Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-01-21


try's cause. After the war, though he
had wife and three children, he at-
tended medical lectures in the Uni
yersity of Pennsylvania for one Win
ter, and then removed to SWedesborO
and entered upon his life's service as
a country doctor, and soon became the
leading physician in that section. He
was very popular and eminently sue
cssful. He was man of influence in
civil and political matters, serving as
one of the Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas from 1892 to1802.
He was twice married. BY his first
marriage he had two daughters, Anna
who married DR.. John l.. Stratton,
and Sarah who married Edward
father of Judge T. P. Carpenter, BY
the second marriage he had six chill
dren, the Oldest one, Samuel ", being
a rector in the Protestant Episcopal
Church; his second son, Charles c..
Stratton, was the first Governor of
New Jersey under the new constitu-
tion. One daughter married DR.. f.
B. ithian, and his daughter Harriet
DR.. Joseph Fithian.
DR.. Stratton was religious man,
and early in life joined the Protestant
Episcopal Church. Being fond of
music he usually led the singing. He
venerated the Lords Day and SO tim
ed his professional engagements as
to secure for himself the privilege of
divine worship. He was possessed of
a fine, commanding figure, genial man
ners, christian tenderness, and full
of sympathy. He was one whom
everybody loved and respected. As a
politician, he was a Federalist, and
his influence with the people was such
that, with the exception of six per-
sons, he controlled the entire vote of
the township.
In 1856, DR.. Stratton joined the New
Jersey Medical Society, and in 1888
he was elected its PRESIDENT In 1890
when it was Incorporated for twenty
five years, he and DR.. Benjamin Tall
man, of Haddonfield, were the incor-
porators for Gloucester county. He
died March 20, 1872, in his fifty-sev-
enth year, and was buried in the old
church yard of the Swedish Evangeli-
cal Lutheran Church of Raccoon, as
it was then called, now Trinity Prot
estant Episcopal Church of Swedes-
boro. (g).
DR.. Thomas .Hendry was born in
Burlington county of English par
entage in 1747, but began his practice
in Woodbury. within a few hundred
feet of this court houselS~We should
be very proud of him, for he served
his country during the Revolutionary
War, first as surgeon in the third
battalion of Gloucester militia, and
then as Superintendent OF the Con-
tinental Hospital. During the war
he became very intimate with John
Cooper, Gloucester countys foremost
patriot during the Revolution,
and was his trusted physician. To
him John Cooper left most of his
worldly goods, and his brick mansion
on Broad street, now occupied by
DR.. Duncan Campbell. DR.. Hendry
was active in public affairs, serving
as Judge from 1907 to 1918, and as
County Clerk from 1915 to 1920. In
1918 DR.. Hendry was one of the or
ganizers of the Gloucester District
Medical Society.
Although generous in his dealings
with his patients, he did not believe
in being imposed upon, and when the
County of Gloucester refused to pay
a bill that he had presented to the
Board of Freeholders for services rem
dered, he brought suit and recovered
the full amount.
Dr. Bowman Hendry, son of DR..
Thomas Hendry, was born in Wood
bury October 1, 1773. He was the
first person born in Gloucester. county
to study and practice medicine, that
we have any record of. For over one
hundred years after the settlement in
Newton township and on Woodbury.
creek, not person born within the
county had chosen this profession,
those practicing its noble virtues hav-
ing been born in other counties or
countries. Bowman Hendry was edu-
Gated at the school in Woodbury. un-
der Rev. Andrew Hunters tuition
Hunter was a Presbyterian dominic,
a classical scholar and man of high
literary attainments, and was the first
teacher in the Woodbury. Academy,
after it was built in 1871. Even in
boyhood Bowman Hendry was dis
tinguished by his courtesy and kind
ness of disposition, and as a student
his punctuality, industry and zeal
won for him the confidence and favor
of his teachers" To the noble teach
ings of his grand instructor, combined
with the loving counsels of his mother
much of the good done by DR.. Bowman
Hendry in his long and honored car
eer as christian physician may be
due.
At the age of seventeen he COM
menced the study of medicine under
his father, attending lectures in the
University of Pennsylvania. While a
student there the Whiskey Insurrec-
tion broke out in Pennsylvania in
1894, and young Hendry joined the
ranks as private soldier, and march
ed to Lancaster. The influence of
his father with Professor James, the
surgeon of the troop, secured his re-
lease from the ranks, and passing an
examination at the University, he was
appointed assistant surgeon. AS this
was bloodless war, his service was
soon ended, and on his return he Sc
lected Haddonfield as his field of
labor in 1894.
His practice increased rapidly, ex-