graduated from the University of New York in 1848.
He then entered into practice at Flemington, in com-
pany with his father. In 1850-51 he was engaged in
medical practice at Ringos, and after a year spent in
the drug business in New York he embarked in 1853
for Australia, where he resided for fourteen years,
engaged in mining and in the practice of his pro-
fession. While there, in the year 1862, he married
Margaret McLean, a native of Scotland. In 1867
he returned to America and resumed his residence
and his practice in Flemington, where he still con-
tinues.
John Lilly was a prominent physician and resi-
dent practitioner of medicine in Lambertville since
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ISO!). Mr «:i.- tlir miii of Samuel Lilly, barrister, ami
was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1788. Ha was
"apprenticed" to Dr. Samuel Stringer, of Albany,
N. Y., and after serving four years was licensed in
1807. In 1808 he c raced practice al Beading
ton, Hunterdon Co., succeeding Dr. John Van Horn,
but the following year removed tu Lambertville,
same county, becoming the successor of l)r. Kroesen,
then recently deceased. He was in 1821 one of the
founders of the District Medical Society o!' Iliintii-
don County ; was its president in 1825 and 1847, vice-
president in 1828 anil 184li, treasurer from |s:{ii to
1846, a censor from 1821 to 1825, inclusive, and in
1847-48, and was repeatedly a delegate to the State
Medical Society, of which he was an active member.
"Hi- mind and character wen- those of a refined
gentleman, scrupulously neat in his personal habits,
pure and chaste in all his acts and words; he was
very attentive to his patients; his judgment sound
and clear, and his practice in emergent or dangerous
cases prompt and energetic. . . . He was always a
stickler for the most rigid professional ethics. He
never permitted himself to be betrayed into the vio-
lation of the strictest code, and was not slow to con-
demn SUCh violation on the part of Others."! Me was
8 member, even early in life, of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church, and for years a vestryman or senior
warden of St. Andrew's at Lambertville. In 1X40— tl
he was a member of the Legislative Council of New
Jersey. He died .Tune, 18484 His wife was Miss
Julia Moodie, of Lansingburg, N. Y., whom he
married in 1X08.
-smiki, LlI.LY graduated from the I'niversity of
Pennsylvania with the degree of M.D. in 18.37, and
immediately entered upon the practice of his pro-
fession at Lambertville. Me soon acquired an exten-
sive business and high reputation as a physician, Me
was a leading member of the County Medical So-
ciety,! of the State Medical Society (of which he was
president in 1858), and an official of the American
Medical Association. He died April 8, 1880. II"
was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery. "As a practi-
tioner he preferred surgery, and was a good and safe
operator." lie wrote many medical essays, etc., was
a man of temperate habits, about five feet nine inche-
high and weighing two hundred pounds, frank and
affable, and of refined and literary tastes. He was
twice married, — ill 1889 to Mary A. Tito-, of Mercer
County, who died; in I860 to Mary Ellen Torhert
I widow), daughter of Lewis ( 'orvell j she died in
1867.11
(iKouiii: \V. Camimh i i , late of French town, and
son of .lame- Campbell, was born at Newtoro o-Stewart,
County Tyrone, Ireland, Aug. 15, 1758. Educated
at Dublin University, he received special medical in-
struction from Dr. Furling. He received his degree
of M.D. while the American Revolution was in prog-
re - , and. sympathizing with the patriot cause, he
emigrated to this country and joined the Continental
army. He served as surgeon until peace was de-
clared, when he -ettled at F>eiiehtown. r In 1787 he
became a member of the State Medical Society. Mis
exceptionally thorough education and his extensive
surgical experience during the war combined to throw
into hi- hands a very large practice. Mere he mar-
ried Rachel, youngest daughter of Jeremiah Thatchi
by whom he had two children.** He was actively
engaged in his profession until prostrated by paralysis
in 1812, his death following a second stroke in Au-
gust, lsl.s. He was buried in the Kingwood Presby-
terian churchyard.
William Welch, a native of Hunterdon, born in
Bethlehem, Sept. L2, 1887, son of William Welch, of
Valley Station, who was B tanner in thai township.
After his graduation, in 1859, he -ettled in Philadel-
phia, Pa., which has been his residence and the
theatre of his professional labors until the present
time. He holds high rank in the profession, both as
a practitioner and as a writer.
John Lr.Avin. of Baptisttown, was born in New-
Hampshire in 1819. He read with Dr. E. M. M.-
Lenahan, of New Hampton, Hunterdon Co. After
receiving his diploma he commenced practicing at
Asbury, Warren Co., but after some subsequent
change- located at Baptisttown, this county, in 1854.
He was there engaged ill active practice until bis
death, Oct. 20, 1875. He was a member of the Dis-
trict Medical Society, and in I860 its president. Me
was very conservative in practice.
HOWARD Sf.kyis was born near Ringos, Hunter-
don Co., Oct. G, 1820. His father, Garret, was post-
master at Clinton, also sheriff and a member of the
Legislature; his mother, Susan Stout, was a grand-
daughter of John Hart, a signer of the " Declaration."
Howard was a student oi Dr. Charles c. Philips, of
Deerfield, N. J. ; entered the Medical Department of
the l Diversity of Pennsylvania in 1856, and in 1858
received his degree. Me at once commenced the
practice of licine at Pairmount, this county, but
in 1868 removed to New Hampton, and SUCCt â–
Dr. R. M. Mcl.eiiaban's practice, the latter giving up
professional labor on account of failing health.
About three yean ago he removed to Hampton Junc-
tion. He ha- made the record of an eminently -ue-
ec— t'ul physician and surgeon. In 1867 he married
• Now Jen-i'V ltiuyrnpliioil Fin Nil. .|:ili.,, ] 7 •
I Dr. John Blane.
t On "in- "I the 'oills In the Interim- ..f SI. Amir. - \
in lil» memory, tha Inscription on which nidi «iili th<
ilormrt."
Admitted Maj 3, im:
I Sue "ketch in connection •■i'li " B Ii and Bar.* 1
in h Is n tnM.-t
onls: " Jti pud
*f He wiw comniiwioned "surgeon, lio*|>Ital Flying Camp, Continental
army, April 11, 1776."— Srrytar'e '.'-yUor A'or Jer«e-, in Ou Rttvlmtu*.
•* His vrlftj -urMM -I him, loins* w itli li'-rilau^litpr until her dovea*-*.
Kill. 1 1. 1837. Hi- daughter, Ann «ii arried John Fine, bo,
7. ai i Mm, ty. mi Incensed), suttenqaejitli lived vrtth her enu in Kew
Ynrklio -.â– of Ifmi-
trriim (Jbtatetft,
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Belinda, daughter of Philip Johnston, of Washington,
N.J.
Heney A. Kiekpateick, son of the late Rev.
Jacob Kirkpatrick, D.D., of Amwell, was born in
1816. Having read medicine in the office of Dr.
Cicero Hunt, of Ringos, he entered Jefferson Medical
College, where he was graduated M.D. in 1841, and
the same year established himself at Stanton, Hun-
terdon Co., where he continued until his decease.
He acquired a large practice and the reputation of a
skillful physician. He married (1) Mary Servis, of
Ringos, and (2) a daughter of Jacques Quick, of
Readington. He died Sept. 29, 1851. He was buried
in the cemetery of the United First Presbyterian
Church of Amwell, and the marble over his grave
bears this inscription :
"In
Memory of
Doctr. H. A. Kirkpatrick,
who died
Sept. 29th, 1851,
In the 35th year of his age.
Oft between Death and his patient he stood,
And relieved by the healing art,
Yet though science and knowledge his mind had enlarged,
He fell by the conqueror's dart.
But Death though the body he brings to the tomb
In spite of the genius of man,
The soul that's in Jesus is free from all harm,
Let his power do all that it can."
His wife, Mary, died April 7, 1845, aged thirty
years, and her grave and that of her husband are side
by side.
Sylvester Van Syckel, of Clinton, was born
in Union township, Hunterdon Co., Feb. 21, 1826.
He is a son of the late Aaron Van Syckel, and a
brother of Judge Bennet Van Syckel, late of Flem-
ington, now of Trenton. The family is of Dutch
extraction. Graduating from Princeton in 1846, he
became the pupil of the celebrated Dr. Valentine
Mott, and attended lectures at the University of New
York ; became an M.D. in 1849, and was successively
assistant physician, house physician, and house sur-
geon of Bellevue Hospital. He was appointed by
Governor Clark one of the quarantine hospital phy-
sicians in 1850, during the ship-fever epidemic. He
removed to Clinton (1850), commenced there the
practice of his profession, and soon had an extensive
ride. For many years he has held a leading place
among the physicians of that section. March 24,
1853, he joined his fortunes with those of Mary E.,
daughter of John Carhart, of Clinton. Of his six
children, three are now (1880) living, — John C, Wil-
liam C, and V. Lamar.
Nathaniel B. Boileau, son-in-law of Dr. John
Blanc, graduated an M.D. in 1858, and has since
practiced in this county, for the past thirteen years at
Perryville. Sec further sketch in the history of Union
township.
John R. Todd was graduated from the New York
College of Physicians and Surgeons, March 10, 1864.
April 15, 1864, he was commissioned an acting as-
sistant surgeon in the United States volunteers, and
attached to the Second New Jersey Cavalry Regiment.
Nov. 1, 1865, he was honorably discharged, and in
January, 1866, having been licensed, he commenced
practice at Lebanonville, Hunterdon Co. He was a
member of the District Medical Society, and in ex-
cellent standing as a physician and citizen. He
married a daughter of W. Johnson, Esq. He died
(Lebanonville) in 1876. In October, 1880, his widow
married Dr. John Grandin, of this county.
William Wetheeell, of Lambertville, son of a
Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Wrights-
town, Bucks Co., Pa., Jan. 1, 1819. His literary edu-
cation was received at the Newtown Academy, and
his medical instruction from Dr. C. W. Smith, of
Wrightstown, supplemented by two courses of lectures
at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, from which
he was graduated with the class of 1846. He soon
after removed to Lambertville, N. J., and commenced
practice. During the years that have supervened he
has won the confidence and esteem of the community
in which he resides. " Jealous for the honor of his
profession, and concerned for the safety of the public,
he has always given earnest attention to the subject of
regulating the practice of medicine, and was mainly
instrumental in getting through the Legislature the
present law regulating practice in the State."
Robeet Mills McLenahan, who practiced as a
physician at New Hampton, Hunterdon Co., from
the time of receiving his doctor's degree (1836) until
within a short time of his death, which occurred
April 28, 1864, was born Oct. 19, 1817, at Pennington,
N. J. ; studied medicine with Dr. Joseph Welling,
and was graduated from the New York Medical Col-
lege. His genial manners, combined with high pro-
fessional abilities, won him a reputation seldom
enjoyed by a country physician. So heavy became
his labors, and with constantly failing health, that he
called in the professional aid of Dr. Howard Servis,
who became his successor. His first wife was Chris-
tiana, daughter of the late Aaron Van Syckel, of
Union township ; she died March 8, 1856. His second
wife, a Miss Johnston, survives him. His remains
repose in the Baptist churchyard in Union township.
John Alfeed Gray was born on the homestead-
farm of his father, Joseph Gray, in the vicinity of
Princeton, July 6, 1812. His mother's maiden name
was Annie Furman ; his parents were both natives of
New Jersey. Before entering college he was the
pupil of Rev. Dr. Baird, of Princeton. He was grad-
uated at Nassau Hall in 1832, and studied his profes-
sion with Samuel Howell, M.D., of Princeton ; at-
tended lectures at Jefferson Medical College, from
which he was graduated in 1836. He then removed
to Toledo, Ohio, and for a time was assistant editor
of the Toledo Blade; from thence he removed to
Rocky Hill, Somerset Co., where he practiced from
1844 to 1854, when he removed to Flemington, where
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he continued until hie death. .July 8, L837, he mar-
ried Mi— Abby Douglas, of Trenton, V J., who died
,i Rocky Bill, Feb. 22, 1846. On May 24, 1848, he
married Miss Jane Allen Eart, daughter of tlic late
NVal Hart, Esq., of Rocky Hill, who survived him.
|)r. Gray was an efficient practitioner, bul failing
health in his later years impaired his usefulness in
the profession. He was conservative in practice, and
yet not behind the times. He was a member in good
standing of the District Medical Society of Hunter-
don County, attending to his duties with alacrity,
and was its president in 1865. In 1864 he became
a member of the American Medical Association. He
died at his reside nee in Flemington, Sept. 2!>, 1X72.*
Henri B lcde, sou of Jacob Race and Sophia Hoff
hi- wile, was born Feb. 23, 1814, in Kingwood, now
Franklin, township. lie studied medicine with Dra.
II. II. Abernethyand Henry Southard, and graduated
in the Medical Department of the University of Penn-
sylvania, March ::l. lXl:i. lie commenced the prac-
tice of his 1 1 rule - ion im mediately after, at PittstOWn,
J I unt erdo ii Co., which situation he has occupied ever
since, except from Februan , 1849, to April, 1851,
spent in California. He was married May b, 1857, to
Ada Louisa Woodruff, of Milford, N. J.1
t Ieorge New i"\ Best, son of Cornelius Best and
Elsie Alpaugh his wife, was bom at Eound Valley,
I ii n township, Hunterdon Co., N. J., Oct. 16,
L846. I le prepared for college at Pennington Insti-
tute, Pennington, X. J., and entered Lafayette Col-
lege, class of lX'.'i; passed through freshman, sopho-
morc, and half of junior year. On leaving college he
took charge of Riegelsville high school ; also taught
at Wilmington, Del. He studied medicine under the
preceptorship of Dr. A. s. Jordan, of Riegelsville,
N . .1. ; attended tlrive COUTSeS of medical lecture- and
graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1875.
lb- commenced the practice of his profession, the
B&me year, at Rosemont, Hunterdon Co., where he
still remains. He was married in 1877 to Hannah.
daughter of Richard Wilson, of Raven Rock, N.J.
Thomas Edgab 1 1 i NT,sonof William A. A. Hunt,
M.D., and his wife Eliza S. Auten, and grandson of
Rev. Hollowaj W. Hunt, who for more than fortj
years was the pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
Bethlehem, was bom at Clarksville, Hunterdon Co.,
\. .1., about 1x27. After receiving his preliminary
education he studied medicine with hi- lather, and
attended the medical lecture- of the University of
New York, graduating in L847. tin the 8d of May
of the game J ear he received from the medical societj
of New Jersey hi- diploma to practice in thi- State,
and at the same time 1 ame a member of the Dis-
trict Medical Society of the county of Hunterdon,
i if this society he wa- vice-president in 1862, and
president in 1858. About this time he received the
Dr. John Bluns, In Tram State 8a My, 1874, pp, 112, it :.
; Soe nljo iki I Ii ol Itn B i i until In I kiln town-
ihlp, tn tbl
honorary degree of A.M. from the College of New
Jersey, al Princeton. In 1848 was delegate to the
American Mi dical Association, and was for some time
permanent member of the same. He married Miss
Cynthia Martin, daughter of Judge Martin, of Orange
Co., N. Y. ; they have had a largi famil] of children,
-ix of whom are li\ ing, — two daughters and lour -on-.
William 0. Alpaugh, a native of Tewksbury
township, this county, bom Sept. II, I-II, wa- of
German extraction, hi- ancestors being among the
earliest settlers of the state, lie lived upon hi- fath-
er'- farm until his -i xteeiith year, and for two yoar-
thereafter was engaged in school-teaching, j I ,- -pent
the two years following at the Hackettetown Presby-
terian Seminary, and then read medicine with Dr.
Barclay, of Lebanon, X. J. In 1XG.5 he entered the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and in 1867 was
admitted to practice in the Charity Hospital, con-
nected therewith. The next year he wa- graduated
Sei I in a cda-s of more than one hundred stud) utB.
lie at once began a regular practice, but in the Spring
of 1869 was induced to settle at High Bridge, Hun-
terdon Co. lie was associated on the start with Dr.
Fields, of Clinton, but after 1872 practiced alone.
He has ii deservedly high reputation as a physician
and surgeon, an extensive practice, and a wide ride.
Alexandeb Barclay, whose father was also a
phy-ician,;. wa- born at Aberdeen, Scotland, Jan. 9,
1832. He read medicine under his father, attended
lectures, was graduated M.D., and licensed by the
board of State censors. He then. (I860] began prac-
tice at New Germantown. During the war of the
Rebellion he served as assistant Burgeon of the
Thirtieth Regimen! New Jersey Voluni
ing therefrom March ">, lxi',:;, and returning to New
Germantown. He resumed his practice, which he
continued until his death, caused by his horse taking
fright and running away, he being thrown from hi-
carriage : hi- skull was fractured and effusion resulted,
causing his death at the end of three days, June 18,
1865. His professional standing was excellent, lb-
was a member of the County Medical Society. He
was quite a musician, and, in fact, had a diversity of
talent-. His wife was q Mi-s Wahlron. of New Qi r-
mantow n ; left two children, — a son and a daughter.
.bins P. B. Sloan, born near Bloomsbury, N. J.,
May 26, 1799, after being licensed a- a phy-ician. es-
tablished him-clf in lib i-bury. Hunterdon Co, He
subsequent I > removed to Washington, N. J., and died
at Easton, Pa,, Feb. 10, 1849. He was one of the
founder-, in L821, of the Hunterdon County Medical
Society, in whose archive- is -till preserved a well-
written dissertation by him on " Intermittent I i
read before that body at its semi-annual meeting in
October, L822, Which -hows that he was disposed to
analvti d tnve-i i rati m of bse&s: a ta-te \\ no
mean- common among country practitioner- of Ids
t Or. Alexander BarclnT, of Nowbo
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time. He was the son of Rev. William B. Sloan, for
many years pastor of the Presbyterian Church of
Greenwich, Warren Co., N. J.
John S. Linaberry, born in Morris Co., N. J.,
son of John Linaberry, received his primary educa-
tion in the schools of Hunterdon County, was a stu-
dent at Ann Arbor University, Michigan, and gradu-
ated in medicine at the University of the City of New
York in 1861, soon after which he settled at Moun-
tainville, in Tewksbury township, this county, where
he has since successfully practiced his profession. In
1862 he was married to Ellen Robinson, of this county.
Henry B. Nightingale was the son of the Rev.
Nightingale, a Baptist minister of Doylestown,
Pa. He was well educated, was a graduate at Phila-
delphia, a member of the District Medical Society of
this county, a scientific and judicious practitioner,
and was a member of the Baptist Church. He prac-
ticed his profession at Rosemont (commencing about
the year 1859) and at Flemington, ending his days of
usefulness at the former place, Sept. 10, 1873, aged
about fifty years. He left a widow and a large family
to mourn his loss.
James Reiley, born at Durham, Bucks Co., Pa.,
in the year 1829, was graduated from Union College
in 1849 ; studied medicine with Dr. Condict, of Blairs-
town ; attended lectures at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, New York City, and soon after com-
menced practice at Lambertville, in this county. In
1862 he was appointed surgeon of the Twenty-fifth
Regiment of New Jersey Volunteers, and soon be-
came brigade surgeon ; was mustered out of service in
June, 1863. He helped to raise the Thirty-third
Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, and was appointed
its surgeon. He served with distinction until the
close of the war, in 1865. He died March 23, 1872,
at Succasunna, N. J., where he had enjoyed an ex-
tensive practice for years.
John Watson Young, son of Nelson V. Young,
Esq., was born at Mount Airy, in West Amwell town-
ship, this county, Jan. 1, 1840. He studied with Dr.
William Wetherell, of Lambertville, who was his at-
tending physician during his last illness. He matric-
ulated at Jefferson Medical College, and was gradu-
ated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1862. The
same year he located at Montague, Sussex Co., N.' J.,
there practiced his profession, and there died, Feb.
14, 1864. He was buried at Mount Airy. His son
bears his name, — John Watson Young.
Asbury Parish, M.D., was born May 17, 1846, at
Franklin, Delaware Co., N. Y. He was graduated at
the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia in
March, 1874; served as substitute resident physician
at the Pennsylvania Hospital for some time; was
then appointed to the resident staff of physicians of
the St. Mary's Hospital, and served one year. In the
summer of 1876 he commenced practice in Fleming-
ton, where he is still located. He married Theresa
H. Down in February, 1877.
The practicing physicians in the county at the
present time are the following : Matthias Abel, T.
M. A'Hearn, William C. Alpaugh, John Blane, N.
B. Boileau, George N. Best, G. W. Bartow, Isaac S.
Cramer, William S. Creveling, Emanuel K. Deemy,
John H. Ewing, John F. Grandin, William Hackett,
T. Edgar Hunt, Edgar Hunt, Jeremiah 0. Huff, John
V. C. Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Moses D. Knight,
William Knight, Cornelius W. Larison, George H.
Larison, John S. Linaberry, William R. Little, J. D.
McCauley, Asbury Parish, A. S. Pitinger, Henry
Race, A. M. K. Reading, George P. Rex, Lewis C.
Rice, George T. Ribble, Asher T. Riley, John V.
Robbins, John F. Schenck, William H. Schenck,
Howard Servis, O. H. Sproul, Albert Shannon, A. C.
Smith, Theodore H. Studdiford, George R. Sullivan,
Sylvester Van Syckel, Horace G. Wetherell, William
Wetherell, Peter C. Young.
HOMOEOPATHY IN HUNTERDON.
The first person in this county to practice medicine
upon the principle of similia similibus curantur ("like
cures like" ) was Clarence W. Mulford, a retired
Baptist clergyman of Flemington. He was not, we
believe, a college graduate, although well read in the
science of medicine. He became popular as a phy-
sician, and had an immense practice. This, taken in
connection with his enfeebled state of health, caused
him, in 1860, to associate with himself Dr. Joseph Tay-
lor, but he continued in active practice nearly to the
time of his death, which occurred in July, 1864. He
was pastor of the Baptist Church in Flemington from
1844 to 1849. His son, Dr. Joseph Mulford, was a
graduate of Hahnemann College, Philadelphia. He
removed to New Brunswick, N. J., was a surgeon in
the army during the Rebellion, and is now serving in
the same capacity in the United States army.
William R. Hand, a native of Somerset County,
commenced the " regular" practice of medicine in
Hunterdon County at Clarksville in partnership with
Dr. W. A. A. Hunt in 1826. He married a daughter
of J. Ann in, of Somerset, and in 1827 removed to
Barbertown, this county. While at this place he be-
came a convert to the principles of Hahnemann, for
in 1856 his name was dropped from the roll of mem-
bers of the District Medical Society of Hunterdon
County " for practicing homoeopathy." He remained
in practice at Barbertown until 1870, when he re-
moved to Virginia, and died there in 1871, aged about
seventy-five years.
J. Irons, formerly of Philadelphia, settled in Lam-
bertville about the year 1859. After a residence and
practice there of two or three years he removed from
the place, and is since deceased.
Joseph Taylor, also of Philadelphia, came to
Flemington in 1860, as stated above, to assist Dr.
Mulford. He was a grandson of the celebrated Rich-
ard Gardner, M.D., of Philadelphia. Dr. Taylor
served for two years as a surgeon in the Union army,
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1862-C3, after which lie pr.-n-tii-i-il hi- proli — .ion in
Flemington until 1866, and at Frankford, Pa., until
his death, in 1871. He was a graduate of Hahne-
mann College.
.1. .1. Corbie, a native of Swedesboro', X. .T., and
a graduate of Hahnemann College, came to Flem-
ington in 1866, where he practiced until 1871, then