton, for eleven years he has officiated by appointment as physician to the New Jersey State prison, and is in 1882 consulting physician of that institution. Dr. Phillips was one of the organizers of the Trenton Board of Trade, and president of the board in 1880, president of the board of pension examiners, surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and examiner for several of the leading life insurance companies. Dr. Phillips married, December, 1851, Margaret S., daughter of Dr. John MeKelway, before mentioned, who died in April, 1857, leaving one daughter, Isa- bella, wife of Joseph Thompson, a lawyer of Atlantic City. His present wife, whom he married in June, 1865, is Meta R., daughter of Alexander B. MeAlpin, of Philadelphia, by whom he has three children,- Heleu, William, and Alexander McAlpin Phillips.

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DR. WILLIAM S. LALOR .- The original ancestor of the Lalor family in this country was Jeremiah, who emigrated from Ireland at an early day, and engaged in mercantile pursuits at New Brunswick, N. J., during the greater part of his life, where his remains are now interred. His wife was Kitty, daughter of Barnt De Klyn, of French descent, whose father was an early settler where the city of Brooklyn now stands. and after whom that place was named. Barnt De Klyn was a prominent and influential citizen, and owned, immense tracts of land in New Jersey. At his death, about 1825, he willed abont three hun- dred acres of land, lying in what is now Hamilton township, Mercer County, to his grandson, Jeremiah Lalor. This place is still occupied by the Lalor fan- ily, and is known as the Bow Hill farm. The orig- inal family residence was burned in 1811, and con- tained twenty-three rooms on the first floor. The present dwelling was finished by Barnt De Klyn in 1815. The children of Jeremiah and Kitty ( De Klyn)

Jeremiah Lalor (2d) was born Sept. 26, 1800, and died Nov. 20, 1865. During the early years of his business life he engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York City. In 1825 the Bow Hill property, near Trenton, was willed to him by his grandfather, and in 1829 he took up his residence thereon, and passed the remainder of his days in farming. He was a live, enterprising man, active in the Democratic ranks, and at the time of his demise owned about seven hundred acres of land. He married Elizabeth Tilton, daughter of John Smith, a prominent miller of Hightstown, N. J., a sister of R. Moore Smith, for seven-

A roll of the present membership (1882), furnished teen years treasurer of the State of New Jersey, and . by Dr. W. A. Clark, the secretary, is as follows :

had nine children who grew to years of maturity, .namely, Jolin Beatty, died Aug. 22, 1831; Julia R., wife of Andrew Barricklo, of Jersey City ; Mary S., wife of Dr. Symmes H. Bergen, of Toledo, Ohio; Lizzie S .; Carrie V .; De Klyn, who, as first lieutenant of Company E, Fifth New Jersey Volunteers, lost his life at the battle of Williamsburg, Va., during the late war; Kate B., wife of Henry T. Cook, of Tren- ton ; William S .; and Frank Howard Lalor, of the drug firm of Lalor & Marigold, Trenton. Mrs. Jere- iniah Lalor died May 29, 1875.

: William S. Lalor was born at the family seat in Hamilton township, on April 16. 1848. He received a thorough English education in his younger days, and was fitted for admission to the College of New Jersey, Princeton, at the Lawrenceville Classical and Com- mercial High School, and by Tutor Mudge, of Prince- ton. He entered college in 1866, and was graduated in regular course in June, 1869. Immediately after

leaving college he entered upon the study of medicine under Dr. John Woolverton, of Trenton, and in Oc- tober, 1869, matrienlated in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medicine from that institution in March, 1872. Dr. Lalor at once en- tered upon the practice of his profession in Trenton, and has attained to a prominent place among his fel- lows, and is in the enjoyment of an extended and re- minerative practice. Though young in years, he has held a number of prominent professional and civic positions. He is a member of the State Medical So- ciety, served as president of the County Medical So- ciety in 1882, and as president of the City Medical Society in 1880. He has been city physician of Tren- ton for four years, was a member of the board of school trustees three years, of the board of health seven years, and was superintendent of public instruc. tion in 1876 and 1877.

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History of Burlington and Mercer counties, New Jersey : with biographical sketches of many of their pioneers and prominent men, Part 34

Author: Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison) cn; Hageman, John Frelinghuysen Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1096

Author: Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison) cn; Hageman, John Frelinghuysen
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1096