Bi-centennial history of Albany. History of the county of Albany, N. Y., from 1609 to 1886. With portraits, biographies and illustrations, Part 60

Author: Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899; Tenney, Jonathan, 1817-1888
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: New York, W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452

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position he continues to hold. He was Obstetrician several years at Albany Hospital ; also U. S. Ex- amining Surgeon for Pensions.

O. D. BALL was born, 1840, in Otsego County ; educated at Hartwick Seminary; received his A. M. degree at Union College ; entered the army in 1861; served as Regimental Quartermaster, Third New York Artillery; as Ordnance Officer, Third Division, Eighteenth Army Corps, and Assistant Adjutant-General, Department N. C. Graduated in medicine from New York College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1867; practiced medicine in Otsego County until 1874; then removed to Albany, and continued the practice ever since. Was Coroner of Otsego County three years; President of Otsego County Medical Society, and for three years Dem- onstrator of Anatomy in Albany Medical Col- lege.

JAMES F. BARKER was born in Schenectady in 1851. He is of New England ancestry. He graduated from Union College in 1874. He studied under Dr. James H. Armsby, of Albany, and graduated from the Medical College in that city in 1877. In the same year he began practicing with Dr. Gideon H. Armsby. He is a member of the Albany County Medical Society. Among the papers written by him is a biographical sketch of Dr. Gideon H. Armsby, who died in 1882.

EZRA ALBERT BARTLETT comes of a historic family, his great-grandfather, Josiah Bartlett, M. D., being one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Bartlett served three years in Battery " M," Fourth U. S. Artillery, during the war of the Rebellion. He received the degree of A. B. from Rochester University in 1870, and that of M. D. from Albany Medical College in 1879, since which he has practiced in Albany. He was married in 1871 to Miss Jennie Sargent, of Rochester, N. Y. The name of Bartlett abounds in every department of literary and professional life in this country, especially in New England.

HERMAN BENDELL began practicing in Albany in 1876. He has met with success, and while he is well versed as a general physician, he has made his specialty diseases of the eye and ear. In this difficult branch he has acquired high repu- tation. He is a member of the Board of Public Instruction, and has been its President for one term.

JOHN MILTON BIGELOW was born in Albany, August 22, 1846. He graduated from Albany Aca- demy in 1863, from Williams College in 1866, from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1869, and received the degree of M. D. from the Albany Medical College in 1870. He began practice in Albany. His specialty is diseases of the throat, air passages and heart. He is a member of the County Medical Society, and the State Society. He was County Physician for 1876 and 1877. In 1870 he was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Attending Physician to the Albany Hospital, and in 1876 to St. Peter's Hospital. He has written papers on "Idiopathic Peritonitis," "Croup," "Hyperi-

drosis," "Tobacco Poisoning," and other sub- jects.

JOSEPH H. BLATNER, of German descent, was born in Albany, August 20, 1848. He attended private schools, the Albany Academy, Amherst and Williams Colleges, and graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1872. He studied abroad for two and one-half years, entering at Leipsic, Prague and Vienna, and visiting the large hospitals of Germany, England and France. While at Prague he received the degree of M. A. O. During the first two years of his practice he was in partnership with Dr. A. Vanderveer. He was a member of the Albany Dispensary Staff, and is a member of the Albany County Medical Society. His spe- cialties are obstetrics and diseases of women and children.

RICHARD J. BROWN was born in 1849, in Lanark, Perth County, Canada. He attended school there until 17 years of age, when he entered the printing office of the Perth Standard. He was a reporter for one year ; then went on the Toronto Globe. He left this business and entered St. Michael's College, Toronto. After meeting with many reverses he removed to Albany in 1870, making it his home ever since. He entered the office of Swinburne & Balch, graduated from the Albany Medical College, and, in 1881, began the practice of his profession.

FREDERICK LUKE CLASSEN was born in Albany, July 7, 1857. He was educated in the public schools, graduating from the High School; gradu- ated from Albany Medical College in 1881, and at once began practice. He is a member of the Al- bany County Medical Society, and has been one of its Censors. He has held, since 1883, the posi- tion of Coroner's Physician. His specialty is dis- eases of the throat and lungs. He is author of "Aneurism of the Aorta," " Water as a Surgical Dressing," and "Hydro Nephrosis."

JOHN BLISS CONKLIN was born in Sand Lake, Rensselaer County, in 1832. His family moved to Illinois in 1884. He graduated at Chicago Medi- cal College in 1852. He read homoeopathy and graduated in that school in Detroit in 1854. He practiced in Bennington, Vt., one year. Made cancers a specialty, and practiced in Buffalo, N. Y., six months; in San Francisco, Cal., eighteen months ; and in Mexico, six months. Returning, he settled in Albany in 1862, where he has since continued practicing his profession.

CHARLES M. CULVER was born at West Troy, September 28, 1856. He graduated from Union College in 1878, and from Albany Medical College in 1881. He attended at the University of Berlin for eight months, going thence to Paris, where his studies were pursued for ten months ; thence to London, returning to Albany in 1883, where he began practice as an oculist and aurist. He is a member of the Albany County Medical Society. During the present year, his translation from the French of Dr. Landolt's (Paris) work on "Refraction and Accommodation of the Eye" will be published.

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FREDERIC C. CURTIS, though of New England parentage, was born in South Carolina. He graduated from Beloit College in 1866, and received his M. D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1870, after which he took a year of travel in Europe. He was estab- lished here in 1871. He is an ex-President of the County Medical Society, permanent member of the State Society, and member of American Public Health Association and American Dermatological Association, editor of "Albany Medical Annals," and of Vol. III of "County Society Transactions." He is Professor of Skin Diseases in the Albany Med- ical College, and physician in the same department in Albany and St. Peter's Hospitals. He is also a member of the State Board of Health.

JOHN SAVAGE DELAVAN was born in Ballston, Saratoga County, October 18, 1840. He was a student at Military Institutes and at Union College. He graduated from Albany Medical College in 1861, practicing in Albany for one year. During the Civil War he served as surgeon in various posi- tions. At the close of the war he returned to Albany, and was appointed Pension Examining Surgeon, which he held, with the exception of about one year passed in Europe on account of poor health, until 1875. Under the administra- tion of Mr. Hayes he was Vice-Consul at Geneva, returning to Albany in 1879. He was appointed, in 1880, one of the Commissioners of the State Board of Health. His specialty is diseases of women. He is author of many papers, among which are' "Vital Registration," "Use of Alcohol in Health," and a series of articles entitled " Obstet- ric Hints for Young Practitioners.'

FRANK H. FISK was born, August 6, 1853, in Salisbury, Ct. He attended the public schools of Bridgeport, Ct. ; studied medicine in Springfield, Mass .; graduated from Albany Medical College in 1882, and at once began his practice in Albany. His specialty is surgery, and he has performed many capital operations. He is a member of the County Medical Society.

DAVID FLEISCHMAN was born in Albany, March 12, 1859. He graduated from Albany High School in 1875, Yale College in 1879, and Albany Medical College in 1881. He began practice in Albany in November, 1882, making throat dis- eases his specialty. He is the author of "Nasal Polypus;" is a member of the County Society, and physician for throat diseases in the Albany Hospi- tal.

SAMUEL HUNTINGTON FREEMAN is a lineal descend- ant of Edward Freeman, who came from England in 1635, and was one of the first settlers of Plym- outh. He is a grandson of Hon. Jonathan Freeman, one of the founders of the township of Hanover, N. H., and of Dartmouth College, of which he was trustee and treasurer for forty years, and a member of the United States Congress when Washington was President, a member of the Com- mittee of Safety during the Revolutionary War, and filled many other important trusts in the history of

the State and Nation. Jonathan Freeman, Esq., the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Hanover, N. H., where he was greatly esteemed for his unostentatious charities and probity of character. Besides filling other important offices of trust, he was Justice of the Peace and Quorum for more than forty years. Dr. Freeman was born in Hanover, N. H., August 24, 1821, and was grad- uated at Dartmouth College in 1843 .. He studied medicine at Dartmouth Medical College, and graduated at the Albany Medical College in 1846. He afterward became associated with his former preceptor, Dr. James H. Armsby, as partner in professional business, which continued for twelve years. He has been an active member of the Albany County Medical Society, and has contrib- uted monographs on various subjects of profes- sional interest. He was twice elected President of this Society. His address on "Human Longev- ity and Hygiene " was published in the Transac- tions of the State Medical Society, of which he was elected a permanent member in 1862. He mar- ried, in 1851, Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Hon. Gideon Hawley, of Albany. He is President of the Board of Curators of the Albany Medical Col- lege, and a member of the Medical Staff of the Albany Hospital, which positions he has filled for many years.

GEORGE E. GORHAM was born at Le Raysville, Bradford County, Pa., November 8, 1850; attended Le Raysville Academy and Waverly High School, and graduated from Hahnemann College, Chicago, III., in 1874. He located in Athens, Pa., remain- ing there until 1878, when he removed to Albany. He is a member of the American Institute of Ho- mœopathy, the New York State Society, the Albany County Society, and the Society of Northern New York. He was Secretary and Treasurer of the County Society, is now its Vice-President, and Sec- retary and Treasurer of Society for Northern New York. He is the author of "Treatment of Croup by Inhalation of Bromine," "Common Sense Therapeutics," and " Acute Yellow Atrophy of the Liver," with cases.

WILLIAM HAILES, JR., was born in Albany, October 14, 1849. He was educated in the public schools and at the Albany Classical Insti- tute under Prof. C. H. Anthony. During 1868 and 1869 he studied under the late Dr. Alden March, and classified his notes, which had been accumulating for fifty years. During this time he articulated a skeleton, which is yet in the College Museum. He graduated from the Albany Medi- cal College in 1870, being class valedictorian, re- ceiving a competitive prize. In 1872 he estab- lished himself in practice in Albany, which has been interrupted only by two trips abroad-one taken in 1875 to Germany and Italy; the other, three years later, to Paris and London, where he attended lectures. During 1869-71 he was resi- dent physician in the Albany Hospital, and is now attending surgeon to the same, and to St. Peter's Hospital. In 1872 he was Demonstrator of Anato- my; in 1873, Lecturer on Surgical Dressings and

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Appliances; and since 1874 has been Professor of Histology and Pathological Anatomy in the Albany Medical College. He has daily classes in practical microscopy, held in Alumni Hall of the college. He frequently lectures before medical and other societies. upon technical, scientific and popular subjects. He has performed many capital operations, his specialties being surgery, cathology and micros- copy. He is Vice-President of the County Medi- cal Society, and delegate to the British Medical and New York State societies.

WILLIAM N. HAYS was born in New Scot- land, Albany County, in 1850. He studied higher mathematics, natural sciences and classics at Falley and Whitestown seminaries until 1872. He then began the study of medicine with Prof. James H. Armsby, and gradnated with honors from the Al- bany Medical College, in 1875. He has been resi- dent physician at the Albany Hospital.

NELSON HUNTING was born in Wrights, Scho- harie County, November 21, 1837; attended the Academy in Gallupville, the State Normal School, Albany, and graduated from New York Homco- pathic Medical College in 1869. He practiced for three years in Gallupville, removing to Albany in 1872. He is a member of the American Insti- tute of Homoeopathy, the New York State Society and the Albany County Society.

ALFRED B. HUESTED received his diploma from the Albany Medical College in 1863, and in 1868 opened a retail drug store on the corner of Eagle and Daniel streets. Dr. Huested, in Sep- tember, 1883, was appointed Professor of Botany and Materia Medica in the Albany College of Phar- macy, of which he was one of the founders ; and in July, 1884, a member of the State Board of Pharmacy.

P. J. KEEGAN is a well-known physician and surgeon of Albany. Formerly he was house physi- cian at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and is now visiting surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, Home for the Aged, and of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Albany.

URIAH B. LAMOURE was born, March 4, 1844, in Albany; attended the Albany Academy; gradu- ated from the Albany Medical College in 1878, and began practice. He is member of Albany County Medical Society, and is now its treasurer. He received the appointment of County Physician four years ago, which he still holds. His specialty is diseases arising from the abuse of stimulants.

MAURICE J. LEWI was born in Albany on the Ist day of December, 1857. After graduating from the Albany Free Academy (High School) he took a private Cornell course with Prof. Altmeyer, at the same time taking up the study of medicine. He graduated in January, 1877, and acted as class orator. Was appointed to the house staff of the Albany Hospital, serving for one and one-half years. He continued his studies in 1878, at the University of Heidelberg, and in 1879 at the Vienna University, where he became one of the assistants in the Children's Hospital under Prof. Widerhofer.

On his return from Europe he commenced the act- ive practice of medicine, devoting himself more particularly to diseases of women and children, on which subjects he has delivered several courses of lectures in the Albany Medical College. He is an ex-President of the Academy of Medicine, has been Secretary of the Albany County Medical Society, member of the Executive Committee of the Alum- ni Association, and is connected with the Dispen- sary Staff of the Albany Hospital. He has con- tributed variously to the literature of medicine, more particularly in his special branches of-prac- tice. He is a member of various fraternal bodies, and at present senior deacon of Wadsworth Lodge, No. 417, of Free Masons.

JOHN MCALLISTER was born in Brooklyn, March 5, 1858, and attended the Catholic Brothers' Col- lege, Chicago, Ill., and the public schools of Al- bany ; graduated from Albany Medical College in 1879, and at once began practice. His specialty is insanity and diseases of the nervous system ; often called to testify as an expert. He is a mem- ber of the Albany County Medical Society.

HENRY MARCH, son of Dr. Alden March, was born at Albany, N. Y., December 13, 1827. He was educated in New Haven and Fairfield, Conn., and in Albany, graduating from Albany Medical College in 1853. He is a member. of Albany County Medical Society, of the New York State Medical Society, of the American Medical Association, and Curator of the Albany Medical College. He was president of the County Society in 1876, and its treasurer in 1863. " He is the author of papers, read before the County Society, on " Anesthetic Agents," " Polypus of Uterus," " Paracentesis-Thoracis," etc .; and "A Biograph- ical Sketch of Jeremiah O. Havens, M. D." During the civil war he served for a brief period as volunteer surgeon. In 1862 he married a daughter of Walter R. Bush, Esq., of Troy, N. Y. Dr. March is a director of the Y. M. C. A., and manager of the City Tract and Missionary Society.

HENRY E. MERENESS was born at Sharon Center, Schoharie County, March 19, 1849. He was edu- cated at the public schools, Fort Plain Seminary, Knoxville Academy, and the State Normal School at Albany, where he graduated in 1869. He studied medicine with Dr. James H. Armsby, and graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1874, and began practice in Albany. His spe- cialty is obstetrics. He was valedictorian of his class, and was for some time Treasurer of the Al- bany County Medical Society. Since 1879 has been Acting Assistant Surgeon of the Marine Hos- pital service for the Port of Albany. He is Sur- geon on the staff of Albany Burgesses Corps, and Treasurer of the same.

CYRUS S. MERRILL was born in Vermont. He graduated from Amherst College in 1867, and from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1870, and settled in Albany, making a specialty of Ophthalmology and Otology. He is a member of the American Ophthalmology Society, of the American Otology Society, and of the Albany

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County Medical Society. He has received ap- pointments as Professor of Ophthalmology in the Albany Medical College, Ophthmalic and Aural Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, the Albany City Hospital, to the Child's Hospital in Albany, and to the Troy Hospital. He is the author of many papers upon his specialty.

WILLIAM E. MILBANK was born in Coeymans, Albany County, March 8, 1841. He graduated from the Albany Academy in 1859, and from the Albany Medical College in 1872. He is a mem- ber of the Albany County Homeopathic Society, of the New York State Society, and the American In- stitute of Homoeopathy, being for several years Sec- retary of the County Society. His specialty is Sur- gery.

EDWARD MOORE, M. R. C. V. S., located in Albany in 1872. He went abroad and matriculated at the Royal Veterinary College, London, receiving honors. He was there offered, by the Privy Council, the position of Inspector under the pro- visions of " The Contagious Diseases Act." In 1877 Dr. Moore returned to Albany. He has been veterinary editor of the Cultivator and Country Gentleman for seven years, and is a Fellow of the Veterinary Medical Association of London, Eng- land. His reputation as a cattle pathologist is well established, and his practice extends throughout the United States and Canada.

FREDERICK D. MORRILL was born in Wakefield, Mass., August 3, 1855. He attended the gram- mar schools of Boston and the public schools of Albany, N. Y .; graduated from the Albany Med- ical College in 1880, beginning practice the same year. During 1879, '80, '81 he was resident physi- cian of the alms-house, and is now City District Physician. His specialty is diseases of women and children ; is author of "Injections and their Uses in the Practice of Medicine." He is a member of the Albany County Medical Society.

GEORGE S. MUNSON was born in Waterford, Sara- toga County, April 4, 1856. He was educated by private tutors, at Anthony's Classical Institute and Princeton College, and graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1880. The two years following were passed in New York under the teachings of Drs. Knapp, Noyes and Agnew, and while there he was First Assistant to the New York Ophthal- mic and Aural Institute, Dr. Knapp, Surgeon-in- Chief. He began practice in Albany in 1882, and was married in 1884 to Miss May S. Downing, of the city. He has been for two years Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, and is a member of the Albany County Medical Society.

WM. H. MURRAY was born in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, December, 1845; graduated at Union College, 1867, and Albany Medical Col- lege, 1868; settled in Albany, 1870; was Supervisor of Sixteenth Ward, 1877, and held the position four years. He was elected Alderman, 1882, and Presi- dent of the Common Council. By virtue of that office, was sworn in as Mayor when Mayor Nolan resigned, and held the office till the Courts gave it to Dr. John Swinburne. Has held the offices of

Police Surgeon, District Physician, Coroner's Phy- sician, and now holds the office of Physician to Penitentiary. Has held the office of Vice-President and Treasurer of Albany County Medical Society.

THEODORE W. NELLIS was born at Schoharie Court House. He graduated from the Schoharie Academy in 1869, and the Albany Medical Col- lege in 1881. His specialty is the treatment of hernia and kindred diseases; he is the manufac- turer of trusses and other surgical appliances, and conducts the business of druggist and apothecary. He is a member of the Albany County Medical Society, treasurer of the Alumni Association of the College, and a member of its executive com- mittee.

WILLIAM J. NELLIS was born at Schoharie Court House, September 3, 1855. He graduated from the Schoharie Academy in 1872, and from the Al- bany Medical College in 1879, and at once began practicing in Albany. He is a member of the Al- bany County Society, and for two years, 1883 to '85, served as Censor.

GEORGE W. PAPEN was born in Albany in 1854 ; graduated at the Columbia Medical College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, in 1874. He has practiced his profession in Albany for the last eleven years.

T. KIRKLAND PERRY was born in Dublin, Cheshire County, N. H., June 16, 1852. He attended the public schools of Albany, graduating in 1866, and received a classical education through private tutors. He served several years with Messrs. Clement & Rice, as their prescription clerk; studied under Dr A. Vanderveer, and graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1875. He was essayist of his class, and received a prize for his thesis. He at once began practice. He is a member of the County Society; was its secretary in 1878, and is now its vice-president. He is author of papers upon "Clinical Thermometry," " History of

Anencephalic Monsters," "Scarlatina, with Un- usual Complications," and an address, entitled " Obstetric Memoranda," delivered as Vice-Presi- dent of the County Society, in 1884. He has been, since 1876, member of the dispensary staff of the City Hospital, and is attending Physician at St. Peter's Hospital. He was married, in 1878, to Grace Crosby Moore, who died in April, 1885, leaving two children.

CHARLES H. PORTER, of Dutch and New Eng- land ancestry, was born in Ghent, Columbia County, November 11, 1834. He was educated in Hudson, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., and at Yale College, where he was made A. M. in 1857. His medical studies were pursued in the Albany Medical College, whence he graduated in 1861. He settled in this city, making a specialty of med- ical jurisprudence. He is a member of the New York State Medical Society, and of the Connecticut Academy of Science. He has been a frequent con- tributor to professional journals; for two years he was Professor of Chemistry in the Vermont Medical College, and from 1855 to 1862 Professor of Chemistry and Medical Jurisprudence in the Albany

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Medical College ; from 1872 to 1874 he was at- tending Surgeon to St. Peter's Hospital, Albany. In the late war he was Assistant Surgeon, Fortieth Regiment, New York Volunteers ; and, from 1862 to 1865, Surgeon Sixth Regiment, New York Heavy Artillery. He has been United States Examining Surgeon since 1871.

PORTER LA FAYETTE REYNOLDS was born in Cabot, Washington County, Vermont, in 1823. He graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1861; he practiced for six months in Troy, N. Y .; then became Assistant Surgeon to the One Hundred and Sixty-ninth New York Volunteers, removing to Albany in December, 1863. He is a member of the Albany County Homoeopathic So- ciety, and of the American Institute of Homoop- athy.

JOSEPH WARREN RILEY was born in West Troy, Albany County ; attended the public schools of Troy and graduated from the Troy Academy. Be- gan the study of Medicine, 1878 ; graduated from Albany Medical College, 1882. Served two years as resident physician of the Albany alms-house, and one year as city physician ; has been practicing since 1882 in the city of Albany,

OTTO RITZMAN was born in Albany, April 7, 1857, and received a common school education ; graduated from the Albany Medical College in 1879, and at once began practice. He was appoint- ed District Physician in 1879, which he still holds. He is a member of the County Society. In 1884, in partnership with W. H. Murray, M. D., he es- tablished a drug store.

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Bi-centennial history of Albany. History of the county of Albany, N. Y., from 1609 to 1886. With portraits, biographies and illustrations, Part 60

Author: Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899; Tenney, Jonathan, 1817-1888 Publication date: 1886 Publisher: New York, W. W. Munsell & Co. Number of Pages: 1452

Author: Howell, George Rogers, 1833-1899; Tenney, Jonathan, 1817-1888
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: New York, W. W. Munsell & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452