Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-25

l Andrew Holford, jr., resides on Townsend | avenue.
 l The Fourteenth regiment, of which Dr. Farley was surgeon, was encamped for some time next to the Second Connecticut regi- ment, and with them the New Haven Grays | and the other Connecticut boys became quite 1 intimate. The Fourteenth wore red trousers | and suffered terribly on account of their con l spicuousness, the red trousers being tar get for the enemy. The Brooklyn Eagle said:
 Dr. James L. Farley, late surgeon of the Fourteenth New York regiment, died short 1 Iy after three o'clock yesterday afternoon, from general breaking down of his physi- | cal system preceded by attack of acute | paresis that led to his voluntarily placing himself under the care of Dr. Shaw, at the | Flatbush asylum, exactly 8 month ago. On Thursday last his mental powers frightened and his strength seemed equal | to the move, so Dr. Shaw favored his going, | knowing that the case lay beyond his skill. On Saturday, therefore, Dr. Fowler, his | watchful physician, took him back to his home at 505 Willoughby avenue. There the | signs of the end came quickly, though not so soon as might have been expected.
 Indeed, one Sunday night he rallied won derfully, recognizing those about him and
 
 even inquiring about his favorite dog and
 half testing with his attendants. On Mon | day, however, he dropped off into state of coma, never to revive.
 The end of Dr. Farley's life came when his years yet were young. He was born in Brooklyn March 4, 1886, and hence had just passed his fftieth year. His education he | gained in the public school, graduating with l honor, to turn at the age of eighteen to the study of medicine, reading with the late Dr. John Cochran. From that physicians office he entered the College of Physicians and 1 Surgeons, New York, in the same class with | Dr. J. G. Johnson, to graduate at its head. Ali | ter years service in the Flatbush hospital Df. Farley opened an office in the city and practiced with good success until the ] outbreak of the war, in 1861, when he joined the Fourteenth regiment it's assistant sur geon, Dr. Joseph Homiston being his chief, and went at once to the front. Early in the 1 fall following Dr. Homiston resigned and Dr. Farley was promoted in his stead. He l had proved his mettle in arduous service and | won at once reputation a surgeon, so | much so that Mcclellan made him a division | surgeon at Antietam during the continu- l ance of the battle and after until the | wounded were all cared for. On August 29, i 1862, at Gaines Mills, the doctor was much l against his will transferred to the staff of 1 Stonewall Jackson. He stood by the wound
 ed in the field hospital until the enemy swept around and captured it. Jackson recognized | his great ability surgeon, and lost no 1 time in making his talent useful. Almost l his first duty was to amputate the leg of the l Confederate General Ewell. The operation
 was most successful, and the doctor | was at once on easy terms with his | captors. As result he was soon exchanged
 and went back again to the Fourteenth. l When the storm broke over the Gettysburg ! field, on July 1, 1863, to rage for three terri | ble days, the doctor was made medical di- I z o{o, I
 tors were placed under his command. Here
 again for seven days and nights he labored | with the wounded ceaselessly and wholly
 without sleep, to be captured in the midst of
 his labors by the enemy. Here, too, his ser l vices with Jackson stood him in good stead.
 Mir. Fisher, who was captured with him, tells
 that among the first to ride up to quar- ters was General Ewell, whose leg Dr. Farley had so neatly carved at Gaines
 Mills. He greeted Farley with a gay: ''Hello,
 Doca So we meet again" The doctor re- piled in kind, and asked Ewell where he was l going. "Gcing" answered the general,
 ''why, I'm going to Philadelphia to get a
 new leg" He never went farther than that l trip, though, and the doctor at once
 paroled to again rejoin his command
 and to be breveted a colonel for
 his courage and gallant services.
 1863, when his health so far failed to
 make him ask for 8 discharge the ground l of disability. It was granted and he re-
 turned to Brooklyn to resume his practice,
 first in Washington street and later in Hen ". When the fighting Fourteenth came ! back, shattered, war-worn regiment, he | again became it's surgeon and remained such up to the time of his death. Of | his high abilities General McLeer quotes Dr.
 Willard Parker saying: ''Dr. Farley is a | wonderfully bright man and it is serious | loss to tNe profession" Through all his lat I | Brooklyn social life With his commanding l figure and genial cultured manner he was | everywhere notable and everywhere sought, | while his interest in social enterprises was | unhagging. At the beginning of the Good 1 Templars' movement immediately after the | war he took an active part in founding the first Brooklyn organization, Alpha lodge, becoming it's chief officer little later, and remaining an ardent temperance advocate 1 all his life. As for his practice it kept him | busy, and if it did not enrich him it was be- 1 cause vast deal of his time given with out charge to the sick and wounded soldiers | with whom the city was filled, and who, l while he remained in practice, never called il vainly for his aid. With the establishment
 of the Grand army the doctor had
 much to do. He helped form Rankin | post, and was assistant ad jutant general un- | der General Sickles, and chief adjutant un- l der Grand Commanders Robinson and Lan- | sing, hence was very widely known among members of the G. A. R., his duties covering first the entire State and then the whole country. The doctor was also an enthusias
 tic Mason, and strove to master every detail | of the order. He belonged to Adytum lodge | and Dewitt Clinton commandery and was | equally prominent.
 | Outdoor sports and rife shooting were
 among his great pleasures. He was mem Der of the Williamsburg Athletic club and | one of tine keenest marksmen at Creedmoor. | <,f D,. Eo-1ox o1r ,,1a the Throop avenue Presbyterian church, | Brooklyn. Rev. J. O. Peck D. D., chaplain | of the regiment, delivered the funeral ad- l dress, Rev. L. R. Foote, the pastor, conduct | ing the services The Masonic lodges and | Grand Army posts participated. In compli-
 ance with the wishes of his wife, who alone | survives him, the remains were placed in the receiving vault at Greenwood for the pres ent.
 General James McLeer and staff of the | Third brigade occupied seats near the casket, and after the services the funeral was
 taken up by the military. Tie casket was
 carried from the church to the street by
 eight sergeants of the Fourteenth regiment. The pallbearers were Colonel Harry w. Mitchell, Captain Limburger of the Four | teenth regiment; General B. B. Fowler, | Lieutenant H. R. Williams of the War Vet
 erans' association, and Randolph w Gun zenhauser, John W. Mutt, George Nicholson
 and Wayland Trask of the Masonic lodges. | When the easket had been put in the
 hearse the march began in the following
 order:-Squad of police, Fourteenth regi-
 ment, hearse, Fourteenth Regiment War
 veterans, Adytum lodge, F. and A. M. :;
 Orient chapter, R. A. M.; Clinton command
 cry, Scottish Rite lodge and Franklin lodge, | No. 2,147, K. of H.
 l The march was along Willoughby avenue | to Bedford avenue, to Eastern Parkway, to | Ninth avenue, to Twentieth street, to l Seventh avenue to Greenwood cemetery. l There were military and masonic ceremen- | ies at the vault | List of Letters
 | Remaining in the New Haven postoffice, New Ha- l ven county State of Connecticut, Wednesday, | March 24, 1886:
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