Elijah  B.  Woolston  belongs  to  an  old
Burlington  County  family.  He  is  the  son  of
Dr.  Samuel  and  Ann  Eead  Woolston,  and
was  born  at  Vincentown,  N".  J.,  August  20,
1833.  His  mother  was  a  daughter  of  Sam-
uel and  Sylpha  (Arnold)  Eead,  and  her
mother  was  a  sister  of  the  late  David  Lan-
dreth's  (David  Landreth,  of  Philadelphia)
mother.  The  doctor  was  educated  at  the
academy  in  Pottsville,  Pa.,  studied  medicine
with  his  father,  and  graduated  at  the  Uni-
versity of  Pennsylvania  in  1864,  from  which
institution  the  latter  had  received  his  med-
ical degree  in  1827.  After  he  had  assisted
his  father  in  his  practice  for  two  years  in  his
native  place,  he  moved  to  Iowa  and  settled  just
across  the  river  from  Omaha,  Neb.,  and  was
appointed  by  Governor  Cummings,  of  the
latter  Territory,  surgeon  of  a  brigade  of
militia  enlisted  for  service  against  thelndians.
In  1859  he  located  at  Marlton,  New  Jersey,
and  resumed  his  practice  there.  On  Novem-
ber 14,  1860,  he  was  commissioned  by  Gov-


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HISTORY  OF  CAMDEN  COUNTY,  NEW  JERSEY.
ernor  Olden  surgeon  of  the  "  First  Division
Brigade  "  of  New  Jersey  militia.  When  the
call  for  three  months'  troops  was  made  by
the  President,  in  1861,  he  accompanied  the
First  Brigade,  as  surgeon  of  the  Fourth  Reg-
iment, to  Virginia,  and  remained  with  it  un-
til the  expiration  of  its  term  of  service.  In
1862  he  passed  an  examination  before  the
Special  United  States  Medical  Examining
Board  in  Philadelphia,  and  was  assigned  to
the  United  States  Hospilal,  in  Beverly,  N.  J.
Soon  afterwards  he  was  promoted  to  be  its
post-surgeon,  a  position  he  retained  until  the
close  of  the  war.
