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Sammel West (3). second child and son of William (2), was born in Upper Darby. 2 mo .. 13. 1771, and died on the eighty-second an- niversary of his birth, 2 mo., 13. 1853. Presumably he learned the miller's trade. Abwent 1796 or earlier his father purchased for him a farm of about three hundred acres in Chester township, naming it Shepherd's Plain, and upon this the son became a successful farmer
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and shepherd for the remainder of his life. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, and an eller in the local meeting. He was a man of exemplary character. an excellent neighbor and friend, and dispensed a liberal hospitality. He was married. 5 mo .. 20, 1792, in London Grove Meeting house, to Mary Pusey, a daughter of Joshua and Mary ( Miller) Pusey: she died 11 mo .. 6. 1832. The children of this marriage were Mary, Hannah, William, Anne, Sarah Ann and Joshua.
Hannah, second child of Samuel (3) and Mary ( Pusey) West. was born in Chester township. Chester county, October 31. 1796. She was married, October 6. 1819. to Dr. Robert Mendenhall Huston, who was born in Abingdon. Virginia, May 19. 1795. a son of William and Elizabeth ( Mendenhall) Huston. When he was ten years of age his parents removed to Pennsylvania and settled in Chester county, where he attended the neighborhood schools. AAt an early age he obtained a position at a druggist's in Philadelphia, and here began reading medi- cine; he subsequently completed his professional studies in a medical college, and graduated with his degree of Doctor of Medicine. In 1812 he was drafted for military service, and was appointed assistant surgeon in the army, although he was but seventeen years of age. After the close of the war he located in Philadelphia, where he entered upon a successful career in the practice of his profession and also as a teacher of medicine. He became professor of materia medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and was for some time dean, in both positions aiding greatly in the development of the institution. He was also prominent in public affairs, and served as a member of the city council and in other useful positions. He was a man of the noblest personal character, and was held in universal esteem. He continued in the practice of his profession until his death. August 3. 1864, making
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his life a benediction upon all who came under his professional care or within the influence of his genial personality. His widow survived him many years, dying in Philadelphia, November 18. 1893, at the re- markable age of ninety-seven years and some days. Dr. and Mrs. Huston were the parents of seven children: 1. Samuel ( deceased), who mar- ried Sarah Perot, and to whom were born nine children. Robert, Will- iam P., Mary P., Charles, Samuel W .. Letitia P .. AAlfred. James and Hannah W. 2. Charles ( deceased ), who was a manufacturer of steel at Coatsville: he married Isabella P. Lukens, and their seven children were: C. Anna. Clara, Abraham Francis, Alice R., Charles L., Mary W. and Samuel Edward. the last named of whom died in childhood. 3. Elizabeth, who died May 23. 1887. 4. Mary. 5. Hannah. 6. William, who married Almira Rogers, and whose nine children were Annie. Hannah, William, Frank. Clinton, Almira, Albert ( died in childhood ). Mabel and Charles. 7. Henry, who married Mary Henry. and whose children are Henry W. and Samuel Spencer.
William West (4), third child and eldest son of Samuel (3) and Mary ( Pusey) West, was born at Shepherd's Plain. 9 mo .. 12. 1798. He inherited from his father the occupation of a farmer. This was uncongenial. however, and his fondness for tools and skill in their use led him to give the greater portion of his time to the making of useful articles, although he had not learned any mechanical trade. He was educated in the Friends boarding school in Birmingham. Delaware county, and in Burlington, New Jersey. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, as were his ancestors. His life was quiet and uneventful. He died 2 mo .. 1885. in his eighty-seventh year. in the house in which he was born, and which was his home throughout his long life. He was married. 1 mo., 1836, to his second wife, Martha Dutton, born 3 mo .. 7. 1811. in Upper Chichester. She was the eklest
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daughter of Jonathan and Rachel Dutton, and a descendant of that John Dutton who came from Cheshire, England, and purchased five hundred acres of land in Aston township. in 1682.
The children of William (4) and Martha ( Dutton) West. all of whom were born at Shepherd's Plain, are: 1. Sammuel, born in 1836. died in 1883. unmarried. 2. Jonathan Dutton, born in 1838, died in infancy. 3. William Pusey, born in 1840. 4. Elias H., born in 1842. 5. Rachel P., born in 1842. 6. Kate D., born in 1842.
William Pusey West (5) was married in Philadelphia in 1866 to Margaret Pidgeon, and to them were born Louise C .. wife of Joseph Swoyer: Helen Brinton, unmarried, and William Benjamin, married to Gertrude Bremer.
Elias 11. West (5) was married in 1878 to Sarah J. Maddock. One child was born of this marriage. Edith Maddock West. at this date ( 1903) a student in Swarthmore College. Mrs. West is a lincal de- scendant of Henry Maddock (1), who came to America from Lune (or Loom) Hall, Cheshire county. England, in 1681. He was a Friend in religion, a man of ability, and served in the general assembly from 1684 to 1686. He and his brother-in-law. James Kennedy, purchased fifteen hundred acres of land in Springfield township. Kennedy soon died, leaving his share to Henry's son, Mordecai, who also received by dleed the share of his father, who returned to England.
Mordecai Maddock ( 2) came to America in 1701, bringing letters from the Nottingham monthly meeting for himself and wife, who died soon after their arrival. He was active in the establishment of a meet- ing in Chester, and was a speaker therein. Jane Maddock, who mar- ried George Maris, was either his sister or daughter. He married in the old Concord ( Delaware county ) meeting house. November 8. 1733. Dorothy Roman, of Chichester. His son John (3) bought three hun-
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dred acres of land in Chichester township, and this he afterward trans- ferred to his brother James: this was the tract upon which stood the house where Benjamin West was born. James (3) and his wife Susan- nah were the parents of Henry, William, Rebecca, Isaac and Jacob. William (4) was commissioned captain of a company in the Third Battalion, under Colonel Caleb Davis, May 12. 1777: he died in 1800. He married Isabella Cahoon, January 5. 1762, and their children were Thomas, Jesse. James and William. James (5), with one Mellvaine. operated a sawmill on the creek at Leipersville. In 1817 he bought the farm on which Crum Lynne Station is now located and part of which is still in the possession of a great-grandson. He died in 1848, in Chester, and is buried in the southwest corner of the old Episcopal burying ground there. He married. April 17, 1802, Rebecca Morton, who died. leaving a daughter Sarah. He afterwards married Mary. sister of his first wife, and their children were Mordecai. James. Mary. Israel, and William. Israel (6), who is written of in the sketch of Israel Morton Maddock, in this work. married Margaret McCoy. a daughter of Robert (2) and Mary ( Deleplaine ) McCoy. She was born at Carterville. Chester township. July 16, 1817. Her grandfather. Robert McCoy, whose wife was Rachel Collett, was a private in Captain David Cowpland's company of Chester county militia in the Revolu- tionary war. He was afterwards a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania militia, May 1, 1789. He was a deacon in the Brandywine Baptist church, Concord township, from 1810 to 1823. He was buried near the church when it was enlarged, and the graves of himself and wife were covered by it. William, great-grandfather of Margaret (McCoy) Maddock, was a son of Robert, who died in New Castle. Delaware, prior to 1794. On the maternal side she descended from Nicholas De La Plaine, a Huguenot who came from France to New York in 1657. He
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married a daughter of Pierre Cresson, and they became the parents of nine children. A portrait of the father of Nicholas De La Plaine was owned by Mrs. W. H. Fisher, of New York city, as late as 1882. Ac- cording to Alden's "American Epitaphs," he died in France at the age of one hundred and five years.
Rachel P. West (5) was married at Shepherd's Plain, in 1867. to James Farquharson Leys, born near Glasgow. Scotland. 12 mo .. 25. 1835, a son of William and Hannah ( Wilson ) Leys. He was en- gaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia. He died 10 mo .. 1867. a little less than a year after his marriage.
James Farquharson Leys, son of James Farquharson and Rachel P. (West) Leys, and in the maternal line sixth in descent from John West ( 1), was born 12 mo .. 26, 1867. He was educated in the Friends' schools in Philadelphia, graduating from the Central school in 1884. In 1800 he received his medical degree from the University of Penn- sylvania. He further pursued his professional studies in Gottingen and Vienna in 1800-91. He afterward served as interne in the Phila- delphia hospital, and in the state hospital at Hazleton, Pennsylvania. In 1893 he was commissioned assistant surgeon in the United States navy. He served throughout the Spanish war as a medical officer on the dyamite cruiser Vesuvius. In due course he was promoted to full surgeon and at this date ( 1903) is on duty in Guam. Ladrone islands. He was married in New York city in 1897 to Gwendolyne Mary Wig- ley, of Spencer House. Basseterre, St. Kitts, British West Indies. Of this marriage were born two children : Katharine Mary, born in Jack- sonville, Florida. 1898. and James Farquharson Leys, born in Newport. Rhode Island, in 1901.
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JAMES C. WILSON. M. D.
James C. Wilson, M. D., professor of practice of medicine and clinical medicine in the Jefferson Medical College, is a native of Phila- delphia, born March 25. 1847. His father. the late Dr. Elwood Wil- son, also was a native Pennsylvanian, a graduate of Jefferson ( 1845) and subsequently was one of its trustees. He attained prominence in the ranks of the profession, and through his untiring zeal helped to sustain the reputation of Philadelphia as a medical center. J. C. Wilson ac- quired his early education in the Friends' Central school and afterward spent some time at Phillips ( Exeter ) Academy. He then entered Prince- ton and there received his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1807. Two years later he took his degree of Doctor of Medicine at Jefferson, and was granted his degree of Master of Arts by his alma mater t Princeton ) in the same year.
Dr. Wilson served as resident physician in Will's Eye H spital and later in the Pennsylvania Hospital. In both of these institutions he was brought into association with leading medical men, and the ex- periences he thereby gained helped to lay the foundation of his pro- fessional skill. After completing his term in the Pennsylvania Hospital he went abr ad and pursued medical studies in Vienna. In 1873 he returned home and at once entered upon his active professional career. Ile was made chief of the medical clinic at Jefferson, and was a well known "quiz master." He soon became assistant to the eminent Pro- fessor J. M. Da Costa, at which time began the professional and social intimacy of these two prominent sons of Jefferson. For a time Dr Wilson was a lecturer on physical diagnosis, and when the new Jefferson Hospital was organized he was appointed its attending physician. In 1876 he was elected to the staff of the Philadelphia Hospital, serving
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until 1889, when he resigned. In the latter year he served on the staff of St. Agnes Hospital, and also was appointed to the German Hospital : in 1897 he was made physician-in-chief to the latter institution.
In 1891 Dr. Wilson was chosen to fill the chair of practice of medicine and of clincal medicine at Jefferson. succeding Da Costa, and in 1895 he was honored with the appointment of physician to the Penn- sylvania Hospital.
Dr. Wilson is a member of the leading medical societies. He was president of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia in 1885 and 1886; and of the Philadelphia County Medical Society in 1895 and 1896. He holds membership in the American Medical Association, and fellow- ship in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in the American Academy of Medicine, the American Climatological Society of which he was this year elected president, the American Pediatric Society. the American Philosophical Society, the Franklin Institute, the Washing- ton Academy of Science and various other scientific bodies. He was one of the founders of the Association of American Physicians and served as president of this organization in 1902. His intimate asso- ciation with the leaders of medical thought of his time, his earnest apprenticeship, covering years of hospital practice, his untiring energy in seeking the obscure causes of disease-all these things have fitted him for the many positions of honor which have been his and which he has so richly merited.
GENERAL JOIN A. WILEY.
As a commanding officer of high rank and a veteran both of the Civil and Spanish-American wars, General Wiley deserves especial men- tion in any work devoted to the representative men of Pennsylvania. He
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has been connected with military matters, more or less directly, during most of his adult life, his service commencing . April, 1861, as a private. and terminating in 1800 with a commission as brigadier general. . \t every conjuncture and in whatever position assigned him. General Wiley did his duty to the best of his ability, and whether serving as a private or commanding a division was always the same loyal and patriotic soldier. In civil life, too, he has held places of prominence and brought to the discharge of their duties the conscientiousness of purpose and integrity in action which ever commended him as a reliable man and good citizen.
John A. Wiley was born at Pittsburg. Pennsylvania. September 3. 1843. and consequently had entered his eighteenth year when the first gun at Fort Sumter electrified the nation and sounded a call to arms from sea to sea. This fateful event occurred on April 12, 1861, and five days later young Wiley had enrolled his name as a member of Company C. Eighteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps, with which he served until his discharge on the 24th of May. 1864. He was made chief clerk in the quartermaster's department of Camp Reynolds, which position he held from May 24. 1864. to September 30. 1865. with headquarters at Pittsburg. In July, 1871. be enlisted as a private in the Oil City Grays, National Guard f Pennsylvania, was promoted to orderly sergeant in the following August, and was com- missioned as captain in December. 1873. He became captain of the Venango Grays in June. 1876: was made colonel of the Sixteenth Regi- ment Pennsylvania National Guards. December 3. 1878 and was re- elected January 30. 1884. In 1880 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general and re-commissioned January 22, 1892. February 1. 1893. and February 1. 1898. In May. 1898. he was appointed brigadier general of United States Vol-
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unteers and assigned to the command of the Third Division, First Corps. with headquarters at Chickamauga, and was mustered out in March, 1809. As one having especial qualifications for the duty. General Wiley was appointed by Governor Patterson to locate the position occu- pied by the Eighth Regiment Infantry Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps at the battle of Antietam. In 1894 General Wiley was elected mayor of the city of Franklin, and served his term with the good judg- ment and self-poise that always distinguish him. Another evidence of the confidence of his administrative ability entertained by those at home was afforded by his appointment as trustee and secretary of the Institution for the Feeble Minded of Western Pennsylvania.
June 29. 1864. General Wiley was united in marriage at Mckees- port, Pennsylvania, with Mary J. Trich, and they have an only daughter. Miss Florence.
JAMES EDMUND GARRETSON, M. D.
James Edmund Garretson, M. D., son of Jacob M. and Mary Powell Garretson, was born in Wilmington, Delaware. October 28. 1828, where his early boyhood was passed. His thoughts turning to a professional life, he removed to Philadelphia and pursued a course in dentistry at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, from which he was graduated in 1857. Desiring also to become a graduate of medi- cine, he entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1859. For some years after his graduation he practiced dentistry, and at the same time he became more interested in surgery. He gradually became a specialist in the line of oral surgery, and was recognized throughout the United States an ac- cepted authority on diseases of the mouth, jaw, face and associate parts.
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He introduced the use of the surgical engine, a plan of operating which has worked a revolution in the methods of operations upon the hony system. Against opposition he successfully demonstrated the cure of epithelial cancer by means of what is professionally known as the "flap transfer." an operation now generally in favor among skilled practi- tioners. Dr. Garretson invented many operations which attracted wide- spread attention both in this country and abroad : and operations with- out resultant scars are results for which much credit is due to him in the surgical world. AAn operation designed and practiced by him. and conceded to be one of the high refinements of surgery, is the removal of the inferior maxillary nerve, as it lies in its canal, without disfigur- ing the face. In 1861 he was associated with Dr. D. Hayes Agnew in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy, and in 1878 he was called to the chair of Anatomy and Oral Surgery in the Philadelphia Dental College. lle had been an instructor for a short time some years before in the same institution, but had resigned in order to accept a similar position in the Philadelphia School of Anatomy. Again becoming a member of the faculty of the Philadelphia Dental College, he was shortly after appointed to the responsible position of dean of the college, which position be filled until his death. Apart from his anatomical lectures, Dr. Gar- retson delivered every winter for a number of years a series of philo- sophieal lectures before an association of young people composed for the most part of the students of the colleges with which he was connected. They called themselves the Garretsonian Society, the object of which was a seeking after the deeper truths of living. In 1884 he accepted a chair in the Medico-Chirurgical College, and later became president of the same institution.
The founding of a hospital had long been a cherished scheme of his, and in a very small way an oral hospital had already been started.
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but seeing an opportunity for a larger work in that direction, he gained the co-operation of his colleagues and a few friends, and the Medico- Chirurgical Hospital was founded. Under his able leadership, for he was chosen president of it. the work grew with surprising rapidity. and established for itself a firm foundation and an assured position among institutions of its kind. During all these years of ceaseless ac- tivity, Dr. Garretson found time, by economizing the minutes, to be- come a successful literary man : his writings, with the exception of pro- fessional articles and a volume on oral surgery, which later became the accepted text book on that subject, and which had a large sale in Amer- ica. England and throughout the entire civilized world, are all of a phil- ose phic nature. In his profession he was an energetic. busy man, and in the library an earnest searcher after truth, a dreamy thinker. . As a humanitarian and a philosopher he was less widely known than as a surgeon, and the former phase of his character he would be the last to desire to have made known. His love for humanity and his desire to aid was such that he felt the whole world his brother : none were 100 poor or sinful but they might claim a brother's loving sympathy and help. Only those, and they are many, to whom his hand had been stretched forth, will ever know how much he was able to do for suffer- ing mankind: as a physician he healed their bodies-as a friend their souls. He was a free thinker in the real meaning of the term, inasmuch as his philosophy was broad enough to embrace the whole world. re- gardless of creed and belief. There is good in all things and all men. was one of his favorite sayings, and one which will throw a light upon the way in which he looked upon mankind was this Braminical saluta- tation. "To the divinity that is within you I do homage." For those having been reared in a belief their growing intelligence could not alto- gether sanction, he had the most profound pity ; it was one of the strong-
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est feelings of his life that they must be helped to a clearer and fuller meaning of life and living. A belief once destroyed is infinitely harder to cope with than where there was disbelief from the beginning. It was for these people he labored so long and earnestly and for whom his books were written, and not for those whose belief in the goodness of God were unshaken: they were not in need of his ministrations, but for those who doubted the existence of a God did his whole soul go out in pity and a strong desire to help them to a knowledge of the Creator. Coming in touch with so many students in his professional life as a teacher, he very soon came to see that a sad state of what might be termed irreligion existed among them. Medical students, as a class, have come to be looked upon as a set of Atheists, but from the very nature of their work in the dissecting room it is perhaps natural that they should come to look upon life lightly, and, as is too apt to be the case, one idea shaken, they indulge in violent extremes. To give them something else-to make them comprehend the utter disassocia- tion of the individuality and its bodily environments, was his great object in life, and this he was able to do to a very great extent. Many a life has been made brighter and been brought to a wider knowledge of life and living because of his teachings and example.
On November 10. 1859. Dr. Garretson married Miss Beulah Craft. daughter of George and Mary Craft, and their children are: Mary. wife of Frank Davenport Cook, and Beulah Graft Garretson, unmar- ried. Mrs. Cook has one child, Edmund Garretson Cook, born No- vember 9. 1885. Dr. Garretson passed on to that other world which his philosophy told him was only a putting off of the old and a taking on of the new life with its wider opportunities and grander possi- bilities on October 26, 1895. He felt there was no death-only a going to sleep and an awakening amid a new environment.
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THOMAS L. MONTGOMERY.
Roger de Montgomerie, of Normandy, according to William. the Monk of Jumieges, the ancient historian, was "Count of Montgomerie before the coming of Rollo, in 912. This would place his birth about the middle of the ninth century, a time when France was rent and torn by the ambition of Charlemagne's descendants, each struggling against the other for the possession of the great empire their ancestor had left to his children. Roger was succeeded by his son.
2. Roger de Montgomerie. Count of Montgomerie, the second of the name, whose son.
3. Roger de Montgomerie, Count of Montgomerie, the third of the name, was father of William and Hugh, who were described as "turbulent among the turbulent during Duke William's minority." Of these.
William de Montgomerie. Count of Montgomerie, succeeded his father in his possessions. He is accused by the historian Ordericus Vitalis, as being the murderer of Osherne de Crepom, High Steward of Normandy. For this he received speedy vengeance. Baron de Glos. Osberne's steward, surrounded William in his castle and, setting it on fire, destroyed him and all his accomplices. William's son.
5. Hugh de Montgomerie, Count of Montgomerie, married Os- borne's cousin. Josseline, the daughter of Tourode. Sire de Pont Aud- emer, whose wife. Weva Duceline de Crepon, was sister of Duchess Connor, wife of Richard sans Peur. the great-grandmother of William the Conqueror. He was succeeded by his eldest son.
6. Roger de Montgomerie, Count of Montgomerie, and Viscount d'Exmes in Normandy, and subsequently Earl of Shrewsbury. Arundel. and Chichester, in England, one of the most powerful and influential
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