History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 107

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

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He was appointed attending surgeon to the Jersey City Charity Hospital at the time of its organization, in 1869, and was also appointed attending surgeon to the St. Francis Hospital in 1873, which duties he continues to discharge. Dr. Watson received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Rutgers Col- lege March 7, 1882. He has from time to time con- tributed essays and reports of cases to medical jour- nals, among which may be mentioned the following : " A Case of Facial Neuralgia treated by Extirpation of the Superior Maxillary Nerve," The Medical Record, Oct. 16, 1871 ; " A Case of Hematoma of the Thigh ; Two Operations; Death," The Medical Record, Feb.

20, 1875; "The Pathology and Treatment of Chronic l'hers," New York Medical Journal, July, 1875; " Cases of Rabies Canina treated with Strychnia and Woorara; Recovery," The American Journal of Medi- cal Science, July, 1876; " Femoral Aneurism treated by Plugging the Sac ; Death caused by Hemorrhage from

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Deep Epigastric Artery on the Eighteenth Day; An- Sept. 8, 1822. With nothing more than a plain com- mon-school education, he was first apprenticed " David G. Ayres, a house-carpenter, of Newark, S. J., with whom he learned his trade and worked until he had reached his majority. Son afterwards he was employed in the creation of the Passaic Chemical Works, and on their completion was rets ned by the proprietor as superintendent of construction and re- pairs. topsy ; Remark-," The American Journal of Medical Science, October, 1876; "Stomach-Pump, Aspirator and Syringe," The Medical Record, New York, vol. ii. p. 805 ; " Woorara in Rabies; Report of Two Cases with Remarks," The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, vol. Ixxiii. p. 413. "Lever Exertion Sac," The Medical Record, New York, vol. xiii. p. 38; " Discotome," Ibid, vol. xiv. p. 78; "Gunpowder Disfigurements," The St. Louis Medical and Surgical Here he first acquired his taste for scientific pursuits, and in 1845, when Morse's telegraph was in course of construction across New Jersey and through Newark, he became greatly interested in the work, and entered the service of the company as superintendent of construction. At Fort Lee, under the instruction of Professor Morse, he began a series of experiments with submarine telegraph cables, but throughout the years 1845 and 1846 these experi- ments were u isuccessful for want of a proper insula- tion of the wires. The following year a piece of gutta- percha, then unknown commercially, was shown to him as a curiosity. Learning its peruliar qualities, he saw in it at once the very thing that he had so long sought in vain in order to accomplish the task that had been assigned to him. He purchased a quantity of the article, and in August, 1847, having coated a copper wire with gutta-p reha, with the assist- ance of his wife, submerged it in a small stream near the southern extremity of Newark. Applying the battery, he found that he had overcome all difficulties, and that the submarine cable was at last achieved. Hle next submerged his wire in the Passaic River and connected it with the land wires on both sides. It proved a success. Before the end of the year he placed his prepared wires at various points, where telegraph lines crossed navigable streams, and in all cases found that they answered the purpose for which they were designed. He applied for a patent for this invention, which has brought all the countries of the earth within speaking distance of each other, but, disgraceful and incomprehensible as it may seem, a patent was refused to him. The lon. William D. Kelley, in his address delivered in Philadelphia, at the cable celebration, 1858, thus alluded to Dr. Craven : Journal, vol. xxxv. p. 1.15; "'yamia" and "Septi- camia," New York Medical Journal, vol. xxvi. pp. 367- 461; "Disease Germs. Their Origin, Nature and Re- lation to Wounds," Transactions of the American Medical Association, vol. xxix. p. 269; " An Experi- mental and Clinical Inquiry into the Etiology and Distinctive Peculiarities of Traumatic Fever," Tran actions of the American Medical Association, vol. xxxii p. 409, 1881; " Woorara ; Its Medical Properties and Availability for the Treatment of Diseases," Virginia Medical Monthly, vol. ix. p. 1, et. seq .; "Lis- ter's System of Aseptic Wound Treatment UPraus Its Modifications," Transactions of the .hurrican Nur- gical Association, vol. i. p. 205, 1883; " An Experimen- tal Study of Anasthetics, read before the American Surgical Association at Washington, D. C., April 30, 1884; " Pyamia and Septicemia," a chapter in vol. i. of the American System of Practical Medicine, edited by William Pepper, M.D., LL. D., in press : "Ampu- tations and their Complications," an octavo volume, in press. Translations from the German : "Woorara in Tetanus," extract from a "Contribution to the Knowl- elge of Tetanus," by A. C Knecht, physician to the prison of Waldheim (reported in Schmidt's Jahrbücher, band 173, 8 94), New York Medical Journal, vol. XXV. p. 626; "Remarks on Treatment of Stumps after Amputation, a New Method," London Lancet, vol. i. p. 536, 1879. Translations from the French: "New Mode of Surgical Treatment" (" Histoire de la Chirur- gie Française," par le Docteur Jules Rochard, edit., 1875, page 635, et seq.), St. Loms Medical and Surgical Journal, vol. xxxvi. p. 412, vol. xxxvii. pp. 23, 439, vol. : xxxviii. p. 178. vol. xxxix. p. 484; "A Contribution to the Treatment of Compound Fractures of the Skull," Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal, vol. xxviii. | " But we celebrate the laying of a submarine cable, p. 1; " Antiseptie Treatment of Wounds: Carbolic Acid 78. Alcohol," The Medical Record, New York, vol. xvi. p. 16; "The Proper Period for the Per- formance of Amputation in Cases of Traumatic In- juries," Gillard's Medical Journal, vol. xxx p. 1 (formerly the Richmond and Louisville Medical Jour- nol). "A Contribution to the Study of the Action of the Carbolized Spray in the Antiseptic Treatment of Wounds," The American Journal of the Medical Sci- ences, vol. Ixxx. p. 419.

and let me with my poor efforts draw trom the obscurity in which has fallen the name of that toiling worker of days-work who first laid a magnetic tele- graph wire, conted in gutta-percha, under a body of water near his native town of Newark, N. J. He laid four thus coated, and for the use of one of them he received from a powerful corporation one dollar and twenty-five cents per day. He applied for a patent, but, on grounds which. if I understand the case rightly, were very inadequate for such a de- vision, his claim was rejected, and he lost even his poor revenue from the work which the corporation used. Jobr J. ( raven, of Newark, N. J. made and JOHN JOSEPH U'RAVEN was born in Newark, N. J., laid the first practical substantial, available sub-

Dr. Watson was married, Sept. 24, 1868, to Miss Phebe A., only daughter of the late H. M. Traphagen, of Jersey City, and has two children.

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marine telegraph, and let his name stand out in its proper place."

In 1851 he began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. Gabriel Grant, of Newark, N. J., whose name elsewhere appears in this volume, and having subsequently attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons ot New York, he entered upon the practice of his profession in his native city. On the breaking out of the Rebellion he was ap- pointed surgeon of the First New Jersey Regiment, and on the expiration of the term of service of that regiment he passed an examination before a board of army surgeons, sitting at Washington, and was ap- pointed brigade surgeon in Sherman's expeditionary corps. In February, 1862, he was promoted to be chief medical officer of General Wright's brigade, and accompanied that force to Florida. In Septem- ber of the same year he was made medical purveyor of the Department ofthe South, with headquarters at Ililton Head. In May, 1864, he was made chief medical officer of field operations against Forts Wag- ner, Gregg and Sumter. On the organization of the Tenth Army Corps, he proceeded with it to Virginia as medical director. and remained with that corps until 1865. On the With of January he was assigned to duty as medical purveyor and chief medical officer of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina, with headquarters at Fortress Monroe. In March, 1865, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meritorious services during the war, and on the 16th of December was honorably discharged from the service, In 1867, Dr. Craven established himself in the practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he is at present located.

(TEORGE SCHUYLER RUGG was born in Martins- burg. Lewis Co., N. Y., May 7, 1821. He was principally educated at the institute in Water- town, Jefferson Co., N. Y., and at the academy in Lowville, in his native county. He subsequently entered upon the study of medicine, and was graduated M.D., from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1862. In this city and in Brooklyn he was a practitioner of medicine until March, 1862, when he entered the army as a surgeon in behalf of the Union during the war of the Rebellion. He was first attached to the Eighth New York militia, and subso- quently to the One Hundred and Fourth New York Volunteers. During a portion of the years 1864 and 1865 he had charge of the Second Division Hospital, Fifth Army Corps, at City Point, Va. He was on duty in connection with an artillery brigade in front of Peter burg during the battle which preceded the surrender of Gion. Lee. In June, 1865, he resigned his commission and returned to his home, and subse- quently established himself in Jersey City, where he is at present engaged in the practice of his profession.

HENRY EMORY ROKTHE was born in New York City, Dec. 25, 1840, and was educated ut the Collegiate School in Thirty-ninth Street, in that city. He is a

graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In the war of the Rebellion he was sur- geon's steward and assistant surgeon on the " Mercedita," United States navy. In the army he had charge of brigade medical supplies, Ninth Army Corps Field Hospital, before Petersburg, Va., under Surgeon Chief W. R D. Blackwood, Second Division. He is at present deputy county physician for Hudson County and surgeon for the Pennsylvania Railroad for East Newark.

NOAtt SANBORN was born in Tamworth, N. II., May 14, 1839. His elementary education was obtained in Parsonsville (North) Seminary, and at Phillips' Ex- eter Academy, and his degree of M.D., was received from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College. On the breaking out of the Rebellion he joined the Fourth Vermont Regiment, and in 1862 was appointed acting assistant surgeon therein, and assigned to duty at the convalescent and distribution camps, near Alex- andria, Va. Hle was in the battles of Lee's Mills, War- wiek Court-House, Yorktown, Whitehouse Landing, Gaines' Farm, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Seven Days' Battle before Richmond, White Oak Swamp, Malvern Hill, South Mountain and Antietam. On several occasions he was wounded, and on all occasions he was commended for good conduct "under fire " and for faithful services. After leaving the service Dr. Sanborn settled in Bayonne, Hudson Co., N. J., where he has practiced his profession for more than twelve years and where he still remains.

H. MORTIMER BRUSH was born in the city of New York, Dec. 8, 1836. Ile received his education in part at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute and in part at the University of the City of New York, from the Medical Department of which he was graduated in 1862. For some time he practiced medicine in New York, but during the last thirteen years has been located at Bergen Point, Hudson Co.

PIERSON RECTOR was born in Duanesburg, Sche- nectady Co., N. Y., Jan. II, 1839. He was edu- cated at Milton Academy and at Racine College, Wisconsin. In May, 1863, he was graduated MI.D., from the Albany Medical College, and immediately after received an appointment as assistant sur- geon in the United States army, a position which he held until April, 1877. For the last seven years he has been a practitioner of medicine in Jersey City.

E. DE GROFF, M.D.1-Dr. de Groff was born May 3, 1843. After having received a finished educa- tion, he chose the science of medicine as his profession. In the study of his profession, at home and abroad, he had the advantage of being privately tutored by some of the great masters. The degree of Doctor of Medicine was finally conferred upon him, in March, 1863, by the University of Penn- sylvania, after which his hospital and military expe- rienee was very extensive. In the spring of 1866 he

| This sketch was furnished by a friend.

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determined upon a "local habitation and a name," and selected North Hudson County as a point of van- tage, where he finally sotled June 4th the same year. Being a celebrated diagnostician, and having great tact and experience, lo reputation became rapidly established, and has steadily increased until it is fir beyond local.

Dr. de Groff' is a progressive man in every sense of the word. He is alive to all improvements, as well as generons and phifmthropie, and has really added materially to the development of North Ilson County, for all of which he has revived huis rewar ). Ile is noted for firmness of purpose and decision of character, is of a genial and social disposition, and a true, firm friend. Dr. de Giroff' was married, Feb. 12, 1852, to Florida W. Schmidt, of Weehawken, an estimable lady, and beloved and respected by all who know her. In politics the doctor is a Demo crat.

GEORGE R CORNELL was born in Dukes County, Mass., April 24, 1533. In 1557 he received the degree of A.B., from Madison University, and in 1st ;- ) was graduated with honor from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York. For one year he held the position of physician to the Lying- in Asylum of the City of New York, and for two years filled the chairs on diseases of children and of women and children in the Northwestern and Demitt Dispensaries. During these years he inaigated homeopathy, and in 1869 adopted it. in now succesfully engaged in practice in Jersey City, N. J.

WILLIAM N. CLARK was born in New York City in 1844, and recived Lis educatom in the publ . schools of that metropolis. After graduating from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, he estadoished himself in practice in Jersey City, where he has his residence. He is at present surgeon on the steamship " Penland," running between New York an I Belgium.

HENRY MITCHELL was born in Norwich, Chenango Co., N. Y., Aug. 6, 1845. His early education was received in the public schools of his native county, and subsequently he attended the Catskill Academy and the Phillips' Ex ster Academy. On leaving school he entered, as a student, the office of Dr. II. K. Bellows, of Norwich, N. Y., and there pursued his preliminary reading. In Isto, having been grad- uated M.D., from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, h . began the practice of his profession in his native town. Here his success and popularity gave to him the office of coroner of Chenango County. In Jas he was appointed surgeon of the One Hundred and Third Regiment New York State National Guards, a position which he held until 1970, when he ut moved to New Jersey, and established himself in Jersey City. In this place he became speedily and favorably known, and was soon connected with St. Francis Ilospital us a visiting physician, a position which he

held for three years. He was also for some ti e one of the visiting physicians to the Inde Courty Church Hospital, and for several years held oflive in the County Moheil Forray

Alorsris VILLAROY HILL, was born at Salem, Washington Co., N. Y., Aug. 6, 1845. Having pur- sued his preparatory studies at Washington Academy, Salen, Norwah University, Vermont, he entered I'mon College, New York, from which institution ho wi- graduatel in 1sto. Mn afterwards he began the study of medicine and in 1569 received the de- gree of M.D., from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York. In that city be comno ne d at once the practice of his profession, and continued therein until February, Is72, when he removed to Guttenberg Hudson Co., N. J. where he still resides. Dr. Hill has been physician to the out-door poor- patients of the Northeastern Dispensary since he first settled in Guttenberg. He is, and has been for some time past, deputy county physician. During the last four years he has been dlerk of the Board of Councilmen, and since 1879 a justice of the

JAMES A. PETRIE was born at Liberty. Sullivan Co., N. Y. After receiving his degree af M.D., from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1566, he settled in Jersey City, where he practiced medicine for tel years. He is at present residing in Ph lhpsburg, N .J.

MORTIMER LAMAISON WAS born In Ree, Wayne Co., S. Y., Oct. 23, 1544. His education was ph- tained at I'nion School Lockport, N. Y., and at the l'uiversity of Michigan. In October, 1863, he en- tered the united service as a medical cadet, and served as such in the hospital at Portsmouth and Fortress Monroe until June, 1-64. Un July 4, 1964. he was commissioned assistant surgeon, and assigned to the Thirty sixth Regiment United States Colored Troops in which capacity he was with his regiment before Richmond and Petersburg until the close of the war, when he received an honorable discharge. Returning to the North, he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and was graduated therefrom M D., May 8, Ivi. After this Dr. Lampson practiced some time in Sussex County, N. J., and finally settled, June, 1873, in Jer- sey l'ity, where he is at present engaged in the work of his profession.

JAMES ANDERSON EXTON was born in Clinton, N. J., Nov. 7, 1844. His education was obtained at the Rawsonian Institute, Thompson, Conn., and he was graduated M. D. from the College of Physicians and surgeons of New York in 1866, having previously served in the army during the Rebellion as brigade hospital steward, Third Brigade, First Division, First Trans Corps. Honorable mention was made of the thesis presented by hun at the close of his college course. The first nine years of his professional lite we used in Hightstown, Mercer Co., S. J., whence,

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on account of asthma, he removed to Illinois, and finding his health much improved, he therefore soon after returned to New Jersey, settling at Arlington, where he has since resided. Dr. Exton has been vice-president of the Hudson County Medical So- eicty, and for three years was president of the Board of Education of Kearny township. He is secretary of the board of trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Atlington, as well as of the township Sunday-school.

WILLIAM REDWOOD FISHER was born in Mobile, Ala., Nov. 1, 1844. Having received a good prepara- tory education, he entered Columbia College, New York, and was therefrom graduated A.B., in 1863. In 1867 he obtained the degree of M.D., from the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons of that city, and from the time of graduating until 1870 was connected professionally with the Department of Publie Chari- ties of New York. After retiring from this position he devoted himself to private practice in the same place until January, 1874, when he removed to Ho- boken, N. J., where, in addition to the daily labors incidental to a large practice, he gives much time and attention as attending surgeon to St. Mary's Hospital, of that eity.

CHARLES OTRO VEIRS was born in Brook County, Va., AApril 10, 1841. He was educated at West Liberty. Va., where he spent four years in preparation for Bethany College, from which it was his intention to graduate, but was prevented by the breaking out of the Rebellion. After three years' service in the Con- federate army as a member of the Virginia Cavalry, he was honorably discharged Aug. 25, 1864, at Win- chester, Va. Ile subsequently entered upon the study of medicine. having as preceptors Dr. John M. Cooper, of Wellsburg, Va., and Professors Sayre, Janeway and Southack, of New York. In 1867 he was graduated M.D., from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and during the last fifteen years has practiced in Jersey ('ity.

GEORGE NELSON TIBBLES Was born at Cooleyville, Athens Co., Ohio, May 2, 1842. He received his ele- mentary education at an academy in Illinois, and was still a pupil in that school when the war of the Rebellion broke out. Fired with a desire to serve his country, he threw aside his books and enlisted in the Fourth lowa Volunteers early in 1861, at the age of nineteen years. In this regiment he served until March 14, 1864, when he was taken prisoner by the enemy during a night attack on (laysville, Ala., the outpost of the Fifteenth United States Army C'orps.

He was carried to Andersonville, where he was held for seven months. At the end of that time he suc- ceeded in making his escape, and, worn out by sick- ness and hardships, reached the North. After suffi- ciently recovering his health, he applied himself to the study of medicine, and was in due time grad- unted from the New York Medical College (home-

opathie). For sixteen years he has practiced 1a Hudson County, and is at present located in Ho- boken.

JOHN Q. BIRD was born in Bernardsville, Somer- set Co., N. J., April 20, 1845, In 1868 he was gradu- ated from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York, and soon after began to practice at Everettstown, Hunterdon Co., N. J. Re- maining in that place but a short time, he removed to Jersey City, where he has since continued to prac- tire his profession. He is a member of the Hudson County District Medical Society and of the Hudson County l'athological Society, as well as of the Med- ico-Legal Society. For four years he acted as cor- oner's physician as well as jail physician in Hudson County. He was also for six years police surgeon of Jersey t'ity, and for two years house surgeon to Hud- son County Hospital.

JAMES F. MORGAN was born at Mystic Bridge, Conn., May 6, 1838. After receiving a good educa- tion at the Mystic River Academy, he passed some time at the New York College of Pharmacy, and in 1868 was graduated from the Long Island College Hospital. Dr. Morgan practiced eight years in Jersey ( 'ity, during three of which he was city phy- sician. He has been credited with a correct diag- nosis of aneurism of the abdominal aorta at an early stage.

JULIT'S FEHR was born in Germany, March 29, 1825, and was educated in his native country, at the College of Darmstadt. In 1850 he emigrated to the United States, and settled in New York City as a pharmacist, a business in which he had been already en- gaged for more than ten years. In 1854 he removed to Hoboken, N. J., of which place he is still a resident. Hle is a graduate of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of New York, and from 1869 to 1880 was en- gaged in the practice of his profession. At present he is a manufacturer of hygienic, pharmaceutical and medicinal preparations.

HUGH THOMAS ADAMS was born at Portglene, County Antrim, Ireland, January, 1846. He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution, Bel- fast, Queen's College, Belfast, Carmichael School of Medicine, and Home of Industry Hospital, Dublin, and on the 14th of October, 1869, received his degree of M1.D. from Queen's University, Ireland. After practicing for about five years in his native place, he removed to America, and in May, 1874, established himself as a physician and surgeon in Jersey City, where he is still engaged in the work of his pro- fession.

ROBERT MAITLAND PETRIE was born at Liberty, Sullivan Co., Aug. 15, 1849. He received his educa- tion at Blairstown Academy, New Jersey, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, and the Collegeof New Jersey, Princeton. He was graduated M.D., from the I'ni- versity of Pennsylvania, and subsequently established himself in Jersey City, where he has been engaged in

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the practice of his profession during the last fourteen years.

WILLIAM JAMES L'ADMI'S WAS born in Bergen County, N. J., Aug. 30, 1839. He was educated chiefly at the common schools in the vicinity of his residence. Having a desire to become a physician, he entered upon the study of medicine, and in 1870 received his degree of M.D., from the University of the City of New York. Since that time he has been a medical practitioner in Hudson County, N. J.

CONRAD WIENGES was born in Charleston, S. C Aug. 20, 1848, and was educated at Carroll's Academy of that eity In 1871 he was graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy, and after engag- ing some years in the drug bu iness, entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, from which institution he received the degree of M.D., in 1483, since which time he has practiced medicine in Jersey City.

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 107

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