Cumberland County NJ Archives Biographies.....Tuller, Emory Rounds 1824 - 1891
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Author: Eleanor Tuller Bonschur

                EMORY ROUNDS TULLER, M. D.

      Communicated by his daughter, Mrs. Eleanor Tuller Bonschur.

      Dr. Tuller was born Oct. 1, 1824, in the northern part of Cataraugus
County, New York. He lived there through boyhood and youth on his father's farm.
Afterwards he went to Cleveland to take up the study of medicine. There were no
Homeopathic Colleges then, but in the college at Cleveland there was a Chair of
Homeopathy. After reading Hahnemann's Organon he determined to take that course,
and graduated in it in the late forties.

      It was not quite reputable at that time to be a follower of Hahnemann, and
he had many interesting experiences of persecution, but he had the courage of
his convictions always, and was successful in the face of it.

      He began practice in 1850, in the little town of Fairfield, Ohio. He was
married May 15, 1851, to Miss Jane Powers, of Plymouth, Ohio. In 1855 he removed
to Newark, Ohio, where he remained eleven years, enjoying a large and successful
practice.

      In March, 1866, on account of ill-health of his wife he removed to
Vineland, New Jersey, where he continued the practice of his profession
twenty-five years. He died there Aug. 4, 1891.

      The world is no longer intolerant of Homeopathy, but he was one of its
pioneers, and endured the discomforts, to say the least of them, of such.
Concerning himself, he was the most reticent and modest man I have ever known,
and as a physician he was conscientious in the highest degree.

      Philadelphia, Pa.

      A few additional facts of much interest have been gathered from other
sources, and may be introduced by way of supplementing Mrs. Bonschur's all too
brief memoir. Dr. Tuller is said to have been the oldest as he was the most
emiment, practitioner of the Homeopathic School in South Jersey. Though
tenacious of his doctrine, he was liberal in his recognition and treatment of
physicians of the old school so called. He was not averse to consultation with
them, not denying the possible efficacy of their remedies, but still claiming
that the Hahnemannic preparations were strictly scientific, and preferable.

     Dr. Tuller was a pioneer in the introduction of pure unfermented grape
juice as a valuable article of diet and drink for convalescents and invalids.
For the production of this article, he established a large plant on his grounds,
and conducted it successfully to the end of his active career.

     He was all his life an earnest conscientious Republican. At the beginning
of the Civil War he offered his service to the military authorities, which was
refused on account of a supposed weak heart, and his homeopathy.

     In early life Dr. Tuller was an adherent and devout supporter of the
Methodist persuasion. It was during his residence in Newark, Ohio, he first
became acquainted with the doctrines of the New' Church, into the knowledge and
life of which he entered with all his # heart, founding a church of that
denomination in that city. After his removal to Vineland in 1866, he founded a
society of the New Church there, of which he was effectively preacher and pastor
and principal supporter for many years. Before the erection of the present house
of worship on Wood Street in 1870, he had conducted services, at one period in
Merchants Hall, and at another in Temperance Hall. In 1885 he surrendered the
pastorate, and assisted in calling Rev. Adolph Roeder to the place.


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


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