REMBAUGH, ALONZO C. – Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons By E. Cleave

EMBAUGH,
ALONZO C., M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., was born in that city on
December 6th, 1838. He is of English, German and French extraction, and
was named after, and baptized by the Rev. John A. Clark, at St. Andrew’s
Church, May 9th, 1839. He was early bereft of the influences of an
estimable mother, who was taken away suddenly by heart disease. She was
the daughter of Rev. Wm. Bryant, one of the early Episcopal City
Missionaries, and founder of All Saints Church in the lower part of the
city of Philadelphia. His maternal grandmother was one of several
children born to John and Barlina Grosin Delarou, who, in their infancy,
were brought over to this country by their fugitive Huguenot parents.

     Here they grew up and
were married by Bishop White, about 1770-’75. They owned and occupied as
a ship yard the lot directly opposite to the old Swedes Church, now
owned and occupied by the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company. Ino
Delarou assisted General Washington with his boats to cross the Delaware
during his memorable winter campaign, contracting a cough which
terminated fatally. His father came of an industrious manufacturing
Pennsylvania stock.

     His education was that
of the ordinary common school. From the age of seventeen years until he
was twenty-one, he was engaged as a clerk. On July 1st, 1861, he entered
the army as a private, and rose by rapid promotion to be First
Lieutenant, Captain, and Brevet Major, serving in both white and colored
troops. He participated in the disastrous battle of Ball’s Bluff under
the command of the lamented Baker, and was wounded through the left
wrist and right thigh, and taken prisoner. He remained a month in the
Hospital of Leesburg, well treated by the inhabitants, was then
forwarded to Richmond to remain two months more in hospital, and was
finally parolled. He then spent sixteen months as convalescent on light
duty at Chesapeake General Hospital, at Fort Monroe, Va., becoming,
while there, thoroughly acquainted and disgusted with the barbarism of
the regular
medical treatment of the poor sick soldiers. Returning to active duty as
an officer, he served through Maryland, Virginia, North and South
Carolina, under Grant, McClellan, Sherman, Meade, Butler, Gilmore, and
Terry, from 1863 to the close of his term of service on the 1st of
February, 1867. On leaving the Army, he immediately commenced the study
of medicine with his friend and preceptor, Mahlon Preston, of
Norristown, Pa., and after pursuing a thorough course under his advice,
graduated at the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia on March 4th,
1869, and located permanently in Philadelphia. He was married in August,
1869, to Miss Martha B. Crum, of New York, also a descendant of a
Huguenot family.

     Though not in any sense
a politician, he has always supported the men and measures of the
Republican party.

Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave