Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-01-28

Vols, he remained with that regiment
until the expiration of its term of SER
vice, May 81, 1864 AT the urgent
solicitation of the Medical Director
of the Army, he was ordered to City
Point. Va. to organize and carry on
a Depot Field Hospital for the first
division of the sixth corps, the third
division of the fifth corps, and later
he was placed in charge of the medi-
cal department OF the Artillery Bril-
gade, sixth corps. While in front of
petersburg he volunteered to take
charge of the small pox hospital for
which service he was brevetted Lieut..
Col. u. S. Vols. He remained with
the artillery brigade until the close of
the war, when he resigned and came
home, resuming his practice in
Swedesboro.
He was trustee and District Clerk
of his school district for eighteen
years, and also Township Superinten-
dent for number of years. He was
a member of Trinity Protestant Epis-
copal Church at SWedesboro and one
of the yestry for seventeen years. He
was a member of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, and when New
Jersey was made a separate jurisdic-
tion, he was appointed Grand Medical
Examiner for this State, and was re-
elected every year. This Order at
tanned it's greatest numerical strength
during his medical control.
DR.. Halsey was actively interested
in all matters pertaining to the good
and welfare of the people among
whom he lived. He was considered a
natural born surgeon" and his SER
vices were much in demand in all sur
gical cases. He died at Swedesboro
in 1885,
In bringing this paper to a close, /
desire to dwell few moments on the
life and services of one whom pro-
badly every one in this room knew,
and many of them have loved. | re-
fer to DR.. Henry Clay Clark, formerly
of Woodbury., bur Known all over the
county for his many acts of kindness.
Born in Paulsboro November "a, 1892,
and educated in the Woodbury. Aca-
denny, he studied medicine under his
fathers direction, and graduated from
the University of Pennsylvania in 1853
and began practice with his father,
ed the County Medical Society in 1854,
and in 1856, by request of the Society
he read an elaborate paper on AM
putation.' He had fine war record.
The colonel, majors, and twenty-three
of the captains and lieutenants of a
Delaware regiment presented him
with a petition to become their sur
geon, but being offered the position
of assistant surgeon in the Second n.
j. Vols, he accepted the offer and was
commissioned Oct. u, 1861, because
the soldiers were from his own state
On Feb. Is, 1863, he was promoted to
be surgeon of the Third N. j. Vols,
and on the expiration of the regi-
ment's term of service he was COM
missioned surgeon in the 37th N. J.
Vols. June "a, 1864.
He was married Nov. 80, 1854 to
Lucy Isabella Wood while in the
army, but absent on a furlough, and
to Woodbury., and lived with his faith
er till 1867, when he built the brick
house now occupied by his son, DR..
H. H. Clark, where he passed the re-
mainder of his days.
DIR. Harry Clark was member and
vestryman of Christ Church in Wood
bury, and in his younger days was
active in fraternal socities, being at
one time secretary of Woodbury. lodge
No. "a, l. O. o. F. Finding this posi-
tion interfered with his duties to his
patients, he resigned, and never
went through the chairs. !"
Long before the cry of good roads"
was heard in this county, DR.. Clark
had done much practical work for tie
betterment of roads around Woodbury.
and the constant improvements in the
roadbed of the Woodbury. and Glou
cester turnpike, and the stoning of
the Mullica Hill and Woodbury. turn
pike was largely accomplished through
his instrumentality
AS a physician and as a man DR.
Henry c. Clark was highly esteemed,
genial and kindly in disposition, he
was a pleasant associate to have inter
course with. Honorable in his deal
ings, ever ready to help those whom
he thought worthy of assistance, he
was a good friend, an excellent ply
sician and a humble Christian. When
he died December 26, 1904, Woodbury.
lost the last of that noble band of
doctors whose lives had been passed
in the nineteenth century going about
in this county doing good.
b. History of Medical Profession of
Camden Co. by E. l.. B. Godfrey, M.
D., PIP. So, Sc, 119, 222, 224, s225.
i. Medical History in Cushing's His
tory of Gloucester Co., by l.. F. Hal
sey. M. D., page 143.
k. Minutes N. j. Branch of American
Inst. of Homeopathy, 1916, page 5.
i. MSS: History of N. j. State HON.
Medical Society, by w. McGeorge,
M. D.
Making Literature interesting.
"Oh, Mrs. Watts, you should join
our literary society"
Should n"
"Yes, indeed We study and learn so
much. Last meeting we took up Car
tyles quarrels with his wife"