History of Monmouth county, New Jersey, Part 60

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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ous and athletic gymnast, rapid as a flash, and ' successful practitioner. In the demand made

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which he has been president, of the New Jersey State Medical Society and of the American Medi- cal Society. In connection with his professional labors, he finds leisure to devote to the cultiva- tion of a fine farm, upon which he resides. He is a member and elder of the Reformed (Duteh) Church of Holmdel. Dr. Cooke was, in 1876, married to Maria B., daughter of the late Peter 1. Cowdrey, Esq., of New York. Their children are Sara, Maria, Robert and Susan.

born in Princeton, the 29th day of September, 1827.

At the age of thirteen years young Higgins commenced his preparatory course at the Pen- ington Seminary, in Mercer County, N. J. He was among the first to enter that new institution, which opened in summer of 1840, under the professorship of Howard Bishop, A.M., having but three scholars, including himself. But the sehool rose in public estimation and became an

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ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER HIGGINS, M.D., important seat of learning, which it continues to be at the present day.

was a son of Henry Higgins, of Princeton, Mercer County, N. J., a gentleman well-known He remained at that institution until the in his day throughout the counties of Monmouth, summer of 1844, when he completed his studies Burlington, Somerset, Middlesex and Mercer and graduated with high honor, being selected as the general agent of the Mercer County to deliver the validictory address on that Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the office of occasion.

which was located at Pennington. He gave to " In the autumn of 1844 he entered the junior that institution life and popularity, as he was a | class in the College of New Jersey, and grad- man highly esteemed and respected by all who uated at the commencement of 1846.

knew him.

In the fall of that year he opened a school in His son, Archibald Alexander Higgins, was | the village of Vincentown, Burlington County,

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N. J., and taught for five years with much ISquan village. The road is an excellent one, and success, the regrets being many when he closed vastly improves the section of country through which it passes. his school for other labors more suited to his taste.

Having a great desire to enter the medical profession, he commenced the study of medicine, in 1851, with Dr. J. S. Schenck, of Princeton, and soon after removed to Philadelphia to pur- ; for years with the Pennsylvania Company to ex- sue his studies in the offices of those eminent physicians, Dr. John Neal and John B. Biddle, attending lectures at the University of Penn- sylvania, and, in addition to his medical studies in the office, enjoying the advantage to be de- rived from attendance at the various city hos- pitals during the winter and summer.

After spending three years in the pursuit of his studies in Philadelphia, he graduated with honor in 1854, receiving his diploma of M.D. from that old and distinguished medical in- stitution, the University of Pennsylvania.

At length the project of the New York and Long Branch Railroad began to assume a reality. "Soon after graduating, in the fall of 1854, he located at Squan village Monmouth County, Dr. Higgins and the citizens of Squan were again encouraged and hopeful that, if the road N. J., and commenced the practice of medicine, . should be built, their long-desired wish would of which profession he is still a representative at this place.

On March 17, 1858, he married Miss Eliza A., daughter of Josiah II. Sage, E-q., of Litch- field County, Conn. Their children are Henry H. (deceased), born August 9, 1860, and Archi- bald S., whose birth occurred February 9, 1867.

Dr. Higgins has taken a prominent and active part in advancing the cause of education in the vicinity of his adopted home. Soon after , and in no way boastful of any good he may his settlement he was elected a trustee of the ' have accomplished. The citizens of his adopted village school, and succeeded in having a new home honor and appreciate his merits. school-house built in 1855. He held the position of school trustee for ten years, the duties of which were performed with ability and entire satisfaction. He was elected one of the trustees of the Presbyterian Church in Squan village, which position he held for fifteen years.

ISAAC S. LONG, M.D .- Dr. Long is of Eng- lish parentage, his grandfather having been Judge William Long, of Durham, Bucks County, Pa., who married Jane Smith, and had children,-Samuel, Thomas, James M., Justice K., Charles, Madison, Jane (wife of Hiram A. Williams), Mary (married to James R. Boileau) He was one of the first promoters and active workers in projeeting the Building and Loan Association of Squan Village. Upon its organi- zation (in 1874) he was elected president of the association, which offiee he still continues to hold. and Rachel (wife of Abram Houpt). James M. was born in Durham, Bucks County, Pa., September 30, 1804, and studied civil engineer- ing, in which he became proficient. Hle mar- ried Salome M., daughter of Henry Stover, of Heaided very materially in securing the extension : Bucks County, Pa., whose children are Henry of the Long Branch turnpike from Deal to

But the great aim of Dr. Higgins' life has been to secure for the citizens of his adopted home cheap and speedy railroad communication with New York ria Long Branch. He labored

tend their road from Squan to Long Branch, and and at one time the project looked very encour- aging, but it was finally abandoned. He then endeavored to prevail upon the New Jersey Southern to extend a branch of their road to Squan. More than once the project appeared I to be successful, but it also failed, as that road was not in a position to undertake so expensive an enterprise, although seemingly a profitable investment.

be gratified. It was completed, and the whole section of country, from Squan to Long Branch, and to New York, now enjoys superior railroad facilities, not excelled by any in New Jersey.

Although strong in his political faith, and inclined to Democratie principles, Dr. Higgins has never been an office-seeker ; consequently we do not find him holding any political positions. He is unassuming and retired in his manner,

W., Isaac S., Jennie (wife of Dr. C. Shepherd,

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of Trenton), Harriet M. and Barbara (married to Watson F. Shepherd, of Pottsville, Pa). In 1834, Mr. Long having removed to Hughesville, Warren County, N. J., erected an extensive flouring-mill, which was operated in connection with a farm he cultivated. He was for some years associated with George Law, of New York, in the construction of canal-locks, hav- ing employed the latter as a journeyman, and later admitted him to a partnership. Mr.

with the labor of the farm, and at the age of eighteen began the employment of a teacher, which was continued for five years at Hughes- ville. In 1863 he entered the office of Dr. C. Shepherd, of Trenton, as a student of medicine, and was graduated from the University of Penn- sylvania in March, 1866. Dr. Long the same year began his professional career at Eng- lishtown, N. J., and in the spring of 1872 removed to Freehold, where his ability was

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Long's death occurred March 17, 1865, at his home in Warren County, and that of his wife in Monmouth County on the 10th of Septem- ber, 1883, in her seventy-second year. Their son, Isaae S., was born June 28, 1839, at Hughesville, Warren County, N. J. His edu- cation was received at the neighboring public school, where he pursued the study of Latin and the higher mathematies, and later at Easton, Pa. He meanwhile became familiar

speedily recognized. His praetiee, which is general rather than special, is both extended and successful. He has been president and is now treasurer of the Monmouth District Medieal Society, and is a member of the State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Dr. Long, on the 12th of June, 1872, married Jennie E., daughter of Malford and Esther Drummond, of Monmouth County. The doc- tor's arduous professional labors have preelnded

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an active interest in political matters. In religion he is a Presbyterian and a member of the Presbyterian Church at Freehold, as also is his wife.

FRANK K. TRAVERS, M. D., was born in Dorchester County, Md., about eight miles from Cambridge, the county seat, in June, 1840. At an early age he manifested a fondness for the science of medicine, and after completing his educational course he commenced the study of it, and graduated at the Maryland University, Baltimore, in the session of 1860. After re- ceiving his diploma he practiced for a time in Baltimore, then removed to Seaford, Del., where he remained until invited to become a partner with Dr. A. B. Dayton, of Matawan, N. J., in the winter of 1869-70. In this partnership he continued until the death of Dr. Dayton, in July, 1870, after which he remained in charge of the practice. Up to the fall of 1872 he was in possession of apparently good health ; but his labors weighed upon his constitution, and devel- oped a rapid hereditary consumption. For more than six months he was unable to attend to business, and he died on the 24th of July, 1873.

As a physician and surgeon, Dr. Travers gave evidence of ability and love for the profession. In his personal relations he was friendly and courteous, just and upright in his dealings, and a firm advocate of professional etiquette. He was held in high esteem by his professional brethren, and by a large circle of sympathizing friends and patrons.

JAMES HOLMES M.D., was a native of Allen- town, Monmouth County, a son of Edward T. Holmes, and by his maternal side a great-grand- son of General John Beatty, who was the first president of the New Jersey State Medical So- ciety after its interregnum, occasioned by the Revolutionary War James Holmes received his preliminary education chiefly at Tennent School, Hartsville, Pa., under the direction of the Rev. Mr. Long. From that institution he entered the United States Naval Academy at Newport, R. I., in July, 1863. He resigned his position there in 1865, and studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. A. A. Howell, of Allentown, and graduated at Jefferson Medical College,

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 Frechold. 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 unele'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 & Throekmorton 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 ' HUGH S. KINMONTH, M.D., was born on the its vice-president in 1840, president in 1850, 31st of Jannary, 1848, in Kortright, Delaware and secretary from 1853 to 1878. For forty- 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 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 Frechold ladies and gen- tlemen, went on a tour to the Old World. Just before taking this tour, adopting the advice of a : & Buckley, of Delhi, N. Y., and attended lec- 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 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 conch 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.

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 years, a member of Governor Bedle's staff, and | 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 eom- 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- 1853, and Mr. Kinmonth was again married, to tioned for Congressional honors in the fall of Jeannette Lawson, whosechildren were Margaret 1884. He is a member of St. Andrew's Lodge," H. (deceased), Mary R. and James Ena (de- ceased. The death of Mr. Kinmonth occurred F. & A. M., of Hobart, N. Y. Dr. Kinmonth is of Scotch descent, his grandfather, John Kin- I on the 30th of May, 1876. month, having emigrated from Dundee, Seot- SYLVESTER HI. HUNT, A.M., M.D., face- land, in 1823. He married Ann Taylor, tiously remarks that nothing remarkable has whose children were Sandy, Hugh, John, Jean- occurred in his life except that, like David nette, Mary, Isabel and Catharine. Hugh, the Copperfield, " he was born when he was very father of the doctor, was born in Scotland in 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. dangh- 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 AAmelia (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 honse, 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 elassies. 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 cireum- 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 eadet, 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 Monmonth 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 Medieal 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. Seriven, 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 medieal 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 praetiee, which in its results was pro- portionately sueeessful. Desiring some relief from the daily routine of duty, at all times laborious and fraught with great responsibility, the doetor embarked in the field of politics, to which he had for years given more or less at-

Priest. Ile 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 resided in Middletown township, Monmouth honors, though in 1883 the successful candidate ' County, where he was an extensive farmer and of the Democracy for the office of county clerk, an influential citizen, having been for many to which he was elected by a flattering majority

years judge of the County Court and filled during a closely-contested canvass. He is an in- | other positions of trust. He married a Miss fluential member of the Masonie fraternity and 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, 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

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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 publie spirit and of superior ASHER TUNIS APPLEGATE, M.D., was born September 17, 1846, in the township of Monroe, Middlesex County, N. J. His early studies were pursued at home, his father 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 executive ability, having been for twenty years freeholder of his township, member of the State Conueil, and for two terms member of the State 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.

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History of Monmouth county, New Jersey, Part 60

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