1881 Oil Samuel A Jones 1st U Michigan Homeopathic Dean & Civil War Surgeon Wife

Description: 20" x 24" oil on canvas portraits of Samuel Arthur Jones and his wife, by artist Benjamin B. Morgan dated February 28, 1881 on the Samuel's portrait and February 23, 1882 on his wife's portrait. On both paintings they are identified in red below the artists signature and date. Most notably Samuel was the 1st assistant surgeon of the 22nd New Jersey Infantry during the Civil War and later as assistant surgeon of the 22nd Regiment of the New York National Guard. Also he was founder and Dean of the first Homeopathic Medical College at the University of Michigan. As homeopathy later fell out of favor this college was later absorbed in to the regular college of medicine. Civil War Service The 22nd New Jersey Infantry was organized at Trenton, New Jersey for nine-month service and mustered in September 22, 1862 under the command of Colonel Abraham G. Demarest.The regiment was attached to Abercrombie's Provisional Brigade, Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, to December 1862. Patrick's Command, Provost Guard, Army of the Potomac, to January 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, I Corps, Army of the Potomac, to June 1863.The 22nd New Jersey Infantry mustered out of service June 22, 1863 at Trenton. Detailed Service: Left New Jersey for Washington, D.C., September 29, 1862. Duty in the defenses of Washington until November 1862. Moved to Aquia Creek, Va., and duty there guarding railroad until January 1863. Moved to Belle Plains and joined the Army of the Potomac January 10, 1863. "Mud March" January 20-24. Duty at Belle Plains until April 27. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Operations at Pollock's Mill Creek April 29-May 2. Battle of Chancellorsville May 2-5. Ordered home for muster out June, reaching Trenton June 22, 1863. The regiment lost a total of 41 men during service; 1 officer and 40 enlisted men died of disease. 22nd Regiment New York National Guard Infantry Organized for three months' service May 28, 1862. Left State for Baltimore, Md., May 28, and duty there until September. Mustered out September 5, 1862.Again organized for thirty days' service June 18, 1863. Left State for Harrisburg, Pa., June 19. Attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the Susquehanna, to July 8, and to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 6th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to July 20, 1863. Action at Sporting Hill, Pa., June 30. Carlisle, Pa., July 1. Mustered out July 24, 1863. Homeopathic Medicine- Dean & Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics 1875-1880* SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES was born in Manchester, England, June 11, 1834, son of John Edwin and Margaret (Edwards) Jones. He is of Welsh ancestry. His parents emigrated to America in 1842. He was prepared for college at the Free Academy in Utica, New York, but never matriculated. He began his medical studies under Dr. W. H. Watson, of Utica, and was graduated Doctor of Medicine in 1860 at the Missouri Homeopathic Medical College, St. Louis, and in 1861 at the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. He entered upon the practice of his profession the same year. He served as First Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-second New Jersey Infantry in 1862-1863, and later as Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty-second Regiment of the New York State National Guard. He was First Secretary of the American Microscopical Society of New York in 1865. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Histology in the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and in 1872 a member of the first New York State Board of Medical Examiners. In 1875 he accepted a call to organize the newly founded Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, serving as Dean and as Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. From 1878 to 1880 he was Dean and Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Experimental Pathogenesy. He resigned this position in 1880, and since that time has been continuously in active practice in Ann Arbor. He is a corresponding member of the British Homeopathic Society, and an honorary member of the State Homeopathic societies of Pennsylvania and New York. To his professional duties he has added a lively interest in general literature. He is Senior Honorary Member of the Rowfant Club, of Cleveland, Ohio, and has edited several of their publications. He has made extensive collections of a number of English and American authors, notably Goldsmith, Carlyle, Landor, Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Hawthorne, Lowell, Longfellow, Burroughs, and Whitman, and in various other directions has shown the results of wide literary culture. He was married November 26, 1863, to Maria Jane Van Brunt, and they have had eleven children: Elsie (A.B. 1888, now Mrs. Charles H. Cooley, of Ann Arbor), Arthur, Carroll Dunham (B.S. [E.E.] I897, E.E. I897, instructor in the University from 1897 till his death, July 30, 1901), Samuel (deceased), Rembert, Howell, Margaret (A.B. 1901), Paul (deceased), Paul Van Brunt (of the class of I906), Winifred, and Esyllt. *Excerpt from Burke A. Hinsdale and Isaac Newton Demmon, History of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1906), pp. 250-251. B. B. Morgan was active/lived in Michigan as an artist. He was known for portrait and marine paintings. I found only one auction record, for a piece titled "going fishing' dated 1881 that sold in 2001. Additional information sent to me: "Benjamin B. Morgan was married to my great great grandfather's sister, Lucinda Munroe Morgan. I think I read once that a relative placed some of his paintings in storage at a university, but I cannot remember the school. Maybe it was in Florida, but I am not certain. My brother has two originals. (They are not portraits.) Benjamin Boomer Morgan and his wife are buried at Lake View Cemetery in Howell, Michigan. I do not know much about him, but I think he was also an inventor." 111118

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