History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . stone of its ablest practitioners. He was much belovedand respected at Mendham, Morris Co., whence heremoved about eleven years ago. His death leaves avacuum not easily filled. He died of typhoid fever,the result, probably, of his zealous effort to relieveothers. The Essex County Medical Society, of which hewas a member, held a meeting last evening in relationto the subject of his death. The president. Dr. W. M. Brown, occupied thechair; Drs. John F. Ward, L. A. Smith, and J. HenryCl
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . stone of its ablest practitioners. He was much belovedand respected at Mendham, Morris Co., whence heremoved about eleven years ago. His death leaves avacuum not easily filled. He died of typhoid fever,the result, probably, of his zealous effort to relieveothers. The Essex County Medical Society, of which hewas a member, held a meeting last evening in relationto the subject of his death. The president. Dr. W. M. Brown, occupied thechair; Drs. John F. Ward, L. A. Smith, and J. HenryClark were appointed to draft resolutions, and rejiortedthe following, which were adopted : regret of the dvc of •Sesohed, That we have Icariieii withour brotlier, John C. Elmer. Rewlved, That we eberish a fond recollection of the aiiiiahle mannersand kindly disposition of our late tliattliis dispensatiou re-minds us of our own mortality. llesoheil. That we desire to convey to his atltictid family our sense ofbereavement, and our heartfelt sympathy for tlicm in this hour of theirgreat c.^t^^^:^Y^^ His paternal grandfather, Benjamin Hough, who was ofEnglish descent, was a farmer in Bucks County, Pa., nnd therereared a large family of children, of whom one son, Gen. JosephHough, father of our subject, was born in 1798 and died at theage of seventy-seven years. He attained the rank of generalin the old State militia; was a merchant at Point Pleasant,Bucks Co.; justice of the peace there for over forty years, andhe was for several years superintendent of the Delaware Divisionof the Pennsylvania Canal. He was a man popular amonghis fellow-citizens, and influential in political matters of hisnative county. The latter part of his life was spent at Phila-delphia, and his death occurred at the residence of his son atFrenchtown, N. J. Gen. Houghs mother was a Simpson, andsister of the mother of Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant. His wife,Jane, daughter of Joseph Crowell,
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