USA > Pennsylvania > Colonial and revolutionary families of Pennsylvania; genealogical and personal memoirs, Vol. I > Part 86
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89
PHILIP CORBIN, son of Captain Lemuel and Rebecca (Davis) Corbin, was born at Dudley, Worcester county, Massachusetts, February 13, 1765, and re- moved to Union, Tolland county, Connecticut, in 1793. He was prominent in the local affairs of the latter town for many years and represented it in the state legislature in 1814-15. He died at Union, Conn., May 2, 1845. Philip Corbin married at Dudley, Massachusetts, November 26, 1789, Rhoba Healy, (b. Mar. 9, 1768), daughter of Captain Lemuel Healy, (b. Dec. 9, 1783, d. De- cember 1817) captain of a company in the Fifth Worcester county regiment, during the Revolutionary war and his wife Phebe Curtis.
PHILIP CORBIN, (2) son of Philip (1) and Rhoba (Healy) Corbin, was born at Union, Tolland county, Connecticut, April 14, 1797. He removed in early life to Willington, Connecticut, and later to West Hartford, where he was liv- ing as early as 1833, and where he died, July 24, 1881. He married, November 29, 1821, Lois Chaffee, (b. Ashford, Conn. Sept. 24, 1799, d. West Hartford, Sept. 12, 1872) daughter of Abner Chaffee. (b. Rehoboth, Mass., Aug. 3, 1762, d. Westford, Conn., Dec. 26, 1816) and his wife Judith Walker, (b. May 17, 1769, d. July 5, 1854), whom he married November 9, 1790.
ELBERT AUGUSTUS CORBIN, son of Philip and Lois (Chaffee) Corbin, and father of the subject of this sketch, was born at West Hartford, Connecticut, October 17, 1845. He removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1866, and has since resided in that city, where he has been prominently associated with leading and important corporations, and has long been identified with the in- surance business. He married, in Philadelphia, January 13, 1876, Charlotte Phillipina Eckfeldt (b. Sept. 25, 1851) daughter of Adam Eckfeldt, a veteran of the civil war, who died December 29, 1879, and his wife Malvina Hooper ; granddaughter of Michael Eckfeldt, (b. 1779, d. Feb. 6, 1852), and his wife
624
CORBIN
Catharine Senf; and great-granddaughter of Jacob Eckfeldt, who came to Philadelphia from Rotterdam in the ship "Chance," Captain Charles Smith, and was qualified as a subject of the British crown, August 9, 1764. This Jacob Eckfeldt died Jan. 29, 1818, at the age of 75 years. He married, as his second wife, at St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia, March 22, 1774, Elizabeth Hunkels. Elbert Augustus and Charlotte Phillipina (Eckfeldt) Corbin had two sons, E. A. Corbin, Junior, the subject of this sketch, and Arthur Eckfeldt Corbin, born September 19, 1879.
ELBERT AUGUSTUS CORBIN, JR., eldest son of E. A. and Charlotte Phillipina (Eckfeldt) Corbin, was born in Philadelphia, August 26, 1877. He was educated at the Eastburn Academy, the Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, the Lawrence- ville Academy, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and the University of Pennsyl- vania, graduating from department of Architecture of the last institution in 1900. He is a member of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, and of the Sphinx senior society of the University. He became president of the Continental Chemical Company of Philadelphia, with which he is still associated, repre- sentative of the Pullman Automatic Ventilator Manufacturing Company, of York, Pennsylvania and a member of the firm of Corbin & Stull, the Philadel- phia agents of the latter corporation. Mr. Corbin is a member of the Pennsyl- vania Society of the Sons of the Revolution in right of descent from Captain Lemuel Corbin; of the New England Society; the Pennsylvania Society of Founders and Patriots, the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and the Society of Colonial Wars. He is also a member of the Spring Haven Country Club, and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Mr. Corbin married April 18, 1903, Gladys, daughter of Washington Bleddyn Powell, the eminent Philadelphia architect and his wife Sarah Lybrand (Wills) Powell. The paternal ancestors of Mrs. Corbin, were for generations lords of Castle Madoc, Wales, and her ancestry has been traced back many gen- erations to many princes of early Briton and Wales. William Powell the first American ancestor, a son of Edward Powell, of Castle Madoc, was living in the district of the Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, in 1730, and died in 1754. His son William Powell, who died in Philadelphia, in 1757, married Sarah Mifflin, of the well-known Mifflin family of "Fountain Green." Samuel, son of William and Sarah (Mifflin) Powell, born in 1739, was a prominent carpenter and builder of Philadelphia, was admitted member of the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1763, subscribed towards the erection of the famous Carpen- ters' Hall, and was warden of the company in 1771. He was captain of an Associate Company of Philadelphia in 1776, and was commissioned second lieu- tenant of the Philadelphia Artillery Company in 1777. He left Philadelphia between 1735 and 1791 and settled in western Pennsylvania, dying at "Deerfield," Bedford county, in 1814. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Moulder, a distinguished officer of the Philadelphia Artillery in the Revolution, whose military record is given elsewhere in these volumes. Dr. William Mifflin Pow- ell, the grandfather of Gladys (Powell) Corbin, was a son of Samuel and Eliza- beth (Moulder) Powell and was born October 20, 1811. He studied medicine with Dr. Tower of Philadelphia and Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, professor of medicine in Cambridge University. He resided for a number of years in Phila- delphia, serving as a member of common council for the Fourth ward, etc., and
625
CORBIN
later removed to Deerfield, Bedford, (now Fulton) county, Pennsylvania, where he died August 19, 1857. He married Anna Henion, (b. Nov. 11, 1810; d. Dec. 21, 1892) daughter of Benjamin Henion, a native of Amsterdam, Holland, and his wife Ruth Bickley, of a well-known Philadelphia county family. Mrs. Cor- bin was born at Lebanon, Pa., February 7, 1881. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Corbin Junior have one child, Anne Corbin, born at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Novem- ber II, 1905.
MURDOCH KENDRICK
The ancestors of Murdoch Kendrick, of the Philadelphia bar, were among the early German settlers in the Conestoga and Pequea valleys of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, long prior to the Revolution, and many members of the Kendrick family took an active part in that struggle. Henry Kendrick, who had a mill and a large tract of land on the Pequea creek in Martick township, was captain of a company in the First battalion of Lancaster county militia, Colonel John Boyd, which was called into active service in May, 1777, and George, Mar- tin, Isaac, and Henry Kendrick, Jr., were members of the same battalion. Cap- tain Henry married Anna, daughter of Michael Graff of Martick township, and had a large family.
Captain Matthias Slaymaker, great-great-grandfather of Murdoch Kendrick, was born in Strasburg township, Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1732, and was a son of Matthias Slaymaker, Sr., who settled on land original- ly surveyed to the Pennsylvania Land Company of London, in that part of Strasburg township, Lancaster county, now included in Paradise township, in 1710, one thousand acres of which was acquired in fee by the Slaymakers when the London Company closed out in 1760. The Slaymakers, the name originally spelled in German "Schleiermacher" were residents of Hesse Cassel, where the two brothers of Matthias Schleiermacher continued to reside after his emi- gration to Pennsylvania. One of them, a clergyman, was for some years secre- tary of the German legation, at the Court of St. James, and afterwards Chargé d'Affaires. By a strange coincidence, a Major Schleiermacher, an officer of Hessian Troops in the British army, was one of the Hessian officers captured by the American forces during the Revolution and was confined in the Lancaster jail. He was probably a descendant of one of the brothers of the American em- igrant. Matthias Slaymaker, Sr., was married prior to his emigration, and had five sons, Laurence, Matthias, John, Henry and Daniel, and two daughters, Margaret and Barbara. Of these Laurence and Margaret were born in Ger- many, and the other five children in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. All of these sons with the possible exception of Laurence, the eldest, were soldiers in the patriot army during the Revolution, in the Lancaster County Militia, as were also some of their sons.
John Slaymaker, the second son of the emigrant, was a soldier in the Provin- cial service in the second expedition against Fort Du Quesne, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was commissioned a captain in the First battalion, Lancaster county militia, being a colleague of Captain Henry Kendrick, of the same bat- talion, and both were in active service during a great part of the war for inde- pendence.
Matthias Slaymaker Jr., above mentioned, was a private in the company commanded by his brother John in 1776-7. He was later commissioned lieu- tenant of a company commanded by Captain Alexander White, in the same bat- talion, which in 1780 was in active service under Lieutenant-colonel George
627
KENDRICK
Stewart, William Slaymaker, son of John, being ensign of the same company. In 1781, Matthias Slaymaker was promoted to captain of a company in the same battalion, and as such was enrolled in the service of the United States, at Lan- caster, his term in the Continental service extending from June 28 to July 30, 1781 ; though he was captain of militia until the close of the war. The "London Lands" in Strasburg township, Lancaster county, taken up by Matthias Slay- maker, Sr., descended to his four sons, John, Henry, Matthias and Daniel, and portions of it to their respective descendants, to the present time, some of it being still held by descendants of the name. Henry, an officer of militia during the Revolution, was long one of the Justices of the Court of Lancaster County, a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1776, and prominent in the local affairs of Lancaster county. Matthias Slaymaker Jr. died January 9, 1804. By his wife, whose maiden name was Smith, he had two sons, John and William, and daughters Rachel, Rebecca and Elizabeth. Of these Rachel, born in Lan- caster county, March 3, 1790, married David Kendrick.
DAVID KENDRICK, was born in Lancaster county, May 12, 1770. He mar- ried, at Lancaster, April 3, 1804, Rachel Slaymaker, daughter of Captain Mat- thias Slaymaker, and soon after that date removed to Philadelphia where he resided until his death on October 17, 1837. His wife Rachel survived him and died in Philadelphia, July 18, 1858.
GEORGE W. KENDRICK, son of David and Rachel (Slaymaker) Kendrick, was born in Philadelphia, April 22, 1817, and died there February 18, 1892. He married, at St. John's Roman Catholic Church, Philadelphia, November 13, 1835, Maria McDonald, who was born in Dublin, Ireland, December 1815, and died in Philadelphia, December 6, 1875. They had four children: Jennie, William, George W. Jr., and Charles Kendrick.
GEORGE W. KENDRICK, JR., father of our subject, and second son of George W. and Maria (McDonald) Kendrick, was born in Philadelphia, July 31, 1841. He married, Sept. 5, 1866, Minnie Murdoch, born in Philadelphia, daughter of Samuel Kehl Murdoch, of Philadelphia and his wife Mary Hanna, daughter of John Hanna (son of John and Grace Hanna, of near Belfast, Ireland) who came to Philadelphia from county Down, Ireland, soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, and married there about 1805, Elizabeth Patterson, who had come from county Down, Ireland, when a small girl, with her parents, who both died of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793. John Hanna was a private in Captain Peter A. Brown's Company, First Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel Clement C. Biddle, in the service of the United States during the War of 1812-14, under Brigadier-general Thomas Cadwalader. The late Judge William B. Han- na was a grandson of John and Elizabeth ( Patterson) Hanna.
Thomas Murdoch, born in Philadelphia, August 28, 1787, father of Samuel Kehl Murdoch, and great-grandfather of subject of this sketch, was second lieutenant of the Second company, First regiment Artillery, in First brigade of Pennsylvania militia, and first lieutenant of Second company, Independent Ar- tillerists, in the War of 1812-14. He married Elizabeth Kehl, daughter of Sam- uel Kehl, of Philadelphia, and his wife Christiana Scheibel, daughter of Lieu- tenant Theobald Scheibel, of Colonel Bradford's battalion of Philadel- phia Associators, in the Revolution. Lieutenant Theobald Scheibel was born in Frankford-on-the-Main, Germany, August 16, 1725. June 25, 1777
628
KENDRICK
he was commissioned lieutenant of the Third company in the Associ- ated battalion of Philadelphia militia, Colonel William Bradford, which company, under the command of Lieutenant Scheibel, the captain, George Easterly, being "absent on leave," was mustered into the service of the United States at Billingsport, New Jersey, July 12, 1777. Theobald Scheibel died in Philadelphia, January II, 1786.
MURDOCH KENDRICK, son of George W. Kendrick Jr. and Minnie Murdoch was born in Philadelphia, October 4, 1873. He prepared for college at Rugby Acad- emy, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1889, graduating in the class of 1893 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and entering the Law department of the same institution received his degree of Bachelor of Laws, in 1896. He was admitted to the Philadelphia bar, June 1896, and has since been in the active practice of his profession in Philadelphia. He was assistant district attorney for Philadelphia from November 1902 to January 1907. Mr. Kendrick is a member of the Law Association of Philadelphia, and of the Law Academy, a former member of the Committee of Censors of the former association, and is also a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar Association. He is a member of the Union League Club, and of the University, Philadelphia Country, Five O'clock, Lincoln and Young Republican Clubs of Philadelphia, and of the Mask and Wig Club, and Alumni Associations of the University of Pennsylvania. He married, December 10, 1902, Ethel Christine Smith, daughter of F. Percy and Katharine A. Smith, of Philadelphia, and they have one child, Christine Ken- drick, born November 5, 1907. Mr. Kendrick is eligible to membership in the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution, in right of descent from Captain Matthias Slaymaker, and his mother, Mrs. Minnie Murdoch Kendrick, who died May 19, 1903, was a member of Quaker City Chapter No. 7, Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, in right of descent from Lieutenant and acting Captain Theobald Scheibel, above mentioned.
CHARLES SMITH TURNBULL, M. D.
DR. CHARLES SMITH TURNBULL, the eminent oculist and aurist, of Philadel- phia, is a son of Dr. Laurence Turnbull, an eminent Philadelphia physician, who was born in Scotland, September 10, 1821, and his wife Louise Paleske Smith, born in Philadelphia, November II, 1821, and on the maternal side is descended from ancestors who took a prominent part in the Revolutionary struggle in Philadelphia, and also from some of the earliest English settlers in New Eng- land, being ninth in descent from the Rev. Henry Smith of Norfolk, England, who emigrated to New England in 1638; eighth in descent from Jeremy Adams, who came to Massachusetts in 1632; and seventh in descent from John Somers, the first settler at Somers' Point, New Jersey, who was born in Worcester, Eng- land, in 1640.
THE REVEREND HENRY SMITH, above mentioned the founder in America, of the Smith family to which the subject of this sketch belongs, was born in County Norfolk, England in 1588. He graduated at Cambridge university and was or- dained as a minister of the Church of England, by the Archbishop of Canter- bury. In 1638, he emigrated to New England with his three sons, and died there ten years later.
RICHARD SMITH, one of the sons of Rev. Henry Smith, was a resident of Connecticut in 1657, and either he or his son of the same name probably partici- pated in the purchase from the Indians, and patent from Governor Nicolls, of the large tract of land in New Jersey in 1665, in the limits of which the settlers were to "have free liberty of conscience without molestation or disturbance whatsoever in their way of Worship," since we find the latter a resident on this tract at Woodbridge, soon after this date. Richard Smith appears also to have been one of the Connecticut settlers on Long Island, and was probably the real founder of Smithtown, an honor generally accorded to his son as the "Patentee" in 1683. The civil records in reference to these two Richards, are rather con- fusing. While the Richard Smith of Woodbridge, New Jersey is referred to as "Richard Smith, Senr.," there being a third Richard Smith at that date it is impossible to determine to which generation he belonged. Since Richard (I) was born approximately in 1620, it was probably he who died at Woodbridge, New Jersey, in 1695-96, leaving a will dated July 7, 1692, which was probated April 30, 1696, and mentions wife Elinor, and children, Elizabeth, Dorothy, Richard and Thomas ; and that the son was granted the patent for the lands at Smithtown, Long Island in 1683 and remained there.
RICHARD SMITH, (3), son and grandson of Richard, was a resident of Smith- town, Suffolk county, Long Island, about the year 1693, but had evidently re- sided in the neighborhood of Woodbridge shortly prior to that date as he mar- ried about 1693, Rebecca Adams, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Adams, of Woodbridge, of New England ancestry, a granddaughter of Jeremy, or Jere- miah Adams, who settled in Massachusetts in 1632. Thomas Adams was in Woodbridge prior to 1679. His daughter Rebecca married first in 1688, James
630
TURNBULL
Seaton, but separated from him in 1690, and is mentioned in her father's will in 1694 as the wife of Richard Smith, who joins her in the conveyance of land given her by her father on her first marriage. Richard and Rebecca (Adams) Smith, located after their marriage at Cape May, New Jersey. Their seven children were :- William; Richard (4) of whom presently; John; Daniel, who married Martha Swain; Jonathan, who married Abigail Ludlam, of a Long Island family, that had located with the Smiths at Cape May; Jeremiah, who married Abigail Somers; and Elizabeth, who married Samuel Foster.
RICHARD SMITH, (4) of Cape May county, New Jersey, was prominently identified with the affairs of that county, largely made up of families that had migrated from Long Island. He was born in 1715, and about 1740, married Hannah Somers, born at Somers Point, now Atlantic county, then Cape May county, at Great Egg Harbour, in the year 1721. She was a daughter of James Somers, and his wife Abigail Adams, daughter of Jonathan Adams of Great Egg Harbour, who with his wife Barbara, and several children, had come from Long Island, in 1695, and purchased land at Great Egg Harbour, on the same date as the purchase of John Somers, whose son his daughter Abigail married in 1718.
John Somers, the first settler at Somers' Point, was born in Worcestershire, England, in 1640, and was distantly related to John Somers, (1652-1716) of Worcester, Lord High Chancellor of England etc. John Somers married in England, and embarked for America with his wife and child, but both the lat- ter died on the voyage. He located near Great Egg Harbour, and married Han- nah Hodgkins, of a family early identified with the whaling industry at Cape May. At the first Court of Cape May county, held March 20, 1693, John Som- ers was appointed constable for Great Egg Harbour. By deed dated November 30, 1695, Thomas Budd conveyed to John Somers, 3,000 acres of land at Great Egg Harbour, 1500 acres "on the Sound northeast of Great Egg Harbour," 800 acres, "between Patonick Creek and Bass River" and 700 acres "on the Sound side of Great Egg Harbour." On March 20, 1718, John Somers made a deed of gift to his son James Somers for 350 acres of this purchase, the deed being witnessed by Jeremiah Adams. Richard and Hannah (Somers) Smith had six children :- Rachel, who married Casparus Smith, Judith, who married Andrew Crawford; Hannah, who married Henry Ludlam; Daniel, of whom presently ; James, who married Jemima Russell; and John, who married Eliza Porterfield.
DANIEL SMITH, eldest son and third child of Richard and Hannah (Somers) Smith, was born at Cape May, New Jersey, January 14, 1755. He came to Philadelphia when a young man and became a prominent business man there, long identified with local institutions of the city. He died June 5, 1836. He married at Christ church, Philadelphia, October 24, 1780, Elizabeth Shute, born in Philadelphia, July 3, 1760, died there February 9, 1799, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Jackson) Shute.
WILLIAM SHUTE, father of Elizabeth (Shute) Smith, was born in Philadel- phia, and during the Revolutionary period was a resident of the District of Southwark. In the formation and organization of the first armed forces for the defence of American liberties, known as "Associators," John Shute became a member, and was commissioned lieutenant, of the associated company of his district, known as the "Southwark Guards," of which Richard Barret was cap-
631
TURNBULL
tain, and this company was in 1777, enrolled in the service of the United States in the battalion commanded by Major Lewis Nichols. Lieutenant William Shute died in Philadelphia in 1783. He had married at Christ church, January 31, 1754, Elizabeth Jackson, who was born in Philadelphia, October 1731, and died there November 1763, and was buried at Christ church, November 21, 1763.
Daniel and Elizabeth (Shute) Smith, had seven children, James S., Francis. Gurney, Richard S., Daniel, William S., and Charles Somers Smith.
CHARLES SOMERS SMITH, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Shute) Smith was the maternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He was born in Phil- adelphia, April 9, 1798, and died there August 21, 1884. He married January II, 1821, Wilhelmina Paleske, of Polish ancestry, who was born in Philadelphia, July 25, 1799, and died there September 19, 1886. Their daughter Louis Paleske, married, April 19, 1846, Dr. Laurence Turnbull, and was the mother of Dr. Charles Smith Turnbull. Charles Somers Smith was captain of a com- pany in the Pennsylvania militia 1861-2 and Colonel of the Thirty-second Regi- ment, 1863.
DR. CHARLES SMITH TURNBULL, born in Philadelphia, November 10, 1847, re- ceived his preliminary education at the Central High School. He prepared for col- lege at the Episcopal Academy and entered the University of Pennsylvania, re- ceiving the degree of A. M. from the College department in 1869, that of Ph. D., in 1871, and the degree of M. D. from the Medical department of the same insti- tution in 1873. In 1871 he was surgeon for the United States Geological Survey of the territories of Wyoming and Montana, and in the same capacity ac- companied Professor F. V. Hayden, United States geologist, in the survey of Yellowstone National Park in 1871-2. From 1873 to 1875 he was resident as- sistant surgeon in the New York Ophthalmic and Aural Institute, and studied diseases of the eye and ear under Dr. Herman Knapp. He then went abroad and spent two years as a student in the several ophthalmic and aural depart- ments of the Imperial General Hospital at Vienna, under Professors Arlt, Jaeger, Von Stellwag, Schroetter, Hyrtl, Politzer, Gruber and others. Return- ing to Philadelphia in the autumn of 1876, he engaged in the practice of oph- thalmology and otology, and in addition to his duties as a regular practitioner in his specialties, has since filled many important positions in the hospitals and scientific institutions of his native city. He was for nineteen years oculist and aurist to the German Hospital; since 1876, has filled the same position for the Odd Fellows Home, of Philadelphia; for five years in the Pennsylvania Insti- tute for Deaf and Dumb; for ten years in the Home for Teaching Deaf Children to Speak ; and was chief of the aural department of Jefferson Medical College for more than ten years, and for many years ophthalmic and aural surgeon to the Howard, Jewish, and St. Christopher's hospitals, and the Home for Incurables.
Dr. Turnbull is a Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, a member of the Franklin Institute, the Academy of Natural Sciences, of the Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania state and American Medical Associations, and of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and other national sci- entific associations. Since 1888 he has been associate editor, in charge of the department of otology, of the "Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences." He has also translated from the German original, Arlt's "Injuries to the Eye con- sidered Medico-Legally," 1876; Gruber's "Tenotomy of the Tensor-Tympani
632
TURNBULL
Muscle," 1879; and Bruner's "Treatise on the Methods of Connection of the Ossicles," 1880. He has also made numerous original contributions to the lit- erature of his specialty, especially in reference to diseases of chidlren. Dr. Turnbull joined the First Regiment, Pennsylvania militia, known as the Grey Reserves, in 1862, as a private in Company A, of which his grandfather Charles Somers Smith, later Colonel of the Thirty-second (Emergency) Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, was then captain, and continued as an associate and enlisted member of that organization, until 1873 when he was appointed Assist- ant Surgeon of the First Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania. He was acting brigade surgeon of his regiment during the Pittsburg riots of 1877, and received high praise in the official report of Colonel R. Dale Benson, "for faith- ful and untiring service throughout the tour of duty, especially on the march of July 22, 1877."
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.