History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 86

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

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member of the American Medical Association, of the National Sanitary Association, of the New Jersey San- itary Association, an honorary member of the New York State Medical Society, etc. In 1879 he published his "History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men from the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800," and in 1884 a work entitled, “Sepul- ture : Its History, Methods and Sanitary Requisites." Besides these important works, he has made many valnable contributions to medical literature, and during the last twenty-five years has been gathering materials for a history of the Newark Mountains. Dr. Wickes is not only a scholar and a skillful physician, but he will always be regarded as a benefactor to his profession, especially in New Jersey.

ABRAHAM COLES, youngest son of Denis Coles and of Catherine ( Van Deurson) Coles, was born in Scotch Plains, Dec. 26, 1813. llis father, a printer and publisher, was not only a man of fine literary taste and general culture, but of such rare integrity and ex- cellent judgment that his aid and counsel in matters of business were constantly besonght by his neighbors, who also made him their magistrate as well as Repre- sentative in the State Legislature. In his devotion to mathematical studies he found a close observer and imitator in his son Abraham, who at an early age so completely mastered the arithmetic that a business life was at once marked out for him, and a clerkship in a dry-goods store became the starting- point. Two years' service, however, behind the coun- ters was enough to satisfy the future doctor and poet that his boyhood's exploits in arithmetic were only STEWART CRAIG MARSH, son of the late John Ter- rill Marsh, was born in Rahway, N. J., Feb. 8, 1855. His earliest American ancestor on his father's side was John Marsh, who was among the foremost Eng- lish settlers of Connecticut, and on his mother's side, the manifestations of his ardent love of learning ; so, his father took him home, and allowed him to follow his own inclinations. With such diligence did he ap- ply himself to study that before the age of seventeen he was a teacher of Latin and mathematics in a pri- ! Lion Gardiner, an engineer, who was employed by vate school in Plainfield, N. J. In time the study of a profession engaged his attention, and it appears that, without much consideration, he entered, as a student, the law office of Mr. Joseph C. Hornblower, afterwards chief justice, where he remained only six months, when he discovered that his taste for scientific studies could be more thoroughly gratified in the medical profession, aud thus he finally became a doctor, grad- uating from Jefferson College in 1835.

In the following year Dr. Coles settled in Newark, N. J., and devoting all his time and energies to his profe-sion, soon established not only a very extensive and lucrative practice, but the well-deserved reputa- tion of a skillful and successful physician and surgeon. In 1842 he married Caroline E., daughter of lonathan C. Ackerman, of New Brunswick, who died in 1847. leaving one son and one daughter. The year follow- ing he visited Europe, and being in Paris during the bloody revolution of June, 1848, improved the fre- quent opportunities which he had, in hospitals and elsewhere, to add to his store of experience as a sur- geon. Returning to his home, he resumed and con-

tinued to conduct his practice until 1854, when he paid a second visit to Europe, remaining there seven- teen months. On his return he associated with him- self in business Dr. Bethuel L. Dodd, a former pupil. Although still actively engaged in his profession, Dr. Coles found time for literary work, and of the " Dies Iræ" which he had translated and printed in 1847, he now made twelve other English versions, publish- ing them in 1859, under the title of " Dies Iræ, in Thirteen Original Versions." In 1866 he published "The Microcosm," a physiological poem, which had been read by him before the New Jersey Medical Society, of which he was that year the president. In 1847 he published the first part of "The Evangel ; or, Life of our Lord in verse, with Scripture Texts and Notes; " and, in 1881, a volume, under the name of " The Microcosm and other Poems," which includes one entitled “ Cosmos," also translations of Latin hymns, lyrics, and a number of miscellaneous pieces. The second part of "The Evangel," with the sub-title, " The Light of the World," is now ready for the press, and will soon appear. Dr. Coles is also the author of various reviews and papers, literary, medical and scientific. As an educated man, he has felt an interest in the public schools of Newark, and was for several years a member of the Board of Education, as well as a trustee of the Newark Academy and a director of the Newark Library Association. In 1860 the Uni- versity of Lewisburg conferred upon him the degrce Ph.D., and in 1871 the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, that of LL.b).

the Lords Say and Brook to build the fort at Saybrook, in the year 1635. Ilis grandfather, Dr. Isaac Morse, was associated with Dr. Paul Micheau in the organi- zation of the first medical society in Essex County, and was the secretary of that society. The subject of this brief notice having received a good education, determined to devote himself to the study and prae- tice of medicine. Accordingly, he placed himself under the preceptorship of the late Dr. John C. Budd, of Morris County, noted for his skill as a physi- cian and especially for his careful researches into the nature and causes of disease. The doctor had a very extensive practice, and the student enjoyed the rare advantage of having an instructor who was distin- guished as well for his genial disposition as for his ex- perience and learning. The doctor's private clinical lectures, and particularly his discussions upon the nature and causes of disease, are now often referred to by Dr. Marsh as having been of great service to him throughout his long practice as a physician. In June, 1837, he received his license, but during the following year he remained as an assistant to his

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preceptor, who was now becoming quite advanced in age, although yet erect and possessing sufficient vigor to maintain his usefulness, until Jan. 12, 1845, when he died, at the age of eighty-two.

Dr. Marsh's first settlement as a physician was in Springfield, N. J., where he began to practice in 1835. Here he remained fourteen years, and met with all the success that could be desired. But the labor, attending a country practice becoming irksome, he determined to give it up, and accordingly removed to Newark, N. J., in the spring of 1852. His practice in this city became by degrees very extensive, and al- though he has been now more than forty-six years

JAMES ELLIOTT was born in Londonderry, Ire- land, Dec. 31, 1817. Emigrating to this country at an early age, he settled in Newark, N. J., where he pursued his academic studies at the seminary of Mr. Bernard Kearney, and at the mathematical and classical academy of Mr. Francis D. Murphy. Subsequently he went to Brooklyn, L. I., where an opportunity to enter upon the study of medicine was afforded to him, and while thus engaged in 1847- 49, the famine fever in ! Ireland was driving thousands of unfortunate beings from that country to our shores, carrying with them disease and death. In response to the call of the mayor of Brooklyn upon

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constantly engaged in the work of his profession, he seems to be as much attached to it as in his younger days.

Dr. Marsh has never made himself prominent in public affairs. He is a quiet, unassuming man, kind und courteous in his demeanor, and greatly admired by all who know him well.

HENRY MAHR was born in Gunzendorf, Germany, March 15, 1815. He was educated in the Gym- nasium of Bamberg, and was graduated from the University of Munich in 1840. He settled in Newark, N. J., in 1872, and since then has continued to practice medicine in that city.

all philanthropic citizens, and especially upon medical students, to minister to the sick and dying. Dr. Elliott, then a student in the Medical Department of the University of New York, answered promptly to the call, and rendered efficient service in this work of humanity. In 1850 he received his degree of M.D., and immediately returned to Newark, where he began the practice of his profession, and where for more than thirty years he has unostentatiously performed the duties of his vocation, and won the esteem of his fellow-citizens, as well as the respect of his medical brethren.

WILLIAM B. GROVER was born in Caldwell, N. J.,

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Ang. 23, 1818, his father being the late Rev. Stephen R. Grover, of that place. He was educated in the city of Newark. In 1845 he was admitted to the practice of medicine by the Medical Society of the State of New Jersey, and immediately established himself as a practitioner in Newark, N. J. He has been for many years a member of the Essex District Medical Society, and his present residence is in East Orange, N. J.

THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH was born in Philadel- phiia, June 29, 1819. In 1839 he received the degree of M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1812 was admitted to the bar of that State. He became early connected with journals in New York and elsewhere ax editor and contributor. He is the author of numerous novels, mostly pseudonymous, and more than twenty successful dramas. Only three of the novels were acknowledged, "Walter Woolfe" (1844), "MDCCCXLIV. ; or the Power of the S. F.," a political erposè, and " Ambrose Fecit" (1867) ; and of the dramas only one, "The Mormons," which has been printed, and is still occasionally represented. Dr. English is best known by his " Ben Bolt," a popular song, which appeared in the New York Mirror in 1842, and his "Gallows-Goer," a vigorous pem, of which hundreds of thousands of copies were circulated during the agitation of the question of capital punishment, from 1845 to 1850. He printed a collection of his poems in New York in 1855, but suppressed its publication. In 1856 he established his residence in New Jersey, near New York, where he entered upon the practice of medicine. He was representative of Bergen County in the State General Assembly in 1863 and 1864. In 1878 he removed to Newark, N. J., where he has since been engaged as a medical practitioner. Of late years his literary work has been confined mainly to a series of poems illustra- ting the Revolutionary history and local dialects of the United States, which have appeared in magazines. At present he is engaged in editing, with notes, his historical ballads and additional poems, making a continuous ballad history from the colonial times. In 1876, Dr. English received the degree of LL.I). from William and Mary College, Virginia.

FREDERICK N. BENNETT, a son of Ezra and Esther (Gordon) Bennett, was born in Weston, Fairfield Co., Coun., Sep. 14,1820. After a preliminary course of study he entered the office of his brother, Ezra P. Bennett, a distinguished surgeon in Danbury, Conn., with whom he remained until he matriculated in the Yale Medical School, where he received his diploma in 1841. He came to Orange, N. J., in 1842, and here soon secured the confidence of the people as a physician, and acquired a successful practice. On Aug. 29, 1843, he married Abby Louisa, a daughter of William Munn, cashier of the Orange Bank, by whom he had one son, William M. Bennett, now living in New York. His wife died in September, 1849. In 1852 he married Catherine, daughter of Jonathan

l'arkhurst, of Milburn, N. J., by whom he had two children, a daughter, who died early. and a son, Charles D. Bennett, who is now a practicing physician in Newark, N. J. After Dr. Bennett's second marriage he left Orange for a time but returned and re-entered upon the practice of his profession. In 1871 he removed to Newtown, Conn., where he now resides. While a resident of Orange he enjoyed the friendship and confidence of its best citizens, by whom his virtues and the memories of his exemplary Christian life are sincerely cherished.

FRIDOLIN FL.1. was born in Ueberlingen, Baden, Jan. 10, 1821, and was educated in the University of Freiburg. Fixing upon medicine as his profession, be entered the Medical Department of the same univer- sity, and there obtained his degree of M. 1). Ile began at once the practice of his profession in his native land, with every prospeet of success, when the Ger- man revolution of 1848 broke out, enlisting him and many others of his brave countrymen in what was truly considered a glorious struggle in the cause of human liberty. It, however, proved to be a failure, and he, with many of his comrades, was exiled from the land for which they would have gladly suffered any fate. In the year 1851 he arrived in Newark, N. J., where he determined to make his home, and where he at once entered upon the practice of his pro- fession. His skill as a physician and surgeon, no less than the story of bis glorious efforts in behalf of freedom, soon won for him name and influence, and established for him an extensive and lucrative practice. But not for his great learning or the gal- lant deeds of his early life alone is he held in such high esteem ; his effective labors in behalf of educa- tion and of every effort whose object was the advance- ment of his fellows have given him a power which is felt whenever and wherever he may choose to bring it into exercise. It is well known, especially among his countrymen, that in any work of a public nature into which he may enter he is governed by the purest motives. On all occasions of importance his advice is eagerly sought and trustfully relied upon. Publie offices have been frequently urged upon him, but these he has invariably refused, choosing rather to devote his time and skill, without any trammels, to the mitigation of social as well as individual suffer- ing. In the establishment of the German-English schools of the city of Newark he was chiefly instru- mental, and the German Hospital of that place, Dum- bers him among its most active founders.

WILLIAM A. GRAY was born at Whippany, Morris Co., N. J., July 8, 1821. He was educated in the publie schools of New York City, and was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1867. He began the practice of medicine in Madison, N. J., whence he removed to Summit, N. J., and subsequently to Orange, N. J., where he has been a practitioner during the last ten years.

JANE H. MURPHY was born in Bristol, England,

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Feb. 5, 1821, and received her education in the city of New York. She is a graduate of the New York Medical College and Ilospital for Women. In 1867, Dr. Murphy established herself in the city of Newark, N. J., making electricity a specialty in her practice. She is known as an eleetropathie physician.

EDWARD A. OSBORNE, son of the late Rev. E. A. Osborne, was born in Morris County, N. J., Oct. 5, 1823. His education was conducted at home, under the immediate supervision of his father. In 1848 he was graduated from the Jefferson Medical College of l'enn- sylvania, and immediately thereafter established him- self in Newark, N. J. F'or nearly forty years he has

ark, N. J. Here he has for the last seventeen years devoted himself successfully to his profession.

ARTHUR WARD was born at Belleville, N. J., Dec. 23, 1823, and is the son of the late Samuel L. Ward, M.D)., who practiced medicine for so many years and with so much success in that town and its vicinity. On the maternal side he is descended from one of the early settlers of Newark, his mother being Caroline Bruen, of that place. From the schools of Newark, where he received in part his early educa- tion, he went to the Bacon Academy, at Colchester, Conn., and after a thorough preparation, entered Yale College in 1840. From this institution he was gradu-

occupied the same office in which he began his prae- tiee.

Dr. Osborne is a member of the Essex District Medieal Society, and was a delegate to the State Medical Society in 1881. In 1854 and 1855 he was a member of the Board of Education of the city of Newark.

REUBEN MORRIS SUTPHEN was born in Cranbury, N. J., and educated at Marion Academy, Wayne County, N. Y. In 1847 he was graduated from the University of the City of New York, and during the same year settled in Walworth, N. Y., where he prae- ticed medicine until 1867, when he removed to New-

ated in 1844, and in due course received the degree of A.M. On determining to enter the medical pro- fession, he began his studies under the direction of his father, and subsequently continued them under Dr. Thomas Cock, a distinguished practitioner of New York, and one of the founders of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of that city. Having at- tended lectures in this institution, he was graduated therefrom in 1847, and very soon afterwards begau the practice of medicine in Newark, N. J. In this city he continued the work of his profession for one year, when he removed to Belleville, his native place, where he remained until 1865. Finding, however, that his

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business in Newark, which he still managed to attend to, was largely increasing, he resunred his residence in that city, and has since made that bis dwelling-place, while hestill retains an extensive practice in Belleville. Dr. Ward has now been actively engaged in practice for thirty-seven years, and has the reputation of being not only a skillful and successful practitioner, but of untiring devotion to the work of his profession. Dur- ing the prolonged illness of the late Mr. William A. Whitehead, and for some years prior, he assisted that gentleman in the labors attending the preparation of his monthly weather reports, and in this connection Dr. Ward became known to the readers of the Vewark

he became one of the attendant physicians, and still continues his connection with that institution. In 1854 he was married to Anna C., daughter of Robert Lee, of Rahway, N. J.

CHARLES M. ZEH was born in the town of Knox, Albany Co., N. Y., October 20, 1827. He received his education at tbe Knoxville Academy, a clas- sical school, which at one time enjoyed consider- able distinction. Having a great inclination for scientific pursuits, he began, soon after leaving school, the study of medicine, and, with a suitable prepara- tion, entered the Albany Medical College, where he attended one course of lectures. Subsequently he

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Daily Advertiser as " W., Jr." Since Mr. Whitehead's death he has continued these observations and reports, which have for more than forty years been regularly given to the public. Dr. Ward has always shown a commendable interest in everything that could ad- vance the usefulness and dignity of his profession. For many years he has been an active member of the Essex District Medical Society, and in 1876 and 1878 was a delegate from that body to the New Jersey State Medical Society. He is also a member of the Essex Medical Union, as well as a corresponding member of the Connecticut Medical Society. On the organiza- tion of the medical board of St. Barnabas Hospital

entered Castleton Medical College, Vermont, and was graduated therefrom in June, 1848. Having barely reached his majority, and believing that the western country must afford the best field for a young man just entering upon the business of life, whatever might be his profession or occupation, he left his native place, and settling in Port Huron, Mich., began the work of a practitioner of medicine. With little more than the practical experience obtained at the college clinics, he offered his services as a physician, in strict accordance with the severe laws of etiquette which govern the regular members of the medical profession, and which, too, while they often drive the

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well-educated beginner to some other employment, operate so frequently to the advantage of ignorant charlatans. Despite these severe rules, and despite his well-known modesty, Dr. Zeh entered quite suc- cessfully upon his profession, and before the expira- tion of three years had obtained a practice that ex- ceeded, perhaps, his expectations; but. unfortunately, the climate was poisonous to him, and after battling unsuccessfully with malarial disorders which rendered bim unfit for the discharge of his duties, he finally, in 1852, left Port Huron, and in the fall of that year removed to Newark, N. J., where he established him- self in the practice of medicine, and where he has since remained fully oreupied with professional work.

For about ten years Dr. Zeh was physician to St. Michael's Hospital, and at the present time is physi- cian to the Little Sisters of the Poor, a home for the aged, with a hospital attached thereto. For many years he has been a member of the Essex District Medical Society, and has represented it as a delegate to the State Medical Society. During a period of eighteen months he was acting physician to the Board of Health, and is at present physician to that body.

In 1873, Dr. Zeh visited Europe for professional improvement, and spent much of the time while there in inspecting the medical schools and hospitals of England, Scotland, Ireland and France, Hle made a second voyage to England in 1877, but on this occasion, being called there to render his professional services, remained no longer than was absolutely necessary.

Although Dr. Zeh is in politics a pronounced Demo- erat, he has always been averse to holding offices in no- wise connected with his profession. Ilis great per- sonal popularity has more than once pointed him out as a desirable leader in a party contest, but as a can- didate for mayor and other otliees of trust and honor he has steadily declined to serve.

ANSON A. RANSOM was born in Cortlandt County, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1825, and was educated at Hobart College, Geneva, in the same State. He was gradu- ated from the University of the City of New York March 1, 1867, and since that time has been a prac. titioner of medicine at South Orange, Essex C'o., N. J., and for many years physician of the Board of Health of that town. Dr. Ransom is a member of the Essex District Medical Society.

LOTT SOUTHARD was born at Basking Ridge, N. J., Aug. 12, 1826, and was educated at Clyde, Wayne Co., N. Y. In 1852 he was graduated M.D. from Geneva Medical College, New York, and soon after established himself in Newark, N. J., where he has since continued in the practice of medieine. Dr. Southard is regarded as an active and prominent member of his profession. He has held the position of president of the District Medical Society of Essex County, and has represented it several times as a delegate to the State Medical Society. Since 1879 he has been a member of the Water Board of the city of Newark. On the subject of drainage and sewerage

in that city he delivered an address before the Essex County Medical Society, as president thereof, which is considered a valuable contribution to sanitary science, and which was published, by request, in the publie journals of the day.

GEORGE S. WARD, was born in Bloomfield, N. J., Nov. 11, 1827, being a younger brother of the late Dr. John F. Ward, so eminently successful as a medical practitioner in Newark, N. J. His early education was obtained in his native place, where every advantage was afforded to him, with a view to givng him a thor- ough collegiate course of instruction. For this he was abundantly prepared, and was upon the point of entering college when he was prostrated by a fever which nearly proved fatal to him, and which left him in a condition that precluded for a long time any further application to study. When, however. he had become sufficiently strong to give his attention once more to books, he entered the office of his brother, Dr. John F. Ward, as a student. In time his health was fully restored, and matriculating at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, he was gradu- ated therefrom in 1849. Settling in Newark, he soon exhibited a devotion to his profession and a fidelity in the discharge of its duties which insured for him success, and he is now engaged in an extensive and lucrative practice. In addition to this, he has for many years been the attending physician to the ('ity Alms- house. His ability as a physician and his gentlemanly bearing during a professional career of thirty-five years have not failed to win for him the respect and esteem of the community.

IIIRAM H. TICHENOR was born in Newark, N. J., Aug. 7, 1828. His preliminary education having been obtained in his native place, he entered the University of the City of New York, where he continued the preparation so essential to the profession which he had resolved to adopt. From the Medical Department of that institution he was graduated in 1834; but while connected with the college, and a participant in all the advantages atl'orded by its lectures and clinics, he was also attached, as a student, to the assisting staff of Professor Gunning S. Bedford, as well as to that of Professor Valentine Mott, and from both of these eminent gentlemen received honorary diplomas. To become still more proficient in his studies, he attended the medical school of Dr. P. A. Aylett, of the New York Medical Institute, and was graduated from that institution. After this thorough preparation for the work of his profession, he established himself in New- ark as a medical practitioner, and during the last thirty years has, with very few interruptions, discharged faith- fully the duties of a physician and surgeon. Desirous of doing his part in advancing the interests of bis profession, he became, at the commencement of his medieal life, a member of the Essex District Medical Society, and was an active and prominent participant in all its proceedings. For several years he was its see- retary, and even now shows a great regard for its wel-

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 86

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