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cere; was broad in his judgments, and honorable and | was chief surgeon. The period of his " contract " ending courteous in his intercourse with the profession and the pub- lic." He was also a Director in one of the largest and most important banking establishments in Newark, New Jersey, and his judgment on financial matters ever com- manded the attention and respect of his colleagues. At his demise, the State Medical Society, and also the Essex Dis- trict Medical Society, passed appropriate resolutions, while the latter organization attended his funeral in a body. His first wife was Mary Taylor, daughter of the late John Taylor ; his second wife is still living. He, like his brother, died of consumption, December 9th, 1851, aged forty-four years.
ETHERILL, WILLIAM, M. D., of Lambertville, was born in Wrightstown, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, January Ist, 1819. His father, for whom he is named, was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a very devoted and greatly be- loved man. William received his literary educa- tion at the Newtown Academy, then under the able direc- tion of Mr. Parsons, and soon after leaving school began reading for his chosen profession, medicine, under the super- intendence of Dr. C. W. Smith, of Wrightstown. With this preceptor he remained for four years, during which time he took two courses of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which he was graduated with the class of 1846. Among his classmates were Dr. R. T. Gill, of Poughkeepsie, New York, and Dr. Linderman, director of the United States Mint. Immediately after graduating, in the spring of 1846, he removed to Lambert- ville, New Jersey, and commenced practice. In this field of labor he has remained ever since, has built up a large practice, and won the esteem, not only of his professional brethren, but of the community at large. Jealous for the honor of his profession, and concerned for the safety of the public, he has always given earnest attention to the subject of regulating the practice of medicine, and was mainly in- strumental in getting through the Legislature the present law regulating practice in the State. He was married in Bristol, Pennsylvania, to Rebecca S., eldest daughter of Captain Hawke, of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
just before the " Seven Days' Fight," he remained at the request of his officers, and after the action at Savage Sta- tion, having remained to take care of the wounded, was taken prisoner by the enemy. After a detention of one month in Libby Prison, Richmond, he made another " con- tract," and at once entered upon duty. He went before the Board of Examiners, at Washington, and was accepted as Assistant Surgeon of Volunteers, but the Senate delaying his confirmation, he again entered by " contract," January 2d, 1863, and was assigned to hospital duty at St. Louis, Missouri. Upon receiving his commission he was ordered to Memphis, Tennessee, and there was placed in charge of the General Hospital. In January, 1864, he was ordered to close his hospital and proceed to Louisville, Kentucky, and to take the general superintendence of all the hospitals in that vicinity. At the expiration of two months he was assigned to duty as Chief Surgeon of the Ist Division of the 4th Army Corps, Department of the Cumberland, and remained with this body, filling the positions also of Medical Inspector and Medical Director, until the autumn of 1865. After the capture of Richmond, he was ordered with his army corps to Texas, where eventually it was disbanded. Ile remained, however, as Chief Surgeon of the Central District of the Department of Texas till mustered out, March 15th, 1866. While connected with the army " he did service in every rebel State except two, and in nearly all of the Northern States east of the Mississippi river."
AIL, HON. DAVID W., late of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was born near that place, September 8th, 1796. His progenitors, who are believed to have been Huguenots, migrated from Normandy to Wales, and from Wales to America ; the will of Samuel Vail, his great-great-grandfather, who died at Westchester, New York, is dated June 19th, 1733. " He came to New Brunswick in early boyhood, and was a fine example of industry, prudence and piety." His father was a member of the Society of Friends, and his mother a Baptist ; but he, being converted under the preaching of Mr. Huntington, united with the Presbyterian church under his care in the fall of 1817, being then in the twentieth year of his age. He was one of the most active and useful members of the community in which he lived ; and the es- timation in which he was held was evidenced in his being sent to the State Legislature in 1831 and 1832, his holding the office of Recorder for several years, and his election to the mayoralty in 1840. The same energy displayed in civic affairs he brought with him into the church; and he was made a Ruling Elder, October 2d, 1826, and a Trustee in 1831. " For sixteen years he discharged the functions of an
RUMLEY, J. D., Physician and Surgeon, of New- ark, was born in New Jersey, and had a pe- culiarly checkered career and experience as a medical officer in the service of the Union army during the rebellion. May 23d, 1863, at the so- licitation of Licutenant-Colonel A. N. Dougherty, he entered as a "contract surgeon," upon a single day's notice. He was first assigned to duty with the 7th Michi- gan Volunteers, in the brigade of which Colonel Dougherty | elder with exemplary fidelity and zeal, and was ever ready
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to encourage the heart and hold up the hands of his pastor. His decided attachment to the standards of the church made him keen to detect, and resolute to oppose, the insidious entrance of error ; and in the trying times of the Act and Testimony he stood firm as a rock." On the 16th of January, 1842, he died suddenly, of an affection of the heart, in the forty-sixth year of his age. Mr. Birch preached a sermon on the occasion, which made a deep impression, and the trustees solicited a copy for publication; from motives of modesty, however, it was never put into their hands.
RADLEY, JOSEPH P., Associate Justice United States Supreme Court, was born at Berne, near Albany, New York, March 14th, 1813. His early education was of a limited character, yet when sixteen years old he obtained a position as a school teacher, and so supported himself while preparing himself for college. In 1833 he entered the sophomore class at Rutgers, and in 1836 graduated with honors. While at college he was particularly distinguished for his proficiency in mathematics, and for many years after his graduation he prosecuted this branch of study merely as a relaxation from the labors of his profession. In early life he had intended entering the ministry, but shortly after leaving Rutgers- having, meanwhile, conducted an academical school at Millstone, Somerset county, New Jersey-he determined upon law as his profession, and in accordance with this determination began reading in the office of the late Archer Gifford, acting as Inspector of the Customs under that gentleman as Collector, and thus gaining his living while studying. In 1839 he was admitted to the New Jersey bar : but it may be said of him that he has been a law student all his life. This is of course to a certain extent true of all lawyers, but it is especially true of him, for his studies have been prosecuted far beyond .the lines of his practice. He has thoroughly investigated the broad field of primitive and developed law as existing in the middle and lower ages ; has traced the evolution and formulation of principles and of forms of practice from the earliest times to the present day; and, contemporaneously with these studies, he has exhaustively examined mediaval and modern history and literature. He is, unquestionably, one of the best read men of the present day, and that he has extended his studies over so broad a range is due to his exceptional habit of mind that enables him to rapidly grasp and memorize salient facts while passing over irrelevant and distracting details. IIis success as a barrister, as may be inferred from the foregoing, was immediate, and he rapidly rose to be one of the leaders of the New Jersey bar-a bar always distinguished for its erudition and practical ability. As a corporation lawyer he was particularly distinguished. For many years he was a Director in and counsel to the Camden & Amboy Railroad Company, and he was also counsel to that not less impor-
tant organization, the Delaware & Raritan Canal Company, In suits brought by or against these great companies, and in countless other leading cases, he was constantly in the higher courts of the State, being very frequently in opposition to one or other of his old classmates at Rutgers, Hon. Cortlandt Parker, or Senator Frelinghuysen. Among his leading cases may be mentioned the Passaic Bridge causes, which were conducted by him on one side and Hon. Cortlandt Parker on the other, reaching the Supreme Court of the United States in 1861 ; and the famous and peculiar Muller will case, which occupied the Jersey courts from 1852 to 1860, when the alleged forged will was established as to part of the realty, though repudiated as to the personalty and never set up as to the land not directly sued for in the one suit brought. In this case, Messrs. Bradley, A. C. M. Pennington, William Pennington, and O. S. Halsted appeared for the disputed will, and Runyon, Frelinghuysen, C. Parker, and Asa Whitehead against it. The question was raised first in the Orphans' Court and then by appeal in the Prerogative Court, where the acknowledged will of the testator was proved ; then ejectment was brought in the United States Circuit Court, and the disputed will established; then the claimants under the prior acknowledged will brought eject- ment in the State courts, and obtained a verdict which the Supreme Court set aside. This closed the litigation, but the mystery of the will has never been cleared up. Mr. Bradley also appeared in the New Jersey Zinc case; the Belvidere Land case; the murder case of Harding, the Methodist minister, hung for poisoning his wife, and of Donnelly, who assassinated his friend at Long Branch to get back money won from him by the murdered man by gaming. As a barrister, the Judge was strongest in law arguments before the higher courts ; he did not excel before juries. In politics, until called upon to discharge the high trust of deciding arbiter in the Hayes-Tilden Electoral Tribunal, he has taken no active part. Originally a Whig, he became upon the formation of the Republican party one of its most earnest members, but not one of its active workers. Twice only has he accepted nomination to office. In 1862 he was nominated to represent the Fifth Congressional district of New Jersey, but was defeated, by a somewhat large majority, by Nehemiah Perry ; and in 1868 he headed the Grant and Colfax electoral ticket in his State. IIis elevation to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States occurred in February, 1870. President Grant had previously nom- inated Attorney-General E. R. Hoar to the vacant seat, but this nomination had been adverscly acted upon by the Senate on the ground that the nominee was not a resident of the Circuit-the Fifth Judicial Circuit, comprehending the districts of Georgia, northern and southern Florida, northern and southern Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and eastern and western Texas-over which he would be called upon to preside. Mr. Bradley's name was put in nomination by the President on the 7th of February, and was received by the Scnate with similar objections upon similar grounds. The
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Southern senators were particularly urgent in their opposition |the prelude to the great works of his life, from which such to his appointment, and the opposition was more or less general upon the Democratic side of the House. Upon his stating that if appointed it was his intention to reside within the confines of his circuit, his case was considerably improved; and, finally, upon the 21st of March, he was con- firmed, the vote standing forty-six to nine-the minority including all of the Southern senators. A year later, in April, 1871, he came prominently before the public by the delivery of a dissenting opinion on the question of the right of the federal government to levy and collect a tax upon the income of State officers. In May of the same year he delivered the preliminary decisions in the cases of Knox vs. Lee, and Parker vs. Davis; and in January, 1872, was one of the five Justices who-confirming these decisions-declared the validity and constitutionality of the Legal Tender act. In- asmuch as this act had been previously declared invalid by the Supreme Court in hanc by a vote of five to three-as it was held that Justices Bradley and Strong had been elevated to the bench for the express purpose of reversing this decision -and as, in fact, such result flowed from their appointment, their action was severely criticised by leading members and journals of the Democratic party, being condemned as a purely partisan measure. Justice Bradley has abundantly vindicated his character from this reproach by several sub- sequent decisions in which his opinion has traversed the interests of his party : notable among these being his decision, rendered in the Grant Parish cases, declaring the Enforce- ment act to be unconstitutional. The crowning event of his life-an event which made him for the time being the most important man in the whole nation, and which, it can- not be doubted, has exerted upon the future of the nation an influence so potent as to be quite inestimable-was his selection, January 30th, 1872, by Justices Clifford, Miller, Field and Strong as the fifth arhiter in the judicial division of the tripartite Electoral Tribunal charged with determining the result of the Presidential election in the preceding year. Ile is married to Mary, daughter of the late Joseph C. Hornblower, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
vast benefits are enjoyed by the community and are yet to be enjoyed. He introduced the manufacture of wire rope into this country, beginning his operations at Pittsburgh, and afterward removing them to Trenton, New Jersey, where he erected extensive works, capable of turning out two thousand tons of wire-rope yearly. But not only did he introduce the manufacture of the wire-rope-he was the first to use them in the construction of suspension bridges. His first work was the suspended aqueduct of the Pennsyl- vania Canal across the Allegheny river, completed in May, I845. He afterward constructed thie Monongahela sus- pension bridge at Pittsburgh, and some suspension aqueducts on the Delaware & Hudson Canal. In 1851 work was begun by him upon the famous suspension railroad bridge over the Niagara river, just below the falls. It is one of the finest structures of the kind in the country, and perhaps in the world. Its span is 821 feet, and its deflection 59 feet. In the cables 14,560 wires are employed, and their ultimate strength is estimated at 12,000 tons. The elevation of the railroad track above the water is 245 feet, and so great is the stiffness of the roadway that ordinary trains cause a depres- sion of only three to four inches. Work on the bridge was completed in 1855, and although its endurance is severely tested by the continual passage of heavy trains, it has thus far proved a most complete success. About this time, in the year 1854, he removed the Belview hridge at Niagara, and replaced it by one constructed by himself, and more adequate to the demand upon its powers of resistance. Afterward he built the magnificent suspension bridge over the Ohio river at Cincinnati, and this work greatly added to his now wide reputation as a builder of bridges. It has a total length of 2,220 feet, and a clear span of 1,057 feet ; is 103 feet above low water in the river. The two cables supporting the- roadway are twelve inches and a half in diameter. This structure was completed in 1867. and to this day remains one of the sights of Cincinnati, which all residents are proud of showing to visitors. In 1858-60 he built a fine wire bridge over the Allegheny river at Pittsburgh. His latest design was for a bridge across the East river from New York to Brooklyn, a work that has been in progress for some years; which is the most remarkable undertaking of the kind ever projected, and which promises immense results. Its conception stamps Mr. Roebling as one of the greatest engineers of the age, and its success will cause his name to be held in grateful remembrance forever by the immense populations of the two great cities of New York and Brooklyn, whose dependence upon the uncertain mode of transportation furnished by ferry boats has heen so mutually disadvantageous. It is now (1877) in process of construction under the charge of his son, Washington A. Roebling. The bridge will be 3,475 feet long between the anchorages, with a clear span over the East river of 1,595 feet, the hottom chord of which will be 132 feet above the water. The
OEBLING, JOHN AUGUSTUS, Engineer, late of Trenton, was born in Muhlhausen, Prussia, June 12th, 1806. He was educated at the Poly- technic School in Berlin, and emigrated to America, and settled near Pittsburgh, Pennsyl- vania, in 1831. He was engaged as Assistant Engineer on the Slackwater navigation of the Beaver, and on the Sandy and Beaver Canal, the feeder of the Pennsyl- vania Canal. His labors on these enterprises proving his high abilities, he was appointed to a position on the survey for a route across the Allegheny mountains. Upon this survey, adopted for the Pennsylvania Central Railroad, he was engaged for three years. But these labors were only . superstructure will consist of an iron framing, eighty five feet
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wide, suspended from four main cables, each sixtcen inches | ing laborious missionary duty in the surrounding region. in diameter, composed of galvanized cast steel wire having a strength of 160,000 pounds per square inch of section, while the aggregate strength of the main span will be 5,000 tons. Mr. Roebling is the author of a valuable treatise on " Long and Short Span Bridges," published in New York in 1869. He died in Brooklyn, New York, July 22d, 1869, and is succeeded in the business by his son.
HAPMAN, REV. JEDEDIAH, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Orange, New Jersey, late of Geneva, New York, was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, September 27th, 1741, and was a descendant in the sixth generation of the Hon. Robert Chapman, of Hull, England, who came to America in 1635 and settled at Saybrook. He was a theological student of the celebrated Bellamy. At the conclusion of the usual preparatory course of studies at Yale College he graduated from that institution in 1762; two years afterward received his license; and having in the spring of 1766 preached as a candidate, was ordained and settled over the church on the following 22d of July. " He entered the parish in his twenty-fifth year, unmarried and poor. We make the latter statement on authority of tradition, which represents that the attention of his parishioners was at first divided somewhat between the wants of his wardrobe and the word that he preached. It was enough, however, that he was clothed with salvation. They could furnish the rest." During the exciting times of the revolutionary struggle he warmly espoused the American cause, ever upholding it with example, voice and pen; and on account of his outspoken and fearless loyalty was more than once in danger of being kidnapped by the enemy, and carried a prisoner to the British camp. On several occasions soldiers were sent to capture him, but he eluded them in every case, yet several times was obliged to flee the parish and seek temporary asylum behind the mountains, as did many of the families of his flock. After the conclusion of the war, on the occasion of the Fourth of July ceremonies and rejoic- ings, he walked in the procession and always exhibited an intense enthusiasm in that cause for which he had risked his reputation and his life. He was elected to preside over the Synod of 1787, which is notable as being the last meet- ing of that body previous to the formation of the General Assembly of the church; and on the 17th of May, 1796, an academy was opened, of which he was chosen to offi- ciate as President. In May, 18oo, the General Assembly clected him missionary to the northwestern boundaries of the country, which then lay in western New York, and accordingly his relations with his former pastorate were dis- solved. Ife then established his family at Geneva, where he supplicd a congregation for many years, while perform-
To him was assigned by the General Assembly, to which he reported annually, the surveying and superintendence of the whole missionary field in western New York. The oldest churches in that region-those of Geneva, Romulus, Ovid, Rushville, Trumansburg-were organized by him; and he lived to witness the accomplishment of that to which all his powers were for years devoted-a complete union between the Presbyterian and Congregational churches in western New York. About ten months after his settlement over the Geneva church as its senior pastor, and after a service of more than half a century in the ministry, he rested from his labors in the seventy-third year of his age. His last illness came upon him in the pulpit while preaching from the words, " I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of right- eousness," etc. The second year after his settlement at Orange, New Jersey, he married Blanche Smith, of Hugue- not descent on the maternal side, and of a family that inter- married with the Adamses, of Massachusetts. By this marriage he had three children : William Smith, Robert Hett and John Hobart, the last of whom ,died in infancy. November 21st, 1773, soon after the death of the infant son, his wife also died in the twenty-ninth year of her age. His second wife was Margaret Le Conte, daughter of Dr. Peter Le Conte, of Middletown, Connecticut. This lady, who was slightly his senior in years, adorned to a good old age the station she was called to fill. IIe died May 22d, 1813.
ILSON, PUSEY, M. D., of Moorestown, New Jer- sey, was born, March 8th, 1827, in Northampton township, Chester county, Pennsylvania. His father, Jonathan Wilson, was a farmer by occupa- tion, but spent many years of his life in Wilmington, Delaware, where he filled acceptably the office of Treasurer of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Delaware, and where he died in IS50. His mother was a Miss Sarah M. Jackson, of Delaware. Ile received his early education in the public schools of Wilmington, from which he passed in 1845 to the Kennett Square (Pennsyl- vania) Academy, graduating at the latter institution in 1849. On leaving school he entered the office of the Hon. John M. Clayton, at Wilmington, with the intention of making the law his profession; but, his father dying a year later, he was called from his studies to look after the business affairs of the family, and eventually led to abandon that intention. The Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company promptly chose him to succeed his father as Treasurer, and he served in that capacity for some three years, discharging the duties of the place to his own credit and the satisfaction of the company. In 1855 he began the study of medicine with Dr. S. S. Brooks, of Philadelphia, Professor of the Practice
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of Medicine in the IIahnemann Medical College, at which | though he has never cither held office or sought it, he has he afterwards attended the regular course of lectures, receiv- been a zealous and active member of the Republican party from its first organization, having been a delegate, while residing in Delaware, to the National Convention that nom- inated Fremont for the Presidency. And to the sponsor- ship which he thus undertook he still remains faithful. He was married in 1851 to Rebecca Pusey, of Chester county, Pennsylvania. ing his diploma in March, 1862, having meanwhile, however, practised three years with Dr. Brooks. In 1862, after formally receiving his degree, he removed to Moorestown, where he has since resided, in the active and successful practice of his profession. The Hahnemann Medical Col- lege at Philadelphia, his Alma Mater, mindful of his pro- ficiency as a student, and of his abilities as a practitioner, recalled him in 1864 to fill its chair of Anatomy, which he held during that year and the following one, accepting then the chair of surgery in the same institution, and holding it ASHINGTON, HON. BUSHROD, Lawyer, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, Presiding Justice of the United States Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey, late of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was born in Vir- ginia in 1759, and was a favorite nephew of General George Washington, who devised to him his estate at Mount Vernon. He studied law, under the direction of his uncle, with James Wilson, of Philadelphia, an eminent practitioner, afterward one of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court. On the completion of his studies, he entered on the practice of his profession in Virginia, acquired an extensive business, and rapidly won a high reputation as an able lawyer, and, in the House of Delegates and conventions of that State, as a talented and influential member. At the age of thirty-six he was nominated by John Adams, and confirmed as one of the Justices of the Supreme Court. He was eminently fitted for his high office ; and his moral and intellectual qualities, his learning, integrity, his tireless, patient attention, the knowledge that every case would be subject to the most searching and un- biased investigation, made him always the object of pro- found respect. " He had that temperate but inflexible firm- ness which resulted from confidence in himself, and is the courage of superior minds. His manners and his language, spoken and written, were simple and free from anything approaching to arrogance. He had that great faculty so important for a judge, and so difficult of attainment, of re- garding only the essential merits of a cause, without being influenced by any of its surroundings. He knew the cause only by the evidence, and decided it by the law." Once a case tried before him at Philadelphia, in 1809, exhibited his peculiar qualities in a very striking and instructive man- ner. It was an indictment against General Bright and others for obstructing the process of the United States court, and grew out of a contest respecting certain prize money between the State of Pennsylvania, as the owner of a priva- teer, and an individual of the name of Olmstead. A cer- tain portion of the money had been paid to David Ritten- house, as Treasurer of the State, and at his death remained in the hands of his daughters as executors. The case hav- ing been carried into the Continental Court of Appeals, that court reversed the decree of the State Admiralty Court, and awarded all the money to Olmstead. He obtained a decree until the close of 1867, when, in consequence of his large and increasing practice at home, he resigned. As a med- ical teacher he achieved marked distinction. Thoroughly grounded in the principles of his profession, versed in its literature, and skilled in its practice, with a wide and varied experience of life, and rare powers of exposition, he at once divined the intellectual needs of the student and effectively supplied them, so that the facts and doctrines he inculcated were not merely understood, but assimilated, becoming organized knowledge, instead of undigested elements in the memory. Not content with instructing, he sought to disci- pline and equip, to the end that the student, while acquiring positive knowledge, should acquire also the power of using it, and, still better, the power of self-acquisition. This end, the only one at which a teacher worthy of the name should aim, he attained with a measure of success that proved him to be a man of general abilities of a high order, as well as a master of his profession. Had he felt himself at liberty to remain in the faculty of his Alma Mater, there can be no doubt that he would have won yet greater eminence as a Professor, and contributed largely to the strong impulse under which homeopathy is spreading in this country. It may be readily imagined that his college took leave of him with regret, not only on its own account, but on account of the system of practice it represents. Such men are not too numerous in any cause, and it is only natural that the cause so fortunate as to number one of them among its representa- tives and defenders should send him to the front, and strive to keep him there. He, however, deemed that his true sphere was practice rather than instruction, and, when the two could no longer be reconciled with each other in his case, resigned the latter for the former, to which he has since exclusively devoted himself. As may be supposed, this devotion has been suitably rewarded. A practitioner whose practice is based on so complete a mastery of theory could hardly fail of distinguished success, especially when to this round of professional qualifications are added per- sonal tact and geniality, which in the sick-room are some- times not less medicinal than medicine itself. He certainly has been eminently successful as a practitioner. In 1875 he was elected President of the West Jersey Medical So- ciety, and was a delegate to the American Institute of Ho- mæopathy, held at Philadelphia in June of that year. Al-
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