Physician; born in
Newark, N. J., in September, 1822; superintended the erection of the first telegraph line between New York and
Philadelphia, using many original devices, in 1846; was the first to insulate telegraph wires with gutta-percha, to perfect a submarine cable, and to use glass on telegraph poles to prevent the grounding of the wires.
In 1861 he was appointed surgeon of the 1st New Jersey Volunteers; soon afterwards became brigade surgeon;
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was appointed medical director of the Department of the South, and in January, 1865, was assigned to duty at
Fort Monroe, where he had full charge of
Jefferson Davis during his imprisonment.
After the war he published
The prison life of Jefferson Davis.
He died on
Long Island, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1893.