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Dr. Charles J. Morton was then one of the directors. The doctor one day asked young Forwood what was his object in life, and whether he proposed teaching school for a small pittance for the remainder of his days? He replied that he intended to enter one of the professions. Dr. Morton offered the young man the free use of his medical library and any instruc- tions he might require. Forwood accepted this kind offer, and here was the great turning-point of his life. The following spring, at the close of the session of 1855, the schoolmaster was made the recipient of a silver cup, with an appropriate inscription, which he still has in his possession. In the fall of the same year Forwood was entered in the University of Penn- sylvania, having saved sufficient money to defray the tuition of one term. It was suggested to the young man that there were other and cheaper medical col- leges, but knowing that his profession would be his only capital in life, he determined to procure the best medical education. His money failing him, about the close of 1855 he was compelled to teach school again, and procured a situation once more at Middletown.
In the summer of 1856, finding that he had not been able to gather enough money to go on with his medical studies, he submitted to an examination, and received a scholarship in the University. In the spring of 1857 he graduated with honors in all the seven branches of medicine. He was compelled, however, to borrow forty dollars from his uncle, Jon- athan C. Larkin, for whom he had been named, to pay for his diploma. Dr. Forwood came at once to Ches- ter, where he settled, having completed one of the epochs in his life's history. Here, in his practice, he paid particular attention to surgery, a branch which had not been followed by any physician in Chester for a long time. In 1858, Dr. Forwood performed the first amputation of a leg that had been done in this city for fifty years. His operations in surgery have covered almost all important cases since then. He
has operated four times successfully lithotomy, a work seldom attempted, except in medical colleges and by professors of surgery.
In 1864, when the municipal hospital of Philadel- phia was burned, the board of health located it at the Lazaretto, and Dr. Forwood was requested to take charge of it, and did so for four years, until the new buildings were completed. After the battle of Get- tysburg, when the wounded Confederate soldiers were sent here, the doctor was called upon to take a de- partment in the hospital, and while there performed several splendid operations, among others that of am- putation at the shoulder joint. On leaving this public institution the doctor received the highest testimonials from the officers in charge. In 1867 he started the Delaware County Democrat, and although the county committee of the party had declared that no Demo- cratie paper could be supported, he by his untiring energy made it not only a financial success, but one of the most unflinching Democratic organs of the State. Its editorials were outspoken and fearless. In the same year he was elected to Council from the Middle Ward, and took a leading part in that body. He was, upon taking his seat, made a member of the Street Committee, and for more than three years the chairman.
In the spring of 1872 he was elected mayor of Chester in the most exciting political contest the municipality had known to that time. His election was contested; Gen. William McCandless and William H. Dickinson appearing as counsel for Forwood, and William Ward and J. M. Johnson for the contestant. Three terms he was elected mayor in succession, and in 1884, after an intermission of three years, was again elected to the office, although the Republican majority is usually nearly five hundred. He has been fre- quently a delegate to the Democratic County and State Conventions, and member of the State Execu- tive Committee. In 1874 he was the Democratic candidate for Congress, and in 1876 an elector on the Presidential ticket during the noted candidacy of Tilden and Hendricks. In 1880 he was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention which nomi- nated Gen. Hancock for President, and in 1884, when Governor Cleveland was named for the same office. As a public speaker Dr. Forwood ranks high, and as a political manager few men excel him.
Successful as has been his political career, his chosen profession is the field of his ambitious de- sires, and to-day, although he has secured a large and remunerative practice, he is devoted to the study of medicine and surgery, paying particular attention, at the present, to gynæcology, in which special branch he is attaining an extended reputation in nowise confined to this locality, but patients from many of the great cities visit him for medical treatment. Sev- eral operations performed by him were so noticeable that full account thereof was published in medical works for the information of the public.
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Half a century ago the Thomsonian practice of medicine had many warm advocates throughout the country, and Delaware County had several doctors adhering to the rules of treatment under the theory. In 1838 so numerous had the adherents to the system grown that a society known as the Thomsonian Friendly Botanic Society of Delaware County was organized, and on June 2d of that year held a meet- ing at Providence Friends' meeting-house. This first assemblage was also the last, or, if it was not, I am unable to find anything further respecting it.
The Delaware County Medical Society owes its origin to the chance conversation of two physicians, Dr. Ellwood Harvey, then of Birmingham, and Dr. George Martin, of Concord, which resulted in the conclusion that they would make an attempt to organ- ize a county society, which should be connected with that of the State. The first meeting of physicians to that end was held in Chester, Thursday, May 2, 1850, at the law-office of Hon. John M. Broomall, when, on motion of Dr. Harvey, a temporary organ- ization was effected by calling Dr. Joshua Owen to the chair and the appointment of Dr. Martin secre- tary. The following resolutions were then offered by Dr. Martin :
" WHEREAS, Experience has fully shown that the progress of any Art or Science is promoted by the frequent renoion and full interchange of the personal observation of those whose profession is connected with it ; and,
" WHEREAS, The organization of County Medical Societies throughout the State is calculated to produce euch results; and,
" WHEREAS, It is of the highest importance to introduce through- out every county of our State an elevated Code of Ethics for the govern- ment of our profession by which the members of it will be held under recognized censorial heed, which may tend to increase its respectability on the one hand and unite it against the encroachmente of Cherlaten- iem on the other ; Therefore, we the physicians of Delaware county here assembled do hereby
" Resolve, That it is expedient to form ourselves into a medical associ- ation, which shall bear the name of the ' Delaware County Medical Society.'
" Resolved, That the Society shall be considered as a branch of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania."
A committee of three was appointed to draft a con- stitution, and the physicians of the county were in- vited to meet in Penn Buildings, Chester, on May 30, 1850, to effect a permanent organization of the soci- ety. At the time designated the constitution of the association was adopted. By its provisions any per- son of respectable standing in the profession, of good moral character, who was a graduate of any medical school recognized by the Pennsylvania State Society, or who had been for fifteen years in practice in the county as a regular physician, was eligible to mem- bership, provided such physician did not prescribe any remedy the compounds of which he was unac- quainted with, or who was interested in any way in patent medicines or in collusion with any apothecary to procure patronage or profit, or who claimed supe- rior qualifications in the treatment of any disease. The members were interdicted from rendering any medical service gratuitously to any clergyman or
physician whose name was attached to any certificate in favor of patent medicines, or who permitted refer- ence in favor of such nostrums to be made to him.
Dr. Jesse Young was chosen the first president ; Dr. Joshua Owens, vice-president ; Dr. Robert Smith, secretary ; and Dr. Ellwood Harvey, treasurer. A committee was also appointed to ascertain and report the names of all practitioners of medicine in the county, whether regular or irregular. For several years the society met promptly at designated times at the houses of the members, and much interesting information was imparted, highly beneficial to the profession. Among the most important work under the auspices of the society was the geological survey of the county, which was made in 1851 by Drs. Har- vey and Martin, associated by Dr. Samuel Trimble, of Concord township, an expert micrologist. The chart and the report made by these gentlemen was published in the transactions of the State Society, and it is the basis of all subsequent geographical publications in reference to our county. In the fall of 1852 the Del- aware County Medical Society, in connection with that of Chester County, effected an arrangement for the publication of a quarterly journal, The Medical Reporter, the first number of which was issued July, 1853. This periodical was conducted by five editors, -Drs. J. F. Huddleson and George Martin, of Dela- ware County, and Drs. W. Worthington, Isaac Thomas, and Jacob Price, of Chester County. It contained the proceedings of the doctors in the coun- ties, with papers read, addresses delivered before, and reports of cases made to either of the two organiza- tions, together with editorial and other items of in- terest. It was published for three years, when it was discontinued. The society, so far as our county was concerned, about 1856, " languished and languishing did live," until at the meeting on Feb. 24, 1857, Dr. Maris presented the following resolution, which was adopted :
" Resolved, That all books and other property belonging to the society be placed In the hands of Dr. R. H. Smith, to become the property of any medical society organized io Delaware County, provided such soci- ety is a braoch of the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, and formed within one year; otherwise to be delivered into the hands of the treas- urer of the State Medical Society."
This testamentary disposition of the effects of the society having been duly made, a resolution which had been laid over from a former meeting, which set forth " that it is expedient that the Delaware County Medical Society be, and it is hereby dissolved," was adopted by a unanimous vote.
On March 16, 1857, a meeting of the physicians of Delaware County was called at the Washington House, Chester, to reorganize the Medical Society, and on the 30th of the same month an adjourned meeting was held at the Charter House, Media, when an organization was effected by the election of Dr. Hillborn Darlington, president; Dr. Manly Emanuel, vice-president; Dr. George B. Hotchkin, secretary ; and Dr. Charles H. Budd, treasurer. Further action
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was deferred until the next meeting, which was held at Media, May 26, 1857, but the attendance was so small that it was deemed proper to defer all matters to the next meeting appointed to he held at the Washington House, Chester, Aug. 25, 1857. At the latter date hardly any persons attended and the pro- ject was abandoned for the time being.
On April 19, 1861, by invitation of Dr. Joseph Parrish, superintendent of the Pennsylvania Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, near Media, a number of physicians from various parts of Delaware County met to witness an exhibition of the pupils of that institution. It was stated that invitations had been sent to every physician in the county whose name was known to Dr. Parrish, but in consequence of a heavy storm then prevailing, and the national excitement consequent on the bombardment of Fort Sumter, many failed to attend. The meeting was so profitable and agreeable that the physicians pres- ent resolved that the Delaware County Medical Soci- ety should he revived. A temporary organization was made by calling Dr. Parrish to the chair and ap- pointing Dr. J. L. Forwood secretary, and on May 10, 1861, the society was permanently re-established by the election of Dr. Manly Emanuel, president ; Dr. Joseph Parrish, vice-president; Dr. George B. Hotchikin, secretary ; and Dr. Joseph Rowland, treas- urer. The rebellion then upon the country demanded the services of so many physicians-and Delaware County furnished its full quota-that those doctors who remained were so busy that they rarely attended the meetings of the society, which were held occasion- ally, but no record of the proceedings was kept. At the conclusion of the war, on May 16, 1865, an ad- journed annual meeting was held at the office of Dr. J. L. Forwood, in Chester, and on his motion it was resolved that "In consequence of the long interrup- tion to the meetings occasioned. by the general unset- tlement of the country, etc., that the constitution of this society be formally readopted ; the signatures of those present be affixed as active members, and that gentlemen hereafter received be regularly balloted for as required by our Constitution." An election was then held, which resulted in the election of Dr. Manley Emanuel, president ; Dr. J. L. Forwood, vice- president; Dr. Isaac N. Neilson, secretary ; and Dr. Charles J. Morton, treasurer. This was merely a spas- modic movement, for nothing further seems to have been done until March 16, 1869, when a meeting was held at Dr. Parrish's sanitarium, at Media, which was addressed by Dr. Emanuel, who appealed to the medi- cal men of the county to awaken from their lethargy and co-operate for the common good through the valuable means presented by an energetic and well- organized medical society. The following officers were then elected: Dr. Manley Emanuel, president ; Dr. J. L. Forwood, vice-president; Dr. Isaac N. Kerlin, secretary ; and Dr. Theodore S. Christ, treas- urer. The meetings of the society from that time to
the present have been well attended, and the inter- change of opinions and discussions on topics relating to the science and practice of medicine at these gath- erings has resulted in much benefit to the profession. On May 21, 1879, the State Medical Society met in Holly Tree Hall, Chester, on which occasion over two hundred and fifty persons assembled. The session continued Wednesday afternoon and evening and during Thursday. The following Friday the society visited the Training School for Feeble-Minded Chil- dren at Media, where the ceremonial installation of officers of the State Society for the succeeding years was performed.
The officers of the Delaware County Medical So- ciety in 1883 were Dr. William B. Ulrich, president ; Dr. R. H. N. Milner, vice-president; Dr. Linnæus Fussell, secretary; and Dr. John B. Weston, treas- urer.
The following-named physicians of the county have been and are members of the society :
George Martin ... Concordville.
Maoley Emanuel. Lio wood.
Ellwood Harvey. Chester.
Charles S. Heysham.
Newtown Square.
Robert K. Smith. Darby.
Joshua Owen ... Chester.
Charles J. Morton
Caleb Ash Darby.
Joseph Wilson.
Samuel A. Barton Village Green.
Thomas Turner.
Renbon H. Smith. Media.
J. C. Hutton ...
Chelsea.
Joseph Rowland.
Media.
A. W. Mathew.
Aston.
George Smith.
Upper Darby.
J. Howard Taylor.
Concordville.
Jesse W. Griffith ..
Ridley ville.
J. P. McIlvain.
Media.
J. Morris Moore.
Newtown.
Hillborn Darlington
Concordville.
James S. Hill.
Chester township.
J. Siter Parke ..
Radnor.
Edward Young
Chester.
John A. Thomson ..
George B. Hotchkin ..
Media.
James W. Hoey
Leoni.
John M. Alleo ..
Chester.
Jonathan L Forwood Joseph Parrish. Media.
Isaac N. Kerlin.
James J. McGee.
United States Navy.1
William H. Forwood
Chester.
Charles D. Meigs .. Thorubory.
Henry Pleasants .. Radoor.
Charles W. Pennock
Howellville.
Henry M. Kirk : Upper Darby.
William T. W. Dickeson Media.
Isaac T. Coates .. .Chester.
T. L. Leavitt.
F. Ridgely Graham Chester.
Theodore S. Christ ... ..
J. Pyle Worrall. Media.
Lewis M. Emanuel. Linwood.
C. C. V. Crawford. Village Green.
Orrin Cooley.
Francis E. Heenan. Chester.
Samuel P. Bartleson. .Clifton Heights,
William B. Ulrich .. .Chester.
James E. Garretson. .Darby.
M. Fisher Longstreth.
William C. Bacon. Upper Darby.
John T. M. Forwond. Chester.
David Rose.
Sneath's Corner.
Edward Maria ..
Howellville.
Charles H. Bubb
Darby.
Henry M. Lyons
Media.
John G. Thomas Newtown Square.
Jacob Boon. Darby.
Samuel Trimble
Lima.
D. Francia Condie.
1 Dr. McGee was in charge of Military Hospital, Cheater, during the illness of Dr. Leconte, 1862.
J. T. Huddleson.
Thornbury.
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Henry M. Corse.
Edwin Fussell Medie. 4
Linnæne Fnssell
Edward T. Gammage ...
Cheeter.
John W. Eckfeldt.
Haverford.
Dillwyn Greene.
Marcus Hook.
Francie F. Rowland.
Medie.
Daniel W. Jefferis
Chester.
Jobn B. Mitchell.
Joshua Ash ..
Clifton Heights.
D. G. Brinton ...
Media.
George R. Vernon
Clifton Heights.
Joseph H. Horner,
Thornton.
Robert A. Given.
Clifton Heights.
Conrad J. Partridge.
Ridley Park.
David K. Shoemaker. Chester.
Eugene K. Mott.
John Wesley Johnson. William S Ridgely
Philip C. O'Riley.
Mrs. Frances W. Baker.
Media.
T. P. Ball.
Chester.
John B. Weston
Sonth Chester Borough.
A. Edgar Osborne.
Media.
- Pennypacker Media.
Robert H. Miluer. Chester.
F. Merion Murray. Lenni.
Horace H. Darlington
Concord ville.
Henry B. Knowles .Clifton Heights.
William B. Fish Media.
Heory C. Bartleson. Fernwood.
Thomas C. Stellwagon Media.
J. Willoughby Phillips Clifton Heights.
William Bird. Chester.
Fletcher C. Lawyer ... Howellville.
Clarence W. DeLanDoy .Chester.
Joseph Crawford Egbert. Rednor.
Lawrence M. Bullock Upland.
Charles Carter. Wallingford.
William S. Little ..
Media.
Heory Seidell.
.South Chester Borough.
Mrs. Hannah J. Price.
Henry C. Ilarris.
Landsdown.
George M. Fisher.
South Chester Borough.
Dr. John T. M. Cardesa and his son, Dr. John D. M. Cardesa, well-known physicians, residing at Clay- mont, Del., have a large practice in Delaware County. Dr. Anna M. Broomall, daughter of Hon. John M. Broomall, of this county, is a graduate of the Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia, located in that city, and has a large and growing practice. All of these last-named doctors are adherents of the allopathic school.
Dr. Cyrus S. Poley kept a drug-store in Chester in 1870, and removed therefrom after 1876, for in that year Governor Hartranft appointed him surgeon of the Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Militia, com- prising the troops in this military district.
A Brief History of Homeopathy in Delaware County.1-Delaware County has the honor of being the birthplace of those veteran homeopathic practi- tioners, Drs. Walter Williamson, Richard Gardiner, and Gideon Humphreys, all espousing the cause at nearly the same time, and last, but not least, of being the residence of Dr. A. E. Small, at the time of his conversion to homœopathy.
Dr. Walter Williamson introduced homœopathy into the county in the year 1836. He graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1833, and imme- diately settled in Marple. He moved to Newtown in 1835, and in the spring of 1836 his attention was directed to the new system of medical practice. At the earliest opportunity he obtained all the books and
pamphlets then published in the English language which had any bearing upon the subject, commenced the study of its doctrines, and began to practice it in the vicinity, where not even the name itself had ever been heard, except by one family, John Thomas, of Upper Providence. He rapidly gained a large prac- tice, but in 1839 he moved to Philadelphia, owing to seriously-impaired health. He was one of the found- ers of the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania, the first institution in the country to teach this system of practice, and from 1848 until his death in 1879 he filled one of the professorships in the college. Dr. Williamson was born in Delaware County, July 4, 1811.
The second practitioner to unfurl the standard of homeopathy in Delaware County was Dr. M. B. Roche. He settled near Darby in 1839, and contin- ued the practice there for three years. In 1842 he was succeeded by Dr. Alvan E. Small, a native of the State of Maine, and a graduate of the Medical De- partment of Pennsylvania College. He practiced in Upper Darby as an allopathic physician in 1840, and hecame a homeopathic in 1842. Dr. Small con- tinued to practice in the county until he moved to Philadelphia, in 1845.
Dr. James E. Gross, a native of New England, graduated at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1850, and soon afterwards settled in Darby to practice, but remained there only a few months, and then moved to Lowell, Mass.
Dr. Stacy Jones, student of H. N. Gurnsey, M.D., graduated at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 1853, and settled in Upper Darby. He remained in his first location for three years, and then moved into the borough of Darby, where he continues to practice.
Dr. Charles V. Dare, a native of New Jersey, grad- uated at the Homeopathic Medical College of Penn- sylvania in March, 1854, and very soon afterwards settled in the borough of Chester. Dr. Dare was the first homœopathic physician in Chester. He contin- ued to practice there until he sold his practice to Dr. Coates Preston, in March, 1858.
Dr. Coates Preston, a native of Pennsylvania, grad- uated at the Homoeopathic Medical College of Penn- sylvania in March, 1853, and first settled at Scull- town, N. J. In the spring of 1824 he moved to Woodstown, N. J., where he continued to practice until he moved to Chester, succeeding Dr. Dare. In the course of a few years he built up quite a large practice in Chester and the surrounding neighbor- hood. On account of a serious illness in the winter of 1865, and the consequent feebleness of health which continued through the following spring months, Dr. Preston was induced to take into partnership Dr. H. W. Farrington, but after a few months' trial of the new relationship the connection was dissolved. Dr. Preston continued his practice, and Dr. Farring- ton took an office at another place in Chester, but
1 From MS. prepared by Walter Williamson, M.D., in possession of his family. (See " Transactions of the World's Homeopathic Convention," Philadelphie, 1876.)
Rebecca L. Fussell.
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after a few months moved to Beverly, N. J., and since to California. Dr. Preston outlived much of the prejudice and opposition against the new practice which existed among the people in his locality when he first settled in Chester, and firmly established homeopathy in the respect and confidence of the community on a broad and firm foundation. He re- moved to Wilmington, Del., in the spring of 1881, and died there on the 9th of August in the same year.
Dr. Davis R. Pratt, a native of Newtown, gradu- ated at the Homeopathic Medical College of Penn- sylvania in March, 1816, and practiced in his native place. In 1863 he moved to Philadelphia, and sub- sequently to Trenton, N. J., where he remained until compelled by ill health to relinquish the duties of the profession. He died of bronchitis on Jan. 28, 1868.
About 1863, Dr. E. D. Miles practiced medicine in Media. Dr. John F. Rose, after serving in the army, at the close of the war of the Rebellion settled in Media, July 1, 1865. Immediately after the death of Dr. Henry Duffield, of Chester County, Dr. Rose moved to that borough in February, 1866.
Dr. Robert P. Mercer graduated at the Homœo- pathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in March, 1861, and in the following month located at Mar- shalton, Chester Co., Pa. In January, 1863, he was appointed to the entire charge of the medical depart- ment of the Chester County almshouse. After dis- charging the duties of that office on strictly homœo- pathic principles for two years, he resigned in 1865, and removed to Wilmington, Del.
In November of the same year (1865), at the solici- tation of Dr. Preston, Dr. Mercer moved to Chester, where he is still in successful practice.
Dr. Henry Minton Lewis graduated at the Hahne- mann Medical College of Philadelphia in March, 1869, and settled in Chester soon after, where he re- mained for three or four years, when he moved to Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. Trimble Pratt graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in March, 1870, and settled in Media the following June.
In addition to the above, there are in Chester in successful practice at the present time Drs. Charles W. Perkins, Samuel Starr, William T. Urie, Frederick Preston, and Franklin Powell; and at Upland, Dr. Isaac Crowthers.
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