History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 105

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 830

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them upon the occasion of their annual meeting in a learned and suggestive dissertation upon the " Attri- butes of Mind: their Operations and Effects." He belongs to the New York Academy of Medicine, and has been an honorary member of the New York State Medical Society since 1869. Of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine he was the first president. llis address to the society, in 1875, upon the "Causes of Death after Operations and Grave Injuries," was reported by the New York Medical Journal in October of that year. lle is also connected with the Jersey t'ity Pathological Society and with the Neurological Society of New York City. In 1869 he was appointed by Governor Randolph surgeon-general of the State of New Jersey, and still holds that position. He is medical director and surgeon of St. Francis Hospital, Jersey City, and also surgeon to the Jersey City t'harity Ilos- pital. He is also manager for the State Asylum for the Insane, located at Morris Plains, N. J. He was a member, in 1876, of the Centennial Medical Commis- sion for New Jersey. In 1867 he reported to the Medical Record a case of "Complete Lateral Luxation of the Radius and Ulna Outward to the Radial Side." The records of medical science contain but thirteen similar cases, those having ocenrred in France. He also published an article on " Urticaria produced by Hydrocyanic Acid." This was as early as 1847, and in the same year he wrote another paper on "The Use of Nitrate of Silver in Acute Laryngitis." In 1859 he contributed to the medical press an account of the removal of a fibro- cellular tumor from the tongue with the écraseur. 1 In 1869 he recorded a case of "Sub-periosteal Resec- tion of the t'lavicle." Among other papers were " A C'ase of Femoral Aneurism successfully treated by Intermittent Pressure," New York Medical Journal, March, 1878; " Cases of Sub-periosteal Resection," New York Medical Journal, July, 1878; "Statistics of Amputations Performed at St. Francis Hospital. Jersey ('ity, from 1871 to 1881," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, April 1881 ; " Distal Compression applied in a Case of Inguinal Aneurism, with a Successful Result," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July, 1881; "A Case of Amputation at the Ilip-Joint in which Pro- fessor Trendelenburg's Method of Controlling Ilemor- rhages was Resorted to with Recovery of Patient," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, October, 1882; "On Railroad Injuries of the Extremities of the Human Body, with Observations on the Site of Ampi- tation and Subsequent Treatment of the Stump," read before the American Medical Association at Washing- ton, May 7, 1884.

Dr. Varick's contributions to the medical literature of his day are numerous and important. Written, as they have been, at times snatched from the sterner duties of the profession, they show that he is a physi- cian " born, not made,"-one who loves science for its own sake, as well as for the power it gives him of alle- viating human suffering. Dr. Varick was married,

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in 1846, to Adelia J. Woolsey, of Jersey City. Their City until 1.51, when he removed to East Orange, children are William Woolsey (a practicing physician Essex Co., N. J., where he is at present residing. in Jersey City and surgeon of the St. Francis Hospital), Anna Maria Romeyn (Mrs. Charles E. Groesbeek), Theodore Romeyn, Caroline Adelia (Mrs. E. K. Mar- tin), George Clippinger, Mary Louise (died In infancy), and Edgar F. Randolph.

WILLIAM AUGUSTES DERRIE was born in New Haven, Conn .. July 21, 1822. In 1843 he was graduated from Yale College, and in 1846 received his degree of M.D., from that institution. Atter practicing medi- cine according to the allopathic system for one year in his native place, he determined to give his atten- tion to the homeopathie method of treatment, and

LORENZO WELTON ELDER was born in Guilford, Chenango Co., N. Y., on the 15th of April, 1820. Ilis advantages of education were obtained at the district school in Guilford, after which he chose medicine as a profession, and entering the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, graduated from that institution in 1847. He settled in Hoboken, and speedily secured a lucrative practice, which has con- tinued until the present time. He has occupied a prominent position in the various professional organi- zations of the county, having been president of the Hudson County Pathological Society, and a member

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for that purpose, removing to New York, entered the | of the District Medieal Society of the county. From office of Drs. Gray & Hull, then in partnership in that eity. Under these preceptors he devoted himself sedulously to this mode of practice, and in 1847 re- moved to Jersey City, N. J., where he established himself as a practitioner of the new school of medi- cine. Dr. Durrie is regarded as the pioneer of ho- mrwopathy in Jersey City, being the first physician of that school to practice there. He was among the founders of the State Homeopathie Medieal Society, From 1859 to 1863, he was superintendent of the public schools of Hoboken, and for three years has been tax commissioner of the city. and was the third president of that institution. F'or five years he was the physician to the almshouse of Hudson County. He continued to practice in Jersey

1870 to 1872 he was physician to the Hudson County Hospital ; is now president of the Board of Health and Vital Statistics of Hudson County, and from ISI to 1861 was brigade surgeon of the State militia. He was deputy adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. Rod- man M. Price, and is local examiner of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of Newark and of the New York Life Insurance Company.

lle was mayor of Hoboken in 1863, a critical period

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in the country's history, and contributed greatly by his loyalty and zeal to the recruiting service and fur- therange of measures for the conduct of the war. Dr. Elder wa- married, in 1553, to Miss Helen Hall Craig, of Philadelphia. Their children are a daughter, Josephine Lippincott, married to Gasper ('. Barnette, and a son, George Wilks.

HENRY DOBBS HOUT was born in New York City, Feb. 20, 1814, and was educated in the private schools of that place. In 1847 he was graduated from the Medieal Department of New York City University, and soon after entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in Harlem, N. Y. He subsequently practiced in Medina, N. Y., Madison, Wis. Oswego, N. Y., Brooklyn, N. Y., and in Jersey City and Peapack. N. J. Ilis practice from 1856 to 1879 was more or less combined with the drug business, and he gave als, a great deal of time and attention to newspaper enterprises, with which he was, to some extent, identi- fied as far back as 1835, and even carlier. Since 1879 he has retired from active practice. Ilaving become a member of the Passaic Dis- triet Medical Society, he was, in 1550, sent as a dele- gate to the State Medieal Society, and was there empowered to organize the District Medical Society of Iludson County, which was chartered the following year. In this society he took a very prominent and active part. He has held every office within its gift, and has been its historian and the eustodian of its archives. In 1871, 1872 and 1873 he was one of the standing committee of the State Medical Society of New Jersey. Of the New Jersey Academy of Med- ivine he was a charter member, and was at one time its vice-president. So of the Jersey City Patholog- ical Society he was one of the founders, and was also ALFRED AUGUSTINE LUTKINS was born in the city of New York, Oet. 16, 1828. At a very early age his parents removed to Jersey City, and there he obtained his academie education. In 1846 he matrie- ulated at the Medical Department of the University of New York, and on passing the required ex- amination was licensed by the New Jersey State Medical Association in 1848, On arriving at his majority, and receiving his diploma, he began to practice in Jersey City, where he has since been occupied in the work of his profession. Dr. Lutkins was for several years president of the District Medical Society, and a member of the med- ical staff of the Jersey City Charity Hospital, as well its first president. For many years he was a member of the New York Pathological Society, and of the Neurologieal Society of that city, of which he has been a member since its reorganization. Ile has been one of the attending physicians at St. Francis Hospital from its foundation. Dr. Culver has, at various times, made valuable contributions to medical literature, in which he has exhibited not only skill as a writer, but a profound knowledge of matters appertaining to his profession. Though attentive to the duties of his vocation, he has not neglected his duties as a citizen, and thus, during his residence of four years in Hud- I son City, he was city superintendent of public schools and one of the County Board of Examiners of Public as of the Hudson County Hospital. For five years he . School Teachers. To the schools themselves he gave was city physician of Jersey City, and is said to enjoy a very extensive and lucrative practice.

JOSEPH EDWIN CULVER was born in Groton, New London Co., Conn., Feb. 9, 1823. Here he obtained his early education, and with such diligence did he apply himself to study that at the age of sixteen years he passed the necessary examination, and taught a publie school in his native town. In 1839 and 1840 he was a student at the Connectiont Literary Insti- tution, at Sutlield, where he was selected to deliver an oration at the commencement exercises. He made considerable progress in the Latin, Greek and French languages, but showed a decided preference for math- ematies and natural sciences. Thus it was that he fixed upon the medical profession, and having mas- tered the necessary studies, matriculated at the Berk- shire Medical t'ollege, at Pittsfield, Mass., in 1847, where he attended one course of lectures. In the fall of 1848 he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and in the spring of 1549 was therefrom graduated M.D. On receiving his diploma he removed to that part of North Bergen which was subsequently included in

Hudson City, and is now a portion of Jersey City. Entering at once upon the practice of his profession, he soon became quite snecessful, and was within a very short time chosen physician for the township of Bergen and North Bergen, as well as for Hudson County. These positions he occupied for several years.

a great deal of his personal attention, aiding in every way to build them up and to elevate the standard of instruction. In 1860 he was elected treasurer of Hudson City, a position which he held for eight years. He was one of the trustees of the Hudson City Savings-Bank, and the by-laws for the management of that institution were written by him.

NELSON R. DERBY was born in Lodi, Seneca Co., N. Y., July 20, 1823. Ilis education was chiefly .ob- tained in Ithaca, N. Y., and in Williamsport, Pa. In 1849 he was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, New York, and soon after established himself in the practice of his profession in Elmira, N. Y., where he remained for several years. He subsequently removed to Hudson County, N. J., and there continued in practice for sixteen years. At the beginning of the war of the Rebellion Dr. Derby entered the United States army as a brigade-surgeon, and served in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana. He was promoted to be medical di- rector of the Sixteenth Army Corps, and while upon duty in this capacity was seriously wounded on the Red River expedition, In consequence of his wound

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I was laid asole from the practice of his profession, and is at present residing in Morristown, N. J.

ERNST J. LOEWENTHAL was born at Heidingsfeld, Germany, in April, 1817. He received his education at the University of Wurtzburg, and trom the samme institution obtained his degree of M.D. After prie- tieing medieme for several years in his native country he came to the United States, and settled in Now York City. Her he remained some time, and subse- quently, in 1857, removed to Hoboken, where he established hunse If in the practice of his profesion, and where he still resides.

FRANCIS E. NOGLE was born at Rochester Monroe Co., N. Y., July 1, 1821. He was educated nt Dayton and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was graduated from the Medical Department of the Western Reserve College, Ohio, in 1851. He practiced his profession for some time in Michigan and in California. In Isit be removed to Hudson County, N. J., and is at present a practitioner in Jersey City. He is a meui- ber of the District Medical Society of Hudson County, and belongs to the medical and surgical staff of Christ Hospital, Jersey t'ity Heights.

JOSEPH HARRISON VONDY was born in the prov- ince of New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, Ort. 9th, 1829. Having received a good preliminary edu- cation, he began the study of medicine in his native province, and subsequently entered the Medical Department of the University of New York t'ity, and was graduated therefrom in 1851. He soon after began the practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he is at present successfully engaged. Since the establishment of the Jersey City Charity Hospital, in 1868, he has been a member of the medical staff, and is, besides, one of the physicians to the Hudson County Church Hospital. Of the District Medical Society of Hudson County he is a member, and has also been a delegate to the American Medical Asso- ciation.

ALEXANDER IT. LAIDLAW was born in Scotland, July 11, 182%. His preliminary education was received in the Central High School of Philadelphia, and in medicine he was graduated from the Philadel- phia Medical College, and subsequently, in 1851, from the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. Ile began to practice in Philadelphia, whence he removed to New York, where he remained two years. For twenty-three years past he has been in Hudson County, his professional work being now limited to chronic diseases.

OrTOCAR ... KOPETONNY was born in Neuhaus, Bohemia, Jan. 2, 1821. He was educated at the University of Vienna, and on removing to the Hunted States obtained his degree of M.D., from ef- forson Medical College, Philadelphia. Ile is still practicing medicine in Jersey City, where he has resided during the last thirty-three years.

NATHANIEL FORTE was born in Colchester, Conn., Aug. 8, 1831. Ilis early education was obtained at

Bacon Academy, mn his native plac. Having made choice of the medical profesion. he first entered the Medical Department of Yale College, and subse- quently Berkshire Medical College, at l'iut field, Mass., fran which he was graduated in 1852. Atter engaging for a few years in the practice of his pro- fession, his health failed to such an extent that he was obliged to retire ther from, and removing to Jersey City in Ismo, became the president of the Jersey City Insurance Company, a position which he at present occupied.

ELEAZER BOWEN was born at Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Mass., in October, 1429, and having received a car ful preliminary education, entered Amherst College, but was obliged, on ac onet of ill health, to leave in his junior year. He then applied himself to the study of medicine, and in 1-53 was graduated from the Pittsfield Me lical College, Mass. Soon thereafter be settled as a practitioner in Barnstable, Mass., and while there was led to investigate honas- opathy. Ilis interest in it became so great that he wa- induced to go to New York in order to make a more thorough study of it, and after spending right months in that city returned to his native State, set- thing successively in Lynn and Marblehead. In Isi4 he removed to Jersey City, S. I., where he has been since engaged in active and successful practice. lle is a member of the County Society and of the National Institute.

SAMUEL R. FORMAN was born in Freehold, Mon- mouth Co., N. J., May 22, 1535. Having received a good preparatory education, he entered the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, in 181, and was grad- unted therefrom in 1.54. Soon thereafter he was matriculated at the College of Physicians and Fur- geons of New York, and having received his degree of M.D., at that institution, became connected with Bellevue Hospital as interne physician, and con- tinued in that capacity for eighteen months. He then removed to Hoboken, N. J., where he engaged in pri- vate practice, and where he remained until the break- ing out of the Rebellion, when he entered the United States Army as assistant surgeon, and was appointed to duty on the supply steamers to the Gulf Squadron. In this position he remained until the close of the war, and then returning to private practice, estub- lished himself in Bergen. now incorporated with Jersey City, and continues in the work of his pro- fession. Ile has always been an active member of the District Medical Society of Hudson County and a physician to the Hudson County Church Hospital.

Ilt Go H. E. SEU FTI.A.BEN was born in Cranz, East Prussia, Aug. 11, 1832. Ile was educated at Freder- ick's College, and was graduated M. D., from the Uni- versity of Königsberg, East Prussia, in 1854. During the first two years of his practice he was an assistant surgeon in the British-German Legion, and subse- quently, from 1857 to 1860, he was house surgeon at the Berlin University clinique. In 1860 and IsGl he

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was resident physician to the Hydropathic Institute at Berlin ; in 1862 and 1863 physician to the Agri- cultural Academy near Königsberg; then, until 1866, a country practitioner in East Prussia. From that time until Is 1 he was a statf surgeon in the Prussian army, and served before Metz, Paris and Dijon. On leaving the army he went to England, and was regis- tered as a medical practitioner in Charlton (London Distri. t), and practiced thereafter almost exclusively as a ship surgeon, visiting various ports in Canada, Australia, Cape of Good Hope. Brazil, West Indies and the United States, In April, 1883, he registered as a physician in Hudson County, N. J., and is now engaged in practice in Hoboken. Dr. Scuttleben has written extensively on various subjects connected with his profession. He has been a contributor to the London Lancet and to other medical journals, as well as to the general press.

EDWARD PAYSON BUFFETT was born at Smith- town, Long Island, N. Y., Nov. 7, 1833. Having re- ceived his preliminary education at Burr Seminary. Manchester, Vt., he entered Yale College, and was graduated therefrom in 1854. In 1857 he received his degree of M.D., from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and the following year began the practice of medicine in Jersey City, N. J., where he is still occupied in the work of his profession. Dr. Buffett is a member of the visiting staff of Christ Hospital, Hudson County, and has been such since its foundation. He is also a member of the Hudson County Pathological Society and of the District Med- ical Society. To the public schools of the county he has rendered efficient aid as a member of the Board of Education of Jersey City, as well as the city of Bergen.

JOHN J. YOULIN was born in Rupert, Vt., Dec. 31, 1821, and received a good academic education at the Auburn Lyecum, Auburn, N. Y. After studying medicine for some time in the office of Dr. Augustus Willard, he attended a partial course of lectures at tieneva College, and subsequently a full course at the University of New York. In 1854 he was graduated from the Western Reserve Medical College, at ('leve- land, Ohio, and was subsequently connected with the New York Dispensary, in White Street. He was originally a practitioner of the old school, but inves- tigation and experiment induced him to become a homoeopath, and as such he established himself in Jersey City, where he soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice. Dr. Youlin was president of the New Jersey State Homeopathic Medical Society for eleven years, remaining in that position until a charter for it was obtained, in 1870. For several years he was president of the Hudson County Homeopathic Medi- val Society. He was also a medical director of the Jersey City Dispensary, vice-president of the Ameri- can Institute of flomœopathy in 1870-72, and president ofthe Hudson County Society for the Prevention of Urnelty to Animals. Dr. Youlin died in October, 1881, highly estermed by all who knew him.

THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN MORRIS was born in New Brunswick, N. J., Dec. 30, 1831. He was edu- cated at the classical academy in Belvidere, Warren Co., N. J .. and subsequently began his preparatory studies in medicine. In the winter of 1854-55 he at- tended lectures at the University of New York, and in the spring of the latter year, having been licensed to practice medicine by the New Jersey State Medi- cal Society, he settled in Jersey t'ity, and there began the work of his profession. To make himself as pro- ticient as possible, he attended a course of lectures at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in the winter of 1862-63, and then obtained the diploma of this in- stitution. Dr. Morris is a member of the District. Medical Society of Hudson County, and has several times represented it in the State Medical Society. In 1876 he was a delegate to the American Medical As- sociation. His interest in the Jersey City Hospital has been great from the time of its organization, and he is, and always has been, on its medical staff. The same is true in regard to the Hudson County Church Hospital, as well as of St. Francis Hospital, to both of which he has given his professional services. For several years he was physician to the Children's Hos- pital in Jersey City, and for a long time acted as city physician.

ROMEO F. CHABERT was born in London, England, Ang. 9, 1828, and is of French descent, his father having been a native of Avignon, France, and once an officer under Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1830 the family removed to the United States, and settled in New York City. Having received a good education at the celebrated French school of Peugnet & Broth- ers in that city, Romeo Chabert began and pursued the study of medicine under good preceptors until 1854, when he entered the Medical Department of the University of New York, from which institution he was graduated M.D., in 1856. During the following voar he not only engaged in general practice, but at- tended the New York Ophthalmic School, and was graduated therefrom. In 1858 he removed to Ho- boken, N. J., and there resumed the professional la- bors which have occupied him until the present time. Dr. Chabert is a member of various societies, among which are the District Medical Society of Hudson County, the New Jersey Academy of Medicine and the Jersey City Pathological Society. He has been a delegate to the State Medical Society of New Jersey, as well as to the State Medical Societies of New York and Massachusetts. In 1864 he represented the Hud- son County Medical Society in the American Medical Association. For one year he was physician for the city of Iloboken, and one year its Superintendent of Public Schools. For fifteen years he was attending surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital of Hoboken, and dur- ing the last two years its consulting surgeon. In 1860 he was commissioned division surgeon of the Second Division New Jersey State National Guard, under Gen. E. R. V. Wright.

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PHILIP M. SENDERLING Was born in Brunswick, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., March 19, 1831. He was edu- cated at Will ums College, Massachusetts, from which institution he was graduated A. B., in 1852 and .A.M., He thus jointly pursued his labors and studies for about three years. Being of an economical turn of mind, he was enabled to save a sufficient sum to pursue a higher course of education. in 1854. Soon afterwards he entered the University of Pennsylvania, and there, in 1556, received his de- gree of M.D. He began at once the practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he remained until Returning to his native State and home, and find- ing his education insufficient for the profession he had chosen, having only then received the advantages the country school afforded, he decided, with characteris- tie determination to educate himself. With this end in view, he overcame obstacks that would have dis- couraged and disheartened any ordinary youth ; but with that courage and indomitable will-power which 1862, when he decided to offer his services in behalf of the Union in the war of the Rebellion. They were accepted, and he was appointed, in May, 1862. assistant surgeon First New Jersey Volunteers, which position he occupied until May, 1564, when he was promoted to be surgeon to the Eighth New Jer- sey Volunteers. From that time he was on active duty until July, 1865, when he was mustered out of has so strongly marked him thus far through life, he service, the war having been brought to a close. In entered Chester Institute, Chester, N. J., then a flour- ishing collegiate school, under the management of the late Professor Rankin. While there pursuing his studies with faithfulness and assiduity, he fitted him- self for college. August following Dr. Senderling settled in Berwick, Columbia C'o., Pa., where he resumed private prac- tice. Here he remained until September, 1877, when he returned to Jersey City, and here he is still resi- ding and is still laboring in the line of his profession.

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 105

Author: Shaw, William H Publication date: 1884 Publisher: [United States :] Number of Pages: 830

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 830