The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-23
.DR. VATSON'S DEATH.
One of New Jerseys Lead
ing Medical Men
Passes Away.
BRILLIANT ARMY RECORD,
Noted as an Author as Well ar
Physician and Surgeon.

The death Of DIR. Beriah A. Watson
whose death was exclusively announced
In The JERSEY CITY NEWS yesterday,
was the general topic o. conversation
throughout the city last evening. Dr..
watson has been sufferer from diabetic
complaint for the past eighteen years. OR
Ine2 nlgn5 or November 10 he went from
his office on York street TO visit a patient
on the heights. He caught q severe cold
winch aggravated his complaint, and his
Illness worried him to some extent. On
election night he called ais family around
his bed aud said:-
MY life will not be year longer" He
exercised great precaution while i'll, bus
on November 80. he felt SO much 1uls
proved that he performed a difficult aud
delicate operation. From this time on he
grew worse daily. Doctors Janeway, OF
New YORK; P. Watson, Hardenbura.
She by and his son-in-iaw DIR. Inglis were
IN constant attendance, but at no time
was any. hope entertained for his recovery.
Frequent hemorrhages undermined whaS
Strength was built up. and last Thursday,
friday and Saturday he lay unconscious.
On Sunday he regained consciousness,
and remained SO until his death which ee-
CURED at 2:2o o'clock yesterday. He bade
his family fond farewell
Death was the result OF diabetfs
troubles, which illuminated in general
dropsY.
The funeral will take place at eleven
O'Clock tomorrow morning from his late
residence. The Rev. Drs. Cornelius
Breth and Paul D. Van Clesf, Pastor
Emeritus, Of the Wayne Street Reformed
Church, will officiate. The palT bearers
will be:-Dr. E. j. Marsh, ofs tersonS
DR.. William Pearson. of Orange; Dr. F.
G. Payne. of Bergen Point; DR.. r, +.
Chabert, of Hoboken; and Messrs John
ID. CarscaIlen, John EdeIstein, James 3,
Vredenher9h and James Warren.
EARLY STRUGGLES.
DR.. Watson was born Oh his fathers
farm, on Lake George, March 26, 1885.
His father WAS Perry Watson and his
mother was Marion Place. When bue
seven years old he was sent to district
school, which he attended every winter
until he reached the age of fourteen
years. being Obliged to work on the farm
years with Jonathan Streeter, known as
= strict Quaker, but excellent instructor,
He graduated from the New York StatS
Normal School with honors, and, coming
TO New Jersey, studied medicine with DR..
james Reilly at Succassunny Norris
county. He remained with DR. Reilly
Two years, and when twentv-three years
old he entered the New York Medical
Institute, from which he graduated In
1861.
ENTERS THE ARMY.
He settleu in WhiIehouse. Huuterdon
county, where he practiced one year,
when the war broke out and DR.. Watson
enlisted. He was assigned 10 the Mill
tary Hospital at Newark as assistant
surgeon. On March 26, 1868, he was or
dered to the Fourth New Jersey VoIun-
teers as assistant surgeon. Soon
after he was assigned to the
Fourth Artillery Brigade. which
WAS at the battle of Gettysburg, and at
its close was promoted TO be surgeon
with the rank OF major. Soon after that
he was appointed operating surgeon. and
assigned to the First Brigade of the First
Division OF the Sixth Army Corps, and
continued in the Office of medical pnr-
veyor of the corps until the close Of the
war, when he came TO this city.
SETTLES IN JERSEY CITY.
DR.. Watson took promlnenSa1CsitiOR
among the leading physicians OF the state,
and has since been identified with all
movements for the best interests of Jer-
sey City. He was one of the organizers
Of the old Charity Hospital, which SUBJ
sequently became the Jersey City Hos.
pital. When it opened he wasthe attend.
ing physician. and tor many years he was
member of the visiting board He was
the first official surgeon of ST. Francis
Hospital, and was frequently caiIea in
consultation to Christ's and Bayonne
Hospital.
In 1882 DR.. Watson was made an M. A.
by Rutgers College. He was instrn-
mental in founding the New Jersey
Academy Of medicine, and was one of its
presidents. He was also member Of the
New Jersey State Medical SocteAF, th0
New York Neurological Society2 Jersey
City Pathological Society; New Jersey
Microscopical Society; and the Now York
Pathological Society.
He was also an ex-member Of the Hud.
son County Medical Society, and an
honorary member OF the Kansas City
Medical Society; Trinity Historical
Society, of Texas and q member of the
Loyal Legion. He was the last member
New Jersey. This society is limited In
membership. and man to be-
come eligible has to be famous.
DR.. Watson's reputation WAS not oonfnsd
to this State or county. bus he was we'll
known in Europe as u physician and sur
geon of ability. On a recent visit to
Europe he was cordially received by
medical societies and eminent members
of the medical profession In England,
France, Germany and Austria.
On September a. 1858, he married.
Phoeba A. Traphagen, only daughter of
the late Henry NJ. Traphagen. and had
two children, one of whom, Mrs, DR..
STUDENT AND AUTHOR.
Dr. Watson was great student, and
possessed one of the largest and most
valuable libraries in the State. Though
the greater number of the volumes were
medical works, ne had many books upOn
general subjects. The Doctor also pub
published many volumes, original and
translated from foreign languages.
The work he first published was in 1871
and was "a Case of Neuralgia Treated
by Exterpation of the Superior Maxil-
larry Nerve" new and startling opera
tion. Among the others were:-''Path-
olegy and Treatment of Chronic Ulcers"
1875; Ceases of Rabies Gamma Treated
with SJrychnine aud Woorara," 1875;
Disease Germs, Their Origin, Nature
and Relation to Wounds" 1S7S;"F oorsra,
Its Medical Properties aud Availability
fol the Treatment of Disease" 1882, and
IAN Expert Mental Study of An@ sthe-
TICS" 1884 Besides these, DR.. Watson
published two volumes of size, "Amputa-
tions and Their Complications, Phila-
delphia, 1886, and"The Sportsman'sIPara-
dice on the Lake Lands of Canada" pub
lished in 1888