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1645
1580
Burtchville
752
726
Kenockee
1591
1229
Casco
2212
1991
Kimball
1429
1091
China
1628
1637
Lynn ..
788
539
Clay
1523
1475
Mussey
1746
1117
Algonac Village.
754
Port Huron
1010
832
Clyde .
1252
1146
Port Huron City
8883
5973
Columbus
1327
1218
Riley.
2002
1664
Cottrellville
2904 2372 )
St. Clair
1996
2002
East China.
337
297
Wales.
1820
1358
Emmett ..
1480
960
Fort Gratiot.
1902
1032
Grant.
1357 1143
46197
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MILITARY EXPENDITURES 1861-67.
The amount expended by the county for the relief of soldiers' families from 1861 to 1867 was $89,427.99, together with a sum of $233, 291.90 appropriated for war purposes from 1861 to 1866. In the military history of the county, full statistics are given.
EQUALIZATION AND ASSESSMENT FOR 1881 AND 1882.
TOWNSHIPS.
Real Acres. : Estate as Assessed.
Real Personal as Estate as Equalized.i Assessed.
Total Total as as Assessed. Equalized. ;
State Tax
County Tax.
Town Tax.
Brock way
22,248
$ 401,155
341,370
$ 70,378
$ 471,533
$ 411,748
823 50
$1,235 24
Berlin
22,935
451,250
350,860
46,380
497,630
397,240
794 48
1,191 72 $1,330 50
Burtchville
10,050
158,370
106,850
14,384
172,754
121,234
242 47
363 70
500 00
Clay
10,000
180,590)
180,000
48,423
229,013
228,423
465 85
685 27
327 50
Columbus
22,644
439,075
318,100
40,500
479,575
358,600
777 20
1,075 80
1,015 00
('asco.
22,755
420,470
350,000
45,680
466,150
395,680
791 36
1,187 04
961 50
China
20,955
458,875
393,600
47,070
502.945
440,670
881 34
1,322 01
690 00
Cottrellville
13,811
566,350
518,650
81,350
727,700
600,000
1,200 00
1,800 00
1,050 00
Clyde
23,000
464,465
339,300
47,193
511,658
386,493
772 99
1,159 48
1,059 00
East China
3,833
134,655
120,000
18,205
152.860
138,205
276 41
414 62
90 00
Emmet
22,058
268,700
256,000
77,160
345,860
333,160
666 32
999 48
494 63
Fort Gratiot
13,067
381,925
337,700
28.440
410,365
366,140
732 28
1,098 42
1,550 18
Greenwood
22,773
297,125
282,400
30,365
327,590
312,765
625 53
938 30
606 35
Grant
19,072
383,680
356,900
55,340
449,020
412,240
824 48
1,236 72
407 00
Ira
11,173
179,085
144,500
34,255
213,340
178,755
357 51
536 27
230 00
Kimball
23,040
317,945
216,460
34,865
352.810
251,325
502 65
753 98
600 00
Kenockee
21,828
298,090
334,700
26,470
319,560
361,170
722 34
1,083 57
1,446 43
Lynn
22,186
327,780
222,100
68,675
396.465
290,785
581 57
872 36
1,111 65
Port Huron
10,128
123,400
226,700
28,675
152,075
255,375
510 75
766 13
243 00
Port Huron City (1st Ward)
10
890,375
598,380
279,700
1,170,075
878,080
1,756 16
2,634 24
Port Huron City (3d Ward).
150
501,200
332,780
67,525
568,725
400,305
800 61
1,200 92
Port Huron City (5th Ward).
120
443,425
262,500
34,525
477,950
297,025
594 05
891 08
Port Huron City (6th Ward)
350
336,675
199,200
30,075
366,750
229,275
458 55
687 83
Riley ...
23,800
531,970
395,200
82,080
614,050
477,280
954 56
1.431 84
1,350 00
St. Clair City (1st Ward)
469
327.100
199,080
119,565
446,665
318,645
637 27
955 94
St. Clair City (2d Ward)
481
267,320
174,300
73,220
340,540
247,520
495 04
742 56
Wales
23,520
337,300
324,980
37,755
375,055
361,735
723 47
1,085 21
805 00
Total
432,464 $11,695,675 $9,183,390
$1,957,688
$13,735,473 $11,141,088
774,800
588,725
1,177 45
1,766 18
Port Huron C'ity (2d Ward)
484,225
317,880
111,600
595,825
429,480
858 96
1,288 44
St. Clair Town
25,000
535,525
458,000
49,540
585,065
507,540
1,015 08
1,522 62
835 00
21,008
214,600
139,000
26,470
241,070
165.470
330 94
496 42
553 00
Mussey
572,975
386,900
201,825
Marine City.
1240 (
St. Clair City
1923
1790
Port Huron City (4th Ward)
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DEALERS IN SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.
The following statement showing the names of persons dealing in liquors, their places of business and the amount of tax paid by each, published in accordance with Section 10, Act 268, Session Laws of 1879, prepared by M. F. Carleton, in December, 1881, is as follows :
Selling Spirituous Liquors .- Herman Springbone, Marine City, $45 ; James Buckley, Em- met, $50; William Roberts, Emmet, $100; Roberts & Walsh, Port Huron City, $200 ; James Cluff, Port Huron City, $200 ; Gay & Co., Port Huron City, $200; O. H. Ewer, Port Huron City, $200 ; Benjamin J. Karrer, Port Huron City, $200 ; J. D. Whitney, Port Huron City, $200; D. J. Mulligan, Port Huron City, $200 ; J. W. Magee, Port Huron City, $183.33 ; Rich- ard Lund, Fort Gratiot, $200 ; Alex McArthur, Fort Gratiot, $200 ; Joseph Laffrey, St. Clair City, $200 ; Andrew Eber, St. Clair City, $200 ; Rotsey & Carleton, St. Clair City, $200; Oak- land House, St. Clair City, $150 ; James Maverty, Memphis, $200 ; John McDonald, Marine City, $200 ; Michael Dibbler, Marine City, $123.75 ; John L. Robertson, Marine City, $150 ; Frank Dornoff, Marine City, $90 ; Mrs. F. C. Langer, Marine City, $90; Herman Springbone, Marine City, $123.75 ; George Christie, Ira, $200; John W. Jacob, Ira, $200; Charles Fortin, Ira, $117.50 ; Burnet Conklin, Smith's Creek, $150.
Selling Brewed or Malt Liquors .- O. K. Dodge and H. Griswold, Brockway Center, $21.67 ; Charles C. Hodgson, St. Clair City, $21.67 ; Lewis Presley, Lynn, $10.84 ; John Deloye, Port Huron City, $6.42 ; Henry Reaver, Fort Gratiot Village, $65 ; Charles Nelson, Port Huron City, $65 ; F. Charles Eichhorn, Port Huron City, $65 ; William Murray, Port Huron City, $65 ; E. B. Parsons, Port Huron City, $65 ; George A. Cameron, Port Huron City, $65; Mary Ann Taylor, Port Huron City, $65 ; Charles Doe, Port Huron City, $65 ; John P. Hoffman, Port Huron City, $65 ; Anton Wagner, Port Huron City, $65 ; Robert Philbrick, Port Huron City, $65 ; August Krenkie, Port Huron City, $65 ; George J. Bradley, Port Huron City, $65 ; John D. Wright, Port Huron City, $65 ; Henry Burde, Port Huron City, $65 ; John Meier, Port Huron City, $65 ; Patrick McElroy, Port Huron City, $65 ; R. J. Jackson, Greenwood, $65 ; Come Allen, Algonac, $65 ; John F. Antons, Marine City, $65 ; Frank Dornoff, Marine City, $65 ; Michael Dibbler, Marine City, $65 ; Herman Springbone, Marine City, $65 ; Elon J. Hall, St. Clair City, $65 ; Joseph Winneger, Fort Gratiot Village, $65 ; Catherine Langer, Marine City, $65 ; Robert Grenny, Fort Gratiot Village, $65 ; Isaac C. Cooper, Fort Gratiot Town, $65 ; John Deloye, Port Huron City, $65 : Robert Judge, Port Huron City, $65 ; George Grimmer, St. Clair City, $65 ; Gage M. Cooper, Port Huron Town, $65 ; Christian Lauth, Port Huron City, $65 ; Gotlob Andrea, Port Huron City, $65 ; Moses H. Leyerer, Port Huron City, $65 ; George Stortz, Port Huron City, $65 ; Philip Stenshorn, Port Huron City, $65 ; Adam Dietz, Port Huron City, $65 ; Tacea & Co., Port Huron City, $65 ; Wesley Burt, Capac, $65 ; Charles E. Stewart, Port Huron City, $65 ; John S. Brown, St. Clair City, $65 ; Joseph Nehman, Capac, $65 ; Thomas Rapley, Brockway Center, $65 ; D. M. Church, Brock- way Center, $65 ; John Walsh, Port Huron City, $65 ; John Walsh, Port Huron City, $65 ; R B. Elliott, Port Huron City, $65; John Dornoff, Marine City, $65; Joseph Sailer, St. Clair. City, $65 ; Thomas Forbes, Port Huron City, $65 ; Patrick Gallagher, Port Huron City, $65 ; Conrad Elspass, St. Clair City, $65 ; James Marshall, Marine City, $65 ; Davis & Bice, Brock- way Center, $65 ; Thomas Murray, Port Huron City, $65 ; Butler & O'Neill, Emmet, $65 ; Martin Pfanner, Kimball, $65 ; George Holstein, Casco, $65 ; Hiram Bartlet, Smith's Creek, $65 ; Joseph Streit, Casco, $65 ; Ferdina Bounbonnais, Port Huron City, $65 ; Charles Fortin, Ira, $65 ; Joseph Collins, Brockway, $65 ; Patrick Dary, Brockway, $65 ; Hiram H. Tyrrell, Port Huron City, $54.20; Henry J. Bradbeer, Brockway, $65 ; Henry Gushman, Brockway, $65 ; David Fitzgibbons, Fort Gratiot Village, $59.60 ; David Jackson, Capac, $54.20 ; Gus- tave Roth, Marine City, $54.20 ; W. E. O'Neill, Emmet, $54.20 ; Edward Sexton, Brockway, $48.75 ; Joseph Shurer, Burtchville, $65 ; Joseph Miller, Marine City, $65 ; George Allen, Port Huron City, $43.34 ; Michael Magner, Brockway, $43.34 ; George Jackson, Fort Gratiot, $100.
Wholesale Dealers .- Roberts & Walsh, spirituous liquors at wholesale, Port Huron, $130 ; Charles Samberg, manufacturing brewed or malt liquors in quantities not exceeding 1,500 bar- rels per annum, Port Huron, $65; Christian Kern, manufacturing brewed or malt liquors in quanti- ties not exceeding 1,500 barrels per annum, Port Huron, $65; John Slinkert, manufacturing brewed
448
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or malt liquors in quantities not exceeding 1,500 barrels per annum, St. Clair City, $65 ; Jo- seph Schwalm, manufacturing brewed or malt liquors in quantities not exceeding 1,500 barrels per annum, St. Clair City, $65 ; James Marshall, manufacturing brewed or malt liquors in quantities not exceeding 1,500 barrels per annum, Marine City, $65.
The druggists who filed bonds were Robert J. Burwell, Fort Gratiot ; C. J. Doswell & Co., Algonac ; Ward H. Hurd and Nancy Backus, Marine City ; A. F. Millikin, George J. Ward and A. A. Currie, St. Clair City ; Edwin C. Martin, Capac ; E. P. Tibbals, Port Huron City.
SOCIAL STATISTICS.
The whole number of deaths in the county, during the year 1871, as taken from the records in the County Clerk's office, was 337. In 1870, there were 299 deaths, showing an increase over the previous year of 38. The records show quite a number to have attained a ripe old age. In the town of Berlin, Rachel Doty reached the age of eighty-two years seven months and four days. Columbus appears to be the most healthy town in the county, as three-fourths of the deaths there were at an age in advance of the average life of man. Here are a number of the older ones: Mary Barling, seventy-two years; Eleanor Harrison (single), seventy-nine; Alex- ander Allen, seventy-five; Abey Waterloo, eighty-two; Chloe Rumsey, seventy -five; Ezekiel Appleman, sixty-two. The greatest age attained by any one in Fort Gratiot was that of Jabez Meigs, who was ninety-five years five months and fifteen days old. In Casco, about two-thirds of the deaths were children under the age of fourteen. In Clay, we find the death of Mrs. Wellman recorded at the age of eighty; and in Cottrellville, that of Mrs. Margaret Flug at eighty years and ten months; and John Staley, eighty years eight months and twenty-five days. To Port Huron City belongs the honor of the death of the oldest person in the county, that of Catherine McGowan at one hundred and six years. The death of Elizabeth Prior, of St. Clair, is reported at ninety-four.
The whole number of births during the year 1871 was 957. During the previous year, there were 1,045, showing a decrease of eighty-eight. Port Huron City, with a population of a little over 6,000, in 1871, returns 168 births, while the lazy township of the same name, with a population of nearly 1,000, only returns two. Casco, with a population of 2,000, made a fruitful return of seventy-seven; Ira, sixty-nine, with a population of 1,600. Mussey, a very unassuming town, only returned nine, with a population of 1,200.
The number of marriages recorded for the year 1871 was 352. In 1870, the number re- corded was 339.
Except in the case of octogenarians, the death rate is proportionate to the population at the present time; while the number of marriages and deaths is proportionately greater.
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS.
There cannot be a comparison drawn between the United States and any other nation on the face of the globe; for the reason that the Republic is still in her formative condition, and while in such a state has made advances beside which the progress of all other countries ap- pears as nothing. Since such opportunity for comparisons is denied in this connection, another controversial channel was found open. Localities were chosen, and in the war of words which ensued, the interests of the American side were upheld. The ambitious, free and reasonably happy newspaper press of the little Confederation beyond the St. Clair, urged on this local com- bat, to which the Port Huron Times replied as follows: " As to the statement that the Canadian side of the St. Clair River has prospered while the American side has retrograded, the answer is that it is not true. Any person sailing up or down the St. Clair River on a clear day, will ob- serve on both sides of the river the decaying ruins of buildings at various points, but this dif- ference will be noted: On the American side the ruins are almost entirely old saw-mills, while on the Canadian side it is the villages that are 'going to seed.' On the American side, it will also be noticed, there are extensive ship-building and other industries, while the towns show signs of continued and renewed prosperity. On the Canadian side the farms generally look well, but there is nothing else indicating activity or prosperity. The signs of decadence on the American side are due almost entirely to the decline of the lumbering industry, by rea-
449
HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
son of the exhaustion of the timber lands in the vicinity. Thirty or forty years ago the lum- bering business on the American side of the St. Clair River far exceeded that on the Saginaw. Now there is nothing left of it; nor can the people be held in any way responsible for its dis- appearance. The whole section of country bordering on the St. Clair River has seen three stages of life and activity since it became settled by white men. The first was in the Indian trading days. As the interior of the State began to fill up with settlers, it became a great lum -. ber cutting and shipping point, and also entered largely into ship-building. As the timber dis- appeared, more attention was paid to farming, but a large portion of the adjacent territory is still in its infancy as a farming country. What its future is to be is not in all respects clear, but largely commercial, no doubt, with a large portion of the river front devoted to fine coun- try houses, hotels, and summer residences. The era of permanent manufacturing establish- ments along the river has hardly opened, but that its manufacturing industries will be impor- tant in the future, there can be no doubt."
A PAIR OF PIONEER LETTERS.
The means employed to open up the county to settlement, and to place within reach of the settlers the advantages which the post office offers, are portrayed in the following letters:
The first letter was addressed to Z. W. Bunce by Gen. Cass. It refers to the laying out of the Gratiot Turnpike, and the establishment of a post office at St. Clair:
WASHINGTON, February 6, 1826.
DEAR SIR : I received your letter with the accompanying papers a few days since. You will have ascer- tained ere this that we have attempted to do as much for your road as for any other. The whole subject has been before the military committee, and they have unanimously reported that it is proper to lay out and make these roads. It is impossible, of course, to predict what will be the result of any particular measure where so numerous a body as Congress is called upon to decide it. But we are sanguine in the belief that all three of the roads proposed will be eventually established and made.
A mail will be established to St. Clair, and the office you ask for created.
I do not know whether our Council is yet appointed. In fact, it is about as easy to ascertain in Detroit what is doing here, as it is in Washington.
I am glad to learn that you have secured the land which you deemed important, and I sincerely hope you will be successful in your enterprise. With much regard, I am, dear sir, your obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS.
The second letter deals with the establishment of offices at Burchville and Lexington : WASHINGTON, December 26, 1844.
DEAR SIR :- On examining the papers at the Post Office Department in relation to the desired post office at Burchville and Lexington, I find on the Burchville papers that the department requires a competent person to agree to carry the mail for the proceeds of the office. If I recollect right, I wrote to some one last year to that effect, and I supposed it had been done during the recess. The other application to Lexington was refused.
I was informed at the department that all that was required was the name of some suitable person to con- tract to carry the mail, etc. The clerk also informed me that he thought both routes or offices would be established if the same or some other person would also contract to carry the mail to Lexington. May I request you to consult with the persons interested, and let me know as soon as convenient?
We are in the midst of the holy days, and, of course, doing nothing good ; perhaps the more time that is called away the better, as it may prevent doing worse in the way of legislation. The Texas question is the one on which we shall have most trouble. There is a great disposition to put down the rates of postage, and I hope it will succeed. The rates will be five and ten cents under and over 500 miles. We do not know yet who will be the members of the new Cabinet. I presume Mr. Polk hardly knows himself. We have mild and beautiful weather, and I hope it is as good in Michigan. Remember me to all friends. Yours truly,
D. B. HENINGTON, EsQ. JAMES B. HUNT.
POORHOUSE AND FARM.
The average number of poor people maintained in the poor house of the county during the year ending September, 1881, was 40.17. The whole number was 70, comprising 56 males and 14 females, of which total 13 were under sixteen years of age. There were 4 lunatics and 2 mute persons. Again this total was made up of 23 Americans, 8 English, 10 Irish, 1 Scotch, 14 Germans, 3 Swedes and 11 Canadians. The number of persons who received outside relief was 1,003, and the number receiving assistance in every form, 1,090. There were 12 in the State Insane Asylums, 4 in the Deaf and Dumb Institute, and 1 in the Blind Institute. The whole amount expended in the care and relief of the poor, was $16,533.29, all derived from the poor fund, with the exception of $2,610.20, paid from other funds. The expenses of the house and farm for the year, were $3,371.62, or $48.17 for each poor person. The expenditures for tem-
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HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
porary relief were $10,313. 70. The total value of paupers' labor was $300, and of farm pro- ducts, $1,674. The total value of farm and appurtenances was $15.567.
SCHOOLS.
Within a few years after the treaty of Saginaw, when the Indians of that quarter expressed themselves in favor of the blacksmith, Jean Provencal, and against the missionary, Mr. Hud- son, we find a missionary school opened near Fort Gratiot, with John S. Hudson, Mrs. Hudson, John Hart and wife, aud Miss Osmer, teachers. This school was opened in 1821, when to the astonishment of the corps of teachers, an Indian would not venture near the establishment. The Otchipwes of the St. Clair heard from their brothers of Saginaw anything but favorable reports of the Indian missionary school system, and accordingly kept aloof. In 1822, the half- breed Graveraet, or Javerodd, was employed as interpreter, and fifty or sixty Indian urchins prevailed upon to enter a course of study. Each pupil was provided with a pointed cane, and with this formed letters and figures in the sand, from copy written on the wall. This school continued in operation until the missionary teachers were removed to Mackinac, three years later, whither thirty Indians followed them.
The number of children belonging to the several school districts of St. Clair in 1841, and the number of districts in each township are set forth as follows: Berlin (five districts) 76; Clay (three) 98; Clyde (one), 35; Riley (one), 12; Columbus, (one), 15; China (five), 155; Cot- trellville (two), 149; Lexington (two), 36; Port Huron (two), 82; St. Clair (three), 101. Total 759.
The number of school districts in St. Clair County in 1847, was 65, but reports were re. ceived by the Superintendent of Public Instruction from 54 only. Number of children be- tween four and eighteen years of age reported, 2,865; number that have attended school, 1,901: under four years of age 44, over eighteen years of age, 81; number between four and eighteen years that have not attended school, who cannot read fluently, write legibly, and cipher through interest, 227; number of qualified male teachers that have been employed, 30; of female teachers, 51; average number of months that schools have been taught by qualified teachers, 42. The num- ber of township libraries in the county was 4, containing 195 volumes. The average amount of tuition paid for each scholar was $2.33.
Below is given the number of school children in each district in the county of St. Clair as shown by the census, and the amount apportioned to each for the year 1881-82:
TOWNSHIPS.
Number of Children.
Amount Ap- portioned.
TOWNSHIPS.
Number of Children.
Amount Ap- portioned.
Berlin
460
$487 60
Ira .
713
755 78
Brockway
688
729 28
Kenockee
647
685 82
Burtchville
267
283 02
Kimball
426
451 56
Casco
863
914 78
Lynn.
342
362 52
China
628
665 68
Mussey.
583
617 98
Clay ..
506
536 36
Port Huron.
435
461 10
Clyde
423
448 38
Port Huron City.
3,003
3,183 18
Columbus
470
498 20
Riley.
Cottrellville
941
997 46
St. Clair.
801
946 06
East China
116
122 96
St. Clair City.
715
757 90
Emmet.
483
511 98
Wales
656
696 36
Grant
452
479 12
Total.
16,471
$17,459 26
Greenwood
589
624 34
Scattered throughout the county are a number of small' settlements, which cannot, how- ever, take on the dignity of villages for some years. Others consist of a few houses grouped around a pier which stretches out into the lake. These tiny settlements will, no doubt, spring into activity and request the future historian to record them as villages or cities before many decades. So early as 1861, a few of these bamlets aimed at importance. Then came the war of the Union, and an age intervened when the graces and amenities of civilized life were ig- nored for the signal sounds of strife and battle's magnificently stern array. A large delegation
596
631 76
Fort Gratiot
668
708 08
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HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
was taken from each village to serve in all branches of the army the first year of the struggle, and each succeeding levy gradually drained the vicinity of very much of the enterprise and public spirit which had come in and manifested its presence by works in later years. As a consequence, improvements for the period between the firing upon Fort Sumter and the sur- render at Appomattox, were neither numerous, costly nor architecturally elaborate. The same is to be remembered with reference to the advent of future citizens, neither were they numer- ous nor valuable, save, of course, in exceptional instances. The villages, as will be readily conceded, escaped remarkable growth or development.
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HISTORY OF ST. CLAIR COUNTY.
COUNTY ASSOCIATIONS.
The physicians and surgeons of St. Clair County met December 3, 1847, for the purpose of organizing a medical society. Among those present were John B. Chamberlin, H. Chamber- lin, R. R. McMeens and L. B. Parker. John B. Chamberlin was elected President; Harmon Chamberlin, Vice President; R. R. McMeens, Secretary, and L. B. Parker, Treasurer.
A record under date November 30, 1847, gives the names of John Darwin Chamberlin, William Denton and R. H. Iron as entering the study of medicine under Dr. J. B. Chamberlin in 1847.
FORM OF ADMISSION TO THE PROFESSION. TERRITORY OF MICHIGAN.
To all to whom these presents shall come, or may in any wise concern, the President, Secretary and Censors of the Medical Society of the Territory of Michigan send greeting:
WHEREAS, Benjamin Bissell hath exhibited unto us satisfactory testimony that he hath studied physick and surgery for the time and in the manner directed by law.
Now know ye, that by virtue of the power vested in us by law, we do grant unto the said Benjamin Bis- sell the privilege of practicing physick and surgery in this Territory, together with all the rights and immuni- ties which usually appertain to physicians and surgeons.
R. S. RICE, Censors.
M. CHAPIN,
In testimony of which we have caused the seal of the society to be affixed at the city of Detroit on this 13th day of December, A. D. 1830.
R. S. RICE, Secretary.
STEPHEN O. HENRY, President.
At a meeting of the medical society held at the office of Dr. Dyer, May 21, 1851, the fol- lowing bill of prices for professional services was adopted as a standard for charges by the members of the profession belonging to the society, viz .: Verbal advice, from $1 to $3; letter of advice, $5; ordinary visit in a village, $1; night visit, $1.50; visit at a distance, 50 cents per mile for travel, and for visit, $1; minor operations in surgery, $5 to $25; capital opera- tions in surgery, $25 to $100; midwifery, $5 to $25; consultation, $5; where medicine was fur- nished, an extra charge was made. The signers were: John Galbreath, Benjamen Dickey, Walter R. Kellogg, Winthrop Dyer, Laban Tucker, John T. Travers, C. M. Zeh, Charles Gib- son, S. B. Parker and A. E. Noble.
The medical society met in Dr. Stockwell's office, February 5, 1856, with J. T. Travers, presiding, and Laban Tucker, Secretary. Drs. David Ward, Reuben Crowell and Jared Kibbee were admitted members. The society met at Dr. Kibbee's office, February 12, 1856, when the committee appointed to mature a plan for prescribing for the poor of the village reported in favor of gratuitous attendance on the poor.
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