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Nov. 23, 1829.
John C. Daniel
Jan. 18, 1830.
Peter Hill Engle
April 13, 1830.
Peter Hill Engle was a son of Judge Joseph Engle. In 1836 he removed to Wisconsin Territory, where he filled several offices of distinction, being at one time Secretary of State. He afterwards returned to his
native county, and resumed practice. He died Feb. 17, 1844.
Admitted.
Andrew T. Smith ... April 14, 1830.
John G. Nippes.
.March 2, 1831.
George L. Ashmead .. .April 11, 1831.
Charles C Rawn
April 11, 1831.
John Rutter Nov. 28, 1831.
Thomas W. Morrie
Nov. 30, 1831.
Robert B. Dodson
.Nov. 30, 1831.
Thomas R. Newbold.
Aug. 27, 1832.
John Swift.
April 22, 1833.
Joseph Hemphill, Jr.
May 30, 1834.
Horatio Hubbell
Ang. 23, 1835.
Samnel F. Reed
Nov. 24, 1835.
Daniel MeLaughlin.
Ang. 22, 1836.
Joseph Williams ..
Aug. 27, 1836.
Horatio G. Worrall. Feb. 27, 1837.
William M. Tilghman
Feb. 28, 1837.
James Hanna. May 22, 1837.
William H. Keating. Aug. 28, 1837.
William M. Meredith. Ang. 28, 1837. Heury J. Williams Aug. 28, 1837.
John Freedley Aug. 30, 1837.
Aug. 30, 1837.
John B. Sterigere.
June 4, 1838.
William E. Whitman. John D. Pierce ..
Nov. 27, 1838.
Saunder Lewis ... Nov. 27, 1838.
Frederick E. Hayes
May 25, 1840.
Elihn D. Farr ... May 26, 1840.
John M. Broomall. Aug. 24, 1840.
.Aug. 26, 1840.
Christopher Fallon
Nov. 24, 1840.
B. Franklin Pyle.
Aug. 23, 1841.
Charles B. Heacock
Aug. 24, 1841.
Isaac S. Serrill Addison May Aug. 26, 1841.
Garrick Mallery
Nov. 25, 1841.
Paul Beck Carter.
May 23. 1842.
William D. Kelley
May 23, 1842.
James Mason. Aug. 23, 1842, Lewis Allain Scott Nov. 30, 1842.
Mortimer R. Talbot Nov. 30, 1842.
William P. Foulke. May 22, 1843.
John M. Simmes May 22, 1843.
Benjamin C. Tilghman. May 21, 1843.
Henry Chester ... May 27, 1843.
William R. Dickerson. Aug. 28, 1843.
Matthew A. Sanley. Nov. 27, 1843.
John Smith Futhey Nov. 27, 1843.
Edward Hopper. Nov. 30, 1843.
Samuel Hood March 1, 1844.
Thomas H. Speakman Aug. 26, 1844.
Jesse M. Griffith Nov. 5, 1845.
Ashbel Green Feb. 24, 1845.
Constant Guillou. Feb. 24, 1845.
Robert Frazer. Feb. 24, 1845.
Willian Wheeler Hubbell. May
6, 1845.
R. Rundel Smith ...
Aug. 25, 1845.
Jamea B. Everhart. Aug. 25, 1845.
Joseph P. Wilson ..
Nov. 24, 1845.
Samuel B. Thomas.
Feb. 26, 1846.
Samuel Baldwin Thomas was born in Chester County, and was admitted to that bar June 18, 1844, and on the date given in the list became a member of that of Delaware County. On Nov. 28, 1848, he was commissioned prothonotary of Chester County, and in 1851 was secretary of the West Chester and Phila- delphia Railroad. In 1854 he went to Philadelphia, where he practiced his profession. In Angust, 1857, he removed to Media, and opened an office in the court- house. In 1860 he "stumped" the State in the in- terest of Andrew G. Curtin, and after the latter was inangurated Governor he commissioned Mr. Thomas, Jan. 16, 1861, Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth. In 1863, Col. Thomas was placed at the head of the military department of the State. At the expiration of his term of service he returned to Media, and was appointed a commissioner of the Revenue Board, and subsequently commissioner of bankruptcy. Samuel B. Thomas died Dec. 2, 1872.
Aug. 25, 1841.
Uriah V. Pennypacker
Thomas M. Jolly.
June 7, 18:18.
David H. Mulvany
Feb. 25, 1834.
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John Hibbard
251
Admitted.
Jobn A. Gilmore. Feb. 26. 1846.
Nathaniel B. Brown ...
May 25, 1846.
Richard C. McMurtrie.
MAY 25, 1846.
William F. Boon ...
May 25, 184G.
Robert M. Lea.
Aug. 24, 1846.
Nathaniel B. Holland .. .Aug. 24, 1846.
Marshall Sprogell
Ang. 24, 1846.
Samuel A. Black
Nov. 23, 1846.
Robert McCay Feb.
22, 1847.
George Palmer. Feb. 22, 1847.
Washington Townsend. Ang. 23, 1847.
James H. Hackletoo
Ang.
23, 1847.
Heory R. Edwards.
Nov. 22, 1847.
George W Ormsby
Feb. 22, 1848.
John Banks
Mey
22, 1848.
Joseph R. Morris.
Aug. 28, 1848.
: R. Morris was a promising member of the
although but thirty-five years of age, had i an excellent practice. On Sunday, Dec. 4,
ile talking to a friend in Media, he dropped
Admitted.
tum' Butler.
Aug. 28, 1848.
'I't R. Fox ...
Aug. 28, 1848.
1, y Freedley ..
Aug. 28, 1848,
Po lı Taylor.
Aug. 28, 1848.
Har an Ingram ... Nov. 27, 1848.
Thomas H. Maddock Nov. 27, 1848.
Charles D. Manley
Feb. 26, 1849.
Ezra 1 evie
May
28, 1849.
Ezra Levis was thirty years in full practice at the bar of Delaware County when he died, Jan. 23, 1879. During his career he never sought office, but in the line of his profession was earnest, conscientious, and well read. He was an abolitionist from conviction, when to entertain those sentiments was certainly de- structive of all political aspirations ; but Ezra Levis gave expression to his opinion then as at all times during his life when he believed he was in the right.
Admitted.
Paschall Woodward. .May 28, 1849.
William Hollingshead.
May 28, 1849.
John Markland.
Ang. 27, 1849.
Robert Alsop.
Feb. 25, 1850.
Jobn Fairlamb Roberts.
Feb. 25, 1850.
Thomas Greeoback
May 27, 1850.
Jesse Bishop.
May
27,1850.
John H. Robb.
May
27,1850.
John Titus.
Ang.
26,1850.
Joseph R. Dickinson
Nuv.
25,1850.
Thomas Leiper.
May
26, 1851.
Thomas I. Clayton.
Nov.
24,1851.
James M Goodman
Feb.
26, 1852.
William R. Waddell
May 24, 1852.
Abraham L. Smithi
Nov. 28, 1853.
Edward Olmstead.
March 6, 1854.
J. Williams Biddle.
March 6, 1854.
Williamı Vogdes ..
Nay 22, 1854.
Robert S. Paschall
May 22, 1854.
William Nicholson
June
6, 1856.
Robert D. Chalfant ..
JuDe
6, 1856.
John W. Stokes
Nov. 24, 1856.
James Otter son
Aug. 24, 1857.
Andrew Zane ...
Feb. 22, 1857.
Peter Wychoff.
May
24, 1857.
John Hibberd.
- 1857.
John Hibberd was born near where Media now stands, in Delaware County, Pa., May 31, 1821. He is the only son of Thomas and Margaret Hibberd, whose anly daughter, Hannah, died in Chester, Oct. 19, 1870. His ancestors were members of the society of Friends, and his earlier ancestry was Saxon, Nor- man, and Welsh. His mother, born in 1790, the daughter of Jolin and Amelia Powell, was a woman of remarkable qualities. His paternal grandfather,
Jacob Hibberd, died in 1827. Mr. Hibberd was mathematically educated, his last instructor having been the late Enoch Lewis, a well-known scholar and scientist, then residing in Chester County, Pa. After leaving school, he was engaged for some time in teaching, and in April, 1845, removed with his parents to Belmont County, Ohio, where he devoted himself assiduously to the study of the law, and in October, 1847, was admitted to practice at the bar of Belmont County. His most interesting and notable case there was one in which a bill in equity had been filed, pray- ing for a perpetual injunction against process on a judgment. It was a case of long standing, resolutely contested; the greatest vigilance was employed in the securing of testimony, with strong efforts to impeach and sustain witnesses. The ability and patience with which the numerous facts were brought ont excited much comment, and the case afforded an excellent opportunity for the exercise of the power of logical argument.
He formed the acquaintance of literary, scientific, and distinguished professional men, and from 1848 to near the end of 1852 took an active and prominent part in the political contests of his adopted State. As he became a champion of the free-soil and anti- slavery movement when the cause was unpopular in that part of the State and there were few to defend its principles, much labor devolved upon him in those early conflicts. He was a member of the Republican party from its organization, and has ever taken a de- cided interest in the leading political questions of the times. He was a firm supporter of President Lin- coln, and in a speech delivered in Philadelphia, in October, 1864, pronounced a " glowing enlogium" on the character of that eminent man and wise ruler. While a citizen of Ohio, in 1849, he began to lecture on temperance, and he has since been identified with that cause; many years ago he occasionally lectured on the subject of education. After the decease of his parents, he located permanently in his native county, and since the beginning of 1857 has been engaged in desirable legal business in Chester, and has continued to reside in that growing city, or in its vicinity. He was elected district attorney of Delaware County by a large majority in the fall of 1860, and, during his term of three years, exercised the functions of that office with marked ability and acceptance. Having declined a re-election in 1863, he has since, in addi- tion to his professional duties, devoted much time to a fuller investigation of equity, constitutional and international law, as well as other branches of juris- prudence. He has ever recommended an honorable course in the profession, and condemned the practice of defeating the ends of justice by vexations litiga- tion ; he has continued to cultivate the languages which contribute to successful legal research and con- fer a more extended general culture, continuing also a diligent student of the English classics, history, biography, oratory, and political economy.
George Norton ...
May
28, 1851.
Frans ie Darlington ..
Feb.
23, 1852.
Benjamin A. Mitchel
Aug. 23, 1852.
Edward A. Price ..
March 17, 1856.
THE COURT, BENCH, AND BAR OF DELAWARE COUNTY.
252
HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
In 1878, deprecating the continuance of sectional strife, being convinced that the Republican party had become very corrupt, believing that the system of currency and finance, which was sustained by such meo as Sherman and Garfield, was affecting and would continue most seriously to injure the real interests of the American people, prompted by a philanthropic feeling on behalf of the toiling masses, he took an active part in the national greenback labor move- ment. In his addresses before the people he labored to show them that the law alone must determine what is money; that the leading elements of society, the moral and spiritual, the social and political, depend in great measure on the proper solution of the monetary questions, which were and would continue to be of immense importance. As a man of strong convictions he still has an earnest sympathy for those principles, which of late years have been so much discussed and ably defended by a body of patriotic men, who have made great sacrifices for the welfare of their common country in opposing the misrepresentations and arro- gant demands of a despotic money-power. He regards the legal-tender decision lately rendered by the Su- preme Court of the United States as being of more actual value than anything ever before enunciated by any legal tribunal, either of ancient or modern times, and as reflecting the highest credit on those learned jurists, who agreed almost unanimously, after long and careful examination, in reaching a wise, constitutional, and just conclusion, which virtually settles the mat- ter forever. He contends, too, that the decision has come opportunely, as vast multitudes are in a condi- tion of enforced idleness, many of whom may be profitably employed in constructing defenses along our extensive line of sea-coast,-liable as we are at any time to be annoyed by the smallest naval power,- and in making internal public improvements of great extent and utility ; the expense of such undertakings to be defrayed by fiat paper money, to be issued by the general government, and made a full, absolute, legal tender for all purposes, public and private ; thus tending in every way toward enlarging, building up, and rendering perpetual the republic of North America with a grand industrial civilization ; at the same time doing much by the light of our example to promote liberty and establish republics in other parts of the world. Mr. Hibherd has thus become liberally edu- cated, and has participated in most of the great pro- gressive movements of his age and country. In rela- tion to all the principal offices, he advocates a large reduction of salaries, and is the steadfast opponent of currency, telegraph, railroad, land, and other great monopolies.
Admitted.
Samuel Simpson. .May 24, 1857.
M. J. Mitebeson ...
Ang. 28, 1857.
Francis C. Hooton. Nov. 23, 1857.
Aaron Thomson .. May 23, 1859.
John K. Valentine ... May 23, 1859.
Jacob F. Byrnes ...... ... .May 23, 1859.
John P. O'Neal. May 23, 1859.
William Ward. .Ang. 22, 1859.
Joseph R. T. Coates. .Aug. 22, 1859.
Admitted.
O. Flagg Bullard .. .Aug. 22, 1859.
Frank M. Brooke
Oct.
17, 1859.
H. Ryland Warriner Dec
29, 1859.
John S. Newlin. June
4,1860.
Richard P. White. Ang. 25, 1860.
Nathan S Sharpless Sept.
3, 1860.
John Charles Laycock. .Oct.
15, 1860.
J. Alexander Simpson .Nov. 26, 1860.
John H. Brinton.
Nov. 27, 1860.
John Eyre Shaw
.Jan.
25, 1861.
A. V. Paraone
T. Passtore Handbest
June 23, 1862.
William O'Neil.
Nov. 26, 1862.
James Doyle ..
Wayne McVeagh
May 26, 1863.
John B. Hinkson
Ang. 24, 1863.
James Barton, Jr.
Nov. 23, 1863.
James H. Lyttle.
.Dec.
28, 1863.
William Booth Broomall. Dec.
28, 1863.
John Dolniall .. July
11, 1864.
William Henry Sutton. Feb.
27, 1865.
George F. Smith Aug. 30. 1865.
Nov. 27, 1865.
Theodore H. Oehleschlager
.Nay 28, 1866.
William F. Johnson ...
.May
28, 1866.
William M. Bull
. May 28, 1866.
Jesar Cox, Jr ....
.Ang. 27, 1866.
William H. Yerkes.
Aug. 27, 1866.
J. Howard Geodell
March 2, 1867.
George Easty ...
March 2, 1867.
William F. Judson
May 27, 1867.
Wencel Ilartman.
Feb. 25, 1868.
George M. Pardoe.
March 24, 1868.
Albert S. Letchworth
Sept 28, 1868.
James Parsons.
.Sept. 28, 1868.
A. P. Reid.
Sept. 28, 1868.
John C. Bullitt.
.Sept. 28, 1808.
Alexander Reed. Sept. 28, 1868.
Orlando Harvey
.Nov. 25, 1868.
William H. Dickinson ..
.. Nov. 28, 1868.
Mr. Dickinson was one of the most promising mem- bers of the bar. In 1878 he was elected the first re- corder of the city of Chester. By reason of ill health he was compelled to resign the office, and finally to relinquish practice entirely. He died March 24, 1883.
Admitted.
James Ross Snowden.
Feb. 22, 1869.
George H. Armstrong ...
Feb. 22, 1869.
Thomas J. Diehl. William J. Harvey
.Feb. 22, 1869.
Sept. 27, 1869.
Henry C. Howard.
Nov. 23, 1869.
Perry M. Washabangh
Nov. 23, 1869.
Charles Eyre.
Nov. 24, 1869.
Christian Koease.
Feb. 28. 1870.
Samnel Emlen.
.Nov. 28, 1870.
W. W. Montgomery March 2, 1870.
March 2, 1870.
William McGeorge, Jr ..
Feb. 27, 1871.
Edward C. Diehl
May 25, 1871.
J. L. Farrien
Feb. 29, 1872.
Rees Davis ...
March 4, 1772.
Morton P Henry.
March 26, 1872. March 26, 1872.
James Vincent MeGinn
Sept. 23, 1872.
Wesley Talbot.
Nov. 25, 1872.
John R. Reed.
Nov. 25, 1872.
George M. Rupert
Dec.
23,1872.
Paul M. Elsasser John V. McGeoghegan.
Dec.
23, 1872.
23, 1873.
I. Newton Brown
Aug
24, 1873.
Edward H. Hall.
Nov.
24, 1873.
David F. Rose ... Nov.
24, 1873.
George M. Booth .Feb.
23, 1874.
H. A. L. Pyle .. .June -, 1874.
Hutchinson Sprogel
.Ang. 27, 1874.
Charles W. Beresford.
Sept. 28, 1874.
Thomas H. Foreman. Oct. 26, 1874.
William H. Caley Nov. 24, 1874.
Il. G. Ashmead
Feb. 23, 1875.
George B. Lindsay.
Feb. 23, 1875.
Theodore F. Jenkins.
Feb. 23, 1875. March 22, 1875.
S. Davis Page.
March 22, 1775.
William MeMichael ..
May 22, 1875.
R. Jones Monaghan May 22 1875.
Joseph F. Purdue .. June 29, 1875.
George W. Bliss. .Sept. 20, 1873.
Nov. 25, 1872.
John B. Thayer
.Nov. 25, 1872.
James O. Bowman.
Ang. 29, 1872.
Abram H. Jones.
Aug. 29, 1872.
Carroll S. Tyson.
V. Gilpin Robinson
.June
Wilber F. Calloway.
Sept. 23, 1861.
William T. Haineg.
March 30, 1862.
David M. Johnson
M. J. Micheson.
Ang. 27, 1862.
Nuv. 26, 1862.
John O'Byrne ... Nov. 28, 1864.
Eldridge McKonkey
.Sept. 23, 1861.
.
.
W. W. Wister.
253
PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
Admitted. .
Joha F. Rayaolds.
Sept. 22, 1875.
Walter S. Pearce
Nov. 1, 1875.
John V. Rice ..
Dec. 13, 1875.
Alfred Driver ..
Dec. 13, 1875.
Alfred Tyson ...
.Jan. 3, 1876.
Henry M. Fussell.
Jan.
17, 1876.
James Mckinlay.
June
8, 1876.
A. S. Biddle ..
June 13, 1876.
A. C. Fulton ...
Sept.
19, 1876.
D. Smith Talbot.
.Sept.
19, 1876.
Joseph W. Barnard
.Oct.
9,1876.
John F. Young.
Oct.
Weldon B. Heybura.
Nov.
6, 1876.
William M. Thompson. Nov.
6, 1876.
Harry L. Kingston. Dec.
7,1876.
Henry Pleasant, Jr ..
Jan.
8, 1877.
Henry C. Towasend ..
JEIL.
8, 1877.
William B. Huston
Feb.
5,1877.
Jolın B. Hananm.
5, 1877.
William S. Windle ...
March 5, 1877.
Benjamin F. Fisher.
March 12, 1877.
Albert T. Goldbeck
March 12, 1877.
Frederick C. Cleenann
April 2, 1877.
J. B. Dickinson.
June 4, 1877.
John M. Broomall. Jr.
Sept. 17, 1877.
Benjamin L Temple ....
Sept. 20, 1877.
Edmund Jones.
Dec. 3, 1877.
Townsend E. Levis
March 4, 1878.
Patrick Bradley.
April 7, 1878.
William S. Sykes
April 7, 1878.
J. Newton Shanafelt
March 6, 1878.
S. Grafton David
June 3, 1878.
John A. Groff. June
6, 1878.
Truxton Beale
Sept. 16, 1878.
Rowland Evans Sept. 29, 1878.
Charles A. Logan. Oct.
14, 1878.
David Garrett. Dec. 2, 1878.
David Garrett, in March, 1881, was elected recorder of the city of Chester. He died the following Au- gust.
Admitted.
Oliver B. Dickinson ..
.Dec.
3,1878.
Ward R Bliss.
Dec.
3,1878.
George T. Bispham.
Feb.
3. 1879.
Oliver C. McClure ..
March 5,1×79.
Curtis H. Dannum ..
March 14, 1879.
William E. Littleton.
June
3, 1879.
Edward C. Quinn.
June
9,1879.
Horace P. Green.
June
9. 1879.
Garrett Pendleton.
.July
7,1879.
W. Ross Brown
.July 7, 1879.
Edward H. Weil
Sept. 22, 1879.
Abraham Wanger ..
Nov.
3, 1879.
Joseph M. Pile
Dec.
4, 1879.
H. F. Fairlamb.
June 16, 1880.
James S. Cummins.
Sept. 20, 1880.
Jesse M. Baker.
.Sept. 22, 1880.
William A. Porter.
.Sept 25, 1880.
Henry J. McCarthy ...
Sept. 2, 1880.
Ellwood Wilson, Jr.
.. Sept. 27, 1880.
Edward W. Magill
Sept. 27, 1880.
John B. Booth ..
Dec.
6, 1880.
Samuel S Cornog.
Dec.
6, 1880.
Benjamiia N. Lehman
.Dec.
6, 1880.
David W Sellers ..
Dec. 21, 1880.
John B. Robinson .. March 7, 1881.
William Herbert .. March 14, 1881.
R. Gordon Bromley.
March 14, 1881.
Garrett E. Soredley
Sept. 22,1881.
George Caldwell Johnson.
Dec.
5. 1881.
Edward S Campbell.
Dec.
20,1881.
Henry L. Broomall
Feb.
6, 1882.
Harwell A Clond
Feb.
6, 1882.
Isaac Chism
Feb.
16, 1882.
Joseph L Caven.
March 4, 1882.
Alfred Fraok Curtis
Jung
5, 1882.
. John W. Shortlidge.
.Nov.
6, 1882.
Wilmer W, Labiborn
Dec.
19. 1882.
Joseph T. Bunting.
April 2, 1883.
William B. Tho0188 ...
Sept. 24, 1883.
Isaac Johnson .. Dec.
17, 1883.
William A. Manderson.
Marclı 17, 1884.
Edmund Randall
April 7, 1884.
Damon Y. Kilgore.
April 7, 1884.
Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore ... June
2, 1884.
Samuel Lyons.
.Jone
9, 1884.
Criers .- As far as I have ascertained the follow- ing persons have been appointed criers of the court : Aug. 28, 1843, William Thompson; May 24, 1852, William Beeby ; Nov. 22, 1858, Samuel Otty.
On Dec. 4, 1871, the Law Library Association of the members of the Delaware County bar was formed,
and Hon. John M. Broomall was elected the first president and Charles D. Manley secretary. The association was incorporated by the court May 30, 1872.
CHAPTER XXVI.
PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL SOCIETIES.
IT is very likely that the Swedish home authorities in preparing for the colonization of the Delaware, fully aware of the necessity which might arise for the services of a physician, took the precaution to include among the earliest settlers some person skilled in the art of medicine as then practiced, and capable of per- forming ordinary surgical operations. Of this, how- ever, no positive evidence has thus far been discov- ered. Governor Printz, in his expedition, which reached its destination Feb. 16, 1643, was accom- panied by a surgeon (then called a barber), but his- tory has failed, as far as known, to record the name of the first disciple of Esculapius who thus located on our shores. The report of Governor Printz for 16471 informs us that " the reason so many people died in the year 1643 was that in the commencement of the settlements they had hard work and but little to eat." Previons to this, in 1641-42, sickness prevailed on the Delaware to such an extent that it scattered the Eng- lish colony at Salem, and it is alleged that the Swedes also suffered severely from it. In 1647 the influenza visited the colony as a scourge, and it is recorded that " such as bled or used cooling drinks died, such as nsed cordials or more strengthening things recov- ered for the most part." The summer and fall of 1658 the Delaware River settlements were visited by severe illness. We are told by Alrichs,2 in a letter dated June 26th of that year, that "sickness and hot fevers (are) prevailing here have kept us back badly and made many pining." On August 9th he writes, " A general fever-like disease has raged here again for some time and it is prevailing much among the inhabitants. The Lord pleased to take us into his merciful protec- tion and relieve many weak people from it." Octo- ber 7th, he states, " A burning and violent fever rages badly . . . but few old ones have died, but rather many young children who could not endure it." Alrich also wrote respecting this epidemic, "our situation, which is certainly very disheartening by an ardent prevailing fever and other diseases, hy which the large majority of the inhabitants are oppressed and broken down ; besides that our barber (surgeon) died, and another, well acquainted with his profession, is sick." 3
1 Penna, Mag. of Hist., vol. vii. p. 262.
2 Peaaa, Archives, 2d series, vol. vii. p. 539.
8 Note to "Contribution to Medical History," by Dr. Casper Morris,
" Pennsylvanis Historical Society Memoir," vol. i.
N H. Strong.
Dec.
3, 1879.
Feb.
9, 1876.
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HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
We know that Dr. Timon Stiddem accompanied the expedition which brought Governor Rising to our shore, landing at Fort Casimir, May 21, 1654,1 and that he took the oath of allegiance to Peter Stuyve- sant in September, 1655, after the Dutch conquest of the colony. Certain it is that Dr. Stiddem resided for some time at Upland, for on the trial of Evert Hendrixson2 for an outrageous assault on Joran Kyn, he was one of the most important witnesses for the prosecution, stating in his testimony that the Finn, at different times, and without cause, came before his (the doctor's) door, where he made a great noise and trouble with his axe; that on one occasion, when he was going in his canoe to bleed Jacob Swenson, Evert stoned him on leaving Upland Kill (Chester Creek), so that he was in fear of having his boat sunk or being himself wounded; that he finally got out of the creek, but he was drenched by the splashing of the stones in the water, and finally " he was compelled to leave Upland's kil" because of this ruffian.
On Dec. 18, 1663, he was appointed by Dr. Jacop, who, it appears, hield the appointment of the Dutch Company on the Delaware, as his successor; but D'Hinolossa objected to Dr. Stiddem, whom he re- garded as Beekman's friend,3 as previous to that date he had been appointed surgeon for the colony under Beekman's jurisdiction. The doctor settled at Wil- mington, and Governor Lovelace, May 23, 1671, pat- ented to him a tract of land on which a great part of that city was subsequently built. He died previous to April 24, 1686, for his will was admitted to probate on that date. Professor Keen 4 states that one of the descendants of the doctor now has the metal case, with his name and title engraved upon it, in which he car- ried his surgical instruments when visiting patients in the Swedish colony.
The next physician in point of time is mentioned by name in a letter from Alricks, May 25, 1657,5 in which he states that Mr. Jan Oosting, the surgeon, has given a memorandum of necessary medicines, and the following year, Oct. 10, 1658, he writes,6 " William Van Rosenberg, who came over as surgeon, put forth
sundry claims against the people whom he attended on the passage in as much as his wages did not run at the time on the voyage, and he used his own pro- visions, There were on board the ship considerable sickness, accidents, and hardships, in consequence of a tedious voyage. One hundred souls required at least a hogshead or two of French wine and one of brandy, and a tub of prunes had also to be furnished for refreshments and comfort to the sick of scurvy and suffering from other troubles through the protracted voyage; for from want thereof the people became so low that death followed, which is a pretty serious matter. Here, on shore, I see clearly that the poor, weak, sick and indigent sometimes have need neces- sarily of this and that to support them one cannot easily or well refuse, though it be sometimes but a spoonful ; frequently repeated it amounts to more than is supposed." Dr. Van Rosenberg, it is believed, was to supersede Dr. Oosting, for Alrichs states that "the barber (surgeon) also speaks of a house which Master Jan occupied being too small for him ; he hath a wife, servant and child or children also." Westcott? states that the doctor who died in the year 1658, as before mentioned, was Dr. Oosting, and the one who was sick was Dr. Van Rosenberg; certain it is the latter was living in 1662.
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