OBITUARY
T. BLANCH SMITH, M. D., Nyack, New York Died in Nyack, Rockland County, New York on Wednesday, April 14th. T. Blanch Smith, M.D.
The doctor was born at Blauveltville in the same county, November 27th, 1835. He attended the district school there, until, nt the age of twelve, his parents having changed their residence to New York, he entered the school of Mr. G. P. Quackenbos in that city. In this grammar school he remained until, having chosen for his life-work the practice of medicine, he left that city. and entered the office of Dr. M. C. Hasbrouck of Middletown, Rockland County, New York. In the year 1862 lie attended lectures at the Medical College at Geneva, New York, then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and after two full courses, graduated in 1855, Immediately upon graduation he succeeded Dr. Hasbrouck at Middletown. and continued to practice there until June, 1858, when he removed to Tappan, New York.
He married Ellen C. Van Orden, of Spring Valley, December 31st, 1855.
In the year 1870 he moved to Nyack. He filled, successively. the offices of secretary, treasurer, and president of the Rockland County Medical Society. In February 1878, he was made a permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He was elected President of the Village of Nyack, March, 1874, and re-elected March, 1875. Dr. Smith, from the beginning to the end of his professional career, was an earnest student. He did not fall into routine, or content himself with such knowledge as he had easily acquired, I but constantly purchased and studied standard books, and sought, by attending occasional lectures and clinics at the colleges in New York. and by frequenting the meetings of learned societies, to keep himself thoroughly informed of every discovery and of every real advance in the science and art to which he was so enthusiastically devoted. It is not saying too much to affirm that there was probably not, a more careful student of the indications for and the uses of drugs in the profession in the State. He became a real master in tbe art of prescribing and all through tbe county, where he was best known, this fact will be cheerfully attested by his professional brethren.
He was chivalrous in his loyalty to his medical brethren, and did much to aid them, in the society of his county, in the maintenance of that confidence and good order upon which the dignity and usefulness of the profession so largely depend.
The doctor was apprehensive that he would fall a victim to pulmonary or cardiac disease, as there was a marked tendency to the same in i his family. Occasionally, moreover, he would break down suddenly in health and then have a small hemoptysis. His worst fears were finally realized in the character of his death.
— On Monday morning early (April 12th) he was called out suddenly hy an alarm of fire in Ihe village, was greatly exposed to cold and wet; was seized that night with severe pain in the chest, had hemoptysis, suffered greatly through Tuesday, and on' Wednesday, April 14th. at 10:30 A. M., suddenly died. For some hours before death, there had been dyspnea with great cyanosis. As there was no autopsy, the | immediate cause of death cannot be stated. — Medical Record.
~ Source: Rockland County Journal - Nyack, Rockland, New York - Saturday, 8 May 1875 - Page: 1 - Column: 4
Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
• Parents: John DeWint Smith 1806-1871 and Eleanor Cornelison Blauvelt
• Education: Columbia University, New York, New York
• Military Services: 1 September 1862, He was appointed the Inspector of the Sanitary
• Commission as Examining Surgeon.
• Deed: 30 August 1858 Tappan, New York
• "Samuel S. Verbryck and Anna Maria his wife of Orangetown sold the Headquarters (De Wint House)with five acres of land to Dr. T. Blanch Smith who occupied it and added the frame extension. Consideration, $3500."
• At 39, Surgeon at the War of Rebellion.
T. BLANCH SMITH, M. D., Nyack, New York Died in Nyack, Rockland County, New York on Wednesday, April 14th. T. Blanch Smith, M.D.
The doctor was born at Blauveltville in the same county, November 27th, 1835. He attended the district school there, until, nt the age of twelve, his parents having changed their residence to New York, he entered the school of Mr. G. P. Quackenbos in that city. In this grammar school he remained until, having chosen for his life-work the practice of medicine, he left that city. and entered the office of Dr. M. C. Hasbrouck of Middletown, Rockland County, New York. In the year 1862 lie attended lectures at the Medical College at Geneva, New York, then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and after two full courses, graduated in 1855, Immediately upon graduation he succeeded Dr. Hasbrouck at Middletown. and continued to practice there until June, 1858, when he removed to Tappan, New York.
He married Ellen C. Van Orden, of Spring Valley, December 31st, 1855.
In the year 1870 he moved to Nyack. He filled, successively. the offices of secretary, treasurer, and president of the Rockland County Medical Society. In February 1878, he was made a permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He was elected President of the Village of Nyack, March, 1874, and re-elected March, 1875. Dr. Smith, from the beginning to the end of his professional career, was an earnest student. He did not fall into routine, or content himself with such knowledge as he had easily acquired, I but constantly purchased and studied standard books, and sought, by attending occasional lectures and clinics at the colleges in New York. and by frequenting the meetings of learned societies, to keep himself thoroughly informed of every discovery and of every real advance in the science and art to which he was so enthusiastically devoted. It is not saying too much to affirm that there was probably not, a more careful student of the indications for and the uses of drugs in the profession in the State. He became a real master in tbe art of prescribing and all through tbe county, where he was best known, this fact will be cheerfully attested by his professional brethren.
He was chivalrous in his loyalty to his medical brethren, and did much to aid them, in the society of his county, in the maintenance of that confidence and good order upon which the dignity and usefulness of the profession so largely depend.
The doctor was apprehensive that he would fall a victim to pulmonary or cardiac disease, as there was a marked tendency to the same in i his family. Occasionally, moreover, he would break down suddenly in health and then have a small hemoptysis. His worst fears were finally realized in the character of his death.
— On Monday morning early (April 12th) he was called out suddenly hy an alarm of fire in Ihe village, was greatly exposed to cold and wet; was seized that night with severe pain in the chest, had hemoptysis, suffered greatly through Tuesday, and on' Wednesday, April 14th. at 10:30 A. M., suddenly died. For some hours before death, there had been dyspnea with great cyanosis. As there was no autopsy, the | immediate cause of death cannot be stated. — Medical Record.
~ Source: Rockland County Journal - Nyack, Rockland, New York - Saturday, 8 May 1875 - Page: 1 - Column: 4
Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
• Parents: John DeWint Smith 1806-1871 and Eleanor Cornelison Blauvelt
• Education: Columbia University, New York, New York
• Military Services: 1 September 1862, He was appointed the Inspector of the Sanitary
• Commission as Examining Surgeon.
• Deed: 30 August 1858 Tappan, New York
• "Samuel S. Verbryck and Anna Maria his wife of Orangetown sold the Headquarters (De Wint House)with five acres of land to Dr. T. Blanch Smith who occupied it and added the frame extension. Consideration, $3500."
• At 39, Surgeon at the War of Rebellion.
OBITUARY
T. BLANCH SMITH, M. D., Nyack, New York Died in Nyack, Rockland County, New York on Wednesday, April 14th. T. Blanch Smith, M.D.
The doctor was born at Blauveltville in the same county, November 27th, 1835. He attended the district school there, until, nt the age of twelve, his parents having changed their residence to New York, he entered the school of Mr. G. P. Quackenbos in that city. In this grammar school he remained until, having chosen for his life-work the practice of medicine, he left that city. and entered the office of Dr. M. C. Hasbrouck of Middletown, Rockland County, New York. In the year 1862 lie attended lectures at the Medical College at Geneva, New York, then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and after two full courses, graduated in 1855, Immediately upon graduation he succeeded Dr. Hasbrouck at Middletown. and continued to practice there until June, 1858, when he removed to Tappan, New York.
He married Ellen C. Van Orden, of Spring Valley, December 31st, 1855.
In the year 1870 he moved to Nyack. He filled, successively. the offices of secretary, treasurer, and president of the Rockland County Medical Society. In February 1878, he was made a permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He was elected President of the Village of Nyack, March, 1874, and re-elected March, 1875. Dr. Smith, from the beginning to the end of his professional career, was an earnest student. He did not fall into routine, or content himself with such knowledge as he had easily acquired, I but constantly purchased and studied standard books, and sought, by attending occasional lectures and clinics at the colleges in New York. and by frequenting the meetings of learned societies, to keep himself thoroughly informed of every discovery and of every real advance in the science and art to which he was so enthusiastically devoted. It is not saying too much to affirm that there was probably not, a more careful student of the indications for and the uses of drugs in the profession in the State. He became a real master in tbe art of prescribing and all through tbe county, where he was best known, this fact will be cheerfully attested by his professional brethren.
He was chivalrous in his loyalty to his medical brethren, and did much to aid them, in the society of his county, in the maintenance of that confidence and good order upon which the dignity and usefulness of the profession so largely depend.
The doctor was apprehensive that he would fall a victim to pulmonary or cardiac disease, as there was a marked tendency to the same in i his family. Occasionally, moreover, he would break down suddenly in health and then have a small hemoptysis. His worst fears were finally realized in the character of his death.
— On Monday morning early (April 12th) he was called out suddenly hy an alarm of fire in Ihe village, was greatly exposed to cold and wet; was seized that night with severe pain in the chest, had hemoptysis, suffered greatly through Tuesday, and on' Wednesday, April 14th. at 10:30 A. M., suddenly died. For some hours before death, there had been dyspnea with great cyanosis. As there was no autopsy, the | immediate cause of death cannot be stated. — Medical Record.
~ Source: Rockland County Journal - Nyack, Rockland, New York - Saturday, 8 May 1875 - Page: 1 - Column: 4
Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
• Parents: John DeWint Smith 1806-1871 and Eleanor Cornelison Blauvelt
• Education: Columbia University, New York, New York
• Military Services: 1 September 1862, He was appointed the Inspector of the Sanitary
• Commission as Examining Surgeon.
• Deed: 30 August 1858 Tappan, New York
• "Samuel S. Verbryck and Anna Maria his wife of Orangetown sold the Headquarters (De Wint House)with five acres of land to Dr. T. Blanch Smith who occupied it and added the frame extension. Consideration, $3500."
• At 39, Surgeon at the War of Rebellion.
T. BLANCH SMITH, M. D., Nyack, New York Died in Nyack, Rockland County, New York on Wednesday, April 14th. T. Blanch Smith, M.D.
The doctor was born at Blauveltville in the same county, November 27th, 1835. He attended the district school there, until, nt the age of twelve, his parents having changed their residence to New York, he entered the school of Mr. G. P. Quackenbos in that city. In this grammar school he remained until, having chosen for his life-work the practice of medicine, he left that city. and entered the office of Dr. M. C. Hasbrouck of Middletown, Rockland County, New York. In the year 1862 lie attended lectures at the Medical College at Geneva, New York, then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and after two full courses, graduated in 1855, Immediately upon graduation he succeeded Dr. Hasbrouck at Middletown. and continued to practice there until June, 1858, when he removed to Tappan, New York.
He married Ellen C. Van Orden, of Spring Valley, December 31st, 1855.
In the year 1870 he moved to Nyack. He filled, successively. the offices of secretary, treasurer, and president of the Rockland County Medical Society. In February 1878, he was made a permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York. He was elected President of the Village of Nyack, March, 1874, and re-elected March, 1875. Dr. Smith, from the beginning to the end of his professional career, was an earnest student. He did not fall into routine, or content himself with such knowledge as he had easily acquired, I but constantly purchased and studied standard books, and sought, by attending occasional lectures and clinics at the colleges in New York. and by frequenting the meetings of learned societies, to keep himself thoroughly informed of every discovery and of every real advance in the science and art to which he was so enthusiastically devoted. It is not saying too much to affirm that there was probably not, a more careful student of the indications for and the uses of drugs in the profession in the State. He became a real master in tbe art of prescribing and all through tbe county, where he was best known, this fact will be cheerfully attested by his professional brethren.
He was chivalrous in his loyalty to his medical brethren, and did much to aid them, in the society of his county, in the maintenance of that confidence and good order upon which the dignity and usefulness of the profession so largely depend.
The doctor was apprehensive that he would fall a victim to pulmonary or cardiac disease, as there was a marked tendency to the same in i his family. Occasionally, moreover, he would break down suddenly in health and then have a small hemoptysis. His worst fears were finally realized in the character of his death.
— On Monday morning early (April 12th) he was called out suddenly hy an alarm of fire in Ihe village, was greatly exposed to cold and wet; was seized that night with severe pain in the chest, had hemoptysis, suffered greatly through Tuesday, and on' Wednesday, April 14th. at 10:30 A. M., suddenly died. For some hours before death, there had been dyspnea with great cyanosis. As there was no autopsy, the | immediate cause of death cannot be stated. — Medical Record.
~ Source: Rockland County Journal - Nyack, Rockland, New York - Saturday, 8 May 1875 - Page: 1 - Column: 4
Contributed by: Carole Elizabeth Nurmi Cummings
• Parents: John DeWint Smith 1806-1871 and Eleanor Cornelison Blauvelt
• Education: Columbia University, New York, New York
• Military Services: 1 September 1862, He was appointed the Inspector of the Sanitary
• Commission as Examining Surgeon.
• Deed: 30 August 1858 Tappan, New York
• "Samuel S. Verbryck and Anna Maria his wife of Orangetown sold the Headquarters (De Wint House)with five acres of land to Dr. T. Blanch Smith who occupied it and added the frame extension. Consideration, $3500."
• At 39, Surgeon at the War of Rebellion.
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• T. Blanch Smith, M. D.
• Surgeon
• War of the Rebellion
• Died April 14, 1875
• Aged 39 years
~ Contributed by Carole Nurmi Cummings in hopes that others will find their families!
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