The Penn's Grove record., 1896-11-13
PHYSICIAN Of THE SHGKS HaREu
DR.. VIM. II. S. Vanneman,
Of PENIS Grove,
HORoTsd by the P0teltats.

phia Inquirer contained portraits of DR..
William s. Vanneman and wife, now
medical missionaries under the Presby-
terrain Board of Missions in Persia and
a sketch of his career as a missionary.
1t would have been a novelty for a mod
ern American physician to have been
welcomed to King Solomon'sco and
to have looked after his thousand wives
and yet not a whit less novel is it for a
native of America, of New Jersey and
even of Penn's Grove to be the most
welcomed guest of all Americans at the
court Of the Shah of Persia.
William s. Vauneman Is the son of
the late Edwin S. Vanneman, and JOS
ephine (NeweII) VaDneman, now Of Sa.
lem. He was born on a farm near
Penn's Grove in 1863 and received his
education in the old Cove School House.
His father died in 1874. His mother
lived at the Cove for three years, then
moved onto q farm near Salem. DR..
Vanneman prepared for Princeton Col
lege in Salem. He studied two years in
College, then took a four year medical
course at the University of Pennsylva-
MA where he graduated with honor.
He practiced for two years in a dispen-
sary aud at Blockley Almshouse, where
he met Miss Marguerite Fox, of Phila-
delphia, who was a trained nurse.
They married six years ago and went
as missionaries to Tabriz, Persia.
HIS VALUABLE SERVICE.
When the cholera ragged with awful
fury throughout Persia, decinatiDg the
ranks of the Lowry, aud attacking with
frightful result the higher classes, DR..
Vanneman rendered valuable service.
As a physician he gave medical attend.
ance to the sick, aud as a missionary he
ministered to the dying and assisted in
buryiDg the dead, so long as that Vas
possible. Thea as the stricken lay un-
buried he saw dogs drag their putrid
bodies along the filthy highways. FL
nally his health gave way and he aud
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tains, but no rest awaited the young
physician o. his bride there, for a fam.
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hina' A le''er uaseu oc.opef osl, re-
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neman describes .he Journey as ioiiows:
we were t"ehty'.hlee Jays IN reach,
ing 1eheran the capitol We aver
from III 10 20 mics ua'iy. wow
all Inc way III carriage Drawn oy SIX
horses riduen ny ch'ee urisefs. Ing
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each l u ol " NUE. que AaJaS" paianc-
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