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- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XL.
ALFRED ALEXANDER WOODHULL, (M. D.), (Colonel United States Army, Retired), eighth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the only child of Alfred Alexander Woodhull, M. D., and Anna Maria Salomons.
He was born at Princeton, New Jersey, April 13, 1837.
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He prepared at Lawrenceville, New Jersey, for Princeton College, from which he was graduated A. B., in 1856; and received from the same institution the degrees of A. M., 1859, and LL. D., in 1894.
He commenced the study of Medicine in 1856, under the preceptorship of Dr. John Stillwell Schanck, Professor of Chemistry in Princeton College; attended two courses of lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Medicine, and was graduated M. D., in March, 1859.
In the following July, Dr. Woodhull commenced the practice of Medicine in Leavenworth, Kansas, but after a few weeks he removed to Eudora in the same State, where he practiced two years.
After Sumter was fired upon, he took an active part in raising a Company of mounted rifles for the Kansas Militia, with a view to service, and was commissioned a lieutenant therein.
In September, 1861, upon the usual competitive examination, he was commissioned a medical officer in the regular army.
His service during the war was with troops and as assistant to medical directors, and included duty as acting medical inspector of the Army of the James, 1864-'65; in March, 1865, he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel and the intermediate grades of Captain and Major, for "faithful and meritorious services during the war," and attained the actual rank of lieutenant-colonel May 16th, 1894.
He became a Colonel in the Medical Department (an Assistant Surgeon General) October 8, 1900, and by the operation of law passed to the retired list as Colonel United States Army, April 13, 1901.
He represented the Medical Department of the United States Army at the Eighth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, London, 1891; was instructor in Military Hygiene at the Infantry and Cavalry School, Fort Leavenworth, 1886-'90; was commanding officer of the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, from March 26, 1892, to July, 1895; Medical Director, Department of Colorado, from July, 1895, to July, 1898; organized and commanded the Josiah Simpson General Hospital, near Fort Monroe, Va., August, 1898, to February, 1899; Chief Surgeon Department of the Pacific (that is, administration medical officer of the Philippines) April-December, 1899.
In charge of the Library and Museum Division, Surgeon General's office, April 1900, to April, 1901; President Medical Examining Board, Winter and Spring 1901.
He is a gold medalist of the Military Service Institution, for a prize essay on "The Enlisted Soldier," published in its Journal, March, 1887.
His literary work includes the "Catalogue of the Surgical Section of the Army Medical Museum," 1867; "Studies, chiefly Clinical, in the Non-Emetic Use of Ipecacuanha," 1876; "Notes on Military Hygiene, for Officers of the Line," 1890; 2nd, edition, 1898.
The article on Military Hygiene in the Reference Hand-Book of the Medical Sciences, first edition, Vol. III., second edition Vol. IV.;
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"On the Causes of the Epidemic of Yellow-Fever at Savannah, 1876," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, July, 1877; "May not Yellow-Fever Originate in the United States?" Transactions of the American Public Health Association, 1879; "The Sanitary Relations of Military Sites" in the Division of Military Engineering of the International Congress of Engineers, Chicago, 1893; and a report to the War Department of "Observations on the Medical Department of the British Army," published in the Transactions of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States, Vol. IV., 1894; and other professional and literary occasional papers.
Colonel Woodhull is the eighth in descent from Richard Wodhull, the patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, and by other lines is descended from a Signer of the Declaration (John Witherspoon, D. D.), and from a Colonel in the active New Jersey Militia in the Revolution. Besides being a signer, Dr. Witherspoon pleaded for Independence "like a Cicero." He was also an active and very efficient member of the Board of War and in 1778 a member of the committee upon finance with Robert Morris, Elbridge Gerry, Richard Henry Lee and Gouverneur Morris.
Colonel Woodhull resides at Princeton, and is a lecturer in the University on Personal Hygiene and Public Sanitation. He married, December 15, 1868, Margaret, daughter of Elias Ellicott, of Baltimore. He was commissioned Brigadier-General, retired, April 23, 1904. They had no children.
(See Genealogy, No. 572.)
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