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CHARLES W. S. FROST, son of Warren Selah Frost (page 340), was born in Waterbury December 22, 1857. He spent a year in the Yale Medical school, and graduated in 1880 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, after a four years course. He opened an office in Waterbury the same year, and quickly secured an extensive practice. He is a member of the Connecticut Medical society, secretary of the Waterbury Medical association, and a member of the board of health. He was the health officer of the city and town in 1887 and 1888. On February 5, 1880, he mar- ried Jennie Gertrude Davis of New York, and by this marriage has one daughter, Edna. On December 31, 1891, he married Mrs. George B. Ryder, formerly Minnie S. Wright.
RALPH LOPEZ, son of José Manuel and Marie (Rosali) Lopez, was born in Barcelona, Spain, April 6, 1850. He removed with his family to Porto Rico, West Indies, when four years old, and came to the United States in 1869. He attended school in Lancaster, Mass., for four years and then entered the medical department of Harvard university, from which he graduated in 1875. He then went abroad, and lived for two years in England. He came to Waterbury in 1880, and has continued here in the practice of his profession. In Septem- ber, 1883, he married Cornelia A. Wolcott, and they have one child.
JOHN F. HAYES was born in Waterbury, January 18, 1857. He attended the public schools of the city and the English and Classi- cal school (see page 530), and afterward entered the medical depart- ment of the University of the City of New York, from which he graduated in 1879. Having successfully passed a competitive examination which entitled him to a position in the Mount Sinai
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hospital of New York, he remained there fourteen months and then went abroad to study the diseases of women and children. He spent some time in the Rotunda Lying-in hospital, Dublin, the Edinburgh Royal infirmary, and St. Bartholomew's hospital and the Royal Ophthalmic hospital, London. He returned to Water- bury and opened an office in 1881. In 1886 he married Mary, the daughter of Patrick Conran of Naugatuck, a graduate of the academy of Notre Dame. They have four children.
GEORGE ORRIN ROBBINS was born in Lee, Mass., April 18, 1854. He graduated from the Yale Medical school in 1879, and practiced medicine and surgery at Salmon Falls, N. H., until February 1, 1883. He then came to Waterbury, and has since resided here and prac- ticed his profession. In January, 1893, he was chosen health officer of the city for a term of three years.
CHARLES RANSOM UPSON, son of Harvey Woodward and Elizabeth (Ransom) Upson, was born in Oxford, June 21, 1847. He was edu- cated at the private school of John E. Lovell in New Haven (see page 540) and at the Claverack (N. Y.) Collegiate institute, and graduated from the Long Island College hospital in 1870. He prac ticed his profession in Wallingford in 1870 and 1871, in New Haven from 1872 to 1874, and in Easthampton, Mass., from 1875 to 1877, and during these last years was a professor in the Spring- field (Mass.) Collegiate institute. In 1878 he removed to Atlanta, Ga., and in 1881 was appointed physician and surgeon to the depart- ment for diseases of the nose, throat and lungs in the Atlanta hos- pital and St. Joseph's infirmary. He invented while there an aural douche and an instrument for treating naso-pharyngeal tumors. On account of continued ill health he relinquished his position in Atlanta and came north. He opened an office in Waterbury in March, 1883, and since then has pursued his specialty here-the treatment of diseases of the nose, ears, throat and lungs. On July II, 1882, he married Ella A. Downs of Bristol.
JOHN MITCHELL BENEDICT, son of Andrew L. and Ruth N. Bene- dict, was born in Bethel, February 3, 1852. He graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural college at Amherst in 1874, and from the medical department of the University of the City of New York in 1882. He was assistant house physician and surgeon at the Hart- ford hospital from March, 1882, until March, 1883, after which he left Hartford and came to Waterbury. He was surgeon of the Second regiment, Connecticut National guard (with the rank of major), from 1889 to 1895.
On October 2, 1890, he married Jenny Elizabeth, daughter of A. M. Blakesley (see page 181).
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THOMAS LINCOLN AXTELLE was born in Allegheny, Penn., April 28, 1853. He graduated at the Tenth State Normal college of Pennsyl- vania in 1872 (the valedictorian of his class), and some years after - entered the Bellevue hospital Medical college in New York city. He graduated from there (president of his class) in 1880, and spent the next four years at the Randall's Island and other New York hospitals. He came to Waterbury in 1884, and, as already stated (page 843), became a partner of Dr. Alfred North, and a resident in his home. Shortly before Dr. North's death the partnership was dissolved, and Dr. Axtelle has continued his practice alone.
BERNARD AUGUSTINE O'HARA, son of Mathias and Margaret (Brennan) O'Hara, was born at Killimore, county Galway, Ireland, August 7, 1859. He graduated from the Bellevue hospital Medical college in 1882, and practiced medicine in New York city until 1884. Since then he has practiced in Waterbury. Dr. O'Hara was a mem- ber of the board of education of the Centre district in 1887 and 1888, and again in 1894 and 1895. He has been a school visitor for the town since 1889 and the town health officer since 1891. He was appointed an examining surgeon with reference to pensions under the United States government in 1895.
On June 1, 1886, he married Margaret T., daughter of Joseph Holohan. They have had six children, five of whom are living.
CARL EUGENE MUNGER, son of Dr. Walter S. Munger of Water- town, was born in Bergen, N. Y., April 13, 1858. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific school in 1880, and from the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, New York, in May, 1883. He served in the Randall's Island Infants' hospital, also in the Chambers street hos- pital, New York, and settled in Waterbury, July 1, 1885. In 1890 he turned his attention especially to diseases of the nose and throat. After a year of special study in New York, he went abroad, Octo- ber, 1891, and spent the winter in Vienna and Berlin. On his return to this country he received an appointment as clinical assist- ant in the Manhattan Eye and Ear hospital, and was afterward advanced to a position on the staff of consulting surgeons in the same institution. Dr. Munger's office and practice are in Water- bury; his duties at the hospital call him to New York two or three days weekly.
Dr. Munger married, October 18, 1888, Mary Rose, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Anderson. She died November 24, 1889, and on November 30, 1893, he married Lucy L., daughter of John E. Smith.
CHARLES ALLEN HAMILTON, son of Havilah and Malina (Allen) Hamilton, was born at East Windsor, December 29, 1849. He received his early education at Hartford, and graduated from the
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medical department of the University of Vermont, July 22, 1886. He came to Waterbury the same year, and has since resided here, practicing his profession of physician and surgeon. On January 29, 1890, he married Margaret S., daughter of the Rev. John Bole of West Barnet, Vt.
CAROLINE R. CONKEY was born in Enfield, Mass. She graduated in 1881 from the Woman's Medical college of the New York infirm- ary. During 1882 she remained in the infirmary, and in 1883 . removed to Watertown, N. Y., and began practice there, becoming at the same time a member of the Jefferson county Medical society. In 1884 she was appointed attending physician to the Henry Keep Home in Watertown (founded by Mrs. Schley of New York in memory of her first husband, Henry Keep). Dr. Conkey came to Waterbury as the successor of Dr. Martha M. Dunn, January 1, 1888. A fortnight later the Waterbury American said of her: "She will find that in Waterbury the prejudice against women physicians has been almost entirely removed by the personal virtues and pro- fessional success of her predecessor, and that the community, which deeply regrets Dr. Dunn's departure, will cordially hope for her successor a like popularity and success." The extent to which this hope has been fulfilled is indicated in the present extent and importance of Dr. Conkey's practice. Dr. Conkey is a member of the county and state Medical societies, and is an attending physi- cian at the Waterbury hospital.
GODFROI DUBUC, son of Antoine and Marie Louise (Jendreau) Dubuc, was born in Chambly, Canada, August 4, 1839. He gradu- ated from the St. Viateur Classical college of Chambly in 1856, and in 1873 from Bishop's college (which, although situated in Montreal, is the medical department of the University of Lenonville), where he received the degrees of M. D. and C. M. From 1867 to 1874 he was guardian of the military post at Chambly. In 1875 he removed from that place to Montreal, where he resided until 1877. The next eleven years he passed in Sutton, Canada, after which he removed to Waterbury (January, 1888), and has since then practiced his pro- fession here. In Canada he filled the positions of justice of the peace, councilman and commissioner of the school board. In 1858 he married Delphine, daughter of Charles Jasmine. They have had eight children, four of whom are living.
AMELIA A. PORTER, after graduating from the School of Medicine of the Boston university, established an office in Waterbury in 1888, and in a few years secured an extensive practice. In 1890 ill health compelled her to abandon her profession, and she died Jan- uary 6, 1891, in Salidas, Col.
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GEORGE ADAM FABER, son of Adam and Christina M. Faber, was born in Waterbury (Bucks Hill), December 10, 1866. He received his early education at the Waterville district school and the Waterbury" English and Classical school. He began the study of medicine in 1884, attended lectures in the Georgia College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, at Atlanta, in 1885 and 1886, and graduated from the Bennett college of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, at Chicago, in 1888. He was afterward associated with Dr. S. B. Munn until June, 1890, at which time he opened an office for himself in this city. Dr. Faber has taken much interest in fraternal organizations. He is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and in Masonry is a Knight Templar. He served as town physician in 1890, 1892 and 1895.
MICHAEL JOSEPH DONAHUE, son of Thomas Donahue, was born in Ireland, March 17, 1857. He graduated from Holy Cross college, Worcester, Mass., in 1877, and from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1886. He was a resident physician of the Blockley hospital, Philadelphia, for fourteen months, and opened an office in this city in 1887. He has been a contributor of articles on medical subjects to the medical magazine published by the University of Pennsylvania.
ALONZO RICHARDSON MORGAN, son of Caleb Bartlett and Harriet (Richardson) Morgan, was born at Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., March 23, 1830. Having decided to practice medicine he entered the medical college of Geneva, N. Y., and afterward the New York Homeopathic Medical college, and graduated from the latter in the spring of 1852. After a further course of study at the " Ecole de Medicine " in Paris, he returned to this country in 1853, and opened an office in Syracuse, N. Y. He remained in practice there until 1866, serving in the meantime (from 1859 to 1861) as sur- geon of the Fifty-first regiment of the New York state militia. In 1867 he was appointed professor of the institutes and practice of medicine in the Homeopathic Medical college of Pennsylvania, and in 1868 professor of the theory and practice of medicine in the New York Homeopathic Medical college. He resided in New York city twenty-four years, and was again professor of the theory and prac- tice of medicine at the Homeopathic Medical college and hospital in 1891 and 1892. In 1892 he came to Waterbury and has continued the practice of his profession here.
Dr. Morgan is a member of the International Hahnemannian association and of the American Institute of Homeopathy; also of the New York state and the Central New York Homeopathic Medi- cal societies, and an honorary member of several county societies.
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He has been a frequent contributor to homeopathic medical jour- nals, and is the inventor of a sanitary fire-place heater, known as the "Fire on the Hearth," for which medals were awarded to him at the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876, and at the Inter- national exposition at Paris and the fair of the American Institute in New York, in 1878.
On October 4, 1860, he married Ellen Wheaton. Their only child, Edward Wheaton, died in 1877 in his sixteenth year.
WALTER FITCH HINCKLEY, son of Record Wilbur and Harriet Salina (Jones) Hinckley, was born in Bridgeport, June 22, 1847. In 1850 he removed with his family to Illinois, and lived the life of a farmer boy until September, 1864, when he enlisted as a private in the 145th regiment of Illinois volunteers. He was with General Sherman in his famous march through Georgia to the sea and thence through the Carolinas and Virginia, and participated in the "grand review " at Washington, May 24, 1865. On returning home he studied at an academy at Payson, Ill., and afterward taught school for thirteen terms.
In 1875 he attended lectures at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Keokuk, Ia., and later at the Jefferson Medical college, Philadelphia, from which he graduated in March, 1877. After a year spent in Chicago he removed to Naugatuck, July 1, 1879, and practiced there for twelve years. He came to Waterbury at the end of 1891, and has since pursued his profession here. In Nauga- tuck he was president of the board of health from 1887 to 1891. In 1894 he was elected a member of the board of education of the. Centre district. Dr. Hinckley has been twice married, and has three children living.
AUGUSTIN AVERILL CRANE, son of Dr. Robert and Eunice (Averill) Crane, was born in Waterbury January 9, 1864. He graduated from Yale college in 1885 and was appointed government physician to the Hawaiian Islands in 1888, a position which he held until 1891. The next year he spent in New York, and in 1892 he began practicing in this city. On August 28, 1888, Dr. Crane married Cordelia Ida Corbett. They have three children, the eldest of whom was born in the Hawaiian Islands.
ALLAN VICTOR KELLEY, son of John and Helena Kelley, was born at Warwarsing, N. Y., June 17, 1864. He obtained his academic education at Ellenville, N. Y., and received his medical degree from Baltimore university, March 30, 1892. He opened an office in Water- bury in May of the same year.
JAMES JOSEPH MCAVOY, son of Thomas and Catherine McAvoy, was born in Hoboken, N. J., November 7, 1870. He completed a
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course of study at Niagara university, Buffalo, N. Y., in May, 1892, and has since pursued the profession of medicine in Waterbury.
DAVID WALTER MCFARLAND, son of David and Catherine (Aber -- crombie) McFarland, was born in Portland, May 13, 1858. He received his early education in the common schools and from pri- vate tutors. He graduated from the medical department of the University of the City of New York in 1885, and immediately com- menced the practice of his profession. He was a member of the medical staff of the state Asylum for the insane in New Jersey from June, 1887, to November, 1889. He came to Waterbury in 1890.
JOHN D. FRENEY, son of James and Mary Freney, was born in Waterbury, October 29, 1870. He graduated at the Waterbury high school in 1866, and afterward pursued the academic course at Niagara university, N. Y., and completed it in 1890. He graduated from the Long Island College hospital in March, 1893, and imme- diately opened an office in this city.
CHARLES HENRY BROWN, son of William H. and Hannah (Renny) Brown, was born at Bridgewater, N. Y., October 26, 1865. He grad- uated from the Cazenovia seminary in 1884, from the new College of Pharmacy in 1890, and from the medical department of the Uni- versity of the City of New York in 1893. He began practicing in Waterbury in June of that year.
EDWARD MANCHESTER GOODENOUGH, son of the Rev. Arthur and Hannah (Brett) Goodenough, was born in New Haven, June 12, 1865. The early years of his life were spent in Ellsworth, Roxbury and Winchester, and his education was carried on in the district schools of the first two places, and the Winchester high school. Later he attended the preparatory school of the Rev. J. W. Beach, Windsor Locks, and from there went to Yale college, where he graduated in the class of 1887 with special honors in the sciences. In April, 1889, he came to Waterbury to enter the office of Dr. Alfred North as a student of medicine, and there spent one year. In the follow- ing October he was engaged as assistant principal of the high school, in the place of Dr. E. O. Hovey. In September, 1891, he entered the Yale Medical school, from which he graduated, two years later, receiving the degree of M. D. cum laude. Dr. Good- enough passed the ensuing year as assistant surgeon in the Illi- nois Soldiers' and Sailors' home at Quincy, after which he came to Waterbury, and opened the office where he now practices.
ISAAC PARSONS FISKE, son of the Rev. Warren Corley and Harriet M. (Parsons) Fiske, was born at Marlborough, September 16, 1852. He studied at Williston seminary, Easthampton, Mass., and grad-
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uated from the medical department of the University of the City of New York in 1875. He opened an office in Southington the same year, and continued in practice there until November, 1894, when he came to Waterbury. Dr. Fiske has been twice married, and has two children living.
JOSEPH JULIUS ANDZULATIS, son of Ignatz and Ursula Andzulatis, was born at Kowno, Lithuania, November 26, 1865. He pursued his classical studies at the gymnasium of Kowno until 1885, then entered the department of national science in Moscow university, and graduated from there in 1890. He then came to America, and received his medical degree at Baltimore in 1894. The same year he opened an office for the practice of medicine in Waterbury.
Dr. Andzulatis while pursuing his medical studies has given to the press various papers on scientific subjects, such as the follow- ing: "Common Salt in Nature;" "Similarity of Elements and Periodic Law;" "Comparative Vegetable Morphology and Physiol- ogy." These were published at Moscow, in the Russian language, in 1889 and 1890. In 1887 he contributed an essay entitled “Frag- menta Mytologia " to the Mittheilungen of the Lithuanian Literary society, Tilsit; and in 1890, at Tilsit, he published in the Lithua- nian language a large volume of "Historical Studies."
PATRICK JAMES CALLAGHAN, son of Michael and Mary (McCartney) Callaghan, was born at Castleblaynay, county Monaghan, Ireland, April 27, 1853. He pursued his collegiate studies at Queen's col- lege, Liverpool, England, and afterward attended medical lectures at the Hardwick fever hospital, the Richmond surgical hospital; and at Dublin, for more than two years. Having come to America he continued his medical studies at the state Medical college of Alabama, from which he graduated in March, 1892. He opened an office in Waterbury in March, 1890, and again in October, 1893.
PHYSICIANS WHO WENT AWAY.
What we found to be true in the legal profession is true also among the physicians of Waterbury-that a considerable number of them, having filled an important place in the life of the town and having remained here for years, removed afterwards to other fields of labor and there accomplished their chief professional work. Fifty years ago there were already three noteworthy men in this group, and since 1860, when Dr. W. W. Rodman removed to New Haven, some of the most conspicuous names in the city records have been added to the number. We give biographies of most of these.
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Henry Bronson,
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DR. ROGER CONANT.
Roger Conant was a son of Colonel Shubael Conant of Mansfield, and a descendant in the fifth generation of Roger Conant who set- tled at Salem, Mass., before 1628 (see Volume 1, page 79). His father graduated from Yale college in 1732 and died in 1775. Roger was born in Mansfield in 1744. He graduated from Yale in 1765 and studied for the medical profession. He came to Waterbury prior to 1771, and on July 14, 1774, married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Bronson, by whom he had one daughter, Clarissa, who died in childhood. From June to December, 1776, he was a surgeon in Colonel Fisher Gay's regiment of Wadsworth's brigade. He died on Long Island, February 8, 1777 .*
DR. ISAAC BALDWIN.
Isaac Baldwin was born in 1755. He resided for many years in Waterbury, and built a house on the south side of Grand street. During the Revolutionary war he was a surgeon's mate. He be- came a member of the county Medical society, also of the Connecti- cut Medical society at its organization. In 1797 he removed to Sharon, Mass., and in 1804 to Great Barrington. The Berkshire Courier in its historical sketches of Great Barrington says of him : " He is spoken of by old people as an affable, agreeable man, with a wooden leg. He continued in practice here to the time of his death, February 21, 1814, when he was fifty-eight years old."
In 1782 he married Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Mark Leaven- worth. She died February 22, 1793. Dr. Edward Field married successively two of Dr. Baldwin's daughters, Sarah and Esther.
DR. HENRY BRONSON.
Henry Bronson, the second son of Judge Bennet and Anna (Smith) Bronson, was born January 30, 1804. Judge Bronson had four sons, three of whom he sent to college, but being a large land owner, he wished to have some one to assist him in the care of his property, and selected his son Henry for that purpose, giving him only the common school and academy training of that period. The lad, however, had a decided preference for a professional life, and when about seventeen years of age, communicated his feelings on the subject to his father,-not in an interview, but by letter, for the son was shy, and Judge Bronson was a stern and unapproachable person. The logic and eloquence of the appeal impressed the father
* The statement, sometimes made, that Dr. Conant "died of fatigue at the battle of Long Island in August, 1776," must be incorrect. His will was made January 16, 1777, and was probated at Woodbury on March 4 of that year.
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so greatly that he at once gave his consent to the wishes of the young man. He pursued and completed a course of study under the tuition of Dr. Alden Marsh of Albany, and was immediately taken into partnership by his old teacher.
In 1832 when the outbreak of cholera occurred in Canada, the perilous honor of investigating the disease was conferred upon Dr. Bronson by his medical brethren. He justified their confidence by presenting a report so remarkable for exactness, profundity and scientific insight that it at once gave him an extended professional reputation, while his letters to the newspapers on the subject were considered worthy of translation in all the leading European peri- odicals. Upon returning to Albany he was placed in charge of one of the three hospitals which were all that the city then boasted.
In 1831 he married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Lathrop of West Springfield, and after three years removed to Waterbury. This was brought about largely by the solicitations of his father, who offered him every inducement to return to his birthplace, and built for him the house now occupied by Charles M. Mitchell.
In 1842 Dr. Bronson was elected professor of materia medica in the medical department of Yale college. He entered at once upon the duties of his position, but did not change his residence to New Haven until two years later.
Dr. Francis Bacon thus speaks of Dr. Bronson's "History of Intermittent Fever in the New Haven Region " and of various other articles and sketches contributed by him to the New Haven Histor- ical society and the Connecticut Medical society : "These produc- tions show everywhere a conscientious industry in the collection of obscure materials, an intelligent skill in the use of them and an unswerving justice in the estimates of character that make them models for that kind of work. ... Dr. Bronson's work cheapens that of any successor he is likely to have in the same field." It is to him that we are indebted for the complete and accurate history of Waterbury from its settlement to the close of the Revolutionary war, to which we have so often, in these pages, had occasion to refer.
In 1891 Dr. Bronson was seriously injured in a runaway acci- dent, and never fully recovered from the effects of the shock. After a long and severe illness he died at his home in New Haven, Sunday, November 26, 1893.
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