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"A man of rare abilities, a Christian gentleman of thorough culture, a student of high rank, faithful and painstaking in every relation in his life, we can but deplore his loss from among us, and strive all the more earnestly from his example to run the race set before us, looking forward to the time of reunion and of rewards higher than any afforded on earth."
Among the papers and treatises of Dr. Addinell Hewson, published, are the following :
"On the Prominence of the Eyeball, with Sinking of the Caruncle and Semilunar Dolds, following the Ordinary Peration for Strabismus, etc." North American Medico-Chirurgi- cal Review, Philadelphia, 1858, vol. ii; "On Localized Galvinism as a Remedy for Photo- phobia of Strumous Opthalmia", The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadel- phia, 1860, vol. xxxix; "Of the Influence of the Weather over Results of Surgical Opera- tions, and on the Value of the Barometer as a Guide in the Choice of the Time for and Prognosis in such Operations, as Shown by the Results of Immediate Amputations during a period of Thirty Years in the Pennsylvania Hospital", Pennsylvania Hospital Reports, vols. i and ii; "New Method of Making Topical Applications in the Uretha, Bladder and Uterus"; "Earth as a Topical Application in Surgery," Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston, 1872.
Other papers on the subject of "Earth Treatment" were read before the Dela- ware County Medical Society (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1874) ; before the Ameri- can Medical Association, and published in their Transactions, 1880, vol. xxi, p. 617; in the Medical Bulletin, Philadelphia, 1879, vol. i, p. 5; and in the same journal in 1885, vol. vii; in the Medical News, Philadelphia, 1882, vol. xii, p. 470; and Transactions of the College of Physicians, 1881, vol. v, p. 135. A num- ber of other papers of technical scientific character appear in the Transactions of the College of Physicians; the Medical and Surgical Reporter; College and Clin- ical Record; Medical Record, New York; the Transactions of the Medical So- ciety of Pennsylvania; the Journal of the American Medical Association, 1868 and 1890. He was the author of addresses of welcome to the Alumni of Jeffer- son College at different periods, as well as an address of welcome to Professors Gross and Pancoast, delivered at the Academy of Music, October 23, 1868.
Dr. Addinell Hewson married, November 22, 1854, Rachel Macomb Wether- ill, born May 10, 1831, died at her residence, 1434 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, November 19, 1901. She was a daughter of William Wetherill, M. D., of Front street, above Arch, Philadelphia, and "Fatlands" Montgomery county. Pennsylvania, born in Philadelphia, January 31, 1804, died at "Fatlands", April 28, 1872; by his wife, Isabel Macomb, born February 22, 1807, died December 26, 1871, daughter of John William Macomb and his wife Isabella Ramsey and granddaughter of William Macomb, of New York, and his wife Sarah Jane Dring; and a cousin of Major General Alexander Macomb, the hero of Platts- burg in 1814, and commander in chief of the United States Army at his death in 184I.
Dr. William Wetherill was a son of Samuel Wetherill, of Philadelphia, of the firm of Samuel Wetherill & Son, manufacturers of white-lead, etc., Twelfth and Cherry Streets, who was born in Philadelphia, April 27, 1764, and died
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there September 29, 1829. He married, April 24, 1788, Rachel Price, born January 28, 1766, died February 9, 1844, daughter of John Price, of Reading, Pennsylvania, by his wife, Rebecca Morgan, daughter of Colonel Jacob Morgan, of Morganstown, Pennsylvania, a sketch of whom follows. Samuel Wetherill, above mentioned, was a son of Samuel Wetherill, the founder of the famous Wetherill Drug, Chemical and Paint Plants in Philadelphia. He was a son of Christopher Wetherill, of Burlington, New Jersey, (1711-1786), by his wife Mary, daughter of John Stockton, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, etc., of Somerset county, New Jersey, 1749-1758, trustee of Princeton College, etc. and sister to Richard Stockton, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rich- ard Stockton, the grandfather of Mary (Stockton) Wetherill, came from Ches- hire to New Jersey and was one of the earliest settlers at Princeton.
Christopher Wetherill, above mentioned, was a son of Thomas Wetherill, who came to New Jersey with his father Christopher Wetherill, from Sher- burne, county York, England, and their ancestry is traced back to Gyles Weath- erill, of "Stockton-upon-Tease", county Durham, whose will is dated July 12, 1604 (see Wetherill Family, in "Colonial Families of Philadelphia)." The first Christopher Wetherill, of New Jersey, was sheriff of Burlington county, and held other positions of honor.
Samuel Wetherill, the elder, above mentioned son of Christopher and Mary (Stockton) Wetherill, born in Burlington county, New Jersey, April 12, 1736, came to Philadelphia when a young man and after following the business of a carpenter and builder for some years, engaged in the manufacture of domestic fabrics there; was one of the promoters of the "United Company of Philadel- phia for the Establishment of American Industries", growing out of the imposi- tion of the Stamp Act; and soon after established the drug and chemical business, which with the manufacture of paints has been carried on by his descendants of the name to the present time. During the Revolutionary War, Samuel Wether- ill, by contract with the Continental Congress, supplied the cloth for the manu- facture of uniforms for the Patriot soldiers. He was active in support of the cause of Independence and with other members of the Society of Friends was disowned for his participation in warlike affairs. He was one of the chief founders of the "Free Society of Friends" more commonly known as "Free Quakers" and was their chief preacher for many years. He died September 24, 1816. His wife was Sarah Yarnall, born August 27, 1734, died July 27, 1816, daughter of Mordecai Yarnall, an eminent preacher of the Society of Friends, and of a family long prominent in the affairs of Philadelphia and Chester coun- ties, being one of the earliest families to settle in the latter county.
Colonel Jacob Morgan, great-great-grandfather of Rachel Macomb (Wether- ill) Hewson, is said to have been born in the northern part of Wales in 1716, his father having come to Pennsylvania from Wales at near the date of his birth. Thomas Morgan, the father of Colonel Morgan, settled on the north bank of the Conestoga Creek, in what is now Berks county, Pennsylvania, where a tract of 400 acres of land was conveyed to him by John Taylor, Surveyor Gen- eral of the Province of Pennsylvania, September 6, 1719, and died there in 1740. This tract of land was in Caernarvon township, and includes the site of Morgantown, laid out by Colonel Morgan in 1779. Colonel Morgan married, shortly prior to the death of his father, Rachel Piersol, daughter of Ricard
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Piersol and his wife Bridget ( Brown) Piersol, and granddaughter of John Pier- sol, who died November 8, 1777, aged one hundred years, and his wife, Alice. who died December 1789, aged eighty-four years.
Colonel Jacob Morgan in 1740 erected a house on the property inherited from his father, which is still standing, the inscription on the marble date stone be- ing, "R. I. M. 1740". He sold this part of the property with the farm on which it was situated, after the Revolution, to Hon. Daniel Clymer, and in 1782 erected a house "at the head of Reading Street", Morgantown, the date stone of which bears the inscription, "R. I. M. 1782". In this house he re- sided from the date of its erection until his death in 1792. During the Rev- olution, however, he resided principally in the city of Reading. He and his wife are buried in the graveyard of St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church.
Col. Jacob Morgan was commissioned a justice of Berks county, April 24, 1764, and was re-commissioned in May, 1769, May 22, 1770, and again in 1773, under the Provincial Government, and the Supreme Executive Council commis- sioned him to the same office, July 23, 1777, and October 9, 1784, the latter ap- pointment carrying with it a commission as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, a position he filled until his death .. At the beginning of the trouble be- tween the Colonies and the Mother Country, which culminated in the Revolu- tion, Colonel Morgan was one of the most ardent supporters of the Patriot cause. He was a delegate from the Committee of Safety of Berks county to the Provincial Conference held at Carpenter's Hall, June 18, 1775; a delegate to the Constitutional Convention that framed the Constitution of Pennsylvania in 1776; and on May 20, 1777, was elected a member of the Supreme Execu- tive Council, the governing body of the State under that constitution. Two days later he was commissed by that body, lieutenant, and chief officer of the militia, for Berks county, with the rank of colonel. On October 17, 1777, he became a member of the Council of Safety for the State. He was exceptionally active in organizing and equipping the militia of Berks county as the correspond- ence between him and the Governor and Council abundantly proves. He also served as Assistant Forage Master for the State, appointed April 5, 1780; was commissioned to seize personal effects of traitors, October 21, 1777; and Agent for Forfeited Estates, May 8, 1778. He died November 11, 1792. Jacob Mor- gan Jr., son of Colonel Jacob and Rachel (Piersol) Morgan, born 1742, died 1812, was also prominent in the Revolutionary struggle. He was major of the First Battalion, Philadelphia Associators, Colonel John Dickinson, in 1775; Colonel of the First Battalion, Philadelphia Militia, 1777 ; wagon-master of Penn- sylvania, 1780, etc.
Dr. Addinell and Rachel Macomb (Wetherill) Hewson had issuc :
DR. ADDINELL HEWSON JR., b. Sept. 2, 1855, of whom presently ;
Thomas T., b. Dec. 9, 1856, d. 1873;
William, b. July 11, 1873;
Isabel Bloomfield, m. Nov. 3, 1897, William Thurston Manning, of Baltimore, Md., an official of the B. & O. R. R. Co .;
Mary Cox, m. April 19, 1893, Rudolph Morrell Booraem, of Phila., formerly of New York;
Emily, m. June 10, 1895, Thomas Johnson Michie, Esq., of the Baltimore, Md., Bar, now of Charlotteville, Va., and publisher of law books.
ADDINELL HEWSON, M. D., of Philadelphia, son of Dr. Addinell and Rachel
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Macomb (Wetherill) Hewson, was born in that city, September 2, 1855. He prepared for college at the Episcopal Academy, and entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1876, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts; receiving the higher degree, Master of Arts, from the same institution in 1879. He entered Jefferson Medical College and received his degree of Doc- tor of Medicine in 1879, and has since been actively engaged in the practice of his profession in his native city. He was dispensary surgeon at St. Mary's Hos- pital, 1879-1888; assistant surgeon in dispensary at Jefferson Medical College Hospital, 1879-1882, chief surgeon of the dispensary in the same, 1890-1894; assistant demonstrator in Anatomy, at Jefferson, September, 1879 to June, 1886; was assistant of the opthalmic clinic there, 1882-1884; demonstrator of anat- omy, 1889-1902, and assistant professor of anatomy until June, 1906. He has also been professor of Anatomy at the Philadelphia Polyclinic College since 1897; secretary of the State Anatomical Board since 1899; dispensary surgeon to Episcopal Academy since 1887-1905; surgeon to St. Timothy's Hospital, Rox- borough, since 1894; and was physician to the Philadelphia Orphan Society, 1886 to 1900.
Dr. Addinell Hewson Jr. was admitted a member of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution, November 24, 1890, as a great-great-great-grandson of Colonel Jacob Morgan, of Morganstown, Berks county, Pennsylvania, the record of whose patriotic services is given above. He is also a member of the following scientific associations, the International Medical Congress, the American Medi- cal Association, the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, the Philadelphia Coun- ty Medical Society, the Academy of Surgery of Philadelphia, Obstetrical Society, American Association of Anatomists, Pathological Society and is a Fellow of the College of Physicians.
Dr. Hewson married, September 4, 1883, Lucy Clabaugh, born October 28, 1860, daughter of George Washington Clabaugh, of Cumberland, Maryland, by his wife, Ellen Lavinia Kemp, born August 22, 1830.
Issue of Dr. Addinell and Lucy (Clabaugh) Hewson :
William, b. June 4. 1884; Ellen, b. February 21, 1886; Addinell Stevenson, b. May 31, 1890; Harry Clabaugh, b. March 1, 1896.
COLONEL OLIVER CHRISTIAN BOSBYSHELL
COLONEL OLIVER CHRISTIAN BOSBYSHELL, of Philadelphia, veteran of the Civil War, long an officer of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, and promi- nently associated with public affairs in Philadelphia, is a son of Oliver Christian and Mary Ann (Whitney) Bosbyshell, of Pottsville, Schuylkill county, Penn- sylvania, and grandson of Christian Bosbyshell, a native of Bohemia, who came to Pennsylvania, with a maternal uncle in 1790, and his wife Elizabeth Oliver, and on the maternal side is of early New England ancestry.
JOHN WHITNEY, of the parish of Isleworth-on-the-Thames, nine miles from the city of London, with wife Elinor and children, John, Richard, Nathaniel, Thomas and Jonathan, embarked for New England in April, 1635, in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," and in June of the same year landed and settled at Water- town, Massachusetts. He was admitted a freeman of Watertown, March 3, 1636; was made a selectman of the town in 1637 and held that office until 1655; subsequently filling the offices of town clerk and constable. He was granted, in 1636, eight lots in Watertown, aggregating two hundred and twelve acres. He died there June 1, 1673, aged about eighty-four years. His wife Elinor died May II, 1659, aged sixty years, and he married (second) Judith Clement, whom he also survived, by whom he had no children. Two other sons were born to John and Elinor Whitney, in Watertown, Joshua and Caleb, making seven sons in all.
DEACON JOSHUA WHITNEY, son of John and Elinor Whitney, born in Water- town, Massachusetts, July 15, 1635, was one of the original proprietors of Gro- ton, Massachusetts, and resided there until it was burned by the Indians in the spring of 1676, during King Philip's War, in which he and his eldest son Joshua Jr. were soldiers. Returning to Watertown, he served as selectman of that town, 1681-87; was overseer of highways, 1683, and subsequently constable. He served many years as deacon of the church at Watertown, resigning on account of the infirmities of age, April 22, 1715. He died at Watertown, August 7, 1719. He was three times married, thirdly on September 30, 1672, to Abigail Tarball.
WILLIAM WHITNEY, second child of Joshua and Abigail (Tarball) Whitney, was born February 28, 1678, at Watertown, Massachusetts. In 1710 he pur- chased land at Killingly, Connecticut, and in 1720 removed to Plainfield, Wind- ham county, Connecticut, where he died about 1754. He married (first) March, 1700, Lydia Perham, of Chelmsford, Middlesex county, Massachusetts. She died at Killingly, Windham county, Connecticut, August 24, 1712. He married (second), April 25, 1717, Margaret Mirick, and had six children.
CALEB WHITNEY, youngest son of William and Margaret ( Mirick) Whitney, was born at Plainfield, Connecticut, September 10, 1721, and lived there, in Nor- wich and Middletown, Connecticut, and later in New York. By his wife Mar- garet he had seven children.
JAMES REX WHITNEY, youngest child of Caleb and Margaret Whitney, born at Middletown, Connecticut, October 16, 1760, was a resident of New York
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state, at the outbreak of the War for Independence, and entering a company of volunteer militia of that county served with it one year, in and around Boston, Massachusetts. He then joined the Continental Navy, as a marine, and while on a cruise was taken prisoner, in a battle with two British cruisers, but the cruiser on which he was a prisoner being captured by Captain Jean Paul Jones, Marine Whitney served under that intrepid commander and was with him in the memorable fight between the "Bon Homme Richard", and "Serapis", Sep- tember 23, 1779. At the close of the war he returned to New York and mar- ried there, Mary Allen, with whom, in the autumn of 1785, he removed to Franklin, the county seat of Heard county, Georgia, where he resided many years. He later removed and resided for a short time in Charleston, South Car- olina, where his wife died November 22, 1814. He then removed to Washing- ton, Adams county, Mississippi, where he died February 4, 1822. For five years prior to his death he was sergeant-at-arms of the Mississippi Legislature. He was buried at Washington, Mississippi, but many years after, his son, John Whitney, of Fayette, Mississippi, having received a small sum of money from the United States government, due for services of his father, expended it in the erection of a monument to his father's memory, on his plantation at Fayette, be- ing unable to identify the grave at Washington.
Lebbeus Whitney, second son of James Rex and Mary (Allen) Whitney, was born October 8, 1785, at Hillsborough, North Carolina, while his parents were en route from New York to Franklin, Georgia. He went with his parents when a lad to Charleston, South Carolina, and before arriving at his majority came to Philadelphia, and was many years teller in the Schuylkill Bank of that city. In July, 1832, he removed to Port Carbon, Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania, and was cashier of the bank there until 1840, when he removed to near Orwigsburg, in the same county, and in 1845 removed to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where his son, William L. Whitney, was a prominent attorney, and Lawrence F. Whitney had established a banking house. He died in Pottsville, September 7, 1849. He married, in 1808, Elizabeth Ford, born August 9, 1786, died at Pottsville, Feb- ruary 3, 1873. Children : Mary Ann, of whom presently ; Lawrence Ford, born October 5, 1812, died September 10, 1878; Charles Albert, born March 25, 1815, died March 6, 1885; John Ford, born September 22, 1817, died April 12, 1855; Catharine, born February 28, 1820, died March 16, 1902; William Lebbeus, 1823-1899; Elizabeth Ford, 1826-1906; Anna Margaret, 1828-1864.
Mary Ann Whitney, eldest child of Lebbeus and Elizabeth (Ford) Whitney born in Philadelphia, August 24, 1810, married, April 2, 1835, Oliver Christian Bosbyshell, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who died November 9, 1838. Mary Ann (Whitney) Bosbyshell died in Philadelphia, October 19, 1899. They had three children : Lebbeus Whitney Bosbyshell, born May 10, 1836, died in Phila- delphia, February 1, 1886; Charles A. Bosbyshell, of Philadelphia, a twin to Lebbeus W .; Oliver Christian Bosbyshell, the subject of this sketch.
COLONEL OLIVER CHRISTIAN BOSBYSHELL was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, January 3, 1839. He was educated at private and public schools of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where his mother resided after the death of her husband, and he resided there until 1869. He was messenger for the Philadelphia and Read- ing Telegraph Company during 1854-55, and a clerk in the law offices of Francis
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W. Hughes, in 1856-57. The next three years he spent as a student-at-law in the offices of his uncle, William L. Whitney.
On April 16, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Washington Artillerists, commanded by Captain James Wren, subsequently made Company H, Twenty- fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded by Captain David A. Smith, being one of the five hundred and thirty Pennsylvania soldiers known as "First Defenders", who reached Washington, April 18, 1861, the first enlisted soldiers for the Civil War to reach the capitol. He was struck on the head while passing through Baltimore, being the first soldier wounded in the Civil War. He served with this regiment until August, 1861, and was then commis- sioned second lieutenant of Company G, Forty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers ; was promoted to first lieutenant, June, 1862, and captain, July, 1862 ; became major of the regiment, July, 1864, and was mustered out with that rank, October 1, 1864. The Forty-eighth took a very prominent part in the war and participated in at least twenty-five battles. First sent to Fort Hatteras, North Carolina, under Burnside; back to Virginia, July, 1862, and participated in bat- tles of Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, Amissville and Fredericksburg; then ordered to Department of the West, and served in Ken- tucky and Tennessee to close of 1863; rejoined Army of the Potomac and served under Grant to close of the war.
On the close of his service in the army Major Bosbyshell returned to Potts- ville and was a clerk in the Miners' National Bank and in the Banking house of his uncle, Lawrence F. Whitney, until 1867. He then engaged in the book and stationery business which continued until his appointment as registrar of the United States Mint, at Philadelphia, May 4, 1869, and his removal to that city. He was promoted to assistant coiner in the mint in 1872, and coiner, Jan- uary 1, 1879, holding the latter position until his resignation, February 1, 1885, to accept the position of chief clerk in the office of the city comptroller of Phil- adelphia. He resigned that position on his appointment, November 15, 1889, as superintendent of the mint, and held the latter position until April 1, 1893, when he resigned. He was elected vice-president of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company, February, 1893, and resigned that position November I of the same year to accept the position of treasurer of the same company, which office he resigned in July, 1907, though his resignation was not accepted by the company until the following November. Major Bosbyshell took an active part in the organization of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, serving as major of the Second Regiment, 1878 to 1880; lientenant-colonel, 1880-81, and as col- onel from 1881 to August, 1893, when he resigned. He was also the organizer and colonel of the Nineteenth Regiment National Guard of Pennsylvania, or- ganized in 1898 for service in the Spanish-American war. He is a Past Com- mander of the Department of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic, a comrade of Post No. 2; a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; treasurer of Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Le- gion ; treasurer-general of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, and treasurer of Pennsylvania Commandery of the same order ; a member of the "First Defend- ers" Association; one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the Revolution. He is fond of outdoor sports and during his earlier life associated
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with various athletic organizations. He is a member of the Union League and other clubs, and of University Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
On May 25, 1890, Colonel Bosbyshell was appointed by Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, with Colonel James W. Hawley, and General William J. Bolton, a member of the Antietam Battlefield Memorial Commission, of which Colonel Bosbyshell was made secretary. The Commission erected thir- teen State monuments on the Antietam battlefield, to as many Pennsylvania or- ganizations who fought on that field. Colonel Bosbyshell also compiled and edited "Pennsylvania at Antietam" published by the Commonwealth of Penn- sylvania. He also wrote and published in 1895, "The 48th in the War", "Being an account of the services of the 48th Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion". In religion Colonel Bosbyshell is an Episcopalian, and is a vestryman of the Church of the Saviour. He is a director of the Arlington Cemetery Company, and of the Musical Fund Society.
Colonel Bosbyshell married, June 24, 1863, Martha Ellen Stem, born Sep- tember 4, 1839, daughter of Rev. Nathan Stem, D. D., by his wife, Sarah May Potts, and they reside at 4048 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. They had four children, viz: 1. Nathan Stem Bosbyshell, born October 25, 1864, died May 6, 1888. 2. Whitney Bosbyshell, born July 14, 1866, married, October 1, 1890, Elizabeth Allen Whiteman, born June 1I, 1867, daughter of Walter and Eliza- beth Brazier (Howell) Whiteman, and had issue: Oliver Christian Bosbyshell, born February II, 1894, died April 11, 1894; Howell Bosbyshell, born November 23, 1895, and Elizabeth Howell Bosbyshell, born November 25, 1896. 3. Oliver May Bosbyshell, born March 1, 1868, married, June 2, 1892, Minnie Shriver Thompson, born April 10, 1868, daughter of Thomas C. and Julia Ann (Shriv- er) Thompson, and they had issue; Oliver Thompson Bosbyshell, born April I, 1893, died April 21, 1893. 4. William Lebbeus Bosbyshell, born April 28, 1874.
HON. WILLIAM POTTER
The family of Potter to which Hon. William Potter belongs, resident for several generations in the Province of Ulster, Ireland, trace their descent from a family long resident in Lancashire, England.
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