The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-09
of Noted Physician to
Be Held from New York
Home Tomorrow.
SERVED HIS COUNTRY WELL
IN WAR OF THE REBELLION
Long and Useful Professional
Career of Former New
ark Official.

49,
honor, who died at his home. % East
Forty-ninth street, New York, yester-
day, will be held from the house to-
morrow morning at II o'clock. The
intern1ent will be in Sleepy Hol-
low Cemetery at Tarrytown. Hun
dreds of friends, both in this city and
New York, as well as throughout this
section of the country, where he was
1 well known, mourn the loss Of DR..
Grant.
DR.. Grant was born in Newark on
September 4. 1926, of a prominent New
Jersey family. He was the son of
Charles Grant, and the last descend
ant of William Grant. DIR. Grant was
sixth in descent from Major Robert
Treat, whose son., Richard Treat. or
gained the settlements along the Pas
sale. He was graduated from Williams
College in 1916, taking with distin-
gufshed honor the degrees of A. q.
and A. NJ, and was graduated from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons
in New York in 1851.
In 1852 DIR. Grant went to Panama.
New Granada, at the height of the gold
craze of California. He practi5ed his
profession of surgeon on the Isthmus.
and while there organized the Ameri-
can Hospital, the first of these insti-
tutions In South America, and was the
first to seriously attempt to introduce
modern American sanitary methods on
the 1sthmus. which was at that time q
hot-bed of yellow fever and cholera
DR.. Grants literary talents were at
the same time employed in editing the
Panama Herald. In 1854 he was re.
called to this country to organize a
fight against the cholera epidemic
which was devastating the neighbor-
hood of New York. He was health
commissions in this city and fought
the epidemic with great success.
Upon the outbreak of the Civil War
in 1861, DR.. Grant enlisted as surgeon
in the Second New Jersey Volunteers,
in the brigade of General Phil Kearny.
This regiment a the honor of being
the first to pass through Baltimore
after the hostile reception of the Mas
sachusetts soldiers, n also the first
10 cross the long bridge into Virginia.
From that time until the close of the
war, DR.. Grant was in active service
IN the field. He was rapidly pro-
NOTED. and became in succession bril-
gade and division urgeon, with the
rank of major. He was in the field
in the midst of the heaviest fighting
during many of the most sanguinary
battles of the war. He served through
out the war, his term of service being
three years and four months. at which
time he was retired, having been in
capacitated by a wound received in
operating. He took part in the battles
of Bull Run, both the first and sec
ond engagements, Fair Oaks, the siege
1 nf Nnrlfnryy IUsIlfn, rI,~ rNs-@-
Mills, Peach Orchard Station. Malvern
Hill, Antietam, South Mountain, White
Oak Swamp, Fredericksburg, siege of
Vicksburg and S~artatia. He was hon.
orably mentioned for distinguished gall
lantry under fire at the battles of Fair
Oaks, Fredericksburg and Antietam,
which were among the most desperate
engagements of the Civil War. Els per-
sonal bravery and distinguished serv-
ices on these occasions were recognized
by Congress, which awarded him the
medal of honor, an honor equivalent
to the Victorian cross in England, AM
conferred only for services of special
heroism under fire and outside of the
line of regular duty.
Knew Many Generals.
DR.. Grant enjoyed the close friend
mp oiio ooN ifUNll z NlCS Will ilIdAJ
of the most distinguished generals of
the Civil War. notably Generals Rich
ardson, Kearny and Howard, who died
recently. and especially General
French, on whose staff DR.. Grant was
long a member. He took part In the
celebrated reconnaissance-in-forc OF
General Stone at Cedar Run, having
as companions on thai celebrated raid
the Prince de Joinville and the Comte
de Paris.
In 1858 DR.. Grant was assigned to
the medical command of the Western
Division of Indiana and established the
hospital at Evansville. Ind. The United
States Hospital at Madison, Ind, was
organized under DR.. Grants superyi-
sion and control, and was at that tim
the most extensive. hospital in the
world, consisting of sixty-ive build
ings with 5000 patients. So success
full was his management of this hos.
pital that during eighteen months only
100 patients died out of 1900.
Prior to his assignment to Indiana,
DIR. Grant took part in the siege OF
Ficksburg. He was with General Kim.
ball at Sartatia. n of the most des-
perately fought battles of the war, from
which few survivors returned. 1t was
from exposure privation, as we'll as
from malaria contracted in the cam
paign, that DR.. Grant experienced many
years of subsequent suffering.
In 1853 DR.. Grant married Caroline A.
second daughter of De Forest Manice
and Catherine Booth. He leaves 8
widow and three sons, Madison Grant
De Forest Grant, Norman Grant. A
daughter. Katherine Manice Grant, died
in June
DIR. Grant was a member of the fol
lowing clubs: Century Association
Military Order of h Loyal Legion
Medal of Honor Legion, of which he IL
surgeon-general; Medical Society of the
County of New York. State Medical So,
ciety, American Medical Society, Med
ico-Legal Society, New Jersey Histori-
cal Society, Grand Army of the Repub.
lie, Washington Post; New York Genoa
logical and Biographical Society, Delta
Epsilon Club.