Montgomery County PA Archives Biographies.....Corson, Dr. Ellwood Maulsby June 15, 1842 - 
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Source: Biographical Annals of Montgomery County Pennsylvania, T. S. Benham & Company and the Lewis Publishing Company, 1904
Author: Ellwood Roberts, Editor

  DR. ELLWOOD MAULSBY CORSON, son of George and Martha 
(Maulsby) Corson of Plymouth Meeting, was born June 15, 
1842. The earlier history of the family is given elsewhere 
in this volume under the head, "The Corson Family."

  George Corson (father) was the fourth son of Joseph and 
Hannah (Dickinson) Corson. He was born January 4, 1803, at 
Hickorytown. Like his brothers, Alan W. and Joseph D, 
Corson, he inherited the characteristics of his father and 
became a cultured scholar. He had remarkable mathematical 
talent at school, leading all the pupils in mathematical 
studies. 

  On reaching manhood he engaged in storekeeping with 
Jonathan Maulsby at Plymouth Meeting. January 24, 1832, he 
married Martha Maulsby, daughter of Samuel and Susan 
(Thomas) Maulsby: Samuel Maulsby was an extensive farmer and 
limeburner. After the death of his father-in-law, George 
Corson bought the homestead and limestone quarries and 
continued the business until his death on November 18, 1860, 
in his fifty-eighth year. He and his wife, though not 
members, were frequently in attendance at Friends' meeting, 
and their children were brought up in accordance with the 
principles of the Society. 

  George Corson was influential for good in his community. 
He bore faithful testimony against the use of intoxicating 
liquor, often given by employers at that time to men who 
burned lime. He was also all earnest opponent of the system 
of slavery, his home being a refuge for runaway slaves, and 
he pleading their cause whenever it was necessary. Of the 
children of George and Martha Corson, Susan, the eldest, 
died of consumption in her fifteenth year; Mary died in 
infancy; Dr. Marcus H. Corson died in his twenty-third year, 
also of consumption. Their father was a victim of this 
disease. Samuel Maulsby Corson studied law and practiced it 
for a time, but preferred literature, like his brother, Dr. 
Marcus H. Corson. 

He became a teacher in Whitemarsh township, being very 
successful in this occupation and greatly loved by his 
pupils. He took great interest in historical research and 
wrote many articles on local history for newspapers. He died 
August 7, 1881, in his forty-third year. Only three of the 
children of George Corson are living, Dr. Ellwood M.; Helen, 
widow of Thomas Hovenden, the famous artist; and Ida, wife 
of William De Caindry of Washington, D. C.

  Dr. Ellwood Maulsby Corson, after an excellent preliminary 
training, mostly in Friends' schools, entered on the study 
of medicine with his uncle, Dr. Hiram Corson, near Plymouth 
Meeting, in 1860. The Rebellion breaking out the next year, 
he and his cousin, Joseph K. Corson, Hiram's son, entered 
the Military Hospital at the corner of Broad and Cherry 
streets, Philadelphia, as assistants to the surgeons in 
charge. 

  By day Ellwood M. Corson attended lectures at the 
University, and attended to the sick and wounded in the 
evening and at night until his graduation in the spring of 
1863. Having been commissioned assistant surgeon, he was 
attached to the Sixty-ninth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteers. After the battle of Antietam, he was taken ill 
with typhoid fever, and sent to Baltimore. After his 
recovery he was sent to New York, thence on a monitor to 
Charleston harbor. The vessel did duty daily, exposed to 
cannonading until the Confederates evacuated Charleston.

  After the war, Dr. Corson continued in the Marine 
Hospital, Philadelphia, as assistant to his uncle, Surgeon 
Maulsby, United States Navy. He resigned later and formed a 
partnership with his uncle, Dr. William Corson for the 
practice of medicine in Norristown, being associated with 
him until the uncle's death in 1886. For many years, Drs. 
William and Ellwood Corson were located on the lower side of 
Main street, nearly midway between DeKalb and Mill streets. 
Dr. Ellwood M. Corson, who occupies a prominent place in his 
profession, being a skilled surgeon as well as practitioner 
of medicine, is now located on DeKalb street near Oak, 
Norristown, his services being much in demand as a 
consulting physician.

  He married, November 20, 1866, Margaret Livingston 
Wilkeson, daughter of Samuel and Catherine (Cady) Wilkeson. 
Mr. Wilkeson was the war correspondent and associate in the 
ownership and editorial work of the New York Tribune for 
many years, and Mrs. Wilkeson a sister of Mrs. Elizabeth 
Cady Stanton, the eminent Abolitionist and Woman's Rights 
advocate. Dr. and Mrs. Corson have three children: Katherine 
Cady Corson, Bayard Wilkeson Corson and Livingston Corson.

  Dr. Corson is a member of the board of directors of 
Charity Hospital, Norristown, and takes an active interest 
in its work. He has an extensive and lucrative practice, his 
skill in surgery and medicine and his kindly, courteous 
manners commending him to all with whom he comes in contact. 
He is a Republican in politics, but independent in his 
views, preferring to follow principle rather than mere 
policy in matters relating to party government.


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