The history of Camden county, New Jersey, Part 45

Author: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : Richards
Number of Pages: 1220

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EDWIN TOMLINSON was born in Had- donfield, Camden County, N. J., on the 13th of March, 1840. In 1858 he entered a drug- store in Wilmington, Del., as clerk, and, in 1861, accepted the same position in the store of H. C. Blair, of Philadelphia, graduating at the School of Pharmacy in 1863. After a brief interval in the West, he, in 1866, came to Gloucester and engaged in the drug business. He entered Jefferson Medical College in 1870, and received his diploma

from that institution in 1872. He is a mem- ber of the District Medical Society of the County of Camden, and has filled the office of president of that body.

CHARLES HENDRY SHIVERS was born in Haddonfield April 5, 1848. He was edu- cated at the classical school of Professor Wil- liam Fewsmith, in Philadelphia, and at the University of Lewisburgh, Pa. He was a student of medicine, under the instruction of Dr. N. B. Jennings and Dr. L. J. Deal. In 1809 he entered Jefferson Medical Col- lege, from which he was graduated M.D. in March, 1872, and at once began to prac- tice in Haddonfield. In the succeeding year he joined the Camden Medical Society, and was elected its president in 1880. He is also a member of the New Jersey State Medical Society. Dr. Shivers is an occasional writer for the papers and magazines, some of his poems having been published in them. He has an extensive practice in his section of country.

ELIJAH B. WOOLSTON belongs to an old Burlington County family. He is the son of Dr. Samuel and Ann Read Woolston, and was born at Vincentown, N. J., August 20, 1833. His mother was a daughter of Sam- uel and Sylpha (Arnold) Read, and her mother was a sister of the late David Lan- dreth's (David Landreth, of Philadelphia) mother. The doctor was educated at the academy in Pottsville, Pa., studied medicine with his father, and graduated at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania in 1854, from which institution the latter had received his med- ical degree in 1827. After he had assisted his father in his practice for two years in his native place, he moved to Iowa and settled just across the river from Omaha, Neb., and was appointed by Governor Cummings, of the latter Territory, surgeon of a brigade of militia enlisted for service against the Indians. In 1859 he located at Marlton, New Jersey, and resumed his practice there. On Novem- ber 14, 1860, he was commissioned by Gov-

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ernor Olden surgeon of the " First Division Brigade " of New Jersey militia. When the call for three months' troops was made by the President, in 1861, he accompanied the First Brigade, as surgeon of the Fourth Reg- iuient, to Virginia, and remained with it un- til the expiration of its term of service. In 1862 he passed an examination before the Special United States Medical Examining Board in Philadelphia, and was assigned to the United States Hospital, in Beverly, N. J. Soon afterwards he was promoted to be its post-surgeon, a position he retained until the close of the war.

He performed there successfully many dif- ficult operations in surgery, which won for him recognition as an unusually skillful man in his profession. That the patients under his care were deeply grateful to him for his attention and appreciated his many kind- nesses, as well as his professional ability, was attested by their presenting him with a very handsome case of instruments, which he highly prizes.

In 1875 he removed to Delaware town- ship, Camden County, and in the same year joined its medical society, becoming its pres- ident in 1885.

The doctor's activity is by no means con- fined to his profession. He has taken a great interest in the public schools, held the office of township superintendent for many years and since its abolishment has been a trustee of the Marlton public schools. In accordance with that public spirit which has ever characterized him, he was one of the originators and incorporators of the Phila- delphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad Company.

Dr. Woolston was united in marriage, Jannary 14, 1869, with Miss Rachael Ins- keep Haines, daughter of Joshua S. and Elizabeth Haines, a graduate of the Lewis- burgh (Pa.) Seminary. Two children were the offspring of this union, viz. : Mary E., who graduated in 1886 from the Abbotsford

Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa., and J. Preston Woolston.

EDMUND L. B. GODFREY was born at Tuckahoe, Cape May County, N. J., Febru- ary 21, 1850, and was a son of Judge H. W. Godfrey. He took the degree of Ph.B. at the New Jersey Institute (Hightstown) in 1872. Shortly afterwards he began to read medicine with Dr. E. L. B. Wales, of Cape May, and graduated as an M.D. from Jeffer- son Medical College in 1875. He served as house physician and house surgeon at the Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the Rhode Island Hospital, at Providence. In 1876 he began the practice of his profes- sion in Camden and has followed it uninter- . ruptedly since. He is surgeon of the Cam- den and Atlantic Railroad and of the Sixth Regiment National Guards, a member of the Board of Charities and of the Camden Dis- pensary Board, vice-president of the New Jersey Sanitary Association, a member of the State Medical Society and of the City and County Medical Societies, also of the Amer- ican Medical Association and of the Inter- national Congress (section of hygiene). He has published a number of valuable articles on the science of medicine, among which is the " Discovery of Vaccination by Dr. Jen- ner."

THOMAS G. ROWAND was born at Car- penters Landing (now Mantua), N. J., April 27, 1829. He began the study of medicine with Professor J. McClintock, and at the same time entered the Philadelphia College of Medicine, from which he graduated July 18, 1850. He practiced in several places until 1852, when he located in Camden. In 1862 he was appointed assistant surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Regiment (New Jersey), and served about a year. Upon his return he resumed practice, and, in 1872, opened the drug-store in Camden which he still owns.

ONAN BOWMAN GROSS was born at Eph- rata, Lancaster County, Pa., February 19,

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1851, and is a lineal descendant, in the fifth generation, of George Gross, who, about 1747, emigrated from Germany to North Carolina. During the Revolution he moved to Pennsylvania and settled at Ephrata, and there founded a family, which has since be- come prominent and influential in Lancaster County. John Gross, born 1778, in 1803 married Polly Wright, born 1784, daughter of John Wright, who was the only one of the doctor's ancestors not Germans. He

was from Ireland, and, coming to America some time prior to the Revolution (prob- ably about 1760), served through that war as a Continental soldier and came out as colonel. He was the great-grandfather of our subject. Jacob L. Gross, the father of the doctor, born in 1825, and now a resi- dent of Camden, was admitted a member of the Lancaster County bar, practiced the pro- fession of the law for a number of years at Lancaster, and, during the years 1854-55, was a member of the Pennsylvania Legisla- ture, and for a time brigadier-general of the militia of the counties of Lancaster and Chester. He was married, in 1849, to Hannah B. Bowman, of Ephrata, born in 1825, a representative of a prominent family who belong to the German Baptist denomi- nation of Christians, and who are highly honored and respected for their industry and integrity. Daniel Bowman, the pioneer of the family in America, came from Germany in 1738 and settled at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pa.

Dr. O. B.Gross spent the time of childhood and youth in the vicinity of his birth- place ; attended the Ephrata Academy until the age of seventeen years; he was then thrown upon his own resources and was in- vited to learn the carpenter's trade. Having completed the term of apprenticeship, he con- tinued his avocation five years as a journey- man, during which time, by strict economy and judicious care, he earned sufficient money to pay the college fees, and, therefore, in

1875, entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated from that institution in 1878, after a full three years' course. His preceptors, during his attendance on the lectures, were Drs. Reynell Coates and Professor Henry C. Chapman. During the years from Sep- tember, 1876, to March, 1878, he held the position of assistant demonstrator of anat- omy in the university, being the only medi- cal student at that time awarded with such an honor. This position gave him excellent advantages, which have been of invaluable service to him in the regular practice of his profession. On March 5, 1878, he received a handsome gold medal, being the H. Lenox Hodge prize, awarded him for skill in dissecting and for anatomical demon- stration.

Immediately after completing his medical course at the university, Dr. Gross located in Camden, at 407 Arch Street, where he has since met with excellent success in general practice, and at times devoting special atten- tion to surgery. In 1884, under the Arthur administration, he was appointed a member of the United States Pension Examining Board of Surgeons, and continues in that position under the Cleveland administration. He is a member of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, of the American Medical Asso- ciation, of the New Jersey State Medical So- ciety, and of the Camden District Medical Society, and a member of the board of managers of Camden City Dispensary ; is examining surgeon for Enterprise Lodge, No. 12, Ancient Order of United Work- men, and during the years 1883-84 was special district sanitary inspector of the State Board of Health. In 1884 he was elected by the Camden Board of Freeholders county physician for a term of three years.

Dr. Gross was married, in 1877, to Miss Fannie A. Coates, daughter of John and Rebecca Coates, of Camden. They have one living child, Marion, born in 1884,

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their first-born,-" twin-boys,"-and a subse- quent child, also a boy, having died as in- fants.

E. J. SNITCHER was born near Salem, Sa- lem County, N. J., August 1, 1849, and in 1872-73-74 studied medicine with Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago; during the same time was a student in the Chicago Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, 1874, after which he located in Camden. He joined the Camden County and New Jersey State Medical Societies in 1876.

D. W. BLAKE is a native of Philadelphia. He was educated at the academy of Professor Terrill, in Maryland, and began the study of medicine with Dr. Stuart, of Philadelphia. He graduated at the Jefferson Medical Col- lege in March, 1876, and settled at Glouces- ter in the practice of his profession. He is also engaged in the drug business at this point. The doctor is a member of the District Medical Society of the County of Camden.

WILLIAM A. DAVIS was born in Frederica, Kent County, Delaware, December 7, 1850. He began the study of medicine in 1872 under Dr. John R. Haney, of Camden. After com- pleting his preparatory studies he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated March, 1876, and tben began to practice in Camden. He later entered Jefferson Medical College, and was graduated in March, 1882.

DOWLING BENJAMIN is a native of Balti- more, Md., where he was born January 23, 1849. He began the study of pharmacy in Chester, Pa., in 1867, and in 1872, as a med- ical student, entered the office of Dr. J. H. Jamar, of Port Deposit, Md., and in the spring of 1874 he became a student of Dr. J. M. Ridge, of Camden. In October fol- lowing he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated with the highest honors March 12, 1877.

In 1876 he was chosen delegate from the

Camden Pharmaceutical Society to the Amer- ican Association, and has represented this county society in State, national and inter- national societies. On August 27, 1879, he was elected a member of the Academy of Nat- ural Sciences. After his gradnation, in 1877, lie began to practice medicine in Camden. He has also conducted a drug-store for a num- ber of years.

J. FRANCIS WALSH was born of American parents in Florence, Italy, April 22, 1855. He began the study of medicine, in 1872, with Dr. W. W. Keen, of Philadelphia, and at the same time entered the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated in March, 1876. For a year and a half he served in the hospitals and dis- pensaries of Philadelphia, and in November, 1878, moved to Camden.

SAMUEL B. IRWIN was born at the Pleas- ant Grove Iron Works, New London town- ship, Chester County, Pa., November 7, 1821. He began the study of medicine, in 1841, with Dr. D. Hayes Agnew. In 1842 he came to Philadelphia and entered Jefferson Medical College, under Professor Joseph Pancoast, from which he was graduated March 2, 1844. He attended the first course of lectures of the Philadelphia Medical As- sociation in 1843. He began practice, in 1849, at the Rising Sun, Montgomery County, Pa., and, in 1866, moved to Burlington County, N. J., where he continued in practice until 1872, when he was placed in charge of the Government Mercantile Marine Service, and served until the spring of 1876. The same year le removed to Camden, where he has since practiced.

WILLIAM H. ISZARD was born in Clay- ton, Gloucester County, N. J., April 27, 1842. He enlisted in the service of the United States as a medical cadet in 1862, and was stationed at the hospital on Broad Street, Philadelphia. In the fall of 1863 he entered Jefferson Med- ical College, and after taking two courses of lectures he withdrew on account of ill health.

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Upon recovering, he continued his studies, and obtained his medical degree in March, 1870, and then began to practice in Elmer, Salem County, N. J. In 1877 he removed to Camden. He is an ex-president of the Gloucester County Medical Society, and is now district sanitary inspector for the State Board of Health.

C. M. SCHELLINGER was born at Cape May November 14, 1848. He studied med- icine under the instruction of Dr. Alexander M. Mecray, of Camden, and in 1876 entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, 1879, since which time he has practiced in Camden. In 1881 he joined the Camden County and City Med- ical Societies, and also the New Jersey State Medical Society.

HENRY H. DAVIS was born at Crosswicks, N. J., August 16, 1848. He became a stu- dent of medicine in the office of Dr. Alex- ander Mecray in 1867; entered Jefferson Medical College the fall of the same year, and from which he was graduated in March, 1869. He completed a course in pharmacy at the same time, and began the practice of medicine in Camden. In 1874 he opened a drug-store, and has conducted it in connection with his profession. In 1881 he joined the Camden County and City Medical Societies, and also the State Medical Society.

JOHN W. DONGES, druggist, physician and surgeon, of Camden, was born at Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pa., September 18, 1844. His grandfather, Jacob Donges, emigrated from Germany shortly after the Revolutionary War, and settled in Berks County. His father, whose name was also Jacob, was married to Sarah Burkholder, and for many years carried on the shoemaking business in Stouchsburg, employing a num- ber of workmen, and also conducting a shoc- store. The childhood and youth of Doctor Donges were spent in the village where he was born. He first attended a private school, taught by his sisters, and afterwards spent

about three years as a student in the Stouchs- burg Academy, then taught by Mr. Thomas S. Searle. At the age of fourteen years he secured a position as clerk in a drug-store at Minersville, Schuylkill County, Pa. When seventeen years of age he enlisted in Com- pany H, of the One Hundred and Twenty- ninth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the nine months' service, and, with his regiment, was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, under General Mcclellan. His regiment was present at the battle of Antie- tam only a few weeks after enlistment, but was not drawn actively into the engagement. In the battle of Fredericksburg, in the early part of December, 1862, the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Regiment was brought into the thickest of the fight, and, whilst charging the enemy, Dr. Donges received a dangerous wound by the explosion of a shell, causing a compound fracture of the skull. He was then sent to the hospital for surgical treatment, and, owing to entire disability for further military duty, caused by the wound, was discharged from the service on January 8, 1863. He soon afterward returned to Minersville, where he resumed his former occupation in the drug business. While here he began the study of medicine under Dr. Theodore Helwig, a prominent physician of Minersville. After a year he returned to his home in Stonchsburg, and there continued his studies under Dr. James A. Fisher. In 1864 he entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated with the class of 1866. In the following August he began the practice of medicine at Donaldson, Schuylkill County, Pa., and continued it uninterruptedly for nine years, having there acquired a large practice. Ill health, caused by over-work, induced him to think of discontinuing active practice and engage in the drug business. In 1875 he purchased the drug-store, which he has since owned and conducted, at the cor- ner of Broadway and Ferry Avenue, in

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Camden, where he now has a large and in- creasing practice.

Dr. Donges is a member of the Schuylkill County Medical Society, the Camden City and County Medical Society, the New Jersey State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

In 1878 Dr. Donges was elected a member of the City Council from the Eighth Ward, which, at the general elections, is strongly Republican. On this occasion, however, it gave the doctor a handsome majority as the Democratic candidate, and he served six years consecutively as a member of Council, and was president of that body during the year 1883. During the year 1879, when the small-pox prevailed to an alarming extent in Camden, he was a member of the sanitary committee. For his efficiency as an executive officer and as attending physician-free of charge-when the unfortunate people were stricken with that loathsome disease, the City Council unan- imously passed the following resolutions :

" COUNCIL CHAMBER, CITY HALL. " CAMDEN, April 28, 1881.

"At a stated meeting of City Council, held on the above date, it was unanimously

" Resolved, That a committee of three be ap- pointed to draft suitable resolutions conveying the thanks of this body to J. W. Donges, M.D., for special services rendered as a member of the Cam- den Board of Health, during the prevalence of small-pox in our city in the fall of 1879-80.

" The committee reported the following, which was unanimously adopted:

" Whereas, The citizens of this community, through their representatives, having expressed an earnest desire that a token of public appreciation should be extended to J. W. Donges, M.D , for the fearless and faithful discharge of his duties as a member of the board of Health, be it therefore

" Resolved, That the sincere and heartfelt thanks of this body and community are hereby extended to J. W. Donges, M.D .. member of City Council from the Eighth Ward, and member of the Board of Health, for his indefatigable, self-sacrificing and successful efforts to obliterate the loathsome dis- ease that infested our city.

" Resolved, That to his valuable assistance and wise professional judgment is due the successful

efforts of the board in preventing a wide-spread epidemic, and placing practical safeguards against a recurrence of the disease for years to come.

" Resolved, That his exceptional care and pro- vision for the comfort of the public patients com- mands their gratitude in a manner that words are inadequate to express.

" J. P. MICHELLON, " President City Council. "FRANK F. MICHELLON, Clerk City Council.

" ALEX. J. MILLIETTE, -

" H. T. ROSE, "T. P. PFEIFFER, Committee."

On December 22, 1866, Dr. Donges was married to Miss Rose Renoud, of Philadel- phia. Dr. and Mrs. Donges have five chil- dren,-Miriam E., Clarence B., Raymond R., Evelyn L. and Ralph W. E.

ELLIS P. TOWNSEND was born at Kennett, Chester County, Pa., May 27, 1835. He was a student of medicine under his father, Dr. W. W. Townsend, and in 1860 entered Jefferson Medical College, and was graduated in March, 1863. He served one year in the army as assistant surgeon, after which he practiced medicine in Beverly, N. J., from 1864 until September, 1883, when he came to Camden. While a practitioner in the former place, he published the County Prac- titioner, a medical journal, that was afterward discontinued. He was formerly a member of the Burlington County Medical Society, but transferred his membership to the Camden County Society in 1883.

HOWARD F. PALM is a native of Orwigs- burg, Pa., where he was born March 22, 1855. He studied medicine with his father, Dr. J. P. Palm, and entered Jefferson Medi- cal College in 1879; was graduated March 12, 1881, and March 31, 1881, from the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, and then located as a practitioner in Camden.

CONRAD G. HOELL was born in Camden May 25, 1860. After obtaining a prepara- tory education, he entered the College of Pharmacy, in Philadelphia, graduating in 1880. In the same year he became a medi-

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.. cal student in the office of Dr. J. M. Ridge, and in the spring of 1881 entered the Med- ical Department of the University of Penn- sylvania, and was graduated in March, 1882. He then located in Camden, and soon after- ward purchased a drug-store on Federal Street, which he now conducts in connection with his medical practice. He became a member of the Camden County Medical So- ciety in 1884.

A. T. DOBSON, JR., was born at Cape May, N. J., July 7, 1858; entered the Medi- cal Department of the University of Penn- sylvania as a student in 1879, and was grad- uated in March, 1882. After eight months' practice in Luzerne County, Pa., he removed to and located in Camden. In the year 1884 he joined the Camden City and County and State Medical Societies.

P. W. BEALE was born on the banks of the Wissahickon, Pa., May 23, 1855. In 1872- 73 he studied medicine under Professor E. L. Wallace, and from 1873 to 1876 he studied under Professor John Brinton, and at the same time was a student in Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, 1876. He practiced in the hospitals for a year, and in the city of Philadelphia four years, and in the spring of 1881 located in Camden. He was elected coroner in 1884. He became a member of the Camden County Medical Society in 1884.

DANIEL STROCK was born in Flemington, N. J., on September 6, 1851. He began the study of medicine, in 1874, under Dr. Charles Geissler, of Philadelphia, and at the same time entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in March, 1877. He practiced in Philadelphia until October, 1880, when he came to Camden.

JOSEPH H. WILLS was born near Mount Holly, N. J., March 13, 1844. He studied medicine with Dr. Samuel Ashhurst, of Phila- delphia, and attended lectures in the Medi- cal Department of the University of Penn- sylvania in 1877, and was graduated in

March, 1880, after which he was engaged in the Orthopedic and Pennsylvania Hos- pitals until November 1, 1883, when he located in Camden.

WILLIAM WARNOCK, a native of Burling- ton, N. J., was born June 29, 1858. He studied pharmacy for a term of three years, and in 1877 entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in March, 1880. He was engaged one year as physician in the Penn- sylvania Hospital, and was surgeon two years for the "Red Star Line " of ocean steamers. In August, 1883, he located to practice his profession in Camden.

JAMES A. WAMSLEY was born in Glou- cester County, N. J., on 19th of April, 1851. He received his education at the neighbor- ing schools, and entered Jefferson Medical College in the fall of 1876, graduating in 1878. He first located at Alloway, Salem County, N. J., and remained two years, re- moving from thence to Southwestern Illinois. Dr. Wamsley made Gloucester his home in 1877, where he has since been engaged in active practice, as also in the management of a drug-store. He has for seven consecutive years filled the office of city physician of Gloucester.

D. HEDDING BARTINE, is of Huguenot descent, and the great-grandson of Jean Bartine, who, after his emigration from France to Holland, came to America, settled in New Rochelle and became Governor of the province. Among his children was a son, David, who became noted as a minister of unusual classical attainments, who mar- ried a Miss Newell, to whom was born a son, David W., at the old homestead, Prince- ton, N. J.

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The history of Camden county, New Jersey, Part 45

Author: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928 Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : Richards Number of Pages: 1220

Author: Prowell, George Reeser, 1849-1928
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : Richards
Number of Pages: 1220