The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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88 a member of the Ninth International Medi- cal Congress, which met at Washington in September, 1887, and was elected Vice-President of Section III., on Military and Naval Surgery and ' ' 'h h read a paper, Are Medicine, before whic C wounds from explosive balls of such a character as to justify International laws against their use P D Voorhees had always been interested in mil- r. itary matters. In his early manhood he was First ' t of the Neilson Guards Qartilleryj in Lieutenan , 1845, and afterwards on General Sanderson s staff, with the title of major. . . In I862 he entered the service of his country as a medical officer and served during the War of the Rebellion. He was present at the battles of Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, and Savage Station, at the latter place he was taken prisoner and confined in Libby Prison and on Belle Isle until -exchanged, He was also present at Cold Harbor, and in the engagements before Richmond. In local medical circles Dr. Voorhees has always enjoyed prominence. He was County Physician for sixteen years, a member of the Board of Health for many years, and was a member of the staff of the Catholic Hospital and of the John Wells Memorial Hospital. Dr. Voorhees was a member, also, of many so- cieties of a scientific, literary, and social character. He was one of the oldest living members of Union Lodge, NO..IQ, F. 8: A. M., and a member of the Piethessophian Society of Rutgers College, the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Rutgers College, in which he filled every office from secretary to presi- dent, the New jersey State Microscopical Society, of which he had been vice-president, the New Brunswick Historical Club, of which he was SeCf'et3fY fffl' ten years, the New Jersey His- torlcal S0C1CtY, the New Jersey Sanitary As- Emciation, the Charity Organization Society of hew Brunswick and one of its Board of Managers, t e New ICFSCY Society for the Prevention of 110 giuil? od Gevgfafhw eaI50F'ety1Q Socieflestt Social 50152 oluflon' 1 0151- lvl , He Was 'f I 'H and lltf fl C u 7 tiofledf I ul71,5'fZ7ZL'f Q7 Mg, Wgsizkuspr ul wzkkyn as Sim Now Bran? Sefozkes of A tain Peter If killed by the Colonel Since Dr. Voorho one of the m was received Until age a .ardent sports shot with fow EBENEZER -Society in ja Mai' 27, 1900. Fmbfff, 9, 1821, imh1S youth C year he receiv of gwernmen furnished on C Hfslonsfraini Specially f0r t was of incorru 4 C0I1victi0 HS p I of . 11 all th tions with :hge

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VSQ eh, tttteh ,while llhiher is th no ly lltoen, P. heheh, 51 allll hae iftth hom ehhehh. let Pltthhg for nearly ll tht lie. thhl-1 ittyg theh tn North irst Sara- hneapohis, he for six rthStreet, ty the sea, le results. hhispulpit n his per- tstor with eurchesht eivingtl of whom nverhtht ey exeep' ,derohhtt in COItSt'e metethtl It seemt 'arlfll' 5 pfhfhh' e h toll chttll' there Mgstth tht et dettl pastel' 37 tionall fruitful, and to procure him many unsou ht ZES0iZ,ceEI'he dhygree of Doctor of Divinity was given ,ham in 1866 by the Univers1ty.of New York. The Synods of the Presbyterian Church, 1n whose bounds he- served, made him.M0derator, and in 1895 his own mother church elected him President of its General Synod. ' ' Dr. Stryker withal was a ready and ever acceptable writer, and Contributions from his facrle pen have enriched the col- umns of Tlze Ifziellzgemer and of other periodicals, all through the years. Hrs verse was as graceful and pleasing as his prose, and a book of poems, Words of Comfori, has carried cheer to many hearts. Some of his' hymns have found a place in the church hymnaries, and will serve to keep him, in remembrance. S . 4 . He was an earnest and efiiclent laborer 1n the temperance reform, and gave of his time, speech and pen freely for this and cognate causes. He toiled on cheerfully, trustingly and use- fully to the very end, and was permitted to round out a pecul- iarly extended and fruitful ministry with a death which in its suddenness and slightness of preliminary pain was a happy translation from earth to heaven. . CHARLES HOLBERT VOORHEES, M. D., died May 13, IQOO, in New Brunswick, N. He 'was Vice- President for Middlesex County in 1891. He was born in New Brunswick August 3, 1824, and was a ,grandson of David-Voorhees, a soldier of the Rev- olution. He was graduated from the Rutgers Col- lege Grammar School in 1842, studied medicine in the office of Dr. William Van Deursen, and after- wards entered the jefferson Medical College and was graduated from that institution in the spring Of 1850, receiving the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine. He practised his profession first at Spots- Wopd, afterwards at Plainfield N. J., and Philadel- Phla, Pa., and finally, since 1855, in New Brunswick. Dr. Voorhees was a member of the Middlesex C0ltHty. Medical Society, was president of that or- gantzation in 1870 and an annual representative Of lt 1n the conventions of the New jersey State Medical Society from 1868 to 1878. From the State Medical Society he had been a dele- gate to the State Societies of Vermont and Pelhnsylvania and to the American Medical As- SOCIHUOH, of which he was a member. He' was

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89 Cruelty to Animals, the American Association forthe Advancement of Sc1ence,. the New York Geographical Society, the American Geographi- Ca1Society, the local State and American Medical Societies, the Amer1can Academy of Political and Social Science, and of the Sons of the American Rev- olution. He was also a vestryman in the Church of Sf, john the Evangelist. - I-Ie was the author of numerous papers on scien- tific and literary subjects, of which may be men- tionedz. The Maslodoh Gzlgemlezesf' W001fa1fz', Ihslzhel amel Animal fhlellzQgehee, U Physiology meal Chemzlvlffy M Plame Lie, The Passeef D0- meslziusf' S6Z7ZZ.lLZlZb7'L he the Czly of New Bafzms- wighf' Slmlzes he Baez'e1fzbl0gy, f1'zlvl01fy of lhe New Bvfmeswzkh Hzklorzkal Club, The Lyfe asml Seffvzkes of Captain Hayley, and a sketch of Cap- tain Peter Voorhees, of the Continental Army, killed by the Queen's Rangers under Lieutenant- Colonel Sincoe, October 29, 1789. - Dr. Voorhees had travelled extensively, and was one of the members of the Holland Society who was received with a grand ovation in Holland.- Until age and inf1rmities prevented, he was an ardent sportsman, a good horseman, and a crack shot with fowling piece and pistol. EBENEZER LANE C00PER, who united with the Society in january, 1890, died at Stamford, Conn., May 27, 1900. He was born in New York, Nov- frmber, 9, 1821, and entered the hardware business in his youth continuing therein until 1878. In that year he received from Washington the appointment Of government inspector andexaminer of supplies furnished on contracts with the Indian Department. His long training in the hardware business fitted him Specially for the requirements of this position. He was of incorruptible integrity, undeviating in his Convictions of right and wrong. ' In all the seventeen years of his official connec- tions with the government not one of his deciSiO11S