History of Norfolk County, Virginia : and representative citizens, 1637-1900, Part 42

Author: Stewart, William H. (William Henry), 1838-1912
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1054

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JUSTICES OF TIIE PEACE.

The following lists embrace most of the names of the justices of the peace, between the first and last courts, covering 233 years. The first period. in colonial times, to the division of the county : the second period covers the colo- nial period of Norfolk County to 1775; the third period embraces the Revolutionary War : the fourth period to 1800; the fifth period to the evacuation by the Confederates in 1862; and the sixth period the interregnum and post bellum or reconstruction :

Col. Francis Yardley 1651

John Hill

Thomas Browne

Richard Conquest

William Moseley

Thomas Goodrich

1654

Thomas Bridge

Col. John Sidney

1655

John Porter, Sr.

John Jorter. Jr.

Thomas Bridge

Thomas Daines

Robert Powis 1657

William Daines

Capt. Richard Foster 1658

Thomas Keeling

Capt. William Robinson 1675

Maj. Francis Sayer

Malachi Thurston

George Fouler

Anthony Lawson

Adam Keeling 1678

Henry Spratt

Capt. William Robinson 1686

Capt. George Newton

Thomas Butt

William Cornix

Thomas Cock 1687

William Burroughs

William Craford

Capt. John Hatton

Patrick White

Capt. Thomas Hodges

1689

SECOND PERIOD (COLONIAL), AFTER

SEPARATION FROM

PRINCESS ANNE.

James Wilson 1691

John Maholy

Richard Church

Edward Moseley

Thomas Walke

1603

Maj. John Nichols

1694

Thomas Scott

1695

Capt William Langley, M. D.

1703

Capt. Meelkon Squiby

Samuel Boush

Mathew Godfrey

John Holstead

1708

Jonas Holyday

1708

Henry Cutching

Mathew Spivy

1708

Capt. William Clayborne

1643

James Wilson, Jr.

1710

Lt .- Col. Thomas Lambert

William Craford

1734

Mathew Phillips

John Hutchings

Edward Lloyd

1645

Samuel Smith

Thomas Mears

Thomas Wright

Edward Selby

1649

Nathaniel Tatem

Thomas Marsh

Cant. Willis Wilson

Richard Owens

Col. Samuel Boush

1735

John Norwood

Capt. Joseph Smith

1742

Maj. Lemuel Mason

1650

Charles Sweny

1746

Capt. Francis Emperor

William Portlock

Edward Bowman

John Marten

FIRST PERIOD (COLONIAL).

Capt. Thomas Willoughby

1637

Henry Sewell

John Gookin

Henry Woodhouse

1642

George Kemp

Maj. Samuel Boush

James Ivy John Tucker

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Robert Todd

1748

FOURTH PERIOD,-AFTER THE REVOLUTION TO 1800.

William Nash

George Veale

William Happer 1785

Markum Herbert

William Newsome 1788

Joseph Stewart

Edward Archer

Joshua Corprew

1749

Josiah Butt

Josiah Smith Durham Hall

James Grimes

Dr. Archibald Campbell

William Wilson, Jr.

Christopher Perkins

Robert Butt Solomon B. Talbot

William Bradley

1753

Daniel Sanford

Capt. John Willoughby

1755

William Hall

James Webb

1757

John Hendren

Robert Tucker, Jr.

1761

John Hudson

1790

William Atkinson

William King

1791

Lemuel Willoughby

Richard Powell

Joseph Hutchings

Willis Wilson

Max. Calvert

John Kearns

John Portlock

176

Wilson Butt

I793

Samuel Happer

Robert Brough

John Taylor

William White

Malachi Wilson

Samuel Davis

Goodrich Boush

176

John Shields

David Porter

Thomas Newton, Jr.

Solomon Hodges

1774

Powell Reins 1794

James Harper

James White

THIRD OR REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD.

Mathew Godfrey

1775

James Webb

Samuel Smith

1799

George Veale

John Portlock

Cornelius Calvert

James G. Martin

Bassett Moseley

Thomas W. Happer

John Brickel

Jesse Nicholson

John Wilson

Arthur Boush

1776

FIFTH PERIOD, TO CONFEDERATE EVACUATION, IN 1862.

William Smith

James Wilson

Wright Brown 1800

James Tatem

John Crowell Mathew Callis

John Hutchings

John Wilson, Jr.

Thomas Veale

Richard Blow --

Malachi Wilson, Jr.

Stephen Wright

1803

Thomas Newton, Jr.

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Paul Loyall Humphrey Roberts

John Armstrong

1805

Thomas Nash, Jr. James Nicholson William Booker David Sanford

Gresham Nimmo

Joseph Seguine

Charles Conner John Willoughby

James Williams

Samnel Veale

Thomas Talbot Robert Thompson 1807

Charles S. Boush

1782

Arthur Emmerson John Butt, Jr. 1813

James Taylor George Kelly

Willis Wilkins

John Nash 1789

Wilson Newton

Robert Boush

Col. Robert Tucker

1754

David Silvester

Mathew Phripp

James Holt

Kader Talbot

Thomas Brent

James Young

Richard Silvester 1796

Jordan Merchant

James Brown

James S. Mathews

Robert Taylor

Goodrich Bonsh

James Archdeacon

1777

Thomas Lee

James Callis

A. C. Jordan

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Tapley Webb Beverly Bayton Mathew Manning Mordecai Cooke Bernard Magining Jesse New combe James Robin-

1814 Thomas R. Ballentine Robert Dickson William 11. Haynes Iverson N. Hall

1815 Nathan B. Webster James C. Williams John B. McCloud George W. Grice James G. Hodges

David Fentress Bassett Butt lohn Johnston Nehemiah Foreman

Charles L. Cocke George F. Outten

John Thompson Arthur Butt

C. C. Robinson

Nathaniel G Tatem

John Powell

Amzi W. Wilson

James Davis

Cornelius Nash

1823

Samuel W. Happer

Wilham Cocke

1853

W. B. Manning John Biddle

William P. Ives John K. Cooke Enoch L. Herbert Amzi W. C. Wilson

1856

Josiah Wilson

1827 Dr. Virginius B. Bilisoly

John Nash

William H. Etheridge Alexander C. W. Young

John Hodges

Thomas B. Hanbury

William Wright

1830 1831

Maurice L. Tabb

Wilson B Scott

18.3.3

Samuel Watts

Richard P. Beaton

C. N. Nimmo Dr. Arthur R. Smith

Girard Hender-on William W. Davis

William N. Ivy

D. T. Driver Edward Kearns

John G. Hatton

1836

William P. Jones John S. White Tapley Portlock

Leaven Gayle

Griffin S. Jennings

1857

Richard W. Baugh

James G. Ball

James E. Wilson

Joseph Williams

John P. Young

John D. Berryman

Logan Hurst

Wilham Denby William Collins Ezekiel Powell

Thomas N. Mercer

William Etheridge

Overton Bernard

I-aiah Cherry

William M. Gibson

Samuel Browne, Jr. Sampson Crocker George T. Wallace

1837 1841 Jerome M. Creekmur James C. Choate

John S. Wise Stephen B. Tatem Isaiah Cherry Jr. Thomas B. Butt John P. Biddle

1842

SIXTH PERIOD,-INTERREGNUM. POST BELLUM. RECON-

1843

STRUCTION.

Maurice B. Langhorne

1844 1846

John F. Stewart Lewis H. Hall George H. Dashiel William Old James G. Martin

W. H. C. Lovitt 1866

Samuel Etheridge

Wilham G. Webb

Edward P. Cowper

Frederick Wilson

Lysander H. Kingman James F. Carr

James Warden

George T. Old Thomas N. Mercer Martin J. Ballentine

Samuel Bartec

John P. Leigh

Hoh Wilson

1821

Samuel Wiles

Robert H. Miller

1834

Agesilaus Foreman

Richard G. Bayton

John T. Pumpfrey James L. Northern Beverly A. Armistead Josiah Joliff

Richard W. Silvester

1818 1819 John B. Haynes Dennis Simmons John Foreman James Flemming Archibald T. Foster

1852

1816

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George T. Old George A. Wilson Peter S. Hancock John M. Drewry Joseph Williams WV. D. Pritchard Frank Ferebee Nathaniel Bidgood James Newby Stephen B. Tatem

F. W. Pickering military appointment 1869 George Cromwell military appointment 1869 Alexander Foreman military appointment 1869 Jolın A. McCloud military appointment 1869 W. B. Harris military appointment 1869 W. J. Bishop military appointment 1869 Mason Woodward military appointment 1869 Caleb Hodges military appointment 1869 Timothy Cherry military appointment 1869 Samuel Craigen military appointment 1869 E. H. Williams military appointment 1869

The legislature abolished the bench magis- trates and Hon. Legh R. Watts qualified as the first judge of the County Court on Mon- day, the 16th day of May, 1870. Then Judge Edward Spalding, Judge George D. Parker and Judge William N. Portlock followed, the last named being the present judge of the Nor- folk County Court.

SOME OF THE SHERIFFS.

In 1634 "And as in England, Sheriffs shall be elected to have the same power as there." [Hen. Vol. I, page 224.]

Capt. John Sibsey was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1645.

Richard Conquest was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1649 Samuel Smith was sheriff of Norfolk County in 17.10. Willian Portlock was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1741. Robert Tucker was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1755. Charles Sweny was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1757. Thomas Veale was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1776.

Thomas Veale was the first sheriff under the Commonwealth; and Samuel Portlock, James Murden, Mathew Mound, Joseph Lang- ley and Mathias Miller qualified as his depu- ties on the 16th of August, 1776. David

Porter, second sheriff under the Common- wealth, qualified in 1777.

William Booker was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1785. James Williams was sheriff of Norfolk County in

1812. Arthur Butt was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1819. Mordecai Cooke was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1832. Holt Wilson was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1835. John M. Drewry was sheriff of Norfolk County 1NI 1854. Samuel Etheridge was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1868. John Lesner was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1878. A. C. Cromwell was sheriff of Norfolk County in 1900.

CLERKS OF THE NORFOLK COUNTY COURT.

I .- Samuel Boush, from 1742 to 1774, 32 years.

2 .- John Boush, from 1774 to 1792, 18 years.

3 .- William Wilson, Jr., from 1792 to 1831, 39 years. 4 .- William H. Wilson, from 1831 to 1839, 8 years. 5 .- Arthur Emmerson, from 1839 to 1859, 20 years. 6 .- LeRoy G. Edwards, from 1859 to 1866, 7 years. 7 .- Griffin F. Edwards, from 1866 to 1869. 3 years.

8 .- J. P. Hodges, by military edict, from 1869 to 1875, 6 years. 9 .- R. Denise, from 1875 to 1880. 5 years. 10 .- Alvalı H. Martin, from 1880 to 1900 (present clerk), 20 years.

The following is a list of ministers of the gospel who performed the rite of matrimony and made report to the Norfolk County Court between June, 1787, and April, 1840:

Rev. Walker Maury,

Rev. Edward Mintz,

Rev. Jesse Nicholson,

Rev. William Sory,

Rev. James Lewis,

Rev. James Dawley,

Rev. George Young,

Rev. William Grimes,

Rev. Thomas Moore,

Rev. H. E. Hall,

Rev. William Compton,

Rev. Henry Hardy,

Rev. J. G. Ogilvee,

Rev. Robert A. Armistead,

Rev. John Owen. Rev. George Halson.

Rev. Charles Moseley,

Rev. Thomas Blount,

Rev. Mark L. Chevers,

Rev. Moses C. Searle,

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Rev. F. A. Ward, Rev. Overton V. Bernard, Rev. George W. Nolley, Rev. T. J. Harrison,

Rev. Miles Nash,

Rev. Caleb Leach, Rev. Thomas Ilume,

Rev. Henry D. Wood.

Rev. Needler Robinson,

Rev. Robert Cox,

Rev. Jeremiah Rutter,

Rev. James Buxton,

Rev. David Briggs,

Rev. Rice Haggard,

Rev. L. Mansfield,

Rev. Thomas T. Jones,

Rev. Joshua Livesay, Rev. Mathew M. Dann,

Rev. Robert Griffith,

Rev. Mills Barrett,

Rev. Edward Cannon,

Rev. Reuben Doudge,

Rev. John H. Wingfield,

Rev. David M. Woodson,

Rev. Thomas Howard, Rev. George A. Bain,

Rev. John Blount, Rev. John French,

Rev. Thomas Crowder, Jr.

Rev. Philip Anderson, Rev. Bennet T. Blake,

Rev. George M. Bain,

Rev. Jeremiah Hendren,

Rev. Vernon Eskridge,

Rev. A. Paul Repiton,

Rev. George Jones, Chaplain U. S. Navy.

Rev. John D. Berryman,

Rev. Edward T. Berryman,

Rev. Joseph S. Baker.

On September 17, 1796, the court granted Rev. Archibald Davis license to celebrate the rite of matrimony; Rev. Benjamin Ashley, in May, 1803; Rev. William Ormand, May 17, 1803 : Rev. C. H. Burgess, Catholic, June 19, 1835; Rev. Hardy Herbert, Methodist, Att- gust 10, 1794; Rev. Thomas Armistead, Bap- tist, January 21, 1790.

THE COURTS OF NORFOLK.

The courts held in Norfolk are as follows, taking the United States Courts first :

United States Circuit Court,-Judge, Na- than Goff, of Charleston, West Virginia; clerk, M. F. Pleasants, Richmond; deputy clerk, at Norfolk, George E. Bowden; United

States' attorney, Edgar Allan; marshal, Mor- gan Treat ; deputy marshal at Norfolk, Julius E. West.

The regular terms of this court at Norfolk are the first Mondays in May and November, but as the judge of the United States District Court is ex-officio judge of this court, the terms of the court are held open the year round for business.

United States District Court,-Judge. Ed- mund Waddill, Jr. : George E. Bowden, clerk of the district, located at Norfolk; Joseph P. Brady, deputy at Alexandria. This court has the same marshal and district attorney as the i United States Circuit Court and the same deputy marshal, Julius E. West, at Norfolk.

The terms at Norfolk are the first Mon- days in May and November, but the court is kept open the year round.

The United States Commissioners are : John B. Kimberley, at Fortress Monroe ; John C. Tucker, at National Soldier's Home, Hamp- ton ; Alfred C. Garrett, at Newport News, and George E. Bowden, Richard Mellwaine and C. W. B. Lane, at Norfolk. J. N. Whittaker is clerk to the United States' attorney.

The Norfolk city courts are as follows : Corporation Court,-Judge, Hon. Allan R. Hanckel ; clerk, Lawrence Royster.

This court sits on the first Monday of each month, except the month of August. It has jurisdiction over all criminal matters. It is the court of original criminal jurisdiction in all cases of felony and matters not cognizable by a justice of the peace. It has jurisdiction in probate and guardianship matters, grants such charter rights as are allowed by statute to courts and which are not confined alone to legislative enactment. It has jurisdiction in all cases where appeal is granted from the jur- isdiction of a justice of the peace in civil mat- ters and also appellate jurisdiction from the Police Court in criminal matters.

Circuit Court .- Judge, Hon. R. R. Prentis, clerk, Lawrence Waring.

This court sits in May and September of each year and has occasional special terms. It

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has concurrent jurisdiction in all civil matters with the Court of Law and Chancery, has original criminal jurisdiction in certain cases by the election of the accused and in certain cases has appellate jurisdiction from the Cor- poration Court.

Court of Law and Chancery,-Judge, Hon. W. B. Martin ; clerk. Lawrence Royster.

This court sits on the third Monday of each month of the year, except the months of September and October, and the first day of October. This court has concurrent jurisdic- tion in all civil matters with the Circuit Court, except such civil matters as are confined ex- clusively to the courts of the justices of the peace on account of the small amounts in- volved. It has concurrent jurisdiction with the Circuit and Corporation courts in all mat- ters of probate and guardianship.

Police Court,-Justice, Hon. R. W. Tom- lin; clerk, C. F. Jordan.

This is a very important court, as it is the tribunal in which large numbers of petty offenders are speedily dealt with. This court sits on every day except Sundays. The jus- tice of the Police Court is now elected as ex- tra magistrate, with the title of police justice. Its jurisdiction is confined to criminal mat- ters exclusively, and it has a right of trial in

certain minor misdemeanors. Appeal lies from this court, in all cases in which it has power of trial, to the Corporation Court. In cases of serious crime the offenders are given a preliminary hearing and, if there is a sus- picion of guilt, the party is committed to await the session of the grand jury.

Justices of the Peace,-Norfolk has in all seven justices of the peace, under a new law recently passed. Their powers and jurisdic- tion are those usually incident to the office elsewhere.

THE COURTS OF PORTSMOUTH.

The courts held in Portsmouth are as fol- lows :

Court of Hustings,-Judge, Hon. James F. Crocker ; clerk, C. T. Phillips ; sheriff, Will- iamson Sinith. This court sits the first Thurs- day after the first Tuesday in every month.

Circuit Court for the city of Portsmouth sits the first Monday in May and November. Hon. R. R. Prentis is judge. The other offi- cers are the same as those of the Court of Hustings.

Police Court,-Hon. J. Thompson Baird, mayor, presides; N. Onley, clerk. It has a jurisdiction similar to that of the Police Court of Norfolk.

CHAPTER XVII

THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

EARLY PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE IN NORFOLK COUNTY-PROMINENT PHYSICIANS OF THE FIRST HALF AND MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY-NORFOLK MEDICAL SO- CIETY-LOCAL AND UNITED STATES QUARANTINE.

"There is scarcely a profession in which the sympathies of its professors are more pain- fully excited than that of the medical practi- tioner. How often is he called to the bed of hopeless sickness ; and that. too, in a family. the members of which are drawn together by the closest bonds of love? How painful it is to meet the inquiring gaze of attached friends. or weeping relatives, directed toward him in quest of that consolation, that assurance of safety, which he has not to give! And how melancholy it is to behold the last ray of hope, which had lingered upon the face of affection, giving place to the dark cloud of despair.

"And when all is over-when the bitter- ness of death hath passed from the dead to the living-from the departed to the bereaved -hark to that shriek of agony. that convul- sive sob. that bitter groan, wrung from the heart's core. which bespeaks the utter prostra- tion of the spirit beneath the blow !

"There, cold in the embrace of death, lies the honored husband of a heart-broken wife- her first. her only love! Or it may be. the young wife of a distracted husband, the bride of a year. the mother of an hour, and by her, perhaps. the blighted fruit of their love-the bud by the blossom-and both are withered."

Then often in the homes of poverty they

find starving children and mothers to melt their hearts in sympathy. No profession is so often awakened to the sufferings of humanity and none contributes more liberally to alleviate the woes of mankind than the medical profes- sion. The practitioners of medicine in Nor- folk County, embracing both cities, have not only been noblemen in benevolent bearing, but have ranked in skill with their brothers throughout the land. In peace, in war, on sea or land. they have trod the highest path of (luty for which their profession has been noted through the centuries.

Probably the first practitioner in Norfolk County was Dr. Thomas Bullock, as there are judgments for his claims in the County Court in 1638, one year after Lower New Norfolk County was established.

Dr. William Happer was a prominent physician of Norfolk and resigned from the Common Council on June 24, 1742, because his practice consumed his whole time. Dr. Archibald Campbell was also a prominent man of that day and was one of the justices of the County Court in 1749.

Dr. Phillip Barraud and Dr. Andrew Ray were surgeons in the Revolution. Dr. Robert Bruce Butt was a prominent practitioner in 1805. Dr. George W. Maupin was a surgeon

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in the U. S. Army. Dr. Joseph Schoolfield, surgeon, U. S. Navy, died in 1850. Dr. Jona- than Cowdry died November 20, 1852, aged 85 years,-he was then the oldest surgeon and oldest officer in the U. S. Navy. Dr. Joel Martin died November 10, 1854, aged 86,- he had been a surgeon in the U. S. Navy 26 years.

Among the most prominent members of the medical profession in the city of Norfolk during the first half and the middle of the last century should be mentioned Drs. Will- iam B. Selden. Thomas F. Andrews, William Selden and his brother Henry, sons of Dr. William B. Selden, Robert B. Tunstall and William J. Moore.

Dr. William B. Selden finished his med- ical education in 1799, in Edinburgh, then as now celebrated for the thorough teaching of its medical schools. Returning to Virginia, lie began practice in Norfolk, and continued for near half a century to retain the confi- dence of the community in his great skill and discrimination, both as an observer and prac- titioner, and not a few students under his wise instruction became prominent physicians. He reached an honored old age, and died in 1849.

Dr. Thomas F. Andrews was a man of consummate ability. He received his academic and professional education from the best sources, both at home and abroad. His mind was a store house of scientific, literary and political information, and it was said of hini, that had he chosen public life, he would easily have secured the highest attainable po- sitions. He was as remarkable as a financier, as he was a physician and surgeon. He re- tired from medical practice in 1851, to live many years in an adjoining State in affluent leisure, and died at the age of 90 years.

Dr. William Selden survived his brother Henry (who was cut off by the epidemic of yellow fever in 1855, in the midst of a success- ful career, being especially noted as a skillful diagnostician) and continued to practice medi- cine until advancing age led him into retire-

ment. He was an alumnus of the University of Virginia and of the University of Pennsyl- vania and subsequently pursued a medical course in the city of Paris. He was a scholar in the highest sense. His memory was extraor- dinary, and it was said that when he was a student at the University of Virginia, noth- ing eluded his grasp, and that he possessed al- most unparalleled powers of acquisition. Be- ginning the practice of his profession during the cholera epidemic of 1831, he soon made for himself a most enviable reputation which widened in its scope until he was everywhere recognized as an authority. Even after his re- tirement from active work, he kept himself thoroughly informed of the various changes in doctrine and practice, the progress medical science had developed, and was ever ready to confer with his junior brethren. He was not only a cultivated and epxerienced physician, but a man of affairs through life, and died at the age of 79.

Dr. Robert B. Tunstall originally prepared himself for the calling of a civil engineer, which he relinquished for his decided predilec- tion for medicine ; after graduating at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania he became associated with the late Dr. Baynham Baylor, at that time a leading physician of Norfolk. Possessed of a noble physique and an unusually lucent mind, he at once engaged both with wonderful energy in the work of his profession with pre- eminent success. For many years and up to his sudden death, at the age of 64 years, he was second to none in the professional ranks.

Dr. William J. Moore studied medicine with Dr. Thomas F. Andrews above noted, and graduated at the University of Pennsyl- vania, then the leading medical college of the country. He returned to Norfolk from Phila- delphia and began a most interesting career as a physician and surgeon. He held for years the position of surgeon to the U. S. Marine Hospital, before the establishment of the Marine Hospital service, and served as sur- geon of one of the hospital divisions of the Confederate States from 1862 until 1865,

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after which he resumed his practice in Nor- folk. He was a skillful and bold operator. and a discriminating and successful physician. and a most lovable man, kind and gentle, but firm and determined, until his health began to fail a few years before his death at the age of 6 years. He loved literature next to his pro- fession, but always avoided a display of his varied accomplishments. No medical man has ever passed away leaving a greater void in the hearts of his associates and many friends.

Of the list of noble martyrs who fell vic- tims to the dreadful yellow fever scourge 11! 1855 were Dr. John W. H. Trugien on the 29th day of August: Dr. William Collins on the 8th of September: Dr. L. P. Nicholson, Dr. Richard W. Silvester. Dr. Thomas F. Constable, Dr. George 1. Halson. Dr. R. J. Silvester, Dr. Francis L. Higgins. Dr. James H. Briggs, Dr. Richard B. Tunstall. Dr. Henry Selden and Dr. R. H. Parker, fa- ther of Dr. R: H. Parker, Confederate sur- geon and now a practitioner in Portsmouth. Among those who were ill with the fever and survived were Dr. William Selden, Dr. Will- iam J. Moore. Dr. Robert B. Tunstall, Dr. E. D. Grainer, Dr. Herbert M. Nash, Dr. G. W. Cowdry. Dr. F. S. Campos, Dr. Thomas J. Hardy. Dr. Robert H. Gordon. Dr. D. M. Wright. Dr. V. Friedman, Dr. D. W. Todd. Dr. Robert W. Rose, Dr. J. N. Schoolfield. Dr. G. W. O. Maupin and Dr. William H. Cocke, who was assistant surgeon in the 14th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, C. S. A., wound- ed and died in prison in Washington. Of these Dr. Herbert M. Nash is now the sole survivor. Among the eminent surgeons in the Confederate Army were Dr. Holt Fairfield Butt, Dr. James Parrish, Dr. Herbert 31. Nash. Dr. V. B. Bilisoly, Dr. J. M. Covert. Dr. Franklin J. White. Dr. Edwin M. Watts, Dr. William E. Kemble. Dr. R. H. P. Bar- raud, Dr. Thomas B. Ward and Dr. R. H. Parker. Surgeons in the Confederate Navy : Dr. George Blacknall. Dr. James Cornick, Dr. Richard Jeffry. Dr. F. L. Galt. Dr. Lewis D. Minor, Dr. W. F. McClanahan, Dr. W. B.

Sinclair. Dr. Charles II. Williamson, Dr. Will- iam E. Wysham and Dr. John deBree. Dr. William White was a colonel in the Con- federate States Army, and Dr. Charles R. Mc- Alpine was a major.

There is somtimes a ridiculous side as well as the serious to the profession and doctors sometimes have amusing experiences. In the oklen time, it is said a wealthy farmer, much affected with hypochondria, went to Langenan, to consult Michael Seuppach, better known by the appellation of the mountain doctor. "I have seen devils in my belly." said he, "no fewer than seven." "There are more than seven." replied the doctor, with the utmost gravity; "if you count them right, you will find eight." After questioning the patient con- cerning his case, he promised to cure him in eight days, during which time he would every morning rid him of one of his troublesome inmates, at the rate of one louis d'or each. "But." added he. "as the last will be more obstinate and difficult to expel than the others, 1 shall expect two louis d'or for him." The farmer agreed to these terms; the bargain was struck, and the doctor, impressing upon all present the necessity of secrecy. promised to give the nine louis d'or to the poor of the parish. Next morning the imaginary demoniac was brought to him, and placed near a kind of machine he had never seen before, by which means he received an electric shock. The farmer roared ont lustily. "There goes one." said the doctor with the utmost gravity. Next day the same operation was repeated: the farmer bellowed as before, and the doctor cooly remarked. ".Another is off." In this man- ner he proceeded to the seventh. When he was preparing to attack the last, Seuppach re- minded his patient that he now had need of all his courage, for this was the captain of the gang, who would make a more obstinate resist- ance than any of the others. The shock at this time was so strong as to extend the patient on the floor. "Now they are all gone." said the doctor, and ordered the farmer to be put to bed. On recovering himself, the latter de-

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History of Norfolk County, Virginia : and representative citizens, 1637-1900, Part 42

Author: Stewart, William H. (William Henry), 1838-1912 Publication date: 1902 Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 1054

Author: Stewart, William H. (William Henry), 1838-1912
Publication date: 1902
Publisher: Chicago : Biographical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 1054