Frederick K. Humphreys
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Frederick K. Humphreys (March 11, 1816 – July 18, 1900) was a physician and the founder of Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Company in New York City in 1853.
Frederick was born in Marcellus, New York on March 11, 1816 to Erastus Humphreys (1785-1848), a physician. Frederick was raised in Auburn, New York where he went to the Auburn Academy. In 1832 he joined his uncle and brother in their clock business. In 1835 he returned home to manage his father’s farm. In 1837, at the age of 21, he married Cornelia Palmer (c1816-1840), and they moved to Chillicothe, Ohio where his wife's father lived. In Chillicothe Frederick entered the Methodist Episcopal ministry. His wife died in 1840 and Fredrick returned to Auburn, New York as an itinerant preacher. On August 1, 1843, Frederick married his second wife, Frances Maria Sperry (1826-1902) of Ludlowville, Tompkins County, New York. They had the following children: Helen Frances Humphreys (1844-?); Frederick Hahnemann Humphreys (1847-?); Alvah Jay Sperry Humphreys (1851-1883) who was the father of Frederick Erastus Humphreys; and Frank Landon Humphreys (1858-?). Frederick Humphreys, died in 1900 in Monmouth Beach, New Jersey and he was buried in Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York.
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[edit] President
- Frederick K. Humphreys (1816-1900) from 1853-1900
- Frederick Erastus Humphreys (1883-1941) from 1929 to 1941
- Suzanne Humphreys (1915-2001). She was born in Far Hills, New Jersey on April 2, 1915 and died in her Grand View-on-Hudson, New York on July 25, 2001. She was president starting in 1954.
[edit] Company
- Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Company (1854) in New York City
- Humphreys Medicine Company (1940)
- Humphreys Pharmacal, Inc. (1968) in Rutherford, New Jersey
[edit] Publications
- Homoeopathic Treatment of Diseases of the Sexual System, a complete repertory. New York City, New York W. Radde. 144p. (1850)
- Dysentry and its Homoeopathic Treatment. Containing a repertory and cases. New York City, New York W. Radde. 87p. (1853)
- Homoeopathic Treatment of Diseases of the Sexual System, a complete repertory. 2d ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Rademacher & Sheek. 144p. (1854)
- Humphrey's Manual of Specific Homoeopathy for the Administration of Medicine and Cure of Disease. Auburn, New York. 148p. (1856)
- Humphrey's Manual of Specific Homoeopathy for the Administration of Medicine and Cure of Disease. New York City, New York Humphreys Specific Homoeopathic Medicine Co. 148p. (1858)
- Humphrey's Manual of Specific Homoeopathy for the Administration of Medicine and Cure of Disease. New York City, New York J. A. Gray Printer. 106p. (1859)
[edit] Reference
- New York Times; July 10, 1900, Wednesday; Dr. Frederick Humphreys, originator of "Humphreys's Homeopathic Specifics," died on Sunday in his Summer home at Monmouth Beach, New Jersey. He was born in Marcellus, Onondaga County, on March 11, 1816. His father, Erastus Humphreys, was an old-time doctor of Utica, where his son, after going through the usual medical studies, joined him in practice in 1844.
