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In 1867 Dr. Fehr married Mrs. Eliza Broquet, by whom he had one son, Dr. Louis Julius Fehr, of Hoboken. His stepson, Dr. Edward Broquet, is a practising physician in New York City. After the death of his first wife Dr. Fehr, in 1883, married Antonia, daughter of Francis Heger.
James F. Morgan was born at Mystic Bridge, Conn., May 6, 1838. He graduated from the Long Island College Hospital in 1868. He practised in Jersey City for a number of years, three of which he served as a city physician.
Hugh Thomas Adams was born at Portglene, County Antrim, Ireland, January, 1846. He was educated at Royal Academy, Belfast, Carmichael School of Medicine and Queen's Univer- sity. He practised five years in Ireland, and removed to Jersey City in 18;4.
Robert Maitland Petrie was born in Liberty, Sullivan County, N. Y., August 15, 1850. His
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ancestry on the paternal side is Scotch, while that of the maternal side is native born American.
Dr. Petrie received his early education at the Blairstown, N. J., preparatory school, after which he entered Princeton College, graduating with the class of '68. After completing his collegiate education he entered the medieal department of the University of the State of Penn- sylvania, at Philadelphia, and was graduated therefrom in 1871. He located at Jacksonville, Fla., where he began active practice of his profession, and where he remained one year. In the spring of 1872 he came to Jersey City to reside, and has continued here ever since.
Dr. Petrie is a member of the Union League Club and the Pathological Society of the State of New Jersey. In 1873 and 1874 he was appointed city physician. He is also a member of Jersey City Lodge, No. 76, F. and A. M .; Court Onward, Independent Order of Foresters; Negon- tatogue Tribe, No. 161, I. O. R. M. ; Lincoln Lodge, No. 36, K. of P .; Industrial Council, U. (). A. M., and Sumner Lodge, I. O.O. F., being one of the charter members of the latter. On April 30, 1889. Dr. Petrie married Miss Louise Dudley Mann, of Brooklyn, N. Y. One child, a daughter, has been born to the marriage.
WILLIAM J. CADMUS was born in Bergen County, August 30, 1839. He graduated at the New York University, and has practised in Jersey City since 1870.
GEORGE N. TIBBLES was born at Cooleyville, Athens County, Ohio, May 2, 1842. He enlisted in the Fourth Iowa Volunteers, was taken prisoner and escaped from Andersonville after seven months' suffering. He graduated from the New York Homeopathic College, and practised in Jersey City until he died.
JOHN Q. BIRD was born at Bernardsville, Somer- set County, April 20, 1845. He graduated from the New York University Medical School. He was a member of the County Society, the Patho- logical Society and the Medico-Legal Society. He was police-surgeon in Jersey City for six years, and was police commissioner a number of years. He was house-surgeon in the City Hospital, and a general practitioner until he died. His death was caused by blood poisoning incurred in the line of duty.
THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN MORRIS was born in New Brunswick, N. J., December 30, 1831. He is a descendant of John Morris, who was distin- guished as a captain under Oliver Cromwell. His son, Maj. Joseph Morris, was a prominent man in the French and Indian wars, and raised the first ROBERT MAITLAND PETRIE. company in New Jersey, at the village of Whippany, for the Revolution. He was a major in the Morgan Rifles. In a report to Congress under date of Whitemarsh, December 10. 1777, Washington wrote of the engagement between that place and Chestnut Hills : "We lost twenty-seven men in Morgan's Corps, killed and wounded, besides Maj. Morris, a brave and gallant officer, who was among the latter. He fell, shot in the mouth by a bullet that lodged in the back of his neck."
Jonathan Ford Morris, son of Maj. Morris, was a second-lieutenant in his father's com- mand, and fought at Ticonderoga, March 1, 1777. William Cullen Morris, his son, a prominent lawyer and judge of the common pleas in Hudson County, 1861-70, was the father of Dr. Morris The doctor received his early education in Belvidere, and took a classical course at the academy in that town. In 1849 his parents removed to Jersey City, and in 1850 he began the study of medicine in the New York University. In 1855 he was licensed to practise. In 1862-3 he studied in Bellevue Medical College, taking his degree in 1863. He was city physician and coroner in Jersey City for a number of years, and was one of the founders of the Jersey City Hospital. He has served as physician and surgeon in all of the local hospitals. For four years he was a member of the Jersey City board of education. In 1855 he married Gertrude, daughter of Leonard Johnston, of Bergen, and eight children were born to the marriage, four of whom
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are living. He is a member of the Palma Club, supervising medical officer of the Royal Arcanum for New Jersey, and medical examiner-in-chief for the Loyal Additional Benefit Association. He is an elder in the Wayne Street Reformed Clinrch.
EDWIN P. BUFFETT, M. D., was born at Smith- town, Suffolk County, Long Island, November 7, 1833. His father, William Platt Buffett, was a well-known and prominent lawyer of that place, and for some years filled the positions of county judge and surrogate of Suffolk County. Dr. Buffett's mother was a Miss Nancy Rogers. She was a lineal descendant of John Rogers, one of the Puritan martyrs who was burned at the stake in England in the seventeenth century.
Dr. Buffett received his rudimentary education in a private school of his native place. He after- wards attended the Burr and Burton Seminary, a preparatory school located at Manchester, Vt. In 1850 he entered Yale College, graduating there- from in 1854. After completing his college course at Vale he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York City, and was graduated EDWIN PAYSON BUFFETT. from that institution in 1857, the degrees of A. M. from Yale and M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons being conferred upon him. Before graduation he served as interne in the Albany County Hospital. In 1858 he removed to Jersey City to practise his profession, and has resided here continuously ever since. He is one of the few remaining of the older prac- titioners. His opinions on all matters pertaining to medicine and surgery have always been of value to the profession.
Dr. Buffett is a member of the Hudson County District Medical Society and the Hudson County Pathological Society. He has been identified with all the local hospitals, and was for fifteen years visiting surgeon to Christ Hospital and for the past seven years has been surgeon to the City Hospital. He has been a member of the boards of education of the Bergen and Jersey City schools. He is medical examiner for the Royal Arcanum and the Mutual Life Insurance Company, and is a member of the Carteret and Cosnios clubs.
Dr. Buffett is a literary person of no ordinary ability. He has written and published a number of works possessing great merit, besides being an occasional contributor to a number of leading journals and magazines in this country.
On April 26, 1864, Dr. Buffett married Miss Cath- arine Lewis Smith, of New York. After a wedded life of a few months he was deprived of her com- panionship through death, which occurred Sep- tember 14th of the same year. On June 6, 1872, he married Miss Alletta Van Reypen, a daughter of C. C. Van Reypen, Esq., of Jersey City. On Sep- tember 26, 1873, she died. One son, Edward Pay- son Buffett, was born to his last marriage. Dr. Buffett resides at 520 Bergen Avenue.
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THEODORE R. HORNBLOWER.
THEODORE R. HORNBLOWER was born in Jersey City, June 9, 1847. He comes of a family of medical practitioners who have been identified with Hudson and Bergen counties for the past eentury and a half. His grandfather was the
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first physician who practised in Bergen County, while his father, William Hornblower, was one of the oldest and best known practitioners in Jersey City.
Dr. Hornblower received his early education in the public schools. After completing his common school education he entered Columbia College of New York City, and was graduated from that institution in 1866. He next devoted himself to the study of pharmacy, in which he graduated in 1868. It was then he decided to adopt the medical profession, and entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, from whence he was graduated in 1871, re- ceiving the degree of M. D. He located in Hoboken, where he purchased a drug store which he conducted for several years, practising medicine in connection with that business. In 1890 he established an office at No. 631 Bergen Avenue, where he now resides. Dr. Hornblower is a member of the New Jersey Pharmaceutical Society and several other organizations.
JOHN D. McGILL, A. M., M. D., was born at Allegheny City, Pa., December 23, 1846. His father, the Rev. Alexander T. McGill, D. D., LL. D., was then a professor in the Western Theological Seminary at that city. In 1854 Dr. McGill, then a child, removed to Princeton,
N. J., his father having been elected to a professorship in the Princeton Theological Seminary, which position he occupied until his death in 1889.
Dr. McGill received his education at Princeton College, and was graduated therefrom in 1867. After completing his college course he decided to take up the study of medicine. He entered the medi- cal department of the University of Penn- sylvania, and was graduated in 1870. He then went to Europe, where he took a special course at Virchow's Pathological Institute at Berlin, and saw surgery at the Prussian military hospitals during the Franco-Prussian War. In the winter of 1871 he returned to the United States, lo- cated in Jersey City, began active practice, and has resided here ever since.
Dr. McGill has one of the most exten- sive medical practices in Jersey City, and stands high in the estimation of the medi- cal profession and of the people as a citizen and practitioner. He has been connected with St. Francis' Hospital as surgeon since 1871, and succeeded the late Dr. T. R. Varick as medical director of that institu- JOHN DALE M'GILL. tion in 1887. He has filled the position of surgeon at the Jersey City Hospital since 1886. It was through his efforts that a charter was secured creating the Academy of Medicine of New Jersey, of which body he has been the president. He was also instrumental in organizing the Military Order of Surgeons of New Jersey, which order was the first one of its kind in the United States. Dr. McGill is also a member of the Hudson County Medical Society, and a permanent member of the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of New Jersey. In 1873 he was appointed assist- ant surgeon to the Fourth Regiment, National Guard of New Jersey ; in 1877 he was promoted to be surgeon ; in 1885 he was made brigade surgeon, and in 1886 Gov. Abbett promoted him to be surgeon-general of New Jersey, a position he still retains. Since his promotion he has com- pletely revolutionized the old methods, and has introduced the latest and most approved ideas in ambulance and hospital service, analogous to the methods in vogue in the United States Army, New Jersey being the first State in the Union to adopt this modern medical service in her National Guard.
In politics Dr. McGill is a democrat. In 1879 he was elected a member of the board of
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education and served four years ; two years of that period he was president of that body. In 1882 he was elected a member of the board of finance and taxation. In 1884 he received the democratic nomination for mayor, but was defeated by a candidate nominated by the Citizens' Association and endorsed by the republican party.
Dr. MeGill is surgeon for the Pennsyl- vania, Lehigh Valley, and Jersey City and Bergen railroads, also a surgeon for the American Sugar Refining Company. He is a director of the Hudson County Na- tional Bank.
Dr. MeGill resides at 272 Montgomery Street, where he has his office. He is a brother of Chancellor of New Jersey, Alex. T. MeGill. Another brother, the late George M. MeGill, distinguished himself as a surgeon in the United States Army during the rebellion. He was one of three assistant surgeons of the regular army to receive the title of brevet colonel for faith- ful and meritorious services throughout the war. He died in 1867, of Asiatic cholera. His youngest brother, Samuel Hepburn MeGill, a young lawyer of great promise in Jersey City, died in 1889.
WILLIAM J. PARKER was born in Hudson County, N. J., and has been a resident of WILLIAM J. PARKER. Jersey City for the past twenty years. He received a liberal education and read medicine under the preceptorship of Surgeon-General Theodore R. Variek. After attending Bellevue Medical College he graduated with its diploma in 1879. In 1880 he began to practise
his profession in Jersey City, and has continued to the present. He is physician to St. Francis' and the Jersey City hospitals, Children's Friends Society and the Home for Aged Women. He is a member of the Palma, Carteret and Jersey City Yacht clubs, and an officer of the National Guard. He is also a member of Bergen Lodge, F. and A. M., Unique Council, Royal Arcanum, Highland Coun- cil, American Legion of Honor, a Fellow of the New Jersey Academy of Medicine, a member of the Hudson County Medical Society. Ile is medi- cal examiner for the Mutual Accident Association and the American Legion of Honor. On July S, 1889, he married Miss Annie Dunn, of Jersey City.
JOHN LOCHNER was born in Albany, N. Y. Ile was educated at the public schools and Albany Academy. In 1860 he took a course in chemistry as a preliminary to a medical course. lle studied in the medical department of Union University at Albany. In 1869 he entered the University of New York, and took his medical degree there in 1871. He was appointed a city physician in Jersey JOHN LOCHNER. City in 1871, and held the position for nineteen years. lle was tendered the nomination for assembly, but was compelled to decline. In 1890 he resigned as city physician and member of
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the city board of health. He is a member of the New York Medico-Legal Society, the Hudson County Pathological Society, and the Hudson County Medical Society. He is medical examiner for the Actors' Fund of America, the American Legion of Honor, Knights of Honor, the Hudson County Life Insurance Company, and the Sharpshooters' Association of New Jersey. He has been physician to the Home of the Homeless since its organization. He was married December 23, 1879, to Miss Kittie E. Hall, of Newark, N. J., but death ended a happy union four years later.
While surgeon of the Veteran Company of Jersey City he received a set of resolutions, September 12, 1881, thanking him for gratuitous services to the veterans who were unable to pay for treatment. He was instrumental in having the bureau of vital statistics established. and rendered conspicuous service during the small-pox epidemie of 1871-72.
ADOLPH KIRSTEN was born at Gottingen, Germany, August 31, 1824. He received his earlier education in a classical college in which his grandfather was a director. At the age of nineteen he entered the University of Göttingen and studied medicine three years. His father, Adolph Kirsten, was a prominent lawyer, and his mother belonged to the noble family of Heusinger von Waldegg. In 1830 his father participated in a revolutionary movement, which caused him to flee from Germany after having been a political pris- oner eight years. Dr. Kirsten located in Pough- keepsie. He practised there and in Albany until 1857, when he removed to Jersey City. He has always taken an active interest in civic affairs. In 1867 he was elected coroner of Hudson County, and while holding that position was instrumental - in causing railroad companies to maintain gates at all street crossings in the city. In 1868 he was elected a freeholder. In 1869-70 and '71 he was elected a member of the board of aldermen, and during his first year was chairman of the com- mittee which founded the Jersey City Hospital. In 1876 he received the republican nomination for director of the board of freeholders, but declined on account of illness. In 1850 he married Catharine Lochner, of Albany, N. Y., a sister of Dr. John Lochner, of Jersey City. Dr. Kirsten was the orig- ADOLPH KIRSTEN. inator of the Germania Savings Bank of Jersey City, which did a prosperous business fifteen years, until it became insolvent through the defalcation of its treasurer. Dr. Kirsten was at charter member of the Palma Club, and is a member of the Union League Club, Teutonia Lodge, F. and A. M., Pythagoras Lodge, K. of P., and Camp Delta, Fraternal Legion.
EDWIN W. PVLE was born in Unionville, Chester County, Pa., September 16, 1849, and comes of Quaker antecedents. His early life was that of a farmer boy, working in the summer and attending school in the winter. His father, William H. Pyle, was engaged in the milling busi- ness and agricultural pursuits, in which young Pyle assisted him.
Dr. Pyle received his education in the public schools of his native place, and at the State Normal School, located at Millersville. Pa., where he prepared himself for a teacher. In its he was graduated from that institution, and taught for one year in the common school of U'mon. ville. In 1869 and '70, inclusive, he was employed as an instructor in the commercial de . partment of the Newark, N. J., Academy. While engaged in teaching in Newark he began reading medicine under the preceptorship of Dr. D. M. Barr. In 1871 he entered Believse Hospital Medical College, of New York City, where he spent one year. In 1872 he entered the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, and was graduated therefrom in 1873. receiving the degree of M. D. On June 22d of the latter year he located in Jersey City, where he has con tinued to reside ever since.
He is a member of the New Jersey Medical Club, and was for two years president of that
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organization. He is also a member of the New Jersey Homeopathic Society, and was a charter member of the Carteret Club and the Jersey City Athletic Club. He is a prominent member of Highland Lodge, No. 49, F. and A. M.
In 1876 he married Miss Hattie A. Myers, of Jersey City. Three children have been born to the union, two sons and a daughter.
Dr. Pyle has traveled extensively in every part of the North American Continent, from Alaska on the north to the Isthmus on the south, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He has also traveled in almost every part of Europe, seeking knowledge and information, and giving the benefit of same to the medical fraternity. During the summer of 1889, while in Vienna, he spent almost his entire time in several of the celebrated hospitals of that city. He is a member of St. John's Church, and was for a number of years a trustee of that congregation.
WILLIAM PERRY WATSON was born in Bolton, Warren Co., N. Y., May 17, 1854. His early education was obtained in the district schools of Warren County and in the Warrensburgh Academy, where at the age of fourteen he passed the examination of the regents of the Univer- sity of the State of New York. Under the direction and with the assistance of his father's brother, Dr. B. A. Watson, of Jersey City, his preparatory education was completed at the Blair Presbyterial Academy in Blairs- town, N. J., and he entered Rutgers College in 1871, and was graduated A. B. in 1875 and A. M. in course in 1878. In the latter year he received the degree of M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and immediately thereafter be- gan the practice of his profession in Jersey City, where he has since been located. In 1878-9 he was assistant surgeon in St. Fran- cis' Hospital. In 1881 he was one of the organizers of the Central Dispensary, and he has since had charge of the department of diseases of children in that institution. In 1883-4 he was assistant visiting physician and surgeon to Christ Hospital, in charge of the children's ward, and in 1884 he es- tablished and has since edited the "Ar- chives of Pediatrics," the first and only medical journal in the English language devoted exclusively to the diseases of in- fants and young children. The " Archives " is an octavo monthly of eighty pages, and 1 is one of the most successful special jour- EDWIN W. PVLE. nals published. In 1884-5 he was president of the Hudson County Medical Society. In 1885-8 he was clinical assistant to the chair of diseases of children in the New York Poly- clinic. In 1889 he was appointed visiting physician to St. Francis' Hospital, and he is now presi- dent of the medical board. In this year he was also appointed consulting physician to St. Michael's Orphan Asylum. In 1889 he was one of the organizers of the American Pediatric Society, of which he has since been the recorder and the editor of its transactions, and in 1891 he was president of the " Section on Diseases of Children" of the American Medical Association. In 1890 he co-operated with Dr. James T. Wrightson, of Newark, in securing the enactment of the present medical law of New Jersey, which is one of the best of our State medical laws. Under this law Gov. Abbett appointed him a member of the State board of medical examiners, and upon the organization of the board, in September, 1890, he was offered the presidency of the board, but refused it to accept the secretaryship, in which position he has perfected the entire working details of the board, and by his zeal and executive ability has made the law a menace not only to the advertising quack, but to the ignorant physician, thereby securing for
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the "mixed " board the respect of all the schools of practice, not only in the State, but through- out the United States. In 1891 he secured the repeal of the charter of the only medical college in the State which had degenerated into a cheap diploma manufactory.
In 1892 he secured the enactment of a law regulating the " Practice of Midwifery " in New Jersey, thus making it the second State in the Union with such a law.
He has been a frequent contributor to current medical literature. and has acquired much reputation by his articles on "Cholera-Infantum," "Therapeutics of High Temperatures in Young Children," "Atropine in Enuresis," and "Value of Creosote in Diseases of the Air l'as- sages." He is a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Pathological Society, the New Jersey Academy of Medicine, the American Pediatric Society, the American Medical Association, the Hudson County Medical Society and the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of the Medical Men of New Jersey.
In 1882 he married Cornelia E., the only daugliter of the late ex-Congressman J. R. Worten- dyke, of Jersey City, N. J.
DR. GORDON K. DICKINSON was born in Jersey City, December 4, 1855. He is the son of the late William Leveritt Dickinson, who for so many years was superintendent of the Jersey City public schools.
Dr. Dickinson received his early education in the public schools of Jersey City, after which he attended Dr. Clark's private school, known as the Mount Washington Institute, New York. When he was fifteen years of age he entered Stevens Institute of Technology, of Hoboken, N. J., where he took a special course, preparatory for the medical profession. At the age of eighteen he was examined in Washington, D. C., for photography, having been appointed by the government to go to New Zealand to observe the transit of Venns. One week prior to his intended sailing his mother prevailed upon him to relinquish his appointment on account of his extreme youth. In 1874 he entered the medical department of the University of the City of New York, where he remained two years under the preceptorship of Professor Darling. In 1876 he entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and was graduated therefrom in 1877. In- stead of taking the usual lectures in college he placed himself under the private tutorage of Dr. Winters for three years, including a one year post-graduate course. He then served one year in the Jersey City Hospital, after which he began his profession in this city. He enjoys one of the largest and most influential medical practices in Jersey City.
Dr. Dickinson was assistant surgeon to the late Dr. B. A. Watson at St. Francis' Hospital for four years. He is surgeon to the City and Christ hospitals. He was connected with the Central Dispensary during the existence of that institution, and with Dr. Gordon was one of its founders. He is a prominent member of the Palma Club and several other similar organizations.
In 1888 Dr. Dickinson married Miss Louise Waterman, of Glen Spey, N. Y. Her father for many years was the business partner of the late Cyrus W. Field. Three children have been born to the happy union, all daughters. Dr. Dickinson resides in a comfortable home at No. 2 Hampton Court. He has for some years made a study and a specialty of operative surgery.
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