History of Sussex and Warren counties, New Jersey, with Illustration and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 128

Author: Snell, James P; Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1140

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DOCTOR STOCKTON before 1790 was practicing medicine at Hackettstown. He was killed by a fall from his horse prior to 1795. He is remembered as an atheist, also as an intimate friend of Archy Stewart, a prominent resident of the place who was of the same belief. Stockton's death so affected Stewart that he sank into a state of melancholy and died soon after.

DOCTOR FOWLER practiced medicine at Hacketts- town soon after 1790. He was educated in Scotland, from which country he was a refugee for some polit- ical offense. Ile is represented as a well-educated man and a good physician with a large practice. He lived with Peter Valentine in the stone tavern, above where the Miller mansion now stands. He remained but a few years, when he removed to Pensacola, Fla.

WILLIAM HAMPTON settled at Hackettstown in 1803. He is spoken of as a man of fine appearance, polished manners, and more than ordinary ability. Ile was twice married, his first wife having died be- fore he came to Hackettstown. He lived with John Kemple until his second marriage, after that in the old parsonage (since known as the Lozier House), and later in a house directly opposite. He enjoyed the confidence of the publie and had an extensive prac- tive. He became very fleshy in his later years. Hle removed to New York City in 1817, and died soon after-very suddenly, after a long walk-from over- exertion and heat .;

RUEL HAMPTON, a younger brother of Dr. William, studied medicine with him, and succeeded him pro- fessionally in 1817. He is remembered as a man of mark in his profession. Before he settled in practice he acted as surgeon in the navy in the war of 1812, and took two cruises on board the privateers "Sara- toga" and "Paul Jones." He is described as a man of good address, but one who depended entirely upon himself and was noted for his strong will. Hle was regarded as an excellent surgeon. He bought a farm

* Dr. J. C. Johnson's notes.

[ Dr. J. S. Cook's MISS.

JOHN B. BEACH came to Hackettstown about 1810, and lived in a house which stood on the site of Shield's clothing-store. He kept a store, which, along with the dwelling, was soon after burned. He then moved to Newton, Sussex Co. His stay in Hackettstown was for only about a year. | He removed to Sussex Co., N. J. (See page 205 of this work.)

JONATHAN AXFORD, a native of Warren County, about the close of the war of 1812 moved to Clarks- ville, N. J., but subsequently returned to Warren County. Date of his death is not known; his wife died in 1818.

DAVID D. DILDINE studied medicine with Dr. J. D). Dewitt, of Harmony, Warren Co. He was gradu- ated at the University of New York in March, 1870, and soon after settled at Hope, Warren Co., N. J., where he resided until his death, which occurred, from typho-malarial fever, about the end of Septem- ber, 1872. Dr. Dildine was a successful practitioner, lacking only in physical strength. By his diligence and faithfulness in the discharge of his dnty he gained the affections and confidence of many patrons, who mourned his early departure and their loss of a physi- cian, a eitizen, and a sincere Christian. He was aged about twenty-six."

JOHN COOPER was born at Long Hill, Morris Co., N. J., March 24, 1765. His father, Daniel, was sheriff and a justice of the peace in Morris County ; his mother, Ann Cross, was a daughter of the Rev. John Cross, the first pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Basking Ridge, N. J., in 1732. After preliminary study, Dr. Cooper commenced the study of medicine ; was a pupil of Dr. Caleb Halsted, of Connecticut Farms, Dr. Melanchthon Freeman, of Middlesex Co., N. J., and Drs. Richard Bailey and Wright Post, of New York City. He was licensed to practice in New Jersey, Nov. 6, 1787, and immediately afterwards ad- mitted to membership in the New Jersey Medical So- ciety. lle subsequently removed to Warren County, locating at what is now Phillipsburg, boarding with Capt. Henry Bidleman, who lived in an old stone house on the site now occupied by the fine residence of S. L. Shimer, Esq. Here he continued for a few years in a very laborious and extended practice, riding over hills and valleys early and late, but meeting with words of encouragement and approval on every side. It was said by one who knew him well that, upon his first board bill becoming due, Capt. Bidleman sug- gested to him that "short payments made long friends," so the doctor bestirred himself to meet his first important obligation. Suffice it to say, he met this and all future contracts. In November, 1794, ho

¿ Dr. J. S. Cook. Ibil.

( Dr. J. C. Johnson.

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removed to Easton, Pa., where he spent the remainder of his life in the active duties of his calling. He mar- ried, in 1798, Mary, daughter of Arthur Erwin, of Er- winna, Pa., who survived him a few years. He had one son and three daughters. The son, John Cooper, was also a physician ; one daughter married the cel- ebrated teacher Rev. John Vanderveer, of Easton ; the other two married respectively Theodore Paul, of Belvidere, N. J., and Judge Randolph, of this State. In 1799, Gov. Mifflin, of Pennsylvania, appointed him a judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which office he held for more than forty years. In 1829 the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine,-a distinction so rare and carefully conferred by that institution as to in- dicate the distinction he had acquired as a medical man.

HENRY H. SOUTHARD was the third son of Hon. Isaac and grandson of Hon. Henry Southard, of Rev- olutionary fame. Dr. Southard was a native of Bask- ing Ridge, Somerset Co., N. J. He was graduated at the West Point Military Academy, but instead of en- tering the army turned his attention to the study of medicine under the instruction of his uncle, Dr. Sam- uel L. Doty, of his native place. He received his de- gree of M.D. (Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- phia) in 1832 or 1833. After practicing a short time at Danville, Morris Co., he removed to Asbury (1834) ; his stay there was brief, thence removing to the county- seat, where (in 1838) he formed a partnership with Dr. Abernethy, and also married Miss Louisa Max- well,* the daughter of John S. Maxwell, Esq., of Phillipsburg. In 1843 he removed to the last-named place, locating in the "old stone house," formerly the property of the Bullman family. There he practiced until 1845, when he went to Reaville, but two years later removed to Somerville, where he maintained an active practice until his death. He was a man of fine abilities, both natural and acquired ; of small stature, but erect and with a manly bearing. He was a mem- ber of the State Medical Society, twice a censor, and was connected with district medical societies of both Warren and Hunterdon Counties. His remains re- pose in a cemetery on the banks of the Raritan, at Somerville, where a stone bears this inscription :

"Henry Southard, Born March 27, 1811, Died Oct. 13, 1859."

FREDERICK P. SHEPPARD came to Asbury, a young man of good repute and knowledge, from Hampton Junction, Hunterdon Co. His parents lived there, and Asbury was his first location. He died much lamented May 12, 1869, aged twenty-four years, six monthis, and eleven days, having been born Nov. 1,

1844. He was buried in the Asbury cemetery, where a beautiful marble obelisk commemorates his memory.

JACOB WINTERS, son of Jacob Winters, of Broad- way, Warren Co., was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, and located at Mount Pleasant, Hun- terdon Co., where he practiced with good prospects of success from 1852 to 1855, when, his health failing, he went to his father's home at Broadway, where he died. His wife was a daughter of Rev. Jacob Cast- ner, of Washington, N. J. They had one child .;

DANIEL W. FANGBONER, son of John and Ellen, was born at Montana, Harmony township, this county, June 1, 1842. After attending the public schools of Harmony and Belvidere he entered the office of Dr. James D. Dewitt, of Harmony, in May, 1866. He was graduated from the University of New York City in March, 1869, and commenced the practice of his pro- fession at Montana, which he continued with ardor until 1872, when he was prostrated by an attack of typhoid fever, from which he died August 6th, at Harmony. He was buried at Oxford. He was mar- ried to Miss Carrie Cunningham, of Oxford, but died childless. "Had he lived he would beyond doubt have been one of the first in his profession in Warren County."#

THOMAS M. BARTOLETTE, youngest son of Rev. Charles Bartolette, was born at Flemington, N. J., Nov. 4, 1827; read medicine with his brother Charles at Milford, and was graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1855. He commenced his profes- sional life at Mount Pleasant, but in April, 1864, re- moved to Asbury, Warren Co., where he died, Sept. 29, 1866. He was buried at Milford. He married Miss Amy K., daughter of Henry W. Johnson, Esq., in 1855, and left one child, Evangeline. He was a member of the District Medical Society of Hunter- don County.

ROBERT RICHEY, son of William, was born near Asbury. He was a brother of the Hon. Augustus Richey, of Trenton. About the year 1838, Robert began to prepare for a medical career under the tutelage of Dr. H. H. Abernethy, of Greenwich town- ship, Warren Co., and was graduated in 1841. Soon after his graduation he was attacked by typhoid fever, which terminated his lite. Liberally educated, dig- nified, and courteous, he promised to occupy a lead- ing position in his profession, but death cut short these hopes. "His death was much lamented by a host of admiring friends."

CYRUS ARNDT was a native of Warren County, born near Washington, Oct. 6, 1821, of German ex- traction, his parents being John and Ann Arndt. Dr. Arndt spent his early years on his father's farm, but on attaining manhood commenced the study of med- icine with Dr. MeLenahan of Hampton Junction. Ile graduated in New York, and practiced his pro- fession about six months at Peapack, Somerset Co.,

# After his death she became the wife of John Ball, of Somerville, where she now resides.

+ Dr. John Blane.

Į Dr. J. II. Griffith.

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where he died Oct. 20, 1845, aged twenty-four years and fourteen days. He was buried in the Methodist Episcopal churchyard at Asbury.

SAMUEL GLENN was graduated at Union College in 1844; then, with the ministry in prospect, he en- tered and in due time was graduated from the Prince- ton Theological Seminary. Ile soon after took the pastorate of a church at Pottstown, Pa .; but after two years' service, owing to an affection of the throat, he resigned his charge. He then came to Stewartsville, in this county, and entered the office of Dr. James C. Kennedy as a student of medicine; he was also a pupil of Drs. Preston, of Galway, N. Y., and Horace Green, of New York City. After the usual course he was graduated at Castleton, Vt., in November, 1851. and settled at New Village, Warren to., N. J., soon after; practiced there for three and a half years, then for six months at Broadway, this county, and at Washington from that time until his death. Hle mar- ried in 1856, at Broadway, Miss Mary Warne. His widow and three children survive him. Dr. Glenn was a genial, warm-hearted man and a promising physician, but an early death put an end to his use- fulness. He was a native of Saratoga, N. Y., being born Nov. 1, 1818.

JOHN LEAVIFT, formerly located in Warren County, was born Dec. 3, 18Js, at North Hampton, N. H. Ile eame to New Hampton, N. J., in 1840, taught school, read medicine (with Dr. R. M. MeLenahan ), attended lectures in the winters of 1844-45 and 1845-46, and was graduated at the summer commencement. = July, 1846, he located at Asbury, and was associated as a partner with Dr. Alfred Gale. In July, 1847, the partnership was dissolved, and he removed to Finesville and took the field then recently vacated by Dr. Simcon S. Dana. He followed his profession there for six years, when he removed to Jerseyville, Athens Co., Ohio. Meanwhile he had married, at Bellefontaine, Ohio, Miss Atarah Smith, a native of Hunterdon Co., N. J. His stay was brief; in Fch- ruary, 1854, he returned to New Jersey, and located at Baptisttown, Hunterdon Co., where he practiced until his last sickness and death, April 4, 1876, from pneumonia. He was buried in the Frenchtown com- etery. He left a widow and a son and daughter ; the latter married a son of ex-Sheriff Chamberlain, of Hunterdon. Dr. Leavitt was a very successful prar- titioner, acquired considerable property, was plain in his manners and dress, but polite and affable. He was much respected by the profesion, and loved and honored by the community in which he practiced." Ile was a member of the Hunterdon County Medical Society.

CORNELIT'S B. ROBBINS, whose life was prema- turely and tragically ended, was born in Greenwich township, of this county, the son of Robert Robbins. Hle commenced the study of medicine in 1832 with

Dr. HI. H. Abernethy, and was graduated at the Jef- ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1835. After remaining with his preceptor a short time he located at Nanticoke, Pa., where he enjoyed a lucrative prac- tice for about eighteen years, and until his death. He and his sister were out riding one evening, when upon passing through a wood- which then covered the mountains his horses hecame frightened, ran away, and both were thrown from the carriage, he sustain- ing such injury that he died before morning, in a dis- mal forest, far from a human habitation. Ile was un- married ; and, although he died comparatively young, by the energetic prosecution of his profession, coupled with fortunate financial speculations, a very consider- able sum was left to his relatives. " Thus prematurely went down one of the brightest stars that ever rese towards the zenith of the medical profession."t

CHARLES COLLINGWOOD JENNINGS, although lo- cated at Easton, Pa., may properly be accounted as a Warren County physician, for he enjoyed for many years an extensive practice, not only in Phillipsburg, but all along the Delaware from that place to Riegels- ville. Although he had to compete on all sides with able physicians, yet his practice extended over an area of nearly twenty miles square, and his consulta- tion was sought from a still greater distance. He was born about twelve miles from Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 2, 1806, and died at his residence in Easton, March 16, 1875, after a short but violent attack of typhoid pneumonia. He was interred in the ceme- tery of that place. He was a laborious, self-sacri- ficing, and skillful physician : was noted for his phil- anthropy, his warm heart, and his manly virtues ; he was a man of culture, of literary tastes, and a consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. His first wife (Miss Robbins, of Philadelphia) died in 1845; his second. Rachel Long, and three children survive him .;

THOMAS DARLING received his preliminary educa- tion at his native place, Morristown, N. J., and began the study of medicine with Dr. Jeptha Munn. Later he was under the instruction of Professor Valentine Mott, of New York City, in which city he matrieu- Jated in 1828, at the age of twenty-four, having been born Sept. 17, 1804. The same year of his gradua- tion he settled in Warren County, at Danville. For five years he there engaged in active practice, then removed to Richmond, Ind. After three years' ab- senee he returned, locating at llope, in this county, and there practiced his profession for seven years. From 1844 to 1847 he was located at Asbury, after which he relinquished the practice of medicine en- tirely. At one time he resided in Virginia, where he owned considerable real estate; but in 1873 he took up his residence in Easton. Pa., and died there Ang. 8, 1877, of inflammation of the kidneys, after an ill-

+ Thịd.

f Dr. Griffith's notes, and oldtuary in the Enston Dispatch of March 10, 1873.

. Dr. J. 11. Grithth's MISS.

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ness of only four days. He was buried in the Easton cemetery. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Malcolm Darling. Dr. Darling was twice married,- first to Miss Sidney A., daughter of William Hibbler, of Hope, in 1833, by whom he had four sons and two daughters; second, to Miss Matilda L., youngest daughter of Isaac Smith, of Easton, in 1857, hy whom he had one child only, a daughter, since de- ceased. Dr. Darling was a cultured, well-read man as well as a skillful physician, and, possessed of a cheerful disposition and frank, cordial manners, he was an agreeable associate. Up to his last sickness he was most active,-remarkably so for a man of his years.

J. MARSHALL PAUL, son of the late Thomas Paul, of Belvidere, was born in that village, Jan. 2, 1800. After an excellent academic education he went to Philadelphia, and entered the office of Dr. Parrish, and graduated in the Medical Department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1824 he went (with Dr. John Rodman Paul) to Europe with a view of pursuing his professional studies. Two years were spent there, principally in Paris. Upon his return to this country he settled in Philadelphia, soon took a good position, and gained a large practice. In 1846, Dr. Paul having inherited a comfortable estate, and having suffered in health from constant work, gave up practice and retired to his beautiful country-seat, in his native town. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church a great portion of his life, and in commemoration of his mother he erected the Stadleman Institute. Dr. Paul died of natural decay, without definite disease of any kind, retaining, until within a few hours of his death, his mind unclouded. His wife and most of his family had preceded him to the tomb. He left behind him two daughters and a son, Dr. J. Marshall Paul, a snecessful practitioner of medicine in Belvidere.

WILLIAM B. MCCULLOUGH was a native of Asbury, and practiced there from 1834 until 1837. He was also one year at Broadway, this county,-1842-43. He removed to Ohio, and about 1872 emigrated to Cali- fornia, where he died.

WILLIAM E. MULHOLLAN came to Asbury in 1841, from Northampton Co., Pa. After three years' prac- tice he removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., where until his death he followed his profession. He died May 8, 1872.

CHRISTOPHER MACKEY was a native of Asbury, and the son of John K. and Sarah Ann Mackey. After a due conrse of study he was graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and commenced the practice of his profession in his na- tive town about 1859. In 1860 he removed to Dan- ville, this county; the next year he returned to Asbury, and there died, April 6, 1862, in the prime of life and in the midst of his usefulness. He was born in 1834. He was buried in the " Valley" church- yard, near New Hampton, N. J. He left no family.

JOHN SHARP, son of Jacob Sharp, was a native of Greenwich township, in this county. He studied medicine with Dr. William Shipman, of Warren County ; attended lectures at the Philadelphia Medi- cal College, graduating M.D. in the spring of 1854. He immediately located at Finesville, this county, but after four years' practice removed to Phillipsburg, there practicing medicine and also engaging in the lumber business. He died very soon after locating in the city last named. He married a Miss Shimer, by whom he had one child, now a student at Lafayette College. Dr. Sharp was a young man of splendid talents, and bade fair to take a leading position in the profession, but he went down to an untimely grave at the early age of twenty-five years. On a neat monu- ment in the old graveyard at the "Straw" church, in Greenwich, may be found the following:

" John Sharp, M.D., Born May 13, 1833, Died Dec. 30, 1858."

SIMEON S. DANA, a native of New Hampshire, born about 1830, and a graduate of Jefferson Medical Col- lege of Philadelphia about the year 1852, was soon after located at Finesville, this county. The same year he received a diploma from the Medical Society of New Jersey. In 1854 he removed to Hunterdon County (to Clover Hill), and there practiced the re- mainder of his days. He died in 1860, while on a visit to his native State, to which after his demise his family returned, and where they are now residing. He was a member of the District Medical Society of Hunterdon County. His wife was Miss Julia, an adopted daughter of Miss Ann Hall, of Somerset County. He left several children .*

REDFORD SHARP, son of William R. Sharp, was a native of Belvidere; read medicine and practiced sev- eral years in his native town prior to the war of the Rebellion, during which he served as an assistant sur- geon in the Union army. After the war he located in Texas, where he was married and died.

LUTHER C. BOWLBY was a native of this county. He practiced medicine at Finesville, Danville, and Hackettstown, and died in early life. He was a mem- ber of the Warren County Medical Society, joining in 1865.

WILLIAM KENNEDY, son of Phineas B. Kennedy, Esq., was born in Belvidere. He practiced at Dan- ville; subsequently removed to Southwestern Mis- souri ; was there at the breaking out of the late civil war; he joined the Confederate army as a surgeon, since which time he has not been heard from. His widow (a daughter of D. Van Buskirk), with an only child, -a son,-now resides at Danville, in this county.

V .- OTHER PHYSICIANS, RESIDENT, REMOVED, ETC.

JAMES C. FITCH, who has long been the Nestor of the profession in Warren County, is a native of New

Dr. Blane's " Med, Ilist. of Ilunterdon County."

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York City. His father was a sea captain, and with his family subsequently removed from the metropolis to Warwick, N. Y., where James studied with the late Dr. James P. Youog. He attended lectures at the Geneva Medical College, and practiced medicine four or five years at Warwick. Ile removed to Hope in 1827, was licensed by the State Medical Society, and became a member of the County Society in 1829. Dr. Fitch became a partner of the extensive practice of Dr. Leeds, and took an equal share of the long rides and hard labor of the district. Since Dr. Leeds' removal he has been continuously engaged, and is now attending to his practice, although he has reached the advanced age of eighty-five years. The doctor was always a strict disciplinarian, neat in person, wearing the traditional black broadcloth suit and silk hat. His reputation as an obstetrician is high. He married a Miss Drake and had six children, of whom three survive, the two sons both being physi- cians. The oldest,

GEORGE D. Frren, was born at Hope, April 7, 1838 ; received a classical education, and after reading a medical course in his father's office attended lectures and was graduated at the University of New York, in 1860. He practiced with his father at Hope until the spring of 1865, when he accepted a commission as assistant surgeon in the Fifteenth Regiment New Jersey Infantry Volunteers. At the close of the war he settled in Philadelphia, where he still practices.

PELATIAH Frren, son of Dr. James C., was born in 1842; was graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1862; was assistant surgeon of the Tenth New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. At the close of the war he also settled at Philadelphia, where he still prac- tices medicine in connection with a drug-store.

HENRY S. HARRIS,-His grandfather, Isaac Har- ris, born in 1741, was educated in East Jersey. Hle married Margaret Pierson, of Morris County, who bore him four children, two daughters and two sons, -Israel, a lawyer, and Isaac, who practiced medicine in Woodstown, Salem Co., until his death, which oc- curred April 16, 1811, at the age of forty. By his second marriage he had one daughter and four sons, one of whom, Samuel, practiced medicine in Camden for some thirty years prior to his death, in 1830, at the age of sixty-one.

Dr. Isaac Harris in carly life and manhood settled near Quibbletown, Piscataway township, in the county of Middlesex, where he practiced his profession. Ile possessed an elegant residence and farm, which was purchased by the father of Lewis Stille, which the latter afterwards occupied. After the sale of his place Dr. Harris removed to Pittsgrove, Salem ('o., about 1771, where he lived for many years, practicing his profession with great success. For many years his office was the resort of medical students from Somerset County and elsewhere. He possessed a good medical library and had a reputation as a prom- inent man in his profession. He was among the first

who responded to the call for the formation of a med- ical society, and was the sixth signer to the instru- ment of association; he then resided in Middle-ex. After his removal to South Jersey, in November, 1771, he gave as a reason for non-attendance at the meetings of the society his distant residence, and requested that he be considered a corresponding member. He was elected president of the society in 1792. In the war of 1776 he was commissioned surgeon in ten. Newcomb's brigade of State troops. It is written of him that he fulfilled with integrity and honor the various duties of husband, parent, physician, patriot, and public officer in the Church and in the State, crowning them all with the virtues of an eminently Christian life. He died in 1808, at Daretown, Salem Co., at the age of sixty-eight. One brother, Jacob Harris, was a surgeon throughout the Revolutionary war, and an- other brother, Benjamin, practiced medicine in Pitts- grove, where he died in middle life.

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History of Sussex and Warren counties, New Jersey, with Illustration and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 128

Author: Snell, James P; Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford) Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1140

Author: Snell, James P; Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1140