Seneca Township (part 7 of 60)

On the sixteenth of August, 1842, he was married to Elizabeth, the daughter of his preceptor, Dr. Coan, who, with one son and one daughter yet survive him.

Dr. Bolter was happily possessed with special gifts of language, and a pleasant and convincing public address. At the time he began the practice of his profession, the country was quite generally aroused upon the question of temperance reform. He early became an advocate and prepared an address upon this subject, which he had illustrated with plates, showing the deleterious effects of alcohol upon the human stomach. This' address is still remembered by many yet living, and is said to have been both eloquent and effective. Dr. Bolter was an earnest opponent of slavery. When the " Fr'ie Soil movement " was organized he became an active member of the party, taking part in political conventions and addressing public meetings.

In 1844 he delivered a course of lectures upon medical subjects before the Institute at Ithaca, N. Y. In 1850 he was elected member of Assembly, and served one term at Albany. He subsequently continued an active member of the Republican party, although he never allowed himself to be nominated for office. He was active in local political affairs, and for many years was trustee of Ovid Academy. During the year 1875 he was president of the corporation of the village of Ovid, and for more than twenty years he was superintendent of the Sabbath school of the Presbyterian church, of which he was a member. In 1858 he became a permanent member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, and, in the same year, also, he was made a member of the faculty of his Alma Mater, the, Geneva Medical College, and retained this position for several years, giving lectures on " The Theory and Practice of Medicine."

During the civil war he served in the transport service on the James river, in the employ of the Sanitary Commission. He was there during the memorable naval fight between the Merrimack and Monitor. Want of strength to endure the fatigue of caring for the wounded soldiers, compelled him to reluctantly leave the war. He was ill for a long time after his return.

member, and in which he always took an active and lively interest In the study of medical sciences he became, from the first, an enthusiast, always regarding his calling as an honorable one in the highest degree, and desiring to honor it, both in his devotion to his duties and to become more and more proficient in the faithful discharge of them. His reputation as a physician, and particulaHy as a surgeon, extended over a wide circle in his community. In the latter branch he was especially zealous, and performed many difficult operations with skill and success. At the time of his death he had performed sixteen capital operations. In the " Transactions of the State Medical Society '' of 1866, there is a report of a case contributed by him to the society, upon " Congenital Hypertophy of the Tongue ; Amputation." In all matters of duty, that to his profession received his first attention, as paramount to others.

About the year i860, he was thrown from his carriage and sustained a severe comminuted fracture of the upper third of the left femur, which proveid a severe shock to his system, and from which he only recovered after a period of prolonged suffering and confinement of nearly a year's duration. A decided shortening of the limb resulted in a permanent lameness. For some years before his death, his health was seriously impaired by a severe attack of pneumonia, in 1873, and which seemed to arouse anew the long slumbering lung disease of his youth.

For six months prior to July 12, 1880, he was confined to his house, and much of the time to his bed. During all this time his sufferings were quietly, bravely and patiently borne, and his religious convictions grew deeper, and his faith in God and immortality stronger and brighter.

He left a wide circle of friends, who missed him not only as a successful and popular physician, but always as an active worker in all of the affairs of the village and county.

He received his early education at Nashua., while residing there and at Lunenberg, Mass., also at Pepperill, where at. quite an early period, he became widely known as a teacher of vocal music. He was also a brHliant. scholar, teaching Latin when only fifteen years old, in the school in which he was., at the same time, a pupil. From his early youth his mind had a strong bent towards the medical profession. ( . , !

At the age of twenty-one, he removed to New York State ; while passing through Troy, N. Y., he was offered the. position of chorister, in the church of Dr. Beman, at $400, annually, a very large salary at that time. His destination was the office of Dr. Lucius M.. Clark, who resided at Chili, Monroe county, N. ¥., and he declined the offer.

He remained in. Dr. Clark's office about one year, going from Chili to Geneva, to attend lectiires at the Medical College in that place, which at that time was one of the leading, schools of the State, Here he became the private pupil of Dr. Thomas Spencer, the president of . the institution and an eminent lecturer. Among his classmates, were men who have since become noted in the profession,^Professor Ford of Michigan University, Dr. Frank Hamilton, Professor Green, and other medical men of note. During his entire course as a student he defrayed his own expenses by teaching vocal music, for which he had a decided taste and was well qualified. He remained in the office of Professor Spencer until he graduated, in 1842, and immediately thereafter began the practice of medicine in West Fayette.

On the twenty-sixth of September, 1843, he was married by the Rev. Dr. Gridley, to Caroline, youngest daughter of Jac6b and Anna Katherine (Steinberger) Fatzinger.

In November, 1844, he removed to Waterloo, and continued in active practice of his profession there until July, 1869, when, in visiting a patient, he received a fall, from which he never recovered. He died on the morning of Christmas, 1869, having practiced in Waterloo twenty-five years.

As a physician, Dr. Patterson stood in the front rank of his profession, and enjoyed the confidence of the public and of his professional associates. As a man and a citizen, he was honorable, upright and generous. He was a man of pleasing. manners and great kindness of heart. His long illness was boriie patiently and even cheerfully, and

His funeral took place at the Presbyterian church iri Waterloo, a large concourse of people being in attendance. The members of the Seneca County Medical Society, of which Dr. Patterson was a former president, were mostly present, and the business places in Waterloo were closed during the service. Deceased left a widow, (sister of the . Messrs. Fatzinger of Waterloo) ; a son, Thomas F. ; and two .daughters, one the wife of Dr. Geo, Yost, of Waterloo, and the other, of Joseph Kampman, all of whom reside in Boston, Mass.

Dr. Patterson was for nearly thirty years, a member of the medical profession in Seneca county, and occupied a prominent position as a citizen and physician due to his strength of character, and to the high estimation in which he was held as a man. He contributed. much to the formation and successful- maintenance of the County Medical Society, and also to the Medical Association of Central New York, of which he was one of the founders, and a permanent member.

Henry Reeder

Henry Reeder, ,of Varick, in the county of Seneca, N. Y., was born on the nineteenth day of September, 1796, in the city of Sheffield, in England.

After receiving a liberal education he entered the medical profession by studying with a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, of London, first paying this gentleman four hundred dollars for the privilege of witnessing his medical practice for a limited time. He next went to the University of Edinburgh, at which he studied for three years and graduated in 1820. On taking his degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, he wrote and published in Latin his inaugural thesis, e|||:itled " Z>e Affectibus Cordis,^' being a dissertation on the inflammatory, organic and sympathetic affections of the heart, which he dedicated to the several professors constituting the Faculty of Medicine of the University.

Dr. Reeder next became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and commenced practice as a physician in London, where he lived for a number of years. He was moreover elected a Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, and also a member extraordinary of the Royal Medical Society of.

Edinburgh. After a lapse of twenty years from the time be graduated, Dr. Reeder, having then three sons whom he wished to bring up to agricultural pursuits, and the farming interest in England being at that time very much depressed, resolved to come to this country, and arrived at New York in the month of October, 1840. s After looking at different parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York States, he ultimately purchased the farm of upwards of six hundred acres of land in Varick, then belonging to Mr. Alexander Hamilton Dey, whose father, Benjamin Dey, had settled upon it many years before, when the country was comparatively a wilderness.*

Here Dr. Reeder resided about thirty-nine years. It may be added, that he was brought up among the members of the religious society of orthodox Friends, or Quakers, and always entertained views on religious, subjects in accordance with the tenets or principles of that denomination of Christians.

Dr. Reeder was twice married, the second time after he had attained a great age. His wife and thre'e children survived him - two sons, John and William, and a daughter, Mrs. J. Hathaway - all residents of Varick. During the life of his first wife he was an attendant at Trinity Episcopal church at Geneva, although he was a believer in the Quaker doctrine.

In the winter of 1859-60 Mr. David Reeder, the son of Dr. Henry Reeder, commenced holding the services of the church in the school house at Dey's Corners, and which so far as is known was the first effort towards the establishment of the church in this particular locality of Seneca county. These services were continued by him whenever possible until he entered the Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal church in New York city, where he died April 2, 1866, from a fever contracted while reading prayers to the sick prisoners at Blackwell's Island, only a few months before he would have been ordained a deacon in the church of his bijth. In memory of his worth and devotion, one of the missions of the church in New York city is known as the " David Reeder Mission."

Dr. Reeder died November 14, 1880, and is buried at West Fayette, in the Presbyterian churchyard. He was universally esteemed as an upright citizen in every relation of life.

Alfred Sears

Alfred Sears, born at Hector, Tompkins county, N. Y., October 19th, 1 8 18, was the second son of Thomas B. and Maria Sears, and spent his early days with his parents, assisting his father in farm work.

He received a primary education in the district school, and at the age of fourteen left home, spending four years in study at the Penn Yan and Genesee Wesleyan Seminaries. With the exception of teaching during this interval, Dr. Sears' life has been devoted to no other pursuit than his profession.

Having completed his academic studies, he registered with Dr. Henry Spence, of Starkey, Yates county, N. Y., and began at once his work in medicine, attending lectures, first at the Geneva Medical College, and afterward at the Berkshire Medical College, Massachusetts, graduating from the latter institution in 1840.

In February, 1841, Dr. Sears located at Townsendville, Seneca county, N. Y., and has continuously practiced at that place until the present time. The town of Lodi honored him with the office of supervisor for two years, and he held the postmastership of the village of Townsendville for eight years. He married, in September, 1846, Harriet Woodworth, from which union three daughters were born.

Dr. Sears, during his long and honorable record of forty-six years, has always been accorded the kindness and support of the community in which for so long a time he has been a trusted and respected medical adviser.

Jacob Hasbrouck

Jacob Hasbrouck was bqrn in the town of Marbletown, Ulster county, N. Y., April 2, 1800. His father was Joseph Hasbrouck, and his mother Margaret Hasbrouck.

The subject of this sketch remained on his father's farm until he was eleven years old. During this time he availed himself of the benefits of the district school and private instruction, and at an early age he entered Kingston Academy, where he completed his academic course in 18 15. Soon after leaving Kingston Academy he ente"red Union College, and after four years' studentship graduated in the year 18 19.

He then entered the office of Dr. Henry Hornbeck of Walkill in Ulster county, where he pursued his medical studies for three years. He attended three courses of lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, and graduated in the year 1822.

At first he located in the town of Rochester, Ulster county, N. Y., where he pursued the practice of his profession for three years. He removed thence to Marbletown, the place of his birth, where he continued in active practice for seventeen years. He then sold his farm, and came to Tyre, Seneca county, N. Y., and here continued his professional work for six or seven years, when he relinquished the practice of medicine and devoted the remainder of his life to farming.

In the year 1825 he married Arietta Schoonmaker". and was the father of ten children - three sons and seven daughters, all living. He died December 26, 1862, from cerebral shock, the result of being thrown from his carriage.

Robert S. Copp

During his earliest years he evinced a desire to obtain an education, but owing to the rigid discipline of his father was compelled to spend his time in farm work, until, when seventeen years of age, he rebelled, stole away from home at night, and by persevering effort, succeeded in graduating from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in 1826.- He had married, in 1824, Miss Lydia Maria Rogers of Lempster, N. H;, a descendant of the martyr, John Rogers, and immediately upon graduating located in practice at Springfield, N. H. Here he remained until the spring of 1835, when he removed to New York State and settled near Saratoga Springs, where he practiced his profession for five years.

In 1840, with his family of three children, Dr. Copp removed, at the slow rate of travel afforded by the Erie canal, to Galen, Wayne county. He had just moved into his new home with his family, when the building took fire, and everything was destroyed, the inmates themselves barely escaping. Soon after rebuilding, and when about forty-five years of age, he was prostrated with an acute inflammatory disease of the lungs. His physicians gave him up, to die of tubercular affection. Pus formed which pointed externally, and this tumor the physicians refused to lance. With great resolution he did this himself, rapidly recovered, and lived to within a few days of seventy years of age.

In 1842 Dr. Copp moved to Junius, Seneca county, where he practiced his profession for about twelve years. Here his wife died, after an illness of only three days, of the terrible scourge known as " Black Tongue," which was then prevalent to an alarming degree in that vicinity. He soon after married Miss Angeline Lyman of Galen, Wayne county. There were six children born of the first marriage and one of the second, three of whom are still living - E. Darwin Copp and Mrs. Frances Emily Parsons, both residing at Clifton Springs, N. Y., and Mrs. Olive Branch McCabe of Canandaigua, N. Y.

In 1854 Dr. Copp retired from practice and settled upon a farm in Hopewell, Ontario county; from there he moved in 1863 to Clifton Springs, where he remained until his death, which occurred in May, 1867.

Dr. Copp devoted his long Ufe almost exclusively to the pursuit of his profession. In his younger days he possessed a more than ordinarily developed voice, and occasionally took part in musical exhibitions before audiences in this county and in Boston, Mass., and for a short time taught singing school. He was a staunch Democrat in politics, and an acquaintance and friend of Daniel Webster.

Humphrey C. Watson

He was a nephew of Dr. Ethan Watson, studied with his uncle, and graduated at the Albany Medical College in the spring of 1842. He located in Romulus the same spring and continued in successful practice there till 1852, when he removed to the West where he has since died. He was comparatively a young man at the time of his death.

Landon Wells

Landon Wells died comparatively young, yet he lived long enough to acquire a wide-spread and enviable reputation as an honored citizen and a highly esteemed and useful member of the medical profession.

By nature he was gifted with .powers of judgment and discrimination eminently qualifying him for a position in the first rank as a physician and surgeon.

He was born in Granville, Washington county, N. Y., September 24, 1820, of John and Esther (Hopkins) Wells. Having received a thorough academic education he chose medicine for his profession, and in 1840 commenced his studies with Dr. George Allen of Salem, N. Y., but soon removed to New Haven, Conn., and entered the office of the celebrated Professor William TuUy of Yale College, where he attended his first course of lectures in the winter of 1840-41. Leaving there he became a student of Dr. March of Albany, and attended a course of lectures at the Albany Medical College, remaining with Dr. March till the fall of 1842. He then enrolled himself as a student in the Geneva Medical College, then in the zenith of its popularity, and there received his diploma in January, 1843. ^^ the fall of the same year he opened an office in Waterloo, where he continued, with the exception of the time of his absence in the military service, until his death - a period of twenty-five years - in the possession of a fine practice and enjoying to a rare degree the confidence and respect of the community.

After the late Southern Rebellion was fairly inaugurated and it was evident how stupendous was the conflict and how imperative was the duty of all good citizens to aid the government, the doctor responded to the call so strongly made upon the members of the medical profession, and proffered his services to the government. They were accepted, and he was ordered to report at Cliff bourne hospital in May, 1862. Here he continued for three months, during which time so favorably impressed were the medical authorities with his ability that he was sent to Culpepper to take charge of the.large hospital established there, upon the breaking up of which he returned to Washington with the army of General Pope, and after the battle of Antietam was assigned the charge of a hospital at Boonsborough. From Boonsborough he was ordered to the officers' hospital in Georgetown, of which he had sole charge, and in this important and responsible position he continued until February, after which time he was successively on duty at Mount Pleasant, Haiwood and Carver hospitals, in the latter of which he continued in charge with few interruptions. He continued in hospital work, with intervids of detailed duty - once at Belle Plain, after the battle of Chancellorsville, and upon three separate occasions in charge of trains with wounded to New York, Indianapolis and Cumberland - until October, 1864, when he was mustered out of the service, and returning home after an absence of two and a half years, resumed the active practice of his profession.

During the early part of October, 1868, he gave indications of failing health and complained of debility and difficulty of breathing, but attended to his patients until about the twenty-seventh, when he was obliged to take to his bed. His symptoms indicated typhoid pneumonia of the gravest type, and he failed rapidly and died on the eighth of November.

In determining the professional character and position of Dr. Wells, if the verdict of the community, where for twenty-five years he lived and practiced, be the criterion, or if his merits be measured by the standard of success, then is his rank an exalted one ; and the judgment of his professional brethren, best competent to measure his qualifications, assigns him a place no less elevated than that given him by the community. A superior intellect finely cultivated, a medical education under the guidance and in daily contact with preceptors such as TuUy and March, and an earnest devotion to his profession, well qualified him for the successful prosecution of the noble* calHng he had adopted.

Thoroughly conversant with the researches and developments of chemistry, and the discoveries of modern science, yet as a general rule his list of remedies was comparatively small. He was cautious not to discard tried and standard medicines for vaunted and oft times ill-understood new remedies. He was a strenuous advocate of the duty of physicians to assert and maintain the dignity of their calling, and thus, by showing their respect for it and themselves, secure for the profession and its members the respect of the world. The natural bent of his mind, and the associations by which he was surrounded as a student, turned his mind particularly to surgery, and, as far as the Hmited opportunities of a country practice would afford, he devoted his attention to that branch. His skill and success gave liim an extensive reputation, which was rapidly growing, when, by the outbreak of the Rebellion, he became transferred to a new and more extensive field of usefulness. As an army surgeon, his career was one of eminent success and distinction. In no department o^ medicine or surgery has the experience of our late war been of more benefit to the profession throughout the world, or contributed more to the advancement of science, than in that of conservative surgery, and in that branch Dr. Wells' reputation was well established, as having been one of the most skillful, frequent, .and successful operators. His early promotion to responsible and important positions, the number of hospitals placed under his supervision and care, the high personal character and political prominence of many of the patients entrusted to his charge, indicate, unmistakably, the respect and confidence entertained for him by the medical department. That he also secured the affectionate regard of his patients by his skill, his assiduous care and attention, is evinced by the many grateful testimonials he received.

The following note, received by him when about to resign the charge of the officers' hospital at Georgetown, indicates the estimation in which he was held by those under his care :

Acting Ass' t Surgeon, U. S. A.: Sir: - We have heard with much regret the order relieving vou from duty here. Your departure will sever ties of no ordinary character. The patients to whom you have been beth friend and physician, will miss your ever-welcome presence. The medical staff, who were so long associated with you as subordinates, will miss your willing ear and kind advice when complicated cases come across their path. Wishing to convey to you some slight token of our respect and esteem as a man as well as a physician , we, the undersigned, Committee on behalf of the patients and officers of the Seminary Hospital, solicit your acceptance of the accompanying Sword, Sash, Belt and Hat. -

Kindly words like these, such testimonials of esteem and regard, speak volumes in praise of him to whom they were addressed. He has gone to his long r?§t. His brethren in the profession will respect and cherish his memory. May they also emulate his many virtues and noble qualities, and be thereby the better enabled to fulfill their mission and make themselves worthy of their high vocation.

Alfred Emens

In the spring of 1873 Alfred Emens removed to the village of Seneca Falls from Bearytown, where he had practiced successfully for many years. He was born in 181 7 in that portion of Romulus afterwards named Varick, his parents being Joseph and Martha Emens. The most of his early education was received at the common schools, although for several terms he attended the Lima Seminary., His medical studies were pursued under the instruction of Drs. Ethan Watson, James A. Hahn and Gardner Welles, and in 1843 he graduated from the Geneva Medical College. He became a successful practitioner and accumulated means. He removed to Seneca Falls to free himself in his old age from long and tiresome rides. Since his removal to the village he has engaged very little in professional labor.

He married, as his first wife. Miss Marilla McDuffy, who died several years ago. In 1883 he was again married to Miss Ruth BurtSeSr. He was one of the original members of the society at its re-organization, and in 1870 its president.

P. H. Flood

Patrick H. Flood was born in Northampton county, Pa., Marqh 14, 1814. His father, John Flood, was a native of Ireland, who came to America in his youth.

Dr. Flood was the eldest of five sons and three daughters, and until the age of sixteen remained with his parents. A course of study at Bloomsburgh and Dansville academies fitted him for business. He began as clerk in a mercantile store, but soon abandoned that pursuit for the study of medicine, which he commenced in 1840 in the office of Dr. Bonham Gearheart of Washingtonville, Pa. Two years' study with Dr. Gearheart was followed by a course at the Geneva Medical College, where he graduated in 1845. He located for the practice of medicine atLodi. He remained in this field for twelve years and then went to Elmira, where he lived and labored until the time of his death. He earlv became a member of the Seneca County Medical Society while at Lodi, and of the Erie County Medical Society ; also occupying the position of curator of the University of Buffalo for many years and until the time of his death ; he was also a leading member of the Chemung County Medical Society and of the Elmira Academy of Medicine, and was one of the oldest and most prominent physicians in the county.

He enlisted almost with the first call to arms in the 107th regiment of New York volunteers, with the rank of Major, and, of all the staff, was the only one who remained with the regiment and returned with it when peace was declared. In the year of his enlistment, 1862, he was made Brigade Surgeon of the 12th Army Corps, First Division, subsequently receiving the rank of Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel for his valiant services. In April, 1862, he was advanced to the duty of Surgeon in charge of the First Division Hospital, where he continued until the close of the war. His history of the war was that of the 107th, which fought at Antietam, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, Pine Ridge, Peach Creek, Aversasboro, Bentonville and Atlanta, and accompanied General Sherman in his famous " March to the Sea." Dr. Flood was always in the field with the soldiers in battle, caring for the wounded, and won by his valor the soubriquet of " The Fighting Surgeon."

A Democrat until the breaking out of the war, he then became an ardent Republican, and as such was twice elected mayor of Elmira, in 1871-2, by the largest majorities ever given a candidate for that office. He was twice elected coroner of the county. He was also a member of the board of education, and in every capacity showed the same daring, energetic qualities that ever characterized hinij___. Gc

Dr. Flood belonged to a family of physicians. His brother,'^nown as " young Dr. Flood," settled also in Seneca county, going afterwards to Geneva. Dr. F. H. Flood of Bearytown is a son of the latter, and others of the younger branches have adopted the same profession.

In 1837 he married Miss Rachel Schmeck. Dr. Henry Flood, late mayor of Elmira, is a son of Patrick H. Flood. His wife and daughter, and sons Thomas S. and Henry, are those of the family now living.

His death occurred on Friday, March 11, 1886. He had been suffering froni pneumonia for several days, but was supposed to be convalescent, whef) Jje suddenly died of disease of the heart.

The funeral was conducted by the Baldwin Post, G. A. R., of which the deceased was a member, and the Grand Army men and veterans were present generally. The government of the city of Elmira, and the various political, military and civic societies of which he was a member, united to do honor at his funeral.

E. Dorchester was born at Geneva, Ontario county, N. Y., October 21, 1821, and graduated at the Geneva Medical College, in the winter of 1849.

He first located at Ovid, where he practiced from 1849 to 1852 ; but after the removal of Dr. Humphrey C. Watson from the village of Romulus, he succeeded him, and remained in that village in practice for seventeen years.

In 1867 he removed to Geneva and there engaged in the practice of medicine and in the business of a druggist. He is now engaged and has been for several years in fruit raising and in the real estate business near Tampa, Florida, where he has made his permanent home, returning north on frequent visits to Geneva.

Samuel Russell Welles, son of Dr. Gardner and Paulina Fuller Welles, was born in Waterloo, N. Y., February 23, 1825. His early education was obtained in the schools of his native town. He entered Geneva College (now Hobart) in 1841, graduating therefrom in 1845, and immediately thereafter commenced the study o medicine under the tuition of his father.

During the period intervening between the beginning of his medical studies and his entering upon the duties of his profession, he taught for one term the school of the district in which he resided, was afterwards engaged as an assistant teacher in the Waterloo Academy, and subsequently had charge, for a few months, of the classical department of that institution.

He attended lectures at the Geneva Medical College, and at the medical department of the Buffalo University, receiving the degree of M. D. at that institution in 1848. In the winter of 1849-50 he attended a course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and in the spring of 1850 opened an office in Waterloo, where he now resides, and where, for nearly forty years, he has continued in the active practice of his profession. In 1852 he married Sarah Helen Crary, of Waterloo.

In January, 1862, he entered the military service as acting assistant surgeon in the 6ist Regiment N. Y. S. Volunteers, and upon the resignation of the surgeon of the regiment, Dr. Welles received a commission for that position, early in March of that year. He was with the regiment during its stay in winter quarters at camp California, near Alexandria, Va. ; attended it on the reconnoisance to the Rappahannock under Gen. Howard ; participated in the siege of Yorktown ; followed the rebels in their retreat from the latter place, arriving at Williamsburgh too late to take part in the battle there. The regiment was actively engaged in the battle of Fair Oaks, or Seven Pines and suffered severely, winning for itself a noble reputation, under the command of Col. Francis C. Barlow (afterwards Major-General ). During and after this engagement as well as in the actions at Allen's farm, Savage Station, White Oak swamp and Charles City Cross Roads - in all of which the regiment participated and suffered numerous casualties - the entire care of the wounded devolved upon Dr. Welles, who was the only medical officer with the regiment. The wounded of the 6ist at the battle of Charles City Cross Roads, which took place at dark June 30th, were conveyed, to temporary hospitals. Dr. Welles having attended to the immediate wants of those who were at the one established nearest the field of battle, repaired about ten o'clock in the evening to a hospital a mile distant, where he remained in the performance of his duties until after midnight, when, starting to return he was misdirected into a road which led him directly within the rebel lines. He was suddenly confronted by three of the rebel picket guard, caused to dismount, taken to General Longstreet's headquarters, and, in the morning, sent with some sixty other prisoners to Richmond, and assigned a place in the officers' quarters in the famous Libby prison. The second day after his arrival, he was, upon his request, allowed to take charge of a ward of our sick and wounded. In the discharge of that duty, as well as the' scanty convenience ahd limited allowance of medical supplies would permit, he was occupied for three \yeeks, at the expiration of which time he was permitted to leave Richmond in company with a detach- ment of wounded men destined for Northern hospitals. After assistbg in the disembarkation of the wounded at City Point, he rejoined his regiment at Harrison's Landing.

Of the acceptability of the service rendered by our surgeons to the wounded and suffering Northern prisoners at Richmond there can be no doubt, and that Dr. Welles was not behind his professional brethren in his attention to those needing his care, we have the testimony of the Rev. Dr. Marks, chaplain of the 63d Pennsylvania, and a prisoner at Richmond. In his book entitled " The Peninsular Campaign in Virginia,"* after speaking of some attentions shown a wounded Pennsylvania soldier by Dr. Welles, he says : " I have not met Dr. Welles since those memorable days, and know not where he may now be, but I rejoice to say that he is one of the most humane and selfsacrificing of surgeons." Soon after his return to his regiment the doctor tendered his resignation on account of illness which prevented his further continuance in the service, and received an honorable discharge.

The uncertainty which prevailed during and for a short time after the " Seven days' fight," as to the condition of the army, the positive absence of any reliable information, and the conflicting rumors which agitated every community, made the reception of news which gave assurance of the safety of the army, an occasion of general rejoicing. The return to his home of Dr. Welles - who had been reported dead - was made the occasion of many pleasant manifestations of respect and esteem from his fellow citizens. During his connection with the regiment he had formed many strong and pleasant attachments ; he had striven faithfully to do his whole duty to those placed under his charge, and he left the service with regret. As an evidence that these kind feelings were reciprocated, we quote from a letter written by Dr. Landon Wells, from Carver hospital, Washington, D. C. :

"July 5, 1862. "Just as the mail was leaving yesterday, I learned from some of the 61 st Regiment under my charge, who were brought here yesterday, that Dr. S. R. Welles had been taken prisoner. They think that he stayed with the wounded when the army fell back from the Chickahominy. They all speak of him in the highest praise. Indeed, from all the men I have had charge of - now nearly five hundred, and from every State - ^I have heard no surgeon so well spoken of by the men. I can tell you that is very high praise."

It may also be stated, that a short time after reaching home, he was the recipient of a heavy silver goblet, the inscription upon which showed that it was presented by the officers and men of the 6ist Regiment N. Y. State Volunteers to their late Surgeon, as a testimonial of respect and esteem.

During the fall of 1862 he occupied himself actively in promoting enlistments, and addressed several public meetings in different parts of the county for that object. In the spring of 1863 he was elected supervisor for the town of Waterloo, and re-elected in 1864, '65, '66. The duties of this office during the war were onerous and responsible ; that those duties were discharged satisfactorily to his constituents, his repeated re-elections were a sufficient evidence. Dr. Welles believed that the profession of the Democratic faith was not inconsistent with loyalty to the government and to the country, and in that faith, from the commencement to the close of the war, he worked earnestly to meet the demands made upon his town by the government, and gave a cordial and sincere support to the country in its efforts to suppress the rebellion.

As a physician and surgeon Dr. Welles has always maintained a creditable standing with his professional brethren, and is well and favorably known throughout the county.

He was actively interested in the re-organization of the Seneca County Medical Society in 1865, and served eleven years as its secretary. Upon the organization of the " Willard Asylum for the Insane," in 1869, he was named in the law creating the institution, as one of the trustees, a position of honor and trust he has ever since retained, serving for fifteen years as secretary of the board of trustees. From his long connection with this institution he acquired a deep interest in all matters pertaining to the insane, and during a brief trip to Europe in 1878, devoted considerable time to visiting hospitals for the insane in England and on the continent, and to the study of the management and modes of treatment adopted. In 1875 he was elected a trustee of Hobart College, of which board he is still a member. He participated actively in the organization of the " Waterloo Library and Historical Society," and it is but just to say, that to his persistent efforts, and to his unwavering devotion to its interests, much of its success and growth is due. In a paper read by him before that society in 1877, he suggested the idea of a county celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Gen. Sullivan's march through Seneca county in his campaign against the Iroquois in 1779, and his destruction of Skoiyase, the Indian town on the site of which Waterloo was built; a suggestion which was adopted and carried out with such wonderful success in the Seneca County Sullivan Centennial Celebration, held September 3d, 1879. The paper alluded to has been thought worthy of a place in the book of Centennial Celebrations, lately issued by the State of New York.

Dr. Welles has been complimented with an honorary membership in the Albany Institute ; the Cayuga County Historical Society ; the Clarendon Historical Society of Edinburgh, Scotland ; and the New York Historical Society of New York city, and has twice represented Seneca county in the State legislature, serving as member of assembly in 1867 and 1881. J^'<_U^ ^ / 2, . I ?in3 ,

Friedrich Glauner

Friedrich Glauner was born at Neuffen, Province of Wurtemberg, Germany, October 4, 18 17, and was consequently in the sixty-second year of his age when his life was so suddenly closed. The family consisted of five sisters and two brothers. Only two came across the sea to this land. To-day the only surviving member of the family is a widowed sister, Mrs. Baker, who has long been a member of the doctor's family.

He took his academic course at Stuttgart, where he graduated in 1840. The years intervening between 1844 and 1848 he was a student of medicine at Zurich, Switzerland. Each professor gave him a certificate, vouching for his proficiency in his special department of study. In this institution he enjoyed the instruction of Dr. Bobrich, a renowned physician. For a time he practiced medicine in his native country, but in the year 1850 he left his " Fatherland " and took up his abode in the United States.

He remained a few months in Connecticut and thence came to Fayette, Seneca county, N. Y. Soon after he removed to his late home in Varick, where he has dwelt most of the time since. In 1856 he received a diploma from the Geneva Medical College. In 1863 he went to Albany, and being examined was assigned to duty in an army hospital. He was engaged in this service about two years, or until the close of the war. He was first stationed at , Beaufort, South

His education was of the most thorough character, as is common in the German universities, and coming to America, he ranked high in his profession. He was a member of the State and County Medical Societies, and has held nearly every office' in the latter. He was chosen president in 1873, ^'^'^ ^'^ censor. In the meetings of the medical society his opinion always carried weight. Perhaps no physician in the county was better known, and his practice extended to the counties adjacent.

We would not paint a faultless character, nor afford him too high praise ; but still we can truthfully say, that he wielded a great influence wherever he was known. We need not try to describe his character ; his virtues were well known to ^11 who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. He was a kind man in his family, winning their respect and love. Being a man of positive character, his likes and dislikes were strong. He held his friends in the highest esteem, and toward them he was social, obliging and generous-hearted.

Jeremiah Dunn

Jeremiah Dunn was born at Newmarket, New Jersey, September 9, 1819, of De Camp and Rachel (Doty) Dunn. His early life was spent upon the farm, attending the district school in winter and working upon the farm in summer, until the age of eighteen, when he entered the academy at Aurora. After leaving the academy he taught two years in a district school, and at the, expiration of that time commenced the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Lewis Post of Lodi Village. Just before entering upon the study of medicine he became converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal church, and still remains a member of that denomination.

In 1847 he graduated at the Geneva Medical College and settled in practice at Lodi, where he remained continuously and actively engaged in the pursuit of his profession until the year 1885, when he removed to Bath, Steuben county, and opened a drug store.

Dr. Dunn was twice married, his first wife being Hannah D. Post, whom he married in November, 1850; and in May 2, 1882, his first wife having died, he was again joined in wedlock to Sarah Knight. He has one child now living.

In 1862, during the Civil war, he rendered service to his country in the employ of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. During his life he filled the following offices and was a member of the various organizations named below : Inspector of common schools of the town of Lodi ; member' of the Seneca County Medical Society ; member of Central New York Medical Association ; original member of the N. Y. State Medical Association ; member of the Steuben County Pharmaceutical Association; the National Drug Association. He was licensed as a druggist by the N. Y. State Pharmaceutical Association in 1885.

He was one of the members of the Seneca County Medical Society present at the re-organization in 1865, and in 1872 he was elected president of the society.

E. Joachim Schoonmaker, Magee's Corners, was born in tlie town of Rochester, Ulster county, N.Y., November 27, 1824. His father was D. Westbrook Schoonmaker and his mother, Lydia Depuy.

His early days were spent on his father's farm, with the usual privileges of a district school. At the age of eleven years his father sold his farm in Ulster county and located in this county in the town of Tyre.

During the summers of 1836 and 1837 he assisted his father in agricultural work and attended district school in the winter. In the fall of 1838 he met with an accident in the loss of part of one of his legs. This changed his prospects as an agriculturist, and in looking over the future for something to do, he chose the medical profession. To accomplish this end much was necessary to be done. Two years more were spent in the district school, preparatory to entering the Waterloo Academy, where he completed his academic course. At the age of twenty-one he commenced the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Jacob Hasbrouck of Tyre, and continued in his office two years. The third year he was a student of Dr. Landon Wells of Waterloo.

In the year 1848 he graduated at the Geneva Medical College, having previously attended three courses of lectures at that institution. Immediately after graduation, in the same spring, he located near Magee's Corners, and has been in continuous active practice in the same locality for over thirty-nine years. He was elected to the office of justice of the peace, and held that office for twenty-four consecutive years. Has served three terms as supervisor and has thrice been appointed notary public. He was married October 26, 1848, to Jane Anderson, who died May 28, 1858.

His marriage to his present wife took place in 1859. Seven children have been born : four by his first wife, two sons and two daughters ; and three by his last wife, two sons and one daughter ; of whom two are dead - a son and daughter by his present wife.

William A. Swaby

.William A. Swaby was born at Espy, Columbia county. Pa., March 12, 1828. His parents, Frederick B. and Ann (Haigh) Swaby, resided in a rural neighborhood, and he received his early education in the common schools of Espy and lived upon the farm until he commenced his medical studies. He entered the office of Dr. Ellerslie Wallace, professor of obstetrics at Jefferson College, and after a course of study, graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in March, 1849.

Soon after graduation he settled in practice at Bloomsburgh, Pa., where he remained from 1850 to 1852, when he removed and came to Seneca Falls in April of that year. He has since remained there up to the present time, enjoying a large practice so far as his health would permit, and devoting himself especially to the surgery of the surrounding region. At first he formed a partnership with Dr. John Clark, which continued until dissolved by the removal of Dr. Clark to Chicago in 1855, when Dr. Swaby assumed the entire business.

During the Civil war he volunteered his services as surgeon and served six months in the Wills hospital and in the Pennsylvania hospital as an assistant surgeon.

Upon the completion of the Willard Asylum in 1869 he was appointed by Gov. Hoffman as a member of the board of trustees, and served in such capacity from 1869 ^'^ 1882. During the summer of 1882 he took an extended tour in Europe, partly for the benefit of his health.

Dr. Swaby has given himself wholly to his profession, and it has almost entirely absorbed his time and thoughts. Having had somp experience in civil hospitals while acquiring his medical education, and also in the military hospitals during the war, and having a decided taste for surgery, he has devoted himself more especially to that branch of the profession. The surgery of Seneca Falls and of a large surrounding territory naturally fell to him, and he ,has successfully treated a large number of fractures and performed numerous amputations and major operations, and for a long period has been a consultant in cases of difficult surgery.

He has been a member of the Seneca County Medical Society from its re-organization, and was elected its president in 187 1. For many years he was town and county physician, and served as coroner of the county for twenty-one years. In 1875 he was elected Treasurer of the county. For thirteen years he was a member of the board of trustees of the Willard Asylum for the Insane.

George W. Davis

He was born in Onondaga county, February 22, 1822. His parents, David S. and Charlotte A. Davis, were farmers, and he attended the common schools and worked upon the farm during his youth. His preliminary education was obtained at the Homer and Onondaga academies, and for a time he taught school.

He first settled in practice in 1847 ^t Dansville, N. Y., and removed to Syracuse in 185 1, and thence to Seneca Falls. He married, in 1847, Betsey P. Mead. Although not a graduate of a regular medical college, he was well liked for his ability as a man, his kind heart and careful attention to his patients, and having obtained a diploma in 1847 i^om the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institution, he was admitted in 1870 as a member of the Seneca County Medical Society.

Upon the breaking out of the Rebellion in 186 1, he was appointed as Asst. Surgeon, U. S. A., in the Board of Enrollment for the 24th district of New York. From May, 1863, to June, 1865, his headquarters were at Auburn, and he made his residence in that city during

At the close of the war he returned to Seneca Falls and resumed his practice, remaining there until 1870, when he removed to Florida, and now resides at South Jacksonville, engaged' in orange growing and real estate. .

John Flickinger

John Flickinger is a native of the county, having been born at Fayette, September 18, 1831. JHis parents, Jacob and Elizabeth (Young) Flickinger, were farmers. His early life was spent upon the farm and his education obtained at the district school. After an experience as a teacher in the years 185 2-3, he commenced, in August, the study of medicine, under the tuition of Dr. Oliver S. Patterson, gradual ing June II, 1856, at the Albany Medical College.

On the first of July of the same year, he located in practice at Milo Center, Yates county, where he remained until the following December. On the first of May, 185 7, he came to Seneca county, and commenced the practice of medicine at Bearytown, where he remained in business until October, 1870. While engaged in practice here he volunteered as assistant surgeon in the first division of the Army of the Potomac, and spent three months, from August, 1863, to December, in hospital service at the Mansion House hospital, Alexandria, Va.

In the year 1870 he removed with his family to the city of Clinton, Iowa, on account of failing health, where he remained until the spring of 1874. While at Clinton he relinquished the practice of medicine and engaged in the business of real estate and also of a' book store, and various enterprises, with the object in view of regaining his health. In 1874 he visited several cities of the South and Northwest. He returned to Seneca county in the fall of 1874 and spent the winter in practice at Waterloo, and in March of the following year he removed to Trumansburgh, where he still resides, engaged in the practice of his profession.

Dr. Flickinger was married June 26, 1856, to Sally Bowman. His wife died soon after his marriage, and on March 9, 1859, his marriage to his present wife, Miss Emma J. Woodworth, took place. They have two children now living.

He has been coroner of Tompkins county. For two years, 1868-69, he was elected treasurer of Seneca County Medical, Society, of which he is still a member.

L. W. Bailey

Lorenzo W. Bailey, son of James and Sally Bailey, was born at Enfield, Tompkins county, N. Y., August 28, 1825, and spent his early life on a farm, receiving his preliminary education in the district school and Ithaca academy. During his medical studies he employed himself in teaching, and received his degree in medicine from the college at Castleton, Vermont, in November, 1852, having attended lectures at that institution and at the Geneva Medical College, under the preceptorship of Dr. G. D. Bailey, of Havana, N. Y. After graduation, one year was spent at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, which was then at No. 67 Crosby street. New York city, and, during this interval, opportunity was afforded for hospital experience at the New York City Hospital. Dr. Bailey then entered upon his life as a general practitioner, and has since followed his profession uninterruptedly. He located at Havana, N. Y., and in April, 1879, removed to the town of Covert, where he remained eight years, until March, 1865, when he received his commission as assistant surgeon in charge , of the 93d Regiment N. Y. State Volunteers, and remained on duty until the close of the war ; being mustered out near Washington, June 29th of the same year. In October, 1866, he removed to Millport, Chemung county, where he has since resided. He was married February 17, 1857, to Mary Locke Sleeper, and has two children, both now alive.

Andrew F. Sheldon was born in Huron, Wayne county, N. Y., October 2 7, 1 830. His early Hfe was spent on a farm with his parents, Ralph and Minerva Sheldon, attending district school. At the age of fourteen he entered the Red Creek Seminary, where he graduated. He commenced the study of medicine with Dr. E. W. Bottum, of Lyons, N. Y., remaining in his office during his medical course. He graduated at the age of twenty-two from the medical department of the University of New York in the year 1852. Soon after this he entered into partnership with his preceptor at Huron, remaining there four years. He removed from Huron to Williamson, Wayne county, N. Y., and practiced his profession several years. From Williamson he went to Junius, Seneca county, where he remained two years, when he entered the United States service. August, 1861, he was commissioned as assistant surgeon 7th New York Cavalry. April, 1862,. he was commissioned as assistant surgeon 78th New York Volunteers. On the fourth of October, 1862, he was commissioned by President Lincoln assistant surgeon United States volunteers, and in April, 1863, he was commissioned by President Lincoln surgeon United States volunteers, and again in 1865 he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel by Andrew Johnson. He was on duty as executive officer in the medical director's office in Washington from May, 1862, to August, 1863, and had charge of Campbell U. S. hospital in the same place for nearly two years before the close of the war ; being mustered out of service at the closing of the hospital.

He married Lucetta Salsbury, May 22, 1857, and is the father of six children, three of whom are living. He is a member of the State and Wayne county medical societies.

Andrew J. Alleman, son of Jacob and Nancy Alleman, was born in Fayette, Seneca county, and having received a preparatory education at the Waterloo Academy, entered upon the study of his profession. His three courses of lectures were taken, respectively, at the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Geneva Medical College, and the University of the City of New York ; receiving his degree in medicine from the last named institution in 1854. His preceptors were Drs. D. C. Phelps, of Rochester, and O. S. Patterson of West Fayette. In 1858 he succeeded Dr. Patterson in practice, and has since that time been located near his early home ; his present address being McDougall's, N. Y.

During the last five months of the year 1864 Dr. Alleman was surgeon in charge of the Methodist church hospital at Alexandria, Va. He was active in the reorganization of the Seneca County Medical Society in 1865 ; in 1872 and 1873 he was its treasurer, and in 1875 ^'^s president. Beginning on page seventy-eight of the " History of Seneca County," is an interesting account of the Seneca County Medical Society, contributed by Dr. Alleman, and reprinted for a presidential address delivered before the society.

The fact that Dr. Alleman has practiced successfully for thirty years in his native town, speaks eloquently for his character, his services, and the esteem in which he is held by his patients, and associates.

W. W. Wheeler

William Wirt Wheeler was born at Farmer Village July 25, 1836, and is the son of Richard Kimble and Jane Dickinson Wheeler. His father was one of the foremost of the early physicians of that section of the county, and practiced in the village for thirty years. His son succeeded him. William Wheeler attended the schools of the village and also various select schools, and completed his preliminary education at the Lima Seminary in 1856. Upon his return from Lima he taught foT a time at Farmer village, and soon after, under the tuition of his father, he commenced the study of medicine. For one year he combined his medical studies with the work of teaching school, and then devoted his time entirely to medicine. He attended lectures at the Geneva Medical College and. graduated there in the winter of i860. He at once entered into practice at Farmer Village, where he has since continued. On the third of June, 1866, he was married to Sarah King, of Romulus, and has two boys, both living.

Dr. Wheeler as a citizen, but especially as a physician, has enjoyed to a larger degree than usual the confidence of the community. For several terms he has served as supervisor, and has been chairman of the board. Always energetic, active, and untiring in his profession, and interested in all social and public matters, he has done much for his town, and no man is better known. In 1874 he was elected president of the Seneca County Medical Society. He still continues in his profession in company with C. C. Wheeler, his brother.

Franklin B. Seelye was born at Whiting, Addison county, Vt., January 13, 1828, being a son of the late Dr. Isaac B. Seelye, and a grandson of the late Dr. Asher Nichols, of Rushville. He came to Rushville in this State at the age of four years, and resided there with his grandparents until he was fourteen years of age, when he went to Painesville, Ohio, with his father, receiving his preliminary education at the academy in that place. Here he was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church. At the age of sixteen, after the death of his father, he returned to Rushville and taught school for three years, and then entered the office of the eminent Dr. Potter of Gorham, and began the study of medicine. He was among the first graduates from the Buffalo Medical College, at which institution he received his diploma in February, 1851. He was married in March, 1851, to Miss Julia Vorce of Rushville, at which place he continued the practice of his profession until he entered the army in 1862 as assistant surgeon of the 148th New York Volunteers. A few months in the vicinity of Norfolk and the dismal swamp were sufficient to produce malarial poisoning to a degree which developed most alarming results, and in 1863 he received an honorable discharge from the army. He returned to his home in Rushville, where he remained until he vas again enabled by returning strength to enter upon his professional duties, at Seneca Falls, in 1864. He remained here about a year, when failing health again compelled him to seek rest, and he returned to Rushville, where he engaged in grape planting. He went to New York city in 187 1, and remained in the surgical appliance establishment of his cousin, Mr. I. B. Seelye, as chief physician for four years, when he again returned to Rushville, where he continued to reside until he came to Ovid in 1881.

He was a successful physician for more than thirty-five years, and at the time of his death was a member of the G. A. R., and the chaplain elect of Harris Post of Ovid.

Dr. Seelye was a man of professional ability, of good business qualifications, and had a genial disposition that speedily won for him the warm friendship of all with whom he became acquainted. During fijs residence at Ovid, he had gained a large practice and ap ejcten-

He was a member of the Ontario and Seneca Medical Societies, in the latter society he was an active member being one of its re-organi^ers in 1865, and its first secretary.

Richard Dey

Richard Dey was born at West Fayette, Sept. 17, 1832, of Gilbert and Mary Dey, and during his youth lived upon the farm and attended the district schools until the age of eighteen years. After a course of study at the Seneca Falls Academy, he entered upon the vocation of a teacher and taught from 1852 to 1863. During this time he commenced the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. George W. Davis of Seneca Falls. In March 1865, he graduated from the ('ollege of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in the spring of that year located at Seneca Falls where he remained until his removal to Romulus, in March 1867, where he succeeded Dr. Dorchester. He practiced at the latter village for nineteen years, and in April 1887, removed to Waterloo, where he still remains engaged in business.

While a medical student he entered the U. S. army as acting-assistant surgeon and served about six months in hospitals at Washington and Belle Plain, and in the hospital-transport " Connecticut."

He was married Oct. 11, 1861, to Miss Mary Jane Henion, of Varick, who died April 17, 1862. On Nov. 10, 1868 he was again married, to Miss Emma Salyer of Ovid. He has three children living.

Dr. Dey joined the Seneca County Medical Society in 1865, at its re-organization. He is also a member of the Medical Association of Central New York.

Elias Lester

In the year 1865 there came to Seneca Falls, Elias Lester, a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Lester was born at Genoa, Cayuga county. May 23, 1836, of Elihu A. and Lucy

(Bacon) Lester. After an academic course at the Genoa Academy he taught a district school for three years. He commenced the study of medicine under the tutorship of Dr. Cyrus Powers, of Moravia, and graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of New York city, on March 12, 1863.

In August, 1 86 1, he volunteered as an army medical cadet and was sent to the Washington Street Hospital in Alexandria, where he served one year and five months. While here he dressed the wounds of the soloiers who fought at the first battle of Bull Run. He afterwards served seven months at the Hygeia Hotel Hospital at Fortess Monroe. After a little more than a year's service as a hospital cadet, he was appointed as first assistant surgeon to the 14th Regt., New York Cavalry, and was ordered to the Department of the Gulf. With the exception of seven months' hospital service in New Orleans, he remained with his regiment until the close of the war. In 1864 he was promoted to full Surgeon, and afterwards acted as Surgeon of the Brigade during the Red River campaign, under General Banks, until October, 1864, when he resigned.

After practicing eleven months at Corinth he removed to Seneca Falls, in October, 1865, and became a member of the Seneca County Medical Society in 1866. He was elected president of the society in 1877, and was for two years its treasurer, in 1880-2. He has been elected alderman of the first ward of Seneca Falls for two terms of two years each.

For twenty-two years he has remained in constant practice at the Falls, and though still in his prime, is now one of the longest established practitioners in the town.

Dr. Lester has always been an active and earnest member of the society, and is a permanent member of the Medical Association of Central New York, and of the State Medical Association.

John Denniston

an education was placed upon himself, and his early life was spent in earnest work and study. He commenced the study of medicine under the tutorship of Dr. Andrew J. Alleman, of Varick, and in March, 1867, graduated at the University Medical College of New York city. He was one of the many medical men of the county who during the war volunteered his services, and one year prior to graduation was spent in the army as Assistant Surgeon in the De Camp hospital, from July 12, 1864, to the close of the war.

On June 22, 1867, he settled in the practice of his profession at Hayt's Corners, and on the nth of June, 1878, was married to B. Eloise Jacacks, by whom he has had two children, both living. On the fourth of December he removed to Ovid, where he still remains, engaged in a large and extensive practice.

Dr. Denniston became a member of the Seneca County Medical Society in 1868, immediately after settling in the county, and in 1881 was elected president. He is also at present the treasurer of the society, a position which he has held since 1883, and also during the years from 1875 ^o 1879. ^'^ whole time is devoted to the busy duties of a large practice, and he has had for many years an extended ride.

Hiram J. Purdy

On the fifteenth of March, in the year 1870, Hiram J. Purdy settled at Seneca Falls. He was born at West Butler, Wayne county, January 18, 1847, of Merritt and Amanda (Sears) Purdy. After attendance at the district school and Red Creek Academy, at the age of eighteen, he entered the office of Dr. W. F. Peck, of Davenport, Iowa. At the end of a year's study he matriculated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he graduated in the spring of 1869. He first located for practice at Savannah, but after one year he removed to Seneca Fails, where he has since resided.

He was married December 19, 1867, to Emma Roberts of Savannah, and has one child living. In [872 he was elected a member of the Seneca County Medical Society. From 1872 to 1881 he was town physician, and in 1880 was appointed county physician, and has also served one term as coroner. For ten years he has been healthofficer of the village, and is at present the registrar of vital statistics for the town.

In the spring of 1877 Dr. Purdy delivered a course of twenty-four lectures on physiology to the advanced students of the Seneca Falls Academy. He is a corresponding member of the National Board of Health, and in 1882 made, in company with Horace Andrews, a civil engineer in the employ of the State Board of Health, a preliminary survey of a portion of Cayuga marshes, to ascertain the feasibility of draining them in the interests of public health.

About ten years ago he removed to the south side of the river and established a floral greenhouse. For the past three years he has spent about three months armually in New York city, engaged as a druggist and practitioner.

He occupied the winter of 1886-7 oi^ the Isthmus of Panama, examining into the French hospital system connected with the De Lesseps canal. He still remains in practice at Seneca Falls.

Stephen P. Johnson was born at Palermo, Oswego county, N. Y., February 2, 1839. His parents, Noah and Margaret E. Johnson, were farmers, and his boyhood was passed upon the farm. After a three years' course at the Falley Seminary, he commenced the study of medicine in the office of his uncle. Dr. S. Pardee, and graduated December 27, 1859, at the Albany Medical College.

Almost immediately, on January 7, i860, he opened an office at New Haven, Oswego county, where he remained six years. Desiring a larger field he removed to the city of Oswego in December, 1865, where he practiced for seven years.

On the first of May, 1872, he came to Seneca county and settled at Waterloo. While here he became a member of the County Society ; but after a residence of seven years failing health induced a change, and he removed in February, 1879, to Geneva; thence, in July, 1882, to Mexico, Oswego county. His present address is Little Utica, where he still remains in practice.

Dr. Johnson was married to Miss Josephine H. Merriam, January 7, 1864, and has three children living. In 1876 he united with the Presbyterian church.

He has been a member of the Seneca and Oswego County Medical Societies, and of the Medical Association of Central New York, and has read the following articles before the latter association, which were published as follows :

John M. Townsend

John M. Townsend was born at Townsendville, Seneca county, N. Y., May 25, 1850, of John and Emmeline (Meeker) Townsend. His ancestors were among the pioneers of the county, having settled here about the year 1800. His education was obtained at the Lima Seminary, and he commenced the study of his profession in the office of Dr. C. T. Kelsey. In February, 1873,' ^^ graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city. The following year he spent at the Blackwell's Island Insane Asylum, as assistant house physician.

On the first of December, 1875, he married Miss Helen C. McNuIty, and settled in practice at Townsendville, where he has since remained actively engaged. He has one child living. In 1881 he became a member of the Seneca County Medical Societ) .

Daniel F. Everts was born in the town of Hector, Tompkins (rtow Schuyler) county, N. Y., February 13, 1845, and is the second son of Curren Everts and Mary A. (Dickerson) Everts.

He attended the district school until eighteen years of age, when he obeyed the call to arras and patriotically enlisted as a soldier in the Fourth Regt , N. Y. Heavy Artillery, and remained in the service, following all the fortunes of the regiment, until the close of the war of the great Rebellion, and was honorably discharged on the fifth day of October, 1865. On the sixteenth day of the same month he entered the private school of the late Professor David Trowbridge, whose able instruction and kind advice did much to encourage and develop the minds of all his students.

After the close of his school days he was for some time engaged in the vocation of teacher, under license of the State Department of Public Instruction.

He commenced the study of medicine in the year 1871, with Dr. Alfred Sears as preceptor, and graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo in 1875 ; and also, in addition, from the Long Island College Hospital in 1876. He was engaged in both private and dispensary practice in Brooklyn, N. Y., during a part of the year 1876. On the first of September of that year he located at Romulus, where he still remains in the practice of his profession.

Dr. Everts was married June 23, 1875, to Mary B. Severn of Farmer Village. Two children have been born to them, only one of whom is now living.

Louis A. Gould

Louis A. Gould was born at Hopkinton, Merrimack county. New Hampshire, April 26, 1852. His parents, Charles and Ruth (Hill) Gould, were both natives of the state, and much of Dr. Gould's early life was spent in New England. He graduated from the Contoocookville Academy in 1870, and after leaving school entered the Boston post-office as clerk, where he remained until April, 1873. During the great fire of 1872 he assisted in moving the post-office matter to the Custom House, from thence to Faneuil Hall, and again to the Old South church, where he remained until the building of the new postoffice.

In April, 1873, he went to Concord, N. H., and entered the drug store of C. H. Martin & Co., remaining with them until 1877, when he commenced the study of medicine, under the instruction of E. G. Wilson, of Laconia, N. H.

In April, 1878, he left Dr. Wilson's office and removing to Farmer Village, N. Y., resumed his studies under Dr. W. W. Wheeler of that place. After pursuing the usual course of attendance, on the third of March, 1880, he graduated at the Detroit Medical College, and entered upon practice at the village of Ovid. He was married at Syracuse, May 27, 1882, to Hannah B. Jones, daughter of Lewis Jones, of Ovid. In the fall of 1880 he was elected county physician for the south jury district, which office he held for four years, and in the fall of 1884 he was elected coroner for the same district. Dr. Gould became a member of the society in 1881. He still remains in active practice in the town of Ovid, and is vice-president of the society.

George A. Bellows

George A. Bellows was born at Seneca Falls, June 6, 1856. His parents were William L. and Caroline (Pl«tte) Bellows. The public schools of the village afforded him his early education, and at the age of thirteen he entered the Seneca Falls Academy, passing the Regents' examination two years later,, under the tutorship of Jasper N. Hammond.

At the age of sixteen he was employed in the drug store of Perry Van Kleck, and while there commenced the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Elias Lester. Soon after he entered the office of Dr. E. A. Chapoton, at Detroit, and graduated at the Detroit Medical College, March 11, 1881. While at Detroit he spent the years 1879-80 in service at St. Mary's hospital.

Immediately after graduation, on the first day of May, 1881, he located for the practice of medicine at Waterloo, on the south side of the river, and in the house and office so long occupied successively by Drs. Patterson, Smith, Sternberg and A. A. AUeman. Dr. Bellows' syf cess was almost immediate. He at once gained the confidence of the community and the regard of the members of the medical profession, and has since enjoyed a lucrative practice.

In 1882 he was appointed health-officer of the towns of Waterloo and Fayette, and was also elected coroner the same year. He was appointed coroner by Gov. Hill in the spring of 1886, to fill a vacancy, and in the fall of the same year was again elected to that office. In 1885 he was appointed physician to the Seneca county almshouse. Was elected president of the County Medical Society in 1884. On September 27, 1877, he married Miss Hattie M. Palmer of Seneca Falls, and has one son living.

Frank G. Seaman

Frank G. Seaman was born at Fairfield, Herkimer county, September 5, 1857, of James and Elizabeth Seaman. He received his education at the Fairfield Seminary and graduated in the class of 1875.

After graduation he pursued his medical studies under the instruction of Drs. J. M. Willard and John Swinburne, of Albany, and received his degree in medicine at the Albany Medical College, March 2, 1 88 1. He immediately located in the village of Seneca Falls, where he has since resided, and enjoys a good practice. He joined the Seneca County Medical Society in 1882, and is now its president. He is also a member of the New York State Medical Association. He has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the state and county societies, and is one of the well established physicians at the Falls.

Ephraim W. Bogardus

Ephraim W. Bogardus was born at Monterey, Orange township, Steuben county. New York, May 18, 1853. The formation of Schuyler county from portions of Steuben, Tompkins and Chemung counties, in April of the following year, included the township of Orange within its boundaries ; therefore it constitutes at the present time a part of Schuyler.

When he was seven months old his parents, Alvah and Jane D. Bogardus, retnoved with their family, consisting of two boys and four gijls, to Seneca county, locating in the town of Varick, on the lake road, about one-fourth mile south of the East Varick post-office, in which place they remained about six months, when they again moved to where his father now lives, about one-fourth mile east of the Varick M. E. church.

Since leaving home, at the age of eighteen, he has resided in various places, four years of his life being spent in Seneca Falls, where he read medicine three years in the oifice of Dr. Hiram J. Purdy, beginning the eighteenth of November, 1878. Following these preliminary studies, he- pursued a regular course at the University of Buffalo, receiving his degree from that institution on the twentyseventh day of February, 1883. On the fourth of April of the same year he began the practice of his profession in the Fayette portion of Bearytown, where he continued eleven months, when he moved across the street into Varick, remaining there until November, 1885, at which time he again took up his residence in Fayette, and where he now is. He became a member of the Seneca Couijty Medical Society in July, 1884. Was married February 25, 1886, to Miss Jennie B. Acker, of Varick.

John T. Cass

John T. Cass is the youngest son of John Cass and Jeanie (Howarth) Cass, and was born in the township of New Hartford, Oneida county, N. Y., November 13th, 1852. In 1859 he accompanied his parents to Hartwick, Otsego county, and after residing there three years, to Exeter, in the same county, where he resided until 187 7i

He was educated in the common schools and Academy of Otsego county, and at the age of eighteen became a teacher in the public schools of that county, remaining there until 1877, when he assumed charge of one of the public schools in the village of Waterloo, which position he retained eight yeais, and then resigned to further pursue his medical studies.

In 1883 he began the study of medicine under the tuition of Dr. S. R. Welles, of Waterloo, and after continuing his course in the University of Vermont and in the University of New York city, graduated at the latter institution March 8th, 1887. After a further course of practical medicine in Bellevue hospital and in the New York Dispensary, he returned to Waterloo, opening an office in the post-office building at that place.

C. C. Wheeler

Claudius C. Wheeler was born at Farmer Village in 1846 and is the son of Richard K. and Jane (Dickinson) Wheeler. He graduted in 1867 at the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, and after a residence in the county of nine years, in 1876 he removed to Leslie, Michigan, where he remained until the spring of 1887, when he returned and entered the practice of medicine in company with his'brother, Dr. W. W. Wheeler, of Farmer Village.

Physicians Not Mentioned In The Previous Report

Other physicians have practiced in this county at various times, and many of them have achieved success in their profession and prominence in the community. Owing to various causes it has not been possible to obtain as much information in every case as could be desired. We append a partial list with such facts as have been gathered. Among those mentioned are several well-known practitioners, whose fuller record we shall have to leave to some future historian.

Samuel B. Chidsey also practiced at Canoga at about the same date. He was born probably in Cayuga county, May 29, 1803. He first located in Canoga, but soon removed to West Fayette and there married Mary, the daughter of Captain Cook, and opening an office at what is now the West Fayette station, practiced there until his death, on the second of October, 1833.

Joseph Hunt was also one of the pioneers of this section, and resided in Fayette about three miles east of the West Fayette station. He was born at Hunt's Point, May 4, 1764, and died at Fayette, September 5, 1827. His remains are buried in the cemetery at Waterloo.

Daniel Hudson commenced practice in West Fayette in 1820, and after an honorable and successful career of fifteen years removed to Michigan, in 1835.

Abram DeGraff was born June 6th, 1816, at Fleming, Cayuga county, N. Y. He entered the office of Dr. Frank H. Hamilton, who at that time was professor of surgery at Geneva, and in 1837 received his degree from the Geneva Medical College. He first located for the practice of his profession at Bearytown, where he married Miss Esther Wilkinson in the following year.

After a practice in this county of two or three years, he moved to Maxville, Ohio ; remaining here, however, but a short time, he located again at Norwich, Ohio. Here his wife died in 1850 leaving three small children. He married Eugenia Gilson in 1852, and in January, 1854, removed with his family to Grand Ledge, Michigan, wher^ he practiced medicine for five years. He afterwards engaged in mercantile pursuits in which he continued until within eighteen months of his death, which occurred at Grand Ledge, February 7th, 1869.

He was successful both in the practice of medicine and in business. He had three daughters by his second wife, who live at Grand Ledge, where his widow also resides. One son and one daughter reside at Norwalk, Ohio, and the eldest son at Morley, Michigan.

The following physicians have also practiced in various portions of the town of Fayette : In Bearytown, Drs. L. W. Sutherland (who afterwards removed to Junius, and is now at Lyons) ; H. L. EDDY,f^ Sayer and Frank H. Flood. Dr. Flood was born at Farmer Village, September 1 7, 185 1. He studied medicine with James Flood, of Lodi, and graduated at the University of the city of New York in the spring of 1873. He at once settled in Fayette (Bearytown), where he remained actively engaged in practice until the spring of 1886, when he removed. He was elected president of the Seneca County Medical Society in 1883.

Daniel Goodwin also practiced hereabout 1809; and William Kidder (vid. Farmer Village) in 1853. The latter lived upon the spot where 0.. W. Wilkinson now lives, but after a short time removed to California, where he died.

John Goss practiced medicine in the western part of the town of Varick, near Manning's Corners, about the year 1852, as nearly as can be ascertained. He was a bachelor and a man of good morals and address. At the end of about a year he mysteriously disappeared, and the reported confession of a dying man confirmed a popular suspicion, that being mistaken for a collector he was murdered for money and all traces of the deed effaced.

In the town of Waterloo there have been the following additional practitioners : Drs. Parker and Taylor, who located in " Skoiyase " at an early day. Little is known of their history.

the same name, Dr. John B. Elliott, was in practice in the village in 1837. He remained but a few years. One of his sons, Thomas B., became a physician, and was for a time connected with the State Insane Asylum at Indianapolis ; another son, E. B. Elliott, is the U. S. Government Actuary connected with the Treasury Department.

Charles Stuart was the first physician that located at Waterloo. He owned a drug store in a part of Swift's mercantile block, which he afterwards sold to Dr. Caleb Loring. He removed to Kalamazoo, and recently died there.

In 181 7 Jesse Fifield was engaged in practice at Waterloo. For many years he was justice of the peace. His death took place a few years ago.

Peter R. Wirts came from Phelps, N. Y. His parents were originally from Ulster county. He studied medicine with Dr. Gardner Welles, and after graduating at the Fairfield Medical College he commenced practice at Waterloo, about the year 1830. He married Miss Lydia Wood, and had a family of two children. For many years he lived in the large brick house near the Park, occupied at present by W. D. Burrall, and built the small brick office adjoining. He was stricken with paralysis in 1852, in the full tide of a successful practice. His death tot)k place September 2, 1869, at the age of about sixtyfive years. He was a man of ability and a prominent physician.

J. H. Sternberg is one of the oldest resident physicians, and still engaged in his profession. He is a graduate of the Jeiferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He jvas one of the members of the society at its re-organization in 1865, and was elected president. in 1879. For many years he has been in active life as a physician. He has also been president of the village.

J. W. Day has been in practice for several years in Waterloo and is also engaged extensively in raising fine blooded horses on the Patchen Stock Farm. He is a graduate of Geneva Medical College. In 1887 he was elected president of the village.

Charles A. Sternberg also practiced in the village in 1883-4, in company with his uncle, Dr. J. H. Sternberg, but has since removed to Howe's Cave, Schoharie county, N. Y.

John V. Larzalere was born at Waterloo, of John and Maria Larzalere, January 28, 1859, and received his education in the schools of the village until he was eighteen years of age, when he entered the office of Dr. J. W. Day, as a student. On the twenty-sixth of February, 1884, he graduated at the Medical Department of the Buffalo University, and associated himself with Dr. Day for a period of seven months. He afterwards practiced alone for one year in Waterloo, when he removed to Poplar Ridge, Cayuga county, N. Y. He was elected a member of the society in 1885. He married Miss Fannie C. Peckham, on March 24, 1887, and has served as health-officer of the towns of Waterloo and of Venice, Cayuga county.

Homer E. R. Little recently entered upon the practice of medicine in Waterloo. He was born at Trenton, Ont., Canada, April 3, i860, of John and Anna M. Little. He studied arts at the University of Toronto, and sciences at the school of Practical Science, Toronto. Beginning the study of medicine under the instruction of Dr. Charles McLellan at Toronto, he afterwards graduated, March 15, 1886, at the Bellevue Medical College, and immediately settled in practice at Waterloo.

Man, 1869

In or about the year 181^ Dr. Philip Dey, of New Jersey, moved to that part of Romulus, now Varick, about one mile south of Dey's Corners (Varick P. O.) He was a soldier of the Revolution. His residence in the county was short. He followed from New Jersey his brothers Benjamin, Peter and David, who settled in Seneca county, and John, who settled at Coshon, in Ontario county. Dr," Philip Dey bought the farm, afterwards owned and occupied by his son John P., about one mile south of the old tannery. He was killed, by the fall of his horse, while on a visit to New Jersey. His

Edwin Dey, a son of Dr. Philip Dey, was born June 6, 1801, and studied medicine with Dr. Henry, at Geneva. He graduated in New York in 1825, and commenced the practice of medicine at Hayt's Corners, in March, i8z6. Died at Romulus in August, 1844.

H. D. DiDAMA for a time practiced at Romulus, but afterwards removed to Syracuse, where he has since made an honored name in the medical profession.

The following physicians should also appear in the town of Lodi : James Flood was born in Pennsylvania in 1826 and studied with his brother. Dr. P. H. Flood. In the year 1850 he graduated at the Geneva Medical College. Immediately after this he located at Lodi Center, where he remained until his removal to Geneva in 1870, where he resided until the date of his death, in 1884.

James Kennedy, a student of Dr. James Flood and a graduate of Buffalo Medical College, located at Lodi Center in 1868, and succeeded Dr. Flood upon his removal to Geneva. He died in May,

William Livingstone, a student of Dr. P. H. Flood, graduated at the Geneva Medical College and located at Townsendville in 1 848, where he remained two years.

Charles R. Keyes, also a student of Dr. James Flood and a graduate of Detroit Medical College, commenced practice in 1875 at Lodi, and remained there until 1886, when he removed to the west.

Dr. Peter Covert located at an early day. He was born at Somerset, New Jersey, October 29, 1788, and studied medicine with Dr. Jared Sandford. For a time he taught a district school at Romulus, and many of his old pupils yet remember him. A license to practice was given him by the medical board, and he commenced the practice of his profession at Ovid. He was called to the front in the war of 181 2, as Assistant Surgeon under Dr. Marvin of Romulus, and served until the close of the war, when he returned to Ovid and continued his practice for many years. He died in February, 1868.

Tompkins C. Delavan was born in one of the New England states and came to Ovid from Patterson, Putnam county, N. Y., in 1804. His marriage, to Esther Jessup, occurred before coming to this county, and his family accompanied him. Ten of his twelve children reached maturity and afterwards removed to Michigan. He first settled about one mile east of Ovid village, at Barnum's Corners, in the large house at the junction of the roads, and afterwards lived on a farm below Hayt's Corners. He removed with his family to Michigan in 1832, where he has since died at an advanced age.

Archilaus Gates was a physician in the town of Ovid about 1818. He was born in Massachusetts, May 27, 1789, and studied medicine with Dr. Ethan Watson, of Romulus. He was never married, and died April 11, 1832.

Samuel Jones was born January 21, 18 16, and studied medicine with Dr. Tompkins of Peach Orchard, Schuyler county. He practiced for a year at Farmer Village and then joined in practice with his father-in-law. Dr. Peter Covert, at Ovid, in 1844. He removed to Iowa, 1862. His death took place at Cedar Rapids, August 19, 1869.

(Robert?) Rose, who located at Farmer Village, 1797. The next was Reuben S. Brown, who came in 1806, and left the county in 1832. Allen Almy practiced at Farmer Village about the year 1817. William Kidder, who was born near the village and studied with Dr. Brown, located soon after Dr. Almy, and afterwards removed to Bearytown, thence to California.

Herman C. Skinner and B. F. Coleman were also practicing physicians in the village soon after, .^e latter removed to Cayuga county and is now residing at North field.

The early history of the medical profession in the town of Seneca Falls is somewhat veiled in obscurity. Inquiry among the older residents and reference to files of old papers, reveal the fact that Dr. Pitney, in 1806, settled in what is now called the " Kingdom," about two miles west of Seneca Falls, and boarded at that place with Lewis Birdsall. He afterward became the most celebrated surgeon in this section of the State. After remaining in this county only two years he removed to Auburn, Cayuga county, where he lived for more than fifty years, until his death.

In 1807 Reuben Long settled in Seneca Falls, between the village and the lake, near the gully. A large number of the descendants of his family reside in the vicinity at the present time. He continued in constant practice for more than twenty years, until the time of his death in 1830.

In 1820 Silas Keeler settled in the town. He first located at the Lake, but after a time moved to the village. He was born in Bridgefield, Conn., and came to Delaware county in 1801, where he studied medicine with Dr. John R. Gregory, and was admitted to practice by the Delaware County Medical Society. He had a family of four children, two sons ami two daughters ; a son and a daughter survive him. Dr. Keeler was a candid, quiet, dignified gentleman, not so enthusiastic in his profession as his cotemporary. Dr. Bellows, but showing more ambition in politics, and was elected treasurer of the county, president of the village, trustee and justice of the peace. He abandoned medicine in his later years, and devoted his time to the duties involved in the last named office, holding it until his deaths which occurred, of typhoid fever, April 13, 1867.

About the year 1829 Dr. Farnsworth settled in practice. He seemed to be possessed of some means, and having built some very fine houses, sold them. He also practiced his profession, but the houses which he built, many of which are now standing, are the only remembrances he has left.

About 1835, Dr. C. G. Williams and Dr. Davton came to the village from New York. Dr. Hiram H. Heath was then practicing here, and also Dr. Amherst Childs. They all claimed to be regular practitioners and educated physicians, and practiced what was then called allopathy. At about that time, two law) ers, Edward Bayard and D. W. Foreman, attorneys without clients, began the study of homoeopathy, and entered soon after upon the practice of that branch, which then was just beginning to attract popular attention, and soon established themselves in a lucrative business. The regular physicians, perceiving that the new practice attracted such favor, embraced it, and announced themselves as converts to the new method. A strong division arose, and the war was taken into the medical society and waged long and fiercely. In 1842, Williams and Dayton left the town ; Bayard went to New York city ; Childs to Waterloo, and Heath remained in the village, where he has since continued to live. His practice has extended over a greater period than that of any other physician of the town, being something over half a century.

Dr. J. K. Brown, a druggist, was also for a time connected in a manner with the profession. He was a graduated physician, but did no practice, or very little, in his store.

In 1836, John S. Clark settled in the village and commenced practice. He was a man of good culture, an able physician, and a fine musician. He built up a lucrative business, but his tastes for music and fishing took his time from his professional work, so that he gradually tired of his arduous duties, and in 1855 left the Falls and settled in Chicago, where he still resides.

In 1842 Thomas Swaby, of Lancaster, Penn., came among us and settled. He was born in Yorkshire, England, in 181 7.' He was a graduate of the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, and a very finely educated physician. His practice was very large and so taxed his strength that he became an early prey to consumption, and died on the 12th of November, 1843.