History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 87

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

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fare. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, and was also connected with the Essex Medical Union as long as it had an existence. In 1867 he was a delegate to the New Jersey State Medi- cal Society.

Since he first began the work which he has so indus- triously pursued, Dr. Tichenor seems to have felt the importance of taking a part, as far as possible, in MAX KUCHLER was born in Darmstadt, Germany, July 30, 1829. His academic education was obtained in the schools of his native city, and from the Uni- versity of Berne, Switzerland, he received his degree of M.D. He afterwards continued his medical studies in the Universities of Giessen, Paris and Berlin. From March, 1856, to March, 1557, he was assistant physician to Dr. Cornaz in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. In 1858 he came to the United States, and settled in Newark, N. J., where he established himself in the practice of his profession, and where he still resides. whatever appeared to him to be of permanent advan- tage to his fellows. Being, to a great extent, a self- made man himself, he sympathizes quite naturally with those who, as he imagines, may have to struggle pain- fully in their efforts to become useful to themselves and others; and thus it happens that he takes so warm an interest in public education. Of the schools of Newark, and especially of the High School, he has always been the ready and well-armed champion, and with both tongue and pen has stoutly defended it against the assaults of those who, for selfish reasons, would limit public instruction to the lowest grades of GEORGE W. RICHARDS was born at Columbia, human knowledge. For him the High School has | Morris Co., N. J., Nov. 28, 1829. His early educa- tion was obtained in his native place and in New- ark, N. J. In 1853 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. After eighteen months' service as physician to the New York State Emigrant Hospital, he visited London, Dublin and Paris for the purpose of inspecting the hospitals of those cities, and on his return com- meneed practice in New York City. Here he re- mained three years, when he removed to Orange, Essex Co., N. J., where he has now been in active practice for twenty-six years.

been an idol, and his yearly prizes for the best rhetor- ical work performed by its pupils have done much to enkindle a love for the highest and purest styles of writing. With a purpose quite as landable, he has always taken an interest in the meetings of the Board of Trade, of which he is a member, and quite recently, when the establishment of one or two addi- tional savings institutions in the city of Newark seemed to be of the utmost importance, he very promptly accorded the use of his name and influence, and was elected one of the directors of the Security Savings Institution. Offices of every kind, and especially of a public or financial character, he has always eschewed, except in the instance above men- tioned.

As almost every man will, outside of his daily pur- suits, find some favorite object which may serve to recreate, so is it, and has it long been, with Dr. Tich- enor. His hobby is art, as it is displayed by the , cessively the same office on Main Street, in that city. brush or pencil. Hle is not a painter himself, but a profound admirer of the master-pieces of others. To visit picture galleries is his diversion, and to talk over his favorite artists, tell their good and bad points, discuss their touches and enumerate their various qualities is medicine which he finds good for himself, and which he prescribes without fee to everybody. Ilis collection of paintings, containing many which he selected himself in Europe, is very valuable, and well worthy of a visit.

WILLIAM SCHILLING Was born in Ruhla, tier- many, Nov. 5, 1828. He received his education at Göthen, a town in his native country, where he also studied medicine, and was licensed to practice by the Sanitäts Rath. Removing to the I'nited States, he settled in Newark, N. J. A diploma was granted to him by the New Jersey Homeopathic Society, and he has been a practitioner of medicine in Newark for the last fourteen years.

ALBERT J. SCHUREMAN was born in New York, Feb. 15, 1829. In that city, and in Newark, N. J., he pursued his academie studies, and from the University of the City of New York received his degree of M.D. In 1872, Dr. Schureman established himself in Newark, N. J., where, since that time, he has continued to practice.

WILLIAM PIERSON, better known as Dr. William Pierson, Jr., to distinguish him from his venerable father, lately deceased, was born in Orange, N. J., Nov. 20, 1830. He is the son of Dr. William Pier- son, the grandson of Dr. Isaac Pierson, and the great-grandson of Dr. Matthias Pierson, all of whom were born in Orange, and all of whom occupied suc- After receiving a thorough preparatory education, the subject of this sketch entered the Medical Depart- ment of the New York University, and was therefrom graduated in 1852. He returned at once to his native town, where he commenced the practice of his pro- fession, and soon distinguished himself in surgery, a branch in which he was especially interested, and to which he designed to give the greatest attention. Ile seems to have inherited the many estimable qualities of mind and heart, as well as the eminent professional skill, which distinguished his worthy ancestors; for he is no less esteemed than they, both as a man and as a physician and surgeon. Dr. Pierson is a member of the Essex Medical Union of the Essex District Medical Society, of the State Medical Society, of which he was at one time secretary, of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine, and of the Orange Mountain Medical Society, of which he is now (1884) president. Ile has been also connected with various

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hospitals, and is, at present, attending physician of the New Jersey State Medical Society, received his St. Michael's Hospital, Newark, N. J.

JACOB HESTER Was born at Trenton, N. J., April in 1868, and has since that time been a successful 8, 1832, and is a graduate of the l'ennington (N. J.) Seminary. His studies in medicine were pursued in CHARLES BACHMANN was born in Germany, Jan. 30, 1836. He was educated at t'öthen, and in 1880) was licensed to practice medicine by the Homeopa- thic Society of Stuttgart. He soon after established himself as a practitioner in Newark, N. J., where he still resides. the l'ennsylvania Medical University of Philadelphia, where he received his degree of M.D. in 1860. Soon after graduating he began to practice in Fairton, Cumberland Co., N. J., where he remained until 1870 when he removed to Newark, N. J. Ile is a member of the Essex District Medical Society.

HENRY A. KORNEMANN, was born in Cassel, Prus- sia, Sept. 28, 1833. He was educated at the gymna- sium of his native place, and subsequently, removing to the United States, settled in Newark, N. J. Ilere he applied himself to the study of medicine, and in 1872 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. He soon after began the practice of medicine in Newark, where he still resides. Dr. Kornemann is a member of the Essex District Medical Society, and a member of the medical board of the German Hospital, and since 1876 has held the position of physician to the Essex County jail.

IRA C. WHITEHEAD was born in Newark, N. J., June 28, 1833, and was educated at Newark, Bloom- field and Princeton. After the usual preliminary studies in medicine, he entered the Berkshire Medical College, at Pittsfield, Mass,, and was graduated in 1855. He engaged at once in private practice, and continued therein until 1864, when he entered, as sur- geon, the United States navy. In this service he re- mained until 1879, when he resigned, and again es- tablished himself in private practice in Newark, N. J., where he is at present located.

JOHN F. MILLER was born in Albany County, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1834. After receiving a good prepar- atory education, he entered Union College, where he spent one year, when the further pursuit of his studies was prevented by sickness. At the age of nineteen he became a teacher of English and mathematics in George C. Anthon's English and classical school, in New York City, and subsequently was, for seven years, principal of Yale Public School in Troy, N. Y. In this city he began the study of medicine, and in 1865 was graduated from the Long Island Hospital College. His first settlement was in Troy, N. Y., where he re- mained two years, and then removed to t'ambridge. in the same State. Ilere he continued to practice for five years, when, in 1872, he established himself in Newark, N. J. Dr. Miller is a member of the Homeopathie Medical Society of New York, of the New Jersey State Honropathie Medical Society, of the International Hahnemann AAssociation, and hon- orary member of the Homeopathic Medical Society of Northern New York.

CHARLES VOGLER was born in Arnsberg, one of the departments of the Prussian province of West- phalia, April 20, 1834. Ile was educated in Berlin, and from the university of that city, as well as from

degree of M.D. Dr. Vogler settled in Newark, N. J., practitioner of medicine.

JOSHUA WARE READ was born in the town of Batavia, tienesee Co., N. Y., Oct. 17, 1837. Ilis pa- rents were of New England stock, his mother being a member of the well-known Chapin family of Massachusetts, and a near relation of the late Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin, of New York City. Receiving his early education at the district school and a neighbor- ing academy, he passed, at the age of eighteen, the re juired examination for teaching, and obtained the appointment from his county to the New York State Normal School at Albany, from which institution he was graduated in 1861, after having pursued a classi- val course at the tienesce and Wyoming Seminary. at Alexandria, N. Y. The succeeding four years of his life were occupied as principal of a school at Peeks- kill, on the Iludson, meanwhile commencing the study of medicine under the direction of Dr. C. (' Knight, of that town. In the autumn of 1865 he resigned his position as teacher, and, entering Bellevue Hospital Medical College, gave his entire attention to his medi- cal studies, although hy so doing he was compelled to forego some very flattering inducements to continue in the profession of teaching, among which was an invitation from Dr. Cochran, president of the Poly- technic Institute, Brooklyn, to the excellent and lucrative position of teacher of physics in that insti- tution. Having accomplished his medical course, he was graduated from the college above named in 1867, receiving from his classmates the appointment of "essayist," at the closing public exercises of "The Order of Esculapios," a college organization. This effort, " A Retrospect of the Healing Art " -obtained for its author great commendation. Leaving New York, diploma in hand, he established himself as practi- tioner of medicine in the city of Bloomington, Ill., where he formed a copartnership with the late Dr. A. H. Luce, a leading surgeon of the central part of that State. With Dr. Luce he remained until the fall of 1870, when he was induced to return to the East, and to settle in Newark, N. J.

In his practice Dr. Read seeks to exemplity the philanthropic ends and aims of his profession, as is attested by the poor and unfortunate who fall under his care. His public services have been chiefly in connection with the police surgeonship of the city of Newark, an office which he was largely instrumental in establishing, and which he was the first to occupy. In the discharge of the onerous duties of this position he was always prompt and efficient. He was also tor

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one term coroner of the county of Essex. Dr. Read has made numerous valuable contributions to medieal literature, among which may be found a series of articles on " The Falsity of the Claims of Phrenology as a Science, "A Discussion of Some Questions relating to Medical Jurisprudence," "The Relations of Modern Sanitary Science to the Public Welfare." In whatever tended to promote the usefulness of his profession he has always taken a lively interest. lle is a member of the Essex Distriet Medical Society and of the Newark Medical Association. In the latter

established himself in the practice of his profession. Dr. Lehmacher is a member of the medical board of the Newark German Hospital, and has a very extensive practice. Ile is the author of a monograph written in Latin, entitled, " De Fracturis Cranii."

LABAN DENNIS was born in England, Feb. +, 1840, and came to the United States at a very early age. Having passed the required examination, he entered the State Normal School, at Trenton, N. J., and was thence graduated in 1858, at the age of eigh- teen ycars. He was immediately appointed a teacher

organization he has filled the offices of president, secretary, librarian and historian, the last-mentioned of which positions he now holds. In religious faith he is a Presbyterian, and connected with the Third Presbyterian Church of Newark.

in that institution, where he remained one year and a half, when he received the appointment of vice- principal of the Newark Academy. This position he held for three years, devoting his leisure time to the study of medieine. In 1866 he was graduated from

FRANCIS LEHMACHER was born Dec. 9, 1838, in ' the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and soon thereafter began the practice of his pro- fession in Newark, N. J., in partnership with Dr. Thomas Lafon, his former preceptor. Dr. Dennis is a member of the State Board of Ilealth, and in the

Sieglar, near Bonn, on the Rhine, Germany, and was educated in Prussia. In 1846 he received his degree of M.D. from the Royal Prussian University of Greiss- wald, and not long thereafter removed to the I'nited States. In 1869 he settled in Newark, N. J., and there ; labors of this body has taken a very active and prom-

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inent part. Hle is also a trustee of the Newark Academy and president of the Board of Associated Charities of that city.

GEORGE R. KENr was born in Walworth, Wayne Co., N Y., Nov. 27, 1840. He was educated at Gen- esee College, Lima, N. Y., and was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1867. In the himself in practice in Orange, N. J., where he still same year he settled in Newark, N. J., where he is remains. He is a member of the Essex District Med- ical Society. still engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Essex County Medical Society.

EDWIN MORRISON WARD was born in Bloomfield, N. J., Feb. 1, 1840. He was graduated from the C'ol- lege of New Jersey in 1859, received in course the degree of A.M., 1861, and in 1862 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In 1865, Dr. Ward began the practice of medicine in his native town, where he is still successfully at work. He is a member of the Essex County Medical Society.

WALTER S. BAKER was born in Newark, N. J., July 18, 1841, and received his academic education in his native place and in the city of New York. In 1863 he was graduated from the Honreopathic Medi- cal College of New York, and soon after began to practice at Cohoes, N. Y., where he remained seven years, when he removed to Newark, N. J., and has practiced here since April, 1870.

THOMAS NAYLOR BRADFIELD was born in Bucks County, l'a., Sept. 24, 1842, and received his educa- tion at a private academy in his native place. In 1870 he was graduated with honors from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and in the same year established himself as a practitioner of medicine in Newark, N. J. Dr. Bradfield has by de- grees withdrawn almost entirely from general prac- tice, and for several years past has devoted himself to that department of his profession designated as gynecological. With a view to making a specialty of this branch of practice, he went abroad soon after graduating, and spent several months, as a student, in the hospitals of Edinburgh and other European cities. He now holds the position of gynecologist on the medical staff of the Women's and Children's Hospital of the Home of the Firendless in Newark, N. J. Dr. Bradfield has made many contributions to medical literature, especially in the American Journal of Obstetrics, New York Medical Record. Philadelphia Medical Times, etc. He is also a con- tributor both in prose and verse to various magazines and journals.

Burnett is a member of the Essex District Medical Society.

WILLIAM DAWSON ROBINSON was born in Ireland, Sept. 21, 1542, and was educated in Western New York. In 1859 he was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and in 1552 established

WILLIAM EDWIN HITCHCOCK was born in New JJaven, Conn., May 1, 1842, and received his educa- tion at Yale C'ollege and the University of Virginia. In 1866 he was graduated from the Medical Depart - ment of Yale College, and soon after began the prac- tive of medicine in Newark, N. J., where he is still settled.

ALBERT BOLL was born in Cranenburg, I'ru-sia, Ang. 14, 1842. He received his education at the t'ol- legium Augustinianum, in Gaesdonck, Prussia, and was graduated M.D., trom the University of Wuerz- burg, Bavaria, in 1872. Removing to the l'nited States, he settled in Newark, N. . I., in 1875. Here he began and has successfully continued the practice of medicine. He is a member of the medical board of the Newark Herman Hospital.

JONATHAN ACKERMAN COLES was born in New- ark, N. J., May 6, 1813, and is the only son of Dr. Abraham Coles, of that city, elsewhere noticed in this volume. Having received thorough preparatory in- struction at the school of George P. Quackenboss, in New York, he entered Columbia College, and was thence graduated with honor in 1864, receiving in course his degree of A.M. 1-67. Soon after gradu- ation he entered. as a student of medicine, the office of Dr. T. G. Thomas, of New York, and in 1868 was graduated from the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of that city. Here he made his beginning as a practitioner, and became a member of the New York County Medical Society and the New York Academy of Medicine, The years 1-77 and ISPs he spent in Europe, frequenting the medical school- of London, Paris, Heidelberg, Berlin and Vienna. After visit- ing all the principal countries of Europe and the East, be returned, and becoming associated with his father as partner, has continued the practice of his profession in Newark since 1879.

JAMES B. BURNETT was born at Newark, N. J., Dec. 2, 1842 Te is an alumnus of New York Uni- versity, from which institution he received his degrees of A.B. and A.M. After a suitable preparation he entered the Medical Department of the same, and having been graduated in 1566, he settled in his native city, where he has continued to practice dur- ing the last sixteen years, making a specialty of dis- of Physician- and Surgeons of New York, and soon cuses of the nasal passages, throat and lungs. Dr.

PHILIPPE RECORD was born in New Brunswick, N. J., July 5, 1513. Being feebly and sickly when young, his education was mainly conducted in private, and almost exclusively under the direction of his father. At a suitable age he entered, as a sutdent, the office of Drs. Abraham Coles and Bethuel L. Dodd, Newark. N. J., and soon after the establish- ment of the United States Ward Military Hospital. became a medical cadet in that institution, and served in that capacity until the close of the war. In Isós he was graduated with honors from the College after began the practice of medicine in Newark, S. J.,

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where he is still located. He is a member of the Essex Distriet Medieal Society.

JOHN L. SEWARD was born in Florida, Orange C'o., N. J., in November, 1×44. He received his education in the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the Medical Department of the same in 1867. In 1869 he removed to Orange, E-sex Co., N. J., where he is now engaged in the practice of his profession.

CHARLES A SCHPREMAN was born in Newark, N. J., Feb. 27, 1×44. Ile received his education in the private schools of Newark and in the public Iligh School. In 1871 he wasgraduated from the University of the City of New York, and immediately began the practice of medicine in Newark, N. J., where he is still located. He is a member of the Essex Dis- trict Medical Society and of the Essex Medical I'nion.

WILLIAM H. MARTLAND WAS born at Fall River, Mass., Sept. 27, 1845. Ile was educated at Lacon High School, Illinois. In 1873 he received his degree of M. D. from the University of Michigan, and in the same year removed to Newark, N. J., where he immediately began the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Essex District Medical Society.

JOHN LUTHER GOBLE DURYEA, son of the late Peter S. Duryea and grandson of the late William Rankin, was born in Newark, N. J., July 20, 1845. He was educatel at Rutgers College, New Jersey, whenee he was graduated in 1864, receiving in course the degree of A.MI., 1867. In 1868 he was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. After spending about four years in Champlain, Clinton Co., N. Y., partially occupied in the practice of medicine, he returned to Newark, N. J., where he has since resided. and devoted his time and attention to his profession. He is a member of the Essex District Medieal Society.

HUGH P. RODEN was born in England, June 13. 1×45, and received his education in Newark, N. J. In ISTO he was graduated from the Missouri Medical College, and soon atter began the practice of his profession in Newark. Dr. Roden is a member of the Essex District Medical Society, and was for two years one of the distriet physicians of Newark.

GEORGE ALEXANDER VAN WAGENEN was born in Newark, N. J., Oct. 3, 1845. Itis preparatory educa- tion was received partly at the school of Rev. Dr. l'ingry, partly at the Newark Academy, and he was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1868. In 1×71, having received his degree of MI.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, he competed for, and obtained, a position on the house staffof Bellevue Hospital, New York, where he served two years, principally on the surgical divisions. Re- turning to Newark, be devoted himself to private practice. He is a member of the Essex County Medi- cal Association, one of the medical board of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company, and one of the visiting surgeons to St. Michael's Hospital. In

1882 he was a delegate to the New Jersey Medical Association

WILLIAM TirUs was born at Hackettstown, Warren Co., N. J., Aug. 3, 1845, and received his education at the Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N. J. In 1866 he was graduated from the Eclectic Medical Col- lege of Pennsylvania. and in 1868 began the practice of his profession in Newark, N. . I. Ile is at present surgeon to the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and physician of the Eighth District of the city of Newark.

EMMA WARD EDWARDS was born in Newark, N. J., June 5, 1845, and received her education in her native city. In 1870 she was graduated from the Woman's Medical College of New York, and with the exception of two years, spent in California, has prac- ticed medicine in the city of Newark, N. . I. Dr. Ed- wards is a member of the Essex District Medical Society.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN was born in New York City, April 21, 1846. After a preparatory education in that city, he entered Genesee College, at Lima, N. Y., from which he received the degrees of A.B. and A.M In 1868 he was graduated from the University of the City of New York, and in 1870 from the Homeo- pathie Medical College of the same eity. In 1873 he established himself in practice in Newark, N. J., where he still resides.

PETER V. P. HEWLETT was born in Newark, N. J., Dee. 3, 1846. lle was graduated from the University of the City of New York in 1868, and immediately began the practice of his profession in Newark, N. J. On several occasions he has been a delegate to the New Jersey Medical Society, and in 1879 rend a paper before that body on the "Criminal Use of Chloroform." He is a member of the Essex District Medical Society. of the Newark Medical Association (of which he was secretary in 1869-70 and president 1871-72), of the Newark Pathological Society. Of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine he has been secretary and curator for several years. From 1868 to 1874 he was attending physician of the Newark City Dispensary. In 1873 and for some years follow- ing he was attending physician of St. Michael's Hospital, and curator of that institution. From 1876 to the present time he has been a member of the Board of Education of the city of Newark, and since 1879 county physician.

ARCHIBALD MERCER was born at Newark, N. J., Dec. 23, 1847. Ile received his preparatory education at the Newark Academy, and was graduated from Rutgers College, New Jersey, in 1868. In 1871 he obtained his degree of M.D. from the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of New York, and during the same year began the practice of his profession in his native city. Dr. Mercer has been secretary of the Essex District Medical Society since 1878, and was a delegate from that society to the New Jersey Medical Society in 1875. Hle is a member of the Newark

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. I, Part 87

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