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OHNSON, HON. UZAL, Physician, late of New- ark, New Jersey, was born in that city, April 17th, 1751. " He was a short, red-faced, well- fed man; had a stiff knee; and drove a low, small-wheeled carriage, made especially to suit his infirmity, upon the panels of which was em- blazoned the motto, 'Non nunquam paratus.'"' He was appointed to the Provisional Congress in 1775, but refused
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the appointment and entered the British service. He was then one among the English pensioners either until his decease, or till the war of 1812. At that time certain, if not all such, persons were required to remove into Canada, or to forfeit their pensions. It is said that he contracted to call every day upon the family of the late Colonel Samuel Ogden (whose house was demolished a few years ago, in order to straighten Broad street above the stone bridge), to learn whether any of the family were ill, for which service he received an annual stipend. He was abrupt in his man- ner and address ; was more humorous than witty; and bore the reputation of being an eminently agreeable companion. He belonged to the class in which were found Drs. Budd, Morse, John Darcy, and others of that period. He lived in Broad street, near Commerce street, on the spot where was formerly the residence of Dr. L. A. Smith.
GDEN, UZAL, D. D., Clergyman and Author, was born in Newark, New Jersey, about 1744, and was ordained in the Church of England by the Lord Bishop of London, September 21st, 1773. In 1784 he published a Masonic serinon, and at a later date " The Reward of Iniquity." In 1788 he became rector of Trinity Church, Newark, New Jersey, and in 1795 published " The Antidote to Deism." In 1798, from the College of New Jersey, he received the degree of D. D. At an adjourned Convention of the Protestant Epis- copal Church in the State of New Jersey, held at New Brunswick, August 15th and 16th, 1798, he was elected Bishop in the State of New Jersey, and the canonical testi- monials were laid before the General Convention in Phila- delphia, July 14th, 1799; and, after postponement until the 18th, were met with the following: "Whereas, doubts have arisen in the minds of some members of the conven- tion, whether all the priests who voted in the election of the Rev. Uzal Ogden, D. D., to the office of a Bishop, in the State of New Jersey, were so qualified as to constitute them a majority of the resident and officiating priests in the said State, according to the meaning of the canon in this case made and provided : and, whereas, in a matter of so great importance to the interests of religion and the honor of our church, it is not only necessary that they who concur in recommending to an office so very sacred should have a firm conviction of the fitness of the person they recommend, but that they should also be perfectly satisfied with respect to the regularity of every step which had been taken in the business; Resolved, therefore, That in the opinion of the House of Deputies all proceedings respecting the consecra- tion of the Rev. Uzal Ogden, D. D., ought to be suspended until a future convention in the State of New Jersey shall declare their sense of the subject." At a special Convention of New Jersey, October 16th, 1799, for the express purpose
of reconsidering and declaring their sense of the regularity of the election of Dr. Ogden to the episcopal office, after full and free discussion, three resolutions were adopted, de- claring the election "regular in every respect." An "Ad- dress " was then signed, recapitulating the matter to be sent to the several standing committees in the different States, requesting their consent to the proposed consecration. This address was adopted by the following vote: Clergy, yeas two, nay one; laity, by congregations, yeas ten, nays three, and one divided. The matter did not rest after this action ; for in the "Journals of the Conventions of New Jersey" appears the following : "At a special Convention in the State of New Jersey, held at Perth Amboy, December 19th, 1804-called ' for the purpose of taking into consideration and adopting such measures as may bring to a termination certain controversies existing between the Rev. Dr. Uzal Ogden, Rector of Trinity Church, in Newark, and the vestry and congregation of said church, which appears to be of such a nature as cannot be settled by themselves, and which threatens to destroy the peace and prosperity of the said church'-as soon as the convention was ready to pro- ceed to business, the Rev. Dr. Ogden read ' a declaration that he withdrew himself from the Protestant Episcopal Church; but that he would still continue to discharge his duty as Rector of Trinity Church, in Newark, and as a minister of the Church of England, conformably to the constitution and charter of his church, and his letters of orders, and license to preach, under the hand and seal of the Rt. Rev. Father in God, Richard, late Lord Bishop of London ; a copy of which declaration he handed to the president and instantly retired.'" In the afternoon the convention adopted the following: " It appearing to this convention that certain controversies are now existing be- tween the Rev. Dr. Uzal Ogden, Rector of Trinity Church, at Newark, and the vestry and the congregation of said church, which have proceeded to such lengths as to pre- clude all hope of a favorable termination, it is resolved that this convention do earnestly recommend and advise the said Dr. Ogden to relinquish his title to the Rectorship of said church within thirty days from this date, and give notice thereof to the Chairman of the Standing Committee of this State : and we do also earnestly recommend and advise the congregation and vestry of said church, upon such his resignation, to allow and secure to Dr. Ogden the sum of $250 per annum during his life. And if Dr. Ogden refuse to comply with the terins above mentioned, that then authority is hereby given by this convention to the Standing Committee, with the aid and consent of a bishop, to pro- ceed to suspend said Dr. Ogden from the exercise of any ministerial duties within this State." The deputation from Trinity Church, Newark, informed the convention that, in behalf of their church, they were willing to accede to the conditions. At the convention, held June 5th, IS05, the Standing Committee reported that " Dr. Ogden had refused to comply with the recommendations of this convention,
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and that with the aid and consent of Bishop Moore, of New York, they did unanimously resolve to suspend the said Rev. Dr. Ogden from the exercise of any ministerial duties within this State, and he was thereby suspended ac- cordingly." On motion the following were agreed to : " Whereas, the Rev. Dr. Ogden has been suspended from the exercise of any ministerial duties within the State of New Jersey, and in consequence of that suspension Trinity Church, at Newark, is destitute of the stated services of the ministry; Resolved, that the wardens and vestry of the said church be authorized to invite, occasionally, any minister of our communion to officiate in their church; and every minister of the church in this State is permitted and re- quested to accept such invitation, during the pleasure of this convention; Resolved, further, that the Bishop of the Church in the State of New York be requested to assist the said church by occasional supplies. In the meantime, the Rev. Dr. Wharton, of Burlington, and the Rev. Mr. Jones, of Amboy, are particularly requested to officiate there on Sundays, the 16th and 23d of the present month, and as often afterwards as either of them conveniently can attend." Soon after Dr. Ogden became a Presbyterian, and died in Newark, New Jersey, November 4th, 1822.
AYES, SAMUEL, Physician, late of Newark, New Jersey, was born in that city, in 1776, and gradu- ated at Princeton, in the class of 1796. He was a student under the guidance of Dr. John B. Rodgers, father of the late Dr. I. Kearney Rod- gers, from 1795 to 1799, when he was appointed apothecary of the New York Hospital. In November of the latter year Drs. John R. B. Rodgers, Wright Post, Richard A. Kissam and Valentine Seamen "testify to his diligence, assiduity, and competence to practise medicine, as well as his integrity, uprightness and virtuc." From June to August, 1803, he was engaged in the drug business as one of the firm of Kurze & Hayes, a step taken after his return from India, whither he had made a voyage as Sur- geon of the ship " Swan," in 1800. In 1804 he was asso- ciated with Dr. Cyrus Pierson, in the practice of medicine in Newark, till the death of his colleague, October 7th, 1 So6, dissolved the relations previously existing between them. Within a few years of his decease he removed from his house, where the Mechanics' Bank now stands, to the old homestead, near the residence of Cornelius Walsh, then remote from the town, where he passed the remnant of his days, and died July 30th, 1839. " He was a man of exces- sive modesty, and of acknowledged skill in the manage- ment of fevers. He was tall, somewhat bent, and had a small head; was a scholarly man, and very faithful to the interests of his patients. He was excessively sensitive, also, and unwilling to present a professional bill, although he never received over twenty-five cents a visit. Ile ever
maintained a high Christian character, and was universally esteemed." Ilis son, Dr. James Hayes, graduated at Princeton, in the class of 1840, and took his medical de- gree in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the class of 1844.
ARTIN, JOSEPH W., Rahway, son of Joseph and Julia A. (Barney) Martin-his father a native of Rahway, his mother a native of New Haven, Con- necticut-was born in New York, November 3d, 1838. His parents moving to Rahway while he was still an infant, his early education was received in that town, and he subsequently attended schools at Woodbridge and Port Colden, New Jersey ; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Ellington, Connecticut ; finally entering Rutgers College, whence he graduated in 1855. In the year of his graduation from college he entered an import- ing house in New York city, and having a natural aptitude for business he achieved rapid and permanent mercantile success. In 1861, upon the first call for troops, he raised a battery of heavy artillery in Rahway-where, although doing business in New York, he had retained his residence -and with his command offered his services to Governor Olden. The quota of troops from New Jersey having been filled, his offer was declined, and he thereupon offered his battery to the Governor of New York, by whom it was promptly accepted. For similar reasons, it may be stated, the services of very many gallant Jerseymen were at this time lost to the State, the prompt filling of the quota pre- venting the governor from enrolling hundreds of men who, determined to have a part in putting down the rebellion, were compelled to enlist in Pennsylvania and New York regiments. Attached at first to the 9th New York Infantry, Captain Martin's battery served for a time with that organi- zation; was subsequently made an independent force, and as the Sixth Horse Battery did good work during the whole of the remaining portion of the war, being the only volunteer horse battery in the service. His gallantry was most dis- tinguished, and not only was he a brave soldier, but he was a singularly efficient officer, the discipline and morale of his command being unsurpassed in the army. On the close of the war he returned home and to mercantile pursuits, in which he is still engaged.
REEMAN, JOSEPH ADDISON, Physician and Surgeon, late of Orange, was born in Paterson, New Jersey, June 25th, 1833, and was the son of A. H. Freeman, of Orange, New Jersey. At the completion of a preparatory course of studies he entered Princeton College, and graduated from that institution in 1852. His medical degree was re- ccived at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New
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York, in 1856. He first settled at Liberty Corners, where he remained for about three years. At the expiration of that time he returned to Orange, and subsequently entered the army. In the memorable " Seven Days' Fight " he was an active participant, and in one of the numerous scattered engagements fell into the hands of the enemy. Upon his release he received a commission as Assistant Surgeon in the 13th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers; and after the battle of Gettysburg took the place of Dr. Love, who re- signed, and was commissioned as Assistant Surgeon in the Volunteer Corps. IIe was then assigned to hospital duty at Nashville, Tennessee, where he died, a martyr in the cause of the Union. " His death was due undoubtedly to the exposures of the service. Although but thirty years of age, his medical judgment was mature. When he died one of our best young men was sacrificed upon the altar of a pre- served nationality." He died, on the scene of his heroic exertions and unselfish labors, December 29th, 1864.
ELSEY, IION. HENRY COOPER, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, was born in Sparta, Sussex county, New Jersey, in 1837. His father, John Kelsey, was an old resident of that place, and came from a family long associated with the county, some of its members being among the earliest settlers thereof. IIis mother belonged to the Van Kirk family. After receiving a sound elementary education at the public schools, he, at an early age, entered upon a mercantile career by hecoming a clerk in a general store at Sparta. Here he gained an experience that en- abled him subsequently to succeed his father as proprietor of a store at Huntsville, where he prosecuted business until 1858. In that year he removed to Newton and engaged in merchandising there, at the same time taking an active in- terest in public affairs. His political tendencies drew him into close affiliation with the Democratic party, and to pro- mote its success his most earnest labors were always de- voted. Very naturally these services met with recognition. In 1859 President Buchanan appointed him to the postmas- tership of Newton, then, as now, the most important post- office in Sussex county. Bringing into his official life the business ability, strict integrity, and uniform courtesy which had been marked characteristics of his previous career, he be- came a very popular officer. Still continuing his mercantile operations, he fulfilled the duties of this public position until the summer of 1861, when custom required that he should give way to the successful political party. During the same year he purchased the New Jersey Herald, the Democratic organ of Sussex county ; also the Sussex Demo- crat, the organ of the Douglas Democrats, founded in 1858. These two journals he merged into one under the name of the former, and relinquishing all other business, lie ad- dressed himself unreservedly to journalism. For eight
years he conducted the Herald with conspicuous ability and success, increasing its value and widening its influence, which, as the paper was always one of the ablest Demo- cratic sheets in the State, had always been extensive. In 1869 he sold the property to an association of leading Democrats, he himself, and Mr. Thomas G. Bunnell, who has since been its editor, being members of the association. During the spirited canvass of 1868 the Democratic cause was admirably advocated by the Herald, and its advocacy contributed materially to the success won by the party in that year. Soon after the inauguration of Governor Ran- dolph, the then Secretary of State, Hon. II. N. Congar, re- signed, and in July, 1870, Mr. Kelsey was appointed hy the governor to fill the unexpired term. So well were his duties in this new and responsible position performed that, on the assembling of the Legislature in 1871, he was nomi- nated by the governor and confirmed by the Senate, not- withstanding that body was Republican, to fill the office for the full term of five years. On the expiration of this term, in 1876, he was appointed by Governor Bedle for a second term of like duration, and again confirmed by a Republican Senate. He is therefore still holding the position, his tenure of which will not expire until 1881. The duties, at once arduous and delicate, have been discharged hy him in a manner satisfactory to fair-minded men of all shades of political faith, and he enjoys the high esteem of the con- munity at large. Notwithstanding his heavy official re- sponsibilities and cares he finds time for indulging a strongly developed taste for agriculture as the owner and manager of an extensive farm near Newton. In 1872, his health suffering from close and continuous application to public and his individual affairs, his physicians recom- mended the relaxation of foreign travel, and in accordance with their advice he visited Europe, spending several months in Italy. Mr. Kelsey is ex officio a Commissioner of Insurance, and in this capacity has rendered the public valuable service in ferreting out and bringing to account a number of worthless concerns that had by false showings been covering their worthless condition and preying on the public. His investigations will, it is believed, effectu- ally purify the insurance business in the State. He was married in 1861 to a daughter of Judge John Townsend, of Newton, New Jersey.
ICHOLS, JAMES, Physician, late of Newark, Ncw Jersey, was born in that city, January 30th, 1815, and was a classmate of Dr. J. Henry Clark, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1839. "He was studious, reticent, nervous, quick of apprehension, and, while he could be, diligent in his business. He lived long enough to gain, to a high degree, the confidence of the people, and at the time
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of his death was President of the Essex District Medical Society. He was tall and spare, and somewhat stooped ; had a very serious, long, pale, thin face ; and, while regarded as in health, had an invalid appearance." He was for some time the business partner of Drs. John S. Darcy and Whit- field Nichols. IIe married Cornelia Baldwin, daughter of J. Baldwin, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, by whom he had one child, a daughter, who died in early youth, probably of inherited pulmonary disease. He died in Newark, New Jersey, January 17th, 1849, at the age of thirty-four years.
ENDRICKSON, CHARLES ELVIN, Lawyer, of Mount Holly, son of Jacob and Mary M. Hendrickson, was born in the village of New Egypt, Ocean county, New Jersey, Jannary 8th, 1843. Ile prepared for college at an academy in his native place, under the direction successively of P. S. Smith and George D. Horner, A. M. ; and in Sep- tember, 1860, entered the sophomore class at Union College, Schenectady, New York, where, however, he remained but one term, preferring, chiefly from motives of State pride, to enrol himself in the old historic College of New Jersey, from which he graduated at the age of twenty. The intel. lectual proficiency and love of State which thus marked his collegiate course have been exemplified in all his subsequent life. IIe is still one of the truest sons of New Jersey, and at the same time one of the brightest. On leaving college he took charge of a classical academy at Pemberton, New Jer- sey, which he conducted with distinguished credit for one year, when he began the study of law in the office of the Hon. A. Browning, of Camden, continuing there until May, 1865, and finishing his legal studies under the Hon. Garrit S. Cannon, of Bordentown. He was admitted to the bar of New Jersey at the November term of the Supreme Court in 1866, displaying in his professional novitiate the same rapid proficiency that had characterized his academical career. Soon after his admission to the bar he settled at Mount Holly, New Jersey, and in March, 1870, was ap- pointed, by Governor Randolph, Prosecutor of Pleas, and in March, 1875, reappointed by Governor Bedle-appointments which attest at once his ability as a lawyer and his fidelity as an officer. In 1868 he was elected to the New Jersey Assembly from the Third District of Burlington county, and proved to be not less proficient and efficient as a legislator than he had proved as a lawyer and a scholar, proving also that he was the same devoted lover and admirer of his native State that he was when he left the halls of Union that he might cleave unto Princeton. The boy was father of the man. State pride is indeed an excellent stock on which to engraft all the other civic virtues, and in his case the fruitage has been rich and abundant. He was admitted in 1869 as counsellor-at-law. His practice, now large, is steadily in- creasing, as is his popularity with the people. Among the
young men of New Jersey he stands in the front rank. IIe already has achieved much, and his future, both political and professional, is full of high promise. Nor is this promise the less high or full that he is a zealous Christian, alike in practice and profession, being a prominent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, by the New Jersey Annual Conference of which he was elected a lay delegate to the General Conference that met at Baltimore in May, 1876, the bishops at this conference appointing him one of the Committee of Fifteen to revise the hymn-book of the church. On this work of revision, for which his taste and scholarly attainments eminently qualify him, he is now en- gaged, in the intervals left him by the more pressing en- gagements of his profession. ITis interest in educational questions, as in all others affecting the welfare of New Jer- sey, is deep and active, manifesting itself in constant en- deavors to enlarge the facilities and elevate the standard of cducation in the State, as well as in the generous support of established institutions. He is at this time President of the Board of Trustees of Pennington Seminary, at Penning- ton, New Jersey.
0 OWELL, SAMUEL BEDELL, M. D., Physician and Scientist, was born in Camden, New Jersey, September 20th, 1834. IIis father, Richard W. Howell, was widely esteemed as a sound lawyer, a man of high moral worth and a Christian gen- tleman ; in various offices of trust, held for many years, he manifested distinguished usefulness as a citizen of the town and the State. The family on the father's side originally came from Wales, settled on the Delaware, and for two or three generations has held the estate between Red Bank and Gloucester. One of his uncles, after whom he is named, belonged to the medical profession, and occu- pied the chair of Anatomy and Physiology in the Princeton College, New Jersey, until his death. Another uncle, Joshua Howell, was a lawyer in good standing in the west- ern part of Pennsylvania ; on the outbreak of the war he raised a regiment, was afterwards made a Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and was killed before Petersburg, Virginia. His brother went out with the New Jersey volunteers, and was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks, when General McClellan's army retreated to Harrison's Landing. His mother is a direct descendant of Samuel Carpenter, one of the original proprietors in Philadelphia with William Penn, and through her, in direct and collateral lineage, he is con- nected with a large circle of relatives embracing many names of worth and note. Having passed through the usual course of school training in his native town, and in the city of Philadelphia, he was prepared for college by Rev. Dr. Knighton, formerly tutor in Princeton. He early developed a strong taste for the natural sciences, studying them in all the works he could obtain, and in the fields and in the mountains; he also showed some natural taste for
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drawing and painting. While preparing for college, his | daughter of the late Rev. William Neill, D. D., of Phila- health began to fail, and he was sent off on a pedestrian delphia, formerly President of the Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He is a member and Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church. tour through the New England States, spending a season camping and gunning through Maine and into Canada. Returning home with improved health, he resumed his studies, availing himself always of every opportunity for practical investigations in the laboratory of a neighboring chemist and mineralogist. In the contemplation of the ILLIAMS, HON. JOHN D., Physician, first Presi- dent of the Essex District Medical Society, late of Orange, was born in that section of New Jersey, 'November 5th, 1765. He affords an important connecting link between the Halsteds and Bur- nets and Barnets, of the ante-revolutionary period ; and studied medicine with Dr. Daniel Babbitt, in the office of Dr. John Condit, of Orange. At an early period he settled at Connecticut Farms, and must have been there during the latter years of Dr. Caleb Halsted, or have imme- diately succeeded him. He was a Magistrate under appoint- ment of the elder Governor Pennington, whose sister he married ; and was the first President of the Essex District Medical Society. He died at Orange, January 5th, 1826; and on the ensuing January 7th a special meeting of the society was called at South Orange, when its resolution paid a deserved tribute of respect to a senior and highly-esteemed member. He was buried in the old Orange burying- ground. evidences of the slow and silent working of the forces modifying the face of nature, he was guided by one who was a practical mineralogist and geologist, and enthusiastic lover of nature. Manifesting these tastes, it was natural that he should choose medicine for his life work. He matriculated in the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania, and though interrupted in his studies by uncertain health, he persevered, and graduated with honor in March, 1858. By the advice of his uncle, Dr. James Carpenter, he began practice in the Schuylkill mining re- gion, where constant exercise in the mountain air conferred health and strength, permanently establishing his constitu- tion. Appointed, soon after, physician and surgeon to the mining towns of the IIickscher collieries, an extensive field of usefulness opened before him. During his resi- dence in this region he earnestly pursued his studies in practical geology. In 1865 he removed to Philadelphia, and began practice in that larger sphere, availing himself also of the peculiar local facilities for studying chemistry, mineralogy and geology. He had been a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences since 1855, and in 1868 he was elected its Secretary, an office he still holds. For some ICHOLS, WHITFIELD, Physician, Vice-Presi- dent of the State Medical Society of New Jersey, late of Newark, New Jersey, was born there February 6th, 1807, and was the brother of Dr. James Nichols. IIe graduated at Princeton Col- lege in 1825, having entered the junior year in the class with Shippen, Ramsey, Rush, Hosack, and other distinguished men since deceased. He was a student of Dr. Samuel Hayes, and early gave evidence of high promise; and after taking his medical diploma in New York at a medical institution called "The Medical Faculty of Geneva College," whosc professors were Hosack, Mott, Francis, Macnevin, Goodman, and subsequently Bushe, opened his office in Newark, and soon after entered into partnership with Dr. John S. Darcy. In 1836, on account of a lung affection, he was obliged to relinquish the practice of his profession and go to the West Indies ; while, even from an earlier date to the close of his life, he struggled against the insidious disease which confined him to his chamber for five or six months prior to his decease. He was a man of scholarly attainments and upright principles ; and on his accession to the Vice-Presidency of the State Medical Society, delivered an able address on the " Diseases Incident to Old Age," which elicited many glowing eulo- giums from his brethren and the association. "He was consistent in his walk and conversation ; candid and sin- years he has manifested a strong interest in the welfare of the freedmen of the South and the colored men of the North, holding a liberal Christian culture to be the best means for elevating them to a comprehensive conception of their own interests and responsibilities. In 1868 he was appointed by the Board of Trustees of Lincoln University, Chester county, Pennsylvania, Professor of the Natural Sciences, the duty of forming and developing the depart- ment of science, including medicine, being intrusted to him. In this university, which possesses in real estate and invested funds over two hundred thousand dollars, some two hundred students are resident. His services to this admirable institution have been of a distinguished charac- ter. In September, 1868, he was elected to fill the Chair of Chemistry and Materia Medica, formerly held by Pro- fessor Henry Morton, and afterward by Professor Leeds, in the Philadelphia Dental College. In the preceding April he had been made a Fellow of the time-honored College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and in 1872 he was a delegate therefrom to the American National Medical Association. On December 4th, 1872, he was chosen to occupy the Chair of Mineralogy and Geology in the aux- iliary department of the University of Pennsylvania, vacant by the resignation of Professor F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist. He was married, on April 13th, 1859, to the
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