The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-07
DR.. D0DD, DEAN OF
ESSEX PHYSICIANS,
IS DEAD, AGED 81
Former County Officer Was Born
in East Orange and Was Grad
uated from Princeton.

DR.. Bethuel Lewis Dodd, dean of Els
sex county medical practitioners, is
dead at the home of his son, DR.. Ed
ward L. Dodd, of 10 Frederick street,
his city, where he had long made his
home. Death was cauced by a general
breakdown. He was 81 years old.
Mr.. Dodd was born in East Orange
On January rs, 1925. The old nome
stead Is still standing In Grove street,
while Dodd street, named after the
physicians father, was once the narrow
lane leading from the rear of the Dodd
farm to the thoroughfare.
His early education was in the little
stone schoolhouse in "Doddtown," that
portion of Orange between East Orange
and Bloomfield. The building was many
years g converted into a gristmill.
which was operated for a time AND then
abandoned. the ruins now forming
of the most picturesque landmarks of
Essex county.
Graduate of Princeton.
From the stone schoolhouse the young
man went to the Orange High School.
thence to Princeton, where he was grad
uated in 1S49. Fresh from college, filled
with enthusiasm and ardor. he de-
termined to make medicine his life
work, and entered the Office of DIR.
Abraham Coles, of this city.
He applied himself SO assiduously that
in three years he was Ible to pass with
high honors the graduation examina-
it,. "a ~ rNI1Aoro 90 DHxyrfnta0 anI
Surgeons, in New York, and received
his degree at once.
DR.. Coles at once complimented the
young man. whose brilliant career he
rrophesied, by making him his junior
partner, and for twenty-five years they
practised together.
Notwithstanding his large private
practise. DIR. Dodd was for ten years
county physician of Essex county, was
at one time police surgeon of Newark,
surgeon-in-chief of the Pennsylvania
railroad, district physician in Newark
and examining surgeon of Ward Hos
pital. During the Civil War he was
examining surgeon of the Thirteenth
and Twenty-sixth New Jersey Volun-
teers.
DR.. Dodd gave up his practise In 1878
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family in Orange. He was married
twice, his first wife being Miss Susan
jacques, OF Railway, and his second
wife Miss Gertrude Ray Ward. of New
ark. His second wife died several years
ago.
Resided with Son.
For several years past DIR. Dodd had
lived with his son, DIR. Edward L. Dodd,
NJ 10 Irradari1Iy Stroaf thiS aIfU A hn,f
a month ago the aged physician con-
tracted a severe cold. which he was
unable to throw off. He was attended
by his son. with whom he lived, and
DR.. Samuel w. Dodd, of Montclair, an
other son, but became worse, gradually
sinking into a state of coma. His rela-
tives were summoned, and at the time
of his death he was surrounded by his
family.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
afternoon from the home of DR.. Samuel
w. Dodd, II Southmont avenue, Mont
clair. DIR. Samuel E. Vassar, of Eliza
beth, a lifelong friend of the family,
will officiate.
DR.. Dodd is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. David c. Runyon, of Washington
street. Newark, who is In her ninety
tnlrd year, ana NrS. JuHd Wdiidce, Oh
East Orange. Seven of eleven children
survive. They are Mrs. Henry F. Starr,
of New York; Mrs. Anna May Stanton
and Miss Louisa M. Dodd, of Newark;
Mrs. Gertrude f. Riebeneck, of Phila-
delphia; Matthias M. Dodd, of Sea Cliff.
Long Island; DIR. Edward L. Dodd, of
Newark, and DR.. Samuel w. Dodd, of
Montclair. There are several grand
children.