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( 1) Samuel Coley, his ancestor, came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631, and was one of the forty-four original planters who settled in Milford in 1639; and died there it 1600. He married. 1640, Ann. daughter of James Prudden. Children : 1. Peter, see for- ward. 2. Abilene, born March 12, 1043. died November 17. 1710: she married. July 22. 1604. Japhat Chapin, of Springfield, born 1642. died February 20. 1712; children: Samuel. born July 4. 1665: Sarah, March 15. 1068; Thomas, May 20, 1671; John; Ebenezer: Daniel; Jonathan. 3. Samuel, born Feb- ruary, 1646: married, October 21. 1600. Mary Carles, baptized November 28. 1703: children : i. Daniel, baptized January 2. 105: ji. Esther, baptized January 2. 169 :: iii. Mary, baptized January 4. 1684: iv. Sam- nel, baptized December 5. 1703; v. John. baptized March 19. 1706, died June 6. 1775: he married, July 22. 1728. Mary. lled January 20. 1773. daughter of Benjamin Gregory : children : a. Mary, born August 13, 1732, married John Dikeman; b. Lois, bora January 17, 1736. married Jonathan Taylor: c. John, Jr .. born December 31, 1738. mar- ried, April 2. 1761. Anna, born November IO, 1730, daughter of Edmond and Mary ( Gilbert ) Ogden. children: John married Eu- nicc Morehouse: Peleg: Anna: Rhoda. vi. Ann. baptized August 1, 1700, married, Jant !- ary 21, 1720-30, John Kelloge, who died April 17. 1740: children : Ezra. born April 3. 173: Mary, January 22. 1/32-33: Ann, March 16, 1734-35 : John. May 25, 173 ;: Seth. February 8. 1739-40. vii. Abigail. viii. Jemina. mar- riedl King. 4. Sarah. baptized Sep- tember 24. 1647. died 1080: married Joseph. baptized March 23, 1644, died November 21.
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1681, son of Joseph and Hannah Ballwin. 5. Mary, baptized November 23, 1651, married (first ) l'eter Stimpson, who died in 1685; ( second) John, Jr .. who died in 1680. son of John Streme. 6. Hannah, baptized October 8, 1654. married, April 10. 1673, Josephi Garn- sey, and had: Jo-eph, born 1675: Sarah. 1678. 7. Thomas. baptized April 20. 1657. married Martha, daughter of John Streme, and had: Thomas, baptized April 8, 1696; Samuel, baptized November 1, 1702, died Feb- ruary 6, 1703-04.
(II) Peter, eldest child of Samuel and Ann (Prudden) Coley, was born about 1640-41. baptized April 25. 1641. and died 1600. He married Sarah, daughter of Humphrey Hide ( Hyde ). Children: 1. Samuel. 2. Sarah. 3. Peter, see forward. 4. Ann, born January 13. 1673. 5. Mary, born April 23. 1677, mar- ried Nicholas Johnson. 6. Elizabeth. born December 1, 1680. 7. Hannah.
(III) Sergeant Peter (2) Coley, second son and third child of Peter (1) and Sarah (Hide) Coley, was born June 12. 1671. He married Hannah, daughter of Simon Couch. Children. 1. Hannah, baptized August 4, 1700, married Jonathan Beebe. 2. Peter. bap- tizel August 30, 1702. 3. Simon, baptized January 30. 1703-04. 4. Phebe. 5. Elizabeth. baptized March 24. 1706. married Jeremiah Jennings, and had: Elizabeth. born October 25, 1727 : Mary. August 21, 1730; Hezekiah. October 1. 1733: Ruth, November 13, 1735: Sarah. July 26. 1738: Jeremiah. September 14. 1740; Peter, June 12. 1743 : Hannah, May 20 1745. 6. Andrew, baptized July 25. 1708. 7. Ebenezer, baptized October 10, 1710. 8. Eb- enezer. baptized March 4. 1712. 0. David. see forward. 10 Jonathan, born 1717. died March 13. 1810: married, December 6. 1739. Lucy, horn. 1718, died January 29, 1795. daughter of John Sturges: children: i. Hannah, born May 5, 1741, married Robert Downes. ii. Sarah. born June 8. 1743. iii. Ann, born No- vember 17. 1745. iv. Ellen, born July 1 ;. 1748. married Stetson. v. Lucy, born January 26, 1751. married Bradley. vi. Jonathan. Jr .. horn September 21. 1754. died March IS. 1837 ; married. June 28, 1,SI. Betty Guilbert, born 170. died February 18. 1833, and had: a. Sturges, who married, Sep- tember 21. 1858. Abigail. born April 25. 1782. daughter of Lieutenant James Chap- man. and had: Abbey. married William Holmes: Eliza : Mary, married Theodore Cur- tis : Lucy, married Benjamin Wheeler : Sarah. married Turner : William : Munson : Gould, married Cornelia Hammond: John Chapman. married Scribner. 1 .. Sam- uel, married Abigail, daughter of Thomas
Whitlock, and had: Bradley: Lucy. married Edward Lineburgh; Sally, married James Mitchell: Eliza, married William Lineburgh ; Emeline. married AAllen ; Samuel : Burr. c. Gilbert, married Sarah Bunnell, born 1794, died June 2. 1835. d. Bailey Still- son, born 1793, died May 12, 1830: married. Saralı ( Bunnell) Coley, widow of his brother Gilbert, and had: Betsey : Giles, died April I. 1830: Jarvis, twin of Giles, died May 12, 1830 : Levi, born July 4. 1819. died July 16, 1891. married, September 26, 1841, Clarissa Whee- ler, daughter of John Gray, and had : Frances Gertrude, Elisia Burr. Julia Esther. Carrie Lovisa and Helen G. : Mary, married May 28. 1846. Burr French, and had: Emeline, who married Burr Adams: Lloyd, married. April 24. 1853, Catharine, daughter of Nelson Sher- man. e. Jonathan. born July 9, 1797, died April 9, 1832; married. February 25, 1823. Orra, horn April 8, 1802, died March II. 1864. daughter of Hezekiah, Jr .. and Anna ( Burr ) Coley. vii. Daniel, born May 24. 1,50, married, September 4, 1774. Anna Morehouse ( ?). 11. Mary, baptized June 18. 1,21.
( IV) David, sixth son and ninth child of Sergeant Peter (2) and Hannah ( Couch! Coley, was born January 29, 1715, died Jime 23. 1802.
He married. December 16, 1740. Mary. who died February 11. 1783. daughter of Deacon John Hyde. Children : 1. Eher- ezer, see forward. 2. David, Jr., born Toly 29. 1743. died August 29, 1810: marriedl. June 29, 1786. Lydin Sturgess, born Orto- ber 12, 1755, died August 16. 1823 : children: i. Rachel. born April 16. 178;, died March IG. 18IG. married Samuel Rowland. ii. Mary Hylle. born 1790. died March 26, 1871, mar- ried. December 10, 1811, Levi, son of Cartain Ebenezer and Abigail ( Morchou-e) Colev (see forward). 3. Rachel, born March 18. 1746, married. April 9. 1767. Oliver, baptized September 20, 1741, son of Ephraim and Eliz- abeth ( Mix ) Sanford, and had: Mary, hat - tized July 31, 1768: David. baptized August 20. 1769; Ephraim. Jr., baptized September 15. 1,71 : Abigail, baptized May 29. 1974: Enoch .A., baptized April 28. 1776; Levi. baptize .: December 144, 1777 : Oliver C. : Abigail : Mary : Betsey: Loraine. 4. Mary, born March 2. 1756. married, June 27. 1775, Enoch Bett -. and had: Elias, born May 10. 1,76: Mary. May 19. 1,80; David, February 15 or :s. 1-82: Enoch, born June 5, 1785, died October 22, 1786: Enach, born July 20. 1787, die Di- cember 31. 1787. Calvin, born November 22. 1-88: Isaiah, March 6, 179 !. 5. Abigail. lorn April 29, 1758, married. December 16. 1781.
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William Prince, and had : David, Charles, Jo- seph and James.
(V) Captain Ebenezer Coley, eldest child of David and Mary ( Hyde) Coley, was born October 19, 1741, died November 2, 18TI. Ile married ( first ) August 11, 1763, Abigail, born March 21 1744. died February 3, 1797, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Morehouse. He was captain of the militia prior to the rev- olution, and corporal during the revolution- ary struggle. He married (second ) March 23. 1798. Mary Gedfrey, born 17446, died Sep- tember 25, 1825. Children, all by first mar- riage: I. Abigail, born July 4. 1764, died April 14, 1811 : married Shubael Gorham. and had : Sophia. Charlotte and Shubael. 2. More- house, see forward. 3. Ebenezer, Jr., born January 17. 1768. died November 11, 1823; married, July 2. 1790. Rachel. born 1768. died March 9. 1816, daughter of John Goodsell ; children: i. Walter, born October 11, 1791, died September 5, 1858; married (first), No- vember 24. 1816, Anne, horn October 10, 1796. died October 1. 1829. daughter of Nathaniel and Mercy ( Coley) Wakeman, and had: a. Rachel, born October 7, 1817, died April 3, 1887 ; married. November 7. 1840. Benjamin, son of William Bradley. and had: Edward, Sarah, Joseph and Arthur. b. Sally Wake- man, born August 30. 1820, married, February 2, 1842, Jonas D. Hill, and had: Walter, Lu- cretia. Josephine and Ada. c. Wakeman, born February 20, 1823. died May 13, 1823. d. Mary Ann, born August 15. 1824. died July 10. 1826. Walter Coley married ( sec- ond, November 1, 1834. Orra, daughter of Hezekiah. Jr .. and Anna ( Burr) Coley, and widow of Jonathan Coley, mentioned hereinhe- fore. Children: e. Walter, Jr .. horn Septem- ber 9. 1835. f. Merey Ann, born December 16, 1836, married Jarvis Taylor. g. Ebenezer, born April 26, 1838. died October 10. 1887. married, May 14. 1861. Eleanor O., daughter of Samuel and Eleanor ( Fillow) Gregory : children: Stanton, born December 17. 1864. married. May 1. 1800. Susan M .. daughter of John W. Hubble : Chester Ebenezer, born De- eember 1, 1874. h. Samuel Morehouse. horn May 2. 1839. married. December 16, 1862. Sarah E., daughter of Harry Nash. and had : Willis, born July 16, 1864: Elouise, born Sep- tember 20. 1865, married. June 9. 1882. Wil- liam Welsh: Florence Elizabeth. born Au- gust 26, 1875, married. January. 1805. Her- bert E. Bates. i. Henry Burr, born April 27. 1848, married Helen A. Seymour, and had : Alice Burr, born August 14. 1860, married. October 8, 1800, William Kirk: Florence Henrietta, born October 26, 18;3. married, April, 1894, John Whitlock; Infant, born
February 9, 1875, died 1875; Bertha Sey- mour, born July 16, 1877, married, October 6, 1897, Oliver Henry Jennings. ii. David, born November 4, 1794, died 1864; married Sally, born 1807, died 1856, daughter of James Nash : children : Mary, born 1827, died August 19. 1852: Anna, born 1829, died May 16. 1886: Ebenezer. died February, 1883 ; Da- vid; Sarah Elizabeth. iii. Ebenezer, born July 1. 1796, died July 6, 1796. iv. Samuel Morehouse, born January 19, 1804, died Jan- uary 21, 1883: married (first ) November 29, 1830, Alethea. born October 6. 1805, died March 12, 1835, daughter of Taylor and Bet- ty (Bennett) Hurlbutt ; children: a. Rev. James Edward. born October 11, 1832, mar- ried, May 29, 1860, Mary Gray, born Febru- ary 22, 1836, daugliter of Rev. Enoch and Charlotte ( Taylor) Huntington : children : Edward Huntington, married Julia Seely, daughter of Silas and Mary Elizabeth Co- vell, and had: Marjory Covell and Elizabeth Huntington ; Mary Pearsall, married William Gray, son of Captain William C. and Anne ( Sankey) Staples, and had: Horace, Horace William, Mary Coley. Frank Huntington and Helen Huntington; Francis Chase, married Cornelia Kelsey, daughter of Ambrose Spen- cer and Cornelia (Kelsey ) Hurlbut. b. Sarah, born and died in September, 1834. Samuel Morehouse Coley married (second ) Laura Dugas, born 1831, died December 7. 1882, and had: Charles Goodsell, died October 18, 1854. 4. Samuel. born June 6, 1770, died De- cember 30, 1850 : married, June 23, 1791, Rhu- amah. born October 18, 1770, died September II. 1855. daughter of Eliphalet and Eunice ( Bradley) Coley: children: i. John, born March 2, 1798, died October 10, 1822. ii. Samuel, died April 12, 1835. iii. Eliphalet, twin of Samuel. died April 12, 1835. iv. Ed- son. married Jane Brittain, and had: John Brittain and Sarah Jane. 5. Michael, born September 6. 1772, died December 17. 1807 : married. July 13, 1793. Eunice, born 1776. died September 22. 1805, daughter of john and Abigail Hyde: children: i. John Hyde. born October 16. 1796, died December 2, 1865: married Matilda Beach, and had: a. Mary, born April 27, 1820, died December 27. 1808: married Oliver S. Carter. b. Ju- lia W .. born February 22, 1826, died January 2. 1802: married Henry G. Lewis, and had: Matilda Coley and Josephine Mites. c. A son, born May. 1832. died July 15. 1833. d. Wil- liam B., born 1834. died November II. 1804. e. John Hyde. Jr .. married Matilda Everett. ii. David. born August 16, 1799, died April 0. 1872 : married, January 6, 1819, Mary Ann. born November 22, 1799, died February 15
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1867, daughter of Aaron and Huldah Burr; children: a. Abigail Ilyde, born August 24, 1820, imarried. December 17, 1838, Talcott, who died January 18, 1838, son of Banks and Abigail (Jennings) Wakeman: children : Mary Ellen, boin May 11, 1840: Julia Coley, June 2. 1851. b. John Hyde, born June 30, 1822, married, October 19, 1848, Harriet Philips. c. Mary Burr, born September 25, 1824, married William Hill, and had: Mary, born November 4. 1842; John, born Septem- ber 12, 1845: Harriet. d. Aaron Burr, born April 16, 1826. married. November 14, 1853, Harriet Spivey. e. Eunice. born July 13, 1830, died October 14. 1858. f. Rachel. born January 9. died January 23, 1832. g. Rachel Hyde, born January 25, 1833, married, No- vember 14, 1853. Henry Grove, son of Allen and Lucy ( Hotchkiss) Birge, and had: Ed- ward Coley, born October 18, 1855. h. Eliz- abeth, born September 10. 1836, died August 4, 1868. i. Margaret, born July 26, 1838, died January 21, 1878. 6. Mary, born September 9, 1774, died August 19. 1775. 7. Levi, born 1778, died November 20. 1859; married, De- cember 10. ISUI, Mary Hyde, born 1790, died March 26, 1871, daughter of David, Jr., and Lydia (Sturges) Coley, and had: i. Mary Ann, born 1813, died April 3, 1834. ii. Da- vid Levi, born October 13. 1815, married Catharine, born August 22, 1819, died April 13, 1889, daughter of Eben Sherwood. and had: a. Frederick. born July 11, 1845. b. Catharine S., born November 20, 1846, died April 6. 1849. c. Julia F., born July 11, 1848, died March 20, 1849. d. Katie E .. born March 16, 1850. e. Julia Dimon, born No- vember 12, 1851, died ISo ;: married Fred- erick Sherwood, and had: Ralph Coley, born April 17, 1881. f. Maria L .. born August 8. 1854. g. Mary Andrews, born January 10, 1856, died December 3, 1867. h. David L., Jr., born November 29. 1858. married Clara, daughter of Frederick and Jane Sherwood. and had a son, born February 4. 1894. iii. Levi David. born May 5, 1818. died November 25, 1874: married Sarah M., daughter of Ward Nichols. and had: a. Mary Ann, born September 20, 1815. married Cornelius. son of William J. and Jane A. Finch, b. Fran- cis William, horn September 23, 1848, mar- ried, December 24. 1875. Minnie H. Tall- man, who died December 25, 1881, and had : Clarence Tallman and Maria L. c. Caroline C., born August 30, 1851, diedi December 8. ISSI; married. December 14, 1871. Charles G. Porter, and had: Charles R .. born Sep- tember 30, 1872. d. Sarah J., born June 13, 1854. e. Anna M., born June 4. 1856. f. William Francis, born May 4. 1859, married,
January 26, 1881, Harriet, daughter of Henry I. Hoyt, and had: William F., Jr., born De- cember 11. 1883, died January 4, 1884 ; Henry I., born March 13, 1884, died March 30, 1885. iv. Ebenezer, born 1821. died Novem- ber 27, 1852: married Jane, born February 2, 1825, died July 27, 1859, daughter of Isaac Sturges. and had: a. Agnes Hope, married. February 25, 1879, Henry A. Thomson, and had: George, born March 1, 1880: William Albro, born February 7, 1885. b. Jane Fran- ces, married Frank Weston. v. Frederick. born November 1, 1825, died August 30. 1855 : married. April 25, 1849, Harriet Banks, and had: Ella, married Smith ; Fanny,
married Provost. vi Frances MI .. twin of Frederick, died March 19, 1858; married, November 6, 1848. William Lansing. 8. Mary, born 1780, married Abrahan Ba- ker. and had: Ebenezer, Abraham, Mary and Sophia. 9. Hyde, born December 6, 1786, died May 15, 1789.
(VI) Morehouse, eldest son and second child of Captain Ebenezer and Abigail ( More- house) Colcy, was born February 6. 1766, died October 6, 1843. He married. February 17, 1789, Abigail, born March 6, 1767, died January 4. 1838, daughter of Jonathan and Sarah (Ogden) Ogden. Children: I. John Hyde, born May 11, 1790, died May 11, 1834; married, February 10, 1819, Hannah Downes. born November 12, 1793. died May 21. 18;1: children : i. Morehouse, born August 15. 1820. died January 30, 1863; married, Sep- tember 21. 1846, Mary. born June 6, 1820. daughter of Robert Holden, and had : a. Mar- cellus, born July 27. 1847, died Septeniber 12. 1852. b. Robert Hyde. born April 1. 1851, married. April 28, 1874. Emily Amelia. daughter of Daniel B. Bradley, and had : Lulu May, born September 3, 1877. ii. John, born February 5. 1823. died September 19. 1854. iii. Harriet Bradley, born April 30, 1824, married, May 28, 1848. Eliphalet C., son of Solomon Gray. and lind: a. Anne A., born September 21, 1850, married Willian H .. son of Daniel B. Bradley. b. Maurice, born October 7. 1854. died November 25. 1874. iv. Samuel Burr, born December 5. 1826, died November 22, 1835. v. Mary A .. born April 14. 1820. died March 31, 1832. vi. Mary A., born January 7. 1833. died 1874: married Erastus Green. 2. Abigail, born November 9. 1791, died August 2, 1867 : married ichn. who died December 21, 1875, son of John Gray: children: i. Mary Morehouse, born October 22, 1817, inarried Thomas Goodsell. ii. Deborah Ann, born Mav 16. 1821. mar- ried, May 22. 1842. Lewis Bradley. iii. Eliza Hull, born August 6, 1834, married, Septem-
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ber 14, 1859, Henry M. Sherwood. 3. Lan- son, born August, 1,95, died January 3, 1876; married (first) 1823. Sally, born September 24, 1795, died August 4, 1845, daughter of Robert Downes : children : i. Polly Morenouse, born April 2. 1825, died December 26, 1898; married, October 16, 1844. George S., son
of Jabez and .Anna Adams, and had: a. George E., born October 8, 1845, died April 9. 1857. b. William, born March 11, 1847, died May 29, 1848. c. Saralı Georgiana, born August 19. 1849, died March 6. 1855. d. Emma Jane, born April 27, 1851, married, January 21, 1874. Maurice Wakeman. e. Frank Herbert, born 1853. died June 8, 1856. f. Arthur Richards, born December 20, 1855, died January 7. 1856. g. Jessie Catharine, born November 5, 1856, married Joseph W. Hill. h. Infant, born and died 1858. i. John Lanson, born August 9, 1860. j. Charles Francis, born March 3. 1864. k. Infant, born March 28, 1866. died 1866. 1. Henry Frederick, born June 23, 1867. ii. William Lanson, born November 14. 1826, married, November 17 or 19. 1855, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Robert Holden, and had: a. William H., born September 8, 1856, died August 19. 1863. b. Miriam. married. April 22. 1806. John Allen Birge. c. John Lanson. born Oc- tober 3, 1869. iii. Abigail Jane, born Octo- ber 16, 1838, married, May 16, 1860, Henry A., born September 29. 1831, son of John Hyde and Abby (Sherwood) Ogden, and had: Harold Hyde, born February 1, 1861. Lanson Coley married ( second) August 30, 1848, Emily, daughter of Daniel Sanford, and had: iv. Sarah Abiah, born March, IS51. died April 27, 1890: married. December 29. 1875, Daniel Burr, son of Daniel Burr Brad- ley, and had: Herbert Sanford, born De- cember 16, 1877. died May 14, 1883. 4. Mary. born August 12. 1798, died November 4. 1824. 5. William, see forward. 6. Jonathan Ogden, baptized June 10, 1800.
(VII) William, third son and fifth child of Morehouse and Abigail ( Ogden) Coley, was born April 30. 1799. died April 13, 1886. He married Eunice. born November 19. 1798. died September 19. 1851. daughter of Silliman and Mary (Coley) Fanton. Children: 1. Hor- ace Bradley. see forward. 2. Chauncey, born March 18, IS36, died August 6, 18;3: mar- ried Susan A. Bradley, and had : Virginia E., born October 1, 1859. died March 4. 1884; married Horace A. Morehouse.
(VIII) Horace Bradley, eldest child of William and Eunice ( Fanton) Coley. was born June 29. 1829. He married ( first) Jan- uary 5, 1832. Polly Sophia Wakeman : child, Henry Bradley. He married (second) Cla-
rina Bradley Wakeman (see Wakeman VIII and IX). Children: 1. Carrie E., born De- cember 5, 1859, died February 22, 1892 ; mar- ried, September 5, 1889, Dr. Frank Gorham. 2. William Bradley, see forward. He married ( third ) October 13, 1863. Abbey A., who died November 28, 1879, daughter of Solomon Gray. Children: 3. Henry Wakeman, born January 8, 1867. 4. Abby H., born May 21, 1870, died April 4, 1889. 5. Mary, dicd March 8, 1889. 6. Horace Bradley, Jr., born November 3. 1874, died March 12, 1876. He married ( fourth ) Ellen A., daughter of Sol- omon Gray.
(IX) Dr. William Bradley Coley, second child and only son of Horace Bradley and Clarina Bradley ( Wakeman) Coley, was born in Westport, Connecticut, January 12, 1862. His early education was acquired in his native town at the private school of Rev. James E. Coley, and from thence he went to the Easton Academy. He then matriculated at Yale Uni- versity, in 18So, from which he was gradu- ated in the class of 1884 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was engaged as senior master at the Bishop Scott grammar school at Portland, Oregon, for the next two years, then entered the Harvard Medical School, be- ing graduated from that institution in ISSS with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The New York Hospital was the scene of his next activities, and he served as interne at that in- stitution for two years, on the surgical serv- ices of Dr. Robert F. Weir and Dr. William T. Bull. He was instructor in surgery at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School from 1891 to 1897 : clinical lecturer at the Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, 1897 to 1907 ; was then appointed associate in sur- gery, which position he held until 1900. when he was appointed professor of clinical sur- gery at Cornell University Medical School. of New York City. Dr. Coley is chairman of the Collis P. Huntington Cancer Research Fund in connection with the General Memo- rial Hospital, at which he has been attend- ing surgeon for twenty years: he is also at- tending surgeon at the Hospital for the Rup- tured and Crippled. June 22, 1010. the hon- orary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Yale University, in recognition of his eminent services in medical and surgical scientific research. He is equally honored at Harvard University, for which institution he was instrumental in securing a large endow- ment. On June 26, 1911. he received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Har- vard. The discoveries which his careful investigations have enabled him to make have earned for him a world-wide reputation,
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and. in July, 1909, he was invited to give an address upon The Treatment of Inoperable Sarcoma ( cancer) by Bacterial Toxins before the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in London, a method of treatment original with himself. He has written a number of monographs on abdominal sur- gery and malignant tumors, and other sub- jeets. and these have been published in the leading medical journals. When his first pa- per upon the radical cure of hernia in chil- dren appeared, 1893, a number of surgeons upheld the opinion that in children there should never be an operation for this trouble, as it could be eured by mechanical means alone. Dr. Coley replied to this criticism by making an analysis of fifteen thousand cases of hernia observed at the Hospital for Rup- tured and Crippled in adults, in order to as- certain as nearly as possible the number which gave a history of hernia in infancy and child- hood. The careful study given to these cases developed the fact that at least one-third of those under fourteen years of age. who suf- fered from inguinal hernia, were not cured by mechanical treatment. therefore, operative methods which were free from risks were well justified. In a short time his views were fully accepted.
The limits of this article will not permit a full list of the writings of Dr. Coley, but among the large number are the following : "Operative Treatment of Hernia in Children." 1893: "The Influence of Injury upon the De- velopment of Sarcoma." 1808: "The Parasitic Origin of Cancer." 1893: "Treatment of Inop- erable Malignant Tumors with Toxins of Ery- sipelas and Bacillus Prodigiosus." 1893-1911 : "The Disadvantages of Non-absorbable Sutures in Operations for the Radical Cure of Hernia," 1896; "Acute Traumatic Malignancy." 1901 ; "The Influence of the Roentgen Rays upon Sarcoma." 1902: "Amputation at the Hip Joint for Sarcoma." 1903: "Bone Sarcoma." 1908; "Injury as a Causative Factor in Can- cer." 1911. He is also the author, cojointly with the late Dr. William T. Bull. of the sec- tion on hernia in "Dennis System of Surgery" and "International Text Book of Surgery." He also wrote the part on hernia of Keen's "System of Surgery." recently published.
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The political affiliations of Dr. Coley are with the Republican party, and he is a mem- her of the following-named organizations : New York Academy of Medicine: New York Surgical Society: New York Pathological So- ciety ; the University Club : Harvard and Yale clubs of New York : the New York Hospital Alumni Association. He is entitled to mem- bershir in the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion. He is a fellow of the American Surgica! Association : also of the Southern Surgical and Gynecological Association: a member of the State Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, and of the Harvard Medical Society of New York, having served as president of the last named in 1902. He was president of the New York Hospital Alumni Association, 1910-11. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Science.
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