The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-11-19

~ We are under obligations to Dr. G. II.
LARSON, of this city, for a copy of the His
tory of the District Medical Society for the
County of Hunterdon." This history was
prepared by DIR. John Blaine, and comprises
a volume of one hundred and twenty-six pages.
1t gives an interesting account of the Society,
short biographical sketches of deceased mem
beers, and many interesting facts concerning
those still living. In addition, brief mention
is made of a large number of neighboring
practitioners.
Below we copy, as amatter of local interest,
biographical sketches of Dr. John Lilly, whose
pleasant, fatherly face and manner we well
remember when boy and to the business of
which sketch we can bear testimony of DR..
j. Hervey Studdiford, whose worth as a man
and a physician will not soon be forgotten, and
of Dir. Jonathan Ingham, of Solcbury, of a
long-past generation
Dir. John Lilly, one of the first members Of
our Society, and fifteenth on the roll was born
in Staiforlshire, England, in the year 1888.
Came to this country when child with his
parents, who first settled i'll the city of New
York.
His father. Samuel Lilly, had been u barrister
in England, but after his arrival in this country,
adopted the profession of teacher, he being
very fine classical and belles-lettres scholar.
From New York he removed to Albany, n. y,
where, at the instance of a warm personal
friend, lie took orders in and became minister
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. lie
afterward became Rector OF ST. john S Church,
Elizabethtown, during which time he performs
ed the marriage ceremony for Lord Boiling
broke, then resident of that ancient borough.
During the residence of his father at Albany,
Dr. John Lilly was apprentieed Gas was the
custom i'll those days. to DIR. Samuel Stringer,
then a very celebrated physician and surgeon
of that city, and served an apprenticeship OF
four years at the expiration of which lin the
year 1900, he received a license to practice,
and settled at Lansingburg, few miles north
of Albany, remaining there about one year.
lie removed to Readington in this county in
1903, succeeding DR.. John Van Horn, then
for license to practice his profession in this
State, which was duly granted, the venerable
DIR. Moses Scott of New Brunswick being one
of the examiners. The same year he was
married by the Rev. Peter Studdford, pastor
of the Reformed Church at Readington, and
father of Rev. p. 0. Studdiford of Lambert
Vile. to Miss Julia Noodle, with whom he had
become acquainted at Lansingburg and who
was at Readington, on visit to the family of
Gire- Lane, a respectable and prominent
citizen of that place.
In the Spring of 1909 DIR. Lilly removed to
Lambertville then called Georgetown), where
he practiced his profession as the successor of
DR.. Kreuson, who had then recently died.
| Here he remained, actively engaged in the
laborious duties of his profession interrupted
only by a service of two years us member of
the Legislative Council, to which body he was
elected III 1910 and 1S4f) until June, 1S4S,
when he died. followed in less than one month
by his beloved wife,
| Dr. Lilly never had children. His mantle
fell upon the shoulders of his nephew, DR.
Samuel Lilly, who was educated by him and
succeeded to his practice.
Dr. Lilly was physically, a delicate man,
his height five feet seven inches, his weight
never exceeding one hundred pounds. His
mind and character were those of refined
gentleman scrupulously neat in his personal
habits pure and chaste in all his acts and
words. The writer, during q close intimacy
Of nearly twenty years, during which he has
seen him in all kinds of company, never heard
a word or an intimation pass his lips, which
could not have been uttered in the most re-
| fined circle. This purity and refinement was
very prominent in all his writings he being a
frequent contributor to the periodicals of the
day, and frequently appearing before his
fellow-citizens in the character of lecturer
before the local literary societies.
As a physician, he was very attentive to his
patients his judgment sound and clear, and
his practice in emergent and dangerous cases
prompt and energetic He was not slow to
adopt any new or improved mode of treatment
if it had the appreciation Of hisiudgment.
His success was as marked as that of the
most successful. He was always sticller for
the more rigid professional ethics He never
permitted himself to be betrayed into a viola
ton of the strictest code, and was not slow TO
condemn such violations ON the part Of others.
He became a member Of this Society ON its
first organization, and was one of the petit
TONERS for a resuscitation of the same in 1886,
and again in 1916, and continued to be an
active member until his death.
He was also Corresponding Secretary Of the
New Jersey Medical Society in 1927 and 1882,
and of the Standing Committee in 1881, and
Chairman of the same in 1847.
At the time of his death he was Senior
Warden of Saint Andrews Church, Lambert
ville-on one of the walls in the interior of
which edifice is a tablet erected to his memory,
the inscription ON which ends with these words ::
g In pace dormet."
DR.. James Hervey Studdiford was elected
the seventy-sixth member of this Society at
its semi-annual meeting, held in Lambertyille,
October 25th, 1864. He took an active part,
and was at the annual meeting Of 1866 elected
First Vice-Presdent, and in 1861 President,
which Office he filed to the entire satisfaction
of the Society.
He died in the town in which he was born
he was the son of Rev. J.. O. Studdiford d.. d.,
who for forty-6ye years was the pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of that place, and grand
son of Rev. Peter Studdford, for many years
the beloved pastor of the Reformed Church at
Readington.
g He graduated at the college of New Jersey,
with high honors, in 1852 read medicine with
his uncle, Dr. Joseph Simpson, of the medical
staff, Y. $. A. Attended his first course Of
lectures at the University of Pennsylvania,
and his second course at the University of
New York, from which he received his degree
as Doctor of Medicine, in June, 1884,
In May, 1856, he settled in Quakertown,
succeeding DR.. A. S. Clark. In August, 1857,
removed thence to St. Paul, Minnesota re-
turned TO his ratiYe Mace Sentemher 1850