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Nathaniel Matson, who is engaged in the practice of medicine in Brooklyn, was born at Schodack Landing, Rensselaer county, New York, March 6, 1839, his parents being Stephen Johnson and Esther (Van Bergen) Matson. The Van Bergans were among the earliest settlers of the vicinity of New York, and were granted Castle island, and also a large tract of land in Greene county, New York, by the king of Holland. The Matsons are of English lineage and the family was founded in America by Thomas Matson, who shipped from England with Governor Winthrop, the first executive of Massachusetts, and settled in Boston, where he died at the age of ninety years. The family are noted for longevity. The great-great-grandfather and the great-grandfather both bore the name of Nathaniel Matson, and each lived to the advanced age of ninety-six years. The grandparents of our subject were Israel and Anna (Johnson) Matson, of Lyme, Connecticut, and the former reached the age of eighty-four years.
The Doctor received his early education in the Kinderhook Academy of Columbia county, New York, and for three years pursued a scientific course at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachusetts. Determining to make the practice of medicine his life work he entered the medical department of the University of New York, in which he was graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1864. The country being still engaged in civil war, he enlisted in the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery as assistant surgeon, serving in that capacity for nineteen months. His regiment was retained after the cessation of hostilities and employed in the removal and reconstruction of forts in the vicinity of Richmond and Washington. He was acting brigade surgeon in charge of the hospital at Alexandria during the absence of Surgeon Skinner in the summer of 1865.
In 1866 Dr. Matson located in Brooklyn, and gradually acquired a large and remunerative general practice. Since 1872 he has been medical examiner for the Equitable Life Insurance Company of New York, and for a number ofyears has been a member of the medical staff of Bushwick Hospital. While his practice has been an extensive one he has done considerable hospital work, and has given much gratuitous service to the poor in the section of the city in which he lives. He is a member of the Medical Society of the County of Kings; the Physicians' Mutual Aid Association of New York; and is a member of the Brooklyn Yacht Club and the Invincible Club; was a charter member of Acanthus Lodge, No. 703, F. & A. M.; belongs to the Masonic Veterans' Association of Brooklyn, and is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
On the 16th of June, 1872, Dr. Matson was married to Miss Anna Glover, a daughter of John I. Glover, of Brooklyn, also a descendant of one of the early settlers of Boston, Massachusetts. The Doctor and his wife have three children living: Esther May, Clarine Van Burgen and Anna Nathalie. Irving Glover, the second child, died at the age of two and a half years. The Doctor is a man of strong intellectuality and marked individuality. In his chosen field of labor he has attained distinction by his great energy and devotion to his work. He is a member of the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church.
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1875 - Yes, date unknown
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