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Robert Heyl Reeves M.D. (1860 - abt. 1933)

Dr. Robert Heyl Reeves M.D.
Born in Paulsboro, Gloucester County, NJmap [uncertain]
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Husband of — married 9 Nov 1886 in Clarksboro, Gloucester, New Jersey, USAmap
Father of [private son (1920s - 1990s)]
Died about at about age 72 in Paulsboro, Gloucester, New Jerseymap
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Biography

On 04 April 1883, Robert graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He specialized in children's diseases, writing a thesis on bronchitis. He entered his father's practice of medicine in Paulsboro, NJ.

Married Annie C G Van Valzah

He opened a pharmacy in Paulsboro at 114 West Broad St. He is listed in the History of Paulsboro as one of the physicians in the town (with his father, Edward Lafferty Reeves, and the owner of the pharmacy, opened in 1881. He is again listed in the Farm Journal of 1913. According to family stories, "Doctor Bob" by this time he practised medicine on a part time basis, devoting more time to his pharmacy.

The date of his death is January 12, 1933, in Paulsboro


http://genealogytrails.com/njer/gloucester/Greenwich_History.html

Sources

Fifty-Ninth Annual Announcement of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: The Session of 1883-84


New Jersey Deaths


  • "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ36-DBS : 8 April 2016), Robert H. Reeves, 12 Jan 1933; citing , Gloucester, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 1,001,894.



  • Source: History of the Counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of their Prominent Citizens

By: Cushing & Sheperd, 1883, Chapter XLII http://www.wenonahhistoricalsociety.org/sites/default/files/farm-journal-director-Gloucester-County-1913.pdf Transcribed by: Shelia Baker





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