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BERIAH A. WATSON was born at Lake George, Warren County, N. Y., March 26, 1836. Ile graduated from the medical school of the New York University in 1861. He became surgeon of the Fourth New Jersey Volunteers. Later he was surgeon of the First Brigade, First Division, of the Sixth Army Corps, and later took charge of the Sixth Corps hospital and he came medical purveyor to the corps. He located in Jersey City at the close of the war He was a member of a large number of medical societies and a surgeon at the City and St Francis hospitals. He was a voluminous writer on medical subjects and enjoyed a European as well as a national reputation.
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JOHN J. CRAVEN was born in Newark, N. J., September 8, 1822. He was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was surgeon of the First New Jersey Militia in the war. He became brigade surgeon in 1862 and corps surgeon of the Tenth Corps in 1864. He was medical purveyor and chief medical officer of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina from January 17, 1865, with rank of lieutenant-colonel, and headquarters at Fortress Monroe. In 1867 he established himself in Jersey City and lived in the city a number of years. He removed to Long Island in 1879 and died there.
GEORGE S. Ruce was born in Martinsburg, Lewis County, N. Y., May 7, 1821. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1862, and was surgeon of the Eighth New York Militia and the One Hundred and Fourth New York Volunteers. Later he had charge of the Second Division hospital of the Fifth Corps at City Point, Va. He returned to Jersey City in 1865.
H. MORTIMER BRUSH Was born in New York City, December 3, 1836. He was educated at Mount Washington and the New York University, graduating in 1862. He practised in New York until 1871, when he located in Bayonne.
PIERSON RECTOR was born in Duanesburg, Schenectady County, N. Y., January 11, 1839. He was educated at Milton Academy, Racine College and Albany Medical School, graduating
in 1863. He served as a surgeon in the United States Army until 1877, when he located in Jersey City.
GEORGE B. CORNELL was born in Dukes County, Mass., April 24, 1833. He graduated from Madison University and the medical school of the New York University. He practised in New York until 1869, when he located in Jersey City.
WILLIAM N. CLARK was born in New York City in 1844. He graduated from the New York Uni- versity and after practising some time in Jersey City became surgeon on a Belgium steamer.
HENRY MITCHELL was born in Norwich, Chenan- go Co., N. Y., August 6, 1845. He was educated at Catskill Academy, Phillips', Exeter and Belle- vue Medical College. He settled in Jersey City in 1870, and served on the staff of the Hudson County and St. Francis' hospitals.
DR. MORTIMER LAMPSON was born in the village of Rose, Wagner County, N. Y., October 23, 1843. MORTIMER LAMPSON. When a boy his parents removed to Hartland, Niagara County, in that State, where he at- tended the public schools, after which he attended the High School of Lockport, N. Y., for three years. In 1860 he entered the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, where he re- mained three years, the last six months of his course in that institution being spent in the medi- cal department. In the spring of 1863 he returned home on account of the high state of feel- ing caused by the Civil War. lle applied for a position in the military service. He was as- signed to the medical service by the War Department, and during the battle of Gettysburg he was on his way to be assigned to duty. At that time there was a small corps of medical stu- dents, numbering forty, who were attached to the army and were styled Medical Cadets. In July of 1863 he was sent with the Washington detachment to attend the wounded. In Oc- tober of that year he was ordered to Portsmouth. Va., where he served until July, 1864, in the Chesapeake General Hospital. At that time Dr. Lampson was appointed assistant surgeon of the Thirty-sixth United States Colored Volunteers, and participated in several engagements, among which were the siege of Petersburg, the battle of Fort Harrison and the capture of Richmond. At the close of the war in 1865 he returned home and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, and was graduated therefrom in 1866, receiving the degree of M. D. He then located in Sussex County, New Jersey, where he remained and practised medicine for seven years, dividing his time between the towns of Beemerville and
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Stanhope. In June of 1873 Dr. Lampson located in Jersey City, and has continued his practice there ever since.
Dr. Lampson is visiting surgeon to St. Francis' Hospital. He has been surgeon of the Fourth Regiment, New Jersey National Guard, since 1883, and was for one year lieutenant- colonel and medical inspector National Guard of New Jersey. When the National Guard was reorganized he was reappointed major and surgeon of the Fourth Regiment, a position he still retains. He is a member of Van Houten Post, G. A. R .; the Hudson County District Medical Society ; the New Jersey Academy of Medicine; the Order of Military Surgeons of New Jersey ; Amity Lodge, No. 103. F. and A. M., of which he is Past Master ; he is also a member of Hugh de Payens Commandery No. 1, K. T.
In 1869 Dr. Lampson married Miss Josephine Crane, of Sussex County, New Jersey. After a wedded life of a few months he was deprived of her companionship by death. Twelve years thereafter he married Miss Mary Louise Hayward, of Rochester, N. Y., and on July 16. 1883, death again deprived him of his wife. Dr. Lampson resides at 203 Pacific Avenue, occu- pied at one time by the late Erminie Smith, who was so prominently connected with " Sorosis."
DR. ISAAC NEWTON QUIMEY, a distinguished physician and influential citizen of Jersey City, born at Bernardsville, near Basking Ridge, in Somerset County, N. J., August 5, 1831, was the son of Nicholas Emmons and Rachel Stout Quimby.
His father was a farmer who had served in the war of 1812. He was the grandson of Judge Nicholas Emmons, of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. His grandfathers upon both sides were patriot soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
Dr. Quimby was left an orphan at an early age and thrown upon his own resources, so that his useful life and the honorable place he has won for himself are wholly the results of his own persevering industry, integrity, skill, intelligence and well-directed efforts.
His early employment was farming and mnilling, and at nineteen years of age he had acquired a good practical knowledge of the milling business. About 1851 he went West, and successfully engaged in the flour and milling business at Zanesville and Somerville, Ohio. Here he formed an acquaintance with Dr. Barr, a friend, who took a kindly interest in him, and, per- ceiving his aptitude for a different career in life, advised him to undertake the study of medi- cine. To this course, as more congenial to his tastes, and affording a more appropriate field for his powers, he was readily persuaded.
Accordingly, for three years he pursued his medical studies in connection with his daily labors. At the same time, by a wise economy, he accumulated means sufficient to carry him forward for some time in pursuit of a higher general culture as a basis for his special profes- sional training. Hitherto he had enjoyed but the meagre advantages of a limited attendance at the country school, and in the successful attempt to educate himself he met and vanquished many difficulties and discouragements. In this struggle he evinced that energy, courage and invincible will-power which has ever distinguished him, and has greatly contributed to his ste- cess in life. At the Chester Institute, then a flourishing collegiate school under the care of the late Prof. Rankin, and situated at Chester, N. J., he completed an academic course which fitted him for college.
However, he did not enter Princeton College, as he had at one time intended, but now be- came a student in the medical department of the University of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1859, second in his class, and with a special certificate of honor. llis health now somewhat failing, he acted upon the advice of Dr. Valentine Mott, his preceptor. and began the practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he has since resided.
He soon established a thriving practice, which, upon the breaking out of the Civil War, he left to enter the army as a volunteer surgeon. He served with Gen. Mcclellan's force in the swamps of the Chickahominy, in the Seven Days' Battle and "change of base " to the James River, and the retreat to Harrison Landing. He was at Antietam, and remained with his divi- sion till after the battles of the Wilderness, when, on account of illness, he returned home, and shortly after resumed his practice, in which he has been actively engaged to the present time (1895). Dr. Quimby was for some time lecturer in the spring course of the University of the City of New York, and also assistant to Prof. A. C. Post in his surgical clinic at the same institute He was the originator of the Hudson County (now Christ) Hospital, and for years offe of its leading surgeons.
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Et is the author of several important improvements in surgical operations . 4 A New Mode of Treatment o' Congenital Talipes " (Vide Transactions-American Medical Association, Tol XIX) ; "A New Method d' Amputation x the Ankisomit " ( Transactions, Vol. XXL). "A Case of Compound Fracture of the Tibm and Fibule," an operation on paraliel bones br which the amputation of a limb mar be avoided Transactions. 1270).
An ongmal investigation with demonstrative experiments o' great importance is embodied in a paper (Transactions, Vol. XXXL. 18&D ox " The Criminal Use of Chloroform." The mai- ter grew out of his work as an expem in the celebrated Smith-Bemer murder mint = Jersey City. Mrs. Smith was sleeping with her husband when he was Toully murdered by her side. but claimed she knew nothing about r until she awoke from 2 chloroform sleep. This trial Turned upor the question whether it is possible to transfer a person from & natural sleep to 2 profound anesthesia by means of chloroform without his being awakened upor the application of the drug. By a number of isimnews Ir Quimby demonstrated that this mpix readily be dome. It consequence Mes Smith, already condemned to death, obtamed & new ral which resulted in her arquintal
ISAA. NEWTON QUIMAT
In. Quimby holds membership in the Amer- icar Medical Association, and was one of the founders and the Ers: chairman of the ser- hor of medical jurisprudent in hat assi- ciation. He is a member of the Endsut Commer District Medica! Society: of the Amer- icar Public Health Association : of the Nec- icc-Legal Society. d' New York: of the Society of Medical Turisprudence and State Medicine. New York . d' the Mississippi Taller Medical Association . honorary mez- ber of the Gymerological Society of Boszor member of the British Medical Association .. and of the American Association for the Cure d' Inebriett, ETC
He is also one i' the founders and the vice- president of the American Medical Temmer- ance Association, a society organized "ir af- through the medical profession, and to pri- mote investigation as it the action of alcohol ir neali and disease : amd it form a bond af umior among medical abstamers all over the country." The organization was effected Washington. I C. May 1801. vit 2 mez- bershn of one hundred medical men from all paris of the United States. many of them
physicians and surgeons widely known. in thew profession. The idea is to siney mebriesy. with all the bises and Ronses uf alcohol. Smids. peter from the scientific and medical standpoints. and tr difuse the mio.manot se dotamet
the generaliy pernicious effery or auth min in: numar system. Fit strongis deprecated z reckless, almost moiscrimmit and farmitu une ir x ir the practice of a large portion of his and the better mi chilun tiny muurhet, Int imer ir the present craze for alcohol presso-
D. grammby's position is wel gret in 1.7 int iwhowent entrants from is speech before The World's Temperma Life- RUN. 5 IN "The medical profession of ascom.
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eases, in all their various stages-both acute and chronic-without regard to age or sex or tem- perament. It has been used as an antidote to poison-itself a poison, as a stimulant-itself a depressor, as a food-with none of the properties of food, to increase the power of the pulse or to depress the same ; as a remedial agent in paralysis-itself a cause of paralysis, to aid and promote mental and physical force-when everyone is familiar with its power to destroy both ; to promote digestion, enrich the blood, increase cell-growth, prevent disease and prolong life -- when, in fact, it has been clearly demonstrated and proven by many of the most eminent inves- tigators of the world to possess none of the virtues and powers so long ascribed to it. There is no drug in the whole range of the pharmacopoeia that has been used with such persistent and reckless inconsistency and contradiction as alcohol. But the world does move, and through God's help and the labor of scientific men, alcohol will be removed from the position it now occupies-the front lines of civilization-to the rear, and placed among the relics of barbarism." His paper on the " Pathological Action of Alcohol in Health and Disease," read before the New Jersey State Temperance Alliance, was printed by that society and circulated in a pamphlet edition of five thousand copies. It received high commendations from distinguished educators in various parts of the country. Dr. Quimby has recently been appointed one of the physicians on the advisory boards of the national and international department of scientific temperance instruction in schools and colleges. The doctor was nominated for governor of the State by the prohibitionists in 1883, but declined the place of honor on their ticket. His interest in the subject is especially scientific, rather than political. Still, he always takes a deep interest in any reform movement for the betterment of any class and every condition in city, State or nation. He has a wholesome hatred for all corrupt schemes and schemers, all monopolies and oppressions. With the heart of a philanthropist, he naturally sides with the masses, the poor and the weak.
Brought up under democratic influence, during the Civil War and the years subsequent, he gave his best efforts to the republican party ; but now, as always, he considers the interests of the people as far above all party measures and claims. Guided by such independent considera- tions, he has still been active in affairs of his city and State, where he exerts an extended in- fluence. He was president of the first citizens' association of Jersey City in 1870, and instru- mental in breaking up the corrupt official ring which at that time controlled the affairs of the city. He was also one of the originators of the anti-monopoly union of Hudson, which has done good service in checking the selfish schemes and corrupting influences of railroad corpo- rations, and compelling them to bear a more equable portion of taxation. Largely through his intelligence, tireless industry and zeal, the monstrous railroad land-grabbing water-front bill (known as Bill 167) was defeated in the State legislature.
In 1875 Dr. Quimby visited many of the prominent hospitals and public institutions of Europe. In 1881 he was delegate from the American Medical Association to the International Medical Congress at London, and actively participated in its deliberations. He also attended the sessions of the British Medical Association. Three years later he was again appointed dele- gate to the International Medical Congress, at that time convened in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a member of the first Pan-American Medical Congress, which met at Washington, D. C., in September, 1893, and he was a delegate to the International Medical Congress which convened at Rome, Italy, in April of 1894.
Dr. Quimby's first marriage, to Helen Stark, daughter of the late Thomas McKie, a retired merchant of New York, occurred in 1863. They had three children, of whom one. Alfred Charles Post Quimby, survives his mother, who died in 1868. In 1875 Dr. Quimby married his present wife, Frances H., daughter of the late James Flemming, a well-known citizen of Jersey City. They have one son, Isaac Newton Quimby, Jr.
The doctor, still vigorous in body and intellect, enjoys a well-merited success, with the confidence and respect of a wide circle of the best citizens of his city and State.
Augustus Villeroy Hill was born at Salem, Washington County, N. Y., August 6, 1845 He was educated at Norwich University, Union College, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1869. He practised in New York until 18;2, when he located at Guttenberg. He was elected elerk of the town council in 1880, and held the position a number of years.
James A. Petrie was born at Liberty, Sullivan County, N. Y., in 1840. He graduated at
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the Pennsylvania University, and practised medicine ten years in Jersey City, when he removed to Phillipsburg, N. J.
CHARLES O. VIERS was born in Brook County, Va., April 10, 1841. He was at Bethany College when the war broke out, and went to the front with the Virginia cavalry. He gradu- ated from Bellevue in 1867, and located in Jersey City in 1869.
PHILEMON HOMMELL was born in Alsace, July 16, 1836. He was educated in the University of Strasbourg. He was a pharmacist for twenty years, and graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1881. He continued to practise in Jersey City until he died.
HENRY DE LACY SHERWOOD was born at Deposit, N. Y., March 19, 1860. He was educated at the Jersey City High School and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1882. He located in Jersey City.
VICTOR C. B. MEANS was born at Concord, N. C., May 1, 1860. He graduated at the New York University in 1881, served in the Jersey City Hospital ayear and a half, and was appointed surgeon in the U. S. Navy in 1884.
ULAMOR ALLEN.
CALVIN F. KYTE was born at Eldred, Sul- livan County, N. Y. He graduated at the New York University in 1881 and settled in Jersey City.
ULAMOR ALLEN is the. son of the late Henry Allen, a prominent United Pres- byterian clergyman of Ohio who died in 1878. He was born in Hamilton Co., Ohio, August 13, 1854. He was educated at the schools of his native place, and graduated from the medical department of the New York University in 1880. He located in Jersey City and has practised his profes- sion there ever since. He is one of the medical staff of Christ Hospital, and one of the surgeons for the North Hudson Rail- way Company. He is a member of the Hudson County Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. He was married in April, 1891, to Miss Clara O. Martin, of Lancaster, Pa., and one child, a daughter, has been born to them. In 1892 he was appointed a member of the Jersey City board of education to fill an unexpired term, and in 1894 was reap- pointed for a full term and elected presi- dent of the board.
CHARLES H. SHELTON was born in Jaffnaputam, India, May 14, 1854 He was educated at Hasbrouck Institute, Yale College and the New York Homeopathie College, graduating in 1880. He practised in Jersey City four years, and removed to Montelair.
J. LAWRENCE NEVIN was born in North Sewickly, Pa., January 21, 1853. He graduated at the New York Homeopathic College in 1878, and located in Jersey City.
GEORGE E. TirUs was born in New York City, July 1, 1855. He was educated at the Penn- sylvania College and Bellevue, graduating in 187;, and located in Jersey City.
STEPHEN V. MORRIS was born in Jersey City, October 12, 1845. He graduated at Bellevue in 1877 and located in Jersey City.
WILLIAM A. DURRIE, JR., was born in Jersey City, June 11, 1855. He graduated from Yale in 1876, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York Homeo- pathic College. He located in Jersey City in 18;8.
CHARLES W. CROPPER was horn at Rock Island, III., June 13, 1848. He graduated at Belle- vue in 1876 and located in Jersey City.
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RUDOLPH B. LIENAU was born at New Brighton, Staten Island, October 21, 1846. He was educated in the Vitz Thum Gymnazium at Dresden and the University of Wurtzburg, Germany. He located in Jersey City in 1876.
WALTER RAF was born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, September 29, 1849. He graduated at the New York University in 1876, and settled in Jersey City, where he soon acquired a large practice.
WILLIAM L. DARLINGTON was born in West Chester, Pa., November 5, 1849. He graduated at the Jefferson College in 1875. He located in Jersey City in 1883.
WILLIAM J. MACKEY was born in Dublin, Ireland, February 23, 1847. He graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1875 and located in Jersey City.
CHARLES A. LIMEBURNER was born on the ocean, November 18, 1854. He was educated at Rutgers and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1879. He practised in Brooklyn for a year and located in Jersey City in 1880.
CLEMENT C. YouNc was born in Washington, D. C., March 1, 1853. He was educated at Rock Hill College and Bellevue, graduating in 1874. He settled in Jersey City and was city physician in the fifth district.
WILLIAM J. McDOWELL was born in Baltimore, February 23, 1854. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1874. He was surgeon in the Baltimore Eye and Ear Infirmary, surgeon in the Presbyterian Eye and Ear Hos- pital, professor of eye and ear diseases in the University of Maryland and president of the Bal- timore Medical Society. In 1882 he located in Jersey City and practised until his death.
HORACE G. BIDWELL was born in Greenville, May 24, 1849. He was educated in the New York College and Bellevue Hospital College, graduating in medicine in 1872. He has practised in Jersey City since 1874.
JOHN D. VAN SAUN was born in Jersey City, March 21, 1851. He graduated from Bellevue in 1873, and has practised in Jersey City since 1874.
JOHN VAN VORST was born in Jersey City, Octo- ber 18, 1850. He was educated at Princeton and Bellevue, and spent several years studying in Paris and Vienna hospitals. He located in Jersey City in 1879, and was considered one of the most ad- vanced practitioners in the city.
HIRAM M. EDDY was born in Springfield, N. Y., July 14, 1848. He graduated from the New York University in 1872. He was medical superintend- CONRAD WIENGES. ent of the County Asylum 1873-'75 and was a member of the Jersey City board of education. He removed from the city after building up a lucrative practice.
CONRAD WIENGES was born in Charleston, S. C., August 20, 1848. His father, Conrad Wienges, was for many years a merchant of that city engaged in the West Indies trade. He was educated at Carroll's Academy in Charleston, after which he was engaged in the drug business at Memphis and Jersey City for a number of years. He graduated from the New York College of Pharmacy in 1871. In 1868 and 1869 he attended a course of lectures at the South Carolina Medical College in Charleston, and in 1881 entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, graduating in 1883. He is a member of the Hudson County Medical Society and of the New York Academy of Medicine, and is a member of the staff of Christ Hospital, jersey City. He is a member of Sherman Lodge, No. 129, K. of P. ; Garfield Lodge, No. 65. 1. O O F. and of Grace P. E. Church. On November 7, 1875, he married Miss Virginia D Moore, of Jersey City.
JULIUS FEHR, physician and pharmacist, was born at Castle, near Mayence, in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Germany, March 29, 1825. He was educated in the schools of Darmstadt, and at sixteen years of age was apprenticed to a druggist in the city of Hanau, with whom he
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remained four years ; he then went to Colmar, in Alsace, where he spent a year in the same business. Soon after this he enlisted in the French army, and served four years in Algiers. He had his discharge as non-commissioned officer when he returned to his native town in Ger- many. In 1850 he emigrated to America, landing at New York in May of that year. He at once obtained employment in E. & S. Fougera's pharmacy, and remained in that business in different positions in New York City until 1855. During that year he removed to Hoboken, N. J., where he had charge of the pharmacy of C. V. Clickner & Co. for four years, when he purchased the business himself and continued in it until 1877. During this time he had taken the regular medical course of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia Col- lege, New York, from which he was graduated in 1869, and for a time practised in Hoboken. After experimenting for several years with taleum, the silieate of magnesia (a substance which, although known for many cen- turies, had been entirely over- looked by therapeutists and der- matologists) Dr. Fehr succeeded in perfceting his celebrated preparation of compound tal- eum. In 1874 it was exhibited at the meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association at Louisville, Ky. ; in 1875 at Bos- ton, and in 1876 at the Centen- nial Exposition at Philadelphia -at all of which places it was given marked attention. In the year of 1890, on invitation of Dr. Wales, surgeon-general of the United States Navy, it was placed on exhibition at the Mu- seum of Hygiene, founded in the City of Washington for per- manent exhibition. From a small beginning, in 1873, it had grown with Dr. Fehr, in 1893, to be a large and still increasing business, extending not only throughout the United States, JULIUS FEHR. but to foreign lands. In 1871 Dr. Fehr was one of the found- ers of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Association, and at the meeting of that association in Newark was elected vice-president.
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