Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Dubs, Samuel R.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Doylestown A-L


SAMUEL R. DUBS physician, P.O. Doylestown, was born in 
Philadelphia, Pa., November 8, 1811, and is a son of Martin 
and Sarah (Jones) Dubs, natives of Lebanon county, Pa., and 
of Swiss and Welsh descent.  His grandfather Dubs came from 
Switzerland and located in Lebanon county, where he followed 
farming.  His grandfather Jones was a surveyor.  His father, 
Martin, was a wholesale grocer in Philadelphia and was among 
the wealthiest merchants of that city in his day.  He died 
in March, 1851, at the Merchants' Hotel.  He raised a family 
of eleven children, two of whom are living:  Samuel R. and 
Sarah J.  Our subject was reared in Philadelphia and there 
attended school until he was 17 years of age, when he began 
the study of medicine under Prof. Charles D. Meigs, and in 
1836 he was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.  
He practiced in Philadelphia until 1858, when he came to 
Doylestown.  He has a good practice in Doylestown and the 
surrounding country.  He has been twice married:  first in 
December, 1836, to Adelaide, daughter of Judge John Ross, by 
whom he had four sons, of whom two are living:  Howard, of 
Philadelphia, and J. Ross, of Boston, Mass.  His wife died 
in 1851 and he was again married, August 17, 1853, to Miss 
Mary, a daughter of William B. Wolfe, a wholesale hardware 
merchant in Philadelphia.  They have three children:  Samuel 
F., who resides in El Paso, Texas; William B. W., of 
Lewistown, Pa. And Mary A., wife of William Mason.  Mrs. 
Dubs is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church.  The doctor 
is a member and was one of the founders of the American 
Institute of Homeopathy in 1844.  He has practiced 
homeopathy exclusively for more than forty years, and in 
1839-40 he was induced by experiments on the sick to 
introduce the decimal scale of preparing medicines in place 
of the centesimal, and although not favorable received at 
first it is now almost universally acknowledged.