History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 163

Author: Mathews, Alfred, 1852-1904. 4n
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co.
Number of Pages: 1438

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JOHN E. SHULL was born August 5, 1846, in Lower Mount Bethel township, Northampton County, Pa., a son of Elias and Margaret Shull; was educated at Lafayette College and spent some time in teaching ; read law under John A. Nash, Esq., of Pottsville, Pa., and was admitted there in November, 1881 ; removed to Stroudsburg in 1883.

There are many more names which ought to grace these pages, - names of former practi-

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tioners at this bar, some of whom have removed to other localities, and many more of whom are dead ; names of men who have been promi- nent and honored members of society and a power in their profession,-but our space is lim- ited and will not permit of more extended no- tices. We have aimed to give a list of all wlio are now in active practice, of all living and re- tired members resident here, together with a few of the best known deceased members. Our work has been done amid the turmoil of pro- fessional engagements, and without that oppor- tunity for care and deliberation which we could have desired, but we have certainly endeavored to deal fairly and impartially with all, living and dead. In the language of an immortal utterance,-" With malice towards none, but with charity for all,"-we invoke the spirit of charity from all concerned toward these desul- tory and imperfect sketches.

CHAPTER III.

MEDICINE AND PHYSICIANS - PERSONAL SKETCHES -DENTAL SURGERY.

THE physicians of Monroe, and formerly of Northampton County, have always been held in high esteem. Some of the oldest and most prominent names of the profession have been included among them.

Though there has never been any medical as- sociation organized in the county, the dignity and honor of the profession have been generally of a high standard. A member might occa- sionally act in such a way as to forfeit the con- fidence of his brethren, but he has soon found the necessity to conform to the principles which are requisite for fraternity in such a profession. The healthfulness of the region has been always proverbial. The seekers after health have re- sorted to the glens, hill and dales, and have been generally repaid for the visit. At this time the salubrity is so renowned that scarcely a farm-house which has an extra chamber and which is within accessible distance can be found that is not occupied by " summer boarders." The Water Gap was the original place of attraction,

but the overflow affects the whole country to a great extent. The influence, too, of this irrup- tion into our houses is also very perceptible upon the culture of the residents. The differ- ence in the manners, in the mode of expression and in the choice of words has banished the former rustic unconthness, and the people who were formerly regarded as " back-woods popu- lation " show a degree of refinement that often surprises. Almost every country home is thus converted into a health invigorating resort, and if it cannot be said that the sojourn among the hills imparts a civilizing influence, it can be truly asserted that it has " softened the rude, and calmed the boisterous mind."

Another incidental influence, though per- haps not of a salubrious character, though it may be considered such remotely, is the active religious element that is impressed into many of the country churches. Earnest Christain workers are often among the guests who resort to the different localities, who take a deep in- terest in the undeveloped religious material, and not only invest it with a different life, but impress upon the people the possibility, as well as the luxury, of doing good.

Invalids among the strangers are at times numerous, and the salubrity of the climate or the gentle exercise of fishing or hunting, to- gether with the advice of some judicious phy- sician, contribute towards the re-establishment of partial health. There have been some in- stances of extreme longevity, as in the case of George Le Bar, elsewhere noticed, and a hale old age is not uncommonly seen on the streets and at the homes in the country.

Among the names having more than a local reputation is that of Linderman. The father of the two more distinguished of the name was John J. Linderman, of German descent, who settled in Pike County, where he practiced medicine for more than fifty years. He mar- ried a daughter of Hon. Richard Brodhead and sister of Hon. Richard Brodhead, late Sen- ator from Pennsylvania.

DR. HENRY RICHARD LINDERMAN, son of the above, was born in Lehman township, Pike County, December 26, 1825. After as thorough an academic education as the opportunities af-

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forded, he read and practiced medicine with his father, having attended the Medical Depart- ment of the University of New York, and the New York Hospital. He remained in the prac- tice of his profession until the year 1845. In the early part of 1851 he removed to Carbon County, where he remained nearly three years. In September, 1853, he was appointed principal clerk in the office of director of the Mint, in Philadelphia. He continued in this position until 1865, acquiring the knowledge of the duties which so fully qualified him for his sub- sequent position. In 1867 he was appointed a director of the Mint, which place he filled two years. In July, 1869, he was selected by the Secretary of the Treasury to examine the branch Mints and obviate the wastage in smelting gold and silver bullion. He suggested several im- provements, which were adopted in the coinage, and in preparing the act of 1873. In this lat- ter year he was again appointed director and or- ganized what is known as the Mint Bureau. In 1877 he published " Views " on the financial question then occupying the attention of the country, particularly upon the money and legal tender in the United States. He died at Wash- ington, January, 1879, and was buried at Beth- lehem, Pa.

DR. GARRETT BRODHEAD LINDERMAN, brother of the foregoing, was born October 15, 1829, also in Pike County. He received his academic education in his native county, until he was prepared to enter upon the study of medicine, which he prosecuted under his fath- er's direction, and was graduated in March, 1851, at the University of New York, whence his father and brother had graduated before him. He first settled at Unionville, Orange County, N. Y., but in 1854 left there for Manch Chunk. In 1863 he was a partner in the firm of Packer, Linderman & Co., in the East Sugar Loaf Colliery. After 1867 he assumed the agency for the sale of coal in New York, and was instrumental in the organization of the Lchigh Coal Exchange. In 1870 he removed to Bethlehem, and in 1872 organized the Lehigh Valley National Bank there, having established the reputation of being one of the soundest and most progressive business men in Pennsylvania.

DR. FRANCIS JOSEPH SMITH (AERTS) settled in Stroud township as a physician, and married Elizabeth Brodhead, to whom were born five daughters and a son,-Francis Joseph. Dr. Smith was skillful in his profession and a man well known throughout the Minisink Valley. We give a short sketch penned by himself,-

" I was born in Brussels, capital city of the Austrian Netherlands. My true name is Josephus Jacobus Aerts, son of Z. B. Aerts, Lord of Opdorp and Im- merseele. I altered my name in the year 1777, when I proceeded to join the American Army. I would not expect to travel through Europe (as I had to go through France), by that name, without being ex- posed to being arrested by the despotism, either of the Emperatine or that of the daughter-the Queen of France. I took the name of Smith, and my pass- ports both in England and France under it, also my commission from Congress, etc. I was brought up in the Roman Catholic religion, in which I was regu- larty instructed. Having been employed from my youth to a military life, but, at the same time, to the study of all nations, and their histories, possessing the German, Low Dutch, French, English, Italian and a part of the Greek languages, the means of acquiring information were by their aid facilitated. I took, from the age of eighteen, an extreme aversion to despotic and monarchical governments, which, in part, was the occasion of my being made a State prisoner, and confined in irons in a dungeon for six months, when I made a lucky escape from the prison in Tomfels.

"I went into Holland, where I took service in order to be protected by the military. Colonel Mans, who commanded the regiment of the Prince of Milburg was my friend, and protected me until his death, when I traveled through the greater part of Europe, until I was suffered to be returned to Brussels. Having endeavored to acquire the knowledge of the religions of all kinds of nations, sects, etc. I am now forty-six or forty-seven years of age, and the result of my inquiries is endorsed in the following lines :

" All sects and religions differ with one another, but all agree that there is one God. . Ever since 1777 I have lived in America. My parents died in the meanwhile, and, as a Rebel, disinherited me. My brother, Henricus Aerts, Lord of Borm and Op- dorp, invaded my patrimony, which, I think, ought to amount to one hundred thousand florins, if not more. The French Republic, I hope, will keep the Netherlands and do justice to my children, with dis- tinction on an equal basis. My reasons for acting as I have done are best known to myself. To this I would add that if it was not done, I should do it again. However, these reasons are known to some of my friends, who will do me the justice to explain them at a future day, if I should not have time or op- portunity to do it myself. After my decease, I wish

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these few lines might be published, if any of my friends shall see cause for it. My desire, further, is to be buried on a separate spot in the woods, and on land claimed by me, without any pomp or ceremony ; car- ried by old Continental officers or soldiers, who will be so obliging as to perform that service."

DR. ABRAHAM REEVES JACKSON is a native of Philadelphia, born June 17, 1827. His parents were Washington and Deborah Lee Jackson. After a thorough education in the public schools of that city he was graduated with honor at the Central High School. His first inclination was for civil engineering, but finding it not so congenial to liis taste as he had anticipated, he entered the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College, from which he gradu- ated in 1848. His first location was Kresge- ville, in Monroe County, whence he removed to Columbia, N. J., and thence to Stroudsburg, in December 1849. Here he was engaged in the practice of medicine twenty years, and few have ever been members of the medical fraternity who have attained and deserved a higher reputation. In 1862 he entered the United States Army as contract surgeon, but was shortly appointed assistant medical director of the Army of Virginia. His constant expos- ure to the malarious influences of the climate and camp life brought on an attack of typhoid, which compelled his return to Stroudsburg. Through his exertions was organized the Monroe County Agricultural Society, which was of great utility, and of which he was secre- tary for several years. Those who have read Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad," will re- member the " Doctor," who gave occasion and richly enjoyed the humor of his stateroom chum.

In May, 1870 he removed to Chicago, hav- ing lost his wife, and entered upon what had long been entertained as the most important sphere of his life. He projected and carried into successful operation the establishment of a hospital, exclusively for women. This institu- tion was incorporated September, 1871, and has become one of the most beneficent institutions in the West. In 1872 he was appointed lec- turer on gynæcology in Rush Medical College, which position he held for a number of years, and relinquished it only when his extensive practice demanded it.

Dr. Jackson is a valued contributor to the best medical journals, and is everywhere rec- ognized as an authority in his favorite depart- ment of the science. Since 1874 he has edited the Chicago Medical Register. He is now president of the College of Physicians and Sur- geons of Chicago, and also professor of gynæ- cology in the same institution. He is also as- sociate editor of the Independent Practitioner of New York, and of the Western Medical Re- porter of Chicago. In addition to his arduous professional duties, he is fond of literature, and able to indulge his taste in this pastime. He is also a remarkably social person, and a favorite in all society wherever he makes his entrance. He is a religious man, having early connected himself with the Presbyterian Church. Upon the removal of Dr. Jackson from Stroudsburg, lie relinquished his practice in favor of his brother, George W. Jackson, who remained in the profession and acquired considerable reputa- tion until a premature demise, in 1877.

PHILIP M. BUSH .- In a little hamlet called Marshall's Creek, and about six miles north of Stroudsburg, still lives Dr. Philip M. Bush, at an advanced age, though very active and ener- getic. His family was of Holland origin. The two streams of settlement, viz., that of Holland origin from New Amsterdam following the Hudson or North River, and the English from Philadelphia, following the "South " or Dela- ware, met about Bushkill or Shawnee, and the traces of each are distinctly perceptible to this day.

The Bush family, or Bosch, as written by the Hollanders, seems to have crossed over from Esopus or Rondout, on the Hudson, and met the north-moving colonists from Philadel- phia, and settled on the plain about Shawnee.

Dr. Bush was born in Stroud township. He studied medicine with Dr. Herring, of Hamil- ton township, then in the county of Northamp- ton.

He attended the medical institution of Jefferson College, in Philadelphia, during the winters of 1833 and 1834. He settled at Craig's Meadows immediately upon his leaving the college, and remained till 1838, when he re- moved to his present place of residence. He

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was chosen to the State Legislature and served in 1847, but refused any subsequent political honors.

He has had a large practice, and though over fifty years in the profession, his interest has not waned, but he is still familiar with the litera- ture of the profession. He still visits patients, and is preferred by many of those who know him to any one of younger years.

DR. HORACE BUSH, son of Philip M., was

volume, and Sarah (La Bar) Bush, daughter of George La Bar, a descendant of an old family in Monroe County.

The early life of Dr. Bush was passed upon the home-farm, during which time he acquired a portion of his education at the district school, and in attendance at the old Stroudsburg Seminary, taught by Mrs. Lizzie Malvern. He closed his educational course at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Luzerne County, Pa. In

born at Marshall's Creek ; and was graduated at | 1869 he commenced the study of medicine Jefferson College, Philadelphia, in 1875. He practiced medicine at East Stroudsburg, in partnership with his brother for a time, when he removed to Wyalusing, Bradford County, where he still resides.

DR. LEWIS BUSH was born June 3, 1848, on his father's homestead at Marshall's Creek, Smithfield township, Monroe County. His parents were Dr. Philip M. Bush, whose life and ancestry are elsewhere written of in this

with his father, and subsequently attended lectures at the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine in 1872. That same year he located in practice at the Delaware Water Gap, where he remained only a few months, and then estab- lished himself at East Stroudsburg, where he has since continued in the active and successful practice of his profession. In April, 1883, he

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admitted to partnership with him Dr. Irvine R. Bush, also a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in the class of 1883, the present firm being known as Drs. L. & I. R. Bush, and enjoying a wide and extended practice.

Dr. Bush is recognized as one of the most progressive and public-spirited citizens of East Stroudsburg, and is identified closely with the development of the varied interests of the place. He has always taken deep interest in the schools

at Millersville, Pa., in the spring of 1879. He began the study of medicine under his brother, Lewis Bush, in the fall of 1879. He began his course of medical lectures and study in the University of Michigan in 1880, and continued it in the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadel- phia, graduating thence in the spring of 1883. He has since resided in East Stroudsburg and practices in connection with his brother.

DR. C. M. BRONNELL is a native of Central

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of the borough and served as a director for three years, and as secretary of the school board for the past two years. He is the owner of the rink and other real estate in East Stroudsburg, contributes freely to church and other worthy institutions, and is justly popular among his fellow-citizens. He married, in 1874, Anna Louisa, daughter of Joseph Huntsberger, of Centreville, Northampton County, Pa.

DR. I. R. BUSH was born at Shawnee, April 14, 1859 ; entered the State Normal School

New York, and was graduated at the Homœo- pathic Medical School, in Philadelphia, in 1883. The removal of Dr. Dungan left a vacancy which he has ably supplied, and he is working himself into what is called a good practice.

DR. CICERO BRODHEAD, the son of Luke W. Brodhead, of Delaware Water Gap, was born November 13, 1852. He studied medicine with Dr. A. Reeves Jackson and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1875. During his brief professional life he

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endeared himself greatly to the community, and died February, 1884.

DR. M. G. LESH was born in Hamilton township and attended the common schools near his father's home. He entered the State Normal School at Kutztown, where he passed the term of 1867-68. He was a teacher in the district schools of the county six years. He entered the Medical Department of the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated in 1873. He attended also a post-graduate course at the same institution one year. After three and a half years' practice in other com- munitics he settled in East Stroudsburg in 1877. His reputation as a physician is proven by the fact that during the short time he has been in practice he has had no less than nine students whom he has directed into the mysteries of the profession.

DR. JAMES HOLLINSHEAD, one of the old- est practitioners of the county which was after- wards called Monroe, was born in Philadelphia December 31, 1768, being the eleventh in a family of thirteen children. He was educated in his native city so as to qualify himself for teaching, which he entered upon at Salem, N. J., where he engaged in the study of medicine and was graduated at the University of Penn- sylvania.

He removed to Stroudsburg about the year 1792 and lived on the Posten farm, about a mile north of what is now East Stroudsburg. He practiced here about eighteen years and estab- lished a reputation as a person of more than ordinary skill, being frequently the preferred consulting physician in critical or serious cases till near the close of his life. He was appointed a justice of the peace soon after his settlement in the county, in which capacity he acted for many years.

Dr. Hollinshead was of a very social dispo- sition, cheerful and inclined to mirthfulness. He favored all religious denominations impar- tially, and when no opportunity for attendance upon his preferred choice occurred he was al- ways an attendant upon the Quaker meetings. He was highly respected and married into the Stroud family. He died near Stroudsburg March 31, 1831.

DR. FRANK HOLLINSHEAD, grandson of the above, was born at Stroudsburg June 6, 1826. He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. W. P. Vail and was graduated at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania April, 1848. He settled at Richmond, Northampton County, Pa., almost immediately upon graduation, where he re- mained till 1854, when he returned to Strouds- burg, and after two years of languishing illness he died December 24, 1856.

DR. N. C. E. GUTH was born May 2, 1850, in South Whitehall township, Lehigh County, Pa., received his academic education at Millers- ville State Normal School and professional edu- cation at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated March, 1873. His first settlement was at Perkasie, Bucks County, where he remained till October, 1876. He then removed to Gilbert's, Monroe County, where he has since resided. Besides the calls of his pro- fession Dr. Guth is an active and efficient worker in Sunday-schools and all agencies of a beneficent character.

DR. J. F. LESH was born in Hamilton town- ship and attended the common school of his district. He also attended the University of Pennsylvania in 1876. Soon after leaving the university he was appointed resident physician of the State Hospital at Harrisburg, which he occupied one year. He was settled for a short time at Weisport, and for one and a half years at Sand Cut, also at East Stroudsburg one year. He is now a professor in an institution in Kan- sas.

DR. AMZI LE BAR, son of J. Depue Le Bar, and his wife, Sarah Ann (Bush) Le Bar, was born in the township of Pahaquarry, Warren County, New Jersey, November 16, 1842. When six years of age his father removed to his native township of Smithfield, where the Le Bar family settled at a very early period, as will be seen elsewhere in this volume, and there the boyhood of the doctor was passed. He at- tended the district school of the township, where he derived the rudiments of an English educa- tion, and until 1862 assisted his father in his business of farming, lumbering and store-keep- ing, and engaged in school-teaching. That year heenlisted in Company G, one hundred and forty-

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second Pennsylvania Volunteers, as orderly-ser- geant, and served in the army in behalf of the Union cause until July 3, 1863, when he was discharged because of disability resulting from fever, having attained the rank of second lieu- tenant. For some time after his discharge he was sick at home, and it was the fall of 1864 before he regained his health. He then travel- ed for a few months in Wisconsin and Iowa, and taught school at Shawnee in the winter of 1864.

in the fall of 1867 located in the practice of his profession at Elmer, in South New Jersey, where he remained until February, 1868. He then located in Ashley, Pa., in what is now Luzerne County, and engaged in practice there until November, 1871, when he removed to East Stroudsburg, Monroe County. In the spring of 1874 he established himself at Stroudsburg, the county-seat of Monroe Coun- ty, where he has since remained in the enjoy- ment of a large and successful practice. In July,

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In the spring of 1865 he commenced the study of medicine with Dr. H. R. Barnes, for- merly of Allentown, Pa., but then practicing at Shawnee, and in the fall of that year began at- tending lectures at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he enjoyed the benefits of three courses, including two in the summer season, and was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1867. After graduation he remained for still another lecture season, and

1880, he purchased the old Hollinshead drug- store on Main Street, and is now devoting his chief attention to the large business which he has secured there, chiefly limiting his profcs- sional work to office practice, though not alto- gether refusing to go outside to visit his regular patients. His practice ineludes all the branches of medical treatment prescribed by the profes- sion, and has not been limited to any specialty, although in the department of obstetrics his ex-

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perience has been extensive and successful. He occupies a leading social position in Strouds- burg, and is one of the progressive and enter- prising citizens of the place. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since he was eighteen years of age, and takes an active part in connection with church work in Strouds- burg, being superintendent of the Sabbath- school at the present writing. He married, in 1868, Marietta, daughter of Samuel Bush, de- ceased of Shawnee, and has children, -- John Clyde and Mary Le Bar.

THOMAS W. LOWEREE resided in Stroudsburg from 1870 to 1872, more for the recuperation of his own health than for the practice of his pro- fession.

DR. S. S. LEVERING was born November 3, 1839, received his academical education at Wy- oming Seminary and at the age of seventeen began the study of medicine. In 1859 he com- menced practicing in connection with his father. In 1863 he located himself in Pleasant Valley, where he remained eight years, when he re- moved to Brodheadsville. In this place he was engaged in active practice till November, 1884, the time of his death. He was a man widely known and of considerable skill in his profes- sion.

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History of Wayne, Pike, and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania, Part 163

Author: Mathews, Alfred, 1852-1904. 4n Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co. Number of Pages: 1438

Author: Mathews, Alfred, 1852-1904. 4n
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Philadelphia : R.T. Peck & Co.
Number of Pages: 1438