Cumberland County NJ Archives Biographies..... Henry William CANSDELL, 1808 - 1869
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/nj/njfiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 August 10, 2015, 8:43 pm

Source: See Below
Author: Ellen L. Cansdell

        HENRY WILLIAM CANSDELL, M. D.

          Communicated by his daughter, Miss Ellen L. Cansdell.

     Henry W. Cansdell was born June 4, 1808, in London, England, where he was
educated, studied and commenced the practice of medicine.

     In September 1829 he married Elizabeth Cardinal, daughter of John Argent of
Yelleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England.

     In 1840 he decided to visit America and if pleased with the country to
settle permanently. He located in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and enjoyed a lucrative
practice. In 1846 he returned to England for a visit of two years for the
benefit of his wife's health. On his return he decided to make his home in
America, to become naturalized and to study medicine in an American institution.
In 1857 he was graduated from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons
and from Bellevue Hospital College.

     He continued the practice of medicine in Brooklyn until 1861. In the fall
of that year while in Wisconsin to settle some property, he sought and obtained
a commission in the army, first in the Artillery and later as Surgeon of the
22nd Wisconsin Infantry. This commission he held until obliged to resign on
account of ill health. The resignation was accepted in March, 1863.

     The winter of '64-'65 he took his family south, mostly for the benefit of
his own health. While there he became interested in Vineland through
advertisements and letters and determined to visit it on his return north.

     He arrived in Vineland April 13, 1865 and purchased four lots at the corner
of West Boulevard and-Grape Street and some wild land.

     Leaving his family consisting of his wife and three youngest children, a
son and two daughters, to board in Vineland, he returned to Brooklyn for his
furniture and in three weeks was housekeeping in Vineland.

     He soon built a comfortable residence and office upon the lots he had
bought and continued to practice as much as his broken health would permit.

     He identified himself with the interests of the town, being a vestryman of
Trinity church and an interested member of the Sydenham Club, an association
composed of the early physicians of the place. In his last illness his fellow
members of this club were his devoted and skillful attendants. At the meeting
after his death, which occurred Jan. 28, 1869, the club adopted resolutions
expressive of their appreciation and respect and directed the Secretary to
communicate to the family their sympathy and grief.

     Of the nine children born to him six survived him—the three who came to
Vineland with him and were with him to the last, and three others who had
married and settled in different western states.

     Vineland, N. J.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from

THE EARLY PHYSICIANS OF VINELAND, N. J.
Published by the VINELAND HISTORICAL AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY 
1903


This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/njfiles/

File size: 3.4 Kb

This file is located at:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/nj/cumberland/bios/cansdell-hw.txt