History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 84

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

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EDGAR HOLDEN was born at Hingham, Mass., Nov. 3, 1838. He was graduated from the College of New .Jersey, at Princeton, in 1859, and soon after entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he received his diploma of M.D. in 1861. Fresh from his studies, he entered the regular service of the United States at the breaking out of the war, and after a short period of hospital practice was assigned to the frigate "Minnesota " as assistant surgeon. On this vessel he passed through all those terrible scenes in Hampton Roads, where the Confederate ironclad " Merrimae" dashed so madly upon the national fleet, consisting of so many of the best ships then composing our navy. There the doctor saw them one after another sunk or disabled, the " Minnesota " and himself being saved by the Ericsson "Monitor," which came to their rescue. After the " Merrimac " had skulked off, and the conflict was over, the fleet surgeon was called from his post on important business, and Dr. Holden was left in

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charge of the wounded belonging to the "Congress," the "Cumberland " and the " Minnesota." On this occasion he gave such evidence of his capabilities as to insure his promotion. At the bombardment of Sewell's Point he rendered efficient service, and soon after was made surgeon-in-charge of the squadron hospital at Norfolk. Subsequently he performed duty on the steamer " Wyandotte," then as surgeon on the ironclad " Passaic." After this he was called to hospital duty, and then, at his own request, was ordered to the steamer "Sassarus." Cruising in the Atlantic for blockade-runners was succeeded by ser- vice in the sounds of North Carolina, and finally in the summer of 1864 he was placed in charge of the medical department of the James River squadron. Regard for his own health compelled him, however, on the approach of winter during that year, to seek repose, and he determined to resign. His discharge, after some delay, was granted, and for the remaining months of the war he accepted a position on the staff of the Ward United States Army Hospital, in Newark, N. J.

The war having been brought to a close, Dr. Hol- den established himself in this city, where he soon obtained a large practice. In 1870 he visited Europe for the purpose of seeing its hospitals and institutions of learning. His devotion to his profession is great, and study and literary work in connection with it absorb all his leisure moments. He has contributed very largely to the medical literature of the day. The American Journal of Medical Science and The New York Medical Record have been enriched -by articles from his pen, and he has likewise written numerous articles for The New York MMedical Journal and other scientific publications. As a contributor to Harper's Magazine and kindred periodicals he has made himself very popular. Dr. Ilolden has held many prominent positions in the various medical societies and other institutions with which he has been connected, and is universally regarded as learned and skillful in his profession.

CHARLES F. J. LEHLBACH was born in Baden, Germany, March 16, 1835, and is a son of the late Rev. Frederick Angustus Lehlbach, who, in his native country, was distinguished for his learning and his patriotism, and who, in Newark, N. J., was not only the beloved pastor of the Mulberry Street German Church, but was also one of the founders of the Ger- man-English School, the German Hospital and other charitable institutions. Young Lehlbach was about fourteen years of age when he came with his parents to the United States and settled in Newark. Ile had already made considerable advances in his studies, and, under his father's immediate supervision, after- ward- received a thorough classical education. Hav- ing resolved to enter the medieal profession, he became a student in the office of the late Dr. John F. Ward, and in 1856 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. From that

time until 1859 he practiced medicine in that city and in Newark, and then became the assistant editor of the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia. On the breaking out of the civil war he enlisted, as early as April 20, 1861, in the Washington, D. C. volunteers, and on the expiration of his term of ser- vice re-enlisted, July, 1861, in Battery C, First Penn- sylvania Artillery. From that time he did patriotic service in the field until June, 1863, when he was commissioned by Governor Olden assistant surgeon of the Seventh Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. This position he held until December, 1864, when he was promoted as surgeon of the same regiment, and in this capacity served to the end of the war, when, being honorably discharged, he returned to Newark, his former home. Here Dr. Lehlbach resumed his private practice, and here he is still engaged in the work of his profession. In 1867 he was elected county physician of Essex County, an office which he held for two years. He has been for a long period a member of the County Medical Society, and has represented that body in the State Medical Society. Dr. Lehlbach is an accomplished writer in both the English and German languages, and has made many valuable contributions to medical literature.

CHARLES JOHN KIPP was born in Hanover, Ger- many, Oct. 22, 1838. His preparatory education was obtained in his native place. In New York City he studied medicine, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1861. In that city he settled for a short time, and then, in 1869, re- moved to Newark, N. J., where he has since resided. Soon after graduating Dr. Kipp volunteered his ser- vices in defense of the Union, and in 1861 was appointed surgeon to the Fifth New York State Na- tional Guards; in 1862 assistant surgeon Third Battal- ion, New York Artillery ; May, 1863, assistant surgeon United States volunteers ; March, 1864, surgeon l'nited States volunteers; in March, 1865, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services during the war. He served in the field until 1863, and performed hospital duty after that at Nashville, Tenn., at Indianapolis, Ind., and was chief of the United States Board of Inspectors of Recruits, etc., at general rendezvous of the State of Indiana. He also held the position of medical director of the Freedman's Bureau of that State from August, 1865, to February, 1868.

Dr. Kipp is a member of the Ophthalmological Con- gress, corresponding secretary of. the International Otulogical Society, a member of the American Oph- thalmological, American Otological, New York Oph- thalmological and New York Pathological Societies. In 1875 he was elected president of the German Hospital Medical Association, and in 1876 was a delegate to the International Medical Congress held in Philadelphia. He was elected president of the Essex County Me lical Society in 1880, vice-, resident of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1883, and is

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a member of the Council of Alumni Associations of Columbia C'ollege. In addition to his private prae- tice, which is very large, he is now giving much time as surgeon to the Newark Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, and as ophthalmic surgeon to the German Hospital and Foster Home, in the city of Newark. Besides the contributions which he is now frequently making to medical literature as one of the editors of the Archives of Otology (the only journal for ear dis-

voyage to America to assume the government of the New Netherlands, to which he had been appointed. He arrived in New York May 27, 1647, and there purchased a farm which extended over grounds now known as Abington Square, as well as lands through which now run Canal and Hudson Streets. His residence was on the corner of l'anal and Hudson Streets, and his family burial-plot was in what is now known as Abington Square. The grandfather of the

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eases in America), he has written many valuable papers which may be found in the " Medical and Sur- gical History of the Rebellion," the " Transactions of the Medical Society of New Jersey," and the Pro- ceedings of other medical and scientific bodies of which he is a member.

FREDERICK B. MANDEVILLE was born in New- ark, N. J., Aug. 17, 1840. Jlis earliest American an- cestor was Yellis (Giles) Mandeville, a Hollander by birth, who accompanied Peter Stuyvesant on his

subject of this sketch was a prominent man of Orange, N. J., and the founder of the Orange Library. His father was James Mandeville, of the same place. Young Frederick B. was early placed at school, his preceptors being, at different times, Mr. Hedges, Rev. William Bradley and the distinguished classical teacher, Rev. Dr. Weeks. His preliminary training under them, and finally in the Newark Academy, was sufficient to gain for him admission to Rutgers Col- lege, which, however, he left at the close of his sopho-

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more year, having made all the progress in study that was deemed essential for a business life. He was now placed as a clerk in the mercantile establish- ment of S. R. W. Heath & Co., where he was in time advanced to the position of book-keeper. Having determined, however, to enter the medical profession, he began to occupy his leisure hours in the study of works on medicine and anatomy, and at the age of nineteen became a student in the New York Homeopathic Medical College. From this in- stitution he graduated in 1861, but in order to be familiar with the practice of both schools of medicine, he entered, soon atter, the New York Medical Col- lege, and thenee received his degree of M.D. in 1863. Prior to this, however, he had been appointed a United States medical cadet, and detailed as such for duty at the Ward United States Hospital, in Newark. After graduating he was promoted to acting assistant surgeon in the same hospital, and on retiring from the service became associated in the practice of medicine with Dr. Charles R. Fish, a homeopathic physician in Newark, N. J. At the expiration of a year Dr. Fish removed from Newark, and Dr. Man- | brethren and the public.

deville succeeded to his practice, which soon became very extensive.

The fact that Dr. Mandeville is a graduate of both of the principal schools of medicine has not proved unfavorable to him among laymen, who are generally indifferent as to how much a man knows beyond what he is expected to know. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Board of Education of the city of Newark, and continued to be a member thereof until 1881, when, removing from the ward which he repre- sented in that body, his connection therewith necessari- ly ceased. In 1882 he became a member of the Board of Health. and succeeded Dr. J. D. Brumley as health physician, an office which he held for more than two years. In 1869 Dr. Mandeville was appointed to the chair of Diseases of Children and Hygiene in the New York Homoeopathic Medical College, which, however, he was obliged to decline on account of his private business. Ile is an honorary member of the New York State Homeopathic Society and of the New York County Society. Of the New Jersey State Homeopathic Society he was one of the founders, and has been twice the president of that body. He is also a member of the New Jersey Club, composed of physicians residing in Union, Hudson, Essex and l'assaie Counties, and to the literature of his school of medicine has been a regular and valuable contributor.

JOHN J. II. LOVE was born in Harmony township, Warren Co., N. J., April 3, 1833. He was educated at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, and after gradu- ating from that institution entered the Medical De- partment of the I'niversity of New York, where he obtained his medical degree. He soon after removed to Montreal, in which city he practiced his profession for a period of seven years, and then removed to Montclair, Essex Co., N. J. On the breaking out of

the war of the Rebellion he offered his services to his - country, and was commissioned July 19, 1862, as sur- geon of the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volum- teers. Having been subsequently mustered into the United States service, he was assigned, March 23, 1863, to duty as surgeon-in-chief of the Third Brigade, First Division, Twelfth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, In this position he remained until Aug. 1, 1863, when The was appointed surgeon-in-chief First Division, Twelfth Army Corps, which important post he held until Jan. 28, 1864, when he resigned his commission, and was honorably discharged from service. He was always engaged in field duty, and was present at the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. He also assisted in caring for the wounded after the battles of Lookout Mountain aud Mission Ridge. In a number of ably-written articles, which have been published from time to time, Dr. Love has given to the profession the benefit of his experience as a pri- vate practitioner, as well as a surgeon on the battle- field. At the close of the war he resumed his practice in Montclair, where he enjoys the esteem of his medical

ANDREW M. MILLS was born at Morristown, N. J., April 20, 1834. After receiving a good preparatory education, partly at the Newark Academy and partly at the Bloomfield Institute, he entered the Medical Department of the University of Vermont, and was graduated therefrom in 1859. Returning to his native State, he settled in Newark, and immediately com- menced the practice of medicine. In 1860 he was appointed one of the city district physicians, also the attending physician at the City Dispensary. In 1862 he entered the United States military service, and re- mained therein until the close of the war. During that period, he was twice assigned by the War De- partment as surgeon-in-charge of the Ward United States Army General Hospital, at Newark, and served as executive officer of that hospital, with Lieut .- t'ol. I. T. Calhoun as chief, until its discontinuance. When the New Jersey Soldiers' Home was established in Newark, Dr. Mills was appointed its attending physician, and held that position until the office was abolished. As a physician and surgeon he is highly esteemed by his medical brethren and the public. lle has held the office of president of the Newark Medical Association, of which he became a member in 1862. He is also a member of the County Medical Society, of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine, and one of the board of directors of the Newark t'ity Hospital, as well as a member of its medical staff.

EDWARD PAYSON NICHOLS was born at Newark, N. J., Nov. 23. 1827. Here he received his prelim- inary education, and in 1848 was graduated from the College of New Jersey. In 1852 he obtained his degree of M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and began at once the practice of medicine in Newark. On the opening of the publie dispensary in that city, Dr. Nichols was invited to

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take charge of the drug department, and in that position, as well as in the capacity of house physician, he served for five years. In 1862 he was appointed by Governor Oldden as one of the commission, under Dr. William O'Gorman, to visit Fortress Monroe for the purpose of administering to, and returning to their homes, the sick and wounded New Jersey sol- diers in that vicinity. Dr. Nichols continued to practice in Newark until 1882, when he removed to Killingworth, Conn., where he at present resides.

WILLIAM O'GORMAN was born in Dublin, 1re- land, July 12, 1824, and was educated at Carlow, a

nies of the Fourth Artillery from the fort, he left Oswego, and established himself in Newark, N. J., where he soon met with great success in the practice of his profession.

At the breaking out of the civil war Dr. O'Gorman volunteered his services in behalf of the Union, and was appointed by Governor Olden chief of the commission sent to Fortress Monroe for the purpose of caring for the wounded New Jersey soldiers in that vicinity, and returning them to their homes. His duties upon this occasion, as well as those of the able corps of physicians and surgeons under his direction,

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town about forty miles from his native place, contain- ing a well-known Catholic college, now affiliated to the London University. At the age of nineteen he commenced the study of medicine under Dr. O'Kelly at Maynooth, and in 1844 went to Dublin, where he spent five years as a student, house surgeon and physi- | his second term. In 1871 he was elected president of the Essex District Medical Society, and on several occasions represented that body in the State Medical Society, of which, in 1874, he was vice-president, and in 1875 president.

cian in the Whitworth, Hardwick, Richmond, and other well-known hospitals of that city. In 1849 he reinoved to the United States, and, settling in Oswego, N. Y., was appointed surgeon to Fort Ontario in 1851. This position he continued to fill until March, 1857, when, in consequence of the removal of some compa-

were performed to the entire satisfaction of all con- cerned. For two successive terms he was elected county physician for Essex County, but finding that the duties of this office interfered too much with his private practice, he resigned it at the expiration of

St. Michael's Hospital, incorporated in 1871, in ad- dition to the fostering care of its board of directors,

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as well as of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis, has received from Dr. O'Gorman not only the benefit of bis large experience as a physician and surgeon, but the advantage of his counsel and direction. Of this insti- tution he has held for many years, and still holds, the important office of medical director. Its medical department was organized by him, and through his efforts the Woman's Hospital was added to this in- valuable charity. This institution is the first of its kind in New Jersey, and has now been in successful opera- tion for nearly four years.

Dr. O'Gorman has always adhered strictly to the practice of his profession, accepting such public offices only as were legitimately connected with it. Soon after his arrival in Newark he was appointed physi- cian to Seton Hall College, a position which he still hokls. In November, 1857, he was married to Susan, eldest daughter of the late Mr. George Dougherty, a highly-respected manufacturer of the city just named. His two sons by this marriage have chosen the pro- fexsion in which their father has become so distin- guished.

JOSEPH D. OSBORNE was born at Succasunna, N. J., Sept. 6, 1833, and is the son of the late Rev. Enos .A. Osborne. After receiving a good preliminary educa- tion he entered the College of Physicians and Sur- until the regiment was mustered out of service. In geons in New York, whence he graduated in 1859, 1866 he established himself in Newark, where he is at present practicing with great success. Dr. Rand is one of the trustees of the Home of the Friendless, president of the medical board of the Women's and Children's Hospital, and for several years has been a useful member of the Board of Education of the city of Newark. and immediately commenced practice in Newark, N. J. On the 17th of August, 1861, he was appointed assistant surgeon United States volunteers, and went out with the Fourth New Jersey Regiment. In Octo- ber of the same year he received the appointment of surgeon of the Second Regiment of New Jersey Vol- unteers, but was soon after transferred to the Fourth Regiment, where he remained till it was mnstered ont, Nov. 19. 1864. Dr. Osborne was chief of brigade, by virtue of the date of his commission. In 1863 he was assistant operator of division, and in 1864 was operating surgeon of division. From July to Octo- ber, 1863, he was executive officer of hospital, and in charge of the wounded at Gettysburg, and from Jan- uary to July, 1864, was on duty in the Ward United State- Hospital, in Newark, N. JJ. On retiring from military service he resumed his private practice, and is still a resident of Newark, where he has held several publie offices more or less connected with the duties of his profession.

WILLIAM NICK PINDELL was born in Anne Aruu- del County, Md., Dee. 25, 1528. He was educated at Georgetown, D. C., and at St. John's College, Annap- olis, and received his degree of M.D. from the Uni- versity of Maryland in 1848. During the war he entered the United States service as an assistant surgeon, and performed duty as such on various hospital-ships at different naval stations. At the «lose of the war he resigned, and resumed his private practice in his native State, but his health being somewhat impaired by hard service, he determined to move northward, and accordingly esta lished himself

in Newark, N. J., where he has been snecessfully prac- tieing his profession since 1871. He is a member of the Essex District Medical Society, and has contrib- uted to medical literature a number of articles which have been published in the journals of the profes- sion.

JOHN MILTON RAND was born at Lyndsboro', N. If., Dec. 1, 1834. Ife obtained his education at Dartmouth College and graduated from the Medical Department of that institution in 1858. Soon after receiving his degree of M.D. he spent three years in traveling through South America, Mexico and Europe, and returning to his native land about the time when the war of the Rebellion began, he offered his services to his country and was attached to the Twenty-ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers. In this capacity he entered upon duty, but ere long was made execu- tive medical officer Tenth Corps field hospital, which position he held for several months, when he was transferred to the Twenty-fifth Corps, and recom- mended to the President for promotion to the rank of major. After the fall of Richmond he was placed in charge of the military hospital in that eity, and sub- sequently was ordered to accompany Gen. Weitzel to Texas as executive medical officer. Here he remained

MORTON ROBINSON was born at North Kingston, R. I., March 10, 1825, and is a lineal descendant of Rowland Robinson, who settled in Narragansett, R. I., in 1675, and who was the earliest American ancestor of Governor William Robinson, of that State. After passing some time in the common schools of his neighborhood, young Morton entered the academy at Wakefield, R. I., where he spent four years in study. In 1854 he was graduated from the Metropolitan Med- ical College, and soon after established himself in Newark, N. J., where he has since continued to practice. In 1864, Dr. Robinson was appointed med- ical examiner of recruits, and served in that capacity some time in Trenton, N. J. In the month of May of the same year he was appointed first assistant surgeon of the Thirty-seventh Regiment New Jersey Vol- nnteers, composed of men who had enlisted for one hundred days. On the 28th of June following, this regiment, under Col. E. Burd Grubb, left Trenton, and was ordered by Gen. Grant to report to Gen. Butler at Bermuda Hundred. Subsequently it marched to the extreme front at Petersburg, where it remained on duty until the 26th of September following, when its term of enlistment expired. Although the regiment was never in battle, several were killed and many wero wounded in the trenches and rifle-pits. This, together

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with the typhoid fever, which carried off thirteen of in the Medical Department, whence, in 1847, he was the men, added much to the doctor's experience.

DANIEL M. SKINNER was born in Orange, N. J. May 1, 1535. His preliminary studies in medicine were pursned in the office of Dr. William Pierson, Ir .. of that place, and he was graduated from the Medical Department of the l'university of the City of New York in 1859. Ilis first settlement as a practitioner wa- in Caldwell, Essex Co .. N. J., where he remained until September, 1861, when he was appointed an assistant surgeon in the I'nited States navy. After serving at various times on the receiving ship "North t'arolina," the "Sabine," and the sloop-of-war "Vincennes," he was ordered to do duty with the army besieging Port Hudson, and was placed in charge of the general hos- pital at that point after the surrender. In August, 1863, he was ordered to the United States steamer "('alhoun," which was Admiral Farragut's Hag-ship during the attack upon Fort Powell, at the entrance from Mississippi Sound into Mobile Bay. This vessel having been ordered, in April, 1864, to New Orleans for repairs, Dr. Skinner was granted a leave of absence. and returned home. After a furlough of two months he was ordered to the Naval Academy at Newport, R. I., where he remained until May, 1865, when he resigned. Since that time he has practiced medicine in Belle- ville, Essex t'o., N. J., where he is highly esteemed as a physician and surgeon.

DAVID S. SMITH WAS born in New York City. Oct. 6, 1831, and received his education at Alanthus Hall, Parsippany, N. J., and at Mount Retirement Seminary, Sussex Co., S. J. After a suitable prepa- ration he entered the Medical Department of the University of New York, and was thenee graduated in June, 1855. He established himself immediately in Irvington, Essex Co., N. J., in which place he has continued to practice until the present time. For many years past Dr. Smith has been prominently iden- tified with public affairs in this county. Two years after his settlement at Irvington he was elected school superintendent of Clinton township, and until 1864 Jabored zealously in the interests of education throughout that township. In 1872 he was elected a member of the Board of Frecholders of Essex, and served as a member of that body, with the exception of one year, until 1883. While in this position he took a lively interest in establishing the Essex County Insane Asylum, and was mainly instrumental in the founding and equipping of that institution. During the war of the Rebellion, in 1863, he received the appointment of assistant surgeon, and was attached to the provost-marshal's office in Morristown, S.J. He is still actively engaged in the practice of his profes- sion at Irvington.

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 84

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