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Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Digital Commons The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Benefactors, alumni, hospital etc. Its founders, officers, instructors, 1826--1904 A HISTORY Jefferson History and Publications (Volume 1) March 2009 Officers and Alumni, pp. 431-505 Follow this and additional works at: https://jdc.jefferson.edu/gould1 Part of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy Recommended Citation "Officers and Alumni, pp. 431-505" (2009). The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Benefactors, alumni, hospital etc. Its founders, officers, instructors, 1826--1904 A HISTORY (Volume 1). Paper 25. https://jdc.jefferson.edu/gould1/25 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Jefferson Digital Commons. The Jefferson Digital Commons is a service of Thomas Jefferson University's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL). The Commons is a showcase for Jefferson books and journals, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, unique historical collections from the University archives, and teaching tools. The Jefferson Digital Commons allows researchers and interested readers anywhere in the world to learn about and keep up to date with Jefferson scholarship. This article has been accepted for inclusion in The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Benefactors, alumni, hospital etc. Its founders, officers, instructors, 1826--1904 A HISTORY (Volume 1) by an authorized administrator of the Jefferson Digital Commons. For more information, please contact: [email protected]. \lU111ni of the Jefferson Medical Collcce. OFFICERS AND ALUM.VI 4;\3 .-\L ' ~ 1 1T I O F T IlE J EF F FRS () ~ ilI E IlI C.\ L (OLLECE, COLES, Abraham, 1813-189 1. in his school. as teacher of Latin and Physicia n a n d L itter ateu r . Cla s s of rnath crnatics. 1835. At eighteen years of age he had rc Abraham Coles. 1\£. D" P h. D., LL. solved to study law. and entered the D., wa s one of th e most g ifte d o f the office of Ch id } usticc Joseph c. 1Torn bl ower. at Newa rk. New J ersey . H e alum ni of J e ffer son Medical Co llege. seems, however, to ha ve h cl icvcd t ha t l-l is life and work wer e made th e subject he could find a wider field fo r useful- of an excellent mem ori al volume edited by hi s son, J on athan Ackerman Coles, A. 1'1., I'd . D., LL. D., in 18S) 2, fro m whic h is taken th e following ex tracts fr om a biographical sketch by Ezra '"I. Hunt, 1\1. D,.L L. D.: Dr. Coles, so n uf Dennis a nd Cather ine ( Va n Dcurs cn ) Co les" was born Decemb er 20, 1813, at Scotch Plains, Ne w Jcrscy. 1-1 is father was th en liv in g o n th e a ncestral farm, which he h ad inherited . its t it le- deed antedating the Rcvolurion. H e was a man of sterling integrity, sound judgment a nd ra re lit cra rv taste, I-I e had been for a n um b er 'of years (a fte r a n a pprenticeship with Shepard Kollock, of Rcvolutionar v fa mc) . a prinrcr a nd editor in Ncw IH1cg. New York, of a n e wspaper, "The Recorder o f th e Times, " a literary a nd financi al success w hich it co nt in ue d to be under another name as late as 1876. Uouud volu mes of th is pa per were pre served a nd treasured by hi s son Abra h am. in whom h e ea rly cultivated hi s fondness for st ud v and literature, I t was whi le he was in Ne wb urg . 1802, h e met a nd married l\ \ iss V a n Dc urscn. n ess in the practice of medici ne than in t hc daughter o f a promine nt merc hant that of law. for. although assured of o f th a t cit v an d a descendant of An success by his fatherly preceptor he nck c j ans 'and Evcra rclus Bogardu s. nevertheless left his office to study for As a youth Dr. Coles m an ifested a the medical profession, dil ig en t -interes t in th e acquisition of Ha viuu attended lectures at th e Co l kno wledge. A t th e age of seventee n he 1l'ge of lhysicians and Surgeons. New assisted Rev. 1\1r. n an d. pastor of the York. and at J eff erson College, Phila F irst Presbyt erian Church of Plainfield, delphia, he graduated at the latter in JEFFERSON MEDICAL COL LEGE 1835. Returning to his ho me, he made paintings and works of art, but hi s a prof ession o f his Ch ris tian faith, and large library was th e spe cial admiration united with th e Scotch Plains Ch urch, of his many g ues ts . under th e pastorate of th e R ev, J ohn \Vhile retiring from th e more acti ve I{llg ers. In 1836 h e settled for t he duties of a g eneral practice, h e was for practi ce of th e m edical profession in manv years daily at hi s Newa rk office. :\c wark, New Tcrsev. and ' : t1~<;o all owe'd m anv o f th ose w ho In 18~p he 'married Caroline E., a lived near hi s country home "Deer beautiful and accomplis hed da ughter h urst," so nam ed from its herd of deer. nf J on athan C. and Maria (Sm ith) to avail the mselves o f hi s advice. In Ac kerman, o f ?\ cw Ilrunswick. l\'ew fact, it ca nnot be sa id t hat h e re lin J ersey. She was ve ry good and lovely. quish ed practice at all, or all owed hi s and m uc h beloved. Sh e died in 1847. increa sing literary di stinction and hi s lea vi ng a so n and daughter wh o were business duties to interfere with hi s de t he nceforth th e only fond companions votion to hi s ch osen pursuit. H e was o f hi s domestic circle. His great los s emine ntly a ph ysi cian, amid all other and hi s new re sponsibilities seem to em ine nce . H e delighted in his profes ha ve st ill more inclined him to devo sion. both as a sc ience and as an art. tio n to h is prof essi onal and scholastic H e receiv ed th e degree of Master st udies. In 1848 he went abroad, of Arts from Rutger s College. In s pe nding much of h is time in hospitals, . 1860 he received th e degree of Doc and in th e society o f th e most eminent tor of Philos ophy from L ewisburg U ni ph ysicians and surgeons of Europe. vcrsi tv, and that of Doct or of Laws H e wa s in Paris during the R ev olution from 'P r ince ton Co lle ge in 1871. o f J line, 1848, w hich gave h im special Dr. Co les h ad reached s uch a vi g opportunities for surgical study. In 1854 o ro us old age as st ill to promise many h e aga in vis ited E urope. A fter an ab years of lif e. In the ea rly spring se nce of seventeen months, during ( 1891) h e h ad the prevailing influen za , which he made the continen ta l lan which left him with a cough, and some g uages a st ud y, h e returned to hi s prac mild sym ptoms which puzzled him. as tice in Newark. H e th en devoted him t hey have so many others, but which se lf with increa sed kn owledge and seemed to give no occasion for ala rm. earnest ness to prof essional work, and As a ben efit and recreation, h e pro for many veal's co nti nue d in the active posed a trip to Californ ia with hi s so n pra cti ce' ot hi s prof ession. and claug htcr and sister-in- la w. Thcv Ju 1862 , under th e direction of an left h orne A p ril rath. The t rip was a em ine nt English landscape gardener, di sappointing one, for althou gh h is h e began the laying out and beautify powerful con stitution enab led him to ing of a larg e portion of hi s ancestral go every where , hi s co ugh de fied all farm at Scotc h Plains, N ew J ersey, se treatmen t, and by rea son th ereof h e lecting th erefor appropriate statuary grew weaker in stead of s tro nger. and planting s o f th e ch oicest varieties. After a week's stay at th e beautiful In one portion o f this park he located H otel del Monte, Ca lifo rn ia, where h e a reproduction of th e famou s labyrinth receiv ed every posible courtesy a nd at at Hamnton Co urt . near London. In tention. heart complication sudde nly an other 'part h e enclosed a larg e pad se t in as a se que l to la g rippe.