M.D. Gilbert Smith Woodhull

1794 - 1830  (36 years)

• Name	Gilbert Smith Woodhull  [1]
  Title	M.D.
  Birth	11 Jan 1794	Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
  Birth	11 Jan 1794
  Christening	10 May 1794	Old Tennent (Scotch Presbyterian) Church, Tennent, Monmouth, New Jersey
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Oct 1830	New Jersey, United States
  Death	13 Oct 1830
  Person ID	I8273	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	John Woodhull, Jr,   b. 26 Jan 1744   d. 22 Nov 1824 (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Sarah Spofford,   b. 26 Oct 1749, New Jersey, United States d. 14 Oct 1827, New Jersey, United States (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	28 May 1772  [1]
  Family ID	F3891	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Charlotte Wikoff,   b. 15 Apr 1795, Manalapan Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States d. 11 Jan 1862 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	25 Nov 1817	Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States
  Children	1. M.D. Henry William Beck Woodhull,   b. 3 Oct 1819, Vine Hill, Manalapan Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States d. 20 Jan 1894 (Age 74 years)   2. Sarah S. Woodhull,   b. 15 Aug 1821, of Freehold, Monmouth, N.J. d. 29 Mar 1902, Freehold, Monmouth, N.J. (Age 80 years)   3. Anna Matilda Wikoff Woodhull,   b. 24 Jul 1824   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Charles Gilberta Woodhull,   b. 3 Aug 1829   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F3908	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH XXIII. GILBERT SMITH WOODHULL, (M. D.), sixth generation from Richard Wodhull I., Patentee of Brookhaven, Long Island, was the youngest child of the Rev. John Woodhull, D. D., and Sarah Spofford. He was born near Freehold, New Jersey, January 11, 1794. His literary studies were pursued under his father, who was a successful teacher, as well as preacher. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1823. His medical preceptors were Dr. John Tennent Woodhull (his brother), and Dr. Hosack, of New York. He was graduated from Jefferson Medical College, after which he acquired a very extensive practice in the townships of Freehold, Manalapan, and Upper Freehold. He was a man of fine personal appearance, prepossessing address, and manner unusually pleasing and magnetic, combining dignity with a genuine bonhomie. He was almost a Centaur in his out-of-door life, always in the saddle, sitting his horse with inimitable ease and grace; riding at a slashing gait; shortening distances by crossing fields and fences, of great endurance, a stranger to fatigue. The close of a morning's ride would frequently find him forty miles away from his starting point. Inheriting considerable wealth from his father, he practiced rather from love of his profession than the desire of pecuniary gain. Eminently a pious man, he was chosen a Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Perrineville, New Jersey, of which his nephew was pastor. He married, November 25, 1817, Charlotte, daughter of William Wikoff, of Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was admitted a member of the Monmouth District Medical Society in the year 1818. In 1822-3 he was elected President of the County and in 1825 of the State Medical Society. This brilliant man died in his thirty-seventh year, leaving a widow, three daughters and a son. (See Genealogy, No. 139.) He was interred in the burial ground attached to the Presbyterian Church at Perrineville, where a substantial monument was erected to his memory, upon which is inscribed this appropriate quotation: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith. "Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing." (See "History of the Monmouth District Medical Society.")

  
  

• Sources

  [S58] Ruth Tangier Smith, M.D. and Henry Bainbridge Hoff, The Tangier Smith Family: Descendents of Colonel William Smith of The Manor of St. George, Long Island, New York (The Order of colonial Lords of Manors in America. Publication No. 34. 1978.), p. 16.