The history of Camden county, New Jersey, Part 46

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

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He attained distinction, both as a doctor of divinity and doctor of medicine. By his marriage to Amelia, daughter of Richard Stout, of Ocean County, N. J., the following children were horn : Richard S., Helen (late Mrs. George Batchelder), Louisa (wife

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of Dr. Lewis Redding, of Trenton), S. Hedding, Amelia (late Mrs. Charles Hall), Anna (deceased), Laura (wife of the late Lieutenant Slack, United States Navy), Jen- nie (now Mrs. James Macnider, of Brook- lyn) and Joseph.

David Hedding Bartine, the second son, was born November 7, 1841, at Morristown, N. J., and, after an academic course at Har- risburg and Lancaster, Pa., removed to Philadelphia, entering the University of Pennsylvania in the autumn of 1859.

He graduated in 1862, and, subsequently joining the staff of St. Joseph's Hospital, re- mained at that institution for six months. He then entered the army as assistant surgeon of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, or Collis Zouaves. After an active service of one year and nine months, he was detached and assigned to duty at General Meade's headquarters, Army of the Potomac, as attending surgeon. In August, 1864, he was promoted to the full rank of major, and assigned to duty as sur- geon of the Second Veteran Artillery, Penn- sylvania Volunteers. On the surrender of General Lee, Dr. Bartine was placed as sur- geon in charge of the Fair-Ground United States General Hospital, at Petersburg, Va., and remained on duty until he was dis- charged, February 18, 1866. He then re- sumed the life of a civilian, locating in Merchantville, N. J., and engaged in the pursuit of his profession. His practice, which is of a general character, is not con- fined to the immediate locality of his resi- dence, but extends to Camden and Philadel- phia. He lias devoted much attention to diseases of the throat, and his skill in that branch of practice, with his thorough knowl- edge of the profession as a whole, have placed him in the leading rank among the physicians of the county.

Dr. Bartine is prominently identificd with the public interests of the county, especially those pertaining to its sanitary condition.

He is president of the Board of Health of the borough of Merchantville and an active Odd-Fellow, being a member of Amity Lodge, No. 166, of Merchantville.

Dr. Bartine was married, February 21, 1865, to Miss Clementine, daughter of the late John Hanna, Esq., one of the oldest members of the Philadelphia bar. May H. is their only child.

LOUIS HATTON was born of Friends (Quaker) parentage, in Delaware County, Pa., in the year 1834. He received his pre- liminary education in the schools of that county ; remained on his father's farm, with his parents, until 1850. He was placed by his father as an apprentice to learn the car- penter trade, under the care, instruction and guardianship of George Chandler, of Phila- delphia, an exemplary member of the Society of Friends. He completed his apprentice- ship in 1854 ; continued to work at the car- penter business, and by industry, frugality and close study of the preliminary branches of medical education during hours of work at the bench, and at other times, succeeded in accumulating sufficient pecuniary means and medical knowledge to commence the regular study of medicine, under the tuition of Isaac Lee, M.D., of Westchester, Pa., in 1857; continued to study under Mr. Lee until 1859 ; matriculated in the Penn Medical College, of Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated in 1861 ; commenced the practice of medicine in Cam- den in that year. He married Anna F. Sharp, daughter of Jacob W. Sharp, of Camden, in 1863 ; lost his wife, by consump- tion, in 1864; married Laura V. Foulks, daughter of Rev. William Foulks (1868), by whom two children have been born, -Carrie and Horace.

JOSEPH E. HURFF was born September 14, 1856, at Turnerville, N. J .; obtained his pre- paratory education in the schools of his native town and at the Blackwood Academy ; he then for three years attended Pierce's Busi- ness College, in Philadelphia. In 1875 he

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became a student of medicine under the in- struction of Dr. Henry E. Brannin, of Black- wood, entered Jefferson Medical College in 1879, was graduated in 1881, and immedi- ately thereafter established himself in the practice of his profession in Blackwood.

JAMES H. STANTON was born in the State of Maryland July 9, 1837. After obtaining a preparatory education, he began the study of medicine under the instruction of his uncle, Dr. W. E. Bonwill. Entering the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania, be completed the course and was grad- uated in the year 1869. He established him- self in practice in Philadelphia immediately after graduation, and continued in his pro- fession there until 1883, when he located in Camden, and has since followed his profession in that city.

JAMES G. STANTON, son of Dr. James H. Stanton, was born in Delaware April 15, 1860 ; studied medicine with his father, en- tered Jefferson Medical College, and after his graduation, in March, 1881, he began to practice in Camden.

HOWARD G. BONWILL was born near Dover, Kent County, Del., in 1862. He studied medicine with Dr. J. H. Stanton, and entered Jefferson Medical College, from which he was graduated in April, 1886, and then began to practice in Camden.

SAMUEL T. BANES was born in South- amptonville, Bucks County, Pa., April 16, 1846. He studied medicine in 1867, under the direction of Dr. Charles T. Seary, of Philadelphia, and the three succeeding years in the office of Dr. Gordon, of the same city. He completed his studies at the Medical De- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, and was graduated M.D. in March, 1872. In 1873 he located in the city of Camden, where he has since practiced.

ISAAC N. HUGG was born August 24, 1840, on Timber Creek, Gloucester County. He was educated in the public schools, and on the breaking out of the Civil War, en-

tered the Union army as lieutenant, was promoted to captain, and served to the close in the Thirty-fourth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers. In 1867 he turned his atten- tion to medicine, with Washington J. Duffy, M.D., of Philadelphia, as preceptor, and en- tered the Philadelphia University of Medi- cine and Surgery and graduated in 1869, and in July of that year came to Camden, where he has since practiced his profession.

JOHN STRADLEY was born in Frederica, Del., December 3, 1828, and was educated at the schools near his home. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Albert Whiteley, of the same place, and graduated from the Ver- mont Medical College, at Woodstock, Vt., in 1852. He then acted as surgeon on board a vessel running to Liverpool, and also made a voyage to Australia in the same capacity. In 1862 Dr. Stradley engaged in practice and opened a drug-store in Philadelphia. In 1874 he removed to Gloucester, resumed his business as a druggist and began an office practice, since abandoned.

EZRA COMLY was born at Byberry Sep- tember 17, 1840 ; studied medicine with his father, Dr. Isaac Comly, entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylva- nia, and was graduated therefrom in March, 1862. He practiced in his native place until November, 1885, when he removed to Cam- den.

H. H. SHERK, a native of Lebanon, Pa., established a drug-store in Wrightsville in 1876, and in 1884 entered Jefferson Medical College and graduated in May, 1886. He now conducts the drug-store and follows his profession.

GEO. H. JONES, a native of Philadelphia, was born February 2, 1830. He was grad- uated from the Medical Department of the University of the City of New York in March, 1870. After practice in several places, he located in Camden in February, 1883.

MRS. JENNIE RICKARDS was born at Ja-

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maica, L. I., March 23, 1850, and began the study of medicine under Dr. Joseph Hearn, of Philadelphia, in 1876 ; entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylva- nia, in Philadelphia, in 1878, when, after two years' study, in 1880, she entered the Eclectic Medical Collage of Philadelphia, and was graduated in March, 1882. She practiced medicine under Dr. Hearn before graduation, and since then has practiced medicine in Camden.

MRS. SOPHIA PRESLEY is a native of Ire- land, came to this country when a child, with her parents, and in 1876 became a stu- dent in the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, and was graduated in 1879; practiced one year in the Hospital for Women and Children, and in 1881 located in Camden. She was appointed instructor of surgery in the Women's Hos- pital in 1880 and held the position three years, and from 1881 to 1884 was clinic physician. Since the death of Dr. I. Mul- ford she has been physician in charge of the West Jersey Orphanage for colored chil- dren.

WILLIAM SHAFER, a native of Leesburg, Va., was born February 14, 1853, and stud- ied medicine in his native place with Dr. E. H. Mott. He entered Jefferson Medical College in the fall of 1881, from which he was graduated in March, 1884. He com- pleted a course of pharmacy in 1880, and then established himself in the drug busi- ness in Camden.

WILLIAM R. POWELL was born in Eng- land April 22, 1855 ; studied medicine in Canada and engaged in the drug business in that province. In 1874 he came to Philadel- phia and entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Jefferson Medical College. He was graduated from the former in March, 1875, and from the latter in March, 1877. He began practice in Philadelphia and re- moved to Camden in January, 1886. He was appointed assistant of the Out-Patient

Medical Department of Jefferson Medical College Hospital May 28, 1886.

WILLIAM S. JONES was born at Elmer, Salem County, N. J., January 16, 1856. He began his medical studies under J. S. Whita- ker, of Millville, N. J., in 1875, and the next year entered Jefferson Medical College,. from which he was graduated Doctor of Medi- cine in March, 1878, and practiced in Mill- ville until the fall of 1885, when he moved to Camden, where he now resides. He is also assistant physician of the Laryngologi- cal Department of Jefferson Medical College Hospital.

LAWRENCE L. GLOVER was born in Cam- den. He studied medicine under Dr. T. J. Smith, of Bridgeton, and Prof. Wallace, of Philadelphia, and entered Jefferson Medi- cal College in the fall of 1879, from which he was graduated in May, 1882. He began practice in Salem, and in April, 1885, re- moved to Haddonfield, where he is now in practice.

E. R. SMILEY was born in the city of Philadelphia, having descended from a family of physicians, being a grandson of the well-known Dr. Thomas Smiley, of Phila- delphia. He was graduated from the Phila- delphia High School and entered the drug- store of P. S. Reed, in West Philadelphia, in 1868, graduating in pharmacy. He entered Jefferson Medical Collegein 1874, from which he was graduated in 1880, taking a prize for · an essay on obstetrics, which branch of the profession he now practices as a specialty. After graduating, he came to Camden, and entered into a partnership with Dr. W. A. Davis, in the drug business, and in 1885 he established a drug-store.

N. DAVIS, a native of Kent County, Del., was graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1878, and in 1882 opened a drug-store in Camden. In 1883 he entered the office of Dr. W. A. Davis as a medical student, and in the fall of the same year en- tered Jefferson Medical College, and after

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graduating in 1886 has conducted both the drug-store and his medical practice.

JOHN H. SUTTON was born in Newton, N. J., March 23, 1856, and in 1873 began the study of medicine with Dr. Jonathan Hoven, in his native place. In 1874 he entered the College of Physicians and Sur- geons in New York City, from which he was graduated in 1877, and began practice iu Newark, N. J., and continued there until 1880, when he removed to Camden.

WILLIAM C. RAUGHLEY, a native of Kent County, Del., was born November 21, 1857. He studied medicine with Dr. A. H. Bishop, of Dover, Del., and entered the Medical De- partment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in May, 1884, and then began practice in Berlin.

GUILFORD GUNTER was born in Fred- erickton, N. B., March 22, 1858 ; studied medicine in Canada ; entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- vania in 1878, and from that institution re- ceived his medical degree in 1880. He en- tered upon the practice of his profession in Berlin, and in 1884 removed to Camden.

GEORGE W. HENRY was born in Camden November 19, 1858. He entered the Phila- delphia College of Pharmacy in 1875, and graduated in March, 1879 ; studied medicine with Dr. D. Benjamin, and entered Jefferson Medical College in the fall of 1880, taking the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in April following began practice in Camden, which, in connection with a drug-store, he continues.

W. S. LONG was born in Chester County, Pa., November 25, 1855. He studied medi- cine with his father, Dr. M. A. Long, and in the fall of 1875 entered the Medical Depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated therefrom March 11, 1878. He practiced one year as resident physician of the Pennsylvania Hospital, was in charge one year, under Dr. Charles K. Mills, of the Nervous Dispensary, four years in Philadel-

phia, and in April, 1885, moved to Haddon- field, where he is now in practice.

ROBERT CASPERSON is a native of St. Louis, Mo., born November 23, 1859. He be- came a student in 1881 under Professor W. H. Pancoast, and in the meantime for two years attended lectures at Jefferson Medical Col- lege. In 1883 he visited the hospitals of London and Paris, and on his return resumed his study at the same institution and was graduated in March, 1884. He practiced in Philadelphia one year, and in June, 1886, removed to Camden.

WILLIAM A. WESTCOTT was born in Waterford October 15, 1857; studied medi- cine with Dr. Jennings, of Camden ; entered Jefferson Medical College, and was graduated in April, 1883. He also took a post-graduate course in the Pennsylvania School of Anatomy and Surgery, in operative surgery with the physicians and surgeons of Philadelphia Hospital, in obstetrics at the Philadelphia Lying-in Charity Hospital. After finishing these studies at the institutions mentioned he began the active duties of his profession in Berlin, where he still resides and practices.

GEORGE T. ROBISON was born in Wash- ington, D. C., March 15, 1861. After com- pleting the medical course at the University of Pennsylvania, he was graduated March 5, 1882, and immediately began the active duties of his profession in Camden.

R. W. RICHIE, is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in 1852, and after practicing medicine several years in Philadelphia, in 1885 he removed to Camden and engaged in the drug business and continued his medical profession.

ROBERT GIVIN TAYLOR was born in the county of Antrim, Ireland, April 28, 1820. He emigrated to this country in 1845, and in 1858 began the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. John Hurst, of: Phil- adelphia. After spending the required time as a student in the Jefferson Medical College, he was graduated M. D. in 1861, and immedi-

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ately established himself as a physician in the city of Camden. In 1873 he took charge of a drug-store previously conducted by his son, Dr. William Taylor, which he has since continued in connection with his professional duties.

ALEXANDER MCALLISTON was born in Paterson, N. J., May 5, 1862. He entered the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and was graduated in 1882, and the same year entered the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was grad- uated from that institution in May, 1885, and then began practice in Camden.

FRANK G. STROUD was born at Moores- town, N. J., October 30, 1862, and studied medicine with his father, Dr. J. C. Stroud. In 1880 he entered Jefferson Medical Col- lege, and was graduated April 2, 1882. He began practice in his native place and con- tinued until December 10, 1885, when he located. He is also in the Laryngological Department on the staff of Jefferson Medical College Hospital.

HOMEOPATHY.

The founder of homoeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, was born April 10, 1755, at Meissen, in Cur-Saxony, one of the regions in Germany. He passed several years at the Stadtschule, and at the age of sixteen he began to attend the Furstenschule, of Meissen, where he remained eight years. His parents were poor, but his inherent thirst for knowl- edge induced his instructors to give him the advantages of an education without paying the nsual tuition fees. In 1775 he entered the University of Leipsig, where he raised enough money to spend two years in study, by giving lessons as a tutor and making translations into German. He took his de- gree of Doctor of Medicine at Erlangen August 10, 1779. He spent ten years in the practice of his profession at different places, and in 1789 returned to Leipsig, where he soon became favorably known for

his knowledge of medicine, chemistry, min- eralogy and the kindred sciences, and for many important discoveries which gave him a wide-spread reputation. In pursuing his investigations he became dissatisfied with the state of medical science around him. He claimed that it was imperfect, and then began to elaborate a new system of medicine which he termed homœopathia, which is derived from the two Greek words, homoios (similar) and pathos (feeling or suffering). He tested the use of a number of drugs, con- vinced himself and advanced it as a theory, that a remedy which would cure a certain disease would also produce a disorder very similar to that disease in a healthy person, and that the converse was equally true,-i. e., that a drug which produced a certain disease in a healthy body would cure it in a sick one. He tested the drug on his own person, carefully noting the minutest effects produced and comparing them with the symptoms of well-known diseases. He induced some of his friends to join him in these tests or prov- ings, and, by mutually comparing notes, cer- tain positive facts and a code were established. This was the origin of the famous axiom, similia similibus curantur. Many German physicians tested the principles of Hahne- mann, and afterwards advocated them. The founder of this new system of medicine, after he had attained the age of forty-five years, lived in a complete self-abnegation and endangered his own physical constitution in testing the system he was promulgating. In the mean time he wrote ten volumes of the " Materia Medica Pura," and effected cures on persons of eminence in promulgat- ing the theory of minimum doses. His greatest work is entitled the "Organon of Rational Medicine," which has always been, and doubtless will continue to be, a text- book of the homeopathic profession. In 1805 he published a little work on the " Positive Effects of Medicine." In 1831 he rendered efficient service during the time the cholera

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raged so violently in Eastern Europe. In 1836 he left Leipsig and resided for fifteen years with the Duke at Coëthen, perfecting his system by experiments and in the treat- ment of the sick of many families of the nobility.

During his residence at Coëthen, when in his eightieth year, he married Made- moiselle D'Hervilly Gohier, a member of one of the prominent families of France. She had been cured by him of a dangerous malady. The marriage was somewhat ro- mantic, inasmuch as she was forty-five years his junior. Soon after this event he and his wife removed to Paris, where he spent the remainder of his years, and died July 2, 1844, at the advanced age of eighty-nine years. He was of slender form and diminu- tive stature. His head was large and his forehead well-proportioned. He was known by his contemporaries as a man of fine intel- lect.

Homeopathy was introduced in Camden County by the physicians of Philadelphia. In 1838 the " Family Guide," translated and compiled by C. Hering, M.D., was published in Camden and aided greatly in spreading the knowledge of homeopathy, inducing many to test it. The way was thus prepared for a physician of this school, and in 1841 J. R. Andrews, M.D., a graduate of Jefferson Medi- cal College, Philadelphia, began the practice of homeopathy here. He was faithfully sup- ported by a few warm friends, but being a young man and the opposition proving very strong, after two years of struggling he re- moved to Wilmington, Del. He remained there only a short time, being induced to re- turn by the earnest solicitation of former patrons. After his return his practice grew rapidly, and he continued in extensive busi- ness until his sudden death, in 1864, from cerebro-spinal meningitis.

A family by the name of Reese, living on Cooper Street, above Third, was probably the first in Camden to receive homeopathic treat-

ment, being visited by Dr. Schomlie, of Philadelphia. Through the head of this family, Dr. Andrews, who was then sick, was induced to try homeopathic treatment, and it resulted as successfully in his case as in the Reese family. It was this circumstance, undoubtedly, which gave the initial impulse to his career.

DR. J. RICHARDSON ANDREWS here allud- ed to as the pioneer of homicopathy in Camden, was born in the city September 21, 1818, and was a son of Richardson Andrews, a lumber merchant. He read medicine with Dr. Wil- liam Schomlie, of Philadelphia, and gradu- ated from Jefferson Medical College in 1841. He married Catharine, daughter of Captain Warrington, of Pennsylvania, by whom he had four children,-William, Richardson, Kate and P. W. Andrews, now a physician. Dr. Andrews died in 1864, as heretofore men- tioned. He was universally esteemed as an eminent and skillful physician, and a man of irreproachable character.

SAMUEL CARLES was among the first practitioners of homeopathy in Camden County. He was born in Philadelphia May 11, 1817. He began the study of medicine with Dr. George Mcclellan, of Philadelphia, and soon after entered Jefferson Medical College and received the . degree of M.D. in March, 1839. He practiced medicine a few years in Phila- delphia, and in 1854 read medicine under Dr. John Anderson, a prominent homœopathist of Camden, and in 1855 was graduated from Hahnemann Medical College and then began practicing in Camden, in accordance with the teaching of Hahnemann, many years with marked success. He still resides in Camden.

BOWMAN H. SHIVERS was born in Had- donfield July 7, 1836. He studied medicine with Dr. Julius Holtenpolf, of Haddonfield, and in the fall of 1855 entered Pennsylvania Medical University, in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in April, 1858. He

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then began to practice his profession in Marlton and continued until 1862; resided in Philadelphia two years and in 1864 began the practice of homoeopathy in his native town.

J. KEMPER BRYANT was born in Phila- delphia December 18, 1832. He studied medicine with Dr. J. G. Howard, of Phila- delphia, in 1852, and entered Hahnemann Medical College, from which he was grad- uated in March, 1856. He practiced in New- ark, Delaware, until 1864, when he moved to Camden and has since pursued his profes- sion in that city.

H. F. HUNT was born in Providence, R. I., March 29, 1838. His ancestors are among the earliest settlers of the State. His great-grandfather was a colonel in the Revo- lutionary War, and his descendants have con- tinued to occupy prominent political positions. Dr. Hunt passed through the graded schools in Providence, and, at fifteen years of age, entered Greenwich Seminary, taking a three years' college course. His health failing, he did not enter Brown University, as intended, at the expiration of the three years, but had to relinquish study. He managed a cotton- factory for his father until the spring of 1860, when he decided to go West. He be- came a teacher in Aurora Seminary at Auro- ra, Ill., and also commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Howell, an allopathic physician. He remained there two years and then returned East and took a course of lec- tures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. While studying with Dr. Howell a severe epidemic of diphtheria prevailed, and thinking that the homoeopathic treatment was more successful, he was induced to investigate that treatment. After leaving New Jersey he returned to Providence and entered the office of Dr. A. H. Okie. He remained with him two years. He graduated from the Homœo- pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1864. Dr. J. R. Andrews died at that time and he was invited to suc-

ceed him in Camden. This gave him at once a large and lucrative practice. He was soon compelled to relinquish all country practice.

The idea was conceived of organizing the homeopathic medical men of South Jersey, and the result was the establishment of the West Jersey Homoeopathic Medical Society, of which Dr. Hunt was elected president. He also helped to organize the State Society, and was elected its president in 1876, and was also appointed a delegate to the World's Convention, which assembled in Philadelphia that year.

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The history of Camden county, New Jersey, Part 46

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