The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 108

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, publisher
Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy publishing company
Number of Pages: 924

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ATEMAN, ROBERT MORRISON, M. D., of Red Bank, New Jersey, son of Dr. B. Rush Bateman, and a grandson of the Hon. Ephraim Bateman, United States Senator from New Jer- sey, 1826-28, was born at Cedarville, Cumber- land county, New Jersey, September 14th, 1836. Having received his preparatory education at Harmony Academy, Cedarville, and at Edgehill Grammar School, he entered the College of New Jersey, and was graduated thence B. A. His professional education was received in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and by that institution, in March, 1859, he was granted his degree of M. D. In the same year he established himself as a general practitioner in his native town, and in a short time acquired a very satisfactory practice. This was inter- rupted for a time by the war. In 1862 he was appointed Acting Assistant-Surgeon to the 25th New Jersey Regi- ment ; was subsequently promoted to be Surgeon, and ren- dered efficient service in these capacities until the latter part of 1863. He then resumed practice at Cedarville, where he remained actively engaged until May, 1877, when he removed to Red Bank. He is a member of the Ameri- can Medical Association; a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society, essayist in 1874 and in 1875, and while resident at Cedarville was one of the most prominent members of the Cumberland County Medical Society, being reporter in 1865, president in 1866, and historian in 1867. In the latter capacity hc prepared his valuable " History of the Medical Men, and of the District Medical Society of the County of Cumberland, New Jersey," a work of present interest and of permanent value. His literary productions, professional and non-professional, have been quite cxten- sive, including contributions to the leading medical periodi- cals and to the literary magazines of the day. He is also well and favorably known in the rostrum, being an ex- ceedingly popular lecturer before the religious and literary societies of Cumberland and the adjacent counties. His high professional and social standing has led to his appoint- n.ent to numerous positions of local importance : he has

ARRISON, CHARLES, M. D., late of Swedes- borough, Gloucester county, New Jersey, was born about 1800. His professional education was received in the medical department of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, whence he graduated, M. D., in 1821. In the same year, having been examined, passed and licensed by the District Board of Censors, he settled at Deerfield, Cumberland county, New Jersey; removed in less than a year to Clarksborough, Gloucester county, and thence in a few months to Swedes- borough. Here for half a century he was engaged in active practice, being during the greater portion of this period the leading physician of southwest New Jersey. In obstetrics alone he attended 9,000 cases. He was a promi- nent member of the Gloucester County Medical Society, and also of the New Jersey State Medical Society, and for many years contributed largely to current medical litera- ture. He married a sister of Dr. Joseph Fithian, of Wood- bury, New Jersey. He died April 12th, 1875.

GARRISON, REV JOSEPH FITHIAN M D., of Camden, New Jersey, son of the preceding, was born at Deerfield, Cumberland county, January 25th, 1822. Having received his preparatory education at the Bridgeton Board- ing School, he entered the College of New Jersey, Prince- ton, whence he was graduated with the second honor. IIe subsequently attended medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving from that institution, in the spring of 1845, his degree of M. D. During the ensuing nine years, in partnership with his father, he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Swedesborough; being a member of the State and county medical societies, and contributing occasional papers to the leading medical periodicals. In 1855 he entered holy orders, and for the past twenty-two years has been Rector of St. Paul's Protest- ant Episcopal Church at Camden.

GARRISON, CIIARLES GRANT, M. D., of Swedes- borough, New Jersey, son of the preceding, was born in Swedesborough, August 3d, 1849. Ilaving received his preparatory education at Edgehill School, Princeton, he

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entered the classical department of the University of Penn- sylvania; was graduated thence B. A .; entered the medical department, and was graduated thence, M. D., in 1872. In the same year he established himself at Swedesborough, where his own ahility and the prestige of his name led to his rapid acquisition of an extensive practice. He is a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society, of which he has been Reporter since 1872, and of the Gloucester County Medical Society, of which he has for the past two years been Secretary. He has contributed a number of valuable reports of cases and monographs to the leading medical periodicals of the day.

ICKES, STEPHEN, M. D., of Orange, New Jer- sey, son of Van Wyck and Eliza (Herriman) Wickes, and a descendant of Thomas Wickes, grantee in 1666 of the site of the present town of Huntington, Long Island, was born at Jamaica, Long Island, March 17th, 1813. His prepara- tory education was received at Union Hall Academy, in his native town, whence he passed to Union College, Sche- nectady. From this institution he graduated, B. A., in 1831 (receiving three years later the degree of M. A.), and with a view to fitting himself for the profession of medicine was, during the ensuing year, a student of the natural sci- ences at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In the fall of 1832 he entered the medical department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania; graduated thence, M. D., in the spring of 1834, and shortly thereafter began practice in the city of New York. In 1835 he removed to Troy, New York, where he remained for something over fifteen years, being for a considerable portion of this time in partnership with Dr. Thomas W. Blotchford, under whom he had read medicine previously to entering the University of Pennsyl- vania. In April, 1852, he finally established himself in Orange, where for a number of years he has been one of the leading physicians. During his residence in Troy he was a Trustee of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; was President of the Rensselaer Tract Society, and was a Rul- ing Elder in the First Presbyterian Church. In 1856 he was made a Ruling Elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Orange; has for a number of years been a member of the Essex County Bible Society, and in 1872 was President of that organization. He is a member of the American Medi- cal Association ; a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society, Chairman since 1861 of the Standing Committee; an honorary member of the New York State Medical So- ciety ; a member of the National Sanitary Association; a member of the New Jersey Sanitary Association ; a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, etc. His most im- portant literary work is a volume entitled "Annals of New Jersey Medicine Prior to 1800"-at present (1877) in manuscript and scarcely completed-a compilation neces-

sitating most careful research, and destined to be of perma- nent value and interest. In a measure supplementing this are the annual reports which he has furnished since 1861 to the New Jersey State Medical Society upon the current medical history of the State; and during the same period he has edited the society's Transactions. 'The industry re- quired to produce so much literary matter, while attending to the duties of a large practice, may be readily estimated, especially when it is added that, beside his private profes- sional employment, he is Physician to Memorial Hospital, at Orange. He has twice married: first, in 1835, to Mary Whitney, daughter of Isaac Heyer, Esq., of New York; and, second, in 1841, to Lydia Matilda, widow of Dr. William Vandinderer, and daughter of Joseph Howard, Esq., of Brooklyn.

OHNSON, WILLIAM, M. D., late of Whitehouse, Hunterdon county, son of Thomas P. and Mary (Stockton) Johnson, was born at Princeton, New Jersey, February 18th, 1789. Having read medi- cine under Dr. John Van Cleve, of Princeton, he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and from that institution received, in the spring of 1811, his degree of M. D. In April of the same year he was examined by the State Board of Censors, and was licensed to practise as a physician in New Jersey, and in the ensuing July he established himself at Whitehouse. In 1821 he was one of the founders of the Hunterdon County Medical Society; was first Vice-President on the foundation, and held the same office in 1848 and in 1856; was President in 1824, 1836, 1849 and 1857, and was for many years a member of the Board of Censors. He was also a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society, serving as Vice-President in 1823. For more than fifty years he was one of the leading practitioners of Hunter- don, being highly successful in his treatment of disease, and attaining to high professional standing as well as to far- reaching personal popularity. Among his office-students were a number of subsequently eminent physicians. He died January 13th, 1867.

EN EYCK, HON. JOHN CONOVER, of Mount Holly, Lawyer, and United States Senator from 1859 to 1865, was born in Freehold, Monmouth county, New Jersey, on March 12th, 1814. His classical education was very carefully conducted by private tutors, and was of a thorough charac- ter. Inclining to the legal profession, he in due time began the study of law in the office of Hon. Joseph F. Randolph, late a Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and having followed the prescribed course was admitted to the bar as an attorney in 1835, and as counsellor in 1838. Ile

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settled for practice in Burlington, going into partnership with Hon. Garret D. Wall, then United States Senator from New Jersey. In the year 1839 he was appointed Prose- cutor of the Pleas for Burlington county, and held the ap- pointment for ten years, performing all the duties of the office with ability and conscientious regard to the public interests. He has always manifested an active interest in public affairs, his opinions leading him into affiliation with the Whig and Republican parties. When the convention called to revise the constitution of the State met, in 1844, he took his seat as a delegate, and, although next to the youngest member, made his influence felt in the delibera- tions of that body. He was elected to the United States Senate for the term commencing in 1859 and terminating in 1865. While a member of the Senate he served, among other committees, upon those on Commerce, Patents and the Judiciary. Recently he was again called upon to assist in the revision of the constitution of the State of New Jersey, being appointed a member of the commission formed in 1873 to prepare a comprehensive series of amendments. Of this commission he was chairman. The commission was a distinguished body, and the labor cast upon it was most worthily performed, the results meeting with the emphatic approbation of the conimunity.

GRANDIN, JOHN F., late of Hampden, son of Philip and Eleanor (Forman) Grandin, was born in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, in 1760. He read medicine under Dr. James Newell, of Allen- town, New Jersey, and upon being admitted to practise as a physician was appointed a Surgeon in the United States navy. In this capacity he served dur- ing the latter part of the revolutionary war; subsequently visited Holland, and upon returning to America established himself in practice at Hampden. He married Mary, daugh- ter of Dr. James Newell. For upwards of twenty years he was a prominent physician in Hunterdon, practising with fair success, and being generally esteemed both in and out of his profession. IIe dicd July 21st, 1811.

ERLIN, ISAAC NEWTON, M. D., was born at Burlington, New Jersey, May 27th, 1834. IIe is a son of Joseph Kerlin, of Burlington county, New Jersey, and Sarah A. Ware, of Philadelphia. After receiving a common school and academical education he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1856. Hle settled in Philadelphia, where he was Resi- dent Physician of Wills Hospital for one year. From 1857 to 1862 he was Assistant Superintendent of the Institution

for the Feeble-Minded, at Media, Pennsylvania, of which he has been Superintendent-in-Chief since 1864. His pro- fessional life has been chiefly occupied with the delicate and responsible duties of this office. He is a member of the Delaware County Medical Society, of which he was Secretary for many years; of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania; of the American Medical Association, his membership of which is permanent; of the American Public Health Association; and of the Association of Superin- tendents of Institutions for the Feeble-Minded, of which he is Secretary. In 1858 he published a small volume en- titled " Mind Unveiled," giving his experiences in the early days of his work in the care and treatment of idiots and imbeciles. In 1862 and 1863 he was connected for ten months with the Sanitary Commission, having charge of the field-work of the Army of the Potomac. He was married, September 7th, 1865, to Harriet C. Dix, of Groton, Massachusetts.

UTPHEN, HON. JOHN C., M. D., of Plainfield, was born at the old Sutphen homestead, in Som- erset county, New Jersey, in 1836. His ancestors on his father's side emigrated from Sutphen, Hol- land; and from this ancient city the family name is derived. Both of his grandmothers were of English (Puritan) descent. His preparatory education was received at his home, and in 1852 he entered the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, whence he was graduated, B. A., in 1856; his brother, the Rev. Morris C. Sutphen, D. D., being his classmate and fellow-graduate. In the ensuing year he entered the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and from that institution re- ceived, in 1859, his degree of M. D. During the ensuing eight years he was actively engaged in the practice of his profession at Liberty Corner, Somerset county, and in 1867 removed to Plainfield, where he has since resided. . Imme- diately upon his arrival at Plainfield he was chosen City Physician, under the new city charter then just adopted, and in the year following was elected a memhcr of the Common Council, and was appointed chairman of several of the leading committees. During this time his practice s eadily increased; reliance in his professional skill and regard for his sterling qualities as a public-spirited citizen being greatly augmented by his fearless and largely suc- cessful labors during the memorable small-pox pestilence. Ilis heroic exertions on this occasion were in a measure recognized by his nomination and election, in 1874, and re- election in 1875, to the position of Mayor of Plainfield, an office that he filled to the entire satisfaction of his fellow- citizens and to the permanent benefit of the city. Since the nomination of Mr. Greeley for the Presidency he has been a member of the Liberal wing of the Republican

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party-as he was previously of the Republican party proper -and is in entire sympathy with the policy adopted by President Hayes.

INDS, GENERAL WILLIAM, Revolutionary Hero, late of Rockaway, Morris county, New Jersey, was born in Southhold, Long Island, in 1727 or 1728. From "a list of the names of Old and Young, Christians and Heathens, Free- men and Servants, white and black, etc., inhab- ittinge within the Townshipp of Southhold," it would appear that the Winds family, early.in the last century, was quite numerous. William removed to New Jersey when a young man, and purchased a part of the Burroughs tract of land on " Pigeon Hill." After improving several acres of that estate he ascertained that the title under which he held it was not reliable, and with a frank statement of the fact, sold his right, giving a quit-claim deed. He then bought a large tract of land only a short distance from the village of Dover, where he resided until the time of his decease. The barn which he built is still standing, and the foundations of his house are yet to be seen. He sold from his original purchase several farms, retaining for his own use what is still known as " the Winds Farm." His wealth as a landholder and his natural force of character gave him great influence in the community, at a time when the savages yet infested New Jersey, and the whole country was agitated with the contest between England and France. At such a period, naturally, a leader who could be relied upon for timely counsel and shrewd action was respected and looked up to by his neighbors and the State. " Besides this, he was so chivalric in his bravery, and so decided in his views, and withal there was in him such a blending of courage with great physical powers, that his fellow-citizens naturally turned to him in times where ordinary gifts were insufficient to meet the emergencies which were constantly arising. In the old French war, a brigade was raised in New Jersey to aid in the conquest of Canada, and in that force he was commissioned as an officer. On their march, a great way north of Albany, the troops were exposed to the enemy, and, whilst being attacked, were forbidden by their own commander to return the fire, or even to offer any resistance. He, although a subordinate, then ran up to the general officer, and remonstrated with him, whereupon his superior menaced him with his sword. "The warm-blooded Winds, seconded by the enraged troops, made such answer to this that the commander put spur to his horse and fled for his life. Winds now assumed the command, and brought off the troops with honor." In 1758 a battalion was raised in New Jersey, the term of enlistment being for one year, and he then received a royal commission as Major-" but Mr. Losey is mistaken in the rank he assigns him at that period, since, in the records of the Presbyterian Parish of Rocka- way, on January 29th, 1771, he is called Captain Winds,

and his name as Major Winds is not given until the record of April 20th, 1773." The same authority states further that he was not present at the capture of Quebec, by Wolfe, in 1759, the term for which the New Jersey troops were en- listed having expired. Yet he was actively engaged in many attendant and often severe skirmishes, and assisted in taking many prisoners. His treatment of these was so con- siderate and generous that several accompanied him back to New Jersey, and there settled as permanent residents. Among these was a man named Cubbey, to whom he be- came greatly attached, and presented a deed for twelve acres of land in the vicinity of Dover. This man acted as a sort of body-servant to him for many years. His conduct in that campaign was favorably reported by his soldiers, and he became more than ever a popular man at home. In this, as in all his campaigns, also, he gained the love of his troops by intrepidity, and by his careful protection of their interests in standing between them and greedy speculators, who, through his efforts, were prevented from preying mer- cilessly on the means of the common soldier. With slight variations, the tradition concerning his exploit on the expe- dition to Canada is confirmed by Colonel Joseph Jackson, of Rockaway, who was personally acquainted with him, and whose father served under him repeatedly during the revo- lutionary war. That New Jersey sent troops to Canada in 1758 is certain, and also that they formed a part of the army which Abercrombie led to the attack on Ticonderoga in July of that year. This probably affords the clue to the re- lation. In that disastrous battle Montcalm commanded the French; and Abercrombie, scorning the sound advice of Stark (the husband of " Molly Stark"), and also varions English officers, calling them " Rehoboam counsellors," precipitated his gallant troops upon a foolish and bloody defeat. His conduct was severely reprobated by the sur- vivors of his army, and by the authorities at home. "And here, in all probability, is the seed from which grew the Morris county tradition." At home he was not merely a brave man, but the bravest of the brave; and in some respects was the most noted man in the county, holding there a relative position which was not so obvious in an army made up of valiant spirits from England and Scotland and the New England colonies, which, among other noted spirits, had sent Wolfe, Putnam and Stark. It is a matter of uncertainty whether he engaged in military service during the period intervening between the French war and the Revolution. Meanwhile he received a commission from the English authorities as one of the king's justices of the peace for the county of Morris. This was previous to 1765, a year famous in American history for the passage of the odious stamp act. In common with the masses of his countrymen, he regarded that act as an intolerable oppres- sion, and resisted its practical enforcement, a step more difficult than common in his case as a justice of the peace. The bold resistance of the New England colonies has found a place in history, and yet the mountains of Morris

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county furnished as singular an evasion of the act as any on record. To avoid the use of the stamped paper, he substi- tuted the bark of the white birch. Warrants and writs, bonds and executions, were not then so numerous as in these days of litigation, and the simplicity of the times allowed a brevity in those legal documents which might now be con- sidered indecorous. "But when the constable displayed a warrant to arrest ' Richard Roe,' and bring him before me, William Winds, there was no one bold enough to deny the summary authority." If there be another instance of a sworn justice of King George nullifying the stamp act with white birch bark, it has as yet escaped historical notice. He was connected with the Presbyterian Church of Rockaway, which was organized about 1752; made a public profession of religion during the pastorate of Rev. James Tuttle, the first pastor, and was a liberal contributor toward the church expenses and building the first meeting- house, " although it must be acknowledged that his warm imperious temper betrayed him into some extravagances scarcely consistent with his profession." For instance, one Sabbath morning, when the congregation was surprised by a messenger on horseback bringing the news that the enemy were on the march to Morristown, he exhibited the most wrathful impatience because the " minute men " had come to church without their arms. A woman who witnessed the scene says that he never attended meeting in those days without his arms, and that on this alarm he "spoke, or rather bawled, so loud that I should think he might have been heard to the Short Hills." He sometimes led in prayer when the congregation, lacking a pastor, held deacons' meeting; at such times his voice was usually low and gentle until he began to plead for the cause of American freedom, when his excitement became explosive, and his " voice was raised until it sounded like heavy thunder!" In his " Revolutionary Reminiscences," Dr. Ashbel Green says : " He was of gigantic frame and strength, and no one doubted his courage. But the most remarkable thing about him was his voice. It exceeded in power and efficiency (for it was articulate as well as loud) every other human voice I ever heard. It was indeed a stentorophonic voice." Mrs. Anderson, who lived more than half a mile in an air line from his house, the valley of the Rockaway river interven- ing, says that she has frequently heard distinctly the various orders he issued at intervals to the laborers in his fields. The anecdote of his frightening off a detachment of British soldiers by crying out at the top of his voice : " Open to the right and left, and let the artillery through !" is familiar to every Jerseyman. The scene of this anecdote was on the Hackensack river, as was testified by Stephen Jackson, father of Colonel Joseph Jackson, who was present when the fictitious order was given. When he sang in church it was said that he not only drowned the combined voices of the entirc congregation, but that " he seemed also to make the very building itself shake." In his home everything was planned and exccuted with military precision ; he insisted

on literal obedience to his orders, even when his own interests suffered in consequence thereof. From Mrs. Winds to his slave, no one dared vary a hair's breadth from his commands, " under such a storm as it was fearful to en- counter." His favorite laborer, for this reason, was a man called Ogden, and on one occasion his prompt attention to orders was seriously to the cost of his employer : he was starting for Norristown one morning, when he saw that his sheep had broken into a grain-field; greatly excited, he called out : " Ogden, go and kill every one of those sheep !" and springing on his horse rode off at full speed, which was not abated until his steed had covered more than a mile. Then, " remembering that his man was a terrible literalist, he wheeled his horse and rode back at as swift a rate, at every leap of the animal," roaring out like the report of a brass field-piece : " Ogden, hold your hand! Ogden, hold your hand !" But Ogden had executed orders so far as to have slaughtered seven of the sheep before he received counter commands. In the greatest good-humor, he com- mended the man for his promptness, but assured him that he had done enough for the present. IIe had reason to regret a great while one of his orders, which was to a niece, to whom he was greatly attached, to execute some errand on the horse he himself usually rode, and which was as fiery and headstrong as its master. The young woman, not daring to disobey, mounted the animal and was thrown from his back. The fall made her a cripple for life. During her tedious ill- ness he watched over her with untiring care and tenderness, and, at his death, left her a legacy amounting to one-twen- tieth of his whole estate. Yet all accounts depict him as a man of boundless generosity to the poor and distressed; he had a rough manner, but a kind heart; was imperious and petulant, yet constantly swayed by generosity and magnani- mous promptings. As a magistrate he regarded equity and not technicalities, and dispensed justice in modes more conso- nant with martial than with civil law; as a Christian, he shrank from no pecuniary obligation to religion, and was as punctilious as a Pharisee in all religious duties; as an em- ployer, he suffered no interference with his plans, and those who obeyed him most closely enlisted his kindest regards ; as a military officer, he was always ready for duty, and his soldiers were devotedly attached to him-his very eccentric- ities endearing him to them, for even these were employed in their behalf. The date of his commission as Lieutenant- Colonel in the Ist New Jersey Battalion was Tuesday, November 7th, 1775, and by appointment of the Continental Congress. Previously, on October 28th, of the same year, the Ist Battalion of New Jersey had elected the very officers who were subsequently commissioned by Congress. From a letter bearing date " Mendham, December 7th, 1775," it is learned that about this time he was vigorously engaged in scouring the country for the purchase of arms. On Decem- ber 10th, 1775, Major de Hart wrote to Lord Stirling that some complaints had been made of " the pricc and quality of some of the arms purchased by Colonel Winds." An

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The biographical encyclopaedia of New Jersey of the nineteenth century, Part 108

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, publisher Publication date: 1877 Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy publishing company Number of Pages: 924

Author: Robson, Charles, ed; Galaxy Publishing Company, publisher
Publication date: 1877
Publisher: Philadelphia, Galaxy publishing company
Number of Pages: 924