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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXXVIII.
ADDISON WADDELL WOODHULL, (M. D.), seventh generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the youngest son of John Woodhull, M. D., and Ann Wikoff.
He was born at Manalapan, Monmouth County, New Jersey, August 13, 1831, and was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), in 1854.
He subsequently studied medicine under his father's direction and under those famous physicians, Valentine Mott and VanBuren, and in 1856, received from the New York Medical University the degree of M. D., with the highest honors.
He was soon after appointed physician to the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island and performed the duties of that office for one year.
In 1857, he removed to Newark, N. J., and there established himself in the practice of his profession, which he left at the commencement of the war of the Rebellion, responded to his country's call and accepted the appointment of Assistant Surgeon of the Fifth New Jersey Volunteers. In this connection he remained until February 6th, 1862, when he was promoted Surgeon of the Ninth Regiment.
In the fall of the same year he was appointed surgeon-in-charge of the Hammond General Hospital, at Beaufort, where he remained until he was again called into the field by the departure of General Heckman for South Carolina, when he was made surgeon of Heckman's Star Brigade.
He superintended the erection of the Mansfield General Hospital at Morehead City, North Carolina, which was pronounced a model institution of its kind.
He was with Burnside and with Rosecrans, and was also with Sherman during the latter part of his memorable journey to the sea; was wounded twice, one ball disabling an arm, another, which was never extracted, breaking one of his ribs.
At the close of the war, Dr. Woodhull returned to Newark to resume his practice and met with a hearty welcome.
He was made President of the District Medical Society of Essex County, also of the Newark Medical Association, was one of the staff of physicians of St. Michael's Hospital, member of the Board of
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Examiners for Pensions and Medical Examiner of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.
He was a ruling elder and prominent member of the South Park Presbyterian Church, the pastor of which, the Rev. James P. Wilson, D. D., was his close friend.
Dr. Woodhull married, November 23, 1859, Emma Taylor Ellis, daughter of Daniel H. Ellis and Catherine Ann Holmes, of Freehold, New Jersey.
He died at his home, Newark, N. J., May 14th, 1876, after a short illness, and was buried in the Old Tennent Church-yard.
Dr. Woodhull left a widow, three sons and a daughter.
(See Genealogy, No. 323.)
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1831 - 1876 (44 years)
d. 18 Nov 1869, Camden, Camden, New Jersey, United States 