Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-01-28

ued to practice there until he died in
April, 1884, a period of forty-seven
| years-a record very few doctors have
made.
In 1886 he was one of the doctors
that reorganized the Gloucester Co.
Medical Society, and was elected
Treasurer For many terms he serv-
ed as Treasurer, Secretary and Presi-
dent of the County Society, and was a
| member of the Board ofCensors of
the New Jersey Medical Society for
many years.
In 1840 he married Henrietta Camp
bell, daughter of Amos and Ann Camp
bell, of Woodbury., and was very hap
py in his domestic life. He was a
| lifelong member of st. Paul's Protest.
ant Episcopal Church in Clarksboro,
and Senior Warden until his decease.
Those who knew him professionally 7
speak in loving terms of his skill and
care. Those who had the additional
charm of his friendship as neigh
Dor and friend were more highly
honored One of the pleasansest
visits in my life was at his home as
his guest for dinner, and the delight
full freedom in conversation with
him, and the dignified yet kindly well
come extended to me by his beautiful
wife, left an impression on me that
has never passed away. One thing
more | must say of DR.. Weatherby,
he was one of the best Latin scholars
in this county.
4-Doctor Alexander ]. McKelway,
who lived many years in Williams
town, was a classical student, grad
uating from Princeton in 1881, and
from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1884. He practiced in Trenton and
in Blackwoodtown before the war, and
was commissioned to be the surgeon
of the Eighth New Jersey Volunteers,
serving from September IA, 1851 to
April Z, 1864, rising to the rank of
Division Surgeon on the staff of Major
General Joe Hooker.
After the war he settled in Black
wood again, but subsequently re-
moved to Williamstown, where he
had an extensive practice. He took
an active part in local politics, and
came as delegate from Monroe town
ship to the convention at Woodbury.
which nominated John F. Bodine for
Senator. His Williamstown associates
nominated him for chairman of the
convention, the Woodbury. men nomi-
mated your speaker, and although
Williamstown got the Senator later
on, Woodbury. secured the chairman
ship of the convention. DR.. Nickel
way was a member of the Gloucester
County Medical Society in 1859. A
colleague wrote of him. "One of the
most companionable, genial and thor
oughly posted gentlemen | ever met.
Has probably one of the most exten-
sive libraries of any member of the
profession in the State" Cd. He died
in WilliamstoWn in 1885. CHI.
DR.. John Richardson Andrews, the
pioneer practitioner of Homeopathy
in this county, was born in Camden
September 81, 1918. After being ed,l.-
Gated in the best schools in his native
town, he studied medicine under DIR.
William Schmole in Philadelphia, and
graduated from Jefferson Medical Col
lege in 1910. Having been treated =
a homeopathic physician during his
studies, and receiving prompt relief,
he Investigated Homeopathy, and
soon becoming convinced the law of
similars was true, he began practicing
it in Camden in 1841. He was faith
fully supported by few warm friends
but the opposition becoming very bit
ter, he went to Wilming gton, Del, for
short time At the earnest solici-
tation of his friends and former pa
tients, he returned to Camden to
practice, Notwithstanding the obstacles
thrown in his way by some of the
regular school of medicine.
In 1851, the legislature passed an
amendment to the Medical ACT, per
mitting graduates from two colleges
in New York and three colleges in
Philadelphia to practice medicine in
this State upon the payment of & fee
of five dollars, without passing an ex-
animation before the Board of Cen
sors. This was known among medical
men as the favored college act. To
avoid the constant charges of irregu
lar practice and to save himself from
the payment of heavy fines and pen
alties, Dr. Andrews took advantage of
this Act, and in 1852 he became a
licentiate of the Medical Society of
New Jersey ,and thereafter, being a
lawful practitioner, escaped much of
the bitterness formerly shown him.
He was an energetic man, of great
personal magnetism, and man of
irreproachable character. He had
great influence over his patients, and
by his pleasant, winning way he made
hosts of friends
In 1846 he went to Mount Holly,
and with few other homeopathic
physicians organized the New jersey
branch of the American Institution of
Homeopathy, and was made its first
President. (k). In 1853, he and his
brother Edward, prominent lawyer,
in conjunction with his fellow Hsmo-
eopathic physicians in Trenton and
East Jersey, formed plans for the pas
sage of a law under which any grad
uate from a reputable medical college
could, after filing a copy of his di-
ploma in the Clerks Office of the
county in which he desired to practice,
legally practice medicine.
To combat this bill, and prevent its
passage, the committee on Medical
Legislation of the Medical Society of
NIcrr, Tarcaxr had WON, n fr,o oJ tr,,,