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Some of the more important public positions which he has filled are as follows, viz. : Member of Common Council and Chairman of the Finance Committee ; Receiver of Taxes from 1871 to 1875 ; Member of the New Jersey State Legislature in 1875, serving on the Judiciary Committee with the present Chancellor McGill (during this session the last Constitutional Amendments were brought up and finally adopted); Member of the School Board of the city for about twelve years,
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and President of that body during 1878 and 1879 ; Judge of the District Court from 1877 to 1888 ; Trustee of the New Jersey State School for Deaf-Mutes for five years. He is at present President of the Board of School Commissioners, and since 1890 has been Law Judge of Mercer county. His term as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas will expire in 1900. His law offices are on the first floor of No. 137 East State street, and his home is at No. 228 East Hanover street. Judge Woodruff is very well known and universally respected. He is prominent not only in his profession, but in everything that looks to the growth and progress of the city. He has always been interested in the welfare of Trenton, especially in the public schools. He has worked early and late for the more perfect development of the public school system in the city and has accom- plished a great deal in that direction. Trenton has no more publie-spirited citizen nor none of whom she is more justly proud than Judge Robert S. Woodruff.
The following is a complete list of the members of the bar of the State of New Jersey who were resident in the city of Trenton at the close of June Term of the Supreme Court, 1895-in all, one hundred and six :
Aitkin, James S.,
Admitted November Term, 1857.
Allinson, D. Cooper,
66 February
1863.
Anderson, Leroy H.,
66
February 66
1865.
Apgar, W. Holt, .
66
June 66 1884.
Applegate, Harry Le Roy,
66 February 66 1895.
Backes, John H.,
66 November 66 1884.
Backes, J. William, .
June 66
1893.
Backes, Peter,
February
1886.
Bainbridge, Willis P.,
June
1887.
Barton, Horatio N.,
66 February
1876.
Beasley, Chauncey H.,
66
June 66 1883.
Beasley, Mercer, .
September 66
1838.
Biddle, Clarence S., .
66 November 66 1891.
Bird, John T.,
November 66 1855.
Buchanan, James,
66
June 66
1883.
Cahill, James J.,
February 66
1894.
66
November
1885.
Clark, James F.,
66 February
1895.
Coleman, Rutherford,
June 66 1878.
Conard, John Lefferts,
66 February 66
1895.
Cook, Edward Grant,
June
1868.
Coward, Jacob M., .
June
1890.
Creveling, Wesley,
November
1865.
Crossley, William J.,
June 66
1889.
Crouch, John M.,
66 November
1890.
Dawes, Aaron V.,
November 66
1888.
Dayton, William L.,
June
1866.
Dickinson, S. Meredith,
66
November
1849.
Evans, Edward W., Sr.,
June
1863.
66
February 60
1880.
Force, James M.,
February 66
1880.
Gnichtel, Frederick W.,
66
June 66 1893.
Grant, Israel B.,
66 February
1892.
Green, Charles E.,
June 66
1863.
Green, Edward T.,
66 November 66
1858.
Green, Elmer E., .
60
June
60 1873.
Green, Henry W.,
66 November 66 1894.
Grosvenor, George S.,
June
1875.
66
66
66
66
June 66 1863.
Dippolt, James L. (not practicing),
Fischer, Joseph,
November 66 1864.
Buchanan, James,
Cain, Gardner H.,
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Gummere, Charles E.,
Admitted February
Term, 1891. 66
Gummere, William S.,
66
June
1873.
Hamill, Hugh H., .
66
February 66
1877.
Hamilton, Morris R.,
66
September
1842.
Hannum, Levi T.,
June
66 1874.
Holt, William,
66
June
66
1868.
Holt, Woodbury D.,
66
November
1863.
Howell, John G.,
66
November
66
1876.
Howell, Lambert L.,
66
June 66
1872.
Hunt, Joseph Ely,
66
February 60 1886.
Hutchinson, Barton B.,
66
June
1881.
Hutchinson, Symmes B.,
February
1879.
Jamieson, William M.,
66
June
66
1890.
Johnson, William Y., .
66
June
66
1868.
Jones, Asa,
66
November
66
1876.
Katzenbach, Frank S., Jr.,
66
November 66
1892.
Lanning, William M.,
66
November
1880.
Lee, Francis B., .
66
June
1893.
Little, Henry S.,
66
April
66
1848.
Loos, Nevin J.,
66
November
66
1894.
Lowthorp, Franeis C.,
66
June
66
1875.
Macpherson, George W.,
66
November
66
1878.
Maple, Theodore C.,
66
February
66
1873.
MeMichael, William P., Jr.,
60
June
66
1879.
Montgomery, John A.,
66
June
66
1891.
66
February
66
1894.
66
February 66
1879.
Naar, Samuel G.,
66
June
66
1880.
Oliphant, Samuel D.,
66
November
66
1887.
Paeker, Gouverneur V.,
66
June
60
1893.
Parker, Lewis,
66
June
66
1861.
Perrine, Lewis,
66
June
66
1883.
Petty, Nelson L.,
June
1894.
Phillips, Henry D., .
66 February 66
1883.
Reed, Alfred,
June
1864.
Rellstab, John,
60
November
66
1882.
Richey, Isaae F., .
66
June
1875.
60
November 66
1886.
Roberts, Charles E.,
November 66
1893.
Robeson, George M.,
July
66
1850.
Rue, A. Judson, .
66 November
66
1879.
Rusling, James F., .
66
June
66
1859.
Sanford, William A.,
February
66
1892.
Satterthwait, Linton,
February
66
1887.
Seott, Lewis W., .
November
1871.
Seudder, George D.,
66
June
66
1879.
Scudder, Hervey C.,
66 November
66
1892.
Stockton, Bayard,
February
66
1878.
Stockton, John P.,
April
66
18447.
Stockton, Robert F.,
60 November
66
1854.
Sykes, John,
66 November
66
1887.
Temple, John T.,
66
June
66
1868.
Tunison, Harmon P.,
June
66 1894.
Van Cleef, John T.,
66
June
66
1872.
Morrell, Henry H.,
Murphy, Edward H.,
66 November
1867.
Oliphant, Samuel D., Jr.,
66
Robbins, Carroll,
66
66
66
66
66
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Van Syckel, Bennet,
Admitted April 66
Term, 1851.
Van Syckel, William S.,
June
66
1883.
Vroom, Garret D. W., .
66
June
66
1865.
Walker, Edwin Robert,
66
June
66 1886.
Walker, Samuel, .
66
November 66 1883.
Watson, Walton M.,
June
66 1893.
Welling, Charles Leroy,
66
February
1876.
Wilson, Frank W.,
February
1893.
Wood, Ira W.,
66
June
66 1880.
Wood, Isaac T.,
February 66
1881.
Woodruff, Robert S.,
60
June
66
1868.
66
There are in the city the following law firms : Barton & Dawes (Horatio N. Barton and Aaron V. Dawes), Buchanan & Rellstab (ex-Congressman James Buchanan and John Rellstab), Crossley & Montgomery (William J. Crossley and John A. Montgomery ), Barker Gummere & Sons ( William S. Gummere, Charles E. Gummere and Samuel R. Gummere), Stockton & Johnson (John P. Stockton and William Y. Johnson), Lowthorp & Oliphant ( Francis C. Lowthorp and Samuel D. Oliphant, Jr. ), Holt & Wilson (Woodbury D. Holt and Frank W. Wilson), Applegate & Coward (Harry Le Roy Applegate and Jacob M. Coward), Holt & Grant (William Holt and Israel B. Grant ), Howell & Brother (J. G. and L. L. Howell).
Of the Justices of the Supreme Court resident in Trenton, are Chief Justice Mercer Beasley, Associate Justice Bennet Van Syckel and Associate Justice William S. Gummere. Of the Court of Chancery, Vice Chancellor John T. Bird and Vice Chancellor Alfred Reed reside in Trenton. The Chancery Reporter, S. Meredith Dickinson, and the Law Reporter, Garret D. W. Vroom, are resi- dents of Trenton. The State Librarian, Morris R. Hamilton, is also a Trentonian, as are District Court Judge Chauncy H. Beasley and Law Judge of Mercer County Robert S. Woodruff. United States District Court Judge Edward T. Green has his home in Trenton.
Although various law students' organizations have come into existence in this city, the latest and most successful attempt was recently made by Mr. D. Everett Van Dright, assisted by Messrs. Joseph P. Hickey and John W. Zisgen. A notice for temporary organization was published, at which meeting Mr. Van Dright presided. On May 4th, 1895, permanent organization was effected by the election of the following officers : President, Anthony S. Brennan ; Vice President, James Kelly ; Secretary and Treasurer, John W. Zisgen ; Quizz Master, Frederick Hulme. The objects for which the association was organized are four-Moot Court, Law Lectures, Quizz Class and Debater. Meetings are held weekly, on Saturday afternoons, in the Council Chamber of the City Hall. The number of members on the list is twenty-nine.
CHAPTER XXVI.
PHYSICIANS IN TRENTON.
EARLY DAYS OF PRACTICE-THE WESLEYAN DOCTRINE OF "PRIMATIVE PHYSIC"-DISTINGUISHED DISCIPLES OF ESCULAPIUS AND THE PRESENT GENERATION.
HE HISTORY of early medical practice in Trenton is largely a repetition of the record of every growing colonial town. Quacks and charlatans preyed upon an ignorant public, leaving in their path wrecked constitutions and even bodily injuries. Indeed, so great did this evil become that in 1766 the New Jersey Medical Society was formed, the constitution of which organization was signed by fourteen of the most respectable of the physicians of the eastern portion of the Colony. Through the influences of this Society, the "Act to regulate the prac- tice of physick and surgery " was passed in 1772, which prohibited anyone from exercising the "healing art" except the applicant be first examined before two Justices of the Supreme Court and an examiner whom they might select. Various other statutes were passed during the century succeeding 1766, all of which tended to restrict the operations of quacks, to aid the State Society and to place the practice of medicine upon a catholic yet conservative basis. Within recent years, particularly in 1894 and 1895, the Legisla- ture has passed acts which are of the greatest importance to the profession, more especially relating to questions of a hygienie character.
A curious phase of the carly practice of medicine in Trenton is to be found in a little book, entitled " Primative Physic or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases." This was the sixteenth edition, printed in 1788 by Quequelle & Wilson, and was written by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in London. The date of the preface is June 11th, 1747. The remedies are all of a vegetable nature, and are very quaint and interesting. Regarding children, it is advised that they should not touch spirituous or fermented liquor before they are two years old. For con- sumption, the patient is advised every morning to cut up a little turf of fresh earth, and lying down breathe in the hole for a quarter of an hour. The iliac passion, a violent kind of cramp, could be cured by holding a live puppy constantly on the belly. For lunacy, it is recommended that the boiled juice of ground ivy and sweet oil and white wine be made into an ointment. "Chafe it in warm (water) every other day for three weeks." This generally cures melancholy. The author recommends cold bathing and the use of electricity. These, with other simple remedies, show that Mr. Wesley, in his English and American societies, had gathered together plain people of but little education. Physicians were often unobtainable even in towns the size of Trenton, and this little book was of great benefit, inasmuch as most of the remedies grew in the yards or gardens of nearly every reader.
Of physicians immediately associated with Trenton and vicinity during Revolutionary times, the name of Colonel John Beatty is most prominent. After residing in Princeton, where he rendered patriotie service, he later served as delegate to Congress, 1783 and 1793, and as Speaker of the Assembly. In 1795 he was elected Secretary of State, removed to Trenton, settled on the banks of the Delaware, and was President of both the Trenton Bridge and the Trenton Banking Company.
JOHN WOOLVERTON, A.M., M.D.
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THE CITY OF TRENTON.
Of the early physicians of Trenton, none was more highly esteemed than Nicholas Jacques Emanuel de Belleville, who was born at Metz, France, in 1753. He studied medicine under his father, passed seven years in the schools and hospitals of Paris and came to Trenton as a fellow voyageur with Count Pulaski. General Philemon Dickinson states that the vessel in which he sailed was a sloop-of-war, mounting fourteen guns, with a crew of 105 men. She had on board abount 1,600 stand of arms for the American troops. On the twenty-second of July, 1777, they arrived in Massachusetts, and the first town he entered was Salem, where he staid some days and afterwards went to Boston. Dr. de Belleville attended the Count, in the capacity of surgeon, in the different parts of the country to which he went for the purpose of recruiting a legion, which the Count was authorized to raise by the Provincial Congress. Pulaski remained some time at Trenton for that purpose, where Belleville became acquainted with Dr. Bryant, a physician of eminence, who took a fancy to him, treated him kindly, and endeavored to persuade him to give up the army and settle in Trenton, offering to do all in his power to introduce him into practice. This he did in the fall of 1778. In his professional life he was naturally the friend of his countryman, Joseph Bonaparte, Count de Survillers, the exiled King of Spain, who then resided at Bordentown. To the influence of Dr. de Belleville, the credit must be given of being the founder of the medical pro- fession in the city of Trenton.
Dr. James Beakes Coleman was a student of medicine under Dr. de Belleville, and graduated from Yale College in 1829. In 1837 Dr. Coleman, who had practiced in Philadelphia and in Bur- lington county, removed to Trenton, where he became eminent in the field of surgery. He was essentially a myriad-minded man, equally at home upon the lecture platform, in the chemical laboratory, or with mahl-stick and brush. He also contributed extensively to the local and State press. In official life, he was for a while President of the State Medical Society and of the Board of Health, was one of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum and deeply interested in philan- thropic measures. Dr. Coleman died about twenty years since.
Dr. James Clark, son of Dr. Israel Clark, of Clarksville, which spot was settled by the family in 1695, was an eminent practitioner of this city. Dr. James Clark's wife was Mary, daughter of Dr. Nicholas de Belleville.
Dr. John McKelway was a contemporary of Dr. Coleman, the professional careers of both being terminated at about the same period. Dr. MeKelway was of the so-called "old school," and one who was very punctilious as to the ethics of his profession, which he dearly loved.
Dr. John L. Taylor was a native of Monmouth county, and after graduating at the Medical University of New York City, acquired a large practice in Trenton. He died, highly respected, March 2d, 1879.
The recent departure of Dr. William W. L. Phillips from this city to become Surgeon at the National Home at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, removes a particularly prominent citizen. With a record of a most distinguished character, as Surgeon in the Army of the Potomac, as City Physician and as Physician at the New Jersey State Prison, Dr. Phillips did not confine his talents to these branches of the public service, but gave his time and attention to vital municipal matters. He was one of the organizers of the Board of Trade, was an active factor in the park agitation, did more than any one citizen to secure the present sewerage system, and was at the head of the early move- ment leading to the establishment of Mercer Hospital.
For nearly forty years one of the most prominent physicians in Trenton was Dr. John Wool- verton, A. M., M. D. He was born near Stockton, New Jersey, October 27th, 1825, and his early life was spent on his father's farm, in Hunterdon county. At the age of seventeen he entered Lafayette College, at Easton, Pennsylvania. Immediately after leaving college, he entered as a student the office of Dr. Foulke, at New Hope, Pennsylvania. In 1847 he matriculated at the Medieal Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and receiving his degree of M. D. in 1849, he opened an office in Trenton, and continued in the active practice of his profession until the day of his death-September 14th, 1888. At the time of his decease Dr. Woolverton was the oldest member of the District Medical Society, and the oldest practitioner of medieine in continuous ser- viee in Mercer county. In the columns of the "Medical Society of New Jersey Transactions for 1889," one of his brother practitioners has been pleased to say of him : "He always maintained an honorable position toward his professional brethren, was one of the most generous of competitors, and was eminently the friend of the young practitioner."
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His death was regarded by his associates, not only as a public loss but as the loss of a personal friend as well. Although he conducted a very extensive practice he repeatedly held positions of trust and honor, and found time to discharge his official duties to the entire satisfaction of the people. In 1868, he was elected to the State Senate, where he served one term, positively refusing a second nomination. He was a member of Common Council, and in 1886 was elected Mayor of the city. For several years he was Director of the Board of Chosen Freeholders, and at the time of his death was President of the Board of Health. He was also President of the Board of School Trustees. Dr. Woolverton was Physician and Surgeon-in-Chief of St. Francis Hospital from the time it was started until his death. He was a member of the State Medical Society, and was President of the Society in 1862. For many years he was one of the most prominent as well as one of the most zealous members of the Masonic fraternity in the State, attaining the Thirty-third Degree, and filling the highest positions in the gift of that organization. Dr. Woolverton was married to Emma Copper Van Cleve, daughter of one of Trenton's most respected citizens. Within a few years his wife died, leaving one son, Edwin V. C.
The Mercer County Medical Society was formed in the year 1848, and has since had an active existence. A local society of the homeopathie physicians is also increasing in membership, this school of practice having been introduced into Mercer county by Dr. Joseph C. Boardman in April, 1845.
Trenton has been most fortunate in having secured as resident physicians, gentlemen who by reason of superior skill in their chosen profession have kept the general health of the public up to a high average. We give herewith brief sketches of the leading physicians and surgeons of Trenton-men who have been prominently identified with the best interests of the city.
WILLIAM S. LALOR, M. D., was born April 16th, 1848, in Hamilton township, Mercer county, New Jersey, on the Lalor homestead, which has been in possession of the family since 1750. He was educated at the Lawrenceville Classical and Commercial High School, and was graduated from Princeton College with the Class of '69. He then entered upon the study of medicine with Dr. John Woolverton. In 1872 he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the degree of M. D. He then opened an office in Trenton, and has continued in the active practice of his pro- fession here ever since. He has been eminently successful as a physician and surgeon, and has established a very large and lucrative practice. He is a man of unbounded energy and a high degree of physical endurance. He is a member of the State Medical Society and the Mercer County Medical Society, having been President of the latter body during 1882. He served as City Physi- cian for four years, was a member of the Board of School Trustees for three years, and was Superin- tendent of Public Instruction during 1876 and 1877. He also served as a member of the Board of Health for seven years. For four years, under President Cleveland's administration, Dr. Lalor was Examining Pension Surgeon. He was County Physician for six years and faithfully attended to his duties. He is now Physician at the Deaf-Mute School, having acted in that capacity for three years. Dr. Lalor was married in 1873 to Annie E., daughter of Henry Grambo, of Philadelphia. She died in 1877, having had two children, both of whom are also deceased. On October 5th, 1880, Dr. Lalor married Emilie V., daughter of Charles W. Mixsell, of Easton, Pennsylvania. He has a very handsome brownstone residence and office at 129 North Warren strect.
CHARLES POTTS BRITTON, M. D., was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1845. In 1873, he received the degree of M. D. upon the completion of a full medical course in the University of Pennsylvania. He practiced in Trenton until 1876, and during three years of his general practice here he was one of the Physicians of St. Francis Hospital. In 1876, he was appointed Physician to the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, and he was connected with that institution for six years. In 1882, he purchased the drug business established by Dr. James about fifty years ago, and in 1894 he moved into the handsomely-equipped Masonic Temple Pharmacy, corner of State and North Warren streets. In 1882, he was married to Katherine G., daughter of Dr. John Kirby, who has been for many years one of the Resident Physicians at the Asylum. One son and three daughters are the fruits of this marriage. Dr. Britton is a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society and the New Jersey State Pharmaceutical Society. He has for years been a member of the Trenton Board of Health. He resides handsomely at No. 126 West State street.
WILLIAM S. LALOR, M.D.
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THE CITY OF TRENTON.
WILLIAM H. G. GRIFFITH, M. D., was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Dominion of Canada, August 3d, 1833. He studied medicine with Dr. Toothaker, of Philadelphia, and during the Civil war was Assistant Surgeon at Church Hospital, Tennessee. He afterward volunteered with the Tenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers. After the war was over he entered Hahnemann College, of Philadelphia, from whence he was graduated in 1872. He practiced at Hulmeville, Pennsylvania, from 1872 to 1884, when he came to Trenton. He was one of the originators of the City Hospital, and has been on the Medical and Surgical Staff of this hospital sinee its opening. In 1872 Dr. Griffith was married to Miss Heyl, daughter of Dr. Heyl, a prominent physician of Philadelphia. They have two children, Anna and George.
HENRY M. WEEKS, M. D., was born in Irvington, a suburb of Newark, New Jersey, October 26th, 1850. He attended the public schools of Newark until the age of thirteen, when he started out to fight the battles of life alone. He went to New York City and engaged in mercantile pursuits, continuing his education under private tutors, and, at the age of seventeen, began the study of medicine, still continuing to hold a clerical position as a means of support. His tutors were men who encouraged him in his advance- ment, and through his great energy and hard study, in 1873, he was graduated from the Medical Department of the University of New York, having taken in addition to the regular eourse a special course in surgery. After his graduation he engaged in the practice of his profession with Dr. William A. Smith, at that time one of the most prominent physicians of Newark. He was elected one of the Attending Physicians to the Old Ladies' Home, and also an Attending Physician at the Newark City Dispensary, and while serving in this capacity he performed many intricate surgical operations on the patients who visited the dispensary, attracting much public attention. During the time he practiced in Newark he did a great deal of surgical work in connection with promi- nent gynæcologists of New York City, and by their teaching and aid he became a thorough master of the gynæeological branch of surgery so far as it was then developed, and he has been a diligent student of later discoveries and HENRY M. WEEKS. experiments sinee that time. He fully expected to devote himself entirely to surgery, especially gynæcological surgery, but in 1875 his health broke down, so that he was obliged to remove to Southern California. In 1877 he settled in Fallsington, Pennsylvania, where he could still have the benefit of country air. In 1881 he had so far recovered his health that he felt warranted in going back to city practice, and so far as possible to the practice of his specialty. He then came to Trenton, where his ability soon became recognized, placing him among the leading surgeons of the city. Dr. Weeks is the pioneer gynecologist of Trenton. In September, 1886, he opened a private hospital on Prospect street, for the treatment of women's diseases, de., and subsequently removed to more commodious quarters on Rutherford avenue. At this hospital he performed the first successful abdominal surgery in this part of the State. Several years ago he took a very active part in the establishment of the Trenton City Dispensary, which was opened in a building upon the site now occupied by the Masonic Temple. As a result of this dispensary idea, the Mercer Hospital was erected. Dr. Weeks is one of the surgeons of this hospital. He is a member of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society and the Phila- delphia Neurological Society, and is an ex-President of the Mercer County District Medical Society. B%
210
THE CITY OF TRENTON.
He is Chairman of the Board of Medical Examiners of the Prudential Life Insurance Company for the Trenton District, and is Medical Examiner for several other life insurance companies. In May, 1873, Dr. Weeks was married to Mary M., daughter of David D. Fairchild, a wealthy citizen of Newark. Seven children have been born to them, six of whom are living, one having died in infancy. David F., the eldest, is pursuing the study of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. The other children, two boys and three girls, are attending school in this eity. The family reside at 484 West State street, and attend the Trinity Episcopal Church. Dr. Weeks has always possessed an independent spirit, and from early manhood relied solely upon his own exertions for existence and advancement. He has fought gallantly with the vicissitudes of life, and the high standing which he now enjoys in the medical profession is the result of his own relentless toil and indefatigable efforts. He occupies a suite of offices at 15 West State street.
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