History of Monmouth county, New Jersey, Part 59

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Swan, Norma Lippincott. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 1148

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WILLIAM L. DEBOW, M. D., was a native of Englishtown, born in 1845. He studied medi- cine with Dr. Daniel Polhemus, and graduated at the Massachusetts Medical College in 1836. Ile was attached to the Northern Dispensary of the City of New York for six years, as apothecary and physician. His health became impaired, and in 1840 he removed to English- town, where, for several years, he was associated with his brother-in-law, Dr. Polhemus. He

became a member of the Monmouth Society April 28, 1845; was vice-president in 1847, and president in 1848. Not long after his re- turn to Englishtown his health improved and was afterwards fully restored, so that he was enabled to perform the arduous duties of his profession, and he acquired an extensive prac- tice, enjoying an enviable reputation for skill as a physician and surgeon, both with the com- munity and the profession. He remained in practice at Englishtown until his death, which came suddenly and unexpected, on the 31st of of October, 1858, at the age of forty-three years, leaving a widow and a large circle of warm personal friends to mourn their loss. His remains were interred in the Tennent Church- yard.

EDMUND W. ALLEN, M. D., who practiced as a physician at Shrewsbury for fifty-five years, was a native of that township, born on the 14th of August, 1788. He studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Tenbrook ; attended lectures at the University of Pennsylvania ; was examined, April 11, 1810, by Drs. Tenbrook and Charles Smith, and received license on the same day at the hands of Andrew Kirkpatrick, chief justice, and William Russell, second justice of the State of New Jersey. Locating in practice at Shrews- bury village, he became a member of the Mon- mouth Medical Society in or about the year 1817; was its vice-president in 1822-23, president in 1824, secretary in 1821 and 1827. Constitutionally delicate, he was, nevertheless, by judicious care, enabled to preserve unbroken his professional labors through the long period above mentioned, with the exception of a single interruption of two or three months in 1850, the result of an accident which nearly proved fatal. He mistook the condition of a draw- bridge at Rahway in the darkness of the night, and was precipitated into the river. Recovering from the effects of this accident, he finally fell a victim to catarrh, resulting in phthisis, from which he died May 17, 1867, after a confine- ment of two or three months to his room. His mind was bright and clear to the last.

Dr. Allen was, both in his professional and social life, a gentleman of the old school. He was friendly without familiarity ; always kind,

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yet dignified, and remarkably prudent in speech. First acquaintance with him always inspired esteem and confidence. To a strong will was added warm feelings, always, how- ever, under admirable control. His judgment was sound and his memory tenacious. Entirely devoted to his profession, all other elaims were held subservient to its calls. Rich and poor received his attention alike. Firm and self- reliant, he was also singularly modest, never boasting of his attainments or his successes. In

recommended for license by the board of cen- sors of the Monmouth Medieal Society, April 24, 1820, and admitted a member of the society April 30, 182F. He was associated in practice with Dr. Woodhull for one year, then removed to Hopewell township, Mercer (then Hunter- don) County, where he acquired a good practice. He died in or about 1868, respected and regret- ted by the community in which he had lived and practiced for more than forty years.

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his years of health he had been a regular attend- ant at the services of the Episcopal Church, and during his final illness he became one of its communicants, and his remains were interred in its burial-ground, where his grave is marked by a beautiful monument.

JAMES H. BALDWIN, M.D., was born near the " Burnt Tavern," in Millstone township, about the year 1807. He was an office student of Dr. Gilbert S. Woodhull ; attended two coursesof leetures at the University of Pennsylvania ; was

bard is a descendant of Henry Hubbard and Margaret, his wife, who lived in the town of Langham, county of Rutland, England, the youngest of whose eleven children was James, familiarly known as " Sergeant James." The latter, together with six other families, aceom- panied Lady Deborah Moody to the United States in 1643, and settled in New England. Religious intolerance influenced their removal again to Gravesend, Long Island, where Ser- geant James Hubbard was made a magistrate of

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the town for the years 1650, 1651, 1653 and 1663, He is a member of the Monmouth County Medical Society, and was on one occasion delegate to the meeting of the State Medical Society. He has for years been connected with the Masonic and the Odd-Fellows' fraternities. and represented the town in a convention held at New Amsterdam, November 26, 1653, " to devise and recommend measures for the public security and put a stop to the piracies and rob- beries of one Thomas Baxter." He married, on the 31st of December, 1664, Elizabeth Bailies, and died prior to 1693. His son James was born December 10, 1665, and married Raehel The other children of James and Elizabeth Hubbard were Rebecca, Elizabeth, John and Elias. James and Rachel had among their children a son James, who married and had several children, one of whom was Jacobus, born May 23, 1744, and married to Rebecca Swart, of Monmouth County, N. J., on the 17th of November, 1765. Their ehil- dren were Jacobus, Samuel, Tunis, Elias and John. Elias married Nelly Hendrickson, whose children are five sons and two daughters,-Wil- liam H. and James D. (twins), born September 30, 1812, Tunis, John S., Rebecca Ann, Mary C. and Elias. William H. received an aca- demic education at the Baptisttown Academy, and in 1829 began the study of medicine with fidence, to a high degree, of those who entrusted his uncle, Dr. Jacobus Hubbard, Jr., at Tinton Falls, N. J., and Dr. C. C. Blauvelt, at Holm- del, the former of whom was a successful prac- ROBERT R. CONOVER, M.D., was born in Freehold township, Monmonth County, on the 3d of October, 1824. His father, Colonel Robert Conover, who died in 1826, was a na- tive of the same township, and followed agri- cultural pursuits, having served with ability and distinction in the War of 1812. The mother of Robert R. Conover was Gertrude Sutphen, also of Monmonth County, and granddaugh- ter of David Sutphen, one of the Revolu- tionary patriots who fought in the battles of which old Monmouth was the scene Dr. Conover's early education was chiefly obtained in a boarding-school and academy at Mt. Holly. Being destined for the medical profession, he commenced hisstudies in 1843 under the tuition of his brother, the late Dr. John R. Conover, then of Red Bank. After two years of diligent study he matriculated at the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons in New York, where he- attended the winter course of 1845-46. The titioner for over half a century. He (William H.) was graduated in 1834, and at once became associated with his uncle and preceptor in the profession. On the retirement of the latter, he continued in practice for twenty years at Tinton Falls. Dr. Hubbard was married, October 10, 1836, to Miss Ellen, daughter of John and Mary Cook, their three children being Charles, Mary Ellen (Mrs. Stephen S. Williamson) and Eliza, who died in 1882. The doctor, in 1856, removed to Gravesend during an epidemic of vellow fever, and remaining until 1862, returned to Monmouth County, making Red Bank his residence, where he engaged in active practice. His labors in this field have been arduous, ex- tending over a vast area of territory and requiring long rides and unceasing industry. Dr. Hub- bard has recently relinquished his practice, advancing years rendering it no longer ex- pedient to undergo the fatigue and constant activity necessary to gratify his many patients. | next course he took at the University of New

JOHN R. CONOVER, M.D., was born near Freehold in the year 1813. Having received a liberal education, he studied medicine with Dr. Howell, of Princeton, and attended lectures at Fairfield Medical College, in the State of New York, and afterwards at the University Medi- cal College, in New York City, where he re- ceived his diploma. He first located at Red Bank, where he built up a large practice. In 1841 he was elected to the State Legislature,. where he served three terms. In 1856 he was elected surrogate of Monmouth County, which office he held for two consecutive terms. In the spring following his first election as surro- gate he removed to Freehold, where he again entered upon the practice of his profession, which he pursued until his death, March 26, 1871. Throughout his professional life he was a successful practitioner, and possessed the con- themselves to his care. He became a member of the Monmouth Medical Society in 1852.

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York, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1847, receiving therefrom his degree of M.D. During this session he was also an attendant at the celebrated private school of medieine of Dr. William Detmold. Locating at Red Bank, he, from 1847 until his death on the 28th of August, 1884, was engaged in active practice, being associated with his brother until that gentleman's removal to Freehold, in 1858. During the long period in which Dr. Conover practiced in Monmouth County he was exclu- sively devoted to his profession, securing a very extensive patronage, enjoying the entire confi- dence of his numerous patients, as well as the community at large, and commanding the respect of the most distinguished of his professional brethren. He was for many years member of the Monmouth County Medical Society, and for one year its president, as also several times delegate to the New Jersey State Medical Society. Dr. Conover was, on the 25th of No- vember, 1863, married to Anna Maria, daughter of Edmund Throckmorton, of Red Bank. Their only daughter is Anna T. Conover.

DE WITT W. BARCLAY, M. D., was born at Cranbury, Middlesex County, on the 8th of February, 1818. His preliminary education was received at the academy of his native place. He pursued his medical studies in the office of Dr. Grandin Lloyd, of Freehold, and at the Crosby Street Medical College, in New York, where he graduated in 1847. Being licensed by the State Society in the same year, he com- menced practice in partnership with his precep- tor, locating himself at Turkey, Monmouth County, where he acquired an extensive practice, to which he assiduously devoted himself for several years, until his health failed, when he purchased a farm and removed to it. Into his agricultural pursuits he carried the same energy which characterized his medical career. After a few years, thinking his health re-established, he sold his farm and returned to his former location and practice; but the laborand exposure incident to an active professional life soon revived the old disease, and after many attacks (with inter- vals of comparative health), he died, of phthisis pulmonalis, March 20, 1867. Dr. Barclay was a man of small stature, exceedingly well formed,

with a quick, nervous movement, a handsome face, a remarkably fine expressive eye, and of gen- erous, impulsive feeling and temperament. He was admitted to membership in the Monmouth Society April 24, 1848 ; was made its vice-presi- dent in the following year, and president in 1850.

THOMAS JAMES THOMASON, M.D., has an enviable place in the recollection and regard of Monmouth County people. He lived at Perrineville, and practiced medicine there and in the surrounding region from 1854 until his death, in 1880, a period of twenty-six years, including the whole of his mature and active life. Both professionally and socially, as the skilled physician and the high-minded, honor- able man, he was esteemed and loved by a wide circle of acquaintances. Of a quiet, un- demonstrative nature, and taking no active part in public affairs, he was not generally known beyond the region in which his life of labor was spent, but among his professional brethren his fame extended throughout the State and even beyond, and such eminent physicians as Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, and the late Dr. S. W. Gross, of Philadelphia, and other equally prominent practitioners in New York and else- where were his warm friends and admirers.

Dr. Thomason was of English descent. His father, Rev. Denny Ray Thomason, was born in Thaxted, Essex County, England, January 9, 1799, graduated from Highbury College, near London, Married, October 16, 1828, Eliza- beth, daughter of William White, banker, of Deal, Kent County, England (born June 16, 1803), and in 1830 immigrated with her to America, soon thereafter locating in Phila- delphia. He was a Presbyterian elergyman, and occupied the pulpits of several leading churches of that denomination very satisfactorily until 1841, when a bronchial affection incapac- itated him for public speaking. He was a deep classical scholar, and the remainder of his life was devoted to literary pursuits. He left many fruits of his labors in the form of commentaries npon the Gospels and Epistles, some of which have been published, while others exist only in manu- script. His death occurred September 16, 1879, while he was visiting at his son's house, in Per- rineville, preceded by his wife's, July 24, 1875.

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Thomas James Thomason was the fourth in the family of seven children, the first three of whom died in infancy, and the three who were his juniors being William White, Heury Frederick Priestly and Mary Eveline Gurney, of whom only the first-named is now living. Thomas James was born October 11, 1833, in Philadelphia, where his youth was passed and his literary and professional education received. He had a predilection for medicine, studied it

sided in Philadelphia. As has already been indicated, he obtained prominence and popu- larity. The esteem in which he was held by his professional brethren is, in some measure, attested by the fact that he was made the presi- dent of the State Medical Society of New Jer- sey and occupied that station during 1873-74, while he was a prominent member and official of the County Society, and held the position of its treasurer at the time of his death. He was gener-

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assiduously and graduated with honor from the ( ally conceded to have stood at the head of his pro- Medical Department of the Pennsylvania Col- fession in the county. As to his sterling qualities as a physician but little need be said, they being so well and widely known. He was a man wrapped up in his profession, giv- ing all his time, energy and great ability to it, and many a past sufferer, now living, can bear testimony to his skill. In the midst of his hurried and laborious cares he always was ready with a courteons and kindly word for those who came in his way, and he always lege in the spring of 1854, before he was twenty- one years of age. Very shortly afterward, and in the same year, he came to Monmouth County, and seleeting Perrineville as a favorable loca- tion for the practice of his profession, settled there. Prior to this time, upon December 22, 1852, he had married, in his native city, Anna M. Gaston, a lady of education and refinement, who survives him, and since his death has re-

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found time and took care to keep apace with sequently he read medicine with Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York, where he attended lectures at the University from which he was graduated in 1842. After serving for a short time at the hospital on Blackwell's Island, he, in March, 1845, settled in Keyport, N. J., where he has since continued the practice of his profes- sion, and won a foremost place among his medi- cal brethren. He is an old member of the all that was new in the world of science, letters and art. His last days strongly evinced his characteristic, calm fortitude and moral bravery. The disease which ended his career was a can- cerous affection of the tongue. He had been a successful surgeon as well as a physician, and his skill had frequently relieved others of the evil which was fatal in his own case. For over a year no one but himself, not even his County Medical Society, and was at one time most intimate friends, knew that his life was ! its president. In 1864 he represented his ser- threatened ; when surgical operation proved tion in the American Medical Association.

unavailing, none knew better than he what STEPHEN MORGAN DISBROW, M.D., Was must be the final result of the disease, but he born October 2, 1812, in Brooklyn, N. Y., and smiled and lost none of his aeenstomed cheer- in childhood removed with his parents to Mata- fulness when speaking of it to the surgeon, and wan, N. J., the climate of that portion of New no change in his bearing or the demeanor of Jersey being regarded as more favorable to the his daily life was observable. passed calmly and without fear to his death, which, after much suffering, came upon the 20th of August, 1880. He was not a member of any religions organization, but was a very regu- lar attendant and liberal supporter of the | He meanwhile attended lectures, and after an Presbyterian Church, and his life and death were a sufficient earnest that he was strong in the essential spirit of the faith. And so he lad, then in delicate health. At the age of twelve he returned to the city of his birth and pursued his rudimentary and classical studies, eventually entering the office of Dr. John (. Fanning, of Brooklyn, as a student of medicine. interval of practice became a student of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at which he was graduated. In 1832 he received the JOSEPH E. ARROWSMITH, M. D., of Keyport, was born in Middletown, Monmouth County, N. J., January 26, 1823. He is descended from a family that has distinguished itself in the service of the State. His father, IIon Thomas Arrowsmith, was for many years one of the judges of the Court of Errors, and at an earlier period worthily held the office of State treasurer. His mother, Emma Van Brakle, a native of New Jersey, was a daugh- ter of Matthias Van Brakle, a substantial and much respected farmer, who represented his dis- triet in the State Legislature, where his sterling qualities won the gratitude of his constituents. Dr. Arrowsmith obtained his early education in the academy at Flatbush, Long Island, then presided over by Professor Campbell, the accom- plished scholar and eminent teacher, who subse- quently was the honored president of Rutgers College, New Brunswick. Evincing a taste for medicine, he began his studies in the fall of of Health and health inspector of Howell 1838, with Dr. Edward Taylor, an old and suc- cessful practitioner in his native town, and sub- appointment of superintendent and interne of the Brooklyn Cholera Hospital, and continued thus to act during the epidemie, meeting with much success in the treatment known as "trans- fusing with saline fluids." Dr. Disbrow la- bored with unceasing ardor during this critical period, and was forced by impaired health, as a consequence of his devotion, to tender his re- signation, on which occasion a donation was voted and paid him by the Brooklyn Board ot Health for his services. In the spring of 1834 he settled in Howell township, where, with the exception of some unimportant change of lo- cality, he has since resided, his present home being the village of Farmingdale, where his practice has been extended and his labors ardu- ous. He was one of the carliest members of the American Medical Association, and is an honorary member of the Monmouth County Medical Society, as also president of the Board township. Though often solicited by his Demo- cratie constituents to hold office, he has invari-

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ably declined such honors. Dr. Disbrow was, hoef, and his wife, Phoebe Hunn. Their children are Mary (Mrs. John Denyse, deceased), Stephen Morgan, Andrew Jackson, John N., Delia Anna (Mrs. Charles Fardon), Catharine L. (Mrs. Richard Van Brackle), William W., Ed- win Clarence and Peter C. in 1832, married to Anna, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Bennett, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Their children are Elizabeth M. (Mrs. J. M. Wainright), deceased ; Rem Lefferts, a practicing physician at Tom's River, N. J .; Andrew Jack- son, deceased, a physician formerly in practice WILLIAM DUNHAM NEWELL, M. D.,1 fifth and youngest son of James H. and Eliza D. Newell, was born at Black's Mills, Monmonth County, on the 20th of February, 1823, and died at Spottswood, Middlesex County, N. J .; Ste- phen Adolphns, associated with his father in practice at Farmingdale; Mary Alathea ; Anna Augusta, deceased ; Edwin Clarence, a practic- at Imlaystown on the 22d of November, 1869,

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ing physician at Tom's River; Phehe Eliza; [ Van Derhoef Morgan, a physician in Farming- dale; and an infant, deceased. The Disbrow family are of English extraction, the grand- father of the doctor having been John Disbrow who resided in South Amboy, N. J., where he followed the employments of a farmer. He married Susannah, daughter of General Mor- gan, of the latter place. Their son, Nicholas Morgan Disbrow, a citizen of Brooklyn, mar- ried Mary, daughter of Cornelius P. Van Der- | Dr. William A. Newell, to Dr. T. J. Thomason in 1871.

in the forty-seventh year of his age. He re- ceived a classical education at New Brunswick, studied medicine with his brothers, Azariah D. Newell, M.D., and William A. Newell, M.D .; graduated at the Medical College of the District of Columbia in 1844, and began the practice of his profession at Imlaystown, where he continued to reside until the time of his death.

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During the War of the Rebellion he enlisted as a private in the Union army, but was soon after appointed surgeon of the Twenty-eighth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, a position which he filled with great skill and acceptance until the expiration of his term of service. He was present at the first and second battles of Fredericksburg, at that of Chancellorsville, and also in several minor engagements; was repeatedly exposed to the fire of the enemy, but always performed his duties on the field with coolness and courage, never shrinking from danger. His life was devoted exclusively to his professional business, and he had at all times a large and lucrative practice. His thorough knowledge of disease, extensive ex- perience, keen perception, sound judgment and close application combined to render him eminently successful as a practitioner, and gained for him a widespread and well-deserved reputation as a physician, not only with the people, but also with his medical brethren, with whom his relations were most friendly and intimate. Ile was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch and mechanical talent, and was a dextrous manipulator. These qualities rendered him a successful surgeon, so that in the adjustment of wounds, luxations, fractures, applications of splints and bandages, and in the management of such other surgical cases as came in his practice he had no superior. He . was a constant reader, keeping pace with the most advanced ideas and improvements in the medical profession ; was a close student of history, familiar with the best poetry of the language, and was thoroughly versed in current literature. He was an accomplished musician, performing well upon almost every variety of instrument. As a delineator and painter he ! especially excelled, and many of his off-hand prodnetions challenged the admiration of masters. He was large-hearted and liberal, and never turned the poor empty away. Ile was a vigor- of unerring aim. In person he was dignified and imposing, and in mien and manner carried the attributes of a true gentleman. During his term of service in the army the exposure to which he was subjected induced several severe

attacks of pneumonia, which, together with a violent injury received at the first battle of Fredericksburg, undermined his health, and resulted in his death. IIe died where he had lived during all the years of his manhood, be- loved by the people, and at peace with God and all mankind. His remains were interred in the cemetery attached to the Presbyterian Church at Allentown, attended to their final home by a multitude of loving and sorrowing friends.

HENRY G. COOKE, M.D., the son of Dr. Robert W. Cooke, of Holmdel, was born on the Bd of February, 1833, on the homestead in Holmdel. He enjoyed superior advantages of instruction under William Woodhull at Freehold, and in 1850 entered Rutgers ('ol- lege, New Brunswick, from which institution he was gradnated in 1853. His inclinations led to the choice of his father's profession, and begin- ning his studies under his direction, he later be- came a student of Dr. Willard Parker, of New York. He was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1857, and at once entered upon the practice of medicine at Holmdel, sharing with his father his extensive practice. In 1862, Dr. Cooke en- tered the army during the late civil war, as sur- geon of the Twenty-ninth New Jersey Regiment Volunteers, serving nine months and partici- pating with the Army of the Potomac in the en- gagements at Fredericksburg and Chancellors- ville. He subsequently responded to the call of the Governor of New Jersey for volunteer surg- cons, and shared in the conflicts at the Wilderness and Cold Harbor. On returning, he resumed the practice of his profession at Holmdel, where he has since resided and been actively engaged. The doctor's practice is among the largest in the county, and may be spoken of as more than ordinarily successful,-the result of a thorough and careful training, combined with those gifts which are absolutely essential to the skillful and upon his services and the strong hold he has upon the affections of the community, the man- tle of his honored father may be justly said to have fallen upon him. The doctor is a member of the Monmouth County Medical Association, of

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History of Monmouth county, New Jersey, Part 59

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Swan, Norma Lippincott. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1885 Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co. Number of Pages: 1148

Author: Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885; Swan, Norma Lippincott. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1885
Publisher: Philadelphia, R. T. Peck & co.
Number of Pages: 1148