The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-07
DR.. QU|MBY DEAD
Noted Jersey City Physician
and Independent Pub
lie Worker.
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA
Features Of a Notable Career
--Honors From Many
Scientific Bodies.
His Activity as a Local Re-
former = Life Long
Water Fight.

pneumonia at $50 o'clock last night, in
his home, No. 81 Crescent avenue. His
wife and his two sons were with him
when the end came. He had been uncon-
scious from nine O'Clock in the morning.
His physician, DIR. Buffet. left him but a
few minutes before his death.
DIR. Quimby was sick a week, almost
to the hour. File contracted a cold while
attending a trial in the Hudson county
Circuit Court, and a week ago yesterday
it developed into pneumonia. AS DR..
Quimby had had one severe siege of pneu-
monia it went hard with him from the
beginning. Everything possible was
done for Kim.
DIR. Buffet called Drs. Forman and No
BILE of this city. and Quimby ard Della
field of New York. into consultation with
him, but they could do nothing to save the
patient. The death of DR.. Quimby has
Frustrated his wife.
The funeral will be held from his late
home on Wednesday next at three
o'clock. The Rev. John L. Scudder will
officiate.
. DR.. Iaaac Newton Quimby was born Au-
gust 5, 1881, near Basking Ridge. and was
the son of Nicholas Emmons and Rachael
CStout) Quimby, grandson of John Quinn
by, -greatgrandson of Judge Nicholas En-
mons of the Supreme Court of New Jer-
sey. Both his grandfathers were patriot
soldiers in the Wal of the Revolution,
while his father served in the war of 1872.
DIR. Quimby was left an orphan at an
early age, and was forced to depend upon
his own resources. His early employment
was farming, and at the age of nineteen
ne had also acquired a practical knowl-
edge of the milling business. About the
year 1851 he went west and engaged in
the flour and milling business at Somer-
vile and GAINESVILLE. Ohio. There he
formed an acquaintance with DR.. Barr,
who advised him to undertake the study
of medicine, and for three years ne pur-
sued this study in connection with his
daily labors. At the same time, by econ
omy, he accumulated means sufficient for
a preparatory course at the Chester In
~stitute, Chester. n. j., then a f~lourishing
collegiate school under the late Professor
Rankin: matriculated at the University
Medical College, New York city, in 1856,
and was graduated. second in his class
with a special certificate of honor, in
1853. Upon the breaking out of the Re
AfiC IL I'LL tittc1SQ LIE ARMY DIS
a volunteer surgeon; served with General
McClellan's forces in the swamps of the
Chickahominy, in the Seven Days Battle
and sehange of base to the James River
and the retreat to Harrison's Landing:
was at Antietam and remained with his
division until after the battles of the
Wilderness, when on account of illness, he
returned home, and shortly after resumed
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since been actively engaged.
DR.. Quirnby was lecturer in the spring
course of the University Medical College,
New York, 1se6-'6S. and also assistant to
Prof. A.. c. Post In his surgical clinic at
the same Institution. He was the or
iginator of the Hudson county, now
Christ's Hospital. in 1858. and was sur
geon to the same until 1873. He was also
one of the attending g of the City
Hospital, Jersey City.
DIR. Quimby was a member of the
American Medical Association, and a
member of its judicial council, was one
of the founders and the first chairman
of the section of medical Jurisprudence of
that association; a member of the Hudson
County District Medical Society, of the
American Public Health Association, of
the Medico-Legal Society of New York, of
the New York Society of Jurisprudence
and State Medicine, of the Mississippi
Valley Medical Association, honorary
member of the genealogical Society of
Boston. member of the British Medical
Association, of the American Association
for the Cure of Inebriety, was a dele
gate from the American Medical Associ-
alton to the international Medical Con-
gress. London. 1881, again in 1884. in
Copenhagen, and again in 1894 at Rome,
Italy. He was a member of the First
Pan-American Medical Congress. which
met at Washington, d. c., in September,
1885.
DR.. Quimby has devised several impor-
1ant improvements in surgical operations:
IA New Mode of Treatment of Congenital
Talipes," Transactions of the American
Medical Association, Vol. XIX; "a New
Method of Amputation of the Ankle
joint" ibid, Vol, XXI; "a Case of Com
pound Fracture of the Tibia and Fibula,"
and operation on parallel bones by which
the amputation OF a limb may be avoided.
ibid, 1873; 1.-THE criminal Use of Chloro-
form.o an original Investigation which
grew out of his work as an expert in the
Smith-Bennet murder trial in Jersey
City, ibid, Vol. Xxx. DR.. Quimby
was one Of the founders of the American
Medical Temperance Association in 1891,
vice-President in 1891. to present time;
and delivered an address before the
Worlds Temperance Congress at Chicago
in 1899. He also wrote a paper on the
Pathological Action of Alcohol in Health
and Disease read before the New Jer-
sey State Temperance Alliance, printed by