Hidden History of Bucks County by Jennifer Rogers

Author:Jennifer Rogers [Rogers, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Photography, Subjects & Themes, Historical, Travel, Pictorials, History, United States, State & Local, Middle Atlantic (DC; DE; MD; NJ; NY; PA)
ISBN: 9781439666135
Google: 6weFDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019-02-11T03:05:54+00:00

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FROM PRIVATE TO DOCTOR

Following his life in the Civil War, Joseph Lehman Eisenbrey was more determined than ever to continue his education and start a family. At twenty-three, Eisenbrey studied dentistry, and for a number of years, he was a clinical instructor at the Philadelphia Dental College. Though it is unknown when Joseph decided to study dentistry in Philadelphia, he did, however, begin studying the practice just prior to his enlistment in the American Civil War. According to the Dental Cosmos, A Monthly Record of Dental Science, he practiced dentistry in the Philadelphia region for over thirty years and was known as one of the most “expert and successful men in his profession.”

J.L. Eisenbrey was one of the original members of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Protestant Episcopal Church of Chestnut Hill as well as a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the General George G. Meade Post and several dental organizations, including the Odontographic Society of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania State Dental Society. In 1879, Eisenbrey became president of the alumni association of the Philadelphia Dental College. Several of his dentist offices were located in Philadelphia, including a practice at Tenth and Race Streets, one at 141 North Tenth Street, and another at 1101 Arch Street. He also established a partnership with Professor J.E. Garretson at Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets. Married to Mary Bradley of Boston, who hailed from a prominent Philadelphia family, the couple was happily situated in their home located at 8318 Seminole Avenue, Chestnut Hill, a few miles outside of Philadelphia. The Eisenbreys had a son, Arthur Bradley Eisenbrey (who later became a surgeon), as well as a daughter (her name is unknown). However, as time went on, Joseph Lehman Eisenbrey suffered from “nervous prostration,” according to his doctors. He traveled to Florida with hopes of relieving his condition. Unfortunately, following his return to Philadelphia, his health had severely declined, and on August 20, 1895, as his family sat down to breakfast, Eisenbrey shot himself with a rifle, with the bullet passing directly through his heart.

He possessed unusual ingenuity in meeting the difficulties presented by complicated cases in practice. His attitude toward his patients, and his gentle but firm sympathetic treatment of them, strongly attached him to his clientele.

—Dental Cosmos

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