The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-17
MEDICAL
MORRISTOWN
Interesting Essays at Morris
town Medical Club at a
Recent Meeting.
DR.. F. w. OWEN REMINISCENT

papers were Todu NY LII. y : d. UllSWOiu
on g An unusual case of intestinal OBJ
struction with laparotomy," by DR..
Alfred A. Lewis, being the Presi-
dents address before the Tri-County
Medical Society," and by DR.. f. w.
Owen (who setUled here in June, 1870)
on g Medical Morristown from 1870 to
1907
From the latter paper, as being of
public interest, we make the follow
ing historical quotations g.
"At that time (187O) the writer
found in the town traditions of the
great ability, as physician, of iold
DIR. Johnes' deceased in 1869, and of the
pronounced talent of DR.. Fisher
then elsewhere located, and of DR..
Gus Quimby' the surgeon, whose mar
riage removed him from very active
practice.
Morristown then boasted of only
four or five active physicians, to wit :
DIR. w. Deli. Quimby, facile pgSqaceps.
DIR. p Q. Barker "a close second) DR.
Sanborne (homeopathist), DR.. Frank
Sanders just installed and DR.. I. b.
Flagler, OF High street. True, DR.. Ed
ward Hoffman had an office, corner
Boyken street and Macculloch avenue,
and had done much work in previous
years also DR.. Stephenson had prac-
-ticed here, but was retiring. There
were others, like DR.. Woodruff, fully
competent to adorn the profession, but
who had left the arena.
8 In 1878, DR.. Stephen Pierson, who
had been successfully practicing at
Boonton, joined forces with DR.. Quinn
by in the long wooden, two story, moss
rooted. end to the street and roofess-
porch house, near Days bakery. 1t
was remarkably strong team and a
leading one.
!" In this year, also, from the Wo-
mems Medical College, N. Y. City, was
graduatedup DR.. Charlotte Ford.
SAT before this time, DR.. Jas.
B. Douglas, the writer's old stud
ent, and physician to the Morristown
Board of Health, had drug store
between Days and Dr. Quimby's, in a
frame house long since torn down, and
our friend and colleague DR.. Gustav
A. Becker was studying medicine in
this decade with one of our promi-
ment physicians. Both DR.. Douglas
and DIR. Becker graduated with honors
from the N. Y. u and G. P. and S. ;
in the year 1880.
Doctor Sanborne, of Western ave-
nue., dying, suddenly, of pulmonary
congestion in 1872, Dr. Armin Ue-
belacker, who graduated from the N.
Y. Fl. G. in 1871, came, from School
ey's Mountain, to take up his rapidly
extending practice These were the
first avowed MorriStown homeopaths
within the writer's knowledge.
" Between 1870 and 1880 another
homeopathist, Dr. Doolittle, began to
do considerable over on Bridge Street,
but finally removed from town With
in this same period Dr. Macomber, a
competent homeopathist and a charm
ing gentleman, had, for two or more
years. an Office in the Or. Cantield
mansion, about where the Schmidt
building is now located but finally re-
moved TO California, When the Wit
test member Of the Club moved into
Ii, offices.
fNg,is d,oada ~ 1S-n ~ 1881 rva..
MaIked by two important medical
events first, the reorganization OF the
long defunct County Medical Society
with DE- John s. Stiger as President,
Dr r. O. Barker as Vice President,
nT stephen Pierson as Secretary and
Dr 4. w. Owen as Treasurer OF the
chen members put few survive
The second event alluded TO was
tile 0J ening, In 1876 OF the New Jer-
sey State Hospital and the organiza-
tion Of the Hospital staff with Dr
Buttoiph as Medical Director preced-
ing Or. Joseph Smith and l)r butt0n
d Evans.
Taking up a second decade viz.
1850 to 1890 that member of the Club
without whom il could nor live.
move. and have its being, agree0biy
10 wit, Or, Alfred a LeyiS, was then
quite an old reSideptel of this baili-
wick Long may his friendship be
ours,
Df. H Al. Henriqlies, a graduate Of
tile College 0f Physicians and Sur
geons, New York ia 1882, and a pupil
OF the late Professor Sands the noted
surgeon, after successful practice in
New York State, located on South
street in 1892.
The lamented DR.. Harry McCarroll
graauati4g from the same Institution
one year earlier after making his
. mark in New York City, located here
about 1889, was Police Surgeon and
also a member OF The staff 0f both our
Hospitals
During this period, the elder DR..
q Kelley, unmiStakably a wen-eguip.
ped physician established himself in
Morristown, dying ia All Souls Hos
pital
In 1889 Dr. Wilkinson graduated
from N. Y u, and, after hospital ap-
pOintmentS in Newark, settled here.
The period between 1890 and 1900
was made memorable to as by the
opening for patients of All Souls
Hospital in 1892 and " Memorial
Hospital in 1893, the original staff Of
All Souls being Dr. Stephen Pier
son, medical director, DR.. Fl Al. Her
riqueS, secretary and operative sur
geon, DIR. 0'Reilley, the elder, Dr.
Calvin Anderson neStor Of this Club,