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Mr. Waller has always been identified with the Democratic party, and has been one of its acknowl- edged leaders in this State since he first entered upon public life. He was elected a representative to the General Assembly from New London in 1867, 1868,
1872, and 1876, and was Speaker of the House in the centennial year. In no field did his abilities show to better advantage than on the floor of the House. As a leader of his party he was always self-possessed, sometimes bold to the point of daring, full of re- source ; as a debater he was most forcible and vigor- ous, eloquent whenever the subject admitted, quick at repartee. His speech in favor of the bridge across the Connecticut River at Saybrook was the feature of the session of 1868, and fairly captivated the House, but it was only one of many brilliant oratorical efforts that marked his career as a legislator. The duties of the Speakership he discharged with the dignity and impartiality that became the position, uniting to a thorough knowledge of parliamentary law the readi- ness and natural aptitude which are so indispensable in a presiding officer of a deliberative body. He was a worthy successor of Lafayette S. Foster and Augus- tus Brandegee, two of the most accomplished par- liamentarians in the country. In 1870 he was elected Secretary of State. In 1873 he was chosen mayor of New London, and in that position displayed execu- tive ability of a high order. He held the office six years, and at the end of that time declined a renomi- nation. He was the Democratic candidate for repre- sentative in Congress from the Third Connecticut Dis- trict in 1876. He made a vigorous canvass, speaking in many towns in his own county as well as in Wind- ham. He was defeated by a large majority, but polled a heavier vote than the candidates of his party for Presidential electors. Since that time he has not held nor has he been a candidate for public office, but has devoted himself more closely than at any previous period to the practice of his profession. At an age when many men have but just entered upon public life he has held some of the most important and hon- orable positions in the gift of his fellow-citizens, and in the natural course of events still higher honors are yet in store for him.
AUGUSTUS BRANDEGEE was born in New London, Conn., July 15, 1828. He graduated at Yale College in 1849, and at the Yale Law-School in 1851. He adopted the profession of law and resides in New London. Po- litically he is a Republican, and has been active in the councils of the party in the State and nation. He was elected a member of the Connecticut Legislature in 1854, 1858, 1859, and 1861, having been chosen Speaker of the House in the latter year. In 1861 he was a Presi- dential elector, and was elected a representative from Connecticut to the Thirty-eighth Congress, serving as a member of the Committees on Naval Affairs and Expenditures, on Public Buildings, and also as chair- man of a special committee on the Air-Line Railroad from Washington to New York. He was re-elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, serving on the Com- mittees on Naval Affairs, Revolutionary Pensions, and the Postal Railroad to New York. He was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention in 1864, to the Philadelphia "Loyalists' Convention" in 1866, and to
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the Chicago Convention in 1880 which nominated the lamented Garfield for President of the United States. Mr. Brandegee has also been mayor of his native city.
WM. C. CRUMP, A. C. LIPPITT, and JOHN P. C. MATHER are also old attorneys, residents of New London.
DANIEL CHADWICK was born at Lyme, Jan. 5, 1825; graduated at Yale College in 1845; studied law with Chief Justice H. M. Waite and Hon. L. F. S. Foster, also in Ohio with Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite. Admitted to the bar of New London County, June, 1847 ; has practiced law at Lyme ever since, with the exception of the years 1854, '55, and '56, when he was practicing at Baltimore, Md. He was a member of the Connecticut Senate in 1858 and 1864, and of the House in 1859; state's attorney for New London County for fourteen years, and United States attorney for Connecticut since November, 1880 ; government director of the Union Pacific Railway Company for four years from April, 1877.
GEORGE COIT RIPLEY, youngest son of George Burbank Ripley, was born in Norwich, Aug. 24, 1839. Graduated at Yale College in the class of 1862, when he entered the Tenth Regiment Connecticut Volun- teers, and served till the close of the war. Studied law with Jeremiah Halsey, Esq. Entered the bar October, 1867, and has been actively engaged in prac- ticing ever since. Has been member of the City Council, city clerk, recorder of the city, and city at- torney. Is a member of the General Assembly for 1882.
The present members of the bar are as follows :
New London .- William Belcher, Augustus Brande- gee, Chas. W. Butler, N. A. Chapman, Robt. Coit, Wm. C. Crump, John G. Crump, A. S. Darrow, An- drew C. Lippitt, A. C. Lippitt, Jr., John P. C. Mather, Samuel Park, G. F. Raymond, Wm. M. Stark, John A. Tibbetts, Thomas M. Waller, Ralph Wheeler, B. F. Mahan.
Norwich .- John T. Adams, John C. Averill, Wm. L. Brewer, Lucius Brown, Frank T. Brown, Franklin H. Brown, Amos A. Browning, Henry H. Burnham, E. S. Bottom, Willis A. Briscoe, Richard E. Cash, Elbridge C. Cooke, S. A. Crandall, J. B. Coit, Wm. S. Congden, J. J. Desmond, George W. Foot, Herbert G. Fowler, Gardiner Greene, Jr., Jeremiah Halsey, Edward Harland, S. T. Holbrook, Win. H. Jennings, Jr., John C. Kellogg, Solomon Lucas, Ebenezer Learned, Albert F. Park, Webster Park, Donald G. Perkins, Calvin L. Rawson, Louis Rivard, Frank A. Robinson, George C. Ripley, Wm. H. Shields, S. H. Thresher, Seneca S. Thresher, Chas. F. Thayer, E. H. Thomas, Allen Tenny, J. M. Thayer, John T. Wait, O. P. Watters, and David Young.
Colchester .- Erastus S. Day, Joel H. Reed.
Groton .- John J. Copp, Lemuel Clift, A. P. Tanner. Montville .- Charles W. Comstock.
Old Lyme .- Daniel Chadwick, James Griswold, and J. G. Perkins.
Stonington .- H. A. Hull, Charles Sabin, John B. Grinnell, and Albert Denison.
Waterford .- A. S. Darrow and N. A. Chapman.
The senior members of the bar of this county have, many of them, made up their records; those still left are soon to follow, and the juniors are to assume their places at the bar and on the bench ; to them will soon be committed these great responsible trusts. The per- petuity of our free institutions is committed to the guardianship and keeping of the bar and judiciary of our free country, for the history of the world teaches, and all free government illustrates, this truth,-that to the profession of the law civil government is in- debted for all the safeguards and intrenchments with which the liberties of the people are protected ; that legislation is shaped, constitutions enlarged, amended, and adopted by the enlightened administration of the statesmen, both of England and the United States, who have been in both, and are in all free governments, educated for the bar, and, ascending by the inherent force of their disciplined, professional life, they become the directors of the destinies of states and nations.
Military chieftains may spring into power, tyrants may dazzle with the glamour of military parade and the pomp of war an oppressed and frenzied people, but they turn as the cannonade dies away to the statesmanship of the country, and call to the parlia- ments and congressional halls for final debate the arbitraments of the liberties of the people.
From the days of King John to the present hour the bench and bar have furnished the statesmen who have erected the bulwarks of constitutional law, and extorted from tyrants the Magna Chartas which have secured to the oppressed the guarantees of free insti- tutions.
Imbued with the historical traditions of their pre- decessors, and tracing the paths they have trod, emu- lating their good example, it should become more and more the resolute purpose of the New London County bar to so walk in the light of their professional teach- ings that when they are called to follow them to that upper court, and file their judgment-roll of the great trial of life with that Supreme Judge from whose bar they can take no appeal,-
" Thou go not like the quarry-slave at night Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams."
CHAPTER V.
MEDICAL HISTORY.I
IT is a matter of general interest, as well as of local pride, that the first physicians in the colonies to take the initial step towards the organization of a medical
1 By Ashbel Woodward, M.D.
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society for mutual improvement and good fellowship were those of New London County. Their petition to associate for mutual improvement was preferred to the Colonial Legislature in 1763, but it was a move- ment in advance of the age, and was negatived in the Lower House. Still it indicated one of the most im- portant crises in the history of the profession. The presentation of that unpretending memorial from the physicians of New London County was the initiative proceeding in a series of efforts which have since re- sulted in the permanent establishment of many flour- ishing State societies, and within a few years of the National Association, which has contributed in a high degree to purify the ranks, elevate the aims, and make a real unit and fraternity of the profession in America.
In the attempts alluded to it was not the object of the petitioners to secure any immunities or exclusive privileges for themselves, but to protect the health of the community by additional securities. At that time there was no authority in the State legally qual- ified to confer degrees in a way to discriminate the man of solid acquirements from the ignorant pre- tender. They wished to establish a standard of edu- cation by making a respectable amount of attain- ments an indispensable prerequisite, and they asked for the appointment of a committee legally author- ized to examine and approve candidates if found qualified.
Thus the physicians of New London County, though unsuccessful in their first attempt, were the pioneers in the cause of American medical education and or- ganization.
The society was organized on the voluntary prin- ciple, in the month of September, 1775. At the first- meeting Dr. John Barker was chosen president, and annually re-elected to this office to the time of his death in 1791.
Of the transactions of this society subsequent to its organization we know but little. The medical li- braries in the hands of our predecessors of that period were meagre, and confined to a few elementary works. There being neither schools nor hospitals, beginners were compelled to depend to a great extent upon the oral instruction of men who had acquired skill by experience.
During the early days of the colonies their circum- stances were not favorable to the prosperity and ele- vation of the profession. To become a well-qualified physician required a course of study and a variety of observation which were not to be obtained in any of the colonies, while the great expense attending a for- eign education rendered it quite impracticable for any except a very few to avail themselves of the only means of becoming regularly instructed.
The advantages likewise attendant upon an emi- gration hither were too remote and too uncertain to draw the educated physicians of Europe to our shores. Thus it was that in the almost entire absence
of populous towns, and in the entire absence of med- ical institutions, which constitute so powerful an at- traction to the educated and to the ambitious, no one already established in practice on the other side of the Atlantic would think of exchanging it for the hardships and privations which he was almost sure to experience in the American wilderness. It was, per- haps, too often the case that those, and those only, who failed in the Old World were induced to remove to the New.
We have shown that the medical students of Con- necticut, prior to the organization of the State Medi- cal Society, had no other than private medical in- struction. There were, it is true, some competent and highly popular medical teachers scattered through the State, by whom large numbers of our young men were successfully educated. Among the most emi- nent were Dr. Jared Elliot, of Killingworth, who has justly been regarded as the father of regular practice in Connecticut; also Dr. Jared Porter, of Wallingford, himself a student of Dr. Elliot, who for many years kept a medical school, in which several of the most distinguished physicians in the State were educated, Dr. Lemuel Hopkins, of Hartford, being among the number. Another, scarcely less eminent, was Dr. John Barker, of Franklin, who was the president of the New London County Medical Society from its organization until his death in 1791. But able teachers at that day were not always acces- sible, and when accessible were not always duly ap- preciated. All who chose to practice medicine were legal physicians, however indifferent had been their advantages. No examination was had, nor was any license given or required. In some cases a certificate was proffered by the instructor to the student at the expiration of his apprenticeship, as it was called, but even this was often dispensed with.
Towards the middle of the eighteenth century wars broke out between England and France, and the theatre of military operations was mostly in the colo- nies. For twenty years wars were almost constant. The British forces were accompanied by a medical staff composed of well-selected and well-educated physicians. Their military operations led to the es- tablishment of many hospitals in our territories. As the colonies were required to furnish their full pro- portion of troops, it followed also that they were to supply their share of the medical corps. This brought many of our young men into contact with the edu- cated and experienced surgeons of Europe. The effect was most salutary. The discipline of the camp sup- plied in some measure the defect of early medical education. In this way a new order of medical men was raised up and diffused through the community.
When the people of this country emerged from the war of independence they saw that their success had depended upon union of effort. The physicians of Connecticut realized the necessity of a thorough professional reform, and felt that the consummation
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of this reform required not only concert of action among themselves, but legislative sanction also. They petitioned for an act of incorporation in May, 1786, and in 1792 their petition was granted. From that day onward to the present, if its course has not been marked by uniform prosperity, its existence, at least, has been continuous. And it would be difficult to name any association, at home or abroad, that has more undeviatingly aimed to promote the public good, and at the same time to secure to its members that true dignity of character which should distin- guish all belonging to an honorable profession.
At a meeting of the physicians and surgeons of New London County, on the fourth Tuesday of Sep- tember, 1792, agreeably to the act of the General Assembly passed in May last, incorporating a medical society in the State of Connecticut, Voted, By a ma- jority present, that the following gentlemen be mem- bers of the society for this county :
Drs. Theophilus Rogers, Norwich ; Thomas Coit, New London ; Charles Phelps, Stonington; Philip Turner, Norwich ; John Watson, Col- chester; Simon Wolcott, New London ; Philemon Tracy, Norwich ; Joshua Downer, Preston; John Turner, Norwich ; Samnel Mather, Lyme: Elihu Marvin, Norwich ; John Noys, Lyme; Samuel Bussel, Norwich; Jonathan Marsh, Norwich; Jedediah Burnham, Lisbon ; David H. Jewett, Montville; Phineas Hide, Groton ; David Lord, Stonington; Luther Manning, Lisbon; Avery Downer, Preston; Benjamin Ellis, Franklin; Thomas Coit, Jr., New London ; James Lee, Lyme; Elijah Hartshorn, Franklin; Wm. Robertson, Stoning- ton ; Benjamin Butler, New London; Bishop Tyler, Preston; Thos. Skinner, Colchester; John R. Watrous, Colchester; John Scott, Boziah; Benjamin Moore, Norwich; Wm. Lord, Stonington; John 0. Miner, Groton ; Asher Huntington, Stonington ; Prosper Rose, Groton; Samuel Seabury, Jr., New London; Jeremiah Rogers, Montville; Jonathan Gray, Stonington ; James Noys, Stonington ; Ames Prentis, Groton ; Ames Prentis, Jr., Groton; David Boels, New London ; Nathan Hide, Franklin ; Asa Spalding, Stonington.
1792 .- Chairman, Dr. Theophilus Rogers ; Clerk, Dr. Simon Wolcott; Delegates, Drs. Theophilus Rogers, Samuel Mather, Thomas Coit, Joshna Downer, Philip Turner. .
In 1793, Drs. Joseph W. Lee, Samuel G. P. Lee, Wm. Graham, and Gnr- don Lathrop were chosen members of the society. Chairman, Dr. Theophilus Rogers; Clerk, Simon Wolcott; Delegates, Drs. Theo- philns Rogers, Philip Turner, Simon Wolcott, John Watrons, Phile- mon Tracy.
1794 .- Chairman, Dr. Philip Turner; Clerk, Dr. Simon Wolcott; Dele- gates, Drs. Philip Turner, Simon Wolcott, Thomas Skinner, John R. Watrous, Theophilus Rogers.
1795 .- Chairman, Dr. Philip Turner; Clerk, Dr. Simon Wolcott; Dele- gates, Drs. Philip Turner, Theophilus Rogers, Simon Wolcott, John R. Watrous, Philemon Tracy.
1799 .- Chairman, Dr. Philip Turner ; Clerk, Dr. Simon Wolcott; Dele- gates, Drs. John R. Watrous, John Turner, Simon Wolcott, Philip Turner, Samuel Mather. Dr. Elijah Butts was made a member of the society.
1800 .- Chairman, Dr. Philip Turner; Clerk, Dr. John R. Watrous; Dele- gates, Drs. Simon Wolcott, John R. Watrons, John O. Miner, John Noyes, Avery Downer.
1801 .- Chairman, Dr. Simon Wolcott; Clerk, Dr. John R. Watrous; Delegates, Drs. Simon Wolcott, John R. Watrous, John O. Miner, Avery Downer, James Lee.
1802 .- Chairman, Dr. Simon Wolcott ; Clerk, Dr. James Lee; Delegates, Drs. Simon Wolcott, John R. Watrous, Avery Downer, John O. Miner, Philemon Tracy. Dr. Daniel Clark was made a member of this society.
1803 .- Chairman, Dr. John Noyes; Clerk, Dr. James Lee ; Delegates, Drs. John R. Watrous, John Noyes, James Lee, Thomas Coit, Jr., Avery Downer. Dr. Noah B. Foot was made a member of the so- ciety.
1804 .- Chairman, Dr. Samuel Mather; Clerk, Dr. John O. Miner; Dele- gates, Drs. Samuel Mather, John R. Watrous, Avery Downer, John O. 5
Miner, Thomas Coit, Jr. Dr. Aaron C. Willey was made a member of the society.
1805 .- Chairman, Dr. Simon Wolcott; Clerk, Dr. John O. Miner; Dele- gates, Drs. Simon Wolcott, John R. Watrous, John O. Miner, Avery Downer, Thomas Coit, Jr. Dr. William IIyde was made a member of this society.
1806 .- Chairman, Dr. Simon Wolcott; Clerk, Dr. Thomas Coit, Jr .; Dele- gates, Drs. Simon Wolcott, Avery Downer, John O. Miner, Samuel H. P. Lee, Thomas Coit, Jr.
1807 .- Chairman, Dr. John R. Watrous; Clerk, Dr. Thomas Coit, Jr. ; Del- egates, Drs. John R. Watrous, John O. Miner, Avery Downer, Samuel H. P. Lee, Thomas Coit, Jr. Drs. Baruck Beckwith and Vine Utley were made members of the society.
1808 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Thomas Coit, Jr .; Dele- gates, Drs. Avery Downer, John O. Miner, Thomas Coit, Jr., Samuel Mather, Samuel H. P. Lee. Drs. Benjamin Harris and Joseph Con- stock were made members of the society.
1809 .- Chairman, Dr. Samuel Mather ; Clerk, Dr. Thomas Coit, Jr .; Dele- gates, Drs. Samuel Mather, Avery Downer, Thomas Coit, Jr., Samuel H. P. Lee, John O. Miner. Dr. George Tisdale was made a member of the society.
1810 .- Chairman, Dr. Samuel Mather; Clerk, Dr. Thomas Coit, Jr .; Del- egates, Drs. Samnel Masher, John O. Miner, Avery Downer, Thomas Coit, Jr., Samuel H. P. Lee. Dr. William Graham was readmitted to the society, he having been for a number of years practicing out of the State. Dr. Thomas Miner was made a member of the society. 1811 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Samuel H. P. Lee; Del- egates, Drs. Avery Downer, Samuel H. P. Lee, John O. Miner, Thomas Coit, Jr., Thomas Miner. Drs. John C. M. Brockway, John Noyes, and John Smith were inade members of the society.
1812 .- Chairman, Dr. John R. Watrons ; Clerk, Dr. Samuel H. P. Lee; Del- egates, Drs. John O. Miner, Avery Downer, Thomas Coit, Samnel H. P. Lee, Thomas Miner. Drs. Elisha North, Asa M. Holt, Samnel Hunting, Archibald Mercer, and John Billings were made members of the society.
1813 .- Chairman, Dr. John R. Watrous; Clerk, Dr. Samuel H. P. Lee; Delegates, Drs. Avery Downer, John O. Miner, Thomas Coit, Thomas Miner, Sammel H. P. Lee. Drs. Dyer T. Brainard, John L. Smith, and George Downer were made members of the society.
1814 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Elisha North; Dele- gates, Drs. Avery Downer, Elisha North, John O. Miner, Samuel H. P. Lee, George Tisdale. Dr. Eleazer B. Downing was made a mem- ber of the society.
1815 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Miner; Clerk, Dr. E. North ; Delegates, Drs. Avery Downer, Thomas Coit, E. North, John O. Miner, George
ยท Tisdale. Drs. Nathan S. Perkins, Sylvester Wooster, and Marvin Smith were made members of the society.
1816 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Miner; Clerk, Dr. Dyer T. Brainard; Dele- gates, Drs. John E. Miner, Avery Downer, Elisha North, Samuel H. P. Lee, Vine Utley.
1817 .- Chairman, Dr. John R. Watrous; Clerk, Dr. D. T. Brainard; Dele- gates, Drs. Elisha North, George Tisdale, John O. Miner, D. T. Brain- ard, Sylvester Wooster. Dr. Nathaniel Allen was made a member of the society.
1818 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Miner; Clerk, Dr. N. T. Perkins; Dele- gates, Drs. John Smith, George Downer, Sylvester Wooster, Nathan- iel T. Perkins, Benjamin F. Stoddard. Drs. Lucius Tyler and An- drew T. Warner were made members of the society.
1819 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Miner ; Clerk, Dr. N. T. Perkins ; Dele- gates, Drs. John O. Miner, Elisha North, Samnel H. P. Lee, George Downer, Sylvester Wooster.
1821 .- Chairman, Dr. John R. Watrons ; Clerk, Dr. Archibald Mercer; Delegates, Drs. John O. Miner, Elisha North, W. P. Eaton, Avery Downer, Lucius Tyler.
1822 .- Chairman, Dr. John R. Watrous; Clerk, Dr. W. P. Eaton ; Dele- gates, Drs. John O. Miner, Avery Downer, George Tisdale, Frederick Morgan, Dyer T. Brainard. Drs. Thomas J. Wills and Reuben Bur- gess were made members of the society.
1823 .- Chairman, Dr. Elisha North ; Clerk, Dr. W. P Eaton ; Delegates, Drs. Archibald Mercer, William P. Eaton, Dyer T. Brainard, Sylves- ter Wooster, John L. Smith.
1824 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Richard P. Tracy ; Delegates, Drs. Lucius Tyler, Thomas T. Wells, Richard P. Tracy, Dyer T. Brainard, William P'. Eaton. Dr. John Tibbetts was made a member of this society.
1825 .- Chairman, Dr. John C. Miner; Clerk, Dr. Richard P. Tracy ; Delegates, Drs. Nathaniel S. Perkins, John O. Miner, William P.
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Eaton, Sylvester Wooster, Archibald Mercer. Dr. Henry R. Berdick was made a member of the society.
1826 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Benjamin F. Stoddard ; Delegates, Drs. Thomas Wells, Lucius Tyler, Jolin C. Tibbetts, Reuben Burgess, Dyer T. Brainard.
1827 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Miner; Clerk, Dr. Benjamin F. Stoddard; Delegates, Drs. Nathaniel S. Perkins, Dyer T. Brainard, William P. Miner, Thomas T. Wells, Benjamin F. Stoddard. Dr. William Rob- inson was made a member of this society.
1828 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. John C. Tibbetts ; Dele- gates, Drs. Mason F. Manning, Joseph Comstock, Eleazer B. Down- ing, Lucius Tyler, Benjamin F. Stoddard.
1829 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Mince; Clerk, Dr. John C. Tibbetts ; Del- egates, Drs. Dyer T. Brainard, John C. Tibbetts, Nathan Tisdale, John O. Miner, Nathaniel S. Perkins. Drs. George E. Palmer and James Morgan were made members of this society.
1830 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Worthington Hooker; Delegates, Drs. William Robinson, George E. Palmer, Avery Downer, Mason Manning, Joseph Peabody.
1831 .- Chairman, Dr. Elisha North; Clerk, Dr. Worthington Hooker; Delegates, Drs. Dyer T. Brainard, James Morgan, Worthington Hooker, George E. Palmer, Nathaniel S. Perkins. Dr. Ephraim Fellows was made a member of the society.
1832 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Thomas P. Wattles; Delegates, Drs. Avery Downer, E. B. Downing, Lucius Tyler, T. P. Wattles, M. Manning.
1833 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Miner ; Clerk, Dr. T. P. Wattles; Delegates, Drs. Dyer T. Brainard, George E. Palmer, Nathaniel S. Perkins, R. Manwaring, B. F. Stoddard.
1834 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk; Dr. Thomas P. Wattles ; Delegates, Drs. Dyer T. Brainard, E. B. Downing, John C. Tibbetts, Lucius Tyler, William W. Miner.
1835 .- Chairman, Dr. John O. Miner; Clerk, Dr. Isaac G. Porter; Dele- gates, Drs. William Hyde, James Morgan, Ephraim Fellows, Dyer T. Brainard, William W. Miner.
1836 .- Chairman, Dr. Avery Downer; Clerk, Dr. Isaac G. Porter ; Dele- gates, Drs. Lucius Tyler, Joseph Comstock, Eleazer B. Downing, Worthington Hooker, Dyer T. Brainard.
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