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under Dr. Beckwith of Litchfield ; practiced at Bethlehem, and afterwards spent seven years in the Rocky mountains ; was judge of a high court in Montana, and for a considerable time was mayor of Virginia city, Montana ; and removed to practice medicine at Lovillia, Iowa.
Dr. HEZEKIAH BISSELL, son of Eliphaz, brother of Dr. Eliphaz, of Torringford, was born in 1792 ; studied medicine under Dr. Sam- uel Woodward ; practiced in Wooster, Ohio, and was for some time judge of a high court in that state.
Dr. JOHN BISSELL, son of Ebenezer, was born in Torringford about 1770, became a physician and settled in Onondaga co., N. Y., and in old age removed to Chicago, Ill., where he died in Sept. 1856.
Dr. WILLIAM BOSTWICK, came from Farmington into this town as early as 1798, and took the place of Dr. Hodges on the west side
of the town. In June 1799, he purchased one acre of land across the road west of Levi Thrall's, on which he built the house, which is the old red house still standing. This property he sold in 1807, to Dr. Elijah Lyman, and removed to Vermont, and some time after, in attempting to cross Lake Champlain with a sleigh on the ice, was drowned.
The births of three of Dr. Bostwick's children are recorded on the town records.
Dr. ALBERT M. CALKINS, a practicing physician in Wolcottville. (See Biography.)
Dr. JAIRUS CASE, a native of Simsbury, settled in Torringford, after Dr. E. D. Hudson left, but soon after removed to Winsted and engaged in other pursuits for a time, then removed to Granby.
Dr. SAMUEL CHILDS, son of Timothy Childs, was born in the southwest corner of the town, became a physician and practiced some few years in Litchfield, then removed to New York city, where he resides in wealth and retired life. Mr. Israel Coe met Dr. Childs in Europe in 1842, and traveled with him several days. The doctor was a man of intelligence and cultivation and of considerable standing in New York.
Dr. SHERMAN W. CHIPMAN, D.D.S., born in Waterbury ; studied with Austin B. Fuller, New Haven ; graduated at the Pennsylvania Dental college, February 28, 1874 ; came to Wolcottville, Decem- ber 1875, and is a practicing dentist.
Dr. ELISHA CLARK, son of Abel Clark of Torringford, studied medicine under Dr. Samuel Woodward, and had nearly completed his course when he was taken away by disease of the lungs in 1810. 20
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Dr. ERSKINE CURTISS, son of Truman and Wealthy (Parsons) Curtiss of Torringford, studied medicine under Dr. Harvey B. Steele of Winsted, and engaged in the practice of medicine in New Hartford.
Dr. ISAAC DAY, a native of Colchester, was a practicing physi- cian in Torringford, and in July 1777, was appointed surgeon's mate in Col. Samuel Webb's regiment in the Revolution. He died in Torringford Sept. 16, 1779, aged 29 years.
Dr. PARLEMAN BRADLEY FOWLER, a practicing physician in Bethlehem, Ct. (See Biography.)
Dr. REMUS MARCUS FOWLER, a practicing physician of Wash- ington, Conn. (See Biography.)
Dr. WARREN R. FOWLER, a practicing physician of Washington, Conn. (See Biography.)
Dr. SAMUEL FYLER, son of Ulysses Fyler of Torringford, was born Feb. 11, 1782 ; studied under Dr. Samuel Woodward, com- menced practice at Hilton Head, S. C., and died there, aged 39 years.
Dr. HORACE C. GILLETT, son of Horace and Rachael (Austin) Gillett, was born in 1806; studied medicine under Dr. Charles Woodward, received the degree of M.D. from Yale college, be- gan practice in South Windsor about 1828, and subsequently re- moved to Chicago. His name appears in the Roll of Honor of surgeons in the late war, in Yale Catalogue for 1866.
Dr. PENFIELD GOODSELL, boarded a time with Capt. Amos Wil- son, and on October 26, 1791, married Nancy Beach ; was, ap- parently, a practicing physician a short time in Torrington.
Dr. EDWARD W. HATCH was born in Blandford, Hampden Co., Mass., Aug. 31, 1818. His parents were Timothy Linus and Sarah Walker (Shepard) Hatch. He was graduated at the Berkshire Medi- cal college, Pittsfield, Mass., in the class of 1842. He came to Torringford in 1843, and practiced here as a physician about two years, the last settled physician in that part of the town. Dr. Hatch removed to New Jersey, and married Miss Nancy C. Boies, daughter of David Boies, Esq., of Blandford. He practiced as a physician in New Jersey until December, 1849, when he removed to Meriden, Ct. He was appointed trustee of the State Reform school by the legislature of 1858, and in July, 1859 was appointed by the trustees superintendent of that institution, in which office he became very celebrated as one of the very best managers of such institutions in a Christian and enlightened sense.
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In 1853, he united with the First Congregational church in Meri- den and was an earnest interested Sabbath school man to the close of his life. He was well known as an earnest advocate of total ab- stinence ; was one of the executive committee of the Connecticut Temperance Union, and one of the Board of Directors of the Con- necticut Industrial school for girls, established at Middletown. Dr. Hatch was a warm and earnest advocate of the Union all through the late rebellion. He died suddenly at his home in Meriden.
Dr. AUGUSTINE HAYDEN, son of Capt. Augustine and Cynthia (Fyler) Hayden, was born Sept. 28, 1770 ; studied under Dr. Wm. Abernethy, of Harwinton ; practiced medicine in Chatham, N. Y. ; died at the residence of his son in Franklinville, N. Y., March 28, 1838, aged 68 years. He continued in practice until his constitution failed, and after that was often called to consult with other physicians as to difficult cases.
Dr. SAMUEL HAYDEN, brother of Dr. Augustine, was born in 1772 ; studied in Yale college but was not graduated. It is thought he studied medicine with Dr. Moses Hayden of Conway, Mass. He commenced practice in Windham, Pa., became eminent, was much sought in counsel, and followed the profession until disabled by the infirmities of age.
Dr. THATCHER S. HANCHETT, physician in Wolcottville. (See Biography.)
Dr. ELKANAH HODGES, a practicing physician and merchant in Torrington, (See Biography.)
Dr. ERASMUS D. HUDSON, a practicing physician in Torringford and of New York city. (See Biography.)
Dr. PHILANDER P. HUMPHREY, son of Daniel G. and Eliza (Burr) Humphrey of Torringford, was born about 1822; studied with Dr. Hubbard of New Hartford, and after some practice in New England, removed to St. Paul's, Minnesota, near which place he and all his family, except one son, were murdered by the Indians in the massacre of 1862.
Dr. GEORGE O. JARVIS, practiced medicine and married here ; re- moved to Colebrook, and thence to Portland, Ct. (See Biography.)
Dr. ELIJAH LYMAN, a practicing physician in Torrington and Warren. (See Biography.)
Dr. NORMAN LYMAN, a practicing physician in Glastonbury and Warren. (See Biography.)
Dr. WILLIAM MARSH was raised in Torrington, west side ;
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studied medicine with Dr. Elijah Lyman ; practiced medicine a time in Goshen ; was a man of considerable ability, but said to be somewhat peculiar ; died young.
Dr. ALLEN G. MILLER, brother of Willard, studied with Dr. Samuel Woodward, and Dr. William Abernethy of Harwinton ; settled in Mansfield, O., and died July 30, 1849, aged 55 years.
Dr. GAYLORD B. MILLER, was born May 1, 1797; studied with his brother Dr. Allen G. Miller, and practiced with him at Mans- field, O., and died July 18, 1828, aged 31 years.
Dr. GAYLORD B. MILLER, son of Deacon Thomas A. and Mary C. (Hudson) Miller, was born July 4, 1831 ; studied with Dr. James Welch of Winsted, and attended lectures at Woodstock, Vt., Ann Arbor, Mich., and Pittsfield, Mass., commenced practice in Harwinton in January, 1852, and removed to Grand Rapids, Mich., in January, 1864.
Dr. WILLARD MILLER, son of Dea. Ebenezer and Thankfull (Allen) Miller of Torringford, was born Jan. 1, 1788 ; studied with Dr. Samuel Woodward ; settled at Vernon, N. Y., and died of fever, at Johnstown, N. Y., May 11, 1825, aged 25 years. He was on a visit to see a lady to whom he expected to be married.
Dr. ALFRED NORTH, raised in Torrington ; a practicing physi- cian in Waterbury, Conn. (See Biography.)
Dr. JEREMIAH W. PHELPS, some years a practicing physician in Wolcottville. (See Biography.)
Dr. JAMES O. POND, a physician in Hartford county and in New York city. (See Biography.)
Dr. BELA ST. JOHN, a practicing physician in Wolcottville. (See Biography.)
Dr. JOEL SOPER, a native of Windsor, was a practicing physician in Torringford a few years.
Dr. HIRAM WATSON, son of Thomas and Melicent (Wetmore) Watson was born Jan. 21, 1802; attended lectures at Harvard university in 1825 ; studied with Dr. Charles Woodward ; practiced in East Windsor, until June 1854, when he removed to New York city, where he resided two years, and then removed to Detroit, Mich., where he engaged in manufacturing, and in dealing in west- ern lands.I
Dr. ERASTUS DARWIN WHITING, son of Selah and Sabra Aber-
I Watson Genealogy, p. 29.
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nethy Whiting, was born in Vernon, N. Y., Dec. 19, 1811, and came to Torrington, with his father's family the spring he was three years old. He attended the Harwinton academy two years, after which attended Rev. Mr. Cooly's private school in Granville, and then spent a year in the academy at Westfield, Mass. He commenced his studies in medicine with Dr. Andrew Abernethy, his uncle, attended his first course of medical lectures at Fairfield, New York, where he became acquainted with Emily Bradley, whom he married Nov. 2, 1837. He was graduated in medicine at Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1834 ; practiced medicine in Wayne, Ashtabula co., O., two years, where he was urged by the citizens to remain, but he removed to Atlas, Pike co., Ill., in the spring of 1837. He remained in the practice of medicine in Pike county twenty-three years, and then removed to Taylor's Falls, Min., where he engaged in the lumber business, which he continued fifteen years. He has been a representative in the state legislature three times ; traveled one season in Europe, going over most of it ; and returned, and for several years has lived a retired life, having a competency of this world's goods.
Dr. SAMUEL WOODWARD, a physician in Torringford. (See Bio- graphy.)
DR. SAMUEL B. WOODWARD, a practicing physician of Wethers- field, Conn., and physician in chief of the Mass. Lunatic Asylum. (See Biography.)
Dr. ELIJAH WOODWARD, son of Dr. Samuel. (See Biography.)
Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, a practicing physician in Middletown, Conn. (See Biography.)
Dr. CHARLES WOODWARD, a practicing physician in Windsor and Middletown, Conn. (See Biography.)
WOMEN AS PHYSICIANS.
There were of such women, two in the town, who became very celebrated, and who did a most noble and honorable work, both for the comfort and honor of women.
Mrs. JACOB JOHNSON, wife of an early settler in the southwestern part of the town, married in 1773, was celebrated as a midwife or accoucheure, and for remarkable success as such, never having lost a patient, in some hundreds of cases. She rode on horseback, keep- ing a horse for the special purpose, and traveling night or day, far and near, until Granny Johnson became as thoroughly known and trusted
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in her profession, as any physician that was ever in the town. She kept an account of the number of cases she had, and the success of the patient, and the new comers, and of these last there is at least one still living in the town.
In the midst of her usefulness, and of life, she was taken away by death, and then it became a great inquiry, who "will take the place of Granny Johnson? " and in the time of need one was at hand.
Mrs. HULDAH BEACH, wife of Dea. Wait Beach ; she that was Huldah Loomis, daughter of Aaron Loomis, Jr., was the successor of Mrs. Johnson. Her mother was Hannah Hills, daughter of Benoni Hills of Massachusetts and Torrington. Mrs. Beach became as successful and celebrated as Granny Johnson ; perhaps more so as she continued in life to advanced age, and was employed in her profession, as long as she could ride, and attend to the invitations given her. She was a remarkable woman, having a fine personal appearance, of decided dignity, yet marked kindliness. Her intellectual strength and ability was perceptible to every one, and hence she commanded great respect in all classes of society, and won the confidence of the people, so that but few calls were made on any other physician, in her profession, on the western side of the town. She also rode far and near ; having calls in Win- chester, Goshen and Litchfield.
It has been imagined that since, within the last twenty-five years, women have been educated as physicians, that a new era had arrived ; but in this there is only the restoration of one of the lost arts, and a very decent and proper one it is ; but where is the womanly courage, and the noble devotion, in women themselves to occupy such positions, to the ennoblement of women in this age ?
LAWYERS IN TORRINGTON.
JOSEPH MILLER, son of Dea. Ebenezer and Thankful (Allen) Miller, was born in Torringford Oct. 29, 1779; was graduated at Williams college in 1799 ; studied law at Litchfield, and began prac- tice in Fairfield ; removed to Winsted about 1806, where he prac- ticed until 1834 ; was a member of the constitutional convention in 1818, and represented Wincester in the legislature two or three times about 1830 ; removed to Richland, Michigan, in 1834, and de- voted himself to agriculture. He was a member of the legislature of that state in 1840 and 1841, and died June 29, 1864, aged 85.
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He delivered an oration in Torringford Feb. 22, 1800, commemora- tive of Washington.
CHARLES T. BATTELL, son of William and Sarah (Buckingham) Battell, was born in Torringford, July 25, 1789 ; was graduated at Yale college in 1808 ; studied law at Catskill, N. Y., and spent the earlier years of his professional life in the western part of that state. He removed to Indiana in 1819, and lived first at Springfield, and was a member of the legislature in 1821, and 1822; resided at Evansville, Ind., from 1823 to 1866, and while there he filled with honor important public positions, and among them judge of the state circuit court. He spent the last two years of his life at Cleveland, O., where he died April 12, 1868, aged 78.
THOMAS GRANT, son of Matthew and Rosanna (Lee) Grant, was born in Torrington in 1806 ; became a lawyer, and commenced practice in Oneida county, N. Y., and afterwards went to California where he died.
HUDSON BURR, son of Rufus and Ann S. (Hudson) Burr, was born in Torringford, Jan. 23, 1830. He was graduated at Yale college in 1853; was teacher of languages in Maryland Military academy, from September 1853, one year, and then removed to Bloomfield, Ill., December 1854. He was assistant circuit clerk for McLean county four years and commenced the practice of law in July 1859. He enlisted in the ninety-fourth regiment, Illinois volunteers, in August, 1862, and was commissioned adjutant of the regiment, in May, 1863, was commissioned captain and assistant adjutant general in May, 1863, and was in the army of the frontier and the army of Tennessee. After the war he engaged in the practice of the law in the city of Bloomington, in the firm of Williams and Burr, and in 1866 and 7, was city attorney in that city.
JOHN T. MILLER, son of Dea. Thomas A. and Mary C. (Hud- son) Miller, was born Feb. 28, 1832, in Torringford, was graduated at Yale college in 1854. He studied law in Grand Rapids, Mich., and in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and began to practice law at Grand Rapids, Mich., in March, 1859.
HENRY S. BARBOUR was born in Canton Conn., August 2d, 1822. His father was Henry, the son of Jonathan a revolu- tionary soldier. His mother was the daughter of Solomon Humph- rey, also a revolutionary soldier. She was sister to the Rev. Herman Humphrey D.D., president of Amherst college about twenty years. Her mother was first cousin to Capt. John Brown, the martyr of Harper's Ferry fame.
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He attended some years the academies of Amherst and East Hampton, Mass., and studied law with Roger H. Mills, Esq., of New Hartford, and in the Yale law school.
In 1849, he came to Wolcottville and commenced the practice of an attorney at law, and was successful in business and highly esteemed in the community. He was elected to various offices in the town ; judge of probate, town clerk and treasurer nineteen years, and other offices, and was sent to the legislature two terms and was senator from the fifteenth district in 1870. He was also elected deacon of the Congregational church; and was a diligent laborer in the Sun- day school. He is remembered with much pleasure and cordial good feeling by the people of the town.
In 1870, he removed to Hartford, and entered into the practice of law with his brother Herman N. Barbour, since deceased. He was largely influenced to this removal for the purpose of the better edu- cation of his children.
FLORIMOND D. FYLER, son of Harlow and Sibyl R. (Tolls) Fyler, was born in Newfield in this town Dec. 11, 1834. He at- tended school at the Wesleyan academy in Wilbraham, Mass., two years. He then accepted the offer to accompany the Illinois state scientific survey, under Prof. C. D. Wilber, in 1859, and having completed the work returned to Torrington. His health being quite poor at this time he was compelled to abandon the purpose of a higher course of education ; and he commenced the study of law in the office of Judge Gideon Hall at Winsted, where he continued as his health would allow until the spring of 1864, when he attended Yale law school that term. He was admitted to the bar, in 1864, and returned to Yale law school and studied one year and received the degree LL.B., July, 1865. In September, 1865, he located in Winsted as an attorney at law. He was a member of the legislature in the May session of 1872.
He was elected by the legislature of 1877, judge of the district court of Litchfield county for four years from July 1, 1877.
CARSON FYLER DRAKE, son of Chester P. Drake, was born Aug. 29, 1857 ; was graduated at Yale law school in June 1877, and was admitted to the bar soon after graduation, being under twenty-one years of age. His mother was the adopted daughter of Harlow Fyler of Newfield. He is assistant librarian in the law library at New Haven, where he and his father's family reside.
WILLIAM F. HODGES, son of Dr. Elkanah Hodges, was born
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Aug. 24, 1789 ; was graduated in Yale college in 1811 ; studied, and became a lawyer, and entered upon his profession in Alabama, where he died Oct. 10, 1837, aged 48 years.
NOADIAH BANCROFT, son of Noadiah and Jerusha (Loomis) Bancroft, was born April 12, 1786 ; became a lawyer and settled in his profession in Massachusetts.
FRANK L. HUNGERFORD, son of John and Charlott (Austin) Hungerford, attended the University of Vermont three years ; then went to Cambridge law school where he graduated. He was ad- mitted to the bar, and practiced law two years in Wolcottville, then settled in New Britain in the law practice where he is successfully prosecuting his profession.
GIDEON H. WELCH, son of James M., and Eliza (Higgins) Welch of New Haven, was born Sept. 22, 1844 ; and was grad- uated at Yale college in 1868, and in Yale law school in 1870. He came to Wolcottville in August 1870, and made his arrange- ments for the practice of law in this place, and was admitted to the bar in September. He served as city clerk in New Haven while in his last year in the law school. His law practice, together with the service he renders as town clerk, and in various other rela- tions as scribe, school visitor, and treasurer keep him very steadily at work winter and summer, and almost day and night.
EDWARD A. KUNKLE, was born at East Hartford, Ct., Nov. 5, 1850 ; was student at Frienwalde and Hittstock college, and Berlin university, Prussia. He entered as law student in office of Judges Elisha Johnson and Thomas McMannus of Hartford, in 1869, and afterwards in 1872, in office of Francis Fellows and Sons of Hart- ford, and admitted to practice at law, December term, 1872, of the supreme court for Hartford county. He settled in Wolcottville in the practice of law in the spring of 1877.
THE MASONIC LODGE.
The charter of the SENECA LODGE, of Free and Accepted Ma- sons, was granted June 13, 1817, and the persons who petitioned for the charter, and became the chartered members were the follow- ing :
Chauncey Humphrey, Samuel Hurlbut, Leonard Hurlbut, Drake Mills,
Harvey Palmer, Aaron Smith, Amos Bradley, Hugh Kearney,
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William Crum, Lemuel Hurlbut Truman S. Wetmore, John McAlpin, Daniel Phelps, Jr., William Bunnel,
Edward Taylor,
Samuel Bradley,
Norman Wilson,
Israel Coe, Christopher Pierce,
James Green, Miles Beach,
Stephen Fyler, Joseph D. Humphrey, Charles Andrus,
George Lyman,
John Wetmore, 2d.,
Norman Fowler, Alanson H. Kimberly,
Elisha Hinsdale,
Joseph R. Judson,
Rapheal Marshall,
Russell C. Abernethy, Asahel Smith,
Phineas Reed, Ichabod Loomis.
The lodge was organized and its first meeting held at the house of Stephen Fyler, in Newfield, where they continued to meet a little over six years. It was desired at [that time to have the lodge meet at Wolcottville, but the law of boundaries between the different lodges, at that time, made it necessary to go to Newfield, because that place was ten miles distant from any other lodge. In July, 1823, Mr. Harlow Fyler brought home his bride, and soon after a lodge meeting was held at his father's house, where he and his bride were living. This lady, still living, describes her impressions of that night when she heard the " thunder of the rolling cannon balls and the strange noises " as if the air was full of judgments come to tear down the house. She says, only one or two lodge meetings were held there after she became a resident. Whether the Masons dreaded her frown, or whether the laws of boundary were soon changed is not reported, but in the autumn of that year, they re- moved to Wolcottville to Capt. Samuel Bradley's Hall in his hotel, now the American House. Here they remained two years, when, having fitted a room over what is now the store of Walter S. Lewis they removed into it, calling it Seneca Hall. Here they remained until Dec. 20, 1833, when they returned to Capt. Bradley's Hall. There was no communication of this lodge from June 1833 to De- cember 1836, after which they renewed and continued them, until 1840, and then surrendered the charter to the Grand Lodge. In 1860, upon the petition of the following persons, the charter was re- turned :
Samuel Burr, Russell C. Abernethy, Rev. J. F. Covell, Allen G. Brady,
Henry J. Allen Sr., William H. Moore, George B. Fish, Uri Taylor,
James Palmer, Isaac C. Palmer, Edward Pierpont, James Ashborn.
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They then fitted a room in Capt. Bradley's brick building, and named it Masonic Hall, the whole building for a time wearing the honor of the name. From this place they removed in April 1863, to Lathrop's Hall, where they continued five years, and then located in a well furnished room, Masonic Hall, over the hardware store of Messrs. Agard and Church, where they still remain.
The active life of Seneca Lodge has been quiet, honorable and harmonious in its internal society enjoyments and work, and as to external life, no great excitements or oppositions or emoluments have been experienced. There was a time when the first, or old Torring- ton church was quite disturbed by the fact of one of its members being a mason, but the trouble was quieted in a most admirable way.
The financial and social standing in the lodge is very creditable and satisfactory. The only charter members now living are Israel Coe of Bloomfield, N. J., and George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio.
The whole number of persons who have been members of this lodge, from the first, is three hundred and fourteen.
The first officers were: Truman S. Wetmore, W. M. ; Russell C. Abernethy, S. W. ; John McAlpin, J. W. ; Aaron Smith, Treas .; Daniel Phelps Sr., Sec .; Carlton Humphrey, S. D .; Alanson Kim- berly, J. D .; Ichabod Loomis, Tyler.
The present officers are : J. W. Brothwell, W. M. ; Charles Alldis, S. W. ; James Bell, J. W. ; James Alldis, Treas. ; O. R. Luther, Sec .; John D. Bishop, S. D .; Herman W. Huke, J. D .; Albert L. Tuttle, Tyler.
The following persons united with the lodge after its organization at Newfield and before the surrender of the charter :
Josiah Smith, 5817. Geo. O. Jarvis, 5818.
Orrin Moses,
Walton Case, Abiel Taylor,
Elijah Starkweather,
Eleazer Hawley,
Alfred French, 5819.
Ansel Wilson, .
Anson Loomis,
Norris Coe,
Edward Lesler,
Fisk Beach, .
William North,
Adna Beach, Jr.,
John Cook, 3d,
Stephen Fyler, Jr.,
George Bissell,
Benjamin Ely, .
Seth Wetmore,
James C. Cleveland,
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