In  more  recent  times  Haddonfield  has  had
the  doubtful  honor  of  being  the  seat  of  one
of  the  notorious  John  Buchanan's  (of  Phila-
delphia) bogus  medical  colleges.  Between
1870  and  1880  the  doctor  owned  a  farm  on
the  Clement's  Bridge  road,  about  four  toiles
from  the  place,  upon  which  he  spent  a  por-
tion of  his  time.  During  this  period  diplo-
mas of  the  mythical  "  University  of  Medi-
cine and  Surgery    of  Haddonfield,  N.  J.,"

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were  offered  for  sale  by  his  agents  in  Eu-
rope.
The  period  now  being  considered  was  a
transition  one  for  the  nation,  which  was  then
being  developed  from  the  former  colonies,
through  a  confederation  of  independent
States,  into  a  great  empire.  The  science  and
practice  of  medicine  here  participated  in  this
change.  At  this  time  there  appeared  in
Camden  County  a  physician,  who  was  des-
tined to  be  its  Hippocrates  for  forty  years,
and  whose  memory,  though  dead  for  half  a
century,  is  still  preserved  green  in  the  farm-
houses and  hamlets  of  this  county.  This
was  Dr.  Bowman  Hendry,  son  of  Dr.  Thos.
Hendry,  of  Woodbury.
Dr.  Bowman  Hendry  was  born  October  1,
1773.  He  was-  educated  at  the  Woodbury
Academy,  pursuing  his  studies  under  a  Mr.
