History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 83

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 840

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Regiment, which at that time was in the vicinity of ; cool, collected, and quiet in the performance of every Newbern, N. (. To his new post he hastened, not duty ; and in the field, ready at all times to share with his comrades the toils and dangers of the con- flict. On one occasion, while accompanying Heck- man on a very hazardous expedition, their force was suddenly fallen upon by the enemy, and in the engagement Dr. Woodhull received two balls in his body, one of which disabled an arm, and the other broke one of his ribs; but notwithstanding his inju- ries, as soon as the enemy had been routed, he dressed the wounds of the injured before leaving the field to be cared for himself. reaching it, however, in time for the battle, but in season to render most efficient aid to the wounded and the suffering. Here his ability as a surgeon and an officer attracted the attention of Gen. Burnside, the commander, who at once placed him in a position of great trust and responsibility. In the fall of the same Year he was appointed surgeon-in-charge of the Hammond General Hospital, at Beaufort, where he remained until he was again called into the field by th . departure of Gen. Heckman for South Carolina.

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At the close of the war Dr. Woodhull returned to tended two full course of lectures. He began to Newark to resume hi- practice, and here he met with a hearty welcome. Professional business awaited him, and honor- were heaped upon him by his medi- cal brethren. He was made president of the District Medical Society of Essex County, also of the Newark Medical Association. The appointment of physician to St. Michael's Hospital was given to him. He was made a member of the Board of Examiners for l'en- sions, and at the time of his death held the position of medical examiner of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.

Dr. Woodhull was a man of sincere piety, and greatly beloved by the South Park Presbyterian Church, of which he was a ruling elder. In social as well as profissional life he had the confidence and esteem of every one, and for his literary attainments was highly respected. His last sickness was not re- guarded at first as serious; but, unexpectedly to his family while gathered about him, he called out, "1 am going ; good-by!" and then, embracing his wife and children, sank upon his pillow, and gently died. This event ovenrred on the Hth of May, 1876. Meet- ings of the various societies, religious and medical, of which Dr. Woodhull was a member were promptly called on the publie announcement of his death, and eulogies were pronounced, and resolutions setting forth his worth, as well as the grief occasioned by his loss, were everywhere adopted. Among the many which may be found in archives of these societies and associations is the following, which is spread upon the minutes of the District Medical Society of Essex County :

"Resolved, That the society record in profound morrow their re those of the limes sustained by themselves, by the profession, and by the community at large ; and they deplore the removal from their midst of a genial, refined and trusted friend,-from the profession, of a skillful, intelligent and suc- confut physician ; from the community at largo, of a faithful, loyal and patriotic citizen, and from the church of one who en unostentatlously and yet worthily illustrated the Christian character. They recognize in the death of their associate the mumtory exhortation to do with their might what their hands find to do."

T. WIEGAND LLOYD was born in Philadelphia in 1834. lle began the study of medicine at an ad- vanced age, and after graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, settled in Orange, Essex Co., where he began the practice of medicine in 1866, and remained there until his medical studies under the direction of Dr. Thomas death, Nov. 7, 1876. lle was regarded as a phy- sician of great merit, and was held in high esteem by his fellow-citizens.

EDWARD A. PIERSON was born in Newark, N. J., March 22, 1836, Ile was the son of Charles T. Pier- son, a well-known and worthy descendant of Res. Abraham Pierson, one of the torefathers of the town. Having completed his academic course, he entered the office of Dr. John F. Ward as a student of medi- cine. Here he applied himself with great diligence to study, and in 1855 matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, where he at-

practice medicine immediately in his native place, and was already doing very well when the war of the Rebellion broke ont. In answer to the President's first call for troops to defend the city of Washington, he offered his services and was appointed assistant surgeon in the First New Jersey Regiment of three months volunteers. His term of service having ex- pired, he determined to enter the navy, and having passed the necessary examination, was commissioned and appointed to duty on the frigate "St. Lawrence." While upon this vessel, during its fearful conflict with the "Merrimar," a shell entered his room and he barely escaped death. Afterwards, accompanying the vessel to Key West, he became one of the subjects of the yellow fever, which so reduced him that he was obliged to return home. Having regained his health, he was assigned to the " Penobscot," which was one of the blockade vesels off Wilmington. N. C. On the 22d of May, 1862, a rebel steamer was discovered in the act of running the blockade, and the " Penob- scot" was immediately put in pursuit of her. The rebelguns at Fort Fisher opened upon the "Penobsent" and a shell entered the doctor's room and exploded. A splinter of wood fractured his skull, and within two hours he was dead.

For so young a man, the record made by Dr. Pier- son was certainly one of which all those who loved him may be proud. He was studious, industrious, fond of his profession and desirous of making himself as useful as possible to his fellow-men. Had he been permitted to attain to the ordinary age of man there is every reason to believe that he would have become eminent in his profession.

FRANK WILMARTH was born in Smithfield, R. I., March 28, 1841, and received his preliminary educa- tion at Oxford, Mass. At the age of sixteen he was engaged as a teacher of mathematics at Rutgers Col- lege Grammar School, where he remained three years, discharging his duties as such and preparing himself, at the same time, for college. Determining to enter the medical profession, he matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and having attended one course of lectures, received an appoint- ment, in 1864, in the Surgeon-General's Department at Washington. While in that city he continued his Antisall, and in 1868 graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In the autumn of the following year he settled in East Orange, Essex Co., N. J., and began the practice of his profession, in which he soon became very success- ful. As a surgeon he distinguished himself for such skill, especially in operations of a difficult nature, that he received the encomiums of his medieal brethren. At the time of his death, June 7, 1881, he was in charge of the Women's Hospital, connected with St. Michael's. He was a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society, also of the Essex

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County Medical Society. In a resolrion adopted by however, of his country during the late Rebellion one of the associations to which he belonged, it is said he could not overlook, and thus, in October, 182. of him: " His early decease has arrested a career of he entered the medical department of the I'nited rare promise." States volunteer army as an acting assistant surgeon. Prior, however, to this he had, early in May, 1862. visited Fortress Monroe as a member of a commission, consisting of Dr. William O. Gorman (chief thereof,) CHAPTER XXIX. E. P. Nichols, J. A. Cross, I. II. Love, J. S. Daily, and himself, appointed by Governor Ollen to look THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF ESSEX COUNTY. ('untinued. ) after and bring back to their homes the sick and wounded New Jersey soldiers who were in the crowded hospitals of that vicinity.

IRGEONS Of' THE REBELLION STILL. LIVING ..

OF the deceased physicians and surgeons of Essex County who gave to their country the benefit of their professional services during the war of the Rebellion we have already spoken. There are still many living who, although better known for labors which they have since that time performed, should, for conve- nience sake, be placed together, and their names will therefore be given here in alphabetical order.

WILLIAM J. ANDREWS was born at Bellefontaine, Ohio, March 21, 1844, and was educated at Cincin- nati. Ile was for some time a medical cadet in a military hospital of his native State, and, in 1865, was graduated from the Medical College of Ohio. Soon after, he was appointed assistant surgeon in the Thirty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In 1860 he removed to Newark, N. J., where he is now practicing his profession.

MILTON BALDWIN was born in Newark, N. J., Oct. 22, 1821. At an early age, showing a fondness for books and study, his father, who was a highly-re- spected citizen and a man in easy circumstances, gave him a preparatory education sufficient for his entrance upon the study of any of the learned professions. Ile selected that of medicine, and after the usual course of reading upon subjects connected therewith he en- tered the Medical Department of the University of New York, and in 1843 received the degree of M.D.

Dr. Baldwin began immediately the practice of medicine in his native place, where he has remained until the present time, respected as a skillful and ste- cessful surgeon and physician, and valued as a public- spirited citizen ready to be enlisted in any worthy cause. Inheriting the political principles of his father, who was an outspoken and prominent Demo- crat, Dr. Baldwin was in early life an active, though not a noisy politician. Being an easy speaker and a man of good education, he became quite naturally a leader, and although belonging to a political party at that time usually in the minority, he was elected and re-elected to several important city and county offices, in all of which he gained the esteem and confidence of the whole community. On retiring from the pres- idency of the t'ommon Council in 1858, he declared his determination to accept no more political offices, and to devote himself to the practice of medicine, and this determination he has carried ont. The necessities,

Immediately after the establishment of the Ward United States General Hospital at Newark, N. J., Dr. Baldwin was assigned to duty therein, and remained in this service until June, 1865. To attend to his private practice and at the same time be faithful in his attendance at the hospital was by no means an easy task; but, fortunately, the doctor possessed a rugged constitution and a cheerful disposition. The trial, which he had to endure at the sick-bed of one patient never showed themselves upon his counte- nance at the siek-bed of another. He is a man who Hever exhibits the smallest impatience, however great the provocation. Wherever he goes it is sunlight, and wherever he goes he is always welcome. His medi- cal brethren have honored him with the presidency of the Essex District Medical Society, and he is re- garded as a surgeon and physician of large experience and eminent skill.

GEORGE BAYLES was born in the city of New York, Aug. 7, 1836. Here he received his preliminary edu- cation, and in the spring of 1859 was graduated from the Medical Department of Columbia College. At the commencement of the Rebellion he offered his services, and until the close of the war was a surgeon, with the rank of major, in a regiment of New York Volunteers, Ou retiring to his home, in New York, Dr. Bayles resumed his private practice, and in connection therewith served for several years as local sanitary inspector in the late Metropolitan Board of Health. In 1867 he became a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. In ISso he removed to Orange, Essex to., N. J., where he has since been successfully engaged as a medical practitioner.

JORN II. BRIENTYALL. was born in New York City, April 14. 1831. fle is the son of the late Rev. Thomas Brientuall, and at an early age removed with his parents to Newark, N. J. Having received a good preliminary education at Burlington, N. J., he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. and was thence graduated in 1853. Possessed of abundant pecuniary means, Dr. Brientuall, though well qualified for his profession, made no effort to establish himself in practice. Not long, however after the breaking out of the Rebellion he offered his services to the government, and was appointed an assistant surgeon in the navy, and assigned to the United States steamer " Crusader," belonging to the

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South Atlantic blockading squadron. He was here the solicitation of Dr. Dougherty, then a neutenant- engaged in very trying and perilous service, and after colonel, he entered the army (supposing the war to be near its close) as a contract, or acting assistant sur- geon, and with scarcely a day's reflection upon the subject. His first assignment to duty was with the bravely performing his duty, was honorably discharged in December, 1864, receiving, with his fellow -officers, commendation for gallant behavior.

JOHN DUANE BRIMLEY was born at Montville, Seventh Michigan Volunteers, attached to the brigade C'onn., on the 3d of May, 1834. He received a good common-school education in his native place under the direction of his father, a substantial farmer, und a man of more than ordinary intelligence. Ex- pressing a strong desire to study medicine, he was sent to Norwich, in his native State, where he entered.

of which Col. Dougherty was chief surgeon. before the beginning of the memorable " Seven Days' Fight," Dr. Brumley's term of service had expired, but, at the request of his officers, he remained in order to give his assistance in caring for the wounded. I'mfortunately, he was captured and sent to Libby

as a student, the office of Dr. John P. Fuller, a dis- tinguished physician of that plaire. In 1858 he was graduated from the Medical College of New York, and soon thereafter entered upon the practice of his profession in Newark, N. J., where he is at present residing.

In 1861, when Dr. Alexander N. Dougherty was appointed a surgeon in the Union army, an arrange- ment was made between him and Dr. Brumley where- by the latter took possession of his office, as well as the charge of their combined practice. In this he was diligently ocenpied until May 23, 1863, when, at

Prison, in Richmond, where he was held in contine- ment for one month. On being liberated, by an ex- change at Harrison's Landing, he once more entered the service under contract ; but, determining now to serve, if possible, to the end of the war, he went before the Board of Examiners, at Washington, and was accepted as assistant surgeon of volunteers. This ap- pointment was confirmed by the United States Senate, and on the same day upon which he received his commission he was promoted to a full surgeonship, and ordered to Memphis, Tenn., and to the charge of the Division General Hospital. In January, 1864, he

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received instructions to close this hospital, and to re- pair to Louisville, Ky., as general superintendent of all the hospitals in that vicinity. In this position he re- mained two months, when he was appointed chief sur- geon of the First Division of the Fourth Army Corps, Department of the t'umberland, with which corps he remained, filling the positions also of medical inspec- tor and acting medical director until the autumn of 1865. Not long after the capture of Richmond he. together with his corps, was ordered to Texas, and there the corps was disbanded. In Texas, however, Dr. Brumley remained as chief surgeon of the Central District of the department of that State, and held this position until mustered out, March 15, 1866.

Dr. Brumley's service during the war was long and trying. He was actively engaged in the discharge of his multifarious duties in all the rebel States, with the exception of two, and in nearly all the Northern States cast of the Mississippi. Honorably discharged, with the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, he returned to his family and to the resumption of his practice in Newark, N. J.

His career at home has been fully as honorable as that abroad. In the State Medical Society he has represented the Essex District Medical Society, of which he has always been a prominent member. He has also been a representative in the American Medical Association. Of St. Barnabas Hospital he was surgeon from its organization till a few years since, when he withdrew. In 1860 and 1861 he was a member of the Board of Education of the city of Newark. In 1881 he was health physician. At present he is United States examining surgeon for pensions, and since November, 1882, has been com- mandant and surgeon of the New Jersey Home for Disabled Soldiers, at Newark.

AMos H. BRUNDAGE was born in Benton township, Lackawanna Co., Pa., Oet., 6, 1828, and was educated at Madison Academy, in that county, and at Mont- clair High School, and Central College, New York. Ilis medical studies were pursued at the University of Michigan and at the New York University, from which latter school he was graduated in 1855. He is also a graduate of the New York Ophthalmic Hos- pital. His first settlement as a physician was at Bethany, Pa., whence he removed, in 1860, to Condor, Tioga Co., N. Y., where he became a member of the County Medieal Society. In 1864 he enlisted in the One Hundred and Seventy-Ninth Regiment New York State Volunteers (Infantry). After serv- ing two months as a common soldier, he applied for a position as assistant surgeon, and passing the required examination, was commissioned as such, and assigned to the Sixth Regiment Veteran Cav- alry, New York State Volunteers, lle was mus- tered in at Winchester, Va., and immediately joined the regiment, then in the field. In this service he continued until June 21, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. After leaving the army he

returned to his home, and thence to Cohoes City, N. Y., whence, in 1872, he removed to Newark, N. J. Here he established himself quite successfully in the practice of his profession. In 1877 he was ap- pointed visiting physician to the Out- Door Department of the City Dispensary, in which position he remained until 1881, when he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y.

NEFFRINE DAILY, M.D .- Henry Daily, the father of Dr. Daily, resided in Wyoming County, N. Y., where he was one of the early settlers and a success- ful farmer. He married Margaret, daughter of John Mastin, of Ulster County, N. Y., and had by this marriage children-John M., Eliza, (Mrs. Gilbert Cooley), Harriet (Mrs. William Gilbert), Amelia (Mrs. John M. Littell), Soffrine, Jennette (deceased), George and Henry, Jr. The death of Mrs. Daily occurred in 1857, and that of Mr. Daily in 1876. Seffrine was born in Wyoming County, N. Y., on the 17th ot January, 1830, and received his education at the Middlebury Academy, in Wyoming, N. Y. He chose as his life-work the profession of medicine, and in 1849 entered the otlice of Dr. Fuller of Wyoming. lle subsequently continued his studies under Dr. Tuthill, meanwhile attending lectures at the Medical Department of the University of New York, from which he graduated in 1853. Dr. Daily at once chose Franklin, Essex Co., as a favorable location for the practice of medicine, and by hisskilled and thorough professional attainments speedily commanded an ex- tended field of labor, which has steadily increased. He has also established a drug business at this point, to which he devotes a limited portion of his time.1 Dr. Daily has, as a Republican, given some attention to local political issues, and served for ten years free- holder of the township of Franklin, which office he still fills. He is an active member of the order of Free and Accepted Masons, and associated with St John's Lodge, No. 1. of Newark.

BETHUEL LEWIS DODD was born in Orange, Essex Co., N. J., Jan. 16, 1826. Receiving a thorough pre- paratory education in his native place, he entered the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and was thence graduated in 1849. He commenced at once the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. Abra- ham Coles, of Newark, N. J., and in 1852, having received his degree of M.D., from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, entered into partnership with his late instructor, Dr. Coles. For twenty-five years they continued to practice together, verupying the same office during all that time. With a very large practice, Dr. Dodd still found time for the public service, and for ten years discharged the duties of county physician. He has been also, at. different times, police surgeon, district physician, and surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. -

1 The doctor entered the service during the late war as aristant sur - goon of the Twenty-fifth Regiment Now Jerry Volunteers, and was actively employed from October, 1862, until June, 1x63. He also served na urting useistant surgeon until the close of the conflict in 1865.

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During the war of the Rebellion he was examining surgeon of the Thirteenth and Twenty-Sixth Regi- ments of New Jersey Volunteers, and was also, for some time a Volunteer Surgeon at the Ward Hospital, in Newark, before it became a government institu- tion. Since 1875, Dr. Dodd has withdrawn from the more laborious duties of his profession, and spends his time in the midst of his numerous family at his fine residence in Orange. He has been twice married. and of the five children by his first wife and the six by his present wife, nine are still living.

FRANCIS A. GILN was born in Franklin, Merri- mack Co., N. H., July 19, 1845. At about the age of seventeen years he entered the United States service, and during 1862 was under Gen. Banks, in the Department of the Gulf. In 1863 he was transferred to the navy, and served at Port Hudson, and the Red River expedition in Louisiana. He re- ceived his education at the New Hampshire Confer- ence S. and F. C'ollege, Tilton, N.H. In 1875 he was graduated from the New York Homeopathic College, and began practice in the city of New York. h 1878 he removed to Orange, N. J., where he still resides.

GABRIEL GRANT was born in Newark, N. J., Sept. 4, 1826. His father was Mr. Charles Grant, a prom- inent and worthy citizen of that place, who, after giving him a thorough preliminary education, sent him to Williams College, Massachusetts, whence he was graduated in 1846. Ile entered subsequently, as a student, the office of the late Dr. Alexander N. Dougherty, of Newark, N. J. In 1851 he received his degree of M.D., from the College of Physicians , among a few of his old patients and personal friend -. and Surgeons of New York, and immediately after- ward commenced the practice of medicine in his native city. During the ten years which followed his entry upon the profession he devoted himself strictly to business, and achieved a very enviable reputation. In 1854, when the Asiatic cholera created so much alarm in the city of Newark, the Common Council, in the absence of a Board of Health, appointed a llealth Commission, consisting of the mayor and two aldermen with Dr. Grant as health physician. The disease was productive of great mortality, and it is due to Dr. Grant to say that his labors during the continuation of that fearful epidemic were not only unremitted but were attended with very satisfactory results.

When the first call for troops in defense of the Union was made by President Lincoln on the breaking out of the Rebellion, Dr. Grant was among the first to respond, entering the United States service June 13, 1861, as surgeon of the Second Regiment, Second Brigade New Jersey Volunteers, under the command of Gen. Kearney, and serving with the regiment at the first battle of Bull Run. Soon after this he was examined at Washington by the United States Army Medical Board, and promoted to brigade surgeon of volunteers, and subsequently designated by Congress as surgeon of United States volunteers. On the 12th 21

of Dcecmber, 1561, he was assigned to French's brigade as brigade surgem, and soon thereafter as division surgeon-in-chief, in which capacity he par- ticipated in the battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines Mills, Peach Orchard Station, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, second battle of Bull Run, Antietam and Fred- ericksburg. The wounded at Williamsburg and at South Mountain received his personal attention. He was with Gen. Stoneman in his grand reconnois- Hatice of March 14, 1862, and organized the brigade hospital at Camp California, as well as the division hospital at Harper's Ferry. At Fair Oaks, also at Antietam and at Fredericksburg, he was reported in general orders for personal gallantry. On the 19th of February, 1863, he was appointed medical director of hospitals at Evansville, Ind., and while thus employed was sent by Gen. Burnside to Vicksburg, in charge of the steamer "Atlantic," to transport to his own hos- pitals the wounded belonging to the State of Indiana. He was present at the bombardment of Vicksburg, and, as directed, returned with the wounded to In- diana, there to resume his duties. On the 4th of September, 1863, he was placed in command of the Madison United States Army Government Hospital, at Madison, Ind., a very extensive establishment capable of accommodating three thousand patients. After serving a year and a half in this institution he resigned, and was relieved from duty Feb. 4, 1865. Dr. Grant now returned to Newark, where he con- tinued to reside for several years, but his health hav. ing been somewhat impaired by his prolonged and arduous labors, he did not resume his practice. except In 1870 he removed to the city of New York, where he has since resided, claiming, however, Newark as his home. Since 1581 he has spent much of his time with his family in Europe, principally in Germany, having there found a elimate in which he can live comparatively free from the ailments caused by his long and trying service in the army.

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 83

Author: Shaw, William H Publication date: 1884 Publisher: [United States :] Number of Pages: 840

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 840