Seneca Township (part 6 of 60)

AARON YAMBEKT. minister, po.stoffice McCutchcMuille.Wyandot County, a native of Berks County. Benn.. was born February 14. ISOll. son'of JohnH. and Sibylla ((ilick) Yamliert. natives of Beimsylvania. where they married and settl(>d. and where Mrs. Yamliert died. John H. Yambert subsequently man'ied Catharine (Cooney) Yambert. also a native of Beimsylvania. and with his family moved to Seneca Township. Seneca Co.. Ohio, in 1881. where he resided until his death, which occiured May 24. lSn:i He had four children bv his fir.st wife: JohnH.. Aaron. Sarah and Mary: and seven by his second wife: John. Daniel. Samuel. Solomon. Lydia. Williani and Susannah. His father was a native of Saxony, a physician of prominence, who emigrated to this country in the colonial period, and served as an officer in the B evolutionary war. Our subject was reared on a farm until eighteen years old. after which he worked several years at the carpentei's trade. At the age of twenty years he was converted, and at about twenty-one became a memljer of the Evangelical Association under Conrad Kring"s administration. In 1882 Mr. YambeT-t, was licensed by the conference as an itinerant minister, and commenceil his uiinisterial labors in Lancaster and I'ickaway Counties. Ohio, and continued ;n this calling for twenty -seven successive years, during much of which time he experienced the hardships and iirivations incident to mini.sterial i)ioneer life. After traveling a few years in this State, he n>turned to Beimsylvania and traveled one year on a cin'uit. called Somer.set. wliich was located partly in Benii.sylvania. Virginia and ;Maryland: then Erie Circuit. Benn. (in what is now Erie, ("rawford and Warren Counties), and here, on one occasion, rode sixty miles through a bold, rough country in one day. and i)reached at his regular appointment that night. In 188< he assisted Rev. Jacob Bose in conducting the first protracted meeting ever held by the Evangelical Association. The man. at whose house the meetings were held, was not a believer, and talked of not let ting the meetings goon there mncli longer, when (jne night Mr. Yambert. in a ser uion, so graphically described the temptation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden by the serpent, that it made a deep imi)ression on his mind. This man kept a still-house, and the next morning the fir.st thing that m(>t his eyes on opening the still-house door was a large serpent coiled in a beer hogshead. He was so confounded by the coincidence that he returned to the hous<>. told what had occuired to those present, ate nothini' that day, and the following morning ascended to the meeting room upstairs and began praying, finally became fully conyerte<l. and did not return to the still house during the meeting. Thence Mr. Yambert was sent to Miami Cir cuit. and while there was married. He remained on that circuit two years in all. and then returned to Wayne Circuit, thence to Bickaway County. While on a circuit in Marion CJouiity. lie went to the Whetstone si'ttlemerit and settled a disi)nte. concerning lightning rods, between the class leader and ex horter rs. some of the members, who. in their superstition regarded any precautionary measures as defying the power of (lod. He traveled for "man v years afterward in the western portion of the State, on different cireuits. On one occasion, after preaching in Bettsville in the forenoon, he attempted to cross to Mud Creek Prairie, which was in sight, to meet an appointment there. He could see the house, and on horseback started to cross direct, but the around was wet and the gi-ass as high as his head. His horse got stuck in the mud, slipi^ed and fell, throwing Mr. Yambert off and completely covering him with mud; in that condition he arrived at his destination and preached just as he was. At another time, after starting to go through a dense forest in search of a new preaching place, he lost his way. He started ilonday morning before breakfast, although requested to take n'freshment, saying ' ' no, old Adam mio-ht fast, ' ' expecting to get through by noon : wandeied around in the woods and did not lind his way until the ne.xt morning, when he broke his fast for the lirst time, and his text afterward was for '- more light. ' " He subsequently preached on Michigan Circuit, in Michigan. Ohio. etc. He now owns 161 acres of good land in this townshij) and 170 in Illinois, and is a local minister of the Evangelical Association of which his family are also members. Mi\ Yambert was married. February 1(\ 18:i9. to Sarah Huffer. of Pickaway County, Ohio, also a native of Pennsylvania, where she was born December 28, IHll?, daughter of Isaac and Julia Huffer. who were Ijorn in Pennsylvania, but in the course of time moved to Pickaway County. Ohio, and there lived and died. To the union of our sul)ject and wife were born thirteen children - nine of whom are now living: Caroline (wife of George ^\'. Rosier). Marj' (wife of Chancey Boucher), Lavina, Joshua J.. Aaron H. . Sarah C. (wife of George Ingman). Susanna (wife of J. ^\'. Boucher). Sibylla J.. Julia M. (wife of Rev. Daniel Eleuburger).

LEANDER ZEIS, farmer and stock-dealer. P. O. Tiffin, one of the wellto-do farmers and stock-dealers of Seneca Townshiji. was born in this oouuty. December 'I'k lS4r). son of Jacob and Elizabeth M. Zeis. who. in 1828. settled in this county, when it was mostly a wilderness, and here remained until their death. Jaeol) Zeis was born in Baden. Germany, died August 17, 187(i: and Elizabeth M. Zeis was born in Bavaria, Germany, died October 'J, 1878. Leander Zeis was reared on a farm, and has followed agricultural pursuits since the death of his father. He acijuired a good common school education and taught ten terms of school. He was married, February 1, 1872, to Sarah C daughter of Jacob and Sarah Martin, natives of Pennsylvania, who settled in Seneca County. Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Zeis have had two children: Benjamin H. , born February 7, 187"), and lea. born December I'). bS88. Our subject has a nice farm, consisting of Wi acres, where he and his family reside. He tilled the office of justice of the peace two terms in Seneca Township witli credit to himself and to the satisfaction of his constituents.

CASPER ZIEGLER. farmer. P. O. Berwick, was born in Bavaria, <iermany. September 1-i, 1829, sou of Paul and Margaret Ziegler. who were married in Germany. Our subject came to this country and to Seneca County from Bavaria in 184(). and was united in mamage, September 24, 1805, with Emma Bartz, also a native of Bavaria, born August 81, 1886, daughter of Frank and Elizabeth Bartz. of same nativity, and who immigrated to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1840. and here lived and died. Of the ten children born to ]\rr. and Mrs. Ziegler eight are now living: Christian. Frank, Daniel, Nancy, Margaret, Henry. Emma and Grover E. The deceased are John and Elizabeth. Our subject, who was raised on a farm, now owns 80(1 acres of tine land with good buildings thereon. He started for himself with nothing, Ijut by in- <lustry and perseverance has accumulated a comfortiible competency. He and his wife are members of the Geiinan Luthei-an Church.

Source changes here: from An Historical Sketch of the Seneca County Medical Society, with Some Account of Its Living and of Its Pioneer Members, by Allison, Henry Edward, published 1887; 38,576 words in this source stream.

Introduction

At the anniversary meeting of the Seneca County Medical Society held at Waterloo, July 23, 1885, a resolution was introduced by Dr. S. R. Welles, and adopted by the Society, that a committee be appointed which should prepare biographical sketches of members of the Society from its earliest history to the present time. Dr. Welles was appointed chairman, and the various towns of the county apportioned as follows :

By the desire of the chairman, which received the endorsement of the Society, the duty of compilation was delegated to Dr. H. E. Allison, who has, therefore, prepared the work for the press.

It was the design of the resolution to prepare as full a report as possible, and to gather and place in a tangible form, for preservation, all that could be learned of the individual history of the members of the profession from the earliest date of the settlement of the county ; and in order that the report might be complete and valuable, a form was prepared which indicated the nature .of the information desired, and which was sent to each member of the medical fraternity, and to all others whom it was thought could furnish anything of interest.

It was also intended to incorporate with the report an account ot the history of the Society itself from its earliest beginning. In the matter of the history of the pioneers of the profession, dependence was placed upon old settlers in different localities, who from personal recollection or tradition, could add something to the knowledge of the subject.

whom circulars were addressed, asking for information, and partly because the books of the secretary and all early records of the Society being lost, the historical facts which were most desirable were veiled in the haze of the past.

SufiScient material of interest has been gathered, however, to warrant the publication of these preliminary pages, with the hope that some subsequent historian may, at a future day, complete the record.

Our thanks are due to each member of the committee, especially to Dr. Andrew J. Alleman, of Varick, and also to many outside of the profession, to Hon. Diedrich Willers, Jr., to the Rev. Lewis Halsey, Nathaniel Hayt, to Dr. Colvin of Clyde, and to all others who - have aided us.

A County Medical Society existed in Seneca county at an early period, but the organization was abandoned at about the year 1840. Unfortunately, all the records of this pioneer association are lost. The transactions of the State Medical Society show that at its ineeting in Albany, February 6, 1810, Dr. Oliver C. Comstock presented his credentials from Seneca county and took his seat in that body. He was a prominent citizen, and represented this county in the Legislature in 1 8 10, and two years afterward was appointed County Judge.

In 1829 the State Medical Society acknowledged the receipt of two dollars from the Seneca County Society, through Dr. Caleb Loring, its secretary, and his name appears in the State transactions for the years 1830-31, as secretary, that being the only office reported. Among the papers left by Dr. Loring, was one endorsed as follows :

After a period of about twenty-five years, on the first of August, 1865, the present Society was organized, and the following officers chosen :

President, Dr. Gardner Welles ; vice-president. Dr. Alfred Bolter ; secretary. Dr. F. B. Seelye ; treasurer, Dr. O. S. Patterson ; censors, Drs. James Flood, W. W. Wheeler and E. J. Schoonmaker. Since that period the Society has been well sustained, and has proved a useful and important organization. Its meetings have been regular and well attended, and an active interest has been taken by every member in its welfare.

It was with a view of presenting, in some permanent way, the records of the lives and struggles, and the rugged virtues of the medical men among the early settlers, that this work was undertaken.

The life of a physician in a new country, with the largely prevailing and dangerous diseases incident to fresh broken soil and recent clearings, the long and dangerous rides over almost impassable roads.

by night and day, through heat and cold and storm, is arduous and wearing. He is surrounded, moreover, with tliose struggling with narrow means and laboring under the privations incident to a new country.

The ' physician, by the advantage of education and better social position, is obliged to assume a position not only of more prominence, but of more care and responsibility than he would in a community of more advanced growth.

Brought into immediafe~and friendly contact with every family, he becomes the counsellor and confidential friend of all ; add to this that he, like all pioneers, is possessed of ability and energy and self reliance, and we can readily comprehend his importance and his influence in shaping the future of the community in which he is placed. Seneca county is no exception to the general rule. Our pioneer physicians, equal to the emergencies of the times, bravely fulfilled their part, and have left, indelibly traced upon the county annals, the records of their acts and the impress of their character. In recalling their memories and acknowledging our indebtedness to these old and sterling citizens, let us emulate their virtues and aim to be worthy successors in their calling, and, as members of the commonwealth, carefully guard and preserve the hferitage they have left. Let us, also, so regulate our acts in our relations with each other, and with those who daily place tlieir health and their lives in our trust, that we may discharge the full responsibility of every duty, and deserve to have conferred upon us, as one of the proudest of titles, the name of " the beloved physician."

Silas Halsey

Silas Halsev, the earliest physician in the county, was born at Southampton, L. I., October 6th, 1743, (old style). He studied medicine at Elizabethtown, N. J., and began the practice of his profession at Southampton about 1 764.

At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, he warmly espoused the cause of the Colonies, and was a member of the Committee of Safety of his native town. Compelled to flee from his home after the disastrous Battle of Brooklyn Heights, he sought refuge at Killingworth, Conn., where he resided for nearly three years, while his home was occupied by British soldiers. His wife died in 1778, at Killingworth, leaving him with a family of four small children.

These were years of privati'on and hardship. Dr. Halsey was not only proscribed as a rebel, but a price was set upon his head by the British - a reward being ofiered for his apprehension. All the members of the Committee of Safety received this honorable, but uncomfortable distinction.

In 1799, Gen. Erskine, a kind-hearted British ofificer whose name is justly held in honor, recognized the ability of Dr. Halsey, and granted him permission to return to his desolated home on Long Island, that he might resume the practice of his profession.

When the victory had been gained and the patriots were once more in possession of Long Island, Dr. Halsey was appointed, by Sheriff Wicks, Under Sheriff of Suffolk county, Long Island, which office he held until September 1787, when he was appointed, by Gov. George Clinton, Sheriff of the county. This position he retained until his removal to western New York in 1792.

In April, 1792, accompanied by a hired man and a slave, he left Southampton on an exploring expedition into the western wilderness. He sailed from New York to Albany in a sloop, went on foot from , Albany to Schenectady, (this was called the carrying place, or portage). At Schenectady he embarked in a batteau and ascended the Mohawk river to Fort Stanwix, (Rome.) thence sailed down Oneida - Lake, through its outlet to Seneca Lake, and up that lake as far as what is now known as Lodi Landing, where they cast anchor sometime in May.

From the lake shore they cut their way through the underbrush some two miles eastward, where they made a six-acre clearing, felling and burning the small timber and girdling the larger trees. Dr. Halsey next built a log cabin, sowed his clearing with wheat, started a nursery with about a quart of apple seeds procured from the old Indian orchard at GofPs, then Cooley's Point, and in October began his journey homeward.

In May, 1793, he retraced his journey to his home in the forest taking with him his family which, including sons-in-law and grandchildren, numbered eighteen persons. This was the first colony which settled between the lakes.

the judges of the first county court. He was also the first supervisor of his town, being elected at the first town meeting held April ist, 1794.

He was the only justice of the peace in the town, and like the famous ofiRcial in Texas, who served a summons as constable, heard the case and gave judgment as judge and, as sheriff, carried the sentence into execution, so the new supervisor took the oath of office before himself as justice.

" I, Silas Halsey, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will in all things, to the best of my ability, faithfully and impartially execute and perform the trust reposed in me as supervisor of the town of Ovid, in the county of Onondaga, and that I will not pass any account or article thereof wherewith I shall think the county is not justly chargeable, nor will I disallow any account or article thereof wherewith I shall think the county is justly chargeable.

He was supervisor of the town of Ovid in 1 794-95-96, and was member of Assembly for Onondaga county in 1796-97-98. Indeed, he seems to have held almost every town and county office to which he was eligible, and that at a time when no suspicion of dishonor was attached to the civil service.

In 1801, he was chosen as delegate from Cayu;a county to the first New York State Constitutional Convention, of which the noted .Aaron Burr was president.

He was the first county clerk of Seneca county, appointed April 2d, 1804, and with the exception of an interval of one year, held the office forfifteen years, until he resigned in 1819. This office was held in later years by his son, Jehiel Halsey, and by his grandson, Jare^ §^f)dford.

In April, 1804, he was elected member of Congress, from the 17th Congressional district of this State, succeeding Hon. Oliver Phelps, so well known in connection with the Phelps and Gorham purchase. In 1808, he was elected State Senator, to fill a vacancy, and served for one year.

Having been an ardent Whig during the Revolutionary war, and having endured personal suffering, pecuniary loss, proscription, exile, and almost starvation in the war for Independence, Judge Halsey, like many of his fellow sufferers of that generation, found it impossible to forget the tyranny of the British government, and became a stalwart Republican of the Jeffersonian school.

When the Constitution of the United States was presented to the several State sovereignties for their acceptance, he was opposed to its adoption without the amendments limiting the power of the Federal government. He was one of the constituent members of the Republican party, organized during President Washington's administration, and ardently supported its principles during his life.

Judge Halsey was hospitable, public spirited and popular, a patriot, a pioneer, a gentleman of the old school. He died at a good old age, respected and honored by his fellow citizens, bequeathing to his children an untarnished name. He lived to see three of his sons and two of his sons-in-law occupy prominent positions in the civil service, - Jehiel Halsey and Nicol Halsey members of Congress; Dr. Lewis Halsey member of Assembly ; John DeMott, member of Congress ; Henry D. Barto, Judge of Tompkins county.

He was the first physician of Seneca county, but seems to have resigned his practice at an early date to his student and son-in-law. Dr. Jared Sandford.

He was a man of well cultivated mind and had a medical library large for the time. A number of his books were purchased before the Revolutionary war, as the date and his autograph show : (Silas Halsey, Jun. Ejus Liber, A. D. 1765, Pretium 2-6 Sterl.)

The book from which this inscription was copied, is entitled " A Mechanical Account of the Non-Naturals, being a brief Explication of the changes made in Humane Bodies by Air, Diet, etc. " It was published in London in 1718.

" Dr. Halsey was a man of ability. He was honored with several important political jjositions - was county clerk ; county Judge ; member of Assembly ; and member of Congress - always discharging his duties with signal ability. Some twenty volumes of his medical library are still extant, and are yet in a state of good preservation. After the death of his son, Hon. Jehiel Halsey, these volumes were presented to the family physician. Dr. Post, by the heirs of the Halsey estate. I will give the age of the respective volumes :

Dr. Post continues : " The house built by Judge Halsey at an early day, where he resided till his death, is yet standing in a remarkably good state of preservation ; it occupies a commanding site, about eighty rods north of Lodi village, and is owned by Peter D. Post, Sr., since deceased. Perhaps no other building in Seneca county can claim greater historic interest than this ancient and time-honored building."

Judge Halsey built the first saw mill and first grist mill between the lakes, the latter was erected by the brothers Yost, from Waterloo, in 1794. Previous to that time the nearest flouring mills were at Rome and Penn Yan. At his saw mill, pine lumber sold for two shillings and six pence, or less per hundred.

At a Fourth of July celebration, held at Ovid in 18 r 7, Judge Silas Halsey was president of the day, and patriotic salutes were fired with a brass six pounder captured from the British at Yorktown.

Judge Halsey died November 19th, 1832 in the ninetieth year of his age, revered and lamented by the community in which he so long had been a trusted counselor and a venerated friend. He rests from his toil, and others have entered into the fruits of his labors.

As long as the services and sacrifices of the pioneers are remembered, so long will the name of the first physician of Seneca county be held in honor. f.

Jared Sandford

Jared Sandi''Ord was born of Joel and Hannah Sandford in Southampton, Long Island, February 19, 1774. His great-grandfather, Ezekiel Sandford, came from England and settled at Southampton in or before the year 1670; he was born in 1630; died 1705. This ancestor was a lineal descendant of Thomas de Sandford, who was a soldier in the army of William the Conqueror on the invasion ot England, and fought in the battle of Hastings, Oct. 14, 1066, where Harold the Saxon was overthrown. In the Abbey built at Battle (near Hastings) in honor of this victory, King William deposited his sword and a roll of his barons, and on this roll, the great chart of English gentry, it is stated that the name of Thomas de Sandford was recorded. After the conquest, this Baron de Sandford received lands in Shropshire, which still remain in the possession of the Sandford family.

Thomas Sandford, the father of Ezekiel, was a cavalier and held a commission as colonel in the army of King Charles I. He served in the Rebellion which terminated in King Charles' decapitation and the establishment of Cromwell, and had made himself so obnoxious by his skill, energy, bravery and remarkable 'daring that although he had been killed in the storming of Nantwich, January 22, 1643, his family was persecuted, harassed, and driven from one place of concealment to another, until finally those who survived succeeded in making their escape to the colonies and settled at Southampton, Long Island.

In the line of descendants from Thomas we find Ezekiel, the Long Island emigrant; his son, Ezekiel, Jr., who died 1730,* leaving sons Thomas, Zachariah, Jonah, John. (Thomas was grandfather of Nathan Sandford, late Chancellor and United States Senator, New York). Zachariah had five sons - Daniel, Stephen, jFoet, Abraham and Elias. Joel had five sons and two daughters - James, Lemuel, Hugh, ^j^ared, Oliver, Prudence and Amertel.

Dr. Sandford was next to the youngest of twelve children. He studied medicine at Huntington, Long Island, with his elder brother, James. In 1793-4 he graduated at Columbia Medical College. During the year i 796, with his brothers Hugh and Oliver, he started -westward to locate. Hugh stopped and decided to settle along the Mohawk in what is now Montgomery county ; Oliver settled near

Fort Schuyler (now Utica, Oneida county). Jared kept on until he reached the country between the lakes in Seneca county, but which at that time was a part of Onondaga. He was among the earliest settlers, and was warmly welcomed to the wilderness home of his friend and former neighbor, Dr. Silas Halsey, one of the first settlers and first physician in Seneca county.

Dr. Sandford soon began the practice of medicine. The family records state that in 1801 he married Sally Radley, daughter of Hon. Silas Halsey. He soon found himself in the possession of a large and lucrative but too exacting practice. He was a hard student and a faithful physician ; a man of strong mind, powerful memory and of great endurance. He was especially renowned as a surgeon, and in this capacity his aid and counsel were sought far and near.

In 1 80 1 he occupied a small log house on Lot 37, a little west of where Lodi village now stands, removing a few years later to a farm three-fourths of a mile south of the village, where, in 1805, he built the house now owned and occupied by Mr. Herman D. Eastman, which he occupied until his death. This was afterward the home of his widow, who married Dr. John L. Eastman.

Dr. Sandford was often the recipient of unsought political honors. He was first Surrogate of Seneca county, appointed thereto April 2, 1804. The first will admitted to probate in said county was that of James Yerkes, on June 28, 1804. When Surrogate he drew out a system of rules of practice and proceedings in the Surrogate Court which has been followed in the county from that date to this, and generally received and adopted in the State. At the time no other office had a regular set of rules. Educated men being rare in those times, Dr. Sandford was very prominent in the new country and was chosen to fill many important public offices. He was the first postmaster in the town of Ovid, being appointed thereto in 1801, the office being kept in his own house, and he retained the position until it was located in the village of Ovid. He was appointed associate judge of Seneca county, in 1803 and held the office until 1815, with the exception of two years. At the time of his death he was County Treasurer.

As physician and surgeon he was eminent and successful ; his practice extended to Geneva and Waterloo on the north, and to Catherine, now Watkins, on the south, embracing most of the territory between Seneca and Cayuga lakes. The country being new and roads bad, he traveled entirely on horseback - doctors' gigs were far in the future - carrying the equipments of a small apothecary's shop in his capacious saddle-bags. He was a skillful practitioner, and, as an old gentleman remarked, " to get Dr. Sandford was to get well."

In 1 816 his health began to fail, in consequence of exposure and overwork, and he gave up his night ride ; but the warning had been heeded too late; he died in the prime of life in August, 181 7, in the forty-third year of his age, a victim to the hardships of the pioneer physician.

Dr. Sandford left eight surviving children, two of whom, since deceased, were among the most brilhant and successful advocates of the New York bar. Lewis H. Sandford, who died July 27, 1852, was assistant Vice Chancellor of the first circuit of New York in 1843 ; Vice Chancellor in 1846 ; and in 1847 was elected one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the city of New York, holding this position up to the time of his death. Judge Sandford was also eminent as an author. Among his works are Sandford's Chancery Reports, four volumes; and Sandford's Superior Court Reports, fi've volumes - both standard authorities.

The eloquent Edward Sandford, one of the most brilliant impromptu speakers of his day, was noted no less for his readiness of speech than for his power and skill in argument. A passenger on the ill-fated Arctic, Edward Sandford, with many other noble spirits, sank with the ship on the 27th of September, 1854. Seneca county never sent forth a more brilliant son.

Younger sons of Dr. Sandford were James S. Sandford and Gen. Halsey Sandford. James S. Sandford, after practicing for a time in Marshall, Mich., returned in 1841 to New York city, where he continued in the practice of law up to the time of his death, a few years ago, residing during his later years at Summit, New Jersey.

Gen. Halsey Sandford was, during his life, a prominent and honored citizen of Seneca county. Two sons survive him ; Jared Sandford, formerly county clerk of Seneca county, now school commissioner of Westchester county ; Montgomery S. Sandford, cashier of the Geneva National Bank.

Ethan Watson

In the spring of the s ame ye ar, he located at what is now called Frelie's Landing, in the town of Romulus, and in the spring of 1807 removed to Romulusville where he remained in active practice, highly esteemed as a physician, until his death, which occurred May 28, 1858.

He, with Dr. Sanford, organized the first medical board about the year 1814-15. Dr. Watson was a bright, shrewd man and very popular as a physician.

He was a relative and namesake of Ethan Allen of Revolutionary fame and was imbued with many of the characteristics of that illustrious chieftain.

Oliver Cromwell Comstock, the first moderator of the Seneca Baptist Association, and the first pastor of threfe of the churches of that association, was born in Warwick, Kent Co., Rhode Island, March i, 1781. He was the son of Hon. Adam Comstock, one of the most honored citizens and influential legislators of his day. For twelve successive terms, Adam Comstock was elected from Saratoga County, to the lower house of the State legislature, and was afterward State Senator for four years. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 180 1, of which Aaron Burr was president.

The early education of O. C. Comstock was acquired in the schools of Schenectady, and of Greenfield, Saratoga county. From his childhood, he was known as a close student. He afterward entered the University of New York, and graduated from the medical department. He also engaged in the study of law, and his honorary degree of A. M., was worn as worthily as was that of M. D. For a short time he practiced medicine near Cayuga bridge, where he married Lydia Smith, daughter of Judge Grover Smith, of Seneca county. In 1807, he removed to Trumansburg then in Seneca county. Following in the foot-steps of his honored father, he early entered political life, and it seemed only necessary for him to permit the use of his name, in order to receive almost any gift which his fellow citizens had power to bestow.

He was th*! member of Assembly from Seneca county in 1810-12 ; Judge of Seneca county in 181 2 ; the first Judge of Tompkins county in 1817 ; member of the House of Representatives during the 13th, 14th and 15th sessions, when Henry Clay was speaker, declining a renomination for a fourth term, that he might devote himself to the preaching of the gospel to poor' and feeble pioneer . churches. In Congress he was an able debater, and a conscientious legislator. He was appointed by the President one of the Commissioners to settle the claims of the sufferers by the war, on the Niagara frontier. This delicate duty was discharged to the satisfaction of both the government and the claimants.

While a member of Congress, he was baptised in the Potomac by the Rev. Obadiah B. Brown, pastor of the First Baptist church in Washington. Many of the Congressmen accompanied the concourse to the riverside to witness the baptism of their colleague.

After declining a renomination to Congress, he resumed the practice of medicine at Trumaflsburg, gathered a church there, which was constituted in 18 19, preached at Ithaca, Peach Orchard, Farmer Village, and other out-stations and churches. At this time he also organized a church at Ithaca, and was its first pastor, dividing his time between that church and the one at Trumansburg.

In 1828, he accepted a call to Rochester. When he went to that then youthful city, he found the Baptist congregation worshiping in a public hall in the rear of the Clinton House. Their services had been held in the old court house, but the supervisors decided that it was unwise to permit any religious body to hold service in the public buildings, and so directed the sheriff to order the Baptists out. The outlook for the little church was gloomy. They were too poor to build, and knew not where to buy. After long continued labor, against many discouragements, Dr. Comstock succeeded in securing a place of worship for his people. The church which had been built by the Presbyterians, the first ever erected in Rochester, was bought for ^i,- 500, in the year 1828.

While pastor at Rochester, Dr. Comstock was deeply afflicted by the death of his excellent wife, the influence of whose gentle, winning. Christian life was a principal means of his conversion. Sad, lonely, and heart-weary, with health- impaired, he resigned his charge, and sought change and rest. Visiting Washington on his journey southward, he was elected chaplain of the House of Representatives, and served during one term. He was then persuaded to undertake the pastoral charge of the First Baptist church of Norfolk, Va., where he remained for nearly two years.

His only surviving son, Dr. O. C. Comstock, Jr., who succeeded him in his practice at Trumansburg, having removed to Marshall, Mich., he was led to the same new territory, and was pastor at Detroit, preaching afterward as a supply to the churches in Ann Arbor, Jackson, Marshall and Coldwater ; doing the work, but not willing to accept the name of pastor, as he considered his pastoral work closed when he left Detroit. He was pastor of the first church at Detroit for nearly two years, at Ann Arbor five years, at Springfield, 111., one year. In every church the Lord blessed his labors, and the people loved him.

He was twice elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Michigan, and once consented to represent Branch county in the Legislature, manifesting in his declining years the same interest in the welfare of the republic and the advancement of his fellow citizens which had distinguished him in early manhood.

As he had been the first moderator and preacher in the Seneca association, so also he was the moderator and preacher of the introductory sermon at the first anniversary meeting of the Monroe Baptist Association. He was an able advocate of the cause of temperance, and was elected President of the State Temperance Society of Michigan. His reports as superintendent of public instruction are filled with practical and fruitful suggestions, and bear the impress of the statesman and the Christian.

Everywhere, in the practice of his profession, on the judge's bench, in legislative halls, in the pulpit, the family, the social circle, he was the same courteous, warm-hearted, loving Christian gentleman.

When Dr. Comstock was in public life, he was an enthusiastic and earnest friend of the common school system, and rendered efficient aid to Gov. Clinton in making this system a success. He was the first postmaster of Trumansburg, in 1811, and the contrast between the beautiful, active village of to-day and the wilderness of threequarters of a century ago, may be seen in the fact that the first quarter's salary of the postmaster was one dollar and eighty-one cents.

Dr. Comstock was a man of commanding presence, tall and well proportioned, kind and courteous in manner, always welcoming his friends with a cordial greeting. He had a magnetic presence, and a voice which once heard was never forgotten ; every tone seemed to be filled with music. He was the peer of such men in his denomination as Kendrick, Peck, Cone and Bennett, and was often called upon to preach at the anniversaries and meetings of State conventions.

He died at the home of his son, Dr. O. C. Comstock, Jr., in Marshall, Calhoun county, Mich., Jan. 11, i860, aged seventy-nine years ; but he lives in the memory of many who will never cease to love him, atjd in the undying influence of his noble life.

Mather Marvin

Mather Marvin was born at Lyme in the State of Connecticut in the year 1786. He was ed.ucated in the schools of his native town, receiving his medical education in New York city, under the instruction of Dr. Lord, then a celebrated physician. He removed to Romulusville, Seneca county, in 1808, and engaged there in the practice of medicine, in addition to which he carried on the business of a merchant until the year 1818. He served for a time in the army in the war of 1812.

In the year 18 18 he moved upon the farm formerly owned by Jeptha Wade, and afterward known as the Allen farm, now owned by Philip Becker, in that part of the old town of Romulus now in the town of Varick. Here Dr. Marvin resided and continued to practice medicine, in conjunction with farming and public pursuits, until the year 1833, when he removed to Lodi, Washtenaw county, Michigan, where he practiced medicine for a time, and died upon his farm, April 8, 1862, aged seventy-six years. He was an active member of the Presbyterian church at Lodi Plains, Mich., at the time of his death.

Dr. Marvin was a man of much native energy and bore an influential part in public affairs. He was frequently called upon to serve the public in an official capacity as one of the magistrates and school inspectors of the old town of Romulus, and in 1823 and 1825 was elected supervisor of that town, serving as clerk of the board in the latter year. At the first town election held in the town of Varick in the year 1830, he was chosen an inspector Of schools for that town. At a special election held in Seneca county, January 16, 1828, Dr. Marvin was elected, as the nominee of the Anti- Masonic party, county clerk of the county of Seneca, in place of Ernest A. Dunlap, deceased, and held the office for a full term.

Lewis Halsey was born at Southampton, Long Island, May 22, 1783, the son of Hon. Silas Halsey. His father, Dr. Silas Halsey, was the first physician iii Seneca county and one of its most prominent citizens, having been State Senator, representative in Congress, etc. When ten years of age he removed with his father to the wilderness country of western New York.

He began the study of medicine with Dr. Jared Sandford, his brother-in-law, and was graduated in medicine in New York city, where he had been for some tirne attending lectures.

He was married November 23, 181 7, to Fanny Clark, who died October 21, 1838. He married for his second wife Phoebe Emmell, who survived him.

His children, all by his first wife, were - Mary Ann, Howell, Lee, Fanny, William Clark, Jared Sandford, and Morton ; of whom only two are living : Mrs. Silas M. Kinne of Ovid, and Mr. Jared S. Halsey of Trumansburg.

After iiis graduation at the medical, college, he began the practice of his profession at French Creek, Erie county, returning in about two years to the town of Covert (then Ovid), Seneca county. He began housekeeping in a log house, a little east of the hamlet of Covert, since better known as Pratt's Corners, and continued his practice. Not long after he removed to Trumansburg, Tompkins county, where he continued to reside during the remainder of his life, respected, loved and honored by his , family and by his fellow citizens. In 1837 he was member of Assembly from Tompkins county, and was for many years one of the most prominent members of the Tompkins County Medical Society, with which he united in 1822.

One of his students. Dr. Hawes, says of him, that he was of slender form, , his features expressive and intelligent, having descended from the best English ancestry. His manner and general bearing were especially suited to the sick chamber. Without saying anything to occasion needless alarm there was a sympathetic gentleness in his approach that made his presence most welcome and predisposed the patient to have faith in his prescriptions. He examined his cases with great thoroughness and his decision was generally

* The greater part of the above sketch is abbreviated from the manuscript tribute of Dr. M. D. Hawes, who was for some years a student of medicine in Dr. Halsey's office.

correct, but if the case was one complicated or obscure no false pride prevented him from acknowledging his ignorance or his doubts. While his practice was largely among the more cultivated and wealthy classes he never turned a deaf ear to the calls of the poor but was ready always to minister to them in any way in his power. Throughout the large field of his practice he was recognized in every family as a personal friend.

In his professional intercourse he was easy, affable and courteous, guided by high and honorable motives, and always an uncompromising advocate for the dignity of the profession.

His whole life, private as well as professional, was so pervaded and governed by the spirit of truth that his motives and actions passed entirely unquestioned by all who knew him and obtained confidence and respect everywhere.

His life was mostly spent in advancing his profession, and no other pursuit attracted his attention. He was elected member of the lower house of the Legislature of New York in 1837, and filled many places of trust, but he did not seek such honors ; his highest aspiration was to leave the profession of his choice higher and purer than he found it.

Gardner Welles

Few men nave spent so many years, and all of them so worthily, in the pursuit of their profession as he who, while yet a young man, friendless and alone; established himself in Seneca county, and here gave sixty years of faithful, intelligent labor in the service of his fellow men.

Gardner Welles, son of Russell and Sarah Carter Welles, and the third of nine children, was born August 26, 1784, in the town of Gilead, Tolland county, Connecticut, in which vicinity his ancestors resided since the emigration from England, in 1630, of Thomas Welles, from whom the family is descended.

Having received an academic education and pursued the study of medicine for about two years in his native State, he came to Cherry Valley, Otsego county. New York, in 1807, and completed his prelimi- nary professional studies in the office of the late Dr. Joseph White, one of the most celebrated physicians and surgeons of his time. On the first day of November, 1809, Dr. Welles was licensed to practice medicine by the Otsego County Medical Society. Desiring, however, to obtain the highest possible point of excellence in his chosen profession, in the following fall and winter he attended a course of medical lectures at the oldest of the Church universities of this country, Columbia College in the city of New York.

In the spring of 1810, with a small supply of medicine in his saddlebags and a hundred dollars in his pocket - the parting gift of his father - the young physician started from the paternal home, to make his own way through life. The far west was then western New York, and into this region he came. At Canandaigua he met Dr. James Carter, who advised him to settle in the " Southwick neighborhood " in the town of Junius. Accordingly he retraced his steps, and, being pleased with the location, he there established himself. He became a member of the family of Major Southwick, and soon entered into a copartnership with Dr. Linus Ely, which continued for about six years.

In 18 13 he married PauUna Fuller, a resident of Galen, Wayne county, temporarily teaching in Junius, who died in 1849, sincerely beloved and regretted.

At the breaking out of the war of 18 12 he offered his services to the government, was commissioned by Governor Daniel D. Tompkins as Surgeon of the Seventy-first Regiment of New York Infantry, went to the Niagara frontier, and remained in the service to the close of the war.

In 18 1 6 he removed to Waterloo, at that time just beginning to give promise of a flourishing town, and the same year completed and occupied the dwelling at the corner of Main and Oak streets, where he resided until his death.

Long before the days of Loring, Bellows and Magee, the physicians of a generation now passed away, he was in active business, and even then manifested that characteristic love for and devotion to his calling which endured to the very end. For nearly half a century he was regarded as the leading physician and surgeon of the vicinity, and his wide experience and counsel were constantly sought by his cotemporaries.

became eminent as an Obstetrician and many mothers associate him with their first-born. As a counselor in the serious difficulties which often arise in this branch of medicine, his advice was sought by the neighboring physicians for many miles around. His kindness to his juniors was also conspicuous, and rendered him exceedingly popular with them, while his sound judgment and impartial bearing lent weight to his opinions and gained for him the respect and confidence of all.

With a mind filled with a strong sense of duty, and a heart warmed by tlie glow of a never-failing humanity, he was emphatically the friend of the poor, and by the entire community, among whom his long life was spent, his memory is held in most respectful veneration.

The following extract is taken from the annual address before the Medical Society by the president. Dr. W. A. Swaby, at its first meeting subsequent to the death of Dr. Welles :

" To give an account of the life of our beloved brother would far exceed any limits, for it would comprise the history of medicine in Seneca county ; and still the example would have its value, as illustrating how professional success may be attained, even in the face of adverse circumstances, by patient and faithful toil, by integrity of purpose and purity of character, and gentle and gentlemanly manners. His life of useful labor is closed in eternal and hallowed rest."

Dr. Welles held various public positions : Justice of the peace, supervisor of the town, president of the village, curator of the Geneva Medical College, and in 1839 member of Assembly from the county.

In politics he was a Democrat of the Jeffersonian, Wright, and Marcy school ; in business, a man of marked integrity and fairness ; in social life, pure, kind, modest and unassuming.

Born and educated in a faithful family who were devotedly attached to the mother church of England, these principles seemed to grow with his growth and strengthen with his strength. He was one of the first wardens of St. Paul's church, elected in 1818, of which church he was, to his death, an exemplary and consistent member.

His demise, which took place February 18, 1872, was the result of a fall received some six weeks before, and from which he suffered intensely until released by death.

Three children survived him - Mrs. Wiliiam Magee and Dr. Samuel R. Welles, of Waterloo, and the Right Reverend Edward R. Welles, S. T. D., Bishop of Milwaukee.

Linus Ely

Linus Ely was the son of Simeon Ely, and was born near Springfield, Mass., on the 25th day of January, 1786. In that day the facilities for obtaining an education being much more limited than at the present time, a good thorough education in the English branches, was all he was permitted to obtain. When about ten years of age, his father, with a large family of nine children, concluded to " go west " as far as Herkimer county, and establish a new home. Dr. Ely at the age of twenty years entered the office of Dr. Crane, then a leading country physician of Warren in said county.

Like nearly all students in medicine at the beginning of the present century, his pecuniary condition was not one of ease, and he was obliged to avail himself of such advantages as his limited means would allow. For some time he taught school to enable him to obtain sufficient means to accomplish his studies. In 18 10, having finished his period of studentship, and having obtained his diploma from the board of censors of Herkimer county, he, figuratively speaking, for his means had become still more limited, took his knapsack on his back and started for the western wilderness, Ohio being his objective point.

Upon coming into the town of Junius, through which he concluded to pass, and on his way to visit a brother in Chautauqua county, he found that the principal medical practitioner of that locality. Dr. Gardner Welles, was absent as surgeon in the war which had been but recently declared between the United States and Great Britain. Being strongly urged by various parties to remain, if for no longer period than the return of Dr. Welles, he consented, and soon found himself actively engaged in the practice of that profession to which he became an ornament, and in which he excelled. Some time duiing the following year. Dr. Welles returned on account of sickness, when a co-partnership between him and Dr. Ely was entered into, anu Dr. Ely went to the frontier as a surgeon, and was acting in that capacity

The partnership was continued until 1816, when Dr. Welles moved to Waterloo, which then gave great promise of becoming a flourishing and prominent city, and Dr. Ely continued his labors alone. The friendship, both professional and social, between the two men, was always firm, and existed until broken by death, a period of nearly fifty years.

In 1816 Dr. Ely married the daughter of William Hewes of Phelps, Ontario county, by whom he had six children, four of whom, with their mother, are now living. Dr. Ely was a man of magnificent physique, being about six feet in height, straight as an arrow, with a slight tendency to obesity, and weighing about two hundred pounds. Being usually somewhat careful as to his attire, almost always dressed in black, his every appearance indicated what is Ordinarily termed, a physician of the old school.

Being possessed of a sound and vigorous constitution, seldom interrupted by sickness, together with a wonderful amount of ambition and unremitting energies in the practice of medicine, he soon began to be considered a man of some prominence in the profession. For more than forty years he continued in practice in the locality where he began, as one of the foremost physicians of Seneca county and the surrounding country.

In his intercourse with the sick, whether at the bed-side or in his office, he was invariably kind and attentive, lending a watchful ear to all their complaints. It was at such times that one would be convinced that what some might call austerity, was a very superficial element in his character. During the latter years of his professional life, in connection with the arduous duties of a country practice, he was, by his untiring energies, capable of directing the successful management of a large landed property, secured as the result of good health, combined with indefatigable mental and physical work.

A stranger would have thought that his nature was cold and austere. His rather abrupt way of speaking added to that impression. But nothing could be farther from the character of the man. In 1852, twelve years before his death, being then sixty-six years of age, and his two older children, one the wife of Dr. Colvin, residing in the village of Clyde, Wayne county, he was with great reluctance, persuaded to break up his old home, abandon the profession, and retire to that village for the purpose of spending his last days with his children. At that time, as a physician, as a citizen, and all that belongs to a Christian, few men in Seneca county stood higher in public estimation.

In the winter of 1852-3, he moved to Clyde, and with the exception of occasional consultations, confined himself to the overseeing of his landed property and the enjoyment of his family and friends. In the autumn gf 1863, there began to be observed a change in that once erect form, also in the rapid and elastic step. Never from necessity, nor scarcely from convenience, nor habit, until that period, was he known to have carried a walking-stick of any kind. With great reluctance, at first, did he seem willing to speak of what was evidently his decline. His disease proved to be cancer of the liver. Throughout the long, and to him dreary months, he patiently bore his sufferings. Surrounded by every consolation which the sick can desire, he quietly and peacefully breathed his last on the first day of May 1864.

M. B. Bellows

Matthias Burton Bellows was born at Hebron, Washington county, N. Y., April 9, 1788. His parents lived upon a farm, where his youth was passed.

While a young man he taught school at Little Falls, N. Y., and during that time commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Kennedy. In accordance with the usual practice of those early days, he was licensed by the State Medical Society, and in 181 2 entered upon the practice of his profession at Seneca Falls, living in a frame house upon the present site of Hoag's Opera House. He was a man of great dignity and learning, of stately bearing, and very skillful in the discharge of his professional duties. He was also a very successful practitioner, and for more than forty years was a good and trusted physician, and heartily engaged in his work.

to an election on that ticket, but would not accept the office on account of his profession. For several years he was president of the village of Seneca Falls, and a member of the board of trustees of Hobart College. |ie was also one of the original stockholders and directors of the Seneca Falls Academy.

Above all things he was a lover of medicine, and thoroughly devoted to anything that would uphold the dignity and honor of the profession. Two of his sons were educated for that profession, one of whom succeeded his father in practice at Seneca Falls.

Dr. Bellows died of heart disease on the first of May, 1854, having been during his life one of the most prominent physicians in the north jury district of the county.

C. C. Coan

Claudius Collins Coan was born March i, 1794, at West Stockbridge, Mass. When four years of age he came with his parents into the wilds of western New York. Without assistance he gained his education at the academy at Canandaigua. He pursued the study of medicine in the same village with his preceptor. Dr. Samuel Dungan, who was an uncle of his future wife. It is related as an incident of his early life, but one which indicated the resolution and perseverance which characterized his subsequent years, that he twice walked from Canandaigua to the city of Philadelphia to attend the medical college.

After a course of study at the University of Pennsylvania, under the tuition of the distinguished Dr. Benjamin Rush, he commenced the practice of medicine about 18 16 at Lodi, then a scattered community, and in the same year 'was married to Miss Sarah M. Folwell. Seven of their eight children lived to maturity, and six survived him. In 1835 he removed to Ovid, and for the remainder of his life lived at the old homestead, a few miles south of the village.

He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Regents of the University of New York in 1841, on the recommendation of the State Medical Society.

He continued in the uninterrupted practice of his profession until his last illness, a period of sixty-five years ; faithfully and intelligently ministering as he had strength to the people of this community in their ills and sorrows. How well he sustained the varied responsibilities of physician, was testified by the hold he had upon the hearts of all. His life extending over a period longer than is usually allotted to man ; possessing the vigor of his faculties to a remarkable degree to the latest moment of his life, he died in a good old age and full of years February 28,1882. His wife died the following day, of the same disease, pneumonia, and they were buried side by side in the same grave. On the twentieth of the succeeding July they would have completed their sixty-fifth year of married life.

For many years Dr. Coan occupied a prominent position as a physician in the county, but his deafness led him to decline public positions almost entirely, whether literary or political. He was skillful in his profession, and successful as a financier, and influential as a citizen.

As an ardent pioneer in the great temperance work, he was eminently useful. He was a regular attendant at church, joining in a reverent manner in a service of which, on account of his infirmity, he could not hear a word. In 1866, soon after the re-organization of the Seneca County Medical Society, he was elected an honorary member.

It is well to indulge in the memory of the past. The present may find profit in what has been, and succeeding generations gather knowledge and wisdom from generations gone before. The records of the historian may not only instruct and amuse, but discharge a debt due both the past and the present. What has been wise and virtuous in generations gone, should be recorded to their credit, and the record handed down to those who come after, as their just inheritance. Such conviction encourages the brief sketches we are making of some of the worthy pioneers of Waterloo. In some instances they may gratify descendants, but beyond this, we partially discharge a debt to the memory of these fathers, and contribute a little to link the past with the present and coming generations. He whose name we place at the head of this article was one of these fathers.

August, 1 791. He came of honored stock, and numbered among his near kindred, men of high distinction. Although denied the advantages of a libera) education, yet by availing himself of such means of culture as came within his reach, he laid a fair basis for the profession of his choice. He studied medicine under the direction of Dr. White, an eminent physician of Hudson, N. Y., and in the year 18 15 received a diploma from the Medical Society of Columbia county, admitting him to the practice of " physic and surgery." He entered upon the duties of his profession in Sheffield of his native state in partnership with Dr. Nathaniel Preston ; but soon conceived the purpose of seeking a newer part of the country as the theatre of building up a fortune. Accordingly with two other young men he came into western New York in the year 181 7. One of the three settled at Buffalo ; another in Rochester ; while young Loring, attracted by the water power, and rapidly increasing population of Waterloo, was led to adopt the place as his future home. At this date, the village was in its infancy, much of it yet covered with forest, with rude, unfinished and inadequate accommodations for its incoming settlers, and when the family residence was often compelled to share its room with the office and store. Dr. Loring became the successor in the drug and medicine trade of Dr. Charles Stuart, bought out his stock of goods, and for a brief period, occupied the wing of the residence then standing opposite the present office of Edward Fatzinger, previously occupied by his predecessor.

At an early date, however, he erected the residence in which he subsequently lived until the time of his death. Having thus provided for his professional business, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Keeler, of Athens, N. Y. Hon. D. S. Kendig, then a youth of fifteen years, with some little experience in a drug store, was called to take charge of his business temporarily.

As a physician, Dr. Loring conducted an active and extensive practice for some twenty or more years, and the physical exposure was scarcely less than the tax upon his mind. It was the season for such diseases as the malaria in a new country produces, arid which is generated by the accumulation of decayed matter and surrounding low lands whose impurities the sun does not reach. It was also the time for bad roads, which added largely to the weariness of the physician's ride and to the greater exposure of his health, especially in the inclement parts of the year. The result in the case of Dr.

Loring, was an attack of rheumatism which lasted during his subsequent life. It so disabled him as to necessarily greatly diminish his more active medical services and chiefly to confine him to office prescriptions.

He had, however, established the reputation of having a thorough knowledge of his profession, and even of eminence in some of its branches. Whatever concerned the welfare of society engaged his thought, and especially the great principles lying at the basis of our national government. His views on subjects both secular and religious were sometimes committed to paper, and brief essays have been found in his library which do honor to his comprehension as well as to the form in which his views are expressed. Dr. Loring's name appears in the transactions of the State Medical Society for 1829-30- 31, as Secretary of the Seneca County Medical Society.

In politics he was a Whig after the straightest sect, and he faithfully supported the party under that name. He was a warm admirer of Webster and Clay as the exponents of his political views, and in testimony of his regard for the former, he gave his name to his youngest son and left among his papers warm, written tributes to the memory of the great statesman.

In the year of our Lord 1828, Dr. Loring was appointed postmaster for Waterloo, and served two terms in the office, to the acceptance of the people. Although, at the decease of the Whig party he quite naturally passed into the Republican ranks, his interest in political matters soon began to decline. His oracle in these matters was lost in the death of Mr. Webster, and when this central light was extinguished, he seemed to be removed from his political moorings. Accordingly during several of his last years he became indifferent to the^exercise of the elective franchise, and gave as the reason for refusing to vote at elections, that " he had lost his party."

His religious convictions, like his mental constitution, were of the fixed and positive kind. His arrival at Waterloo was just prior to the organization of the Episcopal church, and he became one of its founders and most devoted supporters. He was early given the place of a vestryman, which he retained until the day of his death.

Dr. Loring was a gentleman of the old school, and in manners a New Englander of the Puritan type. He possessed and cultivated the solid rather than the shining qualities of our common humanity. He had a mind of his own. Although not a Quaker in doctrine, or in the cut of his coat, or in the brim of his hat, yet in the care and neatness of his person, from his abounding white cravat to the soles of his shoes, he was the rival of the trimmest son of William Penn, and not a whit his inferior in honesty and transparency of character.

The death of Dr. Loring occurred on the 19th of March, 1865, in -the 75 th year of his age. He left a widow, two sons, John K. and Daniel W. Loring, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Sims. His place and the places of his associate pioneers of Waterloo, it is not easy to fill. It was theirs to lay foundations. It is ours to build the superstructure, and it will be well if we are as wise to build as they were in preparing the way.

John L. Eastman

John L. Eastman was born at Granby, Mass., Jan. 25, 1792, of Joseph and Polly Eastman. On the twenty-seventh day of March, 181 7, he was licensed to practice medicine by the Medical Society of New Haven, Conn., and in the same year he settled at Ovid, in the practice of his profession.

In 1 8 19, he moved to the residence of the late Jared Sandford, at Lodi, and on the twenty-third of February, 1819, he married the doctor's widow, whose maiden name was Sally R. Halsey. They had three children, two of whom are now living. Mr. H. D. Eastman, who occupies the old homestead near Lodi is a younger son, the elder son, Dr. Sandford Eastman, studied with his father, and graduated at Buffalo University, and afterwards became Professor of Anatomy at the Buffalo Medical College. He never practiced in this county and died in southern California, January 8, 1874.

Dr. John L. Eastman died at Lodi, February 19, 1857, of inflammatory rheumatism, after an uninterrupted practice of forty years in the county.

Randolph Welles

Randolph Welles, son of Russell and Sarah [Carter] Wells, and the youtigest of nine children, was born March 7th, 1794, in the town of Gilead, Tolland county, Conn.

He entered the office of Drs. Gardner Welles and Linus Ely^ in Junius, N. Y., in 1815, with whom he pursued his medical studies until January 29th, 1818, when he received from the college of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of the State of New York a diploma, licensing him to practice "physic and surgery." He immediately entered upon the duties of his profession at Clyde, N. Y., (then knowii as the Block house), where he remained for about two years.

Dr. Welles was married to Betsey Rathbon, June 17, 1819. Three children were born to them, two of whom are now living. During the doctor's residence in Clyde, he held the appointment of postmaster.

He left Clyde in the fall of 1820, making an extended tour on horseback, through the south and west, spending some time in Illinois and Kentucky, and going as far south as New Orleans. Returning to Clyde in the spring of 1822, he resumed and continued in the practice of his profession for six months, when with a view of devoting his attention to agricultural pursuits, he removed to Junius, locating himself near the " Southwick settlement." So well and favorably was he known, and so highly esteemed as a physician in the community where he had come to reside, that he found it impossible to refuse or evade the urgent calls made upon him, and was forced to re-enter upon his professional duties, speedily acquiring a good reputation and a large practice, which he retained during the brief remainder of his life.

Thomas C. Magee

Among the early members of the medical profession in the northern section of the county was Dr. Thomas C. Magee, who was born in Cambridge, Washington county, N. Y., January 17, 1780.

stands. After pursuing his profession there for a short time he removed to the town of Tyre where he resided for more than forty years, actively engaged in practice. IJis long residence and prominent position established for him a reputation not only in his town but in the county. His professional career was eminently successful and fidelity characterized all his acts.

He was married December 22, 1803, to Elizabeth Pike. The old brick homestead still remains at Magee's Corners where he resided for many years with a large family of ten children, five sons and five daughters, of whom three sons and one daughter still survive.

About four years previous to his death he was obliged to relinquish his practice on account of impaired health and gradually failed. His death occurred from cystitis, December 10, i860, at Magee's Corners, amid the scenes of his life-long labors.

John G. Tubes

John Grinell Tubes was born in the town of East Lyme, New London county, Conn., December 25, 1794. His father's name was Johii Tubbs and his mother's, Elizabeth Bush.

He entered the ofiSce of Dr. Vine N.etley, East Lyme, Conn., and after a time became a student of Dr. North, of New London- He graduated at Yale College in- the year 1819, arid practiced medicine for a short time in the village of Chester, Conn., then came to Auburn, N. Y., in 1821, and to Tyre in 1822, where he remained for nearly fifty years. During this time he was engaged in the practice of his profession, and filling honorable political positions in his town and county.

He was married in September 1823, to Miss Lucy D. Smith of Niantic, Conn., and was the father of eight children, of whom only two are living. He had been elected to the office of asssesor j town clerk ; justice of the peace, (this ofiSce he held for forty years) ; inspector of schools ; superintendent of schools ; supervisor of his town for many years; member of Assembly in the year iSm.^^^ ; juitice

Justus Lewis

Justus Lewis was born in the year 1800, in Greenfield, Saratoga county. New York, the son of Rev. John and Lucinda Lewis. His father was a respected Baptist minister whose name is intimately and honorably associated with the history of the Seneca Baptist Association.

About 1806, Rev. John Lewis removed with his family to the then wild lake country. He was the first pastor of the Baptist church in Farmer Village, and his name heads the list of constituent members. He was also pastor of churches in Lodi and in Enfield.

The young manhood of Justus Lewis was passed in Seneca county, and he began the study of medicine with Dr. Brown of Farmer Village. He also spent some time in teaching school, thus acquiring the means to pursue his studies. His principal medical instructor was Dr. Lewis Halsey, formerly of Seneca county, but at that time a resident of Trumansburg. He was also for a time in the office of Dr. O. C. Comstock, and one of his fellow students. Dr. O. C. Comstock, Jr., still survives, a resident of Marshall', Mich. He afterward attended lectures at Fairfield, New York, where he was graduated in medicine in 1823, his diploma being dated Jan. 14th of that year.

In 1827, Dr. Lewis was united in marriage to Miss Mary Belknap, a daughter of one of the early settlers of Trumansburg, who died in 1866. Ten years later. Dr. Lewis and his wife united with the Trumansburg Baptist church, of which they continued to be faithful and consistent members during their lives.

Dr. Lewis practiced for a short time in Reynoldsville, and in Seneca county, but spent the greater part of his long and useful life in Trumansburg, Tompkins county, where at different times he entered into partnership with Dr. Lewis Halsey, Dr. O. C. Comstock and Dr. S. E. Clark.

His eldest son, Dr. J. D. Lewis, who for many years was associated with him in practice, was a man benignant in spirit, skilled in his profession and beloved by many friends; he, was also in the army, serving during the war as surgeon of the 85th N. Y. S. V. Five, of Dr. Lewis' children are yet living, and one sister, Mrs. Bloomer, still resides at Ovid Center, Seneca county, with her son, J. Lewis Bloomer.

Dr. Lewis frequently wrote for publication articles on hygiene, temperance, and kindred topics, and during his later years spent much time in traveling. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Van Noy, at Trumansburg, June 11, 1885, and a large number of the members of the medical profession were present at the funeral services. Dr. Lewis was a man who lived to do faithfully and well the work assigned him, and dying was mourned by many friends.

James A. Hahn

James Hahn was born in Berks county. Pa., May i0, 1804. He studied medicine with Dr. Gibson, professor of surgery in the Pennsylvania Medical College at Philadelphia, and graduated there in 1824. Soon afterwards he became the resident physician at Blockle} Hospital and also practiced a short time at Millerstown, Pa.

He located in this county in 1826, first in Fayette, then in Canoga, afterwards in Bearytown, and subsequently in Waterloo, where he formed a piartnership with Dr. Gardner Welles, which continued until 1844, the date of his removal to Michigan.

After a successful career of about eighteen years, he removed to Marshall, Michigan, where he was afterwards twice elected mayor of the city. In the fall of 1854 he removed to Chicago and entered into practice there. While here he served six years as alderman, two years as city physician, and was president of the Chicago Board of Health at the time of his death, which occurred October 25, 1875.

Lewis Oakley

academic course, he began the study of medicine under Dr. Samuel McClellan pf Rensselaer county, and after three years' preparation, including lectures at the Medical Department of the University, of the State of New York at Fairfield, was licensed by the Rensselaer County Medical Society in the fall of 1823. Dr. Oakley had a large and desirable practice in a territory lying in the towns of Blooming Grove, New Windsor and Cornwall in Orange county, which he abandoned on account of the arduousness of the work.

In 1826 he came to Fayette, Seneca county, in consequence of the removal oif Dr., Daniel Hudson to Geneva, and again entered upon an active practice in the western parts of Fayette and Varick. The life of a physician had always been distasteful to him, and in 1842, after a professional work of sixteen years in the county, he transferred his clientage to Dr. O. S. Patterson, who in turn was succeeded by Dr. A. J. AUeman, a pupil of Dr. Patterson.

Abram N. Van Tyne

Abram N. Van Tyne, son of Jacob and Alida Van Tyne, was born near the city of Auburn, Cayuga county, N. Y., November 29, 1798. In the year i8ioor 1811 he with his parents moved to the western part of the State and joined a little colony of old neighbors and friends who had preceded them from the same county, and here he remained until after the war of 181 2.

Finding little or no opportunity in that newly settled district to obtain an education, which he greatly desired, he returned to Auburn and entered the academy, then kept in a part of the Theological Seminary, the academy building proper having burned but a short time before. There, as he said, he spent many happy years. At the age of seventeen he taught district school, afterwards attending school for some time. Turning teacher again, he was engaged at Camillus and Elbridge, Onondaga county, N. Y. For a time he was employed as clerk in a bookstore in Auburn. He pursued his classical studies at Auburn, under instruction of Prof. N. D. Strong, principal of the Auburn Associate Academy.

In the study of medicine he was, at different times, under the tutorship of the following preceptors : Drs. Isaac Magoon, Joseph White, Westell Willoughby, James Hadley,T. Romeyn Beck, James McNaugh- ton and John DeLaMat'er. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of the State of New York at Fairfield, Herkimer county, N. Y., receiving his diploma and license in January, 1^28.

He first located as a practicing physician at Seneca Falls in June, 1828, in partnei*ship with Dr. M. B. Bellows. In May, 1830, he removed to Varick, where he remained in active practice until May, i860, when he remioved with his family to Chelsea, Washtenaw county, Michigan, where' he resided until his death.

Dr. Van Tyiie was twice married - first to Miss Harriet A. Ingram, of Union Springs, N. Y., in Febriiary, 1831, who died of consumption in May, 1832. He was married again October 15, 1837, to Miss Mary M. Arms, Of Greeiifield, Mass.

He was, while in this county, a member of the Seneca County Medical Society, and after removing to the' west he became a member of the Washtenaw County (Mich.)'MedicarS6cie'ty, and was, at the time of his death, an honorary mertiber of that body.

In early life he united with the Presbyterian church at Auburn, of which Rev. Dr. Lansing was then pastor. Wherever he removed 'he transferred his membersViip; and was a member of the Congregational church in Chelsea during his declining years. He retained his mental faculties almost to the last; Althoughunable to practice for a number of years, through the infirmities of age, he always felt a deep' interest in all things pertaining to his profession and the advancement of medical science.

His last illness was of but little over two weeks' duration. The worst symptoms in the disease had apparently abated, and his attendants and friends were hopeful of his recovery, whfen suddenly, on the 9th of December, 1880, without word of premonition or symptom of approaching dissolution, he expired, aged eighty-two years. His disease was bronchitis, the immediate cause of death being failure of the heart. In the language of his pastor. Rev. Dr. Holmes, " During his last illness his hope was bright, his faith strong, and his soul seemed filled with triumphant joy. Though his final departure occurred almost in a moment of time and very unexpectedly, no dying assurances were necessary to convince the family and friends that all was well."

Richard K. Wheeler

Richard K. Wheeler was born in Orange county, N. Y., February 13, 1806, and graduated at the Fairfield Medical school. He settled in Farmer Village in 1829 when a young man, and spent there the remainder of his useful life. He was widely known, having an extensive ride, and \yas respected and trusted wherever known, as an upright, honorable and faithful physician.

On the 30th day of January, 1833, he was united in marriage to Miss Jane Dickinson, a sister of the Hon. Bray Dickinson, who for some time represented the United states in Nicaragua. Mrs. Wheeler was a worthy wife and mother, and is held in affectionate remembrance. She died July 27th, 1872, surviving her husband for about eleven years.

Dr. Wheeler was a man of few words, but his conversation carried with it weight and meaning. Although the exacting duties of his profession left him comparatively little time he could call his own, he was thoroughly domestic in his tastes, loving his home and bound to his family by the closest ties of affection. To the ordinary observer he was stern, but a close acquaintance revealed the geniality of his character and his kindness of heart.

In all the political and social questions of the day he was well informed. Like his intimate friends and fellow physicians, Drs. C. C. Coan and Lewis Post of Lodi, he was a life-long Democrat, firm in his convictions and decided in his expressions of opinion.

Among his associates at home were James E. Knight, the Rev. O. H. Gregory, D. D., Lockwood Hinman, Abram Ditmars, John B. and Noyes L. Avery - all deceased excepting the two brothers last named, who are passing their later days, in honor, at Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Dr. Wheeler was a member and officer of the Reformed church of Farmer Village, and as far as his professional duties would permit, was a regular attendant of the church services. During his life, in a widely extended country practice, he gained a large circle of friends.

The members of the medical profession present at Dr. Wheeler's funeral held a meeting,' of which Dr. Lewis Post of Lodi was president and Dr. J. D. Lewis of Trumansburg, secretary, and adopted resolutions commemorative of a brother whose professional and religious character had gained the most profound respect and confidence. Dr. j. H. Jerome of Trumansburg and Dr. Alfred Bolter of Ovid gave addresses, paying heartfelt tribute to his memory.

Nathan W. Folwell

Nathan Wright Folwell was born at Southampton, Bucks county, Pa., December 27, 1805. His father was also born at Southampton in 1768 and graduated at Brown University in 1792. His mother, Jane Dungan, was born in the same town in the year of our national Independence, 1776. Isaac Watts was numbered among his ancestors and his venerated name is handed down from one generation to another.

In June, 1807, Dr. Folwell removed to Romulus with his parents. His early life was spent uneventfully, on the farm owned by his father on the east shore of the beautiful Seneca, midway between Wiilard and Dey's Landing. Attending the district schools, he laid a foundation for an excellent education. He then went to Lodi and attended a school taught by Robert Herriott at Townsendville, and here prepared himself to enter college.

On September 6, 1826, he entered Geneva (now Hobart) College and g raduated there on the sixth of August, 1828, and in September of the same year he returned to Townsendville and began the study of medicine with Dr. C. C. Coan. In September, 1829, he entered the Fairfield Medical College in Herkimer county, and graduated there in the latter part of January, 1832. His chum and most intimate friend while at college was Asa Gray, who afterwards became the distinguished botanist and professor at Harvard, and the two men ever afterwards maintained a close friendship and correspondence. Among his preceptors were Drs. James Hadley, T. Romeyn Beck, James McNaughton and John De La Mater. Soon after leaving Fairfield he entered into the pr&ptjce pf medicine with Dr. C. C. Coan in the town of Lodi.

On May 7, 1834, he was married to Caroline Reader of Trenton, N. J. In 1840 he dissolved his partnership with Dr. Coan and moved to North Hector where he continued to have an extensive practice for a number of years, until failing health compelled him to give up his practice and engage in the pursuit of agriculture.

Dr. Folwell on the eighteenth of March, 1833, was appointed and constituted hospital Surgeon of the Fifth Brigade of Cavalry of the State of New York by Gov. Wm. L. Marcy, and his commission was signed by Brig.-Gen. Peter Himrod ; and on September 11, 1837, he was appointed hospital Surgeon of the Third Division of Cavalry by Gov. Marcy, signed by Halsey Sandford, Major-General Third Division Cavalry.

He was always an enthusiastic student of botany, and in pursuit of this study' joined his devoted and life-long friend. Prof Asa Gray of Harvard College, on an extensive tour through what was then the far west, and afterwards was fond of relating his experiences in little thriving towns which afterwards became large and prosperous cities.

While in attendance on a series of meetings held in Penn Yan, conducted by the then renowned evangelist Jacob Knapp, he was converted, and on the first of January, 1844, became a member of the Lodi Baptist church and was the first superintendent of the Sunday school. In 1842 he was licensed by the church to preach, " m*ny of the brethren saying that for a long time they had thought it the duty of Bro. Folwell to serve the Lord more publicly," but felt that he was better fitted to labor as a layman. He possessed rare powers of exhortation and especially w*as his influence felt in the cause of temperance. The social customs of to-day are very different from those of forty years ago. It was not easy then to take a noble stand for temperance, but he was not one to fear frowns or ridicule or to retreat from a sphere of Christian usefulness because of unpopularity, and in the vicinity where he lived he was largely instrumental in bringing about a wonderful temperance reform.

For over twenty years he was treasurer of the Romulus Baptist church. For sixteen years he was treasurer of the Seneca Baptist Association. For two years he was in the service of the American Baptist Publication Society.

Of his ten children six are still living. " Two of his sons fought in the Union army. William Reeder Folwell was a member of the Fourth Michigan regiment. James D. Folwell responded to the first call for volunteers and enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third N. Y. S. V;, was captured in McClellan's abandoned hospital at Chickahominy, confined in Libby prison, and died of emaciation at Philadelphia, July 26, 1862, at the age of twenty-three years."

He died rich in the esteem of the community and at the age of seventy-three. The cause of his death was lung difficulty and Bright's, disease. Dri Folwell was an earnest, active, benevolent Christian man and was public-spirited to a large degree, always actively engaged and interested in the affairs of the church and county and a free and generous host. . " He gave cheerfully and with a liberal hand for the support of the gospel at home and abroad and was a leader in every good work."

Lewis Post

Lewis Post, one of the early practitioners of the town of Lodi and for many years prominent as a citizen and physician in the south jury district of the county, was born at Ovid, September 26, 181 1, of Cornelius and Christina Post.

He received his education at the Ovid Academy and at the Fairfield Medical College, where he attended lectures during the years 1 83 1-2-3. A portion of his medical tuition was received under the instruction of Dr. C. C. Coan. He also took a private dissecting course at Auburn. On the fourteenth of June^ 1834, he was granted a diploma, with license to practice by the State Medical Society, and began the duties of his profession at Lodi the same year, and continued in the discharge of an extensive business for forty-five years in that town. He also bore a certificate of membership, dated December 13, 1 83 1, as fellow of the Medical Society of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York.

Dr. Post was a surgeon of ability and as a physician obtained the confidence of a large community. On the sixteenth of April, 1862, he was commissioned one of the "Auxiliary Corps of Volunteer Surgeons," and after the battle of Williamsburg was appointed in charge of the College Hospital. This hospital was the William and Mary College, which was occupied fpf th^t purpose and contained two hundred and fifty patients. He was afterwards ordered to the front, to report to the Forty-ninth Pennsylvania regiment, and continued with it through the seven days' battle in the Wilderness before Richmond. He spent nearly two years in the service in various positions as Surgeon, and had charge of the last load of wounded from the Wilderness to Washington.

After his return from the seat of war he again resumed hisj)ractice in the village of Lodi, and in 1866 was elected a member of the Assembly from Seneca county, serving on the committees on Privileges and Elections, PubUc Health, and Medical Colleges and Societies.

On January 14, 1867, he was granted, on recommendation of the State Medical Society, the honorary title of M.D. by the Regents of the University of the State of New York. He was elected supervisor of the town of Lodi in 1875 ^'^^ re-elected to the Assembly in 1876.

He was a member of the Seneca County Medical Society for many years and its Secretary, and was active in its re-organization in 1865. In 1 87 1 he was elected its president.

In 1877 he contributed to the State Medical Society a paper on " Tar Fumigations in Gangrenous Sores." His own health not permitting him to attend, the paper was read by Dr. E. R. Squibb of Brooklyn. Dr. Post was then suffering from a bronchial affection, which he ascribed to infection from the inhalation of virus from gangrenous ulcers which he was treating in a patient. Dr. Post belonged to a long-lived family, his father and mother living to the age of ninety years. He died February 12, 1879, prematurely, at the age of sixty-nine, worn out by a long and laborious but successful practice.

Norman Eddy

At the age of nineteen he left his home at Scipio and came to Fayette, where he taught during the fall and winter months, and prepared himself in the interval by study for a professional career. Law would have been his choice, but circumstances prevented his following his inclination,

Substituting medicine in its place, at what time it cannot with certainty be said, he commenced studying with Dr. James A. Hahn, then practicing medicine at Canoga.

In 1833, in company with a fellow student, Mr. Abram Methour, he went to Philadelphia for a course of lectures and graduated in 183s, warmly complimented by the faculty, then composed of Physick^ Chapman, Jackson Hare, Horner and others, for his faithful attendance and efficiency in study.

Returning to Canoga, on September 4, 1835, he married Anna Maria, only daughter of Horatio Lawrence Melchoir of Philadelphia a niece of Mrs. James A. Hahn. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Diedrich Willers.

He remained in Waterloo four years ; then a desire to visit the West induced him to go to Verona, Michigan, where the family of John Stewart, former proprietor of the old Eagle tavern in Waterloo, then resided. He remained an inmate of his family for nine months, practicing his profession.

In the spring of 1840, with his wife, he left for Marshall, Michigan, but the representations of friends induced him to go to Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, Indiana. After a residence of seven years he again removed to South Bend, Indiana, with the intention of changing his profession, and where he afterwards resided until the date of his death.

In the practice of medicine he was very successful, but feeling a strong desire to become a lawyer he accordingly prepared himself by a thorough course of study and was regularly admitted to the bar of St. Joseph county on April i, 1847.

Having always taken an interest in public affairs, lending his influence by speech and writing to the topics of the day, it was natural that with his introduction to law should also come an entrance into public life.

After he had practiced three years he was elected State Senator on the Democratic ticket. In 1852 he was elected to Congress, having Vice-President Colfax for a competitor; but in 1854 was himself defeated by the latter on the Nebraska issue. In 1855 he was appointed United States District Attorney for Minnesota by President Pierce, and in 1856 Commissioner of Indiana Trust Lands in Kansas, which office he held until the fall of 1857. At this time he again commenced the practice of law, associating himself with the late Judge Egbert, but two years after was appointed by the Legislature on a commission to settle claims due the State.

When the war of the Rebellion broke out he zealously took his stand on the side of the Union, and in 1861 organized the Fortyeighth Indiana regiment, of which he was appointed Colonel. He fought with great bravery in the battle of luka, where he was severely wounded ; also at Corinth and Grand Gulf, and at the siege of Vicksburg until its surrender, when he resigned, being disabled by his woun3s from further serving his country as a soldier. He continued in the practice of his profession until 1865, when he was appointed Collector of Revenue for the 9th district of Indiana by President Johnson. In 1870 he was elected Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket, which office he held at the time of his death which occurred at South Bend, Indiana, January 28, 1872.

Franklin B. Hahn

He commenced the study of medicine at an early age, under the instruction of Dr. James Hahn of Allentown, Pa., and also with his brother, William B. Hahn, at Trappe, Pa., depending upon his own exertions for the means of giving himself an education and a profession.

In 1828 he graduated at the Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and was also afterwards licensed by the Ontario County Medical Society.

He practiced at West Fayette for several years about 1839 ; then moving to Gorham, Ontario county, carried on farming and practice, and afterwards removed to Canandaigua, where he followed his profession. In 1853 he moved to Auburn for a short time, from which place in 1855 he went to Philadelphia, where he had a large and

He was ja man of _considerableJ^culture and easily acquired any subject and retained it with a tenacious memory. His work was well done. His motto was, "Any thing that was worth doing at all was worth doing well." He held many town and village trusts and was a member of several medical societies, a good debater, logical and fearless, and possessed a peculiar fascinating ^nanner that won his way to a successful practice. He was liberal to a fault, and endowed with good Christian traits of character.

The subject of this sketch. Dr. Alfred Bolter, was born pf William and Nancy Pomeroy Bolter, at Northampton, Mass., on the fourthday of July, rSii, and spent the early years of his life at that place. In the year 1826 he went to Utica, N. Y., and.theie became seriously impressed under the religious influences that followed the preaching of the evangelist Finney. While at Utica he united with the Presbyterian church. At the age of nineteen he came to Ovid to attend the academy, which at that day attracted numerous students from a distance. IJe entered. the academy intending to prepare for a collegiate course, with, a strong desire and purpose to devote his , life to the ministry. He studied there for about three years, and taught school for two or three years longer. , During these years his health became seriously impaired, from too close application to his studies. He suffered from pulmonary hemorrhages, and other alarming symptoms became so manifest, that fears were entertained for several years that an. early grave awaited him. At this, tipie, recognizing the precarious state of his health, he consulted Dr. C. C. Coan, who advised him to abandon his desire for the ministry and to think of some occupation that would, furnish him an out-door life.

Following this advice, but unwilling to give up the idea of a profession, and unable to use his voice in public, speaking, he determined to prepare himself for the practice of medicine, and, accordingly, in 1835 he commenced studying in the office of Dr. Coan. His first course of lectures he attended at Fairfield, in 1835-6. The others at the Geneva Medical College, graduating there in 1839. Upon obtaining his degree he located himself for medical practice at Ovid, where he spent the remainder of his life.