History of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Pt. 1, Part 62

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co.
Number of Pages: 974

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Philadelphia, in 1868, having pursued a three years' course.

Dr. Holmes' first settlement in the practice of his profession was at Belle Plaine, Minn., but the severity of that climate, and an attack of hemorrhage of the lungs, compelled him to re- turn to New Jersey, where he engaged in medi- cal practice in connection with a drug-store, which business he pursued until his death, which occurred at Allentown, June 26, 1878.

The readiness of Dr. Holmes in diagnosis rendered him a skillful and successful practi- tioner, while by his genial disposition and ur- banity of manners he became a general favorite among a large circle of friends and acquaint- ances. By a strict uprightness in business transactions he won the respect and confidence of his numerous patrons.

JOHN VOUGHT, M.D., died of heart-disease at his residence in Freehold, on Sunday, May 21, 1882, at the age of sixty-six years. He was born at Duanesburg, Schenectady County, N. Y., in the year 1816. Christopher Vought, his father, was a farmer and owned an extensive tract of land in that section. Dr. Vought's mother was Mary Johnson Throckmorton, daughter of James Throckmorton, of Colt's Neck, and sister of Judge Thomas C. Throck- morton and Dr. John B. Throckmorton, both of Freehold. His grandmother was Mary, daughter' of John Grandin, who owned and resided on a farm in the immediate vicinity of Freehold before the Revolutionary War. James and William Lloyd, of Freehold, are sons of Rachel, a sister of Mary Grandin. Thus it will be seen that Dr. Vought was connected with some of the oldest and most estimable families of Monmonth County. His early life was spent on his father's farm. While still a mere boy he entered the drug-store of his uncle, Dr. John G. Vought, in New York City. There he re- mained until his unele's death from cholera, in 1832, when he returned home. His experience in his uncle's drug-store had awakened in him a fondness for the medical art, and he soon determined to make the practice of medicine his profession in life. In 1835, at the age of nineteen years, he came to Freehold and com- menced studying medicine in the office of Dr.

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Grandin Lloyd and Dr. John B. Throckmorton (his uncle), who, were in partnership. He at- tended a course of medical lectures at Pittsfield, Mass., and subsequently became a student at the Albany Medical College, from which insti- tution he was graduated in 1839. He returned to Freehold, and the partnership of Lloyd & Throckmorton having been dissolved, he entered into partnership with his uncle, Dr. Throck- morton, about the year 1841. This partnership continued until the death of Dr. Throckmorton, in 1856.

Dr. Vought was admitted to membership in the Monmouth Medical Society in 1848; was its vice-president in 1840, president in 1850, and secretary from 1853 to 1878. For forty- one years, and until a very short time prior to his death, he prosecuted his professional duties with untiring zeal and faithfulness. So wrapped up in his profession was he that it is said he did not, for fifteen years or more, go away from the immediate vicinity of his labors. His health having somewhat declined, in 1873 he, accom- panied by a number of Freehold ladies and gen- tlemen, went on a tour to the Old World. Just before taking this tour, adopting the advice of a friend, he visited Philadelphia, a city which he had never before seen.

In his devotion to his profession he would never accept or run for any office which would interfere with his duties, although solicited on several different occasions to run as candidate for State Senator and for Congress. He, how- ever, filled several important positions of trust and honor. He was a member of the board of managers of the Geological Survey of New Jer- sey, a manager of the State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton ; a director of the Freehold National Banking Company, county physician for many years, a member of Governor Bedle's staff, and for a long time vestryman of St. Peter's Epis- copal Church, Freehold. In the practice of his profession he, at one time and another, visited nearly every home in the vicinity of Freehold, and his bright smile and cheery voice brought the sunshine of hope to many a despairing patient upon a weary couch of pain.

Dr. Vought's abilities as a physician were of a high order, and there were instances where

physicians who had gained a world-wide repu- tation approved and praised his treatment of certain cases which they were called in to con- sult upon. His almost incessant professional labors prevented him from enjoying, to any great extent, the amenities of social life, but whenever he did devote any time to them, his friendly disposition and frank, good-natured manners favorably impressed those with whom he associated. He was not a communicant of St. Peter's Church, but always took an active interest in the church's work, and was one of its most faithful supporters.

HUGH S. KINMONTH, M.D., was born on the 31st of January, 1848, in Kortright, Delaware County, N. Y., where the early years of his life were passed. At the age of sixteen he entered the army during the War of the Rebellion and served two years as a bugler boy in Company I of the Thirteenth New York Cavalry, until the close of the conflict. Resuming his studies on his return, at the Andes Academy, in his native county, he sub- sequently engaged in teaching. In 1867 he began the study of medicine with Drs. Fitch & Buckley, of Delhi, N. Y., and attended lec- tures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, from which he graduated in the spring of 1870. In 1872 he became a resident of Asbury Park, where for a while he was the only physician. He has from that time been actively engaged in professional work and has a large and lucrative practice. He was the founder of the Shore Press, and its editor for two years.

Dr. Kinmonth was married, in 1876, to M. Adele Kenney (daughter of the Rev. Edward J. Kenney, of Philadelphia), whose death oc- curred January 31, 1882. She was a lady of rare mental endowments, and was prominent in literary work. She took an active part in or- ganizing the Ladies' Literary Society of Asbury Park, and was its first president ; she was also identified with Christian work in the com- munity.

The doctor has from the first been identified with the interests of the Park, where he is the owner of considerable real estate. In po- lities he is a Democrat, and though not active

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as a worker in the party, was prominently men- tioned for Congressional honors in the fall of 1884. He is a member of St. Andrew's Lodge, F. & A. M., of Hobart, N. Y. Dr. Kinmonth is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, John Kin- month, having emigrated from Dundee, Scot- land, in 1823. He married Ann Taylor, whose children were Sandy, Hugh, John, Jean- nette, Mary, Isabel and Catharine. Hugh, the father of the doctor, was born in Scotland in

1853, and Mr. Kinmonth was again married, to Jeannette Lawson, whose children were Margaret H. (deceased), Mary R. and James Ena (de- ceased). The death of Mr. Kinmonth occurred on the 30th of May, 1876.

SYLVESTER H. HUNT, A.M., M.D., face- tiously remarks that nothing remarkable has occurred in his life except that, like David Copperfield, " he was born when he was very young," and that event took place in the city of

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1803, and emigrated with his parents to the | Troy, Rensselaer County, N. Y., June 21, 1837. United States about 1835, settling in Kortright, He further added, concerning his ancestors, that Delaware County, N. Y., where he engaged in he might say, as did old Samuel Johnson, when farming. He married Elizabeth Lyle, daugh- ter of David Lyle, of Forrest, Scotland. They had eight children-John T., Mary Amelia (de- ceased), Anna B., David Lyle (deceased), Hugh S., Elizabeth J., Mary Amelia (deceased) and William L. speaking of his pedigree to his intended wife : " That he was of humble extraction, and while he never had any relatives hung, there were several who ought to have been." His father, Henry Hunt, kept at the time a wholesale drug house, and his companion, who survives him, Mrs. Kinmonth's death occurred October 20, was Mrs. Ann Eliza Marston, one of the many

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of that name honored and respected in New- burg, Orange County, N. Y. Many of her men- tal characteristics were impressed for all time upon the subject of this sketch, who, like most men, blesses her memory for her wise counsels and judicious guidance during this formative period of life. His early educational advan- tages were of the best. At twelve years he was promoted from the graded school to the Lan- singburgh Academy (then a home, for many Trojans) to study the classics. At fourteen years of age, through the failure of his father, phys- ically and financially, he was thrown on his own resources. Two years of an apprentice- ship were faithfully served and his studies kept up by attending night-school, when he entered the Charlotteville Seminary, and prepared in a year and a half to enter the sophomore class of Union College. A combination of circum- stances thwarted this purpose, and when eighteen years of age he came to Freehold, an entire stranger, to teach school. He taught here several years, his last charge being the Freehold Academy. Professor Lockwood says of him : " In the three very necessary qualifications of a true instructor, Mr. Hunt's reputation was high. He was a good disciplinarian, a thorough teacher, and sustained a high moral character." In the fall and winter of 1862 he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New- York, In the spring of 1863 he was examined for medical cadet, United States army, and appointed to Haddington Army Hospital for one year, and attending during the winter lectures at Jefferson Medical College, he received the degree of M.D. In the spring he was re- examined and made assistant surgeon, being appointed to the Fifth United States Veteran Volunteers First Corps, commanded by Gene- ral W. S. Hancock, and remained in the ser- vice one year after the war, principally on detailed duty. During the winter of 1865-66 he was medical officer in charge of the Battery Barracks, New York City, where he found time to complete his third course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. The following spring he resigned his com- mission in the army and located at Eaton- .town, N. J., where he remained fifteen years

and built up a large practice. In the fall of 1881 the doctor removed to Long Branch, where he now resides. He has strongly advo- cated that place as a winter health resort.

While he has had a limited number almost continuously in his own family under treatment, his busy life as a general practitioner occupies most of his time and attention. In 1870 he was married to Miss Elizabeth S. Parker, a lady of culture and refinement. Two daughters, aged six and eleven years, died of diphtheria, and only one son remains, death thus despoiling an otherwise happy household. The doctor has been an active member of the Monmouth County Medical Society, and has occasionally written for medical journals. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him several years ago by Claflin University. He is also a member of the New Jersey State Medical So- ciety and of the New Jersey Microscopical Society, trustee of Monmouth Monument Association, etc. As President of Long Branch Board of Health, he has been untiring in his efforts to secure what the place has long needed a proper system of sewage, and its completion is now anticipated. From a thin, spare figure he has grown in stature, and weighs three hun- dred pounds, being one of the heavy-weights of the profession.

JAMES H. PATTERSON, M.D .- Dr. Patterson was born on the 1st of May, 1835, in Middle- town, Monmouth County, and until seventeen years of age remained under the parental roof. He then became a pupil of the Freehold Academy, pursuing for four years his studies at this point, and subsequently entering the office of Dr. Zebulon W. Scriven, at Long Branch, as a student of medicine. He remained three years under the preceptorship of the latter, meanwhile entering the Fourteenth Street Medical College, New York, from which he was graduated in 1855. His first field of pro- fessional labor was Long Branch, where he re- mained one year, and then removed to Tinton Falls. Finding this a limited field of operation for a practitioner who combined thorough medical training with skill and quick percep- tion faculties, he became a resident of Red Bank, in the same county, and was for five

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years engaged in practice at this point. In 1863 he removed to Shrewsbury, where, from that time to the present, he has been active in the pursuit of his profession and acquired an ex- tended practice, which in its results was pro- portionately successful. Desiring some relief from the daily routine of duty, at all times laborious and fraught with great responsibility, the doctor embarked in the field of politics, to which he had for years given more or less at-

Priest. He has also served as Junior Grand Warden of the State. His religious associations are with the Methodist Episcopal Church, though educated in the Baptist faith. Dr. Patterson was, on the 5th of February, 1863, married to Georgianna, daughter of George Hance, of Shrewsbury, and has two daughters, Mary Emma and Cleora Abbett. The Patter- son family are of Scotch-Irish antecedents. Jehu Patterson, the grandfather of the doctor

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tention. He was never ambitious for political honors, though in 1883 the successful candidate of the Democracy for the office of county clerk, to which he was elected by a flattering majority during a closely-contested canvass. He is an in- fluential member of the Masonic fraternity and connected with Mystic Brotherhood Lodge, No. 21, Red Bank, of which he was for seven years Master, and of Hiram Chapter, No. 1, Eaton- town, of which he was for seven years High

resided in Middletown township, Monmouth County, where he was an extensive farmer and an influential citizen, having been for many years judge of the County Court and filled other positions of trust. He married a Miss Gordon, whose children were James, Charles, Catharine, Rachel, Rebecca (Mrs. James Cooper), Ann (Mrs. William Applegate) and Mary (Mrs. Richard Stout). James, the father of the doctor, was also a native of Middletown,

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where he was born in 1798, and, like his father, ! (an attorney), Harriet, Joseph, Lydia (Mrs. early developed a taste for agriculture. He | Samuel Frost),-of whom seven survive. was a man of much public spirit and of superior |

ASHER TUNIS APPLEGATE, M.D., was executive ability, having been for twenty years born September 17, 1846, in the township of freeholder of his township, member of the State

Monroe, Middlesex County, N. J. His early Council, and for two terms member of the State ; studies were pursued at home, his father Legislature. He was twice married, his first wife having been Deborah Trafford, whose children were Jehu (an attorney, clerk of the county and a prominent citizen), Hannah (Mrs. having employed, as instructor for the purpose named, John Loyd, a native of South Carolina. The election of the father of the doctor, in 1859, to the office of sheriff of the county

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John J. Hopping), Margaret (Mrs. Joseph Applegate) and Ann. To his second wife, Lydia, daughter of John Hopping, were born thirteen children,-John H. (sheriff of Mon- mouth County, and for two years doorkeeper of the House of Representatives of the United States), James H., Mary Emma (Mrs. Joseph Burrows), Samuel H. (for several years free- holder of Middletown township), Andrew, Charles G., Rebecca (wife of ex-Senator William . H. Hendrickson), Allen, Henry, Charles Ewing

necessitated his removal to New Brunswick, the county seat, with his family. Here his son entered the grammar school connected with Rutgers College, and remained until his subse- quent connection as a pupil with the preparatory school of John C. Schenck, at Princeton. In 1864 he became a student of the freshmen class of Princeton College, and continued his studies until the sophomore year. In the Spring of 1866, having decided upon the pro- fession of medicine, he entered the office of

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Dr. Thomas J. Thomason, of Perrineville, and continued his medical studies for three years at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in March, 1869. In October of the same year he began practice at Hamilton Square, Mercer County, and remained thus located until October of the following year. In April, 1871, he entered upon the practice of his profession at Englishtown, Monmouth County, and has since that date continued a very active and successful career as a practitioner. He is a

father and his father's preceptor, James Thom- ason. The doctor is the son of James Apple- gate, who married Dena Dey, and the grandson of Stephen and Catherine Applegate. His maternal grandparents were John B. and Han- nah Dey. He has two sisters,-Mrs. Achsah Amelia Van Doren and Mrs. Hannah Ely.

OTIS RUSSELL FREEMAN M.D. was born at Hanover, N. H., on December 30, 1809. Long before America's struggle for independence his forefathers were among the early pioneers who

member of the Monmouth County Medical | dwelt amid the rugged hills of New England. Society and of the New Jersey State Medical So- | His mother, Mary Russell, daughter of Thomas ciety. He is also examiner for the Mutual Life Russell, of Salem, Mass., was of English blood, and the United States Life Insurance Companies.

while his paternal ancestry is traced back He is a Free and Accepted Mason, identified to that sturdy class of prosperous and intelligent with - Lodge, No. 16, and with Columbia | yeomanry of England, who, having forsaken Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is likewise a the British Isles on account of their Puritan member of the Board of Health. Dr. Apple- principles, sought freedom on American soil, and founded the colonies of Massachusetts and

gate, in 1873, married Miss Jennie C. Wilson, | daughter of Robert K. and Helena Wilson, to | Connecticut. whom was born a son, named after his grand-

Prior to 1760 his great-grandfather secured

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a charter for Hanover township, in New Hamp- shire, within whose bounds Dr. Eleazar Wheelock, with whom Dr. Freeman's grandfather had sub- sequently emigrated from Connecticut, founded Dartmouth College, and became its first presi- dent in 1769.

At Hanover his immediate ancestry resided for nearly a century, holding prominent places of trust and honor in State and local govern- ment, and influential positions in church and society. Both his father and grandfather were at different times elected selectmen of the town- ship, justices of the peace and members of the State Legislature, while his father, for forty consecutive years, was annually elected to fill the office of clerk of the township.

In 1835 he married Abbie Willard, daughter of Dr. Samuel Alden, a lineal descendant of John Alden, who landed on Plymouth Rock two and a half centuries ago.

Having received an academical education, the subject of this sketch began the study of medi- cine and surgery in the Medical Department of Dartmouth College, under Dr. R. D. Mussey, with whom were associated those eminent pro- fessors, Daniel Oliver and Benjamin Hale. After attending three courses of lectures he re- ceived his medical degree from that institution, the fourth medical school established in America.

In the vicinity of his native town he prac- ticed medicine for several years, and in 1847 removed to Perrineville, this county, where his early advantages and natural qualities soon won for him a large practice in the upper section of the county. In 1852 a more central opening presented itself, and he removed to Freehold, there to resume his profession until the civil war. In April, 1862, he received from Governor Olden his commission as surgeon, and took charge of the Tenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers. His patriotic impulses were stronger than self-interest, stronger than paternal affec- tion, stronger than the ties of home,-a home which was to be made desolate by the silent hand of death, while the battle raged fiercely on the field. A detailed account of his army life would exceed the bounds of this sketch. The first year was spent with his regiment doing provost duty in Washington, where his duties |

were not confined to the care of his soldiers alone, but extended to other matters requiring ingenuity and skill in hygienic problems. In April, 1863, during the siege of Suffolk, Va., by the Confederate army, under Peck's division, he was chief of brigade on Corcoran's staff, and for a time was acting medical director.

In July, with his regiment, he was transferred to Philadelphia to quell the anticipated draft riots, and during the fall and winter of the same year was in charge of the troops in the Penn- sylvania coal-mines. In the spring of 1864 he joined the Army of the Potomac, and was at- tached to the First Division, First Brigade, Sixth Army Corps. He remained in the service until July, 1865, being at the close of the war chief of the First Division.

With his regiment he participated in more than twenty engagements, including that of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court-house, Hanover Court-house, before Petersburg, capture of Petersburg, Winchester, Cedar Creek, Cold Harbor and Lee's surrender. These were years of toil and hardship, of care and anxiety, and yet, withal, years whose experience went far to perfect him in the science and practice of his profession.

Returning to Freehold in the early dawn of peace, he soon regained his old practice. Since then his entire time and attention have been devoted to his work. A practice extending be- yond the limits of Monmouth, an unfailing suc- cess in operations requiring the hand of a master- surgeon, an unceasing devotion to his profession, and, with all, a kind and charitable heart in distress and poverty, have made his name a household word throughout the county.

In Christianity and politics his Presbyterian- ism and Republicanism are equally firm and consistent.

He has two children living,-Samuel Alden Freeman, a Presbyterian clergyman, and Mrs. Abbie W. Raiguel.

CHARLES A. CONOVER, M.D., died of phthisis at his residence in Marlborough, Monmouth Co., November 2, 1882, in the forty-first year of his age. He graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the City of New York, in the spring of 1865. He

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served in the army for a short time as assistant surgeon on the volunteer staff, and subsequently commenced the practice of medicine in his na- tive county. He was a member of the District Medical Society, and always took an active part in its meetings. He held the office of president a short time previous to his death.

He was held in high esteem by his profes- sional brethren, his intercourse with them being strictly honorable and courteous. Always faith- ful in the discharge of his duties, he enjoyed the confidence of the community he so well served. At his funeral a large concourse of relatives and friends met to pay their last trib- ute of esteem.1

MONMOUTH COUNTY BIBLE SOCIETY .- On the 8th day of September, 1817, a meeting was called at the court-house in Freehold "for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of forming a Bible Society for the county of Monmouth." The Rev. John Woodhull, D.D., was appointed chairman, and Corlies Lloyd, secretary. On motion of Thomas Henderson, the resolution to form such a society unanimously prevailed. A constitu- tion was adopted; the society was made aux- iliary to the New Jersey Bible Society, and the price of membership was fixed at one dollar per year. A board of managers, consisting of twenty-five, was then appointed as follows:

Thomas Henderson, Caleb Lloyd, Joseph Scudder, Tunis Forman, Captain Dennis For- man, Dr. Samuel Forman, John J. Ely, Na- thaniel S. Wikoff, William Lloyd, John Mc- Chesney, Dr. John T. Woodhull, William Davies, Jacob Wykoff, William Little, Cor- lies Lloyd, Robert Little, Colonel Elias Cono- ver, Joseph Philips, Garret .P. Wykoff, Hugh McChesney, Abraham Osborn, Robert Conover, Woolsey Baldwin, Lewis Gordon, Denice I. Forman.

The board then met and elected for officers of the society :

Rev. Dr. John Woodhull, president; Thomas Henderson, Esq., vice-president; William Lloyd, Esq., second vice-president ; Dr. Samuel Forman, third vice-president; Colonel Elias

Conover, fourth vice-president ; Nathaniel S. Wikoff, secretary ; Caleb Lloyd, treasurer.

In addition to the names already mentioned, there are entered on the treasurer's book, under the same date, as subscribing members, whose names are also worthy of mention this day as pioneers in this work, the following :

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History of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Pt. 1, Part 62

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885 Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co. Number of Pages: 974

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co.
Number of Pages: 974