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NELSON B. OLIPHANT, M. D., was born at Uniontown, Fayette county, Pennsylvania, April 29th, 1857, and is the son of General Samuel D. Oliphant. He is the fifth member of a family of ten sons. At the time of his birth, his father prac- ticed law at his home, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, but with his family removed to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1867. Here Dr. Oliphant and his brothers attended school, receiving his preliminary education, during seven years in the private school of John Schenck. He came to Trenton with his parents in 1874, and attended the State Model School, where he pursued a special course preparatory to the study of medicine. He read medicine with his preceptor, Dr. William W. L. Phillips. In the fall of 1877, he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, graduat- ing therefrom in the spring of 1880. Soon thercafter he entered a competitive examination for one of the posi- tions on the staff of the Philadelphia Hospital, as Resident Physician. He served one year, and while there, gained such practical experience that it enabled him to obtain a large and well-paying practice at Lam- bertville, to which place he removed after his term of NELSON B. OLIPHANT. service at the hospital expired. He remained there nearly four years, and in connection with his private practice, acted as Assistant Surgeon to the Seventh Regiment, New Jersey National Guard. He was also Surgeon for the Pennsylvania railroad, which position he held until he removed to Trenton,
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in 1885. Hle first located at No. 110 West State street, at which place he remained until 1894, when he purchased the handsome property at No. 152 West State street, where he now resides and retains his office. On April 29th he was appointed the first Surgeon of the New Jersey Naval Reserve. On September 9th, 1885, Dr. Oliphant was married to Lucy, daughter of William Corwin, proprietor of extensive machine works at Lambertville, New Jersey, and granddaughter of Ashbel Welch. Mr. Welch was prominent in New Jersey history as ex-President of the United Railroads of New Jersey, and was, by profession, a civil engineer. He perfected the greater portion of the engineering of the Delaware and Raritan canal, and also introduced the block system of signals in the United States. Dr. Oliphant is a member of the Mercer County Medical Society, and connected with the Eye and Ear Department of St. Francis Hospital, of Trenton.
ADDISON H. DEY, M. D., was born in Hightstown, New Jersey, January 4th, 1857. For several years he attended the Van Rensselaer Institute, of that place. He determined to study medicine, and entered the office of Dr. Deshler, the most prominent physician of Hightstown. There he remained for two years. Dr. Dey graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881. He started upon the practice of his profession in his native town, and remained there for three years, meeting with gratifying success. In 1885 he moved to Trenton, and opened an office at 337 North Warren street, where he re- mained until March, 1894, when he moved into his present residence-123 South Warren street. Dr. Dey is a general practitioner of recognized skill and ability. He has been the examiner for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Relief Society, and also physician for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com- pany for several years. Dr. Dey was married on June 8th, 1893, to Carrie Perrine, of Dutch Neck, New Jersey.
RICHARD R. ROGERS, JR., M. D., was born in 1862 on East Hanover street, where his father still resides. He was educated at the Trenton Academy and studied medicine with his father and the late Dr. Woolverton. He also took a medical course at the University of Pennsyl- ADDISON H. DEY. vania, graduating from there in 1882. After his graduation he served one year in the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania Hospital, and afterward a little over a year in the New Jersey State Asylum for the Insane, in this city. For two years he was associated with his father in general practice, and upon the death of his brother-in-law, Dr. Brock, in September, 1886, Dr. Rogers moved at once to No. 610 Perry street and succeeded to the office and practice of his late brother-in-law. He is still residing at the same place and has a firmly-established practice. For three years he was City Physician, and during President Harrison's administration was Secretary of the Board of United States Pension Examiners for the Second Congressional District. He has been Medical Examiner for the Royal Arcanum since 1884 and for the Order of the Golden Chain since 1886. He is also Examiner for Sir Charles Napier Lodge of the Sons of St. George, and the Sexennial League and a large number of insurance companies. He was the first Medical Examiner for the Metropolitan Insurance Company in this city. Dr. Rogers is a Thirty-second Degree Mason, and is a prominent member of the Young Men's Republican Club. He is Assistant Surgeon of the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. J. On December 8th, 1887, he married Julia, daughter of the late William Jewell, a retired merchant of Princeton. They have three children-Elsie, Harold and Richard R.
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WILLIAM McD. STRUBLE, M. D., was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, August 19th, 1860. He is a descendant of an old German family, who emigrated to this country over a century and a half ago. He received a liberal education in the High School of his native county, and early evinced a liking for the medical profession. His father, being a man of humble means, was unable to assist him in procuring the necessary knowledge, so Mr. Struble came to Trenton and secured a clerical position. This was with the view of accumulating a sufficient amount of money to carry him through the University of Pennsylvania medical course. After five years of hard work and economical living his hopes were realized. He entered that institu- tion in 1882, and was graduated with honors in 1885. He then came to this city, and commenced the practice of his profession. To-day, Dr. Struble is a leading and suc- cessful physician and surgeon. His medical colleagues have acknowledged this fact by electing him President of the Trenton Medical Association. He was at one time President of the Mercer County Medical Society, and for sev- eral years was Secretary for this Society. He is a member of the present Board of Health, and was City Physician for two years. On June 6th, 1886, he was married to Rachel Holt, of Trenton. Dr. Struble retains an office in connection with his residence at 691 South Broad street. WILLIAM MCD. STRUBLE.
BENJAMIN W. McGALLIARD, M. D., was born near Bridgeton, New Jersey, October 6th, 1861. After receiving a good common-school education, he entered the South Jersey Institute, where he spent one year in preparing for Lafayette College. Matriculating at that institution in the fall of 1881, he pursued the Latin-Scientific course, graduating as one of the honor-men in the Class of '85. He then taught for one year a public school at Andover, Sussex county, New Jersey, after which he entered the Medical Department of the University of Penn- sylvania, graduating with the Class of '89. In a com- petitive examination for an appointment on the Staff of Resident Physicians of the Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, Dr. McGalliard was successful in his efforts. He remained there one year; he came to Trenton and located on South Broad street. Shortly thereafter, he removed to his present location.
Dr. MeGalliard is thoroughly versed in medi- cine and surgery. He is one of the Visiting Staff of Physicians at St. Francis Hospital, to which he was appointed April 30th, 1892. He is Secretary of the Mercer County Medical Society, and acts BENJAMIN W. MCGALLIARD. in the same capacity for the staff of Physicians at St. Francis Hospital. Dr. MeGalliard is located at No. 215 East State street, where he has a well-equipped and handsomely-appointed suite of offices.
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CHARLES W. GERRY.
CHARLES W. GERRY, M. D., is a native of Maine, having been born in Thomaston in 1853. He was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts ; at Hallowell Academy and Brown's Academy, at Auburndale, Massachu- setts. He also entered Harvard University and took a course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College, in Boston. Later he studied medicine at the Boston University, from which he received his degree in 1878. Dr. Gerry commeneed the practice of his profession in the town of Easton, Maryland, and was there two years. Thence he came directly to Trenton and was engaged in successful practice about seven years. Then for two years he had an office in Asbury Park, and for about a year he was located in Pennington, New Jersey, but of late years he has again been practicing in Trenton. Dr. Gerry is a regular and homeopathie physician and surgeon, having studied both systems. He has ample ability to skillfully treat any kind of case that comes under his care. In November, 1889, he was married to Miss Bennett, daughter of Henry J. Bennett, one of the leading house painters of this city. Dr. Gerry's office and residence are at No. 232 East Front street.
CHARLES H. DUNHAM, M. D., was born on a farm near Piscataway, Middlesex county, New Jersey, March 24th, 1839. His paternal ancestors came from England. In the year 1681, Rev. Edmund Dunham settled in Middlesex county, where he married Elizabeth Bonham, and afterward established the Seventh-Day Baptist Church. On the maternal line he is descended from Pontius Stelle, of France, whose son Benjamin, born in New York in 1683, afterward became pastor of the Piscata- way Baptist Church, now Stelton. At the age of sixteen years, Dr. Dunham entered the chemist and apothecary shop of the late Dr. David C. English, at New Brunswick. After spending two years there he went to Elizabeth- port with Dr. Thomas L. Hough, and on September 6th, 1858, came to Trenton and accepted a clerkship with the late Isaac D. James. He has since resided in this city. In 1861 he began the study of medicine under the late Dr. Thomas J. Corson, and entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in the spring of 1864. He passed an examination for Assistant Surgeon in the army. There being no vacancy at the time, he appeared before a contract board, then sitting at Philadelphia, and passed an exami- nation for Acting Assistant Surgeon, and was assigned to Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C., now the National Soldiers' Home. He was afterward transferred to the hospital CHARLES H. DUNHAM. steamer "State of Maine," where he remained until the end of the war. He then returned to Trenton and formed a partnership with Isaae D. James in the drug and apothecary business, under the firm style of James & Dunham, and con-
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tinued the same until January 1st, 1874. Since the dissolution of partnership he has been prac- ticing medicine in this city, at his office and residence, 121 South Warren street. Dr. Dunham was on the active staff of St. Francis Hospital for seventeen years as Physician and Surgeon. He retired from active service a few years ago on account of ill health. He has also been County Phy- sician and County School Superintendent. Dr. Dunham, on November 5th, 1867, married Anna L., daughter of the late ex-Sheriff Amos Sickel. Mrs. Dunham died on December 24th, 1874.
THOMAS H. MACKENZIE, M. D., is a native of Nova Scotia, and was born in 1847. He received his classical education at the Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and completed his medical course in 1871 at the Harvard University. He immediately came to Trenton, locating on Centre street. Dr. Mackenzie is a physician and sur- geon of acknowledged ability and skill. He has been connected with St. Francis Hospital for over twenty years. He served as City Physician three years, and Physician for Mercer county three years. He is at present Attend- ing Physician at the New Jersey State Prison, and is a member of the Mercer County Medical Society, serving one term as President of that body. For three years he was Superintendent of the Public Schools of the city, and is now one of Trenton's Commissioners of Education. As City Superintendent, he made a faithful and efficient officer. In 1878, he married Helen H. Buchanan, of this city. They have two sons-Egbert and Harold. Dr. Mackenzie's home and office are at No. 116 Centre street.
ALTON S. FELL, M. D., was born in Trenton, New Jersey, October 28th, 1865. Until he was ten years old he was sent to the public schools of the city, but at that time his father died and since then he has been obliged to provide for himself. For five years he was general utility boy in one of his uncle's brickyards, and during a part of THOMAS H. MACKENZIE, that time he was diligently studying to improve himself so that he might take a more congenial, and at the same time more lucrative position. After working hard all day at manual labor, he would attend the Trenton Business College at night. He made the very best use of his opportunities, and by the time he had reached his fifteenth year, he had mastered the course in the business college, and was thoroughly prepared to take an office position. He then entered the employ of the Ott & Brewer Company, and remained in their office ten years. While he was engaged as head bookkeeper in the Ott & Brewer Pottery Company, he was also studying medicine with Dr. W. G. Mccullough. As soon as he had reached a place in his study where he thought he would receive the greatest benefit from the college lectures, he gave up his business position and entered the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he graduated in 1894. Dr. Fell immediately located in Trenton at No. 143 Perry street. He has already been honored with an appointment as one of the Resident Physicians at the City Hospital, and has assisted in a number of unusual and very difficult operations. He is a general medical practitioner and surgeon, but is already taking special studies in a particular branch to which he expects soon to devote himself. He takes a great interest in Free Masonry, and is a past officer in his local lodge and chapter, and a Knight Templar and Mystic Shriner. He was the originator of the Fellowcraft Club, which was organized about five years ago, and has been its Vice President since its organization.
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CHARLES FRANKLIN ADAMS, M. D., was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, July 5th, 1859. His line of descent is from Henry Adams, of Braintrec. Dr. Adams' mother was Susan M. Dennis, daughter of Joel Dennis, which family emigrated to this country in the seventeenth century and settled in New Jersey. Members thereof served with the New Jersey troops in the War of the Revolution. Dr. Adams' classical education was obtained at the Farnum Preparatory School, of Beverly, New Jersey. He afterward pursued a course at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, from which he was graduated in 1882. He immediately took up the study of medicine, graduating with honor and receiving his degree from the Jefferson Medical College in 1887. Dr. Adams located at once in the city of Trenton, and has been practicing here continuously, with the exception of the few months which he spent in travel and study in Europe. At the time the borough of Chambersburg was annexed to the city, he was Borough Physician. Afterward he was appointed Analytical Chemist to the Trenton Board of Health. At present he is the President of the Mercer County Medical Society and a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society. He is prominently connected with the Mercer Hospital and also with the Trenton Dispensary and is President of the Pathological Association. He is an ex-President and the Medical Examiner of the Order of Tonti and also Medical Examiner of the Knights of Malta. In 1891, he had the honor of representing Uncas Tribe, No. 102, I. O. R. M., in the Great Council Session of the Red Men of New Jersey. In June, 1892, Dr. Adams married May Robeson, of this city. He has a large and very pleasant residence and office at No. 52 West State street.
CHARLES R. BURROUGHS, M. D., was born near Pennington, Mercer county, New Jersey, in 1853. His preliminary education was received at Pennington Seminary, after which he took a thorough course at the Long Island Medical College, Brooklyn, New York, whence he was graduated with honors in 1885. He immedi- ately received an appointment as Assistant Physician to the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane, at Trenton, and for five years he presided over the male department of that institution. Dr. Burroughs faithfully and con- scientiously performed his duties, and as a natural result won the esteem and respect of the employes and inmates of the Hospital. Dr. Burroughs has been twice married. His second wife was Miss Osmond, of Camden, whom he married February 22d, 1891. He resides at No. 229 North Warren street, where he also retains his office.
WILLIAM W. WOOLSEY, M. D., was born in Penns Manor, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1869. In 1890, he graduated from the Hahnc- mann Medical College of Chicago, and immedi- ately located in Trenton. While Dr. Woolsey by no means ignores the power of drugs and medicines, yet he attaches much greater im- portance to hygiene, dieteties, ventilation, sun- light, &c., than is common among physicians. CHARLES R. BURROUGHS. He believes that it is better to give as little medicine as possible, and to see that other conditions are favorable to health. Working under this hypothesis, he has been execedingly successful, and has become correspondingly popular. He is one of the staff of Medical Advisers of the City Hospital, and has assisted in some very important and delicate operations which have been performed there. In June, 1893, he married Miss Margaret A., daughter of William Mills, a contractor and builder of this city. They have a very pleasant home on the corner of Chestnut avenue and Butler street.
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HENRY M. BEATTY, M. D., was born at Lambertville, New Jersey, December 8th, 1858. His mother, Miss Kershaw, of Manchester, England, came to America when six years old, and resided in New Jersey until her death, April 17th, 1870. On the paternal side, Dr. Beatty is in direct descent from John Beatty, who with his two sons came to America from Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1734. One of these sons, George, located in Trenton at the foot of what is now Calhoun street, where he owned and operated a ferry on the Delaware river between Trenton and the Pennsylvania shore. His brother, Dr. Charles Beatty, located on the Pennsylvania side near the ferry landing, and was the father of General John Beatty. In 1776, George Beatty served in the Revolution, being Commissary and Forage Commissioner to General Washington. It was he who furnished the means by which Washington and his army crossed the Delaware on that memorable December 25th, 1776. Dr. Beatty's early days were spent in Trenton. After the death of his mother, he passed the following five years on a farm at Dutch Neck, New Jersey, Titusville and Penn Valley, Pennsylvania. He then remained two years in Brooklyn, New York. In 1879, he became a student of medicine under Dr. Walter E. Hall, of Burlington, New Jersey, with whom he remained two years. He then entered Jefferson Medical College, graduating therefrom with honors in 1885. He received the prize for the best original work in experimental therapeutics, and for excellence in Materia Medica. Shortly after his graduation Dr. HENRY M. BEATTY. Beatty located in Florence, New Jersey, where he remained until 1886, at which time he removed to Trenton, where he is now engaged in his professional duties. He enjoys one of the largest practices of any physician in the city. He is devoted to his profession, and is a close student. Dr. Beatty is also a graduate in pharmacy. On June 24th, 1887, Dr. Beatty married Kate, daughter of Luke Doyle, Esquire, of Florence, New Jersey. He has been Medical Examiner for the Prudential Insurance Company for the past eight years. He is also Medical Examiner for Unit Council, Royal Areanum. During the years of 1891 and 1892 he filled the position of Analytical Chemist to the Trenton Board of Health. He is a prominent member of the County and State Medical Societies.
LYMAN LEAVITT, M.D., was born in Northampton, New Hampshire, in 1832. He took a course in the Pennsylvania Medical College, in Philadelphia, graduating in 1857. When the war broke out he entered the Union army as a Surgeon, and was connected with the Seventy-first Regiment of New York Volunteers. He was detailed for hospital service during a part of the time, and was on the field looking after the wounded and dying the remainder of his term of service. At the close of the war Dr. Leavitt located in Trenton, having his home and office at No. 505 South Warren strect, where he remained until 1894, when he moved his family to No. 312 Chestnut avenue. He now has an office at both places. Dr. Leavitt has been one of the most successful physicians of Trenton. He is a member and an ex-President of the Mercer County Medical Society and also a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society. He served as City Physician for two years, and was County Physician for one term. He was a member of the Trenton Board of Health for many years, and for three years was a member of Common Council. In 1887 he was elected to a seat in the New Jersey Legislature on the Republican ticket. In 1859 Dr. Leavitt married Miss Martha Bronson, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Three sons are living and are prominent in Trenton-Charles B., a physician ; William H., of the Headley-Leavitt Company, and Harry D., a clerk in the Mechanics National Bank.
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ERNEST L. DICKINSON, M. D., was born in Trenton, October 10th, 1866. By authentic family records, he is enabled to trace his ancestors back to the year 1657, when they first came to this country. His great-grandfather, John Diekinson, served in the Revolutionary war. Dr. Dickinson received his rudimentary education at the Tren- ton publie schools, and later attended the State Model School. In considering the choice of a profession, he had early decided upon medicine, and in the year 1887 he entered the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia. Being a patient student, and a careful, exhaustivereader, after the usual three years he was graduated with high honors He then came back to his native town and commenced the practice of his pro- fession. Although recently entered upon his professional career, he has already acquired something more than a local reputation. In April, 1894, Dr. Dickinson was appointed City Physician. His office is located at No. 527 East State street.
ISAAC B. Loos, M.D., was born in Rich- mond, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, February 13th, 1864. When but three years of age his parents moved to Bethlehem, Pennsyl- vania, his father, Rev. Isaac K. Loos, D. D., having been ealled to the pastorate of Christ Reformed Church. The Rev. Dr. Loos was ERNEST L. DICKINSON. one of the most prominent clergymen in the Reformed Church in the United States. He was President of its General Synod, and has held many high positions in its councils. Dr. Loos obtained his rudimentary education at the public schools of Bethlehem, graduating from the High School of that city in his twentieth year. After leaving the High School he tutored in Latin with his father, and read medicine with his preceptor, Dr. H. F. Praeger. Hle also pursued a course of scientific studies with special reference to the preparation for his profession. Having thus received an excellent preparation, he entered Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in the fall of 1885, and graduated from that institution in 1888. Shortly thereafter he located in the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. He remained there only two and a half years. On account of his desire for special study, he temporarily gave up his practice. He entered upon a course of lectures on diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat at the New York Polyclinic, and finished them at the Philadelphia Polyclinic, where he graduated. In addition to this course, he entered Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, and became assistant to Dr. William F. Norris, the celebrated eye specialist of that city. After remaining with him some time, he located in Trenton in the fall of 1890, at No. 238 East ISAAC B. Loos. State street, but subsequently removed to his present quarters, No. 310 East State street, where he is now enjoying a very large practice. On June 25th, 1889, Dr. Loos was married to Bertha Carpenter, daughter of Abram H. Baker, a retired, well-to-do farmer of Martin's Creek, Pennsylvania. Mr. Baker is one of the Directors of the Easton Trust Company.
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JAMES D. TANTUM, M. D., was born in Trenton, New Jersey, February 27th, 1857. His early education was obtained at the New Jersey State Model School, and in 1872 he was graduated from the Trenton Business College. After two years' experience in the drug business he entered the University of Pennsylvania and took the full medical course, graduating in 1878 with honors. He immediately returned to Trenton and commenced practice at No. 328 South Broad street, where he remained until 1892. He then removed his office and residence to No. 284 Hamilton avenue, where he is still engaged in the practice of his chosen profession. On May 4th, 1881, Dr. Tantum was married to Ella Williamson, of Bueks county, Pennsylvania, who died September 9th, 1888, leaving one daughter, Margaret W. Dr. Tantum is a member of the Royal Areanum, and has been one of its Medical Examiners for several years ; he is also Medical Examiner for at least eight insurance companies. He owns considerable real estate in Trenton, including his handsome resi- dence on Hamilton avenue. Several colleges have recognized his scholarship by conferring honorary degrees upon him.
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