Dr. Wade's Sudden Death in House of a Patient

Citation: "Dr. Wade's Sudden Death in House of a Patient," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York), 20 October 1902, p. 3; image, Newspapers.com (clipping by mattjameswade, 4 July 2019).

Transcription

The passages about Dr. Wade. The paragraphs on Dr. Underwood are summarised.

DR. WADE'S SUDDEN DEATH IN HOUSE OF A PATIENT.
It Followed by Only a Few Hours the Decease of His Friend, Dr. Underwood.
BOTH MEN PROMINENT IN E. D.
Dr. Wade Was a War Veteran With Fighting Record; Dr. Underwood 30 Years a Brooklynite.
Dr. James D. Wade, an old-time Eastern District physician, who for a number of years has lived at 252 South Ninth street, dropped dead last night of heart trouble at the home of a patient, Charles Eaton, at 736 Wythe avenue.
A few hours before, Dr. Thomas Gates Underwood, also a well known physician and druggist, and a life-long friend of Dr. Wade, had died at his home, 520 Bedford avenue. The news of the latter's death came as a severe shock to Dr. Wade, and undoubtedly aggravated the heart affection of which he had been a sufferer for some time.
Dr. Wade's tragic end occurred while he was in the act of writing a prescription for Eaton at the latter's home. The doctor had not been feeling well during the day, and had improved but little last night, but when an urgent request for his services came from the Eaton house, he left his home and hurried to the Wythe avenue address. He had examined the patient and was writing at a table in an upper room, when he gasped and fell to the floor.
Members of the Eaton family carried him to a lounge and word was immediately sent to Dr. Henry A. Wade, a son. Dr. Lewis N. Anderson of 513 Bedford avenue, was also called, and the two physicians were soon at the house, but Dr. Wade was dead before their arrival. They assigned as the cause of death heart failure, and steps were at once taken to have the body removed. Coroner Williams was notified and promptly issued a permit.
Dr. Wade was born in New York City on March 15, 1838, and after receiving a public school education entered the New York University to pursue the study of medicine. He had been a student but a short time when the Civil War broke out and he left the university to enlist in the Forty-seventh Regiment under Colonel Jeremiah Meserole. He was mustered out in 1862, but promptly re-enlisted and joined the One Hundred and Seventy-second New York Volunteers and was assigned to the Nineteenth Army Corps, doing duty in the Gulf Department. He saw much active service, being in the engagement at Port Hudson and the Red River campaign. He passed a competitive examination for captain of the Eighty-seventh United States Infantry, and while acting in this capacity was taken prisoner. With several others he escaped and made his way to New Orleans. He returned to New York at the close of the war and resumed his medical studies.
The deceased was a member of the Hanover Club and the Kings County Medical Society and was formerly one of the visiting staff to the Eastern District Hospital. His aged mother, his wife and one son survive him. Funeral services will be held at the late residence of the deceased to-morrow night.